Promise Obasi

Igbo • PharmD • Bard •

[Promise Obasi @Promise_cee]

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27/07/2004

Obama was introduced to the American people.

That night in Boston.. He delivered a speech so good that experts say:

"Without that speech, he wouldn't have been President"

I've spent 7 hrs dissecting it.

And it's one of the best VSL's I've seen

A 9mins read. 🧵

[Renny🇵🇹 @R_nnyu]

In years to come there’s no edit coming close to this everrrrr,the transition is sickkkkkkkk 🥶

[Promise Obasi @Promise_cee]

@ScrabbleGM 1 year, compressed..

[Promise Obasi @Promise_cee]

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Currently 1600+ on Lichess..
Haven't read any books or even learnt the board notations.

As long as I keep winning people rated higher than me, I'll get to 2000. Just with time.

[THE BIG PUTIN @ScrabbleGM]

If you play Chess and you're currently rated below 1700, Quit! There's no hope for you...

[Promise Obasi @Promise_cee]

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Smooth
#chess

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Every man should learn Chess

[Yehgha @yaygha]

During that Christland school girl saga, one of my tweets was mass reported. Twitter then restricted my account and gave me the option to delete the 'offending' tweet to regain access.

I had chaotic internal deliberations over it for some time and in the end, I deleted it.

Immediately after, I felt myself losing virtue

I felt gagged
I felt like a coward
felt I had betrayed myself
felt I had cowered in the face of consequence
felt my illustrious slave owning ancestors look down on me in disappointment regret and contempt.

Couldn't shake the feeling, so I asked myself

"What's the worst thing that can happen if I make that same tweet again"

"You lose an account with 14k followers"

Was the answer

Small price to pay

So I made the tweet again.

A couple hours later, the account got suspended.

Saw the pop up notification on the bottom right corner of my screen while working and swelled with pride

Because I had redeemed myself, regained my dignity and the respect of my ancestors

I had stood on business until the very end - the business here being going against concensus and saying what I believe to be true irrespective of how much it costs me.

Moral of the story:

Those who say they want a better Nigeria

Those who admonish others to get their pvc, have refused to realise that the Nigeria they want will not happen via the ballot box.

We have been trying that channel for decades across republics. It doesn't work

So the Nigeria they want - or more realistically, the version of Nigeria they want - whatever name it is called, will have to be payed for in blood

A lot of it

2027 will come, Tinubu will 'win' - Whatever 'win' means

And we will either tweet about it over a weekend, and resume work on the Monday that follows

Or we will make the country ungovernable until he steps down. Shots will ring out, blood will spill, mothers will cry but that is the only way

If we are not willing or able to do that; to suffer, to sacrifice, to bleed, then we do not want a country that works

Our desire for a better Nigeria, is in a fundamental sense, like my belief in the freedom of speech:

It is only as meaningful as the price we are willing to pay for it.

If we are not willing to suffer for it, we do not want it.

Desire without sacrifice is wishful thinking

and if wishes were horses...

[Promise Obasi @Promise_cee]

@yaygha If blood has held us captive, only blood can redeem us.

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"For Hailey, who, everytime I see her, leaves me more amazed.
For Dawson, who, everytime I see him, leaves me more convinced he will do great things.
For Leia, who, everytime I see her, leaves me a happier man."

-Robert B. Cialdini

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Ronaldo is closer to Werner than he is to Messi.

[𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐊 @TheMahleek]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the gap between Messi and Ronaldo is wide, too wide.

[Promise Obasi @Promise_cee]

@enyinna_ Think you mistyped lawyers

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@Eren_Jaeg3r 🙌🏽

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I just might be back.
#chess

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No matter how long it takes, I'll be waiting for the only one that can make Afrobeats feel like it's 2019/2020 again.
I'll be waiting for Serotonin.

[Promise Obasi @Promise_cee]

@nneamaka_orji Immakwa!!

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@KingTaofeeq_ 🔂

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@PharmWise Economics, Data Analysis etc

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Oh, to dream again,
To laugh out loud like a child again.

[Promise Obasi @Promise_cee]

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Nigerians only unite in the face of an external aggressor.
We are ultimately too divided to bring about a change via revolution in this country.

Therefore, it is an intelligent assumption that we are onwards a downward slope with no ray of light.

🧵

[Ernest O. Jésùyẹmí @ErnestJesuyemi]

“‘Do you want’—I want nothing more
Than to be free of myself, Lord.”

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This!
The most powerful men worship Baal and sacrifice kids on islands
This magnitude of darkness exists because an even greater light has perpetually persisted
You may have questions as to why the source of light has turned blind to these evil, but do not deny it's existence.

[The African Times @GReinassanceA]

the Light because a shadow can only exist if there is a light casting it.

Think of a criminal who prints counterfeit hundred-dollar bills. Why does he do it? He does it because he knows that somewhere out there, a real central bank exists, and real hundred-dollar bills hold

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@pam_isdatchicc Yeah.. it's slower to grow but if you do it right, you may never have to show your face.