adewole adeniji

Husband and father, chartered accountant/ former Resident Auditor @ Pepsi, auditor @ CONOIL, Strategist and Manchester United fan.

[adewole adeniji @adeniji900]

@CFCforxile Ozil

[Nancy Isime @NancyIsime678]

Life really has no meaning, and sometimes I feel like what’s the essence of life? We live today, forgotten tomorrow. But what bothers me most is the unknown, life after earth.

[adewole adeniji @adeniji900]

@TheAbisolaa Divine help that is. The problem is beyond human intervention.

[adewole adeniji @adeniji900]

@Skid00lina You are absolutely right. The mentioned actresses are only interested in the box office numbers and not the quality of movie productions. They are doing more harm than good to the industry but people don't know this. Reason they picked fight with Mr Afolayan.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

So much nonsense being written/said about @Cristiano .. same kind of bitter, cynical, jealous crap he’s had to deal with his entire career from people who’ve no idea what he’s really like.
I do: great guy, even greater player. Give this sporting icon the respect he deserves.

[adewole adeniji @adeniji900]

@tkelani Amin 🙏

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

Após a conferência de imprensa do Selecionador Nacional, e no seguimento de uma conversa com o Presidente da Federação Portuguesa de Futebol, tomei a decisão de deixar o estágio da Seleção Nacional.

A seu tempo, direi a verdade a todos os Portugueses sobre as razões que motivaram a minha saída da equipa nacional, à qual sempre me dediquei.

Agora é tempo de desejar boa sorte a Portugal e a todos os meus companheiros de equipa, sem exceção.

[adewole adeniji @adeniji900]

Happy 66th Independence day Nigeria, may you be great and prosper 🙏

[adewole adeniji @adeniji900]

@iambolar Not three?

[G. S. Babatunde🌕 @gsbabatunde]

From Barbing Salon To GT Bank, a short story of 2 friends

Did you know? Forty years ago, Tayo Aderinokun and Fola Adeola opened the 'Finishing Touches Barbing Salon' in Ikoyi, Lagos as their first joint business, before GT Bank in 1990.

The two friends had earlier both worked at the Continental Merchant Bank.

They decided to opened the barbing salon as a side hustle.

WHAT LED TO THE BARBING SALON?
While they both lived in Ikoyi, Lagos, they always visited the Mainland just to have haircuts.

Fola Adeola recalls one day when he was going again to have a haircut. Then, an accïdent occurred at the Eko Bridge. He said after witnessing the accïdent, “The only thing that came to my mind was whether the vïctims of that accïdent was also on his way to the barbers! I decided then that we would put barbers in Ikoyi."

So they pooled funds and opened Finishing Touches Barbing Salon which became the first 'modernised' barbing salon in Ikoyi. Running it together, they discovered they had a similar appetite for business rïsks.

They, thereafter, applied for a banking licence in January 1989 resulting in what later became Guarantee Trust Bank.

Fola Adeola would later write in a Tribute to Tayo: "In 1990, after we had obtained a banking licence, Tayo suggested to me that we sold the company (Finishing Touches Barbing Salon). As far as he was concerned, we should no longer be barbers having become bankers. As an aside, one of the terms of the sale was that Tayo, myself, and all our male children, would cut our hair for free, forever! As if he knew! Tayo was an entrepreneur at heart..."

They later sold the salon to concentrate on their infant bank project.

Fola was 34 and Tayo was 33 when they got the license for their bank on August 2, 1990. Guarantee Trust Bank is now what is known as GTCO (GT Bank).

ℹ️Ethnic African Stories

[Ayo Shonaiya @AyoShonaiya]

The living legend of our times. Happy Birthday to the King of African Beats, King Sunny Ade 🎉 #icon

[adewole adeniji @adeniji900]

@egi_nupe Adewole Adebayo too.

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

PETER OBI EXPOSED - THE LIAR OF SATANIC DIMENSION

Peter Obi has spent a decade speaking. The books of Anambra State now speak back.

Lacking concrete achievements or a lasting legacy, Peter Obi has built his political persona on a self-manufactured myth of financial prudence. He routinely claims to have left Anambra State debt-free with a portfolio of lucrative investments - a narrative built entirely on revisionist history.

​Successive Anambra State administrations, beginning with Obi’s own chosen successor, Willie Obiano, have repeatedly debunked these claims. The state government confirmed that Obi’s celebrated investments decayed into near-worthless assets, while his real legacy was a trail of unproductive debts that canceled out any alleged savings.

The Breakdown:

Over eight years, Peter Obi's administration spent roughly $4.05 billion - about ₦5.4 trillion at today's official exchange rate.

Against that, he contracted external debt of $123.7 million, borrowed not for roads, not for hospitals, not for schools that would bear his name, but unproductive ventures.

An immense liability the good people of Anambra State have since been laboring to repay, being tormented by the reckless and unproductive debt incurred by their Debtor-General predecessor.

