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“We (Nigeria) are poor because nobody took the trouble to take people out of poverty, and that’s what we are doing today.” — Vice Pres. @ProfOsinbajo, speaking on why @AsoRock is investing in the LARGEST Social Investment Programme @NSIP_NG in Nigeria’s history
#NGTheCandidates
“I feel that the 3 fundamental objectives we campaigned on in 2015 are still relevant. We want Nigerians to see where we started, where we are now, and what we have been able to do with the resources and time available to us.” — @MBuhari #NgTheCandidates (See #PMBMeansBusiness)
“I’m very satisfied with the response from the real voters.” — President @MBuhari #NGTheCandidates
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Benin City, today. #PMB4Plus4 #NextLevelNigeria
Warri, Delta State #PMB4Plus4 #NextLevelNigeria 17.01.2019
While PMB was campaigning in Edo and Delta, VP Osinbajo was doing same in Karu, Mpape, and Kubwa, all in the FCT. Here he’s in Alhaji Aminu Yekini's home, for Family Chats. #NextLevelEngagements
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I’m interested in how #Infrastructure transforms places. The village of Ore (“a collection of motley huts”) ’blew’ because someone decided, in the 1970s or so, that the new major Highway linking Lagos/Ibadan to Benin would pass through it. (The Old Road passed elsewhere)
The Old Road to Benin: Ibadan-Ife-Ilesha-Akure-Owo-Agbanikaka-Benin.

Then a new one was built: Sagamu-Ore-Ofosu-Benin Expressway.

That’s how Ore landed the chance to become a Transport and Commerce hub.

Time and Chance. But #Infrastructure made it possible.
In my traveling around Nigeria following ongoing Infrastructure projects - I can’t help imagining just how much things will change in the years ahead. Nigeria’s landscape will be redrawn in fascinating ways. New hubs will ‘blow’, new habits will follow new infrastructure.
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Exciting news: The Nigerian Prisons Service in collaboration with the Presidency is launching Nigeria’s National Prisons Information Management System (PIMS). Official launch is on Friday January 16, 2019. First-of-its-kind-in-Nigeria prisons information database, linked to NIMC.
*Fri Jan 18
“As a part of the @MBuhari government’s continued commitment to digitise data collection & management and to develop policies informed by credible data, the prisons’ records management systems have been updated and replaced by the Prisons Information Management System (PIMS).”
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THREAD: Number of people in the U.K. in #poverty:

Working-age adults: 8.4 million

Children: 4.5 million

Pensioners: 1.4 million

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