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[Pedro Ronchi @PedroRonchi2]

Que emocionante ver o técnico do Equador correr e comemorar com a família o gol da virada sobre a Alemanha.

[Becoming Pigasse @dami_speaks]

@Osi_Suave A lot of them especially the Europeans don't realize English is the official language in Nigeria . Because of the high number of francophone Africans in Europe. They just judge you to be francophone African at first sight

[DaddyFree @Yinka_freeman]

The same 2015 playbook... same.... smh

[Dr Ola Brown @NaijaFlyingDr]

Allen Avenue is too narrow for what it's expected to achieve.

[Becoming Pigasse @dami_speaks]

😁😁😁😁

[Tomi @Tomi_Tomero]

This lady preached in the bus and when she was done, a man passed his phone and told her to put her number.

She was so confused, then he said “are you not the one that preached now, I want to hear more of your preaching”

[Becoming Pigasse @dami_speaks]

😂😂😂.

[Nairametrics @Nairametrics]

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[Becoming Pigasse @dami_speaks]

A Canadian by the name of "Oluwaseyi" just tried to assist a goal for Canada, and the pass was thwarted by a Swiss player named "Akanji".

[Oladipo @DipoAW]

27 years with 10 years work experience are the outliers, not the norm. E sha rora

[Becoming Pigasse @dami_speaks]

@powerfulbadeeu Assisted transit should be able to help you solve that problem

[Becoming Pigasse @dami_speaks]

The guys in Lawma must really be lucky. Really really lucky

[Ewa @Nkomehfa]

Tokunbo wahad, see your Lagos o

[عبد القادري @le_capone]

We all know what we're doing. Both the person who called himself Chinedu and the person who called him Chinedu

[Becoming Pigasse @dami_speaks]

LoL. So you mean all the problems started from 2015 ? We were all here when a desire for the better made everyone clamour for change in 2015

[Shadowthrone @SenatorT__]

The Nigeria I grew up in thrived on competence, all the winners were actual smart hard working people.

[Malik Samuel @Sazedek]

Kudos to the security forces. Rustled cattle were also recovered in the joint operation. Gummi has become the gateway for jihadist entry into Zamfara State, with Lakurawa and JNIM now operating there.

Operations like this send a message to the groups. However, they must be sustained. Similarly, communities need a physical security presence to prevent likely reprisals from these groups.

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

We should be celebrating Doku right now he's about to become a father and we should be celebrating that he's putting his family first. He’s doing what matters.

Because in a situation like this, anyone with sense would choose family over anything.

He's not a soldier going to war for Belgium. He's a man who wants to be there when his child enters the world.

The World Cup will go on. That moment is delicate (might never happen again, who knows?).

Anyone criticising him for that is an idiot.

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

Context:
Nigeria is moving from stabilisation to transformation. The direction of travel is real, but so are the household pain and fears. This now appears existential to a growing number of citizens, and this is not helped by growing ‘NOISE’ getting in the way more than the govt would like, I suppose.

This reality cannot be dismissed, explained away, or buried beneath the language of macroeconomic success. As frustrating as this will sound for the govt, this is par for the course. It is, and will always remain a perfect cover for the MAZE and the misdirection that attaches itself to reforms.

So, the next crucial test for leadership is whether the gains from restoring macroeconomic order can translate into investment, production, jobs, and measurable relief for citizens.

This should form the basis of the pre-election debate and the rigour of plans to build on the stabilisation and moderate the noise. It is not merely about slogans, but about credible plans, milestones, sequencing, and execution.

Given how elevated conversations are treated in the public space, let me be clear about the reference here and what I mean. cc: @webtvnigeria

Noise, as referenced here, is not the required citizen engagement that is growing and should be encouraged, the disagreements with policy, and evidence-led criticism from subject-matter experts and entities. Those are the lifeblood of accountable governance in a democracy.

The noise I am referring to relates to the volume of commentary that drowns out the direction of travel.

