Mahmud Azores

[Tuchel @Officially_Kriz]

Segun Agbaje, the Group CEO of GTCO, on why GTCO is not interested in expanding to South Africa.

He says South Africa is a mature market. All South African companies making money are making it from Nigeria.

He cannot go to SA to make money while they're coming here.

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

@DokunOjomo @Officially_Kriz Very related though

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

I’m not sure fifa wants to confront the US on these issues. They are happy to turn a blind eye to the mistreatment of players of particular nationalities.

[Taneem. A .Sani @staneem]

@gimbakakanda Just like they should have done with Iran. Fifa had ample time to figure out solutions to countries having diplomatic issues with the United States, subsequently scheduling those countries to be in Canada or Mexico.

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

@AminuDalhat I’m glad to be sited as reference. It took me 3 year to take the plunge. I am glad I did. Alhamdulillah.

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

@AminuDalhat Still outstanding 👏🏾

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

The perennial job market conundrum persists. Many graduates and 'experienced' professionals allude to a lack of opportunities while recruiters highlight a shortage of qualified candidates. Clearly, there's a gap that needs to be filled. The question is..how? Your thoughts.

[Bashiru Akaπbi🛰️ @BashiruAkanbi2]

INCENTIVES WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY: FACTS, NOT FLOWERY PROMISES

While the Presidency celebrates the gazetting of “targeted incentives” for Shell’s Bonga South West project, Nigerians must ask hard questions that the press release carefully avoids.

First, no Nigerian has been told the actual cost of these incentives. What tax revenues are being deferred, reduced, or waived? For how long? Under what measurable performance benchmarks? Incentives without numbers are not policy,they are blank cheques.

Second, the claim that these incentives are “ring-fenced” and “investment-linked” remains unverified rhetoric until the gazette is made public. Nigerians have seen this movie before: incentives promised as temporary quietly become permanent revenue leaks.

Third, government speaks of “thousands of jobs,” yet provides no job breakdown—how many are permanent Nigerian jobs versus short-term contracts or expatriate roles? Deep-offshore projects are capital-intensive, not labour-intensive, and history shows they often create far fewer local jobs than advertised.

Fourth, citing Shell’s $7 billion investment in 13 months without clarifying how much is new capital versus previously approved or reinvested commitments is misleading. Investors do not need applause; Nigerians need clarity.

Most troubling is the silence on energy justice. At a time when Nigerians face high fuel prices, rising electricity tariffs, and energy poverty, government is fast-tracking incentives for multinational oil firms,without publicly explaining how ordinary Nigerians will tangibly benefit.

Investor confidence is important. But national confidence is earned through transparency, not press statements.

If these incentives truly protect public revenue, boost local content, and serve Nigeria’s long-term interest, the government should publish the full gazette immediately, including:

Fiscal terms and duration

Revenue trade-offs

Enforceable local-content obligations

Clear job and FX benchmarks

Nigeria does not lack investors. What it lacks is open governance.

Until the facts are on the table,i remain skeptical.

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

@fkeyamo Late Audu Abubakar from Keffi (built Imani Estate, Maitama Abuja) , Nasarawa state owned Imani Aviation in the 80s.

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

@AminuDalhat This is rule is amongst the most important but often overlooked underrated and underreported!

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

🫣 😬

[Murtala Baloni @MLBaloni]

@moudOne @flyairpeace Dude! Why?!

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

10:30pm still here!

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

@flyairpeace will send a reminder of your flight time and a few hours later you get another for 2 hours delay…like clock work!

I will be healed from this Stockholm syndrome by His grace. 🙏🏾

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

@flyairpeace will send a reminder of your flight time and a few hours later you get another for 2 hours delay…like clock work!

I will be healed from this Stockholm syndrome by His grace. 🙏🏾

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

My MTN broadband has been without network for 3 days and no one has come to fix it despite several complaints.

