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['Deniran @ajazby]

@peng_writer 31years

['Deniran @ajazby]

@beegeaglesblog 🤙🏾🤞🏾

['Deniran @ajazby]

@YusufAsunmogejo You are most welcome.

['Deniran @ajazby]

@YusufAsunmogejo Bab-us-Salaam, Ikeja GRA, Lagos.

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

I once argued with someone, not even a foreigner, that rice and so many of our other grains were not colonial imports. They completely disagreed.

Oryza glaberrima was already ours. Monty Jones had the curiosity to refine it. Most of our agricultural technicians and scientists today don't have that same curiosity, so these grains just disappear.

Our educational systems are failing us, and the lack of curiosity about ourselves in the African mind is contributing to it in enormously.

['Deniran @ajazby]

@nwoko_greg62705 I still have the words in my head. Agree with you, I don't know anyone that comes close.

['Deniran @ajazby]

@tmacbond @DoubleEph 😁😁😁

['Deniran @ajazby]

@beebah5 @IraninAustralia Honestly!

[🇳🇬 Malam Ahmad Shao🇳🇬 @alhaadiahmad]

@_hudsonc This kind of neo-colonialistic views is why people like you will always misunderstand Nigeria, why do you always think he is aspiring to be a state governor because it is more "lucrative", why not because he wants to be closer to his people and serve them better?

[Slim @onu_slim]

If you are in Nigeria in tech (perhaps Africa), you are now irrelevant. Do this

There is a silent crisis happening in Nigeria and across Africa, and almost nobody is talking about it seriously. The technology knowledge we celebrate here is no longer the kind of technology the rest of the world is building with. While we are clapping for basic skills, the world has moved into systems, intelligence, and scale. The gap is no longer small, it is wide, and it is growing every single day.

The painful truth is that many people think they are in tech, but they are only around tech. Watching tutorials, copying projects, learning outdated stacks, yet unable to solve real problems. Meanwhile, elsewhere, engineers are building AI-driven systems, automating entire workflows, and designing infrastructures that can handle millions of users. It is not the same game anymore, but we are still playing like it is.

What makes it worse is that we are learning in circles. People are being taught by others who are also still trying to understand the same thing. The result is recycled knowledge with no depth. You got no real exposure or real pressure not even real experience and without those, growth becomes an illusion.

There is also a dangerous survival mindset driving this. Many are not learning to become world-class. They are learning just enough to earn something small and move on. But technology does not reward surface-level knowledge for long. The world rewards depth, thinking, and the ability to build things that actually work at scale.

And while all this is happening, the global tech space is not waiting. It is evolving fast. AI is replacing roles. Automation is redefining jobs. Systems are becoming smarter. Yet here, we are still arguing about basics that should have been mastered years ago.

The biggest gap is not even skill, it is mindset. One side is trying to get a job, the other side is trying to build the future.

If this gap is not taken seriously, we will not just be behind. We will become irrelevant in conversations that shape the world.

But for the few who can see it clearly, this is also an opportunity. Because in a space where many are shallow, depth becomes power.

[Essy Hamzat @Mrr_Essy]

Look Beyond the Imagined African Nation to Understand Nigeria’s Security Challenge.

There are also practical constraints that very rarely appear in international commentary but shape Nigeria’s options in profound ways. For several years, restrictions under the US Leahy Law delayed equipment and assistance that Nigeria had already paid for. This occurred precisely as extremist networks spread across the Sahel and limited the tools available to confront these groups. Yet even with these constraints, Nigeria continued to contribute to regional stabilization efforts, from Guinea-Bissau to The Gambia to South Sudan

Cc @NigeriaMFA @YusufTuggar
https://t.co/pSddabgiWh

[Jasveer Singh @jasveer10]

Why so many global CEOs are Indian is the wrong question. The real question is what kind of system produces them.

This isn’t about Indians being genetically smarter or IITs magically creating genius. It’s only about selection pressure. India is not a talent factory. India is a high-pressure talent filter.

Most Indians are born into middle class or lower middle class families. There is no safety net, no fallback plan, no cushion. From the day you’re born there is an unspoken contract. Do well or the whole family stays stuck.

