Crystal Obanye

Turning life into art as a storyteller || Ghostwriter || Content writer || Copywriting

[Àshàké(not Ololade)❤️ @Molayoo_]

“He who is without ovaries, shall not make laws for those who do.”

-Fallopians 24:7

[Esther Umoh @EstherUmoh10]

We are not in trouble. The people of Osun State have shown us what courage looks like.

They are rejecting the APC by coming out in their numbers to vote, and more importantly, they are refusing to leave the protection of their votes entirely in the hands of one politician. Each person is taking responsibility for their own vote.

Nobody is asking Adeleke how he plans to protect their votes. The people themselves are protecting them.

They demanded that the ballot papers delivered to each polling unit be counted before voting commenced. They rejected inducements, or at least collected the money offered by the APC and still voted for Accord. They counted their votes, challenged polling officials who recorded incorrect figures, and I have no doubt that many will remain at the various collation centres until the final result is announced.

This is how we should do it come January 2027.

[iamopeyemi🃏 @OpeYeemiii]

I take God beg you, if you meet a woman that likes you, and shows you affection please do this and more for her… it makes them happy do it. Leave twitter takes oh..

[Shehu Gazali Sadiq @Rejoice_inlife]

Only a stupid person will go to a polling unit, and vote for Tinubu, who's wife wants you to fry akara, roast corn, and fry kulikuli.

Only stupid people.

[Enomfon Akpan @mydearenomfon]

Man man man man man man

[Walter 🇳🇬 🇵🇭 🇨🇦 @gamerwalt]

Your wife just spent 20 hours in grueling labor.

She is exhausted, bleeding, and vulnerable.

Your mother walks into the hospital room and immediately complains that the newborn does not look like your side of the family. She then criticizes the hospital choice.

Should I even continue? I saw this story and I was speaking in lamentations.

You stand there quietly, staring at your shoes, terrified to correct her. You are a coward. A BIG ONE!

Your primary duty is to protect your wife from external disrespect, even if the disrespect comes from your own mother.

If you cannot establish a firm boundary in a hospital room, you are completely unfit to lead a family.

[Enomfon Akpan @mydearenomfon]

This thing you people say all the time, “feminists always get the best men.”

What is that supposed to achieve? What exactly is the point of saying it? Is feminism suddenly good because it helps women get better men? Because if that is the argument, then you are still making men the centre of the conversation.

Women do not need feminism because it will help them find a good man. Women can be feminists because they want freedom, respect, equality, safety, independence and the right to make choices about their own lives. A woman does not need a man to be the reward for having certain beliefs.

So when you say “feminists always get the best men,” you might think you are complimenting feminism, but you are still telling women to measure the value of their choices by the kind of man they can get.

That is still centering men.

[Sule Nana @izesule]

Meanwhile, Sanusi Bature, a Kano state govt spokesperson likened women to sim cards on television.

This is how this government views women; disposable, replaceable, transferable objects.

[Favour Igwezeke @Yannynow]

Rape, spreading STDs, illegal child marriage, VVF you name it, this government is cursed fgs

[Enny❤️ @Eniola_x1]

Ovulation pain that’s always by that lower left part of your stomach hits different 😭

[Motunrayo Jinadu @mojinad]

Maybe I’m smarter than the average Nigerian because wdym you’re just clocking vdm, even if you’re the slowest person in Nigeria, the Mohbad case didn’t tell you anything ? Are you a fool?😭

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I have been thinking about something lately, and the more I think about it, the more disturbing it becomes.

A lot of Nigerians became poor without doing anything wrong.

They didn’t stop working. They didn’t become lazy. They didn’t suddenly become irresponsible.

They simply woke up one day and realised that the money they had worked for could no longer buy the things it used to buy.

Think about someone earning ₦100,000 a month.

The person still wakes up early every morning, goes to work, puts in the same hours, probably works even harder, gets promoted occasionally and does everything society says a responsible person should do.

Yet every year, that person seems to be able to afford less.

At some point, ₦50,000 could buy a reasonable amount of food for the house. Today, you can enter the market with the same ₦50,000 and genuinely wonder where the money went.

Nothing happened to you.

The economy happened to you.

And I think this is something we don’t talk about enough.

Imagine working hard for years, only for circumstances completely outside your control to quietly reduce the value of everything you have worked for.

You didn’t lose your job.

You didn’t lose your salary.

But somehow, you lost your standard of living.

That is poverty too.

And this is why I struggle with the way we sometimes discuss palliatives.

Of course, when people are hungry, you must find ways to help them immediately. There is nothing wrong with providing temporary relief.

But surely, the bigger question should be:

Why did millions of working Nigerians suddenly need palliatives in the first place?

If a man could comfortably buy a bag of rice from his salary a few years ago and today he needs government assistance to buy that same bag of rice, giving him rice may solve today’s hunger.

But it has not solved the actual problem.

The real problem is that his labour has lost value.

And perhaps that is what we should be obsessed with fixing.

How do we make the Nigerian worker’s income valuable again?

How do we make ₦100,000 buy more next year, rather than less?

How do we make food cheaper by producing more?

How do we reduce the cost of energy and transportation?

How do we build an economy where salaries can actually keep up with the cost of living?

Because when I think deeply about it, perhaps one of the greatest things a government can do for its people is not to keep giving them money.

It is to build an economy where the money they earn has value.

There is dignity in being able to take care of yourself from the product of your own labour.

There is dignity in a teacher being able to feed a family from teaching.

There is dignity in a nurse being able to pay rent from nursing.

There is dignity in a young person working an honest job and gradually seeing life improve.

People should be able to look back after five years of hard work and say, “My life has become better.”

Not, “I earn more money today, but somehow I can afford less.”

That is the part that keeps bothering me.

Millions of Nigerians are not asking to become millionaires overnight.

They just want hard work to make sense again.

And maybe that should be one of the simplest ways we measure whether our economy is actually working:

Is the ordinary Nigerian who works hard becoming progressively better off, or progressively poorer?

Everything else is secondary.

[Alaga Of Abuja 🐺 @KIRAAH_]

Nigerians don’t know how deep and calculating that mass marriage thing is. The strategy of Northern leaders is to weaponize poverty and population for political advantage. Those girls were given to those men to make babies that will grow into underprivileged and uneducated thugs.

[mika @mikasagrada]

eu tentando me levantar da cama com o primeiro alarme que toca

[ຸ @fvckfemi_]

i think bringing a child into poverty is more cruel than abortion

[himé @__imaani3]

i get traumatized each day on here.

sigh

[Unconventional @Oluchi_ME]

Who sat and watched my infant head?

[Ifekamm @oshiam_Omede]

In Somalia, men protest and got back their rights to marry children.

In The Gambia, religious men are in court to bring back FGM

In Sierra Leone, wives are still getting the husband stitches.

In Nigeria, the government is sponsoring old men to marry teenages as 3rd wives.

[Sylvia Nenye. @Sylvianenyee]

If they show the brides, you’ll see actual children. The government is sponsoring rape.

[Oyin♥️ @O_yindamola_]

Lmao. I’m very opinionated. If na agreeable woman you dey find, avoid me. If you talk one, I go talk 15👍🏾