Ome ife Jideọfọ

Legal Practitioner ¦ Freelance Writer ¦ Thinker ¦ Social Policy Critique.

[Ome ife Jideọfọ @bestben50]

Hopefully, you will remember then, that what you have and now enjoy were once prayer points...

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This is totally the behaviour of an innocent humanitarian agency that is being falsely accused of atrocities that it definitely did not commit.

When "conspiracy theorists" such as serving US senators and former State Dept staff accuse you of funding Boko Haram, how you clear your name is by destroying the documents that would prove your innocence.

Because you definitely, absolutely have nothing to hide.👍🏿

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Captain Ibrahim Traoré and Burkina Faso have been dominating international headlines of late, and this intense media spotlight has deeply polarized Pan-African voices, with many self-proclaimed pure intellectuals even going as far as claiming that Traoré does not actually stand for the radical Pan-African values he was originally praised, celebrated, and idolized for.

Although, to be entirely honest, most of these criticisms of Ibrahim Traoré are somewhat justified, considering that despite his loud anti-imperialist posturing, his administration is still actively gobbling up IMF loans, structural credits, and signing public health deals with America. The newly formed Alliance of Sahelian States (AES), for example, despite their highly televised media broadcasts of severing all military ties with France, pulling out of the International Criminal Court, and dismissing that legal institution as another corrupt arm of Western imperialism, are still paradoxically using the colonial CFA Franc as their primary national currency even to this very day.
So there are obviously genuine, structural concerns about the policies of the AES which we absolutely cannot afford to lazily dismiss.

The glaring problem with the high-minded criticisms put forward against Traoré's policies is that, as theoretically impressive, logically neat, and ideologically pure as they sound on paper, they are actually completely invalid in the context of raw, pragmatic, and survival-driven Pan-Africanism.
Ibrahim Traoré is not a novice. He fully knows all of these financial dependencies, but he is forced to operate within the brutal, unforgiving realities on the ground. If Ibrahim Traoré foolishly attempted to pander to the highly emotional, armchair Pan-African voices, if he ever listens to these screaming activists who desperately want to see white men in handcuffs, foreign corporate executives behind bars, and immediate retribution for the massive historical crimes committed against Africans, if he decided to go full purist and abruptly, mindlessly sever all diplomatic, monetary, and commercial ties with France immediately since 2022 when his government first came into power via a military coup, if he rushed recklessly to abandon the CFA, his entire revolutionary government and the fragile economy of Burkina Faso would have completely collapsed overnight.

Ibrahim Traoré perfectly understands the historic assignment, but he urgently needs to be able to control the physical demolition of this colonial infrastructure, else his own people will be tragically crushed under the falling rubble if the imperial building is forcefully, mindlessly burned to the ground all at once. To this end, we can analyze Traoré's calculated tactics as a brilliant form of managed risk transition, where each separate leaf of French colonial influence is systematically, carefully plucked only after a viable, solid alternative is ready to take its place.

For example, even though Ibrahim Traoré seized power in 2022, French special forces stationed under "Operation Sabre" were still physically inside Burkina Faso up until 2023, and they only left after he had successfully, quietly negotiated robust security assistance, advanced military hardware, and tactical training with Russian special forces, specifically the Wagner Group. He deeply understood that Burkina Faso was under constant, existential siege by Western-backed insurgents, and that the French satellite telemetry, drone surveillance, and intelligence feeds used during those missions served as a temporary, critical weapon for his military that he could not afford to lose overnight.

For this exact same reason, he did not just abruptly, emotionally seize all Western corporate assets. Even though these multinational cartels had robbed Burkina Faso of its gold with absolute impunity for decades, these same Western mining cartels also paid vital taxes, generated critical foreign exchange, and provided the substantial cash flows that allowed his government to pay civil servants, public teachers, and soldiers without fail. So, he was absolutely not going to pluck out this vital economic leaf until a brand-new corporate leaf was fully grown and ready to take its place. To this end, Burkina Faso gradually, strategically rewrote its national mining codes to aggressively increase direct state control over its highly lucrative gold sector, slowly squeezing out French, Canadian, and Western mining privileges, while welcoming massive alternative investments from Russia and China, allowing the state to secure stable internal revenue streams to fund the military without causing any sudden, catastrophic freeze in national industrial output.

