Omoba Adewale

Author: The way we are wired!

[Atiku Abubakar @atiku]

I have watched Yusuf Aliyu’s video repeatedly, and each time, my heart breaks.

A child with such intelligence, clarity and confidence should be in a classroom building his future—not struggling for survival in a community surrounded by gold but buried in poverty.

I cannot look at him and see an “illegal miner.” I see a Nigerian child failed by the country that should have protected him. I see brilliance trapped by poverty and enormous promise abandoned by leadership.

I appeal specifically for his safety. His courage must not expose him or his family to intimidation or retaliation. I am prepared to support his education and ensure that the brilliance we have witnessed is not buried by poverty. Any effort to reach him must be handled responsibly through his family and appropriate child-protection channels.

But this video raises a question that should trouble the conscience of every Nigerian: how can a community sitting upon gold remain so poor that it cannot educate its children? How can its wealth leave the soil while hunger and deprivation remain in its homes?

This is an indictment of the Tinubu administration. The Federal Government controls Nigeria’s mineral resources, yet the communities producing that wealth remain without schools, opportunities or protection.

The contrast is revealing. President Buhari established PAGMI to register, train and integrate artisanal miners into the formal economy, with Niger State included among its intervention states. Tinubu inherited that framework but has met these vulnerable citizens with raids, detention and the label “illegal miners.”

Buhari saw people to formalise. Tinubu sees poor people to criminalise.

This boy is evidence against the Tinubu government. His intelligence exposes the opportunities it has failed to provide. His poverty exposes the injustice of Nigeria’s mining economy. His presence at that site exposes an administration that has left brilliant children without a ladder out of deprivation.

The government must explain what became of PAGMI in Niger State and how 37 Nigerians died in the custody of a federal agency. Calling them “illegal miners” cannot erase their humanity or excuse their deaths.

As a father, a grandfather and a Nigerian, I refuse to look away. I will continue to speak for these children because their lives matter, their dreams matter and their future belongs to Nigeria.

The gold beneath their community should build classrooms and livelihoods, not graves. —AA

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@ruffydfire Real solution is 'JUST STOP BREEDING ' like animal. We all get sense. When you breed like there is no tomorrow, you want the government to come solve your problems...No way!

[Akinwumi @Big_marvis]

Nepal changed its government through a major uprising about a year ago and brought in a new leadership that many citizens strongly supported. The new government came in with an ambitious reform agenda, including efforts to tackle corruption and improve governance.

But guess what? Those same citizens are already protesting again.

Why? Because many people expect reforms to produce immediate results—as if rebuilding an economy is like switching on a light.

This is where I see a similarity between Nepal and Nigeria.

Both countries have citizens who are understandably frustrated by economic hardship, but there is also a tendency to underestimate how long meaningful reforms take to produce tangible improvements in people’s daily lives.

You cannot spend decades building structural problems and expect a new government to dismantle them in a few months.

A country doesn’t become prosperous because it changes its leader. It becomes prosperous when it builds strong institutions, productive industries, infrastructure, human capital and policies that are sustained long enough to produce results.

Leadership can change overnight. Economic realities cannot.

Citizens have every right to demand accountability and vote out incompetent leaders. But if we keep changing governments every time reforms become painful, we may end up spending decades restarting the process instead of allowing good policies to mature.

The real ignorance is not demanding better leadership. It is believing that leadership change alone can magically fix decades of accumulated problems.

Nigeria needs reforms. Nepal needs reforms. But both countries also need something many citizens underestimate: patience, policy consistency, institutional stability and time.

You cannot plant a tree today and demand shade tomorrow.

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@Big_marvis I am not surprised, if @_dinomelaye can claim wealth from raising goats, 4 planes without church box is indeed a bigger miracle. Until burden of proof is on the owner, Nigerians can continue deceiving themselves. We ain't seen anything yet! A former president even said cows!!!

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@sowore Loaded with historical context, I can’t but agree with @sowore on the issues enumerated therein. History remains the best political weapon..if only you know how to wield it. Accountability for public office holders defies age!

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@waveboy_1 @davido Hiw many parties for we have in Nigeria? Has the numbers been prone done to 1?

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

Disaster waiting to happen anytime T

[Tokunbo Wahab @tokunbo_wahab]

In line with the directive of Mr. Governor @jidesanwoolu to rid the Lagos-Badagry Transnational Highway of all forms of infractions, environmental pollution, illegal motor parks, roadside trading, and market displays on highway setbacks and pedestrian walkways, enforcement operations uncovered a disturbing act of vandalism beneath the newly constructed bridge linking Festac Town to Alakija.

Investigations revealed that suspected hoodlums had deliberately vandalised critical structural components of the bridge by removing iron rods, steel reinforcements, cables, and other supporting materials essential to the integrity of the infrastructure. This criminal act poses a serious threat to public safety and undermines the government’s investment in critical infrastructure.

