Kingsley Moghalu OON engagement report

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• Jun 12, 2026247x their median

  Nigeria sells raw cocoa at $8,000 a tonne. Processed into butter it earns $48,000. Made into chocolate it earns $240,000. 30 times the money, yet Nigeria is still choosing $8,000.

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• Jul 20, 2026205x their median

  I've spent the last several months researching, travelling, and studying why countries like Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada and Finland built some of the world's best public education systems. One thing became clear: Nigeria doesn't just have an education problem. We have a school management problem. Today, I'm releasing a white paper that proposes a new way to transform our public schools, keeping them publicly owned while introducing world-class management and accountability. This isn't about politics. It's about giving every Nigerian child the opportunity to attend a world-class public school. I hope this sparks one of the most important conversations our country has had about education. Read it. Criticise it. Improve it. Share it. If we get education right, we change Nigeria. Here is the link https://t.co/EViU52FKFi

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• Jul 30, 202695x their median

  Prof. Hadiza Nuhu, an associate professor of pharmacy at Ahmadu Bello University, has developed Herb 25, an anti-malaria herbal drug registered by NAFDAC. The drug, developed after 12 years of research, is described as an enhanced ethnomedical preparation from herbs traditionally used in Nigeria to treat malaria. Herb 25 is formulated for chloroquine-resistant malaria and is dispensed in tea bags for easy preparation with hot water. University officials said it is the first anti-malaria drug of its kind to be produced by a Nigerian university. Nuhu, a senior lecturer in the Department of Pharmacognosy and Drug Development, holds a Ph.D. from ABU. She is also a member of the Nigerian Society of Pharmacognosy and research director of the Association of Commonwealth Traditional Medicine Practitioners, West Africa.

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• Jun 13, 202632x their median

  So proud of my beloved son @TMoghalu as he graduated today from his 4-year medical residency program in Anesthesiology at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center @UPMC ! A long, tough journey: @UPMC is one of America’s top medical schools, and Tobenna was admitted to his graduating class of 20 students from 2,000 applicants, of which 200 applicants were interviewed - top 1% of applicants. We are so proud of you Tobenna, and so grateful to God for your achievement. 12 long years of study to get here: 4-year first degree in neuroscience, 4-year Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree (medicine is a graduate degree in the United States), and 4 years of residency training for Anesthesia specialization. “T-Doc”, you’ve earned your stripes, man!

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• Aug 30, 202619x their median

  Nice running into a distinguished friend and compatriot, His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyekan at Dulles International Airport in Washington DC , both of us about to board the same flight to an East African country. https://t.co/4kEqOZWCRi

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• Aug 24, 202614x their median

  The politicization of the positions of heads of agencies in Nigeria is one of the reasons governance is not happening. In any political culture where there is no separation between independent institutions and politics and politicians, the result is often incompetence and ineffectiveness because loyalty, not performance and results, is the key metric of assessment. Obasanjo as President was good at separating these two things . He knew who his political fixers were. There were not hidden. He also knew who his technocrats were. Politicians could not touch or interfere with them and their work. The only exception to this principle that has achieved economic and societal transformation is China. There, even technocrats have to be loyal to the Chinese Communist Party. But this works because it’s an ideological country and society. There is a governing worldview, from top to bottom of the society, and everyone adheres to it. That worldview, in itself, is one of societal ambition, transformation and greatness. So incompetence and non-performance is seen as contradictory to the ideology of the party. Nigeria has no ideological or philosophical worldview, so mixing politics and public administration perpetuates poverty and weak governance because there is no incentive for effective performance. The politics, not the performance, is what is rewarded.

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• Sep 27, 202613x their median

  Beloved @MaryanneMoghalu , blessed and beautiful are you. Happy birthday my love. https://t.co/zIffPtWfoX

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• Aug 1, 202611x their median

