Seun Ash

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@DRUNKPEEPS1 @HenryEghaghara @hon_yaroo @ARISEtv https://t.co/63YS6PTKX9

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

Not every arms dealer is a criminal.
There are two types.

One, arms dealer with licence.

He is registered. He has Government authorization.

He has export licence. He sells with paper trail, with end user certificate, to governments, armies, police, and approved buyers. The law allows him to buy and sell.

In Nigeria, the Firearms Act says only a registered firearms dealer can buy or sell firearms by way of trade or business. That is legal business.

Two, arms dealer without licence.

He has no registration. He has no authorisation. He has no paper trail. He smuggles. He sells to anybody, including bandits, kidnappers, and terrorists. That is illegal. That is the criminal.

And here is what a lot of people do not know.

A lot of unknown businessmen source arms from OEM, Original Equipment Manufacturers, the companies that actually make the weapons, and sell to buyers, especially Government.

You may not know their names. You may never see them on TV just as Chief Orji Kalu did but they are the middlemen who connect the factory to the government.

The late Chief Arthur Nzeribe was another known licensed arms dealer.
He sold a lot of weapons during the Nigerian civil war.

The factory makes it. The licensed dealer buys from the factory, gets the licence, gets the approval, and supplies it to the Government that needs it for its Military and Police.

That is how Government all over the world get their weapons. They do not go and knock on the factory door themselves every time.

They also buy through licensed dealers.

So do not mix them up.

Licence is the line.

With licence, it is business.

Without licence, it is crime.

Now You Know

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@HenryEghaghara @DRUNKPEEPS1 @hon_yaroo @ARISEtv https://t.co/63YS6PTKX9

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

Not every arms dealer is a criminal.
There are two types.

One, arms dealer with licence.

He is registered. He has Government authorization.

He has export licence. He sells with paper trail, with end user certificate, to governments, armies, police, and approved buyers. The law allows him to buy and sell.

In Nigeria, the Firearms Act says only a registered firearms dealer can buy or sell firearms by way of trade or business. That is legal business.

Two, arms dealer without licence.

He has no registration. He has no authorisation. He has no paper trail. He smuggles. He sells to anybody, including bandits, kidnappers, and terrorists. That is illegal. That is the criminal.

And here is what a lot of people do not know.

A lot of unknown businessmen source arms from OEM, Original Equipment Manufacturers, the companies that actually make the weapons, and sell to buyers, especially Government.

You may not know their names. You may never see them on TV just as Chief Orji Kalu did but they are the middlemen who connect the factory to the government.

The late Chief Arthur Nzeribe was another known licensed arms dealer.
He sold a lot of weapons during the Nigerian civil war.

The factory makes it. The licensed dealer buys from the factory, gets the licence, gets the approval, and supplies it to the Government that needs it for its Military and Police.

That is how Government all over the world get their weapons. They do not go and knock on the factory door themselves every time.

They also buy through licensed dealers.

So do not mix them up.

Licence is the line.

With licence, it is business.

Without licence, it is crime.

Now You Know

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@danielejiofor @nwoko_greg62705 Presidency.

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@HenryEghaghara @DRUNKPEEPS1 @hon_yaroo @ARISEtv Ehyaaah! Cory Mills and Andrew Clyde are currently US lawmakers.

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@HenryEghaghara @hon_yaroo @ARISEtv They're called military contractors and it's legitimate business.

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@LukmanAkintunde @Morris_Monye You think all these people understand or know what they're discussing about

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@bisijewel @agaraladi @Morris_Monye Aaah Bisi 😮🙆‍♂️.. So who brought them back then?

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@Femi_OfMainland @T051NOBJ It would affect only Kainji and Jebba by roughly 10% flow. Moreover, Niger started building a dam on the river already financed by the Chinese, but the military takeover has stalled the project and it's finance.

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@teejays4eva @Omojuwa I come dey wonder abii no be dem Oruma under-17 again nii..

[Dr. Calafiori 🦇 @fimiletoks]

Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s prophetic warnings about Nigeria’s constitutional design are central to his political legacy.

Long before independence, he explicitly foresaw that a heavily centralized, unitary-style government in a multi-ethnic nation would inevitably plunge the country into economic stagnation and political and systemic instability.

In his foundational books, "Path to Nigerian Freedom" (1947) and "Thoughts on Nigerian Constitution" (1966), Chief Awolowo provided a comparative global analysis of multilingual and multi-ethnic states. He warned that enforcing a unitary system over deeply diverse populations would naturally breed systemic friction.

