"People ask for why I support Obi.
Hear:
The constellation of criminals opposing Obi is no mystery-he is the lone rebel within a ruling class that has long shackled our country, and so they wage war against him.
My task is to spread his rebellion!" - Abdul Mahmud 2025 Aug, 29
@ruffydfire To even think that this woman was once a journalist who came to national limelight for questioning President Obasanjo and wrongly amplified some policies she didn’t understand then is baffling.
She earned the endorsement of the druggie & ended up a bigot champion, it’s a shame
@USinNigeria When Nigeria mattered to the US and western world. Today the same US is quietly defending a convicted drug trafficker with false academic records from Chicago State University. For almost 4 years now same institution has locked their social media accounts bcos of it. It’s a SHAME
Here's an example of what I was talking about yesterday using Google Earth images (https://t.co/0fTAkv0qOS).
For context, Obajana is the largest cement plant in Nigeria. It was commissioned by former President Obasanjo in early 2007 just before he left office, so coming up to 20 years old. It is a giant complex for which Dangote operated it completely tax free for about 10yrs. He abused the government's pioneer status scheme with this plant to such extreme levels that the scheme was scrapped for cement.
Cement has also been completely protected for more than 20yrs in Nigeria - imports are totally banned with clinker only allowed with 50% tariffs.
Image 1 - shows the plant's footprint and scale in the area
Image 2 - from a June 2022 street view. This is what the surrounding area of the plant looks like at street level
Image 3 - is roughly 5 miles from the plant. You can see mud walls (anytime there are heavy rains in Nigeria, you always get stories of people dying because their mud houses collapsed)
Image 4 - You can rubbish heaps with the plant in the background.
This is where the world's richest black man makes his billion dollar fortune. Once you step outside the factory gates, much of the surrounding area remains unpaved shoulders, rudimentary drainage and pedestrians sharing the road with his thousands of cement lorries.
When I say there is zero evidence of cement linked to Nigerian development in any way, this is what I mean. Nigeria has consumed roughly a third of the amount of cement you'd expect because Dangote extracts an unbelievable price for "manufacturing" cement in Nigeria and "stopping imports". His focus on his margins above everything else is almost deranged.
If you had a man like this in Britain in the middle of the nineteenth century, Bazalgette doesn't get the London Sewer built and cholera does not get eliminated (https://t.co/VY2VLRCB7a). If you had him in early 20th century America, Erle Halliburton does not perfect oil well cementing and the world does not benefit from it (https://t.co/i894J3egUm)
But give it a few weeks, there will soon be another article in some reputable foreign media talking about how Dangote is on a journey to industrialise Africa. Meanwhile the man's two-decade record is right there in plain sight for everyone to see.
Yes, the Nigerian government is retarded enough to let this happen so it is not all his fault. But does Dangote himself have no shame? No innovation, no technology mastery, no impact on his immediate doorstep. Just his margins and counting his billions of dollars.
@UgochukwuCFR Some years ago when Umahi was building his multiple flyovers across Ebonyi state, many of the poor towns resorted to pilfering the heaps of granites and sands the govt were using to build.
If those poor folks were gainfully employed or engaged they wouldn’t resort to such.
@HonShield The main question is what was Atiku position when GEJ removed subsidy which warranted the undue hatred against him by this same APC as opposition which Atiku himself was a member.
We should carefully understand desperado statements & genuine concern.
Poverty is a bastard. How are you selling your kidney for N7m. The people buying are taking advantage of them. What is N7m?
And the way things are, if one person does it and gives another person update, many will be selling too because N7m looks like a lot of money in their eyes.
For many of them it’s a last option in life. Poverty is terrible.
Egypt, Tanzania and Ethiopia have all added thousands of megawatts of electricity to their respective grids since 2019 without forcing their populations to pay “market-reflective” tariffs. Heck, Egypt started tariff liberalization only after increasing electricity supply.
Now that BAT has confirmed that Buhari didn’t fix our refineries.
It’s important to note that Buhari approved $2.98 billion in total for the rehabilitation of Porharcourt, Kaduna & Warri’s refinery.
- Port Harcourt Refinery: $1.5 billion
- Warri Refinery: $897 million
- Kaduna Refinery: $586 million to $741 million
NONE of them are functioning. NONE!!
No one is standing trial for this economic sabotage.