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Nigeria claim the #U17WWC title. 🇳🇬🏆
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The PM of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, called his nation a "barren island"; I am quoting him.
The leadership of Singapore took citizens from that barren island from $516 in 1965 to $98,814 in 2025. The leadership of Nigeria took citizens from a nation endowed with immense God-given wealth from $117 in 1965 to $4,63 in 2014 to $835 in 2025 (IMF)
Singapore, with a smaller landmass, smaller population, and no fossil fuels, grew its budget and GDP per capita through the work of its leaders; they did not give excuses like "we are a poor nation"
Let's move to China, because someone will say, 'what's the population of Singapore'?
China in 1965 had a GDP per Capita of $65; in 2025, the GDP per capita of China was $13,862. Again, this was down to the work of the Chinese leadership
Let's go to Ethiopia; it's chosen because of its population. Its poverty rate has increased just as Nigeria's poverty rate has increased, but there is a critical distinction.
Between 2015 and 2025, Ethiopia’s average crude birth rate was approximately 32.4 births per 1,000 people, while its average real GDP per capita growth rate was around 4.5% to 5.5% annually. Nigeria, on the other hand, has maintained an exceptionally high average crude birth rate of roughly 36.8 births per 1,000 people, while its average real GDP per capita growth rate was marginally negative or stagnant, averaging approximately -0.1% to 0.2% annually.
Translation? Poverty is rising in both nations, but Ethiopia is growing its economy faster than Nigeria and creating more wealth for its citizens, as shown in GDP per capita.
The real danger in saying Nigeria is poor is that it insulates the Nigerian leadership from delivering the dividends of this blessed land to the people of Nigeria.
A big part of what ails Nigeria is also corruption. In 2013, a young man named Japhet Omojuwa (any relation?) said, and I quote, "corruption at its most chronic height has been responsible for the resource curse Nigeria suffers." T
Today, I am told that it's no longer corruption that ails Nigeria but income that's the problem. Income? The FGN got resources, N20t from subsidy removal and borrowing, and spent less than N300b on education. So are resources really the issue?
As you said, China was poor, but the leadership of China acted like the nation was poor, wearing austere Mao suits and riding bicycles to work (not Rolls-Royce); if Nigeria is poor, why is the leadership acting like the nation is rich? Why is poverty only a defense when it comes to health and education? I have not heard the Nigerian Senate say Because of poverty, they will now drive assembled Nord cars locally "
This then brings us to Nord; I fear you are reading this literally. If you go to China, India, or even Germany, you will struggle to see foreign cars. Do you know how many parts go into a single car?
If the president takes his pen and says, henceforth, only Nord and Innoson will be used by all Federal agencies, do you know how many jobs will be created directly and indirectly: the FDI, the training centers, the suppliers, the steel sector, the glass sector, the fabrics sector, the rubber sector, the finance sector? The advertisers, the technical schools, the insurance sector. trade? You are scoring 500 cars by calculating their sales price; that's like scooping water from the Atlantic with your hands to count the fish in the ocean.
I urge you to read up on the "Chicken tax" enacted in 1964 in America that subsequently allowed Detroit’s "Big Three" (Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler) to dominate the highly lucrative pickup truck and SUV till this day.
Nigeria is not poor; I casually asked ChatGPT the value of Nigeria's oil and gas in the ground; the number was $ 3.5 T, that's three and a half trillion USD. This same Nigeria has an oil company with no functional refinery. So it's not a poverty issue; it's a failure to create wealth.
This will not be my last post on this; my job on social media is to educate and inform and to hold the leadership to account factually. If you want to offer off-ramps to leadership that will not invest in wealth creation by all means, go ahead; keep insisting Nigeria is poor while the government spends millions on influencers (not you of course)
If a man has a yam field and refuses to plant yams, he can't complain that he is hungry
Nigeria is poor. That is an objective statement. Even the things you wrote after that projected the state of Nigeria’s poverty.
Your post opens by declaring Nigeria is not poor and ends by admitting Nigeria has not arrested extreme poverty. Both cannot be true. This is Peter Obi level contradiction.
A country is not rich because of what lies under its soil. It is rich because of what its people produce above it. By the measure that matters to the woman selling pepper at Mile 12, Nigeria is poor: 63 per cent of Nigerians, about 140 million people, were below the poverty line in 2025. Our income per head is around $1,250 a year. That is poverty.
Singapore was never a "barren rock." In 1965 its income per head was about $516, roughly level with Mexico and South Africa, and it was a busy British port. Singapore had no minerals at all. It is the strongest evidence against your post's claim. Resources did not make Singapore rich. Productivity did.
Ethiopia is a strange choice of "no excuses" model. Its poverty rate rose from 33 per cent in 2016 to a projected 43 per cent in 2025, and it has been in debt distress since missing a Eurobond payment in December 2023. If Nigeria missed a Eurobond payment, you are your presidential candidate will be shouting that to the heavens.
Ethiopia has not arrested extreme poverty either. Fast growth is not the same as being rich. Aren’t you meant to be one of the smartest Obidients? Even objective numbers are tripping you? Ethiopia? Did you think you were replying someone in your herd? Ethiopia? Lol.
