@UthmanTochukwu Truly one of the finest. I still remember when he taught us Business Law last year. A calm and gentle soul. May Allah be gentle with him as well.
Dear Chelsea,
So far, so good. You’ve signed Quenda £50M, Palestra £57M, Lacroix £52M, & Morgan Rogers £117M. You’ve even brought in a serial winner as your manager, Xabi Alonso.
By December, we don’t want you supporting City to win the league. Win it yourself.
Thank you.
First, every single right-thinking intellectual and systemic analyst who has taken the time to deeply study the colonial Liberal Arts education system used in our universities understands that this entire model is heavily flawed, fundamentally broken, and utterly incapable of addressing the most basic socio-economic needs of our society.
To put it in incredibly simple, unmistakable terms: it does not matter a single kobo who we elect today, tomorrow, or in the upcoming 2027 general elections as the president of Nigeria; this colonial Liberal Arts education currently running in our universities must be dismantled, demolished, and completely uprooted in its entirety before Nigeria can ever realistically talk about industrialization, technological sovereignty, or economic independence. I am not a genius for pointing this out. Dr. Joe Abah and his highly analytical team of policy intellectuals behind the latest NYSC reform understand all of this infinitely better than I can even imagine. This desperate NYSC reform, which is designed to spend exactly six weeks training graduates in basic vocational crafts and elementary tech skills, is in itself a massive, embarrassing admission that the four-year Liberal Arts degrees these graduates have been condemned to study in school are completely useless for helping them function in the actual Nigerian economy. And this is not surprising. There is absolutely no way that the Macroeconomic Theories of John Maynard Keynes, which our economics, finance, and business students are forcefully programmed to memorize in school, will ever help them survive in the real-world streets of Nigeria, where over 80% of our entire economy operates strictly in the unorganized informal sector, and where our national monetary policies are nothing but a set of humiliating terms, conditions, and austerity measures we must blindly implement just to remain eligible for the next predatory IMF loan. This is just the sad reality for the financial disciplines; a perfectly identical, depressing analogy can easily be made for other major fields like Sociology, Anthropology, Soil Science, Political Science, and the endless sea of other useless theoretical Liberal Arts degrees prevalent in our universities.
This Liberal Arts education is not working for us because the European colonizers who originally designed and planted it here never intended for it to work, innovate, or produce a proud nation of industrialists, tech pioneers, and sovereign builders. It was explicitly put there to produce compliant, administrative clerks, low-level typists, and obedient civil servants for the running of the British colony. Our academic intellectuals, university senates, and seasoned educational experts are supposed to be pooling all their diplomatic strings, intellectual resources, and policy frameworks together to completely dismantle this obsolete system. But rather than pulling down the entire leaking roof and building a solid, modern structure from scratch, they are far more interested in continuously patching up the rotten wood. This is precisely why they introduced the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) as a mandatory, cross-faculty course in our universities. They openly admit that the entire academic curriculum is a catastrophic failure, so their brilliant solution is to introduce a token, two-semester course. For this, they spend billions of Naira to erect flashy buildings titled "Centre for Entrepreneurship Development" and equip them with dusty computers, manual tailoring machines, bead-making accessories, and soap-making ingredients for basic vocational training. To run this new bureaucratic program, they have to hire directors, administrative staff, and technical instructors, putting them on bloated salaries, allowances, and bonuses. Each of these offices is immediately equipped with expensive air-conditioners, all of which aggressively adds to the already astronomical electricity bill of the university.
After all of this administrative madness, what actually happens? Absolutely nothing. The students are already heavily overloaded with their regular coursework, assignments, and exams because the CED program is usually introduced in their penultimate year of study, right when their major core subjects have become incredibly demanding, meaning the CED course is only given the bare minimum, box-ticking effort. And even for the select few students who religiously try to genuinely learn a practical skill, the time allocated for this learning is far too short to master anything of substance. To top it all off, the underpaid, frustrated non-academic staff who manage these centers are some of the most difficult, hostile, and corrupt people to deal with on earth, routinely taxing, extorting, and harassing the students just to let them pass.
These useless vocational learning centers exist in every single federal, state, and private tertiary institution in the country. Till date, not one single graduate can genuinely come out, stand tall with their hands on their chest, and declare that the job feeding them, paying their rent, or sustaining their family today is a skill they learned in those rushed, superficial six months during their university days. This is truly tragic, because the billions of Naira allocated to erect these massive vocational centers and fully equip them is money that should have been directly channeled to rebuild our dilapidated classrooms, fund public laboratories, and provide basic desks and textbooks in our primary and secondary schools across every state of the federation.
Yet, even after our so-called intellectuals have clearly observed that this original "reform" has failed spectacularly, their ultimate solution is simply to design another superficial, budget-draining "reform" in the NYSC. Under this new scheme, exactly six weeks of national service are supposed to be magically reserved to teach these identical vocational skills, supposedly to properly prepare graduates to function in our brutally informal economy. This means millions of laptops, sewing machines, hair-dryers, welding kits, catering ovens, and agricultural tools will have to be aggressively purchased, procured, and heavily inflated yet again by corrupt government contractors, and the endless cycle of bureaucratic madness continues.
Of course, this is absolutely not surprising. This is the exact same cosmetic way we have been endlessly "reforming" our corrupt police force, our overstretched military, and our compromised judiciary. Superficial "reform" is the only lazy, budget-friendly solution that our clueless intellectual class in Nigeria truly understands.
