The Sam

Son. Husband. Mentor. Chief Explorer @travelwithsamg Joyful Volunteer @myhillsonglagos

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Burkinabé students now need government permission to study abroad. This means that whether your father is a cabinet minister or a private millionaire, there is no way for their children to escape the state of the country's educational system

Which leaves them no choice but to make sure that the facilities available to students in the country are befitting of their own children.

That is how a country develops an actual elite. Not like Nigeria where as soon as I finished secondary school, my parents put me on a plane to England to enjoy a standard of education that no Nigerian alive today will ever enjoy in Nigeria. The class my parents belong to is called a pseudo-elite.

A proper elite is what is coming together now in the AES. Just wait. If there is no change of Nigeria's trajectory, within 10 years, Nigerians will start going to university in Burkina Faso and making it out to be a status symbol.

[Abdulwahab Animoku, PhD @AnimokuA]

I promised to come with receipts, this is an excitement I cant contain. Years of hard work, investing in these kids is paying off hugely.

We have just broken 20 year long record in the just concluded Pan African Maths Olympiad, 2026, in Ivory Coast.

Nigeria won 3 Silver Medals and 1 Bronze Medal.

Silver:
Chimfumnanya Aghaduno of Penny International School, now studying at African Olympiad Academy

Damaris Oyerinde of Ambassadors College,Ota

Luis Lu of Nigerian Tulips International College, Abuja

Bronze:
Ikenna Enwere of BrightSun. By the way, he got the second highest score (370) in Jamb this year, amazing talent.

This is the first time Nigeria has a female student that secures Silver medal at PAMO making Chimfumnanya the first Nigerian female with the highest score at PAMO ever.

This also means this is the first time we have 2 girls securing Silver medals from Nigeria.

This is a huge win for Nigeria and testament to the investment @SpecialMaths had made on these kids in the last couple of years.

Moment like this brings pure joy, we remain resolve that every child that enters our doors would leave a champion.

Big congratulations to the students, parents, schools for your continual cooperation.

[HillsongLagosConnect @myhillsonglagos]

There’s a seat with your name on it this Sunday. We’re expectant for what God is going to do as Rob Ketterling brings the Word across our church 🥳

Bring a friend, bring your faith, and come ready for another incredible Sunday together ✨

See you 10:00am — 11:30am 🤗

[Nigeria Democratic Congress @NigeriaNDCHQ]

PRESS STATEMENT: - NDC Demands Immediate Sack of Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila Over Massive Corruption Scandal Involving Fake Agency and Sale of Appointments.

[Cyborg Warlord @Admiral_Cyborg]

1.3 billion naira released to a fake agency in Nigeria but 36 million was released to the Ministry of Health.

They prioritize stealing over your well-being.

The APC.

[gst @wearegst]

Tinubu’s administration is on a mission to extract as much money from the country as possible at the expense of the public.

[Babatunde Gbadamosi @BOGbadams]

Nigerians should be grateful to Matthew Adeyemi Adeniyi, whichever way this scandal ends up.

If @aonanuga1956's elaborate and utterly implausible treatise on the matter is to be believed, Adeyemi has proved what many of us have alleged since 2015 - that the @OfficialAPCNg is a collection of supremely incompetent and greedy criminals.

He fooled the Federal Secretariat management team into allocating offices to his "fake" agency, and thus proved that they are at the very least utterly incompetent and possibly irredeemably corrupt.

He fooled the @cenbank, @DrYemiCardoso et al, into opening CBN accounts for his agency, thus proving that the CBN under Cardoso has turned into a cesspit of an insane level of incompetence and again, possibly fetid corruption.

He fooled the President Tinubu and his Minister of Finance into including his "fake" agency in the 2026 budget, this proving their lack of diligence and lack of dedication to their jobs.

He fooled the National Assembly, led by @SenGodswill, into passing that budget, with an actual financial allocation of billions of ₦₦₦ for his "fake" agency, thus proving that the National Assembly of the @OfficialAPCNg is nothing but a rubber stamp and possibly deeply corrupt.

