ARISE Nigeria First

ARISE Nigeria First A Bold National Movement Transforming Nigeria through Collective Mindset Shift and Leadership Excellence.

Arise Nigeria First has a Target of Reaching 50Million Members by 2030. Arise Nigeria Transformation Project is a leading development advocacy and network of people who believe in the transformation of Nigeria by Nigerians through the systematic force of change and mind-reset with right to a better life and success.

01/05/2025

State of the Nation: A Call to Conscience

Even when the state falters, Citizen Voices will remain bold, resilient, and unwavering.

Within two weeks April 2 and April 15, at least 200 Nigerians lost their lives in horrific attacks across communities in Benue, Plateau, Zamfara, and Kaduna States. Over 3,000 people have been displaced, homes have been reduced to ashes, and families torn apart.

Twin assaults in Logo and Gbagir claimed 56 lives, allegedly at the hands of armed herders in Benue State.

Plateau witnessed an even grimmer toll, with more than 100 people killed in Bokkos and Bassa local government areas. These tragedies are not isolated — they reflect a worsening crisis of insecurity that threatens the soul of the nation.

In a similar development and in what looks like a deliberate attack, on Easter Monday 21/04/25, a trailer ran into a Christian procession in Gombe State killing an unknown number of people instantly and injuring many others.

President Bola Tinubu returned to Abuja this week after spending 18 days between Paris and London — a journey described as both a working trip and a private retreat. Meanwhile, the nation burned.

Yet, we’ve heard no national address. No visit to grieving communities. No decisive response from the Commander-in-Chief.

The Nigerian Constitution is unambiguous. Section 14(2)(b) states:

"The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government."

This is not a campaign catchphrase. It is the law.

We must confront a harsh reality: our leaders appear not just absent, but indifferent. When citizens take measures to protect themselves, the state often reappears — not to offer help, but to exert control. This is not an oversight. It’s a pattern. And the silence from those in power speaks volumes.

Mr. President, responsibility lies with you. This bloodshed is part of your legacy.

Nigerians must respond — not with appeals to an unresponsive government, but through collective action, civic pressure, and firm accountability.

Here’s what we must do:

1. Raise awareness by sharing the stories of victims and survivors.

2. Demand accountability and justice for those lost.

3. Engage legislators and state officials. You can find their contacts via shineyoureye.org.

4. Support grassroots efforts that center on empowering citizen Voices, safety, resilience, and human dignity.






01/05/2025

"This May, we reaffirm our commitment to amplifying your voice, protecting your rights, and empowering your actions.

Let’s turn civic awareness into civic power.

Speak up.
Stand out.
Take responsibility.

Together, we build a nation where every voice counts and every action matters."

— Citizen Voices Empowerment Foundation (CVEF)

23/04/2025

How Nigeria Can Scale the Hurdle of Backwardness and Corrupt Leadership

Much has been said—and is widely known—about Nigeria’s immense potential. We have a massive youthful population, a deeply resilient spirit geared toward knowledge and entrepreneurship, and vast natural resources. These facts do not need constant repetition.

Yet, Nigeria’s transformation will not happen by magic, slogans, or wishful thinking. It will not be achieved merely by singing about our greatness or writing essays about our potential. Real change requires a deliberate and strategic approach. Here are the foundational indices we must consider:

1. Systematic Mind Renovation, Value Reorientation, and National Unity

Nigeria must embark on a nationwide program focused on reengineering the mindset of its people. We need a unified value system that transcends ethnic and religious bigotry. Ethical behavior, patriotism, and shared vision must be the norm, not the exception. This is the first and most critical foundation for transformation.

2. Transformative and Ethical Leadership

A renewed national mindset will birth ethical and transformative leadership—leaders driven by service, not greed; strategy, not sentiment. With integrity at the core of governance, we can then attract strategic investments and build a society free from systemic corruption.

3. A Unique, Strategic Growth Model

Nigeria needs to adopt a growth model that focuses on massive investment in one or more key sectors with strong backward and forward linkages. Such a model will drive inclusive growth and economic stabilization.
This approach can address inflation, stabilize our currency, and generate impact across multiple sectors including rural development, agriculture, healthcare, innovation, and education. Any competent development economist knows how this works and the ripple effects it produces.

