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[Abdullah @Lanre_banjo]

Good morning @tokunbo_wahab.

A rejoinder to my earlier tweet.

This video was sent to me last night. As it clearly shows, the residents of this house have made a conscious effort to avoid indiscriminate waste disposal. Unfortunately, their efforts are being undermined by the absence of PSP operators.

How can a major street like Afariogun in Oshodi be left without PSP operators for over three months, despite residents not owing service fees? The residents have repeatedly reached out to the Local Government and their relevant PSP operators, yet nothing has been done. And this is the reality of most people across the state.

While it is important to hold residents accountable for proper waste disposal, government must also fulfill their responsibility by ensuring consistent and reliable waste collection.

There is also a canal close to this street. If this situation is not addressed immediately, frustrated residents may resort to dumping waste indiscriminately, creating avoidable environmental and public health hazards.

I respectfully urge you to investigate this issue, restore PSP operations to Afariogun Street without further delay, and put measures in place to prevent similar service disruptions across the state.

[Douglas Kendyson @KendysonD]

Hi @jidesanwoolu, @hanneymusawa

I'm deeply disappointed in your @lirs_govng team hounding Selar in the name of claiming creator royalty taxes. I turn 30 in Oct and I've spent the last 10 years building Selar, so this is what the youth mean by policies being created to crush growing businesses. We are the pioneering and largest creator company in Nigeria (Africa actually), and instead of being supported by the government, the LIRS team is keen on trying to scapegoat us to set a precident.

Beyond the huge numbers seen in the headlines, we are still a young company just trying to make our mark for the creator economy in a country where we've never been supported once, we're literally a bootstrapped company. In 2025 alone, we've fulfilled our tax obligation in almost 9 figures and we've never missed out on any of our tax obligation over the years. You can check the records.

We are a software company, we make our ecommerce software available to our thousands of creators in not just Nigeria but 13 other African countries and for that, we earn a small commission of 4%, most of which goes to our payment provider. This is the same business as shopify, teachable, e.t.c There is no reason LIRS is hounding us for a backdated 5% royalty fee on all sales when we've clearly explained our line of business to them and shared everything to prove we are not a royalty based business.

What they're asking us to do is raise our pricing to extort these funds from our creators which is odd considering our creators still pay taxes on their income. No creator company in the world charges as high as even 5%.

Also, less payment gateway charges we get 1-3% max, so where do we pay backdated 5% fees from?

The government would have to decide if it wants the Nigerian creative economy to grow or not.

This conversation is important to me because we pioneered this industry of monetizing digital products online in Nigeria and today we host over 400k creators selling using our platform.

This is an opportunity for the government to show it's committment to making Nigeria work for young Nigerians especially in the creator economy.

Time and money we should be spending investing into our business and it's growth for the GDP of this nation is being spent in long back and forth.

We can't catch up with the west if this is what we're facing at home. Above everything else, disputes like this are distracting from the real work.

If anything, for all our CSR contributions to the education system in the country with our Smart Hustle Anti fraud initiative and our other efforts, we should be getting tax rebates, but we're not even asking for anything but to be left alone to build our business.

Thank you.

[Ayodele Makun @Delmak2000]

@LawmaCares I have been in your dm. Pls check

[Ayodele Makun @Delmak2000]

@muyiwag @LawmaCares @Lawma_gov
Good day Sir. We wish to draw your attention to the worsening waste mgt. in Ajenifuja street Oshodi. Refuse has not been collected for over months now, the whole sanitation exercise is of no good if the people have cleared the gutters of all dirts

[Ayodele Makun @Delmak2000]

@itsolelehmann cowork

[Cyborg Warlord @Admiral_Cyborg]

I listened to Keyamo talking and it is so annoying. "Mr President, out of empathy, has directed that we go back to the drawing board because Nigerians are suffering ". This is the most insipid piece of nonsense I have heard from a top government official in a long time.

You initiated an anti-Nigerians policy that inflicted unnecessary suffering on thousands of Nigerians, made people miss their flights, and generally caused needless chaos because you couldnt anticipate an obvious and clear consequence of the faulty implementation of a policy that was not necessary.

I saw a video of a caucasian man in a suit and tie arriving at the gates of the Abuja airport on a motorbike, an okada, carrying his belongings. He had to resort to this dangerous mode of getting to the airport because of the chaos caused by Keyamo.

This was embarrassing on both local and international standards. It was obvious from Day 1 that the policy wasn't working, yet it took the President's intervention, "out of empathy", for Keyamo and his gang of incompetent circus to realise that the implementation needed to be suspended until they knew what they were doing.

The most ridiculous part of it all was that the Minister came before the world, and without any iota of shame, to announce that were it not for the President, he would not have done anything to remedy the wickedness he and his coworkers of iniquity were visiting on Nigerians.

He wasn't suspending it on his own initiative because he saw it wasn't working. That alone shows you how grossly wicked and uncompassionate this human is.

It is important that people in government take the act of governance more seriously and stop the unchecked arrogance that makes them behave like they have no respect for the people they are meant to serve.

