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   Here are seven things President Bola Tinubu could have prioritized that would have made his re-election almost a no-brainer. 1. SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF INSECURITY What this would mean for Nigerians: Farmers could return safely to their farms, increasing food production and helping to bring down food prices. Nigerians could travel freely on our roads without the fear of being kidnapped. Families would no longer lose their lifetime savings and assets to pay ransom. Tourism would flourish, attracting billions of dollars in foreign exchange. Resources currently allocated to fighting insurgency could be redirected towards building hospitals and funding education. The psychological trauma associated with kidnapping would be reduced, allowing individuals and communities to redirect their resources towards more productive activities. 2. DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN POWER SUPPLY Bring stakeholders in the private and public sectors together to develop and implement a sustainable sol...

They just sent a message to many corrupt politicians who have sold their conscience to the devil and lined up behind an evil man who has deceived many with lies and cared less about the plight of ordinary people, while he and his family members rake in billions in one year... Some of the politicians voted out tonight closed their eyes to all sorts of atrocities after atrocity and pure evil, including the slaughtering of Americans (Alex Pretti and Renee Good) on the street like a dog because some people want to make the country "white," and would kill anyone who stands in their way... they kept quiet when crushing tariffs were implemented, when American allies were bullied and vilified, when he went to war to attack a country he claimed he has defeated on credit and because he was so weak that he was played like a drum by a tiny country's leader with alterior motive, when he they keep building data centers that harm communities, when the cost of living skyrocketed and g...

  I wrote on this subject about 20 years ago in the wake of the death of Gbenga Adeboye , Toba Opaleye , and Kolawole Olawuyi ... I have seen reels and short videos and read articles where some link the deaths of actors to EVIL DARK forces in the industry.... NO! NO!! NO!!! The dark forces that are killing Nollywood actors are not different from the ones that are killing nameless Nigerians every day... It is the evil of successive failed governments that have not prioritized access to healthcare for all... Have you visited UCH in the last couple of years? The state of the hospital is pathetic - they were operating on my mom in 2020, and they took electricity in the middle of the surgery for almost 5 min - my heart was in my mouth... Despite paying millions for what was supposed to be VIP treatment, we had to purchase everything, including the surgical gloves and the gown used by the surgeons... The staircase leading to the ward was horribly smelling because of a leaking sewage lin...

Americans need to respond to all the open corruption going on currently in the seat of government and show the dictators and oligarchs that POWER reside with the people in democracy . It should be a government of the people, for the people and BY the people... Many were deceived to cast their vote for a convicted felon New Yorker city boy who loves no one but himself and his pocket... We told them that the economic success he touted for four years was handed to him by his predecessor, Obama ... now, he inherited a decimated economy from Biden that stemmed from his own incompetency in handling COVID 19 , and he has failed to deliver - Biden's policies have already started to recover the economy after the 2022, but he came with tariffs on friendly nations, was fooled to attack a nation with a strategic leverage for the corridor that supplies over 25% of global energy , and his bad-bad-bad bill gave tax breaks to rich Americans at the expense of low and middle income Americans...

The APC government under President Ahmed Tinubu needs to tell Nigerians why they failed to keep all their promises... Insecurity, power supply, lack of access to medical care, and POVERTY have either remained the same or have become worse. The people are not okay... Many cannot feed their families; they cannot drive their vehicles anymore; they die of simple ailments because they cannot access or afford medical care... They see concrete roads, they see a booming stock market, they see capital projects... but they do not see their lives improve. WHY? This government needs to do more to tell the people why they should be voted for again in 2027 - that is, if their vote counts. About 45 to 52 million more Nigerians have fallen below the poverty line since 2023. From about 87 million, to about 139 million Nigerians now live below the poverty line - that is about 62% of all Nigerians who are now skipping one or two or all meals every day. This is predicated on many salary earners losing ab...

The online interface for the new postcode for buildings in Nigeria is easy to access for allocation and retrieval of your house number ... If you have not obtained a postcode for your house yet, note that it is easy. I was able to apply for our properties (still waiting for assignment), sitting in my office here ... This is the URL: https://postcode.gov.ng/#how ... The instructions are easy to follow..   1. You can use your current location if you are in the house you want to obtain a postcode for...   2. You can use the map link if you can find your house on Google Maps - this is what I used. I first located the house on Google Maps, extracted the longitude and latitude , and then pasted it into the window provided. It popped up an application, and I completed it. Now waiting for our postcodes.   3. If you think you have the postcode already, you can locate the house by entering the postcode into the window provided..   The postcode comes with several benefits. C...

