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Roadmap to a New Nigeria That Is Possible – Part II
Education and Healthcare: The Foundation of a Renewed Nigeria
Recall that on July 1st, in Part 1 of "My Vision for a Productive and Prosperous Nigeria," I outlined the broad framework of my proposed roadmap for national renewal. In it, I emphasised that the transformation of Nigeria must begin with rebuilding our human capital through quality education and healthcare, supported by reforms in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), character and civic education, and strategic investments that will move our nation from a consumption-driven economy to a production-driven one. I promised to follow up with other parts in the coming weeks and months.
Today, July 16th, in the middle of July, I wish to expand on these two critical pillars - education and healthcare - because they are the bedrock upon which every prosperous nation is built. They are the cornerstones of the foundation that will ensure that a son of nobody can become somebody and remove many from the ranks of the disaffected who often become tools in the insecurity challenges confronting us.
Evidence from around the world shows that quality education and accessible healthcare are among the clearest distinctions between thriving nations and lagging ones. Princeton University Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton highlights this reality in his book, “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality.”
Nothing, therefore, could be further from the truth than the claim by some young people that “education is a scam.” Education, when combined with good health, provides the ladder for individual upward mobility and drives economic growth for the nation.
We must become more intentional about aligning education with our national priorities, as Singapore did, and challenge our country to value education in the same way Deng Xiaoping repeatedly urged China to do from 1978 onwards, with the remarkable transformation we see today.
We will work through commissions that strengthen collaboration among the tiers of government, ensuring that primary education is domiciled at the community and local government levels, with strong parental involvement and curricula that are sensitive to local economic factor endowments and the value chains derived from them.
State governments will be supported to expand high-quality Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), as well as general secondary education, through targeted grants and incentives.
We are also developing schemes that will enable universities to focus more deliberately on specialised areas of teaching and research, making them globally competitive while producing a workforce equipped for the demands of the future.
A NEW Nigeria is POssible. -PO
"There's nothing more absurd than the 'Emi Lokan' slogan." — @falzthebahdguy
Reacting to comments by Nigeria's First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, on celebrities and philanthropy, @falzthebahdguy said artists shouldn't feel pressured to meet public expectations, adding that he finds the "Emi Lokan" slogan absurd because, in his view, it suggests that one individual's political journey was ultimately about attaining power. He sits with ARISE 360 anchors @seyitanatigarin and @nicoleabebe.
To catch the full interview head over to the Arise News Channel on YouTube
Who told Adams Oshiomhole that Nigeria is a Sovereign nation? Who will pay the World Bank & China Exim bank? The IMF na joke to you?
Where are your foreign reserves domiciled?
Who funds your general elections? Who arms the Nigerian army? Who inspired your Tax Laws & the 50K for WAEC & NECO? The EU sent their regards. They said Mr. Cho Cho Cho should restrict his comedy to domestic affairs. You can’t even sanction MTN nor DStv, you no fit!
Pikin should leave Uncle Sovereignty alone.
"The politicians don't need our votes to get to power. Who do they need? The judges. That is why Nyesom Wike is building mansions for judges. That is why state governors are donating prados and land cruisers to judges across the states. That is why they're making sure judges are the best-paid people in Nigeria. Meanwhile, governors who cannot pay the minimum wage are feeding judges with the kind of money and emoluments you cannot add up." — @ChidiOdinkalu
I advocated the government will use gains from subsidy removal to help the poor little did I know they will loot the poor!
Till date they can't account for the 3 billion dollars spent on refineries
Till date they can't even fund budget
Buhari even funded the budget better despite paying subsidies
They have collected loans but today all we hear is corruption cases every day
Na these kind things dey vex Peter Obi.
The 2026 World Cup qualifiers ended in 16 November 2025, and Nigeria failed to qualify after their defeat to DR Congo.
Now, the budget for 2026 fiscal year was presented on 19 December 2025.
So, tell me why "Special Presidential Support Group for 2026 World Cup qualifiers" is appearing on the 2026 budget with over N6 billion budgeted for it?
Peter Obi asking Tinubu to resign or shelve his re-election bid over worsening insecurity — pain dem well well. Peter Obi stubborn gan.
While Aso Rock was still recovering from the rude shock, he fired another missile by intensifying calls for Tinubu’s resignation.
Now, the Presidency has activated an old warhorse. They are calling in all the favors.
A Boko Haram Grand Patron is making sense to bigots & e-rats because he attacked Peter Obi.
Anyone whose mishandling of Borno State is widely believed to have been the precursor to the rise of Boko Haram should not be given a platform to speak. He should be in jail, aiding or assisting the authorities in finally unmasking those financing the terrorism in Nigeria.
While at it, he should fix his teeth. I can recommend a great clinic for dentures.
The man whose case file is gathering dust in the EFCC has finally met his release clause.
