Meanwhile in Benin Republic🇧🇯, the beaches are free.
You can randomly park your car and walk into the beach.
To add, the beaches are very clean and filled with trees.
Benin republic, 2- 4hours away from Lagos, will show you that the things we consider luxury in Nigeria are truly basic.
Frames 1, 2 & 4: Fidjrosse, Cotonou🇧🇯
Frame 3: Door of No Return, Ouidah🇧🇯
"2 years into Tinubu's regime they'll come and tell you Buhari is dead and then bury an empty coffin. They won't allow people to see the corpse because they know there's nothing there.
I tell you Buhari died in 2017."
~Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (2020)
The youths of Umuawa-Alaocha who mobilized themselves in large numbers to comb the forests in Umuahia-North, rescued their people from the hands of kidnappers, holding only machetes, torchlights and dogs. Some hunters joined with dane guns.
But at the end their numbers paid off
: “I love travelling by road, but today I am being denied my preferred means of transportation because of insecurity. Don't allow this insecurity to go too far; tomorrow, it could be your own children” - Actor Emeka Ike Joins the Ratel Protest
The last time I was in Lagos I paid to enter a beach in Lekki.
Not a resort. Not a water park. A beach.
Sand. Water. A coastline that existed long before any of us were born.
Someone bought it. Fenced it. Put a gate on it. Now you pay to touch the ocean.
What kind of government sells its people access to nature?
Happy Democracy Day. 🇳🇬
the weird thing about reading so much as a child and gaining a huge vocabulary from that is i can't define a lot of the words i use, i just know that they would fit correctly in a specific sentence. does anyone else experience that?
This is not coming. IT'S ALREADY HERE.
Apple and the Metropolitan Police have been running this quietly for months. IMEI numbers of stolen phones shared directly with Apple. Apple bricks them remotely. no reactivation without your password. ever.
the results in London are real:
reactivations of stolen iPhones dropped from 80% to under 20%. Westminster saw a 45.8% drop in phone theft. 14,000 fewer stolen phones in a single year.
It works. Nobody is arguing that.
The announcement is just Apple making it the global default. everywhere. for everyone.
now the question nobody is asking:
Apple just confirmed that a system already exists where law enforcement hands them a list of devices and Apple disables them globally. the infrastructure is live. it's proven. it scales.
today the list is stolen phones.
This is the same Apple that will probably scan UK devices on government request. the same Apple that caved to the Online Safety Act. the same Apple that is being pressured by the same government to break Signal-level encryption.
they now have a remote off button for every iPhone on earth. and we know it works because they already used it.
the kill switch is real.
the first use case is always good.
Watching Kobbie Mainoo train with the England squad ahead of the World Cup opener against Croatia is amazing, but the English media machine terrifies me. The kid is 21 and playing with the composure of a veteran, but Tuchel’s squad has zero natural balance at the back after dropping Maguire and Shaw. The second England drops points in the group stage, they will try to scapegoat the youngest midfielder on the pitch to protect the older players. We need to fiercely protect our boy.
A young doctor was being murdered on a train. The Children of Perdition were laughing at her while she lost her life.
Your moderate friends and Egbons were there.
You don't know the seeds you've sown.
If she’s smart and interesting, I’ll spend. If she isn’t, I’ll still spend. If she wants luxury dates, I’ll spend. If she’s okay with coffee, I’ll still spend. If she doesn’t have money, I’ll spend. If she’s making her own money, I’ll still spend. She should want me.
In all these, I’d be responsible for her own decisions, her boredom and excitement, her security and satisfaction. I have to be fantastically excellent to not give her the ick; but she’s perfect just the way she is. And if anything goes wrong it’s my fault. But I should pursue.