This is precisely why the harsh, short-sighted criticisms pelted toward Ibrahim Traoré are completely invalid, because they conveniently forget to account for the physical reality that there is absolutely no other way to handle this highly volatile, dangerous, and geopolitically booby-trapped situation in the Sahel. There absolutely must be a reliable, fully operational backup structure available before any old colonial pillar is physically dismantled. Burkina Faso is completely surrounded by hostile countries, French military bases, and puppet regimes still firmly under the choking grip of neocolonialism, and any slight tactical miscalculation will instantly kill whatever impressive, historic sovereign movement he is fighting so hard to achieve. What Captain Ibrahim Traoré urgently needs right now is absolute trust, strategic patience, and enough time to execute this dangerous transition, and certainly not a heavy, reactionary backlash from supposed enlightened Pan-African scholars simply because they see him tactically exchanging handshakes with a white man.

Trust the process.

[Ex-Grammaton Cleric @OtunbaBrickz]

Pedestrian arguments like this tire me bcos it plays into the hands of a government that’s not interested in fixing anything. Lack of Dirt or trash isn’t the reason why Netherlands does not flood! I don’t know why we keep going back to this topic!

The reason Amsterdam doesn’t flood is bcos of billions of dollars investment in world class flood protection engineering & technology.

Also Dubai floods every year too and Dubai isn’t dirty but they have terrible flood protection systems which they are currently investing billions of dollars building proper sewage reticulation systems, flood detentions systems, flood gates and levees, etc to fix the flood problems! Few years from now when flooding becomes a thing of history in Dubai you’ll be here still blaming Lagos’s dirtiness which is still a problem caused by inadequate government infrastructure for it.

Have you also ever asked yourself why no matter how badly Lagos floods, Eko Atlantic is NEVER flooded? The simple reason is bcos the private company that built & owns Eko Atlantic engaged the same Dutch engineers that designed the flood protection systems in the Netherlands to design that of Eko Atlantic!

Even if there’s no single trash in Lagos, Lagos will still be flooded every rainy season! Until we spend money on building flood protection infrastructure. Check out this video, to understand why the Netherlands doesn’t flood.

https://t.co/ANVAUOUjkX

[Ome ife Jideọfọ @bestben50]

@jungleflame25 @soyyy_fercha @thatniggarhodes Assuming but not conceding that your assertion is true, it still does not render my statement invalid. Oftentimes, women and accountability are parallel lines destined to never meet.

[Ome ife Jideọfọ @bestben50]

@soyyy_fercha @thatniggarhodes As always, a stupid woman will use words thoughtlessly and then when consequences for their foolery manifests, they act surprised.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This wasn’t uncovered today; it’s the main reason behind the insurgency and terrorism engulfing Nigeria today.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Oh, so Sudan is suddenly no longer a country of deep humanitarian concern to the Americans? I seriously wonder what changed, because just over two decades ago, the Bush and Obama administrations were loudly screaming about "Christian genocide" in Sudan, shedding crocodile tears on international television, and making the country a top, non-negotiable priority of US foreign policy.

What on earth happened to that beautiful, deeply touching relationship between the Sudanese and the Americans? Back then, mainstream American media houses, Hollywood celebrities, and human rights organizations were practically professing endless love, deep admiration, and unconditional solidarity for the Sudanese people. The corporate love was so massive that the Obama administration personally sent briefcases full of cash and high-tech communications equipment to the rebel groups in Southern Sudan to help them fight their "oppressive" central government.

The diplomatic love between Sudan and America was so overwhelming that Washington personally dispatched high-profile delegates, special envoys, and heavy-handed negotiators to Khartoum to diplomatically bully, threaten, and strong-arm the central Sudanese government into partitioning the country into two different independent states via a referendum, or risk being sanctioned, completely invaded, and bombed into oblivion just like Libya.

What happened to this profound, supposedly moral love? Because now that Sudan has been successfully balkanized thanks to American intervention, the region is facing a horrific humanitarian crisis that easily dwarfs the situation in Gaza, with over 17 million Sudanese citizens reduced to starving refugees and helpless casualties of war. Today, precious Sudanese gold, raw diamonds, and strategic minerals are being shipped in unmarked cargo planes and military aircraft straight out of Africa into Dubai to be melted, refined, and quietly smuggled into Western capitals. Meanwhile, those exact same military aircraft return back to Sudan loaded with military-grade rifles, heavy ammunition, and tactical gear to actively fuel the raging civil war and ensure that Sudanese gold continues to be extracted absolutely free of charge from the continent.

