Nelson

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[Jobs with Aramide @AramideOyekunle]

How to use AI to find high-quality Remote Job opportunities in less than 2 minutes.

[Nelson @darealNelson]

@Official_Isaaco Are u scared of adding buhari to the list because you don't want to offend the buhari block for the election...we are already offended

[Legend🕊️ @Legend6p]

My usual question to myself is are our leaders have a normal sense or are they charmed?

[Nelson @darealNelson]

@Mikeliberation When will you people start using https://t.co/6mzHzQUSnP to correct this abnormality. It will get to the write institutions and the loan app will be sanctioned appropriately.

[Nelson @darealNelson]

@Legend6p Lol.... somebody say how???

[Nelson @darealNelson]

Nigerians start using https://t.co/ZnIjfr7HLQ. use it to draft your complaints and it will get to the right institutions that will ask questions and get your matters resolved amicably. Your petitions will get to cbn, fccpc,efcc,ndic, even to the public complaints commission. Your case won't be an isolated one when you expose it through petitions. Social media ranting won't resolve it entirely.

[Nelson @darealNelson]

Nigerians start using https://t.co/ZnIjfr7HLQ. cases like this gets resolved fast when a legal petition is written. Pressure will come to the bank from cbn,ndic,efcc,pcc and fccpc. Petitions will get to this institutions and they will ask questions,so cases like this won't be isolated. Nigerian could start from here first.

[Nelson @darealNelson]

@fkeyamo Na English u dey speak o...u said worse things about tinibu before, now u are working for him...so we know u are trying to keep ur job. Na hussler u be n we recognize it....for me I was sitting on the fence till Atiku spoke to my conscience...return fuel subsidy was all it took.

[Nelson @darealNelson]

Promise of fuel subsidy return don make me clean dust from my voter’s card sharp sharp. 😂

Dem warn us say make we no go back to Egypt, but as things stand now, na that same Egypt dey look like promised land.

Nigeria, how we take reach where yesterday’s suffering come dey look like tomorrow’s hope? 😭🇳🇬

[Nelson @darealNelson]

Promise of fuel subsidy return don make me clean dust from my voter’s card sharp sharp. 😂

Dem warn us say make we no go back to Egypt, but as things stand now, na that same Egypt dey look like promised land.

Nigeria, how we take reach where yesterday’s suffering come dey look like tomorrow’s hope? 😭🇳🇬

[Nelson @darealNelson]

Promise of fuel subsidy return don make me clean dust from my voter’s card sharp sharp. 😂

Dem warn us say make we nor go back to Egypt, but as things stand now, na that same Egypt dey look like promised land.

Nigeria, how we take reach where yesterday’s suffering come dey look like tomorrow’s hope? 😭🇳🇬

[High Chief Lawrence Igbins Okoro @HighChiefOkoro]

May God never forgive the person that gave Obi this idea.

[Nelson @darealNelson]

@renoomokri U go explain tire

[Nelson @darealNelson]

A Policy Proposal to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

Your Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,

The promise of a targeted fuel subsidy speaks directly to one of the greatest pressures Nigerian families face today. But petrol is only one part of the burden.

The Nigerian struggling to buy petrol is often the same Nigerian struggling to pay rent.

The mother paying more for transportation is the same mother standing in the market calculating which food items she must remove from her basket.

The farmer worried about fertiliser and diesel is also worried about whether he will return safely from his farm.

The young graduate looking for work is watching his purchasing power disappear before he has even earned his first salary.

And the civil servant whose salary enters his account at the end of the month often discovers that food, transportation, electricity, school fees and rent have already consumed it.

That is why the next national conversation should go beyond “Will fuel subsidy return?”

It should become:

“What will become cheaper, safer and better in the life of an ordinary Nigerian from the first day of a new administration?”

Fuel: Relief Must Be Targeted, Transparent and Sustainable

If a targeted fuel subsidy is introduced, Nigerians deserve to know precisely who benefits, how much it costs, where the money comes from and how corruption will be prevented.

Nigeria should never return to an arrangement where enormous public resources disappear through unverifiable consumption figures, smuggling, inflated claims or politically connected intermediaries.

A modern subsidy programme should therefore be transparent, digitally monitored, independently audited and accompanied by aggressive investment in domestic refining, public transportation, CNG, electricity and alternative energy.

The objective should not simply be cheap petrol forever.

The objective should be to reduce the cost of moving a Nigerian from his home to his workplace, moving a farmer's produce from the farm to the market and moving Nigerian goods across the country.

Food: No Nigerian Family Should Be Priced Out of Eating

Food security should be treated with the urgency of national security.

Nigeria cannot claim economic progress when parents routinely reduce portions, skip meals or withdraw children from school because feeding the household has become unaffordable.

A citizen-first government should secure farming communities, reopen abandoned farmlands, dismantle illegal checkpoints and extortion along food transportation routes, improve rural roads, support irrigation and storage facilities, expand affordable agricultural credit and ensure that fertiliser and improved seedlings reach genuine farmers rather than political middlemen.

Strategic food reserves should be rebuilt and managed transparently so that government can intervene during severe shortages without destroying the incentives of local farmers.

The promise should be simple:

A farmer must be able to farm safely.

A trader must be able to transport food affordably.

And a Nigerian family must be able to eat with dignity.

Housing and Rent: A Salary Should Not Disappear Into One Year's Rent

Government cannot honestly promise that every private landlord will reduce rent on inauguration day.

But government can attack the conditions that have made housing unaffordable.

Nigeria needs large-scale affordable housing, rent-to-own programmes, cheaper mortgages for ordinary workers, incentives for private developers building genuinely affordable homes and greater access to serviced land.

