Elections are coming and this is one of the British state's contributions to keeping Nigerians plugged into the deliberately-inflamed electoral merry-go-round.
If they can successfully ignite a rhetorical 'dumb blackie vs indoctrinated blackie vs poor blackie' social media civil war, they know the blackies will all be too busy fighting each other or trying to put out the fire to have the actual conversation that matters - that Nigeria needs total societal upheaval and physical rebellion to uproot their puppets who are never going to relinquish power through an 'election'.
The only meaningful response is to completely blank it and refuse to give it airtime.
Because after you saw this same BBC openly publish an article claiming that "Chicago State University certified that Tinubu’s certificate is not a forgery" - when literally THE EXACT OPPOSITE is what happened, why on earth are you still allowing it have access to your eyes and ears?
Is it BDSM that is worrying you people? Why don't you see what is so obvious in front of you?
Apparently a coin was created, rugged and community took over. Is the money being raised going to her and her kid or just traders being traders?
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The 81-year-old grandmother who went viral for streaming Minecraft to raise money for her grandson's cancer treatment was swatted
Authorities brought 20 police cars, five SWAT officers, and drones to GrammaCrackers' house
In Brazil, a tortoise survived for about 10 years, trapped under a sealed floor in a family's home, and was discovered alive during repairs. Experts credit its extremely slow metabolism for helping it endure with very little food and water.
It goes against my egalitarian instincts, but the facts don't care about my feelings.
This is my parents' house where I grew up, and I know 99.999% of my audience can never find this place on a map of Lagos. But it exists, and this was my everyday reality until I moved out at 25.
Imagine thinking that I could experience the world through the same frame of reality as someone who grew up eating Indomie Instant Noodles with their parents and 7 siblings in a room-and-parlour next to an evangelical church with a loudspeaker outside.
Imagine trying to explain to these people that the oyibo paradise they saw on their old CRT television in those American movies after NTA Newsline, is actually a parasite economy built on their poverty. How could they possibly even have the frame of reality to comprehend such a thing? Imagine trying to explain geopolitics to people who haven't had the opportunity to taste whole milk before.
It's almost pointless.
I must sound like I'm absolutely insane to them.
@MayorSpeaks_@Kxngbioye1@Letter_to_Jack No mind the guy. I just the read en talk the vex. Nigerians na we poor pass and na we get useless pride for where no matter pass.
@Kxngbioye1@MayorSpeaks_@Letter_to_Jack Life changing not life sorted. How are you so hell bent on not comprehending a simple thing🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️.
If your life significantly improves from one stage to another higher stage that’s life changing. Don’t be Daft.
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China declares a full-scale crackdown on cryptocurrencies:
• No legal recognition of crypto as “money”
• Any crypto-related business = financial crime
• Complete ban on foreign crypto services operating inside China
This is an apt analogy of the sorry state we have found ourselves as a nation. And it’s so sad and painful all these are happening when the world is actually evolving and progressing. Here we are sabotaging each other from the very inside and regressing at a pace never seem befor
1/ THREAD 🧵: How Nigeria Missed Its Empire Moment in Africa
Nigeria had all the cards—economic strength, military power, political goodwill across the continent. It intervened during apartheid in South Africa, led ECOMOG in West Africa, and almost completed Ajaokuta Steel. It could’ve led a New African Order. But it didn’t.
Let’s unpack this.
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In the 70s and 80s, Nigeria was flush with petrodollars.
It took strong anti-apartheid positions, funding the ANC, backing liberation across Southern Africa. It gained moral capital that few African nations could rival.
That was soft power. But power unused decays.
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Then came ECOMOG.
In the 90s, while Western powers watched, Nigeria deployed troops to restore order in war-torn Liberia and Sierra Leone. Thousands of Nigerian soldiers fought and died stabilizing the region.
This was hard power. Proof Nigeria could be Africa’s sheriff.
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So what did Nigeria do with all this capital—moral and military?
Nothing strategic.
Instead of using peacekeeping as a launchpad for economic and geopolitical dominance, Nigeria retreated, crumbling under its own contradictions—tribalism, bad leadership, internal sabotage.
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Let’s imagine an alternate Nigeria—one that learned from its victories.
Picture a Nigeria that used its post-ECOMOG goodwill to negotiate pan-West African infrastructure projects: railroads, energy pipelines, broadband corridors.
A West African Silk Road—but Nigerian.
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Ajaokuta Steel Plant was meant to power this dream.
One of the most ambitious steel complexes in Africa—meant to supply rails, industrial parts, machines, and export-grade materials.
Instead? It was sabotaged. Incomplete for 40+ years. A metaphor for Nigeria itself.
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If Nigeria had finished Ajaokuta in the 80s:
It could’ve mass-produced rails
Built a Lagos–Dakar rail line
Connected Inland Africa to Ports
Enabled free flow of goods, people, and influence
Instead of China building Africa’s rails, Nigeria would’ve.
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Imagine that leverage.
Nigerian-built rails, powered by Nigerian steel, laying the economic foundation for a West Africa where:
Dangote Cement floods markets
Nigerian fintechs process ECOWAS payments
Nollywood dominates media
Nigerian ports become trade hubs
Real hegemony.
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But instead of this trajectory, Nigeria imploded.
Remember the 1992 ECOMOG air crash? Several Middle Belt senior military officers died. A mysterious accident. Conspiracy theorists blamed it on internal power plays—possibly to weaken potential coup plotters.
Sabotage from within.
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IBB, Abacha, Obasanjo, all came with promise, but tribal loyalties, corruption, and visionless politics meant that Nigeria turned its post-war victories into internal witch hunts.
It wasn't Rome building an empire, it was Rome burning itself from inside out.
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Meanwhile, China built the Belt & Road.
It used economic diplomacy to win ports, mines, railways across Africa.
Nigeria could’ve done same—in its neighborhood.
Instead, petty nationalism and mistrust meant even ECOWAS integration is a joke. We don’t even share power grids.
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Nigeria today has the population of Russia, more arable land than most countries in Africa, and a diaspora of world-class professionals.
Yet it’s stuck in a loop of tribalism, insecurity, and election frauds. Power without purpose.
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Until Nigeria fixes its house—kills tribal politics, reforms leadership, builds infrastructure—it will continue to miss empire-scale opportunities.
Africa waits for leadership. Nigeria could’ve been that leader. But you can’t lead a continent if your house is on fire.
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Final thought:
Power is not given. Influence is not permanent.
Nigeria earned it in the 80s & 90s, then threw it away. Now it has to rebuild—with intention, with vision, with unity, but sincerely I doubt this.
The future is still open—but time is running out.
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@_belikebaddy For me, he’s the worst!! He had good intentions and plan no doubt. But he didn’t have the balls to execute them. Whatever he was scared of that made him submit and left, is exactly our current situation.