Victoria Nwogu

Work: United Nations

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[Victoria Nwogu @VickyNwogu]

Having resisted twitter for so long, I feel like a complete dork signing up today :)

[G-Wins @EmpireGreat9]

@PeterObi How long shall we continue to pretend all is normal?

We still have these innocent ones and more in captivity across the country....

We need to speak with one voice...keep side tribal and religious sentiments and fight for our dear country....

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

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

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

A university semester's worth of international economics and geopolitics delivered under 4 minutes by @Big_Mck for @Spearhead_Af

[Victoria Nwogu @VickyNwogu]

@elnathan_john In a way, they showed him the true Nigerian culture. It’s not aso-ebi, traditional dance nor jollof rice. It is the rent-seeking, predatory tendency of anyone with access to influence and the ability to one-up the next person to get ahead, religious proclamations aside.

[Victoria Nwogu @VickyNwogu]

@elnathan_john You did not disappoint with this article. The experience of the American streamer is a reflection of where we are now as a society and what better place to showcase it than Lagos?

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

One of the things I look forward to the most about a post-revolution Nigeria is a widespread ability to differentiate between an intelligent, educated Nigerian with valuable global experience (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Akinwunmi Adesina, Oby Ezekwesili), and a physically attractive, pseudo-articulate moron with a foreign accent (Ajuri Ngelale, Kemi Adeosun, ⬇️⬇️this airhead).

Currently, our people really struggle to tell them apart and e dey absolutely pa mi. Because why in the name of the 12 Òrìṣà is this person a federal cabinet minister? For what reason?

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I debated long and hard whether to do this publicly, but I think a message needs to be sent to a group of external interests working in tandem with the internal interests described in the quoted tweet to counteract the interests of half a billion West Africans. A message that at whatever level we exist, we take our destiny seriously and we are not to be trifled with.

Last week, I received an N800,000 offer from an international NGO called Dialogue Earth (formerly known as China Dialogue Trust) to write an article essentially saying that Dangote Refinery is terrible for the environment because something something "Environmental Concerns," something something "Climate Change," something something "Energy Transition Policy," something something "COP 28."

The (unstated but clearly implied) thrust of the brief was for a prominent local voice to put their name on an article that is an argument or a premise for the the Nigerian government to kill the refinery based on its "energy transition commitments" and "environmental policy." This conclusion wasn't immediately apparent when they reached out to me, but I suspected where it was heading, and I quickly accepted the offer so that I could see the brief and obtain hard evidence. I've attached screenshots from the brief below.

Basically, this London-based NGO is headed by Sam Geall, an Oxford professor and is funded by several American intelligence fronts such as Ford Foundation and ClimateWorks (which is blacklisted in India for funding organisations working against India's national interest). For whatever reason, it is now quietly mobilising a resistance campaign against what it describes as "Nigeria's first refinery." Apparently, the status quo of Africa's largest oil producer having no functioning oil refinery to beneficiate its own oil was not a problem for Dialogue Earth and the American CIA fronts who fund it.

The human poverty caused by exporting this raw material and importing refined fuel was not bad for the environment. Also, the fact of European refiners regularly blending West African fuel cargoes with toxic waste and sulphur content 200 times the European legal limit (leading to asthma, bronchitis and eye infections in West Africa) was also not bad for the environment. But Nigeria having a refinery that will wean West Africa off import dependency on those European refiners (and allow West Africa control the sulphur content of its own fuels) is where Dialogue Earth and its funders draw the line. That one is bad for the environment, and David Hundeyin should write an article calling for the refinery to be shut down or limited.

I'm putting this out there publicly so that nobody will henceforth use the term "conspiracy theory" when it is pointed out for the umpteenth time, that there are American and European state and private interests that are heavily invested in keeping Africa exactly as poor as it is, and that they regularly push levers most of us do not even know exist, to make sure that this status quo is protected. These people believe that Africans should not exist or have nice things in this world. Apparently, the sole purpose of our existence is to enhance their experience of the planet and all that it has to offer.

It is because of them that I have to make a public spectacle out of this, even though I know that doing this is probably going to cost someone their job. The message needs to be passed that as poor as we are, you cannot convince us to campaign for the elongation of our own poverty by commissioning $500 hack jobs in the hope that we will be greedy enough to only see the money and ignore the bigger picture of what we can clearly see you trying to do.

I will reiterate something I have said multiple times - I am not a believer in the religious faith called Climate Change/Saving The Environment. I care exactly as much about the environment as do the rich white men who destroyed it to begin with. I firmly believe that if what it takes for Africa to industrialise is for it to burn so much fossil fuel that snow stops falling in Wisconsin and it starts raining concentrated sulphuric acid in Doncaster, it is not too big a price for Europe and North America to pay - it is certainly not bigger than the price Africa had to pay for Europe and North America to develop.

It is and will continue to be 100% OUR prerogative to determine what to do with our hydrocarbons. It is not the rich white men hiding behind these "Climate Advocacy NGOs" who will tell us what to do with our energy reserves, and by what means we are allowed to escape the poverty that they engineered for us.

I might not be a fan of Aliko Dangote or his monopolistic business practices - as is well known - but I'm also smart enough to know when rich white men in DC, Houston, Rotterdam and London and trying to use me as a marionette in their 400 year-old coloniser games. If you are reading this and you are one of the rich white men whose economic interests are threatened by Nigeria refining its own oil, you should come out and fight Aliko Dangote by yourself.

Or at least go find a much stupider African to do your dirty job - there's plenty of those.

It will never be me.

[Victoria Nwogu @VickyNwogu]

@DavidHundeyin No comparison. This past week has seen my respect for Kenyans grow 🇰🇪

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[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Once again.

"Refute" does not mean what many Nigerian journalists seem to think it means.