Housing finance institutions should be reformed so that mortgages are not products reserved mainly for wealthy Nigerians.

States should also be encouraged to modernise tenancy laws and explore systems that reduce the hardship created by demanding one or two years' rent upfront.

The long-term national ambition should be that a hardworking Nigerian should not spend most of his productive life paying rent without having a credible pathway to owning a home.

Security: Nigerians Must See a Difference From Day One

Economic policy cannot succeed where farmers are afraid of farms, travellers fear highways, communities fear kidnappers and businesses spend enormous amounts protecting themselves.

Security should therefore become an economic programme as much as a defence programme.

From the beginning of a new administration, Nigerians should see measurable security objectives for vulnerable highways, farming belts and kidnapping hotspots.

Intelligence agencies, police, military formations and state authorities must share actionable intelligence instead of operating as disconnected institutions.

Security commands should have measurable targets.

Resources should reach frontline personnel.

Technology should be deployed for surveillance and intelligence.

And commanders responsible for persistently failing security zones should be held accountable.

The objective should not be endless announcements after tragedies.

The objective should be fewer tragedies.

Government Must Also Sacrifice

Perhaps the most important message any Nigerian administration can give its citizens is this:

Government cannot continuously ask citizens to sacrifice while political leadership appears insulated from that sacrifice.

If Nigerians are being asked to endure difficult reforms, government expenditure must demonstrate restraint.

Wasteful expenditure should be cut.

Public procurement should become more transparent.

Large government projects should disclose costs.

Subsidy expenditure should be independently auditable.

Savings arising from reforms should be traceable to identifiable improvements in transportation, education, healthcare, housing, agriculture and social protection.

Citizens should be able to ask:

“You saved this amount. Where did you spend it?”

And government should be able to answer them with evidence.

The Standard Should Be the Nigerian Household

Nigeria has often measured economic success through GDP growth, foreign reserves, government revenue, exchange-rate movements and investor confidence.

Those indicators matter.

But they cannot be the final measurement of government.

The ultimate economic indicators should also include:

Can the Nigerian household afford food?

Can workers afford transportation?

Can a young family afford housing?

Can farmers reach their farms safely?

Can small businesses afford electricity?

Can graduates find productive work?

Can parents send their children to school?

Can citizens travel from one Nigerian city to another without fear of kidnapping?

Those are the statistics Nigerians experience before economists publish theirs.

A Government Should Be Judged by Outcomes

A serious administration should therefore publish measurable commitments for its first 100 days, first year and each subsequent year.

Not merely promises.

Targets.

Not merely speeches.

Results.

Not merely announcements of money released.

Evidence of what the money achieved.

A targeted subsidy may provide important immediate relief. But its greatest political and economic value will come when it forms part of a wider programme addressing transportation, food, housing, employment and security simultaneously.

Nigeria does not merely need cheaper petrol.

Nigeria needs a cheaper cost of living, safer communities, productive jobs and a government whose numbers eventually make sense in the kitchen, in the market, on the farm and inside the family budget.

That should be the covenant:

If government becomes richer, Nigerians must not become poorer.

If national revenue rises, household suffering must fall.

If sacrifices are demanded from citizens, sacrifices must begin with government.

And whenever government announces that the economy is improving, the Nigerian citizen should be able to look at his food, his rent, his transportation, his income and his security and say:

“Yes. I can feel it too.”

[Nelson @darealNelson]

A Policy Proposal to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

Your Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,

The promise of a targeted fuel subsidy speaks directly to one of the greatest pressures Nigerian families face today. But petrol is only one part of the burden.

The Nigerian struggling to buy petrol is often the same Nigerian struggling to pay rent.

The mother paying more for transportation is the same mother standing in the market calculating which food items she must remove from her basket.

The farmer worried about fertiliser and diesel is also worried about whether he will return safely from his farm.

The young graduate looking for work is watching his purchasing power disappear before he has even earned his first salary.

And the civil servant whose salary enters his account at the end of the month often discovers that food, transportation, electricity, school fees and rent have already consumed it.

That is why the next national conversation should go beyond “Will fuel subsidy return?”

It should become:

“What will become cheaper, safer and better in the life of an ordinary Nigerian from the first day of a new administration?”

Fuel: Relief Must Be Targeted, Transparent and Sustainable

If a targeted fuel subsidy is introduced, Nigerians deserve to know precisely who benefits, how much it costs, where the money comes from and how corruption will be prevented.

Nigeria should never return to an arrangement where enormous public resources disappear through unverifiable consumption figures, smuggling, inflated claims or politically connected intermediaries.

A modern subsidy programme should therefore be transparent, digitally monitored, independently audited and accompanied by aggressive investment in domestic refining, public transportation, CNG, electricity and alternative energy.

The objective should not simply be cheap petrol forever.

The objective should be to reduce the cost of moving a Nigerian from his home to his workplace, moving a farmer's produce from the farm to the market and moving Nigerian goods across the country.

Food: No Nigerian Family Should Be Priced Out of Eating

Food security should be treated with the urgency of national security.

Nigeria cannot claim economic progress when parents routinely reduce portions, skip meals or withdraw children from school because feeding the household has become unaffordable.

A citizen-first government should secure farming communities, reopen abandoned farmlands, dismantle illegal checkpoints and extortion along food transportation routes, improve rural roads, support irrigation and storage facilities, expand affordable agricultural credit and ensure that fertiliser and improved seedlings reach genuine farmers rather than political middlemen.

Strategic food reserves should be rebuilt and managed transparently so that government can intervene during severe shortages without destroying the incentives of local farmers.

The promise should be simple:

A farmer must be able to farm safely.

A trader must be able to transport food affordably.

And a Nigerian family must be able to eat with dignity.

