@AwoOluu@yabaleftonline Who told you Ifa is fetish? You need serious reorientation and education in Isese religion. You have been so brainwashed by your pastors and imams.
“Three months into our swearing in, some people told Tinubu I was planning to k!ll him to take over power. The President had called me and said, ‘Sit down! Your people came to me and said stop wearing those Shettima’s clothes.’
“But the president said their story did not add up. He said when you gave me those clothes, I was an aspirant. I would not have been the candidate, neither were you going to be Vice presidential candidate.
“Some people told him after election that I was planning to use the clothes to kill him and take over. However, Tinubu wore the clothes after that because he is not fetish.”
— Vice President Kashim Shettima.
@Oyewols23@Alkaneseries@Midatlblog Where in London do you live? I do go for a walk anytime of the night in London and no one has ever confronted nor attack me.
@GEkpenyong30250@Kalada____@DeeOneAyekooto all western countries lived on credit, this helps reduce poverty, corruption and crime in any society by 70%. The rest is within the political class in government. If there is no poverty it will be difficult 4 the politicians to manipulate and buy votes.
@Kalada____@DeeOneAyekooto No Sir, Access to Credit does not help. Stealing money is just an area of corruption. Also when you Access Credit, you are not paying back the same amount you took, there is interest which at some point can choke the person who took the credit which will still lead to stealing.
State visits by Leaders are not tourism, and diplomacy is not a fashion parade. Every foreign trip undertaken by a government must deliver measurable benefits to the people, including investments, technology transfer, trade agreements, factory expansion, industrial partnerships, and job creation.
During President Trump’s recent visit to China, the American delegation reportedly included a few top government officials, and many of the biggest figures in global business and technology:
Consequently, huge trade deals worth several billion dollars including about 200 Boeing orders were achieved.
The list of the entourage included
1. Donald J. Trump – President of the United States
2. Marco Rubio – Secretary of State
3. Pete Hegseth – Secretary of Defence
4. Elon Musk – CEO, Tesla & SpaceX
5. Jensen Huang – CEO, Nvidia
6. Tim Cook – CEO, Apple
7. Larry Fink – CEO, BlackRock
8. Stephen Schwarzman – CEO, Blackstone
9. Kelly Ortberg – CEO, Boeing
10. Brian Sikes – CEO, Cargill
11. Jane Fraser – CEO, Citigroup
12. Larry Culp – CEO, General Electric
13. David Solomon – CEO, Goldman Sachs
14. Sanjay Mehrotra – CEO, Micron Technology
15.Cristiano Amon – CEO, Qualcomm
16. Dina P. McCormick – President of Meta
17. Ryan McInerney – CEO, Visa
18. Michael Miebach – President, Mastercard
19. Jim Anderson – CEO, Coherent
20. Jacob Thaysen – CEO, Illumina
That is how serious nations approach diplomacy, by aligning foreign policy with economic expansion, industrial growth, innovation, and national productivity.
I hope that lessons can be learned from these recent visits comparing them with the President of Nigeria’s recent state visit to the United Kingdom.
A large entourage of politicians, aides, and government officials travelled, yet Nigerians are still asking a simple question: what exactly did Nigeria bring home?
Which factories are coming to Nigeria?
What power, technology, manufacturing, agricultural, or industrial agreements were secured?
How many direct jobs will this visit create for Nigerian youths?
What investments were attracted?
What measurable economic outcomes can the ordinary Nigerian point to?
The delegation reportedly included:
1. President Bola Tinubu
2. Senator (Mrs) Tinubu
3.12 governors
4.9 ministers
5.7 members of the National Assembly
6. Over 20 senior State House staff
7. Over 30 security personnel
8. Over 10 domestic staff
9. Several supporters and associates
It is not enough to ride horses, wear matching uniforms, attend royal banquets, and release glossy photographs. Symbolism without substance cannot feed hungry citizens.
Today, Nigeria is in decline, battling serious insecurity, food insecurity, unemployment, a weakened naira, declining industrial productivity, and worsening poverty.
At a time when millions of Nigerians struggle daily to afford food and survive economic hardship, every kobo spent on foreign trips must produce tangible national value: investments, factories, jobs, exports, infrastructure, and economic opportunities.
Nigeria needs leadership that is focused less on optics and more on productivity; less on ceremony and more on measurable economic results.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
@Akin_Malaolu@ennyola0015 Perhaps comprehension was an issue when I mentioned fight, what I meant was campaign for restructuring instead of going round in circles. The structure was what presented the present Nigeria, lack of region has eroded the omoluabi culture hence the cry for regionalism or breakup
@kennfay@ennyola0015 You don't know how such are realised. Some of you won't be in the struggle for it. And when it comes, thieves, burglars and armed robbers will be recruited to fill the vacancies and just as we are witnessing today. Bye.
I am done.
Please get the news correctly.😂
The South West Development Commission has secured a provisional rail operating and track access licence from the Nigerian Railway Corporation.
It means the NRC has given them permission to operate on existing railway infrastructure.
So, the SWDC may:
✓ procure or lease its own coaches and locomotives,
✓ manage schedules and routes,
✓ invest in terminals or logistics hubs,
✓ perhaps rehabilitate dormant narrow-gauge corridors.
@Akin_Malaolu@ennyola0015 As a social scientist political structure is the key to development and prosperity. Nigeria will never prosper with the present unitary system unless it either revert to regionalism or total break up. Personally I would prefer the latter and work together as Ecowas
@Akin_Malaolu@ennyola0015 Fight 4 regionalism with total resource control. Every ethnic nation must govern their territory for the country to prosper, Europe grew because they were divided along ethnic lines. No nation in the world prospered with equal % of ethnicity lumped together.
