What has Iran really done that is so unforgivable?
Did it invade continents?
Colonize half the earth?
Drop atomic bombs on civilians?
Build military bases around the globe?
Topple governments by the dozen?
Starve nations with sanctions and call it diplomacy?
No.
Its unforgivable act was simpler.
It refused to become manageable.
And for some rulers in the Muslim world, that refusal is more offensive than any Western crime, because it threatens the very terms of their own survival.
2010, Sneijder Şampiyonlar ligi alıyor, Iniesta Dünya Kupası alıyor ama gol sayısı daha fazla diye Messi ballon dor kazanıyor
2011, Ronaldo Messi'den daha fazla gol atıyor ama bu sefer de Şampiyonlar ligi önemli diye Messi ballon dor alıyor
2012, Ronaldo Messi'den daha fazla kupa kazanıyor ama kural yine Messi için değişip gol sayısı fazla olduğu için Messi ballon dor alıyor
2019, Salah ve Van Dijk harika bir Şampiyonlar ligi sezonu geçiriyor, Alisson Becker hem Şampiyonlar ligi hem Copa America kazanıyor ama gol sayısına bakarak yine Messi’ye ödül veriliyor
2021, kural yine değişiyor, Lewandowski gol sayısı olarak lider ama Copa America kazandığı için ödül Messi'ye veriliyor
2023, 2010 yılında önemi olmayan Dünya Kupası bu sefer önem kazanıyor Ve Manchester City'de hem Premier Lig hem de Şampiyonlar Ligi kazanan Haaland yerine ballon dor Messi'ye veriliyor
2026 ⌛
Hi @jidesanwoolu, @hanneymusawa
I'm deeply disappointed in your @lirs_govng team hounding Selar in the name of claiming creator royalty taxes. I turn 30 in Oct and I've spent the last 10 years building Selar, so this is what the youth mean by policies being created to crush growing businesses. We are the pioneering and largest creator company in Nigeria (Africa actually), and instead of being supported by the government, the LIRS team is keen on trying to scapegoat us to set a precident.
Beyond the huge numbers seen in the headlines, we are still a young company just trying to make our mark for the creator economy in a country where we've never been supported once, we're literally a bootstrapped company. In 2025 alone, we've fulfilled our tax obligation in almost 9 figures and we've never missed out on any of our tax obligation over the years. You can check the records.
We are a software company, we make our ecommerce software available to our thousands of creators in not just Nigeria but 13 other African countries and for that, we earn a small commission of 4%, most of which goes to our payment provider. This is the same business as shopify, teachable, e.t.c There is no reason LIRS is hounding us for a backdated 5% royalty fee on all sales when we've clearly explained our line of business to them and shared everything to prove we are not a royalty based business.
What they're asking us to do is raise our pricing to extort these funds from our creators which is odd considering our creators still pay taxes on their income. No creator company in the world charges as high as even 5%.
Also, less payment gateway charges we get 1-3% max, so where do we pay backdated 5% fees from?
The government would have to decide if it wants the Nigerian creative economy to grow or not.
This conversation is important to me because we pioneered this industry of monetizing digital products online in Nigeria and today we host over 400k creators selling using our platform.
This is an opportunity for the government to show it's committment to making Nigeria work for young Nigerians especially in the creator economy.
Time and money we should be spending investing into our business and it's growth for the GDP of this nation is being spent in long back and forth.
We can't catch up with the west if this is what we're facing at home. Above everything else, disputes like this are distracting from the real work.
If anything, for all our CSR contributions to the education system in the country with our Smart Hustle Anti fraud initiative and our other efforts, we should be getting tax rebates, but we're not even asking for anything but to be left alone to build our business.
Thank you.
"Nigeria is sweet to live in, if you have money"
For everytime a clip like this surface, I will remind you that this was once the utterance of a fool.
The only reason why anyone mouths the above statement is because of the degree of anyhowness permitted.
What you don't know about anyhowness is that, there's no way to scope it - it's projectile runs multiple round trips and eventually hits home. It will touch you.
Continue to make your millions of dollars while stamping support behind criminal state institutions who have intentionally institutionalized state-backed thuggery. You will reap the fruits.
At the shoots of your music videos, your movies, on your way to work, at your workplaces - you will all reap it.
This is just the beginning.
If citizens finds out about these crimes in our national budget
Who is to be held accountable? I mean what is the exact line of action other than calling them out and complaining
The 2026 World Cup is presently ongoing. Nigeria failed to qualify for the World Cup but the National Sports commission budgeted 6,440,000,000 ($4.6 million) as “Special presidential support group for 2026 World Cup qualifiers”
How???
I'm a nationalist and anti imperialist before anything else.
My socialist leanings are almost entirely hinged on one idea:
The levers of state and means of production should ALWAYS serve the interests of the state and it's citizens.
I believe that any group of oligarchs who seek to undermine the interests of the people, and therefore the people, in order to enrich or empower themselves should have their ears cuffed and given a stern lesson.
If they don't take the lesson, then toss them into a windowless underground cell for an indefinite amount of time until they learn the error of their ways.
But asides this, I think it's impractical...and even foolish for the state to micro manage every aspect of its citizens lives.
I do not believe in free housing for everyone with a pulse.
... Only free housing for the disabled and other vulnerable people who are genuinely incapable of affording their own homes.
I do not believe everyone should be paid the same wage.
A a nuclear physicist must earn far more than a kuli kuli seller.
I don't believe the state should pick your god, your partner, or your dreams.
Especially so in a country like ours. It's a recipe for disaster.
The job of the state is to level the playing field so the son of a kuli kuli seller gets subsidized access to public education, healthcare and opportunities.
... Enough to go toe to toe with the son of a CEO.
A classroom with an actual ceiling and windows shouldn't be a luxury for the elite.
Proper healthcare should never be so commoditized to the point where the masses are priced out of a sachet of Tylenol or an x-ray scan.
And while everyone gets comfortable leather seats and AC on the 250km/hr bullet train for dirt cheap...
If you want a private cabin with a dedicated tv and a complimentary glass of wine, well you'll pay a little extra.
Let get me get back on track:
Crucially I believe in complete sovereignty for my country.
I want the ability for us to act completely in our interests.
Any attempt at subverting this sacred right will be met with physical hostility where necessary.
I am uncompromising about this idea.
But asides these, I couldn't care less about the ism you choose.
I only care about results, and the objective improvement of the lives of my people at an acceptable cost (both now and in the future.)
A small personal reflection:
While I'm just a regular guy with nationalist dreams that are bigger than I am....
I doubt I'd make it very far among chest thumping, wild eyed, ideology-maddened revolutionaries.
I'm way too practical for this, and I'm no fan of dogma that sells itself as the one true lens with which to view the world.
It does not matter if a cat is black or white. As long as it catches mice.
Dear Nigerians, your country as you knNow it is gone.
An ex-minister from a country I can't name in this caption is boldly on Nigeria’s national TV discussing Nigeria’s national security.
This also proves my point the media is the biggest weapon fashioned against any meaningful movement in Africa.
I'm 31. I'll be 69 by the time Nigeria finish paying the 2015-2026 debts. This year alone, BAT has added $7.77bn this year alone.
So I made a tool that tells you how old you'll be when Nigeria finish servicing some of the 2015-2026 debts. Vote wisely.
https://t.co/zUCDgYm1oe
I don't mean this as some sort of gotcha for the OP, but really the entire World Cup should have been boycotted the moment the US prevented the Irani team from remaining in the country after every day. We are here precisely because no action was taken there.