If Adeyemi is right, and the agency really exists and was in fact created by the Presidency, included in the budget and given an allocation from taxpayer funds, he has proved that the @OfficialAPCNg government of @officialABAT is a cesspit of metastasised grand larceny, greed, corruption, avarice, and just plain looting - which is a position many of us have long held, since before Tinubu acquired the Presidency.

As resilient as Nigeria has proved to be, I do not think Nigeria will survive this stratospheric level of conjoined corruption and incompetence.

#Gbajagate

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Behold, Nigeria’s smartest con artist, who was somehow able to get an appointment letter from the presidency, smuggle the name of his agency into the budget, find the high level documents necessary to open an official CBN account, employed staff, got an office in the Federal Secretariat, got a budget for his office, was able to summon and have meetings with ambassadors and international business people, probably had a diplomatic passport. And magically made the only person who could prove his story die tragically in a hotel fire that killed only one man days before he could be questioned. A superhero. A genius. Houdini would be proud. We believe you.

[The Sam @samadeleke]

Gbam!

[Cinderella Man @Osi_Suave]

I am not a dirty person, so do not add me to this collective.

I have lived in Lagos and on the Island for the better part of my life.

The Island never used to flood when we were kids.

No matter how heavy the rain was, flooding started when Lekki developed and people built without proper town planning.

Whose fault is that? The government.

Now they have added the coastal road and it is worse.

Places that were natural swamps and reservoirs have all been sold and sand filled.

When are we, as a collective, going to demand that the government does its fucking job for once?

[AMB. SERAH IBRAHIM @TheSerahIbrahim]

This story is actually insane and nobody is talking about it, and the key witness has apparently died in a hotel fire.

Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi accused Femi Gbajabiamila of collecting ₦400 million from him for a ₦600 million deal for the appointment to become DG of Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), the Chief of Staff was said to have demanded 48% of the agency’s ₦24 billion take-off grant.

Prince Adeyemi said 48% is too much. There was a little disagreement apparently, and on 11 June 2026, Gbajabiamila, in his capacity as Chief of Staff, issued a public statement saying the PFIPC was not an official government body.

Prince Adeyemi wrote a petition to the police and named the middleman who was the witness to everything that happened.

The middle man, who is the key witness to the transaction died a day after that petition.
Prince Adeyemi wrote for the investigation of the man’s mysterious death, and also claimed there are multiple assasinanation attempts on his life.

He also claimed his phone was particularly stolen in one of the attempts and they are refusing to help him track it.

Gbajabiamila claims the company does not exist and that Prince Adeyemi is telling lies, but the 2026 Appropriation Act currently contains a ₦1.3 billion budget allocation for the PFIPC on page 50 and 51.

So how did a “non-existent”agency receive a budget allocation?
The criminality happening under Tinubu is abysmal.
Why is this not making the news?

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

When we kept on asking for EIA they called us names!

I have been vindicated

[gst @wearegst]

Pelumi Onifade was murdered for doing his job. We must never forget, governor Sanwolu has blood on his hands.

[gst @wearegst]

A reminder that the president is YOUR elected official. His job description under Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria explicitly states:

"The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government."

The constitution does not say the primary purpose of government is to issue orders regarding security; it says the primary purpose is to secure the people.

When orders fall short, the immediate next step is:

An administrative overhaul under Section 218(2) of the 1999 Constitution.

Prosecution of confirmed terrorists and funders.

Instead...

The terrorists have been reintegrated into society, and funders are shielded by political bureaucracy and left walking the streets completely free.

Meanwhile, his Attorney General (Lateef Fagbemi, SAN) and the EFCC Chairman (Ola Olukoyede) are still securely in office, protected by low-level conviction statistics.

[Opeyemi Babalola @BOTAD01]

Adolphus Wabara was removed as the Senate president because of the N55M bribery scandal.

