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[PokerFace Penguin🐧 @Senseialex247]

@precious_chee Carry your opinion and feed it to the birds...
Anime Rules!!!

[gst @wearegst]

Insecurity continues to worsen across the country but the DSS appears more focused on targeting journalists than the growing security crisis.

[PokerFace Penguin🐧 @Senseialex247]

@Spearhead_Af @DavidHundeyin The problem is where will all the plastic go?

[PokerFace Penguin🐧 @Senseialex247]

@winexviv These posts give me hope.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Chimdiebube Onwubiko was received like a king yesterday in Enugu.

He won a gold medal at the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale in Rome.

He is a star, and the world will celebrate him even more.

This is just the beginning of greatness.

[PokerFace Penguin🐧 @Senseialex247]

@asemota This agbero and tout economy is exactly the legacy of this administration.

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

Money na water, sense na potopoto.

[gst @wearegst]

Tinubu is spending public funds like it’s private money.

[່ @pxrcyishim]

And I would chose you again and again 🐐

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Peter Obi is like Lee Kwan Yu of Singapore.

Leaders like him come once in a generation.

[charles aniagolu @charlesaniagolu]

I don’t interview guests to embarrass them. I interview them to test arguments. If an explanation can’t withstand scrutiny, the public deserves to know.

Comparing a fake agency scandal - along with a governance breakdown involving official institutions - to 9/11 isn’t an answer, it’s a distraction.

9/11 was a catastrophic terrorist attack. What Nigerians are asking about is institutional accountability. Those are not the same conversation. When we blur them, we don't illuminate the truth - we detract from it. There's a difference between explaining a failure, and excusing one.

Thank you to everyone who reached out. It’s clear many of us still believe in one simple thing: asking hard questions, and refusing to let bad analogies replace accountability.

Journalism isn't about winning arguments. It's about refusing to let bad arguments replace accountability. That’s the job!

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Our star boy, Egejurum Onyedikachi, said that if education were a scam, he wouldn’t be where he is today.

Listen to him.

[PokerFace Penguin🐧 @Senseialex247]

When they don’t have anything sensible to say they use “demarketing” as a buzzword to talk down on accountability.

We need a disciplinary council that will start vetting living conditions of students across tertiary institutions and punishing offenders with immediate effect.

[Anambra 1st son @UchePOkoye]

Watch Alex Onyia fighting UNN! But when he sued some universities for denying young people their admission, Ronu Rascals descended on him.

[PokerFace Penguin🐧 @Senseialex247]

I think at this point we should stop expecting good behavior from the people in these administration and start seeking measures to cut out these excess before they run the country to the ground.

What are the measures that we as a people must do to stop these problems before 2027

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Grand Corruption: Nigeria’s Greatest Threat.

The recent report from the IMF consultation further raises concerns about the scale of grand corruption under the Tinubu government. The IMF now reveals that about N8.83 trillion in expenditure undertaken in 2025 is not reflected in the budget. This expenditure is not budgeted and is therefore not under legislative oversight or administrative scrutiny. This is horrible.

N8.83 trillion is as follows:

1.About 2% of our GDP.

2.Over 35% of Nigeria’s 2025 N23.96 trillion capital project budget. In fact, the amount is more than the actual released capital funding for 2025.

https://t.co/Hta3LViCB8 is more than the entire combined budget for education (N3.52 trillion) and health (N2.38 trillion).

If such an amount is properly used and accounted for, it could transform Nigeria’s public health and education sectors. It could create hundreds of cottage industries that can provide jobs for thousands of graduates and build a solid foundation for economic development. But we cannot account for it. This is not an isolated incident.

This is a pattern of grand corruption that has become part of this administration.
We have a lot to worry about regarding the state of corruption under President Tinubu. The sort of corruption that is ingrained in total disregard of elementary rules of public finance management poses a grave danger to national security and the stability of the Nigerian state. The capture of the Nigerian state and the plunder of its resources are actions that undermine the basis of state stability and deepen poverty and state failure.

This recent revelation proves that the APC government is grossly corrupt, incompetent, and insensitive. With the growing poverty and the urgent need for significant upgrades to social and physical infrastructure, a responsible and responsive government would ensure that N8.83 trillion is prudently utilised to address these gaps. But not the Tinubu administration.

A few days ago, I called on President Tinubu to resign from office for incompetence, lack of capacity, lack of compassion, and failure to improve on his campaign promises. Some people thought perhaps the call was excessive. But with the daily revelations of pervasive corruption in this administration and its total lack of commitment to the welfare and security of Nigerian citizens, the only reasonable action is for President Tinubu to resign from office. The collapse of elementary forms of due process under Tinubu and the increased evidence of rampant looting of Nigerian public finances reinforce the need for greater accountability. It is now time for Nigerian citizens to rise within the law and hold this administration to account.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[PokerFace Penguin🐧 @Senseialex247]

@asemota I also think one of the things we can do is to create a platform for people who REALLY want to move the needle a voice. A platform that brings minds together to pitch and workshop ideas to move our greater Africa forward.

