Chris O.

Saw someone being loud and wrong. Reminds me that I am at least sometimes also loud and wrong. But how often is and in what way are the subjective questions that I would find difficult to answer.

Too much masturbatory performances tethered to very tiny perturbances on behalf of political parties and politicians. My side X is the greatest y and he/she/they will outsmart z because flimsy randomn noisy event y occurred.

Interesting isn't it? Curious when it'll end.

Nigeria imports everything ≠ We don’t produce enough that is sufficient for us, and need to improve our production. Nigerians with this big size of a nation hate balance of trade with so much vim 💀💀💀💀. You don’t want to import, but you want other countries to come and buy your products as pa unna be God’s chosen nation.

ADC Raises Alarm Over INEC Landmines - Plot to Prevent Party From Fielding Candidates We are compelled to raise serious concerns about a developing situation that appears designed to prevent the African Democratic Congress (ADC) from fielding candidates in the upcoming elections. It is based on documentary evidence which we are now placing before the Nigerian public, including certified INEC records, attendance logs, monitoring reports, and excerpts from the Commission’s own sworn affidavit. Taken together, these documents establish a clear and consistent record of events. View the records here: bit.ly/NafiuGombeCase INEC received formal notice of the July 29, 2025 National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the ADC. It deployed officials to monitor that meeting. It documented the proceedings and received formal reports from its field officers. Following this, INEC updated its internal records and uploaded the names of the new leadership, including Senator David Mark as National Chairman and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as National Secretary. These are not claims. They are facts contained in INEC’s own records. In addition, the Commission’s sworn affidavit before the Federal High Court, in its response to Nafiu Bala Gombe on 12 September 2025, particularly in Clauses 14 to 19, affirms key legal principles: that the leadership transition had already been completed and recognized, that such internal party matters fall outside the scope of judicial interference, that completed acts cannot be reversed by injunction, and also recognizes the David Mark-led NWC. Yet, despite this clear documentary trail, INEC has now taken the position that it will no longer receive any correspondence from the ADC pending the determination of a matter before the Federal High Court. This is where the contradiction becomes dangerous. The Electoral Act imposes strict timelines on political parties, including the 21-day notice requirement and submission deadlines. INEC itself has fixed May 10 as the deadline for the submission of relevant documents. However, by refusing to receive communication from the ADC within this same period, the Commission is effectively preventing the Party from complying with the law. In simple terms, INEC is effectively threatening that unless the courts deliver judgment on the ADC leadership issue by May 10, it will prevent the ADC from producing candidates. This places the ADC in an impossible position and creates a clear pathway to artificial non-compliance, which can then be used to justify excluding the Party from fielding candidates. That is the landmine. INEC has claimed that its April 1 decision was taken to avoid rendering the proceedings before the Federal High Court nugatory. The reality is the opposite. By intervening in a matter already before the court and issuing a pronouncement with clear legal and operational consequences, the Commission has itself undermined the very process it claims to protect. What is even more concerning is that this position contradicts INEC’s own prior conduct and legal stance. The same Commission that monitored, documented, recognized, and swore to an affidavit confirming the ADC leadership is now acting in a way that contradicts its earlier position. We therefore call on the Commission to immediately reverse this position, resume the acceptance of all lawful correspondence from the ADC, and uphold its constitutional responsibility to ensure a level playing field for all political parties. We also call on Nigerians to be wary and remain vigilant about these dangerous machinations to subvert Nigeria’s democracy and impose a civilian dictatorship on the country.

@Rxbremen Any sales need to pay that $10b amortization and the FG still has to drop $10 counterpart funding to get a JV cut.

“Our oil” 👀👀💀💀

$10b for 250kbpd...

@abdota @Busolami_ay Libya is funny enough oil rich enough that you can see the stolen wealth in sufficiently lavish lifestyles despite the collapse. Even pre collapse, Gaddafi's lavish waste was clearly on another level. Not because Nigeria elite are better, but because we simply not wealthy.

@crowd_of_one @Busolami_ay It was Libya, a country of about 7m people, that we were addicted to comparing ourselves with before it went Belly up...

The irony is if you compare the lifestyles of our supposed elites to those of GCC rulers, it's clear that we're not that wealthy. People just want to believe the easy thing.

@admiral4eva It's also because it's not the same extractable value. Venezuelan crude is far less valuable and more difficult to extract than ours, which is in turn harder to extract than most of the GCC. They believed the same story and the check wasn't cashable. x.com/oluwaseun_alak…

@crowd_of_one Even if we were that wealthy, wealth not properly managed or harnessed is a waste. Venezuelans have more oil reserves per capita than anyone but see where they are.

It also suggests that the economy and the telecommunications sector are still struggling given our very large appetites and small spend. Especially as Ghana has higher telecom penetration rates, though of lower speeds, than we do.

The question that occurs to me is how much data and call minutes are the consumers in our respective countries getting... Given that 5G just launched last month in Ghana, it's likely we're not just spending less but likely getting far more.

I find it really difficult to make images like this with ai. It seems I can't easily describe what I want in a way the models understand.

@EbubeIsaac africaleadership.net/rethinking-afr…

@EbubeIsaac africanarguments.org/2012/09/africa… Another one

The claim is spot-on: Nigeria's solid mineral sector is overhyped relative to its actual scale and viability. It has major oil/gas, historical tin, and bitumen reserves. But iron ore (e.g., Itakpe) is low-grade with limited proven economic deposits (~3B tonnes total, but not world-class). Coal is decent quality (low sulfur) but production tiny (~2-3M tonnes/year). Gold is mostly alluvial/artisanal, not attracting big corporates. No meaningful copper, diamonds, rare earths, or alumina/bauxite at scale. Uranium shows some recent finds but undeveloped. Bright Simons' 2012+ analysis nails it: Africa (incl. Nigeria) lags global averages in mineral output/reserves per capita or sq km. Mining is <0.3% of GDP; oil dominates. Recent reforms boosted revenue (N16B in '23 to N38B in '24, targeting N70B+ in '25), but extraction remains underdeveloped vs. potential.

@SFAjayi That's the level people claim we'd be at but for the stealing. Except that those supposedly stealing so much look poor compared to the elites in actual oil countries.

@crowd_of_one That's another level of wealth

Always been the case. Not new news. Historically ~15-20% of the queue gets built. Anyone in power markets knew that hyperscalers were bidding in 2-3-4 power markets simultaneously to see which projects could get shovel ready the fastest. Anyone serious in power & energy markets never believed a 200GW+ pipeline. BUT, this doesn’t change that we are undergoing a massive buildout. Going from 35-40GW at the end of 24, 50GW end of 2025 to probably something like 100-125GW. People don’t realize how massive that is. Basically doubling the entire history of data center capacity over a 5 year period. +50GW is like 5 4-5 NYC’s.

Nigeria has no excuse.

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