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[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

What exactly is wrong with China? Why do they keep executing corrupt politicians, building public infrastructure, advancing technology, and implementing far superior educational systems and programs that push their young ones to the top of society?

Why do they not want freedom of speech and democracy and social justice and everything else that makes Western civilization great?

Why is China so backwards that their citizens don’t even know how to come out and complain about the nonexistent poor quality of life and expensive housing, the lack of bad roads and public healthcare services?

China needs to get its act together so it can start exporting its style of government to 3rd world countries, because other superpowers are leaving them behind.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

African Proverb Of The Week

One of the most tried and true tactics of Western imperialism is “divide and conquer”. From “favoring” certain ethnic groups over others, to arming insurgencies, to bankrolling separatist and/or “opposition” movements, the West has spent centuries fueling petty divisions in its colonies across the Global South, so that their masses are always too busy fighting each other to mount any meaningful resistance.

These petty divisions have robbed Africa of so many of its great modern visionaries, Nkrumah, Lumumba, Sankara, Gaddafi, and condemned the continent to decades of economic stagnation. And now that the winds of liberation are blowing across the continent again, the West is doing everything in its power to turn Africa against its new visionaries: the leaders of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

This West African proverb reminds us, as Africans, to always ask ourselves who truly benefits from our internal squabbles, and never again allow this enemy to turn us against our best and brightest.

[Onyeka ☭ @R_eq_uin]

Nigeria needs a nationalist dictator like a drowning man needs air.

Someone who will no hesitate to use force to whip everyone in line.

Someone who can assemble a cabinet of patriots, set Nigerian versions of China's five year plans, and execute it with extreme aggression.

Because the way we're going?

This car is going to crash soon. Hard

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Just seeing this now, and will try my best to simplify it for you, and anyone else reading, to the point you will understand. If you fail to grasp it this time, sorry, I can't help any further.

I will not make it difficult to read, so I will leave bullet points.

> Pan-Africanists are not shielding corrupt local leaders; Pan-Africanists believe in addressing their rascality from the source. There is a source. They were not always like this. Take, for instance, every single African leader in history who had tried to make a difference was either killed or violently overthrown.

>There’s a concept called “imperialism” - this happens when someone else controls your affairs to their advantage, and to achieve this, they must stop your own benefits (meaning stopping you from developing).

>Imperialism comes in two forms: direct form (colonialism) and indirect form (neocolonialism)

>Colonialism is the one you want us to forget, which sounds plausible until you consider the second form (neocolonism). Colonialism itself did quite an enormous damage that will take a while to repair. Now consider the fact that we are not even done remedying that, and the second form is alive and kicking.

> Neocolonialim means, “they are not longer here to control you directly anymore, but they are still doing so remotely, through economic means (the IMF, World Bank, etc, politically (via democracy - a system introduced to you for this same purpose), culturally (via arts, entertainment, religion and football) and of course the Media (which includes the New media that we are having this conversation on).”

>So effectively, they left, but before they did so, they put in motion a mechanism to still maintain control even while they are gone.

So, telling us to “forget” not only reveals your poor understanding of history but also your lack of awareness of your present world, which basically means that you are still under the colonial mentality we are working so hard to correct.

So rather than disparaging Pan-Africanists at every opportunity, you should rather be thanking us for the job we are doing, to which your survival depends on.

Btw, Nkrumah published a book about the second form of imperialism (I mentioned here) and that rattled the United States to the point of severing diplomatic ties and leading to his overthrow after some months.

What is even wrong with you people?

[OBINNA @Obicare]

Inside life...

[VAN MUTOKA @vanmutoka1]

🟥🇺🇲🇸🇬Un jour, la CIA tenta de recruter le chef des services de sécurité intérieure de Singapour.
L’agent américain chargé de l’opération fut arrêté sur-le-champ.
À Washington, la panique fut immédiate. Pour étouffer l’affaire, un émissaire de haut rang fut dépêché en urgence à Singapour. Dans la plus grande discrétion, il proposa à Lee Kuan Yew 3,3 millions de dollars afin d’acheter le silence.
Lee Kuan Yew refusa net. Froidement, il formula une contre-proposition qui claqua comme un rappel à l’ordre :
Singapour n’avait pas besoin de pots-de-vin, mais de 33 millions de dollars d’aide économique.
Cinq ans plus tard, il décida de rendre l’affaire publique.
Le Département d’État américain nia aussitôt.
C’est là que l’offense devint double.
D’abord parce qu’ils avaient cru que les dirigeants de Singapour étaient à vendre.
Ensuite, parce qu’en niant les faits, ils traitaient Lee Kuan Yew de menteur.
Alors, il convoqua la presse et posa un ultimatum sans détour :
si les États-Unis persistaient dans le déni, les documents et les enregistrements seraient rendus publics.
Quelques heures plus tard, Washington recula.
Le Département d’État reconnut intégralement la véracité de sa version.
Cette histoire rappelle une vérité trop souvent oubliée :
la souveraineté d’un pays ne se mesure pas à sa taille, mais au caractère de ceux qui le dirigent.
Quand un État se respecte, même les empires finissent par reculer.’🇺🇲🟥🇸🇬

