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@Dodmas_ @elrufai You're just a Yoruba Ronus fool

NIGERIA UPDATE - Nigeria’s Growth Crisis Is a Talent-Allocation Crisis - by: Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai - 1st April, 2026 - Part 1 Nigeria is often described as a paradox. We are a nation of extraordinary human capital—energetic, inventive, resilient—yet our economic outcomes fall persistently short of our potential. Growth remains shallow, productivity weak, firms struggle to scale, and prosperity does not spread widely enough. Today, I want to advance a clear and uncomfortable proposition: Nigeria’s growth problem is not primarily a shortage of talent, capital, or ideas. It is a problem of where our best talent goes—and why. This is not a moral argument about individuals. It is a political-economy argument about incentives. 1. The Core Insight: Talent Follows Returns Across societies and across history, highly capable people choose occupations that offer the highest returns to ability, especially where small differences in skill translate into large rewards. Economists describe this as increasing returns to talent. When those returns are highest in entrepreneurship, innovation, and production, economies grow. When those returns are highest in rent-seeking—activities that redistribute existing wealth rather than create new value—growth slows or stalls . People do not wake up intending to harm their country. They respond rationally to incentives. So the right question for Nigeria is not “Why are people corrupt?” It is: “What activities does our system reward most handsomely?” 2. Nigeria’s Current Incentive Structure Let us be honest about Nigeria’s reality. •GDP growth was about 4.1% in 2024, respectable on paper but insufficient for a country with our demographics. •GDP per capita remains around US$1,084, placing Nigeria among lower-income economies despite our scale. •Informal employment accounts for roughly 93% of the labour force, meaning most firms are small, fragile, and defensive rather than scalable. •Nigeria’s tax-to-GDP ratio is only about 8.2%, one of the lowest in Africa—signalling weak fiscal capacity and heavy reliance on discretionary collection rather than broad, rule-based taxation. These numbers are not abstract. They describe an economy where scale is risky, visibility attracts predation, and long-term investment struggles to compete with short-term access. In such an environment, the most capable Nigerians often find that the fastest and safest returns come not from building large, productive enterprises—but from proximity to state power, regulatory discretion, political brokerage, or legal and administrative contestation. This is exactly the mechanism identified in the economic literature: when the “market” for rent-seeking is large, talent flows there . 3. Why Rent-Seeking Damages Growth Rent-seeking harms an economy in three cumulative ways. First, it absorbs labour and capital without creating output. Resources are spent competing over existing wealth rather than expanding the economic frontier. Second, it acts like a tax on productive activity. Businesses face delays, uncertainty, informal payments, and arbitrary enforcement—raising costs and discouraging investment. Third—and most damaging—it diverts the very people who would otherwise be the most productive entrepreneurs and innovators. When the brightest minds are pulled away from production, the quality of entrepreneurship falls, technological progress slows, and the economy’s long-run growth rate declines . This is why rent-seeking does not merely lower income levels; it can permanently reduce growth.

@tundeskie I told you this yesterday. Next for them is to come for your work

Obidients and extremism 🤦🏽‍♂️ Because I am not supporting your candidate 🤷🏽‍♂️

@Yinkaadene Amen

Good morning, God! 🌄 I invite Your presence into my day. Protect me, guide me, and open doors of blessing that no man can shut. Amen! 🙏💛

A very big win for her

@instablog9ja Big win for her

Lady shares hilarious results after twerking throughout her pregnancy

@Pato Pato bro long time

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@de_generalnoni @GRVlagos @Mspyce He was reading it from the screen 😁😁

Even Non Yorubas will speak better Yoruba than this fa!lure. Your parents failed you @GRVlagos

@Kingballer_824Q @realllexilove 😁😁

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Shame on you 🤡

THIS MAN Mihailo Toloto lived 82 YEARS… and NEVER saw a single woman in his life Mom died 4 hours after he was born. Raised by monks in a sealed-off monastery. Never left. Whole world? Just wild animals… and bearded dudes.

