Damilola

Shoulder to cry on | Passionate about Nation building | Father | Pastor | Teacher

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them - David Hume.
This accounts for some unreasonable and perhaps unbelievable positions some people advocate.

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

@ogunlewemoyo @TheOgbeniOpa @Mr_JAGs @Riddwane @woye1 Oh wow.
Finally. Street has been like this 15+ years. I hope this will be finished and quickly too.

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

@GunnerPuls Nicolas Anelka
Raheem Sterling
Yossi Benayoun

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

@ThatG4m Memphis Depay

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

@UTDIMole Memphis Depay

[PATRIOTIC SOJA ($TSIR-MUNCHAN) @Pressman2040]

🪖⚒️🛠️THE STEEL SPANS OF HOPE🇳🇬🪖

When a flash flood washed away a critical wooden bridge connecting an isolated farming village to the regional market town, the community faced economic starvation. Enter the Combat Engineering Corps. I spoke with a Staff Sergeant whose skin was bronzed by long hours of welding under the sun.

🫡💪​He told me: "Our manual says we build bridges to move tanks and heavy artillery across rivers during a battle. But when we laid down these interlocking steel Bailey panels for this village, and I saw an elderly woman safely push her cart of produce across to go feed her family, I realized this was the most important bridge we would ever build. We aren't just connecting roads; we are connecting the people back to their country." Respect the Army engineers building the future! 🛠️🪖

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

@tobyasky Martinez got his game plan wrong.

Portugal was more focused on passing around than trying to get the ball to their most lethal striker and other strikers up front.

With 25% BP, DRC had more shots at goal, and more on target than Portugal.

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

@Utdnsider @grok Martinez got his game plan wrong.

Portugal was more focused on passing around than trying to get the ball to their most lethal striker and other strikers up front.

With 25% BP, DRC had more shots at goal, and more on target than Portugal.

[IDcabasa @Real_Idcabasa]

A month in the den of the brutish captors!!!
Guess what! The voices are getting low! Life must continue is ringing everywhere! Biz as usual right? The politicians are back to campaigning and their smear campaigns…
Some are even using this as a campaign point.. who did us this way???

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

@pastorpoju @theplatformng The contributions of H.E Babatunde Fashola are always profoundly brilliant, and he stirs up debates that makes one think, and rethink Nigeria.

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

Kano also banned the operations of commercial motorcycles in 2013.

It seems Lagos State has not been able to enforce the ban on commercial motorcycles.

Essential to revisit this.

[Woye @woye1]

OKADA REGULATIONS/BAN:

2: people have tagged me to post as per Okadas vs Insecurity.

3: State Govt has the legal authority to pass laws and enact policies regulating or banning the operations of commercial motorcycles (Okadas).

-(a): the state house of assembly is empowered to do this under the 1999 constitution as amended.

4: state governments are responsible for intra-state road traffic, pubic order and SECURITY.

-(a): Again, traffic, public order and SECURITY.

-(b): @followlasg has done this while Anambra and Delta had issued limited ban.

5: WAY FORWARD:

-(a): total ban of OKADA from cities for one year.

-(b): In alternative, Copy and Paste Lagos State law simple.

-(c): Limits their operations within rural areas. But Local Government officials must play their roles of ENFORCEMENT

-(d): The Association of Commercial Motorcycles Operators of Nigeria must enforce discipline among its members to protect their livelihoods.

6: criminal activities will be curtailed. Safety is also important.

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

Spot on.

We cannot take security seriously without looking at elements like this.

Commercial okada riding was banned in Kano metropolis right in the heat of attacks from BH. They now enjoy some peace. Leadership across different states need to wake up.

[Man of Letters. @Letter_to_Jack]

Any attempt to curb insecurity and kidnapping that does not focus on verification of Okada riders is bound to fail.

The Okada Riders association chairmen are just figureheads with zero care for public or drivers safety. What they care about is “ticket” and revenue.

A law has to bind commercial okadas to operate only at the LGA that they are registered.

The riders have to also go through rigorous verification before being issued a license.

Someone from the community must also stand as a guarantor for them before they are issued permit to use okada for commercial purposes.

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

@Lemonbriz Profoundly negative in his assertions.
Give him the job, and he will produce absolutely nothing.

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

A king who explains himself to every crowd soon begins to govern by the crowd’s anxieties. Leadership requires accountability, yes, but not the surrender of judgment to noise....

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

"You cannot control a man who is not afraid of hunger."

Hunger is one of the oldest instruments of control, for behaviour modification, opinion adjustment, and for vote mobilisation or abdication.

Hunger (poverty, lack of opportunity, class oppresion, etc) is used to bend the will, silence the voice, buy loyalty, and punish independence.

Once a man has made peace with temporary lack, he becomes difficult to own. He may be delayed, excluded, or denied comfort, but he cannot be easily captured, even if he must walk alone.

