Anything Finance

We're here for you 🤗

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

The most critical and immeasurable component of human development today is Education. It is a known and verifiable study that the more educated a nation is, the more developed it is. Consequently, the most important investment and Policy a nation requires is educating its people, especially children, to secure their future.

Nigeria was not only a signatory Millinum Development Goals (MDG) and Sustainable Development Goals which emphatically emphasised Education as a critical development yardstick, but also has as law Universal Basic Education, which means every child should have access to quality basic education. Yet, right here in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, public primary school pupils have been out of school for over three months due to a strike.

When the strike began, we all thought, “This is Abuja; it will only last for a day or two.” But here we are, three months later, our children are still at home and we are busy renovating the infrastructure.

The foundation of societal development is educated citizenry, not physical infrastructure. True development is about building people. It is about educating the next generation. A nation that ignores its children's education is digging deeper into poverty, insecurity, and underdevelopment.

We must prioritise investment in human capital, especially in basic education, healthcare, and pulling people out of poverty. That is how nations grow. That is how we build the New Nigeria that is possible.

-PO

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Kenyans are fighting to build their country themselves - Wandia Njoya and Mordecai Ogada https://t.co/qCyaCGoLOR

[Chief Ikukuoma @IkukuomaC]

Look at what APC did to the investment of Mr Peter Obi younger brother at Ikeja today !!!! Billion naira worth investment destroyed for absolute no reason

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

For the record, anyone who has anything to say about China not offering visa-free access to African countries is either being paid to say it or is just not an intelligent person.

The purpose of visa-free access to a country is economic, not political. Countries offer visa-free entry to populations that offer them the economic value that they need. So production-heavy countries like China need cash-rich consumers like those from southeast Asia, Europe and North America, and tourism-heavy countries need tourists with money to spend.

The only economic value that most African populations currently have to offer is cheap labour - which is not a problem that China with its 1.4 billion people has. The only thing that would happen if China opened its borders to Africa is that >100 million Africans would scrape together some airfare, disappear into China and become a black underclass on yet another continent. Who needs that shit? What Africans need is economic growth at home, not a place to escape to. And the country doing more than any other in the world to make that African economic growth happen is China.

So the next time you unlock your Oppo smartphone and load a data package from your mobile network built on Huawei and ZTE infrastructure, before stepping into Mobolaji Johnson Rail Station and getting an SGR train to Ibadan, all of which was built by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation and financed by the China EXIM Bank, remember that infrastructure that grows your economy and cheap access to powerful technology that will give your kids a future is what you need in your African country - not visa-free access to China.

Get your head out of your ass.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

As Nigerians rubberneck about Burkina Faso's military government, the total dismantling and personalisation of the Nigerian state continues apace under their sorry noses.

This time, is their police which has effectively been split into a 2-tier institution, with a public tier to dominate and oppress the population, and a special private tier for the exclusive personal protection of those who can afford it. I mean this has always been the case unofficially, but this is the first time that a Nigerian government has been bold enough to tell 200 million poor people "Fuck you, our lives are worth more than yours" to their faces.

For added fuck-you value, the new pseudo-private elite militia wing of the police wasn't even announced by the police itself, but by a member of said elite, and the passing out parade of this new state-funded militia took place not at a government installation, but at the private residence of another member of said elite. The Nigerian elite (i.e anyone who can buy their way in) now effectively has defacto immunity where those from lesser income brackets are concerned. It was already near-impossible to use Nigerian law enforcement to hold rich people accountable before, but it is now official that rich people in Nigeria now have their own uniformed protection mafia, complete with separate training and equipment from regular policemen, guaranteed by the Nigeria Police Force. Total and absolute state capture on crack cocaine.

This is all part of the American puppet program your puppet president was recruited to carry out, by the way - the strategic capture, dismantling and privatisation of the Nigerian state in a way that profoundly distorts Nigerian society and locks it into a dystopic condition where no citizen has any rights guaranteed, and even the right to breathe air must be paid for.

And the bad news is that there is no Ibrahim Traoré in the Nigerian armed forces - in fact those ones are even more compromised and useless than the bespectacled warrant chief sitting in Aso Rock. If something decisive does not happen in the next decade, Nigeria is heading for a mass extinction event.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I have avoided this story because I have so many thoughts that I don't think Nigerians are ready to hear, but I want to say one thing:

For the life of me, I cannot understand why when presented with unreasonable behaviour, oppression, and power-tripping from any kind of authority, the FIRST reaction of Nigerians is to comply with whatever rubbish is asked of them, then to grumble afterward.

