What Our Pervasive Insecurity Requires: A Holistic not Reactive Approach.
In a hasty effort to be perceived as attentive and courageous, it is reported that President Bola Tinubu has approved the recruitment of about 1000 forest guards for Oyo State. This is a further demonstration of poor leadership and attending to very serious governance and security issues with a reactive approach. It is the same reactive approach that led to the sudden removal of fuel subsidy and floating of the Naira that has caused irreparable damage to ordinary Nigerians and the economy.
While recruiting more security personnel for Oyo state and the country is important, it should be done in a more organised and well-thought-out manner. Presently, almost all the 36 states in Nigeria are experiencing different forms of insecurity, with Oyo, Plateau, Kwara, Kogi, Borno, Katsina, Anambra, Niger, Imo, and Sokoto being very alarming.
The question, such as the reactive approach of our President, is whether all the states will receive the same approval to recruit 1000 forest guards per state, that is 37, 000 forest guards for the 36 states and Abuja or is the recruitment approval based on the mood of the President? Moreover, with the approval for Oyo, what will happen to the Amotekun Corps that is trying its best to secure South-West Nigeria?. Will they be disbanded in Oyo state?
The pervasive insecurity we currently have is directly related to the failure of our ecosystem, particularly leadership. It is only failure in leadership that can lead to the death of over 10,000 innocent Nigerians since 2023, and Nigeria is ranked among the top-most terror-affected countries in the world.
Addressing our insecurity situation requires a holistic or what can be described as an ecosystem approach. With failure in leadership, there is failure in unifying our dear nation, failure in industrialisation, failure in harnessing our abundant resources in agriculture, minerals, tourism, water, sports and even oil and gas to effectively generate required revenue, growth and particularly jobs for our exponentially growing youth population.
A New and Productive Nigeria will be POssible, and we will be OK! -P0
If I touch N100m today,
there’s absolutely no way I am ever going to be poor again.
There are too many financial instruments to invest N100m in for me to ever become poor again.
• Treasury Bills
• FGN Bonds
• Equity Funds
• Loans/Usury
• Real Estate Funds
• Commercial Paper
• Money Market Funds
If you ever go broke after touching 100m naira, you’re just an unfortunate person.
Campaign will soon start and this account is a Peter Obi dedicated account. As a mutual we are all Nigerians and I don’t want us to fight this time around because of elections, if u see my post about Obi, pass, don’t insult. If I see your post about evil tinubu, I pass. If I insult the failed president of Nigeria, pass go on your page and praise him. Let’s be civil like educated people and let Nigerians decide. Focus on your candidate and let me focus on mine, u get page I get page.
This is something we need to address in our society. If somebody cannot pay his rent or feed, it says a lot about the people in his life. We need to stop acting like life is individual and we don’t need people. The problem is that we have validated dropping people when life happens to them and ignoring the reality of vulnerable people in our circle.
If you hear somewhere that Yomyom cannot afford to pay his rent, it says a lot about me as a friend. No story! Why would you have friends or family that can cover it and it is not covered. If my friend dies, I have a responsibility to see that his family does not suffer and his kids go to good schools. If my friend is hungry, I have a responsibility to ensure he feeds and finds his feet.
Relationship comes with responsibility. You have a duty to your family, your partner, your friends. That is what makes life worth living.
Nigeria: Yet another Christian has been sentenced to death for the crime of self-defense.
Victor Solomon (aka Zidane), a Christian who defended his community from Fulani Islamist attacks has been sentenced to death for doing so.
Shockingly, he was charged with the same crime in two different state courts.
He was acquitted in one but condemned in Kaduna by a Muslim judge.
Christians have a right to defend themselves from Islamists who attack them.
This is not okay. Pray for Zidane, his family and community. He needs immediate help.
#FreeZidane
You people actually hate your partners. It manifests in how you relate and view relationship with them.
You dragged MummyZee for doing exactly this. You dragged the TikTok women who wake up early or wake from sleep to cook for their husbands who work hard to look after the family. Yet, you're cheering for this and asking for this kind of man. To what end? That you'll find a loving and kindhearted man whom you plan not to love?
