doyin talabi

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[Yinka Ogunnubi @yinkanubi]

This woman called the advocacy for reparations a scam and wanted us to applaud the British for ending slavery and the slave trade.

She once argued that the UK's wealth didn't come from White privilege or colonialism.

Lied that she can't give Nigerian citizenship to her children because she is a Woman.

This is a woman who has used every opportunity to denigrate and drag Nigeria in the mud for her own political gain while not forgetting to remind us that "she (born Oluwakemi Olufunto Adegoke) no longer identifies as a Nigerian". No wonder Nels Abbey described her as the “black face of white supremacy”

As @SholaMos1 said last year, "the problem with racial gatekeepers like Kemi Badenouch is that they do not understand that their relevance and usefulness to white supremacy has an expiration date"

[The Guardian Nigeria @GuardianNigeria]

The growing circulation of counterfeit products in Nigeria, including toothpaste, medicines and beverages, has raised concerns over public health and safety, as consumers face increasing risks from potentially harmful goods.

While the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) continues to regulate products, public vigilance remains crucial in identifying fake goods and exposing illegal manufacturing activities.

Nigerians are urged to report suspicious products and production sites to the relevant authorities, as timely action and community awareness can help curb the spread of counterfeit goods and protect lives.

Visit https://t.co/kiovoX5i6q to stay updated on related stories.

#FakeProducts #CounterfeitGoods #NAFDAC #ConsumerSafety

[NAFDAC NIGERIA @NafdacAgency]

NAFDAC Seizes Counterfeit Alcoholic Beverage Packaging Materials Worth Over ₦200 Million in Aba

Today, NAFDAC, acting on credible intelligence, raided five shops at Old Court Road Market, Aba, Abia State, suspected of producing and supplying counterfeit packaging materials for popular alcoholic beverages and other products.

The operation uncovered counterfeit labels, corks, packs and outer packaging materials bearing the names of several brands, including Jameson, Glenfiddich, Four Cousins, Lord’s Dry Gin, Imperial Blue, Goya Oil, Chelsea, Squadron and Seaman’s Aromatic Schnapps. The packaging materials seized were estimated to be worth over ₦200 million.

During the operation, NAFDAC’s Investigation & Enforcement operatives encountered threats and resistance from traders, making the evacuation of the seized materials challenging. The owners of the five shops were absent, and the premises were placed on hold to prevent interference with the items remaining inside.

NAFDAC issued an invitation to the Market Union Chairman, who pledged to ensure the security of the sealed premises and assist the Agency in identifying and presenting the shop owners.

[NAFDAC NIGERIA @NafdacAgency]

#HappeningNow NAFDAC has uncovered a suspected counterfeit production facility at Zamfara Plaza, BBA Trade Fair Complex, Lagos State.

Two suspects were arrested at the scene while allegedly revalidating energy drinks and popular wine and whisky brands.

More details to follow shortly.

[OPEOLUWA 😎😎 @OpeBee]

Rooting for Asake to bring home the Grammy Award!!

[Gimba Kakanda @gimbakakanda]

I have been accompanying my boss to Ethiopia over the past three years as part of our leadership exchange programme, and I beg to differ SLIGHTLY. I agree that we need to grow the economic pie. My hesitation is with separating that ambition from the quality of governance required to achieve it. The resources we seek will also depend on the institutions we build, the policies we sustain and the people we educate.

I love the exchange programme because we’ve so much to learn from each other. Under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, the transformation of the Ethiopian capital has been striking, with redeveloped roads, pedestrian walkways, cycle lanes and public spaces changing the experience of the city you would think you are in a historically developed European city. Parts of the Addis Ababa of a decade ago would not have looked out of place in Kaduna. Today, the scale of its redevelopment gives the impression of a city aspiring to become the next Dubai. That is a comparison of ambition, rather than a claim that urban renewal captures the condition of an entire country. Acknowledging what the Ethiopians have done well takes nothing away from Nigeria.

