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MBBS, MSc Public health and Health Promotion , @swanseauni alumnus. Advocate for peace n justice... lover of sports n music..#Arsenal #Halamadrid

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

This is alarming for more than one reason.
Yes, the economy is a factor. When people see no jobs, no safety net, and no real path out of poverty, some will turn public infrastructure into scrap just to eat. That desperation is real.
But it is not the only reason. Doing this in broad daylight, with people watching and no security response, shows something deeper: the sense that the state is absent, that public property belongs to whoever is bold enough to take it, and that there will be no consequences.
That combination should worry everyone.
Today it is drain covers and iron rods. Tomorrow it is streetlights, railings, transformers, or anything else that can be sold. Once people learn that destroying what belongs to all of us carries no cost, the habit spreads.
Poverty explains the motive. Weak enforcement and normalisation explain why they feel free to do it in the open. Both are failures. A country that cannot protect basic public infrastructure in daylight is signalling that order itself is optional.

We are in trouble !!! 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

@NigeriainfoFM @jimidisu People keep missing the point in this matter … even those I thought are enlightened enough

Sad 😔

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

@EcheAlone @timiagbaje_ Okay then … ✌🏿

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

Know how to behave in every room” is easy to say after the fact.

The organisation trained her that first-name address was the standard. She applied it in a corporate setting. Then the most senior person in the room publicly rejected it.

That’s not a failure to read the room. That’s mixed signals from the institution.

Other people have come online to share their experiences with CEO in the caliber of Elumelu, who frowned at them for putting the prefix “Mr” or calling them “Chairman”

Intelligence isn’t guessing which unwritten rule will actually be enforced on stage.

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

@Olufemi_Deji @hilda_adaora Policy or not ???? Do you understand what policies are ????

We just apply emotions in every thing we do

[Prof™ @OOlusore]

Thank You for this, Sir.

You can't have a Policy in your Company, train your Employees with the Policy, and run away from the same Policy like you don't believe in it.

So, why the hell do you have the Policy in your Company in the first place?

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

Do you get taught in school and then when you apply it in exam correctly you get failed for it ?

This is someone who hasn’t even worked as a UBA staff

Fault Elumelu and UBA’s double standard please

You don’t put out blanket policy and then use initiative to apply it to some people

Where is the consistency ???

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

You think she will address Tony Elumelu as Tony if she hasn’t been trained to address colleagues like this ???

Are you aware of organizational policy …. This isn’t about respect or cultural norms , it is about company’s policy and how she was trained to apply it .

Fault the double standard that UBA and IG’s chairman just displayed and not the girl who taught she will impress by applying what she was taught some days ago

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

The real issue isn’t just “respect” or “cultural awareness.”
UBA’s GMAP programme trains graduates to address people by their first names, including seniors. This young woman applied exactly what she was taught — in a corporate setting, at a company event, while engaging the Chairman. Then she got publicly corrected, told it was “Oyinbo life,” and dragged online.
That’s mixed signals.
You can’t train people one way and then punish them for following it. If the policy is first-name culture, leadership should model or clearly caveate it. If the Chairman prefers formal address, that boundary should be made clear before a trainee is put on the spot.
Publicly correcting her after she followed the organisation’s own training is inconsistent. The online pile-on that followed only made it worse.
Policy is policy. The setting was corporate. She did what she was taught. The contradiction sits with the institution, not solely with her.

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

The real issue isn’t just “respect” or “cultural awareness.”
UBA’s GMAP programme trains graduates to address people by their first names, including seniors. This young woman applied exactly what she was taught — in a corporate setting, at a company event, while engaging the Chairman. Then she got publicly corrected, told it was “Oyinbo life,” and dragged online.
That’s mixed signals.
You can’t train people one way and then punish them for following it. If the policy is first-name culture, leadership should model or clearly caveate it. If the Chairman prefers formal address, that boundary should be made clear before a trainee is put on the spot.
Publicly correcting her after she followed the organisation’s own training is inconsistent. The online pile-on that followed only made it worse.
Policy is policy. The setting was corporate. She did what she was taught. The contradiction sits with the institution, not solely with her.

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

The real issue isn’t just “respect” or “cultural awareness.”
UBA’s GMAP programme trains graduates to address people by their first names, including seniors. This young woman applied exactly what she was taught — in a corporate setting, at a company event, while engaging the Chairman. Then she got publicly corrected, told it was “Oyinbo life,” and dragged online.
That’s mixed signals.
You can’t train people one way and then punish them for following it. If the policy is first-name culture, leadership should model or clearly caveate it. If the Chairman prefers formal address, that boundary should be made clear before a trainee is put on the spot.
Publicly correcting her after she followed the organisation’s own training is inconsistent. The online pile-on that followed only made it worse.
Policy is policy. The setting was corporate. She did what she was taught. The contradiction sits with the institution, not solely with her.

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

The real issue isn’t just “respect” or “cultural awareness.”
UBA’s GMAP programme trains graduates to address people by their first names, including seniors. This young woman applied exactly what she was taught — in a corporate setting, at a company event, while engaging the Chairman. Then she got publicly corrected, told it was “Oyinbo life,” and dragged online.
That’s mixed signals.
You can’t train people one way and then punish them for following it. If the policy is first-name culture, leadership should model or clearly caveate it. If the Chairman prefers formal address, that boundary should be made clear before a trainee is put on the spot.
Publicly correcting her after she followed the organisation’s own training is inconsistent. The online pile-on that followed only made it worse.
Policy is policy. The setting was corporate. She did what she was taught. The contradiction sits with the institution, not solely with her.

[Omoyele Sowore @sowore]

“Don’t call me Tony, call me Mr. Elumelu or ‘TOE.’”

