Workers Are the Backbone of Every Nation
On this Workers’ Day, I warmly salute workers across the world, especially Nigerian workers whose daily sacrifices continue to sustain our families, communities, institutions, and national economy, even in the face of severe hardship and uncertainty.
It is deeply painful that those who wake up every day to teach, heal, build, farm, produce, transport, protect, and serve our nation are still denied the dignity and fair reward their labour deserves. In today’s Nigeria, the minimum wage can no longer guarantee even the most modest standard of living, as inflation, rising food prices, transportation costs, and economic hardship continue to erode the value of honest work.
No nation can truly develop beyond the strength, productivity, and wellbeing of its workforce. The progress of any society rests on the quality of its human capital, the skill of its people, and the commitment of its workers. When workers suffer, the nation suffers. When workers are empowered, the nation prospers.
But beyond their labour, workers also possess another powerful tool, their voice and their vote. Through democratic participation, they have the power to shape governance and determine the future direction of the nation.
I therefore urge Nigerian workers to recognise the strength they hold collectively. They owe it to themselves, their children, and future generations to support and demand leadership built on competence, character, capacity, credibility, and compassion. By refusing to reward failure, corruption, ethnic division, and bad governance, they can help build a nation where hard work is respected and rewarded with dignity.
A productive nation must be built on justice, fairness, and respect for labour. That is the Nigeria we must work together to achieve.
With the support and participation of Nigerian workers, a New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
When Borrowing is Leprosy and cancerous.
Mr. President, borrowing is not only a leprosy, but a killer cancer when it is borrowed for consumption and not production as it is in Nigeria today.
Borrowing for consumption slowly eats away at the health, reputation, and autonomy of a nation. One of the major “leprosy” afflicting Nigeria today is not just debt, but debt without productivity. Debt that is not tied to measurable economic value. Debt that does not translate into jobs, growth, or improved living standards for the Nigerian people.
No serious economy borrows recklessly. Nations borrow with discipline, with purpose, and with a clear plan for repayment through productive investment.
Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007 provides that “Any government in the Federation or its agencies and corporations desirous of borrowing shall, specify the purpose for which the borrowing is intended and present a cost-benefit analysis, detailing the economic and social benefits of the purpose to which the intended borrowing is to be applied”
Cost-benefit analysis must show how the loan would be applied, how it will impact economic growth and improve the welfare of Nigerian citizens in measurable ways.
Most of the borrowings by this government do not satisfy the requirements of law or the requirements of economic common sense. The humongous borrowing so far does not show how the projects for the loans enhance the productive capacity of the nation and the welfare of Nigerian citizens.
These loans are also dangerous because they burden the capacity of the Nigerian state to improve the economy in the future, as we have one of the world’s highest debt servicing ratios. What matters is not debt-GDP as much as debt-debt servicing ratio because the latter constrains our capacity to finance the sectors that drive human development and economic growth.
If the money is wrongly spent as we do in Nigeria currently, it becomes double jeopardy because you are using current revenue to service debts that did not add to revenue or improve capacity for more production in the future.
A responsible government does not merely defend borrowing; it explains it, justifies it, and most importantly, ensures it works for the people.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
When Borrowing is Leprosy and cancerous.
Mr. President, borrowing is not only a leprosy, but a killer cancer when it is borrowed for consumption and not production as it is in Nigeria today.
Borrowing for consumption slowly eats away at the health, reputation, and autonomy of a nation. One of the major “leprosy” afflicting Nigeria today is not just debt, but debt without productivity. Debt that is not tied to measurable economic value. Debt that does not translate into jobs, growth, or improved living standards for the Nigerian people.
No serious economy borrows recklessly. Nations borrow with discipline, with purpose, and with a clear plan for repayment through productive investment.
Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007 provides that “Any government in the Federation or its agencies and corporations desirous of borrowing shall, specify the purpose for which the borrowing is intended and present a cost-benefit analysis, detailing the economic and social benefits of the purpose to which the intended borrowing is to be applied”
Cost-benefit analysis must show how the loan would be applied, how it will impact economic growth and improve the welfare of Nigerian citizens in measurable ways.
Most of the borrowings by this government do not satisfy the requirements of law or the requirements of economic common sense. The humongous borrowing so far does not show how the projects for the loans enhance the productive capacity of the nation and the welfare of Nigerian citizens.
