Yoruba Adage:
A kìì d’ákę sìwi, a kìì wó sùnsùn d’áràn…
One doesn’t keep mute, yet talk out of turn and one doesn’t on-look, yet get into trouble.
The Wisdom:
For every action, there is consequence and by your own actions you’ll bring yourself peace.
#yoruba#wisdomquotes
Yoruba Adage:
A kìì d’ákę sìwi, a kìì wó sùnsùn d’áràn…
One doesn’t keep mute, yet talk out of turn and one doesn’t on-look, yet get into trouble.
The Wisdom:
For every action, there is consequence and by your own actions you’ll bring yourself peace.
#yoruba#wisdomquotes
Another day to remind you that Peter Gregory Obi will never become President of Nigeria. The only thing that might bring him anywhere close to Aso Villa is if he is awarded a contract to paint the Villa to at least fulfill his dreams of working in the villa.
Beyond that, the presidency remains far out of his reach.
For decades, the script was simple:
Africa drills the oil,
the West refines it,
and Africa buys it back at triple the price, with gratitude. Imagine that!
Now Dangote came with a 650,000-barrel-per-day “plot twist.”
-The first migraine hit when U.S. fuel export numbers started twitching. West Africa, that loyal customer, suddenly said, “No thanks, we’ll refine it at home.” Imagine selling umbrellas in a desert, that’s how America feels right now in the diesel market.
-Then came the second headache, the petrodollar sneeze. If Nigeria starts trading refined products in naira, yuan, or even “AfriPay,” that’s a direct jab at Uncle Sam’s global ATM. The dollar doesn’t like competition; it catches inflation fever when others sneeze independence.
-Third pain: The geopolitical thermometer just went up. Africa’s biggest refinery means fewer oil tankers from Texas, and more from Lagos to Lome, under African control. That’s not energy trade; that’s energy freedom. And freedom, apparently, is bad for business.
-Fourth dose: The U.S. isn’t happy seeing Nigeria shaking hands with China and India on refinery deals. It’s like watching your ex build a mansion with your rival. The refinery runs on Chinese funding and Indian technology, two things America used to monopolize.
-And finally, the fifth and deadliest headache, the symbolism.
Dangote didn’t just build a refinery; he built a mirror, showing Africa what it could’ve been decades ago if it stopped outsourcing its future.
Now Washington can’t just send “economic advisers” and “development loans” with fancy conditions anymore. Africa might soon say, “Thanks, but we’ve got this.”
So Dangote’s refinery isn’t just refining oil, it’s refining pride, power, and perspective.
And for the first time, the biggest gas leak in the room isn’t from Nigeria, it’s from America’s nerves.
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MAB✍️
May Nigeria Succeed
God bless Africa
God bless the black race
On behalf of #RenosNuggeteers locally and globally, on this day of our Lord, Friday, May 23, 2025, I wholeheartedly endorse the President of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for a second term in office, God sparing his life. I urge all my supporters to line up behind the president's Renewed Hope Agenda so we can unite as one nation under God to make Nigeria great again.
President Tinubu has reduced our total national debt by $14 billion from the $108.2 billion he inherited from the Buhari administration on May 29, 2023, to $94.2 billion today.
Nigeria, under President Bola Tinubu, has completely, entirely, and totally paid off its debt to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF itself has struck us off the list of IMF debtor nations, which confirmed this in an official release on its website.
Additionally, through its lead economist for Nigeria, Alex Sienaert, the World Bank revealed last week that the economy grew by 4.6% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2024 and pointed to continued expansion in early 2025 based on high-frequency business indicators.
Also, in the third quarter of 2024, Nigeria recorded a record-breaking trade surplus of ₦5.81 trillion, the absolute highest in our history. A surge in non-oil exports drove this surplus. Our exports were at N20.5 trillion and imports at ₦14.7 trillion.
The last two years under President Tinubu mark the first time since the Shagari administration that the Academic Staff Union of Universities has not had an industrial action, and academic calendars in Nigerian universities have gone on uninterrupted.
Meanwhile, a total of ₦32.8 billion has been awarded in student loans to an unprecedented approximately 200,000 students, a first in Nigeria.
This is happening as both the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project and the Sokoto-Badagry Express Way Project, along with the East-West Road and the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highway, are simultaneously going on at full throttle.
Just as capital inflow into Nigeria soared by 66.27% under this administration.
But it is probably in security that this administration has best outperformed the last government.
