Jerry Bagz

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[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Every Nigerian needs to pay very close attention to this official press release by the Finance Minister of Nigeria, Taiwo Oyedele. This serves as the direct response by the Federal Government to the International Monetary Fund 2026 Article IV Concluding Statement on Nigeria.

The recent IMF statement on Nigeria is overflowing with glowing praises for the Tinubu Administration and their supposedly brilliant economic policies.
The IMF is loudly cheering for the reunification of the foreign exchange market because the gap between the official and black market exchange rates has remained below 5%, which is absolutely fantastic for foreign investors since they love predictability, guaranteed margins, and zero currency friction. They also excitedly applaud the fact that Nigeria's foreign reserves have built back up, supposedly providing a comfortable cushion against global economic shocks. Finally, the IMF highly commended the Tinubu government's decisions to eliminate deficit monetization (which stopped the CBN from printing money to fund government projects) and to permanently remove petrol subsidies.

Now, the Tinubu Administration, speaking through the office of the Finance Minister, is proudly parading this IMF report like a shiny gold medal. They are framing this praise as an "independent validation" that their brutally painful economic policies over the past few years are finally yielding positive macroeconomic results. The glaring problem here is that this is not something Nigeria as a sovereign country should be celebrating, and this is entirely because of who the IMF actually works for and who dictates their underlying policies. The G7 nations and Western superpowers entirely control the IMF board, and the institution itself exists strictly to protect the financial interests of international creditor nations, massive global investment banks, ruthless hedge funds, and wealthy foreign bondholders. The primary job of the IMF is merely to ensure that the global financial system remains perfectly stable and that struggling developing nations never default on their massive, crippling debts to foreign creditors. Therefore, the IMF works exclusively for the lenders (the global financial-industrial complex), absolutely not for the bleeding borrowers like Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, or any other struggling African nation.

To see how bad this is, just observe this currency unification being praised by the IMF as a massive win for the Tinubu Administration. They are celebrating simply because the exchange rate is now mathematically stable and investors are finally happy. This is spectacularly good for foreign speculators, but it is deeply catastrophic for us because the currency stabilized at a spectacularly weaker level of N1,400 per dollar, compared to N770 in the black market and N450 in the official rate before this administration took over.
So yes, the currency is technically unified, but at a permanently crippled level. Since Nigeria is a heavily import-dependent economy, this unified weakness has made the cost of food, life-saving medicines, basic hospital bills, school fees, transportation, building materials, imported spare parts, and daily survival astronomical, thereby permanently destroying the purchasing power of everyday Nigerians.

Furthermore, the IMF congratulating the Tinubu Administration on increasing the country's foreign reserves might sound like brilliant news, until you suddenly realize that it is this exact, deliberate policy that violently crippled our local industries. Most of the money that makes up these bloated new foreign reserves was forcefully squeezed out of the removal of petrol subsidies, a move that has deeply suffocated our local businesses, artisans, manufacturers, and logistics companies who rely entirely on petrol generators to survive. But this is not even the full tragic story. Even the bloody change they violently squeezed out of the dying Nigerian middle class was not enough to impress these foreign investors. To aggressively entice them, the Tinubu Administration spiked the base interest rate from 18% up to a staggering 27%. This was no mistake. In the US, for example, when you lend money to the government by buying Treasury Bills, federal bonds, municipal securities, or index funds, the interest you expect to make per year is at most 5%. But the Nigerian government is desperately signaling to these foreign speculators and international bondholders to come drop their dollars in Nigeria, effectively guaranteeing them a massive 27% interest by the end of the year. This might look like a huge economic win as foreign capital flows into the country, but this hot money never ends up in the pockets of ordinary Nigerians. It is never used to build schools, pay hospital bills, subsidize agriculture, fix dead refineries, or reduce house rents. The money just sits idly in the central bank to impress the IMF and World Bank creditors, proving to them that Nigeria is highly liquid and perfectly safe to lend to.

