Mazi Silas 🇳🇬

The Lord is My light and My salvation. Chartered Certified Accountant, Financial Consultant....
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[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

Hey Olodo, Let me educate you a bit.

Calling you a fool will be a compliment. At least a fool doesn't know better.

You want continental unification, but you can't unify two sentences of critical thought. Sit down and read before you type again.

You're crying about African leaders while ignoring who actually runs the table. Here's the evidence, point by point, since you clearly haven't done fifteen minutes of reading before opening your mouth.

I have added sources so you will not say you missed it.

1. Terrorism financing runs through the "respectable" class, not just bandits in the bush

David Hundeyin's own reporting, Cornflakes for Jihad, lays out how NASCO's founder, a man with access to federal ministers and even the president, allegedly laundered money for GSPC, the Algerian terror network whose fighters trained in 2002 and later formed the founding core of Boko Haram.

Source: https://t.co/RVK1SROtHe

Fast forward to now. In 2026, Senator Shehu Buba is facing public allegations of terrorism financing, surfaced by a private citizen named Hassan Fulani, not by david oo.

The Federal Government's own Sanctions Committee has published updated lists of over fifty sanctioned terrorism financiers in 2026 alone, including companies.

The EFCC reported over 900 convictions for financial crimes between January and April 2026, including a former bank MD, a former minister, and a former senator. Where's your outrage for any of that? Nowhere. Because it doesn't fit your script.

Sources: https://t.co/KJ25fZ9RrD

https://t.co/iplTBEJKjd

https://t.co/LuJtjwwYQT

2. The banks, NGOs, and old money never get the same scrutiny

If you want accountability, name the banks moving this money. Name the NGOs used as cover. Name the decades-old conglomerates sitting on unexplained fortunes built off exactly this kind of laundering.

You won't, because your entire worldview depends on the accountability conversation stopping at Aso Rock and never reaching Wall Street, Zurich, or Dubai.

Even the Nigerian Senate knows this. In December 2025 it passed an Anti-Terrorism Act amendment specifically to force the naming of sponsors and financiers, after the House of Representatives demanded the executive name terrorism financiers outright.

That bill exists because for over a decade the government has known who's funding this and refused to name names. That's the accountability gap you should be screaming about.

Source: https://t.co/V4YoEJSmLt

3. Your "independent" media is funded by the same foreign hand you pretend doesn't exist

Premium Times, Sahara Reporters, ICIR, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, Daily Trust Foundation, all of them have taken direct MacArthur Foundation money through its "On Nigeria" program. Not once, repeatedly. $5 million in 2017, $6.3 million in 2019, $19.2 million in 2022.

That's over $30 million in traceable grants to the exact outlets that lecture Nigerians about foreign influence and accountability. Public record, on MacArthur's own website, not a rumor.

Sources: https://t.co/Nj5Qx7V62C

https://t.co/26MRnIDQzZ

https://t.co/G19HI3hDN1

So spare me the lecture about who's compromised.

4. The CIA has physically operated inside Nigeria, not in theory, in practice

Declassified JFK-era files, released in 2025, confirm the CIA ran an active covert station in Lagos throughout the 1960s, one of only six on the entire continent alongside Nairobi, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Rabat, and Salisbury.

Source: https://t.co/AEX5CSi7Vn

And more recently, a retired CIA officer wrote, in her own published memoir "The Sisterhood," about running an agency operation out of Maiduguri during the Buhari years, dropped into the region alone with a hundred thousand dollars in agency cash, operating under NGO and aid cover while Boko Haram's ISWAP rebrand was underway. That's not a theory. That's a former officer confirming it herself in print.

Source: https://t.co/AeqEFdLqFj

That is a foreign intelligence service operating on our soil, funded, admitted, and documented.

5. Even our defense sector isn't fully ours anymore

Terra Industries, marketed to Nigerians as our homegrown defense tech success story, is backed by Palantir, a company whose software already runs inside the CIA, the Pentagon, and Israel's Ministry of Defence, and whose founder's network sits inside the current US administration.

