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“These problems are enormous. But the consolation is that the opportunities for solving them are there. And they are exciting and challenging.” — Lateef Jakande
Basil
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Basil
@basilabia
Aspirant, House of Representatives, Oron, Mbo, Okobo, Udung-Uko, Urue-Offong/Oruko Federal Constituency. #NDC
Joined September 2012
- You can’t fix electricity. You can’t fix water supply. You can’t build good schools. You can’t build good hospitals. You can’t conduct a census. You can’t secure your borders. You can’t even give your people an identification document. What is now the point of government?
- I made a post about the poor sanitary conditions of a street in Victoria Island Lagos (a high-end residential area)—one third of the responses to the post have been all sorts of Igbophobic slurs on my person. I have never seen anything like this. We are in trouble, Nigerians.
- We make flimsy excuses for our useless governors so much that it hurts me. Lateef Jakande built 11,729 classrooms in 6 months between March and August 1980. He reduced the classroom-to-pupil size from 100+ to 40 pupils per primary school classroom.
- Women weren’t allowed to vote or be voted for in elections in northern Nigeria (one half of Nigeria) until 1979. Massive shoutout to feminists like Hajiya Gambo Sawaba and her cohort for fighting the good fight for this cause.women werent allowed to open a bank account in the usa until 1974??????!!???!!???!????!??????
- I have not seen a Nigerian politician in my lifetime love and respect medical workers and medical students like this gem of a man.Peter Obi visits another College of Nursing Sciences and makes a financial donation to the institution.
00:00 - 8 years under your useless party in government and they’ve minted at least 33 million *new poor people in Nigeria, shaved off $1000 from our GDP per capita, driven us into two recessions and taken us from a single-digit inflation rate to 22.04% inflation rate. Learn some shame.7 years!!! To think Arteta was manager for almost 4 of those 7 years.
- I remember when I did a history thread on how Lateef Jakande built 11,729 classrooms in 6 months between March and August 1980 as Lagos governor and folks were saying it’ll be impossible in this present day due to costs. Lol 😂 Our governing elite simply don’t want to govern.Assume Kano has 10,000 classes. N5m per class, that’s N50 billion! But no! We’d rather build a bridge for N27 billion😭😭
- Bayelsa gets N20-N25 billion every month in FAAC allocations and Yenagoa looks like a slightly iterated version of Mubi town after Boko Haram raided it. Let me not even talk about the other local governments: I spent three days there 2 weeks ago. A criminally misgoverned state.
- So what did Nasir El-Rufai do for 8 years fisabilillahi?74.7% of children in Kaduna State cannot read - Report
00:00 - He was a federal minister for 8 years - he manned power, works, and housing. We have an electricity supply deficit in hundreds of thousands, barely pliable federal roads in thousands of kilometers and housing supply deficits in tens of millions. Save us this bullshit.Fashola is someone i know wont care about ur feelings if he was the President hes brutal and hardworking if i have my way, ill tell BAT to tell him to do his 2nd term Many people dont know that the fiscak shape of Lagos State is 50% Babatunde Fashola (of cos work started b4
- “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984.“People are just blind. The country is much better, is more safer, there’s increased prosperity in the country” - Minister of Education Tunji Alausa
00:00 - These are war time numbers and we aren’t at war.CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS WITH ACUTE MALNUTRITION, 2023 Top 10 1 🇳🇬Nigeria: 5.9 million 2 🇪🇹Ethiopia: 4.1 million 3 🇦🇫Afghanistan: 3.2 million 4 🇸🇩Sudan: 3 million 5 🇨🇩Congo DR: 2.8 million 6 🇸🇸South Sudan: 2.7 million 7 🇵🇰Pakistan: 2.1 million 8 🇸🇴Somalia: 1.8 million 9 🇹🇩Chad:
- Arsenal Women record signing, Alessia Russo was also announced as an Arsenal player with Nigerian music. The Nigerian Rock et Funk music was made by some great young men in Enugu city in the 1970s called "The Hygrades." Song title: Keep on Moving Nigerian soft power 🇳🇬Welcome to the Arsenal family. Alessia Russo is our new No.23 ❤️
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