Gbemisola Joel-Osoba

Interests include African Economics/Development, DRM, Development Finance, Strategy Consulting...Christ freak!

Views are entirely mine or yours.

[Gbemisola Joel-Osoba @LayeMicheals]

Nigeria’s 2023 budget is its largest on record at 21.8 trillion Naira.

It can’t pay for it.

It is worrisome that Nigeria is wildly spending money it doesn’t have on things that won’t bring her the most gain.
A 🧵 on why you should be concerned, and what you can do about it👇

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Have a great birthday, skipper 🥳

[Big Cuz @imohumoren]

Two things are true:

We seem to start losing concentration from the 75th minute.

African teams have been treated unfairly this whole World Cup. So many calls not going our way but you can see those examples given to other teams

[Big Cuz @imohumoren]

CAF needs to issue a statement about how poorly African teams have been treated in this particular World Cup. I’ve watched the World Cup since Italia 90…I don’t remember so many unfair treatment. The foul on Salah was the same as the canceled goal. Ref didn’t even check VAR

[Kara @UTDKarra]

Repost if you think Gianni Infantino is the worst FIFA president ever.

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

VAR didn't review two clear fouls inside the Argentinian box (against Egypt players) before Enzo Fernández's goal. Why? A foul on Martínez overturned Egypt's second goal. Why does the treatment have to be so one-sided? This is completely unfair. FIFA, be ashamed. Be genuinely ashamed. This is Robbery. Egypt have been robbed.

[Joseph S Blatter @SeppBlatter]

Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?

Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump

[Senior Pastor Okezie James Atañi @Onsogbu]

BREAKING:I wish every state would come here in Enugu and copy this Gov. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah security model-Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Rilwan Disu says

"Every State in Nigeria Should Emulate this. IGP was left stunned after touring Enugu’s ultra-modern Command and Control Centre. From AI-powered cameras covering every corner of the state, to zooming 30km deep into forests, to a Distress Response Squad that deploys in under 4 minutes Enugu is setting the gold standard in security infrastructure.

Enugu is blessed with Peter Mbah.

[OGUNTADE @abiodun5678]

@officialkasaba @Imranmuhdz Well she's not an office holder, you never elected her.

[chinenye @chinenyeway]

This woman right here is a power house. I can't scroll past her videos not even one. Anytime she opens her mouth, wisdom drops.

Whose Mama is this?

[Punch Newspapers @MobilePunch]

𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 144-𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲: https://t.co/2qmHqHDzZ3

[Nairametrics @Nairametrics]

Nigeria emerged as the highest-performing African economy on the economic performance pillar of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Competitiveness Ranking 2026, outperforming five other African countries assessed in the report. https://t.co/s8PGmiF49E

[Gbemisola Joel-Osoba @LayeMicheals]

Nigerians, please let's do better. Governments have their responsibilities citizens also have ours.

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

This is part of the reasons why Lagos state is flooded…. Just watch this💔💔

[SKB @seyikanbai]

Habibat Salawudeen is attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the longest Holy Bible reading marathon, reading continuously for 6 days (144 hours). She’s already on Day 4 of the incredible challenge. 😳👏🏼📖

[El-Roi(The God who sees me)💜 @_omoh_]

Get your tickets!!! October 1st we storm the cinemas. Christians and unbelievers you are all invited. Don't let anyone gaslight you.
Jesus is real, very very real and christianity is not some whiteman religion.

#mikebamiloye #mountzionmovies #joshuamikebamiloye #christianmovies

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I never asked who built the golden calf. I just knew it was a sin in the desert.

Then I read both accounts and one detail stopped me cold.

In the Bible, the man who builds the golden calf is AARON. Moses’ own brother. The first high priest. Exodus 32:4.

He gathers the gold, melts it, shapes the idol. And when Moses confronts him, he gives the weakest excuse in scripture: “I threw the gold in the fire and out came this calf.” As if it made itself.

Bro. The Bible just put the worst sin in the camp in the hands of the holiest man in the camp.

You would NEVER write that if you were protecting your prophets.

Now read the Quran. Surah 20. Aaron is cleared. Innocent. He tried to stop it. The blame goes to a mystery man called “al-Samiri.” The Samaritan. Surah 20:85.

You know what shook me? The Bible incriminates its own high priest.

The Quran writes him an alibi and invents a villain.

One reads like an honest record. The other like damage control.

And there’s a second problem with that villain. “The Samaritan.” But Samaritans didn’t exist in Moses’ time.

The city of Samaria wasn’t founded until about 500 years later, under King Omri. 1 Kings 16:24.

It’s like putting a Texan at the Last Supper.

