David Owoade

A love being.
Strategist and Administrator.

[🎙OLUOMO OF DERBY 🇳🇬 🇬🇧🇬🇭 🇿🇼 @Oluomoofderby]

The pull-down mentality in the Nigerian community in the UK is honestly getting out of hand.

It’s tiring seeing people try to tear others down the moment they start building something or gaining visibility. Instead of support, it becomes criticism, dragging, and unnecessary negativity.

Everyone’s journey is different. Everyone’s grace is different. What works for one person won’t look the same for another and that’s okay.

What’s even more disappointing is that the same people you hope to collaborate with and grow alongside are sometimes the same ones waiting for you to slip, just so they can show their true colours.

We can’t keep doing this to one another.

If we really want to grow as a community, we need to start supporting, uplifting, and celebrating each other instead of competing through jealousy and envy.

There’s space for all of us to win.

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

Hold up, you mean you all sat in the vehicle when you saw the tow truck, kept sitting till it was hooked up and got towed with a driverless vehicle?

[Favourite XO🦋💜 @XoTolu]

we had already paid, and towed the bus to their office with all of us still inside. We were delayed for hours. It is now 10:34 a.m. and they have only just released us. I'm extremely late for work, and I honestly don't know what my fate will be.

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

@SimisolaTomori Congratulations 🎉

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

[Farewell and Adieu @QSharkowski]

@it_unprofession Here you go, kid. Let me know if you need anything.

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

A bit unrelated but this reminded me of a particular driver. Ife to Ibadan. Golf Passat. It was raining cats and dogs. 10min in, got to a bump, car tripped off. Looked like he was using his hands to look for the pedals. Man faced me, egbon, she mo manual wa. He was stoned.

[Cross˚ @Elkrosmediahub]

I remember an incidence that happened some years back. Might be a bit long, so just scroll past if you don’t have time for one of my numerous nonsense experiences in life.

So I landed at MM2 a tad late. Say past 11pm ,and booked a car hailing service (name withdrawn) to head to my house then at Ago palace way. Driver arrived and we got the trip started. Just after we passed Sam Ethnan airforce gate, I noticed a sudden but unnecessary swerve, so I stopped punching the keypads on my phone to observe further.

We got to the roundabout before the toll gate, and he almost missed it, so I knew driver was dozing off, and I asked him to park on the sides. Pleaded with him to allow me drive while he took a power nap to help him clear up, and he agreed.

This was after he’d told me how he was hustling to meet up funds to send to his second daughter that was in school and needed some text books. Man said he hadn’t slept a wink in over 48hrs bruh.

He slept all through the journey. We got to my compound, and I asked if he’d eaten. He said he had fufu and Egusi for breakfast, and that usually carried him the whole day. I got us some suya and can beers.
I wanted to still be sure he wasn’t lying, so I asked him to show me the list of books his daughter sent him that she needed. She was supposedly studying anatomy, and for someone that did medicine for a few years, the books were clearly lies mehn. Just made up names to take money from a hustling father.

I mean, some of us did all of that, but at least our dads didn’t have to sleep on the wheels for the coins.

Of course I didn’t tell the man. That would have broken him. I just added 20k to his charge and transferred to him (don’t judge, that was what I could spare at the time).

He was grateful and asked if he could sleep till break of dawn in his car, as he didn’t even want to come in.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[BigLauren @biglauren_k]

Dear Nigeria Immigration Service,

I sat for the recruitment examination and scored 92.5/100.

The publicly stated benchmark was 91/100.

Yet when I checked my status, I was told my application was unsuccessful.

Can someone explain how this process works?

@BTOofficial
@NigeriaGov
@MinOfInteriorNG

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

@Confydens6 Hi, @Confydens6 what's your rate card.

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

Imagine 40 local leaders getting £500,000 each in two years just for vehicle allowance in the same country where workers don't even earn £50 monthly.

This means each one of them could get £1,000,000 in a 4year tenure... just to ride vehicles.

Wild is an understatement.

[/OLG_Caleb🌿 @olg_caleb]

@Mochievous These 40 "Honourable Members", their respective family members and all those involved in this black magic inflation will spend money in ways you can't even imagine.

The "various" part is Wild, 185 fcking billion unspecified for anything.

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

@TechnicalBben Yeah, I get your point. Idolo probably realized he'll make bank faster selling courses than the hard job of coaching. I once knew some boys who trained people for 3weeks FOC for an MSP gig but eventually lost the gig to India. Agency is not for the faint hearted.