  I sent one of my Iranian friends in the United States a news report about the Speaker of the Norwegian Parliament, Masud Gharahkhani. He occupies the highest elected office in Norway after the King in the country’s constitutional order. Born in Tehran, Iran, he arrived in Norway as a refugee with his family in 1987. What began as sharing an interesting story quickly became a conversation about civilisations, and one observation proved difficult to dismiss. For all its conflicts, and for all its hypocrisies and prejudices, Western civilisation remains the most accommodating of outsiders. You may marshal elegant arguments or even write a thesis against that proposition, but it is difficult to identify another part of the world that has consistently entrusted so much political, economic and social power to immigrants and foreign-born citizens. The evidence is visible in parliaments, city halls, universities, boardrooms and courts across the Western world. Meanwhile, some of us are still trapped in societies where even a fellow citizen can be denied opportunities in the very town he was born and has lived all his life simply because his parents came from another region, or because he belongs to the wrong ethnic group or professes the wrong faith. That remains the primitive rung on which many societies outside the West are still stranded. The fact that two of the world’s most influential cities, New York and London, have elected Muslim mayors is telling. It becomes even more striking when one considers the growing number of immigrants and foreign-born citizens who occupy sensitive public offices across Europe and North America. My Iranian friend is himself an illustration of that openness. He moved to the United States for postgraduate studies and has since risen to a senior position in a leading organisation. Whenever we discuss America, his dominant sentiment, despite his disapproval of the politics of certain American leaders, is gratitude for the opportunities it afforded him. This openness is also one reason liberal democracies in the West have proved incredibly resilient. Despite the rise of populists, authoritarians and the far right, their greatest opponents are often their own citizens. The culture of relentless self-criticism, the independence of institutions, a free press, competitive elections and courts willing to check executive power have enabled these societies to correct themselves repeatedly. That does not mean the West is free of racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, inequality, colonial legacies or political polarisation. It means that, despite these flaws, it has built institutions capable of challenging prejudice rather than permanently surrendering to it—and that’s a lesson for us. That capacity for self-correction may well be its greatest civilisational strength.

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• Sep 6, 202610x their median

  What’s in a Map? The UN General Assembly has voted 164–1 to encourage the world to stop drawing Africa as if it were the size of Greenland. The “Correct the Map” resolution, led by Togo for the African Group and backed by the African Union, urges schools, governments, international organisations and technology platforms to use equal-area projections such as Equal Earth instead of the 16th-century Mercator map. That map inflates landmasses near the poles and shrinks those near the equator. Africa is about fourteen times larger than Greenland. On the map most of us grew up with, they look almost the same size. The resolution is not binding. It does not ban Mercator for navigation. It does not redraw a border. It asks the world to stop teaching a distortion as geography. That decision matters. And it does not. It matters because maps are never only maps. They are instruments of worldview. They tell children who is large and who is small, who is central and who is peripheral. For centuries a European navigational tool became the default picture of the planet. When Africa is visually minimised, it is easier to treat the continent as marginal in politics, capital and history. Correcting a false image is intellectual hygiene. Dignity is not a small thing. Representation is not nothing. But a more accurate silhouette will not industrialise Africa. It will not keep the lights on, raise yields, secure property rights, or produce the manufactured goods that move a country from poverty to prosperity. A map can change how the world sees Africa. It cannot change how African states organise themselves. In Emerging Africa I argued that the continent was emerging, not rising — and that the difference is not semantic. Emergence is visibility and other people’s narratives. Transformation is productivity, skills, governance, and a coherent worldview of who we are, where we are going, and how we intend to get there. Development is first a state of the mind. Without that inner architecture — values, strategy, organisation — we keep mistaking symbols for substance. Now that we are “bigger” on the wall chart, will development follow? No. Not from the map. Did Rising Asia rise by a map? China did not become a workshop of the world because cartographers enlarged it. South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and later Vietnam did not escape poverty by winning a vote in New York. They rose by seriousness about education, industrial discipline, state capacity and a long-horizon idea of national purpose. The map followed the factories, not the other way around. This is the recurring temptation in our political culture: emotionally satisfying symbolism that misses the real point. A corrected map can nourish pride. Pride without production is a mood, not a strategy. Teach the true size of Africa. Let children see that this continent can contain the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe and still have land to spare. That is a useful shock to the imagination. Then ask the only question that converts size into power: what are we building on that land? A fairer map is a beginning of perception. It is not the beginning of prosperity. The world does not owe Africa a projection. Africa owes itself a plan. #Africa #EmergingAfrica #Governance #Development #UNGA #Geopolitics

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• Aug 9, 20269.7x their median

  Sunday chill. #Ifekaego & @MaryanneMoghalu https://t.co/xWQh1qC8vl

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