6 straight days without a bath. Vehicle breakdown in the heart of the desert. Becoming slaves to Arab traffickers.
Part II of my migrant investigation released by @fijnigeria
UNDERCOVER: Europe Through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea (II) https://t.co/4OY1xALkGu
Five days into my next undercover investigation, set to be released by @fijnigeria later this week, I sent the picture in Frame 1 to my three-man backroom team. They all laughed at me, one of them remarking I looked “like a fisherman”.
The pictures in frames 2 and 3 are from my 44th day on the field. Nobody was in ebullient mood this time. They all screamed instead. None of them could say it, but I knew I could pass for a mad man on the streets.
Meanwhile, Frame 4 is who I was before I embarked on the project.
It is the first time ever that I’ve given the public a glimpse into the making of an undercover investigation. I do it this time to contextualise public understanding of the physical, material and mental cost of investigative reporting. Behind every daring work of investigation you have read is several weeks, sometimes months, of self-sacrifice by the journalist.
Of higher importance, I do it to remind younger journalists that investigative journalism isn’t the white-collar stardom propeller many seem to think it is; more often than not, it is about getting your hands dirty while still believing this is hands down the best job in the world!
It feels good to be fully back on social media after nearly five months out…
The real danger in this situation is not to “Igbo traders” per se. It is to have your markets owned by foreign players completely and all your own local capacity taken offline. Or worse, they also own your local capacity.
That kills long term capital formation and will eventually take a toll on your GDP growth.
Now, as of today, we will see it as an Igbo traders problem in our typical short sighted fashion.
Then when Chinese banks displace your local banks, and your currency loses a deposit base in 10 years, and enters free fall that CBN cannot control everybody will ask “how could we have seen it coming.” Or hold seminars on “how do we grow Nigeria’s deposit base through diaspora remittances.”
Because every single one of those “Igbo traders” has their profits parked in GT, Zenith, UBA etc.
Don’t think it’s not our problem today and wait until the problem is at your doorstep before you realize it’s a collective problem.
At some point we will learn long term thinking together.
This was First Bank Public Offer roadshow in 2007.
The road show was led by a live elephant trudging from First Bank's corporate headquarters building on Marina in Lagos.
They intended to raise N100 billion but it was heavily oversubscribed and ultimately raised about N250 billion.
I can never ever ever understand why the black race and especially Nigeria thinks upside down. I have been to over 15 airports across different countries this year alone, and all of them not only allow Uber, they even have uber/Lyft etc pick up points embedded in their signages and directional systems. We thrive in things that impoverish, extort and plunge us further into underdevelopment, hardship and chaos!!! It's a spiritual curse at this point!
Healthcare is so bottom tier
As if the low pay and long work hours are not bad enough, it is peopled by professionally insecure people who are constantly dragging roles and competing for relavance.
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Normal Nigerians are finally starting to experience Condescending Alpha and Omega mentality other HCW experience in the hands of Medical Doctors and the Crashing out is funny to see 😅
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and there is nothing bad if community pharmacy is where you find your fulfillment and comfort!
We need Pharmacists in the community Pharmacies too else, quacks will take over that sector.
Everybody looking for fancy titles and demonizing community pharmacy will never make sense
If you cannot cover 90% of your marriage cost, you are not ready for marriage.
No father would allow his son to venture into marriage without the financial capacity to shoulder both the cost and sustainability of the marriage.
How a government find it logical to use tax payers money to sponsor people’s private life is something I am yet to understand.
Why I don’t feel comfortable dragging doctors is, we are literally trying to build public trust and perception in our health system.
Many people don’t want to go to the hospital at all, until it’s critical, most of our doctors are tweeting from UK.
And it’s funnier because the ones doing the work in Nigeria don’t even have breathing space to be tweeting.
If a case is not dire strait many patients won’t agree to go to hospital and see the doctor.
In the healthcare set up, they are the most important and crucial to any healthcare system.
No real pharmacist wants to do the doctor’s work, no true pharmacist wants to do surgery.
We have a long way to go, in the healthcare sector.
Someone said you rent an apartment for almost 4 million.
And entering the new year, you’re already 4 million naira behind.
That talk really hit me because it’s insane.
A young man hustling day and night to build his business. Went from millionaire to billionaire in his twenties. Never involved in any of you people’s societal drama. Just focused on his business. Your concern is not to learn his business model so that you can improve your life. It’s not to learn the secret behind his success. Your only concern about him is how he dressed on his wedding. Sometimes it’s not hard to figure out why people remain where they are.