Housing and Rent: A Salary Should Not Disappear Into One Year's Rent

Government cannot honestly promise that every private landlord will reduce rent on inauguration day.

But government can attack the conditions that have made housing unaffordable.

Nigeria needs large-scale affordable housing, rent-to-own programmes, cheaper mortgages for ordinary workers, incentives for private developers building genuinely affordable homes and greater access to serviced land.

Housing finance institutions should be reformed so that mortgages are not products reserved mainly for wealthy Nigerians.

States should also be encouraged to modernise tenancy laws and explore systems that reduce the hardship created by demanding one or two years' rent upfront.

The long-term national ambition should be that a hardworking Nigerian should not spend most of his productive life paying rent without having a credible pathway to owning a home.

Security: Nigerians Must See a Difference From Day One

Economic policy cannot succeed where farmers are afraid of farms, travellers fear highways, communities fear kidnappers and businesses spend enormous amounts protecting themselves.

Security should therefore become an economic programme as much as a defence programme.

From the beginning of a new administration, Nigerians should see measurable security objectives for vulnerable highways, farming belts and kidnapping hotspots.

Intelligence agencies, police, military formations and state authorities must share actionable intelligence instead of operating as disconnected institutions.

Security commands should have measurable targets.

Resources should reach frontline personnel.

Technology should be deployed for surveillance and intelligence.

And commanders responsible for persistently failing security zones should be held accountable.

The objective should not be endless announcements after tragedies.

The objective should be fewer tragedies.

Government Must Also Sacrifice

Perhaps the most important message any Nigerian administration can give its citizens is this:

Government cannot continuously ask citizens to sacrifice while political leadership appears insulated from that sacrifice.

If Nigerians are being asked to endure difficult reforms, government expenditure must demonstrate restraint.

Wasteful expenditure should be cut.

Public procurement should become more transparent.

Large government projects should disclose costs.

Subsidy expenditure should be independently auditable.

Savings arising from reforms should be traceable to identifiable improvements in transportation, education, healthcare, housing, agriculture and social protection.

Citizens should be able to ask:

“You saved this amount. Where did you spend it?”

And government should be able to answer them with evidence.

The Standard Should Be the Nigerian Household

Nigeria has often measured economic success through GDP growth, foreign reserves, government revenue, exchange-rate movements and investor confidence.

Those indicators matter.

But they cannot be the final measurement of government.

The ultimate economic indicators should also include:

Can the Nigerian household afford food?

Can workers afford transportation?

Can a young family afford housing?

Can farmers reach their farms safely?

Can small businesses afford electricity?

Can graduates find productive work?

Can parents send their children to school?

Can citizens travel from one Nigerian city to another without fear of kidnapping?

Those are the statistics Nigerians experience before economists publish theirs.

A Government Should Be Judged by Outcomes

A serious administration should therefore publish measurable commitments for its first 100 days, first year and each subsequent year.

Not merely promises.

Targets.

Not merely speeches.

Results.

Not merely announcements of money released.

Evidence of what the money achieved.

A targeted subsidy may provide important immediate relief. But its greatest political and economic value will come when it forms part of a wider programme addressing transportation, food, housing, employment and security simultaneously.

Nigeria does not merely need cheaper petrol.

Nigeria needs a cheaper cost of living, safer communities, productive jobs and a government whose numbers eventually make sense in the kitchen, in the market, on the farm and inside the family budget.

That should be the covenant:

If government becomes richer, Nigerians must not become poorer.

If national revenue rises, household suffering must fall.

If sacrifices are demanded from citizens, sacrifices must begin with government.

And whenever government announces that the economy is improving, the Nigerian citizen should be able to look at his food, his rent, his transportation, his income and his security and say:

“Yes. I can feel it too.”

[Nelson @darealNelson]

A Policy Proposal to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

Your Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,

The promise of a targeted fuel subsidy speaks directly to one of the greatest pressures Nigerian families face today. But petrol is only one part of the burden.

The Nigerian struggling to buy petrol is often the same Nigerian struggling to pay rent.

The mother paying more for transportation is the same mother standing in the market calculating which food items she must remove from her basket.

The farmer worried about fertiliser and diesel is also worried about whether he will return safely from his farm.

The young graduate looking for work is watching his purchasing power disappear before he has even earned his first salary.

And the civil servant whose salary enters his account at the end of the month often discovers that food, transportation, electricity, school fees and rent have already consumed it.

That is why the next national conversation should go beyond “Will fuel subsidy return?”

It should become:

“What will become cheaper, safer and better in the life of an ordinary Nigerian from the first day of a new administration?”

Fuel: Relief Must Be Targeted, Transparent and Sustainable

If a targeted fuel subsidy is introduced, Nigerians deserve to know precisely who benefits, how much it costs, where the money comes from and how corruption will be prevented.

Nigeria should never return to an arrangement where enormous public resources disappear through unverifiable consumption figures, smuggling, inflated claims or politically connected intermediaries.

A modern subsidy programme should therefore be transparent, digitally monitored, independently audited and accompanied by aggressive investment in domestic refining, public transportation, CNG, electricity and alternative energy.

The objective should not simply be cheap petrol forever.

The objective should be to reduce the cost of moving a Nigerian from his home to his workplace, moving a farmer's produce from the farm to the market and moving Nigerian goods across the country.

Food: No Nigerian Family Should Be Priced Out of Eating

Food security should be treated with the urgency of national security.

Nigeria cannot claim economic progress when parents routinely reduce portions, skip meals or withdraw children from school because feeding the household has become unaffordable.

A citizen-first government should secure farming communities, reopen abandoned farmlands, dismantle illegal checkpoints and extortion along food transportation routes, improve rural roads, support irrigation and storage facilities, expand affordable agricultural credit and ensure that fertiliser and improved seedlings reach genuine farmers rather than political middlemen.

