Godswill Wali

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Ironically, this heated "Olodo Uprising" conversation is actually a good sign for Nigeria.

Nigeria is finally having its first endogenous, organically-defined culture war over an issue that is intrinsically important to Nigerian society.

Every other culture war that post-colonial Nigeria has fought until now has been imported Yankee slop, or imported religious slop, or both (LGBTQ, 3rd wave Feminism, "sexual liberation", tithing, NYSC hijab, etc).

A society fighting internal culture wars over its own self-defined issues is a society that is finally obtaining an identity of its own. Long may the war continue, and may the olodos suffer crushing defeat that dooms their uprising to the chapters of a Jude Bela historical documentary released in 2045.

[Godswill Wali @MrWizard001]

As an African, I sympathise with the Palestinians. Even if we were to believe the isreali position that it's attacks in Gaza is in response to what happened on October 7th, it has been immensely disproportionate.

[Godswill Wali @MrWizard001]

@WhileTravelling Which is exactly why the general Chinese consensus on the benefits of AI is that it'll outweigh whatever losses that come with it. And this is in huge part, because of the trust that the government is more that capable to navigate the AI dilemma. It's a leadership thing really.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Since YCee has awakened Nigerians to the “Olodo uprising” debate, here’s a report on how the big tech giants weaponize their algorithms to dumb down the Nigerian/African population.

It’s my favorite report for the @Spearhead_Af from last year, but evergreen. Make sure you follow the @Spearhead_Af for more of this every single day.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

We really CANNOT have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We cannot have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We cannot have peace because it threatens the weapons industry. Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

You see why this Olodo discussion should be treated with care, otherwise we risk establishing a very false standard of intelligence.

What do you mean “speak bad English?”

I agree to an extent that language proficiency is part of intelligence, but English is not and should never be the core measure of intelligence around here. I have never seen anyone mocked as unintelligent for not speaking “good” Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa. Abeg abeg. Nigeria is filled with English speaking Olodos.

I don’t regard Peller as unintelligent because of his English grammar, I see him as unintelligent because of his mindset. I have paid close attention to his thought process, and concluded he doesn’t have sense. It has nothing to with English.

Btw, you need to also start correcting your wards when they struggle with native languages. No be every time, una go dey correct English.

[Godswill Wali @MrWizard001]

Everything is politics. If you don't become geopoliticallly aware by design, you will by default. Better brace yourself up.

[gst @wearegst]

Every single part of your daily peace is governed by politics. If you're holding onto a cracked screen because phones now cost millions or you can't buy shawarma without doing mathematics, you are feeling the real-world weight of state failure.

Everything is politics.

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

The British are the ever present evil in the Nigerian story..🇳🇬🤔

[Godswill Wali @MrWizard001]

Isreals global image cannot be salvaged unless Muslims are demonized.

[Godswill Wali @MrWizard001]

Dividing states has never produced lasting peace. The result is always future wars and deaths. While the nature of the Chinese dilemma is completely different from ours, Nigerians must never support secession, no matter the form it takes.

[Godswill Wali @MrWizard001]

As much of a powerhouse as China is, one of the biggest geopolitical hurdle for them, has been reunification with Taiwan - how to achieve it without risking a broader conflict that could possibly spiral out of control.

[Chinese Embassy in Poland @ChinaEmbPoland]

Na świecie istnieją tylko jedne Chiny, a Tajwan jest nieodłączną częścią Chin. Jest to niepodważalny fakt historyczny i prawny oraz rzeczywisty stan sytuacji w Cieśninie Tajwańskiej.
Bez względu na to, jakimi hasłami posługują się władze Demokratycznej Partii Postępowej, nie są one w stanie ukryć separatystycznej natury swoich działań, których celem jest oderwanie Tajwanu od Chin. To, co władze DPP próbują „utrzymać”, jest jedynie wyobrażonym przez nie „stanem podziału”. Poprzez prowokacje na rzecz Separatyzmu, wyolbrzymianie „zagrożenia” oraz podsycanie nastrojów antychińskich, stają się one destruktorem status quo w Cieśninie Tajwańskiej i największym źródłem zagrożeń dla pokoju i stabilności w regionie.

