Segun Maximus

Patriotic Yoruba | Financial Analyst 📈 | Audit & Compliance Consultant | Farming Enthusiast | Political Awareness & Activism | Manchester United

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

Sensationalism is where great journalists go to die. Instead of calling for unity among the opposition, you find a way to link everything to the president just to appeal to the mob. I hate it when smart people become slaves to likes and retweets.

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

From now until the 2027 elections, do not expect peace. In ADC, in PDP, in LP, expect no peace. And Tinubu’s hands will be all over it.

Anyone who expects any less must be naive.

Tinubu is president today ONLY because of the alliance he forged with disgruntled politicians and opposition parties.

His 2011-election party bit the dust after the then ACN’s planned merger with other opposition parties, chiefly Buhari’s CPC, was scuttled by inordinate ambitions and unyielding interests. His then candidate Nuhu Ribadu placed a distant third with just 5.4% of total votes cast.

His 2007-election party AC recorded a similar failure, following another unsuccessful merger with Buhari’s ANPP. Like Ribadu, candidate Atiku Abubakar placed a woeful third with only 7.45% of votes.

But following a merger of three parties and the breakaway factions of two parties in 2013, 5.4% in 2011 became 53.96% for Tinubu’s candidate Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. Without the successful merger of Tinubu’s ACN and Buhari’s CPC into APC in 2013 ahead of the 2015 elections, Tinubu would never have been president in 2023.

PDP is already a walking corpse; its biggest financier Nyesom Wike is also its number-one traitor. LP is no longer the force it was in 2023, further worsened by Peter Obi’s defection to ADC. Tinubu knows, therefore, that a peaceful ADC is the most potent threat to his 2027 reelection. From now until February 2027, expect ADC leaders to expend more energy on court-related matters than actual electioneering.

If Tinubu must be politically toppled in 2027, all opposition must come together to adopt a candidate. That, or it’s balablu and enikan lomo until 2031!

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

Wisdom is a matter of perception.

Don't delve into topics you know little about simply because they are trending or in season. The ongoing unraveling of supposedly sensible people is proof of that.

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

Terrorism is not about Islam itself, but it is undeniable that some terrorists exploit certain Islamic teachings, texts, and symbols to justify their actions. While this does not make Islam inherently responsible for terrorism, it also means discussions about extremism cannot simply dismiss the religious dimension altogether.

Many Muslims rightly argue that terrorist groups do not represent Islam, and that the overwhelming majority of Muslims reject violence against innocent people. However, the fact that extremist groups repeatedly find theological arguments, scriptural references, and historical precedents within Islam to support their cause raises legitimate questions that deserve honest examination.

The issue is not that Islam uniquely produces terrorists, but that some interpretations of Islamic teachings appear easier for extremists to weaponize than the mainstream teachings of many other religions. If a doctrine can be consistently invoked to justify violence, conquest, or religious coercion, then critics will naturally argue that there are flaws, ambiguities, or unresolved tensions within those teachings that need to be confronted rather than ignored.

Acknowledging this is not an attack on all Muslims. It is simply recognizing that if extremists continually draw from the same religious sources to legitimize atrocities, then the conversation must include not only the terrorists themselves but also the interpretations and doctrines they claim to be following.

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

It's inconsequential to winning the presidency in Nigeria.

It's a negligible region.

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

@Realoilsheikh Build roads and send your children down south to be fed. The ones that don't make it out of the hellhole up north. Turn to terrorists, bandits and babanbola disturbing the peace of the whole country. This mumu thinks mass weddings and training for IED production are development.

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

@Realoilsheikh Build roads and send your children down south to be fed. The ones that don't make it out of the hellhole up north. Turn to terrorists, bandits and babanbola disturbing the peace of the whole country. This mumu thinks mass weddings and training for IED production are development.

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

@Mautiin01 They love their retirement team more than the teams they played for at their youth.

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

It's inconsequential to winning the presidency in Nigeria.

It's a negligible region.

[Ifeanyi @c_naturalman]

Bola Tinubu will not win a single Local Government Area in the South East in 2027.

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

@osazenoo Babachir called him Kachalla for a reason. 🤐🤐

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

How Obi fumbled Labour Party should be studied in political strategy classes.

You were the presidential candidate and undisputed leader. Two factions were fighting for control, and both still looked to you for direction. Instead of uniting the party, you took sides and somehow ended up losing on all sides.

