@UtomiPat Prof, haba terrain differs, Lagos is flat with large areas below sea level,possibly the farm in Delta has a completely different form of topography that allows free flow of water, this your newly found style of politicking is not good.
For decades, the script was simple:
Africa drills the oil,
the West refines it,
and Africa buys it back at triple the price, with gratitude. Imagine that!
Now Dangote came with a 650,000-barrel-per-day “plot twist.”
-The first migraine hit when U.S. fuel export numbers started twitching. West Africa, that loyal customer, suddenly said, “No thanks, we’ll refine it at home.” Imagine selling umbrellas in a desert, that’s how America feels right now in the diesel market.
-Then came the second headache, the petrodollar sneeze. If Nigeria starts trading refined products in naira, yuan, or even “AfriPay,” that’s a direct jab at Uncle Sam’s global ATM. The dollar doesn’t like competition; it catches inflation fever when others sneeze independence.
-Third pain: The geopolitical thermometer just went up. Africa’s biggest refinery means fewer oil tankers from Texas, and more from Lagos to Lome, under African control. That’s not energy trade; that’s energy freedom. And freedom, apparently, is bad for business.
-Fourth dose: The U.S. isn’t happy seeing Nigeria shaking hands with China and India on refinery deals. It’s like watching your ex build a mansion with your rival. The refinery runs on Chinese funding and Indian technology, two things America used to monopolize.
-And finally, the fifth and deadliest headache, the symbolism.
Dangote didn’t just build a refinery; he built a mirror, showing Africa what it could’ve been decades ago if it stopped outsourcing its future.
Now Washington can’t just send “economic advisers” and “development loans” with fancy conditions anymore. Africa might soon say, “Thanks, but we’ve got this.”
So Dangote’s refinery isn’t just refining oil, it’s refining pride, power, and perspective.
And for the first time, the biggest gas leak in the room isn’t from Nigeria, it’s from America’s nerves.
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MAB✍️
May Nigeria Succeed
God bless Africa
God bless the black race
@MTNNG Are you telling me I used 25GB data in less than an hour on X and YouTube? Like I stated in my earlier tweet I have already DM your organization and after 48 hours the outcome of the investigation being carried out by MTN is yet to come out.
@kokomatic@KemPatriot Do not be deceived, they won't accept a job that pays 100k per month from anyone, and they don't like going on leave, they have a means of making money which is known to their managers
@HauwaAllahbura Hauwa you and wahala na 5&6 don't get yourself messed up over family quarrel, they'll sort themselves out, this is politics at play
Death should be where you stop punching, knowing your perceived adversary is out of the arena—his part done, left to be judged here by time and hereafter by God.
Your lifestyle, Charly Boy, is hardly favoured by the moral sensitivities of even your own people, yet that doesn’t nudge you to reflect, to understand, to be kind. And the most ridiculous part? This entire hate campaign stems from nothing more than his decision to exercise the liberty to differ with you politically—something well within the bounds of democracy.
You’ve become a gang of bullies and self-righteous dunces, yet you expect to attract strategic alliances. I hope you find a bigger mirror.
Today is Ash Wednesday, so I welcome all Christians of the orthodox churches to Lent. For the benefit of the pentecostals and anyone who is interested (fostering religious tolerance here), Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. Christians are made to face their mortality with the words that the Priests say to adherents: "Remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return" which is a reference to Genesis story of the creation of man from dust. Ash is then put on the foreheads of those who attend the Ash Wednesday service.
Lent is for 40 days and it is a period of fasting and/or denial of things that we may have made to become 'god' in our lives. The 40 days is in conformity to our Lord Jesus Christ's 40 days' fast in the wilderness leading to his temptation and the beginning of his public ministry. Please note that Christians do not do Christ's fast since it was a total abstinence for 40 days. Specifically Lent is for three things "Reflection, Repentance and Growth (spiritual). I shall talk more on these as Lent advances. Those who fast are drawn from the ages of 14-59. Those 60 and above are exempted, plus the sick or those under dietary constrictions such as diabetics. Fasting in the Christian orthodox churches if 6pm to 6pm (24 hours, one meal a day) or, usually for children and those unable to cope, from 6pm to 12 noon). Some denominations allow fasting by denial (No meat or other sustenance).
I urge all of us Nigerians to use our fast, as it coincides with our Muslim brethren's fast to truly reflect on our personal misdoings, mindsets of corruption and misdeeds in Nigeria and repent and then foster a better relationship with God leading to our growth spiritually and prayerfully, prophetically to a better Nigeria.
God bless us all and God bless our nation, Nigeria. Amen