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[Wolfie 🐺 @TheIgboWolf]

Who is this Nigerian aunty chewing up racism 😂😂

[MONKELE @_Taaooma]

Should police officers be this aggressive? He kept on cursing him. Imagine. @PoliceNG people like this shouldn’t be in the force! These are the type that will shoot because they can. And one day, we will still address why the basic operation weapon are assault rifles. Assault rifles in the hands of very aggressive officers.

[Oreoluwa Bukola, CFA. @BukkyOA]

Sir, I think you missed your way o, it’s ‘the children’ on social media you are crying to now.

I say let me tell you.

[🚨I’m planning a Marketing event! @HerGracehq]

Wait till you find out that there are “privatized” rooms inside Moremi hostel- which is a public hostel btw.

The rooms were renovated differently to standard and the occupants of those rooms lock whole bathrooms that is meant for an entire floor as their private property.

[EHIZOJIE @DadaBoyEhiz]

I know you catching cruise which is ok
But you do know that’s how ‘The Motherland’ worked and also that’s how ‘The African Shrine’ works

Creat your own coliseum and be the star of the show 😎.

[Demilade Roberts @DemiladeR]

A true legend!

[Tinker (Redemption Arc) @alphacentuarian]

Lmao.
Win a scholarship that helps you to leave your third world country for free
The third worlder turns around to SELL the material that helped him get it for FREE.

LoL.

[Somto Okonkwo @General_Somto]

A White Driver Behind The Wheel With Two Cameras On His Dashboard: Not a Single Checkpoint Out Of 21 Asked To See His ID Or Vehicle Documents. Not a Single Checkpoint Checked His Trunk. Just Imagine If He Was a Nigerian, At Least 15 Out Of Those 21 Checkpoints Would Have Stopped Him, Demanded His ID, Searched His Vehicle, And Maybe Even Tried To Extort/Harass The Person. In The Same Video, a Truck Was Parked And Thoroughly Inspected While The White Man Drove Past….SMH!!!

[Oris @_Ortodox]

Oyibo taste jollof and plantain for work today she go take another plate. Think say na baked beans and sausage be this. I say the day them go taste ewa agonyin dem go sell this country

[Iyo Obietonbara @sankofa360]

One day, I will share the full story of how I almost got killed in 2017, at Dambare village, by Bayero University new site, Kano, for starting a school for the Almajiris that were always coming to ask for food in my house.

I was on my way back from Sabon gari, as I turned to enter my street, I was stopped by a man, I didn't think anything of it at first until he started asking me what my ''real'' intentions were for starting the school, I dismissed him and was about driving off when he held my starring.

I got down from my car to confront him when I realized there were over 100 men or more, waiting in ambush for me. They began dragging, pushing, punching and assaulting me.

Fortunately, some students of BUK, passers-by and the people of Dambare came out in full force and rescued me.

Before this incident, the principal of the secondary school building I was using had told me that he was invited to Rijiyar Zaki divisional police station to explain why the school premises was being used in the evenings to educate the Almajiris.

That incident taught me that the Almajiris issue is a deliberate systemic arrangement.

One day, I will share the full story!

[Ara🫶 @arathefirst_]

You should all read this. PayPal is not your pal.

[Fola Fasanmi @folastag]

There are so many pretty little things to snap in Lagos, but once you raise Camera like this, Agbero go wan wound you

[EA has her PVC @virtuousii]

I take it that you had no clients before this merger?

[Adugbo Victory @adugbovictory]

There’s an uncomfortable truth missing from this announcement.

A lot of the engagement around this feels like free PR, and I get it , partnerships are business. But context matters.

For years, PayPal systematically excluded Nigerians and large parts of Africa from receiving global payments. That wasn’t a minor limitation. It meant:
• Lost deals
• Broken contracts
• Freelancers unable to get paid
• Startups forced to redesign their revenue models overnight

This exclusion directly contributed to why stablecoins, crypto rails, and alternative payment systems gained mass adoption in Nigeria. Not because people wanted novelty but because global financial infrastructure locked them out.