If a policy, even if meant in good faith is obviously failing in implementation, the responsible thing is to have a rethink, suspend it, and rejig for optimum results.

[BIG VIRG @drealbigvirg]

The concept of YouTube and Spotify ads will never make sense to me.

The people who can actually afford the things being advertised are already on Premium. No ads. No interruptions. Just music and videos in peace. Meanwhile, I’m on the free plan and you’re showing me ads for iPhone 15 Pro, forex trading masterclasses, online MBA programmes, luxury real estate in Dubai, and some car I will only ever see in music videos.

Who is the target here?

Because the rich guy you’re trying to reach is on ad-free Spotify listening to smooth jazz. I’m the one here being forced to watch two unskippable ads about investment apps while checking my account balance before buying data.

You’re advertising wealth to the financially stressed.

Make it make sense.

[Ayodele Makun @Delmak2000]

@jhybolar @Lawma_gov @LawmaCares @muyiwag Thank you for the call @LawmaCares. Finally, the street has been cleared of refuse!

[Ayodele Makun @Delmak2000]

@jhybolar @tokunbo_wahab Same issue with my area, I don dm @Lawma_gov, @LawmaCares tire! I called them, they said something will be done however all bills are being paid. The whole street and area is littred with over flowing bins🤦🏾
@muyiwag abeg, please assist with getting alternatives to PSP

[Cinderella Man @Osi_Suave]

Something has to be done about refuse collection in lagos.

The companies are simply not showing up, and when they do its always the excuse of truck issues and breakdowns.

Filth is overflowing

[Cleverly 💐 @Cleverlydey4u]

Things we love to see 👏🥹❤️
This guy on a bike helped clear a path for an ambulance carrying an emergency patient to pass through Lagos traffic 🥹👏❤️

[Adéṣọ́jí Bàbá Chief @AdesojiMinkail]

@tokunbo_wahab what are we doing about Lawma sir? I’ve noticed the tactics of claiming their truck is bad all month then come once a month and collect payment for a full month service which is suppose to be 4 times. Home and office I experience the same thing.

[Ayodele Makun @Delmak2000]

@MTN180 pls check your dm! 🤦🏾

[Ayodele Makun @Delmak2000]

@Nairametrics Advice to Academics - If you use ChatGPT for the assignments rather than just scoring students each student will have a 5 minutes discussion about what they wrote in their assignments/papers.. 🤷

[Ayodele Makun @Delmak2000]

@adebiyioluwafem @Nairametrics Exactly! This is what a friend who lectures in a university said - lf you use ChatGPT for the assignments rather than just scoring students each student will have a 5 minutes discussion about what they wrote in their assignments/papers.. Simple

[Tim @TimurNegru]

First of all, great idea about mentioning Afghanistan in the hook...although I would probably would have used Syria...to make it even more controversial :)

Look, I get the frustration with EU bureaucracy..trust me, I've been there having been a founder for the last 10+ years and raised millions for my startup. But comparing the EU's tech scene to Afghanistan? Come on..... :)

Sure, we've got our issues. The EU isn't perfect at fostering innovation, and yes, sometimes it feels like we're drowning in paperwork. But let's talk about what actually works here:

You want quality of life? Try getting 30 days of paid vacation in Silicon Valley. Or paid parental leave. Or not going bankrupt from a hospital visit. I've got friends in the US tech scene who are making bank but can't take two weeks off without checking their Slack.

And let's talk infrastructure..I can hop on a high-speed rail and be in another country in a few hours. Our cities are actually built for people, not cars.

Yes, we're behind in some tech areas. We don't have a European Google or Meta. But we're making good progress in areas that matter..renewable tech, industrial automation, biotech (i.e. BioNTech)

The regulatory thing is tricky, I'll give you that. GDPR was a pain to implement, but now it's basically the global standard although I agree that some argue that it should be scrapped or at least simplified..

Could we be better at supporting startups? Absolutely.

Should we cut some red tape? Probably.

But throwing out our whole approach to balanced development just because we can't get the latest AI feature on our iPhones? That's missing the forest for the trees imo.

The EU way isn't about being first..it's about doing it right. Sometimes that means being slower. Sometimes it means more paperwork. But it also means not having to choose between innovation and having a life worth living.

Is there room for improvement? Hell yes. But maybe not every tech regulation is a death sentence for innovation. Maybe there's something to be said for building tech that serves society rather than just disrupting it.

Just my 2 cents and I'm by no means an expert :)

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

I'm from Berlin.

Afghanistan gets better tech than Europeans now.

It's not a joke. It's the result of 30 years of suffocating regulation.

And now, the EU's new AI Act is about to make it 10x worse.

Here's the tragic story of how the EU is killing our tech future 🧵:

[Ayodele Makun @Delmak2000]

😂😂😂

[John Fesnick - Becoming Sovereign @JohnFesnick]

@joeyjusticeco I napped sitting up today.

Very uncomfortable.

Clearly I’m about to become a legend 🦾🤣

[Ayodele Makun @Delmak2000]

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[Ayodele Makun @Delmak2000]

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