The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬

🇳🇬 I turn Nigeria’s bad news into hope & laughter 🇳🇬
Breaking news • humor • hard optimism
Follow to laugh first & believe again. 🇳🇬

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

If you’re tired of Nigeria news ruining your mood,
follow me.

I’ll give you:
• the facts
• the humor
• the hope 🇳🇬

Laugh first. Believe again.

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

@AndrewBolis GPT. Please sir I need the guide

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

Nigeria today is heavy — but hope is still alive 🇳🇬

• Church attacks test our faith
• Lagos demolitions test our humanity
• IMF warnings test our leadership
• New satellite internet tests our readiness
Pain is loud.
But possibility is louder.
We don’t give up on Nigeria.

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

Hmmm.....

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

It is both tragic and concerning that our leaders continue to prioritize waste, corruption, propaganda, lies, and negative aspects of development over positive initiatives.

Recently, it was reported that $9 million of taxpayers' money was spent on lobbyists in Washington, which I believe is just a small fraction of the global waste occurring in the same manner. This situation aligns with the disgraceful state of Nigeria.

This is merely a small example of wasteful spending that has contributed to our nation’s current failing status. To further illustrate the impact of such waste, we can look at a critical measure of development: the Human Development Index (HDI). Nigeria has remained stagnant in the low HDI category for 35 years, from 1990 to 2025. In contrast, comparable nations within the same low category, such as China—where Nigeria had a three-fold higher per capita income in 1990—and Indonesia have advanced from low to medium, and now to high categories.

The achievements of these nations were not the result of fate, miracles, or natural endowments, but rather a consequence of choices and the cumulative effects of good and bad leadership. This underscores the importance of prioritization.

To explain further the implications of the $9 million expenditure, let’s consider the components of HDI: life expectancy (health), education, and per capita income (poverty). Nigeria is failing in all three measures. For instance, regarding health, let's examine the $9 million, which is approximately ₦14 billion spent wrongly. Nigeria now has the lowest life expectancy in the world and ranks among the top two countries globally for maternal mortality, making childbirth one of the most precarious experiences for Nigerian women. Instead of investing in life-saving systems, we spend millions trying to obscure our failures.

Our key medical centers are teaching hospitals, and I will use six—one from each geopolitical zone of Nigeria—to illustrate this failure. For the 2024 capital budget for teaching hospitals, which remains operational today, the allocations are as follows: ₦2.67 billion to the University College Hospital, Ibadan (South-West), ₦2.46 billion to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria (North-West), ₦2.8 billion to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu (South-East), ₦2.43 billion to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City (South-South), ₦1.16 billion to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin (North-Central), and ₦2.37 billion to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri (North-East), totaling ₦13.9 billion for our premier medical centers.
The $9 million spent on foreign lobbyists could have been used wisely to purchase essential hospital equipment for Nigerian hospitals, improving our healthcare capabilities and positively influencing our national image.

This $9 million is sufficient to fund the entire 2024 capital budget for at least one major teaching hospital in each zone, directly enhancing survival rates, care, and life expectancy. The funds are available; what is lacking are prioritization, discipline, and effective leadership.

This situation is unacceptable. Every naira of taxpayers' money should serve the Nigerian people. Instead, citizens are dying in failing hospitals while the government pays foreigners to pretend that everything is fine. We cannot continue to live in an illusion while our reality deteriorates. This constant prioritization of trivial matters must come to an end.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

It is both tragic and concerning that our leaders continue to prioritize waste, corruption, propaganda, lies, and negative aspects of development over positive initiatives.

Recently, it was reported that $9 million of taxpayers' money was spent on lobbyists in Washington, which I believe is just a small fraction of the global waste occurring in the same manner. This situation aligns with the disgraceful state of Nigeria.

This is merely a small example of wasteful spending that has contributed to our nation’s current failing status. To further illustrate the impact of such waste, we can look at a critical measure of development: the Human Development Index (HDI). Nigeria has remained stagnant in the low HDI category for 35 years, from 1990 to 2025. In contrast, comparable nations within the same low category, such as China—where Nigeria had a three-fold higher per capita income in 1990—and Indonesia have advanced from low to medium, and now to high categories.

