Eazi🏌🏾‍♂️💫

In this life that I’m living I pray I make it through the night🙏🏾

[stache X. @ElStachioo]

Everybody except Nigerians seems to understand the significance of the most populous black nation in the world, with every natural resource known to man.

There’s a reason your leaders took history out of your schools. If you won’t listen to me, listen to late Maitama Sule.

[sc @sxdiqcarter_]

Biggest mistake you ft make as guy na make person assume say you be Mr do all wey no need help.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

“As far as Africa is concerned, music cannot be for enjoyment, music should be for revolution”- Fela Kuti

[Eazi🏌🏾‍♂️💫 @VMegbune]

Don’t wait, learn about your history

[amir @linuxlvr]

i feel like we’re not taught enough about nigerian history in schools cause why am i just finding out who ken saro wiwa is

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

In 1976, Nigerian journalist Sam Ogun confessed to DRUM that he had spent nearly 10 years spying on Nigeria for the CIA. He also warned that many other Nigerians were being recruited to infiltrate different sectors of the country.

He told the magazine, "The CIA has so many arms or branches — trade union organisations, educational institutions, cultural organisations. The CIA is the father and through these organisations which are sent to Africa to help developing countries. The agents or officers of these organisations use their organisations as covers to spy for the CIA."

Ogun said Nigerians could be recruited without knowing it, benefiting directly or indirectly from development programmes run by organisations he claimed were linked to foreign intelligence networks.

"You don't apply to be an agent or spy. You are spotted, trailed, and an assessment is made of you without your knowing," he said.

His own career as a spy began in the early 1960s, when he worked as an "information officer" for the American Motion Picture Export Company. An American film distributor known as Jack paid him to write reviews of foreign films for local newspapers, which were then forwarded to New York. Ogun said that was how he was first placed on a payroll.

He later confessed to spying on foreign diplomats, trade unionists, civil servants, students and fellow journalists. He said he was trained to use a camera and a pocket-sized tape recorder designed for espionage.

Ogun eventually retired from spying and explained his decision to confess: "I found out by myself the evil the CIA had been doing to Africa."

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This is how history gets incrementally rewritten because nobody pushes back on narratives like this.

In reality, no generation in Nigeria ever actually "listened" to Fela. At NO point was he ever embraced by Nigeria's western-educated classes. He was always an outsider and a rebel that they treated with suspicion or outright hostility. Even the wealthy or educated who liked him had to literally hide to do so. His music was (and to the best of my knowledge still is!) banned from radio nationwide, and it eventually got to the point where he made less money in Nigeria - his primary audience - than outside it.

I grew up on a street where a few houses away was Air Vice Marshall Funsho Martins, across the street was Governor Ita Ikpeme, around the corner was Fidelity Bank MD Reginald Ihejiahi, and so on. These were the people I would often overhear having conversations with my dad, and to them, Fela was an "amugbo boy" (weed smoking loser) and community penis who used the guise of African pride to cover for his lack of personal discipline. They had no respect for what he stood for, and I personally was not allowed to listen to Fela's music while I lived under my parents' roof.

Fela was never loved by the people who were politically aware or active in Nigeria. The only people who wholeheartedly embraced Fela were the poorest and most powerless. And even at that, they lacked the education to fully understand his message beyond simple complaint and criticism of the Nigerian government. All his words about colonialism and imperialism flew completely over their heads. It was like explaining the International Space Station to someone who has never seen an internal combustion engine before.

I hate the narrative that Nigeria ever truly embraced Fela or his message because that is a laundering device for Nigerians to avoid asking themselves what on earth was so important about that message that a military government invaded his house, raped his wives and killed his mom, while the global "human rights" yappers provided cover for that government and never sanctioned them for it.

Saying that there was a generation that "listened to Fela" is an easy and disingenuous way of dismissing Fela's work and refusing to examine what made it so important that we're still talking about him nearly 3 decades after he died.

[Eazi🏌🏾‍♂️💫 @VMegbune]

They say these things boldly, at this point you’ll be so dumb not to see it.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Jesse Watters: How does taking out a dictator in Venezuela help the average American?

VP JD Vance: It means is we are going to be able to control the incredible natural resources of Venezuela. @acyn (2026)

[Eazi🏌🏾‍♂️💫 @VMegbune]

You as a Nigerian what has Russian done to put you in poverty?

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

My major problem with David Hundeyin and Big Mack and their CIA issue is that

They are proposing Russia as the upright option

Lmao. Russia?
I should be a lover of Russia?
Even Russians dream to go to the USA.