@Yomi_eth @pinkpnterest Do they allow PVC card . I'm experiencing the same issue now ?

@pinkpnterest Ouch 🤕

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planning to post my noodles soon😭😭🤧

@JustKingss I need 500 verified followers. I fb

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The owner of the Ticket is already showing capacity - raw, undeniable, suffocating capacity. Meanwhile, Obidient rodents are out here sniffing the air like something changed. Nothing changed. Crawl back to your hole, drag your PowerPoint and your "structure" with you, and stay there until 2031. The adults are talking.

This afternoon, I received the Enugu Polling Booths Vanguard for Atiku, a group chiefly concerned with the sanctity of the ballots, led by Chief Obodoeze Ocho. They believe that every vote must count in 2027. I fully agree with them that protecting votes at the Polling Units level is vital for the coming elections. I told them that, for us to have credible elections that earn voters' trust, citizens must take the responsibility of safeguarding votes seriously. Votes will count if they are protected by those who cast them. -AA

@ShehuSani They will shift the goal post faster than their candidate moves parties

I hope those who said defection of Governors means NOTHING will accept Bauchi and Oyo when it eventually happens?

@tundeskie Good pls don't loose guard sir 😁

I know right.

@mariolexxx Both

Wetin Dey delay your monetization ? 5million impressions or 500 verified followers

Sir Hope you are prepared for the coordinated, unhinged, keyboard-warrior ambush that those rabid, unwashed, Peter-Obi-flag-waving dogs (Obidents) would throw on your way in the coming days? You've been cooking their Messiah since morning oo on low heat, with no mercy, no seasoning needed, because poverty of ideas seasons itself. 😁😁 I know they are already in their group chat strategizing with their last 4% battery.

Twitter: Start a problematic discourse Me: Peter Obi is NOT intelligent.

So people were slaughtered on Palm Sunday, and the Nigerian Military's priority is managing their PR. Not accountability. Not justice. Not answers for grieving families. The audacity to ask the Rukuba community, the VICTIMS to "remain calm and support troops with credible information" in the same breath you're dismissing their own eyewitness accounts as "false and misleading." They watched their people die. You watched your reputation. And you want them to be calm.

VIRAL COMMENT OF A YOUTH LEADER ON RUKUBA COMMUNITY UNPROVOKED ATTACK, FALSE AND MISLEADING The attention of Headquarters Joint Task Force Operation ENDURING PEACE has been drawn to a false comment by one of the youth leaders of Angwan Rukuba Community, circulating on various social media platforms, alleging that troops provided cover for the perpetrators of Palm Sunday unprovoked attack at Angwan Rukuba Community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. Ordinarily, the reply to the comment made by the youth leader would not have been necessary, especially in this moment of grief, but for the purpose of clarity and the benefit of well meaning Nigerians it is expedient to state unequivocally that at no point did troops provide any form of cover for the terrorists elements who carried out the unfortunate attack that claimed the lives of innocent citizens. Rather, troops on receiving a distress call on the unfortunate incident swiftly mobilised to the scene, which was far away from where they were deployed and observed that the attackers had fled. Troops acted professionally to avert what could have spiraled to endless bloodshed and pursued the fleeing criminals as can be attested to, by so many survivors who were at the scene of the attack. Specifically, 4 Guntrucks mounted by troops were despatched to the incident scene and they acted professionally on arrival as confirmed by other security agencies, as well as eye witnesses at the scene of the attack. Nonetheless, the allegation was promptly investigated and confirmed to be false. The comment by the youth leader is false, misleading and unfortunate, capable of demoralizing troops and causing disaffection between the Military and its host community. The public is requested to discountenance the comment, remain calm, law abiding and continue to support troops with credible and actionable information on terrorists activities. Troops in conjunction with other security agencies have adopted effective strategies to unravel and apprehend the perpetrators of the dastardly act. Troops will continue to deal decisively with criminals while maintaining peace in every part of Plateau State. CHINONSO POLYCARP OTEH Captain Media Information Officer Joint Task Force Operation ENDURING PEACE 31 March 2026