@VishalPanwarr@chinedu_10 To add to this, the outbox lease should include a fencing token, especially when running multiple worker replicas. That way, if a worker’s lease expires and another worker takes over, the stale worker can’t later complete the same operation.
We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia.
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Now a Disgraced Country Indeed
Today, as the world marks World Health Day, we must pause for honest reflection.
Nigeria, a nation of over 200 million people, continues to grapple with one of the weakest healthcare systems in the world. Our primary healthcare structure is almost comatose. We now record worse infant mortality outcomes than India, a country with a larger population, while health insurance coverage in Nigeria remains below 5%. These are not just statistics; they are a painful indictment of our priorities.
Recent disclosures by the Honourable Minister of Health show that out of the ₦218 billion appropriated for healthcare capital expenditure, only about ₦36 million has been released. This is deeply troubling.
At the same time, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has projected over ₦135 billion for legal expenditures.
Let us reflect on this.
The amount earmarked for election-related litigation is far higher than what has been made available for primary healthcare, the very foundation of a nation’s wellbeing. This is the same primary healthcare system expected to serve millions of Nigerians and support critical institutions such as:
1. University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City
2. University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar
3. University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada
4. University College Hospital, Ibadan
5. Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife
6. University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin
7. Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua
8. University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu
9. Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos
10. Aminu Kano University Teaching Hospital, Kano
11. Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos
12. University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri
13. Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, Nnewi
14. University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt
15. Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto
16. University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo
17. Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria
18. Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki
19. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi
20. Federal Medical Centre, Yola
These institutions represent hope for millions. Yet, they remain underfunded, overstretched, and burdened by systemic neglect.
A nation that prepares more for electoral disputes than for the health of its citizens is a nation that has lost its way.
We must begin to ask the difficult but necessary questions: What are our true priorities? What kind of nation are we building? And for whom?
Healthcare and education are not optional; they are the foundation of national development. Any country that neglects them undermines its own future.
Nigeria must urgently reorder its priorities. We must invest in the health and wellbeing of our people, strengthen our institutions, and build a system that works for all, not just a few.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Let us reflect, sincerely and without sentiment.
In the past few days, the President has reportedly approved ₦3.3 trillion as a “full and final” payment for debts in the power sector. Yet, this is not the first time such approvals have been made.
On May 17, 2024, ₦3.3 trillion was approved for the same purpose. On July 25, 2024, another ₦4 trillion bond was approved to settle similar debts. There have also been other approvals in between, all targeted at addressing the same power sector liabilities.
This raises a fundamental question: were the previous approvals mere announcements without execution?
₦3.3 Trillion Again? Nigeria’s Power Crisis Without End
During the 2023 campaign, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made a clear promise: that if he failed to deliver stable electricity, Nigerians should not re-elect him. Today, the reality is that power supply has worsened, to the extent that there are even discussions about disconnecting the Presidential Villa from the national grid.
Each time legitimate concerns are raised, what we see appears more like policy pronouncements than measurable progress.
Now, again, we are confronted with another ₦3.3 trillion approval to settle power sector debts.
These debts were largely accumulated under successive administrations of the All Progressives Congress between 2015 and 2025. This raises serious concerns about accountability, transparency, and effectiveness in public financial management.
It is important to note that government institutions and agencies, including the Presidential Villa owe a significant portion of these debts. Year after year, budgets were made and funds appropriated. Why then were these obligations not settled when due? And from what source will this new payment be made? Are we resorting once more to borrowing to service inefficiencies?
Key questions remain unanswered: How did the debt accrue? What is the actual total debt in the power sector? Which components of the debts are due to operators’ inefficiency and should be borne by them? Why have previous approvals not translated into tangible improvements? Who are the real beneficiaries of these repeated payments?
Is the ₦3.3 trillion approved on April 6, 2026, the same as the ₦3.3 trillion approved in May 2024, and how does it relate to the ₦4 trillion bond approved in July 2024?
Nigeria must move beyond recycled announcements and confront the power sector crisis with sincerity, transparency, and decisive reforms.
Until we do so, we will remain trapped in a cycle of debt and darkness.
But with discipline, accountability, and the right leadership, a new Nigeria is still possible. -PO
A fornicator is condemning homosexual. You’re condemning someone who has a child out of wedlock but you’ve aborted two. It is well. - Pastor Dolapo Lawal
I just came back from church. Desiring to rest a bit. I switched on my data and this is the first thing that pops up.
BREAKING NEW: Armed Terrorists stormed a new Cherubim and Saraphim church in Ejiba, a town in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State.
