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[Oyíndà @yorubachic]

See how they resisted colonialism. Even in atheism they still honour their ancestors. The “woke” Yorubas we have here are still calling their ancestors demonic in 2026. #FreeMyPeople

[Oyíndà @yorubachic]

I pity the future of Yorubas in Nigeria. We’re losing these practices, and even actively calling it demonic. I’ve not seen any recent mainstream Yoruba wedding doing any of these.

[The Yoruba Times @TheYorubaTimes]

Dear Layi Wasabi,

We have watched your skit. We have listened to the laughter it generated. And we are deeply, profoundly disappointed.

You took the name of Esu, a sacred and revered deity in Yoruba cosmology, and used it as a prop for cheap comedy. You turned a figure of cosmic order, justice, and moral balance into a punchline. That is not creativity. That is cultural sacrilege. That is an insult to every Yoruba person who holds their heritage sacred.

Let us be unequivocal. Esu is not Satan. He is not evil. He is not a figure of mockery. The false association of Esu with the devil is a colonial fabrication, a distortion that has been used for over 140 years to demonise Yoruba spirituality. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s translation of the Bible into Yoruba, while a monumental achievement in many respects, unfortunately cemented this error by equating Esu with Satan. This single act of mistranslation has caused immeasurable harm, leading generations of Yoruba people to misunderstand and fear a deity who is, in truth, a messenger of justice, a guardian of order, and a force for balance in the universe.

For decades, traditionalists, scholars, and cultural custodians have laboured tirelessly to correct this historical injustice. They have written books, given lectures, and engaged in public discourse to restore the true image of Esu. They have explained that Esu is not a demon but a fundamental spiritual entity who ensures that the cosmic scales remain balanced. They have reminded us that Esu is honoured, not feared; respected, not reviled.

And you, in a few seconds of content, have undone years of that work. You have reinforced a harmful stereotype. You have given new life to a colonial lie. You have told millions of Yoruba people that their faith is a joke, their deity a clown, their heritage a punchline.

You may not have intended harm. But intention does not erase impact. Ignorance is not an excuse. And the fact that you may not have known the full weight of what you were doing does not absolve you of responsibility.

This is not about censorship. This is about respect. You have the right to create. You have the right to express yourself. But you do not have the right to degrade our culture, mock our faith, or trivialise our heritage in the process.

We demand a public apology. We demand the removal of that skit. And we demand that you educate yourself before you speak on matters you do not understand.

Your platform is large. Your influence is real. Use it wisely. Because if you continue down this path, you will not only lose the respect of your people, you will lose your relevance.

Yoruba culture is not a prop. It is not a joke. It is our lifeblood. Honour it. Or stay away from it.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Now that Elon Musk is officially a trillionaire, people have predictably begun punching calculators and writing incredibly naive think pieces to estimate the exact fraction of his hoarded wealth needed to magically end global hunger and solve the desperately growing refugee crisis across the globe.

This is a mistake because no amount of money can ever end global hunger. This is strictly because global hunger is not a natural phenomenon or an accident of geography. It is purely artificial, systematically manufactured, violently enforced, and perfectly designed to serve the greedy, insatiable interests of the global capitalist network.

It is terrifyingly estimated that more than 10 million people are at risk of brutal starvation in Sudan, but absolutely nobody calculates how many unmarked helicopters are flown in daily to drop advanced weapons, supply rebel factions, fund proxy wars, and smuggle out precious minerals from Sudan. Nobody estimates the sheer number of illegal, heavily armed mining cartels deep in the Sudanese forests digging out their gold, uranium, lithium, and rare earth minerals just to sustain the glittering global tech empires. Nobody ever talks about how their supposedly sovereign leaders are carefully selected, heavily funded, forcefully installed, and militarily protected by ruthless Western powers.

Northern Nigeria has some of the most fertile, arable, and naturally blessed lands in the entire world, yet a disproportionate, staggering majority of the population is currently suffocating in multidimensional poverty. These people are absolutely not lazy. They proudly built towering groundnut pyramids, dominated the global cotton market, exported premium skins, sustained massive trans-Saharan trade routes, and fed the entire region long before the parasitic colonizers ever set foot on the pristine shores of Africa. No amount of Western charity aid will ever solve the current hunger crisis in Nigeria because it is artificially, deliberately manufactured to violently sack the indigenous population from their ancestral soil, steal their resources, and extract their raw wealth to power the glittering nuclear reactors, electric grids, defense systems, and luxury economies in Europe. It is the exact same playbook in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Congolese child is now completely covered in toxic cobalt dust, beaten with rifles, and forced into modern chattel slavery just so that the global tech empires can have cheap, uninterrupted access to the critical minerals required to build their ultra-modern microchips, electric batteries, defense drones, and sleek smartphones.

