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My posts are sparse. My convictions are not.

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To be in lieu of something is to replace it or substitute for it.

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Nigeria’s national symbols are sitting on a powder keg: Lessons from Kenya https://t.co/5yzhOXG89X

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@realfemiadebayo I watched this on mute and I love it 😀

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@renoomokri Awolowo wasn’t waiting to cash out on Nigeria. Ken Saro-Wiwa wasn’t building a fortune while preaching sacrifice. You don’t get to become obscenely wealthy and then role-play as Nigeria’s prophet. At some point, it is either self-interest or public duty.

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Private jet aircrafts became the order of the day. We thereby lost as a nation the battle to tone down and tune up the society for rationality, moderation, production, sanity, living within our means and saving for a rainy day.

During our administration we were concerned with the need to create a wholesome social atmosphere and a bid to reduce vanity and eye service in government, we banned naming of public institutions or facilities after incumbent public officers. We also discouraged giving present to public officers. This has led to exploitation of the citizenry in the past, whereby they were asked to contribute for such presents and only small amount was untilised and substantial amount disappeared into wrong pockets.

As part of our drive at inculcating in our citizens the need for national self pride we changed the lyrics and the rhythm of the national anthem. Our aim was to indigenise the anthem both in terms of the lyrics, rhythm and the rime to emphasize the positive aspect of the Nigerian Nation and to challenge the youths who are the future leaders.

In addition, we also introduced a national pledge. The idea of the pledge was actually suggested by Dr. (Mrs) Felicia A. Adeyoyin. whose husband Solomon Adeyoyin was a one-time classmate of mine. She wrote a letter to me and attached a draft of a pledge to the letter. She was informed by her experience in the United States of America. The suggestion was timely for the launching of the universal Primary Education (UPE). I rewrote the pledge by touching it up and forwarded it to the ministry of Education.

The ministry set up a committee on it and the proposed pledge was launched with the Universal Primary Education scheme. We encouraged the memorization and the recitation of both the pledge and the anthem by all school children believing that once it becomes ingrained in their subconscious a more positive identification and sensitization to the Nigerian nation and polity would be brought about if the environment is other congenial.

— Olusegun Obasanjo
(Not my will 1990)

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@isbae_u

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Stammering Ope

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To the President and National Assembly that will emerge in 2027 and beyond, I urge a serious review of our national symbols; the name, anthem and coat of arms. Let them reflect who we are, who we aspire to be, and a Nigeria confident enough to define itself beyond its colonial legacies.

13 August 2026.

Opeyemi Adebayo

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@benjitaylor I’d invent offline tweeting. The internet shouldn’t be a prerequisite for using 𝕏

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I've never liked your politics and this only confirms why. By the same logic you have used here, betting companies are simply exploiting an existing belief and demand. That doesn't make what they do socially beneficial.

Betting doesn't create meaningful value for society; it profits from addiction, desperation, and false hope. Saying there's already a market for it is no more convincing than saying there's a market for any other harmful product. I struggle to take seriously any politician who champions a betting platform while claiming to serve the public interest.

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deus intersit: hic enim nodus vindice dignus factus est.

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Please. Protect. What cannot vote. Forests. Rivers. Children. Tomorrow depends on all three.

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Thrown into a contrast

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I feel most Nigerian