But now, all of a sudden, the geopolitical love affair is over because the state failure has been successfully engineered and Sudanese resources are now up for grabs, you no longer care if these Sudanese "refugees" are after a "better life".

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Here's a thought experiment they don't teach in American schools.

Imagine a foreign power, significantly stronger than the United States, decided after a disputed intelligence assessment that the American government posed a threat.

It assembled a coalition, invaded, removed the government, disbanded the military, releasing hundreds of thousands of armed men into unemployment, and installed a transitional authority composed largely of exiles who had been living in the foreign power’s country for twenty years.

It then spent the next decade conducting night raids on American homes.

It ran detention facilities where Americans were held without charge and in some cases tortured.

It operated checkpoints in American cities where American citizens were stopped, searched, and sometimes killed by foreign soldiers who did not speak English and could not distinguish a civilian from a combatant and in many cases did not particularly try.

A generation of American children grew up in this environment.

Would you describe those children's resulting hostility to the foreign power as:

(A) A rational response to their lived experience

or

(B) Evidence of a cultural pathology that requires theological and anthropological analysis?

You already know the answer.

You knew it before I finished the sentence.

The exercise is only necessary because the question is never asked the right way around.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

3 judges with the International Criminal Court filed a lawsuit in a US federal court against Trump and his administration, challenging the sanctions against them and calling it a "financial death penalty."

The judges bringing the lawsuit are:
- Kimberly Prost (Canada)
- Solomy Balungi Bossa (Uganda)
- Reine Adelaide Sophie Alapini-Gansou (Benin)

Trump placed sanctions on the judges over their judicial decisions regarding investigations into war crimes by Israel and the US.

The judges argue that the sanctions are extrajudicial measures meant to punish and coerce them. They say the restrictions cut them off from banking, online platforms, travel booking, and sometimes health insurance.

This should be much bigger news.

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

No country has murdered more leaders in the world than the US.

The US is the real terror state.

[H_R_V @SpacemanAp]

Google “organ trafficker” & see the nationality that comes up. Check who the studio execs are.Then you’ll understand why they put a Nigerian there to divert attention. The country with the largest organ bank in the world, yet their religion prohibits them from donating organs.

[Ome ife Jideọfọ @bestben50]

@shavnyuy The evil that colonisation did to and is still doing to Africa is criminally understated.

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

I studied architectural design in Cameroon and every architect they taught me was European. Every movement, every theory, every name on the required reading list. The Great Mosque of Djenné, the Moorish arch, Great Zimbabwe never appeared on any syllabus.

Now I am studying management and every economist is Western. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian who built an entire economic framework for African development, has never appeared in a single lecture. Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist who argued that Western aid is destroying African economies, same.

Two disciplines. Not one African name in the required reading.

This is not only an architecture problem. It is medicine, law, economics, history. Every field is taught through a foreign lens and when a student tries to think beyond it they are disciplined for it.

We are not behind because we lack knowledge. We are behind because we were taught that ours does not count.

[naijaPatriot @jollynony]

Peter Obi is no longer putting his ideas out in public.

I think I know why.

Grab a coffee it’s another long one.

Come with me to 2022 when Peter Obi made the racket of the subsidy regime mainstream. He said it was a criminal enterprise and he would tackle the criminality, and if it continued to be unsustainable he would remove it.

He compared Nigeria to Pakistan who have a similar population, as many cars, but consume 20million ltrs/day, while operators in Nigeria claimed subsidy money for 60 million ltrs/day.
He asked, “Who is drinking the rest?”
He made it easy for us to understand.

Stay with me here. He importantly made a commitment that the money saved would be visibly channelled into critical areas of development, “… and people will see it!”

Now here’s the rub. Because he has been open about his plans, and people trust him, he had inadvertently softened the ground for the heartless variant of subsidy removal that Tinubu did.

I submit that the lack of resistance that people showed was because the idea was popularised by a trustworthy person.

