Since the day @OsaGz has been hyping Pesa on @LooseTalkGiants, I didn’t create an account, na now wey I need transfer money to china I de run kiti kiti 🤦🏾♂️
I love when @Ankaman616 writes about United. You can feel his passion for the club, but he remains objective about the future.
Man Utd – and their impressive academy graduates – give Michael Carrick good questions to answer https://t.co/HyuXcZ2kn9
Years ago I pitched a YG cover to Complex. Months later it leaked online (blame a fellow blogger)…viral moment. YG retweeted, more viral. I was “called into the office” told it wasn’t a good look for the brand lol. Now years later, in time for today’s Verzuz…
I drove around Olusosun yesterday and it seemed the stench went 10x. Where in the world does that happen right in a city?
That’s apart from random trash all over the city as well as grown weeds. How can this be the standard of governance?
We cannot say how many people were in Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, this morning. But we are told, to one decimal place, that it will hold 88 million by 2100. Estimates of Lagos today run from about 11 to 21 million. A gap of 10 million human beings, and both numbers come from the same offices.
Nigeria last counted itself in 2006. The 1991 census was disputed when the total came in roughly a third lower than expected. In 1963, a recount conveniently surfaced an additional 8.5 million northerners after the first count threatened the wrong political balance.
Niger, routinely called the most fertile country on earth, last held a census in 2012. Its fertility rate is given as somewhere between six and seven children per woman, depending on which agency you ask. The number you read in headlines is a model's output, not the headcount you assumed it was.
Strip the figures away and most people are left holding a verb: overwhelm. It takes a projection, straightens it into a line, and calls the line a population wall moving toward the rest of the world. But the most-cited projections have already bent. When the UN revised its numbers in 2024, it moved the expected peak down, partly because fertility in parts of sub-Saharan Africa had fallen faster than the modelers expected.
As the Hoover Institution put it: no general statement about African demography is true. Fertility is rising in parts of North Africa, holding steady across the Sahel, and falling fast in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Kenya.
The number that will shape the next century, how many people, what they believe, the language they argue in, is being set right now by people whose births are not being recorded, in a city no one can count.