Adeola Aderounmu
I just wanted to drop this note quickly. The edit will come later.
CAF is weak in football organisation in Africa. Moronic Moroccans are fond of bringing lasers to the football stadium when they meet Nigeria.
That this repeated itself in the 2025 finals is an indictment on the citizens of Morocco. They are shitty, petty criminals for bringing lasers to point at our girls.
To be continued…
By Adeola Aderounmu
My Random Reflection @ 53
It has been 18 years since I started to write this series: My Random Reflections. Usually, they bothered around my personal life and Nigeria. In recent years my focus shifted from Nigeria to what I expect of the future: a future that Nigeria would be dismantled so that the entrapped nations/countries in it can be set free to attain greatness and align with the super powers of the world. It is such a shame and a waste of human resources that both the intellectuals and fools in Nigeria are talking about a certain 2027 elections 2 years into the useless reign of the present regime. Invariably, each successive regime since 1999 govern stupidly and loot for 2 years out of four and spend the remaining two years planning for the next elections thereby bringing an already useless government to a total halt. This is the cycle since 1999 when one dictator called Abdulsalami finally handed over to Obasanjo to usher in a civilian regime. The return was overdue because in 1993, another criminal and dictator called Babangida refused to hand over governance to MKO Abiola who won the 1993 elections.
My stand on Nigeria.
I do not support Nigeria to exist as a single country because before the senseless and useless coups of 1966, Nigeria as it was, was a rising superpower courtesy of the regional government where each region supported itself through her own resources and the competitions between the regions meant that development was fast-paced and the regions were at some point faring better than almost all the European countries.
Yes, Western Nigeria was ahead of London and Paris before the coups of 1966 that brought a unified system of government to replace the regional government. I have flooded my blog with this historical perspective several times and since many young people do not know these historical facts, they are being fooled quarterly with fake elections that have buried Nigeria permanently as one of the worst places to live in the world.
I refuse to accept any tourist or tourists’ slogan that rate Nigeria high. The minimum wage in Nigeria is about N70 000. It cannot buy a bag of rice! Any Nigerian living on minimum wage cannot afford a 1 – 3 hour stay at any internationally rated tourist destination in Nigeria. So, please let that rest. There are several other arguments to support my claim that Nigeria is one of the worst places to live on earth. Drive around Festac and see a trip to hell. Drive off Lusada road. Drive Matogun area. Forget about Lagos Island where the distractions blind you from the realities of our lives in this country. For the past 3 weeks, from the end of June 2025 to this day the 13th of July 2025, you cannot register a SIM CARD in Nigeria. Is that even a country? Please…! Where else on earth does network that bothers on national security stops working? Where? Then you don’t get any official information and no date for activation of the network can save or take the lives of 200 million people.
The Value Of The Naira. The Black Out Factor.
The naira which is the official currency of Nigeria used to have more value that the pounds and dollars a few decades back. Today in 2025, the value of the naira is next to useless. A medium fancy mama put in Nigeria will demand N5 000 from you for a decent meal. In the lowest of category, maybe N2000 when you finish ordering 2 spoons of rice, one meat, 3 for N100 dodo and water for N200. In some places where they serve you meat, the meat is as small as a SIM CARD. It’s not better to cook at home. What can a minimum wage of N70k do? You can spend it in a few minutes buying bread, rice and yam. A lot of good food substances in Nigeria are out of the reach of the ordinary citizen today. What a tragedy for the value of the naira and what it can take home.
The value will continue to depreciate as long as the government remains corrupt. The politicians pay themselves huge wages, several millions per month to be sure. The country relies heavily on oil that belongs solely to the people of the Niger Delta. Production and manufacturing are declining or non-existence. A key factor here is the near total absence of electricity in Nigeria. In 2025, electricity remains scarce in Nigeria and it is essentially seen as a luxury. The Power Holding Companies are grossly incompetent and the infrastructure to maintain constant power supply in Nigeria does not exist. Several homes and companies that used generators or power plants have given up. The cost of fuel to run their generators and plants have increased astronomically. Nigeria is a typical scene for survival of the fittest. Eat or be eaten! The government does not work for the people. The government is dissociated from the ordinary citizens. The politicians and the people live in parallel worlds.
