This is connected to the death of quality television in Nigeria.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Gulder Ultimate Search, Superstory etc shows that rewarded intelligence, resilience and storytelling. They shaped a generation.
Now we’ve replaced them with skits that celebrate ignorance and degeneracy and we’re surprised at the kind of people we’re platforming and celebrating?
You consume garbage long enough, you start producing it fr
Botswana’s President Duma Boko:
Africa is poised to rule the world.
Tucker Carlson:
So, what are your plans for the world once you rule it?
Boko:
To make it fairer, to make it more equitable. To ensure that intellectual property is internalized in every part of the African continent, that innovation serves humanity and not just a predatory elite, and that everybody can partake equitably and benefit from the fruits of the economy and the vast opportunities that are available in the world.
If you could bomb Benin to "protect democracy", then America can bomb you to "fight ISIS." And next thing you know, it drops 7,000 bombing raids in 8 months like in Libya.
Which is exactly what some of us warned would happen. Actions and consequences.
But nobody ever listens.
🔥🚨VIRAL NOW: A man who is revered as ‘Prophet Jeremiah’ in Nigeria's Delta State and Bayelsa State buried his 104-year-old mother, in what he claim is a solid gold casket ‘worth over $105,000’ surrounded by people who will earn less than $80,000 in their lifetime.
Earlier today, on my orders, the Nigerian armed forces stood gallantly as a defender and protector of constitutional order in the Republic of Benin on the invitation of the government.
Our armed forces acted within the ambit of the ECOWAS @ecowas_cedeao Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance. They have helped stabilise a neighbouring country and have made us proud of their commitment to sustaining our democratic values and ideals since 1999.
Nigeria stands firmly with the government and people of the Republic of Benin.
~ PBAT