“Strong societies are sustained not only by constitutions and markets, but by trust, by responsibility, by mutual respect and by solidarity.”
Former Vice President of Nigeria @ProfOsinbajo at ARC 2026 today.
if @elonmusk paid 100% of his net worth ($1.4 trillion) as a tax it would only cover federal government spending for 77 days. this isn’t a tax problem…
The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward.
I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress.
When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment.
Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks.
They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around.
Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits?
The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.
@darasoba Because... It was meant to be a "Fable":
...A short, fictitious story designed to teach a moral lesson. Often features anthropomorphized animals, plants, or forces of nature that speak and behave like humans. The "moral" is typically summarized at the end of the narrative.
Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.
If this election was between Peter Obi, Seyi Makinde & Yemi Osinbajo: I will not worry myself about who wins.
They are all amazing candidates.
These are the sort of people that should contest for the highest seats of our land.
We all will deny at first saying the access is too much but it will become normal later, it is only a matter of time.
AI being able to access your bank account and give summary will only be another variant of how we became confident taking an elevator.
With enough reliability and social validation, it will be like entering a stranger’s car (uber) or booking a strangers house (Airbnb).
We will adjust, we always do.
“Someone” is too vague.
20-30 years old: Find a very good job in a place where you can get leverage to buy assets. Get married, save together. The other option is to start a business early but know that 99% of the time, it will die but the experience will be valuable.
30-40: Start thinking of starting a business from what you have learned. Find partners, mentors, funders.
40+ Enter politics.
Seriously, after 40 wealth is more about connections than effort. This is the time you cash in on relationships built over time.
Wealth is about relationships and compounding the benefits of those relationships. No matter how brilliant you are, nothing will bring you wealth if you don’t build relationships.
Friends have always opened the doors for me and recommended me to rooms where I made money from.
Alhaji Aliko Dangote appeared on Channels TV and insisted that Nigeria needs to urgently invest in power infrastructure to achieve true economic independence. In layman terms, he's wailing about lack of electricity.
You can be sure of one thing: both the Nigerian government and local investors won't do anything about this call.
Then eventually Aliko Dangote will find his way around building power grids that guarantee 24/7 electricity to consumers. Suddenly, you will start seeing all sorts of patriots from Ministry of Power, NLC, TUC, DISCOS, GENCOs, NEPA, PHCN, Nitel, Mtel, Econet, PTF, Celtel and even APC, ADC and PDP coming on air to educate you on the dangers of a monopolist like Dangote! ~ Ibrahiym A. El-Caleel
To criticise, condemn and "correct" in ministry is very easy what is "hard" is transformational teaching, travailing prayer with intercession that Christ may be fully formed in others and the raising of an exemplary company or community of believers that stand as a prototype for the whole.
The former takes a short 5 minute video on social media, the latter takes years of sacrifice.
Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.
AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.
🕊️ Happy Good Friday!
On this day, Jesus hung on the cross — not by chance, but by choice. Every wound, every drop of blood, every moment of suffering was an act of deliberate, unconditional love for you and for me.
Should I try and explain? Do you promise to receive my explanation with civility even if you don’t agree with it? Ok here goes:
There are only three learned professions: Law, Medicine and Theology. That is why when a lawyer is cross-examining a doctor or clergy from traditional churches, they do so with a measure of respect.
The learned title means that the person is not just educated, they have acquired professional training and been examined in terms of knowledge AND character and found to be worthy.
By that training, a learned person learns about the whole human being. That is why you can present certain symptoms to a doctor and he may ask you about work stress, diet, the home front, etc.
A priest will do the same and will ask about your marriage, your children, your work, etc. he will additionally worry about the destination of your soul after you die.
Similarly, a lawyer understands human nature and the duality between his ability to do good but also to do shocking evil and is confronting and navigating that in his work daily. He will worry about protecting your life and property both when you are alive and when you are dead.
In each of the three professions, the person trusts you with their life, liberty or soul. Also, a learned person can be struck off if they misbehave.
So, you see? Lawyers, doctors and traditional clergy are, by their training, more than just educated. That is what is different. ✌🏽