The achievements of these nations were not the result of fate, miracles, or natural endowments, but rather a consequence of choices and the cumulative effects of good and bad leadership. This underscores the importance of prioritization.

To explain further the implications of the $9 million expenditure, let’s consider the components of HDI: life expectancy (health), education, and per capita income (poverty). Nigeria is failing in all three measures. For instance, regarding health, let's examine the $9 million, which is approximately ₦14 billion spent wrongly. Nigeria now has the lowest life expectancy in the world and ranks among the top two countries globally for maternal mortality, making childbirth one of the most precarious experiences for Nigerian women. Instead of investing in life-saving systems, we spend millions trying to obscure our failures.

Our key medical centers are teaching hospitals, and I will use six—one from each geopolitical zone of Nigeria—to illustrate this failure. For the 2024 capital budget for teaching hospitals, which remains operational today, the allocations are as follows: ₦2.67 billion to the University College Hospital, Ibadan (South-West), ₦2.46 billion to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria (North-West), ₦2.8 billion to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu (South-East), ₦2.43 billion to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City (South-South), ₦1.16 billion to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin (North-Central), and ₦2.37 billion to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri (North-East), totaling ₦13.9 billion for our premier medical centers.
The $9 million spent on foreign lobbyists could have been used wisely to purchase essential hospital equipment for Nigerian hospitals, improving our healthcare capabilities and positively influencing our national image.

This $9 million is sufficient to fund the entire 2024 capital budget for at least one major teaching hospital in each zone, directly enhancing survival rates, care, and life expectancy. The funds are available; what is lacking are prioritization, discipline, and effective leadership.

This situation is unacceptable. Every naira of taxpayers' money should serve the Nigerian people. Instead, citizens are dying in failing hospitals while the government pays foreigners to pretend that everything is fine. We cannot continue to live in an illusion while our reality deteriorates. This constant prioritization of trivial matters must come to an end.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

Yes, Nigeria has hard headlines today.

But despair is not our destiny. 🇳🇬
We fix what’s broken. We protect lives. We build forward.

I remain incurably optimistic — a new Nigeria is possible.

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

Today, my heart is with all affected by violence and tragedy across Nigeria — from the brutal attack in Niger State to the devastating boat accident in Yobe. 🇳🇬🙏

We must push for stronger security, accountable leadership, and better infrastructure. Let’s uplift our people.

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

🇳🇬 Today’s Nigeria in one snapshot:
justice moving,
institutions speaking,
security warnings issued, and
a $1T economic vision on the table.
This country is not asleep. 🧵👇🏽

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

🇳🇬 Courts active. INEC clarifying. Security alerts issued.
Big economic ambitions on the table.
Nigeria is noisy, messy, imperfect — but not stagnant.

Progress is happening in real time.

A New Nigeria is possible. ✨

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

@nentawe1 @tongmaan @bardejnr @Alhaji_Daa @DOlusegun What a joke🤣
Decamping politicians 🤣
Diminishing democracy 🇳🇬

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

@ChelseaFC Why will you sack maresca? A genius of an impeccable character. I still don't understand and I demand an explanation

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

@Zexyooo Hi

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

🇳🇬 New tax laws started yesterday.

Taxes aren’t evil.
Wasting them is.

If this money builds roads, schools & hospitals, Nigeria wins.

If it disappears, we demand answers.

Hopeful. Alert. Incurably optimistic.

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

🔥 YMR 2025 ends. Prayers prayed. Fire caught.

Then… back to the same struggles. Same crimes. Same distractions.

How do we make the fire stay lit all year, not just for a few days in Redemption City?

📢 Retweet until @PstDanielOlawande & the organizers see this!

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

@AndrewBolis Money

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

@callmeluma Hi

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

@Kh5065 Hi

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

Nigeria will test your patience.

But it will also test your resilience.
And somehow, Nigerians keep passing that test 🇳🇬

Happy new year 2026

[The Incurable Nigeria Optimist 🇳🇬 @JesusOptimistNG]

Dangote don show us why ONE man fit move mountains 😎💪

President Tinubu don nominate new bosses for NUPRC & NMDPRA afta Farouk & Gbenga resign.

Oritsemeyiwa Amanorisewo Eyesan & Engr Saidu Aliyu Mohammed dey set to take over.

#NigeriaRising #OptimistVibes