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She's incredibly brave❤️ However, we cannot accept these results as they were influenced by area boys, 9 polling units not counted. Maryam PeterObi won Abuja #INECIsCorrupt Rivers #Obasanjo Lagos Island Eniola Badmus Lagos and Rivers Igbos Borno #NigeriaDecide Badagry Obidients

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Фото профиля IGG DEVINE
IGG DEVINE3 лет назад

How I which we can do more to back her up Its no longer about Peter Obi Its about the way they are openly insulting us

Фото профиля Last Born
Last Born3 лет назад

Our Lagos Hero

Фото профиля Fof4
Fof43 лет назад

INEC chairman press conference earlier was total rubbish. Why didn't he take any question He needs to tell Nigerians why bvas didn't upload result real time Nation wide, like Osun election. What's the essence of d nw Electoral act sef. Why waste 300billion on bvas. Mahmoud ole

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White👨‍💻3 лет назад

God bless her seriously its not easy at all

Фото профиля Oladeji Olusola Oyedele
Oladeji Olusola Oyedele3 лет назад

@redcap_blondie @IYSexxy @inecnigeria @officialEFCC @TalentedFBG @falzthebahdguy Whats happening here please ooo

Фото профиля Anyanwu Daniel Chinemeuchie
Anyanwu Daniel Chinemeuchie3 лет назад

Please how can I connect with you 🙏🙏

Фото профиля preach love ❤️
preach love ❤️3 лет назад

@_Danielphantom_ What’s up send a dm!

Фото профиля Sunkanmi
Sunkanmi3 лет назад

Is there any you can create protection for this woman? Because down there in Lagos I believe so many people will be out there waiting for her so that they can deal with her

Фото профиля Johnson Ewuga
Johnson Ewuga3 лет назад

Those inec guys seating there dont mean well for us all

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Stanley Nkwocha

13,230 просмотров • 1 год назад

Thank you, Dr. Reuben Abati, for mentioning this village boy and for referencing my Harvard Business Review work on the Umunneoma Economics of the Igbo Apprenticeship System. Let me also use this moment to explain this economic framework so that as people study Adam Smith’s classical economics, Confucian economic philosophy in China, and other schools of thought, they can also add Umunneoma Economics, literally, the economics of good brethren, to their intellectual toolkit. In a seminal Harvard Business Review work, I explained this business philosophy which is rooted in the traditional African (specifically Igbo) concept of shared prosperity captured by the maxim "onye aghana nwanne ya" (do not leave your brethren behind). Here, trust, mentorship, and shared destiny become factors of production! Key tenets on click. ----On Literacy Rates--- Dr. Abati, let me address the point on literacy rates. The facts are these: using official government data, South-East Nigeria has consistently done well in literacy rates. Abia, Imo, and Anambra have for years recorded literacy levels of above 90%. Enugu is in the high 80s, while Ebonyi is slightly below 80%. These are among the strongest literacy outcomes in Nigeria by geopolitical zone, and they would not have been possible if boys are not enrolled in schools! Therefore, the thesis that Umunneoma Economics has negatively affected male-child enrollment is not supported by data (click). The evidence points in the opposite direction. That said, I concede one historical nuance. In the 1970s and 1980s, male-child enrollment in parts of the South-East was indeed lower than female enrollment in some states. But that was not because education was devalued. It was because The Greatest Generation, Igbo men and women who engineered the rebuilding after the Biafra War, made a strategic choice. They challenged young males to move into enterprise, using the apprenticeship system as a vehicle to escape the miry clay in the Igbo Nation, and to prevent a vicious cycle of poverty. It was a deliberate economic reconstruction strategy. I have spoken with some of these men, and many confirmed that the reconstruction was "war" and the boys were tasked to fight it through the markets. By the late 1980s, that phase had largely run its course. And from the early 1990s, as Igbos began integrating fully into Nigeria’s capital formation system (visible via investments and properties across Lagos, Abuja, and beyond), male literacy rebounded strongly. Since then, literacy rates in the South-East, including for males, have remained among the highest in the country. In nearly all government data, a Southeast state is always ranked #1 on literacy rate; you cannot achieve that if boys are not in school

