Manuel.eth

I tweet on digital marketing, politics, love, LEARNING, GROWTH 📈,Chelsea fc, and Chelsea wfc 💙. I'm a lover of beautiful people and things.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Corrections:

1. She is not a billionaire and didn't claim to be one.

2. Her entire fund is $80m so far, and that is not what she makes in a year. Management fees on that are minimal. Exits have not happened yet.

3. With the state of Nigeria today, anyone who is managing a substantial amount of money needs to be very well protected; hence the police escort. When I was part of a fund, they didn't let me travel to Nigeria or to places they considered high-risk without guarantees of protection.

As for other comments about what she said, she decided to do this on her own, using her own brain, in a very tough industry. She has been successful so far, and we are very proud of her. Yes, we are related.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A Louisiana pastor has just bonded out of jail after beat up his neighbor’s 20-year-old son because the young man, “threatened to m*rder and r*pe his wife and grandchildren.”

The pastor, Tony Spell, said, “As a man, as a father, and as a pastor, I can’t allow that.”

He was arrested and charged with battery.

Police say he crossed a four-lane highway and then beat the kid into the ground.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Tyjuan Crenshaw, a man who works with special needs children, saw a young man being BEATEN IN THE STREET.

He stepped in and saved the man and chased the attacker off...

...AND THE POLICE ARRESTED HIM FOR IT

He was charged with assault.

Tyjuan is a MANDATORY REPORTER because he works with special needs kids. He is LEGALLY REQUIRED to step in when he sees a vulnerable person being abused.

Crenshaw says he saw a man beating a vulnerable young man on Baylor's Lane in Petersburg, Virginia.

In his words: "He was beating the hell out of him. After he dropped, he hit him across his head five more times."

So Crenshaw stepped in.

He says the man told him to mind his own business... then went and got a dog to sic on him.

He stood his ground and protected the man until the police got there.

When the police showed up, they arrested CRENSHAW.

Charged him with assault and listed the man he was trying to stop as the VICTIM!!!

But here's the kicker.

TWO DAYS LATER, police arrested that same man, Harold Parker, and charged him with ABUSE AND NEGLECT OF AN INCAPACITATED ADULT.

The exact thing Crenshaw said he was trying to stop!

So the man who stepped in to protect the vulnerable is facing charges.

When asked if he would do anything different, Crenshaw said:

"If I had to do it all over, I'd do it again!"

[It's Me Again 😁 @MysticMolly24]

@mattvanswol 1) The son was not a kid
2) That's my kinda pastor

[Danielle 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @GeezDanielle]

@mattvanswol @Raccoon_1776 He held service the night he was released. He said

“I’m a pastor who shepherds his flock. It’s not the job of the sheep to attack the wolves; it’s the job of the shepherd to protect his sheep.”

I can respect that 🙏🏼

[Manuel.eth @anievince]

https://t.co/30OxA8S6sk

[Àgbà John Doe @jon_d_doe]

Long distance relationship.

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

When I was a journalist, we had a very strong debate regarding the establishment of the State Police in our newsroom.
Mr Malagu, a veteran journalist who hailed from the North but was raised in Lagos, argued strongly against the idea.
His reasons were verifiable.
He said we should go to the North and see how politicians had been deploying religious police that was largely funded by the state to disrupt legal business activities, which the Islamic religion classified as Haram.

He said we should look at how the government used the security apparatus to intimidate and manipulate election outcomes during elections. He mentioned Lagos, Port Harcourt, Ekiti, Edo and other states and reasoned that if those states had their own police forces that are under the governor, it would have led to a clash between the state forces and the federal forces, and this would lead to chaos on the street.

He also mentioned the use of such state police officers to selectively prosecute political opponents by seating governors who might target the businesses of their opposition members or their houses, relatives and friends, all in the name of ensuring such an opponent is destabilised and unable to marshal his or her strength to contest against the ruling government.
He reminded us of how the EFCC, CPC, Code of Conduct Bureau, the Judiciary and other government agencies had been deployed to harass, investigate and persecute selected politicians belonging to the opposition party by the ruling party in Nigeria's recent history.
He mentioned the then-governor Aregbesola's Social Mobilisation thugs, who were political thugs under state employment, raised to cause chaos during elections for his political party all over the southwest

He talked about the structure of such a system, which would include building police structures, creating a parallel local judiciary system, and building prisons for convicts within a state.
He talked about the proliferation of arms and weapons within the state, as the state government would have to buy weapons for these police officers, and practically make more weapons available for police to arm their armed robber friends or even commit robbery by themselves at night while pretending to be police officers by day.

