In 2008, I published my thesis titled Traditional Revolution: Formalizing the Informal, examined the role of waste pickers and scavengers in Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt, and how they could be integrated into a modern waste management system rather than treated as a nuisance.
The paper argued that waste pickers form the foundation of an informal recycling network that already performs an important public service. And Instead of leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and exclusion, I proposed a framework that formalizes their activities, creates economic opportunities, improves collection efficiency, and reduces the burden on government.
More than a decade later, the same principles remain relevant. Sustainable solutions require planning, inclusion, and execution, not endless excuses.
Sadly, the environmental mess confronting our state is the result of policy failures and poor implementation. It is also the consequence of poor imagination and a lack of leadership.
You can explore the thesis at the link below.
https://t.co/rBnXSCzwtg
P.S. we have been passionate about #ourlagos for a very long time.
Over 10 top military officers were killed under Tinubu. We watch them slaughtered on live videos.
Meanwhile Tinubu’s Air Fleet received ₦20.3 billion, while our Army’s allocation for operational equipment, which was supposed to receive ₦20.6 billion, received only ₦1.4 billion barely 8% of what it should be.
He’s busy campaigning while school children have spent over 30 days in captivity.
#TinubuTheFailure
Tinubu has approved over ₦3 trillion this year alone for firms associated with Chagoury
Seyi Tinubu is said to also be a board member of Chagoury’s subsidiary, CDK.
Over $700 million allocation was previously allocated to Chagoury last year
The ridiculous $13 billion Lagos Coastal Highway was also gifted to Chagoury last year, when almost all the federal roads in Nigeria are dilapidated
Do the maths, how much of our national wealth has gone to Chagoury since Tinubu became President?
#TinubuTheFailure
🚨 WANTED FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT 🚨
IGP OLATUNJI RILWAN DISU has REFUSED to obey a 2015 Federal High Court judgment ordering the Nigeria Police Force to pay my right-hand reconstruction medical bill. I am a graphics animator SHOT by a police officer at a checkpoint in Lagos.
10 YEARS. No payment. No justice.
I face permanent disability without help.
Suit No: FHC/L/CS/573/13
#JusticeForTomori
Today is World Refugee Day.
Yet, millions of Nigerians have become refugees in their own country. Across the North and other parts of Nigeria, communities have been displaced by terrorism, banditry and violent attacks, with IDP camps now a painful symbol of our national failure to protect our people.
Many of these camps are grossly underfunded and inadequate for the thousands forced to live there. Families struggle daily for food, healthcare, education and basic dignity. For many, survival has become their only reality.
Children are abducted from schools. Families are forced to flee their homes. Farmers abandon their lands. Citizens live in fear of kidnapping and violence.
Worse still, with insecurity continuing to spread and intensify, there is little hope for many displaced Nigerians to return to their communities and rebuild their lives safely. This is not OK
On this World Refugee Day, we must remember that behind every statistic is a human life disrupted, a family uprooted, and a future put on hold. Nigerians deserve safety, dignity and the right to live peacefully in their own country.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
My father, Comrade ABC Ubani JP took pictures with several governors of Anambra State including the present governor of the State, but in our family sitting room we only have enlarged pictures he took with Peter Obi, while he served as the governor of Anambra State.
I once asked him, what Peter Obi has done for him that made him practically decorate our sitting room with his pictures.
He first said, that I should snap a picture with a governor first beyond asking him that question.
He went further to say, that before Obi became governor, they (Anambra civil servants) saw hell with respect to worker's welfare, payment of pensions and gratuities. Both my parents were state civil servants, now pensioners.
My father has been a Labour union leader since 1994, so he understood the government-workers faceoff, before Peter Obi practically made life easier for workers in the state.
When he, my father who is now 74 years old retired to the village a few years ago, his portraits with Peter Obi was one of the things he took with him. He moved them from our family house in Awka to our family house in Enugwu-Ukwu, where he is now spending his last days while still serving as the State Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners, Anambra State, which makes him the longest serving union leader in Anambra state today.
The Comrade as I call him is a prolific writer who wrote so many bulletins against former State govenors of Anambra. When I was much younger he was arrested a few times for some of his controversial releases against governors of the State. I remember my mother, Mrs Rose Ubani searching for days to find where he and his colleagues were being held.
When Peter Obi was first removed from office, which should be around 2007 or 2008, I was about 16 years old. But I remember like it was yesterday my mother calling for us to fast and pray as a family for him to be reinstated, and we did fast - our welfare as a family dependend on that. Graciously, Obi made a comeback. Two comebacks, to the glory of God.
Therefore when you see me defending Peter Obi on this space, it is not for nothing. It is a burden I must discharge in appreciating a man who made the difference in the governance of Anambra State.