Tinubu seized the idea and warped it. He removed its human face so that it was the already rich, who had originally benefited from the corruption in the subsidy regime, that still landed on their feet. The rest of us were left holding the bag like suckers!

Then came May 29, 2023, inauguration day, when we heard, “Subsidy is gone!”
A thoughtless, soulless pronouncement of a king who forced himself on the people exerting revenge for not showing him love.

That’s how I see it — a power move against the people.

“You refused to vote for me, yet I am president and your life is like clay in my hands. Who’s crying now?”

How else could I make sense of it? Was it rank stupidity? You and I know that no one is that stupid.

Maybe it was pure conscienceless greed, where the only thing that mattered was the money that will not be paid as subsidies but can go to buying patronage and extending power.

Do you see how good ideas can be thoroughly corrupted in the hands of someone whose character and motivations are at odds with the people they’re meant to serve?

Now when we complain, his supporters will say, “Did your Messiah not say subsidy was bad and had to go?”

So yeah, I think Peter Obi has stopped softening the ground for their callousness to land without resistance.

Let them generate policies entirely on their own so people will judge them on execution and the impact on people’s lives.
No more heartless spins on good ideas that have been “marketed” by a trustworthy person.

PO now insists that we must vote on the merits of the character of the person making the promise.

Consider this. When Dangote declared that he would build Africa’s largest refinery, even people who were doubtful knew one thing — fail or succeed he would give it a good go.
It wasn’t the same kind of farting in the wind as, “If I don’t give you power after 4 years, don’t vote for me.”

Once people knew the site of the proposed refinery, they rushed to buy adjoining lands on the strength of the character and antecedents of the man Dangote.

So guys, Peter Obi is no longer popularising ideas. None of these ideas are rocket science, as he puts it, anyway. If you say you’re going to build a house, build it. It’s as simple as that.

Sure there are issues that will arise. Things that people don’t anticipate, problems are a constant in every project. But building a house is a known craft. The engineering is not esoteric.

Neither is large scale electricity which has been around for a century.

In recent times, similar countries as Nigeria have ramped up theirs — Egypt 28k MW, Indonesia 60k MW. Peter Obi had to visit them to see if they were using juju — they weren’t.

So when the man who conquered greed says I will generate and distribute 10k MW — I’d sooner believe and trust his commitment than the guys who have never seen a ₦1m they could steal and left it alone.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

But if you import stolen minerals from the third world to make advanced chips and stealth fighter jets, you get to become a superpower right?
So the people of the third world are like whores to you who are good enough to be f*ucked but not good enough to be brought home as wives, right?

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

They tell us that we are unable to govern ourselves but they deliberately and tirelessly work behind the scenes to make the country ungovernable.

A simple Socialist Revolution will end all this madness and I'll be here waiting for my people to wake up.

[Zoldyck @Michealkaiser_]

This is what a holocaust looks like.

[AnonXIV @XIVAnonXIV]

Is it still antisemitic to say the jеws control the news, even after witnessing the jеws turn a single job refusal from one 19 yearold college student, into a global headline?

Like what the fuck is this?

[Nedu Ani @Nedumcity_]

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu never killed a General or any soldier.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu never negotiated with terrorists.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu never shut down an Airforce Jet.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu never kidnapped children or adults.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu never asked for ransom or tax.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu never raped anyone.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu never carried any gun or firearm.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was called terrorist and sentenced to Sokoto Prison with American Law that doesn’t exist anywhere in Nigeria while people that did all the above mentioned are arrested, rehabilitated and reintegrated into the society.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Now that Elon Musk is officially a trillionaire, people have predictably begun punching calculators and writing incredibly naive think pieces to estimate the exact fraction of his hoarded wealth needed to magically end global hunger and solve the desperately growing refugee crisis across the globe.

This is a mistake because no amount of money can ever end global hunger. This is strictly because global hunger is not a natural phenomenon or an accident of geography. It is purely artificial, systematically manufactured, violently enforced, and perfectly designed to serve the greedy, insatiable interests of the global capitalist network.

It is terrifyingly estimated that more than 10 million people are at risk of brutal starvation in Sudan, but absolutely nobody calculates how many unmarked helicopters are flown in daily to drop advanced weapons, supply rebel factions, fund proxy wars, and smuggle out precious minerals from Sudan. Nobody estimates the sheer number of illegal, heavily armed mining cartels deep in the Sudanese forests digging out their gold, uranium, lithium, and rare earth minerals just to sustain the glittering global tech empires. Nobody ever talks about how their supposedly sovereign leaders are carefully selected, heavily funded, forcefully installed, and militarily protected by ruthless Western powers.