[Godswill Wali @MrWizard001]

@EgbodoGide59485 @DavidHundeyin As opposed to what?

This heaven of a Biafra y'all are advocating, we've seen this movie before. It doesn't work. You'll just end up creating anothet vassal state for the west.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

It is deeply disturbing and wildly hypocritical that U.S. politician Riley Moore is quietly working behind the scenes with Washington to pressure, bully, and strong-arm Nigeria into creating a state policing system.
Thanks to this relentless diplomatic campaign, endless foreign lobbying, and indirect threats of secondary economic sanctions, the spineless union of comprador elites at the Nigerian House of Representatives has unilaterally voted for the approval of this dangerous Bill.

This means state policing will soon be codified into the Nigerian constitution and officially signed into law.
What is even more terrifying and deeply depressing is that a sweeping majority of ordinary Nigerians are actually sitting idly by, clapping enthusiastically, and cheering passionately for this legislative Trojan horse to be passed and codified into law. This tragic ignorance is somewhat understandable since our hopelessly compromised media outlets, corrupt television pundits, and American grant-chasing activists have been heavily whitewashing, glorifying, and aggressively sanitizing this Bill.
All of a sudden, the manufactured narrative is that state policing will miraculously solve the insecurity crisis, magically end the rampant kidnappings, and immediately stop the bloodshed. The lie being sold is that it will allow the state governors of the federation to properly coordinate their local forces, deploy tactical teams, and respond swiftly to terror attacks, rural banditry, and highway kidnappings without the usual suffocating bureaucratic hurdles.

First of all, this is a blatant lie cooked straight up in the deepest pits of hell purely to appeal to the raw, bleeding emotions of ordinary Nigerians who are already exhausted victims of this daily insecurity. To clearly see why this is a massive deception, please permit me to enlighten you that the chronic insecurity in Nigeria is absolutely not happening because the state is simply unable to properly control its policing units, direct its tactical squads, or manage its intelligence networks. Insecurity in Nigeria happens strictly due to a severe, intentional, and catastrophic governance vacuum.

In many parts of Nigeria, there is a sharp, heartbreaking contrast in the standard of living between the political elites living in the fortified cities and the neglected masses living deep inside the rural, agrarian communities. The state capital and a tiny handful of commercially successful towns are the only places where all the functional government institutions actually exist. This neatly includes the lucrative revenue collection offices, the sprawling supreme courts, the heavily fortified police headquarters, the massive military barracks, the well-paved road networks, the exclusive government hospitals, and the elite private schools. Meanwhile, in the distant rural communities, these critical state institutions are practically and deliberately absent. The only visible signs of government are a handful of decaying health centers, roofless community schools, abandoned water projects, and ghost clinics, all of which are violently underfunded, hopelessly neglected, and operating far below basic human capacity.

This massive vacuum is exactly where opportunistic foreign NGOs, radical Islamic clerics, and wealthy Christian missionaries swoop in to completely fill the void. In Northern Nigeria, which is the birthplace of Boko Haram and where over 90% of the terrorism in Nigeria violently takes place, there are reported to be more than 20 million supposedly out-of-school children. But these children are not technically out of school. They are actively being educated informally in isolated Islamic temples teaching strict Wahhabi-Salafi Islam, which is a highly distorted, weaponized version of the religion that brainwashes the pupil to violently hate the secular state, despise democracy, and view any modern scientific progress, secular education, or constitutional law as a direct threat that justifies establishing an Islamic caliphate. It is crucially important to know that this aggressive Wahhabi interpretation is not the original, peaceful version of Islam practiced globally. It was systematically cooked up, heavily funded, and aggressively exported by Saudi Arabia directly following an explicit request by the American government during the Cold War era. Most of the fierce Mujahideen that fought brutal guerrilla warfare against the Soviets in Afghanistan, as well as several top ISIS commanders, Al-Qaeda operatives, and regional warlords, were proudly produced straight from these exact ideological schools. It must also be loudly mentioned that Saudi Arabia has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Nigeria just to establish these Wahhabi schools, radicalize the youth, and build sprawling mosques. Even the very first founder of Boko Haram, Muhammad Yusuf, was thoroughly educated by these foreign-backed Wahhabi scholars, and he even eventually traveled to Saudi Arabia to further his radical studies, secure dark funding, and build lethal connections before returning to Nigeria to set up his terrifying Boko Haram terror networks. Not only are these foreign religious institutions brainwashing Nigerians in the North, but they also effectively provide all the basic social services that the actual government (which is too busy looting in the cities) is completely unable to provide. These desperate services include daily feeding, basic healthcare, conflict resolution, rudimentary shelter, clothing, and financial handouts. And this dangerous phenomenon is absolutely not exclusive to Northern Nigeria alone. Similar foreign-funded religious centers, evangelical cults, and shadowy NGOs exist heavily even in the South, but they all have their different setups, distinct financial architectures, and operational doctrines that heavily depend on the specific foreign interests exploiting that region.

