Yesterday, May 19th, in Abuja, I attended the Presidential screening organised by our party, which took over two and a half hours. They carefully reviewed all my documents, including my degree certificates, NYSC credentials, and age declarations.
During the process, I also addressed questions regarding my vision for a new Nigeria and the type of leadership our nation urgently needs right now. Following this, I was cleared and received the presidential nomination form I had previously paid for.
I would like to commend the screening committee, led by former governor Sam Egwu, for their thorough and professional approach. Additionally, I appreciate our party's leadership for upholding the democratic process.
A New Nigeria is POssible. - PO
If God’s grace had kept us during Covid shouldn’t we have a foresight.
iku to ye ko Pa ni to si fila l’ori eni - The Death that was to kill one but decided to remove one’s cap, is actually trying to say something -
There’s something about a leader with foresight. About 40 years ago, Saudi built an alternative route to transport oil without passing via Strait Homout, because they sense Iran might behave like animals one day. Guess what, this current war prove them right.
Right now, if there were to be a blockage of sea in Nigeria, Nigerian will suffer in mass almost leading to chaos. How effective is our food preservation, what is the level of our food bank. Even the little ones, we allowed “our children” Boko haram to intimidate farmers.
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This is actually right. He precisely said “closer” which bring us to assume distance, if it is distance, that mean, a differences of two point. Difference in f two point could only be reached by subtraction.
Bill gates is closer to me than Elon Musk.
Great question.
When you store passwords, you don't store them directly (that would be unsafe). Instead, you "hash" them. It is hashing that turns "password123" into something like "a7f8k2m9x4".
The problem is, if two people use "password123", they both get the same hash result. Hackers know this and have giant cheat sheets that say "if you see a7f8k2m9x4, the original password was password123."
The solution to this is "salting". Before hashing the password, you add some random junk to it.
So for User A, you might add "xyz" to their password, making it "password123xyz" before hashing.
For User B with the same password, you add different junk like "abc", making it "password123abc".
Now when hashed, they look completely different.
Benefits of salting is that even if a million people use "password123", every single one looks different in your database.
Hackers have to work much harder to crack each password individually
Remind me of game of thrones, Lord Varys: Power lies where people believe it resides.
This warning is key to help leaders to know that they are not the power but the people who empower them.
But when the people decide not to believe it anymore, then we are powerless
BURNA Boy prolly didn’t see this happening.
A huge reality shock for him and his crew.
Without the people supporting you, you are shit because na humans you go perform for and not ghosts!!
The Federal Government must come clean with Nigerians.
The quiet appointment of Xpress Payments Solutions Limited as a new TSA collecting agent is not an administrative decision, it is a dangerous resurrection of the Alpha Beta revenue cartel that dominated Lagos State during and after the Tinubu years. That model created a private toll gate around public revenue and funnelled state funds into the hands of a politically connected monopoly.
What we are witnessing now is the attempt to nationalise that same template, moving Nigeria from a republic to a private holding company controlled by a small circle of vested interests.
To introduce such a policy in the middle of a national tragedy, while Nigerians are mourning loved ones lost to the deepening insecurity crisis, is not only insensitive, it is a deliberate act of governance by stealth. When a nation is grieving, leadership should show empathy and focus on securing lives, not on expanding private revenue pipelines.
This latest move raises fundamental questions:
Why was this appointment rushed and smuggled into the public space without consultation, stakeholder engagement, or National Assembly oversight?
What value does Xpress Payments add that existing TSA channels do not already provide?
Who truly benefits from this? Nigeria or an entrenched political network?
This is not reform. This is state capture masquerading as digital innovation.
Let me be clear:
Nigeria does not need more middlemen between citizens and their government revenue. What we need is greater transparency, stronger institutions, and a tax system free from political capture.
I therefore call for the following:
1. Immediate suspension of the Xpress Payments appointment pending a public inquiry;
2. Full disclosure of the contractual terms, beneficiaries, fee structures, and selection criteria;
3. A comprehensive audit of TSA operations to prevent the creeping privatisation of revenue collection;
4. A legal framework, not executive shortcuts, that prohibits the insertion of private proxies into core government revenue systems;
5. A national security priority shift, recognising that a country under assault cannot afford economic governance conducted in the shadows.
Nigeria’s revenues are not political spoils. They are the lifeblood of our national survival, especially at a time when insecurity is tearing communities apart.
The government must abandon this Lagos-style revenue cartelisation and return to the path of transparency, constitutionalism, and public accountability. -AA
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Imu ni ‘ka ti o je a gburo asebi - the nose is wicked for it couldn’t smell the presence of the evil one. But the truth is that, the nose actually works but we most times not patient enough to smell it.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room
This reminds me of me the Yoruba adage - “kirikita o d’ola” - hard doesn’t turn to wealth.
She sounds like money was freely handed to @elonmusk but fail to mention Elon possessed the ability to turn a foolish idea to big revenue. Wealth is proportional to your values.