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[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

There are some very powerful people pulling the strings behind the scenes on this legal issue over airtime lending in Nigeria, trying to stick their straw into a market worth an estimated N400b annually.  These people are close to the president, and are wielding tremendous power and distorting the entire economy in ways that would have embarrassed a post-Soviet Russian oligarch in 1994.

I’ve been actively aware of this matter for over two years now and the time may have come to tell the full story of how Idris Saliu Alubankudi, and his brother Shamsudeen Saliu 'Shamz' Alubankudi - both very close to Bola Tinubu and his family - have built one of the biggest and most powerful state corruption enterprises
in the entire history of Nigeria.

These men are attempting to capture the systemically important foundations of the entire Nigerian economy - specifically telecoms and ICT - and turn their 3 year-old corruption enterprise into a sort of Nigerian chaebol. You have never seen anything like it before.

You will be hearing the names 'Idris' and 'Shamz' a lot in the coming few days. Also don’t forget their family name 'Saliu Alubankudi.' It's an important part of the story.

[we love ghana @weloveghana042]

The Greater Accra Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Ghana Police Service has arrested hundreds of suspected QNet scammers accused of posting deceptive videos online, falsely claiming to be in countries like Canada and France to attract victims by portraying fake lifestyles and overseas success.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

First of all, "Middle East" is a broad descriptor for a region that has both Saudi Arabia and Iran, which are at extreme ends of the ideological/imperial spectrum.

Modern Iran is a country born out of, and built entirely around anti-imperial revolution, while Saudi Arabia and the UAE are direct US/Israeli vassal states with US military bases on their soil. So when you say "Middle East," which one are you referring to?

Second, if I assume you're referring to Iran (since Saudi, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain etc have no independent foreign policy of their own), you'll have to explain where and when Iran ever did anything to you as a Nigerian or as an African. Is Iran the country sponsoring terrorism in your country so that it can grab your minerals for free?

Is Iran the country that instigated a civil war in your country that left 3 million people from your ethnic group dead? Is Iran the country that facilitated multiple coups in your country so that it could gradually seize control over your entire governance structure and become the biggest beneficiary of your own resources? Did Iran assassinate your sitting head of state on at least one occasion? Has Iran spent decades pressuring your government to allow it to build a foreign military base on your soil? Did Iran carry out a regime change operation in your country after you had just become Africa's largest economy growing at 7% annually, and replace your PhD president with a semi literate who made it shed half its GDP in 8 years?

Did Iran install a drug dealer as your president and then protect him from disclosure with its court system for the past 4 years? Did Iran impose Structural Adjustment Programs on your economy and make your currency lose 99.7% of its value between 1986 and 2025? Did Iran take away all your best brains after destroying your economy and make them drive buses and work in care homes in Iran?

And if Iran did none of these things to you but the other side did, then what exactly is your problem with Iran?

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

It was your type of African that was selling their fellow Africans into slavery.

[KING ELOM👑🌕 @iamNeare]

On January 12, 1962, the U.S. military began its 11-year chemical warfare campaign against the people of Vietnam and Laos, dropping 19 million gallons harmful Chemicals on 20% of both countries, poisoning more than 3 million people n causing over 1 million birth defects.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

20 years down the line, every Nigerian will solemnly claim that they always knew that Bola Tinubu was a CIA asset, and that they fought against his illegitimate government.

None of the idiots who come under my tweets to do "CIA😂😂🤣🤣" will still be alive.

Hopefully.

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[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

An analysis about poverty in the Global South which I did for Sovereign Media

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I'm just happy to be alive at a time when you have to really work hard to not see who the actual criminals messing up the world for everybody are.

They've spent so long successfully creating boogeymen and red herrings for the whole world to waste time and energy fighting over, like "Islamic terrorist", "tyrannical African strongman", "ghetto Black criminal", "Latino gangster" etc.

Meanwhile it was one tiny group of white people in London, Paris, Washington DC and Tel-Aviv who were the entire spectrum of terrorist, criminal, brutal dictator and gangster tormenting the whole world all along.