Ndubuisi Ekekwe

25,491 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

The Blackwater fish kill - failures in investigating and protecting an EU Special Area of Conservation. We need to move beyond “fisheries” on our Natura 2000 rivers. This video shows the Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) Special Area of Conservation (SAC) near Mallow, Co. Cork and features critically endangered Freshwater Pearl Mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera). I took these images during a survey I completed in August 2022 on the river. A major fish kill occurred in this stretch of river earlier this month. It is one of the largest fish kills ever recorded in Ireland, with media reports estimating that over 30 km of river were affected. Thousands of fish were killed, and other wildlife was also impacted. Yet to date no cause of the fish kill has been identified. All of the areas affected were within the SAC designated area. The Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC is designated for a range of aquatic species including Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), Freshwater Pearl Mussel, White-clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes), Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), Brook Lamprey (Lampetra planeri), River Lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis), and Twaite Shad (Alosa fallax). It is also designated for Otter (Lutra lutra), and the river corridor supports a range of other protected species including birds such as Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis). Despite this, public reporting and official responses have focused almost exclusively on Brown Trout (Salmo trutta), a species that is not a qualifying interest of the SAC. The investigation was led by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), but having a fisheries agency lead an investigation of a pollution event on a Natura 2000 river is itself part of the problem. The Blackwater is not only a fishery, but also a designated European site. For example, there are no “fisheries” for Freshwater Pearl Mussels, crayfish or lampreys in Ireland. International best practice sets out clearly how fish kills should be investigated. The first 24 hours are critical. Water samples must be collected above, within and below the affected reach, as well as from tributaries, with controls from unaffected areas. Dead and dying fish and invertebrates should be collected immediately for pathology and toxicology. Mortality must be quantified using standardised transects and statistical sampling, not casual tallies. On the Blackwater much of this did not happen. The 24-hour window for water sampling was lost, early speculation about natural causes was made without evidence, and mortality estimates were not carried out to scientific standards. There has been no reported assessment of impacts on Freshwater Pearl Mussels, lampreys or crayfish. There were reports of large numbers of “eels” being killed, and lampreys are often erroneously referred to as eels. Yet there does not seem to have been any formal investigation into how other non-fisheries species were affected. This failure raises a prima facie breach of Article 6(2) of the EU Habitats Directive, which requires Member States to avoid the deterioration of natural habitats and the disturbance of species for which SACs are designated. A pollution event of this magnitude, coupled with the absence of a scientifically robust investigation, amounts to both ecological harm and a failure of governance. An urgent independent review is now required into how fish kills are investigated in Ireland and how our Natura rivers are managed. Rivers such as the Blackwater cannot be treated as fisheries alone. They are legally protected ecosystems of European importance, and the State is obliged to manage and protect them as such.

Ecofact

487,825 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

In January 2025, I deployed my Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to combat a notorious police extortion team stationed on the Murtala Mohammed International Airport road in Lagos. Instead of rounding up the officers and punishing them, the illegal IGP Kayode Egbetokun ordered my arrest. I was subsequently charged before a Federal High Court, with the absurd claim that by filming these corrupt police officers, I had engaged in cybercrime; they even presented their statements in court as part of evidence to pursue a criminal trial that has so far stalled. The presiding judge, Justice M.S. Liman of the Federal High Court in Abuja, granted me bail only after seizing my international passport. Later, during the historic #PoliceProtest at the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters, the Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, deployed his cameraman, Victor Chiemerie Aku, to forcibly snatch my Ray-Ban AI glasses. The entire incident was captured on video. Following this theft, I immediately lodged a criminal complaint at the Nigeria Police Force office in Asokoro. To this day, nothing has been done. Instead, the same stolen glasses were eventually (quietly) returned to me by DCP Akin Fakorede of the IGP Monitoring Unit, but only after they realized they could not access the content stored on the device. How then can such a police force, drowning in corruption and impunity, be trusted when it issues “official statements” condemning junior officers on the streets of Lagos for carrying out extortion at checkpoints that are, in fact, sanctioned by their senior commanders? This episode lays bare the power of technology and it tells why Nigerian rulers hate technological advancement of any kind; however, these digital efforts is part of a digital revolutionary effort that will ultimately overthrow Nigeria’s corrupt, insensitive, and useless status quo. And if anyone doubts this, they need only listen to what APC Nigeria Senator Bamidele Opeyemi, the The Nigerian Senate Chief Whip and a close associate of Bola Ahmed Tinubu himself, admitted when he described social media use as a “national threat.” The fear of technology by those in power is precisely why digital resistance has become their greatest enemy and I dare say nemesis. Let me also salute the courage of the young man in Lagos who stood up to those corrupt policemen that day, his resistance immortalized on video. His bravery is proof that Nigerians will no longer fold their arms in silence. I urge every citizen to protect themselves by arming up with body cams, AI glasses, dashboard cameras, and other digital tools as well as devices that can expose brutality, prevent cover-ups, and ultimately save lives. The era of darkness and impunity is coming to an end. Technology is our witness, and the revolt must be AI-powered if we are to defeat the old order.

Omoyele Sowore

37,879 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад