Maryam Abdullahi

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[gst @wearegst]

The government is letting the police harass you.

[Abuja Streets @abujastreets]

Ashewo for Abuja dey complain say dem no dey get customers again.😭😭

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

@Ozedikus Hmm, this one touch me

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

@hypetribeng Him friends no wan dey tell am the truth, fake friends everywhere 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

@AsakyGRN The rate at which pastors like this prosper in Nigeria says a lot about our collective intelligence and our tolerance for stupidity and ragebaiting, mumu plenty for this country.

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

@AsakyGRN Let him stop his receding hairline na 1🤣

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

Do the rich ones want y'all?

[Nancy🧸 ᥫ᭡ @NancyNenkang]

So guys. Go make some money cus we only choose the rich ones here 😜

[𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑮𝑬𝑵𝑬𝑹𝑨𝑳 𝑺𝑵𝑶𝑾 🇨🇮 @GeneralSnow_]

Where is the President????
This is actually our position right now!
#WhereIsTinubu

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

@iamChigoo

[Crazy Codes🚀👨‍💻 @richsongocrazy]

Here is the video.

[Dami’ Adenuga @DAMIADENUGA]

Nollywood don buy serious market from this guy 🙆🏽‍♂️😂

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

The Rumuosi clip is a small picture of a larger pattern: when prayer is treated as a substitute for action, people lose time they cannot get back.

The damage is not “belief in God.” It is the habit of treating every emergency as a spiritual test first and a physical problem second. In the street video, smoke is already in the air and people are standing in it with raised hands. That same reflex shows up in hospitals. Nigerian doctors have described patients arriving with advanced tumours, malaria, diabetes, and obstetric complications after weeks or months in prayer houses. A 2016 case series in *The Nigerian Journal of General Practice* documented tumours that became harder to treat because families took the sick person to a ministry first. Lagos oncologists have said the same thing for years: a large share of cancer patients present late partly because a prayer house felt cheaper and more hopeful than a hospital.

That delay is the mechanism. Faith healing first is associated with later-stage disease. Reporting across Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda has repeatedly found patients told to drop insulin, antiretrovirals, or chemotherapy after a pastor declared them healed. Some of those “healings” were staged. The BBC’s investigation of T.B. Joshua showed fabricated medical certificates and choreographed miracles sold to people who then skipped real treatment. When the 2014 Synagogue guesthouse collapsed and killed more than 100 people, the public story was spiritual attack, not the documented structural failure. Fatalism plus authority is a dangerous mix: if the prophet says God will handle it, questioning the building, the fire, or the diagnosis starts to feel like unbelief.

There is a second, quieter cost. Nigeria ranks among the most prayerful countries on earth, yet prayer has not produced the development people ask for. High daily prayer rates sit beside weak public services, expensive private care, and a prosperity-gospel industry that sells oils, water, and “seed” as substitutes for skill, savings, and institutions. People spend scarce money on the spectacle and arrive at the clinic broke *and* late. Poverty and a broken health system push them there; churches that monetise desperation keep them there.

The honest counterpoint matters. Many religious people call an ambulance, take their children to hospital, and still pray. Congregations also fund schools, food, and burial support the state does not provide. The harm is not religion as such. It is the version that treats reason as a rival instead of a tool: the version that says “God of Elijah, bring water” while the building burns, and that calls a doctor only after the miracle fails.

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

Nigeria doesn’t have a sex-before-marriage problem. It has a **hypocrisy problem**.

The official line from pulpit, mosque, and family WhatsApp group is still “wait until the white wedding.” Meanwhile a large share of unmarried young people already have sex, marriage keeps getting later because of money, and the same men who demand a virgin often have a body count they treat as a joke. The taboo didn’t stop the sex. It just made it secret, poorly planned, and unevenly punished.

The controversy isn’t “is it a sin.” That’s settled in the religion most people claim. The controversy is this: a rule that only the woman has to visibly keep, while society shrugs at the man, is not morality. It’s property management dressed up as holiness. That’s why “virginity culture” keeps exploding online and why the hardline “never, under any circumstances” camp is no longer the majority in younger urban surveys — even if Sunday morning still sounds like 1985.

You can believe sex belongs in marriage. Plenty of Nigerians do, and some live it. What’s hard to defend is pretending the country still runs on that rule when it clearly doesn’t — then acting shocked when the bill arrives as pregnancy, shame, or a marriage built on a lie.

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

Tinubu did what every president before him refused to do: he killed the fuel subsidy and floated the naira on day one. Those were the correct, overdue moves. They also delivered the worst cost-of-living shock in a generation.

Petrol jumped from about ₦185 to ₦1,100–₦1,400. Inflation peaked above 34 percent. Poverty rose. Households got crushed first. The government got higher revenues, a narrower deficit, stronger reserves, and a stock market that went from ~53,000 to 250,000. Investors noticed. Most Nigerians did not feel the “recovery.”

The reforms were necessary. The sequencing and the safety net were not. Three years later the books look healthier and the people look poorer. That is the record, not the campaign speech.

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

**Religion is humanity’s most successful social technology, and the gods are the user interface.**

That is the part that tends to annoy everyone.

Believers hear “it’s just psychology and coordination” and feel it strips the sacred out. Hard atheists hear “successful technology” and feel it gives religion too much credit. Both reactions miss the same thing: the metaphysical claims and the social function are not the same object.

### What the evidence actually points to
Humans are unusually good at two things that other animals are not: living in huge anonymous groups, and dying while knowing they will die. Religion is the oldest scalable answer to both. It supplies shared stories, costly rituals that signal commitment, moral rules that can be enforced without a police state, and a story about what happens after the body stops. Those functions show up across cultures that never contacted each other. That pattern is more interesting than any particular scripture.

The supernatural layer is the part that does not survive contact with evidence in the way chemistry or germ theory does. Prayer studies, intercessory healing trials, young-earth geology, and the historical records of the major faiths all look like products of their time rather than revelations from outside it. That does not make the social machinery fake. It makes the machinery *human*.

### Why this is uncomfortable
If religion is primarily a coordination and meaning technology, then two popular stories become harder to tell.

One story says religion is the root of morality and that without it society collapses into nihilism. The counter-examples are obvious: high-trust, low-religiosity societies exist, and some of the most religious periods in history were also spectacularly violent. Morality is older than any living church.

The other story says religion is a net parasite that we can simply delete. That underestimates how hard it is to replace belonging, ritual, and a shared answer to “why bother?” Secular substitutes—nationalism, political ideology, wellness culture, fandom—keep reinventing the same shapes, often with worse epistemology and less humility about death.

### The live tension
The honest position is narrower than either camp likes: the truth-claims of the major religions are almost certainly false in the ordinary empirical sense, *and* the human needs they address are real. Treating the first fact as a reason to sneer at the second is just as sloppy as treating the second as proof of the first.

People will keep reaching for something that looks like religion because the universe does not come with a user manual and death does not come with a refund. The interesting question is not whether that impulse is “good” or “bad.” It is whether we can keep the coordination and the consolation without the parts that require you to pretend the evidence is other than it is.

[ᜰ @b0yaviator]

Me tweeting My audience

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

It's Monday again
All my games don cut
I did chores and laundry all weekend
Haven't recovered from last week's trauma (work wahala)
Well, what choice do i have than to keep pushing.
Make nobody sha ragebait me for this my workplace, body deg pepper me.

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

Ashawo settings
Yahoo settings
Beggi beggi settings
Olodo settings
Etc.....

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

Types of "settings"?

[Maryam Abdullahi @MummyFaruk]

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