Strategic food reserves should be rebuilt and managed transparently so that government can intervene during severe shortages without destroying the incentives of local farmers.

The promise should be simple:

A farmer must be able to farm safely.

A trader must be able to transport food affordably.

And a Nigerian family must be able to eat with dignity.

Housing and Rent: A Salary Should Not Disappear Into One Year's Rent

Government cannot honestly promise that every private landlord will reduce rent on inauguration day.

But government can attack the conditions that have made housing unaffordable.

Nigeria needs large-scale affordable housing, rent-to-own programmes, cheaper mortgages for ordinary workers, incentives for private developers building genuinely affordable homes and greater access to serviced land.

Housing finance institutions should be reformed so that mortgages are not products reserved mainly for wealthy Nigerians.

States should also be encouraged to modernise tenancy laws and explore systems that reduce the hardship created by demanding one or two years' rent upfront.

The long-term national ambition should be that a hardworking Nigerian should not spend most of his productive life paying rent without having a credible pathway to owning a home.

Security: Nigerians Must See a Difference From Day One

Economic policy cannot succeed where farmers are afraid of farms, travellers fear highways, communities fear kidnappers and businesses spend enormous amounts protecting themselves.

Security should therefore become an economic programme as much as a defence programme.

From the beginning of a new administration, Nigerians should see measurable security objectives for vulnerable highways, farming belts and kidnapping hotspots.

Intelligence agencies, police, military formations and state authorities must share actionable intelligence instead of operating as disconnected institutions.

Security commands should have measurable targets.

Resources should reach frontline personnel.

Technology should be deployed for surveillance and intelligence.

And commanders responsible for persistently failing security zones should be held accountable.

The objective should not be endless announcements after tragedies.

The objective should be fewer tragedies.

Government Must Also Sacrifice

Perhaps the most important message any Nigerian administration can give its citizens is this:

Government cannot continuously ask citizens to sacrifice while political leadership appears insulated from that sacrifice.

If Nigerians are being asked to endure difficult reforms, government expenditure must demonstrate restraint.

Wasteful expenditure should be cut.

Public procurement should become more transparent.

Large government projects should disclose costs.

Subsidy expenditure should be independently auditable.

Savings arising from reforms should be traceable to identifiable improvements in transportation, education, healthcare, housing, agriculture and social protection.

Citizens should be able to ask:

“You saved this amount. Where did you spend it?”

And government should be able to answer them with evidence.

The Standard Should Be the Nigerian Household

Nigeria has often measured economic success through GDP growth, foreign reserves, government revenue, exchange-rate movements and investor confidence.

Those indicators matter.

But they cannot be the final measurement of government.

The ultimate economic indicators should also include:

Can the Nigerian household afford food?

Can workers afford transportation?

Can a young family afford housing?

Can farmers reach their farms safely?

Can small businesses afford electricity?

Can graduates find productive work?

Can parents send their children to school?

Can citizens travel from one Nigerian city to another without fear of kidnapping?

Those are the statistics Nigerians experience before economists publish theirs.

A Government Should Be Judged by Outcomes

A serious administration should therefore publish measurable commitments for its first 100 days, first year and each subsequent year.

Not merely promises.

Targets.

Not merely speeches.

Results.

Not merely announcements of money released.

Evidence of what the money achieved.

A targeted subsidy may provide important immediate relief. But its greatest political and economic value will come when it forms part of a wider programme addressing transportation, food, housing, employment and security simultaneously.

Nigeria does not merely need cheaper petrol.

Nigeria needs a cheaper cost of living, safer communities, productive jobs and a government whose numbers eventually make sense in the kitchen, in the market, on the farm and inside the family budget.

That should be the covenant:

If government becomes richer, Nigerians must not become poorer.

If national revenue rises, household suffering must fall.

If sacrifices are demanded from citizens, sacrifices must begin with government.

And whenever government announces that the economy is improving, the Nigerian citizen should be able to look at his food, his rent, his transportation, his income and his security and say:

“Yes. I can feel it too.”

[Nelson @darealNelson]

A Policy Proposal to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

Your Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,

The promise of a targeted fuel subsidy speaks directly to one of the greatest pressures Nigerian families face today. But petrol is only one part of the burden.

The Nigerian struggling to buy petrol is often the same Nigerian struggling to pay rent.

The mother paying more for transportation is the same mother standing in the market calculating which food items she must remove from her basket.

The farmer worried about fertiliser and diesel is also worried about whether he will return safely from his farm.

The young graduate looking for work is watching his purchasing power disappear before he has even earned his first salary.

And the civil servant whose salary enters his account at the end of the month often discovers that food, transportation, electricity, school fees and rent have already consumed it.

That is why the next national conversation should go beyond “Will fuel subsidy return?”

It should become:

“What will become cheaper, safer and better in the life of an ordinary Nigerian from the first day of a new administration?”

Fuel: Relief Must Be Targeted, Transparent and Sustainable

If a targeted fuel subsidy is introduced, Nigerians deserve to know precisely who benefits, how much it costs, where the money comes from and how corruption will be prevented.

Nigeria should never return to an arrangement where enormous public resources disappear through unverifiable consumption figures, smuggling, inflated claims or politically connected intermediaries.

A modern subsidy programme should therefore be transparent, digitally monitored, independently audited and accompanied by aggressive investment in domestic refining, public transportation, CNG, electricity and alternative energy.

The objective should not simply be cheap petrol forever.

The objective should be to reduce the cost of moving a Nigerian from his home to his workplace, moving a farmer's produce from the farm to the market and moving Nigerian goods across the country.

Food: No Nigerian Family Should Be Priced Out of Eating

Food security should be treated with the urgency of national security.

Nigeria cannot claim economic progress when parents routinely reduce portions, skip meals or withdraw children from school because feeding the household has become unaffordable.

A citizen-first government should secure farming communities, reopen abandoned farmlands, dismantle illegal checkpoints and extortion along food transportation routes, improve rural roads, support irrigation and storage facilities, expand affordable agricultural credit and ensure that fertiliser and improved seedlings reach genuine farmers rather than political middlemen.

Strategic food reserves should be rebuilt and managed transparently so that government can intervene during severe shortages without destroying the incentives of local farmers.

The promise should be simple:

A farmer must be able to farm safely.

A trader must be able to transport food affordably.

And a Nigerian family must be able to eat with dignity.

Housing and Rent: A Salary Should Not Disappear Into One Year's Rent

Government cannot honestly promise that every private landlord will reduce rent on inauguration day.

But government can attack the conditions that have made housing unaffordable.

Nigeria needs large-scale affordable housing, rent-to-own programmes, cheaper mortgages for ordinary workers, incentives for private developers building genuinely affordable homes and greater access to serviced land.

Housing finance institutions should be reformed so that mortgages are not products reserved mainly for wealthy Nigerians.

States should also be encouraged to modernise tenancy laws and explore systems that reduce the hardship created by demanding one or two years' rent upfront.

The long-term national ambition should be that a hardworking Nigerian should not spend most of his productive life paying rent without having a credible pathway to owning a home.

Security: Nigerians Must See a Difference From Day One

Economic policy cannot succeed where farmers are afraid of farms, travellers fear highways, communities fear kidnappers and businesses spend enormous amounts protecting themselves.

Security should therefore become an economic programme as much as a defence programme.

From the beginning of a new administration, Nigerians should see measurable security objectives for vulnerable highways, farming belts and kidnapping hotspots.

Intelligence agencies, police, military formations and state authorities must share actionable intelligence instead of operating as disconnected institutions.

Security commands should have measurable targets.

Resources should reach frontline personnel.

Technology should be deployed for surveillance and intelligence.

And commanders responsible for persistently failing security zones should be held accountable.

The objective should not be endless announcements after tragedies.

The objective should be fewer tragedies.

Government Must Also Sacrifice

Perhaps the most important message any Nigerian administration can give its citizens is this:

Government cannot continuously ask citizens to sacrifice while political leadership appears insulated from that sacrifice.

If Nigerians are being asked to endure difficult reforms, government expenditure must demonstrate restraint.

Wasteful expenditure should be cut.

Public procurement should become more transparent.

Large government projects should disclose costs.

Subsidy expenditure should be independently auditable.

Savings arising from reforms should be traceable to identifiable improvements in transportation, education, healthcare, housing, agriculture and social protection.

Citizens should be able to ask:

“You saved this amount. Where did you spend it?”

And government should be able to answer them with evidence.

The Standard Should Be the Nigerian Household

Nigeria has often measured economic success through GDP growth, foreign reserves, government revenue, exchange-rate movements and investor confidence.

Those indicators matter.

But they cannot be the final measurement of government.

The ultimate economic indicators should also include:

Can the Nigerian household afford food?

Can workers afford transportation?

Can a young family afford housing?

Can farmers reach their farms safely?

Can small businesses afford electricity?

Can graduates find productive work?

Can parents send their children to school?

Can citizens travel from one Nigerian city to another without fear of kidnapping?

Those are the statistics Nigerians experience before economists publish theirs.

A Government Should Be Judged by Outcomes

A serious administration should therefore publish measurable commitments for its first 100 days, first year and each subsequent year.

Not merely promises.

Targets.

Not merely speeches.

Results.

Not merely announcements of money released.

Evidence of what the money achieved.

A targeted subsidy may provide important immediate relief. But its greatest political and economic value will come when it forms part of a wider programme addressing transportation, food, housing, employment and security simultaneously.

Nigeria does not merely need cheaper petrol.

Nigeria needs a cheaper cost of living, safer communities, productive jobs and a government whose numbers eventually make sense in the kitchen, in the market, on the farm and inside the family budget.

That should be the covenant:

If government becomes richer, Nigerians must not become poorer.

If national revenue rises, household suffering must fall.

If sacrifices are demanded from citizens, sacrifices must begin with government.

And whenever government announces that the economy is improving, the Nigerian citizen should be able to look at his food, his rent, his transportation, his income and his security and say:

“Yes. I can feel it too.”

[Nelson @darealNelson]

A Policy Proposal to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

Your Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,

The promise of a targeted fuel subsidy speaks directly to one of the greatest pressures Nigerian families face today. But petrol is only one part of the burden.

The Nigerian struggling to buy petrol is often the same Nigerian struggling to pay rent.

The mother paying more for transportation is the same mother standing in the market calculating which food items she must remove from her basket.

The farmer worried about fertiliser and diesel is also worried about whether he will return safely from his farm.

The young graduate looking for work is watching his purchasing power disappear before he has even earned his first salary.

And the civil servant whose salary enters his account at the end of the month often discovers that food, transportation, electricity, school fees and rent have already consumed it.

That is why the next national conversation should go beyond “Will fuel subsidy return?”

It should become:

“What will become cheaper, safer and better in the life of an ordinary Nigerian from the first day of a new administration?”

Fuel: Relief Must Be Targeted, Transparent and Sustainable

If a targeted fuel subsidy is introduced, Nigerians deserve to know precisely who benefits, how much it costs, where the money comes from and how corruption will be prevented.

Nigeria should never return to an arrangement where enormous public resources disappear through unverifiable consumption figures, smuggling, inflated claims or politically connected intermediaries.

