LilmissMcCarthy

[LilmissMcCarthy @Anie_Johnny]

@PO_GrassRootM All this thing is stage played so that Nigerians will think that it's working meanwhile same court sustained previous election.

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@OmideyiOlaide @DavidHundeyin I hope they served you rice😂

[LilmissMcCarthy @Anie_Johnny]

@ruffydfire America should just come and claim Nigeria let everybody rest

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@TheInkhnd @b_tella You mean avoid accountability the way Nigeria is accountable?

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@StephenBawa01 @NigeriaStories Agreed Sir, the Igbos are the problem in Nigeria,that's why they go about kidnapping,killing their victims.That's why they're occupying the Northern Nigeria and making it ungovernable. Can you create Biafra let them go and continue their problem, so Nigeria can return to peace.

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@Ebenezer__Ojo @NigeriaStories Nigeria's court, Law and Justice do not fit in together.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Nigerians with their Very Valuable Lives: "You're outside Nigeria busy telling us to revolt so that they will shoot us dead in the street. Why don't you come back and lead the rebellion yourself?!"

Also Nigerians:

[LilmissMcCarthy @Anie_Johnny]

Hakimi the towel boy. What a shameful display.
@AchrafHakimi @PSG_English @GianniInfantino

[Refiner Voice @RefinerVoice]

1/ THREAD 🧵: How Nigeria Missed Its Empire Moment in Africa

Nigeria had all the cards—economic strength, military power, political goodwill across the continent. It intervened during apartheid in South Africa, led ECOMOG in West Africa, and almost completed Ajaokuta Steel. It could’ve led a New African Order. But it didn’t.

Let’s unpack this.

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In the 70s and 80s, Nigeria was flush with petrodollars.

It took strong anti-apartheid positions, funding the ANC, backing liberation across Southern Africa. It gained moral capital that few African nations could rival.

That was soft power. But power unused decays.
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Then came ECOMOG.

In the 90s, while Western powers watched, Nigeria deployed troops to restore order in war-torn Liberia and Sierra Leone. Thousands of Nigerian soldiers fought and died stabilizing the region.

This was hard power. Proof Nigeria could be Africa’s sheriff.

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So what did Nigeria do with all this capital—moral and military?

Nothing strategic.
Instead of using peacekeeping as a launchpad for economic and geopolitical dominance, Nigeria retreated, crumbling under its own contradictions—tribalism, bad leadership, internal sabotage.

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Let’s imagine an alternate Nigeria—one that learned from its victories.

Picture a Nigeria that used its post-ECOMOG goodwill to negotiate pan-West African infrastructure projects: railroads, energy pipelines, broadband corridors.

A West African Silk Road—but Nigerian.

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Ajaokuta Steel Plant was meant to power this dream.
One of the most ambitious steel complexes in Africa—meant to supply rails, industrial parts, machines, and export-grade materials.

Instead? It was sabotaged. Incomplete for 40+ years. A metaphor for Nigeria itself.

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If Nigeria had finished Ajaokuta in the 80s:

It could’ve mass-produced rails

Built a Lagos–Dakar rail line
Connected Inland Africa to Ports

Enabled free flow of goods, people, and influence

Instead of China building Africa’s rails, Nigeria would’ve.

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Imagine that leverage.

Nigerian-built rails, powered by Nigerian steel, laying the economic foundation for a West Africa where:
Dangote Cement floods markets

Nigerian fintechs process ECOWAS payments

Nollywood dominates media

Nigerian ports become trade hubs

Real hegemony.
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But instead of this trajectory, Nigeria imploded.

Remember the 1992 ECOMOG air crash? Several Middle Belt senior military officers died. A mysterious accident. Conspiracy theorists blamed it on internal power plays—possibly to weaken potential coup plotters.
Sabotage from within.
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IBB, Abacha, Obasanjo, all came with promise, but tribal loyalties, corruption, and visionless politics meant that Nigeria turned its post-war victories into internal witch hunts.
It wasn't Rome building an empire, it was Rome burning itself from inside out.

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Meanwhile, China built the Belt & Road.

It used economic diplomacy to win ports, mines, railways across Africa.

Nigeria could’ve done same—in its neighborhood.
Instead, petty nationalism and mistrust meant even ECOWAS integration is a joke. We don’t even share power grids.

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Nigeria today has the population of Russia, more arable land than most countries in Africa, and a diaspora of world-class professionals.

Yet it’s stuck in a loop of tribalism, insecurity, and election frauds. Power without purpose.
13/
Until Nigeria fixes its house—kills tribal politics, reforms leadership, builds infrastructure—it will continue to miss empire-scale opportunities.
Africa waits for leadership. Nigeria could’ve been that leader. But you can’t lead a continent if your house is on fire.
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Final thought:

Power is not given. Influence is not permanent.

Nigeria earned it in the 80s & 90s, then threw it away. Now it has to rebuild—with intention, with vision, with unity, but sincerely I doubt this.

The future is still open—but time is running out.
✍️

[LilmissMcCarthy @Anie_Johnny]

@officialABAT How much did you support the abductors in the name of Ransom?

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@officialABAT As you rightly said earlier, just step aside.

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@ishaqsamaila5 @alijitaa @Omhamza126 @JosephOnuorah @WhiteHouse @DonaldJTrumpJr @RepRileyMoore Fake news

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@channelstv court of justice indeed

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Who and Where is the Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Arm Forces?

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@BashirAhmaad

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@FreemAnTiger @PoliceNG NPF(Nigeria Politician Force)

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@Dave_Lummy5 @TrendingEx @CitizenMonitors I don't think you understand the state of Nigeria's healthcare system

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@ShehuSani Advert is noted

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@instablog9ja This one never see money yet.....wait for him to visit you first