So effectively, the rural communities across Nigeria function as an entirely separate state within a state. This makes it structurally impossible for federal intelligence agencies to gather reliable, actionable information because the deadly rebels, bandits, and terrorists are usually recruited directly from the impoverished villagers, thanks to years of intense religious brainwashing, economic desperation, and systemic neglect. The innocent villagers cannot even help the state because, even if they clearly see heavily armed terrorists regrouping, stockpiling weapons, and setting up massive mobile camps right inside their farmlands, they have absolutely no modern way of quickly passing these critical tips to law enforcement. Furthermore, the poorly armed local vigilantes are always tragically overwhelmed, outgunned, and stretched incredibly thin, busy battling petty thieves, settling mundane local disputes, or fighting off heavily armed cattle rustlers, so there is very little they can actually do.

So it is painfully clear that these ruthless rebels are able to effortlessly coordinate devastating attacks in Nigeria because their hardened fighters are recruited directly from the local villages, they understand the harsh geographic terrain far better than the suit-wearing security chiefs in Abuja, and the Nigerian state is completely, embarrassingly lacking in basic Human Intelligence (HUMINT) because they are effectively, arrogantly disconnected from the very people they claim to govern.

So that begs the screaming, million-dollar question: How exactly is this highly celebrated state policing bill supposed to magically address any of this? There is basically zero structural provision for this underlying social rot, and if anything, things will only get spectacularly worse.
This is not idle hearsay, wild speculation, or political conspiracy. It is basically written right there in the fine print of the new bill currently being aggressively pushed, heavily funded, and enthusiastically supported even by Washington to be codified into law. The new Bill explicitly dictates a messy, convoluted structure where the states shall only inherit 60% of the operational police officers in the region, while the remaining 40% percent stubbornly belongs to the federal government. This ridiculous mathematics means that under this new experimental system, the state governor, who is supposedly getting his own independent, highly effective police unit, will immediately be forced to operate at a massive, crippling disadvantage. Because if 100 percent of the entire centralized policing unit in a state cannot currently fix the insecurity, stop the kidnappings, or defeat the bandits, how in the absolute hell is a fractured, poorly funded 60 percent supposed to pull off that miracle?

To make things infinitely worse, if you actually sit down and study the legislative text closely, things get even more terrifying. For example, the underlying operational framework dictates that the existing police command and control centers, the massive training academies, the sprawling barracks, the heavily fortified armories, the forensic laboratories, and the central communication hubs in the state all remain exclusive federal government property. This guarantees that once a so-called state police unit is established, the governors would then have to magically conjure up tens of billions of Naira. Not only would they have to spend aggressively on mass recruitment just to fill the massive 40 percent personnel gap absorbed back by the federal government, but they would now also have to practically build a new police force from absolute scratch. They would have to construct brand new barracks, buy thousands of armored patrol vehicles, procure heavy tactical assault weapons, purchase expensive riot gear, build local detention centers, and acquire modern communication radios just to be able to physically police their own state. This means that many bankrupt states would have to painfully wait for decades before they can even improve their basic security infrastructure. State governments will obviously, ruthlessly prioritize funding this bloated security apparatus over building new public schools, repairing collapsed bridges, or properly funding dying healthcare centers. As for the many heavily indebted states in the North that are already engulfed in violent flames thanks to the relentless Boko Haram insurgencies, raising this kind of capital is mathematically impossible. They will simply collapse completely into total anarchy, warlordism, and chaos because there is absolutely not sufficient internally generated revenue from these states to ever justify, fund, or sustain such massive, white-elephant policing projects.