[chief sọm @chisomholic]

Just removing monetisation would massively improve my country. Elon's $30 has people believing they have everything they need. They're less interested in politics, they don't care about the future. As long as they collect peanuts online, nothing else matters. We're in trouble o.

[Felix @felixherbt]

I wish the Gen Z and millennial generations would understand what is happening in this country.

Someone stole 210 trillion naira from the NNPC. That is three times the combined annual budgets of Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Uganda. Someone stole it, and Akpabio and co are shielding him from questioning. The country acts as if he did nothing wrong, no protests, no action, just silence.

Next, Tinubu will award him an OON for being a patriotic leader.

Nigeria is crazy jungle!

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Greek mythology always leaves me pondering - it stuns me with the vivid pictures, then allows me to pick lessons.

So is the story of Antaeus. He was born of Poseidon and Gaia. Poseidon ruled over the seas, Gaia was the earth herself - the mother of Uranus.

Long before he was defeated by Heracles, Antaeus was always rumoured to be invincible. Stories recorded that Antaeus would wait at the entrance of Libya and force passersby to wrestle him - he always crushed them, piling their skulls so he could build a temple to his father, Poseidon.

This is where it gets interesting - he was only invincible as long as he maintained contact with Mother Earth. When Heracles eventually crushed him, Heracles did so by suspending him in the air, away from Mother Earth, crushing him in a bear hug.

In reflection, a lot of people have not been truly tested by the realities of the world because they have insulation. Insulation in systems, in parents, in their backgrounds. Just like Antaeus, the illusion of their strength is in contact with Gaia.

On the day Heracles decides to test your resolve, all it takes is for you to fall once, and if there is anything I know, it is the fact that a man who is used to standing and has never fallen will not be able to stand on the day he falls.

An extension of this conversation goes to parents who shield their children entirely from life's realities. You cannot apologise for having leverage in life, especially if your parents paved your way - but it is important to consistently stress-test how much of life you really can handle.

In the absence of the strength that grounds you, how do you survive?

[Vulnerability Suitability@DONGA SCIENTIST @VSuitability]

If Tinubu was Igbo and performed exactly the same way —
Same economy. Same fuel price. Same hardship.
Would Yoruba people still defend him?
Answer that honestly before you reply to anything political again.

[Aria Westcott @AriaWestcott]

Breaking: Your smart TV takes a screenshot of your screen twice every second and sells what it sees.

It is called ACR, and it has been running since you set the TV up.

Texas already sued over it. Here is how to turn it off in under 2 minutes:

[AGUNWA IGBANI 🇳🇬🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷🇧🇫 @Igbani27243]

@DavidHundeyin is so fvcking right. Japa is a means used to dismantle the Potentials of a Nigerian Revolution because it provides a de-pressurization valve for the Educated, Competent and Ambitious to constantly leave instead of fermenting trouble

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

Throughout biblical and Christian history, clergies with leadership roles over the body of Christ has been the conscience and correction of unjust leaders.

From the first king of Israel in the Old, to King Herod in the New, to Emperor Theodosius in AD 390;

Samuel rebuked Saul over the sacrilege of God’s sacrifice.

Nathan rebuked his immediate successor, David, for his injustice.

A man of God rebuked Ahaz.

Elijah rebuked Ahab.

Jeremiah, Isaiah, and the minor prophets rebuked the governments of their times.

John rebuked Herod for adultery.

Ambrose the Bishop of Milan demanded public repentance from Theodosius for the massacre he ordered in Thessalonica.

He stripped him of all royal pump and demanded public humbling penance.

The church is the conscience of the nation. Especially a Christian nation.

We are the salt of this earth. If things are getting spoilt, we should do something.

Right now, the government of Nigeria is currently the most murderous, oppressive and corrupt we’ve ever seen.

Yet, these people act with so much impunity. There’s no moral restraint whatsoever.