Throughout the eighth year of General Buhari, not a single bandit leader was arrested, killed or convicted. But under the Tinubu administration, more than fourteen notoriously murderous bandit leaders have been killed, including the following:
1. Kachalla Ali Kawaje
2. Kachalla Halilu Sububu
3. Kachalla Damina
4. Kachalla Dangote
5. Kachalla Jafaru
6. Kachalla Barume
7. Kachalla Shehu
8. Tsoho
9. Kachalla Yellow Mai Buhu
10. Yellow Sirajo
11. Kachalla Dan Muhammadu
12. Kachalla Makasko
13. Yellow Hassan
14. Boderi
15. Kachalla Dan Ba Birki
16. Auta Dan Mai Jan Kai
And as a result of this, peace has returned to Kaduna and its neighbouring states. No more do we see photos of prominent persons having meetings with heavily armed Kachalla/bandit leaders as occurred under the previous administration. Instead, bandits are being killed.
During Buhari's eight years, parts of Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto and other states were occupied by bandits. Nigerians living in Abuja could hardly travel to Kaduna. Almost a thousand terrorists in motorcycles invaded Kuje prison and freed over 500 of their fellow terrorists. Boko Haram militants were being rehabilitated and feted, with the government throwing graduation parties for them.
All that is history, as Nigeria is now more secure and has moved up in the Global Terror Index from the third most insecure country under Buhari to six.
Therefore, I urge all Nigerians to join me and others in supporting President Bola Tinubu for a second term in office by 2027.
Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.
On behalf of #RenosNuggeteers locally and globally, on this day of our Lord, Friday, May 23, 2025, I wholeheartedly endorse the President of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for a second term in office, God sparing his life. I urge all my supporters to line up behind the president's Renewed Hope Agenda so we can unite as one nation under God to make Nigeria great again.
President Tinubu has reduced our total national debt by $14 billion from the $108.2 billion he inherited from the Buhari administration on May 29, 2023, to $94.2 billion today.
Nigeria, under President Bola Tinubu, has completely, entirely, and totally paid off its debt to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF itself has struck us off the list of IMF debtor nations, which confirmed this in an official release on its website.
Additionally, through its lead economist for Nigeria, Alex Sienaert, the World Bank revealed last week that the economy grew by 4.6% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2024 and pointed to continued expansion in early 2025 based on high-frequency business indicators.
Also, in the third quarter of 2024, Nigeria recorded a record-breaking trade surplus of ₦5.81 trillion, the absolute highest in our history. A surge in non-oil exports drove this surplus. Our exports were at N20.5 trillion and imports at ₦14.7 trillion.
The last two years under President Tinubu mark the first time since the Shagari administration that the Academic Staff Union of Universities has not had an industrial action, and academic calendars in Nigerian universities have gone on uninterrupted.
Meanwhile, a total of ₦32.8 billion has been awarded in student loans to an unprecedented approximately 200,000 students, a first in Nigeria.
This is happening as both the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project and the Sokoto-Badagry Express Way Project, along with the East-West Road and the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highway, are simultaneously going on at full throttle.
Just as capital inflow into Nigeria soared by 66.27% under this administration.
But it is probably in security that this administration has best outperformed the last government.
Throughout the eighth year of General Buhari, not a single bandit leader was arrested, killed or convicted. But under the Tinubu administration, more than fourteen notoriously murderous bandit leaders have been killed, including the following:
1. Kachalla Ali Kawaje
2. Kachalla Halilu Sububu
3. Kachalla Damina
4. Kachalla Dangote
5. Kachalla Jafaru
6. Kachalla Barume
7. Kachalla Shehu
8. Tsoho
9. Kachalla Yellow Mai Buhu
10. Yellow Sirajo
11. Kachalla Dan Muhammadu
12. Kachalla Makasko
13. Yellow Hassan
14. Boderi
15. Kachalla Dan Ba Birki
16. Auta Dan Mai Jan Kai
And as a result of this, peace has returned to Kaduna and its neighbouring states. No more do we see photos of prominent persons having meetings with heavily armed Kachalla/bandit leaders as occurred under the previous administration. Instead, bandits are being killed.
During Buhari's eight years, parts of Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto and other states were occupied by bandits. Nigerians living in Abuja could hardly travel to Kaduna. Almost a thousand terrorists in motorcycles invaded Kuje prison and freed over 500 of their fellow terrorists. Boko Haram militants were being rehabilitated and feted, with the government throwing graduation parties for them.
All that is history, as Nigeria is now more secure and has moved up in the Global Terror Index from the third most insecure country under Buhari to six.
Therefore, I urge all Nigerians to join me and others in supporting President Bola Tinubu for a second term in office by 2027.
Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.