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Virgo. Igbo blood. Anambra born and bred.
Live and let live

[KAA @KAA_Truths]

Nigeria is a country of magnificent contradictions. So funny that sometimes I see myself thinking and laughing and cursing about it alone.

You say you don’t want open defecation. But there are no public toilets.

You say you are fighting crime. But you are impoverishing the citizens. There’s a Yoruba adage I heard from one of the people I respect so much. Dele Farotimi. “Rationality ends where hunger begins.”

You say you want an educated population. But tens of millions of children are out of school, the ones inside school are learning with textbooks and curriculum older than their teachers, and the universities go on strike so often that students now budget for it.

You say you want foreign investment. But your power supply is a joke, your roads are an assault course, your ports are a bureaucratic nightmare, and your policies change faster than an investor can land at the airport.

You say you are fighting corruption. But the men doing the prosecuting are the same ones who need to be prosecuted. Imagine a goat leading a protest to protect yams.

You say you want a healthy nation. But public hospitals have no drugs, no equipment, and no reliable light. Majority of our doctors are in London and Houston because you gave them no reason to stay.

You say you respect human rights. But your police force is a threat assessment, not a reassurance. They have placed themselves in the same category as bandits.

You say you want national unity. But every four years you set ethnicity and religion on fire and use it as campaign fuel.

You say you want to reduce road accidents but you allow importation of fake vehicle products. Our roads are death traps, and Road Safety Corps are paid so little to enforce rules that they now depend on bribes.

You say you are promoting made-in-Nigeria goods. But government officials shop abroad. The president and all his cabinet members and governors are the biggest customers of foreign made cars and even office furnitures. Government contracts go to foreign companies, and the naira you devalued makes local production nearly impossible.

You say you want to stop flooding. But you approve buildings on drainage channels, sell land in floodplains, and have never completed a single major drainage project in any major city.

You say you want to develop agriculture. But farmers are being killed on their own land and nobody is in prison for it.

You say you want to grow tourism. But your visa process is an ordeal, your heritage sites are abandoned, and your airports look like bus parks.

You say you want to fix unemployment. But your graduates spend years chasing NYSC postings, then spend more years chasing jobs that do not exist in an economy that produces nothing.

You say you want press freedom. But journalists investigating the wrong people develop strange accidents. Social media critics are picked everyday and are only produced in court after weeks of protest.

You say you want to stop brain drain. But you do everything possible to make staying in this country an act of suffering.

See eh, our problem is not spiritual. We are just a country on a self-destructive mission.

-KAA
#kaa_truths

[DADDY KEMPES @AkfahB]

@AfamDeluxo Here is the reason.

[Ọnye ka Chukwu? @awnyeka]

@farman4x The answer is 144

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

The lowest GDP growth number recorded from 2000 to 2015 in Nigeria, is higher than the highest GDP growth number recorded from 2015 to 2026

[Ọnye ka Chukwu? @awnyeka]

To all my OGs who always affirmed that they'll get married as soon as Arsenal FC lifts the trophy...

WHAT'S THE COLOUR OF THE DAY??? 🤣🤪

[Ọnye ka Chukwu? @awnyeka]

"What we have in Nigeria today is a disgraceful leadership"
~ Donald Duke

[Chukwu_Emeka @Nnaneya]

@OurFavOnlineDoc @balalivetwit Listen to Duke.

[Ọnye ka Chukwu? @awnyeka]

11 years on this X app, and I'm still learning the ropes...
#MyXAnniversary

[African @ali_naka]

Nothing BUT THE TRUTH!!!

Written by @TrendfusionNG

cc Zimbabwe; KENYA, DRC & all region’s Elections are a FAILURE

Friday, 2nd May, 2025

Dear @Omojuwa,

Re: The Nigerian Democracy, A cover for failure, not freedom

1. Let us start with a clear, uncomfortable truth: no developed nation in today’s world became developed through democracy.

2. The United States did not conduct ballots before displacing the Native Americans or annexing lands from Mexico.

3. The architects of the transatlantic slave trade that laid the economic foundation of the West didn’t seek consent from Africans—they took them, violently and decisively.

