Political signage put up within a week yet street lights remain unfixed for months and you can even see one of the numerous broken ones along this road in the frame I captured. Same way campaign buses are readily available but not ambulances. Talk about priorities
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And I saw people praising his vocabulary the other day. I’m like, same FFK? Give him three working days.
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Have a bit of a passing interest in the mundane stuff that keep civilisation going. I spent a couple of hours just walking around aimlessly in Mexico City (Condesa, Roma Norte, pretty much all of Avenida Amsterdam, and wherever else I wandered without knowing). All the roads looked clean, zebra crossing signs were clear and respected by drivers, hardly any potholes and traffic lights all working.
BUT, the thing I noticed everywhere was that almost all street-name plates were completely faded. For most of them, I had to walk very close and squint to see what was on it.
This is something I don't think I've ever seen in London so it made me wonder how much is spent on maintaining street-name plates across the city. I did some digging and Wandsworth Council alone says it spent £310k maintaining about 1,000 street-name plates and another £600k on street-signage improvement (democracy.wandsworth.gov.uk/…).
Street signs are the responsibility of local councils so hard to find a London-wide figure but I also found some numbers for RBK&C (rbkc.moderngov.co.uk/committ…) - say £100k (screenshot 3)
So my unscientific estimate is that London spends somewhere between £2-3m a year *maintaining* street-name signs. Depending on how you vote in elections - that is either value for money or a terrible terrible waste.
Your useless information of the day.
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I’ll always tell people the distinction btw 1st, 2nd & 3rd world is very visual. Mine is quality of finish. I spent a week at a brand new high end resort in Mexico - from a distance it all looked stunning but on close inspection you saw the imperfections!
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I don't think Nigerians fully grasp the depth of the erosion of public service & bureaucratic order.
Speak to those who knew how the civil service once functioned, & you'll understand just how much institutional processes, & ethical considerations have deteriorated.
3 things I can identify by listening. A badly educated Nigerian, A multi level marketing scheme and a burgeoning cult. You are right 👏🏾
I read cultish by Amanda Montell last year which led me into a deep rabbit hole of researching about cults.
Long story short, that “youth charismatic ministry” in Nigeria is a cult. It’s not my “niche” so I won’t dissect it further. But I’ll say read the book.
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tao lançando uma serie de animaçao que só vai dar pra assistir dentro do gta 6
isso aqui é um outro nivel de absurdo
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The Court of Appeal described Justice Peter Lifu as unfit for the bench, and characterized his conduct as judicial rascality and the highest form of judicial impertinence. I am sure it’s that judgement that de registered ADC earlier this year
Most elected executives in Nigeria today can’t get this done because this has to do with creating value and ensuring an ongoing standard. Those we have are rent-seekers. The few ones who can are then constrained by political patronage they must service because it got them there
It's been about a year 6 months since I took over management of the school (at the board level, not day to day). When I came in, we had about 440 students. Now we are at 770 students. We have one of the highest transfer rates to the school in the town - outside of a very high JSS1 enrollment, we have 20+ students joining into each of the higher classes. This is in spite of an 80% increase in school fees.
What was the strategy? Well, combining various things:
1. High standards for teachers and employing a lot of new, very good teachers
2. Constant staff salary increment
3. Big focus on extra-curricular activities and fun
4. Video strategy, what we do should be shown to the world
5. Open forums for parents to complain, and prompt reactions. The old methods of hiding complaints just makes schools bad
6. Constant infrastructure work and "getting better every day"
7. Discipline and no leniency on anything
8. Reducing all those massive enrollment fees to allow cheaper switching. A parent may be able to afford fees, but cannot bring out money for the enrollment fees
The goal is to hit 1000 students as quickly as possible, which we still push the standard up. A lot to do - we will have a world class computer + physics lab by next term (we are working on it now). Then we turn attention to the boarding houses and the sports hall, and do more solar (we already have 3 blocks on solar, but we are not done).
Also, we are doing a lot of works on academics now, the goal is that we should be in the top 5 in WAEC results nationally.
We did all this without layoffs or staff disruptions. And I only spend ~ 3 hours per week in active management. A strong team + ideas from the digital world are good enough.
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I'm not a fan of increasing the number of small business, but rather, their size.
Too many damn small businesses and not enough big businesses. We are in desperate need of scaling.
“Private sectors create more jobs than the government, the government will employ teachers and others but it’s the private sector who has more numbers.
Look at the history of this country, there have been many manifestos saying they will create millions of jobs, which ends up being untrue; I will not come here and tell you that but what I will do, is to tell you that Lagos State Employment Trust Fund supports more businesses, Lagos today has 120,000 small businesses, and we want to grow it to a million.
Similarly, what we have seen over the years is that some small businesses don’t scale beyond two to three years and they are dead.
So what we do is advisory, mentoring and access to capital. We have done that and over the past 10 years, Lagos State has sustained companies that have created 300,000 jobs.. “ ~ Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat at the Town Hall with the organised private sector.
#TheLagosPROMISE #KOH2027
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There are no historical photographs I find more interesting than photos of Paris before Haussmann’s renovation 🇫🇷
