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Image credit: Facebook This is to establish the fact that, hate him or like him, Mr Peter Obi is the only leader that Nigeria's national political space ever produced till date. Until the Obidient Movement arose in the name of the former Anambra Governor, Nigeria only had administrators at best (rather than true leaders) at the national level. Otherwise, the closest Nigeria's politics ever went to producing leaders before the emergence of the Obidient Movement was at the regional levels. At the regional levels, other true political leaders Nigeria ever produced can include fellows like Ahmadu Bello, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nnamdi Kanu, and Sunday Adeyemo. This is also to give room to discuss the matter in a transparent atmosphere, and talk about why and how the present generation of Nigerians should focus on creating leaders out of themselves. Africa needs true leaders to drive the next generations of her life, given the current pace

A few days ago, the 2023 Labour Party Presidential Candidate Mr Peter Obi in an interview made the following exact statement which Premium Times and Mr Reno Omokri clearly took out of context: “ I don't see anything ,” said Mr Obi with a deep shrug, “ why his continued detention. Quite frankly. Especially as the law, the courts have granted him bail. Government must obey the law. Rule of law is an intrinsic asset that we must cherish and live with. And I've said I'm going to discuss with every agitator. And I use this opportunity to pray the government to ensure that all those who are in similar conditions are released and discussed with. We are a democratic government. We shouldn't be doing things that are arbitrary and not within the law ”. Not long after that, Mr Omokri posted the following statement on his X page: “ The 'Release Nnamdi Kanu Now' statement by Peter Obi is the obituary of Peter Obi's Presidential ambition. By calling for the release of a

Image credit: Leadership.ng After a bizarre accident in Kano yesterday where a truck loaded with up to 90 persons alongside livestock, motorcycles, and bags of corn plunged over the railings of the Dangwaro Flyover, killing over 20 people, a group known as Professional Driving and Safety Academy (PDSA) issued a statement that 80% of road accidents in the country are due to " human factors ". That's right. But, the situation is too serious to be explained away with such ambiguous word use. Instead, Nigerians on the street need to understand these " human factors " at personal levels. The very unfortunate accident and the PDSA statement prompted me to dig up a recent experiment we conducted that corroborates this viewpoint - except that our figures are higher by 10: We conducted a simple social experiment that seems to suggest that up to 9 in 10 persons may lose attention while on the road and it appears to be the topmost remote cause behind traffic a