Attaiokolo

#livefortheaudienceofone
God, Family, Country

[Oluwatomilola @IamTomieBlaq]

@RecruitmentPq Never stay back once you tender your resignation

[Attaiokolo @attai_okolo]

@folanski Congratulations are in order.

[Attaiokolo @attai_okolo]

@folanski Scions of Prof Aina, one time Registrar of NABTEB and a friend/colleague of my dad. I recall seeing him once in Benin in the 90s on a stopover trip to Lagos.

[Attaiokolo @attai_okolo]

@Elkrosmediahub Fun fact: my dad literally took us on road trips during my secondary school years from Lagos to Kogi and sometimes touch Abuja.. Abacha years... 504 station wagon 50litre jerry can for petrolbackup. I'm familiar with this route and others through Ife, Ekiti, Akure, Idoani. Etc

[Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford]

As the transcontinental railroad was being finished, one of the crews was *laying track* at the rate of 1 mph. “I never saw such organization as this,” said an army officer watching the work, “it is just like an army marching across over the ground and leaving a track built behind them.”

(Source: Ambrose, Nothing Like It in the World)

[Attaiokolo @attai_okolo]

@alt_opinion2477 @milicruise_nig The first is a Brig GEN. Medical corp

[Attaiokolo @attai_okolo]

@Babajiide I tell Lagosians all the time that they live in a bubble. They use Lagos as a yardstick. By Lagos, I mean the transaction volumes in Marina, VI, parts of Lekki, Ikeja, Ikoyi, Surulere and Apapa.

[Attaiokolo @attai_okolo]

@Heron_xz This woman is a horrible person

[Ose Anenih, CPM @ose_anenih]

I’ve been unable to reopen a corporate account I hold because my current NIN includes my middle name which my BVN does not have.

I’ve had to swear an affidavit and go back to the bank where I physically registered my BVN more than a decade ago.

Yet some random dude managed to open a CBN account and got the president to sign off on a N1.3bn budgetary insertion for a fictitious federal agency?

Can we at least all agree that this is indefensible and that a public investigation should be instituted. 🙏🏽

[Olúṣeun Onìgbìndé @seunonigbinde]

The whole idea of private citizens moving around with camera is a little cringy to me.
Well, we are in a perception society.

I barely arrived Panama last week for a conference and my team was asking where were my pictures for content?

“Folks, I am barely surviving here with plenty proposals, emails and issues to address. Where’s the time to care about content.”

[Attaiokolo @attai_okolo]

@DoubleEph They also invested in setting up training centers in countries including Nigeria for installers and technicians.

[Attaiokolo @attai_okolo]

@DoubleEph Daikin has two large factories in India that manufactures, assembles and ship their air-conditioning to Africa. India itself is a huge market for air-conditioners. They also have a factory in China. There's a whole building in one of those factories dedicated to R&D.

[Attaiokolo @attai_okolo]

@mrdeey_ Dey play.....

[Channels Television @channelstv]

A legislature that cannot say no is not a legislature at all. A legislature which simply receives executive proposals, approves them without scrutiny, and goes home has not fulfilled its constitutional mandate.

— Bukola Saraki, former Senate president

#June12

[Jm.autos🚗 @WilJay_1]

Over 200 yacht available at the Monaco grand prix, but only the wealthiest got the trackside parking spot
They're some levels of wealth i will never be able to understand

[Dr Charles Omole @DrCOmole]

The Soun of Ogbomosho is my friend but I disagree with him. There are ways to storm the kidnappers den with not a single casualty. The security agencies know what to do if they are serious. Let’s stop making the same excuses for mediocrity. We can do better. This is not a rocket science. I am distressed at the lack of imagination being displayed. Those children can be all rescued tomorrow without a single casualty. There are extraction techniques available to make this possible. I am just tired of excuses.

[Distant Relative @LankyObserver]

If the wealthiest people in your society are politicians, that society is fundamentally corrupt.

[Chidi H. Lemchi @CHLemchi]

@chosensomto They should contest under Atiku’s influence. Doesn't he have influence? You guys do not have the interest of Nigeria at heart. It's about access to the corridors of power.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Troubling Developments from the citadel of learning.

The reason Universities are regarded as an ivory tower is because its seen as centres for pure, isolated intellectual thought. It's therefore worrisome when they are increasingly pressured to operate outside this norm.

Today, I was scheduled to be at Obafemi Awolowo University at 9am prompt to deliver a keynote lecture, before proceeding to Ibadan for the opposition parties' political summit scheduled to commence at 12noon. The invitation was extended to me several months ago, and adequate preparations had been made. Regrettably, I received the news that the event would no longer be held in the University as planned.

While such occurrences may be dismissed in isolation, it is important to state clearly that this has now happened more than ten times. This is no longer incidental; it points to a troubling pattern that should concern all well-meaning Nigerians. My alma mater, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka was not excluded. The family of one of the renowned UNN Vice Chancellor late Professor Frank Ndili had planned an annual lecture on his behalf and the inaugural lecture was to be delivered, but on the scheduled date it was cancelled by the University authority.

These are not merely personal inconveniences; they raise deeper questions about the kind of environment we are nurturing in our country. Universities are meant to be centres of learning, open dialogue, and the free exchange of ideas. When platforms for constructive engagement are repeatedly constrained, it reflects a worrying shift away from these ideals.

This concern becomes even more pronounced when viewed against my engagements across the world, where I have been privileged to speak and interact freely with students and scholars in respected institutions. In the past 24 months, I have delivered lectures in notable universities globally including Oxford University, Cambridge University, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Chicago University, University of Pennsylvania, Imperial College, to name a few. Those environments continue to demonstrate openness to dialogue, critical thinking, and shared learning, values that should equally define our own institutions.

We must ask ourselves: what kind of nation are we building if spaces meant for intellectual engagement are gradually shrinking? A country’s progress is anchored on its ability to encourage knowledge, debate, and the contest of ideas, not restrict them.

Nigeria must work towards becoming a place where ideas thrive, where knowledge is shared without fear, and where our institutions uphold the principles they were established to protect.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO