Aikon
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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.✅
Aikon150,787 次观看 • 2 个月前
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.
Aikon128,714 次观看 • 3 个月前
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
Aikon70,854 次观看 • 3 个月前
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.
Aikon164,134 次观看 • 1 年前
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♥️✅
Aikon120,041 次观看 • 1 年前
“Put all of us on a scale, let's know who we are. Let's ask question who we are. Let's verify who we are. It is important for you. Do not say because Peter Obi is from the East I will vote for him- do not vote for me because I am an Igbo man. Do not vote for anybody because he’s from the west. Do not vote for anybody because he is from the north. This is the time to vote a human being who has conscience and trust.”
Aikon138,188 次观看 • 2 年前