@Dee_9889 Arise tv allowed d guy to get away with murder.
Millions of people hve been sunk into poverty because of Tinubu elitist policies. Corruption & insecurities are @ d highest point. worst of it all, he is not showing political will to mitigate the fall out but rather doing politics
Dr. Ijeoma Akunyili, the daughter of the late Prof. Dora Akunyili, has been appointed Chief Medical Officer of Jersey City Medical Center, USA.
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@showkingshomes@Mimi_yakigar@NOIweala the influencers are not deciding anything. they are to launder the image of a bad government.
The Tax is is immoral in the face of poor accountability from the government.
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“Fulani came to our village and killed seven people. When our youths rose to defend our people, the Nigerian army stepped in to protect the Fulani terrorists and in the process killed many of our people.”
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@firstladyship Tinubu's regime has already sacrifice merit on the alter of their own tribal affliction.
The day when politicians started employing their own family & cronies into civil service is the very day they started destroying Nigeria.
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@Omojuwa "Empowering the state" or allowing d governor to loot like never before. He really does not care about state development
Governors are using state funds to buy personal dollars & building foreign empires with stolen wealth & you think their endorsement is legitimate?
No, Mr President, this is not the Time for Holidaying.
Dear Nigerians, I am struggling with my senses to understand what is happening to governance in this country.
What I have seen and witnessed in the last two years has left me in shock about poor governance delivery and apparent channelling of energy into politics and satisfaction of the elites, while the masses in our midst are languishing in want.
In the past two years, Nigeria has lost more people to all sorts of criminality than a country that is officially at war. Without any twilight, Nigeria ranks among the most insecure places in the world. Nigerians are hungrier, and most people do not know where their next meal will come from.
With such a gory picture of one’s country, you can imagine my bewilderment when I saw a news release from the Presidency announcing that President Bola Tinubu is departing Nigeria today for a visit to Saint Lucia in the Caribbean.
The Presidency release merely confirmed an earlier news report since last week where the Prime Minister of the Caribbean Philip J. Pierre announced at a pre-cabinet press briefing on Monday, last week that
President Bola Tinubu is expected to depart Nigeria on Saturday, June 28, 2025, for Saint Lucia for official engagements and private leisure time.
According to the Prime Minister’s announcement “two of these days, June 30 and July 1, will be dedicated to an official visit, with the remainder of the trip set aside as a personal vacation.
I told the person who drew my attention to the Caribbean story that it cannot be true and that the President is just coming back from a holiday in Lagos. I didn’t want to believe that anybody in the position of authority, more so the President, on whose table the buck stops in this country, with all the myriad problems in virtually all areas of governance, would contemplate a leisure trip at this time.
This is a President going for leisure when he couldn’t visit Minna, Niger state where over two hundred lives were lost and over 700 persons still missing in a flood natural disaster. I wonder which type of incident will happen before a President is attracted to show physical sympathy to the distressed citizens.
The other state in crisis where over two hundred lives were murdered, the President yielded to public pressure and visited Makurdi the state capital for what turned out to be a political jamboree than condolence as public holiday was declared and children made to line up to receive the President who couldn’t even reach the village, the scene of the brutal attack.
In terms of land size, Makurdi is 937.4 Km², which is over 59% bigger than St Lucia, which is 617 km², and Minna is 6789 square kilometres, which is ten times bigger than St Lucia. St Lucia, with a population of 180,000, is less than half of Makurdi’s 489 839 and Minna, with 532, 000 is almost three times the population of St Lucia.
I don't think the situation in this country today calls for leisure for anybody in a position of authority, more so the President, on whose desk the buck stops. This regime has repeatedly shown its insensitivity and lack of passion for the populace, going by the way it prioritises the rich and shows indifference to the poor.
This very obvious indifference of the federal government to the suffering of the Nigerian poor should urgently be reversed. One had expected the President to be asking God for extra hours in a day for the challenges, but what we see is a concentration of efforts in the 2027 election and on satisfying the wealthy while the mass poor continues to multiply in number.
Finally, I like to let our leaders know one thing that the God given resources of this country belong to all, not to a few. The time has come to put a stop to this drift before it consumes all and focus on pulling people out of poverty.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Any society where lawlessness overrides the rule of law is not destined to be a haven for investors. Recent reports showing that Nigeria’s human rights indicators have worsened merely highlight severe shortfalls in government protection for civil liberties, personal security, and basic living standards.
I know what I have been going through as a person in abuse of my human rights just because I contested a Presidential election which I have legitimate rights to do. So I imagine what small business owners, regular citizens, and vulnerable communities face every day. If this level of lawlessness can happen to someone with a registered company and legitimate means, what hope does the ordinary Nigerian have?