No Peter Obi slander will see the light of the day, once I'm here, and I will be here for a very long time!
When I criticise the current governor of Anambra state, is not out of hate, but for the love of Anambra. I criticised his predecessor and I know what it cost me. I do not mind paying a costlier price today.
My loyalty is not to any governor, but to my State, Anambra.
My name is Kingsley Ubani , and I'm just getting started.
Electing Peter Obi will trigger a cultural shift in Nigeria. It will restore morality, accountability, and the belief that leadership should be earned, not bought.
@aaron_dami007@felixherbt Comprehension hard for you sha. Supposed elected officers in context and you dey call Peter Obi. Na true sef, we elect am while una steal the mandate.
BREAKING!!! ONE OF THE BEST DOCUMENTARIES ON PETER OBI IS OUT... As an Obidient, you should be proud of your choice in Peter Obi. Retweet massively pls.
Good evening everyone .
Below is Peter Obi's address during the 17th AGM of fidelity bank in 2005 where he announced the bank's recapitalization from 3.5bn to 22bn Naira at the time.
Don't let anyone deceive you - Peter Obi has performed in office and business.
Thank you
Your Excellency, unsurprisingly, this statement is an admission of failure, not a solution.
Lagosians do not need periodic emergency evacuations of mountains of refuse. What they need is a functional waste management system that prevents waste from accumulating in the first place.
For years, residents have endured overflowing dumps, uncollected refuse, blocked drainage channels, and worsening environmental conditions despite billions of naira allocated to environmental management.
The fact that you now have to “direct an immediate scale-up” after waste has already overwhelmed communities is an utter failure of leadership.
Indeed, Lagos generates over 13,000 tonnes of waste daily today, just as it did yesterday, last month, and last year. This is not a surprise. It is a known reality that should be planned for through efficient collection, waste sorting, recycling infrastructure, transfer stations, waste-to-energy investments, and transparent performance management of operators.
Like your commissioner, you cannot continue to shift responsibility to citizens to “bag their waste properly” when many communities are left without reliable and affordable waste collection services. Rightly, Citizens have a responsibility to dispose of waste properly, but government has an even greater responsibility to provide the infrastructure and systems that make proper disposal possible.
Lagos cannot continue operating reactive clean-up exercises and public relations statements whenever refuse piles become impossible to ignore.
Lagos deserves a modern, accountable, and sustainable waste management system: one that measures success not by the number of trucks deployed after a crisis, but by the absence of the crisis itself.
Again, Your Excellency, after seven years in office, why is Lagos still battling a problem that should have been solved through competent planning, execution, and oversight?
I guess the answer is obvious: if e didn’t dey, e didn’t dey.
#OURLAGOS
On 24th March, 2022, all the monarchs representing Anambra State 177 communities gathered at Government House Conference Hall in Awka. Not far from there, at the Local Government Conference Hall, the Presidents-General of the 177 communities also gathered. It was for a simple, singular and graceful purpose. Call it the anointing.
It was on that day that @PeterObi formally declared that he intended to run for the Nigerian Presidency. He planned to run hard and to win. It was not a personal mission: it was for the people. @PeterObi made a simple request: the prayers and blessings from the Royal Fathers and elected community leaders for the success of his mission. He got his wish in both instances.
The Anambra Traditional Rulers prayed for Obi and in keeping with customs did the traditional igòr òfo. The PGs did likewise, along with anointed men and women present. At both sessions the rulers and leaders conferred Grace and Resilience on @PeterObi. They then sent him forth. He has never looked back ever since.
According to Igbo mythology and custom, he who's father sends on the errand to collect a debt or covet some goods, kicks down the front door. And so, perhaps, it has been with PO's political story.
Many who were not privy of the blessings of 24th March, 2022 and the Graces and Resilence it might have conferred on PO, have wittingly or unwittinly gone after him to their own detriment. Every effort to block him crumbles soon enough. Some who are still trying to pull him down, might meet the same fate. The Grace of God transcends superstitions and the voice of the people, quite often; is the voice of God.
The Igbo word Odera connotes divinity's fait accompli. Perhaps, there is still some lessons for PO's kith and kin, and his other traducers, who dare to gang up against him either personally or via official fiats.
Just wondering out loud and sharing an insider's perspective.
Peter Obi became Chairman of Fidelity Bank in 1996 at 34, emerging as the Youngest Chairman to ever head a Bank in Nigeria’s History.
He led the Bank from a Merchant Bank into a 33B Top commercial Bank by 2001.
45 Year olds “Data boys” are on X questioning him.
Omo 🤦🏾♂️