@proshare's EMIU review named it as including selective headlines, partisan interpretation, treating one day's issue as the whole story, premature verdicts, reform fatigue, vested interests, and a tendency to judge long-term structural change by immediate household pain alone.

An honest footnote followed, indicating that actors in the current government had run the same playbook as the opposition under earlier regimes. To a lesser degree, they added daily volatility, political framing, selective reporting, and the understandable impatience of citizens living through the adjustment.

But some things are not noise. They are too real to ignore, and we can use a few as examples, including matters such as the mental incongruence of deploying a utility service within a geographical space and calling it Band A+B+C+D to serve not as a resolution but a band-aid to a model that is inefficient, more like an open social-experiment tax on households and businesses. Another is the gap between the rate of increase in expenses and the stagnation of wages, the growing income and wealth inequality, and the heightened state of fear and paralysis in the face of insecurity, to mention a few.

Each of these examples adds a layer to the TRUST DEFICIT, and that deficit clouds the very thing reform demands: the ability to recognise AND separate gains, pain and fear as equal parts of the same process.

So beneath, within and above the noise, the more important question stands. Is the economy being repositioned to produce, compete, and endure enough to become an investment, production, jobs, and lasting relief?

From the work we have done thus far, stabilisation is often visible in the hard indicators as seen in confidence restored (globally), fiscal and monetary imbalances contained, markets working better, buffers rebuilt, and prices made credible again. These are not easy accomplishments, and cannot be wished away.

Transformation, on the other hand, takes longer. It is reflected in productivity, investment, jobs, industrial capacity, exports, infrastructure, institutions, and whether households and businesses can plan with confidence in a secure environment.

Thus, when a renewed-hope agenda is sold without milestones and guardrails, it is also par for the course to challenge/attack it.

The fix is not louder slogans. Plans and communication must be sequenced around citizen engagement, or they invite the very noise the Govt complains about.

That said, the heavy lifting so far has been highly commendable. The task now is the last mile, to redirect the messaging, sequencing, and conduct towards it. We all have a role to play in getting us to the promised land, our differences notwithstanding. The project is Nigeria, not a party or entity.

‘FA

[Belinda Ezeofor @BelindaUjuu]

History has a habit of embarrassing propaganda. Evidence waits, then WINS!

#nigeria
#leadership
#history

[Becoming Pigasse @dami_speaks]

@Tolu__Grey No I don't mean from the angle of paying the levy . The angle I am looking at is an entity that will be able to acquire these loans at a discount from the institutions. I will send you a DM on the thought process later

[Becoming Pigasse @dami_speaks]

@Tolu__Grey I really don't know. But it could be an MBO or any investor can acquire the business.

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

Q: Why is it so easy to criticise and have a plan till you get into government? 🤔

A: Because outside govt, you see the problem in straight lines. Inside government, you meet the maze.

From outside, failure often looks like a lack of will, competence, courage, or integrity. Sometimes it is. But inside government, plans meet weak institutions, inherited liabilities, vested interests, procurement rules, courts, legislators, budget limits, security realities, civil service inertia, and the politics of timing.

Culture happens, stories begin and self-preservation agendas find life.

The easiest sentence in public life is: “They should just fix it.” The harder truth is that the state is not one person with one button. It is a network of laws, interests, fears, incentives, sabotage, capacity gaps, and consequences.

Still, complexity is not an excuse for failure. Government exists to organise complexity into results. The real test of leadership is whether a plan survives contact with reality, adapts without losing its moral centre, and delivers relief citizens can feel.

So, I have learnt to appreciate progress, momentum and incremental gains..... not the eldorado version.

Yet, criticism keeps power honest, but getting results for desired governance requires more than criticism. It requires getting involved, sequencing, coalition-building, courage, competence, communication, and the humility to accept that the problem was deeper than the slogan.

The code is to win by knowing when to lose, win or compromise.

On a scale we can all relate wirh, we should for example know that the wedding, of which we priotise expenses with, is just an event, while the marriage remains the institution of priority. Even within this family arrangement, optimising value reflects similar challenges.😔 You can read this in a way you get the message.

Be ye circumspect.....