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[Tony Vei™ @TGOZ]

@susylicious2023 Tell him to have a good rest, worry no more, and find a new girl. His decision was excellent.

[Susan Abel @susylicious2023]

Am I wrong for refusing to pay for my girlfriend’s return flight after she decided to extend her trip without me?

[BLESSED 🥷 @Dee_9889]

If David Umahi is not careful with this fraud of a coastal highway he is constructing he will go to jail, because no competitive bidding, no feasibility study, every thing about the contract is fraud.

-- Henry Shield

[GhanaBoy Ni3🇬🇭 @ghanaboynie]

A South African reacts to a circulating video making rounds online.

🎥 @ kaapieinkorea 🇿🇦

#SouthAfricaupdates

[J. C. Okechukwu @jcokechukwu]

People are waking up en masse. Nothing lasts forever…

[Derah @Derahobs]

Zlatan ibrahimovic display his talent bro is so good 😊 🥰

[Tony Vei™ @TGOZ]

@Nedumcity_ Y will people come on air to speak some some unwanted speech...
No be must to talk ooo.
Keep it to yourself man..
Social space Don na wa oo

[Daishkawa Lagos @daishkawa]

Tinubu is a sleeping president

[Bia Pulse @BiaPulse]

The birth of Fulani hegemony in Nigeria, the main cause of our problems till date.

— Dele Farotimi

[Princewill @Kingprince006]

Nigeria Is Gone!

When people like us talk, some Tinubu and APC nitwits will come to my comment section to m@sturbate with their stuupid narratives ...

The man in this video is Prince Adebayo, the presidential candidate of the SDP..

This is a man of repute who cannot just come out to lie against Tinubu...

If the commander in chief and the president of Nigeria could say this then what else is remaining..

This comment is an absolute thre@t to the existence of our democracy especially coming by the so called NADECO champion.

Nigerians MUST not allow Tinubu to come back in 2027 else it won't be funny..

[MAJED | Researcher |🐪📖 @SAPRAC_SA]

الصين الى اين ؟

[Cross˚ @Elkrosmediahub]

Eric here again with every bit of our silent thoughts.

The month of June is for Men’s mental health, and we are saying thank you to all the men out there making sacrifices to attain fulfillment for their families.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

A Nigerian Challenges The IMF’s Counterintuitive Economic Recommendations For Nigeria

Nana Fatima Bello, a Nigerian writer and social-political commentator, has a few words to say about the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest recommendations for Nigeria.

Upon reporting that 63 per cent of the Giant of Africa’s 242 million people continue to live in poverty and that 27 million Nigerians are food insecure, the IMF offered a strange solution: More taxes!

Already, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unprecedented obedience to the IMF and the World Bank since 2023 has led to runaway inflation, leaving families struggling to afford food and fuel.

If you are Nigerian, what do you make of this latest IMF report? Let us know in the comments.

For more like this, follow The Spearhead.

[MaziTundeEdnutfan @originalproflle]

“Group B listen up! If you know you don’t have your voters card, Go and register now!….”

- The moment a student motivates students in his project group to get their PVC.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

If Africa were a single country with its ethnicities as different states, it would have grown rapidly and would be better today with a different mentality, economy, military, and currency.

[H I I K Y A A T O R @HiikyaaTor]

This guy is not nice at all!
He did President Tinubu bad here.

[GhanaBoy Ni3🇬🇭 @ghanaboynie]

This is not Xenophobia
- Franck Zanu 🇧🇯

#Benin #SouthAfrica #Updates #Africa #FranckZanu #SA #Geopolitics
🇧🇯🌍🇿🇦

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I ran across this video a few days ago and couldn’t stop watching it.

It’s about something ordinary & boring, a plastic gas lighter. But it changes how one thinks about manufacturing.

That lighter in so many of our homes, holds pressurised gas. It has over 30 microscopic parts, has to pass international safety codes, & travel 10,000 miles by sea, & the total cost of doing all that, materials, labour, freight, every middleman along the way, comes to fifteen U.S cents.

So how does anyone make money on this?

Turns out almost the entire world’s supply comes from one place: a county called Shaodong, in China’s Hunan province.

It wasn’t always there.

But today, Shaodong has 114 lighter-related companies packed into the place & between them they source more than 200 different components from each other, all within a 20-kilometre radius. They supply something like seventy percent of the world’s disposable lighters. And the industry alone employs over 80,000 people locally.

Nobody there is winning on cheap labour anymore. They’re winning by shaving a thousandth of a cent off the thickness of a plastic wall, or redesigning a base so a few thousand more units fit into the same shipping container.

It took my thoughts back to an old professor of mine, Michael Porter.
His 1980 book, Competitive Strategy, is still the 1st book most MBAs read, the one that gave the world the Five Forces and basically invented modern strategic thinking.

But there’s a quieter piece of his work, on industrial clusters, that never got nearly the same attention, and it is the one that explains exactly what is happening in Shaodong.

His argument was that nations and regions rarely win because of cheap inputs. They win when rival firms and specialist suppliers crowd into the same small geography for long enough that they keep pushing each other past what any one of them could manage alone. He found it in the Swiss watchmaking towns of the Jura, in the German printing press industry and in Italy’s ceramic tile and footwear districts (interestingly, it’s the SAME blueprint which built Morbi, in Gujarat, into the world’s second-largest ceramic cluster, now outproducing Italy by volume. I have posted before, about Morbi)

None of these started out as giants. The neighbourhood made them giants.

Which is exactly why it’s so relevant to India’s climb up the global manufacturing table

I’ve also attached a slide with this post that I saw recently and which shows us breaking into the top 5 manufacturing globally. (A quick reference check told me that we may not have overtaken Korea yet, but the trajectory’s clear)

That climb has happened on the back of scale: bigger plants, bigger parks, more FDI.

I should declare an interest here, because the Mahindra Group set up 2 of India’s first integrated, plug-and-play business cities, in Chennai in 2002 & Jaipur in 2006.

Both have been extremely successful. Chennai’s business zone alone today employs 45,000 people..

But I admit that we need to think differently.

A park brings in investors and hands them a ready plot, power, water & roads

A cluster is a completely different animal: hundreds of small, specialised suppliers, each obsessed with doing a tiny thing better than anyone else, feeding off each other’s presence for years until no outsider can compete with the whole.

I think that’s the work ahead of us now.

Not just more factories, and not just more parks.

Policymakers & developers like us need to start consciously pulling as many of the inputs and resources a sector needs, the toolmakers, the component suppliers, the testing labs, the logistics specialists, into the same neighbourhood.

Shaodong and Morbi both got there by accident, one town stumbling onto a way to shave a thousandth of a cent off a lighter wall, the other discovering it had the clay and, later, the gas pipeline for tiles.

We don’t have the luxury of waiting for accidents anymore.

We need to do it on purpose

[Sérgio Santos @ZAMENZA]

Movimentos que só mulheres conseguem fazer.

[MaziTundeEdnutfan @originalproflle]

“When tinubu’s supporters tell you the economy is growing, ASK THEM:

FOR WHO IS THE ECONOMY GROWING FOR?….”