This morning, my youngest brother called me frantically, informing me that a group of people had invaded his company property in Ikeja, Lagos, and were demolishing the building. He had just come in from Port Harcourt and was denied entry to the property by security men who told him the building was being pulled down. They even informed him that this demolition had started over the weekend. As a peace-loving Nigerian, he quickly started processing to go to court immediately, not knowing what must have resulted in this, as they moved fast to destroy his home without any restraint.
I rushed to Lagos from Abuja after the call this morning and headed straight to the property. On arrival, I was met by security people who tried to bar me from entering the property. I humbly pleaded with them that the property belonged to my brother’s company, and from the records, the company had owned the property for over a decade. They told me they had a court judgment, and I immediately requested it. You would not believe that the court judgment they claim was issued against an unknown person, and squatters. I went further to ask about a demolition order or permit, and there was none.
How do you sue an unknown person? How does a court issue a judgment in such a farce of a case? No one was served. No name was written. Yet they showed up with excavators and began destroying a structure that had stood for over 15 years.
I immediately asked the excavators for the person who had sent them, and they said they didn’t know anyone, but they were only informed to come and demolish the house. I immediately told them to tell whoever it is that I would like to speak with them, if they can call my number, which I shared with the excavators, so that I can speak with whomever gave them the order to demolish the property.
I stood there from 10am to 2pm, waiting to get a call at least and nobody called or came. The contractor even said he didn’t know who sent him. Two men later came and said they would like us to go to a police station. I asked if they even had a demolition order but they had nothing. The whole situation screamed of coordinated lawlessness and impunity. Our country has become lawless.
I just started reminiscing about how just over the weekend, I had a meeting when someone told me how he has investments in Ghana, Senegal, and the Benin Republic, but won’t touch Nigeria despite his market being here. I asked him why. His answer was piercing: “Nigeria is a lawless country. Until we have laws that protect people, nobody will invest in Nigeria.”
I am just shocked. How did Nigeria get to this level of lawlessness?
What kind of country are we trying to build when the rights of citizens, their lives, their properties, and their voices are trampled upon daily?
I remain committed to a better Nigeria where lawlessness will be a thing of the past, protection of life and property, respect for human rights, care for the less privileged, and basic education for all children.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu became President merely seven months after Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Troare seized power. Both have spent 2 years in office.
In these periods, Troare has built 3 processing plants (Tomato, Cotton, Cashew Apple), Gold Refinery, and Veterinary Manufacturing unit. He didn’t hold ceremony for the commission of any of them.
Tinubu, on the other hand, has completed and is celebrating 30km out of 700km coastal Highway.
This isn’t fairytale. It is reality.
The One Who Wears Big Caps for Little Children.
These are my final thoughts before I hand over my phone to management. The team says I need to sleep.
But before the world goes quiet around me, allow me say a few things…
It’s my second time doing this insane thing of trying to break a world record.
You’d think it would be easier now,after all I’ve done it before. But that’s the thing about impossible things:
The first time, you survive them because you don’t yet understand the cost.
Now that I’m fully aware of the exertion it takes both physically and mentally, I’m equal parts excited and terrified. I embrace both.
Today I’ll tell you why I always wear a cap…
The night before I left Nigeria for this journey, something happened.
It was 9pm on a Tuesday night.
I was at the mall picking up some last-minute items.
Two boys, scruffy and barefoot approached me at the car park.
They were hungry and hadn’t eaten all day.
I asked their names.
“Yusuff,” said one. “Ayomide,” said the other. Both young teenagers.
As I turned to check for cash in the car, the light hit my face and Yusuff immediately recognized me and blurted out “Chess players observe,”
I was stunned.
That was our mantra at Chess in Slums, it was what we taught the kids. I asked how he knew this, he explained that he had seen me months prior at their ghetto.
This made sense as we had spent the entire month of December teaching chess and maths to street children in that ghetto. Yusuff wasn’t part of the training but on the day of the final tournament, he watched from a distance as the other kids chanted “chess players observe”. It stayed with him ever since.
He told me his story.
His mother died during childbirth. His father disappeared.
He lived with his ailing grandmother for sometime but had to leave for the streets to fend for himself. It’s been five years of trying to survive in his own
Five years of growing up too fast…He is 15 years old now.
Then, something surreal happened.
A white Range Rover pulled up beside us.
A woman rolled down the window, “Chess master!” she called out.
She stepped out with her son Jayden.
Impeccably dressed. British accent.
She wanted a photo. Jayden loves chess.
She’s a fan.
So there they stood, Jayden and Yusuff.
Both teenagers.
One in branded sneakers. The other barefoot.
One polished by privilege. The other hardened by survival.
As I asked them to introduce themselves,
Yusuff’s confidence crumbled.
He looked down. His voice faltered.
I took a selfie with Jayden and his Mum, and as they drove off I had my epiphany….
And in that moment, I saw it:
The cruel reality of the world we live in
where a boy like Jayden and a boy like Yusuff would never meet
except by accident or because I happened to stand between them.