Critics have said plainly that when your security infrastructure's biggest investor already serves two foreign militaries and an intelligence agency, the question of who Africa's defense systems ultimately answer to isn't paranoia, it's arithmetic.

Source: https://t.co/QVmDJguGoY

Palantir's pattern isn't unique to us either. It just won a £240 million no-bid enterprise deal with the UK Ministry of Defence after hiring four former MoD officials, and internal Pentagon memos this year proposed funneling it up to $244 million more without competitive bidding. This is a company that embeds itself inside a government's decision-making before it ever wins the contract. Now it's inside ours.

Sources: https://t.co/OpaIpNrxvN

https://t.co/HAmqjjPtW8

6. Even the "reintegration" of Boko Haram is a European grant program, and the money trail is the real story

This is happening right now. The EU has committed €731 million to Nigeria for 2021 to 2027, and a clause buried in that partnership explicitly funds the reintegration of former Boko Haram, ISWAP, and JNIM fighters back into communities in Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa.

On top of that, the EU separately pledged €300 million for counter-extremism work, including a dedicated €20 million line and a €7.5 million "RAMPARTS" program specifically for reintegrating ex-Boko Haram members.

Sources: https://t.co/PsR93tOvUg

https://t.co/SHJkP5QRV9 https://t.co/LObVqDR0dj

Read that again. The men who killed our people, burned our villages, and orphaned over 50,000 children are being reintegrated with European grant money, delivered through NGOs and UN agencies as implementing partners, while the Senate itself, led by voices like Adams Oshiomhole, is on record rejecting the policy because it pardons killers while victims still suffer.

Source: https://t.co/CpE0BwTwuE

So here's my question for you directly.
Did you call out the government for quietly signing this. Did you call out the NGOs and UN agencies acting as implementing partners for this money.
Did you call out the banks and financial channels processing hundreds of millions of euros in grants that end up rehabilitating terrorists instead of compensating their victims. You didn't.
Not one post, not one word.

Of every foreign bank, NGO, foundation, intelligence agency, defense contractor, and now EU grant program on this list, funding either the terrorism or its "reintegration," name one you've ever said a single word about. You can't.

That's the whole point. You were never against foreign interference. You were only ever against Africans noticing it.

David is not your mate and you certainly do not operate with an IQ worthy of comprehension.

The next time you want to open your hole to speak, remember that there are people like me who do not let foolishness slide.

We will educate you by force.

Don't try this nonsense again.

[Christian1985 @Christian19856]

Im in tears 😭...

[Kashyap Sriram @kashyap286]

Firstly, Ethiopia is under US sanctions while Vietnam is not. And speaking of former French colonies, Haiti was the first to get independence (1804) and is still one of the poorest countries in the world because of the debt they had to take on to gain independence (it took them until 1947 to fully repay it!). Whereas, New Caledonia is still a French colony and is neither rich nor poor.

"If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor..."

This line completely ignores the European powers' (and US) post-colonial control over Africa. Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the DRC, was tortured and killed by Belgium and the US for being a nationalist. His body was dissolved in acid so he wouldn't become a martyr. His legacy is largely unknown even within the continent. Several other such "lessons" were meted out. Google Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) and Sylvanus Olympio (Togo).

Once you set the example, you gain obedience. The VietCong, on the other hand, didn't surrender even though 3 million Vietnamese died during the war, and several thousand more continue to die to this day (!) from Agent Orange exposure.

As for former French colonies in Africa, France still controls their currency and holds their central bank reserves in France. As Rothschild purportedly said, "permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

Third, the borders in Africa were drawn in such a way that conflict was inevitable. At the Berlin Conference in 1884-85, the European powers simply carved up the continent by drawing straight line borders. African leaders were conspicuous only by their absence at this historic event which shaped the next century. This is why Cameroon, a French-speaking country, has a minority English-speaking territory, ensuring it remains destabilized. Likewise for West Asia/the Middle East, where the Sykes-Picot legacy lives on.