Why would an exam body ask your teenage child to show up for an exam in the middle of nowhere at 6.30AM, and then your reaction is to put his/her life in danger by ACTUALLY SENDING THEM THERE? I've been seeing people crying that their child went for the exam and hasn't been seen since, or their brother is missing, and I promise I am not angry at JAMB - I am angry at YOU.

Why are you so completely, utterly, psychologically bereft of a spine that you do not know how to look at any type of authority or power and say "NO!" Why are you people so genuinely useless in life that you actually complied with this nonsense that JAMB asked of you? Usually the excuse is that Nigerians cannot come together to oppose anything because "we are too divided," but are you also divided on the subject of whether to sacrifice your child to the Nigerian government or not?

Really? JAMB told you to wake up your child at 4AM and send them off to the middle of nowhere in a country fighting at least 5 different armed insurgencies, so they can arrive at 6.30AM for an exam that doesn't start till 9, and you people are such pathetic cowards that you could not say "NO"? Not even your legendary Nigerian selfishness was enough to tell you that compliance was not in your interests? Now you're crying that you can't find your child?

I don't have a shred of sympathy for anyone this happened to, because you people are the reason why Nigeria and Africa are where we are. You have no spine. No character. No ideals. No useful beliefs. No pride. No usefulness to the world. Just the desperate greed and cowardice that convinces you that physically sacrificing your child to an exam body is better than risking the possibility that he/she doesn't write the bloody exam and get to give a testimony in church after getting uni admission afterward.

Your mates in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are willing to sacrifice their own lives to protect their children's future. You aren't even willing to sacrifice an exam to protect your children's lives. Once any kind of authority is invoked, there is no oppression that you will not cheerfully tolerate. Your contemporaries in the AES aren't willing to sacrifice ideals like sovereignty even when faced with the world's most powerful bullies. But you people are willing to sacrifice your own children that you carried for 9 months to the Joint Admissions and fucking Matriculation Board.

Weak, spineless, and 100% deserving of whatever misfortune life throws at you!

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

France 🇫🇷 was buying Uranium from Niger 🇳🇪 at 80 cents a Kilo and selling to the rest of the world at 200 Euros a Kilo 😮

[Field Marshal of the Han Dynasty @General_Oluchi]

So Burkina Faso is supposed to hand over their gold to the US for safekeeping because they apparently can’t manage it themselves? I’m trying to understand what the hullabaloo is about.

And didn’t you Trump supporters say he wasn’t going to meddle in Africa’s business?

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

"God protect IBRAHIM TRAORE" ~ Sarkodie

[Donttatazela TR @donttatazela]

Long live Captain Thomas Sankara 🕊️
The destiny of the African has to be revolutionary. We can’t seat on gold mines and be starving whilst those with nothing in their lands enjoy our resources and at the same time call us the wretched of the earth. Rise up Africans.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @beyondB_DAG]

These 5 septuagenarian, octaoctogenarian, and nonagenarian African leaders have served a combined unprecedented 300 years in office between them, but General Langley and others have no issues with them, because most of them are serving western interests.

Why must very elderly African leaders be in power for decades, in a continent where about two thirds of the citizens are under 35 years.

Ibrahim Traore, who is much loved by the people and spent less than 3 years in office, is the problems.

Fellow Africans, are you thinking what I am thinking.

[Kobe Boujee @kobe_boujee88]

Now you know why Westerners are so concerned about Burkina Faso

[Somto Okonkwo @General_Somto]

“This Is Why We Need To Pray For This Ibrahim Traore, Keep Him Alive And Don’t Believe The Propaganda In The Western Main Stream Media Against Him.”- Even Western Bloggers And American Podcasters Are Now Singing High Praises Of Captain Ibrahim Traore And Calling For Africans To Unite With Burkina Faso Against Any Western Interference.

[Evaluator. @_AfricanSoil]

"I'm not a politician, I am a soldier. My job is to defend and protect my country." - 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗼𝗿𝗲

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Gérard Soete: I cut Lumumba into 34 pieces

“I cut up and dissolved Lumumba's body in acid. In the middle of the African night, we started by getting drunk to have courage. We got rid of the bodies. The hardest part was cutting them into pieces with a chainsaw before pouring acid into them. There was almost nothing left, only a few teeth. And the smell! I washed three times and always felt like a barbarian dirty ”

These words are those of Gérard Soete, pronounced on 15 May 2002, forty years after the disappearance of the Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

[ỌMỌ́TÁRÁ LAWRENCE @theladymotara]

Please retweet 🙏🏽🤲🏻

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Moment when Minister Louis Farrakhan ripped Mike Wallace about Nigeria, defending the whole of Africa.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

They won’t teach you in school that, most of our Ancestors who resisted slavery and colonialism that their heads and skeletons are in jars in Europe.

[Jim Njue @jimNjue_]

A Message to African Presidents