@Akin_Malaolu@ennyola0015 You think Nigeria practice federalism, what we have is unitary system and the creation of regionalism will restore federalism through resources, police and data control. The north will resist such creation hence the gradual devolution, failure to create region means BAT failed.
@kennfay@ennyola0015 What is federalism if the Regional Nonsense has to wait for funds. Must they start with railways for economic integration of the Southwest States? Some of you are naive because you have no understanding of urban Development a great subject I studied under Professor Mabogunje at
@Akin_Malaolu@ennyola0015 You confidently typed rubbish and think it made sense. If there is no fund, should they not plan? Saying the economy has collapsed shows your ignorance. Everything is not about politics and I bet a million dollars you are against regionalism or Yoruba nation. Reveal yourself
@ennyola0015 They are wasting their time. No capital funds have been released since 3rd quarter of 2024 to date. No budget quarterly reports made by Govt. in the last 9months
The economy of Nigeria collapsed on the 31st Jan. 2024 and we have been fed with propaganda since then.
Don't fool me
@dammiedammie35 Until you worked in mental hospitals then you will know that 40% of Nigerians have serious mental health problems. Just check their opinions on any rational issues
Daddy freeze currently on IG live talking about Frank Edoho and his ex wife’s situation
“Years ago, When a married man cheats, it is often overlooked, it’s no big deal, but when a married woman cheats, it is her mother that’ll call her and ask her why she’s disgracing the family. In 2016, Chike would never have been able to sell another Album in Nigeria. If Frank Edoho presents those voice notes in court, Frank Edoho will win the case. Frank Edoho was loved until few days ago just because of a comment he made on a podcast many years ago, he’s now the enemy, some people are even calling him a ded beat father”
@msuberum@africaceoforum@NGRPresident@afreximbank@papss_africa Commodity exchange is like a stock exchange but traders in agriculture and solid minerals. What he wants is for Africa to control prices thru the exchange. Afreximbank is not a market place.
@africaceoforum@NGRPresident The African Trade Gateway (ATG) by @afreximbank does this already with settlement via @papss_africa. It’s about more businesses signing up and more countries connecting to PAPSS for this to scale.
🌍 "Why don't you start one?" In four words, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu turned a moderator's question into a continental challenge from the main stage of the Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit in Kigali.
🛒 The question on the table was simple. Why does Africa, with all its commodity wealth spread asymmetrically across borders, still lack a continental exchange platform where producers and buyers can trade with one another rather than routing every transaction through external markets? Tinubu's answer turned the question back on the room. The continent's two largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa, have the scale, the volumes, the capital markets infrastructure and the political weight to launch precisely that platform. The case for waiting is increasingly difficult to defend.
📊 The numbers behind the provocation matter. Nigeria's non-oil exports to African markets grew 38% year-on-year in 2024. Intra-African trade is projected to climb from 15% in 2023 to 25% by 2030 under the AfCFTA framework. Cargo clearance times at major Nigerian seaports have already dropped by roughly 30% since 2023. The architecture for deeper intra-continental trade is being built piece by piece, but a continental commodity exchange would mark a qualitative leap, moving Africa from price-taker to price-setter on its own resources.
🤝 The deeper message is one of leadership by example. For years, the integration debate has been carried by communiqués and frameworks. Tinubu's challenge cuts through that. The two giants of the continent should stop debating who should move first and instead move together. That is what pan-African capitalism looks like when it stops being a slogan, African producers trading African commodities on African platforms, settled in African currencies.
🇷🇼 The question Kigali is putting on the agenda this week is no longer whether the AfCFTA will be implemented. It is who will dare to build its missing institutions.
#ACF2026#AfricaCEOForum
@sylverinaa@BolajiADC Well I expected an educated PhD holder to be analytical in everything they do and say, you goofed. It’s easier to analyse people who claim to be at the pinnacle of education yet write like a grade 4 student. Hmmm think about it.
@kennfay@BolajiADC U r an animal kenny.. very uncultured fo@l .. for you to be insulting a total stranger online , there is clearly no difference btw you and an illiterate. At this point an illiterate thinks way better than you
President Tinubu has just appointed a Major General as “Special Adviser on Homeland Security.” The term “homeland” is ideological and historically rooted. It makes sense in contexts like the United States, Germany, Israel, or Palestine. In Nigeria, it is largely meaningless.
If the President no longer has confidence in his National Security Adviser, he should simply replace him, not create a new office with a copycat title.
@sylverinaa@BolajiADC A Dr without brain, can’t you clearly see the difference in the name? Homeland deals with internal whilst National deals with external threats. Google is your friend online fictitious Dr.
@Big___pres@Light6476842792 How can you use X(tweeter) as your source of something historical moreover ichafu is a corrupted word for scarf because the natives couldn’t pronounce scarf due to their deficiency in English .
@Light6476842792 What thieves does is going around stealing peoples cultures then rename it 😂
Reason y’all can’t even trademark any of them just like Ghanaian trademark kente 😂
Culture vultures at it’s peak 😂
@lordodg13@NGRPresident Ignorance is truly a disease, how do you improve a nation’s industrialisation without research? Nigeria as a country has no research database archives but if you’re well educated you will know that. No nation improves without spending on R&D
@kennfay@NGRPresident 🤣😂 Ffs your tribes man promised you electricity and your national grid has collapsed more times than you have had 24 hrs electricity your entire life in Nigeria and you are here talking project. You live in a country that imports tooth pick man. Stop deceiving yasefs.
Over 4,000 people voted for Reform UK in Hackney.
Hackney. Of all places. Dominated by black people 😭😭😭
This isn’t even about panic but it’s about paying attention. Something is shifting, and ignoring it won’t help.
If we care about our communities, we need real conversations, not just shock and silence.