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There Is No Good Or Evil. There Is Only Power.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Nigeria-Morocco Pipeline: Development or Dependency?

The Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline is being hailed as "historic," but at what cost to Nigeria?

While the project promises cross-border cooperation, it risks repeating the old cycle of exporting raw resources while domestic energy needs go unmet.

True development shouldn't prioritize foreign energy security over powering our own industries and homes. We need to complete our domestic infrastructure before we build export routes for others.

[Olu The Cipher🌚 @OluCipher]

We need to start teaching our kids (because many adults are already gone) that colonial attitudes shaped how African belief systems were dismissed…

Example; European missionaries arrived in Yorubaland and saw priests, sacred sites, rituals, offerings, creation stories, and moral codes… They could have said, “This is another religion”, instead they called it paganism, superstitious belief or native custom…

They know it has its spirituality but their goal was conversion, not honest classification…

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Trump’s Latest Slip-Up Exposes Western Political Hypocrisy

The myth of Western political superiority lies in tatters. While the narrative often insists that political theatre - the rented crowds, the manufactured enthusiasm- is an exclusively African dysfunction, the reality is far more damning. When Donald Trump lets slip that his "Front Row Joes" are a paid performance, he exposes a system built on the very hypocrisy it projects onto our continent.

It is time to stop mirroring these failing Western models. Africa must look inward, cultivate its own political and moral integrity, and forge a path rooted in its own reality.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

A prominent Nigerian journalist is currently weeping on live television over the devastating economic hardship ravaging the country. According to his emotional outburst, Nigeria actively lent hundreds of millions of dollars to the IMF and the World Bank during the 1970s, but today, the country is plagued with a catastrophic budget deficit, a crippled currency, and must continuously beg and borrow from those same institutions just to balance the books.

However, as painful and tragic as this economic reality is, we must have the courage to call this exactly what it is: performative journalism. I consider every genuine, conscious intellectual in Africa to be an ideological soldier, whose sole duty, mandate, and historical responsibility is to shed uncompromising light on the structural truth, expose the mechanics of power, and push a relentless enlightenment campaign through their writings, broadcasts, and public speeches. Instead of shedding dramatic tears for the cameras, what Rufai Oseni should have actually done is use his massive national platform to remind Nigerians that this current crisis is simply another devastating form of neocolonialism.

In 1974, OPEC was the supreme, undisputed kingmaker in the global oil and gas industries, controlling international energy prices and dictating exactly how the world's most treasured energy resource should be managed. While many Western economies were struggling, suffocating, and facing severe recessions in the 1970s, OPEC nations like Nigeria were rapidly growing their foreign reserves, as hundreds of millions of dollars in cash-crop oil revenues flowed into our economy every single day. This was the exact moment Western banks and international financial institutions sent highly trained economic hitmen to these newly independent, oil-rich nations. They actively encouraged Nigeria to lend its massive capital to the IMF and the World Bank to help other struggling nations (which were almost exclusively Western European powers), and directly persuaded our leaders to invest their oil revenues back into European banks. Nigeria, under the naive, submissive leadership of General Yakubu Gowon, eagerly accepted this trap, sending hundreds of millions of dollars in interest-free loans to help stabilize the economies of Europe. At this highly lucrative point in our history, there was not a single functional domestic refinery in Nigeria, no world-class scientific research institutions, no robust road networks connecting remote agricultural villages to the cities, no stable electricity grids, no modern healthcare facilities, and no industrialized agricultural sectors. Yet, Nigeria was flatly told by Western economists that they were insanely rich and should be lending out their capital. Gowon enthusiastically agreed, notoriously boasting to the world: "We are so rich we don't know what to do with money."

