Efe_Paul_Azino

Vagabond and doer @lagospoetryfest, @creativeafricang, @marokomag |Author For Broken Men Who Cross Often (@farafinabooks)

[Efe_Paul_Azino @EFEPAUL]

"The Nigerian state, having learned from the Abacha years that direct repression generated too much international attention, developed more sophisticated methods for neutralizing dissent. Instead of killing intellectuals, it began buying them."
https://t.co/dTc6OrApmd

[marie @astou_jolie]

you don’t need thicker skin - you need safer environments.

[Ahmed Baba @AhmedBaba_]

My wife is in labor!

@nyknicks, you have to win so my son is born in NYC on the day New York wins the NBA finals for the first time in 53 years. Give this baby a story to tell.

My baby is about to arrive, Knicks in 5!!!

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Children, women, men, politicians, recently retired generals. No one is safe in Nigeria. Even the army seems powerless against this new menace. And unless something drastic happens, this will get even worse as elections approach.
Something is broken, and there are people actively taking advantage of the inability of the government to govern. Again, this is not a problem that you can solve with bombs. The groups are too many, too dispersed, and have too many non combatants in their camps, that just aerially bombing them all will kill far more innocent civilians than actual militants.
There is no shortcut to ending this. As long as Nigerian politicians and their friends continue stealing money meant for development, as long as they continue abdicating responsibility, non state actors will keep exploiting the loopholes. Already these non state actors are fully embedded in local economies and communities, and only because of the long absence of any sort of meaningful development. If state governors had taken rural development serious, if there were schools and hospitals and roads and functional institutions, if our forests were not permanently abandoned, then the country would stand a chance. If the federal government had shown greater interest in the country's vast, highly porous land boundaries shared with Benin, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, then maybe.
All of this is greed, corruption and active collusion of politicians coming back to bite everyone in the rear end. Politicians are benefitting from the illegal mining, and from the criminal economies that are thriving in these rural areas. This is not just "insecurity". This is the result of the deliberate actions of those in power, from federal state to local government levels. Nigeria is just a large crime scene.

[Jola @Jollz]

It’s in line with the renewed hope agenda

[Umuọfià Arts and Books Festival @UmuofiaBookFest]

The Umuofia Arts and Books Festival is set to host world-renowned novelist and serial Booker Prize nominee, Chigozie Obioma (@JCObioma), in Enugu, in his first book reading in the eastern region of Nigeria. 

Details on the event and how to register here: https://t.co/X9Y775kxze

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

african presidents used to write poetry and translate shakespeare. look how far down we’ve fallen.

[Efe_Paul_Azino @EFEPAUL]

@pamilerinjacob Happy birthday ✨️

[Tolu Daniel @iamToluDaniel]

For my latest with the Common Reader Journal. I write about how Modern African Literature Confronts the Constraints of the Global Politics of Reading. https://t.co/xqgwlQY29Y

[Narrative Landscape Press @NarrativeLscape]

You can now pre-order The Challengers: The Disruptive Nigerian Entrepreneurs Creating a Billion-Naira Company by Eghosa Imasuen (@eimasuen).

The book tells the story of the founders of the VFD Group (@VFDGroup), a major player in Nigeria's modern financial sector.

[ndụka. @NdukaEbubeDike]

We Don’t Talk About Biafra Enough

https://t.co/LBrWX5yHkz

[Wale Gates @walegates]

Apologies to Patience Jonathan 😭

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked https://t.co/a8dowJ3gSt

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

For me any presidential candidate must also be, if not THE leader of the political party but a frontline leader. If a person as loyal to the frontrunner as this fearless politician is, is complaining publicly of lack of due process in the party even before the elections, then the front runner must not be a silent voice. You must be seen, not just to be a good face for the party, but a proactive leader of the party who shows that he can lead the change that he promises for the whole country. Otherwise how do you convince Nigerians that you can lead a whole country if you cannot take charge of your own party and show that you can do things differently? How do Nigerians trust that you can change things in the much larger, infinitely more complex place that is Nigeria?

[-valar morghulis- @eldivine]

There is no nationwide police mobilization. No MOPOL deployments, no state of emergency on kidnap for ransom.

It’s barely even an election topic. No one is worried about losing votes.

All while every city and every corner of the country is experiencing daily kidnaps.

The IG of police is not even stressed. Police are still collecting money at checkpoints.

We really are not angry enough.

[Ọmọ Akin @GuyMr10]

Lagos Protesters don change am for Police

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

No Election should hold if Amupitan is directing INEC. That should be the hill we stand on.

[Premium Times @PremiumTimesng]

Data compiled and analysed by PREMIUM TIMES shows that the mass school abduction crisis has worsened under President Tinubu.

Although his administration will mark three years in office on 29 May, it has already recorded at least nine mass school kidnapping incidents

READ MORE👇
https://t.co/eG3hFFkdXW

[SANTAN @Santandave1]

LAGOS NIGERIA!
I’m announcing my first ever headline shows here, and we have made sure this homecoming will be special. Sign up for early access here! https://t.co/6RTJy6ubeT

[Prudencio Aguilar. @kolatubosun]

Howard French and I discussing his really important book "The Second Emancipation" at the NYBAL Festival last year.

https://t.co/5d80LRgFT6

[Channels Television @channelstv]

Protest Rocks Ibadan Over Abduction Of Pupils, Teachers