Now this begs another screaming, million-dollar question: What is the actual, hidden purpose of this new state policing law if not for pure, unadulterated political madness? This disjointed system will obviously, violently disrupt Nigeria's already fragile efforts to handle national security. The astronomical money that each impoverished state is expected to blindly cough up just to set up individual barracks, buy armored personnel carriers, establish forward operating bases, and procure basic tactical gear will run into the billions of dollars. And this massive financial bleeding is only just to get the symbolic, highly politicized police force somewhat operational, not even to actually fight the violent crime it was supposedly designed to defeat. The staggering capital required for this vanity project is comfortably enough to purchase dozens of highly advanced MQ-9 Reaper drones. These military-grade aerial beasts have the terrifying ability to stay airborne for up to 27 continuous hours, and a single drone can effortlessly patrol the entire dense forests of any individual state in Nigeria in less than one hour. If each state simply had about four of these unmanned beasts, they would have more than enough technological equipment to permanently crush crime in their regions. These drones come heavily equipped with state-of-the-art Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems, high-resolution infrared thermal cameras that can easily see human body heat through thick forest canopies, Synthetic Aperture Radar for all-weather tracking, laser designators for precision strikes, and deadly Hellfire missiles to vaporize terrorist camps. The billions about to be senselessly wasted on building useless concrete barracks, sewing colorful new uniforms, and purchasing outdated assault rifles for this new parallel policing unit would be put to infinitely better use if channeled into mounting solar-powered, high-definition CCTV cameras that span the entire road networks of the federation, thereby finally giving law enforcement enough hard data, facial recognition tracking, and real-time intelligence to actually fight crime. Right now in Nigeria, all we ever hear is that innocent people are getting kidnapped on the expressways, and that is tragically it. There are absolutely no CCTV footages capturing the exact license plate numbers of the operational vehicles doing the kidnapping, no aerial surveillance tracking the escape routes, no thermal imaging pinpointing the forest hideouts, no encrypted digital communication among patrol units, and no automated biometric databases. As a result, our brave but poorly equipped law enforcement officers are forced to operate completely in the blind, analog darkness.

This is precisely why every single Nigerian needs to immediately forget about the distracting World Cup tournament, get off social media banter, and urgently download this new, highly toxic Bill that is about to be quietly smuggled, stamped, and codified into the constitution. This new piece of legislation needs to be aggressively studied, dissected, and exposed because it has the absolute, terrifying potential to completely collapse our entire existing security infrastructure within the next five short years. This is exactly what our highly paid TV pundits, morning show hosts, and public intellectuals need to be aggressively talking about. Not the trivial football banter, not the celebrity gossip, and definitely not the South African immigration crisis. Our innocent women and defenseless children are currently sleeping in terrifying, bandit-infested forests, being held for multi-million Naira ransoms, and this brutal reality should obviously anger us, deeply bother us, and violently push us to fight for a genuine, structural change. Instead, everyone seems to be getting dangerously comfortable, disturbingly docile, and completely brainwashed by this state-sponsored propaganda aggressively claiming that creating 36 heavily armed, underfunded, and politically loyal state militias will somehow magically reduce insecurity when codified into law.

This is far beyond ridiculous. It will only maliciously deflect desperately needed funding away from the most critical, life-saving institutions in a state just to set up bloated barracks, buy expensive parade uniforms, and build lavish offices to house what will inevitably become glorified, armed government thugs. This is absolutely not a baseless rumor, a cynical theory, or an unfounded fear. Nigeria has heavily practiced state policing before, specifically during the pre-1966 era known as the chaotic First Republic, where regional governments commanded the notorious Native Authority Police. The security situation of the country back then was so violently bad, so fiercely tribal, and so politically compromised that it could easily be compared to the bloody warlordism era in China, where different parts of the country were brutally governed by different, heavily armed warlords. When this decentralized state policing was actively being practiced in Nigeria, the powerful regional premiers and governor did not use the men in uniform to fight actual crimes, protect the vulnerable, or secure the borders. Instead, these armed units were viciously deployed to aggressively rig regional elections on behalf of the ruling party, they were used to violently harass opposition candidates, they were dispatched to publicly humiliate, depose, and banish local traditional chiefs who were not completely loyal to the governor, they were weaponized to brutally crush peaceful tax protests, they were sent to extort market women, and they were transformed into ruthless, tribal hit squads.

