Are we building a country that works for everyone
Or maintaining a system that works perfectly
For a few
A NATION DOES NOT FA!L BECAUSE IT LACKS RESOURCES
It fa!ls when those entrusted with those resources choose insulation over transformation
Choose comfort over correction
Choose survival for themselves over progress for all
And each time that happens, the distance between leadership and citizens does not merely widen
It starts to produce two different countries inside one nation
Think about that carefully
Because how we answer this
Will shape the future of Nigeria
- Abiodun Adetula
THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT HAS FIXED ELECTRICITY, SECURITY AND TRANSPORT… BUT ONLY FOR ITSELF
There is something happening in Nigeria that many people can feel
But not everyone has put into words
And if you sit with it for a moment
It should disturb your conscience
A government promises electricity for all
Years later, the grid still struggles at about 3,000–5,000 MW for over 200 million people
Then quietly, a different decision is made:
₦10 billion for solar at Aso Rock
Another ₦7 billion follows
A plan to move away from the national grid
At the same time:
The Nigeria Revenue Service secures its own power solution
Across the country, over 250 organisations already generate their own electricity
Pause here and think deeply
This is not just policy
This is a signal
If the system works
WHY ARE THOSE WHO RUN IT ESCAPING FROM IT??
Because systems reveal truth faster than speeches ever will
When leaders:
Send their children abroad
Use private jets instead of public infrastructure
Build independent power instead of fixing the grid
Secure themselves privately instead of fixing national security
They are not just making choices
They are PASSING A VERDICT ON THE SYSTEM they oversee
This is where it becomes moral
Nigeria is not a p00r country
Nigeria is a misallocated country
• Oil wealth
• Tax revenues
• Public budgets
• Collective national resources
All meant to serve the many
But increasingly structured to PROTECT THE FEW!
And this is the uncomfortable reality:
When leaders design escape routes for themselves
Instead of fixing the shared system
It is no longer a public system
It becomes a private survival architecture funded by public money
THE PARADOX OF ASO ROCK SOLAR
Solar is not the pr0blem
In fact, it is a smart solution
But leadership is not judged by what you fix for yourself
It is judged by what you make work for everyone
Look around again
Leaders move with heavy security
Citizens move with f3ar
Leaders fly above br0ken systems in planes and at times private jets
Citizens navigate unsafe roads
Leaders create alternatives
Citizens endure consequences
In countries that work:
• Leaders use the same hospitals as citizens
• Their children attend the same schools
• They depend on the same infrastructure
So they are FORCED TO FIX IT
Because they CANNOT ESCAPE IT!
That is how systems are built
Not by speeches
But by SHARED CONSEQUENCE
WHAT WE ARE SEEING IN NIGERIA
A silent transition into a two-tier nation
1. The Nigeria of self-sufficiency
• Solar
• Private security
• Controlled systems
• Comfort
2. The Nigeria of survival
• Darkness
• Bad roads
• Insecurity
• Uncertainty
And both are funded by the same country!
THE D@NGER MOST PEOPLE MISS
When leaders detach from public systems
They LOSE URGENCY
Because they no longer feel the failure
You CANNOT FIX WHAT YOU NO LONGER EXPERIENCE
You CANNOT PRIORITISE WHAT DOES NOT AFFECT YOU
That is how systems c0llapse quietly
Not because solutions do not exist
But because INCENTIVES ARE BROKEN
WHAT SHOULD BE HAPPENING
A functioning government does not:
Solve pr0blems for itself first
It does the opposite
1. Fix the shared system
2. Build redundancy for everyone
3. Scale solutions nationally
4. Ensure access is not dependent on wealth
If solar is the answer
➡️Then where is the national rollout
➡️Where are the structured subsidies for households and small businesses
➡️Where is the transition plan for the grid
If self-generation is the future
➡️Why is it only accessible to those with power and money
Now bring it home
Every generator you fuel
Every b@d road you navigate
Every delay you endure
Every r!sk you manage
You are PAYING FOR THE FA!LURE of a system
A system that has already been fixed
Just not for you!
THIS IS NOT ABOUT POLITICS
It is about responsibility
Because public office is NOT a privilege to escape reality
It is a duty to improve it
So the real question is simple... 👇👇👇
Tokyo has 37 million people and almost no public trash cans. The streets are still cleaner than your kitchen floor. It all started when a doomsday cult released nerve gas on the subway in 1995, and the country never put the bins back.
