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Peter Obi Addresses Global Leaders on Governance and Security in Athens
Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra State, recently participated in a Leadership Dialogue in Athens, Greece, alongside global leaders, former presidents, prime ministers, military chiefs, and renowned academics.
The event focused on governance, democracy, security, and economic challenges facing today’s world, with a particular emphasis on lessons for future leaders.
In his presentation, Obi identified several factors contributing to insecurity in Africa, urging leaders to recognize the significant global and generational transformations occurring.
He highlighted the critical need for enhanced collective security, poverty alleviation, and efforts to reduce injustice and inequality across societies.
Obi pointed out the alarming statistics regarding poverty in Africa, noting that over 50% of the world’s multidimensionally poor live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
He emphasized the severe challenges faced by countries like Nigeria and Congo, where over 60% of the population experience poverty and inequality.
He addressed the troubling rise of non-state actors assuming security roles in some African nations and stressed the importance of investing in key development areas, such as health and education, to combat these issues.
“Future African leaders must take bold, accelerated, just, and transformative actions to achieve far-reaching, people-centred development,” Obi stated.
He called on African leaders to confront insecurity directly and reassure citizens of their government’s capacity to maintain security without relying on non-state actors.
Obi concluded with a strong message, asserting that Nigeria possesses the resources needed for meaningful change and reaffirming his commitment to steering the nation toward a more positive future.
“A New Nigeria is Possible,” he declared, inspiring hope for a better tomorrow.
TV anchor Rufai Oseni makes headlines as he speaks on fuel subsidy in Nigeria. He shared that Nigeria can have fuel subsidy without the long queues at filling stations.
“When we were still paying subsidies, there were no long queues. We were subsidising. So you can still have a subsidy regime going on, and there will be no long queues because production was close by. Dangote had it. That’s just it. That argument also falls flat.
“The biggest beneficiaries of subsidy are not Nigerians. They are crony capitalists that have big infrastructure, and they do contracts. They have been the biggest beneficiaries of the subsidy,” he said.
Lagos State Governor, Sanwo-Olu, speaks to those in the electricity sector about the usual blackouts in the state.
He speaks on ways things can change in the state and how electricity can be provided.
“We need to drop corporate egos, abandon long-standing excuses, and confront the harsh realities obstructing progress in the power sector.”
“We, state governments, used to give excuses that everything is centralised, so the Federal Government has unbundled it now. What have we done in a year and a half?” Sanwo-Olu asked.
“We take two steps forward, we go five steps backward,” he said.
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared Thursday, August 20, a work-free day for public servants in the state to mark the Isese Festival.
Speaking on the celebration, he said “Ìṣẹ̀ṣe is not a relic. It is a living expression of our traditions and a celebration of Yoruba spirituality as an important part of Nigeria’s cultural and religious landscape,” he said.
He added “When the drums sound in Lagos on Thursday, they answer drums in Havana, in Salvador, in Port of Spain. Fifty-five million people and counting. Lagos is not observing a local holiday. Lagos is standing at the centre of a global heritage,” Aregbe said.
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