The absolute worst part of this trap is that it is not just the CBN increasing the base interest rates. The commercial banks are naturally forced to aggressively increase their lending rates even higher. Today, some predatory commercial banks are charging desperate businesses as much as 35% to 40% interest on loans. This financial terrorism has forced countless local businesses to drastically cut down production, lay off massive numbers of staff, and permanently close their branches in remote areas across Nigeria, forcing them to operate strictly within the suffocating limits of their own personal, depleted capital. It is practically mathematically impossible to borrow from a Nigerian bank, scale up production, create actual wealth, and employ the millions of struggling graduates in our society when you first have to pay 40% to the bank. Add that to the reunified currency making imports insanely expensive, meaning businesses still have to pay extra for imported raw materials, clear goods at exorbitant customs duties, pay multiple state taxes, and buy the hyper-expensive fuel that spiked in price due to the celebrated subsidy removal.

It is very possible to analyze this insulting press release further, but there is absolutely no need to waste the time. Clearly, this administration should not be celebrating warm handshakes, pat-on-the-back press releases, and polite diplomatic smiles from foreign creditors and international bondholders. They should be focusing entirely on the bleeding Nigerians who are brutally forced to carry the crushing, suffocating burden of these massive economic miscalculations just to please a comfortable, wealthy board of directors at the World Bank and the IMF.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

AN EDITING ERROR exposed a secret: the UK Daily Telegraph is being edited by a robot.

This was surmised after the news outlet published an article about China with an odd, puzzling paragraph in the middle.

In the middle of the piece about Xi and Trump, it said:

“To further divide the piece and maintain that authoritative, broadsheet pace, here are two additional subheads. These focus on the geopolitical consequences and the final ‘optics’ of the trip:
The regional fallout of a rhetorical shift.”

What did this mean?

Journalists at UK Press Gazette eventually concluded that this was a comment on the original text added to it by an AI-powered robot sub-editor, overseeing the work of human writers.

Instead of noting the robot’s comment and deleting it, someone (a human? another robot?) added it to the main text of the report, and it was published as part of the story.

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HORRIFIED
This indication of the use of AI at that level horrified many journalists, including the writer of this post.

Professional reporters of our generation generally hate AI and refuse to engage with it, preferring to use human researchers and editors.

To promote AI to a senior editorial role is the death of credibility.

Oh, wait, this was the Daily Telegraph. Credibility long dead!

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The real issue is that the "500 job openings" at Moniepoint do not exist. It's a popular corporate scam where you constantly recruit without actually hiring anyone, because showing a large number of job vacancies while advertising your aggressive recruitment campaign is a growth metric you display to investors. It shows that the company is "growing fast" which means they should invest more money.

"We can't fill 500 job openings" in an absurdly deep job market like Nigeria is just a fintech bro performing for USD to locate him from whichever venture capital or private equity investor he's targeting. It's the same thing as when an NGO lawyer jumps on every trending human rights case without really achieving anything - it's a performance for the oyibo with USD to reward them.

Motion without movement. Fake activity scam.

[Crystal @crystalsmoment]

When life was good and perfect and our parents did the heavy lifting

We had them👇🏾

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

“The sacrament of Baptism makes us sons and daughters of the Father in Christ Jesus. Confimation makes us witnesses and transmitters of this new life within us to witness to Christ and bring truth to our neighbour. This will involve a personal and public struggle between the mystery of salvation and the mystery of iniquity—a spiritual combat against the forces of evil. Like soldiers, we enter into the combat of Christ and with Christ, assisted by the grace of the sacrament of Confirmation…” ✝️

[Joey @gothamhiphop]

J. Cole on Quick Stop:

“This continuous race / to be the best / will leave you stepping at a strenuous pace / Till you forget who you is / And you forget who you ain’t / Before you know it you trapped / inside that picture you paint”

[Wode Maya ® @wode_maya]