Meanwhile,
This is an oil-producing State, ranking 5th in total oil production for Nigeria.
The highest producing cocoa state in Nigeria
On current Data.
The 5th largest Palm oil producer in the country
The largest Bitumen Deposit in Africa, the second largest in the world
One of Nigeria's largest rubber producers.
The longest Coastline in West Africa
Victims of Terrible Leadership
A teacher once gathered young men in a village and said, “You say you want to work. You say you want to grow. You say you want to feed your families.”
The people nodded.
Then the teacher gave them sandals and said, “With these, you can move faster.”
But he did not give them books.
He did not teach them a skill.
He did not give them land to farm or tools to build.
So the people rejoiced and celebrated over the sandals. They wore them proudly. They defended the teacher anytime someone asked questions.
After a few years, their sandals were worn out. Nothing had changed. They were still begging at the same junctions, just arriving faster.
Meanwhile, the teacher sent his own children to distant lands to learn how the world works. When they returned, they did not wear sandals. They rode horses and sat in high places, ruling over the same people who once celebrated footwear.
And the teacher said to the people, “Show gratitude always. Now is the time to support my children as they sit on the throne. Did I not give you sandals?”
INALEGWU.
There is no bigger demarketing than removing an elected governor and replacing him with a general, and the Supreme Court stays silent.
It means any significant investment can be upended, and courts will also stay silent. In finance, it's called sovereign risk, and it shows up in the risk premium for Bonds
Rwanda, with a smaller economy and no crude oil, can borrow ar a lower coupon rate than Nigeria
Rwanda’s Eurobond Yield for a 10-year USD Eurobond maturing in 2031 has a coupon rate of 5.5% and a yield of 5.5-6%. Rwanda's risk rating is B+
Nigeria’s Eurobond Yield for a 10-year USD Eurobond maturing in 2032 has a coupon rate of 7.875%, and Current yields are around 9-10% in 2025. Nigeria's risk rating is B3.
The market vigilantes are not emotional.
My project “Dodo-Ikire” aimed at correcting the rumor around the production of the snacks has been selected at World Food Forum and it is one of the two documentaries selected from Africa representing West Africa.
It will be screened at the flagship event in Rome on Oct 15 2025.
A good day to remind you why Nigeria may never get better in your lifetime.
I made this video 2 years ago and it’s timeless.
It’s also pinned on my profile. You can share it to wherever you can. This is one of my works I think every Nigerian needs to see.
@NigeriaStories Where mediocrity is a norm, the voice of excellence is always interpreted as arrogant. For bright light offends the eyes of people who are used to a dim room.
The image below shows a man in traditional attire standing near an oil well, likely in a West African region, possibly Nigeria's most refined propagandist, at Alkaleri where oil exploration began in 2022 with Propaganda Oil Corp drilling the Kolmani oil drilling site, with estimated reserves of 1 billion barrels as per NNPC's 2019 discovery announcement.
Community Note :
this is the longest single sentence i have ever typed onthis app.
What President @officialABAT and his band of political carnivores are doing is not accidental. No, it’s far more deliberate, far more calculated. The same has been done by former politicians and Presidents, just not this brazenly. They are conducting an experiment, the kind despots have practiced for centuries. They prod, they poke, they test the waters, measuring, ever so carefully, the tolerance of the Nigerian people.
How much theft can they endure? How much humiliation can they swallow? How much criminality parading as governance can they survive before the dam finally bursts? It is, in effect, a grotesque science. And, tragically, Nigerians have so far proven to be the perfect test subjects.
You see, the tragedy of Nigeria is not merely that it has been cursed with a gluttonous elite. No, the real tragedy is that this elite has discovered something extraordinary: that the Nigerian spirit, for all its resilience, for all its brilliance, possesses an endurance threshold so vast, it can be exploited almost indefinitely.
Other nations, when provoked, revolt. They march, they resist, they claw back a semblance of dignity. But Nigeria? Nigeria absorbs it all; corruption, brutality, tribalism, the brazen mockery of its own citizens. Like an ox beaten daily, it grows accustomed to the whip, even as its masters grow more inventive in cruelty.
And so, the cannibal politicians keep feeding, devouring the nation’s lifeblood, emboldened by the silence, the compliance, the misplaced hope that tomorrow might somehow be better. It is not governance, my friends. It is a circus of predators fattening themselves on the endurance of their prey.
But here is the rub, every experiment has a breaking point. Every tyrant miscalculates. One day, when the Nigerian people awaken to the realization that endurance is not a virtue but a cage, when they finally shatter the illusion that survival is enough, the reckoning will be swift. And for those who have feasted too long at the table of iniquity, it will not merely be justice, it will be retribution.
Ah, and that, my dear friends, will be a moment worth waiting for.
JUST ONE DAY.
The distance from Zaria to Hunkuyi is 37.8km but the president said he constructing a 156km road from Zaria to Hunkuyi 😂😂
Who is advising the president? 🤣
The Presidential media army is too eager to please.
Japan has designated 'home towns' for four African countries. stop there, that's positive news, that's good news, we can work with that
but no...
You go and add 'special visa", now the government of Japan is forced to react to your false reports
if we talk, you say we are negative and demarketing.
The spokesman for the President is an office of gravitas; it's not a tabloid news platform. The spokesman for the President speaks for an institution far beyond the current occupant of the office.
Can you imagine the comments this false report on visas is generating in the civil service in Japan? how we are now viewed? How this is confirming perceptions about 234?
if you have no shame, don't take mine.