I also do not understand the men who have a problem with this. I know most of you do not want your women to be successful and do not expect them to. That is the only way to manage your ego and feel like a man. You want to be the only successful one who pay all the bills so you can control her.
Love is sacrifice. Love is death to self. Love is putting your partner's interest first. Love is consideration. Love is kind.
This manifestation of unkindness exists in various forms:
- "I love my husband, but his money is our money, and my money is my money." No, you don't love him.
- "A man must always be 5 steps ahead of his wife no matter what." You're competing with your wife and will stifle her growth to protect your ego. That is not love.
- "I love my husband, but I can never do this for any man." You eliminate endearment to make him a nondescript in order to validate your lovelessness. "Any man" Meanwhile, it is your man you're referring to.
- "Gender roles exists for a reason. A man should not be cooking." You probably believe this because you've convinced yourself you must be 5 steps ahead and always pay the bills so you won't do any other thing in the house. But love is togetherness. You're not going to remove financial contributions and responsibilities because you're a woman. You're not going to remove domestic responsibility because you're a man.
From doing things for your man or the home and collecting back twice the money in accrued interest, to refusing to commit your finances to the home, to referring to acts of service as slavery, to demanding for love you never give, to refusing to make yourself useful at home, to frustrating your woman's career progress and financial growth to protect your insecurity, among other, it shows you people do not love your partners and do not understand what togetherness mean.
Some days it feels like everything is happening for everyone except you.
And quietly, you’re starting to condition yourself to believe your moment may never come.
Maybe you are right... But there’s a very real chance you are also wrong.
The only thing you still have that’s worth gambling on is HOPE.
Stay ready.
Stay believing.
You will rise.
Breakthroughs don’t follow your schedule.
They don’t send reminders.
They just arrive... and when they do, they rearrange everything... EVERYTHING.
All it takes for your life to go from zero to 100 is one moment... a moment you might not even hustle for. That is how crazy life is.
Believe.
"Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening there, and in numerous other Countries. We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian Population around the World!" - President Trump
Almost every government in the world is 10x to 1000x stronger than all of its criminals combined.
The reason they don’t end crime is because they are colluded with it, or because they benefit from it.
You pick the reason.
#TheseAreYourLeaders Episode II.
Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
Two-time Governor of Kano State, Senator, and 2023 presidential candidate.
Signed the Kano State Sharia and Islamic Administration of Justice Reform Law 2000, introducing Sharia courts and criminal law in Kano.
Supported and funded the Hisbah Board, the state’s Islamic moral police which carried out raids on hotels, bars, and social gatherings; oversaw land allocations later revoked by successive administrations, including parcels linked to private firms alleged to have benefited unlawfully.
Allegations of mismanagement of pension and housing funds while Governor of Kano.
Investigation by the EFCC over a ₦10 billion pension-fund case, another ₦2.5 billion pension fraud, including diversion of pensioner housing to cronies.
Internal probe by his own party, the NNPP, into alleged mismanagement of over ₦1 billion raised from nomination-forms sales.
Accusations that he received ₦2 billion monthly from Kano State coffers for political use (which he denies).
These are your leaders.
The first farmer to successfully defend himself against killer herdsmen was arrested, arraigned and condemned to die.
And you people are gnashing your teeth about an imaginary sovereignty that isn't even being threatened.
Because a bigger bully said stop killing Christians.
#TheseAreYourLeaders Episode I.
Alli Ndume.
Federal lawmaker since 2003. Still, a Senator.
First Boko Haram member, Konduga, to be convicted was arraigned alongside Ndume in 2011. Konduga pled guilty and was jailed.
Konduga was later re-arrested at Ndume’s Maiduguri residence in 2016.
Ndume was investigated and charged in 2011 for allegedly passing classified information to Boko Haram’s spokesman. He denied it.
Remanded by the EFCC in 2020 after acting as Abdulrasheed Maina’s surety in a ₦2bn fraud case when Maina jumped bail. Released after days in custody.
Still sits in the Senate.
These are your leaders.