When I said Tony Elumelu is a content creator with little or no intellect, his supporters were enraged.

Now, what exactly is the difference between being called “Tony” and “TOE”? Much ado about nothing!

This is what Nigerians used to call “money miss road.”

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

The real issue isn’t just “respect” or “cultural awareness.”
UBA’s GMAP programme trains graduates to address people by their first names, including seniors. This young woman applied exactly what she was taught — in a corporate setting, at a company event, while engaging the Chairman. Then she got publicly corrected, told it was “Oyinbo life,” and dragged online.
That’s mixed signals.
You can’t train people one way and then punish them for following it. If the policy is first-name culture, leadership should model or clearly caveate it. If the Chairman prefers formal address, that boundary should be made clear before a trainee is put on the spot.
Publicly correcting her after she followed the organisation’s own training is inconsistent. The online pile-on that followed only made it worse.
Policy is policy. The setting was corporate. She did what she was taught. The contradiction sits with the institution, not solely with her.

[Omoyele Sowore @sowore]

“Don’t call me Tony, call me Mr. Elumelu or ‘TOE.’”

When I said Tony Elumelu is a content creator with little or no intellect, his supporters were enraged.

Now, what exactly is the difference between being called “Tony” and “TOE”? Much ado about nothing!

This is what Nigerians used to call “money miss road.”

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

The real issue isn’t just “respect” or “cultural awareness.”
UBA’s GMAP programme trains graduates to address people by their first names, including seniors. This young woman applied exactly what she was taught — in a corporate setting, at a company event, while engaging the Chairman. Then she got publicly corrected, told it was “Oyinbo life,” and dragged online.
That’s mixed signals.
You can’t train people one way and then punish them for following it. If the policy is first-name culture, leadership should model or clearly caveate it. If the Chairman prefers formal address, that boundary should be made clear before a trainee is put on the spot.
Publicly correcting her after she followed the organisation’s own training is inconsistent. The online pile-on that followed only made it worse.
Policy is policy. The setting was corporate. She did what she was taught. The contradiction sits with the institution, not solely with her.

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

Doc, with all due respect… that wasn’t a seizure.
That was a full theatrical production.
Eyes closed on cue, head back like he was auditioning for “The Rapture: Live on Instagram,” then the dramatic lean-in like “behold, I have returned.”
If that man had actually had an epileptic fit, the only thing ascending to heaven would have been the hospital bill.
This was pure stagecraft. Oscar-worthy. 😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

You’re right on the key facts ….. Nigeria has huge limestone deposits, yet we pay some of the highest cement prices in Africa, and that clearly pushes up housing costs and rents. The FCCPC findings on the price surge and excess capacity are also accurate.

The missing nuance is that limestone alone doesn’t determine the price. Energy, forex costs on equipment, logistics, and domestic taxes are all significantly higher here than in peer countries. At the same time, we have massive surplus capacity that should be forcing prices down in a competitive market… but it isn’t, largely because the industry is highly concentrated and competition has been weak.

So the gap isn’t just greedy manufacturers or just bad policy. It’s both elevated costs and limited competitive pressure. Until those two issues are fixed, abundant limestone won’t deliver affordable cement.

I love how you always talk on issues affecting the common man bro … keep it up 👍🏾

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

Solid warning, but the delivery undercut it.

Don’t qualify a “stop.”

Don’t say “I could have done anything.”

Don’t turn a caution into a power flex.

Just say…..

When she says stop, you stop.

When she’s impaired, you exit.

Sex is never worth the risk.

Keep it that clean next time please 🙏🏾

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 Arsenal reach agreement with Aston Villa to sign Ezri Konsa. Deal for 28yo defender worth £51m + add-ons. England international said goodbyes to #AVFC team-mates & staff today. Set to take #AFC medical Thursday. W/ @J_Tanswell @gunnerblog @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/ObmcU2Uq7T

[Pedrito @ehi_md]

The procedural clarification is helpful, but the most likely outcome is more limited than the framing suggests.
Judge Howell has already ordered the FBI and DEA to process non-exempt records after rejecting their Glomar responses. The Aug 21 deadline is for DOJ to state its position and for Tinubu to object; after Sept 18 the court will rule.
In FOIA cases of this type, the usual result is partial production with substantial redactions under privacy and law-enforcement exemptions (Exemptions 6 and 7(C)). Full unredacted release of everything is unlikely. The core public facts about the 1990s civil forfeiture are already known; new dramatic disclosures are not the expected baseline.
This is progress toward transparency after years of delay, but it is still a standard FOIA production fight - not an imminent full dump of “drug-trafficking files.”

[Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. @batten_von]

We have noticed some people misreading or misunderstanding our post below. We are going to break this down so viewers across the United States and Nigeria can understand exactly what is happening legally and the game-changer that just occurred. There are two important dates/deadlines:

First Key Deadline (August 21): @TheJusticeDept (DOJ) is no longer stonewalling or blocking the release of the documents. This is a reversal from the DOJ under President @JoeBiden. The DOJ under President @realDonaldTrump has requested an extra 10 days to look into things and respond to the demand for the documents concerning Nigerian President Tinubu's (@officialABAT) drug trafficking allegations to be released. The court ordered that the date be fast-tracked and that, by August 21, DOJ must tell Judge Howell its position on the demand to release the documents. President #Tinubu has until August 21 to file his objection to DOJ releasing the documents.

Second Key Deadline (September 18): Unless Judge Howell asks for additional information or arguments, after September 18, the court will deem all arguments heard, and Judge Howell will make a ruling.

Aug. 21 → DOJ states its position.
Aug. 21 → #Tinubu's deadline to object to the documents being released.
After Sept. 18 → Judge Howell will rule.