The quasi-journalist with Channels TV talked about the kidnapping of schoolchildren & how Peter Obi asked Bola Tinubu to resign. But Ali Modu Sheriff was clever. He quickly changed the subject to Biafra & IPOB to rile up the base.
As usual, Seun Okinbaloye sat there, wearing his trademark aloof mask. Seun could not press Ali to answer the question. He cleverly avoided asking a follow-up question. When caught in the act, deflect & conflate the issues. Muddle everything up, just enough to make it stick.
He was comparing apples to oranges. It works all the time. All the terror financiers are uniting under one umbrella. Men who were cooped up before now, have found their voices under Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He is calling in all the favors.
Ali Modu Sheriff is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I think it is actually helpful. It is almost self-fulfilling to see foundational members, alongside sponsors of terrorism & their Twitter vuvuzelas, push back against the one man — who is determined to take the fight to them.
Nigerians have subconsciously been expecting such behaviors to align with their assumptions.
The fear of Peter Obi is valid. Their paranoia is justified! PO is uncompromising. He has never hidden his insane desire to end the “Terrorism Industrial Complex in Nigeria” permanently.
Those who profit from terrorism are terrified.
The prospects of Peter Obi’s presidency are terrifying. The no-nonsense administrator is eager to make Nigeria work. If I were in their shoes, I’d be kicking as well. Who would not?
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
In August 2014, Australian hostage negotiator Stephen Davis, publicly accused former Borno State Governor Ali Modu Sheriff of being a chief sponsor of the terrorist group, the Boko Haram.
Davis alleged that Sheriff sponsored youths for religious pilgrimages where they were recruited into the terrorist group. The news was reported internationally in 2014. ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’ ran exclusive editorial on these claims.
BACK IN NIGERIA:
Alhaji Buji Foi (also spelled Fai) served as Borno State’s Commissioner for Religious Affairs.
He was appointed to the cabinet by former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff. The year was 2003.
Alhaji Buji Foi was a national secretary of the Yusufiyya movement (the foundational group that became the Boko Haram). He was a close associate of the sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf.
This was widely reported as a political pact to secure Boko Haram's support for Sheriff's 2003 gubernatorial campaign. After Governor Sheriff allegedly failed to fully implement the strict Sharia penal code he had promised, Buji Foi, along with other sect members, became disillusioned & resigned from his government.
When the Boko Haram uprising broke out in July 2009, Buji Foi was publicly identified as a key financier & a member of the sect. He was arrested at his farmhouse & was extrajudicially executed in police custody at the Police Headquarters in Maiduguri, in late July 2009.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, publicly accused former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff of sponsoring the Boko Haram.
He made these allegations in September 2014.
Femi Falana alleged that Sheriff's government had a deal with the sect for political support during the 2003 elections, which included appointing a Boko Haram member as a cabinet commissioner. Falana further revealed that Sheriff was arrested in Cameroon in 2012 for his alleged ties to the group, but was released after the Nigerian government intervened.
The SAN then issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government of Nigeria, demanding the prosecution of Sheriff based on the findings of the Ambassador Usman Galtimari Panel.
The Panel was inaugurated by Jonathan in August 2011 to investigate the root causes & the origins of the Boko Haram insurgency.
Ali Sheriff should have let sleeping dogs. He decided to run a fool’s errand for a selfish mandate — when Nigerians were almost forgetting his past. A tip of the iceberg.
Today is Monday, and Gbajabiamila still has a job. Donald Trump wasn't wrong when he referred to Nigeria as a disgraced country.
That Femi Gbajamiabila still has a job, is proof that Nigeria is a country of particular concern.
“But Peter Obi will still defeat Tinubu.
The will of the people is stronger than any rigging machine.”
— @IdrisZekeriJnr”
There is no Nigerian politician that comes close to Mr Peter Obi, the guy is phenomenal.
The Nigerian Government in the bid to protect and shield one of its own high-ranking criminal officials would have you believe certain absolutely impossible claims. This satanic corrupt compromised animals in government want you to believe that
1. That a random man “created” a fake government agency,
2. This fake government agency was called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council,
3. This same man then appointed himself as the director general, he got office at the government’s owned Federal Secretariat complex,
4. This same man opened a bank account with the government’s owned central bank of Nigeria,
5. This same man got the agency into the national budget of 2026 which was signed by the president,
6. This same man got 1.3billion naira allocated to this so-called ‘fake’ agency,
7. This same man was able to organise meeting with government appointed ambassadors, hold important sessions with federal ministers, and he even represented Nigeria at goobal conferences.
But most importantly,
The Nigerian government wants you to believe that everything I just wrote here from 1-7 was done and accomplished by this random man without the government being aware, being complicit or being involved.
Do you know what it takes to open an account with CBN? Do you know what it means to have an agency inside the country’s national budget? Do you know what it implies that this budget was signed by the president?
