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.
In 2024, some states in Nigeria do not produce a pin or a broom.
Understanding The 2024 Situation In Nigeria
In recent days (this February 2024), the criticisms against the Tinubu Jaguda government have toned up. There are reports of people dying of hunger. A woman fainted and her children are starving. A bag of cement is 9000 naira. A lot of things are displayed online with prices hitting the roof and bursting off.
But, how many of these problems in Nigeria are handiwork of Tinubu’s jaguda government and how many of it are due to the (stupid) expectations from about 200 million people? My explanations are long and perhaps repetitive.
Things are expensive globally
The rise in cost of living in recent years, especially since the inception of the Russia-Ukraine war, is on a global scale. In Sweden, I know of an interest rate on housing that flew from USD 700 per month to USD 1300 per month. How does a civil servant anywhere in the world prepare to cough out so much difference every month on mortgage? What about the cost of food, transport, health care and other stuffs? In our stores and supermarkets in Sweden, prices have hit the roof and a lot of families are struggling. But this essay is not about the situation in Sweden.
In a country like Nigeria, where the minimum wage is N 30 000 (< 20 USD), the hopes after the emergence of the Tinubu Emilokan jaguda government was that there would be a positive change. The man, Tinubu, made so many promises some people thought he would be their messiah. It’s turning out to be another episode of a long series of broken promises in Nigeria’s horror-filled politics.
Nigeria is running a useless system of government
Some of us have mentioned this several times but majority still troop to the ballot boxes every 4 years to keep the useless and senseless system of government working. As long as you are voting in Nigeria’s political elections, you are part of the reason Nigeria is what it is today. As long as you belong to a political party in this senseless system, you are part of the problem with yourself. How does this sound to your hearing: Make money in River State, send the money to Tinubu, Tinubu shares the money to Sokoto, Kaduna and the rest of the state including River State? How much of the amount River State sent to Tinubu do you think comes back to River State? Do the same math for Lagos and all the other states in the country where some economic activities are still going on. Do you think money made in Alaska would be send to Biden so Biden can send the money to Texas and other American states?
In Nigeria today, all the monies from the regions are sent to Tinubu in Abuja. Before Tinubu, it was to Buhari, Jonathan, Obasanjo, Babangida, Shagari, Murtala and Gowon. This senseless thing started after the coups of 1966. How can you send money to one person and expect accountability? How can you send all the monies in an economy to an individual and you expect that individual to be sane? Even you, you will go crazy and surely become very corrupt!
Make money in Rivers State, send the money to Tinubu in Abuja. Tinubu shares the money to Sokot, Kaduna, Imo and the remaining states in Nigeria. How much of the amount comes back to Rivers State? Does that even make any sense to you if you have some brain cells to think? But that is what you vote for every 4 years? You are the problem with yourself!
Nigerian Politicians are corrupt. They are documented criminals.
Some may argue that if Nigerian politicians are not corrupt, the unitary system would work. But that is the exact illusion that is created by the system and the (s)elections that come with it. That is what the criminal politicians what you to believe. That is why more than 3 generations of Nigerians have wasted away. That belief and hope in the system is the reason why this generation would die in extreme penury and poverty.
Globally, politicians are corrupt to varying degrees. But Nigerian politicians are documented criminals. Some were criminals before they entered government houses, others became criminals after emerging in government houses. There is no way a sane person will not become insane after emerging in Nigerian politics. It’s designed for you to steal or loot.
To be clear, the list of criminal-politicians living openly in Nigeria after looting in politics is endless. There is no justice under a unitary system of government and one of the reasons is the concentration of power in one person, at the center. Buhari, Jonathan, Obasanjo, Babangida, name them. All the former and serving governors. All the ministers, past and present. Everyone in Emilokan Jaguda government. They are all thieves. Nigeria is running a useless system of government supervised by thieves and you are crying that thing are expensive. You are not ready to save yourselves and your children.
Nigeria is a consumption-based economy
One of the consequences of sharing monies to different states in Nigeria was that several states became unproductive. Before the useless unitary system was introduced to Nigeria, all the different regions were very productive. Agriculture and industrialization were in full speed. The regions competed with one another. Their respective economies were vibrant, and the common currency was very strong. Infrastructures were built and maintained. Everything made in Nigeria and by Nigerians were of the highest standard. Our health care and schools attracted people from all over the world. That was the golden period of the regional system of government in Nigeria.
