Lagos was warned in February that this flooding was coming. The forecasts existed. The high-risk communities were identified. What did not follow was the decisive, pre-emptive action those warnings demanded. And now, as families in Oshodi, Festac, Surulere and Isashi count their losses, we must be clear that the crisis is not over. When floodwater mixes with sewage in a city of this density, cholera outbreaks can begin within days. Stagnant water left behind will drive malaria transmission for weeks. The state government must deploy clean water, healthcare support and surveillance teams to affected communities now, not after the first cases are confirmed.
We are calling on all tiers of government to move decisively from reactive crisis management to a fully funded, long-term investment in the infrastructure, land use regulation, and waste management systems that will actually reduce flood risk for the communities most exposed to it. The people living closest to the canals, in the lowest-lying areas, with the fewest resources to recover from losses, cannot afford another year of the same cycle. Nigeria cannot afford it either.
My Vision for a Productive and Prosperous Nigeria
Today, being the 1st of July, 2026, I wish to humbly recall that when I decided to contest for the office of President of Nigeria, I pledged to place Nigeria on the path of unity and national transformation. Now, as the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, I will, in the coming weeks and months, provide insights into the roadmap that I am confident will help curb abuse in government, halt the decline in the quality of life of Nigerians at all levels, and usher in an era of unity, peace, sustained progress, and prosperity.
This vision is anchored on a commitment to unity, inclusion, social justice, equity, and the freedom of every citizen to pursue lawful dreams.
Central to this proposed roadmap are significant reforms in education and healthcare, which are at the core of human capital development.
Robust human capital is indispensable infrastructure for national progress. It serves as the fundamental capital upon which daily life, economic expansion, and the delivery of essential public services depend.
These are foundational areas that we must reform with energy and determination if we are to reap the demographic dividend of our youthful population.
From the outset of my presidency, we will establish a task force dedicated to drastically reducing the menace of out-of-school children. We will place greater emphasis on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to support our drive for massive industrialisation, anchored on our agricultural endowments and value addition across value chains organised around industrial parks to be located in development zones across the geopolitical regions of the country.
Funding and improving the equipment of TVET institutions, through partnerships among government, the private sector, and social entrepreneurs such as faith-based educators, will facilitate apprenticeship opportunities in the private sector, similar to the German dual education system.
The situation in which unemployment remains high while Nigerian entrepreneurs establish businesses elsewhere because skilled labour is scarce must be confronted decisively. Doing so is essential for the common good and for facilitating our transition from a consumption-driven economy to a production-driven one.
Character and civic education, emphasising the values that foster trust - an essential ingredient for enterprise and leadership - as well as shared national values, will receive significant attention within the tripartite approach to governance that we propose.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
“Nigerian Soldiers broke into our school premises, ass@ulted our students and b£at them up. They also grap£d and h@rrass£d some of our female students. They destr0yed property and st0le their phones and money. This is very sad and unacceptable.”
- Vice-Chancellor of Osun state university finally speaks out after ehat happened yesterday in their school
Take the Military out of The NYsC camp and Cultists will have a field day there. Dem go Kpai People Shege. Certain Camps will become NoGo Areas for Graduates from Certain groups. Everywhere go begin Hot. Have you ever heard of a cult clash in an NYSC Vamp. Why do you think so? 😎
In the USA,
President Trump wanted to remove birth citizenship. The matter went to the country’s Supreme Court and the judges ruled against the wishes of the president.
In Nigeria,
The judiciary is in the pocket of the executive and the head of the useless rubber-stamp senate wears the president’s logo on his cap like a demented buffoon.
BREAKING: Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), has asked INEC to make public the academic certificates and credentials submitted by candidates seeking elective office.
“If you think you’re not a cr!minal, go to the court and prove yourself. You forfeited 460,000 dollars to the US, are you not suppose to be checked ? Your certificates do not tally, the primary school you claimed you attended does not exist as at the time you quoted it. You’re a person of a concern”
Mamapee sends a strong message to President Tinubu
You can't be clamoring for a better country while throwing gala wrappers and Pepsi bottles on the expressway because “there are no public bins”. You’re part of the problem
The average Nigerian faces a fundamental problem that goes beyond economics or infrastructure:
This lady came out lamenting that her ₦10 million house she rented was on the verge of flooding. Her distress was genuine until she looked around and saw that her neighbors were suffering even more. At that point, her tone shifted. She burst into laughter, visibly relieved and almost comforted by the comparative misfortune.
This moment is telling. Even amid personal hardship, the reflex is not solidarity or collective urgency, but quiet satisfaction that “at least I’m not the worst off.” Progress becomes measured less by real improvement and more by staying one step ahead of the next person. The result is a society where shared problems persist because the incentive is rarely to solve them together, but simply to endure them slightly better than others.
I have never bathed outside in my life.
NYSC camp was the first place I had to do that nonsense.
Had to bath at 3am behind the mosque because there was no space to sleep.
Entered the market to see if I could buy mat or mattress because apparently, the NYSC could not be bothered to make enough beds available, but there was none to buy.
That was when I decided I was leaving.
When it’s not like I am homeless or a refugee.
Very rubbish scheme.
The Governor (a public servant), could not find a suitable location in his state to celebrate his birthday.
He took the birthday celebration to a working society outside the country.
Lagos is once again being ravaged by flood waters. Homes flooded, businesses shut, with widespread damage to lives and property. Yet again, this is being attributed to flash flooding and, predictably, fingers are being pointed at residents disposing waste irresponsibly. This however does not tell the whole story. In many cases, what we are seeing are the effects of a long-standing failure in Environmental Governance by leadership at State and Federal levels.
As one case in point, the attached images are extracts from the report of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) on the Coastal Road contract awarded to Hi-Tech. My legal team obtained it from BPP in 2024 as part of our public and legal challenge of the alarming lack of due process in the award of that contract.
The report indicates that no EIA was made available to the BPP at the time of its review. In addition, the breakdown of the contract award shows a sum of N400 million included for the Environmental Impact assessment as part of Hi-Tech’s N1.1 trillion contract for Section 1 of the road.
There are at least two significant problems with this:
1. It shows that the road contract was specified, designed, costed and awarded (and it subsequently commenced) without an EIA having first been properly done to assess and incorporate Environmental Concerns.
2. For such a project, the EIA should not be procured through the contractor building the road (Hi-Tech) as part of its contract, as there is an obvious conflict of interest in those roles that could undermine the independence of the EIA and impair the objectivity of its conclusions.
In light of these, the unfortunate escalating floods being witnessed in areas adjoining the coastal road, as recently admitted by the Lagos State Commissioner of the Environment, while tragic, should not come as a surprise.
I call for a proper independent investigation, prompt remediation measures and provision for fair compensation for losses suffered by residents and property owners with resettlement assistance as appropriate, where failure to follow due process and adhere to the Environmental Impact Assessment laws is established to have contributed to or caused the severe hardship being endured by affected communities.
A compassionate and responsible Government will ensure, that no contract — federal or state, however large, however politically connected — is awarded and executed without complying with the environmental safeguards that our laws provide to protect and preserve the welfare and well-being of our people.
FD
#OTiYa
Saying things like ‘NYSC is the reason kids in some villages get educated’ actually makes a strong case for why the scheme should be scrapped. We shouldn’t have graduates with no formal training in teaching or child development teaching our children in the first place.
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.