And what did Peter borrow for?

• Malaria Control Booster Project - $9.4M

• Third National FADAMA Development Project - $7.1M

• Health System Development Project II - $4.1M

• Malaria Control Booster Project (Add.Fin) - $4.4M

• State Education Programme Investment Project - $48.3M

• Community and Social Development Project - $4.8M

• Nigeria Erosion Watershed Mgt Project - $37.8M

• Value Chain Development Project - $7.5M

Total External Debt - $123.7M

Despite these substantial borrowings, the state's critical infrastructure and public sector suffered severe neglect:

● Unpaid Salaries & Pensions: State and local government employees, including teachers, were left with up to 11 months of unpaid salary arrears. The clearing of this backlogged ₦22 billion liability fell on subsequent administrations.

● Water Corporation Neglect: Former staff of the state Water Corporation went unpaid throughout his administration. Settlement agreements and installment payments for surviving workers had to be structured years later.

● Educational Deficits: 44% of communities in Anambra, which makes 78 of 179 still had no public primary schools. And this explains why Peter Obi's own daughter had to relocate to Lagos to find a suitable school to be employed as a teacher, because her father built no school suitable enough to accommodate her employment demands.

● Healthcare Collapse: Only 27% of Anambra residents utilized public health facilities due to dilapidated infrastructure and lack of equipment, forcing citizens to seek medical care in neighboring states and especially far away Lagos for their medical demands.

Peter claimed provided there are no mass deaths, Anambra does not deserve adequate healthcare.

● Fabricated Savings: The widely circulated claim of ₦75 billion left in savings and investments remains a narrative unsupported by the state's actual financial records, at best, a result of Peter's vivid inagination.

The Question

If eight years of "prudence" could not build a single school in nearly half the state's communities, could not keep a water corporation's staff paid, could not keep teachers' salaries current - what, exactly, was being saved, and for whom?

Ask yourself: is this the model of governance you want extended to the rest of Nigeria?

Good Morning Severally...

[Hannatu Musa Musawa @hanneymusawa]

Forever in our hearts

A giant of Nigerian theatre and film, Olu Jacobs leaves behind a legacy that has shaped generations and helped lay the foundation for the industry we celebrate today.

Thank you for the stories, the craft and the legacy.

May his soul rest in eternal peace 🙏🏽

[Sammy Desh @Deshysmalls]

Bokku sells bread for ₦1,100, some people go into Bokku, buy in bulk, & sell on the street for as much as ₦1,700.

Consumers like me buy for ₦1,700 cos Bokku is far from me. Now that i have a Bokku store near me, i buy bread for ₦1,100, but middleman is crying & angry at Bokku because i now have a cheaper alternative.

[A. Ayofe @abdullahayofel]

JUST IN: Anambra State Government expose Peter Obi’s lies: Peter Obi Borrowed, Left Debts; Audit Uncovers Missing Ecological Fund.

Omo Obi is a gbajue oo, Read 👇🙆😳

[Senator Shehu Sani @ShehuSani]

It’s sad to hear of the death of the renowned Nigerian Actor Olu https://t.co/RmGzgcgAiZ School Children in the 70s and early 80s,his advertisement for Ribena on TV made him a beloved figure to many young people of that generation.He was an inspiration to generations of creative and movie artists.He will be greatly https://t.co/54jjYMBZMj condolences to his lovely wife who stood by him through thick and https://t.co/1qaC1OrGfx his gentle soul rest in peace.

[Greg Nwoko 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 @nwoko_greg62705]

It's nine o'clock. Do you know where your children are? That line by Frank Olize on NTA Newsline every Sunday night kept a whole generation in check.

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In the 80s and 90s, Sunday night belonged to NTA Newsline at 9pm. Frank Olize would look straight into the camera with his deep voice and ask, It's nine o'clock. Do you know where your children are?

It was not just an intro. It was a national checkpoint.

Then, parenting was hands on. You could not be outside your parents house at a time they did not agree to. Curfew was law.

If your parents said 6:30pm, you were home by 6:15pm. There was no phone to say I am almost home. No WhatsApp location.

Your father would be at the gate with his belt or just his eyes, which was worse. Your mother would count her children like her market money.

Neighbourhoods also parented you. If you were seen in Yaba at 8pm and your parents lived in Surulere, before you got home, somebody had already reported you.

An uncle, a church member, a neighbour. That was the community surveillance system.

That is why Frank Olize's question was so powerful. It forced every parent to look around the parlour and do a headcount.

[adewole adeniji @adeniji900]

@Onsogbu @OjyOkpe I tire o, coming from a woman o.

[High Chief Lawrence Igbins Okoro @HighChiefOkoro]

If Peter Obi had won in 2023, Nigeria would have become like Argentina. He would have destroyed our economy with his failed economic experiments.

Today, he is praising President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for refusing to listen to him, while he was pressuring the government to adopt the Argentine economic model.