Now, this brutal analysis is only for a few select states in Africa. We can obviously, easily extend it to the entire Global South to further demonstrate that this so-called global hunger is a heavily weaponized tool, deliberately manufactured and sustained simply to pacify the psychotic greed of the global capitalists. As for the well-meaning, emotionally driven individuals who are blindly donating their hard-earned money in good conscience to these massive international organizations and flashy NGOs who are supposedly fighting to eradicate hunger: thank you for your charitable donations, but please urgently understand that these bloated organizations are absolutely not fighting hunger. In many horrific cases, they directly help smuggle the bullets, provide diplomatic cover, launder the conflict blood money, and deliver the guns to the exact same ruthless rebel groups that violently forced these innocent people off their fertile lands such as in Zaire in 1994 where humanitarian agencies actively fed, shielded, and effectively rearmed genocidal Hutu militias. In Haiti in 2010, these exact same international organizations and supposed UN peacekeepers recklessly poisoned the main rivers with untreated sewage water and directly caused a horrific cholera outbreak that resulted in the agonizing death of over 10,000 Haitians.
Look at the Central African Republic in 2014, where supposed international peacekeepers and foreign aid workers were violently implicated in the mass sexual abuse of starving, desperate children. Another painful example is the state of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021, where billions in Western humanitarian aid were shamelessly funneled directly into the deep pockets of corrupt regional warlords and terrorist proxies. All of these broken nations are direct, undeniable victims of this predatory, disaster-capitalism NGO complex.

So it is crucially important to loudly emphasize that these people cannot feed themselves not because they are inherently lazy, intellectually inferior, financially illiterate, or geographically cursed, but strictly because the violent economic conditions that have been artificially created, structurally engineered, and brutally enforced upon them make it mathematically impossible for anyone to truly function, thrive, or even survive. It is the exact same tragic story with other African nations. They can easily govern themselves, build state-of-the-art facilities, construct bullet trains, and fund massive social welfare programs, but the suffocating, neocolonial government systems violently imposed on them make it completely impossible for anyone to genuinely, independently govern a sovereign nation. Instead of wasting time doing useless mathematics to estimate the tiny fraction of a billionaire's hoarded wealth that would supposedly end global hunger, channel that fierce, righteous energy into genuinely fighting against global imperialism, neocolonialism, and Western financial terrorism. That money you are emotionally donating to the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and other bloated Western NGOs is absolutely never going into the pockets of the actual victims of these engineered disasters. It always ends up in the deep pockets of the globalists, who eventually use it to fund their massive administrative overheads, pay their expatriate salaries, and manufacture even more lucrative regional disasters. So instead, find a genuine, grassroots anti-imperialist movement, donate directly to them, and aggressively empower the oppressed people to physically kick out the imperialists, overthrow the comprador elites, and regain absolute control of their stolen farmlands, their gold mines, and their oil fields. This is exactly what will actually help those people, this is exactly what China ruthlessly did to secure its dignity, and this is the absolute only permanent solution.

[Eazzy_Ayo🫧🏆 @Eazzy_Ayo622121]

Yoruba religion is about to rise on a very large scale its very evident......the Muslims knows this and that's why they've been attacking anything Yoruba culture unprovoked, whether they want or not what they're scared of is manifesting and they can't stop it.

[Sahori Gamez @SahoriIfamosun]

Awon omo Yorùbá wa kaakiri gbogbo agbaye

Isese to the world in the World Cup

[Segun Alao @SegunAlaow6]

@THEFACESOFISLAM This is absolute madness

[ISLAMIC-NEWS @THEFACESOFISLAM]

THE SCARY PART OUT LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!

How Modern Jihadist Groups Are Actively Accelerating the Twelfth Imam’s Return

From Al-Qaeda to ISIS, from Hezbollah to the Iranian regime, from Al-Shabaab to the Houthis in Yemen, devout believers across both Sunni and Shia lines are not passively waiting for the end times. They are deliberately working to bring them about.

Whether they follow the Twelfth Imam doctrine or its Sunni counterpart, these groups share a core belief: the world must be plunged into chaos, bloodshed, and total war before the Mahdi can return and establish global Islamic rule. The more death, the better. The more countries they destabilize, the closer they believe paradise comes.

This isn't random terrorism. It's strategic eschatology. Every suicide bombing, every beheading video, every attack on civilians is seen as a sacred act speeding up the divine timeline. By creating the very hell on earth described in the prophecies, they believe they are forcing the Mahdi's hand and proving their devotion.

ISLAMIC ESCHATOLOGY: THE TWELFTH IMAM AND THE BLOODSHED BEFORE HIS RETURN

In Twelver Shia Islam, the doctrine surrounding Muhammad al-Mahdi is not some distant theological footnote. It is a powerful, terrifying engine that drives millions of believers to see global chaos, slaughter, and mass killing as necessary stepping stones to ultimate victory.

This is not peaceful anticipation. This is a belief system that frames horrific violence as divinely ordained preparation for the Mahdi’s return. The world must first descend into absolute hell, rivers of blood must flow, and only then will the hidden Twelfth Imam emerge to finish what Muhammad started.

The Twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, is currently in major occultation, having disappeared in 941 C.E. Shia doctrine teaches he remains alive, watching humanity, waiting for the exact moment appointed by Allah. When that moment comes, he will rise with a sword and an army to conquer the earth.

But before that glorious return, the signs are unmistakable and drenched in bloodshed. Traditional Shia sources describe a world drowning in evil, where Muslims are slaughtered, women are taken captive, and entire cities are destroyed. Only after this apocalyptic bloodbath will the Mahdi appear to exact revenge and establish total Islamic domination.

One of the most chilling figures in this end-times scenario is the Sufyani, a ruthless tyrant expected to rise from Syria. Shia tradition paints him as a monster who will murder countless innocent Muslims, particularly descendants of the Prophet’s family. He will cut open women’s bellies, crucify believers, and unleash mass slaughter across the Middle East.

His campaign of terror is not presented as a tragedy to avoid, but as an inevitable sign that the Mahdi’s arrival is near. In other words, the worse things get, the closer the faithful are to their deliverer. This belief turns every atrocity into a hopeful omen for true believers.

Another terrifying sign is the appearance of the Yamani, a warrior leader from Yemen who will rise as a righteous commander for the Mahdi. He will call people to join the fight and march with an army that will leave trails of blood. The battles he and the Mahdi’s forces wage are not limited or restrained.

They are total war. Entire populations that refuse to submit will face the sword. The Mahdi himself is described as filling the earth with justice and equity after it has been filled with oppression and tyranny, which in practical terms means conquering and subjugating all who stand in the way of Shia Islamic rule.

The most disturbing element is how this eschatology is actively used today to justify violence and expansion. Radical Shia militias across Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon see current conflicts as the literal unfolding of these end-times prophecies.

Every battle, every execution, every act of sectarian slaughter is interpreted as part of the divine script leading to the Mahdi’s return. This is not abstract theology.

This is a worldview that transforms murder, rape, and conquest into sacred duties. When fighters believe they are helping birth the Mahdi’s global caliphate, there are no limits to the horror they are willing to inflict.

This belief system creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of violence. The more chaos, death, and suffering Muslims experience, the more convinced the faithful become that the Mahdi is almost here. Peace and stability actually work against the prophecy.

Only through escalating global conflict can the final Imam appear. That is why calls for moderation or coexistence are often viewed with suspicion by hardliners. True victory demands rivers of blood first.

The Twelfth Imam is expected to emerge in Mecca, raise a black flag, and begin his conquest. He will be accompanied by Jesus, who in this telling will break the cross, kill the pigs, and pray behind the Mahdi as a subordinate.

Together, they will defeat the Dajjal and crush all opposition. The Mahdi’s rule is described as lasting anywhere from seven to nineteen years of absolute justice, meaning absolute Islamic supremacy enforced by the sword. After that period, the final Day of Judgment arrives.

This is the eschatology that millions of Shia Muslims around the world are taught to long for. It is not a message of hope through reform or coexistence. It is a message that the world must burn before it can be saved, and that the faithful are called to help light the fire. The doctrine of the Twelfth Imam is one of the most dangerous ideas in modern geopolitics because it turns apocalyptic violence into a religious requirement rather than a tragedy to prevent.

The bloodier the world becomes, the closer they believe paradise is. That is the terrifying reality behind Islamic eschatology centered on Muhammad al-Mahdi.

There is killing of infidels in the prophecy, but it comes after the Mahdi appears, not before.

The pre-return phase focuses on massive Muslim-on-Muslim bloodshed — Sunnis slaughtering Shia, the Sufyani butchering the Prophet’s descendants, and general chaos among Muslims. That’s the “signs” phase — rivers of Muslim blood to signal the Mahdi’s imminent return.

Once the Mahdi rises, that’s when the slaughter of non-Muslims kicks in hard. He’s described as conquering the world, filling it with justice “after it has been filled with oppression.” In the hadiths, that means defeating and subjugating Christians, Jews, and other unbelievers. Jesus returns as his subordinate, breaks the cross, kills the pigs, and helps enforce Islamic supremacy. The final battles include crushing the Dajjal and his followers, which are often portrayed as non-Muslim forces.

So the prophecy has two bloody acts: first, Muslims killing each other in apocalyptic numbers, then the Mahdi’s forces turning outward to conquer and kill the infidels who resist. The killing of non-Muslims is very much part of it, just timed for after he emerges.

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[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

I hate to admit this, but I completely agree with the IMF on this one.

I know that this may sound heavily counterintuitive. In all my political analysis on this platform, I have consistently pointed out that the IMF and the World Bank do not give out loans to genuinely help developing countries. They lend strictly to control the economies of developing nations, force privatization, and forcefully open local markets for the massive global multinationals financing these exact institutions.

