UGO AHIAKWO

Lagos based sculptor and curator

[UGO AHIAKWO @hugofaith]

Forgot to share these on my 28th yesterday 🎂✨

[Favored Sinner @FavoredSinner]

This is a prime example of what Ycee was addressing. Not because this podcast means anything to the organiser, not like they don't know he's chatting crap, not like they don't know the podcast has no value. But because they need their numbers, they give a platform to people like this more than to people who actually have substance.

[MERIT🕶️ @LM_MessiRebirth]

You cannot kill the people because you want to serve them. If the people don’t want you, go and rest."

— Former President Goodluck Jonathan

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Worsening Leadership Crisis in the Country Now Evident

The ultimate cost of uncompassionate leadership, as evident in the country today, is turning citizens’ frustration into deep, volatile resentment. It is even more traumatising when the leader presiding over that collapse demonstrates clear incapacity and a lack of compassion.

The government and people of Oyo State, more than 50 days after the abduction of the schoolchildren without any tangible effort toward their rescue, should rightly feel bitter and abandoned.

Since this unfortunate incident, I have spoken publicly about it twice, including appealing directly to the kidnappers to release the children. I also called the Governor twice to assure him of my solidarity, understanding that this issue is not just an Oyo problem but a Nigerian tragedy.

On Friday, July 3, I decided to travel to Ibadan with Prof. Pat Utomi to express solidarity with the Governor, as more than 50 days had elapsed without the rescue of the children and with numerous others still being held captive across the country.

During our two-hour meeting, I shared my experience in addressing insecurity as Governor of Anambra State. I recalled how President Olusegun Obasanjo, and later Presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, would personally call us several times whenever we faced major security challenges.

But, to my utmost shock, I discovered that, contrary to my assumption that they had been in regular communication over the matter, Governor Seyi Makinde had not received a single call from President Bola Tinubu.

I remember the only case of a school kidnapping during President Goodluck Jonathan’s era - the Chibok girls. It drew local and international attention. Even though the security agencies provided almost daily updates on their efforts, Nigerians and the rest of the world were outraged that it took President Jonathan over two weeks to call the then State chief Executive.

I vividly recall that the current President, Bola Tinubu, led a team of vocal critics who called for President Jonathan’s immediate resignation over the incident, citing his delay in calling the state governor. That call for IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION should actually be the case in this matter.

Today, under President Tinubu, there have been more than 13 school kidnappings, yet the President has found it difficult to call the affected state’s chief executive after more than 50 days (over 7 weeks). This is outrageous. I suspect the same may also have been the case in other school kidnapping incidents.

I cannot imagine any issue more important than the lives of our kidnapped children, their teachers, and the many other Nigerians being held captive across the country. It is now an indisputable fact that governance has completely collapsed under this administration.

The situation reflects a total lack of capacity and compassion, compounded by glaring insensitivity.

Amid such an apparent display of incompetence, the President should either resign or, at the very least, abstain from seeking re-election for the sake of our dear country. This call is patriotic, not political. A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Sam Otigba @SamuelOtigba]

We need more creatives out of survival mode and into environments where their only job is to create.

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

We tend to downplay this so much but we need money to do alot of things.

Money is a fuel.

Money is the water that nourishes your brilliant ideas into life.

[Manjul Vic🦅 @VictorManjul]

Imagine a scenario where you hire a manager at your bakery.

He comes in and begins visiting banks and agencies to collect loans for buying baking ingredients.

While he secures the loans, he still doesn't buy the baking ingredients with that money.

Instead, he shares the funds with his cronies, leaving you in debt and a failing bakery.

That is what TINUBU is doing to Nigeria💔.

[Queen Bee 👑 🐝 @RealQueenBee__]

Ladies and Gentlemen, did you know that the N8.8 trillion (8,800,000,000,000.00) Naira the IMF said the Tinubu Administration borrowed and then diverted is enough to:

1. Build and equip a world-class university in every state in Nigeria, plus the FCT.
2. Pay tuition for all students in public universities and polytechnics in Nigeria.
3. Fix all the damaged federal roads in Nigeria.
4. Upgrade Nigeria's rundown electricity transmission lines.
5. Bring the Nigerian Police Force up to world-class standards, including their stations and barracks.

But instead of using it for what it was borrowed for, they apparently diverted it, according to the IMF.

This is just one example of what institutionalized corruption costs Nigeria that has kept her poor and under developed.

Nigerians are not angry enough.

[Chisom Agbafor @ChisomAgbafor]

One thing poverty stole from a lot of people is the ability to make mistakes.

Every decision has to work.

[Abu bakar @abbkar_ai]

The men who ride in cars worth hundreds of millions shared a keke ambulance to the hospitals.

wallah, Nigerian politicians are cruel. 🥲💔

[Oluwakemi Oyefeso @i_am_agbeke]

I don't know about you, but this is the kind of relationship I'd like my President to have with the people. 🫩

Accessible. Close to the people. Listening. Engaging.