    The developers of the frontier AI models ( Anthropic – CLAUDE; OpenAI – ChatGPT ; XAI – Grok; and Google – Gemini ) need to tell us the truth about the current projections that AI can kill us all in ten years or less ; that it constitutes catastrophic risks to humanity , can resist shutdown or control, can self-preserve when discovered to be going rogue, and could potentially blackmail developers when an attempt is made to control…. The way these models are developed is simple – “garbage in, garbage out.” It is what you program the models to do that it would do … everything that the companies are saying the newly released models (Mythos/Fable, ASTRA, etc.) they are developing can do is what they have been programmed to do… so, they can create guardrails into the models’ development and make sure that these models do NOT have these capabilities. We are not stupid even though we are not involved in the models’ development. The only way these models will do exactly what th...

  I watched this video with amazement... and I cast my mind back to the 1990s, when the culture of first-name calling infiltrated the new-generation banks then. One of those banks was co-founded and owned by a 34-year-old man. His name is Tony Elumelu . A lot of the staff from top to bottom were young guys; some were older. Everyone from the cashier to the CEO, Tony, called everyone by their first name. What I heard from those who applied for jobs in those banks then was that the last person you interview with was Tony Elumelu. He would insist you call him by his first name, or TOE if you could not stomach calling your CEO by his first name. Tony called many people of his father's age by their first name then. What changed for Tony? When Tony Elumelu interacts with people outside the shores of Nigeria , they call him by his first name... why insist you are called by a title at home? Maybe cultural perception at home front, and again, Mr. Elumelu is older now, with a few chieftainc...

The suicide of Prof. Jason Arday speaks to the larger issue of modern-day lynching of minority in a European-dominated world... The story is the same everywhere - U.S., Canada, EU.... The door is often closed on you because of the color of your skin... They frequently talk about meritocracy, but underlying bias fuels reasons why many people of African descent are ignored in top positions. Before you open your mouth, you are already being second-guessed. I face this daily in my job here in the U.S. on many fronts - they never believe you are fit for your position, you are excluded from opportunities deliberately, you are talked down at, you are ignored when you seek support, and the worst of it is that you are SCRUTINIZED all the time... You are told to your face you are not good enough... This is in the face of your unmatched outstanding RECORDS that transcend just one unit or organization that prove otherwise... the records do not matter; you have to do it over again all the time th...

I give credit to President Tinubu for not illegally interfering in the Osun State governorship election that held yesterday - maybe they are under pressure from influential people like Davido , who used their platforms to draw global attention to the election. Or maybe because of a pact between the two - a second-term ambition that removed "do or die"... I just saw a video where Governor Adeleke endorsed President Tinubu for a second term. Whatever, the election appears to be generally fair with a few skirmishes here and there. If we continue to practice democracy this way, the people (at least during general elections) will be able to choose their leaders... Politicians will start to behave in office when they realize the power to win an election belongs to the people and not them through intimidation, rigging, and vote manipulation... I hope he will let the Oyo governorship election go the same way next year... I was having a conversation with my 15-year-old son yester...

I was a young lecturer at Lautech when GSM was launched in Nigeria in 2001. I could not afford one immediately because of the cost of purchasing a phone and the rates. It cost ₦ 50 per minute to make a call... Many blamed the cost of licensing the telecom providers - Econet , NITEL , and MTN - which was a whopping $285 million. To put the call rate in perspective, the minimum wage in Nigeria was ₦ 5,500 then. If you had one line, speaking for 10 minutes could cost you 10% of your salary. Fast forward to today, the rate is ₦13.80 per minute, a 72% drop since GSM came in 2001. Unlike in 2001, when there were no per-second rates , Nigerians can now make calls for a few seconds without being charged at a per-minute rate. There are also several options for consumers at cheaper rates on the surface - data plans of all kinds, combos of call and data, pay-as-you-go, etc. Many attribute these options and lower rates to technological advancement in the GSM space, including the proliferatio...