The China figure of $113 per head in 1970 is correct. But China did not escape by announcing it was secretly rich. It admitted it was poor, then spent four decades building factories, roads and export industries.
India's progress is real. Its extreme poverty fell to 5.3 per cent. But Nigeria is not alone at the bottom: the DRC and (your) Ethiopia sit with us among the four countries holding half of sub-Saharan Africa's extreme poor.
The real danger in "Nigeria is not poor" is that it becomes the excuse. It tells Nigerians the wealth already exists and someone is just sitting on it. Politics then becomes a fight over sharing, not a project of producing. That’s exactly why none of those who want to replace President Tinubu have any plan on expanding our productivity. It’s all about how to waste the little there is.
About 1.6 million barrels a day at $65 is roughly $38 billion a year before any costs. Divide that by 230 million Nigerians and you get about $165 per person per year. Is that wealth?
You cannot fix what you misdiagnose. Nigeria is poor. But Nigeria does not have to stay poor.
As for Nord: 500 cars will not move GDP. Lol. Even at ₦50 million each, that is ₦25 billion, a rounding error in a ₦372.8 trillion economy. But a Nigerian factory making cars that Nigerians pay for is exactly how poor countries become rich. Make it 500,000. We are talking numbers, let’s get real please.
And this is my last response here. I cannot engage people who lie about bare facts for the sake of their uninformed audience or politics.
Good day Aja.
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As a Nigerian, I just beg you to 2:35 and watch this video, fact check them and ask yourself once again, “HOW WICKED CAN THE APC GET!!!!!!!
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Des « fans » de foot ont un problème avec le fait que ce type soit Ballon d’Or… En vrai de vrai, vous détestez ce sport que vous prétendez aimer.
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From hopeless Tottenham career to Ballon d'Or in Munich.
Harry Kane 👏👏👏
Just don't die. Time is your ally.
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An average US home uses 900 kWh/month
900kWh goes for $150 ($0.17/kWh).
In Nigeria, 900 kWh on Band A is ₦202k ($0.15/kWh).
We are paying roughly the same
We are paying US tariffs with a ₦70k minimum wage, and still dealing with blackouts.
Come home and taste it.
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The new kids think that the 39 year old Messi is the actual Messi. Oh dear, you kids haven't seen the demonic version of this little guy
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Rwanda is building an airport big enough for every person in the country to fly through it once a year.
About 14 million people live there. The new airport is designed for 14 million passengers a year. The one they have now handles around 2 million.
So how do you fill that thing? You go get Formula 1.
The track F1 just announced goes in Bugesera, about 40km south of Kigali, right next to that new $2 billion airport. It's a 10-year deal starting in the early 2030s, and it'll be the first Grand Prix in Africa since 1993.
Now look at who owns the airport. Qatar Airways has 60% of it. Qatar Airways is also F1's official airline.
This is where it gets really smart, because Qatar has done this exact thing before. Doha opened Hamad International in 2014 and spent the next decade giving the world reasons to land there, with a World Cup in 2022 and a Grand Prix locked in through 2032. Hamad now handles over 50 million passengers a year in a country of about 3 million people. Rwanda is basically running Qatar's playbook with Qatar as its business partner.
And Rwanda has been setting this up for years. Visit Rwanda, the country's tourism board, got its logo on Arsenal's sleeve back in 2018 for a reported £10 million a year, and later added PSG, Bayern and Atlético. Kigali hosted the FIA's big awards night in 2024, which is where President Kagame first said out loud he wanted a race. The next year it hosted cycling's world championships, the first time they'd ever been held in Africa. It hosted 165 international conferences last year alone.
Tourism brought in $685 million last year from 1.49 million visitors, and gorilla treks were $248 million of that by themselves. For Rwanda that's real money. But you can't fill a 14 million passenger airport with people coming to see gorillas, so the country keeps buying bigger pieces of the world's attention.
South Africa wanted this race too. It has the history, the old Kyalami circuit, and a sports minister who kept saying F1 was coming back. Talks there stalled over problems with the local promoter. Rwanda walked in with government money behind it and a former F1 driver, Alexander Wurz, already drawing the track.
People are going to have strong feelings about this one. Arsenal and Visit Rwanda wrapped up their sleeve deal after last season, following fan protests and a letter from DR Congo's foreign minister calling the club's sponsorship "blood-stained." Five months later, the same tourism board's name is on the title of a Formula 1 race. Critics have called the whole Visit Rwanda strategy sportswashing for years. Kagame's pitch today was about young Africans finally getting to watch the sport at home and picture themselves in it as engineers, and one day as drivers.
The airport is supposed to open in 2028, with the first race a few years after that. If the plan works, a country smaller than Maryland becomes one of the places people across Africa change planes, and the airline that already pulled that off in the Gulf will own most of the terminal.
Africa, we’re back. 🌍
From the early 2030s, the African Grand Prix will join the calendar and take place in Bugesera, Rwanda 🇷🇼
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