For the first time, I disagree with Dan Bello. Same can be said of you that while youths of other countries are leading ground breaking inventions in industry and science, our youths are busy making videos on TikTok and writing long threads to criticize govt. But no, we don't say that, we cheer you on and celebrate your creativity. Hilda Baci is a chef. It's perfectly fine for her to aspire to break whatever records and achieve whatever feat she deems fit in her career. It doesn't stop others in science from pursuing their aspirations too. As Hilda is doing hers, hundreds of young people are building in technology and industry and yes even science. Chimamanda is wining in literature, so much that I don't even need to mention her surname anywhere in the world for her to be identified. @OluwatobiAjayiJ is winning in automobiles with Nord motors, Tobi Oyinlola is winning in science for developing a GPS tracking device, and contributing to open-source environmental sensing. He won Guinness record (2025) for developing the world’s smallest GPS tracking device, John Oseni won the global prodigy award, Opeyemi Ojueromi was awarded in the L’Oréal-UNESCO Young Scientists prize. @tosinolaseinde is winning in Financial literacy.
I can go on and on. Of all these people I've mentioned Dan, how many of them have you written a long thread about to celebrate? Or use your platform to spotlight and hail Nigeria and Nigerians? But you're quick to write this epistle to rubbish Nigerians because a thriving young woman is being celebrated in her own field. Just as you as a content creator should be celebrated in YOUR own domain.
Because they're not in the celebrity space does not make their accomplishments less relevant, neither does Hilda's celebrated attempt at world record in her field make Nigerians less brilliant or less innovative. It is you that should expand your thinking and approach and not be on auto pilot negativity about anything Nigerians do.
It is self sabotaging. Shalom.
Raising the minimum wage from 30k to 70k took years of strikes,protests and tough negotiations.Increasing the salaries for political office holders is about to happen…so smoothly or seamlessly.RMFAC is wonderful.
The federal government is considering a salary increase for individuals in political positions.
The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission has indicated intentions to reassess the salaries of political office holders in Nigeria, citing that the present earnings are insufficient, impractical, and outdated given the increasing responsibilities and economic challenges.
During a press conference held in Abuja on Monday, Mohammed Shehu, the Chairman of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, revealed that President Bola Tinubu currently has a monthly salary of N1.5 million. Meanwhile, ministers earn less than N1 million each month. These salary figures have not been adjusted since 2008.
He said, “You are paying the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria N1.5m a month, with a population of over 200 million people. Everybody believes that it is a joke.
“You cannot pay a minister less than N1m per month since 2008 and expect him to put in his best without necessarily being involved in some other things. You pay either a CBN governor or the DG ten times more than you pay the President. That is just not right. Or you pay him [the head of an agency] twenty times higher than the Attorney-General of the Federation. That is absolutely not right.
“We are strictly restricted to political office holders, governors, senators, legislators, ministers, DGs, and other people.
“It’s about time that people like you and others should support the commission to come up with reasonable living salaries for ministers, DGs, and the President.
“In line with this constitutional responsibility and in response to the evolving socio-economic, political and fiscal realities of our nation, the Commission has resolved to initiate the process of reviewing the revenue allocation formula to reflect emerging socio-economic realities.
“The situation has made it essential to re-evaluate the structure of fiscal federalism in order to foster economic growth in individual states, enabling them to become independent from the central government and ensuring equity, responsiveness, and sustainability.”
After the end of Ramadan, the people are divided into various types. But this write-up is focused on those that worshipped Allaah during Ramadan but are quick to return to their state of negligence and committing sins.