Peller’s Wedding Guests: Foreign Espionage And African Entertainment
When influencers and "foreign guests" collide, as is the case here, we are not watching a wedding but a social engineering operation
It is very clear here that the rise of our internet sensations is often engineered. When foreign money starts flowing into our digital spaces, it is time to start asking who is really behind the screen and what they’re buying with those "gifts." It’s time for Africans to stop being spectators to our own subversion.
Escaping The Public Contract Trap While Building African State Capacity: The Examples Of Ghana And Burkina Faso
Two road projects currently underway in West African neighbours Burkina Faso and Ghana have raised an interesting question about how African public infrastructure is built and whether the assumptions behind the popular existing models are wrong.
The received wisdom for decades has been that roads and other public infrastructure projects are packaged into "contracts" or "tenders", which are then awarded to private business entities in a project that is perennially tainted with waste and corruption.
Burkina Faso's Ouagadougou - Bobo Dioulasso Expressway and the first phase of Ghana's Accra - Kumasi Expressway have both achieved impressive levels of delivery after being assigned to the Engineering Corps of the respective militaries of both countries. These projects have proceeded with minimum fuss, maximum output and close to zero waste, which begs an important question: In a developing country still recovering from the economic and societal devastation of colonisation and neocolonialism, why does the military not play a larger role in infrastructure development, and who decided that such an important function should be left to "the market"?
@mayowadurosinm1 examines this question for The Spearhead.
With profound humility, gratitude, and a clear sense of purpose, I accept our party's nomination to serve as its candidate for Governor of Lagos State in 2027.
I am deeply grateful for the confidence our great party has placed in me and for our shared belief that Lagos deserves much better—inclusive leadership that works for everyone.
The real work begins now. Together, we will build the Lagos that we know is possible.
My friends, it’s time - O TI Ya!
🚨 JUST IN: History vindicates the brave. A video from 2020 has resurfaced showing former CBN Deputy Governor Dr. Obadiah Mailafia exposing the roots of Nigeria's insecurity.
⚠️ He boldly warned us six years ago about how bandits transport weapons and alleged that a northern governor was named as a Boko Haram commander.
The evidence is staring us in the face. Watch and retweet this to expose the wicked politicians sponsoring this crisis!
An Old Tinubu Associate Who Schooled With Peter Obi, Dropped This Mind-Boggling Revelation 👀👀
Every Nigerian needs to see and hear this.
PS: He will be a live guest tonight on the ESS on TikTok live at 10 pm WAT. 🔥
SOUTH AFRICA XENOPHOBIA: Nigerian Man Refuses to Shut Down Business, Says He Employs Over 25 South Africans
A Nigerian businessman has stood his ground amid ongoing anti-immigrant tensions in South Africa, insisting that he will not close his shop😭😭
I heard the “Money Launderer-In-Chief” at Pandora Papers and packaged fraud has fabricated another story this morning about the reason his elder brothers bounced him during his ill-fated visit to Rome.
May Nigeria overcome the Gbajues! #RevolutionNow
It's obvious that the biggest business for blackmailers now is talking about Peter Obi from every negative perspective. Even my solemn spiritual trip to Rome has been twisted into yet another blackmail campaign by merchants paid ostensibly to propagate anything negative against Obi.
One such individual, whose entire life revolves around blackmail, falsely claimed that I went to Rome to have a private meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu regarding a purported ₦225 billion debt crisis involving Fidelity Bank. These claims are not only baseless, malicious, but entirely false.
Let me categorically state that I have never sought an audience with, nor met, President Tinubu since he assumed office, except about 1 minute meeting at the arena of Saint Peter’s Basilica Rome during the inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV, where I was seated behind, and had to respectfully greet him, and other dignitaries present.
I was previously in Rome on the 9th of May for the lying in state of Pope Francis. Immediately after the mass and exchanging pleasantries, I went straight from Vatican City to London, and then back to Nigeria.
The self-proclaimed "blackmailer-in-chief" and others who thrive on spreading pain and falsehoods have also claimed that I own Fidelity Bank. For the record, I do not. Throughout my career, I have served as Chairman/Director of 3 banks/Financial institutions, of which Fidelity is one of them. Fidelity has over 500,000 shareholders, none of whom hold a majority stake. What this blackmailer seeks is to harm these hard-working Nigerians and cause them needless distress.
To those peddling these falsehoods, and engaging in blackmail, I offer a simple prayer: May God grant you the virtues of gratitude and understanding to know that we came here with nothing and will go with nothing, that they cannot profit from their evil ways.
A new Nigeria is POssible.
-PO
Last week saw a rush of news stories about conveniently-timed "terror attacks in Burkina Faso."
Western media has been furiously quoting a "Sahel expert" from Kenya whose credentials boil down to having hosted a poetry podcast.
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@renoomokri could ever dream of being, in this lifetime or the next. It’s pathetic.
I just hope you're not one of those men that gets penetrated from behind.
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