wavey the 4th.

- I speak on a bunch of crypto stuff on here

[Felix @felixherbt]

“Your president is a crook and a forger; I have no regard for him.”
— American media personal tackles a Yoruba man who came to promote Tinubu on his show💔🤯

worst International disgrace!

[Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. @batten_von]

A few days ago, Dr. Von Batten received unsolicited offers of $3 million, along with an invitation to a confidential meeting in London, from a highly placed individual whom we have been informed is connected to Nigerian President Bola Tinubu (@officialABAT). We believe these offers were an attempt to persuade Dr. Von Batten to end our campaign concerning President #Tinubu’s alleged heroin-trafficking records.

Dr. Von Batten refused the offers, immediately preserved copies of the exchanges, and contacted members of former Nigerian Vice President @atiku’s campaign to determine the nature of the individual’s relationship with President #Tinubu. Shortly after the refusals, a smear campaign against Dr. Von Batten began. We will be providing the $3 million offer and related communications to the our friends at @TheJusticeDept and @FBI to protect our reputation and allow the appropriate authorities to review the matter.

We have a simple message for President Bola #Tinubu, the @OfficialAPCNg, and their associates: Thank you for the offer, but no thanks.

@realDonaldTrump @JDVance @SecRubio @SusieWiles47 @HouseForeignGOP @HouseForeign @SFRCdems @StateDept @AsstSecStateAF @SenateForeign @SenTedCruz @RepBrianMast @SusieWiles @FBIDirectorKash @USAttyPirro @FoxNews @washingtonpost @joerogan @ONDCP @DrugCzar47 @AGToddBlanche @USAttyPirro

[Aji Bussu Onye Mpiawa azụ 🇨🇮 @AfamDeluxo]

My job is simply to repost. Fuck APC. Fuck Bola Tinubu and everyone who supports him.

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

“Everything has cøllapsed in Nigeria. As of 1959, Nigeria’s National Shipping Line owned 6 vessels; by 1961, they owned 8 vessels, and it kept increasing. But today, they have no vessel.

I read today in the newspaper that when Emirates Airlines started in 1985, they started with two leased planes. At that time, Nigeria had over 20 planes. But today, Emirates Airlines has over 280 planes, while Nigeria’s own is now zero.

If today you’re critically ill in Nigeria and you go to the hospital, you might likely end up at the mørtuary. That’s why many Nigerians like taking ill people to church instead of hospital.”

— Mr. Peter Obi, speaking during a town hall meeting in Rivers State.

[Auwal 🦇 @SkinnyBoi001_]

When Senator Natasha exposed Senator Akpabio, she was suspended immediately. But now that there are allegations and evidence on Senator Shehu Umar sponsoring terrorism, everywhere is quiet. It makes you wonder what exactly is the priority of the Nigerian Senate.

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

“Off that generator!”

Protest erupts in Burutu, Delta State, as angry youths reportedly storm the local government facilities, switch off the generator and insist that since they do not have electricity, the Chairman does not deserve to have one. The youths also reportedly dragged a boat belonging to him ashore.

According to The Nation Newspaper, the protest was triggered by the de@th of an expectant mother and her unborn child after she allegedly failed to receive timely medical attention at the government-owned General Hospital in Burutu on Monday.

[wavey the 4th. @Ultim83_sol]

@jjeebhoy @JohnBarnes1080 The only thing I can respect them for, they are always ready to unite in their own shared interests no matter the cause.

[Johnny Barnes @JohnBarnes1080]

Crazy how white people run the planet with Pan-Europeanism but black people fight against Pan-Africanism

So strange

[BLAC @Sizwebanzisdead]

2022 my guy called me!
Happy! As hell!
Oboi i'm bringing AC Milan scout to IMO state o!
I said congratulations have you sorted them?
He said yes! Thinking it's stadium fees I speak of!
Day 1 of trial event with Campos academy ( Chrisantus, Nnadi, uzoho came from this academy)
Scouts arrived at stadium, players arrived at stadium, cubana chief priest arrived at stadium but before kick off! Hilux parked at middle of pitch and said commissioner said they should stop match and hold rally!
My guy cried, scout from ac Milan went back in anger, other scouts already at malpenza for flight to Nigeria returned home!

[elamin_eya @mumtazin]

Psquare saga had 8-parts the whole mainstream media had a say, NOW ISSUES INVOLVING NIGERIAN SECURITY WITH SUCH HEAVY ALLEGATIONS AND OUR MEDIA IS SILENT 💔

@channelstv @ARISEtv @tvcnewsng @bbchausa @bbcnewspidgin @NTANewsNow @MobilePunch @daily_trust QUESTION THE MAN🙏🏻

@NGRSenate QUESTION THE MAN🙏🏻

[Ahmed Hashi @Hashi25979Hashi]

The UAE is a direct security threat to the African continent.

