Stacia Thorpe Tariah

[Stacia Thorpe Tariah @StacyTariah]

Taking a moment to truly sit with the fact that I’m living in answered prayers. Doing the things I once prayed and longed for.

[Stacia Thorpe Tariah @StacyTariah]

@Be_like_legend 7 is yellow, 8 is Orange

[Stacia Thorpe Tariah @StacyTariah]

@Be_like_legend Why did I say Yellow

[Stacia Thorpe Tariah @StacyTariah]

@IbnLMubarak Yup

[Stacia Thorpe Tariah @StacyTariah]

@Read_Meee You were in the wrong.

[Justin Ugonna @JustinUg_]

✵ The feeling of losing a loved one is something no one prepares you for 🤍

[Stacia Thorpe Tariah @StacyTariah]

@diaryofa9jagirl You’re not the only one. Saying he doesn’t womanise is only because you haven’t caught him yet.

[Noorie @Nurapost]

Don't host a World Cup if you don't want people to come to your country.

[Vernon Equinox ✨💚 @AfroJediii]

“catch up culture” when this is how friendships have been maintained and sustained for a millennia 😩

[small waist, pretty face 🫦 @oddettem]

Hey ladies!!! Please don’t give us anymore advice on how to keep a man… We wanna know how to make 100k every month. Those are the secrets we wanna know!!!

[Stacia Thorpe Tariah @StacyTariah]

@GuyMr10 Do you people actually realise she’s a nepo baby? Her family has money.

[Lit! @JusttLit]

Many of you Nigerians are so ridiculous. Sending your account numbers to terrorists because they are doing giveaway. You have zero shame and even fear. Blood money and you’re scrambling for your share. Embarrassing.

[Stacia Thorpe Tariah @StacyTariah]

@maxvayshia Please keep quiet and mind your business

[Italian 🚅🇮🇹🇻🇦 @Italian347]

In the beginning was the.... Word, you say?

[WithoutHistory @WithoutHistory]

RIP

[iOccupyNigeria @iOccupyNigeria]

For the avoidance of doubt, I have never supported Peter Obi.

I did not vote for his ticket him when he ran as Atiku’s running mate in 2019.

I did not vote for him in 2023.

I have no intention of voting for him in 2027.

So this is not about supporting Peter Obi. It is about calling out bad journalism when I see it.

Bloomberg’s headline is doing something very subtle and very political.

By writing:

“Peter Obi will run… ensuring that the opposition to incumbent Bola Tinubu will once again be fragmented”

they are quietly inserting a conclusion into what is supposed to be a news report.

The wording assumes:

Tinubu is the natural frontrunner.
Someone else owns the opposition space.
Peter Obi is merely a spoiler candidate.
Obi’s participation is what causes fragmentation.

All four assumptions are highly questionable.

A more neutral headline would simply report the fact that Peter Obi intends to run and leave readers to draw their own conclusions.

Instead, Bloomberg chose language that immediately frames Obi as the problem before a single vote has been cast.

The irony is that Peter Obi is not some fringe candidate struggling for relevance. In 2023 he built the largest third-party political movement Nigeria has seen in decades, won major urban centres including Lagos, carried the FCT, and attracted millions of voters who had never previously participated in the process.

Whether you like him or dislike him is irrelevant.

Calling a candidate with that level of support a “fragmenting force” is already taking a position.

The headline effectively treats Obi as though he is taking votes that belong to somebody else.

But voters are not property.

Votes do not belong to political elites.

Citizens are free to support whoever they want.

What makes the framing even stranger is that it quietly presents Obi as the spoiler while implying that somebody else is the legitimate opposition standard-bearer. By what metric?

Name recognition?

Grassroots enthusiasm?

Crowd sizes?

Social media engagement?

Independent voter appeal?

Raw votes from 2023?

On several of those measures, Obi was the strongest opposition figure in the race.

Again, I am not an Obi supporter.

But fair is fair.

When a headline already tells readers who is helping democracy, who is hurting democracy, who is serious, who is responsible for “fragmentation,” and who should probably step aside before the campaign has even begun, that is not reporting.

That is narrative construction.

The job of journalism is to describe political reality, not manufacture it.

This headline reads less like a neutral news report and more like somebody’s campaign memo that accidentally got published under a Bloomberg masthead.

@MikeBloomberg please talk to your editorial staff about doing better, @business is , has been and will remain a trusted voice for millions of people including myself, but when we see bias such as this, it makes us question everything.

[Alabi @the_Lawrenz]

When the Chibok girls disaster and insecurity were rampaging the north, you people called for Jonathan’s head. Since he was the chief security officer, and rightly so, we all demanded action from him.

Now this insecurity has worsened under this administration, yet you people say we should deflect responsibility to the governors instead?

Were there no governors during GEJ’s time? Make me understand quickly.

In 2014, our current president boldly stated that “on matters of security, the buck of the responsibility falls on the president’s table.”

He’s now the president and commander of a very powerful military. Stop these fucking terrorists!!!!!

[Felix @felixherbt]

Involve me in anything that will stop Tinubu from returning as president.

I beg you in the name of God 🙏

[Alabi @the_Lawrenz]

Nigerians gave APC 12 years already …. That’s enough. Thank you for your service. You have done enough. Be going.

[Samuel @SamuelIse3]

It won't cost you zero Naira, please retweet massively.💔💔

[♡⃝ @wine_x13]

I got a call from my daughter’s high school principal today. He said she’d been caught operating an “unauthorized commercial enterprise” out of the girls’ locker room. My stomach DROPPED. I left work immediately, already imagining the worst: Drugs. Vapes. Stolen stuff. Some TikTok side hustle gone wrong. By the time I got to the school, I was preparing myself for lawyers, suspension, maybe even police involvement. I walk into the principal’s office….…and my daughter is sitting there quietly with a spiral notebook full of spreadsheets. Not cash. Not customer lists. Spreadsheets. Turns out, she’d noticed some girls at school were quietly struggling: • no money for feminine hygiene products • no winter jackets • wearing the same clothes every week after budget cuts hit families hard So she started her own underground support network. She collected donated jackets, hygiene products, gloves, and clothes from wealthier neighborhoods.
Then she cataloged everything by size and need in her notebook like a tiny operations manager. And from her gym locker, she distributed items discreetly to students who needed them — no embarrassment, no announcements, no attention. The principal wasn’t calling because she was in trouble. He called because the school found out… and wanted my permission to turn her “illegal locker room business” into an official school charity program.

I thought I was driving to the biggest parenting nightmare of my life. Instead, I walked into one of the proudest moments I’ve ever had as a parent.