How a fake presidential council ended up in Nigeria's national budget!
How did an organisation with government offices, civil servants and a line in Nigeria's national budget turn out to have no legal basis for existing? - BBC https://t.co/dWChxTlsYg
I can’t decide between congratulating them on this stupendous achievement in audacity or horrified at the fact that it happened inside the Nigerian President’s office
In any way - a new standard has been set in both brazen audacity & craven incompetence
https://t.co/lnesUuOrNF
Africa needs to fear a drastic drop in fertility just when its population looks like its booming!
“Three years ago, more than 200 children filled this rural school with noise and activity. Now there are only five pupils” - BBC https://t.co/JndXCkwv7Y
A Universal Truth
“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested.”
- Seneca 49AD
“…. in posts on X, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba said: "I DO NOT believe in a free press! The press should be guided by cadres of the revolution."” - @BBC https://t.co/GulXQGrLD2
The mad woman
Spits on the palms
Of his hands
And on his feet,
Squirts beer
On his face
To cool him,
Spills chicken blood
On his chest,
A gift to Death!
The child's mother
Smiles,
The diviner pleads
With dread malaria
Song of Ocol
- Okot P’Bitek
Residents in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, attacked an Ebola burial team, forcing responders to abandon a coffin and raising concerns about further transmission https://t.co/G8ydQi2kMR
British multinational Shell continued operating a major oil pipeline in Nigeria for years even though it knew it was causing widespread pollution- despite warning from its own staff & its own technical standards, internal documents obtained by the BBC show https://t.co/R0gkuWKktT
Meet Nigerian American Ikenna Okezie, the CEO and co-founder of Somatus, a $2.5 billion kidney care company transforming how America manages chronic kidney disease.
Raised in Detroit by a family of physicians, he majored in Economics at Yale before earning medical and business degrees from Harvard.
His company, Somatus, shifts kidney care from late-stage dialysis to early prevention. Using an AI platform called RenalIQ, it tracks patient health, offers virtual care, and partners with local physicians.
He found a flaw in the system and fixed it. Okezie has achieved something rare: a fortune built not on sickness, but on keeping people well.
Culled
Manufacturing success starts with volume growth & supply chain linkages. The low end manufacturing volumes & knowhow diffusion subsidizes the move to higher manufacturing value addition & precision. The profits of mass manufacturing finances the R&D & skills for high value growth
Vietnam’s manufacturing exports have soared to 90% of GDP.
But its manufacturing value added has not grown by much. Vietnam still does mostly low-value assembly while importing high-value components from China, Korea, Japan, etc.
Any nation seeking to develop through manufacturing needs to study Vietnam’s experience. Likely many jobs created, but moving up the value chain seems more limited.
Chart: https://t.co/mBtL9byvta
Nigeria's anti-corruption agency says it has arrested former Power Minister Saleh Mamman a week after he was sentenced to 75 years in jail on corruption charges. - BBC https://t.co/9DBPEciUeq
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Power is the deciding factor.
“it is not by speeches and majority resolutions that the great questions of the time are decided but by iron and blood”
Otto von Bismarck, 1862
Africa will only get that seat, when it can walk up to it, on its own 2 feet & sit without permission!
“It is indefensible and unconscionable that Africa, a continent of nearly 1.5B people, represented by 54 sovereign states, remains excluded from permanent representation on the (UN) Security Council…” - President Ruto
Japan is stepping up its Africa strategy, blending aid, trade and security.
Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu is pitching a “peace of mind” development model, as Tokyo looks to secure supply chains and deepen ties across the continent.
But behind this is a sharper play: critical minerals, logistics corridors and geopolitical positioning.
https://t.co/3wZduCZeod
WHAT HAVE WE JUST WITNESSED? 🤯
Sabastian Sawe has just become the first person in history to run a sub two-hour marathon in race conditions.
Yomif Kejelcha was also under two hours for second!
Gunmen have attacked Mali’s capital, Bamako, and several locations across the country, the army says, in an apparently coordinated assault involving multiple groups.
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