Khalifa Giza

Governance|Urban Development Strategy and Implementation.

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

One hopes the lesson drawn from an acquittal is not another reduction of a complex legal matter into a cultural stereotype.

I am befuddled that an acquittal in a foreign jurisdiction becomes an opportunity to explain “Nigerian culture”, rather than examine the evidential basis of the case itself.

If context matters, then tell the whole story. That includes the role of international advisers, banks, compliance officers, financial institutions, regulators, counterparties, and gatekeepers that operated across jurisdictions over many years.

One would imagine these actors deserve as much attention as local customs, given the global architecture of bribery giving, taking, concealment, and facilitation.

The danger of selective reporting is that it takes the lazy route of explaining outcomes through culture while overlooking systems, incentives, and actors that cut across borders.

That is neither good journalism nor good analysis.📌

[Holuwarphemmy @sati_jackson]

@ARISEtv A former minister that was not bold enough to stand trial after office, went into hiding running frm country to country. Decades later, a court acquits her in far away UK. Thats the story of Nigeria. Why was she afraid of being accountable here.

[Tolu Ogunlesi @toluogunlesi]

Sobering. Not many people will EVER get to wield the kind of peak power she wielded.
And then it all came tumbling, as it often does.
11 years of exile, investigations, courts -- and now an acquittal.
Plus the obligatory drafting of "God" into the fray.

PS. She's 65, but looks like two decades younger.

[Khalifa Giza @gskhalifa]

Whoever controversially bought this public facility should sha be quick with their planned development to finishing, any small change in govt or even FCT minister might definitely reverse this.

[Sahara Reporters @SaharaReporters]

WATCH: Workers Remove Interlocking Stones At Jabi Lake As Wike Pushes Ahead With Controversial Reallocation Plan

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[Baba-Bala Katsina @BabaBalaKatsina]

When FG didn't want foreign rice in Nigeria, the borders were properly manned.

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

US releases official 14-point agreement with Iran. The deal is due to be formally signed on Friday.
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[• @AliyuOnX]

The $25 is per barrel. N75 is per litre. A barrel of crude oil is ~159 litres. If PMS accounts for 50% of the refinery’s yield, that is ≈80 litres PMS per barrel.

N75 × 80 litres = N6,000 i.e. $4.3 reduction per barrel on the PMS side.

If the $25 reduction is for spot prices, the average price reduction is less than the $25.

[The Lonely Guy!!! @abdullahikambaa]

WALLAHI TALLAHI THIS IS A FUCKING CAPITAL LIES.
I personally paid the ransom money and machines. Not ones & not twice.
The guy with kaftan in the middle is my blood brother.
Below is the type bike I bought, 2 nos of this.
Claiming to be rescued.
Allah ya isa
@TheRadarNewsNG

[Davido @davido]

Da farko, duk wanda yake da kishin Najeriya ba zai yi shiru kan matsalar rashin tsaro da ke addabar ƙasa ba, kuma ba zai hana wasu bayyana damuwarsu a kai ba. Rashin tausayi da fifita son rai ko zama karen en siyasa , da fifita son rai fiye da muradun al’umma ba abin alfahari ba ne. Ka kasance mai kishin ƙasarka, ka daina fifita siyasa a kan gaskiya, sannan ka ji tsoron Allah a cikin duk abin da kake yi @kahuturarara

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

Q: Why is it so easy to criticise and have a plan till you get into government? 🤔

A: Because outside govt, you see the problem in straight lines. Inside government, you meet the maze.

From outside, failure often looks like a lack of will, competence, courage, or integrity. Sometimes it is. But inside government, plans meet weak institutions, inherited liabilities, vested interests, procurement rules, courts, legislators, budget limits, security realities, civil service inertia, and the politics of timing.

Culture happens, stories begin and self-preservation agendas find life.

The easiest sentence in public life is: “They should just fix it.” The harder truth is that the state is not one person with one button. It is a network of laws, interests, fears, incentives, sabotage, capacity gaps, and consequences.

Still, complexity is not an excuse for failure. Government exists to organise complexity into results. The real test of leadership is whether a plan survives contact with reality, adapts without losing its moral centre, and delivers relief citizens can feel.

So, I have learnt to appreciate progress, momentum and incremental gains..... not the eldorado version.

Yet, criticism keeps power honest, but getting results for desired governance requires more than criticism. It requires getting involved, sequencing, coalition-building, courage, competence, communication, and the humility to accept that the problem was deeper than the slogan.

The code is to win by knowing when to lose, win or compromise.