However, I have done my deep research on this highly secretive Abu Dhabi loan scheme that the Nigerian government is presently considering, and what I found is deeply troubling and borderline treasonous.
First, it is crucially important to emphasize that this is the first time Nigeria, in all its long, painful history of borrowing to build infrastructure, is ever seriously considering a Total Return Swap (TRS) loan.
Historically, Nigeria has always restricted its sovereign borrowing to Eurobonds, bilateral government-to-government loans(with China), Paris Club concessional debt, standard World Bank infrastructure facilities, or traditional commercial syndicated loans.
Not only has Nigeria never tried a Total Return Swap loan in the past, but other African nations have actively, aggressively avoided this financial death trap entirely. In fact, the only two African nations to have even foolishly attempted to engage in a Total Return Swap loan are Senegal and Angola, and in both tragic cases, the macroeconomic aftershocks have been devastatingly brutal.

First, I see Nigerians making the erroneous and highly emotional argument that the IMF is strictly against this loan simply because they do not want us borrowing from China or the Middle East. This is a massive because the toxic TRS loan that Angola eventually took was actually structured through an American bank, JPMorgan, and the IMF still criticized it heavily, publicly, and relentlessly. Secondly, even though the bank Nigeria currently intends to borrow this money from may proudly bear an Arabic name, the underlying operational and structural plumbing of global finance rigidly dictates that it is absolutely impossible for the UAE to directly lend billions of dollars to Nigeria without the direct involvement, backend infrastructure, dollar liquidity, and clearing systems of major American banks. So Wall Street still gets to comfortably eat from this toxic loan, even though it is geographically originating from the Middle East.

Secondly, it is incredibly easy to understand why the Tinubu Administration is pushing so aggressively to lock in this loan. Recall that a strong rumor was circulating last month that the World Bank had permanently terminated an $800 million loan to the Nigerian government. Well, the truth is that it was actually the Tinubu Administration that urgently requested the World Bank terminate the loan because the harsh conditions were simply too much to swallow politically. The World Bank arrogantly demanded that Tinubu impose even more taxes on electricity and hike tariffs which would effectively raise the suffocating cost of survival for Nigerian businesses, which Tinubu respectfully declined because the tax burden was already provoking mass anger.
So right now, it is highly probable that Tinubu is quietly running to Abu Dhabi to collect a massive, strings-free loan that will definitely not come with painful Structural Adjustment Programmes that would force him to devalue the Naira further, remove more subsidies, or hit Nigerians with heavier, crippling taxes.
This is highly understandable from a purely selfish political calculus. General elections are exactly seven short months away, and the frustrated, hungry, and exhausted Nigerian population could violently rebel against him at the ballot box. So obviously, another punishing World Bank loan is completely off the table for now if the President intends to comfortably return to Aso Rock come 2027.

This is exactly why they have desperately chosen this Total Return Swap loan. This is because Abu Dhabi does not care a single bit about the junk credit ratings of Nigeria, they do not care about structural adjustment programmes, they will not demand Nigeria cuts funding for healthcare, slashes education budgets, eliminates remaining agricultural subsidies, privatizes critical national assets, or forces mass layoffs in the civil service just to qualify for this cash. However, this loan comes with a very strict, highly predatory condition that every single Nigerian should be deeply concerned about, violently reject, and aggressively demand the government immediately withdraw their application for.

First, to even qualify for this $5 billion loan, the Nigerian government must physically hand over sovereign government bonds worth over 133% of this loan, which translates to a staggering ₦6.6 Trillion, directly to the UAE. These Treasury Bills are binding debts that the Nigerian government has legally promised to pay out to creditors, and Abu Dhabi will instantly sell off these bills to the international market to secure their ₦6.6 trillion. These new global buyers will effectively be holding Nigeria's sovereign debt hostage. These private, faceless investors will eventually turn to the Central Bank of Nigeria and violently demand to be paid the interest (coupons) and the massive face value of those bonds. The Nigerian government is now legally, permanently obligated to pay out ₦6.6 trillion of our bleeding taxpayers' money to these aggressive private bondholders.

