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[seos @23seos]

Information is truly power. Road safety official stopped me at traffic light for using my phone while driving. Didn’t argue or deny. I asked him to issue me a ticket. He said the ticket is N48,000 for my offense, I pulled up this website and showed him, he said the website

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of ​​Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.

A video that the world must never forget.

[Ziyad Yakubu @Ziyad_yakubu]

The politicians from southern Nigeria need to be deeply studied.

In fact, a whole department in our universities should be set up just to study those people.

Because the way they have managed to convince many southern youths, some of the most intelligent youths in all of Africa, that their real problem is not the politicians who govern them, but “the North,” is almost a political miracle.

That the reason a pothole in Abakpa Nike is not fixed is because of Hisbah breaking alcohol bottles in Kano.

That the reason they have youth unemployment and underemployment is because of a Sharia court in Sokoto.

That the reason their electricity is unstable, state hospitals are weak, courts are slow, police are corrupt, refineries are not working, and local industries are dying is because the North is too religious.

Not the governors.

Not the senators.

Not the local government chairmen.

Not the contractors who collected money and disappeared.

Not the political families who have controlled the same states for decades.

Not the state assemblies that behave like extensions of the governor’s office.

No. The problem is somehow Kano Hisbah.

This is the genius of southern political deflection.

They have built a system where they can fail locally and outsource the blame nationally.

Meanwhile, the same southern politicians control budgets, collect allocations, appoint commissioners, award contracts, borrow money, tax citizens, control state institutions, and still somehow escape the anger of the same people they govern.

That is the part that fascinates me.

The North has many problems and deserves serious criticism. Nobody honest can deny that. But the way northern dysfunction has been turned into a universal excuse for southern elite failure is a political miracle, second only to democracy itself.

The governor no longer needs to explain why the roads are bad.

The senator no longer needs to explain what he has done.

The local government chairman no longer needs to show where the money went.

The people simply look northward and rage.

And the politicians smile.

As a southern youth, know this: every minute you spend shouting about Hisbah, Sharia, almajiri, or the north is backward, is one less minute spent asking why your own state budget keeps producing nothing.

Nigerian politicians have not only failed many of their people. They have also mastered the art of giving them a convenient enemy.

This is the oldest trick in politics.

Divide the people, make them suspicious of each other, then govern both sides badly while they fight over identity.

There is nothing I would want more than a coherent Nigeria.

Notice I said coherent, not uniform.

I am not talking about this fake “One Nigeria” slogan where everyone pretends we are one people, one culture, one worldview, one moral community, and one historical experience.

That is childish.

Nigeria does not need to become one tribe.

Nigeria does not need to become one culture.

Nigeria does not need everyone to eat the same food, marry the same way, worship the same way, dress the same way, or organize society the same way.

What Nigeria needs is coherence.

A country where different regions can govern themselves according to their values, compete with each other, cooperate where necessary, and still stand together as a serious bargaining bloc in the world.

Because in the international system, small fragmented African states will be eaten alive.

So we must ask ourselves whether we can build a political arrangement where our differences do not become a weapon in the hands of failed politicians.

And this is where both sides need to hear the truth.

If you are a southern youth and you believe the North must become exactly to your taste before you can accept it as part of the political arrangement, then you are not serious.

You may not like Hisbah.

You may not like Sharia courts.

You may not like how conservative northern societies are.

You may not like the way we vote, dress, worship, marry, or organize our communities.

Fine.

But if your idea of a working Nigeria is that Kano must first become Lagos, or Sokoto must first become Enugu, or Katsina must first become Port Harcourt, then you are not yet tired of the state of Nigeria.

A coherent Nigeria must allow Kano to be Kano, Lagos to be Lagos, Enugu to be Enugu, Sokoto to be Sokoto, and Rivers to be Rivers.

What Nigeria needs is restructuring that makes every region carry more responsibility for the choices it makes.

And this is where the North itself must also face its own contradiction.

It is not enough to say, “Leave the North alone. Let the North live by its values.”

That argument only becomes serious when the North also accepts the financial responsibility that comes with political and cultural autonomy.

If the governor of Kano wants to subsidize mass weddings for 2,000 couples, that is his right. But it will make more sense if Kano is generating the money for it.

If the governor of Sokoto wants to subsidize Hajj or support pilgrims, that is his political choice. But it will carry more moral weight if Sokoto is funding it from its own productive economy.

If the governor of Zamfara wants to negotiate with bandits, grant amnesty, or offer concessions in the name of peace, that decision should be borne mainly by the people and resources of Zamfara, not hidden within the comfort of national allocation.

