Economy

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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After The Rants

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By Adeola Aderounmu

Nigerians are currently ranting on the social media. It’s a welcome development to rant and share the problems of the suffering masses. A long time ago, I defined mass poverty even before other organisations started to use the term. Mass poverty in Nigeria has metamorphosed into population poverty.

The stunning prices of goods and services may not be peculiar to Nigeria but the dimension of it is devastating. If people earn monthly incomes that cannot buy a bag of rice, what kind of country is that? Is that a country or a concentration camp? I cannot understand why your transport fare to work is more than your salary and how people keep traveling to the work daily.

My message in this essay is the same that I have written a thousand times. Nigeria is not going to work for anyone based on the current socio-economic/political platforms on which the country is operating. A lot of people are wishing for a new government. They think one person in Nigeria can become a president and that hope will come, that prices of stuffs will come down. This is the mentality that ic difficult to cure or erase.

Let us be clear, there is no man or woman, living or dead, that could have met the expectations of the people based on the stupid unitary system of government in Nigeria. It would amount to waste of time, waste of energy and waste of everything to finish the rantings and not demand that those useless politicians in Abuja be sent home to their constituencies. I mean, people sit down in a certain national assembly, intimidate women, talk rubbish and make useless laws and cart home millions of dollars every month. Then all you want is a new president to supervise the nonsense in Abuja.

My take is that the system of government in Nigeria must be discontinued for any iota of hope to resurface. The unitary system of government is the most useless form of government in the world. It makes the government and the people unproductive. It creates an economy that is largely importing and consuming stuffs. The unitary system of government puts power in the hands of one citizen and makes him a dictator. This is what we have seen since the implementation of the useless 1999 constitution that Nigeria is following.

There is no more hope of a better life for adults in Nigeria. The best thing that can happen to an adult in Nigeria today is “management of crises” and provision of palliatives that can soothe or alleviate the biting economic realities. Young people have a little bit of hope left if Nigeria is dismantled today. They may still live 1 or 2 decades in their respective “nations” if they process to rebuild starts today. The people who can have the best of lives if Nigerias is dismantled today (2025) are the babies and unborn generations.

Babies and the unborn generations are the ones that a new future should be provided for. But to finish ranting and still be demanding for continuation of life in the present political structure of Nigeria is pure senselessness. It is wickedness to the babies and cruelty to the unborn generations.

Nobody needs APC or PDP or Labour Party in Nigeria. The countries or nations in Nigeria must be set free before any hope of a better future can arise. An immediate consttitutional change would be to adopt the Old Western Region, The Old Eastern Region and the Old Northern Nigeria. These countries must be allowed to emerge so that the competition in food production, proper usage of mineral resources and the development of infrastructure (that has comatosed since the civil war) can restart. A long time constitutional change would be for the countries to become independent of one another and act as neighbours powering one another’s economic interest in order to build the new super power region of the world.

Any other suggestion of election in Nigeria now or in the future is not only a mistake but also a permanent display of deficient intellectualism. Since 2010/2011 I have argued that Nigeria does not need any new elections, that every new election is a sentence to a life of impoverishment, a life of penury and poverty.

I have argue that no man in Abuja will solve the problems in Badagry or Maiduguri. It is the people of Badagry that will solve the problem of Badagry and it is the people of Maiduguri that will bring security to their land when they have to manage their own affairs.

It is unwise to think that Nigeria cannot be broken or that it should remain the way it is. If that is the case, then there is no need to rant, there is no need to complain. Let the people therefore live with the choice of the useless unitary system, the rat race system, the survival of the fittest government and an existence that is profoundly in trial, error and lottery mode.

Let us rants, like some of us have been writing/blogging for 2 decades but let it be clear, rants without the end of Nigeria, are wasteful rants.

That is the way it is, take it, or leave it.

AAA.

Young people in Nigeria

Economic Hardship-A 21st Century Survival Of the Fittest

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Finding a balance between our aspirations, our quests for economic independence and the unpredictable twists of life, in my opinion, have reignited the old theory of survival of the fittest in our modern history and existence.

A 21st Century Survival Of the Fittest

Adeola Aderounmu, Sweden.

The cascades of events since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have not been palatable, globally. The astronomical increase in the prices of food, the astronomical increase in the interest rates charged on mortgage, the increase in the cost of all forms of transportation and the overall rise in the cost of living have very devastating consequences on human mental health, and in fact on our existentiality. The unbelievable and unbearable increase in the cost of living definitely have effects on our social interactions. Indeed, it redefines our thoughts about the essence of life/living.

The balance between our aspirations, our quests for economic independence and the unpredictable twists of life, in my opinion, have reignited the old theory of survival of the fittest in our modern history and existence. Nowadays, if you cannot survive, you are doomed. You are on your own. Now we know how it was when Darwin proposed survival of the fittest. We now understand how environmental factors selected the organisms that were on the right side of the survival curve.

