femi samuel

Software engineer

[femi samuel @_babafemisamuel]

@Microsoft is offering @rustlang for beginners
https://t.co/dFxNl40Vma

[Anthony Ehilebo @AnthonyEhilebo]

Lt General Victor Malu warned years ago. Look how he was shut down with "God Forbid". See Nigeria and insecurity today.
I hope this tribunal chairman is still alive to witness what the army general warned about over twenty years ago

[femi samuel @_babafemisamuel]

@A_Salkida Now we blaming Okada? There is a problem with us and our society that we are still denying

[Bayo Bilisi (Back Up) @Bayo_Bilisi]

Is this man not revealing too much?

[Lord Scummander & Movies @zhurg_]

Brruhhhhhh😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Festus Iyayi was an irredeemable Marxist academic who aggressively, publicly criticized Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and the entire older Mbari Club generation for being intellectually bourgeois and completely lacking in scientific class consciousness.

Iyayi and a highly defiant younger generation of radical writers emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s, and openly identified themselves as Marxist-Leninists. Soyinka would routinely mock them in the press as performative "leftocrats".

In 1979, Festus Iyayi published his powerful novel titled "Violence", where he brutally argued that the true, devastating violence in Nigeria was not just physical crime, but the invisible, systemic, and structural violence of capitalism exploiting, extorting, and stripping poor workers of their basic human dignity. General Ibrahim Babangida, who was then the ruthless Nigerian military dictator running the country with full Western backing, repeatedly harassed Iyayi, sacked him from his university post, and threw him into cold detention cells for his radical ASUU activism. Years later, Iyayi met a tragic and highly mysterious end when his vehicle was violently rammed by a speeding government governor's convoy, a suspicious "accident" that left circular, bullet-like holes in his chest, which clearly points to a targeted state assassination.

So, while Festus Iyayi and his radical Marxist groups were being systematically silenced, blacklisted, and harassed, Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe were being comfortably elevated as celebrated national heroes. Chinua Achebe's books were breaking global record sales, while Soyinka was proudly awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature. This is precisely why you have to ask yourself the critical, highly uncomfortable, and necessary question: both of these men frequently protested against the government, much like Omoyele Sowore does today, and both wrote fine, progressive works on Pan-African thought. Yet, why exactly were they granted such a robust, protected global platform and international praise despite the brutal, highly censorial military climate of their time?

This is the exact moment you must recognize that the Western imperial powers and their intelligence agencies do not feel threatened in the slightest when you merely criticize their local puppets in power, complain about bad governance, or write proud, romanticized Pan-African thoughts. They are actually perfectly happy when you call them racists, proudly promote your native African attire, wear traditional beads, speak in indigenous tongues, perform local folklore, or demand symbolic reparations for historical slavery. They can easily, comfortably tolerate all of these cultural displays, so long as Nigeria's massive oil wealth, raw minerals, and national resources continue to flow to Western capitals completely uninterrupted. This is why it is absolutely not surprising that social media posts criticizing French neocolonialism and British imperialism on the African continent continue to generate millions of viral views. They are delighted with this safe, purely "race-based" analysis. But the very second you start employing rigorous "class analysis", expose the local comprador bourgeoisie, and begin to promote pure "Marxist" thoughts of organizing the working class to seize the means of production, they immediately, aggressively stifle your voice and completely bury your revolutionary work away from public view.

[OLUWA @Oluwa22km]

Wetin he go find for there in the first place😂😂💔

[femi samuel @_babafemisamuel]

@WaliuTaofik Please guys this is crap, big one one by the way

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

Rousseau's foundational claim: man is naturally good and civilization corrupts.

"This sounds compassionate. It is the most dangerous idea in Western political thought.

Because if man is naturally good, then every failure, every crime, every inequality is caused by the system – never by the individual.

Responsibility evaporates.

The oppressor is always external.

The victim is always pure.

This is the complete architecture of Woke in one sentence, written in 1755."

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

I am watching the Argentina vs. Switzerland match, and an idea just occurred to me that perfectly illustrates how ridiculous the communist utopia is.

There are only 70,000 seats in the stadium. Some seats are better than others.

Someone will sit on the fifty-yard line, someone else behind a concrete pillar. Someone will be close enough to hear the players talk, while another person will watch through binoculars.

How do you decide who gets what?

In a market economy, the people who value those seats the most pay for them. It may not produce equal outcomes, but it provides a clear and voluntary mechanism for allocating scarcity.

An egalitarian system has a much harder problem.

If everyone is equal, why should one person sit in the front row while another sits in the upper deck?