Ironically, the moment oil prices crashed as OPEC's geopolitical influence weakened (due to massive new oil discoveries in the North Sea by the United Kingdom and Norway, and the Soviet Union rapidly ramping up production to become the largest producer on earth) the global financial-industrial complex closed its trap. The American Federal Reserve aggressively raised interest rates to unprecedented heights, triggering massive capital flight, a dollar squeeze, and a devastating global recession. Nigeria immediately began to feel the heat. Because our ruling class consisted largely of comprador elites who consistently put the financial interests of their colonial masters over the material well-being of their own people, and who had agreed to ship hundreds of millions of dollars to stabilize European economies without investing in local industries, domestic refineries, or robust educational systems, the country was hit with catastrophic force. The economy of the state was pushed to the absolute brink of collapse. It was at this precise, desperate moment that General Ibrahim Babangida was ushered into military power with full Western backing. He immediately ran to the IMF for emergency loans. This time, however, the IMF did not offer Nigeria the free, juicy, and interest-free loans that Nigeria had so generously lent to them in the 1970s. Instead, this bailout came with extortionate interest rates and highly humiliating, structural austerity measures known as the "Structural Adjustment Programme" (SAP). Under the SAP, the Nigerian state was forcefully compelled to remove vital subsidies, aggressively devalue the Naira, open up their local markets for foreign corporate cartels, systematically defund public education, and drastically cut funding for healthcare. This economic shock caused unprecedented, generational hardship, completely wiped out the emerging middle class, and permanently stifled the industrial growth of Nigeria.

So, instead of weeping and shedding theatrical tears on live TV, Rufai Oseni could have used his highly coveted platform to properly, structurally educate Nigerians on this neocolonial development. Our economic condition is indeed deeply gross, shameful, and painful beyond words, but we cannot afford to be emotional; we need to be strong, highly calculative, and analytically rigorous. We must understand that Nigeria cannot continue to operate on the temporary charisma of a single, isolated leader without a deeply institutionalized, scientific ideology. If our leaders continue to blindly adopt all the macroeconomic dogmas, currency floatations, and policy templates handed over to them from Washington, they will always operate an economy designed strictly to please their white colonial masters over the material welfare of their own people.

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

For those who are asking why Iran is not currently attacking Israel: it is important to remember that it is the U.S. air defense systems throughout the region, in the seas and straits, as well as the air defense systems of all Arab countries that intercept the majority of missiles heading in that direction.

🔻 The weaker the U.S. and Arab air defense systems become in the region, the higher the probability that Iranian missiles will reach Tel Aviv

[Sy Marcus Herve Traore @marcus_herve]

🛑🇧🇫- Captain Ibrahim Traore on why the government wants to control the flow of international students.

He said they are currently counting the number of Burkinabè students who are studying overseas. Out of 1000 students in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦, over 800 of them left the country without the government knowing.

Our embassy over there has no record of them. And guess what those 800 people are studying? Charia law and Islamic laws and none of them is learning a trade.

So, he asked: where are they intending to apply those laws? In Burkina Faso 🇧🇫? Not here. Captain said he is going to bring them back home, and if they refuse, then they are no longer Burkinabè.

Will your country ever address this? Radical islam is a cancer that needs to be addressed. If we pretend as if it’s not a threat to Africa, we are just fooling ourselves. Terrorism started with them. Remember, the imperialists are always using religion and ethnicism to divide Africans.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

The Uganda Law Society Bans Colonial Courtroom Etiquette

The Uganda Law Society’s move to strike down colonial courtroom rituals—such as bowing and honorifics is a direct challenge to the colonial architecture that continues to define African public institutions. For too long, these practices have enforced a hierarchy that keeps citizens in postures of subservience while placing judicial authority on an inaccessible pedestal.

Decolonizing our institutions requires us to confront the uncomfortable reality that many of our "standard" procedures were never designed to serve the people—they were designed to alienate them. By questioning these relics, the ULS is asking an important question for the entire continent: Are we ready to dismantle the systems that keep us rooted in the past, or will we continue to perform deference to a power structure that isn't our own?

True sovereignty begins when we stop mimicking the colonizer’s script and start writing our own.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

"Independence" on paper, but a colony in practice. 🌍🚨

​Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao exposes the silent military and cultural chains still binding Francophone Africa:

​The Mind: Your official language of instruction must be French.

​The Training: Your military can only be trained by France.

​The Equipment: Your weapons can only be bought from France.

​The Invasion Clause: France reserves the right to militarily intervene, without notice, to protect "French interests."

​If a nation cannot even choose its own language of instruction, train its own army or protect its borders from sudden external intervention, it is not sovereign—it is occupied.

​The awakening is here. The chains are breaking. ✊

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Even in FIFA there’s one rule for you (in Africa or the global south), there’s another for the West and there’s a special one for the United States.

On Sunday when Argentina face Spain in the final, FIFA will bend its rules once again to accommodate America.

This is why you should never feel any guilt breaching international rules.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

As they say in South Africa, if you beat the dog, the owner will come out.

The 'owner' of South Africa's current problems has finally come out.

