Frank

Vivat, Crescat, Floreat!!

[Frank @Tochks]

@edumontee He will find one scapegoat and banish him to Castilla

[Frank @Tochks]

@Kenetchy_ 😂😂
Truth be told, El Rufai can’t do anything to Tinubu

[Frank @Tochks]

@mrfestusogun @MalachyOdo1 😂😂😂

[Princewill Chuka @PrincewiIIChuka]

They gave Umahi Environmental impact assessment of the coastal road, he ignored it and claimed he's a Professor of engineering by experience

Now we're all learning Environmental science together

[Giovanni Ifedi-Williams @TheGiovannis]

These Police Officers just parked me at Bolade, Oshodi, pointed guns at me, and forced me to transfer N100,000 them. When my bank app showed "exceeded transfer limit", they dragged me to a nearby POS to do it with my card.

They initially demanded 150k each.
They were 4 in number.

These are the names I could copy:
Francis Adekunle
2087495551
Kuda

Friday Ikpe
9136237110
Okay

This is the phone number of the notorious Officer Friday Ikpe 09136237110. I got it from his opay

@PoliceNG @BenHundeyin @Princemoye1

Please my mutuals, if you see this on your TL, help repost or tag other relevant authorities until these criminals are apprehended.

[ĸolαde @twitgameboy]

Money for Lambo dey Satan hand, na daily bread God promise you.

[Frank @Tochks]

@Sir_Fin Trappatoni somehow mismanaged Italy vs Sweden and drew a match he should have won comfortably thus putting his team in that position for “Scandinavian coup”😅

[T. Rânkïn' PisTola! @AfroVII]

All the ethnic pride tweets. Aren't you guys embarrassed. We're shit. Our country is fucking rubbish. No excellence, no growth, no progress.

We're collectively so fucking shit. Argh🤦🏾‍♂️. The world has really left us behind!!!

[Felix @felixherbt]

As expected, Adams Oshiomhole went on a full 90-minute podcast with Seun.

❌ He did not discuss the state of the nation.
❌ He didn’t discuss the insecurity that k!lled military generals.
❌ He didn’t discuss the kidnapped underage girls held by terrorists for months.
❌ He didn’t discuss kidnapped victims being r@ped and recorded by terrorists.
❌ He didn’t discuss the teacher beheaded by terrorists.
❌ He didn’t discuss the hike in cooking gas.
❌ He didn’t discuss Tinubu’s achievements over the past three years.

He and Seun spent over 90 minutes talking about Peter Obi. Seun never interrupted him even when he lied about Peter Obi. A very terrible and dishonest journalist @seunokin.

You wonder why they don’t go to Arise TV for this kind of nonsense?

[Frank @Tochks]

@dammiedammie35 https://t.co/znz7BCdTdi

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The key identifier of an "elite" class is not merely their bank account balance but their ability and willingness to use their economic and political heft to shape the society around them.

That's why a hereditary landowner and member of the UK House of Lords is considered an elite, while your average Premier League footballer (who may have more money than the HoL member) is not. The difference is in the willingness and ability to wield that power meaningfully.

The reason I keep on saying 'Nigeria has no elites' is that I was born and raised among the subset of Nigerians who erroneously consider themselves to be elite, and I am very familiar with their thought process. It is the exact same thought process that you would get from a sugarcane seller in Mile 12 market if overnight he was given a house in Maitama, a Lexus SUV, a beautiful yarinya and N150m in the bank.

The nouveau-riche sugarcane seller would not be concerned with higher thoughts like how to use his newfound fortune to transform the economic reality of Mile 12 market while positioning to benefit from the transformation. Nope. He would only be concerned with ensuring that he keeps hold of what he has, so that he never has to sleep in a wheelbarrow on a side street off Ikosi Road again.

That's exactly what the privileged Nigerian is upstairs - a sugarcane seller who happens to live in Ikoyi. No matter how many decades they have spent in Ikoyi, their reality is still defined by the desperate quest to escape or avoid poverty. Every Nigerian millionaire or billionaire that you know feels financially insecure. Doesn't matter whether they are worth $1m or $25bn - they are all viscerally terrified of sinking into poverty, and the sum of their decision making is a series of short term deals and compromises to avoid poverty, without any kind of higher, long-term guiding principle.

I know this especially well because I was raised in a house where everybody who is somebody in Lagos stopped by once in a while to work on a real estate deal with my old man, and I would regularly overhear everybody from bank CEOs to retired military generals and air vice marshalls saying things "Our leaders are [insert whiny complaint]." And I would wonder - who are the "leaders" that these extremely privileged people sound so oppressed and intimidated by? Is it not their friends and coursemates from Jaji?

Later on it made sense when I realised that once you are in power in Nigeria, you become God, and even your family changes its rules for you. I've seen families override their olori-ebi because one 50 year-old uncle became somebody in Abuja. Conversely, as soon as you leave power in Nigeria, you sink into total irrelevance and people treat you like your body has a smell. The entire Nigerian sense of value and self-worth is welded to money and power. Once you don't have these 2 things, you might as well be wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak - even your family and contemporaries stop treating you with respect.

The effect this has on elite formation is that unlike in other societies where elites gravitate toward different ideas shared by different camps, and then fight for the right to imprint those ideas on their society (Democrat vs Republican; Maoist vs Dengist; Tory vs Labour etc), privileged Nigerians ONLY gravitate toward one thing - economic power. They have no elite sense of identity outside of money in the bank, a 4-wheeled status signaller on the road, and an overpriced house in a neighbourhood that has a constant bad odour and potholes.