[PokerFace Penguin🐧 @Senseialex247]

@asemota I think the next best thing is to focus on how we can essentially carry out these types of innovations with the people that are geared towards the right direction.

I’m sure we have a great number of them who have the financial will to support.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

That Dangote grant shows that he has too many “low-quality” people around him. You want to do something good, and it somehow ends up being less than the barest minimum. It shows that it wasn't his idea, and he couldn't really be bothered.

He tasked others who are also less bothered and have minimal interaction with the innovation ecosystem. The cycle of “anyhowness” continues. They are richer by the day and are worshipped by most, so who cares??

Aliko’s relationship with Bill Gates and the lack of impact it has had on local innovation remain the greatest mysteries.

Pierre Omidyar’s philanthropy, combined with targeted interventions by Google, laid the foundation for the software talent stack we have in Africa today. Nothing else sensible was added to it by our wealthy beyond performative acts of charity.

One program that also bothers me is Tony Elumelu’s entrepreneurship initiative. TEP. It is underperforming. A lot of announcements and money have been spent, but there has not been enough impact. I don't think it has been properly run, and it is not his fault. Like Dangote, he has people around him who also do the barest minimum but make the most announcements.

Heirs is a phenomenal institution that I would like to see receive more focus, and they should play a more active role in ecosystem building than Oga Tony’s personal philanthropic activities. Maybe it is all our fault. We have not presented these men with viable ideas for how to do this or with the structure to implement them.

I learned a lot from Edo Innovates about how good intentions can amount to little if you wait for money to come before taking action. Structure first, support next. Both are active, not passive, processes. Jim Ovia and Moniepoint are excellent examples of how to do it. There are many other startups he has supported quietly that are doing great. It is still not enough.

Dangote, Elumelu, Jim Ovia, and others can invest in initiatives that can be white-labeled for their brands and are also very effective. I have seen that with Village Capital’s partnerships and not much else in Africa. We need to do better than criticize them. We can also help them to help us.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Master Chisom Unachukwu is at the Colosseum.

Our teachers can now enjoy a vacation abroad.

This is the reward for years of hard work, and it has to be normalized.

He said to me that he now feels proud to be a teacher.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Our star boy, Egejurum Onyedikachi, decided to participate again today in the International STEM Olympiad finale, science category, unprepared.

Listen to his experience.

We are rooting for him to win double gold.

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

Everyone I’ve spoken with who is currently serving in government has told me that this Prince Adeniyi case is simply a scam, but when I start asking questions, none of them has been able to answer.

Yes, you can forge an appointment letter and claim that you are a DG but appointment letters are signed by the SGF not the COS. Who allegedly issued his appointment letter or what signature is his allegedly forged appointment letter showing?

Someone higher than a DG must ask that you be allocated office space in the Federal Secretariat. Who made that request?

Someone higher than a DG must write asking that you be given an alleged take-off grant. You cannot yourself write to the Budget Office and the Office of the Accountant General that you should be given a take-off grant. Who allegedly wrote?

How did the agency get into the budget?

Usually, you will go for budget defence as part of a cohort. In this case, it will probably be as part of the State House cohort. Who defended or coordinated the defence of the budget estimates before the National Assembly before they were appropriated?

Did the guy earn a salary in the more than one year he was there? If so, who documented him and asked that he be paid?

With which money was the guy running the office for more than one year if nothing was allegedly released?

Who allegedly wrote to the CBN asking them to open an account for the ‘Council’? The ‘Council’ cannot just walk into CBN and ask to open an account, as if it’s a commercial bank looking for customers.

Who allegedly approved the ‘Council’s’ manning levels and who allegedly approved the waiver to recruit 300 staff?

Was the guy allegedly really that good? Or were there egregious failings at multiple points in the system?

These questions and more are often met with deafening silence. Everyone sighs heavily and uses the ubiquitous expression “Na waa.” Me sef, I sigh heavily and answer “Na real waa!”

This is a case of the proverbial tse tse that has landed on the scrotum. Leave it and it will cause sickness and pain. Swat it and it will cause pain because of its location.

Anyhow you look at it, there are questions begging for answers. And whatever the answers will be, they will not be good.

Still, I hope that there’ll be some answers soon…for the sake of our public administration system.

I am Ezemmuo. I know things.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Look at America, Europe and Canada today.

Indians are leading top companies, building global technology, running hospitals, teaching in world-class universities and occupying important positions across the world.

Look at China.

They moved hundreds of millions from poverty to global power by taking education, science, engineering, manufacturing and national planning seriously.

None of this happened by accident.

Nations that invest in human capital eventually export influence.

That is the path we must take.

We are not grooming children just to survive Nigeria.

We are grooming a generation that will compete with the best minds on earth.

Our education must move from survival to global domination.