This is not even the scariest part of this suicidal deal. Another strict, unforgiving obligation of this toxic loan is the terrifying "Margin Call." You see, since these Treasury Bills are heavily priced in Naira, their global value will violently fluctuate depending on how our fragile exchange rate changes. If the Strait of Hormuz is permanently reopened, for example, the global price of oil per barrel will drastically plummet below the $100 mark. This will definitely, immediately impact our Naira value since it will rapidly dry up the vital US dollars flowing into Nigeria, given that 90% of our foreign reserves are entirely dependent on crude oil exports. This means significantly fewer dollars will now be coming into the country, which will trigger massive dollar scarcity. Basic, elementary economics dictates that we should automatically expect the Naira to violently crash to ₦1,600, ₦1,800, or even ₦2,000 per dollar. If this nightmare happens, let us assume the Naira falls by 40%. Then the underlying value of the Nigerian treasury bills issued to the UAE would effectively crash in value by 40 percent. In response, they will instantly issue an aggressive margin call to Nigeria, legally forcing the CBN to immediately, unconditionally transfer $2.6 billion in raw cash directly to the UAE just to keep the loan position open.
Now, pay attention: this massive amount does not even settle the outstanding principal loan, it does not settle the mounting interest on the loan, it is simply a punitive penalty fee that Nigeria must bleed out just to keep the contract active. Nigeria would either have to raid our already depleted foreign reserves (which are supposed to be strictly used to defend the Naira, pay for imports, and secure national stability) just to keep a useless loan position open. If Nigeria does not want to send scarce dollars to the UAE, Nigeria would be contractually forced to issue and blindly pledge an additional ₦2.64 trillion in brand new Treasury bills. Instead of having ₦6.6 trillion in national debt held hostage by a foreign bank, Nigeria would suddenly have ₦9.24 trillion totally locked up. If Nigeria eventually defaults, the amount of national debt the UAE bank can maliciously dump onto the fragile local market violently increases from ₦6.6 trillion to over ₦9.2 trillion, and this would absolutely, mathematically guarantee a total domestic financial collapse.

Look at the tragic case of Angola, for example. Just four very short months after collecting this exact type of toxic loan from JPMorgan, their local currency violently crashed, legally forcing Angola to urgently scrape together and send $200 million in raw cash directly to the American bank, and despite this massive financial bleeding, they eventually defaulted on the entire loan anyway.

This is exactly what every Nigerian desperately needs to understand. Tinubu is not actively avoiding the IMF and the World Bank because his administration has suddenly decided to act sovereign, stand tall, and look for a genuinely better, more respectful lender. This administration is directly, purely avoiding the World Bank because their specific loan will come with heavier taxes, painful structural reforms, and massive public backlash since a highly contested election is dangerously close. But now, this desperate administration is blindly grabbing onto a far more dangerous, explosive, and financially lethal loan that has the direct capacity to cripple our entire economy, destroy our currency, and bankrupt our future faster than the World Bank or IMF could ever possibly dream of.

The society of Nigerian accountants needs to urgently study the complex terms of this toxic loan, hold emergency press conferences, and issue a strongly worded statement to condemn it in its strongest possible terms. The lawyers need to immediately download these predatory loan agreements, study the fine print, dissect the hidden clauses, expose the draconian arbitration terms, file urgent injunctions in federal courts, drag the Finance Minister to the National Assembly, and forcefully petition international financial watchdogs. We, as an exhausted people, need to finally wake up, get angry, and do something concrete, as this is a catastrophic decision that will violently affect our daily lives, our businesses, and our children. Yes, an election is coming, but the election is not tomorrow, the election is not next month, the election is in exactly 7 months, and by then, this financial death warrant would be permanently signed, sealed, and firmly delivered. The House of Assembly will obviously, spinelessly approve these loans without reading a single page because their privileged children, their wealthy families, and their unborn grandchildren will obviously never be affected by the brutal terms of this financial slavery. But we, the ordinary, hardworking, and highly taxed Nigerians, will be the ones totally crushed to the absolute ground when this house of cards inevitably crashes.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

First, this is a fundamentally flawed analogy. You cannot logically compare Ethiopia, a landlocked country that bleeds billions of dollars annually on exorbitant port fees just to engage in basic international trade, to Vietnam, a country that possesses a massive coastline directly on the South China Sea and sits right in the strategic manufacturing backyard of China.

Yes, it is a historical fact that Ethiopia was not formally colonized, but this does not mean they were living in peace and harmony.
Mussolini and his fascist Italian army brutally occupied Ethiopia, deploying chemical weapons and mustard gas against civilians. Even though the brave people of Ethiopia were able to regain their sovereignty, they suffered devastating human and infrastructural losses in the process. But the economic strangulation did not end there. All of Ethiopia's neighboring countries were under brutal European colonial occupation. These colonial powers intentionally blockaded Ethiopia, forcing the country into absolute geopolitical isolation and completely cutting it off from global trade routes. And even when direct colonialism supposedly ended in the region, Ethiopia did not see peace. Foreign powers, including Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations, heavily funded and armed Eritrea to wage a brutal, draining civil war against Ethiopia that lasted for thirty years, systematically bleeding their economy dry.

And yes, Vietnam suffered horrifically from a brutal American war, but they had the massive, undeniable support of the Eastern bloc to bounce back. After the Vietnam War, China and the Soviet Union aggressively transferred heavy technology to Vietnam. They helped modernize their seaports, integrated their manufacturing grids into Asian supply chains, built vital rail networks, and shared critical industrial blueprints. This does not take away the credit due to the highly disciplined leadership structure of the Vietnamese state and their incredibly industrious population, but they absolutely received massive geopolitical help.