Our Health
One familiar news that came up this week was Buhari and Abdulsalami as patients at a London hospital. These 2 useless former rulers in Nigeria are old and receiving treatments abroad. If you want a reminder of how useless all former Nigerian rulers are, this piece of news is it. How can you be a president in a country and you do not deem it fit to build a hospital of international standard where you, your family and other citizens can receive treatment? I made a recent post on this topic. How crazy, how stupid can you be not to use your position to build hospitals across the country? People will not shout tribalism if you started it in your hometown and extend it nationwide. These rulers are fools!
What Next For Nigeria? Where Do We Go From Here?
Nigeria is planning an election for 2027. Already in 2025, governance is almost at a halt. It is the 2027 elections that is on the mind of the gullible citizens as the politicians formed new fronts, now coalitions as if anything is new. In a post on this blog, I have tagged Atiku as Nigerians biggest political prostitutes based on the number of parties he had formed or joined and in 2025, he lived true to that tag. In Africa, Atiku is the greatest political prostitute ever. Now, I have lost count of how many political parties under his arms.
In 2011, I dismissed any new elections in Nigeria. In 2025, my stand is the same. Elections in Nigeria will bring more poverty, more impoverishment, lower standard of living, ever sinking value for the naira and a life-long experience of hopelessness for a population approaching or probably over 200 million people.
Nigeria jagajaga in the lyrics of Abdulkareem.
There are flashes of comfort and affluence here and there but those in my opinion are distractions.
To get a picture of Nigeria, you need to visit places where the ordinary citizens live. Live among them, experience their pain, fear and anxiety. Those who said it is fun to be in Nigeria are the rich and powerful. They also include the people Fela described as suffering and smiling. 44 sitting, 99 standing!
Is there anyone in Nigeria today who can survive on a minimum wage of N70 000 naira which is less than USD 50/ month? How can a human being live on USD 1,5 per day? In 2025, you are expected to live on 1.5 dollars or less per day.
So, where do we go from here?
This generation of people or citizens preparing for the 2027 elections are wicked, callous, and selfish. The politicians and the general citizenry alike are evil.
Nothing good will come out of those elections. I have seen Nigerian elections since 1979 and the outcomes are the same and the culmination is staring at us in the face. Why do you want to do another useless election to promote insecurity, poverty, impoverishment, sadness, madness and total citizen disorientation? Why? Why?
There was a system before the 1966 coups that put the different regions in “Nigeria” at par or even ahead of the rest of the world. It is that system, an adaption of it or an outright dissolution of Nigeria that is the way forward.
I make bold to state that there is no politician or group of politicians that can save Nigeria under a unitary system of government. It is senseless, it is barbaric, it is madness, it is unheard of. It is not the solution. It is the ONLY PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA because it gave birth to all he myriads of problems we are facing.
So, why do you, why do we want to keep doing something that has been tested since 1966 and proven to be a failure? Who can explain that to me? I am a teacher and, in my training, you are not supposed to be planning to fail. Your goal is to succeed.
2027 elections in Nigeria is an affirmation in the belief of Nigeria to stick with failure. I will never understand it now and for the rest of my life. Never!
The system of government must change or the nations or countries in Nigeria must be set free. This is the only guarantee that greatness can come to this region in the next 2 to 3 decades. The fact that the change has not even occurred means that we have one or two generations already programmed to fail through the senseless unitary system.
I hope that our children and grandchildren will prosper in the Yoruba country. I have no hope other than that.
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By Adeola Aderounmu, Sweden
Buhari & Tinubu
In several essays spanning several years, I have written several blog entries here on adeola.blog on the need to have at the minimum 36 international standard hospitals in Nigeria. That would mean 36 public health institutions at the least. If the number becomes 72, even better.
Why is this type of project necessary? It is necessary to provide basic, free (or affordable) health care for the citizens “Nigerians”. Nigerians in quote because I look forward to the emancipation of the entrapped nations/countries in “Nigeria”.
There are so many things the government MUST do for the people and workers in any country in the world.
The government must ensure that the people have access to good, free or affordable health care.
The government must see that the people have affordable housing.
The government must ensure that the people have good roads with standard transportation system (road, water and air).
Abdulsalam Abubakar
The government must provide public schools and control private schools (to some extent). The quality of education in the public schools must match that in the private schools and the curriculum must be the same. It should not be an obvious advantage to attend private schools. We know what the situation is in Nigeria today. Public schools are on the decline and attendance in public schools are not the norm.
I’m going to focus on the health aspect in this essay because it is trending now that 2 useless former rulers of Nigeria, One Buhari and a certain Abdulsalam are receiving treatment in the United Kingdom.
Why did I use the word useless?
