Deshina

[Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour @GRVlagos]

Your Excellency, unsurprisingly, this statement is an admission of failure, not a solution.

Lagosians do not need periodic emergency evacuations of mountains of refuse. What they need is a functional waste management system that prevents waste from accumulating in the first place.

For years, residents have endured overflowing dumps, uncollected refuse, blocked drainage channels, and worsening environmental conditions despite billions of naira allocated to environmental management.

The fact that you now have to “direct an immediate scale-up” after waste has already overwhelmed communities is an utter failure of leadership.

Indeed, Lagos generates over 13,000 tonnes of waste daily today, just as it did yesterday, last month, and last year. This is not a surprise. It is a known reality that should be planned for through efficient collection, waste sorting, recycling infrastructure, transfer stations, waste-to-energy investments, and transparent performance management of operators.

Like your commissioner, you cannot continue to shift responsibility to citizens to “bag their waste properly” when many communities are left without reliable and affordable waste collection services. Rightly, Citizens have a responsibility to dispose of waste properly, but government has an even greater responsibility to provide the infrastructure and systems that make proper disposal possible.

Lagos cannot continue operating reactive clean-up exercises and public relations statements whenever refuse piles become impossible to ignore.

Lagos deserves a modern, accountable, and sustainable waste management system: one that measures success not by the number of trucks deployed after a crisis, but by the absence of the crisis itself.

Again, Your Excellency, after seven years in office, why is Lagos still battling a problem that should have been solved through competent planning, execution, and oversight?

I guess the answer is obvious: if e didn’t dey, e didn’t dey.
#OURLAGOS

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

It is profoundly heartbreaking to witness another surge of xenophobic violence in #SouthAfrica this week. Hundreds have marched on Parliament, thousands of families have been displaced, and lives have been tragically cut short.

These include at least five Ethiopians killed earlier in the attacks, and five Mozambicans who died in Mossel Bay. Thousands more are now fleeing for their lives.

To see South Africa turn to xenophobia is a tragic betrayal of the country's struggle for independence and freedom. African nations stood united to dismantle apartheid. Ethiopia proudly supported "Madiba," Nelson Mandela, in 1962 and issued him a passport so he could travel the continent. Other countries helped in many ways, including with political and financial support.

Disagreements and grievances must be addressed by the justice system and the rule of law, never through vigilante violence and collective punishment.

South Africa deserves better. Africa deserves better.

Stop the hate. Protect the vulnerable. Uphold our shared humanity.

[Thuso van Zyl 🇿🇦 @Thuso1Africa]

In other countries the government deports illegals. In South Africa, hooligans, vigilante and xenophobic groups, beat, kill, extort and humiliate fellow Africans. This barbaric behaviour is evil and unacceptable

[Temi @_SuperPiz]

E reach Bola’s turn, the bulk has shifted.

[Hauwa 🌟🌬 @Hauwa_L]

That baby she’s carrying doesn’t even know what’s going on. Imagine getting kidnapped and you don’t even know.

Nigeria, man.

[Cinderella Man @Osi_Suave]

Chibok girls were made into a spectacle

Pictures of the girls were printed and strung around falomo roundabout.

Today over 40 kids taken, and theur teacher beheaded.

The govt who used the chibok incident as a rallying cry, is acting like the incident in Oyo didnt happen.

[TosTos backup @tosyadel]

Day 10 in captivity 💔

#rescueoriire school kids and teachers now.
🥹🥲🙏🏼💔

[MONKELE @_Taaooma]

Another set of killings and kidnappings in Kwara. The ones in Oyo are yet to be rescued.
A government that can’t protect its people is a failed government. This government is a failed one!

[Sky News @SkyNews]

An Israeli strike captured on camera has killed three paramedics in Lebanon. Just 12 hours earlier, four other medics were killed.

Sky's @AlexCrawfordSky reports

https://t.co/MTDOQ3T0vB

[LolA With The Duffle Bag... @L3galtool]

Children’s day ahead, but children are in the hands of terrorists.

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

It's over 9 days now. The parents of the abduct£d school children are still waiting for them to return home💔💔

[RIA OF IBADAN @RIAOFIBADAN]

The president of the Country is now keeping malice with Oyo State.

No direct communication or comments on the ugly incident in the state 1week 2days ago, No visit, Nothing.

Left Makinde to face it alone, Thank God the bandits have opened a channel for negotiations, Makinde will do the needful and get them out.

God please preserve the lives of these 45people inside the bush and give the soul of the slained teacher rest.

Please guys be careful out there your security is in your hand.

[Rinu Oduala 🔥🔫 @SavvyRinu]

These women and children are yet to be released.

Happy Saturday, Nigerians

[Oyíndà @yorubachic]

Any words for the family of the bereaved in Oyo State? For the kidnapped children?

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

There’s this bizarre tendency by Zionists to claim that a literal cabinet minister does not represent Israel’s government, while actions by random Palestinians define the entire Palestinian nation. Funny how that works

['Denike Danjuma @DeNiike_]

There's a 2 year old in kidnappers den. A 24 months old baby and the whole country is quiet. 😭

['Denike Danjuma @DeNiike_]

1. AbdulSamd Toyib 4 years Old
2. Christiana Akanbi 2 years old
3. Idowu Taiwo 4 years old

These were the kids that were kidnapped in the school. 💔

[SAMBO @_Abdulakeem_]

The kidnapped students and their teachers are going to spend another night in that forest again 💔💔💔💔💔

THIS IS THE SIXTH NIGHT 😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

Please Do something @oyostategovt @seyimakinde 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[Ayankola Ayanwuyi @kolaayanwuyi]

Schools in Ogbomoso, Oyo state were deserted this morning as students did not come to school. This applies to both public and private schools across the five local government areas in the zone.

[sc @sxdiqcarter_]

The reason why Government is not always under pressure to fix most of the things that happen here is cos Nigerians are non chalant about the calamities of others. After online outrage for like two days, we leave the victims to carry their crosses cos maybe we believe it can’t happen to us.

Last week, a senior surgeon was beaten by officers in a teaching hospital in uyo. No serious reactions from other medical practitioners across the week. This week , a teacher was beheaded, schools in other parts of the country are open, no form of serious protest. No statement from the governor of the state also 😂