The Pastor, Known as Orlando, his wife and several others were kidnapped.
Right in the church service.
Isn't this a shame and insult on the Nigerian Government? Christians can't worship in peace again on Sunday?
This is one too many.
The church of Christ and Christians have endured too much of this. Enough of this nonsense. How long will families keep mourning and paying ransom?
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT , you're a total failure. If you can't do your job, RESIGN!!!
Dear CAN, PFN.
Instruct us to shut down our churches nationwide and lead us in a peaceful protest!!
We can’t just keep tweeting and making Trump the conversation!!
Shey we can’t do anything ni?!!!!!!!!!!
We keep going like about our businesses as usual while we are praying to TRUMP!
The first logical response is a united PEACEFUL PROTEST!!!!!!!!
E don reach!!!!
You keep saying ‘everything is under control.’ And refusing help, But how is it under control when your citizens are being buried faster than they’re born?
#Nigeria#genocide#isaelbuba
#TheseAreYourLeaders Episode I.
Alli Ndume.
Federal lawmaker since 2003. Still, a Senator.
First Boko Haram member, Konduga, to be convicted was arraigned alongside Ndume in 2011. Konduga pled guilty and was jailed.
Konduga was later re-arrested at Ndume’s Maiduguri residence in 2016.
Ndume was investigated and charged in 2011 for allegedly passing classified information to Boko Haram’s spokesman. He denied it.
Remanded by the EFCC in 2020 after acting as Abdulrasheed Maina’s surety in a ₦2bn fraud case when Maina jumped bail. Released after days in custody.
Still sits in the Senate.
These are your leaders.
At least we're getting the Eleyi @DapoAbiodunCON government to react - but they're reacting with lies.
Most of the roads flagged as "complete" are only sandfilled with red sand.
Please crowd this tweet, with actual state of Ogun Roads.
NO MORE LIES.
#DapoFixOgunRoads
IF YOU WANT ACCOUNTABILITY, PLS RT.
Mr. Governor @DapoAbiodunCON ,
As promised, I will NOT let you rest until you start doing your job. I will use all resources at my disposal to make you give account and take your job seriously.
Year after year, budget after budget, we have heard the same recycled lies, “the roads have been captured.” Yet from Ota to Itele, from Lafenwa to Sango, Agbado Adiyan Gasline, Akute Lambe, Lafenwa, etc, what we see is not progress, it is pain. Roads that should carry dreams now swallow lives, choke businesses, and bury any hope of dignity in daily living.
This isn’t just a failure of infrastructure like I said, It is a failure of leadership. A betrayal, repeated with every fiscal cycle, where line items become ghost promises and citizens are treated as statistics, not humans.
Now, with the 2026 budget in sight, we are being told, once again, that our roads are “captured.” But this time, we are not clapping. We are not grateful for what is already our right. We are not impressed by vague assurances.
We are demanding answers. And we will not stop asking until the lies rot under the weight of truth.
Mr. Governor,
For years, you have remained silent while the people groaned under the weight of collapsed roads.
You speak of development, yet development has skipped our communities. You speak of progress, yet we drive through potholes deeper than your promises.
So, with the full force of the people’s voice behind this message, we ask you to respond publicly and clearly to the following:
✅ What exact sum has been allocated in the 2026 Ogun State Budget for the construction and completion of the Ota-Itele-Lafenwa Road, Agbado, Adiyan Gasline, Idi-Iroko, Sagamu-Ijebu Ode, Akute- Lambe, Sango-Ijoko/Oju Ore roads?
✅ Under what ministry, project subhead, and line item is this captured? What is the project code?
✅ What is the timeline for execution, start to finish?
✅ Which contractors or firms have been awarded this project, and what is the contract value?
✅ How much has been allocated for road infrastructure across Ifo-Sango Ota-Idiroko axis?
We are citizens.
Until you publish these figures, expose the contracts, and lay bare the timelines, we will consider your words as nothing more than the latest chapter in a book of unkept promises.
I do not speak for a party. I speak for the streets that bleed, the traders who struggle, the commuters who suffer, and the children who grow up thinking pain is normal.
The days of silence are over.
The era of unanswered questions is dead.
The people are awake. And this time, we will not be ignored.
We demand governance, not grandstanding.
We demand transparency, not ceremony.
We demand roads, not rhetoric.
Show the workings. Or step aside.
Thank you.
Terrorists have entered Kirawa town in Gwoza Local Government, Borno State, Nigeria, burning houses, vehicles, and infrastructure. Women and children from the community have fled to nearby Cameroonian villages for refuge.