It would be too abstract to write about this essay without using some personal reflections and experiences. When you hear for the first time how the rate of suicide in Europe is high, you would find it absurd as a typical African. But after accumulating experiences and participating in the European (western) life, it would no longer shock you to even see African settlers in Europe adding to the suicide pool in Europe. I could also do this essay from the living in Africa perspective. Even if not well documented, I known that suicide rate in Nigeria has also escalated. It is harder to live during this Era, or maybe this is what all adults above the middle age realize when they get there.

I read about a couple here in Sweden who seek divorce and they must sell their house. But under the present economic hardship in Europe, they will be unable to pay off the loan on the house after selling it. Neither of them has the economic capability to keep the house. This is how the life in Europe have destroyed the well-being of people. No matter how hard you work, you always feel like you are inadequate financially, the fear of your economic instability can drive you insane. You may even question your existence because of your inadequacies.

Among other consequences is high rate of death from high blood pressure/hypertension. It is very hard to cross the middle age in Europe without suffering from high blood pressure. The credit system, the loan system and the mortgage system give you a false array of economic stability, until something very serious goes wrong or you get to a moment that you realized that you didn’t really get it all figured out before you went for it. A war is something seriously gone wrong. Economic downturn is something very serious. High interest rate is something very serious. Sudden unemployment, incapacitation and other things that can turn our lives upside down are serious occurrences.

Who profits from our miseries? Where do all the sudden increase in rents and interest rates end up?  We work the same hours, we put in the same efforts as when the economy was good as when it turned bad. From a lame man point of view, my take is that the global work force if feeding the greed of the insatiable. The global work force must pay the price for the capitalism-based world economy.

Forgive my ignorance, I cannot understand why my bank should get richer at my expense if there was no one behind the scenes. For that is exactly what it is when the bank’s interest rates dip holes in my savings. They know they will come for our savings; so they told us to save for the rainy days. Then they make the rain fall in many ways: war, inflations, high interest rate, high cost of living and general instability in the world order.

As it is, we are fighting for our lives and no one cares if we survive or die under these strangulations. As it we have not had enough, they set Gaza on fire to distract us from our goals to survive. They make life more meaningless, so we could pity ourselves and at best compare our difficult lives with those who are massacred in Gaza and Ukraine. Head or tail, global citizens are at the receiving end. They are fighting to survive either economic hardships or a permanent state of war.

I hope what I’m trying to say here made some sense.  I’ll leave it as it is.

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Obama’s Victory: My Takes

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Adeola Aderounmu

Barack Obama will lead the USA for another 4 years. Mitt Romney, the republican candidate lost the key states and lost the election.

Four years ago I was an Obama enthusiast. Today my views are completely indifferent. I didn’t stay up to follow the election but I must congratulate Obama for winning another 4 year term to lead the United States.

There are so many things to work on in the United States and globally as well.

The economy in the United States requires a quick turnover so that the unemployment rates can be reduced and many people can work to get a better life. There are lingering problems with house ownership, mortgage and health-care delivery among many others.

There will not be a perfect country or a perfect world but the situation can be much better than it is now. Four past years of Obama may not have been miraculous; the four coming years must be if the expectations of the electorates are to be met.

In several ways the Senate and the house of reps have a lot to do in working together to make America a better place.

But when the years row by and things don’t work according to plans, I hope the people will know where to look at. The USD 2 billion that saw the election campaigns through definitely came from some pockets and there were key players. Are people paying attention to the key donors and their interests? It is up to the American to do their homework.

On the foreign scene I didn’t like the role the US played in the death of Gadhafi. Ghadhafi was not a saint, nor is anyone of us. But Libya was prosperous and probably the best African country to live in under Gadhafi. There were the oppressed people in Libya (including strangely Nigerians) , there were people tortured by Gadhafi. There are ways to go by these symptoms of dictatorship that are far better than the killing of Gadhafi. What about not throwing the dirty water away with the baby in it?

Saudi Arabia has no democracy and this has never been criticized by the United States. Hence the double or even triple standard of the United States under Obama gave me concerns.

I pity the Syrians. One day they will wake up and realize how they have inflicted harm and injuries to one another without finding the reasons why they did so. Two or more wrongs have never made a right in historical perspectives. They can ask Liberia and Somalia what it means to live for decades without a functional government. Liberia is trying to get back on track and Somalia is still among the most dangerous places on earth.

In the Middle East generally, many issues have reached boiling points. I don’t blame other countries for the woes of a given country but the expectations and hopes are usually hinged on the US and her foreign policy.

China presents news and old challenges through her new leadership and old trades.

The bar has now been raised as Obama enters another term in office. I wish him all the best.

I wish my friends and acquaintances in the US the best of these four years. I hope they won’t look back four years from now and wished they’d made a different choice.

The future you know or can predict is the one you create. In a constantly changing world where the circumstances around you are often out of your control, it will definitely by impossible to create a perfect future.