Now go back and read those points from 1-7 again and ask yourself how possible it is that a random man will be able to do all of this without heavy compromise from top government officials. Yet this kind of improbable lunatic proposition is what this demonic APC wants you to believe.
This is a government of blatant thieves, godless charlatans, heartless criminals and lying scoundrels.
EXCLUSIVE: How FG approved recruitment of 300 staff members for ‘fake’ presidential council
The federal government granted a waiver to the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) to recruit 300 members of staff in August 2025, TheCable can report.
Mimi Abu, director, organisation design and development, in the office of the head of the civil service of the federation, conveyed the government’s approval for recruitment in a letter dated August 7, 2025.
More details in comment section.
Nigerians should be grateful to Matthew Adeyemi Adeniyi, whichever way this scandal ends up.
If @aonanuga1956's elaborate and utterly implausible treatise on the matter is to be believed, Adeyemi has proved what many of us have alleged since 2015 - that the @OfficialAPCNg is a collection of supremely incompetent and greedy criminals.
He fooled the Federal Secretariat management team into allocating offices to his "fake" agency, and thus proved that they are at the very least utterly incompetent and possibly irredeemably corrupt.
He fooled the @cenbank, @DrYemiCardoso et al, into opening CBN accounts for his agency, thus proving that the CBN under Cardoso has turned into a cesspit of an insane level of incompetence and again, possibly fetid corruption.
He fooled the President Tinubu and his Minister of Finance into including his "fake" agency in the 2026 budget, this proving their lack of diligence and lack of dedication to their jobs.
He fooled the National Assembly, led by @SenGodswill, into passing that budget, with an actual financial allocation of billions of ₦₦₦ for his "fake" agency, thus proving that the National Assembly of the @OfficialAPCNg is nothing but a rubber stamp and possibly deeply corrupt.
If Adeyemi is right, and the agency really exists and was in fact created by the Presidency, included in the budget and given an allocation from taxpayer funds, he has proved that the @OfficialAPCNg government of @officialABAT is a cesspit of metastasised grand larceny, greed, corruption, avarice, and just plain looting - which is a position many of us have long held, since before Tinubu acquired the Presidency.
As resilient as Nigeria has proved to be, I do not think Nigeria will survive this stratospheric level of conjoined corruption and incompetence.
#Gbajagate
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.
Femi Gbajabimila’s fraud Story is the height of criminality. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
It confirms what we have always known that Thiefnubu’s government is a crime syndicate! 🙆🏾♂️😡
The presidency is telling you the man in this video created a fake agency that got mentioned in the national budget, got budget allocation from our national funds, a budget signed by the president;
Same man had an office at the government’s owned federal secretariat, had meetings with heads of the National Assembly, held strategic sessions with ambassadors of other countries,
Yet the govt says the agency is ‘fake’ and non existent, that they know nothing about it.
It takes an A-grade level of mentally incapacitating insanity to see all of this and continue to support the APC and defend these lying animals in Aso Rock.
Suddenly, pseudo intellectuals are pushing the dubious narrative that akara, roasted corn and kuli-kuli are sustainable means of livelihood.
How about groundnut and sachet water business? They should include them too.
The defenders of this wicked regime are telling us that Remi Tinubu has donated billions of Naira to NGOs.
First, they should tell us where she got such money from.
Second, they should provide the names and locations of the benefiting NGOs, and verifiable evidence that the donations have been properly utilized.
The advocates of akara economy should set up this business for their siblings and family members to demonstrate the efficacy of their postulations.
Since your mother sold akara to train you, why haven’t you opened akara factory for your wife, daughters, sons and political associates to promote and sustain your mother’s entrepreneurial legacy?
With the collapse of public education, how many akara sellers in this country currently can afford to pay their children’s tuition in private schools?
How many akara sellers can pay the rising costs of tertiary education and healthcare?
How many akara sellers can afford to pay the rising rents in Nigeria today?
How many akara will one sell to be able to buy fuel?
If akara, roasted corn and kuli-kuli are viable and sustainable microeconomic investments in Tinubu’s Nigeria, let the defenders of Tinubu show us members of their families that are engaged in this enterprise.
The point is not that akara, roasted corn and kuli-kuli aren’t necessary foods, the point is that we are all witnesses to how the Tinubu family has amassed wealth and captured state power to entrench and further their selfish and greedy ambitions.
We have seen the insane convoy of Remi Tinubu, Seyi Tinubu and their benefactor in Aso Rock.
It is deceitful and disrespectful for the same family that is living in opulence, amidst the ravaging and dangerous hunger in the country, to be pushing akara, roasted corn and kuli-kuli economy.
Bola Tinubu’s regime has been a wasteful and disastrous experiment.
We have seen how he is destroying our economy. But his annoying and power monger wife feels she can lecture the victims of their misrule and incompetence about the viability of the akara economy.
Enough of the silly expositions.
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