4. The myth that democracy is inherently superior to all other systems is a product of persistent misinformation, largely championed by the co.rrupt Lagos-Ibadan media complex.

5. It is this same media that romanticized democracy while ignoring the undeniable fact that Nigeria’s most critical infrastructure—our roads, universities, hospitals—was built under military regimes.

6. Democracy has become, for many, a convenient excuse for underdevelopment.

7. Yes, the military had human rights abuses on its record, but even Abacha and Babangida combined were not responsible for the weekly bloodshed we now see under so-called democratic governments like Buhari’s and Tinubu’s.

8. Over 20 Nigerians are killed weekly today, yet we speak of freedom.

9. You must know that you are not addressing a population bereft of thought.

10. China’s brand of authoritarianism has, in just 40 years, raised over 800 million people out of poverty and placed the nation as the world’s second superpower.

11. Russia, under a centralized strongman model, offers far better living conditions for its people than Nigeria is likely to provide in the next century.

12. In the Middle East—Oman, the UAE, Saudi Arabia—oligarchic systems have produced prosperity and national pride.

13. Even the United Kingdom, which lectures the world on democracy, operates a hybrid monarchy-democracy model.

14. And the United States? Democracy works there because Americans know their rights, have real liberties, and carry firearms—an armed population that keeps the state in check.

15. In Nigeria, our professors—the so-called custodians of enlightenment—have become accomplices in the collapse, rigging elections for men who can barely spell “democracy.”

16. To claim that Nigeria’s salvation lies in a form of democracy where a known drug baron can switch off election server IREV, erase digital records from BVAS, and walk into office by judicial fiat, is a dangerous insult to the nation’s collective intelligence.

17. This is not democracy—it’s state capture by stealth.

18. So let us not ridicule the hopes many Africans have placed in leaders like Captain Ibrahim Traoré.

19. He represents a new brand of leadership—one rooted in discipline, patriotism, and sacrifice.

20. We must not attack the only alternative voice that has dared to challenge a failed political order.

21. Democracy, as practised in Nigeria today, is not a system—it is a sickness.

Sincerely,
Preacher
An observer who refuses to be gaslit by a broken narrative.

[Ọnye ka Chukwu? @awnyeka]

#MyXAnniversary

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@MrWalexzy IT CAN NEVER BE ME

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@MrWalexzy @olu_petcom @P_jayzee Where all these men dey fall out from, is this not the Lord's doing? I can see God trying to use una to get me 2 pairs of footwear for Christmas (white and black preferably)
Thanks immensely for the kind gestures, @MrWalexzy and @olu_petcom

[Ọnye ka Chukwu? @awnyeka]

@Khalifa_H_AYA @Olawalexcy1 How can I get it delivered to Asaba, Delta State?

[Ọnye ka Chukwu? @awnyeka]

@xc_collection Where's your location?

[Mariam oyiza Aliyu (She/Her) @Veevxm]

@officialNHC_Yde, s'il vous plaît, aidez une jeune Nigériane de 19 ans bloquée qui a été maltraitée par son mari et dont les documents ont été saisis jusqu'à ce qu'elle rembourse tout l'argent qu'il a dépensé pour elle. Nous avons essayé de vous joindre, en vain. Elle a fait une fausse couche au cours du processus, s'il vous plaît, il s'agit d'une urgence car l'homme est dangereux et hautement connecté. Elle se cache actuellement et nous aimerions la réunir au Nigeria avec sa famille. @UN_Cameroon @diplocam_minrex @RefugeesCmr @UNFPACameroon @DavidHundeyin quelqu'un s'il vous plaît, aidez #cameroon #yeounde

[Ken Ngwoke @ezza_kg]

@Veevxm @DavidHundeyin @officialNHC_Yde If you can’t read French, thank me.

[Ọnye ka Chukwu? @awnyeka]

"Once Nigerians find themselves in any environment that rewards honest work and focus, the results are almost uniformly the same - they thrive without recourse to criminals and criminality."

