Bamiji

Let’s talk about public health, farming, @OfficialFPL, and the new food to try 🤓

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

I’ve started questioning a lot of things about life lately...like why do I need to spend 5yrs in pry school, 6yrs in secondary & another 5yrs in uni. That’s total 16yrs sentence of hard labor...when what I just needed was just good communication skills & 3yrs under @AlikoDangote

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@Brilamedia I like this approach. If gov can’t sack them without attracting FIFA’s retribution, let gov find dirt on them on the 12 Billion. Afterall, gov has the right to enquire about its money. Then, let EFCC do d rest. Let’s see how someone that is in jail will run for 2nd term @thenff

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@zbss75 @instablog9ja Go and read the rule about First Name Basis first before you try to justify what is not. Even in the western world, you can’t just address someone by their first name without courtesy

[Nigerian Affairs Journal @NigAffairs]

BREAKING: President Tinubu has approved a proposed amendment to Nigeria’s mental health law to end the application of the colonial-era provisions that treat attempted suicide as a criminal offence.

The amendment aims to decriminalise attempted suicide, shifting the country’s approach from prosecution of people in psychological distress to treatment, care, and psychosocial support.

Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Ali Pate, disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing journalists at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.

Pate said the proposed amendment to the National Mental Health Act will be transmitted to the National Assembly as an executive bill.

According to him, the reform recognises attempted suicide principally as a public health and mental health issue requiring professional intervention rather than punishment.

He added that the Federal Ministry of Health and the Federal Ministry of Justice worked together on the proposed amendment, which has now received FEC’s approval for onward transmission to the National Assembly.

[Ben Murray-Bruce @benmurraybruce]

Find somebody who will fight oil theft, confront bureaucratic paralysis, reduce production costs, unlock dormant assets, accelerate approvals, attract billions of dollars of investment and sit on the neck of every agency standing between Nigeria and increased production.

I don’t want another committee chairman.

I want a mad man.

I don’t want somebody who will spend four years explaining why something cannot be done.

I want somebody crazy enough to do it.

We have had enough clowns.

Nigeria is too important, our problems are too serious and the President’s remaining time is too precious for passengers in government.

Every minister, regulator, agency head and presidential appointee controlling a critical part of this economy should understand one thing:

This is not a retirement home.

If you cannot deliver, leave.

If you are afraid of stepping on toes, leave.

If protecting friendships is more important than protecting Nigeria’s interests, leave.

If bureaucracy frightens you, leave.

If vested interests can intimidate you, leave.

And if you are not crazy enough to attempt what everybody else says is impossible, we don’t want you.

Mr President, you have demonstrated that you can take politically difficult decisions.

Now take another one:

Recruit more mad men.

Give Nigeria a mad man for petroleum production.

Give us another mad man whose only obsession is refining.

Give them measurable targets, presidential backing and deadlines, and then get out of their way while they step on every toe that needs stepping on.

Cardoso is doing his job.

Ribadu is doing his job.

Now find us two more.

Four million barrels per day.

Working refineries.

A Nigeria that refines its own crude and exports petroleum products to the world.

No excuses.

No clowns.

No passengers.

Only results.

Mr President, this is a request.

And it is not negotiable.

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce.

[Ben Murray-Bruce @benmurraybruce]

Mr President,

I write this as a supporter of your administration and as a Nigerian who wants you to succeed. But support must never become sycophancy. Sometimes, the greatest service a supporter can render is to tell the President what others around him may be too comfortable—or too frightened—to say.

Mr President, Nigeria needs more mad men in your government.

And before anybody deliberately misunderstands me, let me explain what I mean by mad men.

I mean men and women who are crazy enough to confront a broken system, step on powerful toes, offend entrenched interests and refuse to accept mediocrity simply because mediocrity has become normal.

We need people who wake up every morning obsessed with results.

We need people who are prepared to become unpopular in Abuja if that is the price of becoming useful to Nigeria.

Look at the Central Bank under Olayemi Cardoso. Whatever disagreements anybody may have with individual policies, there is no question that the institution has undergone a serious reset. Discipline and credibility have returned to monetary policymaking.

That is one mad man.

Look at Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. Nigeria still has serious security challenges, and nobody should pretend otherwise. But there is a seriousness, coordination and strategic direction in the national security architecture that deserves recognition. Ribadu is prepared to work, confront problems and take responsibility.

