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Navigating. Abiding by the Dào Dé Jing and living according to wúwéi

[DonAza @DonAzag]

NDC deregistered?

Nobody is disturbing labour party again. None is disturbing AAC. Nobody is disturbing APM. Notice how the heat has suddenly moved to NDC?

The establishment is ignoring the rest because Peter Obi remains the singular threat they dread. The ghost of 2023 still haunts them. They know the true weight of the numbers and how dangerously close they came to the edge. Even forcing them to pull off unprecedented legal gymnastics just to get the courts to overlook the FCT 25% requirement.

It was a logistical and public relations nightmare. They are fully aware that despite commanding state power, vast resources, and a coalition of over 32 governors, Obi retains the exact same explosive potential to disrupt their plans. Only INEC and them know what the numbers they saw in 2023 - the fear is unusual.

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

In this open letter, I listed 500 reasons why Tinubu should resign in this open letter. Let’s see if we can get 1000 signatures. Sign and share.

https://t.co/aQtqgVDgMS

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Fellow Nigerians, good morning.

I woke up this morning after my church service with a deeply reflective heart, and despite every constraint, I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you.

Many people do not truly understand the silent pains some of us carry daily—the private struggles, emotional burdens, and quiet battles we face while trying to survive and serve sincerely in difficult circumstances.

We now live in an environment that has become increasingly toxic, where the very system that should protect and create opportunities for decent living often works against the people—a society where intimidation, insecurity, endless scrutiny, and discouragement have become normal.

More painful is when some of those you associate with, believing you would find understanding and solidarity among them, become part of the pressure you face. Some who publicly identify with you privately distance themselves or join in unfair criticism.

We live in a society where humility is mistaken for weakness, respect is seen as a lack of courage, and compassion is treated as foolishness—a system where treating people equally is questioned simply because you refuse to worship status, tribe, class, or power.

Personally, I have never looked down on anyone except to uplift them. I have never used privilege, position, or resources to oppress others, intimidate the weak, or make people feel small. To me, leadership has always been about service, sacrifice, and helping others rise.

Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them.

However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.

Even within spaces where one labours sincerely, one is sometimes treated like an outsider in one’s own home. You and your team become easy targets for every failure, frustration, or misunderstanding, as though honest contribution has become a favour being tolerated rather than appreciated.

And when you choose to leave so that those you are leaving can have peace, and you step out into the cold, you are still maligned and your character is questioned. Despite all your efforts to continue working for a better Nigeria and engaging people with sincerity and goodwill, those who do not wish you well continue to attack your character and question your intentions.

There are moments I ask God in prayer: Why is doing the right thing often misconstrued as wrongdoing in our country? Why is integrity not valued? Why is the prudent management of resources, especially when invested in critical areas like education and healthcare, wrongly labelled as stinginess? Why are humility and obedience to the rule of law often taken to be weakness rather than discipline?

Let me assure all that I am not desperate to be President, Vice President, or Senate President. I am desperate to see a society that can console a mother whose child has been kidnapped or killed while going to school or work. I am desperate to see a Nigeria where people will not live in IDP camps but in their homes. I am desperate for a country where Nigerian citizens do not go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from.

Yet, despite everything, I remain resolute. I firmly believe that Nigeria can still become a country with competent leadership based on justice, compassion, and equal opportunity for all.

A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Big Unc Zu' @eeezu_]

@dodoo_darling 😂😂 from your profile picture!

[Joseph Carlson @joecarlsonshow]

Maturing is not wanting to tax other people more simply because they exist in a different tax bracket than you.

It's wanting to keep a consistent and logical approach to taxes, even when it doesn't benefit you personally to do so.

I'm not a billionaire, I will never be one. But confiscating percentages of their wealth, just because they're at that level, is simply bad policy, and a scary one. Once you go down the path of being able to seize people's assets, just because they have them, there's no telling where that leads.