Nigerians take a lot of nonsense generally, but the nonsense from the APC is on another level.

[iOccupyNigeria @iOccupyNigeria]

https://t.co/B6plxwEoCL

[Ex-Grammaton Cleric @OtunbaBrickz]

Pedestrian arguments like this tire me bcos it plays into the hands of a government that’s not interested in fixing anything. Lack of Dirt or trash isn’t the reason why Netherlands does not flood! I don’t know why we keep going back to this topic!

The reason Amsterdam doesn’t flood is bcos of billions of dollars investment in world class flood protection engineering & technology.

Also Dubai floods every year too and Dubai isn’t dirty but they have terrible flood protection systems which they are currently investing billions of dollars building proper sewage reticulation systems, flood detentions systems, flood gates and levees, etc to fix the flood problems! Few years from now when flooding becomes a thing of history in Dubai you’ll be here still blaming Lagos’s dirtiness which is still a problem caused by inadequate government infrastructure for it.

Have you also ever asked yourself why no matter how badly Lagos floods, Eko Atlantic is NEVER flooded? The simple reason is bcos the private company that built & owns Eko Atlantic engaged the same Dutch engineers that designed the flood protection systems in the Netherlands to design that of Eko Atlantic!

Even if there’s no single trash in Lagos, Lagos will still be flooded every rainy season! Until we spend money on building flood protection infrastructure. Check out this video, to understand why the Netherlands doesn’t flood.

https://t.co/ANVAUOUjkX

[Yanju shine @YanjuShine]

45 days 😩😩
The term is almost over!

Their mates are still in school,
Not knowing what tomorrow holds!

Ministry of education has moved on
The government is not saying anything

This is beyond sad 💔💔💔

#bringbackourchildren

[gst @wearegst]

Know this: The Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources has a budget of ₦236 billion.

The government is taxing you to swim to work.

[UNCLE @MrOlibaba]

If you're a Business Banker and you're under pressure to deliver your targets but you don't know where to start, let me share with you a strategy.

This was one of the things that helped me when I moved from Retail Banking to Business Banking.

At my branch, we had over 200 dormant corporate accounts. Every week, the Head Office account management team would send dormant account report for follow-up and reactivation.

I noticed that many of the older staff hardly paid attention to the report. They probably had bigger priorities they were chasing.

I saw this as an opportunity.

I took ownership of the report, filtered it by industry and location, and started reaching out to the customers.

One thing I quickly discovered was that these customers were not out of business. Most of them had simply moved their transactions to other banks because nobody was managing the relationship anymore.

Customers love to be heard.

They like knowing they have a banker they can call. In fact, many of them take pride in saying, "My banker called me" or "wait let me call my banker".

I stayed consistent with reaching out to these customers, I visited their business locations at different times till I was able to get them back. I adopted this strategy for one month, and the results exceeded my expectations.

I remember one particular customer at Ajao Estate, a large FMCG importer. They had accounts with almost every major bank.

The day I visited to collect the account reactivation documents, I watched this man sign transfer instructions worth millions of naira to five different banks.

What I have learned in banking is that when the relationship with customers goes cold, they naturally move to where they feel heard.

Thankfully, I successfully reactivated the account, enrolled them on channels, increased their transfer limit and the rest was history.

One lesson this job has taught me is that strategy and smart work will always outshine busy activities.

Another interesting part was that whenever I updated my Branch Manager that I was working on dormant account reactivations, she was always pleased. I wasn't just helping myself achieve my targets. I was also helping the branch reduce the volume of dormant accounts Head Office was monitoring.

Everyday when you go to the office think of something different you would do to get something done.

Every time I come here to share these things, I do them because I want you to see beyond the target and pressure.

Don't allow the outside noise of "pressure" to distract you. This job is not bad.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I'm thinking we should have an annual Best Teacher Award where the best teacher each year wins ₦100 million.

We can have other categories too.

Something like a Grammy to celebrate and inspire teachers.

What do you think?