Even China did not build its empire from scratch. In the 1950s, the Soviets transferred entire industrial bases, heavy metallurgical technology, aerospace engineering, and foundational manufacturing plants directly to Beijing. And even after Mao Zedong passed away,Deng Xiaoping basically opened the Chinese market to the West, US tech giants poured their equipment, patents, and capital into the country. They set up massive semiconductor supply chains, built state of the art mega factories, transferred highly guarded intellectual property, and injected hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign direct investment to exploit cheap labor. But when it comes to Africa, Western commentators heap the blame entirely upon us, acting as if they brought this high level technology and capital to our shores and we simply refused to integrate it into our development.

Let us be very clear. Nobody is blaming 19th century colonialism alone for the current poverty level in Africa. I have never seen any serious Pan African scholar who claims Africa is poor today solely due to historical colonialism. I am also not here on this platform to fight against the ghost of the past, as that would be a silly and unproductive distraction.

What we are fiercely fighting against today is active, ruthless neo colonialism.

The predatory terms and conditions buried in the World Trade Organisation manuals for global trade make it legally and economically impossible for any African nation to build wealth from processing its own raw materials. We are forced, through a rigged system of tariff escalation, to export our resources raw and untouched to sustain European industries. If an African country exports raw cocoa or crude oil, the tariffs are zero, but the exact moment they try to export processed chocolate or refined petroleum, they are hit with crushing import taxes. Furthermore, imperial financial institutions like the IMF and the World Bank constantly stampede African growth by forcing deadly Structural Adjustment Programs, mandating the suicidal privatization of state owned power grids, forcing the endless devaluation of national currencies, and strictly banning African governments from subsidizing their own local farmers while Western farmers receive billions in state welfare.

There is absolutely no genuine technology transfer to African nations. There is no room for us to trade as equals in the global market. There is no bilateral loan or foreign aid available to Africans that does not demand total economic capitulation, the absolute surrender of our national sovereignty, and the complete deregulation of our banking sectors. And in spite of all these crushing economic blockades, we still have to spend our limited national budgets and sacrifice the blood of our military personnel fighting off foreign backed rebels. These proxy militias stage relentless guerrilla warfare on our soil for one singular purpose, which is to violently clear our resource rich fields so that foreign conglomerates can feast on our gold, lithium, cobalt, and uranium undisturbed.

Now Magatte, I know that you are deeply invested in a self hating narrative, trying incredibly hard to please your white corporate masters overseas by blaming the victims of imperialism. But the next time you decide to compare two nations operating on completely different continents and under vastly different geopolitical realities, do not use just one stupid variable as your entire metric.

[THINK YORUBA FIRST @ThinkYoruba_1st]

President of Think Yorùbá First speaking on the identity of 21st century Yorùbás at the 4th annual conference at Unilag

#YorubaGreatness

[Àrẹ̀wà AKÍNKANJÚ @queenee02]

The man who had a plan to expose the evil in Ifa

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Don't condemn Muhammad and his companions for waging wars, raiding caravans, marrying children, owning slaves, degrading women, or engaging in brutal violence.

Raiding rival tribes was standard. Child marriage was practiced. Slavery was the norm. Tribal codes, honor killings, conquest, this was the fabric of life in that time and place.

The real problem isn’t what Muhammad did. The real problem is that what he did was declared sacred.

His every action wasn’t just recorded, it was immortalized, canonized and sanctified.

His tribal conduct wasn’t left in the 7th century, it was elevated as timeless law for the entire world.

He didn’t just live in history, he froze history in place and called it religion.

What should have been contextualized as ancient is now institutionalized as eternal.

What should have been buried with time is now resurrected in legal codes, school curriculums, and acts of terror.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

There are some very powerful people pulling the strings behind the scenes on this legal issue over airtime lending in Nigeria, trying to stick their straw into a market worth an estimated N400b annually.  These people are close to the president, and are wielding tremendous power and distorting the entire economy in ways that would have embarrassed a post-Soviet Russian oligarch in 1994.

I’ve been actively aware of this matter for over two years now and the time may have come to tell the full story of how Idris Saliu Alubankudi, and his brother Shamsudeen Saliu 'Shamz' Alubankudi - both very close to Bola Tinubu and his family - have built one of the biggest and most powerful state corruption enterprises
in the entire history of Nigeria.

These men are attempting to capture the systemically important foundations of the entire Nigerian economy - specifically telecoms and ICT - and turn their 3 year-old corruption enterprise into a sort of Nigerian chaebol. You have never seen anything like it before.

You will be hearing the names 'Idris' and 'Shamz' a lot in the coming few days. Also don’t forget their family name 'Saliu Alubankudi.' It's an important part of the story.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Be very careful with Nigerians who come here to tell you that all you need to do is to "Remove Tinubu" and insecurity will permanently stop, or that the collapsing Nigerian economy will magically bounce back overnight.

