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[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

This life, real life!

Presave!!! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏼👇🏼👇🏻

https://t.co/ES7sjJVaG1

[superstar DZ @superstar_DZ]

Only people who grew up watching THIS LIFE and SUPER STORY will understand the storyline in this video

THIS LIFE DROPS ON FRIDAY #newmusicfriday #september #newmonth

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

So they took away our sd cards, our memory sticks, and then started charging us for memory to store our data. Then they started taking away our vhs and our dvds and they started charging us to stream movies. Then they took away our little headphone jack and then started charging us all kinds of amounts for apple products to make up for not having that headphone jack. Then they started taking away farmers rights to have seeds so they can't grow certain fruits and vegetables anymore but then they start selling us seedless fruits. The list goes on, you guys tell me what what did we used to have that they have taken away?

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Two problems I see here. They never formalized relationships in the industry, especially between creatives and ownership or distribution. Acting was treated as a commodity for sale rather than creative work and intellectual property.

The depth of the Nigerian legal system and profession is also an issue. My late friend Sym Otike-Odibi was one of the earliest Nigerian IP lawyers I knew, and he was one of the few trying to put a framework in place. Maybe @fozadoza is doing something here now as well.

There was also no proper Agency framework like what CAA built for Hollywood. I would think that instead of complaining, she should fix it by helping to create a system.

I don't remember if it was @GodwinTom talking about how he raised writers too. CAA got everyone in the industry, especially writers, to be recognized and paid from the proceeds of their work, almost in perpetuity.

There are many problems in the Nigerian creative space, and the reason we will keep having poor, mass-produced content is this lack of foundational structure. I see the same issue in tech too. Many recruiters act like traders who buy and sell commodities in the market, but few are proper talent agencies.

I should write an article on this.

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

One dj just de tear tear my head anyhow mhen..

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Love this.

[HOUSE OF ERRORS @house_of_errors]

There is no paint, just 1.7 million stitches

[HOUSE OF ERRORS @house_of_errors]

There is no paint, just 1.7 million stitches

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

There's this hymn type song we used to sing in Pri. school sung in some of our Friday 'social entertainment' & often during assembly.

I only remember bits of it's lyrics but can 100% remember the melody, yet it seems no one else remembers however hard I try to describe it.

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Interesting.

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

“We have a candidate who is contesting for president, Seyi Makinde. Is he qualified to be president? Yes, he is qualified. What we are doing today is to show you that, for us, it’s not about desperation. We want the people of Nigeria to make their choice.”

— NDC Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, speaking at the inauguration of the presidential campaign of APM candidate Seyi Makinde in Abuja.

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

@Shabalistica1 Type shii

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Monday morning,

Suya + cucumber on the table,
Irish Rossi in a glass cup, cigs on the table.

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Sunday evening,

Glass in hand; it's Henny x pure heaven.
Some trees,
There's egusin and chicken in the room.
Niggas are recording.
Bouncer work later this evening, don't know what to expect.

[ᒪᗩIᗰᗴ🎡 @Laimeonly]

Yahoo money helped the industry to grow if you like don’t believe, cause nobody else was helping artistes except from scammers that believed in the artistes enough to drop huge money without any paper work, ‘Advance’ messed up the industry cause it made so many people so lazy to the extent that they think they can’t drop now without advance instead of them to remember that this all started from dreaming with the little money we had access to so yes advance messed up the music industry and not yahoo money.

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Two more important transfers then I close all debits for today. 🥲

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

In a balcony, sipping something out of a red plastic cup, smoke & in hand. A dog, dog shit & timberland boots to my left, broken mopsticks, dog food and water to my right. Generators blaring..

Inside the same morning.

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Monday morning,

Suya + cucumber on the table,
Irish Rossi in a glass cup, cigs on the table.

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Fine tuning the art of active listening to very dangerous levels.

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Sunday evening,

Glass in hand; it's Henny x pure heaven.
Some trees,
There's egusin and chicken in the room.
Niggas are recording.
Bouncer work later this evening, don't know what to expect.

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Sunday morning.

Early morning caffeine boost.
Some water.
A water melon.
Some ablutionistoc type prayer situation for the ancesteezies.
Table Tennis & beerish type treezies with the homies gisting life and previewing songs & whupping ass socio therapy type shii.

Sociology 🥂🤝

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Sunday morning.

Early morning caffeine boost.
Some water.
A water melon.
Some ablutionistoc type prayer situation for the ancesteezies.
Table Tennis & beerish type treezies with the homies gisting life and previewing songs & whupping ass socio therapy type shii.

Sociology 🥂🤝

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Sunday morning.

Early morning caffeine boost.
Some water.
A water melon.
Some ablutionistoc type prayer situation for the ancesteezies.
Table Tennis & beerish type treezies with the homies gisting life and previewing songs & whupping ass socio therapy type shii.

Sociology 🥂🤝

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

📍

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

I will elaborate

Every time something arrives in Africa either free or priced way below what it costs elsewhere, ask what’s being extracted in place of money. It’s rarely charity, it’s a different currency.

Facebook’s Free Basics is the cleanest tech example. Launched as “free internet” across more than 30 African countries, it was actually a curated slice of the web with Facebook at the center.

India banned it in 2016 over net neutrality concerns. Researchers in Ghana found the app harvested browsing behavior and phone numbers while offering little locally relevant content (https://t.co/RJpPZuaxmO).