What interests me even more is what they have done in agriculture. Ethiopia has expanded irrigated wheat cultivation by combining improved seeds, mechanisation, farmer training and organised production. Its approach connects research institutions to regional agricultural authorities, district officers, cooperatives and farmers, with links to processors and consumers. Irrigation extends production beyond dependence on the rainy season, while technical support helps farmers put research into practice. My takeaway is that their achievements owe much to the organisation of the people and institutions responsible for delivering them.

There is also a lesson in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Construction began in 2011, and the project reached its inauguration in September 2025, under Abiy. Fourteen years of work produced a national asset whose construction outlasted the tenure of the leadership that initiated it. That is the kind of continuity a country needs when its ambitions require more time than any individual administration has in office.

Our own policy history offers plenty to reflect on. We had Abacha’s Vision 2010 in the 1990s, followed by Obasanjo’s National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy, NEEDS. Then came the Seven-Point Agenda and the development of Vision 20:2020 under Yar’Adua, followed by Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda for 2011–2015. Buhari’s administration introduced the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan for 2017–2020, the National Development Plan for 2021–2025 and Nigeria Agenda 2050. Today, we have President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda and the successor development plan for 2026–2030.

The tragedy of our governance experience is that successive administrations have often approached the programmes of their predecessors as experiments to be discontinued, rebranded or replaced, regardless of their merits. Each government arrives with a new development blueprint, a fresh set of priorities and an ambition to distinguish itself from the one before it, sometimes dismantling institutional foundations that took years to establish. This chronic disruption of policy continuity has been a major setback to Nigeria’s development. It is a challenge that appears less pronounced in Ethiopia’s federal parliamentary system, where the governing party’s sustained control of the executive has historically allowed development priorities to survive changes in political leadership. Of course, Ethiopia has experienced its own policy reversals and political upheavals, but its capacity to sustain major national projects across administrations offers a lesson worth examining. Nigeria cannot afford a governance culture in which every new administration feels compelled to start the country’s development journey afresh. 1/2

[Vanguard Newspapers @vanguardngrnews]

More than 400 migrant care workers have staged a musical protest outside the UK Labour Party Conference, singing Nigerian singer Aṣa’s hit song ‘Jailer’ to oppose visa rules they say expose them to exploitation.

The protesters are demanding the freedom to change employers without jeopardising their immigration status and the retention of the five year route to permanent residency, using the song to amplify their calls for freedom, fair treatment and dignity.

Video Credit : unisontheunion // IG

[doyin talabi @sirdebbo]

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[SportsDokita (Odogwu ☝️) @Sports_Doctor2]

OPEN LETTER TO NIGERIAN DOCTORS!!!

Dear Colleagues,

It’s with a heavy heart that I write this, what some of you are practicing in Nigeria is not medicine but armed robbery with a stethoscope.

If you prey on the fear of relatives losing their loved ones to charge exorbitant fees, send for expensive investigations that are not relevant to what you’re managing, then you’re extremely wicked.

In 2026, some of you still do not tell patients the medications they’re taking, you package medications in zip lock bags with no names and charge exorbitant fees for them.

Patients are not elites, they’re not the ones responsible for the way our leaders treat healthcare and for Christ sakes, be PROFESSIONAL, be TRANSPARENT with your patients and lastly, you’re not God!!!!

Jesus Christ!!!!

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

WAEC has officially been deprioritized in Nigeria.

Starting in 2027, NECO examinations will be conducted before WAEC, and NECO results will also be released ahead of WAEC results to enable students to pursue their university admissions without unnecessary delays.

Students may no longer be required to sit for WAEC from 2027.

When we raised our concerns, WAEC was nonchalant and failed to take them seriously.

NECO must now step up and ensure excellence, credibility, and integrity in its examinations.

[Giovanni Ifedi-Williams @TheGiovannis]

I recently read the life story of a 69yr old UNILAG professor, and I have not recovered from the shock.

At 38, he married the woman he loved. He worked hard, built her a luxury jewellery business, and they raised five children. He sent all five to Ivy League schools: two to MIT, two to Harvard, and one to Princeton.

