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11 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
News: PDP member Kassim Afegbua on @CTVpolitics now, saying Uche Secondus has outlived his usefulness as Chairman and should give way to more forward-looking leadership to retool the PDP. Says PDP not acting like a credible / viable opposition party.
Kassim Afegbua: PDP as things stand today doesn’t have a workable bank account, they cannot clean up their books, all their accounts have been garnisheed. I’m petitioning the EFCC. From 2017 to now over 10 billion Naira has been raised from sale of forms, where is the money?
Ken Okolugbo, PDP member: The people that should be encouraging Secondus are not doing so. Our flag-bearer is in Dubai, he’s only tweeting from there. Is he taking on the APC govt? Why can’t you blame him? Why only Secondus? We can do a lot more, we can even form a shadow govt.

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11 Apr
Save the date. April 29, 2021 - Lagos State will be switching from Analogue TV broadcasting to Digital. Lagosians will, using an inexpensive set-top box & antenna, get access to potentially dozens of TV channels. Digital TV is higher quality video & audio, than analog. #DSObyNBC
Digital TV also frees up a lot of spectrum, which can be used for other things, like wireless broadband. The amount of spectrum needed to transmit one analog TV channel will transmit multiple digital channels. Digital TV allows so much more than Analogue.
With the digital switchover it will now finally be possible, I believe, to accurately measure viewing numbers and patterns/habits - among other benefits.

If there are any experts here kindly weigh in — in simple English pls 😀
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11 Apr
Big plane vs small: “Imagine getting the 737 for less than $2m. It looks like a good bargain. But when due for C-check 18 months later, you‘lol get a bill of $3m... At that point, some operators will rather go for another aircraft than repair the old one.” guardian.ng/saturday-magaz…
“An airline like Overland Airways uses small aircraft like the ATR turboprop aircraft, which is deemed the right type for local operations. Aero Contractors and Arik Air have some Dash-8 and turboprops.”
Alternative title: “How Nigeria Airways longstanding monopoly made Nigeria a Boeing country - even though the planes make little commercial sense in a country where the farthest flight distances are under two hours.”

Very insightful piece.
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9 Apr
One phrase: “Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP).” Including @SurvivalFund_ng and others.
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8 Apr
Did my NYSC at Okwe General Hospital in Asaba, along the highway leading to the Niger Bridge. There was one Buka not too far away where I used to go and eat Akpu and white soup regularly. They called it ‘6-to-6’ — it was all the food you needed for an entire day.
NYSC allowance was 5k at the time, but as an NYSC Pharmacist Delta State Govt paid 19k monthly extra. (Doctors got even more). For me a climb down from 38k Internship money. But Compared to the rest of the Corpers it was a lot of money. Some had only the 5k allowance.
One day I got invited by BBC Media Action to be part of the writing crew for the Story Story Radio series. In Abuja. I entered bus and traveled from Asaba to Abuja. My first time in the Federal Capital. A hectic but fun two weeks - my first time as part of a radio writing team.
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8 Apr
Acting IG of Police is the first IG from the North East since 1999.

Nigeria has had 12 Inspectors-General of Police since 1999 (including the incumbent).

SW—3 (first 3)
SE—2 (next 2) (yeah first 5 IGs were from the South, 1999-2010)
NW—3
SS—1
NC—2 (last 2)
NE—1 (incumbent)
So yeah, 12 IGPs since 1999 - 6 from the North, 6 from the South.

We really shouldn’t have to be obsessing with where they come from (to this level) but false narratives must not be allowed to go unchecked. And must be responded to like-for-like.
Looks like I mis-allocated Mike Okiro’s geopolitical zone. He was born in Oguta, Imo State (SE) but is actually from Egbema, Rivers (SS). (Note that when he became IG in 2007 he was actually described in some quarters as “the first ethnic Igbo to assume the post of Police IG.”)
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7 Apr
Genealogy of Nigerian banking:

There are at least 3 generations of traditional Nigerian bankers in existence. Maybe 4 in all. A few years ago I researched and wrote a piece about it. It’s come back to mind as I read Aig-Imoukhuede’s Leaving The Tarmac.

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First Gen would be names like Samuel Asabia (after whom the First Bank Plc HQ is named), Gamaliel Onosode and SB Falegan. (All born in the early 1930s). Rose to prominence as bank CEOs in the 70s.
Second Gen - two categories:

1. CEOs of the Big-4 (all FGN-majority owned at the time) in the 80s/90s - Joseph Sanusi, Paul Ogwuma, Umar Mutallab)

2. Nigerian Pioneers of Merchant Banking (Wole Adeosun, Ebitimi Banigo, John Abaelu, Subomi Balogun, Olu Falae, Oladele Olashore)
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