Russia?
GTFOH

[Auggie The Serenading Psychic (🚰❤️‍🔥♣️) @CryptoMuse01]

Music shapes entire generations, and they don't even have to be aware while it's happening.

It's like Mohbad (Imole) said: "Music no need permission to enter your spirit. Anyhow anywhere you must to feel it."

Look at the impact of Olu Maintain’s "Yahooze" in 2007. It served as a massive cultural catalyst for the "Yahoo-Yahoo" epidemic we see today.

If a single song can shift the youth's moral ideology so drastically, imagine the geopolitical threat of a global icon doing the exact opposite.

That was Bob Marley. His reggae was the psychological spine of anti-colonial revolutions worldwide.

He sang "Rasta don't work for no CIA" because he knew his art directly threatened Western hegemony (aka Babylon 🤣🤣)— which is precisely why knowledgeable insiders link the CIA to his 1976 assassination attempt.

Look at Fela Kuti. His Afrobeat was an outright declaration of war against neo-colonial puppets. To silence him, the local military government subjected him to over 200 arrests, burned his Kalakuta Republic to the ground, and murdered his mother. If a Nigerian regime used that level of raw military terrorism just to contain one man in Lagos, how hard do you think the global imperial apparatus will clamp down when an artist stands in the way of their entire global agenda?

This brings us to the ultimate end game: Geopolitics and demographic management.

By 2050, Africa will hold the fastest-growing youth population on earth. Nearly 1 out of every 4 people in the world will be African, and 1 out of 6 African will be Nigerian, with 1 out of every 25 random human on earth being Nigerian.

In the cold calculus of Western intelligence, a hyper-conscious, politically literate African youth population is an existential risk to Western hegemony and resource control.

More importantly, you must know that the mortal fear of the West is that if they fell out of power, others would do to them what they've done around the world for centuries.

So they figure that if a demographic giant wakes up to the frequency of Felas and Marleys, they will become completely ungovernable.

So how do you control a population that massive without deploying armies? You do it through the algorithm. You fund and amplify a modern, sanitized music industry that rewards escapism, hyper-individualism, and material wealth over consciousness.

By filtering out the revolutionary spark, the global imperial apparatus achieves ultimate containment and neutralization. They don't need to assassinate the prophets anymore ("how long shall they kill our prophets...?"); they just use music and entertainment to turn a potential revolutionary generation into completely redolent, bio-pliable 'fauna'.

[Eazi🏌🏾‍♂️💫 @VMegbune]

It hurts me so much that we as Nigerians don’t read. That organization conducted series of experiments on their own citizens.

[Grandmeezys Boy @Al3xtheg3mini]

I need some of you to go on CIA dot gov and read some of the shit those people have been up to as far back as 50 years ago.

They have so many declassified docs released.

That's what is paining me, the info is right there!! But you no wan read

You just wanna laugh at people.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

If the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends representatives to go to the US and sign partnership and sponsorship agreements with American musicians, publicists, entertainment lawyers and journalists, whoever signs such a deal will spend 5 years in federal prison for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

In Nigeria, the US equivalent of the MFA (US State Department) has been doing exactly the same thing for the past 2 decades, embedding itself all over Nigeria's cultural and media spaces, and the natives involved are rather basking in the glow of being the "special selected few" chosen by Father Christmas Hamirikkka.

Nigeria has no FARA, so it is an open highway for anyone to come in and do as they please. The energetic, actively-consenting, long-suffering ashawo who always gets robbed by her clients and never gets paid, but who thinks enduring abuse from white men is a badge of honour, so her legs never close.

When that revolution comes and you see people like Osi Suave facing summary execution alongside your Aisha Yesufus and Yemi Adamolekuns, and all your celebrity artists immediately disappear into exile, don't even waste your breath shouting about "dictatorship" and "human rights" because you sef go collect.

This ashawo industry will end one day.

[ikenjokudc | نعود جميعا إلى الغبار @ikenjoku_david]

There’s an entire epistle called the Kissinger Report, published in 1974 on the importance of keeping Nigeria poor.

52 years later, an idiot with a twitter handle, who has not read any of the publications,

who has not gone to the EU’s website to see why terrorist are being reintegrated into Nigerian Society

Who does not even understand the vast amount of resources in terms of hard minerals and human capital that Nigeria sits on

Comes online to make a post about Nigerians overestimating themselves.

You’re an adult. Do research before you speak.

You can’t keep walking around with the intellectual capacity of an earthworm

[Onyeka ☭ @R_eq_uin]

The most populous black nation in the world with every natural resource known to man, and with the most successful African diaspora in the world is not important?

