Evans Osoba

life is inherently consequential. Think in leverage, not sentiment. Everything personal must serve the collective.

[Evans Osoba @esosaseme]

Nigeria doesn’t need saviors. It needs citizens who understand power and act accordingly. The era of emotional nationalism is over. We rise or fall by how intelligently we defend our own interests.

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@RT_com Is that Scam Altman’s father?

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@MujahidSSaad Sharia PSY-OP.

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@DavidHundeyin This one would rather Nigeria take the posture of Puerto Rico, Abi what’s the title of that semi American state?

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@CensoredHumans Kanye already told all of his truth

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@clashreport Mars Promise 2.0?

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@russembkenya They are already trying to save Christians from Muslims in Nigeria 😂

[Evans Osoba @esosaseme]

By the way, bro bombed Libya, killed gadaffi, made the entire region unstable. part of the consequence of Libya is the proliferation of arms in the Sahel and consequently Nigeria my country. Then Nigeria during the Goodluck Jonathan regime, lobbied his regime for arms sales to combat Boko haram, he refused with plenty of white man grammar and reasons, then more than 300 children were kidnapped in the north eastern part of Nigeria during the same period, then him, his wife, and many prominent Americans/Europeans and foolish Nigerians/Africans started shouting #bringbackourgirls 😂 FUCK OBAMA mehn.

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@FurkanGozukara You think it is ridiculous for them to blow up an apartment block to get to one alleged hezbollah guy. But you don’t think they deliberately target civilians? I think you just aren’t capable of thinking at all.

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@jacksonhinkle Oh…it’s the nuclear guy again, cliche!

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@VictoriaBBourne @RT_com They do that in the USA.

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@grok @AntDX316 @RT_com Bro won an argument with grok. Two fucking bots 😹

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

US embassies across Africa are no longer distributing red t-shirts to local communities with solidarity hashtags about missing Nigerian children printed on them?

No one is wearing red and doing daily protests at Unity Fountain? No hijab-wearing lunatics screaming and pouring spit at TV cameras everyday? No one is pasting posters of missing schoolchildren under Falomo Bridge?

Guardian newspaper is not printing a black square with "Where are the girls?" on the top left corner of its front page everyday? American celebrities have not rediscovered their love for kidnapped Nigerian children?

How droll.

Until the 230 million tabula rasas learn to differentiate between their factual reality and the contrived, sponsored nonsense funded by the NED budget for a foreign regime change operation.

Shebi I'm just a "conspiracy theorist" and America has only ever wanted the best for you? Shebi there was no US-led regime change operation in 2015 intended to derail the development of the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world which was on track to become Africa's first trillion-dollar economy by 2024?

Shebi everything that has happened since 2015 including the loss of 65% of national GDP, the generational talent haemorrhage, the total collapse into ungoverned space, the ascension of a drug dealer from Chicago into the presidency, and the creation of a permanent US military base on Nigerian soil for the first time, are all just separate, coincidental events that have nothing to do with each other?

Don't worry, your tears have not even started yet.

You will cry hot tears for help that will never come.

[Evans Osoba @esosaseme]

@jacksonhinkle A hundred bucks says he won’t do it.

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@DavidHundeyin @Honeyfarsafi The dimwits under NED and USAID(whatever form they disguise it as now) payroll no go gree for you for this wan.

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@OneJoblessBoy No be only $500m, na $500B.

[Somto Okonkwo @General_Somto]

“To The Moniepoint CEO Tosin Eniolorunda, That’s a Very Stupid And Myopic Statement You Made. A Big Shame On You. Can You Pay Nigerians Global Standard Rates Since You Want Nigerians To Provide Global Standard Work For You In Nigeria? Can You Pay Nigerians The Same Way The Chinese Government Pays Their People In China? The Harsh Environment, Harsh Policies, And Harsh Economy In Nigeria Is To Be Blamed For Nigerians’ Inefficiency, Not Nigerians Themselves.”

[Evans Osoba @esosaseme]

@eleliayub @PayPal @AskPayPal Hope the sender wasn't USAID?

[Evans Osoba @esosaseme]

https://t.co/AVuY9tR2lR, a four-month-old American startup, IP banned Nigeria after claiming 95 percent of uploads from our country were fraudulent. The number has no published methodology, no external audit, no independent verification. The founder just just woke up one morning, picked his phone, put it in an X post and the internet ran with it. That's alright.

What I want to talk about is not Kled. I want to talk about us. The moment that announcement dropped, a significant number of Nigerians immediately began confessing on behalf of 220 million people. "It's true na." "Nigerians and fraud." "This is why we can't have nice things." The self-persecution was instant, enthusiastic, and completely untriggered by any evidence beyond one founder's unverified claim.

This is a pattern worth naming. A foreign entity makes an allegation against Nigeria without evidence. Nigerians race to validate it. The allegation becomes fact. The fact becomes citation. The citation becomes policy by other platforms. We literally do this to ourselves repeatedly and then wonder why our reputation is what it is globally.

However, here are some of the things the self-flagellation Nigerians skipped. Kled used a Nigerian user named Daniel as the public face of their platform marketing while they were still celebrating Nigerian early adopters. They had fraud detection systems, by their own admission, processing millions of uploads daily, and those systems somehow failed to catch 95 percent fraud from one country until a single critical weekend.

They raised $5.5 million from investors including Bernard Arnault's fund, their token had documented controversy around team wallets selling after a buyback announcement, and a full country IP ban rather than targeted enforcement was their chosen response. Not one of these things makes Nigerian fraud okay if it happened. But all of them matter when you are deciding whether to immediately kneel for a 22-year-old founder's Twitter post.

The narrative war against Nigeria is real. The damage from Nigerians joining that war against themselves is worse. Every time we validate unverified allegations because they confirm what we've been told to believe about ourselves, we are doing someone else's work for free.

[Evans Osoba @esosaseme]

Nigeria just confirmed a new Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe.

During his screening, Senator Abaribe said something that needs to be taken very seriously. He told Tegbe directly that a "two-layer cabal" operates across Nigeria's entire power value chain, from generation to transmission to distribution, and that if Tegbe actually fixes electricity, they will come for him. Akpabio backed it up. "Those who are importing generators do not want power to work in Nigeria," he said.

"They want to keep bringing generators into the country."

Let me quickly expand on who we are actually talking about because Nigerians deserve clarity, not vague references to unnamed cabals. Nigeria has 13,000 megawatts of installed generation capacity. We barely deliver 4,500 megawatts. The grid has collapsed more than 20 times since May 2023. That is not incompetence at scale. Sustained, consistent failure of that magnitude across generation, transmission and distribution simultaneously is a system working exactly as designed by the people who profit from it failing.

Generator importers. DISCO operators who haven't invested in infrastructure since their licenses were handed to them. GenCo owners collecting capacity payments for power they cannot transmit. Politicians with equity stakes in the parallel energy economy that exists precisely because the grid doesn't work. Every Nigerian running a generator is paying rent to this arrangement. Every small business calculating diesel costs into their prices is subsidising this cabal. Every factory like Dangote's burning ₦95 billion naira worth of diesel monthly is funding a system that is actively hostile to the electricity that would replace it.

Tegbe might be a decent man by all accounts. But decent men have come before him. The question is not whether he means well. The question is whether he understands that the people who will smile at him in his first meeting are the same people Abaribe just warned him about.

[Evans Osoba @esosaseme]

The consequences in this sort of situation should be a civil procedure, not handing someone to the Nigerian police for repression. We are all Nigerias, and we know how brutal the police can be when incentivised to deal with a person. Hence the sad phrase "Do you know who I am? I will deal with you".