The word you're looking for is "deny." He denied something. He didn't "refute" anything.

Deny =\= "Refute"

[Jemima @JemimaOsunde]

God!!!! Imagine what those 14 years were like for her. My God 😭💔

Can he still be locked up for this? Genuinely asking cause I don’t know. After the case has been closed and a settlement has been reached. Is there any other angle this man can be picked up for ???

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Oh, so the British press actually knows how to publish stories about the American criminal records of prominent Nigerians?

A private Nigerian citizen's U.S. criminal record is news, but not that of the president of Nigeria, which includes a 2,500-page FBI file?

Interesting.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

In a world at war where the primary vehicle of warfare is information, trying to engage Nigerians leaves me in utter despair. It's not even the fact that Nigerians don't *have* information. It's that they are also *resistant* to information.

With everyone else, it is a simple issue of information displacing ignorance (lack of information). With Nigerians, you also have to get past 2 or 3 additional layers of utter nonsense erected by an ego that mistakes its malaria hallucinations for profound philosophy, and which LOVES the sound of its own voice.

It's like trying to educate 200 million little black Trumps.

[Omooba 🇳🇬 @AAtobs]

Give Obi chance to change Naija’s way of doing politics. He is not a saint but he can do it. You won’t need to deal with Oluomo of SW, Dokubo of SS and Bandits of the North to secure our commonwealth. @AAtobs

[Victoria Nwogu @VickyNwogu]

@IOMchief @ozonnia @daniels_ugochi Congratulations dears 🎊

[Gesare Chife @gechife]

Disgraceful to do this in this economy - all the jobs lost. Tell me how will you ever convince anyone to invest in Nigeria.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The Nigerian idea of an elite school is one where you pay a boatload of money for your kids to be "educated" in the syllabus of a country 6,000 miles away, by people who do not look or sound like you, and who come from a completely different historical and civilisational context to your West African reality.

There, they take your kids through the British Key Stage 1-4 assessments where your kids are taught the history of 20th Century Europe, focusing on the Dreadnought, Trench Foot, Mustard Gas, and how Brave, Plucky Britain saved the world from the German threat twice. Despite receiving this education in Africa's largest city, their own West African history is not even a footnote - it simply doesn't exist as far as this syllabus is concerned.

In their Physics class, they are assigned questions like, "Which of the following temperature readings is a fairly warm day? a) -3⁰C b) 5⁰C c) 19⁰C d) 9⁰C"

Despite the evidence of the West African air outside the window telling them that 19⁰C is actually one of the coldest settings on the classroom AC, and cannot possibly be a "fairly warm day" in Lagos - which regularly hits 34⁰C - they learn to pick C as the answer.

Your kids come out at 17, tremendously educated, enlightened, and certified in knowledge and career pathways that have nothing to do with the reality of the society and economy that they live in. From there, they proceed straight to the UK/US/Canada/Australia/Switzerland/France to continue their education and graduate, after which most of them will remain there and contribute to those societies, occasionally uploading a "🇳🇬" flag on October 1 and taking a photo with Jollof rice at @FoodPitanga, because that's all that Nigeria means to them.

After 2 children and a divorce at 42, they will then take a 6 month break from work and travel to Nigeria to find themselves, which usually means getting into a torrid affair with a shekpeteri boy/girl that inevitably leads to severe character development. They then pack up the newly learned lessons and move back to Houston, after which they write a self-published book with a pretentious indigenous name about a girl who travels to the land of her ancestors to find meaning, and becomes friends with a river goddess.

The book sells 15 copies on Amazon and has two 5-star ratings from friends and family.

If you're lucky and they return to Nigeria immediately after studying, they inevitably end up working in Wealth Management at Chapel Hill Denham, where they pointlessly and relentlessly shift money from one rich man's pocket to another without expanding the economy by a single naira; or they launch an app that achieves 2,500 downloads and spends all its funding runway on Marketing and the founder's lifestyle expenditure; or they end up selling "luxury" real estate on behalf of developers who are daddy's friends.

Or they fall off the surface of the earth altogether, and end up in rehab at a quiet private facility in Tema, after developing an expensive cocaine habit in Lagos.

eLiTe eDucAtIon, ladies and gentlemen.

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[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

It is comforting to hear that 287 school children abducted in Kaduna have been released. It is hard to imagine the mental pain and trauma the children must have gone through in the hands of their abductors.

[Opeyemi Babalola @BOTAD01]

I have known someone who lives in Lagos for some years, our parents lived in the same area in Ibadan and each time I visit Ibadan, his mum will ask if we used to see in Lagos. One day, I took it upon myself to visit him around Dopemu side, and the condition I met him wasn't too good.

He shared with me how he has been struggling, and in all honesty, this guy is not a lazy guy. He works as a marketer with one insurance company and also has a bakery, which is the same business his dad was into in Ibadan, but things were not ok.

I told him that day to ask if it is possible for his company to transfer him down to Ibadan. If possible, then go back home. His dad is old, and he can take over the bakery in Ibadan since he is also into the same business. I told him to forget about what people will say because I know a lot of people will say he went to Lagos and couldn't make it, that is why he relocated back to Ibadan but it is better to start again, if it is not working here, go back home and re-strategize!

3 months after that discussion, he called me one Saturday evening that he had relocated back to Ibadan. The insurance company transferred him, and his wife got a teaching job. I encouraged him not to see it as a demotion or failure but a step in the right direction.

He took over his dad's bakery, and one year after, they had the first expansion, covering more locations.

If you go back home, it doesn't mean you failed, if you have tried, and you know you have tried, and heaven can testify to the fact that you have tried, don't kill yourself trying to make it in Lagos or Abuja or PH or wherever you find yourself. You can go back home or change location to re-strategize.

You are not a failure. You have tried!