200M of us should not sit at home, whilst PIDOM goes to jail. How can we all fail PIDOM so? How? 😩
What exactly is our breaking point?
I want us to protest. But I can't do it alone. Dear Nigerians, are you angry enough? 😡
I will never understand a country where journalists like PIDOM & David Hundeyin are wanted for revealing the truth, while corrupt, greedy, and criminal politicians like Yahaya Bello roam free.
Each you time you try to understand, it eludes the grey matter in your cranium.
According to NPF, David Hundeyin is now a ‘Wanted Dangerous Criminal’
More dangerous than the bandits daily partying LIVE on TikTok with ransom money?
Incredible!
@firstladyship Some Nigerians don’t really understand what hit them..
The Tinubu illegality is a catastrophic experimentation of greed, incompetence & criminality..
Nigeria is already in abyss & Golgotha ..
#Damn
I debated long and hard whether to do this publicly, but I think a message needs to be sent to a group of external interests working in tandem with the internal interests described in the quoted tweet to counteract the interests of half a billion West Africans. A message that at whatever level we exist, we take our destiny seriously and we are not to be trifled with.
Last week, I received an N800,000 offer from an international NGO called Dialogue Earth (formerly known as China Dialogue Trust) to write an article essentially saying that Dangote Refinery is terrible for the environment because something something "Environmental Concerns," something something "Climate Change," something something "Energy Transition Policy," something something "COP 28."
The (unstated but clearly implied) thrust of the brief was for a prominent local voice to put their name on an article that is an argument or a premise for the the Nigerian government to kill the refinery based on its "energy transition commitments" and "environmental policy." This conclusion wasn't immediately apparent when they reached out to me, but I suspected where it was heading, and I quickly accepted the offer so that I could see the brief and obtain hard evidence. I've attached screenshots from the brief below.
Basically, this London-based NGO is headed by Sam Geall, an Oxford professor and is funded by several American intelligence fronts such as Ford Foundation and ClimateWorks (which is blacklisted in India for funding organisations working against India's national interest). For whatever reason, it is now quietly mobilising a resistance campaign against what it describes as "Nigeria's first refinery." Apparently, the status quo of Africa's largest oil producer having no functioning oil refinery to beneficiate its own oil was not a problem for Dialogue Earth and the American CIA fronts who fund it.
The human poverty caused by exporting this raw material and importing refined fuel was not bad for the environment. Also, the fact of European refiners regularly blending West African fuel cargoes with toxic waste and sulphur content 200 times the European legal limit (leading to asthma, bronchitis and eye infections in West Africa) was also not bad for the environment. But Nigeria having a refinery that will wean West Africa off import dependency on those European refiners (and allow West Africa control the sulphur content of its own fuels) is where Dialogue Earth and its funders draw the line. That one is bad for the environment, and David Hundeyin should write an article calling for the refinery to be shut down or limited.
I'm putting this out there publicly so that nobody will henceforth use the term "conspiracy theory" when it is pointed out for the umpteenth time, that there are American and European state and private interests that are heavily invested in keeping Africa exactly as poor as it is, and that they regularly push levers most of us do not even know exist, to make sure that this status quo is protected. These people believe that Africans should not exist or have nice things in this world. Apparently, the sole purpose of our existence is to enhance their experience of the planet and all that it has to offer.
It is because of them that I have to make a public spectacle out of this, even though I know that doing this is probably going to cost someone their job. The message needs to be passed that as poor as we are, you cannot convince us to campaign for the elongation of our own poverty by commissioning $500 hack jobs in the hope that we will be greedy enough to only see the money and ignore the bigger picture of what we can clearly see you trying to do.
I will reiterate something I have said multiple times - I am not a believer in the religious faith called Climate Change/Saving The Environment. I care exactly as much about the environment as do the rich white men who destroyed it to begin with. I firmly believe that if what it takes for Africa to industrialise is for it to burn so much fossil fuel that snow stops falling in Wisconsin and it starts raining concentrated sulphuric acid in Doncaster, it is not too big a price for Europe and North America to pay - it is certainly not bigger than the price Africa had to pay for Europe and North America to develop.
