Looking back on my journey, I have never understood public life as a pursuit of status. From becoming a university lecturer at 23, serving as a presidential aide at 26 and becoming a CEO at 32, I have always seen whatever opportunities came my way as a duty to serve.
That is why I remain deeply concerned about the direction of Nigeria.
We cannot continue to depend blindly on prescriptions from international institutions while local industries and institutions struggle.
We must develop our own capacity and pursue policies that strengthen production, entrepreneurship and human development.
Government must also be accountable to the people. At a time when Nigerians are struggling with the rising cost of living and basic necessities, extravagant public spending raises serious questions about our priorities.
But my strongest message is to the young people of Nigeria, do not allow ethnicity, religion or identity politics to define your future.
Look at football. Lionel Messi is celebrated across the world because of what his talent produced, not because of the country or community he came from. The same is true of Cristiano Ronaldo. The careers of these two fellows remind us of what happens when talent, discipline and excellence are given room to flourish in a country that celebrates greatness.
Nigeria must build a society where the same principle applies. Where talent, merit and character matter more than where a person comes from.
The future of this country cannot be left entirely to others. Young Nigerians must take responsibility for building the nation they want to inherit.
The richest man in africa does not even drive a rolls-royce, nigerians are dy!ng of hunger but our president owns a fleet of luxurious cars, how did we get here?
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Dear Mr President, please, permit me to wish you Happy Independence on our 66th anniversary.
I will not waste too much time Sir.
I have just watched and listened to your speech on television and I must honestly say I wasn't impressed. Today is supposed to be a day of celebration but your speech turned it into a day of lamentation.
My heart bled as you went into the morbid analogy of Nigeria as being a cancer patient that merely survived on pain killers before your arrival as a celebrated surgeon. You specifically mentioned MORPHINE as the drug of choice by your predecessors. I'm not sure this analogy was appropriate. At the time you assumed power, Nigeria probably had stage two cancer, at the worst. You were expected to stabilize it and not to metastasize it into a stage four cancer. Your first prescription on day one was a monumental disaster. You took no time to properly examine your patient. You were too much in a hurry to administer your jab which automatically sent Nigeria 🇳🇬 into instant coma. And you've not been able to revive it. The least we expected from you was to stabilize and not to destabilize everything in sight.
Sir, your fuel subsidy stunt was a misadventure. I expected an apology for the medical calamity. So, Nigeria has made more money, amassed more loans, insecurity has increased, poverty has escalated, profligacy is palpable, politicians have remained insensitive, elections have taken priority over governance, renewed hope has collapsed into hopelessness and abject despair... I can go on ad infinitum...
Nigerians have mostly given up on your promises. I doubt they are able to endure and accept the endless excuses, barely three months to the next elections.
Four years may not be able to contain and solve all our problems but the HOPE should be glaring by now...
This is former Nigerian Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, being used in a hospital advert after undergoing knee replacement surgery in India.
These so-called “experienced leaders” had every opportunity while in power to build first-class healthcare facilities in Nigeria. Yet, in old age, they travel abroad for the very medical care they failed to make adequately available at home and can even end up as advertisements for foreign hospitals.
At this rate, perhaps one day a hospital in France will be using a Nigerian president, Tinubu for its adverts.
What a tragic indictment of decades of failed leadership and neglect of Nigeria’s healthcare system.
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