Fast forward post unitary system of government. In 2024, some states in Nigeria do not produce a pin or a broom. The politicians cross their legs, sit their asses at the government houses and wait for federal allocations that have been mopped up from a few productive states. When the money gets to them, they steal most of it, at the state and local government levels. The same at the ministries; ministers loot monies and they get away with their loots. There are almost no consequences for being a criminal politician in Nigeria.
Even in some states where minerals are mined, a few criminals in the states have cornered all the mineral resources with the help of unregistered foreign companies/persons. So, it would appear that the money shared to the states are looted by politicians. Then the income from the mineral resources that are supposed to be used for the state end up in the pockets of the same politicians and a few of their friends. These are the people you see buying houses and land for trillions of naira all over the country and abroad. Several politicians starting from the presidency down to the local government level just dip their hands into the country’s account and take money to buy houses in UK, Dubai and America. Then you are there crying that things are expensive, you are not serious yet. Our freedom will never come on a platter of gold.
A rotten head
What people are facing in Nigeria today are not only due to the pressure of global crises. Internationally, we are all feeling the impacts of a global economy meltdown. Interests on our mortgages are up in the sky, depression is high and homelessness (even in the absence of war) is noticeable. But what makes Nigeria unique is that the head is super rotten. The head is represented by politics and policies. It is represented by law and order. By accountability and patriotism. But they are all decayed!
It does not matter who is elected or selected as Nigeria’s president. You can be Atikufied or Obidiots or Agbadoists, it does not matter. Where did Anambra money go when Obi was governor? What did Atiku do with all he stole for years 1999 – 2007 as VP? The unitary system of government does not give accounts. It loots and assist to loot because that was the purpose of the system. In recent years, a man called Buhari, a classical dullard and a man of low mentality was pushed down the throats of Nigerians as president. In private conversation, we know that no one of us will employ Buhari as a gatekeeper or servant. He was that incompetent and incoherent. But some cabals made him a president. Unforgivable. Today, a certain Tinubu whose identity cannot be verified is leading. Everything about Tinubu is unclear. What is clear is that he, like Obi and Atiku, is one of the criminal politicians in Nigeria. But he is president.
The heads in Nigeria have always been rotten. The implication is that the rottenness spreads into the entire network and systems in Nigeria. There is nothing in Nigeria today that does not smell. That is the most viable explanation to how some people with no known source of extra income, can survive on USD 20 a month. Even a bag of rice approached USD 70 but we move, abi? Nigerians say they hustle to make ends meet. You don’t want to know what hustle means to some people. Let’s leave it there. Try to get something that is your right in Nigeria, like a passport. Try to open a bank account. Try to park your car in a public place in Lagos Island. Everything is hard and frustrating. We rip one another. The head is bad, rotten and smelly. You can feel it in everything in Nigeria.
Where do we go from here?
In some articles in the past, I have written very provocatively. I still do, sometimes. In one controversial article published in the Nigerian Village Square, I asked if we should lease Nigeria to the former colonial masters, to see if they can turn things around in 10 years. On more than one occasion, I wrote articles titled: No rage, no change. They are here on my blog. Today, I cannot stand by and allow a rogue called a colonial master to rule my life; that article on leasing Nigeria was borne out of frustration in the days of ignorance. Still the idea was to provoke to positive actions. More than a decade later, Nigeria is down the hole.
But I stand by “No rage, No change”. Sometimes, we say revolution. Sadly, Nigeria does not need a revolution that change people or replace people in a unitary system. Nigeria needs a revolution that would reshape the geographical space very dramatically. If Nigeria continue to exist in its modus operandi, I cannot see the light. Even the tunnel does not exist. As long as a unitary system of government remains, Nigeria and Nigerians are hopeless. 10 years from now, some will debate this provocation!
The big question is: what can you give to make your geographical space a better place for your children? If my generation or the one after ends thinking we can save Nigeria, then we would end up chasing shadows. Our lives may add no real values to humanity. Our parents died believing in a certain imaginary one Nigeria. See where it left us.
Our concern should be on our common heritage, our common culture, our common values, our common language. We must return to where the bubble bursts in 1966. Everybody need to know where we were before the 2 useless 1966 coups in order to understand what we are up against. It would not come easy because the politicians, the elites and the rogue colonial masters are also ready to keep Nigeria as a giant slave camp. But with a massive population of over 60 million representing, the Yoruba for example must be able to govern their Western Region where Agriculture was king. Nobody was eager to leave Yoruba Western Region for a low standard London or Paris, at that time. My mother stayed back in Abeokuta of the 1950s. She told me the story. What a glorious choice she made. In 2002, I could not make the same decision as my mother when the call came. What applied to a 1960 glorious Western Yoruba Land applied also to the other regions at that time. It is the regions that we must take back in order to pursue own peace, happiness and economic prosperity.