It is because for several decades, we have been telling them to build at least 36 international standard hospitals in Nigeria. If they make it 72 standard, public, free/affordable hospitals, it is not a favour. It is an obligation that government build hospitals for the citizens. And any politician, active or passive is also a citizen of “Nigeria” as it is. Why can they not build hospitals where they, their families and the rest of us can be treated for our ailments? Why?
Buhari and Abdulsalami should today be enjoying the facilities that they ought to have put in place. This obligation also fell on Obasanjo, Babangida, Jonathan, Yar Adua and today it is Bola Ahmed Tinubu. But Tinubu himself is an out-patient in a number of hospitals outside Nigeria. Are these people mad?
It is now Tinubu’s job to ensure without delay that at least 36 world standard hospitals germinate across the entire country. This is do-able by directing all state governors (including Wike in Abuja) and giving them reasonable deadline. The money is there. They should stop looting and they should reduce the exaggerated salaries of politicians from millions of dollars monthly to thousands of naira like the citizens they are: serving and not lording or looting.
These topics (health, infrastructure) and salary of the criminal politicians have become recurring issues on my blog.
When mentioned on TV or radio, the people forget and move on, which is why I regard my blog as one of the few consciences of the nation. These prints are constant, they remind us of what have been and all that is not done to set the people free.
On my blog, the records will remain to show how incompetent, callous, wicked and senseless Nigerian rulers have been over the years, and to this day the 13th of July 2025.
Tinubu has 2 more years to reverse this trend. All the governors across all the states in “Nigeria” have 2 years to reverse this trend. It would be a wonderful news to know that after 2027, Nigerian politicians can be sick and treated by the best doctors in the world. The best doctors in the world are Nigerian doctors that are in several dilapidated hospitals in Nigeria and also in the best hospitals all over the world.
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By Adeola Aderounmu
I could have given this essay so many titles.
Festac: A Town That Became A Jungle.
The End Of Festac.
The Collapse Of Festac
A lot of things are in disarray in Nigeria. The disorderliness is legendary. Nigeria is a place I do not want to call a country because it was created in 1914 as a business enterprise for the orgy of the British Royal Family. It was created to milk and destroy the Yoruba country, the Igbo Nation and the region to the north and of course the south. More than 100 years later after the enterprise was created, the people in the region kept the fraudulent British “invention”. How shocking!
Let me get back to the crux of my discussion. This is not the first time I have written on Festac Town. There is a section at the top of this blog page dedicated to Festac town.
Have you seen Festac recently? In 2025?
A place that was built and commissioned in 1977 as a prototype for residential areas in West Africa (and probably in Africa) has become probably one of the worst places to live in Africa. No many will agree, not all will accept my assertion. That is fine.
But I will make my points.
The idealism in life is to strive for improvement. The way forward in life is to climb higher, to aspire and to seek the ever-illusive perfection. Perfection is unattainable but the desire should also be unquenchable.
Many rural and newly established settlements are picking up and trying to find the way to build a society where they can find happiness and pursue their daily endeavours. I will come back to this paragraph.
However, Festac Town was a community that was commissioned with glamour in 1977 with high standard, varying accommodation systems, good roads, roadmaps for good schools, primary health care system and a state-of-the-art Lagos State transportation system. Festac Town was commissioned in 1977 as a complete package. Nothing was missing, nothing was lacking. There were standard electrical transformers ready to pick up in case of power failure. Festac was nearly perfect. It was a roadmap for Africa in terms of modern housing and decent human existence.
Fast forward 1977 to 2025.
Today, you cannot believe that Festac Town has a Local Government Chairman.
You cannot believe that Lagos State has a governor.
You will almost not believe that there is someone claiming to be the president of Nigeria not only because of Festac Town decadence but in terms of the poor standard of living, and general hopelessness that pervade the country.
Again, I expect counter arguments like “Festac is not as isolated depiction of total lack of governance in Nigeria”. I am open to listening to the fact that “Festac is not the only evidence that Nigerian politicians are totally irresponsible”.
But let me write about Festac.
It was once the pride of West Africa, now it ranks amongst the worst places to live in Africa.
There are some communities in Nigeria that have never seen bitumen on their roads and there is no date in the nearest future when bitumen will grace the landmark. Example is the popular Lusada market area in Ogun State. People around here may not see bitumen on their soil for the next 20 years. Development is not slow in Ogun State, Nigeria. It is in a permanent state of pause. I will address that in another essay. The sad news is that Festac is worse than these communities that have never seen bitumen on their roads.