It is absolutely true that terrorists are ravaging our communities in the North and Middle Belt regions and are now slowly gaining a bloody momentum in the South West. It is a terrifying statement of fact that over 1,500 Nigerians have been violently abducted from their homes, and are currently chained to trees in the forests, starved and tortured by rag-tag militias in their mobile camps, stripped of their absolute human dignity, and used as disposable bargaining chips by ruthless trans-national cartels.

All of this is undeniably true, but if we truly desire to fix the insecurity crisis in Nigeria and save our people from these foreign-backed terrorists, we must be cold, logical, and highly calculative with our statements and our actions.
The Tinubu administration may very well be a massive, corrupt circus of incompetent comprador clowns, but your passive game plan of waiting patiently until 2027 to finally vote him out is even more silly, pathetic, and utterly delusional.
These people who come online and tell you to "Remove Tinubu and put Peter Obi" are actually doing much more harm than good to our collective survival. They are deliberately turning a bloody situation, which should be an absolute national emergency, into a mere political football, a cheap campaign slogan, and a tribal popularity contest.

On May 15, 2026, over 100 innocent students and teachers were violently uprooted from their classrooms in Borno and Oyo states, and they are currently being brutalized, raped, and slaughtered by ruthless bandits. So this is absolutely not the time for cheap political campaigns. This is not the time to blindly promote Peter Obi or strictly channel your superficial aggression on Bola Tinubu.
This is the exact time that Nigerians need to aggressively storm the defense headquarters across the country, completely paralyze the federal capital, and physically force the defense ministers, the service chiefs, and the useless heads of intelligence agencies in Nigeria to unilaterally sign their resignation letters. This is the time that we need to know the exact profile details of the chief security officers, the specific military commanders, and the tactical patrol units active on the very day this brutal kidnapping happened. We need their names published, their bank accounts aggressively investigated, their encrypted phone logs subpoenaed, their immediate assets frozen, and their swift prosecution for treason and criminal complicity.

We need to completely relinquish our daily routines, abandon the illusion of normalcy, and fight for brutal institutional reforms. And if you genuinely think this is something you can magically achieve by waving your plastic permanent voters card at a rigged ballot box, then you need to wake up.
First, understand that 2027 is far too late. Over one hundred women and children have already been abducted this month alone. How many thousands more do you think these cartels will abduct ten months from now before the 2027 general elections even begin? And after the fraudulent election, where the anointed establishment candidate inevitably emerges victorious due to massive biometric rigging and voter suppression, an extra eight months will be completely wasted in symbolic courtroom meetings, useless judicial tribunals, and elite political bargaining while the masses continue to bleed.

Do you honestly think the heavily armed terrorists in the bush will simply drop their assault rifles, abandon their RPGs, sit quietly under a tree, and wait for two years so that you can peacefully elect a competent leader? Absolutely not. While you are holding useless democracy placards and throwing cheap insults at Tinubu on social media, their foreign financiers are actively mapping the bloody blueprints for future attack zones. While you are queuing under the scorching sun in the naive name of exercising your constitutional rights, they are aggressively smuggling their untraceable Starlink terminals, their high-capacity solar batteries, their thermal surveillance drones, and their armor-piercing ammunition into their mobile camps to support the next devastating range of attacks. You will be insulting Tinubu and blindly shouting "Obi Is Coming" while our children and women are being violently uprooted from their schools and dragged to the slaughterhouses in the forests, and the bloody cycle of insecurity continues completely uninterrupted.

The compromised celebrities and internet influencers you see online who are performing their fake outrage and attacking the Tinubu government are absolutely not working for you. They are not fighting for the kidnapped victims, they have no intention of dismantling the neo-colonial state, and they do not care about systemic change. What they are merely doing is managing your raw emotions. They are acting as digital pressure valves so that you can lash out your anger on Tinubu and then peacefully go to sleep, which they very well know will never solve a single structural problem in this country.

[Spiricoco Twittter @SpiricocoNg]

Lol. Muhammad was a murderours warlord who killed 3,000 people and fought around 66 battles within 6 years.

There's a sira(biography) dedicated to his battles alone - Kittab Al Maghazi by Umar Al Waqidi.

This is one by your very own Ibn Kathir.

Muhammad stole, killed, and destroyed.

After the flight to Medina, just one year after consolidating power, he started attacking Meccan caravans.

One of the famous was the Naklah Raid, where Muhammad raided Mecca caravans in the forbidden month.

It was the defence of the Meccans against that the led to the Battle of Badr.

Muhammad won, and that began his shift from a religious leader to a military leader.

When Muhammad stole from caravans, he ordered his soldiers not to take out of it because a fifth of it belonged to Allah and his messenger:

"They ask you concerning the spoils of war. Say, 'The spoils belong to Allah and the Messenger.' So fear Allah and set things right among yourselves..."
Qur'an 8:1

This is him saying the stolen things belong to him.