One of the greatest fallacies and chant of slaveries in Nigeria today is “We will take Nigeria back”. From who? Was Nigeria ever made for you? What is Nigeria? We have lived our lives on false identity. Sadly, we will die this way, with the identity that our ancestors did not bequeath to us. But we can save our children and the unborn generations by giving them their rightful identities. You can never claim back what was never yours. Nigeria was created as a slave camp. What belongs to you is Western Region-Yoruba, Eastern Region-Igbo (Biafra), Northern Region-Arewa, Middle-Belt and the South-South (The Delta). In this new age, perhaps more regions should emerge. Why not? Some of the most prosperous countries in the world do not even have a million inhabitants.
Finally, there will be no quick fix to all the problems that have accumulated in Nigeria since the erroneous coups of 1966 and the prevalence of mad, corrupt people in government houses since 1966 to date. If we correct the most fundamental error today (that is operating at the regional levels), our children and children’s children would have something to smile about in the next 20, 30, 40 or 50 years and forever.
We have to stop crying or lamenting on the social media and in real life. We need to stop praying from Maiduguri to Jerusalem and Mecca. Let us stop wasting time. Stop sharing nonsense. Share the history and stories that will change for our lives for better, forever. Spread the news that awaken our critical thinking. Let us disagree to agree that we need a proper plan for the rest of our lives. Our progress starts the day we start building our respective nations again. Everything starts on the day of our real freedom from a slave camp called Nigeria.
Genocide remains an unpunishable crime in Nigeria. Sometimes, acts of genocides are perpetrated by the government.
When more than 200 people are massacred in one night, at a swoop, in 2023, such act is out of civilization’s framework. But it happened during the 2023 Christmas celebration in Plateau State, Nigeria. Several communities were sacked as terrorists (most likely from Northern Nigeria) went on the rampage.
If you ask the crazy Nigerian government, they will tell you it is herdsmen and farmers’ conflict. But there are records of villages that have been completely taken over by these terrorists across the length and breadth of Northern Nigeria and some parts of the Nigerian Middle Belts. Taking over indigenous people’s farmland or their resources through genocide and even taking over their communities entirely is no longer something that any Nigerian government cares about. Genocide remains an unpunishable crime in Nigeria. Sometimes, it is done by the government.
In Nigeria, deaths and blood spills do not lead to outrage. They are commonstances. Sometimes, as superstitiously as it may sounds, it seems that government thrives on bloodshed and woes of the citizens of Nigeria.
At the time the genocide was in progress, more than 7 hours, no Nigerian security forces intervened. It sometimes sound like the government sponsored the killings, so they do not interfere. Is there any other way to analye terrorism that is perpetrated for more than 7 hours without interventions of security agencies? I am willing to learn how. It was also at that period that Bola Tinubu arrived in Lagos. He went on Christmas holiday to a place where everybody knew his name. Sadly too, nobody was calling his name. Rather, the people that lined the streets when he arrived were all crying and wailing: We Are Hungry..!
The genocide in Plateau and the general hunger in the land cannot change a thing without accompanying rage or rages. If there is no rage, there cannot be a change. Nigerians completely lost it when they think swapping APC for PDP or PDP for APC is change. It is very ridiculous because when you are looking from a distance, you will see that APC is PDP and PDP is APC. You will also see that there is no end, yet, to the thousands of anomalies about Nigeria.
My constant prediction is that a few people in Nigeria will prosper annually because the system will smile on them directly or through some strokes of luck and happenstance. These few people will create fuzzes that will forever kindle the hopes of the poorest people making them lame and vulnerable to a lifetime of penury and extreme poverty. These majority will continue to live and die without ever experiencing the meaning and value of life. Nigeria was built that way.
In a country that was built on false foundation, one group of senseless terrorists from a shithole somewhere – even at this time of global human civilization – will still think that they have to commit genocide on another group because they think they are a superior race than the others and should rule the province. In a country that was built on false foundation, people will line the country and shout “we are hungry” without doing anything about it.
Majority will continue to live and die without ever experiencing the meaning of life, and the value of it. Nigeria was built that way.
Nigeria has been like this since time immemorial, and since time immemorial people have been hoping that change would come, that common sense would prevail and that the good of the land(s) will be for the good of all. But alas! The good of the land is never meant for circulation. It can be distributed to the elites, their families, their accomplices and a few lucky souls.
