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16 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I'm OUTRAGED at @nassnigeria House of Representatives Dep. Speaker @HonAhmedWase saying Nigerians living abroad have no right to submit petitions to parliament. Remittances from our countrymen and women at $20 billion a year keep alive families impoverished by our politicians!
This is why we must be careful who we elect into high office. We need #electoralreform NOW, and diaspora Nigerians must have the ability to vote from abroad as is the case in Ghana and many other countries. If @cenbank can woo their remittances, we need their votes too!
Nigerians living and earning their living abroad is not a crime. It is their right. Their citizenship shouldn't be denigrated because of where they live. What opportunities exist for them at home if they did not move out Nigeria?
Every country has a diaspora, some at leisure (people who just want to live in foreign lands), others by force of circumstances (economic migration). You won't get a Nobel Prize for guessing where we fit in.

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1. The failure of President @MBuhari ‘s administration to end the menace of criminal herdsmen and bandits throughout Nigeria (in both northern and southern states) has led to the stigmatization of the Fulani and other ethnic groups for the crimes of a few.
2. The failure of our authorities to deploy effective security and law enforcement action against these criminals has also created a dangerous vacuum that is increasingly filled, unsurprisingly, by self-defense measures by several communities across the country.
3. This could lead to reprisals based on ethnic profiling. In this context, I deplore the recent killings of innocent Nigerians of northern extraction in Oyo State.
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I told the Mike Omotosho Annual Lecture as it’s 2021 Keynote Speaker that if Nigeria’s new Vision2050 is to succeed and we are to lift 100 million out of poverty, we must first understand why Vision2010, Vision2020, Transformation Agenda, Economic Growth and Recovery Plan failed.
There are two main reasons, and they offer important lessons. First, a national vision is a joke if it is conceived and executed as if it is separate from the broader governance of a country in every aspect. This is what we have been doing. But EVERYTHING must work together
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25 Dec 20
Arriving Genesis House, my country home in Akaboezem Community in Uruagu, Nnewi North LGA, yesterday. Since I built it in 2004 while a #UN official in Geneva, it’s been an oasis that connects me to my roots in my local community. ImageImageImage
It stands on the site of my late father Isaac Moghalu’s bungalow (Washington House) that he built in 1966 while he was a Nigerian Foreign Service Officer. We spent most of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war in this compound, which was different then- it also had an air raid bunker!
As is traditional with the Igbos, the grave of my late father is here also. It pained me to have to break down his house to build Genesis House because we did not have a large expanse of land. Many fond memories, including getting lost (and later found!) when,
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25 Dec 20
The winners of my giveaway quiz (1st 5 correct answers) for Wole Soyinka’s newest novel “Chronicle of the Happiest People on Earth” are:

1- @Bhordemarz (10:59am)
2- @TNneli (11:00am)
3- @ThisDumebi and @iTis_Uchey (11:01am)
4- @NduluEmeka (11:02am)
5- @Sirkay3024 (11:03)
The correct answers to the 3 questions I posed two days ago are:

1. The Swamp Dwellers
2. The Man Died
3. 1986

Winners please contact my aide Shettima Dan Azumi @SMosud to arrange to receive the giveaway.

Congrats to the winners, and thanks to everyone who participated.
Happy Christmas to everyone!
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8 Dec 20
Widows in Nigeria have a hard time. They are first hit by financial and economic hardship. Next, husband probably left no will and his relatives will take over his property (including land she can farm). Then comes loneliness and depression. We have no social security in Nigeria.
If she is “fortunate” her kids may be grown and earning and can support her, but if they are young they may have to drop out of school, restoring a cycle of inter generational poverty. The economic impact of widowhood is not just financial. Poverty takes many forms including lack
of access to opportunities the widow may have had with her late husband’s support and protection. Then she faces social stigma, discrimination and possible sexual abuse. In patriarchal societies like ours women are often wrongly seen as second class, widows as third class.
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5 Dec 20
“What have you done for your village?” This popular question, asked of successful professionals, public servants, or political leaders, signifies corruption as inverted philanthropy. I am not the Anambra State Government or Nnewi North LGA. A failure of government to perform
its functions should not be passed off to individuals - especially those who are or have been public servants and not wealthy entrepreneurs. This misplaced expectation is partly why public officers steal public funds so that they can “do things” for their community that honest
income can’t afford. We Nigerians should not allow our paradigm perceptions to be distorted by the collapse of values that has happened in our country.
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