EP 02 | Weekly Space: Beyond the Headlines: Understanding the Systems that Shape Nigeria's Future

This is the Last Giddy Farmer podcast.

We want to discuss beyond headlines, you know.

We want to discuss the systems that shape Nigeria's future because we are seeing a lot of development within the nation.

Many people are not happy with it.

Some are happy saying they understand the reforms that are taking place.

And, you know, the people on the unhappy end are saying if we are having economic transformation that doesn't have impact on the lives of the people, basically talking about the uh human development in this then is nothing so these sort of uh contradictions and questions they are very important especially when we have a forthcoming election especially the presidential election that is to take place next year saturday 16 january 2027 so it's important to you know work minds together as a people assessing our role in democracy in the development of the nation without just looking at what the leadership can do for the nation, but also what we as a people can do for the nation as well, right? So this particular conversation is such balance that we have analysts in the house they have um well-versed in their field and for many of them you know across multiple domains so i will just be introducing them and giving um you know brave minutes for them to introduce themselves properly because i will be more than they will be able to do so so we have um mr sulayman in the house And we have Olanda for Niyonu.

And my co-host as well, you know, will be moderating the events together, asking the questions and, you know, also placing questions to the audience or encouraging the audience to participate, you know, make their contribution and ask their question, render their opinions as well.

So I'll leave the floor to Mr. Sulayman.

I think he has, he's a speaker now.

Mr. Ladakwa is going to join us and I just had a conversation with our thought speaker.

Jubri is on the way, so he will be joining us soon.

Thank you.

You can go.

You can have the phone now.

Good evening, everyone.

It's my pleasure.

It's my pleasure to be here.

As the host has rightly stated, my name is Onlariwaju Suleiman Lawan.

I'm a legal practitioner and I also double as an independent legal consultant.

So I'm trained both in Nigeria and in the UK.

And I specialize as a partner in AmicoJuris, legal practitioner in Nigeria and also practice across England and Wales, which I specialize in Wales estate planning, bioethics, reproductive health law employment and related fields so i am happy to be here to engage with uh everyone present here and thank you for having me

yeah welcome such a rich profile and uh Mr.

Gringo, have you got anything to add to the conversation of the day?

No, not yet.

I just appreciate his presence here because from his CV, let me use that already, it's very obvious that the conversation to deal with is very rich.

So I can't wait for us to get into it.

I can't wait to get into it as well.

Mr. Dapwa, could you introduce yourself, please? Thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

My name

is Olada Kwo, a legal practitioner and also a public affairs analyst.

I hope we'll be able to exchange ideas tonight on the state of our nation, the past and what the future holds, especially in light of the coming elections.

So I look forward to engaging, sharing my thoughts and also learning

from other speakers and also from potential questions that would be asked all right thank you so much for that just to remind everyone that

this particular conversation

has been recorded out will be repurposed for publishing on our spotify you know where we usually publish our weekly space you know for broader listenership so we do that every week so i'm going to begin with the first question of the day wanted to understand from your perspective what you see about the performance of this current administration.