As long as the Land Use Act retains governors as custodians of our land, a power not even the President can contest, no capitalist in this country will ever hold the advantage over a governor. It is a different form of power, and Cersei Lannister settled this argument years ago when Littlefinger told her that knowledge is power. She had her guards seize him, called them off, and then told him, “Power is power.” Everything else is negotiation.
Yahaya Bello shut down the Obajana plant, Dangote’s largest cement facility, just a few years ago, with the state assembly backing him. A plant of that scale sat idle for months and the richest man in Africa had to run to Abuja for cover, pleading for intervention, and the truth is that if Yahaya Bello had set out to play dirty, and with the Land Use Act on his side, it would have been something else entirely.
Only a few months ago, the head of a single regulatory agency got Dangote visibly rattled in public, and that is someone in an appointive position. Now imagine the Governor of Lagos State, where his investments are based, moved against him. Imagine a governor revoking the certificates of occupancy on the land carrying the refinery, the fertiliser plant and the port, citing overriding public interest, which the Act permits. That would be the end of an empire.
Yes, political power ends. So does money. Politicians have buried plenty of billionaires whose names mean nothing to anyone under thirty today. But enough of the worst case scenario. Dangote is an asset of this nation, of the continent, and of the Black race. We should pray that he is never tested by political power, because we already know how that test ends. 😄
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 💔🙏
About five days ago, many of us watched the heartbreaking interview conducted by Omoga Ent and struggled to hold back our tears.
Today, Omoga returned to the man's home to take him to an eye specialist in the hope that something can be done to restore his sight.
If the first video made you emotional, I can assure you this update will hit even harder.
One of the biggest revelations from the interview was that the young girl many of us believed was his biological daughter is actually the daughter of his ex-wife, who left him years ago to marry another man.
This man married her mother when the girl, Vero, was just 2 years old. Despite being abandoned, despite his blindness, despite his poverty, he chose to keep raising and caring for Vero as his own child.
What broke me the most was learning that he reportedly sent his biological son away to work as a house help while he continued to care for another man's daughter under his roof.
Vero herself only discovered the truth during the interview.
I honestly don't know many people capable of that level of sacrifice and kindness.
As if that wasn't enough, people who knew him before he lost his sight have come forward to testify about the kind of man he has always been.
One woman shared that he paid her school fees. Others described him as generous, selfless, and always willing to help people when he had the means.
Life can be incredibly unfair.
How does a man who spent so much of his life helping others end up in this condition?
May life never test us beyond our strength. May God remember this man, reward his kindness, restore his sight, and give him and his children a reason to smile again.
Please keep sharing his story. Sometimes, all it takes is one person seeing a post at the right time for a life to change forever. ❤️🙏
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.