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Bashir Ahmad, OON @BashirAhmaad

Dear @TheSerahIbrahim

I don’t know whether you were part of Mr. Peter Obi’s visit to Prof. Isa Ali Pantami last night. Anyway, this is just a reminder that your “Peter” is now in the same category as we are. Back in 2021, you unapologetically labeled everyone supporting Prof. Pantami a terrorist. You went further to call his boss, the late President, a terrorist and even called me one.

Now, your Peter is not only supporting Pantami, but also creating time to visit him at home to discuss strategies.

My question, is your stand still valid? If yes, then kindly update your list to include Mr. Peter Obi, who is now among Prof. Pantami's newest supporters.

https://x.com/BashirAhmaad/status/1967909542169321562?t=7_R5_oIVM4Wo7koxvtaj9A&s=19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GyXPgBaVJI?si=bkeJ4yk-9VHy7k3j

Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim, CON @ProfIsaPantami

Last night, I received a friendly visit from His Excellency Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party. We discussed a range of issues, including agriculture, economy, education, artificial intelligence, global statistics, and unity in diversity, among others.
My family and I are most appreciative of the visit.

#AI
#4IR
#Pantami
#PeterObi

Last night, I received a friendly visit from His Excellency Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party. We discussed a range of issues, including agriculture, economy, education, artificial intelligence, global… pic.twitter.com/IdXOqYSziw

— Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim, CON (@ProfIsaPantami) September 16, 2025

Aliko Dangote (the president of Dangote Industries) is speaking to the media. On his left is his cousin, Sayyu Dantata (the chairman of MRS Holdings) and on his right is Devakumar Edwin (vice president of Dangote Industries). Also with them is Fatima Aliko Dangote (group executive director, commercial operations at Dangote Industries Limited).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeDCK-odSv0?si=pvyzYmz06rlsSGra

Transcript

Aliko Dangote: Now we will support our government to make sure that we keep creating and generating jobs and we are generating jobs everyday.

That's why sometimes I laugh when, you know, em, em, what do you call them?

Sayyu Dantata: Which one?

Aliko Dangote: Something peng.

Sayyu Dantata: Oh, Nupeng.

Aliko Dangote: I don't even remember their name.

(Everybody laughs)

Aliko Dangote: So Nupeng said that there will be losses of jobs.

Gentlemen of the press, our company did not only buy 4,000 CNG trucks, we bought 10,000; 4,000 tankers, and 6,000 dry cargo.

Because some they carry our fuel, some they carry this. . .because what we are trying to do is that we are trying to modernise this thing.

But you can see how innovative we are, because who is going to lose? Actually, Dangote Refinery will lose because we'll lose a big customer. Dangote Cement used to import 40,000 tons every month of diesel. So now they will stop buying from us, they will now go and be using their gas (CNG).

And like what I keep saying, we are not going to meet the tag. So, as soon as people realise, because those trucks, when they came, the CNG, they didn't cause attention, because the ones that caused attention are the tanks. The tankers are those that actually caused the attention. But those trucks, they came now. We have already launched almost 4,000 and before end of the year the remaining 2,000 will arrive. Because even today we have a ship that brought about 200. Every day they will be arriving because they. . . by end of October all the 4,000 tankers will be here but by end of November we'll have total on the road, I think 10,250 total and today when you go and check our records and it is actually in our own financials of dangote cement.

Dangote cement, even now with the trucks that we have bought, we're only doing 60% of our own cargo. We're not trying to take anybody out of the market.

These trucks we launched, we didn't stop anybody from his work. You are saying that there will be loss of jobs, are our own tankers going to be driven by robots? There are no robotic trucks now. They have trucks that, yes and by the time you take a workshop manager, mechanical, electrical, okay, people who look after tires, people who look at logistics, movement of the trucks, dispatch, back office, every truck is about six people. So this 4,000 trucks they are fighting over it will create 24,000 jobs.

And let me give you also another good news, what we are saying is that our salary is almost three times or four times their own. I mean our own, you know after 5 years free accident nothing a driver can apply since we are driving hazardous you can apply and get a housing loan. Our drivers earn more than graduates. If you look at what they earn in a month, it's almost four times minimum wage! And you say that no don't create jobs.

