Dubai has the most unrealistic standards for government services. I wanted to rent a car on Sunday, had the thought on Saturday night. I realized I need an Emirati license as I am a resident so have to convert my current one.
Started my application online, went to the 24/7 happiness centre that processes any government related issue. Got an eye test, waited 2 minutes, got the new license printed on the spot. Whole thing took 30 minutes. They even had a cafe in the centre and were walking around with a jug giving out arabic coffee. I love this place
1. The Obidient Movement is bigger than Peter Obi, and bigger than any individual supporter.
2. The value, influence and respect you command within the movement come largely from your association with its ideals and collective cause.
3. If you choose to work against Peter Obi, do not assume that the movement will continue to give you the same recognition.
4. Ask those who have left. The movement moved on like they never existed and nothing changed.
5. No individual is bigger than the movement.
@asemota In Warri, a section of the NPA-DSC expressway was designed/constructed with a depressed median (bioswale). It lasted for ages until a certain governor put up concrete median and then laminar flows during rainy season destroyed the road (David Ejoor Barracks gate section)
@AbdulMahmud01 This is a big fat lie
The elders usually between age 45 to 70 have always been the problem when it comes to voting based on sentiments, that demography has been the worst thing that has happened to this country when it comes to making electoral choices
Stop the gaslighting
Anytime I see Nigerians’ opinions on politics, I’m certain the country cannot survive. It’s a pity.
People who are tired of suffering don’t think the way many of you do.
They seek genuine solutions to their problems instead of deliberately muddling things up & self-sabotaging.
I can categorically say that the #PeterObi movement led by distraught and disenchanted Nigerian youths is a thousand times more national than the pro democracy of the 90s was.
I am referring to the pro democracy struggle that had Tinubu, Soyinka and other Southwest politicians and intellectuals as its leaders. To be honest, it was a Yoruba led affair, the narrative was that they were upset because Babangida and Abacha truncated their turn at the trough.
The 90s prodemocracy movement led by Yoruba intellectuals like Soyinka was in reality not a national initiative. I would know, I was one of the very few young Turks that did not have a Yoruba name. It did not matter to those of us non-Yoruba, it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. This was our struggle as Nigerians, and no matter how flawed MKO Abiola was (he sure was, read up on him) fair was fair, he deserved the seat he had won in perhaps the freest and fairest election in Nigeria’s history. M
But from the beginning, it was a tribal war. A flawed Yoruba chieftain had won the elections and he had been denied his victory by military thugs. That did not matter to us. I was the scribe of several organizations that were hurriedly set up to fight this injustice. Many people saw Soyinka and Abiola as flawed proxies for democracy - and they spoke up. It was definitely complicated but we stood by the pro democracy movement to the end.
Within that context, it is rich and incredibly disrespectful for Soyinka to dismiss the youth movement that rallied around Peter Obi as a tribal outfit.
Our Southwest intellectuals may be dishonest but they are right about one thing. We will need to devolve power to the regions or satellites. I was in the room when the late great Beko Kuti pulled out a map of Nigeria that had been divvied up into regions. It was a wake up call to me, a One Nigeria advocate.
Let me repeat myself: I have said this before: Southwest intellectuals are right about the need to devolve power to the regions. They are simply being dishonest about it. If Soyinka believes that merely allowing Tinubu at the trough is a win for the Yoruba, then he’s not that bright.
Soyinka is brilliant. If you have studied him, his first allegiance is to the Yoruba nation. Everything else is performative. It just that he and his army of Yoruba intellectuals have been too lazy to put in place structures that define and implement their vision. When Tinubu went to the Yoruba and said, E mi lokan, he was talking about himself, not the Yoruba people. When Soyinka used the term “gbajue” to refer to Peter Obi He knew exactly what he was doing. It was a tribal dog whistle to rubbish Peter Obi and put him and his millions of young Nigerians in their place. Shame on him and his fellow South West intellectuals. Nigeria will not end well, thanks to her intellectuals.
Let me repeat what i said years ago: GEJ was not ousted just because of his minority status. The Southwest intellectual elite traditionally have a lock on political agitation, when they turn on you, it’s relentless. They made a political calculation about a Yoruba presidency; GEJ wasn’t part of the equation.🤷🏾♀️
Most Southwest intellectuals loathe Nigeria as currently structured, preferring regions. They really don’t want to fight for it, instead looking for short cuts like hopping into bed with clueless cardboard cut-outs like Buhari, at the expense of the country. They won’t say it, preferring to gaslight you when you call them out on their intellectual dishonesty. This is the only analysis I can muster to explain their self-subjugation to the creatures in Aso Rock. Which is funny, many of us also believe in devolution of power away from the center. Restructuring is hard work, this democracy that Obasanjo started in 1999 is taking us away from their dream of Oduduwaland. They just don’t see it. Person wen dey chop nor dey see road.
Amotekun!
Yesterday, 28th September, after paying a courtesy call on His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, we had a very engaging Town Hall with the people of Sokoto. It was an opportunity to listen, answer questions, and speak honestly about the Nigeria we want to build together.
The questions were clear: unity, security, education, subsidy, healthcare, corruption, poverty, agriculture, power, infrastructure, ethnicity, and the future of our country.
Our message was equally clear: there will be no fake promises. We must unite the country and confront insecurity decisively, while also addressing human insecurity. We must fight poverty, unemployment, hunger, and hopelessness if we are to reduce criminality and create a safer society.
We discussed money politics and its devastating consequences. When poverty becomes the instrument through which politicians buy votes, citizens are trapped in a cycle where the same system that impoverishes them is repeatedly rewarded. We must break this cycle of bad leadership driven by transactional politics.
The work ahead is enormous. But with courage, competence, compassion, character, and the collective determination of Nigerians, we can begin to change the story.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Protecting Every Vote. Winning 2027. Together.
My fellow Nigerians at home and abroad,
Over the past months, wherever I go and in your many messages, two questions keep coming up: How will our votes be protected in 2027? And how will we win?
These are fair questions, and you deserve direct answers.
This Sunday, I will answer you directly, and more importantly, listen to you. I will join you for A New Nigeria Global Digital Townhall. We will speak plainly about protecting every vote and the path to victory.
But this is not only about speaking to you. It is about listening to you. I want to hear your concerns, your insights and your strategies. This movement has always been built by you, and your ideas will shape what we do next.
Sunday, October 4, 2026
7:00 PM WAT/GMT | 2 PM EST | 12 PM MST
Attendance is by registration: https://t.co/tBtGQWtcun
Let us continue this conversation together. A New Nigeria is POSSIBLE. -PO
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Since this year, I decided to be bullish on Nigeria.
I bought treasury bills and recently decided to invest in the NGX(since there is no reliable way to short it).
My brother, there is no liquidity at all. This is like trading shitcoins on Pancakeswap back in the day.
Is this a real stock exchange or a scam bikonu?
@Big_Mck Nigerians always assume that all our problems are separate from each other, but that is not true; all our problems are connected, from insecurity to a bad educational system to terrible telecom infrastructure. They're all connected and just one big problem! Just one!