Dabs Lants

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

$1 = ₦1500+

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

we think nationhood is a joke. You think you will just form a nation with people with vast differences?
Why is India having issue and China is largely fine?
Why did German focus on Germanic tribes and let Czechia, Belgium and Netherlands be? Don’t they deserve civilisation too?

[R @Rujo_]

@Oluronbi85 @lobacake Were they homogeneous in 1871?

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

Reality should be allow to flow so people can learn. But all level of media today has become infantilising machine.

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

This is expected now or nah only me see am coming?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Whatever your position is, just take a moment to reflect on just how dark this is.

Just hours after the ICJ concluded that Israel was plausibly committing genocide and ordered it to dramatically step up humanitarian efforts, 7 Western countries sanctioned... not Israel but the Palestinians and the UN (!!!).

They cut funding for UNRWA, which is THE UN agency tasked with humanitarian assistance to Palestinians (and therefore their main lifeline).

Even if you were the world's worst cynic, you'd still have a hard time expecting such sheer level of cruelty and depravation. This is absolutely unfathomable.

They did so with the cheapest possible excuse, effectively using Israel's narrative that "UNWRA is Hamas" and allegations by Israel that some UNWRA staff were involved in the 7th Oct attack but 1) Israel has been making these accusations for months (so the timing of cutting funding right after the ICJ ruling is obviously not a coincidence) and 2) UNWRA has announced it's terminated the contracts of the staff members accused (12 people out of its 30,000 strong workforce) and launched an investigation, so it obviously doesn't condone this. Even if the allegations were to be proven correct, how can an organization of 30,000 staff be held collectively accountable for the individual actions of 0.04% of its workforce? Especially in the current context when its work is a life or death matter for millions of people.

To add to the cynicism here, UNWRA staff are actually a major victim of the war with at least 152 UNRWA staffers killed by Israel in Gaza to date. In a normal world, it is Israel that should be punished for killing so many members of a humanitarian organization. But nope, it's the humanitarian organization that's getting punished, alongside with the very vulnerable population it's committed to helping.

[Molara Wood @molarawood]

Do you agree with Oyeronke Oyewumi that there is no word for Boy/Girl in the Yoruba language?

* From today's panel discussion on Decolonization and Decoloniality (The Toyin Fálọlá Interviews).

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

One word, hubris.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

It's too late to stop it. Germany and other EU countries have already imported their replacement population.

They have reached a level of critical mass in numbers where Germany won't be able to withstand the demographic pressure. Germany thought they were importing eager workers, but instead they imported the 3rd world problems and lots of people on their state welfare.

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

lol… this sound like something a Nigerian politician will say. Show how low the US has fallen.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for the individuals at the pro-Palestine protest at the Capitol to be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

She also asserted that the incident was an "insurrection" and is demanding that the Capitol Police hand over all "surveillance footage, photographic evidence, police reports, and arrest records" relating to the protests.

"The Committee on House Administration must investigate this incident and review all footage and evidence provided by Capitol Police, and the insurrectionists involved must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

More than 100 people were arrested according to CBS News.

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

Be wary of any information.

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

RT @fisayosoyombo: "Where are their friends? Where are their families?"

Another year to remind you that, er, "nobody died at Lekki tollgat…

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

@afalli @thedeepand As thought leaders with following which makes them virtually untouchable, does that not presupposes the point you negated? We need to be able to have candid conversations and not reduce such to simply bashing.

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

We’re past the point where people fear to offend. Not we’re optimising how to offend effectively. It’s a journey which will take a bit more time. But, the countdown is on course.

[Tacos and Airplanes @blob_watcher]

1. Sending aircraft carriers and troops to the Middle East
2. Secret ATACMS missile shipments to Ukraine
3. More sanctions on China

Are people still going to tell me that US hegemony is collapsing?

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

You guys know exactly what people want to play but refuse to make it.

[Gold&Goblins: Idle Merger @Goblins_Idle]

⚒Dig Mines - Merge Goblins - Gather Gold!

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

lol… you were warned 😂😂😂😂

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

$1 = ₦1500+

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

Everything was being subsidised. Can we now agree subsidies has a role in economic growth and planning? Can we be upfront that we were all being subsidised?

[Punch Newspapers @MobilePunch]

JULY 20 - HEADLINES

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

Funny that those who chase equity and justice will still fight against those giving their gender this chance. In life you cannot satisfy people. Just do you.

[The ICIR @TheICIR]

An infographic showing female lawmakers in the 10th Assembly

More on it here: https://t.co/8ioJ5Ie3zq

@nassnigeria @NigeriaGov #females #women

[Tacos and Airplanes @blob_watcher]

🤣🤣🤣

I like how they don't even bother to try hiding it anymore.

[OK Then @okaythenfuture]

Central Bank Digital Currencies have been hyped for sometimes now, but what specifically does it mean for African economies? The next twenty years could fully remake the African currency landscape, for better or worse.

https://t.co/Gr0flCM4bZ

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

Nothing will happen. Isn't it Nigeria. He will even win the ticket in some quarters...

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Never say never. Isa Pantami could declare for presidency tomorrow and there would definitely be an argument about how anyone who speaks against it is an ethnoreligious bigot etc etc.

Almost nothing bad is impossible in Nigeria. Almost nothing.

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

Doesn't this mean WWIII becomes easier? Because based on history, these are the foreshadowing of insane decisions and unexplainable events that we keep seeing by the day

[Tacos and Airplanes @blob_watcher]

Tons of weird macroeconomic gyrations right now, including the consistent bear market in the US stock market right now. Hard to read coherent meaning into all of it.

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

Apparently he has joined the queue of the mad ones. Seems history may have a leg to stand on finally

[Dabs Lants @DabsLants]

I believe in their power to multitask

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

When Ukraine finally dies down, Europe will return to its usual obsession (with respect to Africa and the Middle East) - immigration.