Tayo Olojede

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

1. What did David Oyedepo establish Covenant University for?
2. South Korea has historically sent between 20,000 and 27,000 long-term foreign missionaries abroad, placing it #2 globally in total volume behind the United States. South Korea is also a technology powerhouse.

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

I have finally finished reading @fisayosoyombo’s amazing account of crossing the desert into Libya, a route many unsuccessfully try to take to Europe. I believe that his wonderful account would have done more to dissuade many from embarking on this perilous journey than any public awareness campaign.

In academic qualitative research, we call this kind of research Ethnography. The researcher immerses himself deeply in the subject matter and becomes a research tool. Fisayo could easily have earned a PhD from this work if it had been planned as an academic research project. I don't think it's too late. It just needs to be complemented now by structured interviews and other research.

I am amazed by Fisayo’s physical fitness and endurance, and his capacity to bear pain and discomfort. I stan the man over and over again. 🙌🏽

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

Iran, despite being under heavy US/Western sanctions for almost 48 years - has been able to sustain quality public tertiary education. There's no reason why we should not be able to.

Why do you think US and Israel were bombing Iranian universities? Because they know that's where the brains who sustain the Iranian missile and drone industries come from.

Many Africans are quite foolish. Contrary to what Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan preached, universities are not supposed to be money making ventures, and students are not supposed to be burdened with unsustainable college debts for the rest of their lives.

Americans are wealthy, they can afford all the neo-liberalism nonsense on education. We are poor, we cannot - and in any case, Americans have the option of free government funded K-12 education. We do not.

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

This is just warmed over 1980s/1990s liberal economics bullshit - the kind peddled by Milton Friedman, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

Africans just regurgitate it, without thinking. Nobody in East Asia did. The Indians never did.

Chinese universities are now catching up with US universities, the Indian IIT system is still world-class.

Many of us do not know what time of the day it is. The term "Human Capital" must mean something.

A University Education is not a "luxury", it is an absolute necessity. The people who teach your child biology, physics, agricultural science, English Language, mathematics etc., in secondary school have to be university graduates.

If the Government of a developing nation cannot effectively subsidise quality public education - then that nation has no future in the 21st Century.

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

He's even the one that kept reposting the clips here & drawing people's attention to it.

This wasn't a "Head to Head" it was a Head to the Chopping Block and he carried the axe there.

Most people think Bwala is sharing these clips because he’s "clueless." They’re wrong IMO. This isn't a lack of self-awareness, it’s a public blood oath. He is showing the Presidency & party faithful that he is willing to be scorched alive in the town square if it means proving his loyalty.

"Look at me guys, even against the big bad Western media, I will burn myself on the stake of embarrassment and ridicule to defend this mandate"

The most striking part? Mehdi Hasan wasn’t even his usual combative self. He sounded disappointed. It felt like he eventually dropped his journalistic "sword" because there was nothing left to cut. You can’t debate someone who denies the very ground they stand on.

He couldn't believe what he was seeing in real time. For fifty minutes, him and his audience got a front-row seat to the psychological exhaustion the Nigerian people endure daily.

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Farewell to Kayode Egbetokun, the IGP who mistook power for an eternal contract, hunting down nearly everyone who irritated him. At least those he could get.

Under his watch, the police cemented itself as the cheapest tool in the hands of the rich and powerful, wilfully offering to go after activists and journalists who said, tweeted or printed things that were deemed offensive. In his reign, journalists got trailed, raided, abducted and detained in the meanest of ways, without reason and more importantly without trial.

Goodbye to Egbetokun, the IGP with residential and ancestral ties to the headquarters of smuggling in the southwest but someone managed to not notice them much less bring them to book (Not that I do not know why.).

He leaves office with a legacy of power abuse, incorrigibly corrupt force, heightened crime and association with some of society’s most questionable elements. Hope his successor Tunji Disu does better. Or not. Up to him.

[School of Sport & Exercise Science @UlsterSchSport]

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[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

We have built cities without proper city infrastructure.

I recall explaining to a foreign investor that a major city had no sewer lines. He couldn't understand it, he mentioned it to my boss, he thought I was giving wrong information.

Are there fire hydrants in your city in 234? What about sprinklers in the buildings you work in? Seen any?

One fire truck can't carry enough water to put out a major fire. We have many fire trucks but no hydrants. those who sold us the firefighting engines assumed we had water hydrants.

I asked Grok: Is there any major or mega city without water hydrants in the world? See the answer below.

"It is highly unlikely that any major, modern 'mega city' (defined as a metropolitan area with over 10 million people) exists with a complete absence of a fire hydrant system or alternative water supply infrastructure for firefighting. Fire hydrants are considered essential for urban fire risk management and public safety globally."

I am not blaming anyone (emphasizing this), but the response to this post should be: "How can we develop alternative water supply for fighting fires, enforce fire codes", and not denial, abuse, or whataboutism?

Many cities in 234 have become too large, so installing hydrants would be a major infrastructure upgrade costing billions. But what about those new estates cropping up? Do they have hydrants? Is there any building code mandating and enforcing sprinklers?

Growing cities have to start planning these modern infrastructure into the overall designs, eat that cost now, because you will eventually have to do it. How can there be building insurance without sprinklers and water hydrants? that's like paying life insurance, then driving at high speed, with no seatbelts, old worn tires and faulty brakes.

God bless us all.

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

If there's no electricity - you buy a generator.

If fuel becomes to expensive - you buy solar + inverter.

You don't stop to ask why a nation with Africa's largest gas reserves cannot provide 24 hour electricity.

No, "there's no time to think, we are too desperate to think".