On a scale we can all relate wirh, we should for example know that the wedding, of which we priotise expenses with, is just an event, while the marriage remains the institution of priority. Even within this family arrangement, optimising value reflects similar challenges.😔 You can read this in a way you get the message.

Be ye circumspect.....

[Davido @davido]

Da ace kana da ilimi da na tsaya nayi magana dakai. Ama komai baka sani ba, sakarai kawai.

[Khalifa Giza @gskhalifa]

@MagaselaMzobe Profile, arrest and deport! That’s how it’s done in other countries.
Not hooligans maiming, stealing and extorting illegal and even legal immigrants with govts silent approval.

[Thuso van Zyl 🇿🇦 @Thuso1Africa]

In other countries the government deports illegals. In South Africa, hooligans, vigilante and xenophobic groups, beat, kill, extort and humiliate fellow Africans. This barbaric behaviour is evil and unacceptable

[Gimba Kakanda @gimbakakanda]

Major-General Rabe Abubakar: The Wounds We Share

I have just read the statement by the Katsina State Government confirming the passing of Major-General Rabe Abubakar, rtd, a former military spokesman, while in captivity. Even though the statement says that “the deceased… died a natural death from complications of diabetes and hypertension,” this does not erase the horror of the circumstances in which he spent his final days. What haunts us is not only the manner of his passing, but the tragedy of a life of service ending in the hands of criminals who have exploited the dysfunctions of our society.

What happened to the General is a tragedy of immeasurable dimension. To return from a career that required putting one’s life on the line for one’s country, only to become a captive of ragtag criminals, is a fate no patriot deserves. It is a cruel reminder that this weather of insecurity is one we all breathe and feel. It bears our names, our faces, our families, and the histories of service behind its victims.

There is no dignified way to avoid the truth that, as a nation and as a government, we have let down the General and many others who have met similar fates. This does not take away from the efforts I know were ongoing to secure his release or rescue, nor from the renewed operations and proactive steps being taken to confront these criminal networks. But grief must never be managed with denial. Something more radical, more coordinated, and more sustained must be done to break this chain of tragic events. Contrary to the assumptions of some, nobody is immune.

What happened to the General is a cautionary tale for all of us in government today. The General, who once served in one of the most protected institutions in the country, could never have imagined such an ending. That is why it remains baffling when anyone assumes that those in public office are insulated from the failures and fractures of the nation. The same roads, the same communities, the same future, and the same consequences await us all.

As a northerner, I am doubly troubled by the direction in which our region has been dragged. No honest person can claim ignorance of how we got here. If we are even more honest, we must admit that the untrained, abandoned, and hopeless children on our streets are being turned into cannon fodder for present and future dysfunctions. Even if banditry and terrorism are defeated, a vulnerable demographic left without education, discipline, opportunity, or hope will remain available for other invidious agendas against the Nigerian state.

This is the part that should frighten us most. We once spoke of building human capital. Today, too many of our people are trapped in the desperate arithmetic of survival.

The government has the primary and non-negotiable responsibility to protect lives and property. But no government policy, however well designed, can fully overcome a society that refuses to confront parental irresponsibility, the abandonment of children, hostility to education in some communities, and the casual normalisation of neglect. Security is not sustained by bullets alone. It is sustained by schools, families, values, livelihoods, justice, and a population civilised enough to reject the temptations of nihilism.

And yet, we cannot afford to lose hope. Despair is exactly what these criminals want to manufacture. They want citizens to stop believing in the possibility of order, to stop trusting the state, and to stop imagining a country that can still be rescued. We must refuse them that victory. We must mourn the dead, demand better from the living, and insist that the Nigerian state still has the duty and capacity to reclaim every inch of its authority.

May Allah forgive him, grant him Aljannatul Firdaus, and comfort his family. My condolences also go to all families who have lost loved ones to this madness. May their grief not be in vain, and may our country find the courage to end this tragedy.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Simon Jordan has slightly changed his tune. He was basically making excuses for the US banning Omar Artan the other day.

Big up Osasu Obayiuwana.

[Dutchy. @Jonny_Dutch]

Mexico should’ve hosted the entire World Cup

[Maryam Ado Sa’adu @Maaryam_Ado]

It’s been 29 days since 42 students were abducted from Mussa Primary and Junior Day Secondary School in Askira-Uba, Borno State. For 28 days, their parents (and all parents) have lived in fear, uncertainty, and anguish. The gov’t just reintegrated terrorists in the same state!

[Dangaladima @Jorri_baffa1]

They’re 30 in numbers, they letter find the remaining corpses.

But no attention on this matter, no any outrage.

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

https://t.co/yYH4kVho2o

[- @uche_xxi]

them don tell kiyomasa “but i didn’t ask you to do it for me”😭