Since the church is the ground and pillar of truth, we should be able to remind the government that it is condemned.

And that should restrain them.

The voice of the presbytery should strike tremor and terror in their hearts.

They should dread just one man of God in this nation condemning them, let alone hundreds.

Yet, there’s hardly one.

People are not dragging the church. They are instinctively looking at the only source of truth and agitated that it is not speaking.

Yes, the approach is wrong, but the motivation is expected.

The day the church is raptured, the anti christ comes.

So, people, even unbelievers, know Who restrains the lawless one, instinctively.

The church should have light and salt. But it doesn’t.

And that’s why it’s being “dragged”, and frankly, it should.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

There's this very wealthy African businessman, true story, who accumulated his wealth through the most violent exploitative way possible. He would rip people off their land and resources in his community and make their children serve him.

Initially, he had no plans of giving his servants freedom. He was getting a lot of hits for it. So he eventually figured out a way to give them “fake” freedom just to pacify critics.

But that's where it gets interesting. Once any of the boys is “freed,” he would find a way to insert himself in their business just so he can remotely control it. His goal is to ensure they are never established so they can depend on him forever. Depending on him makes him more and more powerful for as long as that arrangement lasts.

So as one of his ex-boys, if you start doing well on your own, you will die mysteriously or something bad happens to your business. If you allow him to control your affairs, including choosing your wife and employees, who would sabotage you from within to make sure his interference caps your growth, you will be just fine.

He insists you don't manufacture your own products, and positions himself as your only supplier. He allows you to sell him your raw materials, but he’s the only one to refine and sell them to you all at his fixed prices. If you try to manufacture on your own or change suppliers, something bad happens to you.

I have a question: when these ex-boys of his fail to succeed (which is the case, unless you want to pay with your life), who do you blame? Them or the master?

Now replace the wealthy African man with the West, and his boys with African nations. That is colonialism and neocolonialism explained. I had to use a wealthy African man as an example, because Africans have been socialized to only understand a crime when it’s committed by someone who looks like them. They have been conditioned to never see anything wrong in whatever the white man does.

This is why decolonization is a MUST before Africa can progress.

[Richard Oluwamayowa @Olaogun_]

Hello @LCFC

I’m Olaogun, a winger also played as a striker from Nigeria. I’ve spent the last 3 years training daily to get one shot at professional football.

I’m not asking for a contract. I’m asking for 7 days on trial to show you what I can do. If I’m not good enough, I’ll walk away with no hard feelings.

I’m fast, direct, and I work harder than anyone on the pitch.

My highlights are here: https://t.co/nD68FCLsMn

Thanks,
Olaogun
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[susan @devilzsusan]

@Kasemiireraquel Stupid Question.Bruno's brilliant,but u gotta watch the whole game for what scholes did,the impact he had,he just controlled that midfield like none,,,scholes was never about just goals and assists...watch scholes individual highlights of a whole game and u'd understand a bit.

[TM @Mi_ch43l]

@amanya_onesmas @Kasemiireraquel Scholes made a spectacular return for Manchester United in January 2012 due to a midfield injury crisis. He went on to play for the remainder of the 2011-12 season and signed a one-year extension, winning his 11th Premier League title, before retiring permanently in May 2013.

[Technical Ben @TechnicalBben]

You want a global talent from a guy who barely has access to 5 hours of electricity. And the cost of data is cooking his ass. His family is asking him for help with money.

This new age billionaires talk too much why not build a Telecom & call out the Nigerian government, Oponu.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Kwame Ture Speaks on African Unity

In this excerpt from a 1992 lecture on Pan-Africanism and African unity at Florida International University, Miami, USA, political activist and revolutionary Kwame Ture (1941 – 1998) speaks about what it means for Africans to be truly united, and how history offers important lessons about the way forward for the continent.

Kwame Ture (born Stokely Carmichael) was a Trinidadian-born, U.S-raised activist, who was a key figure in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the United States, and a lifelong champion of Pan-Africanism. He was most notable in his later years as the chief organizer for the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), founded in the late 1960s by former Ghanaian President and Pan-Africanist icon Kwame Nkrumah (1909 - 1972) – in whose honor Ture took on his new first name.

Ture’s thoughts are apt at a time when Africa faces – for the first time in generations – the threat of direct colonial occupation by Western powers, who are desperate to shore up their dwindling influence on a world that no longer believes in the fiction of Western superiority.

Some African nations, like Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, see the coming storm for what it is, and are moving accordingly. It is left to the rest of the continent to follow suit.