[MTN Nigeria @MTNNG]

There’s something special about a father’s words - they live in your heart forever 💛

Here are a few dad moments by MTNers we’ll never forget.

Now it’s your turn - what are those fatherly words that still make you smile?

#HappyFathersDay
#StayConnected

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

May the Almighty heal him. 🙏🏾

[Murtala Baloni @MLBaloni]

I got a message from someone I consider close to me that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. His words ‘where do I go from here?’ really knocked the wind off my sails! Been thinking about it all weekend. May God heal him and us all.

[Murtala Baloni @MLBaloni]

I got a message from someone I consider close to me that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. His words ‘where do I go from here?’ really knocked the wind off my sails! Been thinking about it all weekend. May God heal him and us all.

[Gimba Kakanda @gimbakakanda]

The Road to Uromi

When we push back against the stereotypes and profiling of the North—especially narratives that strip its people of their humanity or, as one mob agitator once put it, frame their culture as something that must “completely die off and be replaced with something fit for human civilisation”—we do so to prevent precisely the kind of horror that transpired in Edo State.

There is no barbarism worse than the extrajudicial killing of a fellow human being, whether in Sokoto or Udune Efandion, Uromi, Edo State. Words are not mere expressions of sentiment; they carry the weight of influence, and when delivered with hate, they become weapons. This was how those innocent northerners, merely traversing their own country to earn a dignified living instead of settling for a life of crime, were cast as preys for slaughter.

The massacre of these 16 northerners isn’t an isolated case. In May 2022, a pregnant woman, Harira Jibril, and her children were killed at Isulo, Anambra State, along with six others identified as northern Nigerians. They were not in the process of committing a crime; they were travelling through a part of the country that saw them as people from a culture that deserved to die off. Yet northerners, despite all the violence attributed to the region, have been incredible hosts to southerners, embracing them in their villages and cities.

The reality is that northerners have been unfairly vilified in Nigeria, made to bear collective guilt for the actions of a few bad actors. Even international observers have bought into this misleading agenda, with some amplifying the ridiculous claim that Boko Haram targets only Christians, despite data showing that Muslims have been the group’s worst victims. This misrepresentation is also due, in part, to the fact that northerners are underrepresented in media ownership and lack the platforms to set the record straight.

During the Buhari government, my friend @Abdulrahmanleme was the leading voice in calling out the media for failing to pay attention to the danger of pathologising the Fulani, who were stripped of their humanity and thrown under the bus. They were hated by an entire nation for the crimes of criminals from their ethnic group, as though the entire Fulani community had convened to mastermind a crime against a people or the nation. This was made even worse by President Buhari’s Fulani affiliation.

This prejudice didn’t emerge from a vacuum. What is frightening is that the masterminds in the South are characters who pride themselves on being the most civilised. They measure civilisational superiority not by moral character but by academic credentials. Yet true civilisation is not defined by literacy alone but by a society’s commitment to justice and equality. A sane society is one where no one is deemed inferior and no community is punished for the crimes of individuals who happen to share their ethnicity, religion, or region.

What happened in Edo was not justice, nor was it a response to any crime. It was pure, unfiltered hatred. And a section of the media, through its reckless framing and dehumanisation of northerners over the past decades, fuelled this dangerous climate. They turned fellow citizens into targets for violence and enabled tragedies like this to unfold.

#JusticeforUromi16

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

An exciting game and a win aren’t mutually exclusive!

[Osasu Obayiuwana @osasuo]

@chaplinez70 You want excitement? Or you want the win? What’s more important to you, at the moment?

[Osasu Obayiuwana @osasuo]

@chaplinez70 You want excitement? Or you want the win? What’s more important to you, at the moment?

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

Ask for your money back.

[Mister Maze @PHCEGE]

@StatiSense This is 2024. You are giving us 2022 data.???

??????

[Mahmud Azores @moudOne]

@MLBaloni @gtbank_help It’s work in progress sir. 🙏🏾