Former Dictators and Rulers Seeking Treatment Abroad in 2025. How Useless Are These Rulers?

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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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Festac: There Was A Town

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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:

  1. Rebuilding of all the road networks to the 1977 standard and yearly maintenance of such
  2. The re-introduction of government controlled public transport system but in partnership with private and professional transportation companies.
  3. The establishment of security measures to ensure the security of Yoruba people in Yorubaland and our visitors alike who have genuine residency and legitimate businesses.
  4. The total eradication of all open marketplaces across the community. It is an absolute eyesore!
  5. The removal of people living on the streets and helping them to resettle to the region or countries they came from.

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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Does Nigeria Have A Minister Of Communication? Who is he/she?

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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.

  1. Why is the network for SIM card registration non-functional for more than 2 weeks in a country that claims to have a president and a minister of communication.
  2. What are the implications for national security if such a system if non-functional?
  3. Was NIN essential?
  4. If a bank can request for an international passport rather than NIN (since the network was down), could the people have been saved the stress of NIN?
  5. Can we make NIN optional and not a necessity for the procurement of SIM cards and in other transactions nationwide where NIN are compulsory?
  6. If NIN functionalities is incapacitated for 2 to 3 weeks, could this problem linger for a year, forever?
  7. Has the president or the minister of communication in Nigeria address a press conference to explain the problem, why it occurred and when it would be rectified?

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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2025: Does Lagos State Have A Governor? Is There Governance In Lagos?

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Photo Story (Part 1)

By Adeola Aderounmu

Images of Festac Town show horror road network in the entire community.

This is horror!

I learnt from other people that no one cares to do anything about the absence of road network in Festac. Well, that will change soon because this is the beginning of another dimension to the story.

We will keep posting until change comes to Festac. First is the road network!

All Rants, And No Change. A Dilemma Called Nigeria.

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A Dilemma Called Nigeria

Adeola Aderounmu.

In recent weeks, in recent months actually, I have not been keen on blogging. It is not for lack of ideas. It is not that there are no more biting issues to discuss. There is still a lot to tackle. In our world, for all time, there will never be a shortage of what to write about, what to discuss and what to engage with.  The difference between writing 20 years ago and writing nowadays are the impacts of social media and AI. I digress no more.

Nigeria has been the central issue in my over 2 decades of blogging. In some articles, I have completely lost hope on what my generation and the generation before mine can do to restore dignity and hope to that region which the British criminals called Nigeria. So, I started to address the generation after mine.

There is a very loud outcry to the ongoing genocidal attacks in Benue State, Nigeria. The outcry and the lamentations are in order. But this is not an isolated occurrence. This was not an unexpected attack. That the terrorists in Northern Nigeria plan to overrun the entire country is not news. There have been coordinated attacks in almost all the Nigeria States. There are settlements of foreign “people” across the Nigerian region or country. I do not think it would be impossible to unleash mayhem on the entire country.

The visit of Bola Tinubu to Benue is cosmetic. The killers are on ground, and they will continue with their conquests of land and regions in Benue and in other places. Majority of people do not understand the kind of existence they were born into in Nigeria. Majority are ignorant of the meaning of Nigeria. They do not know how Nigeria came into existence and that Nigeria was never created as a country but as a business enterprise for the orgy of the British empire.

So, the shout about the genocide in Benue will probably mellow but the fundamental problems with the existence of Nigeria would be ignored because the level of ignorance and lack of knowledge among the people is overwhelming and stinking.

There are final and permanent solutions to the problems of genocide in Benue and other places across Nigeria. But these solutions do not exist as long as Nigeria remains one country. The people need to be educated that they are not Nigerians by nature and ancestry. For example, I am Yoruba. Some of you are Igbo, Hausa and so on. The people need to know that the British colonized the regions and formed Nigeria as a business enterprise and that regardless of what may be good about the union, the things that are bad about it are far enormous and damaging like the killing in Benue.

In our best years, we prospered most under a regional government in our respective ancestral land. It was not to last as the things that divided us came to fore and we killed one another for power because it is human to want to dominate over other tribes/nationalities, and that is what make sporting activities great human endeavours.

Now, how do you define dominance in a Nigerian context when the British brought unrelated nationalities together and called them Nigerians? The kind of dominance that each nationality in Nigeria seek and the lack of it for the other groups would continue to breed the kind of massacre in Benue. The fact that Fulani would even invade from far beyond the useless boundaries created by the foolish British colonialists has complicated the matter.

We have seen this over the decades and to think that VDM or a Tinubu visit are antidotes is the beginning of a new phase of collective amnesia and uncured madness. The “wars” we fight every 4 years during our stupid elections are the greatest indicators of our differences, the kind of differences that will NEVER be healed for as long as Nigeria exist.

I mean, the Nigeria of today has come to play into the hands of the colonial masters. The criminal colonial masters can see how their plans to destabilize the west African region have been a great success. They can see how the rising kingdoms of Oyo, Nupe, Igbo, for example, have all crashed believing they are Nigerians. It is again the question of intellectualism, it is the question of race superiority, and it is the question of common sense and the absence of it. The “white man” said you are Nigerian, and you accepted it. The while man said, you are not Igbo, you are not Hausa, you are not Yoruba, and you all accepted it.

This is the problem with us, not identifying and reclaiming our nationalities. We need to reclaim our ancestry and our original nationalities. How would I accept a foreigner invading the Yoruba country without declaring the action a war? The people of Benue would defend their land and their ancestral possessions if we stop telling them that they are Nigerians. By waiting on Nigeria and Nigerians, Benue may become lost to the invaders and their existence will be reduced to slavery or second-class citizens in their ancestral land. This is where many nationalities in Nigeria are heading, losing their identities and ancestral possessions.

The most we can do if we want to live “together” is to revert back to regional government and decide our destinies, our future and the extent of our prosperity in our different regions. The best we can do is to revert back to our kingdoms as they were before the colonial thieves glued us together for the business purpose of the Queen of England and a mistress of Lugard gave us the name “the people of the Niger area”.

There will not be immediate gain from our dissociation. However, in about 50 to 100 years, your children, grandchildren and unborn generations will bless your graves. The longer we wait to start the process, the more Nigerian slip into oblivion, the more the massacres, the more the genocide, the more the useless politics that breed poverty, hopelessness and penury for more than 100 million people. Nigeria is not just the poverty capital of the world, the country is the biggest laughingstock in the world. It will not change until all the nationalities entrapped in Nigeria emerged and claim their rightful places among strong nations across the world.

In our lifetime, we have the task to challenge the status quo, we have the tasks to write the true stories of our lives. We must not be afraid, and we must do all we can to leave the world a better place than we met it. We owe our children a lot and we must disappoint them more than we already did.

One thing is certain; the west and the powers that rule this world are afraid of the re-emergence of powerful kingdoms like The Yoruba Kingdom, The Igbo Nation/Biafra, and so on. They knew where we were before they disrupted and stole our civilizations.

Benue is not an isolated occurrence; we must all fight to be free. There is no other way.