[Joseph Carlson @joecarlsonshow]

It's absolutely crazy that Google went from the company that was in so much trouble, legendary tech investors like Coatue didn't even include it on their "Fantastic 40" list of AI leaders. Just months ago it was being compared to eBay.

Now Google is single-handedly pressuring Nvidia into a media tour defending their GPU's against Google's TPUs and forcing Sam Altman to put out company-wide 'Code Red' alerts about the threat of Gemini to ChatGpt.

This is the biggest turnaround story of sentiment in 2025, by far. And the entire time this happened, Google always put up great numbers, every single quarter.

[Izuchi Emegano @HurricaneZu]

A quick one, designed this waitlist page for a concept tourism media firm, ExploreLagos. The waitlist webpage incorporates the Lagos skyline illustration/animation.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father and gets into heaven except through Christ alone.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Everyone is missing the real story here.

Google just passed Microsoft for the first time since the OpenAI partnership launched, and the market is finally repricing what actually matters in AI infrastructure.

Microsoft went all-in on external dependencies. They pay OpenAI for model access, buy NVIDIA GPUs for compute, and integrate everything into Office. That stack has three points of failure and zero margin control.

Google owns the entire chain. Gemini models trained in-house. TPUs designed and manufactured for their exact workload. Both optimized together from silicon to inference. When you control the full stack, you optimize for total cost per token, not per-component pricing.

The math shows up in deployment speed. Microsoft announced Copilot features in November 2023. Google shipped comparable Workspace AI six months later but at half the inference cost because TPUs run their models 40% more efficiently than equivalent GPU clusters.

This is the first major signal that vertical integration wins the infrastructure war. NVIDIA sells shovels to everyone. Google builds the shovels AND mines the gold. Microsoft rents both.

The $13B gap sounds small until you realize Google crossed Microsoft going up while Microsoft’s trajectory flattened. That crossing point is when the market stops pricing hype and starts pricing margin structure.

The moment enterprises start buying AI at scale, the company that controls silicon to model economics wins every deal on total cost of ownership.

That’s not Microsoft.

[Joseph Carlson @joecarlsonshow]

Hey it's me. I'm from a few years in the future.

People are now talking about how they wish they had purchased more Google below $300.

I came back in time to tell you.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Unpopular communication advice:

The best way for women in tech to be taken seriously is to talk more about tech, talk less about being women

You don’t see Gwynne Shotwell navel-gazing about being in a male dominated field. When she talks, it’s about space

Emilie Choi is one of the most admired and respected executives in tech. I’ve heard multiple CEOs say “I need an Emilie.” Don’t ever remember hearing Emilie dwell on being a female minority. When she talks, it’s about crypto (or the Philadelphia Eagles)

[Fľøkï @Dee_Floki]

Living below your means. Not poverty. Strategic simplicity. Small house, big bank account. Regular car, new investments. Simple pleasures, complex assets.
The gap between what you make and what you spend is your freedom. Lifestyle inflation is voluntary slavery.

[LiveScore @livescore]

Man United are UNBEATEN since Senne Lammens made his debut 🧤

He's conceded 1.3 goals LESS than his total expected goals on target faced 👏

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

You are a star

[Izuchi Emegano @HurricaneZu]

The objects created were organized to create this scene.

[Izuchi Emegano @HurricaneZu]

Inspired by @danieladeeri, I decided to explore motion design after creating illustrations from a couple of images. Here is the final version.

Made in Figma.
P.S: Turn on the sound to experience a bit of Lagos.

[Izuchi Emegano @HurricaneZu]

I read your case study and switched up the scenery, added the danfsss😌. Still WIP 🚧👷🏾‍♂️, but what do you think about it? @danieladeeri

[DonAza @DonAzag]

Dear @fkeyamo,

I read through your piece here: https://t.co/CYNNJYxNUl to @realDonaldTrump. You said your appointment as a Christian minister proves there is no persecution. But when bandits and Fulani militias attack villages in Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, or Southern Kaduna, do they stop to ask if the Minister of Aviation is a Christian? Do they check the president’s cabinet list before burning homes and killing farmers? The dead do not care who was appointed. Political appointments cannot replace justice for those who have been slaughtered.

