Dangote is spending $17 billion to build another refinery. This time in Kenya.
Read that number again. $17 billion. On one project. There are African countries whose entire economy is smaller than this single decision.
Same Lagos refinery design, rebuilt in Lamu. Five years. And while that one is loading, the Lagos plant is expanding toward 1.4 million barrels a day.
Now watch what one man’s example started. Mozambique is suddenly planning its own refinery. Uganda is building one too, and Museveni openly said exporting crude while importing fuel was madness.
For decades, Africa refined less and less every year. Everybody accepted it. One man built one plant and now presidents are quoting the blueprint.
Nobody argues with a working example.
Dangote is not chasing money anymore. He’s rewriting what Africans believe is possible, one country at a time.
Everyone I’ve spoken with who is currently serving in government has told me that this Prince Adeniyi case is simply a scam, but when I start asking questions, none of them has been able to answer.
Yes, you can forge an appointment letter and claim that you are a DG but appointment letters are signed by the SGF not the COS. Who allegedly issued his appointment letter or what signature is his allegedly forged appointment letter showing?
Someone higher than a DG must ask that you be allocated office space in the Federal Secretariat. Who made that request?
Someone higher than a DG must write asking that you be given an alleged take-off grant. You cannot yourself write to the Budget Office and the Office of the Accountant General that you should be given a take-off grant. Who allegedly wrote?
How did the agency get into the budget?
Usually, you will go for budget defence as part of a cohort. In this case, it will probably be as part of the State House cohort. Who defended or coordinated the defence of the budget estimates before the National Assembly before they were appropriated?
Did the guy earn a salary in the more than one year he was there? If so, who documented him and asked that he be paid?
With which money was the guy running the office for more than one year if nothing was allegedly released?
Who allegedly wrote to the CBN asking them to open an account for the ‘Council’? The ‘Council’ cannot just walk into CBN and ask to open an account, as if it’s a commercial bank looking for customers.
Who allegedly approved the ‘Council’s’ manning levels and who allegedly approved the waiver to recruit 300 staff?
Was the guy allegedly really that good? Or were there egregious failings at multiple points in the system?
These questions and more are often met with deafening silence. Everyone sighs heavily and uses the ubiquitous expression “Na waa.” Me sef, I sigh heavily and answer “Na real waa!”
This is a case of the proverbial tse tse that has landed on the scrotum. Leave it and it will cause sickness and pain. Swat it and it will cause pain because of its location.
Anyhow you look at it, there are questions begging for answers. And whatever the answers will be, they will not be good.
Still, I hope that there’ll be some answers soon…for the sake of our public administration system.
I am Ezemmuo. I know things.
Jaiz Bank paid a dividend of 11 kobo (₦0.11) per share for the 2025 financial year yesterday.
This is what you will receive if you have
1 share = ₦0.11
10 shares = ₦1.10
100 shares = ₦11
1,000 shares = ₦110
10,000 shares = ₦1,100
100,000 shares = ₦11,000
1 million shares = ₦110,000
1 billion shares = ₦1,100,000
Formula: Dividend = Number of Shares × ₦0.11.
On average, their payouts seem enticing and decent but after the maths, the amount of capital invested and tied up is relatively low to the yield. A billion naira share investment would attract ₦10M+ in dividend payout.
*Not taking into account increases in share price
🚨 Jaiz Bank just paid dividends today.
At ₦0.11 per share, some major shareholders earned:
• Indimi → ₦1.44 Billion
• Dantata Family → ₦900M+
• Abdul Mutallab → ₦491M
• Dangote → ₦336M
The rich don't just work for money. They own assets that pay them while they sleep.
This is why wealth compounds across generations.
Ya Allah, bless us with halal wealth and barakah. 🤲
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
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Imagine you are a Muslim and a child asks you: Why do we pray Dhuhr and Asr silently while we recite aloud in Maghrib and Isha
(And you don't know the answer)
Hasan al Basri رحمه اللّه said,
“Humility is for you to leave your home and believe that every Muslim you see is better than you.”
[Minhaj al Qasidin VI.2 Pg. 899]
"The comfort of the body is in (eating) little food, and the comfort of the soul is in having little sins, and the comfort of the tongue is in speaking a little."
- Ibn Al-Qayyim () | Zaad Al-Ma'ad (4/186)
Sit for a short while before you sleep and do this
Ibn al-Qayyim said: "Avoid those things that necessitate the punishment of the grave.
And from the most beneficial of them is that when a man wants to sleep, he sits for an hour, for the Sake of Allaah, calling himself to account over the things that he has lost and gained during that day of his. Then, between him and his Lord, he renews his sincere repentance over those things that he lost, and sleeps on that repentance, firmly resolving not to return to the sin when he wakes up–and he does this every night.
So if he dies on that night of his, he would have died upon repentance and if he wakes up, he will wake up going towards action, pleased with the postponement of his appointed time so that he can turn to his Lord and set right what he missed out on.
And there is nothing more beneficial for the servant than this sleep, especially when he follows that [i.e., his resolve to renew his repentance] up with the remembrance of Allaah, performing those sunnahs which have been reported from the Prophet of Allaah when going to bed, [doing so] until sleep overtakes him.
So whoever Allaah wishes good for, He will grant him the success to do that. And there is neither movement, nor power except through Allaah.”
{Ar-Rooh, p. 79.}