What has happened since hope (especially in religious rites) took over common sense and human dignity, is that Nigeria’s population has exploded. More and more people have been born into a lifetime of poverty and estranged attitude to the true meaning of life. The pockets of achievements by Nigerians especially in medicine, entertainment and sports are not inspired by government or institutions. They are mostly fueled by the resilience of people who wanted to survive by all means. There was never a level playing ground for talent discovery and institutions-backed national development.
All the things that could make a nation great if the inhabitants share the same culture, spoke the same language and have the same insights into the meaning of life, are completely absent in Nigeria. That is why terrorists would attack Plateau. They do not see the inhabitants of Plateau as humans. They see them as lower animals that must be wiped away from the surface of the earth. Invariably, the message is clear, the terrorists of Northern Nigeria have no single reason to belong to the same country as the people of plateau. If you don’t get that, there is no way I can make it clearer to you. You can therefore expect more massacres. Nigeria is built that way.
In a nation, a land or a country where everybody speaks the same language, it would never happen that some people would cry out of hunger and not do anything about it. If the hunger that Lagosians faced is in the hands of Tinubu are in a situation where Tinubu is president of Yorubaland only, I cannot see how Tinubu can survive the rage that would follow. But the hunger is spread across a group of unconnected nationalities that thrive on confusion, a group of unrelated nationalities that blossom in tribalism and extreme nepotism. So, it is not hard to predict that Nigerians, as it is, we continue to be among the poorest people in the world because they have not taken steps to end Nigeria and build strong independent nations like the Oduduwa/Yoruba Nation, Biafra, Arewa, Middle-Belt kingdom and Southern Niger Delta.
In the absence of the emergence of these nations-that would not only compete regionally for progress and development, but also internationally for fame, prosperity and superpower, the people of Lagos can continue to carry placards for the remaining over 150 million or more living from hand to mouth, unsure of the next meal. For the people of Plateau, the best solution is self-defense. Call on your politicians, let them buy arms and ammunitions, so you can protect your land and resources that keep enticing the enemy. Protect your women, children and the elderly. No matter how much you cry, the terrorists are coming back, and they will not stop until you are completely decimated. This is the history of Nigeria, a bloody British mistake and colonial invention, made solely for the suppression of the progress of the African race.
If we don’t stop Nigeria, we cannot stop the chant “We Are Hungry”. If we don’t stop Nigeria, the only way to survive terrorism and forceful take-over of our local resources is to “fight back”.
In a country that was built on false foundations, people will line the country and shout ” We are Hungry” without doing anything about it.
Tinubu is wayward. Otherwise he would control the number of vehicles in his convoy.
By Adeola Aderounmu
If you want to change the world for better, if you want to change your nation so she moves forward, if you want to change the society you live in so that it becomes a better place for you and your children, then look in the mirror and be that change you wished to see.
In this Tinubu’s government (one whose legitimacy is still being contested by one Peter Obi), one would expect that perhaps money would be saved at all fronts so that common good can be enhanced. But I have heard about politicians in this Tinubu jaguda government employing tens and several tens of personal assistants.
I live in a country where personal assistants are employed, mostly temporarily, for people with disabilities or people with challenging intellectual functions.
The first thing that came to my mind is that crazy people are all over the place in Tinubu’s government.
As a politician, the only reason to employ a personal assistant is to show that that you are intellectually deficient and cognitively incapable on your own. Otherwise you need a secretary (if you have a big office to run) and in a worst case scenario, one assistant to help organise things that the secretary (if you have one) cannot handle.
Ordinary legislators and ordinary lawmakers will be employing several tens of assistants. Why? I mean, where does the money for their salaries come from? Over the years Nigerian politicians have become notorious for over-hyped wages as the rest of the populations wallow in abject penury (and Nigeria still the champion as the poverty capital of the world).
The first adjustment that the Tinubu-Shettima jaguda government ought to do was to cut off all wastages. This jaguda government needed to sit down and reshape the political map of Nigeria. There is no way a unitary system of government is going to benefit more than 200 million people. To think that a unitary system of government is fine, and to even work by it is simply an act of madness.
So, there are pressing political and economic issues to be straightened out. It it is sad to be bombarded with the news of thousands of special aides and special assistants all over the country. Are you people in Tinubu’s jaguda government completely insane? How can you run a country on life-supporting machines called personal aides. Ori yin ti da ru o..!
