onyeugbo magnus

COOL DUDE WITH THE INTENTION OF LEAVING A BIG FOOTPRINT ON THE SAND OF TIME

[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

Is something wrong with the beans we openly buy in Nigerian markets?

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[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

Chelsea are never favourites in anything for me these days

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Chelsea are favourites against Man City today. City have plenty work to do getting themselves motivated, not to mention the physical demands of playing just 3 days after the gruelling encounter with the intending Champions of Europe.

[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

And yet development in the north is still a big challenge

[Reno Omokri @renoomokri]

One major challenge with Southern Nigerians is what Yorubas call Ogboju. This literally means 'open eye'. The deeper meaning is having too much street sense and being too worldly-wise. It creates a false sense of intelligence and wisdom, which is actually cynicism, but which makes those afflicted with it have a very inflated ego and sense of self-importance. You hardly see this with Northerners.

Sometimes, it is hard to believe that Northern Nigerians come from the same country as their Southern counterparts. The attitudinal difference is so stark.

A typical Southerner is almost unimaginably brash and cocky. He may have little education and could meet a professor in Aeronautical Engineering. And when that professor gives him some pointers about the dynamics of rocket science, that Southerner can say, 'My friend, you don't know what you are talking about. Listen to me'. Or our favourite Southern put-down, 'Rest!'

We have such a spectacular inability to recognise our boundaries. We can lecture our lecturers if given the chance.

Other than the Yoruba, humility is seen as a bad trait. You can meet one Southern girl whose father is a palm wine tapper in her village, and she tells you that she does not have time to date poor men!

I have seen five-year-old Southern Nigerians with more ego than me, an adult. I remember when I first brought my children on a visit to Nigeria, one little boy told my son, 'I have Ben 10 more than you'. He was five. My son had no clue how to even respond because that type of culture is alien to him.

We need a mindset reset in Southern Nigeria. When former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, “All the young people I know – ie those under 30 – are just as avaricious as we flinty Thatcherite yuppies of the 1980s in fact, they have an almost Nigerian interest in money and gadgets of all kinds.", he was referring to Southern Nigerians.

In Southern Nigeria, if you are not 'sharp' and know how to 'shine your eye well well', you are a 'mumu' or 'mugu'. And we can boast! Ha!

Maybe you are having an innocent conversation with someone, and you say something like, 'Can we chat later? I am a bit jet-lagged. I just returned from America, and the time difference is taking its toll.'

Innocent statement. No hidden agenda. A typical Northerner would be empathetic. But my Southern brothers may respond with something like, 'Is it America I have not been to? I've been to America ten times. No just think say you get levels pass me'. Everything is a competition to us. If our neighbour buys a Mercedes, he bought it to spite us. And we must go to church to pray for our own. Prayer that we don't mind helping God to answer by doing some Yahoo Yahoo!

Maybe you are graduating, and your neighbour is happy for you and says something like, 'Oh, you are graduating? How nice', we respond, either verbally or in our hearts, with, 'You think say na only you fit graduate?' As I said earlier, our entire lives are a competition. Nothing bad ever happens to us by chance. It is a spiritual attack from our enemies or village people. How can we ever relax when we have so many haters who want to succeed more than us?

And when you see Nigerians discussing, you can tell who is a Northerner and Yan Kudu.

The Northerner is restrained and reserved in his discussion. But the Southerner is so aggressive that you may think he is fighting rather than conversing. Ordinary discussion about the weather is carried out with such unnecessary gusto and vehemence.

Even in churches, how we say 'amen' to prayers is so militant. We say amen as if our voice will make the walls of Jericho fall.

Honestly, I am so glad that I spent some of my formative years in Northern Nigeria and the United States. If I had just been in Southern Nigeria all my formative years, I am not sure I would have had the type of self-love I now have.

[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

@vanguardngrnews Does he even have an album yet?

[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

@renoomokri But you've got that covered😁

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@JumiaNigeria I can't make payments or purchases on your platform. What's going on or is it just me?

[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

@JumiaNigeria how can one make payments and purchases on your platform cos I've not been able to do neither for a pretty while now?

[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

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@JumiaNigeria I can't seem to be able to log in on the jumia pay app. I get redirected away from the app to my browser

[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

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[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

Can this not be disabled?

[Mobility Daddy @mobilitydaddy]

I’m not sure what informed implementing system-wide Chat Bubble in Android 11, but I find it annoying. Android notifications are adequate. Why add this layer?

[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

Are they going to toll it?

[Mobility Daddy @mobilitydaddy]

Went for a spin on the new Agege Pen Cinema bridge. Beautifully done. Well thought out from all ends.

Ogba-Dopemu-Iyana-Ipaja and Ogba-Abule-Egba linkups now dreamy. #AgegePenCinemaBridge

[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

@baba_Omoloro Tried this and I just got recharged by bank to the tune of ₦911 from my account

[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

It would seem that Goat meat comes from yonder too or not

[Malachy Odo II @MalachyOdo1]

Goat meat,
Fish,
Chicken,
Snail,
Egg,
Turkey
Pork
Etc

Who needs Cow/ red meat when there are better options?

[onyeugbo magnus @deboymaggi]

Scary. Really scary

[Malachy Odo II @MalachyOdo1]

Truth is, every bandit or criminal in Chad, Niger, Mali etc worth his salt knows that Nigeria presently is the destination- a haven for bandits.

They'll keep pouring in until we have a President who's alive- to his responsibilities.