If Kano decides it does not want alcohol sold openly in its society, that should be its cultural and religious right. But it becomes a contradiction when the same political system benefits from VAT and federal revenue that partly comes from products and lifestyles those same states publicly reject.

This is why restructuring matters.

It protects the South from blaming the North for everything.

It protects the North from being constantly insulted for choosing its own values.

And it forces every region to face the cost of its own political choices.

Because right now, Nigeria is structured in a way that encourages hypocrisy.

Southern politicians can fail their people and blame the North.

Northern politicians can defend cultural autonomy while depending on a central pool funded by economic activities they sometimes condemn.

A serious Nigeria should say: live according to your values, but fund the consequences.

[The Masculine Creed @Masculincreed]

GOD CREATED 5 TROPICAL FRUITS THAT FIGHT CANCER, DESTROY PARASITES AND REBUILD IMMUNITY.

1. Soursop

[Dr. Jay Wrigley @hormonedietdoc]

If your doctor prescribes you a Statin & does not also prescribe you CoQ10 & Vitamin B12 in the Methylcobalamin form , then if you decide to take the Statin please go find the CoQ10 & B12 yourself. Don’t take the Statin without these.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

Why is this not trending on X?

IDF soldiers are now shooting infants.

Repost this right now and make it viral.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Anybody else have a daughter?

[Ahmed Ashour 𓂆🇵🇸 @AhmedAAshour8]

These bullets are fired toward the tents of displaced families in Gaza. Imagine one of these rounds piercing the body of a small, defenseless child. What kind of terror do Gaza’s children endure every single day?

[Luminous choice by FOLA @OlayemiKomolaf4]

Bloating, stomach gas, noisy stomach and itchy anus. Nobody talks about these together. But they are all telling you the exact same thing about what is happening inside your gut .

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel executed baby Sam today with a bullet to the face in the occupied West Bank.

They killed his mother too.

Sam was only 7 months old.

They murdered a mother. And her infant.

[SARA 𓂆 @ZaqoutMe]

In case you didn’t see, last night people in Gaza were burned to death.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

The genocide in Palestine and the mass murder in Lebanon must be stopped

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

We will never forget the Gaza Holocaust.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

The smart fix:

Don't turn off System Haptics entirely. Use a Sleep Focus schedule that automatically silences notifications AND haptics from 10 PM to 7 AM. Apple built this in. Most people never set it up.

Path: Settings → Focus → Sleep → Schedule → set quiet hours.

You keep the haptics during the day. Your brain gets full deep sleep at night.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Setting #2: System Haptics (the silent sleep killer)

Open Settings → Sounds & Haptics → System Haptics.

What it does: Makes your iPhone vibrate quietly for every notification, every keystroke, every system event. Even on silent mode. Even when ringer is off.

The pro side (honest): Genuinely useful. Subtle confirmation when you tap. Lets you feel notifications without sound in meetings. Many people prefer it for typing accuracy. I keep it on during the day.

The con side (what the doctor showed me): A 2024 study published in Sleep Health found that adolescents who left their phone ringer (including vibration) active overnight had significantly more trouble falling and staying asleep, with a 23 percent higher risk of sleep disturbance.

Each silent buzz at 2 AM can pull your brain out of deep sleep without you ever fully waking. You don't remember it. Your body does.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

The smart fix (not "just turn it off"):

The honest middle ground. Inside Always-On Display settings, turn ON these two toggles:

✓ Show Notifications → OFF at night
✓ Show Wallpaper → OFF
✓ Show Widgets → OFF

Or set a Sleep Focus (I have cover this in tweet 7) that automatically turns Always-On Display OFF at bedtime and ON when you wake up.

Best of both worlds. Useful during the day. Silent and dark at night.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

I hadn't slept a full night in 3 months.

Melatonin. Magnesium. Meditation apps. Nothing worked.

A friend pushed me to see a sleep doctor. I expected blood tests, a sleep study, maybe a CPAP referral.

He didn't even look at me.

He looked at my iPhone and said:

"There are 3 settings turned ON right now keeping your brain awake at 3 AM. 9 out of 10 patients I see have the same 3 toggles."

Me: "So my own iPhone is the thing keeping me awake?"

He didn't answer.

Here's everything he showed me (save this, your sleep depends on it):

[Kate Shemirani @KateShemirani]

Diagnosed 14.5 years ago with an aggressive and deadly breast cancer, refused chemotherapy, radiotherapy and all drugs in favour of the full Gerson therapy. My ectopic heartbeats healed, my eyesight healed my psoriasis on my scalp healed my plantar fasciitis, amazing.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

You do not hate the United States government enough. What they’ve done to Cuba all these years is beyond evil.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

Kidnapped by israel yesterday.

Currently being raped by the IDF today.

They’re also American. Repost this now.