Look how long it took him: 2 full days, for a journey of roughly 780 kmm.
For context, the same distance in the UK (roughly London to Edinburgh and a bit beyond) takes 7–8 hours on proper dual carriageways.
Guess how much it would actually cost to fix every major dilapidated stretch on this corridor properly?
Meanwhile, the APC government has already sunk over $780 million (₦1.067 trillion) into just the first 47 km of a multi-lane coastal highway that currently leads to Bikini Bottom… and the full 700 km project is projected to cost $11–13 billion.
There are educated people with PhDs defending this absurdity on this app in 2026, all because of corn.
@ARISEtv Distraction is the biggest strategy in Nigerian politics.
Focus on governance, embezzlement, and the future of our children—not elite political feuds. Sambo and Obi are speaking absolute facts here.
Nigerians Should Be Focusing On Money Being Embezzled, Not The Atiku-Tinubu Dispute - Sambo
You listened to Peter Obi yesterday when he made it clear that the issues that should dominate our attention as Nigerians are not being discussed. Instead, the focus should be on what political parties will do to promote good governance, reduce the number of out-of-school children, cut the cost of governance, and take a critical look at the corruption within government.
Sumner Sambo, ARISE News Director Of News And Politics Editor
Of all the Nigerian Presidential candidates, only one candidate has actually visited South-Africa to know what the actual hell is going on there with our people there.
That’s Peter Obi
If we highlight these things, they will say we are playing politics.
Lmao, this man sounds like it’s the first time.
When will you people understand, or those who already understand, finally admit publicly that even the entire concept of global finance and supply chains has always been about powerful countries, especially those in the West, robbing the rest of us?
You as common Nigerian can’t even apply for U.S visa. Yet the first family are in the U.S getting Directors seat at the world Cup at almost $100k for all of them. Mind you Nigeria is not even at the World Cup.
When will you people have sense. I’m talking to the APC folks that can’t even eat. When will you guys have brains.
Wealthy people use philanthropy and charity generally for tax breaks, image laundering, and building networks with powerful politicians who can open doors for their businesses.
You see how individuals do this “charity work” with an agenda in mind, that is how governments do with aid.
The EU, U.S. and U.K. all have aid money tied to one thing or the other. There is no free money anywhere. And nobody loves you that much to come save you from your own misery. This is politics. Everyone is out here for themselves.
Geopolitics is driven by national interests, power, and geography. Countries act to secure survival, economic wealth, and strategic advantage. Nobody is coming to save you. They’re not promoting a certain style of government because it will help you get your acts together. They don’t care if your acts are together, except it serves their interests.
Interests! That is all that matters.
Happy Birthday in Advance, Peter Obi.
My brother,
In a country where many people don stop expecting anything from their leaders, you somehow make millions believe say better Nigeria still possible.
Well done.
That no be small thing.
The eyes of the witches no go see you.
The hands wey no want progress no go touch you.
The mouths wey profit from confusion no go silence you.
Because whether people like am or not, you forced a generation to ask questions.
You force young people to believe say governance fit be about service and not ownership.
And na there wahala start.
Because as citizens begin think for themselves, na that day those wey benefit from their suffering must begin lose sleep.
So, Dem fit insult you.
Dem fit twist your words.
Dem fit attack your supporters.
Dem fit try turn hope into crime.
But hope no be crime.
As you add another year, may your strength increase.
May your courage multiply.
And may your love for this country survive all the attacks, insults, and distractions.
For dey are simply scavengers
Nigeria still need voices wey no dey fear to tell power the truth.
Happy Birthday, my brother.
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Una fit?
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Reading the mass Arab crash out in the comments of the tweet I'm quoting makes me feel a bit privileged to be African. I thought we were the people with the world's worst identity crisis, but it seems that title belongs to Gulf Arabs.
They are typing every alphabet of anti-black racism they can muster from their souls because an African leader rightly called out some of his people for going to study Wahhabi ideology in Saudi Arabia that has been linked to terror pipelines. Knowing fully well that
a) Said Wahhabi nonsense was literally created by the CIA after Nixon's petrodollar deal with Saudi Arabia, which created American-backed foreign destabilisation organisations like the Muslim Youth World League - thus Wahhabism does not even represent most Saudis, let alone Arab Muslims, and
b) Ibrahim Traoré himself is a Muslim, and he is not speaking badly of Islam, but of a specific type of weaponised, CIA-backed pseudo-Islam that has caused misery to millions of Muslims around the world.
These absolute dumbasses think that something Richard Nixon's CIA created is their religious identity!
I'm never going to complain about Africans again. At least my grouse with our people is that we have an identity crisis due to not remembering who we were 400 or 500 years ago - not the kind of identity crisis where we think that a pseudo religion created by American empire builders after the colour TV was invented is our whole identity.