A modern subsidy programme should therefore be transparent, digitally monitored, independently audited and accompanied by aggressive investment in domestic refining, public transportation, CNG, electricity and alternative energy.

The objective should not simply be cheap petrol forever.

The objective should be to reduce the cost of moving a Nigerian from his home to his workplace, moving a farmer's produce from the farm to the market and moving Nigerian goods across the country.

Food: No Nigerian Family Should Be Priced Out of Eating

Food security should be treated with the urgency of national security.

Nigeria cannot claim economic progress when parents routinely reduce portions, skip meals or withdraw children from school because feeding the household has become unaffordable.

A citizen-first government should secure farming communities, reopen abandoned farmlands, dismantle illegal checkpoints and extortion along food transportation routes, improve rural roads, support irrigation and storage facilities, expand affordable agricultural credit and ensure that fertiliser and improved seedlings reach genuine farmers rather than political middlemen.

Strategic food reserves should be rebuilt and managed transparently so that government can intervene during severe shortages without destroying the incentives of local farmers.

The promise should be simple:

A farmer must be able to farm safely.

A trader must be able to transport food affordably.

And a Nigerian family must be able to eat with dignity.

Housing and Rent: A Salary Should Not Disappear Into One Year's Rent

Government cannot honestly promise that every private landlord will reduce rent on inauguration day.

But government can attack the conditions that have made housing unaffordable.

Nigeria needs large-scale affordable housing, rent-to-own programmes, cheaper mortgages for ordinary workers, incentives for private developers building genuinely affordable homes and greater access to serviced land.

Housing finance institutions should be reformed so that mortgages are not products reserved mainly for wealthy Nigerians.

States should also be encouraged to modernise tenancy laws and explore systems that reduce the hardship created by demanding one or two years' rent upfront.

The long-term national ambition should be that a hardworking Nigerian should not spend most of his productive life paying rent without having a credible pathway to owning a home.

Security: Nigerians Must See a Difference From Day One

Economic policy cannot succeed where farmers are afraid of farms, travellers fear highways, communities fear kidnappers and businesses spend enormous amounts protecting themselves.

Security should therefore become an economic programme as much as a defence programme.

From the beginning of a new administration, Nigerians should see measurable security objectives for vulnerable highways, farming belts and kidnapping hotspots.

Intelligence agencies, police, military formations and state authorities must share actionable intelligence instead of operating as disconnected institutions.

Security commands should have measurable targets.

Resources should reach frontline personnel.

Technology should be deployed for surveillance and intelligence.

And commanders responsible for persistently failing security zones should be held accountable.

The objective should not be endless announcements after tragedies.

The objective should be fewer tragedies.

Government Must Also Sacrifice

Perhaps the most important message any Nigerian administration can give its citizens is this:

Government cannot continuously ask citizens to sacrifice while political leadership appears insulated from that sacrifice.

If Nigerians are being asked to endure difficult reforms, government expenditure must demonstrate restraint.

Wasteful expenditure should be cut.

Public procurement should become more transparent.

Large government projects should disclose costs.

Subsidy expenditure should be independently auditable.

Savings arising from reforms should be traceable to identifiable improvements in transportation, education, healthcare, housing, agriculture and social protection.

Citizens should be able to ask:

“You saved this amount. Where did you spend it?”

And government should be able to answer them with evidence.

The Standard Should Be the Nigerian Household

Nigeria has often measured economic success through GDP growth, foreign reserves, government revenue, exchange-rate movements and investor confidence.

Those indicators matter.

But they cannot be the final measurement of government.

The ultimate economic indicators should also include:

Can the Nigerian household afford food?

Can workers afford transportation?

Can a young family afford housing?

Can farmers reach their farms safely?

Can small businesses afford electricity?

Can graduates find productive work?

Can parents send their children to school?

Can citizens travel from one Nigerian city to another without fear of kidnapping?

Those are the statistics Nigerians experience before economists publish theirs.

A Government Should Be Judged by Outcomes

A serious administration should therefore publish measurable commitments for its first 100 days, first year and each subsequent year.

Not merely promises.

Targets.

Not merely speeches.

Results.

Not merely announcements of money released.

Evidence of what the money achieved.

A targeted subsidy may provide important immediate relief. But its greatest political and economic value will come when it forms part of a wider programme addressing transportation, food, housing, employment and security simultaneously.

Nigeria does not merely need cheaper petrol.

Nigeria needs a cheaper cost of living, safer communities, productive jobs and a government whose numbers eventually make sense in the kitchen, in the market, on the farm and inside the family budget.

That should be the covenant:

If government becomes richer, Nigerians must not become poorer.

If national revenue rises, household suffering must fall.

If sacrifices are demanded from citizens, sacrifices must begin with government.

And whenever government announces that the economy is improving, the Nigerian citizen should be able to look at his food, his rent, his transportation, his income and his security and say:

“Yes. I can feel it too.”

[Nelson @darealNelson]

A Policy Proposal to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

Your Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,

The promise of a targeted fuel subsidy speaks directly to one of the greatest pressures Nigerian families face today. But petrol is only one part of the burden.

The Nigerian struggling to buy petrol is often the same Nigerian struggling to pay rent.

The mother paying more for transportation is the same mother standing in the market calculating which food items she must remove from her basket.

The farmer worried about fertiliser and diesel is also worried about whether he will return safely from his farm.

The young graduate looking for work is watching his purchasing power disappear before he has even earned his first salary.

And the civil servant whose salary enters his account at the end of the month often discovers that food, transportation, electricity, school fees and rent have already consumed it.

That is why the next national conversation should go beyond “Will fuel subsidy return?”

It should become:

“What will become cheaper, safer and better in the life of an ordinary Nigerian from the first day of a new administration?”