That morning, five cult members each boarded a different train during rush hour. Each carried plastic bags of liquid sarin wrapped in newspaper. They dropped the bags on the floor, punctured them with sharpened umbrella tips, and walked off at the next stop. 13 people died. More than 6,000 ended up in hospitals.
The city ripped out most of its public bins right after. A trash can was the perfect place to hide a bomb or a chemical packet, so the cans had to go. The few that survived now have see-through walls so police can spot anything suspicious inside. Tokyo Metro pulled the last of its station bins in 2022, twenty-seven years after the attack.
Somehow the streets stayed clean. Three things keep it that way.
The first is school. Every Japanese kid spends 15 to 30 minutes a day cleaning their own classroom. It's a daily routine called o-soji. Music plays over the speakers, the whole school stops, and kids put on bandanas and start sweeping floors, wiping down desks, scrubbing toilets, and mopping hallways. Sixth graders walk over to the first grade rooms to help the little ones who can't reach the high shelves yet. Three times a year, students go out and pick up trash on the streets around the school. By the time these kids are adults, picking up litter is just something their hands do without asking. The Japanese fans who stayed behind to clean their stadium section at the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were doing exactly what they had been doing since age seven.
The second is sorting. A standard Tokyo neighborhood splits household garbage into burnable, non-burnable, recyclables, and large items, with separate pickup days for each. Most kitchens have a printed pickup calendar stuck to the fridge. Put the wrong thing out on the wrong day and the bag stays on the curb with a sticker on it. Some places take the rules much further. Kamikatsu, a small town of 1,400 on Shikoku island, sorts trash into 45 separate categories and recycles 81 percent of everything it produces. Japan as a whole recycles 87 percent of its plastic bottles, while the American rate sits below 20 percent.
The third is money. Littering in central Tokyo can cost you up to 30,000 yen, about 190 dollars. Illegal dumping carries far steeper penalties: up to 5 years in prison or a 10 million yen fine for individuals, with companies facing up to 100 million yen, around 630,000 dollars. Shibuya just passed a new law adding a 2,000 yen instant fine, about 13 dollars, for tossing anything on the street. It kicks in this June and will be enforced 24 hours a day.
Per person, Japanese residents produce roughly a third the household waste Americans do. The streets are clean because a terror attack three decades ago turned every citizen into a part-time janitor.
Written by Anish Moonka.
... Domin za su yi provocative dinkuna, dinki na tashin hankali, ka ga bayan mace, da kirjinta a bayyane kamar bata saka komai ba. Tun daga sama har kasa wata kana ganin har kalar abinda ta saka ta ciki. Kuma wallahi, thumma tallafi, wasunsu, idan ka tsaida su kace bani number zasu baka. Sannan ga hawa lift kamar yan kabu-kabu. Duk inda suka ga mota sun rika sigina kenan sai mutum ya tsaya.
Anan ne nake cewa - yana da kyau ku sani, ku masu irin wannan dabi'u. Kuna cikin masifa da bala'i, kuna cikin tashin hankali ba tare da kun sani ba. idan budurwa tayi ta tsira, ke baza ki tsira ba saboda abu uku: Na farko cin zarafin aure da shiga gonar Allah. Shi auren kin tozarta shi. Kin lalata ibadar da ke cikinsa. Don haka kullum cikin la'antar Allah da mala'iku kike rayuwa. Na biyu hakkin miji, duk abinda kike shi kike zalunta da kuma yayanku. Domin ranar kiyama sai an titsiyeki a gabansa an tambayeki me yasa. Sannan na uku, kina tozarta matan aure. Irinsu ne suke sawa yanzu ake wa matan aure jam'u. Wasu da gangan suke neman matan aure don suna da yakinin cewa yanzu matan aure duka yan iska ne ko potential yan iska. Haka suke tunani. Don Allah ina zaki da wannan hakkokin na Allah da na miji da na yaya da na yan uwanki mata wanda basu ji ba basu gani ba. Sannan ga azabar kabari tana jiranki, ga hisabi.