Should everyone enter a lottery? If so, should the winner be allowed to win again?

Should families be treated differently from individuals? Should people who contribute more to society receive priority?

If they do, equality has already disappeared. If they don’t, incentives begin to disappear.

Scarcity creates hierarchy.

The same problem appears everywhere.

There are only so many beachfront homes. Only so many tables by the window in a restaurant. Only so many appointments with the best surgeon. Only so many parking spaces close to the entrance. Only so many tickets to a sold-out concert. Only so many places at the country’s best universities.

Every society must answer the same question: who gets the scarce resource?

Markets answer through voluntary exchange. Bureaucracies answer through rules. Political systems answer through power. Lotteries answer through chance.

Egalitarian utopias constantly collide with reality.

Human beings differ in talent, effort, preferences, luck, ambition, and the value they place on particular goods.

Scarcity ensures that not everyone can have everything they want.

The irony is that societies built in the name of equality rarely eliminate hierarchy. They merely change who sits in the front row. Instead of customers choosing with their own money, officials choose through political influence, connections, or administrative power. The privileged class does not disappear; it simply changes its name.

The front row always exists. The only question is who decides who gets to sit there.

[Technical Ben @TechnicalBben]

Once you learn how to shop directly from China, E.g Temù or shien your wardrobe changes completely. Call me cheap I don't care I ain't rich, I don't do fraud.😭

It's knowing what to search for.

Here's my style after making plenty of mistakes.

1. T-shirts:

Skip 100% polyester unless you're buying gym wear.

Instead, search:
• 100% Cotton
• Combed Cotton
• Heavyweight Cotton
• 240-300 GSM Cotton
• Premium Cotton
• Mercerized Cotton

The heavier the GSM, the thicker and more premium the shirt usually feels.

2. Jeans:

Denim Jeans
Temu is surprisingly good for denim if you know what to search.

Search:
• Denim Jeans
• Cotton Denim
• Raw Denim
• Selvedge Denim (if available)
• 98% Cotton + 2% Elastane
• 99% Cotton

Avoid jeans with high polyester content. The more cotton, the better they'll age and feel.

3. Body-hug clothing:

Search:
• Ribbed Knit
• Modal
• Viscose Blend
• Cotton-Spandex Blend

They hold their shape much better than cheap polyester.

4. Hoodies
Search:
• 400 GSM
• French Terry
• Cotton Fleece
• Heavyweight Hoodie

5. Chains
Search:
• 316L Stainless Steel
• Titanium Steel
• PVD Gold Plated
• Vacuum Plated

These are far more resistant to fading than ordinary fashion jewelry.

6. Earrings
Search:
• 925 Sterling Silver
• 316L Stainless Steel
• Hypoallergenic
• Moissanite (if you're buying stones)

7. Scarves
Search:
• Mulberry Silk
• Silk Blend
• Cashmere Blend
• Wool Blend
• Viscose

Avoid the shiny, thin polyester scarves if you're after a premium look.

8. Loafers
Search:
• Genuine Leather
• Cow Leather
• Full Grain Leather (rare but worth looking for)
• Rubber Outsole

9. Sneakers
Search:
• Rubber Outsole
• EVA Midsole
• Breathable Mesh
• Leather Upper
• Stitched Sole

Pictures lie a lot

The description usually tells the truth.

Here's how I shop:

1. Read the material composition before anything else.

2. Sort by Most Orders or Best Selling, not cheapest.

3. Only buy products with lots of reviews or pictures or even better when a Nigerian has purchased it before they always tell the truth.

4. Read the 1-star reviews first. They'll tell you what the seller won't.

5. Look at customer photos, not the product photos.

6. Check the weight of the product. Better quality clothing is often heavier.

7. Read the size chart. Don't assume your Nigerian size matches.

8. If the title has words like "luxury," "premium," or "designer" but the material is 100% polyester, not everything but still move on.

Your best friend isn't the product picture.

It's the material, the reviews, and the customer photos.

That's how you separate the gems from the junk.

I hope this help.

Things are to expensive for a country this poor.

[Bloomberg @business]

Nigerian stocks have overtaken South Korea’s Kospi index to hand investors the highest dollar-based returns this year, topping a list of 92 global stock exchanges tracked by Bloomberg.