I have seen some stupid excuse to even justify the over 100 vehicles in Tinubu’s lagos convoy. Are you mad? Tinubu is wayward. Otherwise he can control the number of vehicles in his convoy. It is called decorum or common sense. Go your way, and let the other owambe convoys go their way. Must they be at the aiport to follow? Please, stop motivating madness. Stop being stupid. Just shut up!
Tinubu was not ready for the presidency that he wrestled from INEC at all cost. If he was ready, his cabinet would have been announced the day after his inauguration. Nigeria’s politics is not just a joke, it is a mad joke! As an opposition, it is required to always have a shadow government on stand-by during campaign and elections. This is with a readiness to take over the government even before elections should in case the incumbent government stepped aside.
Personally, I thought Tinubu was exposed having studied and lived in the US. But one more time, we have a “president” who is acting like a dumb ass. In what age, in what year will an opposition in Nigeria have a shadow government in place even if there are no campaigns and no elections?
Ask Labour Party. Ask the PDP for the names or the lists of their cabinets. Be sure that there are no lists, be sure that there are no shadow government in any Nigerian opposition party at this moment. You still think Nigeria is practicing democracy? Are you sure you don’t want to examine your thinking faculties?
Nigeria is not yet a country. It is still a company where the winner takes it all and does what it likes.
I thought Tinubu’s jaguda government would come with something different from day one. It didn’t. I can predict what the excuse for failure would be. PDP ruled Nigeria for 16 useless years. Buhari’s APC ruled Nigeria for another 8 senseless years. It’s been 24 years of total madness, corruption, murders, lying, suffering, hunger, poverty and terrorism. Say this post and quote this: It is not easy to clean or repair the maladministration of 24 solids years. This is be the slogan of the Tinubu jaguda’s government.
To be sure, since the colonial thugs from Britain left (?) in 1960, Nigeria has mostly been in the hands of tropical gangsters in khaki and agbada alike. If you have hope in Nigeria. I understand your hope, but I do not share it. Whichever, we are all on a long thing.
What is Tinubu doing with all the monies he’s been stealing from Lagos State and Nigeria since 1999? He cannot build or sponsor a bill to build a world class public hospital in Lagos. What a useless man! What a wasted life!
For some time now, the rumoured death of Ahmed Tinubu has been laid to rest since his re-appearance in London, United Kingdom. Mr. Ahmed Tinubu was a 2-time governor of Lagos State.
It means he was the chief decider of Lagos state for 8 years, from 1999 – 2007. It is also very well accepted that all the governors that came after him were handpicked by him. So it does not really matter what anyone thinks or who anyone voted for, once a candidate was handpicked by Tinubu, the candidate becomes a governor. Fasola, Ambode and Sanwoolu (the present governor) were mentored and instructed by Tinubu.
Sanwo-olu the present hand-picked governor of Lagos with Tinubu in London. Useless politicians of the highest order
It is therefore correct to state that from 1999 to date (2021), Lagos State has been ruled by Ahmed Tinubu. But the lazy ass is in a London hospital recovering from major operations/treatments. His present residence has become a bee hive to other useless people of Nigerian descent. Mainly criminal politicians like the terrorist-inclined president Buhari have thronged to London and are still on their way to London to see Tinubu.
6 useless and stupid human beings in London.
it is these idiots that I call Association of Useless Nigerians in London.
Tinubu did not see the need to build or sponsor a bill to build a world class hospital in Lagos. This state has been under his watch since 1999. What the hell is he doing with all the monies he’s been stealing since 1999?
Femi Gbajabiamala, a corrupt, ineffective lawmaker with Tinubu in London.
Useless Governors!
You can see them, key members of the association of extremely useless Nigerians in London.
Each of one the people in the pictures you see here have the possibility to build a world class hospital in Yorubaland. But they prefer to go abroad for treatment. They steal monies from their respective states or from the national treasury and pile up monies in foreign banks. So many of them bought property in foreign countries.
If you have been following my blog since 2007, you would know that this is not new. It is just as shocking today as it was 20 years ago. Who would have thought that a new generation of Omoluabi would grow up and not have sense to do what is right and what is just for Oduduwaland? Who would have thought?
We can leave the brain dead Buhari (real or fake) out of this discussion for once because right from time, the name Buhari is associated with terrorism and extreme failure!
But what about Tinubu, Fasola, Fayemi, Akeredolu, Gbajabiamila, and the rest of them who have been in charge of Yorubaland? What have they done since 1999? How can they not have the sense to build hospitals that they can visit? How? It does not even make sense!
I think I have made my points. You think about the rest.
A View From The Scandinavian 