The geography of Festac in 1977 is not the same today. All the free land and air spaces meant for air circulation, recreational centers and good environmental measures have all been sold. Therefore, Festac may probably be the most congested residential space in Africa. One of my arguments for Festac ranking amongst the worst places to live in Africa.
Electricity is sporadic. Poor electricity supply is a Nigerian “pandemic.” Festac is not the only place where electricity supply is treated as a luxury. But the original plan for Festac was for the community to have a steady unshakable supply of electricity. The population in Festac Town today may be 20 to 30 times more than the original plan, by my guessing though.
There is not a single stretch of good road in the entire estate. Driving in Festac has proven that hell is in Nigeria. Festac Roads are amongst the worst roads in the world. I have never seen a situation where the roads in an entire community are totally bad and unmotorable.
Several of the drainage systems are blocked. Congestion, over-construction, and illegal structures have complicated the situation. Festac Town is in a state of mayhem.
There are people from all over Nigeria clustering in Festac loitering the entire scenery like plagues. One of the implications is that every road junction has become an open marketplace confirming my assertion that Festac Town has no local government chairman or the chairman is braindead. If Lagos State has a governor, then Festac Town should be restored to its 1977 image, or something close. If Nigeria has a president, why is the neglect so loud and dehumanizing.
I am not unaware of how things got this bad. I have written about Festac Town severally. Also, this essay is not a departure from my arguments for the division of Nigeria into the different countries that they were before the reckless union in 1914 that turned countries to the Nigerian Enterprise. There are people from other countries loitering Yorubaland and creating huge deficits in the available, scarce infrastructure. We need to be able to control influx of people into the Yoruba country. That is the long-term goal, to keep our homes and our land safe.
I will not stop to advocate for the abolition of the okada transport system and a complete restoration of the LSTC busses. We need the buses that run on timetable from Festac to all part of Lagos.
The changes that must take place in Festac:
In addition, the governments across Yoruba country must take active steps to use the Festac 77 masterplan in establishing standard, improved and affordable housing units for Yoruba in Yorubaland. There must be measures to put Yoruba first in Yoruba country while not jeopardizing international business opportunities with our immediate neighbours and the western world.
In Yoruba country, we must strive to make government (work and services) a continuum. We cannot afford to down tools because elections are 2 years away or 6 weeks away. We must be civilized in out deeds and thoughts.
We must revive and develop our estates across Yorubaland. We must build new ones. We must go into the inland, mainland and island and make Yorubaland the best place to live in the world.
Delay is dangerous.
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Adeola Aderounmu
Does Nigeria Have A Minister Of Communication? Who is he/she?
SIM Card registration down for more than 2 weeks!
For all the days we have seen yet in July 2025 (today is the 9th), and probably from the last few days of June 2025, the network for the registration of new mobile phones SIM cards has not been operational in Nigeria. I do not know the name of the network but the banks and vendors of SIM card registration businesses would know.
To my knowledge, all the vendors that I have spoken to in Nigeria mentioned 2 to 3 weeks for the length of period of not having the connection/network to register new SIM cards for prospective customers. I am one of those customers. Imagine my frustration in the last 7 days of trying to register a SIM card to my name.
I was at a bank in Festac on the 7th of July where a customer was told to present his international passport instead of his NIN for a transaction. It means that under the prevailing situation, NIN is totally useless to have.
Now these are the issues.
I learnt from one of the SIM card vendors that they always get information through a WhatsApp group when the network is back but no information when the network is shut down.
In this life, in 2025, there are some things that should never stop working. The SIM registration is one of them. The ability of the banking industry to carry out legitimate transactions and to be able to check such is another.
So, when one of the networks controlling bank transactions and security systems is down, there is a national emergency. By implications, such systems need to be resuscitated within minutes of any minor or major setback or breakdown.
But for a period running up to 3 weeks for the breakdown of a major network in Nigeria is a scandal. It is an embarrassment and a shame to this so-called government of Nigeria. The magnitude of the scandal is enough for the yeye minister of communication to resign. That would be in a sane country. But Nigeria is not a country. It remains a business empire created for the orgy of the British royals in 1914.
Who is the minister of communication in Nigeria? What is he or she doing at the moment? Is the person a normal human being?
The bulk stops on the table of the president in Abuja. Does he even know that SIM card registration is at a halt in Nigeria. Does the president know the implication for the national security? Has he been briefed?
What a mess!
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A View From The Scandinavian 