If you look at it, that's why I said that. . .my people. . .when you got here, I'm sure my people took you around and showed you some of the trucks. And please go and ask anybody. I don't want to tell you but go and ask everybody. It's not every truck that you can load here, you know, with just a spark from the silencer, the whole place can catch fire. But see, some of them when they come, we have to manage because we actually don't have trucks.

And I can show you by the time we load Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, you will see the volume will crash because the trucks are not there.

They are talking about 30,000 tankers is not true. Nobody has 30,000! 30,000 where? How? What do they carry?

So to actually, you know, ask all these things and say no no no, you know what, let's make even life easy. Okay because the question of you joining a union, if you look at the act, I think was section 12 subsection 4 or so, it said that is voluntarily. You have to volunteer to join a unit. Even religion is voluntary now. I can't force you to be a Muslim if you are Christian, you cannot force me to change my religion. I will choose and if I think I'm doing the wrong thing, tomorrow I will decide, I'll move and change to another one. So it is not a question. Nobody will lose any job.

And if they have that issue, any of their driver (because the fight is over driver) any of their drivers who doesn't have a job and he wants to join these people to earn more money. He is welcome.

Love800:
Naptu2 you making me laugh.

Well, i know you understand my point.

Anyway, it was a nice thread.

Kudos.

But I don't think you understand my point, which is why you did not respond to it and instead sidestepped it.

There is no Guinness World Record for inventing food. A Nigerian invented a drink called Chapman, but it's not in the Guinness World Record because that's not what the Guinness World Records are for.

Besides, food and drinks are invented every day. Owners of restaurants innovate and create things and Hilda Baci is a restaurant owner and I'm sure she has combined food differently in her restaurant, so that's no issue.

The issue is that people all over the world, like Ashrita Furman, break records like this all the time and there's no complaints, but as soon as a Nigerian does it you'll hear complaints like, "Why doesn't she invent a rocket to Mars" from people that have never invented something that can fly to the clouds. As if she owes them.

Love800:
Okay. Let us put it this way.

What about if she thinks and breaks records in her profession but in a discovery or inventing way!

All this meaningless innovations are not worthy.

What record have you broken in your profession in a discovery or inventing way? How have you put Nigeria on the map?

All these meaningless criticisms are not worthy.

Remember, the Guinness World Record for most boiled eggs peeled and eaten in one minute is 6, by Ashrita Furman (USA).

Meanwhile, today is Ashrita Furman's birthday. He was born on September 16, 1954.

jahsharon:
No country in the world that Nigerians are not known.

Why are you responding to that guy? He's just trying to provoke me. Anybody that reads my post knows that I never said that Indians are silent, I only quoted someone else that said that Indians are silent.

jahsharon:
Developed nations are nations that build their own cars, planes, jets, medical equipment, drugs and even bombs to fight their enemies, not nations that create senseless records.

How many cars, planes, jets, medical equipment, drugs and bombs have you built?

geoworldedu:
Naptu2 said Indian don't make noise about the Guinness Book of Record when he is not living in India to know it.

Rage bait = failed.

Total and complete waste of time.

My previous posts.

Hilda Baci is a chef and she has achieved a lot in her profession. It's not her job to break new frontiers in science, technology, arts, and human innovation. Have the critics broken new frontiers in science, technology, arts and human innovation?

Hilda Baci is a chef. She is not the government. She owns a private restaurant. She will do what she needs to do to attract publicity and prestige to her restaurants and TV cooking shows.

She is not the government.

What on earth have the complainers done in the fields that they are referring to? What have they done except to sit and complain about what someone else is doing (something that has nothing to do with them)?

Video of Ashrita Furman.

He has also set world records for eating various things, for example he set the record for eating the most Marmite in a minute and he also set the Guinness World Record for most boiled eggs peeled and eaten in one minute (6 eggs).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj7U8xcnn_0?si=E3MlEBRVJ_XckHTI

Meanwhile, today is Ashrita Furman's birthday. He was born on September 16, 1954.


Photo 1) Ashrita Furman setting the world record for eating M&M candy.

Photo 2) Ashrita Furman setting the record for slicing a watermelon on his belly.