Although these points may require deeper elaboration, this three-tiered approach is not just a proposal—it is the only viable roadmap to transform Nigeria into a global leader in mindset, innovation, and influence within the next decade.

And when we talk about Nigeria, we are inherently talking about Africa. Nigeria holds the key to Africa’s transformation—and by extension, to a world redefined by peaceful, progressive change.

Indeed, Nigeria is the new capital of the future.

There is a solution. The time is now.

By Ijigban Daniel Oketa
Executive Director, Citizen Voices Empowerment Foundation; Thought Leader in Economic Development, Leadership, and Sustainability





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Nigeria's Transformation Requires Strategy, Not SentimentBy Ijigban Daniel Oketa, Executive Director- Citizen Voices Emp...
22/04/2025

Nigeria's Transformation Requires Strategy, Not Sentiment

By Ijigban Daniel Oketa, Executive Director- Citizen Voices Empowerment Foundation (CVEF)

Nigeria is often described as a country of immense potential. With a large and youthful population, abundant natural resources, and a resilient culture of entrepreneurship, the path to greatness seems evident.

Yet, decades of underdevelopment and corruption reveal a hard truth: potential is not progress.

If Nigeria is to truly transform, we must move beyond rhetoric and adopt a bold, structured strategy. Here are three foundational steps:

1. National Mind Renovation and Value Reorientation
Nigeria needs a deep cultural shift. We must promote ethical values and unity across ethnic and religious divides. This will eliminate religious bigotry and cultivate a shared national identity - one rooted in integrity and patriotism.

2. Transformative and Ethical Leadership
Ethical leadership is born from ethical citizens. When values are right, leaders emerge who are driven by service, not greed. This kind of leadership attracts investment, promotes accountability, and ends systemic corruption.

3. A Unique Economic Growth Model
Nigeria must focus its investment on key sectors with both backward and forward linkages to support agriculture, rural development, health, innovation, and education. This approach will stabilize inflation, strengthen the naira, and spark inclusive economic growth.

These steps may require deeper elaboration, but their direction is non-negotiable. This is the only viable route to take Nigeria from potential to performance within the next decade.

And as Nigeria rises, so does Africa. Nigeria is not just a country; it is Africa's key - and perhaps the world's hope for a peaceful, transformative future.

It is not far-fetched to say: Nigeria is the new world capital.
There is a solution. The time is now.

Highlights:
📣 Nigeria Holds the Key to Africa's and the World's Future!
Nigeria has what it takes—youth, resilience, and resources—but real transformation needs ACTION.

✅ Mind renovation and unity
✅ Ethical, transformative leadership
✅ Massive investment in strategic sectors to support agriculture, innovation & health etc.

No magic. No slogans. Just a bold strategy.
🗣️ Nigeria can become the New World Capital—and it starts with us.

17/01/2025

Yesterday, the news broke that Fola Adeola, GTB bank co-founder and the former MD of the bank, sold 18.25 million shares in Aradel Holdings Plc, valued at approximately 11 billion naira, which he pocketed.

The sale was disclosed in a regulatory filing submitted to the Nigerian Exchange Limited.

According to the company’s statement, the transaction took place on Dec. 31, 2024, with each share sold at N598.50. Adeola, a major shareholder in Aradel, held over 5% equity before the sale.

Fola Adeola is part of the generation my generation classified as old money.

This is why he started the year with 11 billion naira in liquidity in his bank account.

But beyond his vast wealth, Fola has been transparent about how he made his wealth.

From founding GTB with late Tayo in the 90s, a bank he later ran as the first CEO before handing over to Tayo,Fola’s shadow looms large in the Nigerian corporate sector.

When Funke Opeke wanted to start Main One Cable, it was Fola that she ran to, and Fola gave her the first check,the first $1 million check needed to run internet fibre cable from Portugal to Lagos.

MainOne was later sold for $320 million to Equinix, and so, Fola got his money back with the profit on top.

The same thing he did with Aradel; he is a big-time investor with Aradel with 5% ownership before Aradel was listed on the Nigerian stock exchange last year.

Aradel is an oil and gas company based in Lagos, & they have a modular refinery that processes 11,000 barrels of crude oil daily in Rivers State.

The company also has an OML license known as an oil well in the local parlance.

They have 4 OML licenses, which means they have 4 oil wells, and so, Aradel’s oil well feeds their refinery with crude oil, and the rest of the crude oil they drill, they evacuate and sell abroad.

