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There are certain things I've seen reoccur over multiple electoral cycles: the belief that no one will like that candidate you don't like & everyone will/has to like the one that you do; that your vote didn't count even...
.. if who you voted for won in your PU/ward/etc but didn't win the overall election; a vote for a candidate with low electoral chances is a waste at best or a way of depriving their candidate of that vote at worst; & of course, ain't no way in hell their candidate really lost.
"Emotion is African, as reason is Hellenic" is what I see a lot in our conversations, debates & thinking in Nigeria. Positions are formed from an emotional place, & the belief that the more emotional you are, the more valid the position.
I got into a conversation with my barber & I was encouraging him to ensure he votes next year. Dude got pissed that asking him to vote is asking him to vote the incumbent. Despite my telling him I didn't care who he voted for but he that he votes, he left me with a bad haircut.
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Multiple truths can coexist.
The problems are both on the debit and credit side, and they can be solved concurrently.
Mark Amaza retweeted
Yes, $200 per citizen.
But how can a poor nation:
1. Buy and maintain a presidential air fleet of planes and helicopters costing billions—N20b in 2025?
2. Build an N21b home for a VP that is now abandoned?
3. Import SUVs for all lawmakers, costing N40b?
If the nation is poor and everyone will get less than $200, why are unelected aides flying private jets from Abuja to Kaduna?
Why is the poverty story only applicable when it's time to share oil wealth with all Nigerians? Why don't we hear “the nation is poor” when senators are sent tokens?
Again, I remind everyone that these figures below were published by the FGN following the removal of the fuel subsidy and external borrowings:
Total resources: N20 trillion
Total education spend: <N300b
Selah
If you shared everything Nigeria’s federal government expects to collect in 2026 equally among Nigerians, each person would get $114.35 for the year. That is $9.53 a month, about N13,000.
And that assumes nothing else happens. No roads, no schools, no hospitals, no army, no salaries. Just the entire federal revenue divided by the number of Nigerians.
The first delusion to cure yourself of is that Nigeria is a rich country. You cannot heal a disease you refuse to acknowledge.
As a Nigerian, you should be angry that our election conversations almost never touch this, the mother of every other problem we have.
How do we expand our productivity?
That is the question. Everything else sits inside it.
Today is Sunday. When they say “Owó ni kẹ̀kẹ́ ìhìnrere,” what do you think it means?
It does not apply to the gospel alone. Whatever you want to carry, money is what carries it. It is why one of the first things the United States did in its war on terror was go after the money.
PS: Some comparisons below.
Mark Amaza retweeted
Although this is referring to Federal Government’s revenue and not the entire country’s revenue, Nigeria is still a poor country.
However, the problem is that the political class doesn’t care about that.
This narrative is only sold to the citizens while the political class continues to live in denial and squander the “scarce” resources.
This is why they don’t talk about being productive or managing the resources better.
If you shared everything Nigeria’s federal government expects to collect in 2026 equally among Nigerians, each person would get $114.35 for the year. That is $9.53 a month, about N13,000.
And that assumes nothing else happens. No roads, no schools, no hospitals, no army, no salaries. Just the entire federal revenue divided by the number of Nigerians.
The first delusion to cure yourself of is that Nigeria is a rich country. You cannot heal a disease you refuse to acknowledge.
As a Nigerian, you should be angry that our election conversations almost never touch this, the mother of every other problem we have.
How do we expand our productivity?
That is the question. Everything else sits inside it.
Today is Sunday. When they say “Owó ni kẹ̀kẹ́ ìhìnrere,” what do you think it means?
It does not apply to the gospel alone. Whatever you want to carry, money is what carries it. It is why one of the first things the United States did in its war on terror was go after the money.
PS: Some comparisons below.
Mark Amaza retweeted
If you shared everything Nigeria’s federal government expects to collect in 2026 equally among Nigerians, each person would get $114.35 for the year. That is $9.53 a month, about N13,000.
And that assumes nothing else happens. No roads, no schools, no hospitals, no army, no salaries. Just the entire federal revenue divided by the number of Nigerians.
The first delusion to cure yourself of is that Nigeria is a rich country. You cannot heal a disease you refuse to acknowledge.
As a Nigerian, you should be angry that our election conversations almost never touch this, the mother of every other problem we have.
How do we expand our productivity?
That is the question. Everything else sits inside it.
Today is Sunday. When they say “Owó ni kẹ̀kẹ́ ìhìnrere,” what do you think it means?
It does not apply to the gospel alone. Whatever you want to carry, money is what carries it. It is why one of the first things the United States did in its war on terror was go after the money.
PS: Some comparisons below.
Mark Amaza retweeted
The effectiveness of maxim guns was insane. Took the British only 4 maxim guns (only FOUR) to take down the mighty sokoto caliphate. Sokoto caliphate stretched through 4 countries in the modern day. A civilization that doesn’t take technological advancement and sovereignty seriously will eventually be subjugated.
Nigerians Are Going to Heaven. Just Not Today. fikayoakeredolu.substack.com… | Excellent analysis here
Eventually, I've to start eating this elephant one bite at a time. Else, it will keep staring at me.
Mark Amaza retweeted
What makes student politics in Nigeria so Nigerian?
Campaigns, alliances, godfathers and kingmakers—the world of campus politics can feel remarkably familiar.
How did student politics come to mirror the best and worst of Nigerian democracy?
Read in The Republic:
Really sad.
The lack of closure over such a situation.
An Igbo Woman Who Got Missing In 2006 Set To Be Buried 20 Years After As Tradition Demands
-Written by the owners of Lovebite Bread in Nnobi Anambra State 👇
A pain and sorrow that we have carried for 20 years!
U went out on 31st dec 2006, just aged 22 then, we have searched for u, prayed,hoped, wept and wished to see u again! Always expecting u to come back to the family! Then none of ur brothers have had a child, now ur five brothers have 22 children!
Then all ur brothers are struggling, now, all of them have gotten a name to them selves! What about ur sisters? More 4 children have been added to the household of ur sisters!
Our grand mother's chiugo, died in dec 2007 waiting for u!
Our father nze Chinemelu died in dec 2012 waiting for u!
We have been even scammed by people who promise that they knew what to do to make us see u again!
We have spent fortune , hoping to see u walk into ur fathers compound once again!
Ur fathers compound have changed so much that u really need to ve around and see!
We have been taunted by the enemies of our family who mock us asking us where is our sister!
Tradition demands that any one that got lost for 20 years should be given a benefiting funeral!
Nneka nwannem, we want to fulfil the traditional rites by giving u a benefiting burial, if u are alive and is just some where hiding from u, pls come back! If u are being held captive some where against ur free will, may God set u free and bring u home!
But if u are dead, may ur soul rest in peace! 😭
