D'VOYAGER

Offshore

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

I use to think this way until i realise u will continue to build ur career but ur peaks years for finding true love is ur 20s. The more u grow ur career, the more difficult it is to find love. U will suffer both lack of time nd trust

[DRE ⚡️ @DRESPITFACTS]

bro i’m in my 20s. i’m not stressing about a relationship. u wanna kick it? cool. u wanna go on dates? cool. u wanna get to know each other? cool. We fall out ,cool. my energy & time is focused on building the life & future i want. i got my whole life to love someone. i’m busy rn

[Pat Utomi @UtomiPat]

Warm shout out to ADC for becoming the platform to construct a new political party that can show the way away from this present darkness. The key must not be just to replace incumbents. It must be about sacrificial service to redeem Nigeria and restore hope to our children

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Earlier this month, my dear sister @AishaYesufu called to give me the disturbing information that there were no computers, functional laboratories, or electricity in the Secondary School in Chibok, the same school where over 200 girls were sadly kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014, with 70 still unaccounted for.

With a population of over 2,500, the school had only one desktop computer. Aisha Yesufu respectfully requested that I buy an additional two and help install solar lighting, even if it was only for the computer classroom.

While I was trying to contact His Excellency, my brother Governor Zulum, to enable me to visit the school, I was advised against doing so due to security concerns.

Aisha Yesufu accordingly arranged a meeting between me and the Chibok community leaders in Abuja, where I presented them with 10 laptops and 3 printers as a start. I also donated the sum of ₦2 million each towards providing some items for the lab, the computer classroom, and a handheld motorised borehole, totalling ₦6 million.

I promised to do more and made it clear to them that what I was doing was not a donation, but a sincere commitment and a promise to the future of our community.

However, occasions like this are deeply disturbing and cause me to reflect and personally question our priorities and the rising costs of misgovernance.

One wonders why we live in a nation where our students don’t have labs, books, or even pencils, while our leaders live in opulence, spending billions to renovate conference centres, build car parks, and furnish new lodges of international standards.

I continue to plead on behalf of all of us that the time has come for self-examination. We must prioritise critical areas of development, education, healthcare, and pulling our people out of poverty. -PO

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

Julio cesar so poor on the night. No decent attempt on all 3 efforts

[Former Footballers @FinishedPlayers]

Gareth Bale’s iconic Spurs hat-trick at the San Siro🔥

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I have a good news. A very good news. You remember Chizoba Ejiofor who graduated as UNN overall best graduating student with CGPA of 4.98, that UNN refused to fulfill the N50k price promised to him?

I took him up as a full responsibility. We started working tirelessly together since last year to secure a fully funded scholarship, and today we have the good news.

This is fully funded scholarship from commonwealth. Over 33 thousand pounds in scholarship, flight tickets and monthly stipends inclusive.

No one can describe how happy and fulfilled I am today.

[Former Footballers @FinishedPlayers]

Dimitar Berbatov made football look easy

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

The way the dip on the kick fooled the goalkeeper. A real free kick god

[90s Footballers @90sPlayers]

The greatest freekick taker of all time 🐐

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

This is pure filth. A contender for tweet of the year

[︎ًLevi @WittyLevi]

It’s pure hate
I just can’t leave before certain people.

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

This is the reason i dont regard the so called typical Nigerian 'big men/business moguls' across all sectors. NOTHING ELITE abt being a mogul amidst abundant multidimensional poverty. Esp if u av to bend the knee to half educated/illeterate/criminal politicians

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The key identifier of an "elite" class is not merely their bank account balance but their ability and willingness to use their economic and political heft to shape the society around them.

That's why a hereditary landowner and member of the UK House of Lords is considered an elite, while your average Premier League footballer (who may have more money than the HoL member) is not. The difference is in the willingness and ability to wield that power meaningfully.

The reason I keep on saying 'Nigeria has no elites' is that I was born and raised among the subset of Nigerians who erroneously consider themselves to be elite, and I am very familiar with their thought process. It is the exact same thought process that you would get from a sugarcane seller in Mile 12 market if overnight he was given a house in Maitama, a Lexus SUV, a beautiful yarinya and N150m in the bank.

The nouveau-riche sugarcane seller would not be concerned with higher thoughts like how to use his newfound fortune to transform the economic reality of Mile 12 market while positioning to benefit from the transformation. Nope. He would only be concerned with ensuring that he keeps hold of what he has, so that he never has to sleep in a wheelbarrow on a side street off Ikosi Road again.

That's exactly what the privileged Nigerian is upstairs - a sugarcane seller who happens to live in Ikoyi. No matter how many decades they have spent in Ikoyi, their reality is still defined by the desperate quest to escape or avoid poverty. Every Nigerian millionaire or billionaire that you know feels financially insecure. Doesn't matter whether they are worth $1m or $25bn - they are all viscerally terrified of sinking into poverty, and the sum of their decision making is a series of short term deals and compromises to avoid poverty, without any kind of higher, long-term guiding principle.