The company is also big on gas.

The group’s gas production also hit 6,237 barrels of oil equivalent per day, marking a 93 percent year-on-year growth from the 3,220 recorded in Q1 2023.
Over the years, Aradel has done well & has been a profitable business.

For example, Aradel’s refinery contributed about N50.2 bn to the company’s revenue in Q1 2023, marking about 50% of the total revenue.

Fola is not the founder of Aradel; it was founded by Ladi Jadesimi & his friends.

Fola just saw an opportunity in the company and took a position by investing in the company many years ago, long before the company became this successful.

That was why he cashed out N11bn as many of us were still in the mood of the new year.

Fola generation with their examples is showing my generation how real wealth is built and sustained.

It is not by shouting money na water on social media or going to a juju man's house for Okeite.

Building wealth starts from understanding and learning personal finance & then leveraging that knowledge to grow & build sustainable wealth.

It is a slow & steady journey, not an overnight sensation, & comes with a lot of sacrifice....

By Iwuchukwu

"Chronicles of Great Nigerians" celebrates the lives, achievements, and legacies of remarkable Nigerians who inspire us to dream, strive, and achieve greatness.

29/11/2024

Section 34, Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999

"Every individual is entitled to respect for the dignity of their person, and accordingly no person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment; no person shall be held in slavery or servitude; and no person shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labor."

Know your rights.
Protect your rights.
Exercise your rights.






Why Africa Still Suffers Underdevelopment. Who Cares if They Don't Care? As pictured, a violinist played for 45 minutes ...
30/10/2024

Why Africa Still Suffers Underdevelopment. Who Cares if They Don't Care?

As pictured, a violinist played for 45 minutes in the New York subway.

A handful of people stopped, a couple clapped, and the violinist raised about $30 in tips.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world.

In that subway, Joshua played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

However, two days before he played in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out a Boston theater, and the seats averaged about $100.

This experiment by the Washington Post proved that the extraordinary in an ordinary environment does not shine and is so often overlooked and undervalued.

Creating the Right Environment
Just like anything you may think of, an extraordinary environment is created, not wished for.

There are brilliantly talented people around and within us who aren't receiving the recognition and reward they deserve.

Most of them simply remove themselves from an environment that isn't serving them and then they thrive and grow. That is why most people run to other countries or change locations. It is allowed.

We must understand that talent is precious but if you do not value and nurture it, then someone else will. An environment of greed, pride and abuse will never allow talent to flourish.

We must create a culture of support and recognition where everyone strives to give their all for collective success and self actualization.

Value your people. Support and reward them adequately for their differences and creativity. That is how to create the right environment for everyone to give their all.

True-Reality: Nigeria @ 64The reality is Nigeria (and majority of African countries) are faced with high levels of huge ...
01/10/2024

True-Reality: Nigeria @ 64

The reality is Nigeria (and majority of African countries) are faced with high levels of huge youth unemployment, alarming corruption, worsening poverty, insecurity, alarming corruption and gross inequality.

The truth is that all these are powered by mental depravity (ignorance, greed and pride) of the people and leaders inclusive where majority of people are suffering in the midst of abundance of resources.
That is why we need systemic change or way of life through a collective synergy.

A leader cannot change or transform a country with the people being mentally transformed through a collective mental renovation strategy and actions. It may start informally but needs to be formalized by transformative and disruptive leaders who are given to wise counsels and advises even from amongst the people.

Consequently, here are my strategic counsel and recommendations for Nigeria and other African countries:

1. Mental renovation: the adoption of a proven principle and system for mental renovation and brevity against ignorance, greed and pride towards a more collective growth even within the nuclear or extended family.

2. Unbalance growth economic growth model: prioritizing massive investment in a sector with both forward and backward linkages.

3. National patriotic service synergy and entrepreneurship: this will encourage and establish leadership excellence and personal development to support transformative and disruptive policies.
Some of which are reducing official work hours to 5hours a day for everyone in the private or public sector etc.

These are some of the fundamental solutions exposed in the Transformative and Disruptive Leadership (TDL) Model. It is about the people and the country which we call home.

Independence does not stop interdependence and partnership.

Happy 64th Independence to Nigeria and all patriotic Nigerians dead or alive.
Ijigban Daniel Oketa









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