Aikon
@Aikoges • 38,865 subscribers
Civil Engineer 🏗️ | Env’tal Compliance & Policy Specialist | Engineering Business Strategist 📊 | Good Governance Advocate ✊🏾 | African Voice 🌍 🌐
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“Africa, if you add up the 55 countries of the African Union, that’s about 1.5 billion people—same size as India, same size as China. The big difference is that the imperial powers divided Africa into 55 little countries, not one of which can thrive on its own, whereas India and China, because of the history, remained. So I tell them every single time I have the opportunity that the African Union is the key. As 55 you can’t make it, but as one African continental economy you can make it. So what’s happening now is Africa’s population is continuing to rise—it’s the only place in the world with rapid population growth—and all the others are declining. Everyone else has peaked or is just about to peak or actually beginning a decline. Africa’s population today is 1.5 billion. By 2050 it’ll be 2.5 billion. That’s a lot, adding a billion people in the next quarter century. If you go even farther and just try to extrapolate based on current trends, Africa’s population reaches about 3.5 billion. According to the UN’s most recent forecast, 3.7 billion by the end of the 21st century. And Africa goes from being 9% of the world population to being more than 30% of the world population. It’s going to be a completely different world. What do I say to African leaders every time? Be Africa-wide. Second, get on quickly with mass education, because that is the key to economic development. Third, look at what China did—follow that model.” —Jeffrey D. Sachs, American economist.✅
Aikon150,625 views • 20 days ago
I warned then-President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua that NNPC couldn’t run the refineries. He told me he knew, but cancelled the $750 million sale to Aliko Dangote due to pressure. I said the refineries would eventually be sold as scrap. Now I’m told about $16 billion has been spent and they are still not working—just $4 billion short of what Dangote used to build the world’s largest refinery. —Former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Aikon128,668 views • 1 month ago
The Chief Executive Officer of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, has recounted how he was denied entry into South Africa after his visa expired just one day before his arrival, while foreign travelers were reportedly allowed into the country without visas. “I do not have a problem with the fact that I was there without the visa and I was returned. I took full responsibility of that. I had an issue with being an African in Africa, being turned away because I do not have a visa and foreigners from other continents were coming in and were allowed to enter without a visa. This must change.” -Abdul Samad Rabiu— BUA.✅ 🎥 : .ARISE NEWS
Aikon70,649 views • 1 month ago
“If I had invested this $25B in Microsoft, Tesla, Google & co., I’d be worth $125B today. But I chose to invest at home — to liberate my own people. It’s not about money. Now I have the guts to tell anyone to invest in Nigeria, because I led by example.” —Aliko Dangote❤️
Aikon564,099 views • 1 year ago
“What we are saying now is that we are northerners and we are Muslims, but we cannot play politics without Christians. We cannot play politics without the southeast, south-south, or southwest. And if you look at it today, Peter Obi from the southeast is a very popular politician across the South and in many parts of Northern Nigeria, and nobody can take that away from him. The same applies to the Kwankwasiyya movement — we are everywhere. We are lucky that our supporters are mainly young men and women who are searching for a way out of bad leadership. They are not looking for their brothers, sisters, or somebody close to them; they are looking for good leadership. From our practical experience, we now know that you can support your brother to be there, like we did during the Buhari days. We supported him with over 2 million votes from Kano, yet until he left office, he didn’t even want to hear us in the Villa. But if you look back at the Obasanjo days, he was from the southwest, yet he made me Minister of Defence and gave me all the trust he could. So it’s not because someone is your neighbor, your brother, or of your religion that they are automatically the best for you. No. Look for people with capacity — people who can deliver.” —His Excellency, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. 🎥 : .Trust TV News
Aikon25,645 views • 29 days ago
The President making himself Petroleum Minister is not a good idea. It’s harder to hold NNPC accountable.We don’t know how many barrels we export; we only rely on NNPC’s numbers. When I was at CBN, for 15 years they were never audited. Subsidy is gone, yet FX inflows remain low.
Aikon163,950 views • 1 year ago
“He’s my senior brother. He’s even more intelligent than I am because he’s a professor, and I’m just a trader. So, he knows more and will do better. I’ve done my little bit as a trader; now the professor is here to do his own as a professor.” —Peter Obi. Hallelujah!🙌🏿 ⤵️
Aikon141,000 views • 1 year ago
The most prepared candidate for the job. Make a wise choice Vote wisely🗳️🗳️😉❤️
Aikon198,200 views • 1 year ago
Organ harvesting is more common in the Southwest—yet no one calls it a Yoruba crime. Oil theft happens more in the Niger Delta—but it’s not called an Ijaw crime. Every group has its flaws. Framing issues ethnically fuels hate and that’s how genocide begins. —Dr. Kabir Adamu♥️✅
Aikon119,738 views • 1 year ago
“What is happening in Nigeria today is like the Indian proverb that says: If somebody is really sleeping, you can easily wake that person up, but if a person is pretending to sleep, it is difficult to wake that person up. The key actors in Nigeria, from the Executive to the Legislature and the Judiciary, know the correct thing to do, but they are refusing to do it. They are pretending to sleep, and waking up such people is extremely difficult, because they know the right thing to do. There is a clear abuse of power, a clear abuse of privileges cutting across the three arms of government. What they don’t know is that whatever we do affects everybody. No country brings its investments to a country whose judiciary is compromised. Why is our passport not valued abroad? Why are Nigerians not given the kind of treatment they are supposed to receive at international airports? What our leaders don’t know is that whatever decision is taken by the Executive arm of government, and the decisions taken by the Parliament and the Judiciary, affect everybody. For example, no businessman will bring his money to invest in a country where the judiciary is compromised, where a government functionary can dictate to judges what judgment they will give. Nobody will bring his money to invest in such an economy, because you are taking a big risk.” —President Goodluck Jonathan.
Aikon27,459 views • 2 months ago
“Those asking why I didn’t build new schools in Anambra didn’t read my manifesto. I promised to upgrade existing ones. When I came in, we ranked 26th/27th in WAEC & NECO. When I left, we were 1st. I provided boreholes, internet, computers, generators & vehicles to schools.”
Aikon109,685 views • 1 year ago