Education isn’t optional. It’s survival, now add population. Five to ten lakh people fighting for a few thousand seats. Even after years of preparation, effort doesn’t guarantee success. You still have to win against insane odds.

What comes out of this system is not creativity. It’s endurance. People who can sit for long hours, delay gratification for a decade, operate under pressure without breaking, and don’t feel entitled to comfort.

That profile matters - Large global companies don’t reward raw brilliance at the top. They reward people who can survive complexity, politics, scale, and boredom for 20 to 30 years straight.

That’s why Indian origin leaders show up disproportionately in operator roles. CEOs, presidents, heads of massive systems, not founders.

They didn’t rise because they were the loudest or flashiest. They rose because they had already been trained by a brutal system that rewards consistency over brilliance.

Compare that to a child born in a developed country. There is pressure, yes. But there is also a safety net. More options. Less existential fear. That environment is great for creativity and risk taking. It produces founders and innovators.

India produces survivors who become operators. That’s the difference most people miss. And let’s be clear, this system is not something to romanticize.

For every one person who makes it, millions burn out. Talent gets wasted. Mental health gets crushed. The system is inefficient and cruel. But it does one thing extremely well. It filters for people who can endure.

That’s why Indians don’t dominate early stage innovation globally, but they dominate long-run leadership in established systems.

So no, Indians aren’t exceptional because of IQ. They’re exceptional because they were never allowed to be comfortable.

The uncomfortable question is not why this works. The real question is whether this is the only way we should be producing leaders. And whether the cost is worth it.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

It was smart and smooth of the National Security Architecture to manage the information around the aborted military/civilian coup. Had they released the information when it happened, it would have created a sense of hysteria and probably even led to some other unwholesome second order effects.

Releasing the story months after doesn’t have the same effect. The best thing they did was nipping that coup in the bud, the next best thing was managing the information around it.

This was going to be another bloody coup, with assassins placed in different locations to execute it. This was January 1966 all over again, but for God’s mercies and the alertness of our National Security.

If you ever wondered where the confidence of those who said Bola Tinubu wouldn’t be inaugurated came from, now you don’t have to wonder no more.

[Oyíndà @yorubachic]

Lagos doesn’t lack history, it lacks cultural prioritisation. Last year, some officials were insisting on the “melting pot” narrative instead of centering Yorùbá heritage.

Cities like Istanbul, Rome, and Kyoto are proof that mega cities don’t have to erase their roots to be global.

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

Why PM Mark Carney got a standing ovation:

[The Godfather JP @AyoOyalowo]

@Omojuwa @Joey7Barton That buffoon was a fool and a thug both off and on the pitch. As a player he was a talentless thug who revel in injuring both his team mates and opponents. Anyone who watched him at the QPR, Citeh etc won’t take him serious. He is just a sadistic lowlife looking for attention

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

This buffoon @Joey7Barton got convicted in the courts on the back of equally offensive statements made against Eniola Aluko. Got a 6-month jail sentence. Should have been 60 and should have served.

This is what he does for a living: utter stupid and hateful things, with vile intentions.

Won nothing of note as a player. Won zilch as a manager and is only on TV for his nauseating nuisance offering. The only reason he is still on TV has nothing to do with what’s got in his head, as there is nothing there but bile and cow dung.

Wembley hosted a chaotic European Cup final, several Champions League nights have had disruptions but he needs to other the AFCON, to justify the hate in his seared and condemned soul!

[Remi @tolutee]

For the modern-day nativist, it bears emphasizing that colonial Lagos did not attain prosperity independently of the Yoruba interior. The historical record shows that Lagos’s fiscal viability and subsequent economic development were structurally dependent on the political incorporation and economic exploitation of the Yoruba hinterland, whose trade flows made sustained revenue extraction, tariff enforcement, and large-scale infrastructure development possible.

The railways, telegraph lines, streetcars, and other capital works celebrated in the colonial annual report would not have materialized without the labour, resources, and coerced integration of the so-called 'ajoji godogbo' of Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, and Ogun states.