Doubts about the AI boom are weighing on the Kospi, while Nigerian stocks have rallied. See why: https://t.co/Zq9Ox16u3J

📷️: Benson Ibeabuchi/Bloomberg

[MrTOHA @ishKuba]

Marriage relationship nowadays 😭

[femi samuel @_babafemisamuel]

@nidiongo Thanks for saying the truth, alot of founders even learn on the job

[Greg Nwoko 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 @nwoko_greg62705]

How One Nigerian Officer Brought Down Broad Street’s Most Daring Robbers in 1919:

Superintendent Herbert C. Pratt: One of the most celebrated Nigerian police officers in colonial Lagos, early 1900s.

Pratt was famous for cracking major criminal cases in Lagos around the 1910s-1920s.

The one people still talk about decades later is:

The "Broad Street Murder"/“Lagos Bank Robbery" case circa 1919-1920

A daring daytime robbery and murder happened on Broad Street, Lagos Island, right in the financial heart of the colony.

It involved European traders and a large sum of money.

Pratt led the investigation, used early detective work, informants, and tracking of stolen goods through Lagos markets.

He arrested the gang and recovered part of the money.

The case made headlines in the Lagos Weekly Record and Nigerian Pioneer because it was rare for a Nigerian officer to lead such a high-profile case involving Europeans.

He was also known for:
Dismantling secret cult and "poisoning" cases on Lagos Island.

[Movies Scenes 🎫 @SceneinCinema]

John Krasinski says he actually had his eye on Emily Blunt's co-star Anne Hathaway while watching The Devil Wears Prada (2006) before settling for Emily Blunt.

"I couldn't get Annie, so I was like, 'Oh...'" Blunt immediately responded with a laugh, "That's why you're with me!"

Jokes aside, Krasinski actually fell in love with Blunt after watching her in The Devil Wears Prada, admitting, he roughly watched the film 75 times out of pure admiration for Emily Blunt before they even met.

"I was full stalker status. I was just like, 'Hey, you want to go on a date with me?'"

He also recalled Blunt catching him watching the film: "She was like, 'Were you just watching The Devil Wears Prada?' and I went, 'No, I was just looking at your outfits!'"

[femi samuel @_babafemisamuel]

This was my first entry into football

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

The Super Eagles of Nigeria lost that 1998 World Cup game to Paraguay 3-1, but had already secured qualification for the knockout stage as group winners after beating Spain 3-2 and Bulgaria 1-0 in their opening two matches.

According to P.M. News, goalkeeper Peter Rufai was blamed by his teammates for failing to stop two of Paraguay's goals.

[𝓔𝓵𝓾𝓭𝓪𝔂𝓸 𝓑𝓲𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓪𝔂𝓸 ♥︎ @eludayo_1]

What happened in this scene is the real definition of “for every gbas, there must be a lot of gbos” 😹😹

By the way, RIP to Baba Olofa Ina, Iyabo Oko and Bobo B.

[Will Rinehart @WillRinehart]

What’s fascinating about this recent 9/11 discourse is that no one is really citing the key text from Bin Laden, “Declaration of Jihad Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holiest Sites.”

It’s truly a crazy document. It opens by claiming that Muslims have suffered injustice at the hands of a “Jewish-Christian alliance” in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Tajikistan, Burma, Kashmir, the Philippines, Somalia, Eritrea, Chechnya, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Oh, U.S. intervention in Bosnia was bad? NATO fought against the Serbs to protect the Muslim Bosniaks. In the Philippines, the peace process over Mindanao began in the 1970s, so it feels like that is an old grievance anyway. And it was Russia, not the U.S., that was involved in Chechnya. But yeah, let’s just blame it all on the U.S.

And then there’s that entire section about occupying Mecca and Medina. Again, it’s wrong. Americans have been on the Arabian Peninsula since the 1940s but it’s the “occupation” since the Kuwait War that made Bin Laden mad. And importantly U.S. troops have long been restricted from the major sites.

And there’s a big section about how the Saudi royal family sold out Muslims but no need for a civil war at home, let’s just attack America.

American foreign policy doesn’t always live up to our ideals. But if you read this document and know anything about history, he hated us for much weirder and more stupid reasons. And honestly, he was much more pissed at the Saudis than us but he didn’t want to spill Muslim blood.

Still, none of that means we deserved 9/11. How hard is any of this to get?

[femi samuel @_babafemisamuel]

@RhettButle Hold on , in the post above, the victims here are actually Christians who are oppressed by the Catholic church hierarchy. The whole protestant reformation is all about access to the bible and the ability to read it without a priest interpretation.

[femi samuel @_babafemisamuel]

In Nigeria, the ultimate choice before us is defining the role of our economic system: should it focus on increasing individual capacity to pay, or should it focus on state-driven measures to control prices