The abduction of the Chibok girls in 2014 triggered a global movement. One school abduction was enough to unite Nigerians, attract international attention, and place enormous pressure on the government through the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
Yet, what has happened since then should trouble every Nigerian.
Under President Buhari's eight years in office, Nigeria witnessed about ten school abductions. Under President Tinubu's administration, in just three years, we have already recorded over ten school abductions.
Despite these repeated tragedies, there has been neither sustained national outrage nor significant international attention comparable to what followed Chibok.
This raises an important question: have we become so accustomed to insecurity that what once shocked our national conscience is now treated as normal?
At a time when millions of Nigerians are grappling with insecurity, poverty, and hardship, it is deeply troubling that those in power appear more focused on political calculations and preparations for the next election than on addressing the urgent challenges confronting our people.
It is, therefore, no surprise that some observers have labelled us a "Now Disgraced Nation". While we do not agree with any attempt to define our great country by its present difficulties, we must acknowledge that persistent insecurity, economic hardship, and leadership failure have damaged our reputation and standing among nations.
The answer is not denial, propaganda, or political distraction. The answer is leadership that is competent, compassionate, accountable, and genuinely committed to the welfare and security of the Nigerian people.
The Nigerian youth must not become indifferent. We must all refuse to normalise failure.
Young Nigerians - Take back your country!
A New Nigeria is Possible. -PO
100k to anyone who can give me 7 things Tinubu has done that have positively impacted the common Nigerian since he became president.
Take the floor and eat my money.
Nigeria's democracy was hijacked long ago by hustlers, crime bosses and political opportunistic vagabonds. What we are seeing now is the culminating effect of years of plundering the nation and perpetuating themselves in power. These are cowards who pretend to be statemen.
He also doesnt pay well enough to attract people to his companies. I worked there, I have seen how the Indians also spin that rubbish lies. A lot of the Indians there are soo incompetent, its wild but ask anyone who worked there, they will tell you the same thing.
I am pissed, Dangote recently said he imports workers from India because Nigerians don’t know how to operate his plant systems. I need him to say that again, slowly.
Me and 7 of my guys use and chew these exact softwares daily. Let me break down what runs Dangote Cement and who actually knows this stack and flex my knowledge a bit:
SAP ERP is the brain of the entire operation. It tracks every bag of cement from raw limestone to the truck leaving the gate. Inventory, procurement, finance, payroll, all of it running in one system. We use it.
SAP HANA is the database engine under SAP. It processes millions of records in real time so management can make decisions without waiting 4 hours for a report. It is the reason their finance team is not still using Excel. We use it.
SAP Ariba handles procurement. Every vendor, every supply contract, every purchase order flows through Ariba before a kobo leaves the company. We use it.
OpenText ECM manages documents. Engineering drawings, compliance certificates, invoices, all stored, tracked and retrieved digitally. Without it they are drowning in paper. We use it.
AutoCAD designs the physical plant. Every kiln, conveyor belt and silo you see at Obajana was drawn on AutoCAD before a single brick was laid. We use it.
Nutanix is the infrastructure layer. It is what keeps SAP HANA running without crashing. The server backbone behind everything. We know it.
Freshdesk manages internal and customer support tickets. Azure SQL stores structured data. Veritas NetBackup makes sure nothing gets lost if a server dies.
We know all of it.
So when Dangote says he cannot find Nigerians who understand his systems, the question is not whether we exist. The question is whether he is looking, or whether he already decided where to look before he started.
I am profoundly grateful to emerge as the 2027 gubernatorial candidate for our great party, the NDC.
I thank the party for this opportunity to serve, and I pray for our collective victory alongside all NDC candidates nationwide in the upcoming general elections. -AA Gwarzo
"Tinubu renovated the house for Buhari and his family in Kaduna State.
Allah said a prophet will come someday and his name will be Ahmed. Now we have Ahmed. These are the reasons we need to support Tinubu"
In Kano, the governor is Fulani, the deputy is Fulani, the assembly speaker is Fulani, the Emir is Fulani, and there are even Fulani welfare organizations plus Fulani-only groups like Miyetti Allah.
Yet the moment someone says Kano indigenes deserve fairness and justice in their own state, they get labeled a bigot.
Ironically, many of them cannot even speak Fulfulde fluently, yet nobody complains when they create Fulani-only associations. But when Kano natives (Hausa) speak about representation, suddenly it becomes “tribalism.”
People from badly governed states think Gombe is like theirs. Lmao.
Come to Gombe and see real work. We’ve had bulldozers as governors since 1999 and we are super proud of them.
The worst of them is still better than the best governor your state has ever had in its history.
Yea, No governor recklessly removed subsidy. No governor devalued our currency. No governor controls the security forces. Yes, the President is solely responsible for most of our current predicaments.
From 2023, a governor of a certain state in the north with huge agricultural potential, high poverty rates and no accessibility and traffic congestion problems in the capital has spent over N100b on flyovers and underpasses .
Yet, the president will be blamed for what people in that state are going through.