Then, in 2015, one of his daughters was involved in a terrible accident, and needed blood transfusion before any treatment could be carried out. Prof. rushed to the hospital and offered his blood for a transfusion, only to discover that it was incompatible with hers. He initially assumed the hospital had made a mistake. Her brother eventually donated blood and saved her life.
Afterward, the doctors conducted further blood-group compatibility tests to defend their professionalism. The results showed that all five children had blood types consistent with their mother but were genetically incompatible with the professor as their biological father. A subsequent investigation revealed that the five children was biologically not his.

Prof. is the only son and child of his late parents. He and his kinsmen invited the wife's family over, and his wife eventually confessed that all five children were fathered by her former lover. And that Prof's only biological child was the first that died at birth.

Imagine discovering at age 69, after decades of marriage, that the children you sacrificed everything for were never yours biologically.

Stories like this are why men should take paternity testing seriously. Love and trust are important, but when the consequences of misplaced trust can consume decades of a man's life, certainty matters too.

I have personally had to block newly married women who tried to cross boundaries with me, casually saying they could not "eat one soup" for the rest of their lives.

Infidelity is far more widespread in today's world than social media tells us. If you're a man, and you know your pedigree and integrity, you need to stop assuming that fatherhood can safely rest on trust alone.

Do not trust anybody.
Trust only your God.
Love your wife, but move with the spirit of discernment.

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

The helicopter must have hit the ground at extreme speed on very soft soil.

When that happens, the heavy parts sink deep into the mud and the whole ground closes back over it, while the lighter parts shatter. That is why it looks like it vanished.

No major parts of the plane have been found, leaving the fate of the passengers unknown.

Heartbreaking and unfortunate situation 💔😭
@grok what do you think might have happened?

[Olanrewaju💯 @ITGuyLAN]

Yesterday, I officially started my studies in MSc. Interdisciplinary Computing at ITU, Austria.🇦🇹

I will be learning in multiple LearnLabs within an interdisciplinary team addressing real-life problems and challenges at the intersection of technology and society. TotheFuture🥂

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

Dr Emmanuel Efe Emefienim, the CEO Premium Trust Bank speaks on investing in people.

If you missed @theplatformng yesterday, you missed out on a master class series in strategy and wisdom on how to build.

Kindly watch fully on my Youtube page, Pastor Poju Oyemade Channel.

[Ben Murray-Bruce @benmurraybruce]

As far back as 2017/2018, I saw the electric vehicle revolution coming and presented a bill before the 8th Senate that could have positioned Nigeria to lead from the front in Africa’s transition to electric mobility.

The proposal was heavily contested and ultimately rejected.

Today is a good day to remind Nigerians of what happened, and of the opportunities we risk losing when we fail to prepare early for the future.

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

Dear @ARISEtv, @OjyOkpe, @R_abati1990, @ruffydfire

Since my name was mentioned in this clip, I have chosen to exercise a public #RightOfReply.

I owe you that much.

Let me be clear from the start: I will not back down on this issue of the casualisation of judicial standards by a confederacy of disclosed & traceable insider & political interests on all sides.

Among my people, there is a name & a saying: "onyemaechi" (Who knows tomorrow)?

I bet @R_abati1990 had not read Rule 12 of @njcnig's Judicial #CodeOfConduct before this session. I will encourage him to acquaint himself with it, pls.

It is tragic when people who should know better venture into the enterprise of banalising serious issues at the heart of the justice system & its integrity. Yet, we are the first to complain about insecurity & we seem blissfully unaware of the inherent logics of #CauseAndEffect.

But I guess it is the judges who have created this mess. And folks think we must be automatonscat the mercy of untheorised & self-serving rulings.

I refuse.

This is the same country in which Zainab Bulkachuwa - then serving as president of @NGCourtofAppeal in 2019 - thought it was alright for her to preside over the presidential election petition when her husband had just been elected a senator on the ticket of the party whose victory was at issue in the petition. At least one of her sons so ran on the ticket of the party in the same election.

Mind you, @SupremeCourtNg had ruled in 2007 that it is parties, not candidates, who run for office in #Nigeria. Yet, Justices of Appeal under her turned in a ruling that said it was kosher for her to do so.

In the end public opinion forced her off the panel but at the price of exorbitantly corrosive jurisprudence.