He famously observed that a centralized government wearing a federal mask would at its best "groan poignantly" and at its worst "suffer a nervous breakdown". He argued that centralizing resource control, forcing states to look to the center for monthly financial handouts, would destroy regional productivity.

He correctly anticipated that shifting from a system based on productivity and derivation to one based on population size and political leverage would paralyze local economies, breed mass corruption, and slow national development to a crawl.

Chief Awolowo viewed federalism not as an abstract political theory, but as an absolute requirement for survival. He firmly believed that national unity in Nigeria could never be coerced or built through slogans; it had to be structurally earned through a balanced division of power where no single group lived in fear of exclusion or domination.

Chief Awolowo advocated for a constitutional framework where boundaries were drawn logically around linguistic and cultural lines. He maintained that true stability could only be achieved if minority groups possessed their own autonomous, self-governing federal units rather than being swallowed up by an overbearing center.

Awolowo envisioned a secular constitutional framework where regional and cultural identities were preserved through decentralized governance. A highly decentralized, truly federalist Nigeria that actively protected ethnic minorities from regional domination. highly decentralized, truly federalist Nigeria that actively protected ethnic minorities from regional domination.

He was right 79 years ago; he is still right today.

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@LuluUwaonu @FinPlanKaluAja1 Did Alex Otti come out to tell you he fixed power problems in Abia state? You put a private business success on the governor. 😆 🤣

[Dr. Calafiori 🦇 @fimiletoks]

Corruption remains a major challenge in Brazil, yet the country boasts a $2.65 trillion GDP economy.

The Brazilian economy grew from roughly $500 billion in the 1990s to $2.65 trillion today because policymakers made the right decisions to foster growth.

Local Government Autonomy: Brazil established local government financial, political, and administrative autonomy through a major constitutional overhaul in 1988. By contrast, Nigeria is still struggling to fully realize local government autonomy.

Constitutional and Tax Reforms: Brazil has executed comprehensive constitutional updates, including a landmark consumption tax reform in 2023. Meanwhile, Nigeria remains constrained by its 1999 Constitution, and political leaders have openly argued against rushing necessary tax overhauls.

Oil and Gas De-monopolization: In 1997, Brazil passed its Petroleum Act, breaking the 44-year-old monopoly of the state-owned oil giant, Petrobras. It took Nigeria over two decades to pass the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) and several more years to implement it.

Power Sector Decentralization: Brazil decentralized its electricity sector in 1995 through concession laws that dismantled state monopolies, transitioning to mass privatization and free competition between 1996 and 1998. Nigeria has struggled with power privatization for decades, and only recently allowed states to generate electricity independently.

Monetary Policy: Brazil floated its currency in 1999 and adopted an inflation-targeting framework. Conversely, Nigeria maintained an unsustainable currency peg for decades, depleting its foreign reserves to defend the naira.

Fiscal Reforms: Brazil phased out direct petroleum subsidies in 2002 to deepen fiscal discipline, whereas fuel subsidies remain a recurring fiscal burden in Nigeria.

Educational Funding: Brazil codified its student loan program (FIES) into law in 2001 to expand higher education access. Nigeria only recently established the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), which continues to face public skepticism.

Telecom Liberalization: Brazil’s telecom liberalization began in 1995 when Constitutional Amendment No. 8 broke the monopoly of Telebras, triggering an infrastructure boom.

Brazil’s economic expansion was driven by deliberate macroeconomic design, market liberalization, and systemic unbundling not by anti-corruption crusades.

Structural reforms beat corruption. An honest society will inevitably stagnate if its economy is built on unsustainable, protectionist, and archaic ideologies.

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@YsIRahmoni @PastorMarvy You people are just cursed to always criticize every project without reasoning. Is a stadium meant for only football, where should boxers, athletes, b-ballers, etc all engage in their own games? It's why they call it a multipurpose stadium.

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@JubrilZakariyau @SirJarus Naah light be our major problem. We fix that and we're on the fast lane.

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@sochii_ma @nze_Anambra @edward_wonder Is this 1st or 2nd Niger Bridge and is Soludo not a governor in the SE anylonger?

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@nze_Anambra @edward_wonder Agberos dey for South East too? Impossible!

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@Olatunbosu84846 @dmightyangel @channelstv @LegendaryJoe 🤣🤣

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@orsama @stqnder @drhcimci @AlaroCity_ Yes and also in Ogun state, but the larger part in Lagos state.

[Seun Ash @ashogbon1]

@orsama @stqnder @drhcimci @AlaroCity_ Is Epe not Ijebu land?