Following this discovery, a joint midnight enforcement operation involving officers of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) and the Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) task force was conducted at the location. The operation led to the arrest of 27 suspected hoodlums, who will be prosecuted in accordance with the extant laws of Lagos State.

The Lagos State Government remains committed to protecting public infrastructure and will continue to take decisive action against individuals or groups engaged in acts of vandalism, environmental infractions, and other criminal activities that threaten the safety and wellbeing of residents.

#ZeroToleranceLagos

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

The East is it's own Enemy

[Dr. Calafiori 🦇 @fimiletoks]

But Calabar could afford $600m in 2005...

Why do these Southern Candidates avoid criticising the Sokoto - Badagry expressway that costs as much as the Lagos - Calabar. They are afraid of the backlash from the North.

The FG is not even funding the project fully. The FG funds 30% and the 70% will be funded by investors who would recoup their investment from tolls over a period of time. Except we are saying that that our maritime corridor across 9 states is not attractive enough to yield significant direct commercial and productivity returns.

Oga Donald Duke should take a trip to the Calabar Section of the expressway.

[Akinwumi @Big_marvis]

WHO IS ACTUALLY BLEEDING IN NIGERIA...

4 years ago....a Mason worked for me ...

I paid him N40 per block.... He used about 200 blocks.... I paid him N8000.....

few days ago ....he did same job.... I paid him N150 per block..... He got N30,000...

That is almost 4 times what he earned 4 years ago...

A barber taking N300 now take N1000...

A bike man taking N200 now take N600..

A poultry farmer selling eggs N50 now take N250....

The question is ...... Who is bleeding???..

Before you rush to mention minimum wage earners...

Minimum wage earners in Imo, Lagos and others have seen their wages triple...

The only people who can complain are the jobless.... not because of Tinubu policies.... because they have always been there....

Companies are making exponential profits, Recruiting more staff as they expand....

The govt at all level didn't lay off workers ...

Instead they are employing more Nigerians with hundreds of thousands new govt recruit... across tens of new universities and polytechnics, security, construction site among others...

If you are bleeding....you carelessly injured yourself....

Tinubu is rescuing Nigeria....

If you think otherwise....

Present your arguments let’s see

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@PoliceNG_CRU Activities of the police at Shagamu interchange is creating unnecessary traffic
gridlock accessing Shagamu coming from Lagos. This had caused several accidents in recent past and untold hardships, officers are seen collecting tolls pymt here
#NoToImpunity

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@ruffydfire your gragra is too much. Your guest made analysis based on 3 different pricing OUTCOMES yet you are bringing in other cost component already taken care of in the output pricing. The new variables are exchange rates before, during and currently.

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@ruffydfire Rather than listen to your guest you argue pointlessly. Your host mentioned minimum wage in America and Nigeria. Labour is cheaper in Nigerian compare to America which should translate to lower cost in refinerning when juxtaposed. But you will not let him land on his point

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@easydigita @ruffydfire Of course people don't read nor understand the complexity of public finance, just exaggerated sentiments.

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@DapoAbiodunCON @OfficialAPCNg What is strategic about this meeting that does not benefit the people of Ogun State? You guys are heartless and a symbol of shame + failure. All I see about your leadership is intellectual laziness and lax. Shame!

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@ruffydfire How else will funds get to the poor? UNHCR and FG has beeing given CCT for years, how has this help the poor. We can come on SM to give theories that really does not support economic sense. The same IMF insist you do CCT but I have seen no improvement where CCT was championed.

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@PeterObi Stop coming out to disgrace yourself here . You are part of the destruction today in Nigeria. One would have thought you acted differently while in government or have an academy to produce stars. Stop postulating geometrics to pontificate success. There is no correlation.

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

How much more intelligent can you claim to be when NIMET and other international weather agencies had already forecast what would happen along the West African coast, yet you're still blaming the coastal road? It's astonishing how difficult this is for some people to comprehend.

[TheLoved❤️ @UfotImaobong]

@oraji2 @ruffydfire Typical response from your camp. Nothing more intelligent can come out from there.

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@ruffydfire Mr emperical facts, is it also coastal road that is affecting Ghana flood too? The flooding in Ghana is worse than Lagos yet you open your bias as usual to bad mouth your government. This is not journalism. Local champ for Ob--t

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@ruffydfire At a time when dollars also stabilized at 1300. When it was N1525/1$ and crude sold at $75, it did not pass the N1300 per liter. Our economics is just different, what goes up stays up not down. Dangote, you are a capitalist pro and anti people too. What will N75 reduction do?

[Omoba Adewale @oraji2]

@ruffydfire People just post without understanding what is being shared. The attached does not depict a recent but very old rail structure. The new rail line had concrete underbelly not this old rail line of the 30s being branded about. Lets fact check before coming to paint lies.