Fuel: Relief Must Be Targeted, Transparent and Sustainable

If a targeted fuel subsidy is introduced, Nigerians deserve to know precisely who benefits, how much it costs, where the money comes from and how corruption will be prevented.

Nigeria should never return to an arrangement where enormous public resources disappear through unverifiable consumption figures, smuggling, inflated claims or politically connected intermediaries.

A modern subsidy programme should therefore be transparent, digitally monitored, independently audited and accompanied by aggressive investment in domestic refining, public transportation, CNG, electricity and alternative energy.

The objective should not simply be cheap petrol forever.

The objective should be to reduce the cost of moving a Nigerian from his home to his workplace, moving a farmer's produce from the farm to the market and moving Nigerian goods across the country.

Food: No Nigerian Family Should Be Priced Out of Eating

Food security should be treated with the urgency of national security.

Nigeria cannot claim economic progress when parents routinely reduce portions, skip meals or withdraw children from school because feeding the household has become unaffordable.

A citizen-first government should secure farming communities, reopen abandoned farmlands, dismantle illegal checkpoints and extortion along food transportation routes, improve rural roads, support irrigation and storage facilities, expand affordable agricultural credit and ensure that fertiliser and improved seedlings reach genuine farmers rather than political middlemen.

Strategic food reserves should be rebuilt and managed transparently so that government can intervene during severe shortages without destroying the incentives of local farmers.

The promise should be simple:

A farmer must be able to farm safely.

A trader must be able to transport food affordably.

And a Nigerian family must be able to eat with dignity.

Housing and Rent: A Salary Should Not Disappear Into One Year's Rent

Government cannot honestly promise that every private landlord will reduce rent on inauguration day.

But government can attack the conditions that have made housing unaffordable.

Nigeria needs large-scale affordable housing, rent-to-own programmes, cheaper mortgages for ordinary workers, incentives for private developers building genuinely affordable homes and greater access to serviced land.

Housing finance institutions should be reformed so that mortgages are not products reserved mainly for wealthy Nigerians.

States should also be encouraged to modernise tenancy laws and explore systems that reduce the hardship created by demanding one or two years' rent upfront.

The long-term national ambition should be that a hardworking Nigerian should not spend most of his productive life paying rent without having a credible pathway to owning a home.

Security: Nigerians Must See a Difference From Day One

Economic policy cannot succeed where farmers are afraid of farms, travellers fear highways, communities fear kidnappers and businesses spend enormous amounts protecting themselves.

Security should therefore become an economic programme as much as a defence programme.

From the beginning of a new administration, Nigerians should see measurable security objectives for vulnerable highways, farming belts and kidnapping hotspots.

Intelligence agencies, police, military formations and state authorities must share actionable intelligence instead of operating as disconnected institutions.

Security commands should have measurable targets.

Resources should reach frontline personnel.

Technology should be deployed for surveillance and intelligence.

And commanders responsible for persistently failing security zones should be held accountable.

The objective should not be endless announcements after tragedies.

The objective should be fewer tragedies.

Government Must Also Sacrifice

Perhaps the most important message any Nigerian administration can give its citizens is this:

Government cannot continuously ask citizens to sacrifice while political leadership appears insulated from that sacrifice.

If Nigerians are being asked to endure difficult reforms, government expenditure must demonstrate restraint.

Wasteful expenditure should be cut.

Public procurement should become more transparent.

Large government projects should disclose costs.

Subsidy expenditure should be independently auditable.

Savings arising from reforms should be traceable to identifiable improvements in transportation, education, healthcare, housing, agriculture and social protection.

Citizens should be able to ask:

“You saved this amount. Where did you spend it?”

And government should be able to answer them with evidence.

The Standard Should Be the Nigerian Household

Nigeria has often measured economic success through GDP growth, foreign reserves, government revenue, exchange-rate movements and investor confidence.

Those indicators matter.

But they cannot be the final measurement of government.

The ultimate economic indicators should also include:

Can the Nigerian household afford food?

Can workers afford transportation?

Can a young family afford housing?

Can farmers reach their farms safely?

Can small businesses afford electricity?

Can graduates find productive work?

Can parents send their children to school?

Can citizens travel from one Nigerian city to another without fear of kidnapping?

Those are the statistics Nigerians experience before economists publish theirs.

A Government Should Be Judged by Outcomes

A serious administration should therefore publish measurable commitments for its first 100 days, first year and each subsequent year.

Not merely promises.

Targets.

Not merely speeches.

Results.

Not merely announcements of money released.

Evidence of what the money achieved.

A targeted subsidy may provide important immediate relief. But its greatest political and economic value will come when it forms part of a wider programme addressing transportation, food, housing, employment and security simultaneously.

Nigeria does not merely need cheaper petrol.

Nigeria needs a cheaper cost of living, safer communities, productive jobs and a government whose numbers eventually make sense in the kitchen, in the market, on the farm and inside the family budget.

That should be the covenant:

If government becomes richer, Nigerians must not become poorer.

If national revenue rises, household suffering must fall.

If sacrifices are demanded from citizens, sacrifices must begin with government.

And whenever government announces that the economy is improving, the Nigerian citizen should be able to look at his food, his rent, his transportation, his income and his security and say:

“Yes. I can feel it too.”

[Nelson @darealNelson]

A Policy Proposal to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

Your Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,

The promise of a targeted fuel subsidy speaks directly to one of the greatest pressures Nigerian families face today. But petrol is only one part of the burden.

The Nigerian struggling to buy petrol is often the same Nigerian struggling to pay rent.

The mother paying more for transportation is the same mother standing in the market calculating which food items she must remove from her basket.

