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HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
A Decade of "Change", a Nation Growing Poorer
Eleven years after millions voted for a supposed political transition, Nigeria’s economic reality tells a grim story.
With over 90 million citizens now living in multidimensional poverty and living standards sharply declined, Kangmwa Gofen investigates how foreign-backed economic policies and geopolitical interests continue to shape the nation's trajectory.
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
A working Govt policy shouldn’t be explained to be understood. It should be felt
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
Nigerians will see exploitation and convince themselves that they're witnessing progress.
They're taking your shit, repackaging it with their faces on it because they don't want to see yours, and you're here shouting "Afrobeats to the world!"
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
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
Nigeria is poor. That is an objective statement. Even the things you wrote after that projected the state of Nigeria’s poverty.
Your post opens by declaring Nigeria is not poor and ends by admitting Nigeria has not arrested extreme poverty. Both cannot be true. This is Peter Obi level contradiction.
A country is not rich because of what lies under its soil. It is rich because of what its people produce above it. By the measure that matters to the woman selling pepper at Mile 12, Nigeria is poor: 63 per cent of Nigerians, about 140 million people, were below the poverty line in 2025. Our income per head is around $1,250 a year. That is poverty.
Singapore was never a "barren rock." In 1965 its income per head was about $516, roughly level with Mexico and South Africa, and it was a busy British port. Singapore had no minerals at all. It is the strongest evidence against your post's claim. Resources did not make Singapore rich. Productivity did.
Ethiopia is a strange choice of "no excuses" model. Its poverty rate rose from 33 per cent in 2016 to a projected 43 per cent in 2025, and it has been in debt distress since missing a Eurobond payment in December 2023. If Nigeria missed a Eurobond payment, you are your presidential candidate will be shouting that to the heavens.
Ethiopia has not arrested extreme poverty either. Fast growth is not the same as being rich. Aren’t you meant to be one of the smartest Obidients? Even objective numbers are tripping you? Ethiopia? Did you think you were replying someone in your herd? Ethiopia? Lol.
The China figure of $113 per head in 1970 is correct. But China did not escape by announcing it was secretly rich. It admitted it was poor, then spent four decades building factories, roads and export industries.
India's progress is real. Its extreme poverty fell to 5.3 per cent. But Nigeria is not alone at the bottom: the DRC and (your) Ethiopia sit with us among the four countries holding half of sub-Saharan Africa's extreme poor.
The real danger in "Nigeria is not poor" is that it becomes the excuse. It tells Nigerians the wealth already exists and someone is just sitting on it. Politics then becomes a fight over sharing, not a project of producing. That’s exactly why none of those who want to replace President Tinubu have any plan on expanding our productivity. It’s all about how to waste the little there is.
About 1.6 million barrels a day at $65 is roughly $38 billion a year before any costs. Divide that by 230 million Nigerians and you get about $165 per person per year. Is that wealth?
You cannot fix what you misdiagnose. Nigeria is poor. But Nigeria does not have to stay poor.
As for Nord: 500 cars will not move GDP. Lol. Even at ₦50 million each, that is ₦25 billion, a rounding error in a ₦372.8 trillion economy. But a Nigerian factory making cars that Nigerians pay for is exactly how poor countries become rich. Make it 500,000. We are talking numbers, let’s get real please.
And this is my last response here. I cannot engage people who lie about bare facts for the sake of their uninformed audience or politics.
Good day Aja.
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
If you truly understood how much effort, time, sacrifice, and commitment people put into this work, you wouldn’t take it lightly.
Never mistake someone’s progress for an easy journey. This road demands more than just wanting it; it demands consistency, patience, and commitment.
USDCAD ⬇️
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
Anyone can spot an entry model and patterns , like a breakout and retest , QMR , SLP, CRT or candlestick patterns . But these patterns alone don’t tell you why price should move. This is why only few traders are profitable.
Learn to always back your entries with a story. There’s a reason behind every move on the chart, don’t trade entry patterns blindly....
You must be able to answer some questions like .👇
👉 Where is price coming from? : trending or ranging ?
👉 Is price coming from a Premium or discount Level?
👉What liquidity has been taken? Where is the next Draw on liquidity?
👉 Is price accumulating or distributing?
Don't jump around concepts, understand what price is actually doing....
ForeverInProfit 🥂
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
God, why me? What exactly did I do in my past life to deserve to be born in this part of the world??
