First of all, "Middle East" is a broad descriptor for a region that has both Saudi Arabia and Iran, which are at extreme ends of the ideological/imperial spectrum.
Modern Iran is a country born out of, and built entirely around anti-imperial revolution, while Saudi Arabia and the UAE are direct US/Israeli vassal states with US military bases on their soil. So when you say "Middle East," which one are you referring to?
Second, if I assume you're referring to Iran (since Saudi, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain etc have no independent foreign policy of their own), you'll have to explain where and when Iran ever did anything to you as a Nigerian or as an African. Is Iran the country sponsoring terrorism in your country so that it can grab your minerals for free?
Is Iran the country that instigated a civil war in your country that left 3 million people from your ethnic group dead? Is Iran the country that facilitated multiple coups in your country so that it could gradually seize control over your entire governance structure and become the biggest beneficiary of your own resources? Did Iran assassinate your sitting head of state on at least one occasion? Has Iran spent decades pressuring your government to allow it to build a foreign military base on your soil? Did Iran carry out a regime change operation in your country after you had just become Africa's largest economy growing at 7% annually, and replace your PhD president with a semi literate who made it shed half its GDP in 8 years?
Did Iran install a drug dealer as your president and then protect him from disclosure with its court system for the past 4 years? Did Iran impose Structural Adjustment Programs on your economy and make your currency lose 99.7% of its value between 1986 and 2025? Did Iran take away all your best brains after destroying your economy and make them drive buses and work in care homes in Iran?
And if Iran did none of these things to you but the other side did, then what exactly is your problem with Iran?
railway system would help everybody. both young and old. it would be even faster and some what safer. but no, lets waste small money so that people can get some to share. aban papa, ebe small things dey make you aba fon o. we dey watch.
Favourite thing about today’s protest: it was largely convened by young women. I know how lonely and frightening this road is. What they’ve been through, and how they’ve held their ground, is extraordinary and absolutely admirable. We need more like them.
#StopGalamseyNow
This isn't normal. I believe there are heavy external influences operating in this Galamsey. Forget the government. I believe they're puppets to a larger scheme we can place our hands on currently.
#StopGalamseyNow
He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans.
That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference?
The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.
Everyone in Politics &the government doesn’t wish this nation well
Street lights - No
High cost of ECG
STOP GALAMSEY - NO
Regulate rent control - No
Restructure the bus system - No
Build more schools - No
Affordable housing -No
Let’s legalise dual citizenship for politics - YES
In case the situation is unclear to Ghanaians, your president has just publicly signalled that he is stepping into Kwame Nkrumah's shoes.
The usual suspects will not be happy, and the Ghanaian people will be the first targets. You will start witnessing strange events aimed at making him unpopular, just like with Nkrumah.
Strange high profile accidents. Arson attacks. Public infrastructure sabotage. Fake news campaigns. Maybe even a terror attack.
Nothing is off the table for the DGSE-CIA-MI6-Mossad operators who attended the Accra Reset and sat there furiously taking notes and squeezing their faces as he vowed to stop export of raw materials from Ghana by 2030.
This is not a drill.
I tweeted about how galamsey is polluting our waterbodies, and Ivorians pointed out the same problem on their side of shared rivers.
Research shows illegal mining activities from Ghana has heavily polluted the Tano and Bia transboundary in Côte d’Ivoire. Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire even signed an MOU to curb pollution of these shared basins, but little action has followed. It’s clear the menace hasn’t been effectively addressed. #StopGalamseyNow