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The PM of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, called his nation a "barren island"; I am quoting him. The leadership of Singapore took citizens from that barren island from $516 in 1965 to $98,814 in 2025. The leadership of Nigeria took citizens from a nation endowed with immense God-given wealth from $117 in 1965 to $4,63 in 2014 to $835 in 2025 (IMF) Singapore, with a smaller landmass, smaller population, and no fossil fuels, grew its budget and GDP per capita through the work of its leaders; they did not give excuses like "we are a poor nation" Let's move to China, because someone will say, 'what's the population of Singapore'? China in 1965 had a GDP per Capita of $65; in 2025, the GDP per capita of China was $13,862. Again, this was down to the work of the Chinese leadership Let's go to Ethiopia; it's chosen because of its population. Its poverty rate has increased just as Nigeria's poverty rate has increased, but there is a critical distinction. Between 2015 and 2025, Ethiopia’s average crude birth rate was approximately 32.4 births per 1,000 people, while its average real GDP per capita growth rate was around 4.5% to 5.5% annually. Nigeria, on the other hand, has maintained an exceptionally high average crude birth rate of roughly 36.8 births per 1,000 people, while its average real GDP per capita growth rate was marginally negative or stagnant, averaging approximately -0.1% to 0.2% annually. Translation? Poverty is rising in both nations, but Ethiopia is growing its economy faster than Nigeria and creating more wealth for its citizens, as shown in GDP per capita. The real danger in saying Nigeria is poor is that it insulates the Nigerian leadership from delivering the dividends of this blessed land to the people of Nigeria. A big part of what ails Nigeria is also corruption. In 2013, a young man named Japhet Omojuwa (any relation?) said, and I quote, "corruption at its most chronic height has been responsible for the resource curse Nigeria suffers." T Today, I am told that it's no longer corruption that ails Nigeria but income that's the problem. Income? The FGN got resources, N20t from subsidy removal and borrowing, and spent less than N300b on education. So are resources really the issue? As you said, China was poor, but the leadership of China acted like the nation was poor, wearing austere Mao suits and riding bicycles to work (not Rolls-Royce); if Nigeria is poor, why is the leadership acting like the nation is rich? Why is poverty only a defense when it comes to health and education? I have not heard the Nigerian Senate say Because of poverty, they will now drive assembled Nord cars locally " This then brings us to Nord; I fear you are reading this literally. If you go to China, India, or even Germany, you will struggle to see foreign cars. Do you know how many parts go into a single car? If the president takes his pen and says, henceforth, only Nord and Innoson will be used by all Federal agencies, do you know how many jobs will be created directly and indirectly: the FDI, the training centers, the suppliers, the steel sector, the glass sector, the fabrics sector, the rubber sector, the finance sector? The advertisers, the technical schools, the insurance sector. trade? You are scoring 500 cars by calculating their sales price; that's like scooping water from the Atlantic with your hands to count the fish in the ocean. I urge you to read up on the "Chicken tax" enacted in 1964 in America that subsequently allowed Detroit’s "Big Three" (Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler) to dominate the highly lucrative pickup truck and SUV till this day. Nigeria is not poor; I casually asked ChatGPT the value of Nigeria's oil and gas in the ground; the number was $ 3.5 T, that's three and a half trillion USD. This same Nigeria has an oil company with no functional refinery. So it's not a poverty issue; it's a failure to create wealth. This will not be my last post on this; my job on social media is to educate and inform and to hold the leadership to account factually. If you want to offer off-ramps to leadership that will not invest in wealth creation by all means, go ahead; keep insisting Nigeria is poor while the government spends millions on influencers (not you of course) If a man has a yam field and refuses to plant yams, he can't complain that he is hungry