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Feb 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
In his wide-ranging @daily_trust interview, published on Sunday, Senator Shettima quotes the following people:

Usman dan Fodio
Sir Ahmadu Bello
Confucius
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Darwin
Abraham Lincoln
Ali ibn Abi-Talib
Henry Kissinger
Herbert Sebastian Agar
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Feb 18
A thread about Nigeria’s Conditional Cash Transfer program @HUPcct - one of the programs under the National Social Investment Programme; and whether N5,000 a month (current monthly payment, to 1.6 million Nigerian households) can make a difference in people’s lives or not.
HM @Sadiya_farouq was asked about the N5,000 at #StateHouseBriefing yesterday. A journalist, asking a question, spoke dismissively about the amount - that N5,000 cannot do anything.
Minister’s reply:

“Saying 5,000 cannot make a difference in ppl’s lives is an elitist statement. We know, ‘cos we’ve gone to the field. We’ve seen ppl, when you pay them this @HUPcct 5k, they cry ‘cos they’ve never seen 5k before. It goes a long way, changes their status.”
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Feb 17
This week’s #StateHouseBriefing is about to start. Our guest is the Hon Minister @FMHDSD, @Sadiya_farouq.

She will be speaking on the National Social Investment Programme, National Emergency Response, IDPs, PLWDs, etc

Watch LIVE here:
#StateHouseBriefing

Hon Minister @Sadiya_farouq here with senior officials of the Ministry and Agency Heads.
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Feb 15
.@KashimSM on his successor: @ProfZulum

“Our relationship is directly related to our commitment to the service of our people and country… Our state was very lucky to find such a person in Professor Zulum… Borno State got it right with him….”

#Thread
“I am a philosopher king, and none of the vagaries of power holds much tenacious attraction to me. In life, as in politics, there are the winter years; you go into hibernation and blossom during the summer period.” — Senator @KashimSM
“I held sway for eight years, but when a new sheriff came into town I had to move up to a higher plane and went off the radar and allowed him to blossom and call the shots.”
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Feb 2
Made a vow to mostly mind my Biz this year. But when I see a horribly wrong, IGNORANT, stupid tweet like this, I can’t help diving in 😀

1. China doesn’t give you money to do as you please with.

2. Kano-Maradi Rail is NOT a Chinese project! mota-engil.com/wp-content/upl…

#thread
“China gave you loan to build railways and you decided to build one to the deserts of Niger.”

Clearly ignorant as to how these loans work. He thinks China just hands over cash and @NigeriaGov decides to do whatever they wish with the cash.

LMAO. This is really daft, sorry
All loans from China are tied to specific projects - so far the portfolio includes Rail, Airport and ICT projects. The details are public, on @DMONigeria website.

So the idea that Nigeria can decide what to use a loan for, post-approval, suggests this person KNOWS NOTHING
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Feb 2
“Within 18 days between November 25th and December 13th 2021, the progressive administration of President Muhammadu Buhari handed over 941 km of (rehabilitated) roads connecting 10 States in five geo-political zones across the country.” — HM @tundefashola, Min @FMWHNIG

#Thread
Sokoto - Tambuwal -Jega - Kontagora - Makera Road Phases I & II in Sokoto and Kebbi States. Commissioned and Handed-over on Thursday November 25, 2021.

#infrastructure

See Testimonials and Photos below:
November 29, 2021: Vandeikya—Obudu Cattle Ranch Road (Phases I and II) in Benue State, commissioned and handed over by @FMWHNIG

#PMBInfrastructure

Testimonials and Photos:
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Jan 29
When you realize the extent to which Int’l Media sometimes get Nigeria wrong, you start to question your acceptance of their default reporting about other parts of the world you’re not familiar with.

If they can get this wrong, what else are they getting wrong?
[That’s of course not to say local media isn’t just as guilty of getting Nigeria wrong. Examples abound. But the earlier point was meant to focus on Int’l media. Local media = another chapter entirely].
One of biggest successes of traditional ‘Western’ media has been the ability to elevate a very specific,limited, often-flawed POV (hereinafter known as “Bias”) to the realms of Objective Standard, regarding reporting about ANY part of the world. An admirable achievement,no doubt.
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