Sannan mudai ki sani, wallahi bakya birgemu, kuma bakya bamu sha'awah. Ni personally akwai matan aure da yawa da nayi unfollowing silently. Da Ina ganin girmansu amma yanzu da su da karnika duk kallo daya nake musu. Saboda suna cutar da al'umma, suna kuma halaka mutane. Kaga matar aure a social media maza suna mata comment suna cewa "Rumbun Nono", "Mai kayan dadi", "Mai kaza Mai kaza". Ke kuma jaka kina musu dropping smiling kina jin dadi bayan wannan abin da kuke shima nau'ine daga cikin nau'ikan zina. To ku sani bakwa birge mutane, bakwa baiwa mutane shaawa kuma tsakanin mu da ku sai tsinuwa.
Mun isar da wannan sako.
Idan za'a gyara a gyara.
Idan kuma ba za'a gyara ba,
Allah ya mana maganunku.
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Muhammad Ubale Kiru
#MuhdKiru
🚨 | Karuwanci Pro Max
Nasan bani kadai wannan abun yake damu ba. To amma dole mu rika calling dinsu out muna gaya musu gaskiya don mu fita hakkinsu kuma mu sauke nauyin da Allah ya dora akan kowane musulmi na ya yi hani da mummuna da kuma umarni da kyakkyawa. Kuma kamar yadda bature yake cewa "Let's call a spade, a spade, because that's what it is" Da hausa shine "Ba'a canjawa tuwo suna". Kuma duk abinda zan fada a wannan maudu'i ba wai a son raina bane, ni kaina bana jin dadi, amma dole tasa a fada.
Wasu dabi'u da muke gani yanzu suna fitowa daga cikin yan uwanmu matar aure suna matukar tada mana da hankula. Domin sun yi kama da abin da kai-tsaye a iya cewa karuwanci ne amma Pro Max. Kuma idan ka ce musu karuwan cikin gidan miji ba kayi kuskure ba domin that's what they are.
Mun samu mata masu fakaicewa da sana'oi a social media, wasunsu don su yi ciniki, ko don neman followers suna iya fitowa su saka sitira don talla, amma zasu iya bayyana surarsu, su juya gabansu, su juya bayansu, su turo kirjinsu, sannan ga shi sun sha makeup, sun fitar da gashi, sun fitar da surar jikinsu. Ma'ana tana amfani da jikinta don jan hankalin mutane. Nasan dukkanku masu karanta wannan rubutu kun taba cin karo da irinsu including wata babbar mace wacce muke kyautatawa zato, da aurenta, da iyayenta masu mutunci, amma kudi da neman duniya sun rufe mata ido. Tana iya bayyana jikinta in the name of tallan atamfa da lace. Idan ka shiga comment kayi mata nasiha sai a fara cewa hassada kake mata saboda Allah ya dagata.
Sannan muna matan aure masu sex education. Kaji mace bata jin kunya, bata tsoron idon duniya, bata tsoron iyayenta, in the name of education and awareness. Ta kafa camera a fuskarta, ta sha makeup, ta matse jiki, ta bude cleavage dinta wato kwaroron nononta, wai tana creating awareness and education. Itama a karshe idan ba yar iska bace, to potential yar iskace. Domin ta hanyar wannan batsar da take, da kuma bayyana surarta, da haka ne take jawo traffic kan shafinta don ta samu more followers da kuma masu tayawa. Yanzu haka kusan zan iya cewa ya zama Ruwan dare ka ga matar wani ta saka hoto ta bayyana cleavage dinta a waje. Wato i think wani sabon trend ne. Da bahaushe bai son cleavage ba, amma yanzu tunda suna kallon films, suna ganin yadda ake saka riguna masu bayyana cleavage din. So ya zama wani abin cinyewa taga matar aure da cleavage ya fita.
Sai kuma yan "Reality Show". Su wannan sune manyan tsinannun cikin su. Su sun maida social media tamkar gida, tamkar wani dakinsu. Zasu tashi da safe su saka video din yadda suka tashi, da yadda suka shiga bathroom, da yadda su kayi wanka, da yadda suka shafa mai, da yadda suka saka kaya, da yadda suka yi makeup, da yadda suke cin abinci, da yadda suke rayuwarsu. Duka sun maida komai reality TV show. Kuma wadda na ga ta fara wannan, wallahi matace ga daya daga cikin 'ya'yan wani basaraken kasar hausa. Idan ka ga abinda take a IG page dinta kai kace wata pornstar. Wallahi ko a America su Kim Kardashian ne suke irin wannan iskanci. Amma ko average yan iskan can basa wannan. Amma sai gashi yanzu matan aure ne suke bamu reality TV show a shafukansu muna gani. Matan aure, da iyayensu, da mazajensu, da danginsu, amma kowa tsoron musu magana yake kar ace ya saka musu ido ko kuma yana musu hassada.
