If and when the dust finally settles on Nigeria, the biggest losers will be the Niger Delta. Decades of military occupation, land degradation, foolish politicians and local monarchs who are loyal to their stomach, and severe underdevelopment, despite feeding the nation.
@UchePOkoye Nigeria has a huge problem! If this PRO genuinely thinks that environment is clean and conducive, then we do have huge problems on our hands. It means people no longer know difference between good and bad. That is a huge worry.
You people are interviewing Ali modu sheriff and Babashir lawal? Two old men that should be burying their heads in shame, for the part they played in the almost collapse of Nigeria. Media houses need to do better.
If not that Nigeria has declined values, who in their right mind will interview Ali modu Sherriff. This piece of shit that started bokoharam menace and plunged the country into an endless war. He can go to hell!
“Peter Obi is pursuing the division of Nigeria because he believes in Biafra and has never condemned it” — Former Borno Governor Ali Modu Sheriff alleges
It is wake up time Nigeria. If the people do not rise now, press a reset knob and take back their country from the kind of people who now dominate the political class, real disaster which makes the frightening excesses of today seem like kindergarten rhymes, looms
Fulani people will burn that country to the ground because they want to rule. Not a fan of Tinubu but I pray Nigeria overcomes and if we are wise, no Fulani person should near presidency for the next 20yrs or more. The evil they have done is enough.
What happened at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital yesterday is a national disgrace and must not be treated lightly!
Calling on @officialEFCC to promote lawful conduct; to publicly call the officers involved in the act to order, @Fmohnigeria@nighealthwatch to protect our healthcare system, and the presidency @NGRPresident and @NGRSenate to look into this, so this doesn’t happen to any healthcare worker again.
@UN@WHO@WHONigeria@UNICEF_Nigeria
Justice must prevail. Say NO TO VIOLENCE AGAINST MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS. Enough is Enough.
All of you GenZ’s and unlearned millennials that clown Nigeria asking mockingly “why are we even called Giant of Africa, self?” this is why!
In the 60s-90s, Nigeria was literally Africa’s sugar daddy, $20m here, $10m there, and so on and so forth to other African countries! we didn’t only talk about Pan-Africanism we put our money where our mouth was.
Also, at independence, many African countries didn’t have as many educated professionals as Nigeria. In a lot of African countries that gained independence after us from 1963 onwards, the first chief justice, auditor general, surgeon general, vice chancellors of universities were all Nigerians! The first black chief justice of Botswana was Akinola Aguda, the first black chief justice of Gambia was Emmanuel Ayoola, when the portuguese left Mozambique in the 70s Nigerian health care officers (doctors and nurses) were sent to shore up their healthcare system from collapse bcos they just didn’t have enough qualified doctors. after all said and done we sent over 10,000 professionals across africa and the carribeans to help them incubate their newly independent nations
should we even talk about the ECOMOG troops in the 90s that 70% majorly funded (spent over $3b+) and equipped by Nigeria with Nigerian soldiers forming 75% of the peacekeeping force? ECOMOG led by us was highly responsible for ending the Liberian and Sierra Leonean civil wars.
I won’t even go into details of what Nigeria contributed to the South African anti-apartheid efforts!
Nigeria gave and gave and forgot to pay attention to its own development and today we’ve become the pariah amongst nations!
SCANDAL IN NIGERIA
11,000 Indians hired to work in the Dangote refinery!
Dangote, India, and the burning mirror: what is happening to Nigeria is happening to all of Africa
There are truths that do more than wound pride; they puncture illusions, strip hypocrisy bare, and throw us—naked—before our own contradictions.
The Dangote case is one of them.
11,000 Indian technicians recruited because Nigeria couldn’t find 100 locally.
In a country of 235 million inhabitants, Africa’s largest economy, the self-proclaimed giant of the continent.
This is the clinical diagnosis of an illness that affects not just Abuja: it runs through the entire African body.
Many are shouting “scandal.”
I see a mirror.
And a mirror never lies.
1. Africa wasn’t defeated by tanks, but by polytechnics
People accuse Dangote of preferring Indians.
False.
Dangote prefers people who know how to run a refinery. Period.
It isn’t India that is humiliating us; it is our inability to produce skills that match our ambitions.
While Africa organizes summits, “national dialogues,” endless conferences, India organizes classrooms.
While we politicize technical education, India professionalizes it.
While we glorify long chains of theoretical diplomas, India trains thousands of hands-on technicians.
Indians didn’t take Lagos by force.
They are entering with their screwdrivers, their software, their skills.
2. Without skills, even our billionaires become dependent
Dangote is not the problem.
He’s actually the proof that wealth cannot compensate for weak human capital.
We may have oil, bauxite, gold, cobalt, lithium…
But until we have the men and women capable of transforming them, we remain tenants of our own development.
We provide:
the land,
the raw materials,
the tax exemptions,
sometimes even public money…
Others provide the brains.
And in the end, they walk away with the largest share of the added value.
Africa is a continent where you can build a port in 18 months—using foreign labor.
But where it takes 25 years to modernize a technical high school.
That should wake us up.
3. Technical education: our silent Waterloo
Our technical schools, where they still exist, operate with:
machines from the 1980s,
teachers who haven’t been retrained,
frozen curricula,
workshops turned into dusty museums,
students considered “less brilliant” than those in general education.
This is where everything begins.
This is where India beats us.
Not at Dangote.
Not in Lagos.
At school.
African parents dream of lawyers, doctors, and MPs…
Rarely of industrial mechanics, electromechanics, maintenance technicians, or process engineers.
Our societies continue to look down on technical jobs, even though the modern world depends entirely on them.
4. Nigeria’s problem is Africa’s problem: DRC, Kenya, Cameroon, Senegal… same fight
What is happening today in Nigeria is not exceptional.
It is the predicted future of all African countries if they do not wake up.
Across the continent:
Our power plants are repaired by foreigners.
Our mines are calibrated by foreigners.
Our dams are built by foreigners.
Our data centers are configured by foreigners.
Our roads are paved by foreigners.
And we applaud, as if development were about cutting ribbons.
Real development begins when we no longer need them for basic operations.
5. The mental revolution: turn every technical school into a talent factory
No magic.
No slogans.
No hollow “Vision 2030.”
Development requires:
qualified welders,
certified electronic technicians.
Culled
Absolute Nonsense! The young man was quite honest. So d Govt expects people to just sit down and allow themselves be killed by bandits without defending themselves? Instead of the police to protect the ppl he is there saying “Point to note” like he knows what he is talking about.
The Delta State Police Command has arrested a suspect for allegedly purchasing a Gun through Snapchat for 450,000 naira after he was found in possession of a Beretta pistol.
Government Officials in +234 act like kings. I blame the citizens waiting for someone to come save them. If citizens collectively stand and demand respect, these lot will straighten up.
A video showing some of Nyesom Wike’s followers offering praise and worship to his portrait.
If religious people can do this for their leaders, why shouldn’t political loyalists do same 🤷🏾♂️
South African cabinet say the conduct of Nigerians 🇳🇬 in South Africa is becoming unacceptable and Nigerians must be reminded that their visitor in South Africa 🇿🇦
~ South African minister says on national TV
America was able to tame the beast for a season. Wise believers must make the best use of this season to realign themselves with that which heaven is doing.
-Apostle Aromi Osayi