Are you foolş seriously celebrating tarred road in 2026?? Asin, citizens of an Oil-producing nation celebrating tarred roads in 2026???
Not a strong passport, not free education, not uninterrupted power supply or strong currency, but tarred road??💔
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
Prayers for PO.
Day 24/100
Every evil alliance with INEC and other institutions to work against Peter Obi is destroyed by the fire of the Holy Ghost. What was meant for evil turns into a blessing for Peter Obi and his supporters in the name of Jesus! Amen!
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
Supreme Leader, Seriake Dickson don carry Peter Obi go baff egbesu for river.
Like this now, PO is asawana tested.
Him bush name na Egbekoro, meaning "Land the boat and advance to conquer".
🤣🤣🤣
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
The biggest enemy of freedom is the happy slave that defends his slave masters. Nigeria was the fastest growing economy in Africa during GEJ regime, APC have wasted 12 years of our lives, we should treat APC supporters as Cr'minals.
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
Prayers for PO.
Day 22/100
It is a righteous thing for the Lord to recompense tribulation to them that trouble Peter Obi. Give them a dry breast and a miscarrying womb. Let him that has dug a pit for PO fall into it, in the name of Jesus! Amen!
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
“My son 21”, “his wife”, “their first car”, “Tesla”, “earns”, “grandchild”, “Account based in America”
Your government has more influence on your life than your religion.
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
这位法国朋友，这段历史大部分法国人不太了解，虽然有些冒昧，但是现在就让我这个中国人来替你们回忆一下那段伟大的岁月吧
巴黎公社——人类无产阶级的第一声惊雷（热血完整版）
1870年，普法战争惨败！腐朽的法国资产阶级政府，对外卑躬屈膝、割地赔款，对内畏惧人民、仇视工人！
巴黎数百万工人浴血保卫城市，手握枪炮、誓死卫国。可卖国政府不敢打外敌，只敢杀人民！梯也尔反动政权一心解除工人武装、抹杀人民力量！
1871年3月18日
反动军队偷袭蒙马特尔高地，妄图抢走工人的大炮！
巴黎人民不再忍耐！全城工人、市民愤然起义！
士兵拒杀同胞、倒戈起义！
反动政府仓皇逃窜，狼狈逃向凡尔赛！
1871年3月28日，巴黎公社诞生！
人类历史上第一个无产阶级人民政权横空出世！
千年以来，第一次！劳动者站起来统治城市！穷人执掌正义！
公社雷霆出击，砸碎旧世界枷锁：
废除剥削官僚、官员民选可撤、薪资平民化！
废除压迫军队、建立人民武装！
打碎宗教特权、解放教育！
保护工人权益、救济贫苦大众！
不分国籍、不分种族，全世界无产者团结在此！
这是人类文明史上第一次真正属于人民的政权！
黑暗的资本主义世界，第一次看见了人民当家作主的曙光！
