1. My dear son, when I was young, I used to hear the phrase “fejerun”. That was a Lagos slang. They came up with it same way your generation came up with #sorosokenodeydisguise. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
2. It’s the picture of a man manually powering a bike strenuously uphill. Unlike a motorized bike, it is said to run on human blood, hence “fejerun”. “Eje” is blood in Yoruba. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
3. To me that’s the picture of Nigeria. We’re powering uphill, and the reason Nigeria is a strenuous effort is because we like to turn logic on its head. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
4. Take this example. When our underinvestment in social services became embarrassingly glaring with the advent of COVID 19, - #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
5. - a government parastatal so far removed from health services like the east is from the west decided to pick up the gauntlet and build hospitals all over the federation! When you hear such things, you sigh deeply. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
6. Your generation is going to need to create strategic logic for the nation. To do that you have to come up with certain pillars. Then you translate those pillars, use them to develop policies. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
7. In searching for pillars, I happened upon those four words on our coat of arms – unity and faith, peace and progress. If only we mean those words. We can of course substitute them with words that fit modern imperatives. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
8. I think the word “justice” should be a pillar. It’s so fundamental to Nigeria, and you’ll see why; but let’s even work with these four. How do we translate them? #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
9. If you want unity in a diverse, multi-ethnic nation there must be a sense of fairness & justice. Opportunities and admission policies must reflect fairness & justice. There can’t be a bicameral approach to justice. That won’t augur well for cohesiveness. #NigeriaNotes #EndSARS
10. If you want young people to have faith in the federation, they must have a sense the country is going somewhere. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
11. “Hopelessness” and “youth” CANNOT coexist in the same sentence. We must ask the right questions. How do we create a future for our kids? They are the majority. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
12. We MUST concentrate our energy on creating opportunities for them in technology, culture, finance, agriculture and real estate. They’re VERY STRONG in those areas. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
13. We need to create programs that make it easy for them to function in those competences, so they can export their services. We have to solve the Nigeria image challenge for them internationally. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
14. As per peace we must create jobs. It’s even much better to create job creators. Artificially creating jobs by bloating the civil service only worsens the burden on the state. Bureaucracy and corruption will thrive. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
15. Too many hands fulfilling a small number of roles creates an agbero mentality in the civil service. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
16. Of course, we must also strengthen our security services, especially the interface agencies. The police readily come to mind. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
17. If we want progress we must deploy intellect. No strong nation emerges accidentally. Grey matter is deployed. And Nigerians are so brilliant. What we seem to lack is strategic coordination, and political will. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
18. Don’t accept the nonsense Nigeria’s problems are intractable. They’re not. We’re just wearing the wrong caps – traditional caps instead of thinking cap. #NigeriaNotes #ENDSARS
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