This is former Nigerian Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, being used in a hospital advert after undergoing knee replacement surgery in India.
These so-called “experienced leaders” had every opportunity while in power to build first-class healthcare facilities in Nigeria. Yet, in old age, they travel abroad for the very medical care they failed to make adequately available at home and can even end up as advertisements for foreign hospitals.
At this rate, perhaps one day a hospital in France will be using a Nigerian president, Tinubu for its adverts.
What a tragic indictment of decades of failed leadership and neglect of Nigeria’s healthcare system.
@bolazeal@bizzleosikoya This is exactly how he got played buying the eth domain and probably investing in crypto thinking he's some type of eth maxi. If you tell am the truth e go say you mad😂
In as much as I don't support fraud, maybe we should also look at the money and labour that was used to built the whole of Europe and America. Maybe we might see bigger scammers as a nation or continent.
EXCLUSIVE: A Nigerian chieftain billed Medicaid more than $36 million, then snapped up luxury properties in California and built a magnificent palace in Abatete, Nigeria—including a golden statue of himself.
The experts told us it has all the red flags for fraud.
An object at rest, stays at rest.
Na you wan move am before?
Omo isaac newton really whine me sha but no be him fault na teachers wey teach me nonsense
This is exactly the type of people your likes will love to occupy the society to enable you stay in power. You clearly opened up why you all don't regard professional/intellectuals.
Peller and the Olodo Uprising: An Unpopular Opinion
Let me shock you with a statement of fact: Artificial intelligence will replace doctors before it can replace someone like Peller. Many people accuse Peller of being goofy. And they are right. In fact, he can be downright silly. Yet that boy has an X factor that makes him the centre of gravity amongst many celebrities. Be patient. I'm going somewhere.
And why is that? Because it takes a human to be goofy and act slapstick. I do not see AI ever doing stand-up comedy, like any of our comedians, or improv kookiness, like Peller. That spontaneity and wacky playfulness are things all of us had in childhood, but most of us lost as we became adults.
This so called Olodo Uprising is a challenge and as a parent, encourage your child to study and improve their minds.
It is good to go to school for sixteen years like the average person, then get a job and slave at it from age twenty-four to sixty-five, only to retire too tired to enjoy your savings.
Yes, that is one path to life. You might even say a viable route. But in this day and age of cognitive computing, there are other options. So don't pressure your children or mock your wards because they aren't getting the best grades. Don't 'see your mate' them! The world has changed.
Most of what we had to study for has been solved by AI. AI does accountancy better than accountants and engineering better than engineers.
In Nigeria today, the Governor of Kaduna and I landed at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport from London and didn't have to deal with a human being until we left the airport. AI has automated everything. E-gates scan your passport, and off you go!
Even music and movies are losing out to AI, as it produces songs and screenplays so good you wouldn't believe they weren't the brainchild of a real human.
In California, my friends and I take driverless cars on trips. Uber drivers and regular taxis will be completely eradicated in fifteen years.
Please fact-check me; AI recently defeated one of the best lawyers at a trial. So if you are a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and your child failed at Law School, do not be so disappointed. AI may render your profession antiquated in a few years.
We do not yet know how far AI will go. But we do know it can never replace human fun and spontaneity. And that is what we have to ensure that our children retain.
Let them have fun and be fun to be around. That will make them AI-proof. And that is why you, reading this, may have a PhD and call Peller an Olodo, but that Olodo boy called Peller is a money spinner, connecting with people and building bridges globally, because he has what AI cannot replicate in a thousand years. He has warmth, innocence, purity and the ability not to take himself seriously.
It was that same innocent purity of spirit that drew many people, including myself, to Michael Jackson.
And as long as scarcity creates value, Olodos with such traits will in this day and age of technology that is wizardry, command as much, if not more value than a PhD who has been made obsolete by AI.
To understand someone like Peller, let me cite a quote by the phenomenal Beatle, John Lennon, who once said:
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
From that perspective, Peller understands life more than many PhD holders and Professors.
As long as you have a healthy, happy child, you and they can add everything else to their life later.
Bemigho Reno Omokri
Ambassador Designate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Who killed dele? Na you sabi.
We really need to rediscover our critical thinking ability in this part of the world.
It’s very very important.
Caveat: make sure you watch the entire video before arguing.
You can be making friends with the enemy thinking they are your friends and you can be on war with your friends thinking they are the enemy. The system is this bad!
The lawless @OfficialDSSNG has apparently been tracking my movements since I arrived in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for the Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference. After my speech at the Kay Hikers gathering, we noticed some strange movements and decided to switch vehicles. That was when we discovered an electronic tracking device attached underneath the security vehicle we had used that night.
They are really scared!