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

This may be true in a sense but not entirely true. Naira lost a massive portion of its value over the last couple of years. DSTV pays for streaming rights in $$$. Trying to match the dollar equivalent of what they charged 3years ago is bound to cause a price increase in naira.

[Slim @onu_slim]

The Fall of DSTV

DSTV raised its subscription prices three times in two years.

Then it lost 1.4 million Nigerian subscribers in those same two years.

Then it slashed its decoder price by 50% to beg those subscribers to come back.

Some people will call it business strategy but this is a company eating itself alive and wondering why it is hungry.

The numbers are brutal.

MultiChoice lost 2.8 million active subscribers across Africa over two financial years. 1.2 million in 2025 alone. An 8% year on year decline. 

Nigeria accounted for 77% of subscriber losses across all of MultiChoice’s African operations outside South Africa. The Rest of Africa base collapsed from 9.3 million in 2023 to 7.5 million in 2025. 

Nigeria did not just leave DSTV, they buried it and the content is leaving with the subscribers.

BET Africa and MTV Base shut down January 2026. CBS Reality and CBS Justice went December 2025. CNN International, Discovery Channel, Cartoon Network, TNT Africa, Food Network and several others were all at risk of removal. 

A platform charging premium prices while removing the channels people subscribed for is not a product anymore but a subscription to disappointment.

DSTV built its Nigerian dominance on a monopoly with no serious competition for decades. So it did what every monopoly does when it feels untouchable. It raised prices whenever it wanted, reduced value whenever it could, and treated Nigerian subscribers like they had no alternative.

Then Netflix arrived. Then YouTube got faster. Then data became more accessible. Then the naira collapsed and Nigerians had to choose between DSTV and eating.

Omo we chose eating.

MultiChoice responded by cutting decoder prices from N20,000 to N10,000 and launching a promotional campaign called “We Got You”.

“We Got You” from the same company that raised your subscription three times in 24 months, removed your favourite channels, and treated your complaints like background noise.

They did not get you, they lost you and now they are running after you with a discount like an ex who only calls when they realise you moved on.

DSTV is not falling because of Netflix or the economy.

It is falling because it spent twenty years treating Nigerian consumers with contempt and assumed loyalty was the same thing as having no choice.

Nigerians finally got a choice but not MultiChoice

[BusinessDayNG @BusinessDayNg]

For years, British couples seeking children through surrogacy looked to established international destinations such as the United States, Ukraine, and Georgia. Today, a growing number are looking much further south.

Nigeria, better known globally for its large diaspora, technology startups and entertainment industry, is quietly emerging as one of the fastest-growing destinations for British parents pursuing surrogacy arrangements abroad...

Read more: https://t.co/d5qUn9pbvP

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

@Uber what is the point of paying a premium for Uber one if you would still charge me extra to get a faster vehicle to me? Why do I have to choose between a car 10km away or pay an additional surcharge to get a closer car?? What exactly is the point of Uber one???

[Quincy 🥷🏽🏆 @afcquincy]

Knew the officiating was bad but I didn’t know it was this bad yesterday

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

A decision was reached during that 15minutes and the ref came out to enact it.

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

Not surprising though. He's got tens of millions of active users on his platforms at any given time. Musk showed what's possible with X subscriptions; it'll be unwise not to follow suite, that would be leaving billions on the table. Anyways, it's a perfect window for competitors.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Meta launches paid subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.

[David Owoade @daveowoade]

We saw the terrible news of the kidnapped school children; truth is such things rarely happens without collaborators. Won't be surprised to find out that some locals have been aiding them, providing food, supplies & information. Some ppl have no line they won't cross for money.

[Oyo Affairs @Oyoaffairs]

UCH staff in Ibadan allegedly caught by the hospital's CSO while diverting diesel meant for critical units. 🥲🥲🥲

[ESPN UK @ESPNUK]

If you like, give up.

[SK the Plug 🔌 🇬🇧🇬🇧 @DHKRULLAH]

🚨 BREAKING: International students in the UK… you might be getting money back 😮‍💨

House of Lords confirms UKVI overcharged visa fees. £127 or £161 refunds possible.

This applies to current & former students who’ve already graduated or left the UK. You have up to 5 years to claim.

Tag every international student you know
#UKVisaRefund