I know this especially well because I was raised in a house where everybody who is somebody in Lagos stopped by once in a while to work on a real estate deal with my old man, and I would regularly overhear everybody from bank CEOs to retired military generals and air vice marshalls saying things "Our leaders are [insert whiny complaint]." And I would wonder - who are the "leaders" that these extremely privileged people sound so oppressed and intimidated by? Is it not their friends and coursemates from Jaji?

Later on it made sense when I realised that once you are in power in Nigeria, you become God, and even your family changes its rules for you. I've seen families override their olori-ebi because one 50 year-old uncle became somebody in Abuja. Conversely, as soon as you leave power in Nigeria, you sink into total irrelevance and people treat you like your body has a smell. The entire Nigerian sense of value and self-worth is welded to money and power. Once you don't have these 2 things, you might as well be wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak - even your family and contemporaries stop treating you with respect.

The effect this has on elite formation is that unlike in other societies where elites gravitate toward different ideas shared by different camps, and then fight for the right to imprint those ideas on their society (Democrat vs Republican; Maoist vs Dengist; Tory vs Labour etc), privileged Nigerians ONLY gravitate toward one thing - economic power. They have no elite sense of identity outside of money in the bank, a 4-wheeled status signaller on the road, and an overpriced house in a neighbourhood that has a constant bad odour and potholes.

That is also why Nigeria's political actors do this thing called "decamping" where they switch affiliation to whatever political party is in power. Their entire conception of the world is built around access to the levers of economic power so that they can avoid ending up in a wheelbarrow in Mile 12 market.

That's literally all there is to Nigeria.

200 million sugarcane sellers.

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

@And_z_great @the49thstreet Nicki minaj has no grammies but is still way above Cardi b nd d stallion in impact in Hip hop. Omah has a unique style that has produced multiple sucessful projects both in popularity n critical acclaim. Above Tems

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

Absolutely spot on. You dont even know if u scale his preference target, so expectations must be the bare minimum unless u think u are 'the prize' wic is mostly not the case

[Ms Iloka Pedro💙 @Miss_Iloka]

I know you guys will swallow me, but he doesn’t owe you that and you shouldn’t expect it.

Remember in a “talking stage” there isnt any real commitment, so there shouldn’t be any expectations 🙃. This is my own opinion.

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

A very hard pill to swallow

[alfie @alfienxo]

fuck a breakup have you ever realised one of your friends was kind of a terrible person?

[💎💎 @browndinho10]

Dennis Bergkamp is literally one of the greatest players ever and we barely mention him

[Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch @FrUgochukwu]

A priest, Fr Peter Banda and his parishioners.

May God continue to bless all the missionaries 🙏🏿

[𝓡.𝓞 ✨ @damolaatoke]

I got a rejection mail this morning, but I didn’t feel bad at all. The person was kind enough to highlight my weaknesses, share tips on how to improve, and even recommend another program in their company. God bless her❤️

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

Debo Maccaroni is ONLY 32yrs old. The 32yrs this man has lived dwarfs that of some so called 'National icons and leaders' in their 60s,70s,80s nd even 90s. I salute you.

[Mr Macaroni @mrmacaroni]

And yes to the APC Rascals asking;
Invitations choke on different levels!!! Local ooo, State ooo, Federal ooo…
The list long!
Invitations you people are slaving for!!!
But I promise, you will continue to cry, weep and gnash your teeth because all will be continuously rejected!!!

THERE SHALL BE NO COMPROMISE!

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

He was so great it was unreal to witness. So great pep moved him to the midfield nd he did it effortlessly. The GOAT fullback

[Dheller91 @dheller91]

@LamineRole Lahm? Over 750 appearances, not a single red card. Captain of World Cup win and treble for Bayern.

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

No lies told

[ARISE NEWS @ARISEtv]

Labour Party Crisis Instigated and Sustained By the APC - Obi

We now live in a country of propaganda and lies, where a party Chairman refers to a governor in his party as a dwarf, with dwarf ideas. The allegations that I cannot be a good leader for Nigeria because of the crisis in the Labour Party fall flat. I have run successful businesses, been a governor and have shown no weakness. Humility, patience and tolerance are not weaknesses but virtues

Peter Obi, 2023 Labour Party Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

No lies told

[ARISE NEWS @ARISEtv]

Labour Party Crisis Instigated and Sustained By the APC - Obi

We now live in a country of propaganda and lies, where a party Chairman refers to a governor in his party as a dwarf, with dwarf ideas. The allegations that I cannot be a good leader for Nigeria because of the crisis in the Labour Party fall flat. I have run successful businesses, been a governor and have shown no weakness. Humility, patience and tolerance are not weaknesses but virtues

Peter Obi, 2023 Labour Party Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party

[D'VOYAGER @daveeze46]

Agreed

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Minimum qualification to be a teacher in Nigeria should be masters degree, also a minimum of 2:1 in first degree.

Their starting salary should be N300k in today’s naira with a brand new car paid by the teacher over the years.

Bi-Annual license renewal with continuous training and certification exams should be mandatory.

The best should train the coming generations!

[Kiraaa @Rosaria__lxm]

And don’t forget to be a kind partner too