Once you do or say something that demands high iQ to comprehend
The majority of the educated Illiterates resort to money measuring and broke shaming you
Is everything about money in this country!!!!?????
Ycee's 'Olodo Uprising' statement is 1000% correct
🚨 José Mourinho to Beast Mode On: “I once had a player who didn’t want to take a small injection to play a match”.
“I took off my shoe and socks and I put my foot right in front of his face and I told the doctor: ‘GIVE ME THE INJECTION’. And he gave it to me and my toe was perfect”.
“Then I told the player, ‘C’mon you can also do it.’ He said: ‘No, you are crazy’… well”.
“He played NO matches with me after this”.
I still can’t believe there are real human beings who hated on Jeremy Doku for leaving the World Cup for a bit to attend the birth of his child
We all love football but some of you are INSANE😭
Jarvis, by the way, had potential when she started making those AI videos.
That potential d!ed the moment she started mingling with Peller.
She inherited his foolishness by osmosis.
Nigeria, man. There's no escaping the rot, insecurity and dysfunction, no matter how rich you get.
1. Buy an SUV because the roads are bad, and you become a prime target for kidnapping, extortion, and inflated prices
2. Live in an estate for quiet and security but the moment you drive out the gate, you're back in the same poverty, crime, chaos and insecurity everyone else suffers. Your safety exists only within the walls of your expensive prison
3. Spend millions on solar so you don't have to suffer generator noise but your neighbours still use generators. You stop hearing yours, not theirs.
4. Make money and the women will come but the women who come are poor. You work hard to escape poverty, only to give your money to women who are hoping to escape their own poverty by 'working' you
5. Buy Starlink to escape MTN and Airtel, and now the whole compound wants your password.
"But it's unlimited now?"
Decline and you're a bad neighbour
The tragedy of trying to buy your way out systemic dysfunction is that you never truly solve the underlying problem. You just spend money trying to insulate yourself from it, and in that process, create new problems for yourself.
But you interprete it as progress because you no longer have the exact same probems as the next Nigerian.
Because progress here is less about better roads, reliable power and security for all.
Progress here is more about owning an SUV while everyone else dodges potholes in their Camry, having steady power and uninterrupted airconditioning whilst everyone else sweats through the heat, and living behind the 'security' of estate gates while everyone else lives with insecurity.
It is that contrast that gives me fulfilment. It is what makes you stand out, and provides both of us something to brag about. So the benchmark is not whether the system works; It is whether I am better than others in a system that does not work.
And I say "I", because I, also find myself thinking that way sometimes.
I also want to brag about paying 8 million for rent, rather than demand afforable housing for all or protest against the fraud of agents and the greed of landlords.
Afterall, I am also a product of the system.
As a result, most of what I, and by extension, Nigerians broadly speaking, consider progress, is a maladaptation to systemic failure.
It is, to condense it, progress measured against dysfunction, rather than freedom from it.
And 'Maladaptation' because the actions we have adapted to help us cope with the dysfunction, ultimately does more harm than good.
So for example, rather than protest insecurity, bad roads or unreliable power, we maladapt by travelling by air, buying SUVs and installing solar.
We spend money to work around failing institutions while the institutions themselves continue to decay.
But the problem with our "I better pass my neighbour' cope is that it will eventually reach its limit. Because as the rot and decay deepens and spreads, even our workarounds will fail, our estates will no longer keep the criminals and the abokis that surround us out (Abuja residents beware), the kidnappers will come to our doorsteps, like they're doing in Ekpoma, and our roads will get so bad even our four-wheelers will no longer be able to handle them, leading to accidents that will land us in hospitals with no doctors and nurses because our best health workers have japa'd.
Checkmate
I was watching Jarvis defend her man, Peller and when she said, “Your President, did he go to school?”, I just shook my head in pain.
That we have a President with a questionable educational background is part of the reason we have this Olodo uprising.
My friend said the happiness he gets from being married to his wife equates to the satisfaction people get from financial security when they look at their bank account. He is not even rich but he is very content and very happy. I've known him for over a decade and his financial situation has never affected his mood or relationship. Very decent fellow.
One day he was with me what she called his wife and told her he is feeling very generous and she should ask for anything. This woman said "popcorn" and he laughed. He told her that your husband is feeling generous and you are asking for popcorn. She said, "but that is what I want na. Buy me popcorn."
I just smiled and shook my head because I know many rich people who do not have what he has.
YCee doesn’t even have the moral compass or the intellectual credibility to question anyone else’s intelligence.
But I understand a lot of you don’t like Peller. I’m not his fan, but y’all should let the boy be.
“Olodo uprising” from Ycee? Same guy whose music can’t be listened to by kids. He sings about women, weed, s£x, he’s no different from Peller, he only speaks a better English than him.
If he’s so concerned about education and the young ones getting back to school, he’d attack the government and not that young boy just trying to make a name for himself and put food on his table.
We were here when YCee was topping the charts, what was he singing about? What project or initiative did he start or promote with the money he made or fame? What positive impact did he make? But yeah, has a problem with a kid just trying to put food on the table.
Peller isn’t y’all problem I promise you.
If you feel you can make better contents, buy a ring light, face the camera and speak. If you don’t want to consume Peller’s type of contents, block him, don’t follow him, let his audience find him. But policing people on what to do and how to do it? Nah, very wrong.
Same YCee who was at Carter Efe’s studio few days back to promote his project? What’s the difference between Carter and Peller’s type of hustle? He was there because he needed the same Olodos like he called them.
YCee could easily make his comment on education without mentioning the boy’s name. Y’all should rest.