Far from being an autonomous coastal success, Lagos functioned as a colonial entrepôt whose prosperity rested on the subordination and mobilization of the Yoruba interior.

This conclusion is well supported by A. Lawal’s essay, “Trade and Finance of the Lagos Colony, 1861–1906,” in History of the Peoples of Lagos State, edited by Ade Adefuye, Babatunde Agiri, and Jide Osuntokun.

Here are excerpts from the essay to back this up:

1) By 1869, the administration erected market stalls and sheds. Traders who occupied them paid some fees every month. By this fiscal policy, it was possible and convenient to defray the cost of internal improvement of Lagos and erection of official quarters.Building materials were a rarity throughout Lagos. Bricks were of poor quality and expensive. Only a few could erect brick houses. It meant therefore that the colonial government voted a large some of money on official quarters when local bricks were used. To facilitate internal communication, the streets that were notorious for their abominable stench, uneven surface andpoor drainage, had to be improved by the government.

Yet more revenue was needed for the ambitious projects of the government and more revenue was not forthcoming unless the territory of Lagos was expanded. In the final analysis therefore,the question of adequate finance for the running of Lagos government was a popular pretext for the expansion of Lagos Colony and by implication the eventual conquest of the Yoruba in the interior that traded with Lagos.The details of this territorial expansion need not delay us here. Other scholarly works which had been done on the issue, endorse the view that financial needs necessitated the expansion of the
Lagos Colony...pg 68

2) Shortly before and after 1886, Lagos Colony began to be financially buoyant enough to embark upon economic development projects. It was Governor Moloney who inaugurated this tradition of comprehensive economic improvements from 1886 to 1891 when he established a "cordiale entente" between the Ibadan, Oyo, Ijebu and Egba...pg 70

3) In the 1880s, the Colonial Office had disapproved of any enforcement of tariffs as a means of meeting financial contingencies, but by the 1890s this policy was reversed. This was because the armistice of 1893 brought an end to all wars and led to the disbandment of the Ekitiparapo forces and thereby brought the whole of the interior under Lagos sovereignty. Consequently, the expanded area of administration increased the average annual expenditure to £137,000. Henceforth, export and import trade flourished in increasing volumes along the various trade routes, which were now freed from further blockade. Taking advantage of this encouraging trend, the Colonial Office approved a proposal for the introduction of increased duties on imported goods to meet the rising cost of administration. This new fiscal measure earned the colony increasing revenue that enabled it to embark on heavy construction works like railway, bridges, ports and docks...pg 72

4) Governor Carter, who succeeded Moloney inherited an estimated balance of £29,858 on January 1, 1892. Out of this balance Carter spent only £4,631 on the successful Ijebu expedition of 1892 by which the Ijebu surrendered their autonomy to the Lagos administration. Carter's singular achievement was a convincing evidence of great economy in the use of a locally raised army rather than depend on one conveyed from Europe. For example, the Ashanti war was fought at a cost of £800,000 out of which £400,000 was expended on conveying troops from Europe. The booming trade further enhanced the economic prosperity of Lagos to an extent that Carter was able to keep a reserve of £20,000 with the Crown Agents in 1893. Export and import values soared in the order of £640,943 and £936,295, respectively as against £460,550 and £577,085, respectively, in 1892.Availability of ample funds enabled the government to increase the constabulary force expenditure from £14,081 to £22,013 as well as recommend salary increase for government officials. Indeed, the brilliant performance of the economy enabled the government to invest its surplus revenue...By 1897, Lagos was obviously no longer a "remittance man" (i.e a financially impoverished state) and was now come of age to finance gigantic capital projects like the construction of railway, bridges, erection of telegraphic lines from Lagos to Shaki, Ogbomosho and thence to Forcados, electric light installation in Lagostownship and water supply schemes in Ikorodu...pg 74-75

[Dr Max Siollun @maxsiollun]

@talkSPORT Sanctimonious nonsense. Here is an entire thread of European teams walking off the pitch or trying to get games abandoned in protest at bad refereeing. 👇🏽

https://t.co/Uv8KtFbQTN