These loans are also dangerous because they burden the capacity of the Nigerian state to improve the economy in the future, as we have one of the world’s highest debt servicing ratios. What matters is not debt-GDP as much as debt-debt servicing ratio because the latter constrains our capacity to finance the sectors that drive human development and economic growth.
If the money is wrongly spent as we do in Nigeria currently, it becomes double jeopardy because you are using current revenue to service debts that did not add to revenue or improve capacity for more production in the future.
A responsible government does not merely defend borrowing; it explains it, justifies it, and most importantly, ensures it works for the people.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
I love this picture. Whoever did it, tried. Intellectuals know context matters when discussing issues of politics and governance. It is either you are looking at life as half full or half empty. Progressives believe context matters, because you will be confronted with problems; No progress without process.
It is only @PeterObi and his Trojans that see everything as half empty; that is why they are disillusioned, disgruntled and confused. May your journey in life be half full rather than half empty; because half full depicts hope, while half empty depicts Obidients
When you do well, you will not have to sit to explain what you have done before the people can understand, the people themselves will help you explain the good things you have done because they are feeling the impact.
This is a coward’s position
There is no plan B
There shouldn’t be
We can’t continue to run away. They have destroyed democracy and are using the courts to destroy political parties
We cannot run away, it’s either ADC or a revolution
Chief Tinubu should choose 1
Enough is enough.
This is a coward’s position
There is no plan B
There shouldn’t be
We can’t continue to run away. They have destroyed democracy and are using the courts to destroy political parties
We cannot run away, it’s either ADC or a revolution
Chief Tinubu should choose 1
Enough is enough.
WHERE IS @Justice_Crack 🚨???
JUSTICE CRACK IS MISSING ‼️‼️‼️
@HQNigerianArmy is it a crime to ask you to feed your soldiers well???
What did he say in his video that’s a lie??
I’m so sick and tired of the country called Nigeria😭💔.
How Can A Father of Two Missing for almost 48hrs?? Pls help tag them all Nothing must happen to Justice Crack.
If I were to be a president and I know something like this, instead of pushing for my second term I will go after those people with everything necessary, but Tinubu as just told us his main focus is his second term.
My enemies want to use insecurity to get rid of me, but I am a very stubborn politician; I refuse to go and I will work hard for my second-term campaign — President Tinubu
This nation, for all its problems, its solution is in the hands of its people. Either by how we vote or by how we conduct the portion of it that is in our hands.
— Ibukun Awosika, Former Chairperson, First Bank
EFCC's Troubling Revelation on Our Students.
The worrisome statement by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that 6 out of every 10 Nigerian university students are involved in “419” is deeply troubling and must not be taken lightly.
Nigeria already has a very limited number of students in higher institutions, estimated at 2 to 2.5 million. If indeed about 60% of them, roughly 1.4 million young people, are involved in fraud, then we are not just facing a crime issue; we are confronting a serious moral and systemic failure.
The question we must ask ourselves is: what has brought us to this level? Who are the role models these students are looking up to?. What values are they learning from society?
We must understand that young people become what they consistently see. When a system appears to reward wrongdoing, when integrity is not upheld, and when those in leadership are associated with allegations of forgery and dishonesty without consequence, it sends a dangerous message.
It suggests that hard work does not matter, and that results, by any means, are acceptable. These points clearly point to a collapse of moral values.
As Socrates rightly said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Nigeria must now examine itself.
This is not about condemning our young people. It is about accepting that leadership sets the tone. If we do not demonstrate integrity at the top, we cannot expect it at the bottom.
We must urgently rebuild our value system, enforce accountability without bias, and create an environment where honesty, hard work, and discipline are rewarded. That is the only sustainable path to securing the future of our nation.
A new Nigeria is POssible! -PO
Nigerians The APC Chieftain Amupitan is still pretending to be your INEC Chairman, we Must Not be quiet, increase the Volume,
AMUPITAN MUST GO❗️
#AmupitanMustGO ❗️
IG of Police @TunjiDisu1 We need answers ooooh God forbid this atrocity is swept under the carpet❗️@PoliceNG
What were they trying to cover up?
Public execution of a citizen in broad daylight?
NO❗️
We Demand Justice❗️
#endpolicebrutalitynow