The truly free man is not the one who has everything.

It is the one whose convictions are no longer for sale to survival.

#Contentment #Freedom #InnerPeace

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

To some headlines, one can only shudder.

I considered responding, but on reflection, I realised it would amount to speaking above the level available to the author and the frame within which the post was written.

Some comments are not invitations to engage. They are disclosures of the limits of the mindset behind them.

Thoughtful feedback is wasted where the posture is neither fact nor curiosity, but certainty without depth, purpose, or the promise of enlightenment.

So, we mourn another waste of time and space, and the sad reality that we share the same cosmos.

[Dr. Toks 🦇 @fimiletoks]

Socrates was highly critical of Athenian democracy, arguing that it allowed untrained, unwise, or uneducated citizens to make critical state decisions, which he believed leads to chaos. He championed education as the essential prerequisite for voting, favoring a meritocratic approach where only those who think critically can effectively participate.

He viewed, and compared, political decision-making to expert knowledge and critical thinking rather than majority rule. This thesis is still valid today.

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

1. The Rule in Context

The Commission's exposure draft of the Rules for Public Offering of Securities by a Free Trade Zone Entity (the “Draft Rule”) would, for the first time, admit Free Trade Zone Entities (FTZEs) into the Nigerian capital market issuance perimeter under SEC supervision. Until now, FTZEs licensed under the Nigeria Export Processing Zone Authority (NEPZA) Act, the Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority (OGFZA) Act, or analogous enabling laws have operated under a parallel regulatory regime characterised by tax holidays, customs exemptions, and limited mainstream financial reporting obligations.

The Draft Rules set out the eligibility, conditions, and registration pathway for those entities to issue shares to the public, subject to the Commission's approval.

The proposal is grounded in section 95(1)(f) of the Investments and Securities Act 2025 and is one of several rules the Commission is operationalising under the new statute. Its strategic intent is to broaden the issuer pool of the Nigerian capital market, capture economic activity that has historically sat outside the formal market, and bring investor protection standards to bear on a class of issuers whose economic significance has grown materially over the past decade.

The flagship FTZEs operating in Nigeria, including the integrated refining and petrochemicals complex within the Lekki Free Trade Zone, the gas processing and fertiliser entities within the OGFZA-licensed zones, a number of large-scale industrial conglomerates, and the Lagos Free Trade Zone Company, sit within this perimeter. The economic weight of even a single flagship listing under the regime would be material for market depth.

2. The Draft Rule at a Glance

The substantive provisions of the Draft Rule cluster around four pillars: scope, eligibility, conditions for issuance, and registration. The table below captures the core thresholds and gatekeeping points.

You have to read the full report to appreciate the importance of the exposure draft... https://t.co/90mmYIQCQD via @proshare

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

@Bond_not_james This should be the next biggest thing for anyone who plans to lead this state next. For the sake of sanity, please restore order to the state's environmental and transportation system.

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

Also, what is the government of Lagos State doing about the Olusosun dump site and the one at Igando, that spills regularly on the roads?
Hon. Commissioner @tokunbo_wahab, these are questions from a concerned citizen.

[Damilola @damilphilojo]

I agree with you on this.

The question for me however is, when are we going to do something about the culture? Disorder and crass disregard for compliance is wrecking havoc in this city. From transporters to average citizens, something has to be done urgently.

[Alli-Balogun H.Lekan @allibaloo]

I'm glad that you once admitted that Lagos stinks.
It’s always easy to recommend 'The Norway Method' from the comfort of a keyboard without considering the 'Lagos Factor.' You’re quick to cite graphics and PowerPoint solutions, but you consistently ignore the most critical element: human behaviour and local reality.

You talk about sophisticated logistics, yet we have two pedestrian bridges in Ojota that people ignore, choosing instead to risk their lives crossing the expressway and causing gridlock. How do you propose to import a Scandinavian waste system for a population that still struggles with basic civic compliance?

The 'Shutdown' Myth: You call it a shutdown; the man on the street calls it a long-overdue return to order. Since the exercise was cancelled years ago, Lagos hasn't become cleaner—it’s become more cluttered. Ask the average Lagosian; they’ll tell you they prefer a two-hour cleanup to the 24/7 filth that followed your 'modern' approach.

Your arguments sound great in a seminar room, but they fail on the streets of Mushin and Agege. You cannot build a sustainable city on technology alone if the culture of stewardship is dead.

You blame LAWMA and the PSPs for every piece of trash, yet you offer no solution for the person who sweeps their dirt directly into the gutter.

The monthly sanitation isn’t a lack of imagination, it’s a necessary cultural reset.

Keep your graphic designs and foreign templates; we are busy dealing with the reality of 25 million people who need to be re-engaged in the survival of their own environment. It’s time to stop finding faults and start facing the Lagos we actually live in.