It is and will continue to be 100% OUR prerogative to determine what to do with our hydrocarbons. It is not the rich white men hiding behind these "Climate Advocacy NGOs" who will tell us what to do with our energy reserves, and by what means we are allowed to escape the poverty that they engineered for us.
I might not be a fan of Aliko Dangote or his monopolistic business practices - as is well known - but I'm also smart enough to know when rich white men in DC, Houston, Rotterdam and London and trying to use me as a marionette in their 400 year-old coloniser games. If you are reading this and you are one of the rich white men whose economic interests are threatened by Nigeria refining its own oil, you should come out and fight Aliko Dangote by yourself.
Or at least go find a much stupider African to do your dirty job - there's plenty of those.
It will never be me.
The problem with Nigerian education is that its recipients conflate the ability to think with the ability to speak English, swallow information written in English, and confuse themselves with it when vomiting it out.
For reference, among China, Russia and America, only one country has ever successfully imposed a president on Nigeria. Only one country has a downloadable foreign policy document stating in black and white that its vision for Africa is for it to remain a cheap primary extraction zone for the global economy, and that the growth of potential regional hegemons like Nigeria is a threat to its economic and security interests.
Only one of those 3 countries has gone as far as installing a convicted drug trafficker as Nigeria's head of state, 8 years after staging a colour revolution to remove a Nigerian president with a PhD who achieved economic growth numbers not witnessed since the oil boom in the 1970s. Only one of those countries openly boasts in its diplomatic cables about the journalists and media houses that it bribes to push its national propaganda into the heads of Nigerians 24/7.
The recipient of Nigerian education knows that this country is the USA, but he cannot make the obvious deduction - that the USA, per its own foreign policy doctrine, can simply never act in Nigeria's national interest. He will rather look at a person who is doing the logical thing - exploring available alternatives - and accuse him of being on a "Kremlin propaganda payroll." Even though ironically, it is the US that cares enough to actually spend millions of dollars annually on pushing American propaganda into Nigerian eyes and ears.
Heck, the educated Nigerian will walk past Mobolaji Johnson rail station everyday as people queue up to catch their air-conditioned train to Ibadan on a standard gauge rail track supporting speeds of up to 160km/hr, and he will unlock the screen of his TECNO smartphone to post on Twitter, using a network built on Huawei infrastructure, that Nigeria should beware of China because it is not a democracy, and then quote something written by a think tank in Washington DC to back up his point.
The recipient of Nigerian education does not see himself as a complete human being and an independent moral agent in charge of his own destiny, because the education he received did not teach him critical thinking or deduction. It only taught him to cram and vomit, which prepared him eminently well for a lifetime of swallowing other people's narratives and regurgitating them - a mechanical process which he mistakes for "thinking" and expressing his opinion."
It genuinely does not occur to him that a Nigerian expressing a pro-Chinese or pro-Russian geopolitical position could possibly be doing so because they have assessed the available information and options, and made a rational deduction. No. The mental limits of the education given to him make it such that anyone expressing a pro-American position is doing so because America is the greatest country in the world, and that is just a fact, while anyone expressing a pro-Chinese or pro-Russian position is doing so because PLA Propaganda Officer Ching Chong Chen and KGB Agent Alex Ptrdyschuynik paid him yuan and roubles to do so.
And that's clearly not because nearly everything inside his head is coloured by American propaganda. Because as we all know, American propaganda doesn't exist.
You don't have legitimacy. You held on to power after paying INEC & the judiciary off.
Ok, Do the bare minimum & gain small love & respect, you decided to milk the country dry & increase hardship by 500%+
Greedy old bastard!
#EndBadGovernaceProtest#OccupyAbuja#TinubuMUSTGo
@jrnaib2 Dear Nigerian Army,
Discharge your sacred duty without fear or favor. Secure our national security.
Allow Nigerian citizens to show their grievances through peaceful protest.
Don't mix your duty with political interest & don't allow yourself to be used by politicians.