Then the Battle of Trench came. After the Meccans couldn't cross, Muhammad went home victoriously.

He dropped His sword to take his bath when Gabriel supposedly appeared to him.

He told him to pick up his sword that his fight is not over.

Gabriel then pointed him to the direction he needed to go fight.

It was the jews of Banu Qurayza, the third of the three jewish tribes he met in Medina.

He had expelled the first two, Banu Nadir and Banu Qaynuqa.

Sahih al-Bukhari 4117

"Gabriel came while he was shaking the dust off his head and said, 'You have laid down the arms?

By Allah, I have not laid them down. Go out to them (to attack them).'

The Prophet said, 'Where?' Gabriel pointed towards Banu Qurayza."

These guys did nothing against Muhammad.

But he took around 800 men out to the trench, and beheaded them there.

This was Muhammad.

Then he went to Khaybar.

It was Jewish settlement. Those he sent out from there home were again attacked.

Muhammad killed the men, enslaved the women. He tortured Kinana, the treasurer, to get the location of the money.

It was from Khaybar that Muhammad got his wife, Saffiyah bint Jash.

He killed her brother, father, and slept with her that same night.

It was the woman from Khaybar who later poisoned him that led to his death:

"This bone informs me that it is poisoned." Muhammad said.

The woman then said:

"I said to myself, if he is a king, I shall rid the people of him; and if he is a prophet, he will be informed."

This was when Muhammad died.

Immediately, the four Rashidun Caliphate will then wage around 80 wars within 35 years.

The first war was the Riddah Wars where Muslims were killed for not giving money to Abu Bakr.

Within 100 years, Islam would have conquered Syria, Egypt, Oman, Persia(Iran), Andallusia(Spain).

The only one who repelled them was Charles Martell at the Battle of Tours in 732 AD.

That was how they couldn't take Europe at the time.

Muhammad was a warlord. A very brutal one. Do not worry, we have a documentary coming up.

The world will see the truth about Muhammad, the Murderous Messenger.

[Predictive History @PredicHistory]

Most people think eschatology is religion.
It's not.
It's history.
Thousands of years of geopolitical patterns condensed into stories that can be passed from parent to child across generations.
The Middle East has always been a crossroads of empire.
There has always been war over this territory. There has always been a messiah figure. There has always been an antichrist. There has always been an apocalyptic war before the final peace.
Not because God wrote it.
Because empires always fight over the same territory. Leaders always claim divine mandate. And when they fail they are called the false messiah.
The story repeats because the geopolitics repeats.
Eschatology is not prophecy.
It is pattern recognition dressed in the language of God.
And the people who understand this pattern are the ones who control history.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Why Isaac, Not Ishmael?

Today, Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, believing it marks the moment Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son Ishmael.

But this narrative, recast centuries later by Muhammad, hijacks the original account and distorts it.

In the Bible, the foundation of both Jewish and Christian traditions, the son on the altar was not Ishmael, but Isaac.

Ishmael was the result of human effort, Abraham’s attempt to fulfill God’s promise through his own performance, through Hagar, Sarah’s maidservant.

It was a solution born out of impatience and control.

But God’s redemptive plan was never about what man could do for God, it was always about what God would do for man.

Isaac was the son of promise. He was born not through human scheming but through divine intervention.

Sarah was barren. Abraham was old. His very existence was a miracle. Isaac represents grace, God doing the impossible, fulfilling His covenant not through man’s effort, but through His own power and faithfulness.

The apostle Paul said that Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, represented Mount Sinai, where the law was given, a symbol of human striving, condemnation, and bondage.

But Sarah, the mother of Isaac, represented Jerusalem above, freedom, grace, and divine sonship. Ishmael is law; Isaac is gospel.

If God had asked Abraham to offer Ishmael, it would mean He was demanding a sacrifice born of human effort. But He wasn’t.

He was foreshadowing the ultimate sacrifice, Christ, the Lamb of God, also born of a miraculous promise, also offered by His Father on a hill.

Isaac was the prototype of substitutionary atonement. He symbolized the Son not born of the flesh but of the Spirit, God’s initiative, not man’s.

To replace Isaac with Ishmael is theological vandalism. It exchanges grace for works, divine election for human performance, and the gospel for law.

That’s why Isaac, not Ishmael. Because salvation was never meant to begin with our striving, it was always meant to begin with God’s promise.

[Predictive History @PredicHistory]

Here is what each side actually wants.
China wants three things.
Cheap energy from the Western Hemisphere. Nvidia chips to fuel its AI. Access to the US market.
America wants three things.
Chinese consumers to buy stable coins to finance US debt. China as a lab to test AI surveillance that cannot be tested in America. Chinese manufacturing — in America and Venezuela.
This is not a trade deal.
This is a restructuring of the entire global economy.
China becomes the factory and the lab. America becomes the financier and the landlord.
Both need each other to survive.
That is the grand bargain.