[chief sọm @chisomholic]

"I have seen the graves of those who didn't fight fearing they will die." - Ernesto Che Guevara

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Danpullo Bets $900 Million on Airline and Two Airports in Central Africa

Baba Ahmadou Danpullo, one of the continent’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, is making a historic move to reshape regional connectivity.

By pouring 500 billion FCFA into a new private airline and the construction of two airports in Douala and Yaoundé, Danpullo is tackling one of the region’s most persistent development bottlenecks: the high cost and difficulty of travel.

This development will show that African private capital can succeed where state-led efforts have struggled. Much like the industrial projects seen in Nigeria, this venture aims to link the CEMAC bloc—Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, CAR, and Chad—fostering trade, tourism, and business mobility that has been hampered for decades.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

If up to a million people in Lagos are economically empowered to a net worth of one billion Naira each, and they are empowered without adding any value in the system, I promise you, unless you are part of this N1b bracket, you will not be able to afford a self-con anywhere in Lagos.

If somehow these one million Lagosians actually created real value to be worth N1,000,000,000,000 each, then I promise you, no part of Nigeria will be in poverty.

We need to take economic literacy seriously in this country. We really need to.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Burkina Faso Creates State-Owned CIM-SAHEL To Regulate Cement Prices

In a move to curb speculation on cement prices, and shield the country’s national development from the whims of capitalism, the Burkinabé government has approved the creation of CIM-SAHEL, a state-owned, $8.7 million capitalized cement company, which will ensure this crucial commodity remains accessible to Burkinabé builders.

The government made this decision in a cabinet meeting on July 2, 2026, marking another important step on Burkina Faso’s path to sovereign development.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Jeffrey Sachs: MI6, DGSE, and CIA Can’t Stop Pan-Africanism This Time - That Era Is Over!

According to American economist and author Jeffrey Sachs, the first wave of Pan-Africanism which birthed African independence and liberation movements in the 2nd half of the 20th century, was stopped from outside through the combined efforts of the US, British and French intelligence services working together to ass*ssinate African leaders and disrupt the process of independent African state formation.

This interruption, Sachs says, is no longer sustainable because these intelligence agencies no longer have the power and the narrative upper hand, and Africa increasingly now has the ability to defend itself. Sachs advises Africa to focus on building out a continent-wide legal and infrastructural framework to boost cooperation and trade in such a manner that would create an economic miracle similar to that of China.

[Ogor Peters @esetwits]

@DavidHundeyin I couldn’t agree more with you. I mean if there was an award for jackass of the year 2026 this weird idiot Graham won it in March with a wide margin. I don’t understand what Rufai means by this. Ass licking I say.

[chuka_facts @Chuka_Facts]

This guy acts like he is a Democrat in America and he's happy that a Republican has died. It's crazy because you will never see American politicians comment about party politics in a different country. It never happens ever.

In Nigerians always think that knowing about the politics and other countries, specifically America for some weird reason, makes them more global looking or more advanced. It's like we have this unhealthy obsession with America. We see ourselves as inferior to America for some weird reason even though we are almost the same size as America. I was even in a space where a Nigerian called America our daddy. The shit is weird as fuck.

But I think this weird behavior is because we look at Nigeria as outside of us or some structure that was super imposed on us. We don't look at Nigeria as truly ours. We aren't nationalistic at all. It's like we are a whole bunch of different people in this superposition called Nigeria. Until we embed Nigeria into our hearts and minds and identity, this type of inferiority escapism will continue to happen sadly

[Degeneracy Bobby @DegeneracyBobby]

@DavidHundeyin This fellow is a weasel that have tasted the europeans embassies Kool-Aid and travel package in #Nigeria

These embassies across black nations #africa are nothing but command&control centres for grooming monsters for the kakistocracy of kleptocracy to keep the colonialism going.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Low self-esteem is what is worrying a lot of you.

Because even though you are on their payroll, they definitely did not ask you to do this. If someone buys your mouth, you don't have to add your yansh to the deal for free.

Very somehow people called Nigerian journalists.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

The West Protects Africans Who Steal From Africa, But Prosecutes Those Who Steal From The West

In the latest testament to the imbalance of power between the West and Africa, a Ghanaian citizen has been extradited to the US over fraud-related charges, even as the same US is actively protecting another Ghanaian citizen, who is wanted on corruption charges in Ghana.

Yes. Really.