Nweike

As a writer I believe I'm actively part of humanity's collective memory and conscience. And as such, I owe the duty of telling the truth at all times.

[Nweike @akosa_c]

The day the shells fall of your eyes and you start seeing clearly, you realise that Nigerian politicians aren’t stupid, the system is working exactly as intended—extraction. They are there to take from Nigeria and Nigerians as much value as they can.

[Felix @felixherbt]

let me explain some things for us;

If you meet someone on the road, the person is naked. Give the person a brand new iPhone. That's a kind gesture does not solve the person's problem.

In economics, there is what we call utility and marginal utility. This simply refers to the satisfaction that people derive from consuming a product.

Problem is not that there is no money in government. There is money in Nigeria. Don't rush, you have something to learn.

During the administration of Governor Nyesom wike in River State, one of his greatest achievements is building 12 flyovers.

If you come to a Ebonyi State, Governor David on his own path built his own flyovers.

In fact, they even capped it with building an airport. Don't get it wrong, all these things are great projects. But the question is, is it what the people truly need?

Allocative efficiency simply means putting your resources where it will create more value. Most of the places that state governors in Nigeria are building flyovers, they are places that if you can be able to build a good roundabout and install quality traffic lights, you've solved the problem of traffic congestion in those areas. Hear it from me, being busy is not equal to being productive.

When politicians want to loot state and federal funds, they embark on projects they cannot finish in 8 years.

We must go back to the hierarchy of needs and know what is pending our people. I give you an instance.
The ongoing construction of coastal highway in Nigeria is a massive project. The coastal highway is estimated to cost 15 trillion Naira. That money that the federal government is investing in that project is enough to revive almost all the federal roads in Nigeria.

Connecting all the states. In Ebonyi State today, one of the major projects that governor is doing is building flyover and underground tunnel in the city of Abakaliki. Meanwhile, still in Ebony State, primary schools and secondary schools don't have good buildings. We don't have libraries. We don't have working primary healthcare hospitals.

But the governor is spending billions to build underground tunnel. Who is going to go under the tunnel? Before you know it, lights are off the tunnel. People will be there stealing from people. People will even go there to defecate. And recently the governor purchased three aircrafts for Ebonyi Air Project. The question is, how many people from Ebonyi are flying? It was not enough that the previous administration built airport. We did not even talk about how many persons have landed on that airport today.

That money used to construct that airport is enough to empower Ebonyi youths. Most people in Ebonyi are hungry. They are poor.

A solid foundation is where the people are liberated through eradication of hunger, through quality healthcare, through education. You cannot admit someone who did not go to primary school in a university.

When you meet someone hungry, what the person needs is food. When you meet someone that is naked, someone who gets the person a cloth that is sold for 1,000 naira is more valuable to the person than the person that gives the person a new iPhone. That's the principle of needs. But I'm not surprised that the government are doing all these things.

If they should invest in where the people need, they may not make enough money. Government to them is about accumulating more money. They need to build more houses. They need to build more hotels. They need to buy more land. So the one that will deliver more money to them is those big gigantic projects, even if it does not have impact on the life of the people. This is what is leading them to committing economic suicides in the name of government. The resultant effect is that people would remain in perpetual poverty, even in abundance.

If we the youths don’t wake up in aggression to demand the best, our nation will be like Somalia.

[Nweike @akosa_c]

It’s cold and it’s really telling of the times in Nigeria that we have to justify the killing of one group with the killing of another group.

The Nigerian government’s defence to an allegation of a Christian genocide is: “It’s more complicated and deadlier than that.” Wow.

[Nweike @akosa_c]

Nigerian universities and schools generally are complicit in the youth unemployment crisis Nigeria faces.

I know of a Nigerian private university that offers entrepreneurship courses but frowns at students starting their ventures. Is it not witchcraft of the highest order?

[Nweike @akosa_c]

Sentiments aside, the Lagos-centrism of the Nigerian economy isn’t helping Lagos. “Eko o ni baje,” “Eko o ni baje” but Lagos is spoiling right in front of our eyes. Build the necessary infrastructure in the Eastern part of the country and see if people wouldn’t move there.

[Nweike @akosa_c]

The fact that Soludo had to patch up the Akpaka-Nsugbe road he built, in less than two years of building it, shows how incompetent and ineffective he is as governor. #AnambrarejectsSoludo

[Aare Olumuyiwa Akinboro @MuyiwaAkinboro]

The conferment of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria is a professional recognition, not a political favour. Subjecting SAN-designates to DSS screening undermines the independence of the Bar and the sanctity of due process. We must resist every attempt to muscle the profession.

I have followed with keen attention the recent development requiring newly cleared Senior Advocates of Nigeria to undergo screening by the Department of State Services (DSS).