President Bola Ahmad Tinubu I Totally Disagree With You That You Inherited A Dilapidated Nigeria From The Former President Muhammadu Buhari Below Are My Reasons
How Can A President That Claimed To Have Inherited A Dilapidated Nigeria Be Spending Public Funds Extravagantly As If You Inherited A Rich And Prosperous Country
How Would You Justify The Following Extravagant Spendings Under Your Government
21 Billion Naira To Renovate The Vice President House
70 Billion Naira To The National Assembly Members To Buy SUVs At The Cost 160 Million Naira Per One For Senators And House Of Representatives Members Specifically
4 Billion Naira To Renovate Dodan Barrack Lagos Another 3 Billion Naira To Renovate Aguda House
5 Billion Naira Was Given To Presidential Tax Reforms Committee Of Less Than Twenty People Headed By Taiwo Oyedele With Nothing To Show For It
1.5 Billion Naira To Purchase Cars For Your Wife Senator Oluremi Tinubu Despite The Fact That First Lady Office Is Not Recognised By Our Constitution
300% Salary Increase For The Judges Which Was Speedily Passed By The Insensitive And Irresponsible Senators
5 Billion Naira Was Budgeted For Presidential Fleet Of Cars For President Bola Ahmad Tinubu
Billions Of Naira Was Budgeted For Your Trips Including The Vice President Kashim Shettima To The Detriment Of The Citizens
Every Senator Is Paid 21 Million Naira Monthly
House Of Representatives Are Earning 13.5 Million Monthly All The Increment Was Done By Your Government
15 Trillion Naira Lagos Calabar Coastal Road Was Awarded Illegally To Your Friend A Lebanese Gilbert Chagoury Who Was Repatriated Back To His Country By The Former President Obasanjo
You Have The Largest Ministers Ever In The History Of Nigeria Where Are You Sourcing Money To Pay Them
You Went Ahead To Create Another Ministry Of Livestock Development
What Happened To Orasanye Report Of Downsizing And Merging Some Of The Agencies , Parastatals And Departments
Where Is The Subsidy Money That Was Removed On Petroleum Product And Electricity?
How Much Was Saved And What Was The Money Used For President Bola Ahmad Tinubu Nigerians Are Demanding To Know?
The Cost Of Governance Has Not Reduced Instead It Has Increased Massively
Fuel Subsidy Removed
Electricity Tariff Hike
Education Beyond The Ordinary Citizens
Health Services Beyond Ordinary Citizens
Foodstuffs Beyond Ordinary Citizens
Insecurity And Killings On The Increased
Collapsed Economy
Unemployment On The Increased
Corruption And Stealing Of Public Funds Legalisms
Nepotism Top On Your Agenda
President,Vice President,Governor's Security Votes Remained Intact
All The Allowances Paid To Our Leaders Remained Intact
There Is No Single Support A Citizen Of Nigeria Deserve From Government And The Government Is There For Him Or Her None
Renewed Hopelessness,Destitution And Deception
Mr President Bola Ahmad Tinubu,Governor's,Ministers And Top Government Officials Including The Service Chiefs Heads Of Agencies,Departments And Parastatals Your Lifestyle And Extravagant Spending Of Public Funds Does Not In Anyway Show That President Tinubu Inherited A Dilapidated Nigeria
Leaders Are Getting Richer
Citizens Are Getting Poorer
Look At How President Bola Ahmad Tinubu Has Been Tranformed Physically,Mentally And Financially To The Detriment Of Nigerians
This Trend Must Be Arrested
THIS IS JUST A TIP OF INSENSITIVE LEADERSHIP RECKLESSNESS TO MENTION FEW
My Response to the President's Address - Obi
Having led the call for the President to address the nation and respond to the demands of the people, and having listened to the belated speech, I needed to delay my response to see if my understanding of the address was aligned with
I don't understand this deep hate against Tinubu.
Tinubu has not enjoyed any genuine love from Nigerians, even his loyalists.
Everything must be hired or paid. Just ordinary anti protest protesters, na hire.
So, where are the good Nigerians that voted Tinubu?
The thuggery, looting, violence etc are all state sponsored
Let me repeat - TAX PAYERS MONEY ARE USED TO THREATEN TAX PAYERS/PROTESTERS
From Berger in Abuja to Ojota in Lagos
Nothing lasts forever, even Hitler, Abacha, Idi Amin etc are all dead
#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria