Salamatu Wachiko

A Muslim who tries to enjoin what is good and forbid what is Evil. Love for others what you love for yourself. Agriculture and Commerce. Let's feed the world.

[Daily Trust @daily_trust]

Ex-Super Eagles Captain William Troost-Ekong Converts To Islam
https://t.co/baHTsFhHH3

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

This image that is circulating now on social media shows what childhood is like in Palestine. A child returning from school, hiding in fear when he sees an Israeli military car. Palestinian children deserve better than this. We’re tired of living in fear. We’re tired of fearing for our children every time they go back home from school. When will this end?

[Uncle K Esq @Supheey]

Dear Nigerian Government,

When our children were abducted in Oyo, we saw urgency.
You deployed 1,000 forest guards. You provided updates. You showed concern. You pursued the kidnappers and eventually brought the children home.
We applauded you because we believed that response reflected the value you place on every Nigerian life.
So why has the response to the #BornoSchoolChildren been so different?
Their parents have protested repeatedly. They have pleaded for their children. Yet months later, we are still waiting for the same urgency, the same visible effort and the same determination we witnessed in Oyo.
No Nigerian is more Nigerian than another Nigerian!
It is already a failure that these children were abducted. It would be another failure to allow their parents to keep pleading while their children remain in captivity.
Give Borno the same urgency you gave Oyo and #BringBornochildrenHome.

[Muslim News Nigeria @muslimnews_NG]

Former Super Eagles captain William Troost-Ekong embraces Islam, recites #Shahadah in #Doha. 🇳🇬☪️ The 33-year-old Nigerian defender, who plays for Qatar Stars League club #AlAhli SC, was reported to have embraced Islam on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. Welcome to #Islam, brother.

[Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai @elrufai]

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[Salamatu Wachiko @salawach]

@elrufai @elrufai may well be our #Mandela.
#FreeElrufai
#WhatGodCannotDoDoesNotExist

[Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai @elrufai]

NIGERIA UPDATE - Nigeria’s Growth Crisis Is a Talent-Allocation Crisis - by: Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai - 1st April, 2026 - Part 2

4. Sectoral Reality: Why Building Is Harder Than Extracting

Consider a few concrete Nigerian constraints.

Power

Nigeria’s average available grid capacity is just over 5,300 megawatts for a population exceeding 200 million. No serious manufacturing or services economy can scale under such conditions. When power is unreliable, firms remain small by necessity.

Ports and Logistics

Average vessel turnaround time at Nigerian ports has been around five days—far above global best practice. Each delay creates gatekeeping opportunities, raising costs and uncertainty.

Jobs and Firm Structure

With wage employment hovering around 16%, most Nigerians work in survival-level activity. This is not because Nigerians lack ambition, but because the system penalizes formal growth.

When these constraints persist, entrepreneurship becomes a high-risk, low-reward path. Rational talent looks elsewhere.

5. Evidence from Other Countries—and What It Means for Nigeria

Cross-country evidence supports this argument. Countries that channel more of their top talent into engineering, applied science, and production tend to grow faster. Countries where talent concentrates in rent-oriented legal and administrative activity tend to grow more slowly .

The lesson is not that law is unimportant. On the contrary: law is essential when it enables commerce. But when legal and regulatory systems become tools for extraction rather than facilitation, they draw talent away from growth-enhancing activity.

Nigeria today sits at that crossroads.

6. Signs of What Is Possible

There are encouraging signals.

Nigeria’s non-oil exports have grown strongly, driven by products such as cocoa, fertiliser, cashew, and processed agricultural goods. This shows that when incentives align—even partially—Nigerian firms can compete and scale.

The task before us is to generalise this success, not treat it as an exception.

7. The Real Reform Objective

Nigeria’s reform agenda should be summarised in one sentence:

Make value creation more rewarding than value capture.

Everything else flows from this.

This means:
•Shrinking discretionary power and rent opportunities in government;
•Making rules predictable, transparent, and digital by default;
•Ensuring property rights and contracts are enforced quickly and fairly;
•Making it easier to scale a business than to stay small and hidden;
•Aligning finance with long-term production and exports, not short-term arbitrage.

When these conditions exist, the most talented Nigerians will move—naturally and voluntarily—into productive enterprise.

8. What Success Looks Like in 24 Months

If Nigeria is serious, progress should be visible and measurable within two years:
•Power availability rising from ~5,300 MW toward 8,000–10,000 MW reliably delivered.
•Port turnaround times falling below four days, with fewer physical interventions.
•Wage employment rising toward 18–20%, signalling firm formalisation and scale.
•Tax-to-GDP moving toward 10%, driven by digitisation and base broadening—not harassment.
•Manufacturing and tradables expanding their share of GDP and exports.
•Non-oil exports growing not just in value, but in the number of exporting firms.

These are not technocratic targets. They are signals to talent—telling Nigeria’s brightest minds that building, producing, and exporting now pay better than extracting.

9. The Strategic Choice Before Us

Nigeria’s future does not hinge on slogans, nor on personalities. It hinges on who wins in our economy.

If the system rewards brokers over builders, we will continue to underperform.
If it rewards producers over extractors, growth will follow—rapidly and durably.

This is the central lesson of economic history, and it is the challenge of our moment.

Nigeria does not lack talent.
Nigeria must reallocate it.

God Bless our Country.

[Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai @elrufai]

NIGERIA UPDATE - Nigeria’s Growth Crisis Is a Talent-Allocation Crisis - by: Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai - 1st April, 2026 - Part 1

Nigeria is often described as a paradox. We are a nation of extraordinary human capital—energetic, inventive, resilient—yet our economic outcomes fall persistently short of our potential. Growth remains shallow, productivity weak, firms struggle to scale, and prosperity does not spread widely enough.

Today, I want to advance a clear and uncomfortable proposition:

Nigeria’s growth problem is not primarily a shortage of talent, capital, or ideas.
It is a problem of where our best talent goes—and why.

This is not a moral argument about individuals. It is a political-economy argument about incentives.

1. The Core Insight: Talent Follows Returns

Across societies and across history, highly capable people choose occupations that offer the highest returns to ability, especially where small differences in skill translate into large rewards. Economists describe this as increasing returns to talent.

When those returns are highest in entrepreneurship, innovation, and production, economies grow.
When those returns are highest in rent-seeking—activities that redistribute existing wealth rather than create new value—growth slows or stalls .

People do not wake up intending to harm their country. They respond rationally to incentives.

So the right question for Nigeria is not “Why are people corrupt?”
It is: “What activities does our system reward most handsomely?”

2. Nigeria’s Current Incentive Structure

Let us be honest about Nigeria’s reality.
•GDP growth was about 4.1% in 2024, respectable on paper but insufficient for a country with our demographics.
•GDP per capita remains around US$1,084, placing Nigeria among lower-income economies despite our scale.
•Informal employment accounts for roughly 93% of the labour force, meaning most firms are small, fragile, and defensive rather than scalable.
•Nigeria’s tax-to-GDP ratio is only about 8.2%, one of the lowest in Africa—signalling weak fiscal capacity and heavy reliance on discretionary collection rather than broad, rule-based taxation.

These numbers are not abstract. They describe an economy where scale is risky, visibility attracts predation, and long-term investment struggles to compete with short-term access.

In such an environment, the most capable Nigerians often find that the fastest and safest returns come not from building large, productive enterprises—but from proximity to state power, regulatory discretion, political brokerage, or legal and administrative contestation.

This is exactly the mechanism identified in the economic literature: when the “market” for rent-seeking is large, talent flows there .

3. Why Rent-Seeking Damages Growth

Rent-seeking harms an economy in three cumulative ways.

First, it absorbs labour and capital without creating output. Resources are spent competing over existing wealth rather than expanding the economic frontier.

Second, it acts like a tax on productive activity. Businesses face delays, uncertainty, informal payments, and arbitrary enforcement—raising costs and discouraging investment.

Third—and most damaging—it diverts the very people who would otherwise be the most productive entrepreneurs and innovators.

When the brightest minds are pulled away from production, the quality of entrepreneurship falls, technological progress slows, and the economy’s long-run growth rate declines .

This is why rent-seeking does not merely lower income levels; it can permanently reduce growth.

[Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai @elrufai]

Today Exactly 212Days @elrufai in Detention.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere." Injustice anywhere is a threat to Democracy everywhere ."

[Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai @elrufai]

A Must Watch 📹

THE MALLAM NASIR EL-RUFAI DOCUMENTARY

By 'The Justice For El-Rufai Project'.

[𝐃𝐫 𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐚 @Realoilsheikh]

Dear Governor Umaru Bago, @HonBago

It is deeply sad & unfortunate to see yet another tragedy in Nigeria where the lives of ordinary citizens appear to be treated as expendable. This is as we weep the barbaric acts perpetuated by the Lakurawa terrorists following the attack & abduction of worshippers in Borgu. Words can't express our pains for the failure of govt at state and federal level.

Suspending the NSCDC boss and setting up a committee of investigation cannot, by themselves, solve the problem. Nigerians have seen this pattern repeatedly: a panel is constituted, investigation finding a never announced, the public attention eventually fades, families are left to mourn, and accountability becomes another forgotten promise.

These 37 young people were someone’s sons, brothers, relatives and friends. Many were teenagers and young people struggling to survive in an economy where poverty and unemployment have pushed vulnerable Nigerians into desperate means of livelihood.

Yes, illegal mining must be addressed, but we must also confront the deeper question: why are young Nigerians being forced into such dangerous activities simply to survive?

When poverty becomes so severe that young people must risk their lives to put food on the table, leadership cannot respond only by blaming the victims. The system has a responsibility to protect lives, create opportunities and prevent desperate citizens from being pushed into deadly situations.

Your Excellency, Niger State needs more than another investigation. It needs justice, transparency & accountability.

Let the investigation be independent, comprehensive and made public. Let those found responsible, regardless of their position or affiliation, face the full consequences of the law. If criminal negligence or deliberate wrongdoing is established, the appropriate punishment under Nigerian law should be imposed.

Most importantly, please ensure that this tragedy does not become another statistic that Nigerians eventually forget.

37 lives is not a number.
37 families are grieving.
37 futures have been lost.

Governor Bago, Nigerians are watching. We need justice for the victims, support for their families, and concrete action to ensure that this does not happen again.

May Allah have mercy on the departed and give their families the strength to bear this painful loss.

[Salamatu Wachiko @salawach]

@Arewa_Source This man is obviously an agent of disunty among Nigerians. They plan and Allah plans. And Allah is the best of planners. All evil plan against #Nigerianmuslims by Bandits, Terrorists, Separatists and their sponsors within and outside #Nigeria will be quashed inshaAllah.

[Salamatu Wachiko @salawach]

@hadizel Assalamalaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Hajiya hakuri baya yawa. Ayi hakuri a kuma ba Mallam hakuri. Allah zai saka mai da mafificin alkhairi. Allah ya jikan Hajiya da suaran magabatanmu. Amin

[Peacock @dawisu]

Dan Allah ka dubi wani irin wuru wuru da rana tsaka ba kunya ba tsoron Allah! 😂🤣😂

[Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai @elrufai]

KADUNA UPDATE - Thank you, Mr. Cham Faliya Sharon -14th January 2026

BANDITRY: THE VINDICATION OF EL-RUFAI - ETHNIC BIGOTS WANT THEIR BANDITS FREED! - by Cham Faliya Sharon - Part 1 of 2

The same people lying against El-Rufai over banditry or insecurity in Kaduna State are the very same ones now seeking the release of the murderous bandits he caused to be arrested and prosecuted while he was Governor, simply because the bandits are members of their religion or indigenes of their tribes. Their new propaganda now is, they want the world to believe that banditry or terrorism is the exclusive vocation of a particular people or a particular religion but not their's, as such, they want their bandits released from jail simply because they are in the "correct tribe and religion" that does not practice banditry.

To be clear, these convicted mass murderers were arrested after a very sweeping federal investigation over how they were blocking a federal highway that passes through their communities, during which they would waylay motor vehicles, drag out all the passengers, and then kill them in very gruesome ways, which is the same kind of pattern that used to occur in some communities straddled along the Jos - Abuja federal highway. Sometimes, they embark on these murders whenever they hear about some crisis elsewhere for which they think they have a duty to exact revenge for "their" people.

By so doing, they always murder lots of innocent people and turn travels on those roads a living hell. During those times, the roads get blocked, and a journey of one hour could stretch to 6 hours or 12 hours or even more, that is, if you are even fortunate to make it alive. Sometimes, journeys are even cancelled, or an alternative longer route will be followed to avoid the murderers on the blocked highway. As you can see, no responsible government will allow that.

For those kinds of communities in Kaduna State, as part of his solutions to the recurring problem, Governor Nasir El-Rufai threatened to relocate them farther away from any Expressway or Highway in the interest of the general public, especially the innocent travellers who were always their victims. The threat worked because such incidents became rare for as long as he remained governor, and the security agencies that investigated those murderous road ambushes arrested many of the perpetrators of the unprovoked murders. In the end, the courts recently found them guilty through processes that guaranteed them access to lawyers and fair hearings.

Now that they have been found guilty, they are adding their guilt to the catalogue of their endless grievances against Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. They are now waging a barrage of propaganda of lies that they were simply arrested and prosecuted by El-Rufai for protecting their communities from bandits. Please, don't laugh. These are people who were investigated by federal investigators, and who were presented with evidence of their complicity in court, and who all had lawyers arguing their case, but are now blaming El-Rufai for their guilty convictions in court more than two years after he was no longer in any way attached to their court case.

As usual, they have even added an international dimension to their propaganda, that they were being persecuted on religious grounds because they were defending their communities from bandits, which makes you wonder how constantly blocking highways, killing travellers, robbing them of their possessions and setting their vehicles ablaze will amount to community defence? By the way, this is exactly what bandits do in places where they operate. They also block highways, rob travellers, seize some travellers for ransom, and then set their vehicles ablaze and then wait for their next opportunity. What makes them think their own killings are of no legal consequence than the killings done by other bandits?

[Salamatu Wachiko @salawach]

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[Salamatu Wachiko @salawach]

@LeadershipNGA The Military, Police, DSS should have permanent bases in these forests going forward besides the aerial surveillance ordered now. Nigeria will emerge stronger after this storm inshaAllah

[Duke Of Nigeria. @xagreat]

Christian terrorists, Isah Peter and Moses Peter from Agatu LGA have been arrested for the brutal attack on Anwule community in Ohimini Local Government Area of the state, where several residents including a pastor were murdered.

These Christians kill themselves and turn to blame Muslims.