A party that had unprecedented momentum after 2023 became consumed by internal wars, court cases, and leadership tussles.

Now you're in a coalition where your VP candidate is publicly snatching cards and caps from you on live TV, while the party office reportedly operates from another politician's sitting room.

The optics are terrible.

From being the face of a movement to looking like a guest in every political structure around you. Popularity is one thing; controlling and building a political party is another.

A textbook example of how not to play party politics.

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

Terrorism is not about Islam itself, but it is undeniable that some terrorists exploit certain Islamic teachings, texts, and symbols to justify their actions. While this does not make Islam inherently responsible for terrorism, it also means discussions about extremism cannot simply dismiss the religious dimension altogether.

Many Muslims rightly argue that terrorist groups do not represent Islam, and that the overwhelming majority of Muslims reject violence against innocent people. However, the fact that extremist groups repeatedly find theological arguments, scriptural references, and historical precedents within Islam to support their cause raises legitimate questions that deserve honest examination.

The issue is not that Islam uniquely produces terrorists, but that some interpretations of Islamic teachings appear easier for extremists to weaponize than the mainstream teachings of many other religions. If a doctrine can be consistently invoked to justify violence, conquest, or religious coercion, then critics will naturally argue that there are flaws, ambiguities, or unresolved tensions within those teachings that need to be confronted rather than ignored.

Acknowledging this is not an attack on all Muslims. It is simply recognizing that if extremists continually draw from the same religious sources to legitimize atrocities, then the conversation must include not only the terrorists themselves but also the interpretations and doctrines they claim to be following.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

The kidnappings and brutal murder of school children and teachers in Oyo and other states of the federation have absolutely nothing to do with Islam or the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

The reason our women and school children in Oyo are forced to sleep in the forests for weeks and are ruthlessly tortured by rag-tag militias is not because of Jihad or Islam or whatever nonsense propaganda the media wants you to believe. The real reason is simply because Oyo state is heavily blessed with massive, unmined deposits of Uranium, highly sought-after lithium, pure gold, and rare earth gemstones.
Now, the good people in Oyo State who are the primary victims of this manufactured insecurity, who are forced to sleep in total darkness and depend on highly expensive diesel just to sustain their petty businesses, may not be aware that they have enough uranium buried right under their feet to build nuclear reactors that could comfortably power the entire country for the next three hundred years.

But this local ignorance is completely insignificant in the ruthless geopolitical arena. Nigerians may very well be kept ignorant, but the Western nations who desperately need this uranium to power their massive industrial grids and nuclear submarines are absolutely not ignorant. The struggling youth in Oyo may not care about the raw gold beneath their soil, but the ruthless financial cartels in Dubai and Switzerland who melt, refine, and launder these blood minerals for American dollars are very much interested in them. The educated middle class in Nigeria, who would rather abandon their country and reduce themselves to overworked cleaners, taxi drivers, and caregivers in Canada and the UK instead of violently challenging the oppressors who have captured their state institutions, may very well be ignorant of the existence of huge deposits of lithium scattered all over the country. But the Silicon Valley conglomerates who desperately need these precious stones and rare earth elements for the new Apple M-series neural chips, Tesla electric vehicle batteries, and advanced military microprocessors are very much interested in these minerals. They will do absolutely anything to violently lift it out of the ground in Africa and ship it directly to their high-tech research labs overseas.

This is exactly why whenever there are sudden insecurity challenges such as mass kidnappings, brutal terror attacks on schools, and massacres at worship centers, there are always massive illegal mining activities running quietly in the background shadows. Indeed, in this year alone, almost forty people including heavily funded foreign nationals have been arrested by our local security agencies on strict charges related to illegal mining. Even a massive convoy of seven heavy-duty trucks loaded with raw uranium and lithium ore was intercepted and seized by state security forces just this year alone in Oyo state.
The terror activities are definitely not a holy jihad. They execute these bloody campaigns to install absolute, paralyzing fear in the local population and violently chase them away from their ancestral lands. Once the villages are emptied, these foreign companies and their local political enforcers can then seamlessly move in with their heavy drilling equipment, excavators, and chemical processors to extract these precious stones to power their trillion-dollar corporate empires.

The brainwashed recruits who physically carry out these terror attacks on their behalf may very well tell their traumatized victims that it is a Fulani agenda to Islamize Nigeria. They may very well release highly edited, pre-recorded videos claiming how these terror attacks are done to honor the teachings of Mohammed. But you must understand that these are all carefully constructed psychological operations and cheap propaganda.