Photo 3) Ashrita Furman sets the world record for walking with the heaviest shoes

Some people said:

The Guinness world record book has now been bastardized, it used to be coveted and revered, but now, they have records for all manner of rubbish.

But I knew about Ashrita Furman in the 1990s and he began his record setting campaign in 1979.

Others said:

Indians have been cooking with larger pots since the creation of the world yet they don't make noise about it.

Ever wonder why USA, UK, Germany, China, Canada, Australia and other sane countries don't engage in this trash? Because they are busy thinking of the way forward for their countries and not engaging on trash like this

But Ashrita Furman is an American.

Who is Ashrita Furman?

Ashrita Furman is the man that has the Guinness World Record for the most world records.

His world records include things like doing 27,000 jumping jacks (that's the first world record that he set in 1979), most jumps on a pogo stick (I watched the video of him setting this world record in the 2000s), most pogo stick jumps under water, etc.

These "strange" world records have not stopped America from going to space or doing any other thing. You see, it's not Ashrita Furman's job to do any of the other things and there is no correlation between them, just as it's not Hilda Baci's job to do any of those other things.

Here is a video of Ashrita Furman. He is demonstrating some of his world records. I'll explain them to you. The first one is running on stilts, the second is jumping on a pogo stick while juggling three balls, the third is balancing on a cylinder, the fourth is using a hula hoop, we come back to the pogo stick (while he explains that his favourite record is jumping on a pogo stick up and down Mount Fuji in Japan) then there is sack racing and finally there is bouncing on an exercise ball.

I often bought the Guinness World Record book in the 1980s and they showed the Guinness World Record TV show on Nigerian TV in the 1990s and 2000s.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E70jj0wNSo?si=WZ4AW4oYs_1TKfIS


Ashrita Furman has set more than 700 official Guinness World Records since 1979 and currently holds over 200 standing records, including the official record for holding the most records at once.

Photo 1) Ashrita Furman setting the world record for balancing a chain saw on his chin.

Photo 2) Ashrita Furman jumping on a pogo stick.

Photo 3) Ashrita Furman running on stilts.

Photo 4) Ashrita Furman with his Guinness World Record certificates.

Hilda Baci is a chef. She is not the government. She owns a private restaurant. She will do what she needs to do to attract publicity and prestige to her restaurants and TV cooking shows.

She is not the government.

What on earth have the complainers done in the fields that they are referring to? What have they done except to sit and complain about what someone else is doing (something that has nothing to do with them)?

BuharisBoy:
yes buharisbou is not seeking attention with a populicity stunt

How does that help Nigeria??

How does your not seeking attention help Nigeria?

What does it contribute to Nigeria?

Hilda Baci is a chef and she has achieved a lot in her profession. It's not her job to break new frontiers in science, technology, arts, and human innovation. Has BuharisBoy broken new frontiers in science, technology, arts and human innovation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8454QDgQCA?si=XVUHradJPiYOdVNP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKB8jqdA-NY?si=-hA7kzIr7hP1EE-5

2025 World Championships: Amusan Wins Silver In Women’s 100m Hurdles

September 15, 2025

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, has won silver medal in the women’s 100m hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Championships, clocking 12.29s in the final.

Amusan powered through the final at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan finishing just behind Ditaji Kambundji of Switzerland, who struck gold in a new National Record of 12.24s.

Grace Stark of the United States Of America took Bronze in 12.34s.

Her fellow American Masai Russell came fourth in 12.44s.

Earlier in the day, Amusan booked her place in the final with a commanding semifinal victory, running 12.36s (-0.2) to hold off Nadine Visser of the Netherlands (12.45s) and Pia Skrzyszowska of Poland (12.51s).

It was Nigeria’s first medal at the ongoing World Athletics Championships.

https://www.completesports.com/amusan-wins-silver-in-womens-100m-hurdles/

semid4lyfe:
Aaah my respected Egbon. would the cheating have been....for want of a better word "less worse" and a bit tolerable if the wife had not just given birth prematurely?

Would the cheating have a greater impact on the wife, including on her health and mental state, if she had just had a premature baby or if she had not just had a premature baby??

Pinching a man is a bad thing, but which is worse, punching a man that is completely healthy or punching a man that just had an operation?