Abuja: “I’m Not Afraid. I Will Keep Wearing This ‘Tinubu Must Go’ Polo In Solidarity With The Six Borno ‘Tinubu Must Go’ Ambassadors Who Were Arrested. I Will Keep Wearing It Everywhere Until They’re Released.” ~ Hikima Speaks Out In Solidarity With The Six Protesters Who Were Arrested By The Government.
After publicly thanking @POTUS@realDonaldTrump and @netanyahu, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo has arrived in Israel for his first international Christian advocacy tour
Governor Otti pulls off his shoe and says, “This is Aba Made.”
Proudly Aba! Many thought the shoe was foreign-made until they saw the words “Aba Naija Made” written on it.
His Excellency supporting local brands and proudly promoting Made-in-Aba products 👏
📸: Kelex Ofoedu
Nigeria at 66: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Fellow Nigerians,
Today we mark the sixty-sixth anniversary of our independence. It ought to be a day of celebration and thanksgiving to God Almighty for the gift of life and for the immense blessings He has bestowed on our nation—our diversity, our abundant human and natural resources, our vast agricultural potential, and the relative absence of devastating natural disasters.
It should also be a day of appreciation and patriotism: a day to remember our founding fathers and all those who made selfless, and in many cases supreme, sacrifices for the birth, survival and growth of our dear nation. We must acknowledge the efforts of past and present leaders who have laboured, however imperfectly, to build a better Nigeria.
Yet independence anniversaries must never be reduced to mere celebration. They are moments for honest national reflection. We must look back, examine where we stand today, and ask ourselves whether we are moving in the direction our founding fathers envisioned.
In national planning and strategy, every serious nation must continually ask three fundamental questions:
Where are we today?
Where do we want to be?
How do we get from where we are to where we want to be?
These questions are especially urgent now. Despite the enormous promises made by the APC-led government in 2023, our nation continues to face deepening challenges across virtually every critical sector of national life.
Today we stand before the world as a nation:
With an extraordinarily large population living in poverty and severe hardship; over 140M
With one of the largest populations of out-of-school children in the world; over 18M
Where insecurity, terrorism, banditry and kidnapping continue to threaten lives and livelihoods, just recently 37 young Nigerians in their productive age lost their lives
Where millions of Nigerians struggle with hunger and food insecurity; over 40M Nigerians will be in extreme hunger by the end of 2026.
With unacceptably high rates of infant and maternal mortality; Nigeria today is the worst place to be born.
Where youth unemployment and underemployment remain alarmingly high; over 35M
Where drug abuse and substance misuse increasingly threaten our young population; today 14% as against global average of 6%
Where life expectancy remains among the lowest globally, today 54 years against global average of 74 years
And the list goes on.
This reality demands serious, sober and honest reflection. Socrates taught that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” By the same principle, an unexamined nation cannot successfully chart its future. We must therefore ask ourselves: Are we cursed, or have we become the curse through the choices we have made and the failures we have tolerated?
The answer cannot be that Nigeria is cursed. We are a nation immensely endowed and blessed. Our greatest problem is not a lack of resources; it is the failure to convert our enormous resources into human development, productivity, security and shared prosperity.
Only yesterday, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso and I returned from a two-day visit to Sokoto State. We held extensive consultations with people from different parts of the state on insecurity, out-of-school children, poverty, youth unemployment, drug abuse and other challenges confronting our people.
In concluding the visit, we went to the Internally Displaced Persons camp at Ramin Kura within Sokoto metropolis. What we saw was deeply troubling. Thousands of women and children live in deplorable conditions, displaced from their homes and deprived of the basic necessities of life. Many of the children have no access to education. Mothers and children have limited access to basic healthcare. These are Nigerians who should be living in their communities, going to school, farming their land, conducting their businesses and contributing to the economy. Instead, they live as displaced persons in their own country.
I bought fuel yesterday in Toronto, Canada, at $1.7999 CAD per litre, and it cost about $98.95 CAD to fill up my tank. This should ideally last me about a week or more.
Now, the minimum wage in Canada is $17.95 CAD per hour, which means someone who works an average of 8 hours a day will earn $143.60 CAD before tax. A day's salary is enough to fuel his or her car for 2–3 weeks. This means that even one of the lowest earners in Canada can afford to own and drive a car daily without the cost of fuel becoming an overwhelming burden. Public education for children is also free and of high quality.
In Nigeria, fuel is about ₦1,300 per litre. It would cost about ₦88,000 to fill up a similar tank. The minimum wage in Nigeria is ₦70,000 per month. This means that an entire month's minimum wage cannot even fill the tank once.
A minimum-wage earner in Nigeria cannot realistically afford to own, fuel, and maintain a car. The same person still has to afford food, rent, children's education, healthcare, electricity, transportation, and other basic necessities. The list goes on.
In fact, even a bank manager in Nigeria earning ₦1 million monthly could still struggle to maintain a decent standard of living after covering these basic expenses.
This is one reason poverty is so widespread in Nigeria. The cost of basic living is simply too high relative to what the average person earns.
You don't just have an income problem in Nigeria. You have an affordability problem.
For millions of Nigerians, simply living a decent life has become too expensive and increasingly impossible.
NSPPDIANS, WHAT DO YOU SEE? 👀🔥🔥🔥
“Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou?…” Jeremiah 1:11
WE SEE ANSWERS! WE SEE EVIDENCE! WE SEE MANIFESTATIONS! 👏🏻🔥
These 31 days of October will be filled with reasons to shout: LOOK WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE! Our expectations are becoming our realities, and our prayers are becoming our testimonies! 🙌🏻🔥
What do you see concerning your October? Declare it in the comments for WHAT GOD CANNOT DO DOES NOT EXIST!
#NSPPD #PastorJerryEze #31DaysOfAnswers #WhatGodCannotDoDoesNotExist
We pray for Nigeria, believe in Nigeria, and do our part for Nigeria.
May the peace, wisdom and prosperity of God rest upon our nation and its people.
Happy Independence Day, Nigeria. 🇳🇬
Pastor Paul Enenche surprised his wife with flowers and a handwritten love note, and she couldn’t contain her excitement. Baba is 58 and still writing love letters to his wife. 😂❤️
Meet Chidiebere Ibe.
A medical illustrator from Ebonyi State, challenging White-only medical diagrams and bringing Black representation to global medical textbooks.
Let’s retweet to celebrate him! ✨
There’s a difference between the Anointing WITHIN you and the Anointing UPON you! 🔥
The Anointing within you is for your walk with Jesus—transforming, teaching, and strengthening you.
But the Anointing upon you is for service—empowering you to fulfill the call of God and touch the lives of others.
Saints, we need BOTH!