He talked about the mayhem groups like the Oodua People's Congress, MEND, Bakassi boys, Egbesu boys, who were informal "security" apparatus that sprang up with democracy around 1999.
How they basically targeted members of other tribes living within their states, who they accused of being criminals and how this led to jungle justice and the death of many innocent Nigerians, including the ALUU 4 and others.
He insisted that Nigerians are too divided along ethnic and tribal lines to be given the power to have police officers who would use their powers to push their bigoted worldview on the populace

He talked about the merit of recruiting police officers and training them properly, when we all know that when the state governments funded institutions like LASTMA, LAWMA, OGROMA, OYRTMA and so on, the juicy positions were given to cronies of the state governors, members of the ruling party, friends, family members, registered members of the political party and so on.
He said meritocracy will take a back seat and nepotism will be the order of the day.

He said a lot.

When he was done, those of us who wanted to argue for it based on the American System of government in which the equivalent of local governments had local sheriffs, the states had NYPD, LAPD and so on and the federal government had the FBI, all kept quiet and silently agreed with him that our peculiar nature as a people may not be ready to embrace such an audacious idea.

The day after this discussion, the Nyanya Bombing of 2014 happened.

We watched with shock as human beings were reduced to mere body parts flung all over the street by terrorists in Abuja.

The newsroom was in a state of shock.

Mr Malagu, our Head of News, the son of a Fulani Chieftain from the North who grew up in Lagos and could speak several languages, took his teary eyes away from the TV and said, "We need state police in Nigeria. We need it right away. Security is about information and investigations. If we had state police, someone would have heard something, someone would have informed someone, a contact or an agent somewhere would have whispered something to someone, and this would have been prevented.
Crime is local. The gap here is a gap of a lack of information because the police are too cut off from the people. Policing is not about checkpoints and stop and search only; it is about "see something, say something"

We need state police!

I agree with him wholeheartedly that even in America, the systems are sometimes abused, and we have seen several cases of selective prosecution, racial profiling, political persecution, like the Russia Hoax sponsored by a political party against the candidate of another political party and so on.

Things will eventually even out.
Political cronies appointed today would be replaced by professionals tomorrow. Inasmuch as we don't have all the answers to so many questions. If indeed we want to destroy insecurity, the State Police is an apparatus that must be swiftly established and empowered to work in Nigeria.

-GSW-

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

This will be studies in history class under “how empires failed”

[dank @cptdankkk]

Dave Chappelle says no one needs to think anymore because of AI: “Thinking is for poor people”

“I was talking to a friend of mine and we were laughing about how no one really would know what to teach a kid now. What skill sets are going to matter 10 or 20 years from now as the world becomes automated”

“We decided your character is your destiny. If you’re a good person that’s all you can ask from anybody and hope for the best”

“I don’t know if anyone needs to think anymore. It’s AI, quantum computing, it seems like thinking is for poor people”

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

Your ADHD brain is wired for:
- Hyperfocus when hunting/in crisis (dopamine from urgency)
- Constant environmental scanning (what you call "distraction")
- Quick task-switching (what they call "can't finish anything")

This was SURVIVAL 10,000 years ago.

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

Modern world demands:
- 8 hours of sustained attention on boring tasks
- Ignoring environmental input
- Following through on things that don't interest you

Your brain wasn't built for this. That's just a mismatch.

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

ADHD isn't a disorder.
It's a nervous system designed for a world that DOES NOT EXIST anymore.
Let me explain:

[mac @MacDoesIt]

This is huge news btw

[Ayo FBI @PureMinD__]

Dear Peter Obi supporters,

Amplify pro PO posts, stop engaging people who have sworn lifetime allegiance to their chains.

[Obiasogu David @afrisagacity]

Here's what played out…

Ex-President Obasanjo wanted to stand up for Peter Obi, as he arrived at the Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe’s event. Obi refused.

Obasanjo, in his usual jovial manner, insisted. But Obi wouldn't let him. Obi proceeded to greet him on bent knees.✍️

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Is Nigeria doing better since 2023? Short answer: Hell NO!! Long answer: it depends on who you are and where you play.

For those who depend on capital markets and the FX market, the stability is a breath of fresh air. Emefiele and Buhari were idiots. Cardoso is great.

For those in the streets, things simply got worse. I have sent more to assist family members in the last 3 years than at any time in my life. Poverty increased.

The top-down approach will NOT work unless there are major interventions at the bottom. Dangote, Elumelu, or Otedola will not fix our roads or provide security; that is the government's job.

A healthy Nigeria at the bottom also benefits those at the top. I don't believe we have the luxury of things trickling down again. Remittances may be at great risk amid nationalist agitations and movements abroad.

Depending on the Diaspora to keep supporting a nation is impracticable. That was what Emefiele banked on for years, and it never worked. The Diaspora is tired. People are also thinking about their own lives and futures. Jobs are being lost, and AI is eating up the world.

If we don't build up our nation today, we will have no nation one day. We are slowly moving from Abegistan to TerrorStan. Security and Infrastructure should be priorities. A healthy foreign reserve balance doesn't help the man on the streets.

A new Nigeria is POssible when Nigeria is OK.

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

The studio will never forget