Tonight YouTube video is about Africa’s Most Isolated Country!
*No internet On Your Sim Card
*No ATM machines
*can’t leave the country without approval from government
*can’t travel from one city to another without permit
*No Independent Press
*One President since the country gained its independence
*No National Election
*Visa is almost impossible to acquire in Africa
*Mandatory and indefinite 18 months internship
*Health Care Is Free
*Education is Free
*Safest Country In Africa
*The longest war for Independence with Ethiopia
*You can’t fly from Ethiopia to Eritrea even though they share a border
See You at 4pm gmt

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: So mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples may be gathered under the banner of the Prince of Peace, as children of one God; to whom be dominion and glory, now and for ever. Amen.

- John Henry Newman

[gfts.art 💚 @akalegift]

one year hotter ♓️

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

A famous American General once said, The only things worth counting on are people you can count on…so never waste a minute worrying about people who don’t like you or aren’t helping you make a difference in your life. Instead focus on people who will help you make a difference.

I say this because something is happening in our country, and most of us don’t fully understand it.

The world feels upside down. Every day brings more confusion, more lies, more fear. We’re told who to trust, who to doubt, and who to ignore, but how are we supposed to know who is telling the truth?

The institutions we were taught to rely on—our government, the media, the courts, even big corporations—feel broken. Allies turn into enemies overnight. Yesterday’s heroes are today’s villains. Stability feels like it’s slipping through our fingers. So many are left scared, frustrated, and searching for answers that don’t come.

We want brutal honesty. We want safety. We want a future for our families. Instead, we get manipulation, deception, and chaos. Too many of the wrong people have been protected for far too long. To change this, we must educate ourselves, ask tough questions, and demand transparency from those in power.

We are at a turning point in America, not red versus blue, but truth versus lies, the people versus the system, freedom versus control.

If justice comes, if corruption is truly exposed, it won’t just change politics; it could shake the foundations of our country and the world!

We feel the weight of history pressing down, and deep down, we know this isn’t normal. What we need now is collective courage, honesty, and moral clarity. Most of all, we need to stop pretending everything is fine because it isn’t.

A society that abandons truth abandons everything.

As Thomas Paine once said, “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

Stick to those people you can count on. Take control of what you can control. Get involved and speak up. One life to live, make it matter.

[The Inner Circle Trader @I_Am_The_ICT]

Sooner or later, you are going to come to your senses and see that I was telling you the truth, all along.

Everything is rigged. They give you the illusion of choice. The fallacy of voting. The myth of free markets. Healthcare that actually is sickcare... keeping you ill, paying for life with illness, versus real healing.

They want you to hate your neighbor. They want you so angry with this broken system that you take matters into your own hands.

Then the trap is closed... the real lock down. Don't fall for it. Love your neighbor.

You can't say what you want for fear of consequence from your governments. They force you to endure mass migration of people who don't wish to live civilized but would rape and trample over your culture, beliefs and sanctity and peace; while leaching off the taxpayer's back.

They engineer wars to thin the herd and profit on the blood and lives of your children... and you think your gimmicks overlaid on charts has any sway over price movement or predicts it.

You sipped their tea for far too long. Sober up.

The real stuff is about to commence... ready or not.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Best critique I’ve seen so far tbh

[Jerry Bagz @BagzJerry]

https://t.co/vwwdKwWeha

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Their decision to walk off destabilised the Moroccans, stunned the home fans, and changed the entire dynamic of the game.

Without that display, Diaz wouldn't have missed his penalty and they wouldn't have been galvanised to score that winner.

But as usual, expecting a Nigerian to understand the positive outcome of resistance is like explaining rocket physics to a potato. People whose "independence" came from "I hereby sponsor this motion" and "All in favour say Aye!" What would you know about fighting for anything?

Your national culture is to dutifully bend over, get shafted, and then leave it for God. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

[Stanleygray @Iam_stanleygray]

help me get this monthly listeners to 1k guys, and I'll drop the album art and release date for clouds EP 🙏💪

#Clouds #cloudsEP #TheFallOff #NewMusic

[ARISE NEWS @ARISEtv]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who recently lost her 21-month-old son, has released a statement detailing the circumstances surrounding his death.

