🇳🇬 Husband. Dad. Media Strategist. My goal is to flex that connective tissue between grit, determination, critical thinking and creativity.
Dec 27, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The story we always heard when I was much younger was that those in Abuja intentionally made it harder for seaports in the East to work just so Igbo people would remain under-developed. Here are some things @MBuhari has done to make Eastern ports function better...
- 10% tariff rebate on Harbour Dues for vessels
calling at the Eastern Ports, as part of incentives to encourage vessel traffic to the ports
- In December 2017, the Calabar Port commenced export of bulk cement to Tema Port in Ghana
Apr 19, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
In 2019, I walked into a room to present my PR and digital marketing ideas to a potential 'big fish' client. I was alone, in traditional outfit. The competition that presented before me had two cream looking guys in suits and a lady in heels. I had only myself & my charm. *gulp*
Things got off to a rough start. The first joke got no more than a smile or two in a room of more than a dozen people. I was jittery but you wouldn't know it. I wrote every word of that plan, so I knew it well. Three minutes in, I knew I had them on the hook. They were nodding...
Nov 19, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A few days ago, I promised to tell this story. Been procrastinating for a while, so let's get to it. #thread
So, my mentor was pursuing his PhD at the Obafemi Awolowo University a while back & one day, since he had an hour to burn before class, he took a stroll around the campus. He ended up at the zoo just about the time the zookeepers were preparing to fee the python. He asked to see.
Nov 17, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Truth is, PDP never stood a chance in Kogi state. Bello uprooted whatever structures they had & replaced them with young people. He took charge of insecurity & empowered most minority groups. To seal it, PDP picked the poorest candidate possible, who publicity promoted ethnicism.
Musa Wada is the younger brother of Idris Wada, immediate former governor, who is an inlaw to Ibrahim Idris, another former governor. While Gov. Bello is Ebira, those 3 - including late Prince Audu Abubakar - are Igala. Yet, Bello has done enough to win the hearts of Igala people