That is another mad man.

Mr President, two mad men are not enough for a country of more than 200 million people.

We need another one in petroleum.

In fact, give us two more.

Nigeria cannot continue to behave like a poor country sitting on the assets of a rich country.

We produce crude oil. We possess enormous reserves. We have decades of petroleum expertise. We have spent fortunes on refineries. Yet for years we became accustomed to exporting crude and importing the products refined from it.

That is economic madness of the wrong kind.

Now we need madness of the right kind.

Mr President, make the rehabilitation and commercially viable operation of the Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna refineries a national obsession.

And please, no more excuses.

Nigerians have heard enough explanations about turnaround maintenance, contractors, technical reviews, committees, timelines and billions spent.

We want products coming out of those refineries.

If government cannot operate them efficiently, find the structure that can. Bring in world-class technical partners. Introduce private capital where necessary. Restructure them. Concession them if that produces the best outcome. But whatever model is chosen, the objective must be brutally simple:

MAKE THE REFINERIES WORK.

Dangote has shown what is possible on Nigerian soil. Its refinery was designed for 650,000 barrels per day and has reportedly demonstrated even higher throughput during performance testing.

So let us establish an audacious benchmark.

Mr President, let the three government-owned refining complexes target, at minimum, the equivalent of 50% of Dangote’s nameplate refining capacity—about 325,000 barrels per day of reliable, commercially viable throughput. Then push beyond it.

Nigeria should not merely aspire to satisfy its domestic demand. Our ambition should be much bigger.

We should become a refining powerhouse for Africa and a major exporter of refined petroleum products.

And upstream, the instruction should be equally uncompromising.

Your administration already has a stated ambition of taking Nigeria towards 4 million barrels of oil per day by 2030.

Mr President, find the mad man who will deliver it.

Find somebody who considers 1.5 million barrels unacceptable when the national ambition is 4 million.

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@gddub You can easily use Google to get your facts right, you know. There is a difference between being suspended and not renewing one’s license. Poor journalism at its peak 🫩

[Catalyst @___Catalyst]

@gddub Health Professional Council of South Africa (HPCSA) can suspend license for various reasons. Dr Anizoba mentioned that he didn't renew his license since he no longer practices in South Africa. For this reason, HPCSA suspended his license.

https://t.co/uLJLWC6AGt

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@AssetsCardave @Row_Haastrup All I’m saying is it’s an old news being recycled with a little fabrication to please the media. He wasn’t sent to jail for collecting RAIN water directly from the roof of his house. He built a pond-reservoir, not storex as the news reported. He then redirected the water flow…

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@thenff @NatSportsComm @officialEFCC @STinubu Please come to the rescue of the masses. The future of Nigeria’s football is in your hand. Clearly none of these old men knows what they are doing any more. It’s pathetic 🫩

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@thenff Oshe electric spark…charging charger

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@officialABAT @adeadebosin Mr president sir, stable electricity/energy remains the driver for most productions. What is the clear plan on this? If this is the only thing you can do for Nigeria, please do this and Nigeria will sing your name years to come.

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@AyoShonaiya I’m not condoning what DHA is doing but the rule is the rule. The same thing happened to me a year ago. After investigating, I realised that the YF card issued to me wasn’t properly registered because one person was trying to siphon the money. Blame whoever issued that vacc card

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@JAY_4JUSTICE @7_reggie @UTDKarra He’s not a dm. Cm at best. Same with Kobbie.

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@wayveeofficial My nephew don clear all his WAEC result with 5 distinctions including maths and English. And I don promise the boy iPhone 😬 where I wan see money now

[Pamela @PamelaNjoku2]

Manchester United Anthem ❤️❤️

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

“I became a millionaire at 23, now I have built 2 billion-dollar companies. Mark Zuckerberg was the first person to invest in one of my businesses.” — Nigerian Billionaire Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@SlickmediaX Jigger wasnt even involved 😬🫩

[GABA 🦀 @gaba_ye]

Jacinta and your patriots come this side, maybe you might learn one or two things.

[Bamiji @gazbyking]

@AkinMoses1 But we all know there is no smoke without fire. I learnt my lesson the hard way with Temitope’s Crowdyvest a few years ago.