While your government threw 932 million into a fire, a university in the Philippines used less than that (700 million) to build a robotics lab.
This is what your country is taking from you
Israel-Based Covert Team Worked On Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Election
The 2015 Nigerian presidential election was a battleground for Western disinformation industry.
This investigation by Manisha Ganguly shows how a covert, Israel-based team—known as ‘Team Jorge’—was actively working to manipulate the outcome behind the scenes.
Using a sophisticated arsenal of over 30,000 automated bots, they orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to distort reality and influence voters.
This is another reminder that Africa is in an information war and we must interrogate every narrative especially when it's coming from the West.
Look at what the dude who spoke toward the end of this video said.
“So I am a Muslim, just like President Traoré. But as has been said, before being a Muslim, I belong first and foremost to a family. I belong to a community. I am a Samo, and that is a community in Burkina Faso. And we have our cultural practices. We also have our indigenous practices.”
Many Nigerian Muslims can learn from that.
Honouring Two Extraordinary Nigerians: Charly Boy and Newton Jibunoh
Yesterday, July 31, I attended the launch of 999: The Memoir of Charly Boy in Lagos.
Charly Boy is one of those people many may easily dismiss because of his appearance or the public persona he projects. But beyond that is Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, a thoughtful intellectual, a compassionate human being, and a patriot deeply committed to building a better society for all.
What particularly inspired me was the work he is doing through his foundation to promote men’s health. Having survived prostate cancer himself, he has chosen to transform his personal experience into a campaign for awareness, early detection, and improved access to treatment. Good health remains one of the most critical foundations of a productive and progressive society, and I am committed to supporting this noble cause.
Today, August 1st, I visited the newly established Newton Jibunoh Centre and Museum in Asaba, the brainchild of Newton Jibunoh. Although I was unable to attend his Mandela Day event, themed “Poverty and Inequality Are in Our Hands,” I considered it important to pay him a visit.
My dear Father, Newton Jibunoh, remains one of Nigeria’s living icons. He is a man whose stories, experiences, and wisdom can keep you listening for hours without fatigue. His remarkable road expeditions across the Sahara Desert to London, beginning in 1967 and repeated in 2000, 2008, and subsequent years, are enduring testimonies to courage, resilience, determination, and an adventurous spirit.
His extraordinary journeys also remind us of a period when travelling across Nigeria and beyond was far safer than it is today. Listening to him always leaves me reflecting on how much we have lost as a nation and how much work still lies ahead if we are to rebuild a secure, united, and prosperous Nigeria.
A New Nigeria is POssible! -PO
The people who are telling you that your poverty is caused by the fact that you are having sex and producing children are now openly wishing they had a higher birth rate than you, and are actively campaigning for it within their societies.
This is to tell you that they understand the importance of numbers.
So when you find yourself parroting empty talking points like, “we are just too many in this country,,” “how can you be having children when you don’t have money,” understand that you have been deceived into misdiagnosing your problems by Western propaganda.
You are not too many, and your birth rate is not why you are poor. You are poor because the people lecturing you are stealing your resources.
Rehabilitate Existing Infrastructure Before Embarking on New Projects
I have consistently advised governments at all levels to prioritise rehabilitating existing infrastructure before embarking on new projects that may also end up abandoned or left unfinished. For expressing this position, I have often been criticised and called all sorts of names. Yet, it remains the most responsible approach to governance.
It is therefore noteworthy that President Bola Tinubu has now cautioned state governors against committing scarce public resources to constructing unnecessary flyovers in areas with little traffic while neglecting more pressing developmental needs.
The President is, in essence, saying what I have always maintained: government must prioritise projects that directly address the immediate needs of the people. I hope those ministers, officials, and supporters who have consistently attacked this position will now direct the same criticism at him.
However, this admonition must also apply to the Federal Government. There are several unrealistic and white-elephant projects being pursued by the current administration, even as much of our critical infrastructure remains in a state of disrepair. Given our present fiscal realities, priority should be given to rehabilitating and completing existing infrastructure rather than embarking on expensive new projects with limited immediate impact.
Across Nigeria, many of our major highways linking commercial centres and food-producing communities have deteriorated into death traps. Neglecting these critical roads while pursuing prestige projects is neither economically prudent nor people-centred.
This philosophy guided my administration as Governor of Anambra State. I prioritised completing viable projects initiated by my predecessors before embarking on new ones. Government is a continuum, and development should never be measured by who starts a project, but by whether it is completed and serves the people.
Leadership is about making the right choices: fixing what is broken, completing what has already been started, and investing limited public resources where they will have the greatest impact on the greatest number of people.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO