Obinna Orjichukwu

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

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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[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Obinna Orjichukwu @obainoalone]

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[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

We didn’t engage JAMB simply out of emotion.

As soon as the results were announced, my phone blew up with calls from principals of schools using our Educare platform.
Their students had drilled for months on our CBT system—taking tests, viewing scores, grading schemes, and explanations—then iterating.

These principals had tracked the metrics we use to predict student performance.
Over the years, those metrics had accurately modelled outcomes.
But this time, the deviation was so extreme that they had questions.

We contacted the most affected students. The stories were consistent: technical challenges and certainty that the results didn’t reflect their performance.
A core concern stood out—JAMB’s current technology was not as transparent as our CBT platform, so the failure couldn’t be reconciled.

The principals asked if our metrics could’ve been wrong. We showed them our track record.
I assured them that something clearly went wrong with JAMB.

Still, to avoid personal bias, I broadened my outreach to 15,000 plus candidates to gauge sentiment, and the rest is history.
As revealed, our call-out was justified.

To those thanking me, thank the students who practiced relentlessly. They gave me the conviction that the issue lay with JAMB. I also thank JAMB for being open, transparent and very swift to take action.

This also shows the importance of transparency.
If Educare’s CBT platform can run a nationwide test, open to all, and release full results and marksheets in under 3 seconds, there’s no reason JAMB should withhold results for weeks — never showing marksheets.

Instead, you get a black-box score and must live with it.
Technology has evolved. JAMB must catch up.

You may not always get everything right, but you must try.
Transparency builds trust, and trust drives progress.

[Dr Yunusa Tanko @YunusaTanko]

Statement of Reconciliation and Unity for the Movement

One Voice, One Vision: The Call for Collective Action on the Mission to Birth a New Nigeria.

Dear Obidients and Active Citizens,

[Inibehe Effiong @InibeheEffiong]

I was on Channels TV last night to review the nationwide #EndBadGovernaceProtest that is ongoing.

I made suggestions on the way forward.

It is left for President Tinubu to address the demands of the protesters and secure his place in history.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

I like to categorically state that the Obidient Movement is not directorate of any particular political party. Any individual or individuals claiming to be leaders of this non-existent directorate are simply not members of the broader Obidient Movement.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

I was honored to be named the Political Icon of the Year 2023 by The Sun Awards. While I'm usually hesitant to accept awards in the face of our nation's challenges, this recognition is unique because it aims to celebrate those making significant contributions in various ways to

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

God damn!

I like this Judge

[Emmanuel Echeta @PenTitan]

You people hate your fathers. Stop the "he wasn't present" BS

300 level, there was no money at home, I couldn't pay fees or lodge rent. My dad was getting depressed but tried to hide it.

A few days to resumption, he and I drove to his friend's house by 8pm. The man was at a meeting, but we waited till 9/10 thereabouts.

When he was done, he attended to us. I suspected the reason we were there, but it had never happened before and didn't think it would.

My beloved father said to his friend:

"My son will be resuming school next week. For now I don't have any money to send him back. Look at him here. Please lend me xxx amount; I'll repay as soon as I get it. He's in 300 level. He has 2 years to go."

I wept inside because I had to witness my dad borrow money to send me back to school.

A lot of you come to talk bullshit about your dads, about how he didn't bond and other stupid things.

If your fathers had carried you to the places they went to earn, borrow or beg for money, you wouldn't say they didn't turn up for you.

I understand how easy it is to fall into mummy's bosom and never crawl out. But you think provision is just dropping money in accounts and in mummy's lap?

Do you know how that money was gotten? Do you know how many people didn't go to school because their father's died?

Fuck bonding! Fuck being present!!

All I needed from my father was being alive to provide for me. I didn't need him toiling around the house and gisting with me.

Many of my friends lost their fathers at an early age. I was praying everyday for my dad to come back home. That was the only form of presence I needed.

Shame on you if you become successful and abandon your father because of stupid emotional crap. Especially when you're a man.

[Obinna Orjichukwu @obainoalone]

@AAInsurancePlc @NaicomNG As a regulatory body, are you aware of the volume of complaints against @AAInsurancePlc. Please act in the interest of the citizens and call them to order

[Obinna Orjichukwu @obainoalone]

@AAInsurancePlc @AAInsurancePlc kindly pay my money. I submitted forms for payment on 27th September 2022 and I have not been paid till now. It's been over a year now. How irresponsible and cruel can you be?

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

THE RULE OF LAW AND THE CREDIBILITY OF LEADERSHIP

Still on the identity crisis and controversies that have continued to haunt the Nigerian citadel of power since the February 25, 2023 presidential elections.

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[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

And the church says?

[Dr Yunusa Tanko @YunusaTanko]

Two men want to lead a nation, one is saying go and verify my records the other is paying heavily to hide his records... 😂Obi/Datti Are Coming....

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

MESSAGE TO ALL OBIDIENTS AND MY SUPPORTERS

“DESPAIR IS NOT AN OPTION”.

My Dear Obidient Family and Supporters,

I trust that you all have listened to, or read my reaction to the judgment delivered by the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Wednesday, 6th September

[Noble Igwe @Nobsdaslushhkid]

There’s a reason a lot of people encourage fraud in Nigeria , we have zero regard for honest living.
We shame people grinding daily to put food on their tables.
We celebrate money without history.

[Daily Wire @realDailyWire]

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[Obinna Orjichukwu @obainoalone]

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