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

Malami just forfeited property to EFCc and is running for governor under ADC what moral right does the ADC have to call out APC

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

Niger is the 4th producer of uranium in the world and supplies 40% of electricity to France meanwhile 89% of Niger live in darkness. This is why France is sponsoring coups in the Sahel.

[GT Atas @GodstimeAtas]

You are asking God to protect them so they could mvrder innocent people in the middle East.

[-ASAD👳‍♂️ @princekally001]

If Epstein was black, they'd have blamed the entire race.

[wavey the 4th. @Ultim83_sol]

@arojinle1 You!

[Olamilekan A.🇨🇦 🇳🇬 A victim of Nigeria** @lekside34]

You and many other APC supporters...

Bunch of wild aneemals that should be in the bush living... Aneeemals

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

How the BBC reports the US bombing a wedding in Iran.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

For the record, Uber never made or intended to make money in Nigeria. Anyone who is familiar with Uber's core business model knew this since 2015. Uber's business model is to enter a market, set its fares well below those of the existing traditional taxis, burn VC money to absorb the losses while driving taxis out of the market, then raise prices after it becomes a monopoly.

That model needs a large middle market segment to work - people who don't own or drive their own cars but have enough discretionary income to regularly pay for comfy private transport. In Lagos and Abuja, there are only maybe a couple of hundred thousand people within that income segment. People above it who own their own cars and/or have their own personal driver don't need a ride hailing service, and the vast majority below it who don't, generally aren't willing to pay even the VC-subsidised "cheap" fares because what is considered "cheap" in San Francisco is definitely not cheap in Bariga.

In the ideal market, Uber is only competing against the traditional taxi. In the extremely price-sensitive environment of Nigeria, the opportunity cost of taking an Uber in the minds of the addressable market is the cost savings one can make from taking a danfo, BRT bus, korope, keke, okada, or even literally walking instead. All the VC dollars in the world cannot subsidise a trip made in a low-capacity, air-conditioned, 4-wheeled car into ever becoming cheaper than a bus or rickshaw trip over the same distance. The only people who were regularly and predictably using Uber to get around were a small minority of well-heeled, mainly female customers who chose not to own or drive their own vehicle for various reasons - and this was far too small a market segment to build the Uber business model on. The mathematics made no sense from day 1.

Also from a driver and cars POV, Uber is known to operate like a pyramid scheme. It depends on a constant stream of new drivers and cars being onboarded onto the platform to replace the drivers and car owners who drop out in vast numbers everyday after realising that after fuel, repairs and depreciation costs in Nigeria, it is mathematically impossible to make any real money on Uber. The best one can do with it (as I did for 3 months in 2016) is just use it to temporarily get by - but the fuel costs will eat nearly half of whatever you make, the repairs will be expensive and incessant, and your car will be transformed into a pile of moving metal trash with next to no resale value.

There was no real business case for Uber Nigeria, and this was known as far back as 2015 just 1 year after launch. The real reason it stayed another 11 years after the entire initial set of drivers and car owners pulled out citing everything I just said, is that its real business in Nigeria was not ride hailing, but **data gathering.**

Uber is part of the US military industrial complex, like every other thing out of Silicon Valley. Edward Snowden's leaked files already showed us that the American NSA uses Uber, Lyft etc as its "God's Eye" system, giving the US government round the clock surveillance access into where people go, what routes they use, what items they buy, what social relationships they have etc. Thinking of Uber as just a ride hailing app is like thinking of Google as just a search engine.

Over 12 years in Lagos and Abuja, the data Uber has collected would have given whoever gathered it some extremely useful, and possibly dangerous insights into whoever might be a person of interest. The data would include people's home address, work addresses, which Airbnbs they book to meet their side pieces, which takeaway restaurant they order from, what pharmacy they buy condoms or morning after pills from, what routes they take to work and back, where their kids go to school...

I'm willing to bet that the decision to end Uber's presence in Nigeria was not sudden at all, but merely the expiration of whatever US government contract it was executing.

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

“No rich man will open their door for poor people, that’s why many countries are denying Nigerian visas. By the time we are done reforming Nigeria, Nigerians won’t like to be travelling outside like now. Even when they apply for a visa, they can easily get it.”

— NDC presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, speaking at a town hall meeting in Rivers State.