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I talk about my dad a lot, maybe even too much. That's because he was much more than just a father to me. He was a symbol.

I looked at him and saw possibility. His life was a story of possibility. Despite growing up in an asset-rich, cash-poor, polygamous context, he made it from Badagry to a 1st Class in Biochemistry at the University of Ghana, on the back of personal determination, hard work, and the existence of enabling factors such as Awolowo's high-quality free education policy and OAU/Soviet Union university scholarships.

Despite entering the civil service as a teacher in 1977, the meritocracy that existed back then made it possible for him to rise all the way to Director of Lands, then into Gov. Raji Rasaki's office without ever staining his white even once. Of course, many of his contemporaries stained their whites repeatedly, but the system that once existed made it possible for him to be a successful person without stealing, cheating, or pledging allegiance to anyone.

Yes, his clean record might have been influenced by the fact that he was a religious fundamentalist/true believer who went to absurd extents to live by his faith, but there were many other people in the same faith who committed all sorts of atrocities, so clearly it was a personal decision on his part to never dip his hands into anything that he could not reveal to the world.

Religious fanaticism aside, on the back of hard work, honesty, and integrity alone, he was able to give his family the sort of life that 99% of Nigerians have no frame of reference for. I was raised with the idea that honesty and hard work are all you need to become successful in Nigeria or anywhere, and I had a real-life example of this walking around the house everyday with his leather flip-flops and constant half-smile.

I may not have inherited his faith, but I did inherit his fanaticism. I have seen with my own 2 eyes that it is possible to be an upright person and be hyper-successful (by Nigerian standards) at the same time. There is no contradiction implied therein. The air in Nigeria is not different from the air in Singapore or Chile. The rules of economics are not different. The idea that you have to be a criminal or subservient to a criminal in order to live in an 8-bedroom mansion in a GRA, have 6 cars, send your kids to international schools, take foreign holidays and give your wife everything she wants, is NOT TRUE.

I know for a fact that it is not true because I am the direct offspring of a man who did all that and NEVER ONCE defrauded, cheated, or stole from anyone. A good education, hard work, access to information, smart investment, and a lot of delayed gratification is all it took. I witnessed it and benefitted from it, which is why there is nothing you can tell me that will convince me that criminality HAS to be the default setting in Nigeria.

Everytime I visit a sizeable Nigerian community in Europe, Asia or North America, I observe the same thing - a consistent trend toward respectable middle-class professional life within one generation of leaving Nigeria, even if they arrived from there as destitutes. Once Nigerians find themselves in any environment that rewards honest work and focus, the results are almost uniformly the same - they thrive without recourse to criminals and criminality.

That was once the reality of the Nigeria my dad lived in, and I cannot stop believing in something that I myself witnessed and benefitted from. That's why I care so much, and that's why I could never stop caring even if I wanted to.

The recent and current occupiers of Abuja have done a very good job of convincing many Nigerians that the Nigeria where a drug dealer with extensive FBI records for heroin trafficking is president and a terrorist with documented ties to Boko Haram is vice-president, is the Nigeria that has ALWAYS existed, and that everyone should give up, accept it and fall in line.

But I have seen contrary evidence.

So I refuse.

I will always refuse.

[West Africa Weekly @WestAfricaWeek]

How NAPTIP Abducted, Detained 21-month-old Child And Nanny Over Family Feud https://t.co/tUvXIvv02J

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@NMC_Nigeria

[Helen @NurseHelen84]

Urgent Request for Access to my portal through NMCN password reset
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I am writing to express my frustration with the ongoing issues regarding access to my NMCN portal. Since April, I have been unable to reset my password due to a malfunction on the

[Ọnye ka Chukwu? @awnyeka]

"When you’re not stealing, your wife is not stealing, your children are not stealing, and your families are not stealing; you have reduced corruption and crime by 50%"
~Peter Obi

[West Africa Weekly @WestAfricaWeek]

Pastor E.A. Adeboye's Son, Adeolu, Abandons Kaduna Project After Collecting N8 Billion from El-Rufai Government, Files Court Case to Stop Probe.

#Corruption #WAW #Nigeria