1. The BVAS machine is very
fast and accredits (verifies) voters within 10 seconds.
2. BVAS accredits voters EITHER through thumbprint or facial recognition, not both. If one verification method fails, the other will likely work. If both methods fail, then the voter should leave the polling unit.
Jan 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The January 1966 coup was a tragic and unconstitutional attempt to subvert democracy by some military officers. If I were a northern Muslim, I would feel aggrieved by the killing of the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello and the Prime Minister, Tafawa Balewa.
But we should know and remember that this was not an ‘Igbo coup’. It was an act by individual military officers that included those of Igbo and non-Igbo origin. Igbos, as a group, were not involved in planning what was an exclusively military affair, and therefore should
Jun 16, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
The maritime industry in the SS and SE is one of my biggest concern when looking out for the next president.
According to the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), the country has six seaports: Apapa and Tin Can in Lagos, the Onne and Port-Harcourt ports in Rivers State, the Warri
Port, and the Calabar Port. But by look of things, only the Apapa and Tin Can Ports account for 70% of imports in Nigeria. NPA data shows that the Onne port handled about 80% of Nigeria’s export cargos between 2012 and 2017 – but this is because the Onne port is located in an
Apr 3, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
At 23yrs Kingsley Moghalu was the legal officer at shell Nigeria.
At 28yrs he was training states military, police & judiciaries in Southeast Asia.
At 32yrs he was the political advisor to the UN electoral commission that negotiated peace between Serbia 🇷🇸 & Croatia.
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34yrs old, Kingsley moghalu was representing Rwanda 🇷🇼 in UN international criminal tribunal. Along with security council where they tracked & prosecuted high-ranking members of Rwanda genocide.
38yrs old, head of global partnership team that managed $20 billion development
Feb 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The wealth of our nation should have a philosophical foundations. It is these fundamental understandings and how we understand and apply them, rather managing our economy with no particular lodestar or compass, that makes the difference between growth and stagnation. Read on👇
The vision thing matters because it sets out a national ambition to transform the economic structure and the lives of citizens against the canvass of both the medium and long term and a clear destination.
It matters because, if communicated effectively, a national economic
Feb 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
@MoghaluKingsley : When a country is not organized & motivated by a worldview, small views reign supreme. In our case, these small views, which in reality are very narrow views, are ethnic & religious irredentism, intolerance & corruptions. Read on 👇
Ethnic groups such as the Hausa -Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo Ijaw or Tiv for example, have become the most important identifiers for us. We are losing all sense of primacy or the importance of Nigerian-ness.
We retreat into our primordial cocoons of nativity as opposed to indetificati