Chinemerem

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

I am wanna use this opportunity to thank @timmieexx and @winexviv and the plenty of others who understood our plight and stood by us (the students) and who made sure our sleepless nights didn’t go to waste.
Thank you very much for being there for us 🙏

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

A lot of fraudulent lecturers are now being picked up by security operatives at Abia State University.

The system cleansing is intensifying by the state government.

Students who participate in such fraud will be expelled as well.

Once integrity is restored in our universities, the quality of our graduates will significantly improve.

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

@winexviv Gbam 😌❤️

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

@FabianB58246501 Hmm una don come again Abi

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

If you want to lock in and you have to announce first, then you're not ready.

Lockins are brutal, punchy, invasive and done in stealth.

You make the decision in a snap, cut everyone out, disappear and come back 10X better.

The correct way to lock in is to STFU & do it. 🤫

[IGBO History & Facts @IgboHistoFacts]

‘Ikpe mara nwoke bụ ego’ — translate this Igbo proverb into English.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The people whose country is led by this man are busy being heroes of democratic struggle for Tanzania...

[Ayilola of Nigeria /Laptop Guy 🩺 🇳🇬 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @silverpenydr]

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[Ayilola of Nigeria /Laptop Guy 🩺 🇳🇬 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @silverpenydr]

You can click directly on this link if you are having trouble opening the other link .

https://t.co/PgRw2CzWxC

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

@winexviv I love this

Would love this to be brought to port harcourt 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The key identifier of an "elite" class is not merely their bank account balance but their ability and willingness to use their economic and political heft to shape the society around them.

That's why a hereditary landowner and member of the UK House of Lords is considered an elite, while your average Premier League footballer (who may have more money than the HoL member) is not. The difference is in the willingness and ability to wield that power meaningfully.

The reason I keep on saying 'Nigeria has no elites' is that I was born and raised among the subset of Nigerians who erroneously consider themselves to be elite, and I am very familiar with their thought process. It is the exact same thought process that you would get from a sugarcane seller in Mile 12 market if overnight he was given a house in Maitama, a Lexus SUV, a beautiful yarinya and N150m in the bank.

The nouveau-riche sugarcane seller would not be concerned with higher thoughts like how to use his newfound fortune to transform the economic reality of Mile 12 market while positioning to benefit from the transformation. Nope. He would only be concerned with ensuring that he keeps hold of what he has, so that he never has to sleep in a wheelbarrow on a side street off Ikosi Road again.

That's exactly what the privileged Nigerian is upstairs - a sugarcane seller who happens to live in Ikoyi. No matter how many decades they have spent in Ikoyi, their reality is still defined by the desperate quest to escape or avoid poverty. Every Nigerian millionaire or billionaire that you know feels financially insecure. Doesn't matter whether they are worth $1m or $25bn - they are all viscerally terrified of sinking into poverty, and the sum of their decision making is a series of short term deals and compromises to avoid poverty, without any kind of higher, long-term guiding principle.

I know this especially well because I was raised in a house where everybody who is somebody in Lagos stopped by once in a while to work on a real estate deal with my old man, and I would regularly overhear everybody from bank CEOs to retired military generals and air vice marshalls saying things "Our leaders are [insert whiny complaint]." And I would wonder - who are the "leaders" that these extremely privileged people sound so oppressed and intimidated by? Is it not their friends and coursemates from Jaji?

Later on it made sense when I realised that once you are in power in Nigeria, you become God, and even your family changes its rules for you. I've seen families override their olori-ebi because one 50 year-old uncle became somebody in Abuja. Conversely, as soon as you leave power in Nigeria, you sink into total irrelevance and people treat you like your body has a smell. The entire Nigerian sense of value and self-worth is welded to money and power. Once you don't have these 2 things, you might as well be wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak - even your family and contemporaries stop treating you with respect.

The effect this has on elite formation is that unlike in other societies where elites gravitate toward different ideas shared by different camps, and then fight for the right to imprint those ideas on their society (Democrat vs Republican; Maoist vs Dengist; Tory vs Labour etc), privileged Nigerians ONLY gravitate toward one thing - economic power. They have no elite sense of identity outside of money in the bank, a 4-wheeled status signaller on the road, and an overpriced house in a neighbourhood that has a constant bad odour and potholes.

That is also why Nigeria's political actors do this thing called "decamping" where they switch affiliation to whatever political party is in power. Their entire conception of the world is built around access to the levers of economic power so that they can avoid ending up in a wheelbarrow in Mile 12 market.

That's literally all there is to Nigeria.

200 million sugarcane sellers.

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

@winexviv Please do sir

Would be waiting patiently for your updates concerning this 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I was the Keynote Speaker at NDDC Test Festival in PortHarcourt.

That region will prosper if the new generation shift focus from oil mindset to tech mindset.

I hope I can help the region more to reach its full potential.

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

@maverickhills @winexviv Sir is it bad if it’s in ozuitem ?

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Look at the beautiful library designed to be built at Ozuitem Secondary School, Abia.

We have been having sleepless nights thinking of how to make this place better with zero government support.

They have used N7 billion to renovate 20 shabby smart schools.

It breaks my heart!

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

@Jeff__Jahseh @Daddy_Tweens @UnkleAyo Congrats 🎉🍾

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

@timmieexx 😅😅

[Bako_Franshencia BSc. MIR. MA.🌲 @Johnbako]

@winexviv "This generation of Nigerian students are very brilliant even with all the distractions available."
ME: This has been my position since this whole thing started. These children are exceptional 👍 The kids are bright, brilliant, and smart. Let's give them their 💐

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

@timmieexx Congrats to him 🎉🎉

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

@timmieexx Thank you so much ma’am

I remain so grateful ❤️

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

@step32125 @timmieexx @winexviv God no shame us 🎉🎉😭

[Chinemerem @Celina_Chineme]

Once again I want to really appreciate @timmieexx , @winexviv and my friend @step32125 who believed in my ability and supported us all the jambites and fought hard to see that we succeeded