You wake up to boil water. Your prepaid meter has finished. You switch to gas, only for the gas to finish halfway through.
You abandon the water, dress up and enter keke. The man tells you the price, and you negotiate it down by ₦100. You enter, only for the keke to tear your shirts.
You get to work, do your 9–5, and spend half the day wondering how the salary they pay you will ever make you a millionaire.
You return home, load ₦1,000 prepaid, and the meter gives you 6 units. You stand there wondering, “But last time, this same ₦1,000 gave me 7 units. Wetin happen?”
You manage to eat the leftover eba and soup from yesterday, lie down on your bed and start pressing your phone.
Suddenly, the phone slips from your hand, falls to the floor and the screen cracks.
You just stare at it.
No tears. No anger. Nothing.
You simply start laughing.
See you = see madness.
I’m extremely disappointed in us as Nigerian youths. Extremely.
I woke up this morning to get ready for work without electricity and without water. The last time we had power in my area was Saturday morning. This is Abule Ijesha, Lagos.
I work a 9–5. I earn a substantial amount every month, and yet I’m still dealing with something as basic as the lack of electricity and water.
And meanwhile, young people on Twitter are still allowing tribal sentiments and religious affiliations to divide us in 2026.
Do you people not understand how limited you are compared to young people in developed countries? Do you not understand that if anything happens right now, the politicians who are the most privileged among us have the means to leave this country while the rest of us remain here to deal with the consequences?
Do you genuinely think the elites care about the tribal and religious divisions they use to keep us fighting each other?
Your Commissioner of Environment and Water Resources in Lagos can be online flaunting a Patek Philippe while young people are struggling with basic infrastructure. And this is just a Commissioner.
They know exactly what they’re doing. They know that as long as we’re distracted by tribe, religion, sex, politics and whatever other silly division they can exploit, we won’t look up and ask the people actually responsible for our living conditions the difficult questions.
This is disgusting.
And honestly, we should be ashamed of ourselves.
Not because we are powerless, but because we have failed woefully to recognize where our collective interests lie.
We keep fighting each other while the people benefiting from this dysfunction continue to live above the consequences of it.
We need to do better.
This is one of the most important historical documentaries ever produced in African history because unlike others before it that attempted to tell the same story, Jude added the missing context behind "African Brute Dictator Mobutu", revealing *WHO KEPT HIM IN POWER FOR 32 YEARS*
Peller’s Wedding Guests: Foreign Espionage And African Entertainment
When influencers and "foreign guests" collide, as is the case here, we are not watching a wedding but a social engineering operation
It is very clear here that the rise of our internet sensations is often engineered. When foreign money starts flowing into our digital spaces, it is time to start asking who is really behind the screen and what they’re buying with those "gifts." It’s time for Africans to stop being spectators to our own subversion.
Whatever happens in Nigeria, my conscience is clear.
I set myself on fire and nearly lost my life trying to stop this plague from becoming president, and everybody who had the power to help me just stood by and stared.
Now the Israelis are on Arise TV licking their lips.
Well done everyone.
I remember back in 2006 when my older brother was a 5th year medical student at Korle Bu and he caused a big family quarrel during a brief holiday in Lagos where he mentioned casually that he regularly administered blood transfusions to his patients.
My dad believed that as a Jehovah Witness, my brother should decline to take part in any medical procedure involving blood transfusion on religious grounds. He didn't even want to know whether such a refusal was even possible under the terms of medical practise (it isn't) - all he knew was that 12 white men in Brooklyn who regularly spoke to "Jehovah" had decreed it so, and how dare us children from a JW family not prioritise those instructions over everything else.
And because he convinced himself that his placenta was tied to these stupid Jehovah's Witnesses, he went on to lose his whole family that he spent decades building an empire for, and he died rich, miserable and alone. His first child got married and didn't even inform him because she knew he wouldn't approve. His 2nd child (my brother) invited him to his wedding and he declined because the bride was Catholic. His 4th child (me) got married and he was also absent, and he never met any of the 2 grandchildren he had before he died confused and heartbroken.
And after thoroughly fucking up his life, the cult just wakes up one day and changes the entire fundamental doctrine that made him go to war with his own children. There is no way to quantify the damage that has been caused here, and even if there were, oyibo man is definitely never going to pay.
As in my dad's case and in the case of every other brainwashed, spiritually lost black person, African wey no gree get sense, na oyibo go kill am.
All we can do is cry over spilled milk now.
Simi spoke up against rape.
Now, the ones bullying her and her family for speaking up? Mostly men.
Not all Men I agree, but too many Men still.
The pattern is obvious. We all need to do better as Human beings.
I'm saying...the Epstein files show that Jeffrey Epstein was all over Africa doing absolutely whatever with African girls. Alassane Ouattara's niece is in the emails offering him girls in exchange for meeting with her uncle.
I haven't seen a shred of outrage about this on the TL.
All I'm seeing is some guff about some Russian guy who had sex with women and recorded it for sale without their consent. BBC Africa (which has not breathed a word about Epstein's activities in Africa) has rushed to report it.
My bullshit-o-meter is spiking.
I wanted to know: Is there a genocide against Christians in Northern Nigeria?
Beyond hashtags and politics, what is happening to the people?
I went to Plateau, the heart of the Middle Belt crisis. I sat with survivors, visited graves, and listened to voices no one hears.
I think Nigeria is officially over tonight.
Bombing your neighbour because a white guy in Paris told you too.
Carrying out airstrikes against a fellow African country because Emmanuel Macron wanted you to.
Only apartheid South Africa ever did something like this.
It's over.
Just received word that Nigerian Army formations at the Ojo Baracks in Lagos are preparing to stage an illegal invasion of Benin as soon as tonight.
For the 2nd time in 3 years, this drug pusher @officialABAT wants to start a war in West Africa!
SOS whoever still has a brain in Abuja!
And this is what you small minded, people pleasing plonky wankers do not understand.
That you like someone isn't license enough to suspend critical thinking, cosign their foolishness & sink your voice in servitude.
That you 'liked' someone shouldn't earn them permanent subscription to your likeness.
Your "likeness" should be tied to some kind of value system - of which when reneged, you revoke your likeness.
This is how you become your own person - not just a 19th century mimeograph.
This is why you people will defend fraudsters, violent abusers, corrupt public officers because 'my idolo'.
There has to be a line that the people you like, get to cross - that makes you reconsider why you liked them and if you should continue liking them.
Your idolo can be an idiot, too.
If you cannot call it out, shut up and don't defend it.
Here’s what I’m suggesting- every citizen contacts their reps & senators with coordinated emails, phone calls and WhatsApp messages with the following -
*Dear Hon/Sen, as your constituent, i am urging you to call for a PUBLIC hearing to address the strategy to defeat terrorism, rumours of an ill-equipped military and how Nigerians will be kept safe. Please act urgently*
20.10.2020
I lived this experience 😔
WE WILL NOT FORGET.
END BAD GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA.
How do you slay your own harmless citizens and go further to initiate a coverup.
It's happening again in the form of a Christian Genocide.
WE WILL NOT BE SILENT