The farmer worried about fertiliser and diesel is also worried about whether he will return safely from his farm.

The young graduate looking for work is watching his purchasing power disappear before he has even earned his first salary.

And the civil servant whose salary enters his account at the end of the month often discovers that food, transportation, electricity, school fees and rent have already consumed it.

That is why the next national conversation should go beyond “Will fuel subsidy return?”

It should become:

“What will become cheaper, safer and better in the life of an ordinary Nigerian from the first day of a new administration?”

Fuel: Relief Must Be Targeted, Transparent and Sustainable

If a targeted fuel subsidy is introduced, Nigerians deserve to know precisely who benefits, how much it costs, where the money comes from and how corruption will be prevented.

Nigeria should never return to an arrangement where enormous public resources disappear through unverifiable consumption figures, smuggling, inflated claims or politically connected intermediaries.

A modern subsidy programme should therefore be transparent, digitally monitored, independently audited and accompanied by aggressive investment in domestic refining, public transportation, CNG, electricity and alternative energy.

The objective should not simply be cheap petrol forever.

The objective should be to reduce the cost of moving a Nigerian from his home to his workplace, moving a farmer's produce from the farm to the market and moving Nigerian goods across the country.

Food: No Nigerian Family Should Be Priced Out of Eating

Food security should be treated with the urgency of national security.

Nigeria cannot claim economic progress when parents routinely reduce portions, skip meals or withdraw children from school because feeding the household has become unaffordable.

A citizen-first government should secure farming communities, reopen abandoned farmlands, dismantle illegal checkpoints and extortion along food transportation routes, improve rural roads, support irrigation and storage facilities, expand affordable agricultural credit and ensure that fertiliser and improved seedlings reach genuine farmers rather than political middlemen.

Strategic food reserves should be rebuilt and managed transparently so that government can intervene during severe shortages without destroying the incentives of local farmers.

The promise should be simple:

A farmer must be able to farm safely.

A trader must be able to transport food affordably.

And a Nigerian family must be able to eat with dignity.

Housing and Rent: A Salary Should Not Disappear Into One Year's Rent

Government cannot honestly promise that every private landlord will reduce rent on inauguration day.

But government can attack the conditions that have made housing unaffordable.

Nigeria needs large-scale affordable housing, rent-to-own programmes, cheaper mortgages for ordinary workers, incentives for private developers building genuinely affordable homes and greater access to serviced land.

Housing finance institutions should be reformed so that mortgages are not products reserved mainly for wealthy Nigerians.

States should also be encouraged to modernise tenancy laws and explore systems that reduce the hardship created by demanding one or two years' rent upfront.

The long-term national ambition should be that a hardworking Nigerian should not spend most of his productive life paying rent without having a credible pathway to owning a home.

Security: Nigerians Must See a Difference From Day One

Economic policy cannot succeed where farmers are afraid of farms, travellers fear highways, communities fear kidnappers and businesses spend enormous amounts protecting themselves.

Security should therefore become an economic programme as much as a defence programme.

From the beginning of a new administration, Nigerians should see measurable security objectives for vulnerable highways, farming belts and kidnapping hotspots.

Intelligence agencies, police, military formations and state authorities must share actionable intelligence instead of operating as disconnected institutions.

Security commands should have measurable targets.

Resources should reach frontline personnel.

Technology should be deployed for surveillance and intelligence.

And commanders responsible for persistently failing security zones should be held accountable.

The objective should not be endless announcements after tragedies.

The objective should be fewer tragedies.

Government Must Also Sacrifice

Perhaps the most important message any Nigerian administration can give its citizens is this:

Government cannot continuously ask citizens to sacrifice while political leadership appears insulated from that sacrifice.

If Nigerians are being asked to endure difficult reforms, government expenditure must demonstrate restraint.

Wasteful expenditure should be cut.

Public procurement should become more transparent.

Large government projects should disclose costs.

Subsidy expenditure should be independently auditable.

Savings arising from reforms should be traceable to identifiable improvements in transportation, education, healthcare, housing, agriculture and social protection.

Citizens should be able to ask:

“You saved this amount. Where did you spend it?”

And government should be able to answer them with evidence.

The Standard Should Be the Nigerian Household

Nigeria has often measured economic success through GDP growth, foreign reserves, government revenue, exchange-rate movements and investor confidence.

Those indicators matter.

But they cannot be the final measurement of government.

The ultimate economic indicators should also include:

Can the Nigerian household afford food?

Can workers afford transportation?

Can a young family afford housing?

Can farmers reach their farms safely?

Can small businesses afford electricity?

Can graduates find productive work?

Can parents send their children to school?

Can citizens travel from one Nigerian city to another without fear of kidnapping?

Those are the statistics Nigerians experience before economists publish theirs.

A Government Should Be Judged by Outcomes

A serious administration should therefore publish measurable commitments for its first 100 days, first year and each subsequent year.

Not merely promises.

Targets.

Not merely speeches.

Results.

Not merely announcements of money released.

Evidence of what the money achieved.

A targeted subsidy may provide important immediate relief. But its greatest political and economic value will come when it forms part of a wider programme addressing transportation, food, housing, employment and security simultaneously.

Nigeria does not merely need cheaper petrol.

Nigeria needs a cheaper cost of living, safer communities, productive jobs and a government whose numbers eventually make sense in the kitchen, in the market, on the farm and inside the family budget.

That should be the covenant:

If government becomes richer, Nigerians must not become poorer.

If national revenue rises, household suffering must fall.

If sacrifices are demanded from citizens, sacrifices must begin with government.

And whenever government announces that the economy is improving, the Nigerian citizen should be able to look at his food, his rent, his transportation, his income and his security and say:

“Yes. I can feel it too.”