Not detached, distant, and insulated from the realities Nigerians face every day. 😏

[Ozedikus Nwanne @Ozedikus]

Almost every young person in Nigeria wants to become an entertainer now because it’s one of the few career paths that’s rewarding these days. If this trend continues we may have a whole generation of clowns soon

[LIVELY @mc_lively_]

Look at what a government official who’s supposed to regulate rent is saying.

What a backward nation

[Malancy @NaseerAjumawa]

Ambulances are built for speed because every second wasted can cost a life. But in the glorious year 2026, our governors are parading Keke as ambulances. This country mehn.

[Rinu Oduala 🔥🔫 @SavvyRinu]

A teacher was beheaded and toddlers are currently being starved to death in kidnappers’ camps across the country in Oyo, Kwara, Borno etc.

And the only thing the church of God could do was come down from the fence and support Tinubu. It’s very shameful.

[Cyborg Warlord @Admiral_Cyborg]

1.3 billion naira released to a fake agency in Nigeria but 36 million was released to the Ministry of Health.

They prioritize stealing over your well-being.

The APC.

[Ibeh @masurge7]

GEJ became Acting President February 9th 2010.

Three months later on 5th May 2010 Yar'Adua was officially declared dead and on THAT SAME DAY Adeboye threatened GEJ with a million man match protest over insecurity.

Today he's making excuses for his kinsman. Evil Conman

[Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour @GRVlagos]

The flooding we are witnessing across Lagos is yet another reminder that waste management, stormwater drainage, and urban planning are inseparable. You cannot neglect one and expect the others to function effectively.

For over two decades, Lagosians have endured devastating floods while the APC government has offered little beyond excuses and reactive interventions.

Despite repeated promises, the city continues to flood year after year, with no comprehensive drainage strategy or innovative approach to building a climate-resilient Lagos.

Sadly, poorly regulated sand filling, unchecked development, the destruction of wetlands, and weak urban planning have displaced several vulnerable communities and exposed millions of residents to damaged homes, ruined vehicles, lost businesses, and reduced productivity.

Annoyingly, ordinary Lagosians continue to bear the cost of government failure.

Lagos deserves more than “continuity,” from a group of kleptocrats with fancy resume: It deserves leadership with the vision, competence, and political will to implement proactive, innovative, and sustainable solutions that make our city safer, more resilient, and more livable for everyone.
#Ourlagos

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

My Vision for a Productive and Prosperous Nigeria

Today, being the 1st of July, 2026, I wish to humbly recall that when I decided to contest for the office of President of Nigeria, I pledged to place Nigeria on the path of unity and national transformation. Now, as the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, I will, in the coming weeks and months, provide insights into the roadmap that I am confident will help curb abuse in government, halt the decline in the quality of life of Nigerians at all levels, and usher in an era of unity, peace, sustained progress, and prosperity.

This vision is anchored on a commitment to unity, inclusion, social justice, equity, and the freedom of every citizen to pursue lawful dreams.

Central to this proposed roadmap are significant reforms in education and healthcare, which are at the core of human capital development.

Robust human capital is indispensable infrastructure for national progress. It serves as the fundamental capital upon which daily life, economic expansion, and the delivery of essential public services depend.

These are foundational areas that we must reform with energy and determination if we are to reap the demographic dividend of our youthful population.

From the outset of my presidency, we will establish a task force dedicated to drastically reducing the menace of out-of-school children. We will place greater emphasis on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to support our drive for massive industrialisation, anchored on our agricultural endowments and value addition across value chains organised around industrial parks to be located in development zones across the geopolitical regions of the country.

Funding and improving the equipment of TVET institutions, through partnerships among government, the private sector, and social entrepreneurs such as faith-based educators, will facilitate apprenticeship opportunities in the private sector, similar to the German dual education system.

The situation in which unemployment remains high while Nigerian entrepreneurs establish businesses elsewhere because skilled labour is scarce must be confronted decisively. Doing so is essential for the common good and for facilitating our transition from a consumption-driven economy to a production-driven one.

Character and civic education, emphasising the values that foster trust - an essential ingredient for enterprise and leadership - as well as shared national values, will receive significant attention within the tripartite approach to governance that we propose.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[gst @wearegst]

A reminder that the president is YOUR elected official. His job description under Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria explicitly states:

"The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government."

The constitution does not say the primary purpose of government is to issue orders regarding security; it says the primary purpose is to secure the people.

When orders fall short, the immediate next step is:

An administrative overhaul under Section 218(2) of the 1999 Constitution.

Prosecution of confirmed terrorists and funders.

Instead...

The terrorists have been reintegrated into society, and funders are shielded by political bureaucracy and left walking the streets completely free.

Meanwhile, his Attorney General (Lateef Fagbemi, SAN) and the EFCC Chairman (Ola Olukoyede) are still securely in office, protected by low-level conviction statistics.

[ZAHEER! @iam_YCee]

For someone that’s supposedly a “pastor” there’s something inherently very dark about Remi Tinubu.