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Electricity is not a luxury.
It is the bloodstream of development.

No nation has industrialised in darkness.

Factories do not run on speeches.
Hospitals do not function on promises.
Data centres do not operate on hope.

They run on power.

Nigeria keeps announcing reforms, summits, committees and five year plans. Yet government officials drive brand new SUVs to offices powered by generators. The same leaders who preach austerity burn diesel every day just to keep air conditioners on.

A country where ministries hum louder from generators than from productivity cannot compete globally.

Let us be honest.

Without constant power, Nigeria’s GDP will struggle to sustainably cross 500 billion dollars. Manufacturing will remain stunted. Tech startups will bleed capital on fuel. Small businesses will inflate prices to survive energy costs. Foreign investors will calculate diesel expenses before calculating opportunity.

Electricity is not a sector problem. It is the foundation problem.

You can reform tax codes.
You can float the naira.
You can merge agencies.
You can borrow from the World Bank.

If power is unstable, every reform becomes cosmetic.

The tragedy is not lack of resources.

The North has sun powerful enough to dominate solar generation across West Africa. The South has vast water bodies for hydro and oil and gas reserves that could stabilise thermal power plants.

But instead of building transmission lines and solar farms, we argue tribe and religion in the North. Instead of engineering infrastructure in the South, too many are engineering ways to siphon public funds.

Energy policy has been held hostage by incompetence, politics and corruption.

Until Nigeria produces abundant, reliable electricity, we will continue exporting raw materials and importing finished goods. We will continue celebrating small economic rebounds while remaining structurally weak.

Power is productivity.
Power is security.
Power is industrialisation.
Power is dignity.

Fix electricity first.

Everything else is noise.

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@Wizarab10 The double standard is crazy
Qatar gave us a memorable World Cup
America doesn’t even like football
Zero passion for the game
Everyone is just silent because it is America
Shameful!

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@FinPlanKaluAja1 They want Bandit to carry Lewis Hamilton

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@DrJoeAbah @aug26ix Now FIFA is allowing massive discrimination

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@FinPlanKaluAja1 He will do it and it will work

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@Emarged Yeppp

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Bayo, can you take a drive from Abuja to Kaduna without security?

[Bayo Onanuga, OON, CON @aonanuga1956]

President Tinubu’s record on security. The facts that say it all.

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@aonanuga1956 Bayo, can you take a drive from Abuja to Kaduna without security?

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@Wizarab10 Morocco would have been a better host

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@the_Lawrenz Lol you want Bandits to carry Messi

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@Coinvo Easy win for Republicans

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Being a Vampire in Nigeria will be fun
All you need to do is, walk on the streets from 2am you will see free meat

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@Wizarab10 America shouldn’t host the world cup
A nation that has a skewed view on immigration really shouldn’t be hosting anything

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I need more men to break up and then move on too, snap pictures
Enjoy your life.

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@neo_officialll If Dickson write book on the topic
I will buy 🤣

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@FinPlanKaluAja1 I shared this to many during that time of “Airlines are ripping Nigerians off”

https://t.co/doC7NrXByg

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Thread 🧵: Why a 1-hour flight in Nigeria can cost more than flying from London to Madrid

Ever wondered why local flights in Nigeria are so expensive even more than international ones in Europe?
Let’s break it down. It’s not greed. It’s economics.

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@PenTitan Ugo has read their book and is applying the wisdom

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@Tiiny_Khalid @egi_nupe When conversations of cultism & co genuinely comes we will address it
For now the topic is
Mass weddings breeds terrorism
State governments in the North needs to stop doing it and should focus on mass education

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@heismric @oluwashocker2

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@Tiiny_Khalid @egi_nupe They will be terrorists

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Interesting, goal wasn’t to build power plants but to sell diesel refined by the white man

[carter🌚 @carter6f]

“There was no power, and the entire country was living off diesel (gasoline). I had a lot of friends in government who used to sell it to me, and I used it to power my house.

One day, I came home and there was no light, so I moved my whole family to a hotel. I called a friend and asked where I could get diesel. He gave me the contact of a company, and I bought it from them, but it was very expensive.

When the truck came to my house and I looked at the meter on it, I said to myself, ‘I could do this business.’ I told my manager to call the manager of that company because I wanted to buy the company, but they refused.

So, I bought a second-hand pickup and started selling diesel myself around the estate. My friends even laughed at me whenever we met at the club. Today, I am an oil tycoon.”

— Femi Otedola