可反动势力绝不允许人民翻身！
凡尔赛卖国军队集结重兵，疯狂反扑！
普鲁士侵略者释放战俘、联手镇压革命！
全世界资产阶级联合绞杀新生的人民政权！
1871年5月21日，五月流血周爆发！
没有援军、没有退路、没有粮草！
公社战士以血肉之躯对抗百万敌军！
老人、青年、妇女、孩童全部上阵！
街垒为家、砖石为盾、步枪为刃！
战至最后一人、战至最后一弹、战至血流成河！
1871年5月28日，最后一座街垒陷落！
轰轰烈烈的巴黎公社，仅仅存续72天，最终壮烈失败！
数万革命志士惨遭屠杀、血染巴黎！
英雄埋骨街头，热血洒满法兰西大地！
巴黎公社失败了，但从未死去！
它是无产阶级夺取政权的第一次伟大冲锋！
它用鲜血证明：人民可以砸碎旧世界！穷人可以建立新天下！
它的鲜血唤醒了全世界无产者！
它的教训铺就了十月革命的道路！
它的精神跨越百年，永远燃烧、永远滚烫！
哪怕只有72天，也曾照亮整个人类历史的黑夜！
虽败犹荣，万古长青！
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
1871年，法国人把巴黎公社社员送进了坟墓，却没能把他们的歌声一同埋葬。
155年后，法国球星阿米诺斯.姆巴佩愚蠢而傲慢的拿毛泽东的换脸表情包取乐，称他为“中国独裁者”。法国似乎依然以革命的故乡自居，但大多法国人早已忘记了自己的过去。
昔日为自由与平等而战的革命者倒在街垒上，为一个也许自己永远无法亲眼看见的世界，献出了生命。如今却有人借革命之名洗劫商铺、伤害平民，仿佛毁掉别人的生活，就能换来自己的解放。
而那些自诩开明的法国人，把冷战时代灌输的政治成见背得滚瓜烂熟，却对中国百年来的战乱、屈辱和革命历史知之甚少，甚至忘了自己的祖辈曾经为什么在巴黎筑起街垒。只需要几句现成的弱智的政治敌视口号、一张表情包，再加上姆巴佩这位足坛历史学家的高见，就足以对另一民族的历史和指手画脚。
伏尔泰若是知道，启蒙运动几百年后，竟然培养出了这么多不必怀疑权威的法国大思想家，不知作何感想。
我始终热爱法国，热爱那个诞生了雨果、饶勒斯、鲍狄埃和无数革命者的法国。
不是因为它出了多少狗屁足球明星，更不是因为那些高谈阔论、喜欢给全世界上人权课的傻逼白左。
而是因为这个国家，曾经有那么一群人。那群倒在巴黎街头的人们，或许至死都没有想过，他们的歌声有一天会跨越山海，在遥远的东方被千万人唱起。
他们或许没有等到自己梦想的世界。
但他们理想和歌声没有死。
谨以这部《国际歌》，向所有曾经为自由、平等和人类解放而奋斗的人们致敬。
无产者在革命中失去的是锁链。他们获得的将是自由的世界。
HIGH CHIEF GRANDPA retweeted
亲爱的德国人，你起码犯了两个常识错误。
一、中国没有40平米的房子。除了单身公寓这种数量极少的投资型物业，中国的房子通常在90平以上，大城市在80平以上。
二、奔驰、宝马、奥迪不再是中国人追逐的品牌。现在的中国人喜欢电动车，而德国品牌的电动车被称为杂牌电动车。
当你的基础认知就已经是错误的，你只能得出荒谬的结论。
中国商品之所以物美价廉，是因为中国有齐全且集中的供应链、高效的物流系统、自动化的生产车间，以及规模优势拉低了边际成本。
中国当然也可以为那些优秀的商品定一个昂贵的价格，以换取丰厚的利润。过去你们就是这么干的，现在以我们的产品竞争力，也有条件这么干。
但我们不这么干。
这是因为，提高利润的代价是销量降低。对于你们那个只有几千万人口的国家来说，你们无需追求销量，无需扩大能量，因为你们无需为社会提供那么多的就业岗位。
但我们是一个14亿人口的国家。对我们来说，与其只创造1000个岗位，让这1000人拿一份丰厚的薪水，不如创造10000个岗位，让10000人拿一份普通的薪水。
薄利多销，能够支撑起更大的产能，提供更多的就业岗位。对企业来说，还能获得规模优势，压缩单件商品成本，扩大市场份额，创造更大营收，然后还有了更多的资金投入研发，如此循环滚动。
另一方面，这也大大有利于消费端市场，让全世界的消费者得以享受到物美价廉的中国商品。
想想你们的盾构机。曾经你们以一台 3.5 亿元人民币的价格买给中国。你们自恃垄断了制造技术，宁愿维持一个极低的销量，宁愿让那些发展中国家用不起，也要追求丰厚利润。
中国实现盾构机国产化之后，我们将每台的价格降至3000 万元人民币以下，不到你们价格的1/10。
诚然，我们没有赚到你们那么多的利润，但我们为发展中国家提供了质优价廉的采购选择，促进了那些国家的建设与发展，同时我们扩大了市场份额，创造了更多的生产就业岗位。
我们在做着多方共赢、造福世界的事业，你们则喜欢用技术垄断剥削全世界。当中国打破你们的技术垄断，你们恨得咬牙切齿。因为你们不仅仅是丧失了利润，而且丧失市场份额，丧失了就业岗位。
你们在工业领域的失守，仍在加剧。以前，德国汽车只想要中国的工人和市场，但现在，他们不得不将研发重心也放到中国。
你们愚蠢地与俄罗斯开战，切断了俄罗斯的能源供应。你们几十年去工业化，导致理工科学生数量大幅下降，工程师人才极度缺失。
这样的营商环境，导致你们的企业纷纷关闭德国工厂，迁往中国和美国。
你们失业，你们抗议。但这一切都是你们自己的选择，你们并不无辜。
