The reason behind Lagos Traffic in the past 24 hours is so complex.
From inadequate road infrastructure to unworthy heavy duty vehicles and impatience.
Hope we do better as a people.
Heard Soludo set up a “Peter Obi Tenure Investigation Committee” months ago, after months of finding nothing, they came up with a missing “2Billion Ecology fund”
The gist got to Obi in London yesterday, Obi named the Anambra Account, Bank & even Bank branch where the money is 😂
I have been thinking about something lately, and the more I think about it, the more disturbing it becomes.
A lot of Nigerians became poor without doing anything wrong.
They didn’t stop working. They didn’t become lazy. They didn’t suddenly become irresponsible.
They simply woke up one day and realised that the money they had worked for could no longer buy the things it used to buy.
Think about someone earning ₦100,000 a month.
The person still wakes up early every morning, goes to work, puts in the same hours, probably works even harder, gets promoted occasionally and does everything society says a responsible person should do.
Yet every year, that person seems to be able to afford less.
At some point, ₦50,000 could buy a reasonable amount of food for the house. Today, you can enter the market with the same ₦50,000 and genuinely wonder where the money went.
Nothing happened to you.
The economy happened to you.
And I think this is something we don’t talk about enough.
Imagine working hard for years, only for circumstances completely outside your control to quietly reduce the value of everything you have worked for.
You didn’t lose your job.
You didn’t lose your salary.
But somehow, you lost your standard of living.
That is poverty too.
And this is why I struggle with the way we sometimes discuss palliatives.
Of course, when people are hungry, you must find ways to help them immediately. There is nothing wrong with providing temporary relief.
But surely, the bigger question should be:
Why did millions of working Nigerians suddenly need palliatives in the first place?
If a man could comfortably buy a bag of rice from his salary a few years ago and today he needs government assistance to buy that same bag of rice, giving him rice may solve today’s hunger.
But it has not solved the actual problem.
The real problem is that his labour has lost value.
And perhaps that is what we should be obsessed with fixing.
How do we make the Nigerian worker’s income valuable again?
How do we make ₦100,000 buy more next year, rather than less?
How do we make food cheaper by producing more?
How do we reduce the cost of energy and transportation?
How do we build an economy where salaries can actually keep up with the cost of living?
Because when I think deeply about it, perhaps one of the greatest things a government can do for its people is not to keep giving them money.
It is to build an economy where the money they earn has value.
There is dignity in being able to take care of yourself from the product of your own labour.
There is dignity in a teacher being able to feed a family from teaching.
There is dignity in a nurse being able to pay rent from nursing.
There is dignity in a young person working an honest job and gradually seeing life improve.
People should be able to look back after five years of hard work and say, “My life has become better.”
Not, “I earn more money today, but somehow I can afford less.”
That is the part that keeps bothering me.
Millions of Nigerians are not asking to become millionaires overnight.
They just want hard work to make sense again.
And maybe that should be one of the simplest ways we measure whether our economy is actually working:
Is the ordinary Nigerian who works hard becoming progressively better off, or progressively poorer?
Everything else is secondary.
“Where professors are aiding illiterates to rig elections... and people sing 'On your mandate we shall stand', whether stolen or not.”
Speaking at the 2026 Goodluck Jonathan Democracy Dialogue in Bauchi State, NDC Presidential Candidate Peter Obi decries the decline of democratic integrity and judicial independence in Nigeria, calling on citizens to reject the normalisation of electoral malpractice.
"In USA, you see names like Mr Stone, Bush, Cricket, etc yet they make progress. But in Africa, Blessing is begging for data, Happiness is suffering from depression, Wisdom has no sense. We bear good names, but we live bad lives."
This one enter o 😭😭😭 https://t.co/ZvNejl2Vn6
“It almost seem like you're watching a video from 1960... if this is the thinking in Aso Villa then there's problem o... how many people in the family that they came from have made successes from the things she mentioned…?”
~Ayo Mairo Ese
Our dear Pastor wife of president ma @SenRemiTinubu thank u for the advice ma, i have started my Akara business, I added a few Ogi, Yam dindin and some potatoes, by next week i should be adding Ogiri and Okpehi ma🙏🏽
2027 = tinubu MUST GO ❗️🎤🇳🇬
The grand patron of Olodo uprisers.
The man, the myth, the legend - the very template of Olodo uprisers.
Aesthetically deficient, mentally deficient - the very patent of innocent foolishness.
In a different world, would definitely cross pollinate with Olori to birth Seyilaw.
Bayo Onanuga is advising us to stop travelling at night.
Remi Tinubu is advising us to start frying akara.
Late Okupe was advising us to start farming in our apartments.
Tinubu is advising us to stop eating 3 square meals because it's a fake life.
And you're telling me this government didn't have a covenant with the underworld?
Ahab is building highway.
Jezebel is telling people to start selling akara and roasted corn by the roadside.
The most heartless satanic couple to ever lead Nigeria.