ARISE News reached out to Adichie’s media team, who confirmed that she did author the statement. According to her representatives, the message was originally sent privately to family members and a few close friends.

"My son would be alive today if not for an incident at Euracare Hospital on January 6th.

We were in Lagos for Christmas. Nkanu had what we first thought was just a cold, but soon turned into a very serious infection and he was admitted to Atlantis hospital.

He was to travel to the US the next day, January 7th, accompanied by Travelling Doctors. A team at Johns Hopkins was waiting to receive him in Baltimore. The Hopkins team had asked for a lumbar puncture test and an MRI. The Nigerian team had also decided to put in a 'central line' (used to administer iv medications) in preparation for Nkanu's flight. Atlantis hospital referred us to Euracare Hospital, which was said to be the best place to have the procedures done.

The morning of the 6th, we left Atlantis hospital for Euracare, Nkanu carried in his father's arms. We were told he would need to be sedated to prevent him from moving during the MRI and the 'central line' procedure.

I was waiting just outside the theater. I saw people, including Dr M, rushing into the theater and immediately knew something had happened.

A short time later, Dr M came out and told me Nkanu had been given too much propofol by the anesthesiologist, had become unresponsive and was quickly resuscitated. But suddenly Nkanu was on a ventilator, he was intubated and placed in the ICU. The next thing I heard was that he had seizures. Cardiac arrest. All these had never happened before. Some hours later, Nkanu was gone

It turns out that Nkanu was NEVER monitored after being given too much propofol. The anesthesiologist had just casually carried Nkanu on his shoulder to the theater, so nobody knows when exactly Nkanu became unresponsive.

How can you sedate a sick child and neglect to monitor him? Later, after the 'central line' procedure, the anesthesiologist casually switched off Nkanu's oxygen and again decided to carry him on his shoulder to the ICU!

The anesthesiologist was CRIMINALLY negligent. He was fatally casual and careless with the precious life of a child. No proper protocol was followed.

We brought in a child who was unwell but stable and scheduled to travel the next day. We came to conduct basic procedures. And suddenly, our beautiful little boy was gone forever. It is like living your worst nightmare. I will never survive the loss of my child.

We have now heard about two previous cases of this same anesthesiologist overdosing children. Why did Euracare allow him to keep working? This must never happen to another child".

[IP @Paetaeru]

This is class this is pride this is passion.
#AFCON2025 #ALGNGA 🦅⚽️

[IP @Paetaeru]

We live for matches like this one ⚽️⚽️

[Jerry Bagz @BagzJerry]

welcome to 2026

[Will Durant @Benparrotfrank]

One important historical footnote worth adding here.

Several years before Columbus, an African king attempted the same thing — and arguably with far greater risk.

His name was Abu Bakr II, also known as Mansa Abu Bakr, ruler of the Mali Empire in the early 14th century.

According to the Arab historian al-Umari, who recorded conversations with Mansa Musa (the famous Malian emperor who later ruled Mali), Abu Bakr became obsessed with what lay beyond the Atlantic Ocean. He did not act on impulse. He first sent an exploratory expedition of hundreds of ships westward. Only one vessel returned. Its captain reported that the fleet was caught in a powerful ocean current and swallowed by the sea.

Abu Bakr was not deterred.

He organized a second, much larger expedition, reportedly involving thousands of ships, stocked with food, water, and gold. And then he did something extraordinary: he abdicated the throne, handed power to Mansa Musa, and personally led the expedition himself.

He never returned.

There is no solid archaeological proof that Abu Bakr reached the Americas, and serious historians should be honest about that. But what is documented is this: an African ruler, decades before Columbus, deliberately planned transoceanic exploration, tested it, learned from failure, and then committed himself fully, even at the cost of power and life.

[Jerry Bagz @BagzJerry]

Merry Christmas