@magattew conflates formal colonial rule with colonial control. Vietnam managed to fully kick out both France and the US, reunified the North and the South, and kept its sovereignty. All African leaders who attempted the same have been systematically eliminated (see Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's divisive leader, for a recent example), ensuring Africa forever bears the open wounds of its colonial legacy.

But Ms. Wade is right on one thing: Vietnam owes its prosperity to overcoming colonial rule. Maybe Africa can become prosperous if Africans do the same.

[Danton Bissono Chidera 🎖️ @DantonChidera]

Some of the prominent Iranian leaders were schooled in the West, and that education has helped them understand the West's weaknesses, aiding their current conflict with it. However, the African man gets to London, Paris, Brussels, Strasbourg, California, among others, gets schooled just to come back and preach the inferiority of their homeland. The latest set of "abroad graduates" shouldn't be allowed to contribute to revolutionary discourses about Africa. They're a headache.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

"We have platformed."

And that right there is where your problem starts. You still believe that YOU platformed Peller and his fellow creatures of the Nigerian brainrot swamp. Let me break the news to you:

THE. ALGORITHMS. ARE. BLACK. BOXES.

You do NOT know what goes into them and how they work. That story you heard that "the algorithm only shows you more of what you engage with" is a completely false statement, right up there with "crypto is decentralised and outside the state's control."

People have actually tried to take the platforms to court to open up their algorithms to public scrutiny, and the US court ruling which you can Google and read by yourself said that THE ALGORITHMS ARE PROPRIETARY. In other words, they are protected by IP law and you legally are not allowed to know how they actually work!

You did not platform any of these people! White guys in Silicon Valley did! You are not the one "making stupid people famous". Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg are the ones deciding who becomes famous in your society.

That is exactly why western social media platforms are banned in China and Russia - they want to retain the power to determine their own internal conversation. And by the way, China was accused of using TikTok to engineer US society the same way, which is why TikTok USA was forced to sell a controlling stake to Larry Ellison.

Stop misdiagnosing your problem, which is lack of sovereignty. "Nigerians are stupid and like stupid things" is not an intelligent explanation of how the world works! Only a simple minded person takes everything at face value even when superior information is so readily available.

[Seye Ogun @oluwadamisi]

I just watched a video on IG by Yinka Obebe that introduced a fascinating way to think about spending:

The Affordability Ratio.

The example used was a billionaire worth $39 billion buying a $75 million private jet.
At first glance, $75 million sounds outrageous. But when you do the math, the jet represents just 0.19% of his net worth.

The formula is simple:
Net Worth = What You Own − What You Owe
Affordability Ratio = (Cost of Item ÷ Net Worth) × 100
Now let's bring it home.

If an iPhone costs ₦1.5 million and you want to buy it at the same affordability level as that billionaire bought his jet, your net worth would need to be approximately ₦790 million.

So if your net worth was, say 5m, and you got a phone worth 1.5m, you technically spent 30% of your net worth 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

That's because ₦1.5 million would also represent just 0.19% of your net worth.

This got me thinking...
Maybe the question isn't:
"Can I afford it?"

But rather:
"What percentage of my net worth does it consume?"

Wealthy people often think using the ratio, while the rest of us tend to think in prices.
Same purchase. Different mindset.

Just because you have the cash doesn't necessarily mean you can afford it if you go by that metric.

What's your take on this concept regarding affordability? 🤔💭

[Aji Bussu Onye Mpiawa azụ 🇨🇮 @AfamDeluxo]

There’s something deeply suspicious about the sudden wave of Nigerian celebrities making emotional videos and shedding tears over insecurity. The timing, the coordinated outrage, the selective silence before now… something about it feels very off.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Mahdi Shehu on Alleged 1995 U.S.-Backed Plot Against Abacha

Mahdi Shehu’s account of the 1995 Durbar Hotel bombing speaks to foreign interference, regime change politics, and the hidden hands that have shaped Nigeria’s political history.

According to Shehu, a U.S. Embassy political officer approached him in Kaduna, offered him money, and asked him to drop a parcel at the Durbar Hotel as part of what he described as a campaign against the Abacha government. Shehu says he refused, only for the hotel to be bombed shortly after, with journalist Bagauda Kaltho later linked to the incident.