That is also why Nigeria's political actors do this thing called "decamping" where they switch affiliation to whatever political party is in power. Their entire conception of the world is built around access to the levers of economic power so that they can avoid ending up in a wheelbarrow in Mile 12 market.

That's literally all there is to Nigeria.

200 million sugarcane sellers.

[Lola Okunrin @lollypeezle]

This evening, I was at Ikeja with my car rewire guy and I witnessed firsthand how all the mechanics apprentices in that big yard kept warning each other off some cars. “Don’t open that car, mosquitoes will enter”. I was wondering, if mosquitoes enter nko, what will happen?

Then they made me realize they all sleep in different cars everyday and only go home at the end of the year except there’s an emergency at home. Like, that’s where they live.

I nearly ran mad. Are you joking? You need to see how they guide their cars like it’s their mini home. Realizing where they all came from, it’s almost impossible to go home everyday due to cost and who will rent apartment for you in Ikeja? They took turns narrating all the styles they use to sleep. Imagine the inconvenience sitting to sleep everyday and they somehow still send money home.

The life of men just hard anyhow.

[Frank @Tochks]

@afalli My own started when I delayed in renewing my 365. Stopped after I renewed

[SuccessWrites @successwrites4u]

"Sharia laws will stop prostitution"

Let Sharia law stop banditry first, I will rather we keep having prostitute than keep experiencing terrorism

[Frank @Tochks]

@Kenetchy_ Person wey dey find “investors” 😅

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

He’s dating Kim Kardashian, who has an estimated net worth of nearly $2 billion. He's worth nearly $500 million and lives in Monaco to avoid paying taxes in the UK.

Remarkable lack of self-awareness.

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

I personally want Obi as Nigeria’s president so people can see that you can be upright, be respectful, be a Nigerian, be law-abiding, have no criminal case and still win in Nigeria. Obi’s presidency is good for Nigeria’s moral compass.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The key identifier of an "elite" class is not merely their bank account balance but their ability and willingness to use their economic and political heft to shape the society around them.

That's why a hereditary landowner and member of the UK House of Lords is considered an elite, while your average Premier League footballer (who may have more money than the HoL member) is not. The difference is in the willingness and ability to wield that power meaningfully.

The reason I keep on saying 'Nigeria has no elites' is that I was born and raised among the subset of Nigerians who erroneously consider themselves to be elite, and I am very familiar with their thought process. It is the exact same thought process that you would get from a sugarcane seller in Mile 12 market if overnight he was given a house in Maitama, a Lexus SUV, a beautiful yarinya and N150m in the bank.

The nouveau-riche sugarcane seller would not be concerned with higher thoughts like how to use his newfound fortune to transform the economic reality of Mile 12 market while positioning to benefit from the transformation. Nope. He would only be concerned with ensuring that he keeps hold of what he has, so that he never has to sleep in a wheelbarrow on a side street off Ikosi Road again.

That's exactly what the privileged Nigerian is upstairs - a sugarcane seller who happens to live in Ikoyi. No matter how many decades they have spent in Ikoyi, their reality is still defined by the desperate quest to escape or avoid poverty. Every Nigerian millionaire or billionaire that you know feels financially insecure. Doesn't matter whether they are worth $1m or $25bn - they are all viscerally terrified of sinking into poverty, and the sum of their decision making is a series of short term deals and compromises to avoid poverty, without any kind of higher, long-term guiding principle.

I know this especially well because I was raised in a house where everybody who is somebody in Lagos stopped by once in a while to work on a real estate deal with my old man, and I would regularly overhear everybody from bank CEOs to retired military generals and air vice marshalls saying things "Our leaders are [insert whiny complaint]." And I would wonder - who are the "leaders" that these extremely privileged people sound so oppressed and intimidated by? Is it not their friends and coursemates from Jaji?

Later on it made sense when I realised that once you are in power in Nigeria, you become God, and even your family changes its rules for you. I've seen families override their olori-ebi because one 50 year-old uncle became somebody in Abuja. Conversely, as soon as you leave power in Nigeria, you sink into total irrelevance and people treat you like your body has a smell. The entire Nigerian sense of value and self-worth is welded to money and power. Once you don't have these 2 things, you might as well be wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak - even your family and contemporaries stop treating you with respect.

The effect this has on elite formation is that unlike in other societies where elites gravitate toward different ideas shared by different camps, and then fight for the right to imprint those ideas on their society (Democrat vs Republican; Maoist vs Dengist; Tory vs Labour etc), privileged Nigerians ONLY gravitate toward one thing - economic power. They have no elite sense of identity outside of money in the bank, a 4-wheeled status signaller on the road, and an overpriced house in a neighbourhood that has a constant bad odour and potholes.

That is also why Nigeria's political actors do this thing called "decamping" where they switch affiliation to whatever political party is in power. Their entire conception of the world is built around access to the levers of economic power so that they can avoid ending up in a wheelbarrow in Mile 12 market.

That's literally all there is to Nigeria.

200 million sugarcane sellers.

[Frank @Tochks]

@agbekomefa @ISWISPodcast Allow them to be projecting faux morality. If the man marry another woman, he will still bring the kids to her to care of them.

[Ndi Kato (Ungwan Masara's finest) @YarKafanchan]

When i saw that wedding those years ago, I said poor poor girl, you will be the butt of insults from this mad man in a few years.
If you see a cantankerous person and they are nice to you while being vile everywhere else, you should know that it is only a matter of time.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Just praise @PeterObi and all the APC cretins will be in your mentions. The energy they have for him while Nigeria is on fire cannot be explained away by tribalism. This is a mental illness.