Obionu Pen Peterson

Architect, Liberal, Sincere, Rational, Easy-going.

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@abodundeop @ROkpokam I think one wide sliding door shd suffice. The corridor already has a window at the front end too.

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@OlomoOlutosin @ROkpokam Outsiders? Not if the site is fenced 🤷🏾

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@ianwamunyi @ROkpokam I disagree.
1. Cloak room is for visitors in the lounge. Going via the corridor is trespassing into private zone. Not ideal. Good hygiene keeps off smells.
2. Store door does open into the kitchen. That lobby IS a part of the kitchen space.

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@9jaemperor @Millishield01 It is not very easy to find this kind of clarity amongst our beloved fellow Naija citizens.
Your last line is also why I qstn every governor who prioritizes building an airport for a a state that can't boast of public pipe-borne water 🙄

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@Dunilove @UchePOkoye @MaiwadaJoel 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The fact that I understood where this came from makes it all the more funny!
Cover it, uncover it! 🤣🤣🤣

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This is the current situation of almost everyone in Nigeria, naked, simple and brutally and honestly articulated. Yet, some wld want you to deny your own reality bcs a road is being built by the coast, some students are getting loans and governors are getting more money 🙄

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I have been thinking about something lately, and the more I think about it, the more disturbing it becomes.

A lot of Nigerians became poor without doing anything wrong.

They didn’t stop working. They didn’t become lazy. They didn’t suddenly become irresponsible.

They simply woke up one day and realised that the money they had worked for could no longer buy the things it used to buy.

Think about someone earning ₦100,000 a month.

The person still wakes up early every morning, goes to work, puts in the same hours, probably works even harder, gets promoted occasionally and does everything society says a responsible person should do.

Yet every year, that person seems to be able to afford less.

At some point, ₦50,000 could buy a reasonable amount of food for the house. Today, you can enter the market with the same ₦50,000 and genuinely wonder where the money went.

Nothing happened to you.

The economy happened to you.

And I think this is something we don’t talk about enough.

Imagine working hard for years, only for circumstances completely outside your control to quietly reduce the value of everything you have worked for.

You didn’t lose your job.

You didn’t lose your salary.

But somehow, you lost your standard of living.

That is poverty too.

And this is why I struggle with the way we sometimes discuss palliatives.

Of course, when people are hungry, you must find ways to help them immediately. There is nothing wrong with providing temporary relief.

But surely, the bigger question should be:

Why did millions of working Nigerians suddenly need palliatives in the first place?

If a man could comfortably buy a bag of rice from his salary a few years ago and today he needs government assistance to buy that same bag of rice, giving him rice may solve today’s hunger.

But it has not solved the actual problem.

The real problem is that his labour has lost value.

And perhaps that is what we should be obsessed with fixing.

How do we make the Nigerian worker’s income valuable again?

How do we make ₦100,000 buy more next year, rather than less?

How do we make food cheaper by producing more?

How do we reduce the cost of energy and transportation?

How do we build an economy where salaries can actually keep up with the cost of living?

Because when I think deeply about it, perhaps one of the greatest things a government can do for its people is not to keep giving them money.

It is to build an economy where the money they earn has value.

There is dignity in being able to take care of yourself from the product of your own labour.

There is dignity in a teacher being able to feed a family from teaching.

There is dignity in a nurse being able to pay rent from nursing.

There is dignity in a young person working an honest job and gradually seeing life improve.

People should be able to look back after five years of hard work and say, “My life has become better.”

Not, “I earn more money today, but somehow I can afford less.”

That is the part that keeps bothering me.

Millions of Nigerians are not asking to become millionaires overnight.

They just want hard work to make sense again.

And maybe that should be one of the simplest ways we measure whether our economy is actually working:

Is the ordinary Nigerian who works hard becoming progressively better off, or progressively poorer?

Everything else is secondary.

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@afrisagacity Bishop Kukah unraveled? 😳 Whoa!

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@ThinkThank15 @Shedrack_Goble @IamJomar_J The argument isn't whether the practice is 'correct' or not. The point is whether it cld be waste of resources. A correct construction practice may be wasteful in sm situations. For instance, using a raft foundation in firm stable soil is wasteful, wouldn't u agree?

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@xandermii @Engreboi @IamJomar_J He is. And he asked you to educate him as to why his position is wrong. Do so if u can.

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@oluwafemi_ds @HighChiefOkoro At no point, now or in 2022/2023, did P.O ever say or promise to gv Nigerians stable 24/7 power supply within 4 years. I stand to be corrected by anyone with evidence to the contrary.

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@Vivi_garcia_v @honyediekeson I feel the same way too 😄

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@Vivi_garcia_v @honyediekeson U clearly don't like House of the Dragon 🤣🤣

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@fikky_99329 @jeffphilips1 @Mr_JAGs The pertinent qstn here is WHY are you still listening to him? Your TV remote isn't working? 😏

[Wins @GodwinsNduka1]

Open Advice to Peter Obi: How to Firmly Fight Back Against the 1966 Trap

Dear Peter Obi, @PeterObi, @VValobi2000 @OselokaHObaze

I just finished watching your recent Channels TV interview with @seunokin .

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@Lazlis @TrendingEx @VendrNg Omo, ur last 4 lines (especially the very last one) cracked me up bad 🤣🤣🤣

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@EkwensuRed @Benking443 I am glad someone noticed this and has said it out loud. Some of the qstns asked were quite jejune and pedestrian.

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@OGtalksfootball @stefanodotsui Are they together?

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@Floss1n_Aust1n @FilmzLoverz What are the other two on your list?

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@OkodiyaElai @Arcfunmi An engineer would object to you doing a neat and very commendable technical job?

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@IFA_segu @Morris_Monye Guy, read what you wrote again