Now, some Muslim scholars push back — they say “Samiri” means something else. I’ll be fair, that argument exists. But their own classical commentators read it as “the Samaritan” for centuries.

The defense only works by re-translating away from how the tradition always understood it.

I used to say the Bible was corrupted. But the Bible is honest enough to say the high priest built the idol.

Only a book honest about how bad we are could point me to a Savior real enough to fix it.

The Bible never flattered Aaron. It didn’t flatter me either. It just told me the truth, and handed me Jesus.

[Accountability Lab Nigeria @accountlabng]

And the conversation is still here with Nigerians on tint!!!

A more effective & equitable approach to this would have involved leveraging data & citizen feedback to identify & address 1-chance security risks, by showing the meaningful link between tinted windows & increasing crime rates. The @FCT_PoliceNG can do better with strategies like intelligence gathering & technology-driven surveillance to target high-risk behaviours & areas thereby addressing the real drivers of insecurity while respecting citizens’ rights.

If security & law enforcement agencies continue to adopt policies that disregard public input & fail to provide clear justification, it risks alienating the very communities whose trust & cooperation are essential to effective policing. A collaborative, data-informed approach is not just more efficient—it is the foundation of sustainable public safety!

[Greenville 🐐 @NaijaNinja001]

@instablog9ja Does these people know that there’s a medical reason for some tinted vehicles?

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

Q: Why is it so easy to criticise and have a plan till you get into government? 🤔

A: Because outside govt, you see the problem in straight lines. Inside government, you meet the maze.

From outside, failure often looks like a lack of will, competence, courage, or integrity. Sometimes it is. But inside government, plans meet weak institutions, inherited liabilities, vested interests, procurement rules, courts, legislators, budget limits, security realities, civil service inertia, and the politics of timing.

Culture happens, stories begin and self-preservation agendas find life.

The easiest sentence in public life is: “They should just fix it.” The harder truth is that the state is not one person with one button. It is a network of laws, interests, fears, incentives, sabotage, capacity gaps, and consequences.

Still, complexity is not an excuse for failure. Government exists to organise complexity into results. The real test of leadership is whether a plan survives contact with reality, adapts without losing its moral centre, and delivers relief citizens can feel.

So, I have learnt to appreciate progress, momentum and incremental gains..... not the eldorado version.

Yet, criticism keeps power honest, but getting results for desired governance requires more than criticism. It requires getting involved, sequencing, coalition-building, courage, competence, communication, and the humility to accept that the problem was deeper than the slogan.

The code is to win by knowing when to lose, win or compromise.

On a scale we can all relate wirh, we should for example know that the wedding, of which we priotise expenses with, is just an event, while the marriage remains the institution of priority. Even within this family arrangement, optimising value reflects similar challenges.😔 You can read this in a way you get the message.

Be ye circumspect.....

[fm @phdfact]

@JohnFanimokun It will take time before reform reach the street-"common people" if we keep calling-out just Mr President. Nigeria is made up of 36 States + FCT & 774 LG.

People should ask what Govs & LG chairs are doing?

FG, State, LG shared FAAC apart from IGR.
State/LG-61.3%
FG-38.7%

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

Written by @MatAshimolowo .official

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT

A Celebration of Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye

There comes a time when silence becomes ingratitude.

There comes a time when honour becomes a sacred duty.

There comes a time when sons and daughters must rise to celebrate the gifts that God has given to a generation.

This is such a time.

We refuse to be silent while men and women of eternal significance are reduced to headlines, controversies, and social media trends.

We refuse to stand by while those who have sacrificed decades in service to God and humanity are casually criticized by people who have built nothing, fathered nobody, planted no churches, and transformed no nations.

The sons and daughters of prophets must never be silent while cheap publicity seekers use great men as instruments for attention.

A generation that does not honour its fathers has no future.

A people who cannot recognize greatness in their midst will eventually suffer the tragedy of its absence.

Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye is not merely a church leader.

He is not merely a denomination head.

He is not merely a respected minister.

He is one of the most significant Christian leaders of our generation and one of the greatest spiritual gifts God has given to Africa and the global Church.

We should never allow a man who chose humility to become the chewing stick of the uninformed.

We should never permit the noise of critics to drown out the voice of history.

We should never watch while modern-day Sauls seek to intimidate, discredit, or silence God's servants.

Scripture records how King Saul pursued David.

Scripture records how Doeg the Edomite became an instrument of destruction against the priests of God.

Throughout history, political power has often sought to suppress prophetic voices.

Yet God has always preserved His servants and vindicated His purpose.

The Church must never become indifferent when its fathers are unfairly attacked.

Nor should we wait until our prophets cross into eternity before we begin to celebrate them.

Too often, flowers are sent to funerals when they should have been delivered while the recipient was still alive.