Maxime: You want to know how I ended up here? About two months ago, I recorded a video asking Mayor Mamdani to help open the playground in McKinley Park. It had been closed for almost two years. A few weeks later, the park was finally open. Thank you, Mayor Mamdani.
It's not exactly fiscal discipline.
The Tinubu administration removed PMS subsidies (a right call) and used the revenue event to enable states to pay salaries.
In effect, a tax on 202 million Nigerians to ensure civil servants get paid.
Other administrations might also argue they kept an expensive subsidy that 220 million people enjoyed.
But let's not call this fiscal discipline; no other government in Nigeria's history has borrowed more and spent more in such a short period.
I examine the payrolls of political officeholders and wonder why people work so hard to secure those jobs. Besides the senators and members of the House of Representatives, the pay of most political office-holders is quite low.
I saw online that the annual basic salary of a commissioner in Anambra State is 1,337,000 Naira. That means that my driver earns more than a commissioner in Anambra state. I know that other allowances bring it close to 500k a month, but that is not fantastic.
If the pay is not that fantastic, why are people hustling for the job? I think it was Dr Joe Abah who said he took a massive pay cut to become a DG. I guess that's why he didn't go for a second tenure. I respect him for that.
The lifestyle of most political office-holders does not match their salary. On paper, most of us can afford to pay them their monthly wages, but they can afford to spend our yearly income in a sitting. The maths is not adding up.
Payments processor @Stripe finalized a deal to acquire @OpenRouter, with the price reportedly exceeding $7B.
OpenRouter helps customers select different AI models for different tasks based on their needs and budget.
The startup raised a $113M Series B in May at a reported $1.3B valuation, with investors including @Sequoia and @a16z.
The company claims roughly 8 million global users and access to more than 400 models.
The Nigerian business community has been thrown into møurning as new CCTV footage shows the sad moment a Nigerian businesswoman, known as “Bebe Jewelry,” reportedly passed away inside a store in China.
Watch as Agberos in Lagos insisted that a GLE driver must settle them while they were on their way to Peller and Jarvis' wedding yesterday. Watch the moment the car almost ran over the agbero🤯🙆
Facts. On paper, Sam Mbakwe Cargo Airport is not profitable and has not been in a while. But it covers its costs and it drives more than 2T naira in economic value annually. Imagine if our people did not task themselves to build it because it's not profitable.
We really need to wake up and take ourselves seriously as a society before it's too late.
@elnathan_john The 200m+ numbers we qoute today is essentially years of building and multiplying the underlying bad data from 2006.
Nigeria does not have up to 150m people
@omosalewasmiles Those foreign languages niggas tweet the wildest shit. So entertaining 😂
Glad to have my homies on my TL again sha. I have not seen your tweet in eons.
Nigeria desperately needs this to become mainstream. Where educational achievements are celebrated and rewarded. It will massively help redefine youth cultures.
@DoubleEph@Mochievous Whenever I am in Lagos, I somehow use up MTN’s 120g in a weekend.
Mind you, the damn thing will only work for a couple of hours during that time.
Crazy!
The wait is over.
We have 2 golds: Chimdiebube Onwubiko and Don Anele Munachimso.
We are the best in the world!
Egejurum Onyedikachi’s name was omitted. He should have a gold.
We will not renovate government owned schools anymore nor offer to train their teachers. They have the resources to do that and they can fix them if they wish.
For ISEE we will build modular container schools across communities in the South East, hire and train our own teachers, use of own 21st century globally relevant blended curriculum to train the children.
We will also give out scholarships, sponsor sports competitions, support technical education, apprenticeship education, invest in science and innovations.
We must remain independent and laser focused with top level management of our investments.
The South East is making a choice.
We will double down on eliminating illiteracy.
Every child who cannot read, write and reason represents lost potential for our economy, our security and our future.
We are studying the education systems that consistently produce some of the world’s strongest learning outcomes, including Singapore and China.
We are no longer educating children just to survive.
We are educating them to compete globally and lead.
That is the future we are building.