Contrary to the claim by @R_abati1990 in this outing, it does not need an imputation on the judge for him or her to be recused. The standard is not actual or active lack of impartiality. It is appearance of lack of impartiality.

Let me explain.

Lord Hewart said as much in R v. Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy (1924) that "the answer to that question depends not upon what actually was done but upon what might appear to be done." That was why he laid down the standard that justice must not only be done but must be "manifestly & undoubtedly be seen to be done."

That is the standard at both common law & under the Constitution.

With profound respect, I regret to say that @R_abati1990 has misled the public as to the applicable standard & his claims about that are not particularly well founded.

It is no accident, therefore, that he ended up in an entirely convenient destination with no guardrails in either principle or judicial ethics. But judicial decision-making is not dance-music nor situational ethics like he suggests. It is a bounded enterprise constrained by easily ascertained rules. That was why I cited the case of Justice Anthony Aniagolu in 1983. His son is one of your colleagues, @charlesaniagolu.

The fact that one has to even argue that Sylvanus Oriji cannot preside over this case is itself the problem. I spare you all the details of his relationships with the Wikes but if I am required to I will. This should be a scandal ordinarily. But we seem to have lost every sense of indignation.

Privately, I must say, several senior judges have told me they are scandalized. For the sake of the judiciary, the Chief Justice knows what to do.

To my brother, @R_abati1990, we can continue to pretend about these casualisations until we are at the receiving end.

All you need do is look at what is happening to a former governor of Kaduna State at the moment & you see the point. Today, we may feel unaffected. Tomorrow may be different.

To my brother, @R_abati1990, I say: "onyemaechi"?!

[Ayo @mariolexxx]

All of a sudden, These particular fowls just disappear

[Maxvayshia™ @maxvayshia]

Nothing surprising here. This is just the one that was caught. This is just a man who voiced out.

Most women cheat and this is a fact. They just aren’t caught, they aren’t broadcasted or the man doesn’t voice out.

This is an everyday occurrence. Nothing new.

[Margarita Simonyan @M_Simonyan]

Putin argues that while machines may surpass humans in analytical ability, people retain an advantage machines cannot easily replicate: the ability to think outside the box.

He recalls the 1983 incident when the world came close to a U.S.-Soviet nuclear war.

Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov received an early-warning alert reporting five incoming American ICBMs. He recognized the alarm as a computer malfunction rather than a genuine attack.

“If instead of Colonel Petrov, there had been an artificial intelligence, everything could have turned out completely differently.”

[Prince Dr. Dapo Abiodun, CON @DapoAbiodunCON]

OGUN, NNPC MOVE TO REVIVE OKLNG AS $7BN MARITIME ECONOMY PROJECT TAKES SHAPE

We received officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (@nnpclimited) as we opened discussions towards reviving the long-delayed Olokola Liquefied Natural Gas (OKLNG) project along our coastline in Ogun Waterside.

This development comes shortly after we signed agreements with DP World for the development of the Gateway Deep Sea Port and the 10,000-hectare Ogun State Blue Marine Special Economic Zone, with an initial investment exceeding $7 billion and the potential to create more than 50,000 direct jobs.

The proposed revival of OKLNG will add a major energy component to this emerging economic corridor. NNPC has indicated that approximately 1,728 hectares of land and 2.5 kilometres of Atlantic frontage will be required for the LNG plants, utilities, storage facilities and associated marine infrastructure.

We have assured NNPC of our full cooperation, including the necessary support on land, incentives and guarantees required to bring this important project back to life.

Our vision is to create an integrated coastal economic ecosystem where the Gateway Deep Sea Port provides maritime access, the Blue Marine Special Economic Zone drives manufacturing and logistics, and the LNG project supplies the energy required by industries within Ogun State and across the South-West.

With these investments taking shape alongside other strategic infrastructure, Ogun Waterside is steadily emerging as a major hub for energy, maritime commerce, manufacturing, logistics and international trade.

We remain committed to unlocking every opportunity that creates jobs, attracts investment and strengthens Ogun State’s position as Nigeria’s foremost industrial and economic destination.