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['Jide @wealthjyde]

Words on Marble, Words of Wisdom.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Bad people will always succeed. It is unfair but it is the way the world works until good people decide to get together and become a counterforce. The problem with good people is that they are sometimes too altruistic to see reality for what it is. Everyone has a gray area.

['Jide @wealthjyde]

What an era! Can we conclude that the military regime of those days are better than the 'democracy' of today?

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

STREET ADDRESSES & THEIR MEANING
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1. Court: Dead end street.
2. Crescent: Curved road with both ends connecting to the same street.
3. ​Boulevard: Wide street with greenery in the center and along the sides.
4. ​Avenue: Straight street that runs north-south or east-west.
5. ​Drive: A road that follows a natural feature (park, ocean, hills, or lake).
6. ​Alley: Narrow street between, behind, or within buildings.
7. Place: A short street.

[Cyrus Ademola @CyrusAdemola]

Public policies are meant to be scrutinized by "everyone". Everyone is supposed to have an opinion on everything that concerns the public. That's why they're public policies.

It's not about the wisdom of an individual. In fact, relying on the wisdom of intellectuals alone to drive public policies is a surefire way to calamity.

The lived reality of those affected by a proposed policy is much more important than the wisdom of the finest intellectual that ever lived.

How the policy will affect the lives, prospect, after school experience of corp members (most of which are already weary of the whole NYSC programme in the first place) is much more important than the wisdom of those who draft the policy.

This is why it's important that we implement a feedback mechanism to check and balance whatever policy we propose for the public. It's the whole essence of a democracy.

Else, we might as well just pick a wise monarch to lead us all, and go ahead and live strictly according to the monarch's wishes and rules.

['Jide @wealthjyde]

@CyrusAdemola You are always spot on. Many Nigerians online perceives themselves as some sorth of encyclopedia. Yet, we couldn't solve basic problems ravaging the country.

['Jide @wealthjyde]

"The APC is a worthless piece of shit. 💩 ❌" Only heartless demons will disagree.

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

Much of the 5000 MW electricity that Nigeria is managing today were largely generated by him.

He built four power stations:

1. Alaoji.
2. Geregu.
3. Papalanto.
4. Omotosho.

The 1,074 MW Alaoji Power Plant in Abia State was officially started by him in 2006 as part of the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP).

Geregu Power Plant officially started around 2005 as part of Federal Government’s National Integrated Power Project. It was constructed by Siemens & was subsequently commissioned into service in February 2007 by Baba Iyabo.

Geregu II was contracted in March 2010 & completed in 2013 by Goodluck Jonathan. Geregu current combined capacity is 869 MW.

The construction of the first phase (335 MW) of the Papalanto power plant (also known as the Olorunsogo Power Plant) officially started in 2004 by the government of Aremu Obasanjo.

Construction of Phase I Omotosho power plant began in March 2005 by Olusegun Obasanjo.

Phase II (Omotosho II) was later initiated by Goodluck Jonathan under the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP), with construction launching in May 2013.

Omotosho Power Plant is in Ondo State. Its total combined capacity is roughly 786 MW.

OBJ also began the 10 power plants inherited by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) across the Niger Delta States — along with transmission & distribution projects, most of which were completed under Jonathan.

The APC is a worthless piece of shit. 💩 ❌

[Cyrus Ademola @CyrusAdemola]

This is one reason why Nigeria's public policies are always flawed.

With no disrespect to Dr. Joe himself, but policies shouldn't be based on individual ideas or what a group of elites considered progressive or "the brightest way of doing things".

It should be based on collected data, survey, democratic inputs and feedback from the populace. People sitting in an air conditioner filled room can't just assume what is best for the mass population in the country.

It's a monopolisation of abstract and pedestrian knowledge that no single human being or a group of politically privileged human beings can know.

On NYSC reforms, what's the data that show that the current system isn't working? And if any, where's the data that indicate that the new system will solve the identified problem? What research was carried? Where's the democratic input from the people who are currently in the system (the corp members)? Where's the feedback mechanism that made this new approach justifiable?

Without any of this, we just propose ideas that sound and look good on paper only for it to become adversely inapplicable to those who the ideas directly affected.

The same way I asked Mr. Oyedele then what data was driving his tax reform bill, and the proposed increment in VAT and CGT in the bill, only to have the host and the co-host kick me out of the space.

Our intellectual and political elites must be humble enough to know that not all ideas in their head are made of gold.

Else, we continue to fix what necessarily isn't broken.

['Jide @wealthjyde]

@CyrusAdemola Great perspective. Public policy shouldn't be about personal emotions/ego. NG “intellectuals/political elites” are mostly detached from reality. It is about listening, compassion, responsiveness and service, not assumptions. Else, we end up creating more problems than solutions.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

These people have been out of touch for so long, and it is a marvel that they remain not only politically relevant but also charged with leadership. Nothing they have ever said makes sense, no matter how much sycophants try to whitewash it. Nigerian political discourse is largely an IQ test, with really no basis for debate.

The problem with giving all of this talk too much attention is that people get distracted from their true intentions and actions. The government’s local borrowing increased 75% in one year without any meaningful impact on the man on the streets. Those are the issues that deserve attention. They are stealing us blind and distracting us with rubbish conversations.

['Jide @wealthjyde]

@myk_da_preacher #OlodoUprising

['Jide @wealthjyde]

@myk_da_preacher So many silly takes in the comments here. If this level of reasoning persist, Nigeria might be irredeemable.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

I've not seen it yet but I can bet my left testicle - someone somewhere is tweeting about Ycee's projected networth and how Peller is 20x richer than Ycee so Ycee is jealous.

I am sure.

A culturally bankrupt society whose source of validation comes from asslicking the wealthy.

No Ideological compass. No guiding principle. No strength. Just "I get money pass you".

A congregation of fools, from whence no progress is in sight.

You know why sane societies thrive out here? Because people don't fucking care what you have.

The concept of human dignity exists. Even the poor will stand tall in the face of the wealthy and battle opinion for opinion.

Phones are merely for calls. Cars are merely for transportation. Not status symbols.

Until the day you decentre ranking people and prioritising their opinions based on the depths of their pockets - you will always be bottom feeders.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

#olodocore Nigerian Governors edition.

From top to bottom, led by the very dregs of the society.

On this list - we have exconvicts, a governor who pays workers in his justice department 10K naira, wheelbarrows for empowerment.

Executive olodos, His mumulencies.🙌🏾

[Premier League @premierleague]

Remember this? 📸

[Tobi @Tobicods]

How cars went from 3 million to 9 million.

Phones went from 300k plus to millions of Naira.

Rent for a 3 bedroom flat in central
mainland went from 1.5million to 5 million annually.

All this in the span of 3 years, and you’re saying we should vote for the same man who made all this so?

It’s like you’re m@d.

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

Two things can be true at the same time, and if one does not separate the statement from the method of measurement, it often lands poorly, even when "context/caveat" is provided with the use of the word - "level of".

Providing a road that shortens a commute, granting student loans, and opening channels for cheaper credit for some workers are genuine public benefits from a caring government. But none is a sufficient answer to the question of whether households can afford food, transport, rent, school fees, healthcare, and basic dignity after paying for these from their current incomes.

In essence, hunger is not best assessed solely from private conversations or by whether society has collapsed into visible famine. Oftentimes, it is revealed in what families are forced to remove from their diets, defer in their lives, borrow to sustain, or endure quietly.

People adjust before they protest. They skip meals, pull children out of school, delay treatment, shrink businesses, and normalise hardship. That adaptation can make suffering less visible to those not living it.

All things said, leaders must retain the ability to see, show and explain improvements while still hearing the pain and moderating the fears.

Have a blessed day!

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Is Nigeria doing better since 2023? Short answer: Hell NO!! Long answer: it depends on who you are and where you play.

For those who depend on capital markets and the FX market, the stability is a breath of fresh air. Emefiele and Buhari were idiots. Cardoso is great.

For those in the streets, things simply got worse. I have sent more to assist family members in the last 3 years than at any time in my life. Poverty increased.

The top-down approach will NOT work unless there are major interventions at the bottom. Dangote, Elumelu, or Otedola will not fix our roads or provide security; that is the government's job.

A healthy Nigeria at the bottom also benefits those at the top. I don't believe we have the luxury of things trickling down again. Remittances may be at great risk amid nationalist agitations and movements abroad.

Depending on the Diaspora to keep supporting a nation is impracticable. That was what Emefiele banked on for years, and it never worked. The Diaspora is tired. People are also thinking about their own lives and futures. Jobs are being lost, and AI is eating up the world.

If we don't build up our nation today, we will have no nation one day. We are slowly moving from Abegistan to TerrorStan. Security and Infrastructure should be priorities. A healthy foreign reserve balance doesn't help the man on the streets.

A new Nigeria is POssible when Nigeria is OK.

[KWEKU THE HUSTLER @Urchilla01]

There were four presidential candidates in 2023 who polled over a million votes:

- Peter Obi

- Bola Tinubu

- Atiku Abubakar

- Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso

After Tinubu stole his way to power, the other 3 became opposition.

We all clamoured for a united opposition going into the 2027 election.

So far, two of the three opposition leaders, Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, have united on a ticket, while Atiku has continued running on his own.

A united opposition will require the lone ranger joining the already united two and supporting them. Anything other than that is simply Atiku acting as a spoiler for the opposition on behalf of Tinubu.

[Kerry Holmes @KerryHolmekb]

General Knowledge GK Quiz 🧠 | can you get 6/7?