Prince Baba Agba

Special Assistant to the President on Creativity (Office of the Hon. Minister, @fmactce_nigeria) Filmmaker | Photographer

[Prince Baba Agba @BabaAgba_]

Some stills from a new project with @kennethgyang and @_ishayabako #agadez #cinema #africa

[O'tega Ogra @otegaogra]

Historic.

The Nigerian Senate has just passed the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Alteration) State Police Bill, 2026.

All 26 clauses adopted.

- more than Two Decades after pushing for Police decentralisation as Govenor of Lagos State

- Five Years, Seven Months since @officialABAT made a strong case for the establishment of State Police at the Ajibola Ajimobi Roundtable in Ibadan saying, “The time for state police has come… in fact, it is overdue”

- Four Month after President Tinubu told Governors during Iftar Dinner: “What I promised Nigerians will not be postponed… we will establish State police to curb insecurity”

[Imran Muhammad @Imranmuhdz]

BREAKING: The Senate has passed constitutional amendments to establish state police in Nigeria

[Dr. Toks 🦇 @fimiletoks]

We double our population roughly every 20 years but we are hungry. Can't produce food but we can produce children. The birth rate in IDP camps is 3 times the birth rate of Europe & US.

Nigerians are hungry has become a comfortable rhetoric to weaponize by politicians and OAPs who lack the depth for policy discussion. Just jump on hunger & poverty and you can become popular.

A two-term senior minister, a two-term governor, and the speaker of the HOA also came on air to tell gullible Nigerians that he is hungry.

[dabi @dabiburner]

@KyleKulinski

[communist_sam23 @Goldenguys7]

@KyleKulinski

[Dr. Toks 🦇 @fimiletoks]

Hungry nation since 1960...
Every year Nigerians are hungry, people are hungry. Every developmental policy and National discussion gets drowned in hunger rhetoric.

[Ansem Edet @ansem_edet]

The coastal states are going to be eating good after 2031, they hate the coastal highway because they know the potential and enormous opportunities waiting to be unlocked but that will not turn off the hi-tech tractors 🚜

[Beri🌚 @beri_grizou]

Ghanaian fans spotted a Nigerian rocking a Super Eagles jersey after the match and turned him into the center of attention, singing “Come and See What the Lord Has Done” as they carried him through the streets.😭🙆‍♂️💔

[Michelle @D162Michele]

Probably because Ghana never colonised Europe.

[Yemi Dada @deyemidada]

@NagosBigBoi @AyoBankole https://t.co/I08yGczcK1

[Yemi Dada @deyemidada]

@NagosBigBoi @AyoBankole I participated as a committee member on a study that ECOWAS contracted IATA to carry out on Taxes and Charges. The results do not support this claim but there is an IATA rep for Africa who keeps demarketing the Nigerian Airline Industry without data to support his claims

[K. D. Ivi-Oreh @NagosBigBoi]

Did they say what these 54 taxes are @AyoBankole? It would help if we knew what they are. Can you share the article or statement?

cc: @deyemidada

[The Impatient Tourist @ImpatienTourist]

Seeing young people do well as mayors in Baltimore and New York is fantastic. Happy for them

[ICRC @icrcng]

Today, the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission unveiled the Model PPP Agreement for Federal MDAs — the product of nearly two years of rigorous drafting, legal scrutiny, stakeholder consultation and the input of the Federal Ministry of Justice.

Built on the foundation of Nigeria's existing PPP Guidelines, this Agreement gives every federal MDA a nationally standardised, legally grounded starting point for structuring PPP transactions — so Nigeria no longer negotiates each concession from a blank page.

The impact is straightforward: faster deals, lower transaction costs, and more infrastructure delivered to Nigerians sooner. With a $2.3 trillion infrastructure deficit staring the country in the face, every month saved in negotiation is a road built, a power plant commissioned, a hospital equipped.

The Model Agreement makes Nigeria's PPP programme more attractive to serious investors, more predictable for lenders, and more accountable to the public — concession by concession, closing the gap between the Nigeria we have and the Nigeria Renewed Hope is building.

[Realpill @realpillnuke]

If there is one thing I’m certain the state police initiative would do, it is that it would further expose the level of incompetence on the sub-national level

Nigerians often just see the whole of Nigeria’s arms of government in the same bad light. “They are all the same”

But i can assure you, no matter how bad you think the federal arm is, it is 100x better than the sub-nationals, with the sole exception of Lagos.

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

"Tinubu is a tax collector. He will tax us to death." - Clueless Opposition

Meanwhile 👇

At 8.2%, Nigeria records the lowest tax-to-GDP ratio in West Africa

1. Senegal 🇸🇳: 16.8%
2. Burkina Faso 🇧🇫: 14.6%
3. Ghana 🇬🇭: 14.5%
4. Mali 🇲🇱: 14.4%
5. Togo 🇹🇬: 13.6%
6. Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮: 13%
7. Gambia 🇬🇲: 13%
8. Sierra Leone 🇸🇱: 12.3%
9. Guinea 🇬🇳: 12.2%
10. Liberia 🇱🇷: 10.8%
11. Niger 🇳🇪: 10%
12. Nigeria 🇳🇬: 8.2%

No nation has ever built first-class roads, schools, hospitals and security on a third-class tax culture. You cannot demand Scandinavian infrastructure while insisting on Sahelian taxation. Every civilization is funded by the contributions of its citizens.

Good Afternoon Severally...

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

"She is banned [from entering] the United States! She cannot use a bank card! She cannot use a debit card! She cannot receive a payment!"

*Crowd cheers*

"After she was sanctioned, we got her husband … he was demoted from his position at the World Bank for incitement to hate!"

[Miss B🫦 @Lewa_Forbes_]

Lol. If Sanwo Olu closes down a market in today’s Lagos, the unreasonable outrage that will follow??

[louanalao 🇱🇨 @nyanyanyan01]

If a 3rd world country went through as many prime ministers as the UK they’d call us unstable.

[Eche Emole 🅰️🌶 @Echecrates]

So much to say in response to this, but I do believe this is the best place to have the discussion around this "makers vs takers" piece.

https://t.co/HoYHaQVxSj