You weren’t getting internet access, you were becoming a data source for a company that sells attention to advertisers.

Healthcare has its own version, and it’s often worse because the stakes are life and death.

In 1996, Pfizer ran a trial of an unapproved antibiotic, Trovan, on children during a meningitis outbreak in Kano, Nigeria, instead of the proven treatment being used next door by Doctors Without Borders.

Eleven children died, others were left blind, paralyzed, or deaf. Pfizer denied wrongdoing but settled with Kano State for 75 million dollars in 2009 (https://t.co/Uk8PK3iaLB).

It’s a textbook case of a population treated as a testing ground because informed consent and price were both cheaper there.

More broadly, the WHO has found that a large share of the world’s reported substandard and falsified medicines end up in Africa, roughly 42 percent of reported cases, driving anti-microbial resistance and an estimated 116,000 extra malaria deaths a year in sub-Saharan Africa alone from fake or weak antimalarials (https://t.co/Wo3pb4IiJX).

The “cheap medicine” isn’t cheap, it’s just failing quietly, in bodies that have less recourse.

Same pattern with the “affordable” smartphones flooding African markets. Brands undercutting global prices by huge margins have been found shipping devices with preinstalled adware and malware baked in before the box is even opened, generating ad revenue from users who never agreed to it and can’t remove it.

Same pattern with pay-as-you-go solar kits like M-KOPA. The hardware looks affordable upfront, but it’s locked with firmware that disables the unit if you miss a payment. You don’t own the panel, you’re renting it indefinitely, and the company holds the kill switch.

Same pattern with digital lending apps like OKash, Branch, and Tala, which offer instant loans with almost no paperwork. The catch is in the permissions, contacts, SMS, sometimes location, harvested and in documented cases used to pressure or shame borrowers into repayment.

Same pattern with secondhand clothing exports. What looks like a cheap deal is often unsellable Western overstock, offloaded in volumes now overwhelming landfills and waterways in places like Ghana’s Kantamanto market.

None of this means every affordable product is a trap. It means the question is always worth asking, if the price doesn’t match the cost of making the thing, something else is covering the gap. Sometimes it’s your data, sometimes it’s your health, sometimes it’s your autonomy. Find out which one before you assume you got a good deal.

Thank you @DavidHundeyin

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

I will elaborate

Every time something arrives in Africa either free or priced way below what it costs elsewhere, ask what’s being extracted in place of money. It’s rarely charity, it’s a different currency.

Facebook’s Free Basics is the cleanest tech example. Launched as “free internet” across more than 30 African countries, it was actually a curated slice of the web with Facebook at the center.

India banned it in 2016 over net neutrality concerns. Researchers in Ghana found the app harvested browsing behavior and phone numbers while offering little locally relevant content (https://t.co/RJpPZuaxmO).

You weren’t getting internet access, you were becoming a data source for a company that sells attention to advertisers.

Healthcare has its own version, and it’s often worse because the stakes are life and death.

In 1996, Pfizer ran a trial of an unapproved antibiotic, Trovan, on children during a meningitis outbreak in Kano, Nigeria, instead of the proven treatment being used next door by Doctors Without Borders.

Eleven children died, others were left blind, paralyzed, or deaf. Pfizer denied wrongdoing but settled with Kano State for 75 million dollars in 2009 (https://t.co/Uk8PK3iaLB).

It’s a textbook case of a population treated as a testing ground because informed consent and price were both cheaper there.

More broadly, the WHO has found that a large share of the world’s reported substandard and falsified medicines end up in Africa, roughly 42 percent of reported cases, driving anti-microbial resistance and an estimated 116,000 extra malaria deaths a year in sub-Saharan Africa alone from fake or weak antimalarials (https://t.co/Wo3pb4IiJX).

The “cheap medicine” isn’t cheap, it’s just failing quietly, in bodies that have less recourse.

Same pattern with the “affordable” smartphones flooding African markets. Brands undercutting global prices by huge margins have been found shipping devices with preinstalled adware and malware baked in before the box is even opened, generating ad revenue from users who never agreed to it and can’t remove it.

Same pattern with pay-as-you-go solar kits like M-KOPA. The hardware looks affordable upfront, but it’s locked with firmware that disables the unit if you miss a payment. You don’t own the panel, you’re renting it indefinitely, and the company holds the kill switch.

Same pattern with digital lending apps like OKash, Branch, and Tala, which offer instant loans with almost no paperwork. The catch is in the permissions, contacts, SMS, sometimes location, harvested and in documented cases used to pressure or shame borrowers into repayment.

Same pattern with secondhand clothing exports. What looks like a cheap deal is often unsellable Western overstock, offloaded in volumes now overwhelming landfills and waterways in places like Ghana’s Kantamanto market.

None of this means every affordable product is a trap. It means the question is always worth asking, if the price doesn’t match the cost of making the thing, something else is covering the gap. Sometimes it’s your data, sometimes it’s your health, sometimes it’s your autonomy. Find out which one before you assume you got a good deal.

Thank you @DavidHundeyin

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

Bro has very good taste in music, elite humor too, the 0-100 is was very far fetched from my initial feel or him. Na when I hear tales I believe.

[Bros Inc (Mr. Tunde) @BROS_dot_INC]

...then talked him into joining a gym & doing a combat sport like boxing.

Make we de see..

[superstar DZ @superstar_DZ]

I de neglect this app too much.