Donald Trump did not accuse President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of killing Christians. There is nowhere in Trump’s statement where he made such a claim. He only said that Christians are being killed in Nigeria and called on the government to go after the killers. That is the same thing Nigerians have been crying about for years.

If Trump is saying the same thing that citizens, pastors, and victims have been shouting for years, why respond with a long political essay instead of a plan of action? Why not tell the world plainly that Nigeria has a problem and needs help to go after the killers (both Fulani militias and terrorist groups) killing people of all faiths? Why pretend that because the president’s wife is a pastor and his children are Christians, the country has no crisis? This is not a family issue. This is a national tragedy.

You wrote that President Tinubu is a moderate Muslim who prays with pastors. That is fine, but being a moderate does not make the killings disappear. Quoting the president’s family’s faith to defend state inaction is meaningless. Nigeria needs leadership, not family testimony.

This is not PDP versus APC. This is not about who supports or opposes the president. This is about human lives. It is about farmers murdered on their land, children burned in their homes, and families forced to flee to IDP camps.

Look at Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, and Southern Kaduna. Every week brings a new attack. In Yelwata, Benue, over two hundred Christians were killed. Bokkos and Barkin Ladi have become mass graveyards. If there is no Christian genocide, what was Governor Ortom crying about in Benue? What did President Tinubu go to Benue for after the Yelwata massacre? If there are no killings, why are Christian communities living like refugees in their own country?

You completely denied the massacre of Christians. WOW! The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and Amnesty International both report that Christian farming communities in the Middle Belt face repeated and organized attacks. These are not random crimes but a clear pattern of targeted violence. A UK Parliament report recorded over 12,700 Christians killed and 7,900 abducted between 2019 and 2022. Recent reports by Reuters and The Guardian show that in 2025 alone, more than tens of Christians were massacred in Yelwata, Benue, while dozens were killed in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi. Human Rights Watch confirms that such killings are coordinated and often ignored. The evidence is overwhelming: Christians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are being disproportionately targeted, and the violence is systematic, not equal.

The truth is that there has been no political will to stop them. Each time Nigerians cry out, government officials treat it as an attack on the government rather than a cry for help. Every report, every video, every outcry is dismissed as propaganda. That is why nothing changes. The killers move freely because those in power prefer silence to truth. When the world begins to notice, the government rushes to deny instead of act.

You, of all people, should remember that when the APC was in opposition, it ran to Washington to tell the Obama administration the same genocide in the North under Goodluck Jonathan. Even Bola Tinubu once tweeted about it. Back then, you called it genocide. So what changed? Did the killings stop because you came to power? Or is it only called genocide when another party is in charge?

If your goal was honesty, your letter to Trump would have been short and sincere. You could have simply said that there are terrorist attacks affecting both Christians and Muslims and that Nigeria needs help, intelligence, and technology to go after the killers. That would have shown leadership, not weakness. That would have shown truth, not propaganda.

Nobody said Tinubu is killing Christians. The point is that he must do more to stop those who are. Because if the killings continue and the government keeps denying them, history will not remember who was president. It will remember who stayed silent.

Nigeria does not need denial. Nigeria needs truth, accountability, and courage. Every time you deny the pain of your people, you give strength to those who kill them. And when that happens, the blood no longer cries only from the ground. It cries against those who refused to act.

This is not about politics, Mr. Keyamo. This is about truth. And no government can win peace by denying pain.

[Izuchi Emegano @HurricaneZu]

First time putting my work out to see if I die of anxiety and public criticism... If I don't, oh well, I'll keep posting!

I came across a nice brand @GennyRay_ on Instagram and decided to create a website for them. Still WIP 🚧👷🏾‍♂️, what do you think about it? @Daviowhite .