What foot soldiers believe they are fighting for is completely irrelevant. Those ideologies are merely fairy-tale stories created to condition them psychologically to sustain the brutal war efforts for their hidden masters. For example, if George Bush had told the American troops the honest truth, that they all needed to go to the desert and die simply so that American defense contractors and oil majors could make an extra hundred billion dollars in corporate profits, they would have all dropped their rifles and badges and immediately renounced their duties. In the worst-case scenario, they would have stormed the White House, dragged the president out of the Oval Office, poured kerosene on him, and lit him on fire. So obviously, this truthful tactic will never work for any empire.

So instead, these gullible American troops were fed the lie that they were fighting a global "terror regime" that was secretly building weapons of mass destruction to wipe out humanity. This total change of narrative is crucial because the soldiers need to see themselves not as disposable, brainwashed tools fighting for corporate profit margins, but as heroic freedom fighters working for global peace and democratic stability. But at the end of the day, when you ignore the political speeches and simply follow the money trail, you get to understand what is truly happening. When Iraq violently fell, their sovereign gold reserves were immediately loaded onto armored trucks and shipped to the US to be deposited securely into the vaults of Citi Bank and the Federal Reserve, the uranium and critical aerospace assets were seized and transported to hidden military black sites, and the massive Iraqi oil fields were forcefully cleared of their local owners and drilling monopolies were permanently awarded to Halliburton, ExxonMobil, and Chevron.

The exact same imperial logic applies to the bandits and terrorists currently ravaging our rural communities. They may very well look you in the eye and tell you that they want to establish a pure Islamic state. But when the indigenous people are successfully uprooted from their resource-rich communities after relentless kidnappings, systemic torture, and public executions, the very same foreign conglomerates that secretly supply these terrorists with their thermal surveillance drones, high-grade military gear, encrypted satellite phones, and untraceable black-market cash quickly move in and start extracting these resources to be shipped overseas.

Wars are never genuinely fought on the superficial grounds of religion or ethnicity. They are, and have always been, ruthlessly fought over land, resources, and money.
In the case of Nigeria, Salafi Wahhabi Islamic ideology is what they use to brainwash and recruit most of the foot soldiers for this neo-colonial imperial plunder of Africa.

[Premier League India @PLforIndia]

Slick from Bruno 🥵

@ManUtd

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Maximum impact, minimum fuss.

Senne Lammens has won the #PL's Transfer of the Season award for a fantastic first campaign at United! 🥇👏

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

Wisdom is a matter of perception.

Don't delve into topics you know little about simply because they are trending or in season. The ongoing unraveling of supposedly sensible people is proof of that.

[Àgbà John Doe @jon_d_doe]

So most of you idiots should shut up when I am talking about government and governance.

I don't collect monies for political gigs and I pay over half a million naira in taxes each month.

I am among the 1% of Nigerians that pay this.

You that pays little should shut up.

End.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Family ties 💙

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

While ₦500,000 may better reflect the actual cost of living for many Nigerian workers, the current economy is not strong enough to sustainably support such a wage across the entire civil service without risking severe fiscal strain, inflationary pressure, and financial difficulties for many state governments. The more realistic path would be gradual wage increases tied to productivity growth, inflation trends, and government revenue expansion.

Oga Yele should know better!

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

@fimiletoks @Alpha_Yom If you call the almajiri system a deliberate recruitment pool for terrorism, they will not allow you to rest. What do we expect from a system that abandons children at their most vulnerable stage?

[Dr. Toks 🦇 @fimiletoks]

A 2014 Unicef report puts the Almajiri population at 9.5m children, 72% of out of school children in Nigeria. When you send kids out of their homes to fend for themselves 400km away, what do you think they'll become? Tech gurus? Scientists?

[Segun Maximus @The_AdeSegun]

@Letter_to_Jack We all act as though we have a profit-sharing arrangement with local producers, yet all they do in the end is engage in price gouging, without any consideration for the poor people who protested in their interest.

Nigerians should have learnt from past experiences.

[Man of Letters. @Letter_to_Jack]

Every time we ban imports on high-demand essential commodities in an attempt to “support” local producers, we end up regretting and common Nigerians pay dearly for it.

When will we learn that protectionism without competitiveness only creates shortages and higher prices?

It is possible to support local producers while still maintaining fair competition in the market.