Deji Idowu, PhD

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Yet another bad idea

💬 "A citizen that pays taxes is a citizen. If you are not a taxpayer, and not exempted, then you are not a citizen." 🇳🇬 With that uncompromising definition, His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, redefined the social contract from the main stage of the Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit in Kigali. ⚖️ The President spoke as a man who knows the file intimately. He had personally driven tax reform as Governor of Lagos State, transforming what was then a fiscally fragile sub-national into Nigeria's most autonomous fiscal jurisdiction. The architect of his current federal tax reform, Finance Minister Wale Edun, was sitting in the front row, the very person whose work has reshaped Nigeria's revenue architecture over the past three years. 🎯 Tinubu's argument was disarmingly direct. Nobody, anywhere in the world, wakes up wanting to pay taxes. Taxation is not friendly to the wealthy, to the middle class, or to the poor. And yet every citizen expects roads, hospitals, schools, pharmaceutical research, protection of the vulnerable and the country's children. The question that demanding citizens almost never answer, he noted with sharp irony, is the most basic one: who pays for it? You want a fine highway, but not through your land. You want a well-equipped hospital, but no taxes. The maths does not work, anywhere on earth. 📜 The historical wink was telling. His American interlocutor's ancestors, he reminded the room, famously threw the tea into the sea when they were taxed without representation. The lesson, in Tinubu's reading, is not that taxation is dangerous, it is that taxation creates demanding citizens. And demanding citizens, far from being a problem, are precisely what builds accountable states. The Covid-19 pandemic underscored just how strategic domestic fiscal capacity becomes when the world stops being predictable. 🌍 The deeper message lands squarely on the African Ownership agenda Kigali has been amplifying all week. Pan-African capitalism cannot be financed indefinitely from external loans, declining aid, or volatile commodity rents. It will be financed by African citizens, African corporations and African tax systems that have the political legitimacy to function. The unlock is fiscal sovereignty, and fiscal sovereignty starts with taxation. 🇷🇼 The question Kigali is putting on the table this week is no longer whether African states need to raise more revenue domestically. It is whether they will dare to ask their citizens to fund the future they say they want. #ACF2026 #AfricaCEOForum

Bad Idea, Bad bad bad idea

Parents need to do better; children should not be appearing this tattered in this day and age. Poverty is not an excuse. The school authorities should also get a tongue-lashing.

@holuwartomisyn @Cegars1 @tosino52 @GovWike There is always that legend in every set 🤣😂😂

@Cegars1 @tosino52 @GovWike Na legend be that

This is a kind gesture from the FCT Minister @GovWike to the dse pupils. Thank you Minister!

@eboboritse @biolaodetola Congratulations

It’s a dream come true | Proud to become Head Coach of the Nigeria U17 Mens National Team (The Golden Eaglets); five-time world champions. Over thirteen years of learning, patience, hard work and dedication has led to this moment…

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@HMMohammedIdris @iyaboawokoya Looking forward to the launch

Nigeria’s Television landscape is about to experience a major leap forward. After many years of delay, we are finally set to complete the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting. The long-awaited Digital Switch Over (DSO) project is now fully ready for nationwide launch, with a defining new partnership between @nbcgovng and @NigComSat1R. We now have an upgraded DSO framework, that leverages satellite broadcasting - powered by NIGCOMSAT technology. I’m pleased to say that the new DSO platform is scheduled for official commissioning on June 17, 2026. This is truly a new dawn for our country. President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope agenda is leaving no sector or industry out. Digital broadcasting is infinitely superior to analogue, in terms of broadcast quality, analytics, accuracy of audience measurement, and competition. With digital broadcasting, there’s no room for monopoly. Everybody is going to compete. Advertisers and broadcasters can make informed programming and investment decisions while improving content delivery to Nigerians. And Nigerians will have many more content options than ever before. Join us on this exciting journey that will permanently transform broadcasting in Nigeria.

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Kindly repost oo 😭😭😭😭😭😭

@OryHarde The annoying thing is that they do it to guys as well. The constant harassment made me stop going there to buy things

They are all Ibo boys. Call them out, there is no need to shield them.

@isbae_u @boniface_jrn @victorosimhen9 Omo werey, you wey never recover from the roasting aunty Fathia gave to you 😂😂🤣

I will be busy , but I will try make time to give them a platform @boniface_jrn @victorosimhen9

@Just_Ozed Does the phase 2 run from Mile 2 to Badagry?

Lagos is daring to dream big. What you’re seeing here is the ongoing construction of Phase 2 of the Lagos Blue Line mass transit rail project. Following the successful launch and operation of Phase 1 running from Mile 2 to Marina for over two years work on the next phase is advancing rapidly. And this is just one section of the rail corridor currently taking shape. Step by step, Lagos is expanding a modern urban rail system designed to transform mobility for millions across the city.

@chizymills You nor serious 😂😂😂

Let her go register for NDC and get her PVC. A working Nigeria means she’ll be OK, independent, and won’t have to worry about deportation.

Kindly help Retweet!!!

Just like that, you’ve taken a few seconds of a young man’s skit to generalise the experience of having a shower across Africa (the entire continent!). You must be quite entertaining at parties.

@woye1 @mamatii001 You who was born before Nigeria was amalgamated 😂😂😂

@mamatii001 Tinubu

Who was the president when u were born. Me; Shehu Shagari U?

@FotoNugget The Ebute Metta station is under National Railway Corporation not Lagos State

Lagos State is taking this train thing very far. I was at Ebute Metta Train Station yesterday, and all I can say is that other states really need to step up.

It is well. I was diagnosed 2022. I survived. This year, Jan, I lost my vision. I didn't know it wasn't a glass thing but a brain thing until I had a seizure. Now radiotherapy and chemotherapy are compulsory, and the money being asked for is running to 20 million naira.