What a bunch of complete donuts.
Now I completely understand why the Gulf is the way it is. A hundred and something million of the world's wealthiest olodos🤡
Africa is not being underestimated by anyone. That is a dangerous misconception that I once had.
What is actually happening is that Africa is being deliberately underreported and suppressed from mainstream global news cycles because some powerful people need to keep it a secret that their dominance over the global economy as we know it is entirely built on extracting 100 for the price of 0.5 from Africa.
If that coup in Niger had never happened for example, we would never have known that France's famously cheap and plentiful nuclear energy which makes up 70% of its energy mix, and which it sells to the rest of Europe, was cheap and plentiful because Orano spent decades bending Niger over a barrel, paying the country 50 euro cents/kg for Yellowcake uranium when the market price was between €150 and €200/kg.
We didn't know this - but France and its EU collaborators absolutely did, which is why they're sponsoring EU resolutions condemning the AES every 5 minutes. They know exactly what they've lost!
The only people underestimating Africa are Africans - because we have no fucking clue what we are sitting on and we still get most of our information from predatory western sources. Don't get it twisted - everybody outside Africa who matters fully understands what Africa is, which is why Ethiopian Airlines keeps recording a new record profit every year, and it is building the world's largest airport in Bishoftu. Most of that traffic is not made up of Africans.
People from around the world don't stampede in such numbers into a continent that they "underestimate." We're the dummies chasing visas to go work for gold elsewhere while we inherited the entire fucking gold mine.
Increase your surface area for luck by starting more conversations, meeting more people and just going outside more. Nothing big happens on your bed, get up and move!
This is what this "brilliance" looks like over an actual life.
You arrive legally, pay PAYE, NI, visa fees, and thousands upfront for the IHS(the highest fees in the world).
Five years later, you may be settled, but the safety net you funded is still kept behind another locked door.
Even before settlement, healthcare was not a completely open door for you. In England, the NHS may investigate infertility, but an IHS payer is excluded from funded IVF, IUI & donor treatment. One private IVF cycle averages about £5,000 before medication & storage.
"It can never be you", but no one who has ever needed these services felt it would be them.
Then, thank God a child arrives. No Child Benefit. If wages fall, no Universal Credit child element. Some funded childcare survives NRPF, but the UC scheme that can repay up to 85% of childcare costs is unavailable, so the family quietly absorbs the gap. Wild guess how many families in Britain do you think do not/have not used one of these in their lifetime?
Then work disappears( I know, it can never be you) or the rent rises. New Style JSA may exist if the NI record is strong enough, but there is no UC for living costs or rent, no Council Tax Reduction, and no ordinary route into social housing or homelessness assistance. That your cash ISA you're proud of will disappear before your eyes. You may be in your 20s now and alone but you won't be like that forever.
Then someone unfortunately has a stroke. The NHS may stabilise them & offer short-term rehabilitation or reablement, usually free for no more than 6 weeks. But a serious brain injury does not check the calendar & recover once it has reached week six.
After that, long-term physio, OT & personal care become a negotiation across NHS & council boundaries. NRPF does not erase the right to a Care Act but neither route is automatic, a lot of immigrants are left high and dry—even NHS workers.
Meanwhile, PIP is closed. If a partner cuts work to become your carer, Carer's Allowance is closed. If savings are drained by rent & daily care, UC is closed. The body may still receieve healing as the surrounding household around it collapses.
Nobody "wants benefits". Nobody wants infertility, redundancy, a stroke or a serious life changing event.
The point of a safety net is that a careful life can still split open without warning. After years of paying in, migrants should not be insured only against "good luck". I don't think people fully understand what "they don't want any anyway".
YOU KNOW WHAT GENUINELY TERRIFIES ME?????!!!!
The Nigerians who have lived/ visited abroad.
They’ve seen uninterrupted electricity.
They’ve driven on roads that don’t kill people.
They’ve experienced healthcare that treats you before asking if you can afford to live.
They’ve seen governments that actually work for the people.
Then they come back home…
…and tell 230 million people to be grateful for the barest minimum.
It genuinely breaks my heart.
Because once you’ve seen what a working system looks like, how do you return and convince people that suffering is normal?
How do you applaud failure just because it favours you?
The tragedy of this country isn’t only the people who don’t know any better.
It’s the people who do know better…
…and still teach everyone else to expect less.
That is exactly why we are where we are 💔💔💔
Governance is not rocket science.
This is how Norway has improved their sports. This works because Norway is a Nation and not a country.
This will not work in Nigeria because Nigeria is country and not a Nation.
Sad realisation.