The unfortunate fact about Nigeria is, is that any person who is able to actually change things will be, at least in the short run, deeply unpopular with the people. Because Nigerians have become so used to dysfunction that they will protest if they suddenly have to do things the right way. If you take away their ability to lean on tribal or religious bias, take away their ability to fast track things or circumvent procedure with bribes... Any serious leader will have to be tough and uncompromising not just with the political elite, but also with the masses, who are stuck in their tribalism, religious bigotry and superstitions.
@DeleFarotimi@therealdaddymo1 Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity:
Evil can be guarded against, but stupidity cannot. Furthermore, the world's few evil people hold little power without the cooperation of the world's many stupid people. Consequently, stupidity poses a far greater threat than evil.
Dear Young Nigerians,
One lesson from the 2023 elections, particularly in Lagos, should never be forgotten.
In the period following the presidential election and leading up to the governorship election, we witnessed a troubling shift in public discourse. Conversations that should have focused on competence, governance, development, and the future of our nation were gradually diverted towards tribal sentiments, ethnic divisions, and unnecessary suspicion among citizens.
Many sincere and well-meaning Nigerians participated in these conversations without realising that they were being drawn into narratives carefully designed by others.
Throughout history, whenever politicians find it difficult to compete on ideas, performance, character, or vision, some resort to exploiting the fault lines of ethnicity, religion, and identity. Their calculation is simple: a divided people are easier to manipulate than a united people.
Today, I see similar efforts emerging again, sometimes in more subtle and sophisticated ways. Narratives are planted, amplified, and circulated, often by individuals who genuinely believe they are defending a worthy cause, without recognizing the broader agenda behind such campaigns.
Let me state clearly that Pastor Enoch Adeboye remains one of the foremost fathers of faith in our nation. For decades, he has consistently preached the virtues of peace, prayer, love, reconciliation, and national unity. Even when faced with provocation, his response has always reflected humility, restraint, wisdom, and grace.
At 84 years of age, it would be unfair for young and able-bodied Nigerians to transfer to him responsibilities that properly belong to them. The task of building a better Nigeria rests primarily on the shoulders of the younger generation. It is their duty to lead the conversations, champion the reforms, and drive the positive change our nation urgently requires.
We must be careful not to become instruments in the hands of those who secretly nurture division while publicly preaching unity. In most cases, their target is not the individual being attacked; instead, it is the person who is attacking. Their real objective is to weaken the bonds that hold us together as one people and one nation.
I therefore urge all young Nigerians: do not allow anyone to recruit you into hatred. Do not allow anyone to weaponise your ethnicity, your faith, or your admiration for respected leaders.
Question every narrative. Verify every claim. Follow the facts. Resist manipulation.
The Nigeria of our dreams can only be built by citizens who refuse to be divided, who choose unity over hatred, and who place our collective future above narrow interests.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Elderly people in Nigeria leave you with very strong contrasting emotions.
A lot of them are irrevocably stupid.
It's not even ignorance, or Stockholm syndrome. Just deliberate stupidity.
And yes they see all that's happening through social media, they're all on Facebook.
For Nigerians, please don't play the game of political banter with paid APC operatives. Block them and keep stating your points against the bad governance we have had. They are a distraction that needs to be isolated.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
In whatever you do today, just remember that a teacher was beheaded after over 40 persons (including 39 students and 7 teachers) were abducted in a school invasion in Oyo state, and the Federal government is yet to say not to talk of do anything about it.
Same day, in Borno state, 51 children were kidnapped, with a significant number being toddlers aged 2 to 5 years old from a nursery school in Mussa, Askira-Uba LGA of the state.
Eye witnesses reported that the kidnappers used the children as human shields while fleeing on motorbikes, to prevent security forces from firing at them.
All of these happening in Nigeria. Not Syria.
It could have been families of any of us. The silence of the government towards these numerous cases of insecurity, is deafening.
Strike the monster while it's still a monster. Once you understand its pain, your resolve weakens. You begin to see a broken thing in need of fixing.
But the most potent fix is striking it swift and ruthless. Taking away its percieved monopoly.
@lilyally98 50% fidelity clause is logically coherent as long as both parties are of the same wealth class. Else, the whole purpose of a prenup is defeated.
One can't stand to get 50% of an empire while the other is looking at half of nothing.
The only party signup I did, was Labour Party.
When they moved funny, I deleted my profile.
I didn't signup for ADC - I decided not to shout up any party until I saw my Principal on the ballot.
If it is Vikings that will field my principal for 2027, I will buy red beret.
This is no longer about opposing views or dissenting political opinions.
Its about the fact that these people who cannot see past temporary satiation of hunger, and tribal sentiments can not be trusted to make rational decisions regarding our collective prosperity as a nation.
One thing we grossly underestimate in the Nigerian political space is how dvmb the average Nigerian is.
It is soo bad that I'm starting to believe stupidity was specially scripted into our DNA...
Those who truly mean well for Nigeria have to factor in the overwhelming number of dvmb, gullible and greedy people in the country.
Something desperately needs to be done here.