These are absolutely not empty rumors or historical exaggerations. You can easily find these facts documented in any credible history book, academic journal, or archival record detailing Nigeria's political violence during the First Republic. This state-sanctioned madness, regional tyranny, and police brutality continued unchecked until the military intervened and the civilian government was violently removed from power. It was shortly after this total collapse of law and order that the military government, under General Yakubu Gowon, set up a specialized panel to deeply investigate the catastrophic state policing doctrine in Nigeria. Following the panel's stark, undeniable recommendations, the entire bloody sham of state, regional, and Native Authority policing was permanently dismantled, fully centralized into the Nigeria Police Force, and completely abolished in all its entirety. And that was supposed to be the absolute end of that monumental, deadly stupidity.

I am absolutely not a genius for pointing this out. All of this basic historical information spilled out here is public knowledge. U.S. politicians like Riley Moore and the foreign lobbyists pushing this agenda have all the intimate details, the historical data, and the risk assessments. Our utterly shameless, cash-and-carry media houses, who are subliminally brainwashing the public into believing that state policing is somehow going to magically empower state governors to tackle insecurity, fully know, see, and understand every single thing I am saying. They are deliberately ignoring the truth and merely reading the highly sanitized, deceptive scripts handed directly to them by their wealthy political paymasters, foreign grant-makers, and corporate sponsors, all just to comfortably convince exhausted Nigerians to blindly accept this suicidal Bill. When this legislative poison is finally codified into law, and Nigeria inevitably splinters, fractures, and gets violently reduced to a chaotic, warring wasteland like Libya, Somalia, or Sudan (which is absolutely not impossible), these exact foreign cartels, multinational mining syndicates, and global power brokers pushing so hard for this Bill will finally have all the chaotic time, the ungoverned space, and the perfect distraction in the world to violently, ruthlessly milk the trillion-dollar solid minerals buried deep in the Middle Belt region, the vast gold reserves in Zamfara, the lithium deposits in Nasarawa, and the endless, fertile lands of Northern Nigeria.

Every single Nigerian needs to urgently wake up, join hands together right now, and unilaterally, aggressively, and violently condemn, expose, and reject this utterly demonic, sovereignty-destroying bill before it is too late.

[Jumanne Mtambalike @Afruturist]

Why Africa needs more Dangotes...

For decades, Africa’s understanding of transformational leadership has been overwhelmingly political. The continent has often looked to presidents, liberation movements and state institutions as the primary engines of national progress. Yet the rise of figures such as suggests that another form of leadership may prove just as consequential: industrial leadership.

One of the enduring failures of post-independence Africa has been the tendency to politicise nearly everything. Economic transformation, industrialisation and even innovation have too often been viewed through a political rather than a productive lens. In many countries, political power became the principal route to influence, while the creation of globally competitive enterprises remained secondary.

Dangote’s emergence challenges that orthodoxy. Here is an African industrialist whose decisions influence energy markets, trade flows, manufacturing capacity and even strategic policy discussions across the continent. His success demonstrates that African entrepreneurs can shape national destinies not merely through speeches or elections, but through factories, supply chains, logistics networks and productive capital.

The lesson is larger than one man. No country has achieved lasting prosperity without building powerful domestic enterprises. America had Carnegie and Ford; South Korea had Samsung and Hyundai; India had Tata and Reliance. Industrial capability, not political rhetoric alone, ultimately determines whether nations rise.

Africa therefore needs to create more Dangotes, not simply billionaires, but builders of productive industries. That requires a business environment where long-term investment is rewarded, infrastructure functions, regulation is predictable and entrepreneurs are treated as strategic national assets rather than political accessories.

Perhaps the continent’s next great transformation will not come solely from State House, but from factories, research labs, logistics hubs and technology firms built by Africans themselves. And perhaps, in time, such business leadership may also become a catalyst for healthier politics, stronger institutions and a more self-confident continent.