[Eazi🏌🏾‍♂️💫 @VMegbune]

This one too dull

[WANI @WaniWonder]

Yeah I’m sure the CIA has nothing better to do than sit around for waiting for new music Friday and naija top 100

[Abolaji Rasaq Oluwapese @bolazeal]

THERE IS A GAME INSIDE THE GAME

Nigerians are funny people.

Tell them entertainment can be used to influence society, and they will laugh and say, “Abeg, na music.”

Tell them films can shape political thinking, they will say, “Na film, relax.”

Tell them foreign powers can use culture to influence a country, they will call you a conspiracy theorist.

Meanwhile, the same Nigerians will buy a shoe because Rihanna wore it, copy American slang, human hair, relationships, fashion, politics and even mannerisms.

But somehow, the media does not influence them. Osisko!

I have worked in entertainment for years. So I know one thing very clearly:

Entertainment is never just entertainment.

America knows this very well.

The United States openly uses what it calls cultural diplomacy. Music, film, journalism, scholarships, fellowships, festivals and creative-industry programmes are all part of how countries build influence abroad.

Even the U.S. State Department has programmes specifically using film and music to advance American foreign-policy objectives.

So this thing is not hidden.

Na we dey pretend not to understand.

And it goes beyond Hollywood.

Some Nigerian filmmakers attend American-funded programmes.

Some Nigerian journalists and news organisations receive grants, fellowships or institutional support from American organisations.

Some Nigerian music executives and creatives are brought into American mentorship and industry programmes.

Some Nigerian record labels and entertainment companies have received foreign investment or entered partnerships with major American companies.

Does that automatically mean they are CIA agents?

Of course not.

But does money, access, training, distribution and international recognition create influence?

Use your tongue to count your teeth.

America doesn't need to enter a Nigerian newsroom and say, “Write this.” Or call an artist and say, “Sing that.”

Modern influence is smarter than that.

Funders decide what they fund.

Platforms decide what they promote.

Festivals decide what they celebrate.

Labels decide who gets an international push.

Streaming platforms decide what appears on your screen.

Algorithms decide what millions of Nigerians repeatedly see.

And repeated exposure eventually becomes culture.

That is the real power of media.

If I can control what your children watch, what your youth dance to, who they admire, what lifestyle they desire, what country they dream of escaping to and what values they consider sophisticated, why exactly do I need to invade your country?

You will colonise yourself.

Voluntarily.

This is why I laugh when people say entertainment is “just entertainment.”

Entertainment is business, culture, propaganda, diplomacy, social engineering and entertainment is soft power.

Sometimes it is all of them at the same time.

The problem is not that America understands this. The problem is that Nigeria does not.

America promotes American interests.

China promotes Chinese interests.

France promotes French interests.

Britain promotes British interests.

Nigeria?

We are still arguing on Twitter about tribes, jollof and Davido vs. Wizkid😂

Meanwhile, our music, films, news, platforms, distribution channels and cultural gateways are increasingly connected to foreign money and foreign institutions.

And we are expected not to ask questions?

Please.

Follow the money.

Follow the ownership.

Follow the distribution.

Follow the platforms.

Follow the grants.

Follow the fellowships.

Follow who controls access.

Then draw your own conclusions.

Because, like I wrote under that angry music executive’s post:

“Well, well. There’s a game inside a game. You might have been played without knowing it.”

And knowing Nigerians, some people will still finish reading this and say:

“Abeg, na just entertainment.”

Exactly. Ptcheewwwww

One day you will know that your American dream is America's dream.

[Eazi🏌🏾‍♂️💫 @VMegbune]

Every game in the PL is War, best league in the world for a reason👏🏾

[Eazi🏌🏾‍♂️💫 @VMegbune]

No worry once your phone fall from bike you go redo the list.

[Ayo @ayo_solace]

You cannot tell me this budget will not sustain you if you are a young and unmarried person earning N500K in Lagos.

[Zito @_Zeets]

I think one of the defining features of growing up and becoming politically conscious here is realizing that a lot of Americans don’t know anything about what their country does around the world. Or even at home.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

I don't think the average American has any clue the amount of pain and destruction their country has caused the rest of the world.

[Oluyomi Ojo @OluyomiOjo]

I want to address something. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You now know how to spot the pattern.

Ever noticed that candidates with questionable characters are never held accountable during elections? You see that the one trying to show he has integrity is the one people try to hold accountable.

There's a name for it. The “Paradox of lowered expectations”

This also shows up in family dynamics, friendships, and workplaces. You will see this madness everywhere.