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@basedandbougie My problem with this post is the amount of of people liking and retweeting (or is it re-Xing) it. Now folks can’t distinguish between a targeted loan and aid.

🚨BREAKING! The 🇬🇧UK plans to lend £746 Million to 🇳🇬Nigeria to help them refurbish their Ports. The consistent aid given to African is getting out of hand! Africa has received more “aid” in the last century than Britain did after the Blitz. The UK received $3.7billion in aid from the US and this was after a BRUTAL WORLD WAR and they used that money wisely to rebuild the UK into the state we see today. Not only that, most of the African politicians are living better than European politicians in 20 bedroom mansions whilst the general Africa public live in poverty …. Where is this aid going ???

@DejiAdesogan I served in Anka LGA. It was such a peaceful community with a very learned Emir, who was a wonderful man.

See Better News !!! Armed bandits were neutralised by troops on the outskirts of Gadar Manya in Anka LGA of Zamfara State, this evening. They had been responsible for numerous attacks along the Gurusu–Gwashi axis, including road blockades and traveller abductions.

@NigeriaStories The real meaning of “Ghana High”

BREAKING: Ghana Legalises Cannabis Farming For Industrial, Medicinal Purposes, Invites Applications For Licences

@_Dejii @bosuntijani @JA_Olaoye @FMCIDENigeria Do you actually understand what is being done?

@bosuntijani @JA_Olaoye @FMCIDENigeria No be today

FEC APPROVES ALPHANUMERIC DIGITAL POSTCODE SYSTEM FOR NIGERIA As part of our continued delivery on the targets and priorities set out in the @FMCIDENigeria Strategic Blueprint, I am pleased to announce that the Federal Executive Council under the leadership of H.E. President @officialABAT, GCFR has today approved the implementation of a GIS-enabled Alphanumeric Digital Postcode System for Nigeria. Working in collaboration with @PMG_NIPOST Tola Odeyemi and her team at @NipostNgn, who worked hard on delivering this, we will introduce a modern, geospatial intelligent addressing system that improves accuracy across the country and enables faster and more reliable mail and parcel processing. Beyond strengthening postal operations, the Digital Postcode System will also serve as an important national enabler supporting better national planning, improved emergency response, more efficient logistics and e-commerce, and the delivery of government services. As our digital economy continues to grow, foundational systems such as this play an essential role in building the infrastructure required to connect people, businesses, and services more efficiently across the country. This approval represents another step forward in our commitment to building the enabling environment to support a modern, inclusive, and globally competitive digital economy. #NigerianExcellence

To all those companies, agencies and groups that remember to recognise the good job and unwavering efforts of journalists in Nigeria and the work they do by organising legitimate award ceremonies on behalf of journalists, we truly appreciate you for your encouragement. Blessings

Nigeria needed a system that could unify, track, and manage public funds transparently. That solution became the Treasury Single Account.

The money wasn’t stolen. It wasn’t missing. It simply wasn’t centrally captured. Revenues could be under-remitted. Cash management was inefficient. Borrowing continued unnecessarily. Reform was no longer optional.

While the government borrowed to meet obligations, enormous sums sat idle in scattered accounts. An estimated ₦3 trillion was identified in these dormant balances — funds outside the treasury’s immediate visibility

The Problem Nigeria Had to Fix Ten years ago, Nigeria took a bold step that permanently changed public finance management. Today, we mark a decade of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) a reform that replaced opacity with order and discipline in government finances. #TSA10Years

Before 2015, the system was deeply fragmented. More than 17,000 bank accounts were operated by Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) across commercial banks. There was no single, clear view of government cash.

@KanoChronicle This is simply and RC controlled plane, which kids have been playing with since the late 1970s. It’s good that Adnan is using this to learn the skills of building unmanned systems. It a great starting point. What he is doing here is, however, very unsafe.

An exhilarating moment as a locally developed drone designed and developed by Adnan Musa Ibrahim takes flight over Kano. Adnan who is a machine learning engineer not only built the system but also expertly flew and controlled it, showcasing the growing power of local innovation. From security and surveillance, precision agriculture, aviation support, maritime monitoring, disaster response, environmental protection, logistics and delivery, infrastructure inspection, smart city management, mapping, oil & gas operations, to research and education, the possibilities are vast and transformative. Cc @NASENIHQ @HQNigerianArmy

@Shege2U @General_Somto Over wrong sef

@General_Somto in summery, pisgin started in d Benin kingdom, present day Edo, as they first came in contact and traded with Portuguese for a long time...

The True Origin Of Nigerian Pidgin That I’m Certain You Didn’t Know:

@ndekekwe This comp conflates budget surplus with total budget. ₦1.5B was what remained after running the govt, the actual budget was larger. Ur missng 3.4x pop growth, 19 to 36 states, and 79 was peak oil boom. Concern about decline is valid, but the methodology needs work.

