Atinuke H.Odjenima

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[Loveofcountrywithatinuke @Loveofcountryw1]

This point sparked a debate during our X Space🎙️
And honestly, it’s a question worth asking…

What do you think?🤷‍♂️

[Atinuke H.Odjenima @AOdjenima]

@Loveofcountryw1 A must have conversation!
For the love of Country!!

[Loveofcountrywithatinuke @Loveofcountryw1]

A space where all voices are heard🗣️…
A forum where opinions are expressed
FLOC’s Symposium 5.0 loading…

Are you ready??🤩

[Loveofcountrywithatinuke @Loveofcountryw1]

We say ‘the system is broken’…
But systems don’t exist.

What roles do citizens really play?
Few more hours to go!!!. Are we ready??🤩🥳🥳

[Loveofcountrywithatinuke @Loveofcountryw1]

Believe it or not…
Youths are the key 🔑 to a better future in Nigeria🇳🇬

Do you agree?

[Pat Utomi @UtomiPat]

Can we begin with candid discussion of key issues that hold us back. Education, health care, institutions and values. If we have rational conversations on these matters and enthrone merit over emotions in critical sectors we can be way on our way. And it will be win-win for all

[Pat Utomi @UtomiPat]

True patriots must at this point overcome this obsession with cornering power without the objective of a better life for all being advanced. Can partisanship take the backseat and entrepreneurs of power allow for jump starting of drive for basic common good .

[Kingsley Moghalu OON @MoghaluKingsley]

This is why there is no accountability for corruption by African leaders, as just one example.
Unless this culture of “leadership” as absolutism is reformed to more de-personalized responsibility, governance in the continent will continue to struggle.

[Kingsley Moghalu OON @MoghaluKingsley]

The ultimate problem with the concept of leadership in Africa is that it is interpreted almost exclusively as authority and power, rarely as responsibility. In developed countries, governance systems and rule of law are supreme & must be respected. In Africa, systems bow to egos.

[Kingsley Moghalu OON @MoghaluKingsley]

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[Kingsley Moghalu OON @MoghaluKingsley]

“It’s a disgrace that 70% of the $650 million annual budget of @_AfricanUnion is funded by Europeans. When the foreigners fund us, they are ‘development partners’. Then tomorrow they are colonizers and imperialists. We have to be serious. It’s either we have an African Union and

[Kingsley Moghalu OON @MoghaluKingsley]

fund it, or we all go home”. Blunt talk from @Mo_IbrahimFdn Founder Mo Ibrahim at the Ibrahim Governance Weekend in Marrakech, Morocco, in conversation with former African Union Commission President @AUC_MoussaFaki .

[Kingsley Moghalu OON @MoghaluKingsley]

@Mo_IbrahimFdn @AUC_MoussaFaki Question: why would African countries not fund the AU Commission? The African mentality of dependency on the “kindness”of strangers is really sick. China funded the construction of the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa. It was later discovered to have been comprehensively bugged!

[Kingsley Moghalu OON @MoghaluKingsley]

“We need to Africanize democracy rather than democratize Africa” @LopesInsights on a panel @Mo_IbrahimFdn Governance Weekend in Marrakech, Morocco this morning. Carlos Lopes hits the nail on the head, saying Africa has only two kinds of leaders: reformers and rent-seekers!

[Loveofcountrywithatinuke @Loveofcountryw1]

Let the countdown begin! ⏳🇳🇬
Just 10 days to go until FLOC 2025 and the excitement is real! 🎉

We’re gathering voices, ideas, and energy to reimagine Nigeria’s economy.
June 5 | #bayerouniversity Kano —

#FLOC2025
#MondayMotivation

[Kingsley Moghalu OON @MoghaluKingsley]

We are pleased to announce that the application portal for our Master of Public Administration (MPA) flagship public policy program at the game-changing African School of Governance ⁦@ASG_Africa⁩ is now open! Apply! https://t.co/d1Hn18BkEd

[Kingsley Moghalu OON @MoghaluKingsley]

The “international community” is, in reality, an aspirational illusion. What we have is an international society of self-interested sovereign states competing and collaborating at the same time in a controlled “anarchy”. Hence the late scholar Hedley Bull’s immortal work titled

[Kingsley Moghalu OON @MoghaluKingsley]

“The path to Africa’s economic resurgence cannot run through aid, but must run away from it. Foreign aid breeds dependency, crowds out personal initiative and real growth in African countries, and is antithetical to the real meaning of development” -

[Reno Omokri @renoomokri]

Reverting To The Old National Anthem Was a Big Mistake

If I look sad in the attached photo, it is for a reason. My heart is very heavy about Nigeria right now because, in my opinion, we just took a giant step backwards in our national journey. Now, do not get me wrong, I support the current economic policies of my country. Fuel subsidy removal and Naira flotation are necessary policies that any lover of Nigeria should adhere to regardless of party affiliation.

One of the most unnecessary acts of governance in Nigeria in recent times is the law returning the old National Anthem. First of all, there was nothing wrong with the existing anthem. Secondly, with all of the multifaceted issues we face, it seems like we have a lack of priorities, when we major on such a settled issue as an anthem.

To me, it looks like a step backwards to discard the 'Arise, O Compatriots' National Anthem written by a collective of young Nigerians, including John A. Ilechukwu, Eme Etim Akpan, B. A. Ogunnaike, Sota Omoigui and P. O. Aderibigbe in 1978, for 'Nigeria, We Hail Thee', written by an English woman, Lillian Jean Williams.

Does it not sound preposterous that a foreigner should write our National Anthem? Are we that shallow and uninspired that we cannot come up with our own indigenous anthem? You can imagine the land of such music icons, like Fela Kuti, Osita Osadebe, Dan Maraya Jos, and contemporary stars, like Sade Adu, Burna Boy, Davido and Wizkid, importing music of national significance from Britain. As my Yoruba brethren will say, 'O wrong now!'

Already, the name Nigeria was given to us by another English lady, Flora Shaw. And she named us in 1897 in much the same way you name a dog. She did it tongue in cheek, for an article she wrote for The Times of London.

We ought to have even changed that name to something indigenous, such as the Republic of Wazobia, as Ghana did in 1957 when she changed from Gold Coast to Ghana at Independence in 1957.

We should also have reverted to the original name for Lagos, Eko. Lagos is an imposed Portuguese name. The annoying thing is that the Portuguese who renamed Eko as Lagos were just opportunistic slave traders who did not set up any viable administrative structure.

Instead of undertaking these name changes, we are rather doubling down on another colonial relic by discarding the anthem written by our own citizens for one written by a foreigner.

I dare anyone reading this to name another country whose National Anthem was written by a foreigner. Even a Banana Republic would not do that!

In my humble opinion, President Tinubu ought not to have assented to that bill. Instead, he should have written a strongly worded letter to communicate to the National Assembly the implications on our sovereignty and national psyche to revert to an anthem written by a foreigner, which would make us a free nation that willingly chose to return to the yoke of imperialism.

Is it too late for the President to do what he ought to have done? No. He is our Head of State and has a duty to promote indigenous ideas over imperialistic ones.

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.

[Dr. D. Udoh @Udoh_D]

@MoghaluKingsley Well said Prof, the key is to get our economy producing for FX..

I think we can be competitive in agriculture