Sannan muna da yan zaman banza, mijinta matafiyene, bata komai a gida sai dai ta tashi da safe tayi wanka ta dora hoton kwalliyarta tana jiran yan comment suce mata she look sexy, ko she is hot. Sannan sune idan dare yayi sai su hau TikTok live streaming su rika abubuwa, wata da rigar bacci take fitowa, kana kallon nipples dinta ta cikin rigar, sannan maza suna mata hirar batsa, tana basu amsa. Wata a duk dare tana samun kudi na gift wanda ya kai million daya wallahi. Idan kana so ka tabbatar ka hau TikTok bayan karfe 2 na dare zaka ga ikon Allah.
Sai kuma yan zuwa biki. Yanzu idan matar aure tayi dressing din zuwa gidan biki ko dinner. Wallahi baza ka iya babbaceta da budurwaba....
Someone said that we pay a lot of taxes in Norway that's why things are free. That's true. Norway is probably one of the highest taxed country in the world. But nobody steals 1 NOK to live off the citizens' sweat. Everything is given back to the people and the bulk is saved for the future generations. Dangote mentioned that the Federal Government takes 52 Kobo out of every 1 Naira profit they make from their cement business. Where is the money? Start your patriotism from there. People in Norway are happy. Nobody talks about stealing here!
#TaxTips #tax #norway #nigeria #norwaytax #dangote #cement
If the Muslim world truly understood itself, its history, its blessings, and its strategic position in the modern world, and if it chose unity over division, cooperation over rivalry, and purpose over chaos, the global balance of power would shift without a single shot fired. Not through force, not through upheaval, but through pure geopolitical leverage. That is the point I want people to understand.
Look closely at the world today. The bedrock of American global power is the petrodollar system. Without the petrodollar, the United States would not enjoy the same level of influence it projects across the world. Yet the irony is striking: the entire foundation of this system rests on resources and trade routes overwhelmingly controlled by Muslim‑majority nations.
The Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, and Syria together produce a massive share of the world’s oil. The Strait of Hormuz, the most sensitive energy chokepoint on Earth, is surrounded almost entirely by Muslim countries. From Saudi Arabia to Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, Iran, and Oman, the heart of global energy lies in Muslim hands.
Move eastward. Gwadar in Pakistan sits at the gateway of the Indian Ocean. Bangladesh follows along the Bay of Bengal. Then comes the Strait of Malacca — the passageway for one‑third of global trade — bordered by Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation on Earth, and Malaysia, another Muslim‑majority country.
Shift west. The Suez Canal in Egypt remains one of the most important arteries of global commerce. South of it lies the Bab el‑Mandeb, framed by Yemen, Djibouti, and Somalia — all Muslim countries. Even the Strait of Gibraltar, the gateway between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, sits beside Morocco, a Muslim nation.
Then consider Turkey. A nation straddling continents, controlling access to the Black Sea, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean. Turkey is the pipeline transit capital of the world, connecting Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. It was once the seat of the Ottoman Caliphate, a symbol of unity and leadership for centuries.
When you map all of this together, the picture becomes undeniable: God, in His infinite wisdom, placed some of the world’s most valuable resources and strategic corridors in the hands of Muslim peoples. Yet instead of using these blessings to uplift themselves and humanity, many Muslim nations have fallen into division, conflict, and shortsightedness.
Some descended into extremism. Some into corruption. Some into endless political games. Others into the illusion of luxury without long‑term vision. And within a short time, all of it crumbled.
But the potential remains. It has not disappeared. It is simply dormant.
If Muslims could unite — not as one country, not under one ruler, but under one purpose — the world would witness a transformation. Imagine Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Northern Nigeria, and Indonesia aligning on a shared course. These are nations with populations exceeding 80 million each. Their combined influence would reshape global economics, diplomacy, and culture.
Extremism would fade. Respect would rise. The dignity that once defined the Muslim world between 700 and 1700 would return. The world would not fear Muslims; it would admire them.
The question now is simple: who will champion this cause? Who will rise with sincerity, wisdom, diplomacy, and responsibility to guide the Muslim world toward unity and purpose?
The answer lies with whoever understands this message deeply enough to act.
Adamu Garba II