This story forces a larger question: how many times has Nigeria’s instability been engineered, sponsored, or encouraged by foreign powers, only to be later presented to us as our own failure? This is why Africans must pay closer attention to the history we are told, the history that is hidden, and the people who benefit from our chaos.

[Slim @onu_slim]

Let me tell you how it happened. Nigeria’s ginger export hit zero from N26 billion within 3 years.

The official story blames fungal blight.

But here is what actually happened. When Nigerian farmers lost their indigenous seed supply, grant-aided interventions arrived with replacement seeds.

An associate professor at Lagos Business School flagged publicly that some of those interventions involved GMO organisms that weakened indigenous crops and compromised soil health.

That is not a conspiracy theory because it is a documented academic concern.

Now that Nigeria spoke got destroyed by the GMO seedlings….what is not the result?

Nigeria was forced to import ginger from China to fill domestic demand. Chinese ginger has none of the pungency, oleoresin content, or quality that made Nigerian ginger a global premium product. And the ginger now sitting in Nigerian markets tastes like wood because it essentially is wood.

The two indigenous varieties that built Nigeria’s global ginger reputation, the Tafin Giwa and Yatsun Biri, had decades of soil relationship and quality built into them.

Once the soil was degraded and those seed varieties were displaced, the product that returned was a pale imitation. Nigeria did not just lose a market. It lost a seed. And without a National Ginger Seed Bank, which nobody has built, it may never fully get it back.

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

They told you hypertension has symptoms. That you'd feel it coming.
Nkechi, Emeka, that is the lie killing Nigerians.
38% of adult Nigerians have hypertension. And many of them don't know yet.

It's World Hypertension Day. Let's talk. 🧵

[H_R_V @SpacemanAp]

Removing mathematics & science from the continents education has been a priority of the WB,IMF & WEF. They’ve been at it since the 70s & we were stupid enough to allow the likes of Ruto & the drug dealer do it for them. At some point in the next year, science will be scrapped

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

These decisions are not being made by Nigerians. Not even Nigerians are this self-destructive.

I've said all I can possibly say anyway.

Whoever doesn't get it, shouldn't.

[Black @LilithBlack25]

Lumumba wasn't wrong when he said that you will find more traitors than colonizers at the root of Africa's suffering

[Ọládélé 🇳🇬👑 @Theoladeledada]

China has taken the automobile industry by surprise again. Because what in God’s name is this again

[Mayowa Durosinmi @mayowadurosinm1]

12 US capitalists flew to China to beg for deals from the Communist Party that we are meant to believe is evil. Interesting!

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Sir Frank @frankedoho

See that our convo from yesterday.

How can you attract gLoBaL TaLeNt with #220K per month?

This is supposed to be a global brand.

It will shock what they pay the "oyinbos" in their companies.

Looking for Mbappe's talent with Kano Pillars salary.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Sir Frank,

Yes I agree with this angle.

I also submit that, there's a reason established football clubs have academies this might not apply to you but companies of that size should have graduate trainees.

It is better to design a hiring pipeline that disciples culture fit, instead of establishing narratives that the country's workforce is not hirable.

What most of these companies won't admit to publicly is:

They adore the optics that comes with having a lot of "oyinbo people" on the team, so that the media section on their company's landing page actually reflects "global". In fact, they wouldn't blink twice before they lay that oyinbo man what he's worth whilst negotiating 1/4 to their countrymen who would do thrice the workload.

This hiring glitch might also not be their fault, as most of these variables are influenced from the potentials of funding - I say this on good authority.

Instead of admitting this in public, it is easier to shit on the skill stack of the country's workforce.

Sir Frank,

For his industry - there are insanely talented Nigerians. Insanely. He should open wallet.

[Dr. God Abeg ooo @josh_uglyasf]

We barely see gospel like this spread and go viral

[Dr. God Abeg ooo @josh_uglyasf]

Dr Myles Munro was miles ahead of his time… this simple conversation here addresses a gazillion issues across the globe