Northern Nigeria has some of the most fertile, arable, and naturally blessed lands in the entire world, yet a disproportionate, staggering majority of the population is currently suffocating in multidimensional poverty. These people are absolutely not lazy. They proudly built towering groundnut pyramids, dominated the global cotton market, exported premium skins, sustained massive trans-Saharan trade routes, and fed the entire region long before the parasitic colonizers ever set foot on the pristine shores of Africa. No amount of Western charity aid will ever solve the current hunger crisis in Nigeria because it is artificially, deliberately manufactured to violently sack the indigenous population from their ancestral soil, steal their resources, and extract their raw wealth to power the glittering nuclear reactors, electric grids, defense systems, and luxury economies in Europe. It is the exact same playbook in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Congolese child is now completely covered in toxic cobalt dust, beaten with rifles, and forced into modern chattel slavery just so that the global tech empires can have cheap, uninterrupted access to the critical minerals required to build their ultra-modern microchips, electric batteries, defense drones, and sleek smartphones.

Now, this brutal analysis is only for a few select states in Africa. We can obviously, easily extend it to the entire Global South to further demonstrate that this so-called global hunger is a heavily weaponized tool, deliberately manufactured and sustained simply to pacify the psychotic greed of the global capitalists. As for the well-meaning, emotionally driven individuals who are blindly donating their hard-earned money in good conscience to these massive international organizations and flashy NGOs who are supposedly fighting to eradicate hunger: thank you for your charitable donations, but please urgently understand that these bloated organizations are absolutely not fighting hunger. In many horrific cases, they directly help smuggle the bullets, provide diplomatic cover, launder the conflict blood money, and deliver the guns to the exact same ruthless rebel groups that violently forced these innocent people off their fertile lands such as in Zaire in 1994 where humanitarian agencies actively fed, shielded, and effectively rearmed genocidal Hutu militias. In Haiti in 2010, these exact same international organizations and supposed UN peacekeepers recklessly poisoned the main rivers with untreated sewage water and directly caused a horrific cholera outbreak that resulted in the agonizing death of over 10,000 Haitians.
Look at the Central African Republic in 2014, where supposed international peacekeepers and foreign aid workers were violently implicated in the mass sexual abuse of starving, desperate children. Another painful example is the state of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021, where billions in Western humanitarian aid were shamelessly funneled directly into the deep pockets of corrupt regional warlords and terrorist proxies. All of these broken nations are direct, undeniable victims of this predatory, disaster-capitalism NGO complex.

So it is crucially important to loudly emphasize that these people cannot feed themselves not because they are inherently lazy, intellectually inferior, financially illiterate, or geographically cursed, but strictly because the violent economic conditions that have been artificially created, structurally engineered, and brutally enforced upon them make it mathematically impossible for anyone to truly function, thrive, or even survive. It is the exact same tragic story with other African nations. They can easily govern themselves, build state-of-the-art facilities, construct bullet trains, and fund massive social welfare programs, but the suffocating, neocolonial government systems violently imposed on them make it completely impossible for anyone to genuinely, independently govern a sovereign nation. Instead of wasting time doing useless mathematics to estimate the tiny fraction of a billionaire's hoarded wealth that would supposedly end global hunger, channel that fierce, righteous energy into genuinely fighting against global imperialism, neocolonialism, and Western financial terrorism. That money you are emotionally donating to the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and other bloated Western NGOs is absolutely never going into the pockets of the actual victims of these engineered disasters. It always ends up in the deep pockets of the globalists, who eventually use it to fund their massive administrative overheads, pay their expatriate salaries, and manufacture even more lucrative regional disasters. So instead, find a genuine, grassroots anti-imperialist movement, donate directly to them, and aggressively empower the oppressed people to physically kick out the imperialists, overthrow the comprador elites, and regain absolute control of their stolen farmlands, their gold mines, and their oil fields. This is exactly what will actually help those people, this is exactly what China ruthlessly did to secure its dignity, and this is the absolute only permanent solution.