Chxta

Onye kwe, Chi ya ekwe

[Chxta @Chxta]

When the foundation is faulty, the best, and sometimes the only logical, course of action is to bring the entire house down and rebuild anew.

[Chxta @Chxta]

24 Nigerian states have approved state policing; funding, capture and command remain unresolved.

https://t.co/5vQ2DjD3rM

[Chxta @Chxta]

State police has happened. #Nigeria has changed in front of our eyes.

[Chxta @Chxta]

Just dredging up a memory...

[Chxta @Chxta]

Watching the movement of state policing in Nigeria, and I'm amazed by how quickly our political elite can move when they have elite consensus on something.

There are lessons here...

[Morning Report @ngmorningreport]

Delta assembly backs state police amendment https://t.co/EDXcULAvtf

[Chxta @Chxta]

On this anniversary of #LekkiMassacre, and following @RtHonSheriff's statement a fortnight ago, this analysis sets out why acknowledgement is the minimum rather than the standard, and makes the business case that impunity is not only a moral cost, but also an economic one.

[SBM Intelligence @sbmintelligence]

Chart of the week: #Nigeria's unending cycle 🇳🇬🦹‍♂️🔫

Read more: https://t.co/H09vhc0KnM

[Chxta @Chxta]

Christian nationalism weaponises faith to exclude strangers, and Africans who embrace it are enabling their own eventual exclusion.

https://t.co/6G42awUCbl

[Financial Nigeria @FinancialNG]

Cheta Nwanze @Chxta examines the tension arising from the growing Chinese incursion into Nigeria's retail sector, highlighting the severe vulnerability of a distribution-based economy when forced to compete with a state-backed industrial superpower.

https://t.co/ZSCnm3VMGl

[Chxta @Chxta]

My man @FailedRift has finally stopped searching for rock formations, and has instead found his missing rib...

[Chxta @Chxta]

I was not available, so @nd_onuoha took the opportunity to turn #TheBlackPaper into the Labour files... 🙄 https://t.co/VdCGkNj1IB

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

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[Chxta @Chxta]

About time...

[Morning Report @ngmorningreport]

FG to acknowledge 1967 Asaba Massacre https://t.co/iob304wOFH

[Chxta @Chxta]

59 years on from the Asaba Massacre.

God rest the dead.

[Chxta @Chxta]

What a tribute!
What a character!!

God rest the dead.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Son of a fraud and bigamist who fled to the USA, Jeffrey Archer joined Oxford for a one year diploma and stayed around for three years, running the 100ms for both his university and Great Britain.
Became a Conservative MP when 29, lost all his money five years later on a fraudulent investment scheme and started writing as a way to make money.
And then wrote some of the best page turners ever, starting with Not A Penny, Not a Penny Less followed by Kane and Abel and First Among Equals.
He also went to jail for perjury, once got caught trying to pay a prostitute, and was accused of financing a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
And still went on to become the Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare for his work with a Kurdish charity
His own life could easily rival any of his most interesting works!
RIP Jeffrey Archer, also a test cricket nut who once described himself as the Sachin Tendulkar of England!

[Yemi Web Master @ScarTissue101]

Some people hate Obasanjo till tomorrow because his sale of NITEL and Nigeria Airways put an end to their parents chopping life without doing any work.

[Chxta @Chxta]

This is one of the reasons why, after my crisis of faith, when I returned to Christianity, it was back to the Catholic Church.

Between 2004 and 2012, I tried a few other denominations, other religions, and atheism.

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

You know, it’s funny when people hear that Pope Leo XIV has a math degree, taught physics, and wrote a thesis on monastic leadership, they act like it's some wild plot twist. The Catholic Church has always been low-key obsessed with education. I mean, did you know nearly every pope since the Renaissance has had a PhD? Benedict XVI had five. Cardinals today basically need doctorate-level expertise to even get a seat at the table. Leo XIV isn't an outlier; he's following a 2,000-year-old playbook where faith and reason are BFFs. This is the same institution that gave us the Big Bang theory (thanks to a Jesuit priest, Georges Lemaître) and the guy who invented genetics (shoutout to Gregor Mendel, the pea-plant-obsessed Augustinian friar). Yet somehow, we still think of the Church as just incense and hymns.

The Church's duality; defending doctrinal tradition while pioneering intellectual frontiers, is its defining paradox. Consider the Vatican's astronomical observatory, which has operated since 1582, or the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which has included members like Hawking and Einstein.

Let's break it down. Those monks and nuns you picture copying manuscripts in candlelit monasteries? They weren't just praying, they were preserving ancient Greek philosophy, advancing math, and basically saving Western civilisation during the Dark Ages. Fast-forward to today, and the Vatican still runs its own space telescope (yes, really, Jesuit brothers track asteroids). The Chúrch condemned Galileo, sure, but now it funds ethical stem-cell research and partners with IBM on AI ethics. It's like the ultimate comeback story: "Oops, we messed up on heliocentrism; here's a think tank on quantum physics."

And let's talk about those religious orders. Jesuits? They basically invented the modern university system. The Jesuits founded in 1540, by a chap called Ignatius Loyala, (half monk, half soldier) ran over 800 universities globally. Franciscans gave us Occam's Razor; you know, that "simplest explanation is best" rule you learned in science class? That came from a 14th-century friar who loved logic more than the Pope loved his fancy hat. The Dominicans had Thomas Aquinas, who merged Aristotle's philosophy with theology. Augustinians, Leo XIV's crew, were all about community and critical thinking, traits he took to Peru, where he spent 20 years teaching in slums while quietly holding dual citizenship. The guy's got more layers than a medieval manuscript.

But here's the upper-cut: the Church thrives on this weird paradox. It's conservative enough to make your grandma nod approvingly ("No women priests? Classic.") but progressive enough to have a Pope who trash-talks eco deniers and slams border politics. Leo XIV fits right in; he's a Republican primary voter who also called Trump's family separations "illicit," a social media critic who warns bishops not to be divisive online. It's like the Church says, "We'll debate evolution with Darwinians by day and chant Latin psalms by night and we'll look good doing both."

So next time someone acts shocked that a pope knows quantum physics or tweets about refugees, just smile. The Catholic Church has been playing 4D chess with knowledge for centuries. It's not a relic; it's a living library, where friars argue about black holes over breakfast and nuns run coding bootcamps. Leo XIV? He's just the latest chapter in a story where faith doesn't fear science…It fuels it.

[Chxta @Chxta]

I think Brenda's Got A Baby is far and away 2Pac's best song—peak social commentary.

https://t.co/wSL9UPiDew

[Chxta @Chxta]

This one is dedicated to @makispoke. Her tweet some hours ago about timeless music from @Madonna is spot on. The Material Girl will never die... https://t.co/3sHau9mUso

[Chxta @Chxta]

@je_mc2 ...and now it's Dolly Parton.

I always wondered who Jolene was. https://t.co/AHtUVuusqK

RIP.

[The Black Paper @blackpaperpod]

On the latest episode of The Black Paper, @chxta
argues that our community seems to prefer the spectacle of online trials to the substance of legal redress.

Using NIUK as an example, we ask what happens when community disputes become mob justice.

🎧: https://t.co/VPFjqgpZ53

[Chxta @Chxta]

Necessary disclaimer on Lagos roads.

[Chxta @Chxta]

#Nigeria's broken transport links, from delayed flights to gridlocked roads, are silently taxing the economy it claims to be growing. https://t.co/frpcnpXn42