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

NO SOVEREIGNTY WITHOUT OWNERSHIP

Nigeria, if you must be free, you must own this and here is why.

Media : to control narratives

Financial infrastructure : to control finances and curb corruption

Data centers : to own and manage national data sovereignty

Education : to shape curricula free from Western ideological framing

Energy infrastructure : to power industry and development independently

Food systems : to reduce dependence on imported food and GMO supply chains

Defense and security : to resist coercion through military self-reliance

Telecommunications : to own the networks data travels through

Legal and judicial frameworks : to resist external arbitration and treaty leverage

Central banking and monetary policy : to resist IMF/World Bank conditionalities

Natural resource processing : to refine and export finished goods, not raw materials

Technology and software infrastructure : to avoid backdoors and dependency on foreign platforms

Healthcare and pharmaceutical supply chains : to control drug production and medical research locally

Space and satellite infrastructure : to own communication and surveillance capabilities above Nigerian skies

Constitutional and electoral systems : to resist foreign-funded election interference and NGO manipulation

No sovereignty without ownership.

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

This is why you have to strip yourself of Eurocentrism. If your exposure to global history is limited to a Western point of view, then you’re missing a great deal of important detail.

I could look at this picture alone and write a dissertation on China versus Europe, on how differences in resource distribution, political structure, and cultural outlook helped shape colonial attitudes and their lasting impact on the world today.

Historically, China often operated from a position of relative abundance and self-sufficiency, especially during its strongest dynasties. It held its civilization in very high regard and viewed itself as the center of the world, prioritizing internal stability and regional influence over sustained intercontinental expansion.

They hardly suffered from a lack of capacity; they had formidable naval and economic power. There were literally Chinese pirates with fleets rivaling those of some powerful European states, this is not an exaggeration.

Of course, they had some periods of outward engagement but they were followed by deliberate withdrawal, and most of the expansion they did was continental or tributary rather than overseas or settler-colonial.

Western Europe, by contrast, was relatively constrained in land and resources and remained politically fragmented for much of its history. Competition between states, combined with commercial ambition, greed, their fascination with mercantilism cum capitalism and some advances in navigation which China had way before them, helped drive maritime expansion and, in many cases, exploitation abroad.

Many don't know that, for a time, Europe was deeply fascinated by Chinese goods, from porcelain, prized as a luxury, to tea, silk, and more. Meanwhile, China maintained controlled trade and had limited interest in European goods beyond silver. In response to this imbalance, British traders introduced and expanded the opium trade to disrupt and eventually decimate Chinese society.

China had the capacity to project power more broadly, but global domination was never a sustained objective. Its priorities were shaped more by internal governance and regional order than by overseas empire-building. I don't think much has changed in their approach to geopolitics, even today.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israel apologists tell us Zionism is simply Jews having "a state on their ancestral lands".

As if we hadn't been here innumerable times before.

Apartheid was simply white Afrikaners having "a state to civilise the African continent".

Nazism was simply Germans having "a state in which they could grow organically".

Racist ideologies always have a sales pitch to bystanders, designed to distract from the litany of crimes they inflict on others.

[Godswill Wali @MrWizard001]

@laura8blum The people in the comments can't even see the sarcasm in her reply. She's using the exact playbook isreal used for Hamas in Gaza lol

[Iconuzor @icons_closet]

Nothing has contributed more to the docility, selfishness, and extreme individualism we see in Nigeria today than Nigerian pastors.

For decades many of them have trained people to look inward instead of outward. Everything is about personal breakthrough, personal blessing, personal protection, personal prosperity. Very little is said about civic responsibility, justice, accountability, or standing up for the vulnerable.

A society cannot build a healthy collective culture when its most influential voices constantly preach survival and personal miracles instead of duty to one another.

So people retreat into themselves.
Pray for yourself.
Protect your own.
Secure your own breakthrough.

And slowly the idea of community, sacrifice, and shared responsibility disappears.

If you train millions of people to believe that every problem is spiritual and every solution is personal prayer, you should not be surprised when those same people become passive in the face of real world problems.