How State Police Bill Is Designed to Prevent Governors’ Abuse of Power
For many Nigerians, this has always been the biggest concern about State Police.
What safeguards are actually in the bill?
I break down the oversight mechanisms, intervention powers, and protections designed to prevent abuse.
Do you think they are enough?
Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 1-hour MIT professor, Patrick Winston, gave a legendary masterclass.
It will teach you more about speaking clearly, presenting ideas, and winning attention than most people learn in years.
🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.
The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.
Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.
If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.
The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.
They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.
The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.
The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.
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NO ONE KNOWS TOMORROW.
Yesterday was a pleasant day for me. I found two of my lost ‘sisters’ after last seeing them 43 years ago.
I ran away from home from 1973 to 1976 to live with an Anglican Reverend, E.T.O. Ogunsakin. I left Ondo Town to work in Kaduna in 1986 and went to the UK in 1990. I lost all contact with the Reverend and his children.
Over the years, I have sent people to Ondo Town to help me look for them and posted messages on Social Media. All attempts failed until I traveled to Israel in 2019. I was walking with a group and started talking with a man. I then spoke of my frustration of finding the Reverend and his family.
The guy laughed and gave me the telephone number of his eldest daughter, Shola, who lives in America and is now 63. I contacted Shola, and she connected me with these two sisters, aged 58 and 55. I last saw them when they were 15 and 12, respectively. Yesterday, I saw them again after 43 years. Bose Famuwagun, Nike Ogunsanya (nee Ogunsakin), and their other siblings are very dear to me.
I gave them an unexpected financial gift, and I was so happy. I have been looking for ways to bless them all these years.
When I lived with their father in the vicarage, he looked after me like his son. Whenever we slept at night, he would come into our room and kill mosquitoes that were messing around. He did not know that as young as I was then, I was always praying at night. I saw him as a very kind man. When mummy gave birth to their only son in 1976, they named him after me, DELE.
May Daddy’s soul and that of his dear wife rest in peace.
You see, Dele Olawanle today. That great man raised me, and the foundation of my being a pastor started under his care.
Lessons: Do not maltreat anyone living in your house. No one knows tomorrow. Also, show kindness to those who helped you when you could not help yourself. Do not forget.
May the Almighty God bless the generations of the OGUNSAKINs.
Let this message go around the world. It is a lovely story that will touch lives. To God be the glory.
It’s like there’s an unspoken rule in Lagos—if you drive a Corolla, you’re automatically an Uber driver. Let me gist you my experience.
I took my wife and baby to a church we were invited to for the first time. As soon as I parked, I stepped down to help my wife carry my baby…