But what separated them wasn’t merit or character, It was birth. The arbitrary lottery that decides who gets to dream,
and who must survive.
Jayden will likely go on to attend the best schools, see the world, and live fully. While
Yusuff probably ends up doing the bidding of whoever can promise him his next meal.
An Area boy.
I have met thousands of bright eyed children like Yusuffs in this life, whose pain is invisible, and by no fault of theirs live in a world where their suffering doesn’t matter.
Sometimes, we save them.
Sometimes, we fail.
But I will never stop carrying this burden in my heart.
This is why I wear big caps for little children and wear one my self.
So the world may see them in all their colors, not for the suffering they bear,
but for what I know they can truly become.
I hope have shared this burden with you as honestly as I could.
If you ever believed in me, believe in them.
Cheer for them. Donate. Share. Amplify.
We are trying to build the largest free school in Africa.
A sanctuary for every child like Yusuff
where their dreams won’t die quietly.
I do this so their dreams may find validation in my sacrifice.
I have to go now, big day ahead. Gotta make it count.
RESPONSE TO TINUBU’S SPECIAL ADVISER ON ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, DR. TOPE FASUA:
Dr. Tope Fasua’s recent remarks attempting to defend the naira’s collapse by claiming that “$1 can still buy a meal in Nigeria” is quite disturbing. It reflects just how disconnected this administration is from the daily suffering of ordinary Nigerians. No responsible government will boast that $1 equals ₦1,500. That is not a symbol of success but a loud acceptance of economic failure.
In 2022, $1 was around ₦415. Today, it’s over ₦1,500. That’s a depreciation of more than 260% in just three years. Instead of urgently addressing this dangerous decline, this administration continues to beg for applause.
In his exact words, Dr. Fasua said ₦1,500 is “a lot of money”.
The minimum wage is painstakingly ₦77,000 per month, which is barely $51 at today’s exchange rate. That amounts to about ₦2,500 per day, which means ₦2,500 is expected to cover food, transport, rent, healthcare, and school fees. IS THAT POSSIBLE?
Dr. Fasua said “$10 won’t buy you lunch in the U.S. but would buy in Nigeria.”
This is SA on Economic Affairs sounding like one who has zero grasp of basic economy.
Our economy is not about American Burger King, it is about the pain of a mother who can no longer afford baby formula or pampers, the frustration of Nigerian fathers working two jobs and still unable to afford food, and the heartbreak of a student who drops out because school fees and transportation are unaffordable.
Our economy is in shambles, and Dr. Fasua’s statements is both inconsequential and insensitive.
Dr. Fasua also mentioned that Nigerians misunderstand what “multi-dimensional poverty” means.
The fact is that over 133 million Nigerians live in MULTI-DIMENSIONAL POVERTY, which includes healthcare, education, and employment. Whether you call it “multi-dimensional” or “food poverty,” it’s still poverty. You don’t need a fancy term to describe the pain of going to bed hungry or lack of basic access to healthcare.
Boasting that $1 equals ₦1,500 and can feed people is like bragging that your house is on fire but at least it’s warm inside.
Nigeria is on economic and democratic FIRE.
Nigerians need responsible leadership that restores the strength of our currency, revives productivity, creates jobs, provide education and healthcare and pull the people out of poverty.
Until then, this administration must stop defending failure with propaganda, and stop using the struggles of poor Nigerians to polish their ego. The Nigerian people are not asking for much, just a chance to live with dignity, to feed their families, and to earn a living in a country that works.
Nigeria Must Work
Nigeria Will Work.
A New Nigeria is POssible.
I have observed that my honest interview yesterday was misquoted by many media outlets, creating a false narrative that misrepresents my position.
Let me set the record straight:
I am not against coalition. In truth, I am for it not for power grab but to position Nigeria for greatness.
I have not, and will never, advocate for any coalition or alliance that does not prioritize the welfare and progress of the ordinary Nigerian.
Any discussion about governance must centre on what it means for the everyday Nigerian, how it will address critical issues such as access to quality healthcare, and education, and pulling people out of poverty.
Too often in our nation’s history, individuals and groups have come together solely for the purpose of taking power for power's sake. Such endeavours, devoid of genuine purpose and vision, have only deepened our challenges, leaving the ordinary Nigerian to bear the brunt of bad governance. This is what I stand firmly against.
Leadership must be about service, not self-interest. It must be about building a nation where opportunities abound for all, where justice and equity are non-negotiable, and where governance works for the people, not against them.
As I have always maintained, the New Nigeria is possible. But it requires us to change the way we think about power. It is not about grabbing it; it is about using it responsibly to transform lives and secure a brighter future for generations to come. -PO
@iamAbode While it is important to show the children love . I find the judgement of the children to isolate their father very cruel. He at least provided finances to fuel their ambition. He likely endured hardship to make basic thing available to them. That should count for something.