“These problems are enormous. But the consolation is that the opportunities for solving them are there. And they are exciting and challenging.” — Lateef Jakande
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 🇳🇬