Uncle Bola Tinubu, we have 200 billion dollars corruptly stashed in Dubai, if we are to go by Senator Shehu Sani. Then we have 60 billion dollars of NNPC money corruptly stashed in Texas. Where is Lateef to go after the thief?
Uncle Bola Tinubu, research output is the hard currency of any country, so the 5OO miliion dollars you have just proposed for Research development and innovation is laughable.
If you said 5 billion dollars, then fine! Not 500 million dollars.
We would like you to do things in terms of a cost-benefit analysis.
What you have done is given arbitrary figures and an abysmally small amount of money.
Uncle Bola Tunbu, we are not poor in Nigeria, we are creditworthy, as a recent report from the chambers of Olisa Agbakoba has shown, and also a recent proclamation of the Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyors and Valuers has shown, including Price Waterhouse Coopers. The surveyors have a valuation of 500 trillion naira and PwC of 800 billion dollars in dead capital.
Uncle Bola Tinubu, it’s unacceptable for you or your government to unfold a plan of generating 3 million jobs a year!
You seem not to appreciate the gravity of the situation on ground.
Afolabi Abiodun in the Thisday, April 27 2026, has this to say: The jobs do not need to come from government. They need to come from an economy that government has stopped strangling. You have the tools. You have the mandates. You have the institutions.
What 53 million young Nigerians need to know is whether you have the will.”
Uncle Bola Tinubu, please read the full article in the Business Day. He is the minister of employment and labour we do not have. If you cannot make him a minister, make him your chief adviser on job creation.
A Nigerian who means well. Writing until someone listens. That’s how he describes himself
In the words of Prince Dapo Abiodun, visionary governor of Ogun state, there is a nexus between criminality and unemployment.
Governors hope Uzodima of imo state also appreciates that with his Memorandum of Understanding with the University of California, Berkeley, to train 100000 youths to digitize the state economy and move them away from wrongdoing.
Like the former vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has said, we have had enough of pilot projects. What we need to do is scale up.
Uncle Bola Tinubu, you came to office with a conservative 50 million Nigerians unemployed, now there are 53 million. There are two to three million entering the job market every year. If you do three million jobs a year, how long would it take you to mop up 53 million jobs? You have to do about 2 million jobs a month to mop up 53 million unemployed in record time.
I still think it is patently wrong to have a lawyer as minister of science, tech, and innovation and a non-engineer or physicist as minister of power. In fact, what you need is perhaps a minister of energy. Like in the USA tradition, you have a Secretary of Energy.
We have an energy crisis for goodness sake. We have the worst access to electricity worldwide.
Are you aware that President Bola Tinubu Omo Mama Oloja?
The story of the 20th century is the story of electricity. Nigeria is nowhere in the 20th century, let alone being in 2026.!!
Like they say in chemical kinetics, the slowest step in a chemical reaction is the rate-determining step.
It is the number of people in darkness that determines our level of development, not the owners of a plot of land worth 2 billion naira in Eko Atlantic City.
It is the 78 million Nigerians defecating in the open that determines our level of development, not some presidential jet of yours costing 150 billion naira or the newly constructed multi-billion residence of the Vice President.
It’s the 135 million in multi-dimensional poverty that determines our level of development.
It is the 170 million Nigerians exposed to killer water, contaminated drinking water that determines our level of development. More Nigerians die of contaminated water than terrorism!!!.
It’s the 7 million babies born every year, 60 percent of whom are exposed to jaundice, resulting in hearing impairment and visual impairment. Brain damage and cerebral palsy. Because less than 5 percent of hospitals or maternity centers have incubators. It’s a grave humanitarian disaster.
It’s the 20 million plus out-of-school children that determine our level of development.
It’s the 41 million SMEs, only 5 percent have access to credit facilities, that determines our level of development.
Thank you for reading Uncle Bola Tinubu
Signed
Augustine Togonu Bickersteth London, England.