This kind of shallowness characterizes the contemporary Nigerian. It is now being applied to matters like internal security.

Okay oh, don't think through the problem, because "you are too desperate to think" - let's see how this century unfolds for you.

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

There will be no end to killings in Nigeria until grand corruption in security agencies is tackled.

In @policeNG, for instance, more than N1bn meant for the building of transit camps in Benue, Bauchi, Plateau, Katsina and Kano got frittered away by the interior ministry and senior policemen years back.

The projects were awarded between 2016 and 2018 but when FIJ Nigeria visited the sites in 2021, little or nothing had been done. By the way, the transit camp project was approved due to increased killings in the north. The camps were to house policemen closer to the flashpoints as a way of facilitating faster response to attacks.

In Falgore forest, Kano, FIJ could not find a police transit camp. The local police officers in the forest also revealed that there was neither a site for the structure in the forest nor a plan for such. The only police station in Falgore was an old bungalow without a ceiling.

In Plateau, FIJ’s fieldman spent an entire day hunting for a N245 million project without success. This was someone who was born in Plateau and had lived all his nearly 40 years there. The following day, he found two uncompleted bungalows and a few mobile buildings on an expanse of land that was the site of an abandoned police transit camp in Riyom. A real estate expert dispatched to the site by FIJ valued that project at “N9 or N10 million”. A N245 million project!

Meanwhile, Joseph Egbunike, the commissioner of police in charge of budget and finance at the time of siphoning of the project funds had become a deputy inspector-general of police by the time FIJ Nigeria covered it, and he used the office of the then IGP Usman Baba to harass FIJ. When I honoured their invitation in Abuja, which ended up a coordinated detention, the IPO told me pointblank: “We know the transit camps are not there, but why are you harassing Egbunike? If the ministry writes to say the project is done, should he not release money?”

Even when I was interrogated by more senior policemen, not one of them told me FIJ had lied. Egbunike had been appointed to chair the Abba Kyari-FBI probe panel and with the eyes of the world on him, they were desperate to get us off his back. Egbunike was also close to retirement; they wondered if we didn’t want the old man to retire in peace.

Corruption, graft and avarice have become entrenched in our institutions. If left untamed in security institutions, we have no hope of curtailing the terrorists to whom Nigerian lives have no value. Whenever you read news of killings in Benue, Plateau, Bauchi, Kano and Katsina, always remember that more than N1bn was released for positioning policemen for rapid response, but some people in the ministry of interior and the police stole almost all of it!

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

This is Joseph Eribo, the Ekiti State commissioner of police, on whose orders @fijnigeria's @sodeeqaatanda is currently being detained in Ado-Ekiti.

Sodeeq's only crime is writing about FUOYE VC Abayomi Fasina's sexual harassment of his married female subordinate.

Should something happen to Sodeeq, this is the man to hold responsible.

[Great Oracle Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary. @AbdulMahmud01]

This isn’t Pyongyang. This is Abuja. Yet, grown men still wave at the iron bird and the maximum ruler.

[Daniel Ojukwu (OJD) @Mazi_OJD]

Police Resume Customary Harassment of FIJ, Summon Lagos-Based Reporter to Ekiti

https://t.co/RfmzRu0syL

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

If the officers of the Ikeja @PoliceNG Command can tell a journalist while assaulting him: “I will cut off your neck now… you will die here, and the autopsy will show asthma killed you — not police brutality”, only God knows what they do to other civilians behind closed doors.

Despite all the learnings they should have taken from 2020 #EndSARS, the police continue to terrorise Nigerians every day, and for this reason the police in my eyes are no different from any other terrorist group.

They’re no different from Boko Haram, bandits, IPOB or herdsmen if you strip them of their uniforms and their constitutional backing. A stench-filled institution from the very top to its bottom!

[Daniel Ojukwu (OJD) @Mazi_OJD]

As usual, because the @PoliceNG have impressed on the victim to bring the video down, we reproduce for record purposes.

Why? Because…

There are no substitutes for good policing.

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Make no mistake about it: the only reason Comfort Emmanson is getting government pardon is that it became reasonably clear the airline staff were just as unruly as she was, and barbaric in addition.

Until the Ibom Air hostess who stripped her fellow woman naked for public viewing is punished, justice hasn’t been served.

In Nigeria, the system is always rigged against the masses, and this was one more distasteful proof.

[Daniel Ojukwu (OJD) @Mazi_OJD]

Dear @PoliceNG, rule of law.

[Great Oracle Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary. @AbdulMahmud01]

@fkeyamo: Greetings, Festus. I trust you have seen the videos of the scuffle between Citizen X, officials of Akwa Ibom Air, and AVSEC operatives. To strip a citizen of dignity in such a crude, public manner is shameful. It points to two interlinked failures: first, the absence of

[Ose Anenih, CPM @ose_anenih]

What we are seeing in real time is what social scientists call the Broken Windows Theory.

It holds that when visible signs of disorder such as broken windows, pooping on the street, running red lights and public unruliness go unaddressed, they invite more offences because potential offenders assume their own misbehaviour will also go unpunished.

True sociologists will recognise the link to Cesare Beccaria’s classical deterrence theory, which argued that the certainty of punishment matters more than its severity in deterring crime.

This agberoish social contagion in the aviation sector did not start with a lady on the tarmac or even with that musician. Ending it will require a public example that is clear, firm and impossible to ignore.

[DaSuKi @chukaobi]

—Threw the content of the flask at the pilot who came to entreat with him

—Bodily blocked the plane

—Put out a statement LYING BLATANTLY

—Posts video of himself BAT & on a call, as he laughs off the crime

—Posts apology video

Now here you are, excusing him.
Lawless Lowlifes.