Chigọzie Anagbado

Politics, History, Economics and Good governance - IGBO - Cityzen

[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

Our reality!

[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

@maazi_ogbonnaya Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

Kudos!

[Veev, M.D. @veev_iloabuchi]

is this a good time to say my claim to fame is that Peter Obi called me to congratulate me back then? He’s from my village lol.

[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

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[Ochi @OchiJnr]

You have a narrow view.

It is hard to imagine a country with a hundred Andelas, five hundred Paystack founders, and hundreds of young Nigerian millionaires across different sectors, people creating good-paying jobs, staying true to their values, not overtaxed, not forced to know somebody, and thriving under real government support and an enabling environment.

That says more about the limits of your APC apologetics than the reality of what is possible. I only wish you weren’t so confident while being so out of touch with actual Nigerians.

[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

@OchiJnr Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

@eldivine How do we deepen the banking sector?

[IFEANYịCHUKWU!! @OgbajiIfeanyi]

What Onyedika and Boniface is doing for Onitsha is what Victor Osihmen is doing with big influencers in Lagos.

Once Onitsha catches up, it's all over. We no dey stop half way, and we don't do half measures.

We should be intentional about every Alaigbo city.

Onitsha will rise again!!!

[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

@MoghaluKingsley @TMoghalu @UPMC @MaryanneMoghalu Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

[Ugonna Okeke @Victorokeke_]

There's Not Enough Reasons To Develop Nigeria

And i will explain why.

The Nigerian state was never designed to serve the Nigerian people, and the elites who run it have no incentive to fix it. This is largely because politics is not about ideology or public service. It's in fact, the most lucrative business in the country. The state operates as a vehicle to capture and distribute oil wealth.

The political class, across ethnic and regional lines, shares a unspoken agreement: protect the status quo so everyone can get their turn at the cake. If a politician builds good roads, reliable electricity, and world-class schools, they have less money to share around or store in foreign bank accounts. And because the government's money comes from oil wells and not the taxes of thriving businesses, the government does not actually need its citizens to be productive or wealthy to survive.

A country works when there is a basic deal: citizens pay taxes and obey laws, and the government provides security, infrastructure, and justice. In Nigeria, that contract is completely dead.

If you are a middle-class or wealthy Nigerian, you are a mini-state unto yourself. You drill your own borehole for water, buy your own generator for electricity, hire private security to stay alive, and pay out of pocket for private healthcare and schooling. And because the people with the education, money, and influence have successfully insulated themselves from the failure of the state, there is no sustained, existential pressure from the top or middle class to force a systemic reform. The poor are left to survive on miracles and hustle.

Someone would say, "but Nigerians are famous for their resilience and entrepreneurship." Well, there's is a dark side to this. It breeds wicked, selfish citizens, largely because the system is also brutal, which means survival requires an individualistic, hyper-competitive mindset.
When institutions fail, people stop relying on rules and start relying on connections ("connections"), bribes, and cutting corners. If you try to follow the rules strictly, the system crushes you. We normalise the abnormal. Instead of demanding functional public transportation, people adapt by waking up at 4:00 AM to sit in traffic. Instead of demanding a working national power system, they buy a bigger generator or nowadays, extra solar power storage batteries. The incredible capacity of Nigerians to adapt to suffering has inadvertently become a pressure-release valve for the government; the people adapt so well that the elites never have to fix the root cause.

We have also institutionalised extortion in public service, even the every institutions meant to protect and enforce order have been corrupted into predators. From the police officer at a checkpoint to the customs official at the port, the primary goal of many public offices is to extract money from citizens and businesses.

If a young entrepreneur builds a successful business, they are not rewarded with government support; they are targeted by regulatory agencies looking for bribes. This creates a massive ceiling on growth.

So in essence, Nigeria is not broken by accident. It is working exactly as it was designed to work for the few hundred thousand people at the top who profit from the chaos, while the energy, brilliance, and potential of 200 million plus people are burned as fuel to keep the broken machine running.

[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

@CHULLY1010 They need a donkey or a bull to help out

[Àgbà John Doe @jon_d_doe]

Unfortunately, many do not pay attention to this as they should.

The 500k analysis that I did excludes rents, utility bills, school fees, health, etc.

We are in a very precarious situation.

12 years of massive deterioration under the APC government.

I just realized a few months ago that, if not because of X revenues, I would have been struggling to save and pay bills alone, despite being amongst the 1% of top 9-5 earners in the country.

And I don't live a flamboyant lifestyle.

Just basic ways of living, which almost every legitimate human being should live.

Realky pathetic.

[Zuggy | Video Editor 💻 @__zuggy]

@asemota This was my village, Adazi Nnukwu

[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

@__zuggy @asemota Nwanna, kedu ije.
Abu m onye Amata.

[Ugonna Okeke @Victorokeke_]

Koreans build a city and install public fitness centres in every neighbourhood cluster. There's is something sweet by the human species here.

[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

@Victorokeke_ Same template deployed in Nigeria 2013-2015

[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

@Victorokeke_ Are there PG scholarship opportunities in South Korea?
If yes, can you point me to them.
Can you guide to people who wish to pursue further education in South Korea?

[Ugonna Okeke @Victorokeke_]

Chinua Achebe viewed the writer as an educator and reformer. At one time, he insisted that African writers cannot afford to be passive observers or luxury artists. Because of the ongoing struggles with leadership and inequality in the continent, he said a writer must actively use their craft to fight for human validity. 🙏🙏🙏

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Nigerian universities must stop being certificate factories.

Every university should be judged by:

Research that solves national problems
Graduate employability
Industry partnerships
Student innovation
Integrity of exams
Quality of teaching
Startup creation
Patents and practical outputs.

A university that cannot solve one serious local problem in its host community should be ashamed.

Every Nigerian child must leave school with the ability to think, build, communicate, earn, and serve.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Education is the factory that produces politicians, lawyers, engineers, doctors, pharmacists, nurses, etc.

So if education is corrupt, the nation is finished.

No country becomes great with fake exams.

So the first national emergency is assessment integrity.

WAEC, NECO, GCE, JAMB, university exams, professional exams, all must become clean, technology-driven, traceable, and consequence-based.

Exam malpractice should not be treated as “normal Nigerian behaviour.”

It should be treated as economic sabotage.

Because every fake A produces a weak graduate, and every weak graduate weakens the nation.

This is what the Minister for education and all state commissioners for education should face head on and solve.

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

Cartesian logic is not indecision. It is the refusal to let assumptions pass as truth before they have faced interrogation.

The term comes from René Descartes’ method of disciplined doubt: do not accept a proposition simply because it is popular, inherited, emotionally satisfying, or institutionally convenient. Break the issue down, test assumptions, examine consequences, and proceed only with what can survive reasoned scrutiny.

In practical decision-making, it is often framed around four questions:
1. What happens if we do this?
2. What happens if we do not do this?
3. What will not happen if we do this?
4. What will not happen if we do not do this?
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[Chigọzie Anagbado @AgentAnagbad]

@OlufemiAwoyemi Thank you sir