In 1979, Nigeria recorded a remarkable budget surplus of about ₦1.5 billion. To appreciate the magnitude, recall that the Naira was stronger than the US Dollar at the time, trading at roughly ₦0.596 to US$1. That means ₦1.5 billion was equivalent to about US$2.51 billion in 1979. Adjust that for U.S. inflation, and the purchasing power jumps to more than US$11 billion in 2026 value. Now look at it from the Naira side: with today’s exchange rate hovering above ₦1,400 per USD, that same ₦1.5 billion of 1979 translates to a modern value exceeding ₦15 trillion. Pause for a moment: ₦15 trillion is nearly half of Nigeria’s fully implemented national budget today, not the proposed one, but the actual expenditure that hits the ground. So when you reflect on this dramatic contrast, one question inevitably rises from the heart of any patriot: What happened to Nigeria?

@hamptonism @emeka_okafor Sensational picture. He is likely a student working on his project or assignment. You can also find them in any country hustling while studying at night. I remember seeing a classmate selling bread on the street and studying economics.

This is who you’re competing against, Chinese fruit seller and chip designer. Yea, you’re cooked:

*Question:* Should #Senegal have been penalized for walking off the pitch during a final match in a major competition? #AFCON2025

@OGHENERUROS @ReutersAfrica These types of satellites are not used for monitoring. They don’t have the capability and are only used to transmit broadband signal. The type used for surveillance already exists and no part of the planet is without their eyes.

@ReutersAfrica More monitoring

Nigeria grants satellite permits to BeetleSat, Satelio and Amazon's Kuiper reuters.com/business/media…

@fisayosoyombo @rotilaw So your experience is the evidence you are relying on to discredit genuine efforts at reforms? Your profession requires a different approach.

In January 2024 when I wrote that “Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo will NEVER be able to revolutionise Nigeria’s messily-corrupt passport application system”, some accused me of prophesying doom. But it is now six months since I paid and applied for the renewal of my international passport. Maybe I will get it tomorrow. On Thursday July 31, 2025, I paid a sum of N109,700 via the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) payment portal, then proceeded to one of their Lagos offices, to complete further documentation and capture. Meanwhile, the officers first mocked us for kick-starting the registration online. I couldn’t complete capturing on that day due to a “network problem” that lasted several hours; I was forced to return to their office the following day for that. As I write this, “passport pending production” is the long-running feedback from NIS. The irony is that Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo continues to be lauded by the unsuspecting public as one of the best — even the best — ministers in Tinubu’s cabinet. It is already almost five months since Tunji-Ojo announced, in the latest of his many mouthwatering passport efficacy promises, that Nigerians would be able to receive their int’l passports one week after application. My opinion of him remains unchanged; he is simply the typical Nigerian politician who has a mastery of gallery play and public sentiment manipulation via the media for personal branding. Woe unto you if you rely on media reports to gauge the performance of public officers or, more importantly, the efficiency of public institutions!

@Speedy504272960 @ken4cornelius @MoghaluKingsley Pls hold your peace. People are consuming garbage from social media and boldly using these fallacies as arguments.

@ken4cornelius @MoghaluKingsley Who told you France is managing our tax administration?

The problem is not taxation per se. It’s a core aspect of the social contract. It’s the issues of absence of trust in government in a country where there is so much official corruption (“authority stealing”): will the revenues raised from taxation be accountably spent on the welfare of citizens? Or will they be “privatized” through various kinds of arrangements and “consultancies”? Much of previously earned revenue from oil has been stolen, so how will this new taxation be different? Nigerians deserve to know. A social contract has yet to be established in Nigeria. If this is not done, the tax laws might end up as “taxation without representation” that led the Americans to fight their British colonialists in the 18th century to establish their country’s independence. Second, there is a problem with the legitimacy of the process of introducing the Nigeria Tax Acts passed in 2025 with implementation starting January 1, 2026: the very significant alterations in the initially gazetted version (now “corrected” with a “certified true copy” of the original legislation) indicate a clear intention to defraud Nigerians by those who inserted those alterations that established “revenue streams” that would have gone straight into private pockets. This was a brazen and unconstitutional breach. Will the culprits be found and held accountable? Third, there is the question of timing. Here I will say that there is never a good time to tax. Also, it appears that efforts have been made to reduce the tax burdens of poor people. Poverty in Nigeria is sky high today. So, the timing created a perception problem - that of “taxing the poor”. We have fundamental problems of governance. We must first create broad-based wealth before we can either tax it or redistribute it effectively . Putting the cart before the horse is not optimal public policy. The profligate cost of governance in our country indicates that we are unwilling to manage the revenues we DO have or get, judiciously. The savings from oil subsidy removal are neither apparent nor transparently accounted for, let alone deployed transformationally, and we are still borrowing heavily externally. When it comes to taxation, intent, competence, and transparency/accountability must align.

An #Efik Language adaptation of #JuliusCaesar in #Calabar by James Ene Henshaw Jr.

I feel sorry for @alexiwobi in the next match. With this kind of performance today, they are going to assign 4 men to marks him out in the next match. Bro! Receive grace! #SuperEaglesOfNigeria #AFCON2025