The conferment of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria is not a political appointment, nor is it an executive privilege. It is a professional recognition rooted in the provisions of the Legal Practitioners Act and administered solely by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC). To subject this process to external security vetting, after rigorous scrutiny has already been undertaken by the LPPC, is an intrusion that undermines both the independence of the profession and the sanctity of due process.

The strength of the Bar has always been its autonomy. If we allow institutions outside the profession to insert themselves into its core processes without legal basis, we open the door to a precedent that may one day compromise not only the rank of SAN but also the independence of our courts, our appointments, and ultimately, our ability to dispense justice without fear or favour.

The Nigerian Bar Association under our proactive president @afamosigwe , the LPPC, and the @bodyofbenchers must rise to this moment and defend the legal profession’s independence. This is not about individuals; it is about protecting the very framework that gives legitimacy to the rule of law in our country.

The legal profession must resist every attempt to muscle the Bar. To remain silent is to acquiesce, and acquiescence today may cost us the profession we hold dear tomorrow.

Aare Olumuyiwa Akinboro, SAN
Life Bencher | Past General Secretary NBA

[Nweike @akosa_c]

@chude__ This is the reason why a good chunk of people in Abuja live in the outskirts where housing is cheaper. Politicians, civil servants and their cronies steal our common wealth and invest it tactlessly into real estate creating artificially high housing prices for the common man.

[Nweike @akosa_c]

The Anambra State Government recently approved billions of naira for “erosion and flood control” among other projects. Yet, the sand and stone mining industries that contribute significantly to the erosion problem seem to be booming unabated.

Aren’t we all mad in the state?

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

Lagos wealthy living has never impressed me. It’s unhealthy, unprogressive, and borderline dangerous.
You live in an overpriced house that looks like a slice of bread in Lekki or anywhere on the island for that matter, and your compound can’t even fit the cars you’ve hoarded for status.
Some might call it success, but to me, it’s just sophisticated suffering.

Very few prioritize healthy living, and even among those who hit the gym, many do it for all the wrong reasons.
You party all night, leave the club at 9 a.m., and drive through a flooded street, surrounded by street kids begging you for crumbs.
Then you get home to mosquitoes, and you can’t even drink from your own tap water with confidence for the fear of typhoid, you literally have to shut your mouth while you shower.

You move around with a full-time police escort that you feed and fund just to avoid being robbed or kidnapped.
And if you have a medical emergency? You’re likely finished. The ambulance may never come, and if it does, it might get stuck in traffic while you die.

So how is this “wealthy living”? How do people look at this mess and say, “Yes, this is the life I aspire to”?
And worse, how do people living like this still manage to look down on others? Instead of relentlessly demanding better from leaders and society.
Truth is, we’re all poor in this country, calm down.

[Nweike @akosa_c]

Like it or not we live in an ever globslised world where policies in far flung places talk less of the global hegemon affect us. What is yet to be seen are the concrete ways the Nigerian government will protect livelihoods of Nigerians in this uncertain times.

[Nweike @akosa_c]

For those that think Trump’s tariffs won’t hit Nigeria, think again. First of all, the US is a top buyer of Nigerian crude, a 10% tariff will mean less dollars for Nigeria and the Nigerian government.

[Nweike @akosa_c]

Also, as the US places tariffs on the whole world, there will be a diversion of trade from the US, potentially making Nigeria more of a dumping ground than it already is.
Ps. Nigeria doesn’t have effective trade defence instruments against unfair trading practices like dumping.

[Abolaji Rasaq Oluwapese @bolazeal]

A day will come when we all agree that Danfo is unfit to carry dogs, let alone human beings.

If Lagos is a mega city, it should be doing mega things.

This is 2027.

[POK @real_POK]

You won't see jack shit. Soludo and Hoe Uzodima and co will still be your leaders and still embezzle everything.

Yorubas will also have Tinubu and his gang here while Hausas will have Ganduje and co.

Open your eyes and see beyond tribalism

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

This is clearest articulation of how MAGA sees itself within the global economic context.

Could Nigerian MAGA supporters please explain how they, and Nigeria (a poor country), will benefit economically from this MAGA vision of the 21st Century?

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

Many educated Nigerians have no exposure to critical thinking - either at school, at work, or at church.

You see the results on social media.

[Ike Agụata @Ike_Obiora]

In all of this, remember that Nyesom Wike is a Life Bencher.

I mean a life member of the highest regulatory body of the legal profession in Nigeria.

Someone that should have been long disbarred and jailed in any serious Jurisdiction.

Legal practice in Nigeria is big joke!

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

King Leopold II and his Force Publique were Christian conservatives who believed "marriage is between man and woman", they also believed there were only two genders;

They still murdered 5 million Congolese.

What's my point? Western culture wars are of limited relevance to us.