@UmarYah90283728@Nairametrics If you think he doesn't know what he's doing with this, then you're in for a very long thing. Give the opposition something to talk about, make them go on a futile mission forgetting their main goal. 2023 is about to repeat itself.
And please, don’t let this thread make you panic every time your stomach hurts.
Most stomach pain is not cancer.
The point is don’t spend months or years treating a diagnosis that was never properly confirmed.
If something keeps coming back, find out why.
@Letter_to_Jack If the dead could speak, this will be the words you'll hear from his mouth. The family might be sad but they'll still tell you they are glad he died on the fitrah of Islam
@Letter_to_Jack We rise upon the fitrah of al-Islam, and the word of pure faith, and upon the religion of our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the religion of our forefather Ibraheem who was a Muslim and of true faith and was not of those who associate others with Allaah.
Mr President,
I write this as a supporter of your administration and as a Nigerian who wants you to succeed. But support must never become sycophancy. Sometimes, the greatest service a supporter can render is to tell the President what others around him may be too comfortable—or too frightened—to say.
Mr President, Nigeria needs more mad men in your government.
And before anybody deliberately misunderstands me, let me explain what I mean by mad men.
I mean men and women who are crazy enough to confront a broken system, step on powerful toes, offend entrenched interests and refuse to accept mediocrity simply because mediocrity has become normal.
We need people who wake up every morning obsessed with results.
We need people who are prepared to become unpopular in Abuja if that is the price of becoming useful to Nigeria.
Look at the Central Bank under Olayemi Cardoso. Whatever disagreements anybody may have with individual policies, there is no question that the institution has undergone a serious reset. Discipline and credibility have returned to monetary policymaking.
That is one mad man.
Look at Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. Nigeria still has serious security challenges, and nobody should pretend otherwise. But there is a seriousness, coordination and strategic direction in the national security architecture that deserves recognition. Ribadu is prepared to work, confront problems and take responsibility.
That is another mad man.
Mr President, two mad men are not enough for a country of more than 200 million people.
We need another one in petroleum.
In fact, give us two more.
Nigeria cannot continue to behave like a poor country sitting on the assets of a rich country.
We produce crude oil. We possess enormous reserves. We have decades of petroleum expertise. We have spent fortunes on refineries. Yet for years we became accustomed to exporting crude and importing the products refined from it.
That is economic madness of the wrong kind.
Now we need madness of the right kind.
Mr President, make the rehabilitation and commercially viable operation of the Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna refineries a national obsession.
And please, no more excuses.
Nigerians have heard enough explanations about turnaround maintenance, contractors, technical reviews, committees, timelines and billions spent.
We want products coming out of those refineries.
If government cannot operate them efficiently, find the structure that can. Bring in world-class technical partners. Introduce private capital where necessary. Restructure them. Concession them if that produces the best outcome. But whatever model is chosen, the objective must be brutally simple:
MAKE THE REFINERIES WORK.
Dangote has shown what is possible on Nigerian soil. Its refinery was designed for 650,000 barrels per day and has reportedly demonstrated even higher throughput during performance testing.
So let us establish an audacious benchmark.
Mr President, let the three government-owned refining complexes target, at minimum, the equivalent of 50% of Dangote’s nameplate refining capacity—about 325,000 barrels per day of reliable, commercially viable throughput. Then push beyond it.
Nigeria should not merely aspire to satisfy its domestic demand. Our ambition should be much bigger.
We should become a refining powerhouse for Africa and a major exporter of refined petroleum products.
And upstream, the instruction should be equally uncompromising.
Your administration already has a stated ambition of taking Nigeria towards 4 million barrels of oil per day by 2030.
Mr President, find the mad man who will deliver it.
Find somebody who considers 1.5 million barrels unacceptable when the national ambition is 4 million.
@Greg_Mendel11@lekside34@inecnigeria@PeterObi They know. it's a Nigerian thing to always blame the ones at the top, forgetting the ones at the other levels are worse than the leaders
If MEN who indulge in Zina or Pornography lowered their gaze, exercised restraint and stopped pursuing unlawful relationships, many more WOMEN would be married.
Free access to illegal sex is not a women-only issue. It takes two to tango. Yet somehow, the burden of preserving chastity is always placed almost entirely on the sisters. Are brothers rabid dogs who when it gets to the issue of sex have no control or autonomy over their desires?
Dear brother in Islam, be too chaste to cheapen yourself, too God-fearing to consume women as though they exist merely to satisfy your desires.
The command to guard one’s chastity was revealed FIRST to men, THEN women.
Hold yourself to the same standard you demand of others.
Let’s always endeavor to make a balanced naseeha. Awon Obinrin ma wa daran o