So when we talk about “re-entry” or collaboration announcements, it’s worth being honest:
• A press release is the bare minimum
• Integration alone does not repair years of trust erosion
• Market re-entry without acknowledgement or restitution won’t magically reset sentiment

If @PayPal genuinely wants to win this market, it won’t be through optics. It will require:
• Clear acknowledgment of past exclusion
• Concrete policy changes that are durable, not experimental
• Real support for businesses that were previously shut out

Africa didn’t adopt alternative rails out of rebellion.
It did so out of necessity.

Any serious expansion strategy needs to start there.

[Pablo Alakobar @the_popemichael]

People are mad about what @PayPal has done. No, you should be mad at what they're about to do through @paga

That 75% drop in share in share value is the real thing. Let me try to explain a bit:

In 2021, PayPal aimed for 750 million active accounts by 2025. Instead, growth stalled; as of late 2025, active accounts sat at roughly 438 million, showing almost no net growth over several years (hence the sudden interest in emerging markets like ours).

​Then Increased competition from Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Adyen (solutions that are also not very active in Africa just yet) has forced PayPal to lower its "take rate" (the fee it keeps from transactions) to remain competitive, particularly in its unbranded Braintree business.
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Now, their stock now trades at a very low Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio (around 11x), which is cheaper than many slow-growing retail banks. This suggests that while the business is still a "cash cow," (they've been profitable for a while) investors are skeptical about its long-term relevance in a crowded payment landscape. Guess where isn't that crowded just yet but has serious potential? Why didn't they think about this people? Why did Stripe go hard with a $200m investment in Paystack, and they didn't?

So is it not important to really ask why they decided to answer Tayo after airing him for 10 years? They've finally realized Nigeria is a large market for payments, despite our challenges. If they come in, they'd definitely go for our own indigenous start ups that have been solving these problems.

Is it a business move? Yes. But forget our anger, that's even in the past. For the future, we need to let payments be done by people who built solutions when Paypal wasn't here! Again it's your personal choice, but dey with who been dey with you from the beginning.

[Rashedat | Mobile App developer @RashedatJ]

Raenest organised X spaces and brought industry leaders to teach freelancers how to be successful.

Gifted several people including myself 200 connects each

Gave me a dollar card that works without hiccups.

Organised two free lit events where I ate and drank like there is no tomorrow 😂

I know my people

[Tayo Aina @tayoainafilms]

These street fuckers siezed my camera in 2017 in Marina and threatened to throw it into the lagoon. My eye first blur

Had to drop 5k which was all the money I had that time before they gave me back. They then used the money to smoke weed in front of me.🥲

[Oloye Akin Alabi @akinalabi]

I sold in 2019. Got good money that I don’t need to work again.

[Iyo Obietonbara @sankofa360]

Last week, I went to GIG logistics Garki to send some books to a friend in Accra, when they gave me the price for shipping, I literally screamed. Books weighing 3.6kg for 170k naira? Say wetin happen?

Their excuse, they partner with DHL for shipping and every shipment first goes to their gateway in Brussels Belgium before being re-routed to the actual shipping destination.

So, the books I sent from Abuja to Accra had to go to Belgium first before getting to Accra.

Will never make sense to me, but this is the travesty of our Africa.

Same thing happens in trade. Our inter-continental transactions are first concluded outside the continent. Each time I and a fellow African from another country carries out a transaction, someone outside the continent gets a cut.

It needs to stop.

[Roland Decker 🦉 @RolandDecker]

Every Nigerian should boycott @AskPayPal.

For years, they've restricted us, treating an entire nation as untrustworthy, scammers.

No due process.
No individual assessment.
Just blanket exclusion.

In our absence, Nigerian fintech rose and built world-class alternatives: faster, fairer, truly ours.
Flutterwave @FlwSupport, @paystack, @OPay_NG, and more.

Now PayPal wants a bigger slice of the market we built without them (while their shares keep tanking).

Reject them.
Stand united.
Support the systems we created.
Our innovation deserves our loyalty.
#BoycottPayPal #NaijaFintech