And now the evidence is in the open everywhere. "The US government trains and supplies drug cartels" is no longer a "conspiracy theory" - it's now a picture on Twitter.

If you like, don't decouple from this diseased western parasite civilisation and find value in your African self in your African land. Continue chasing their "investment" and "grants." Continue immigrating to their dying countries. Continue worshipping their racist God. Continue taking their economic and political instructions. Continue taking their "education" seriously, and continue carrying their diseased ideologies on your head.

When you eventually wake up, your morning will be brutal.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

What is the value of a Nigerian idea in this age of AI? It is worth far less each day, as everything can be cloned more quickly. I recently met with some young founders who are executing and are afraid to let people know what they are building, as they fear it would be copied.

Their fear is justified, but their approach is wrong. You have to execute quickly, but you also have to let your customers know what you are building and gather feedback to iterate. In the process, you inadvertently attract attention, but you must choose the right kind.

I told someone recently to watch what Nigerian politicians do to learn. While people fight and bicker on social media, grassroots movements on the ground work with communities and build new associations and partnerships.

There are politicians you will never hear about who keep winning elections and remain relevant within their party's structure and legislative presence. They never use social media to announce their presence, and those who need media attention use TV or radio, since that is where most of their constituents' attention is directed.

A founder I have been working with for over a year decided to try the telco agent structure to distribute a digital product, and he was so successful that they did 100 million Naira last quarter. His "Christmas gift" to me was a percentage of that, as they were very grateful. I was happy that they listened and experimented on the ground. They didn't have to raise any money, and they are already making money.

Any Nigerian idea that doesn't move from concept to making money in the shortest possible time is dead in the water. I keep reiterating to people that raising money for a startup is for growth and NOT for survival.

Those "quiet politicians" who run grassroots campaigns are also frugal. A bag of rice, when shared wisely, is much more effective than social media advertising or influencer marketing. While I don't advocate that startups share food on the ground like politicians, they must be very efficient with their narrative and customer-education channels.

The agent model the healthtech startup tried and found successful is what telcos like MTN used to scale and grow their businesses across Africa. They used resources much more efficiently than their competitors, which is why they continue to grow faster. In the end, it is all a narrative and execution efficiency game.

Can AI help with both narrative and execution? For sure. It will, however, not do the work for you on the ground. Those who hit the ground faster will remain miles ahead of those who keep talking but don't act. AI can help with analysis and iteration; you still own the execution. Ideas are worth far less when they don't become action.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Removal of citizenship from U.S. birth citizens was once a far-right fantasy on Reddit and 4Chan, but it has now become a work in progress under Trump.

Yet to reduce it to a 'Trump' thing is to miss the wider point - this is how empire has always behaved.

[Porsch @KingPorsch__]

Anytime they are smearing Nicki Minaj’s name on the internet just know there’s something they are desperately trying to cover up!

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Everything this one said before "Hundeyin" was just filler. That "Hundeyin" was the main purpose of pointing the camera at his oily face.

I last made any reference to this guy sometime in 2024 but here I am 2 years later still living inside head wey no dey charge me rent.

I know I'm the most important person in you people's lives, which is why you can never remove my name from your mouth even though I don't even think about you at all, but can you please rest with the 1-sided beef?

You're the ones that have time to beef someone that is not beefing you. Wetin concern me with your content creator beef? Am I a content creator? Have you warmed eba recently?

[Sy Marcus Herve Traore @marcus_herve]

Today, the whole world has seen how this man picked his phone and called a puppet in Nigeria 🇳🇬 and told him what to do to thwart a coup that was underway in Benin 🇧🇯.

Guess what, that useless puppet decided unilaterally to send fighter jets of his country to go and bomb a neighboring country.

We have also seen how French helicopters were hovering over Cotonou. In spite of all that, some skeptics still believe that Africans are incapable of governing themselves, and that it has nothing to do with foreign interference.

These people will kill just to keep Africa where it is. But they will not be able to stop the wind of change that is sweeping across the continent. France is a cancer in Africa.

[KING ELOM👑🌕 @iamNeare]

Nigeria hereby declare America a "Country of particular concern"

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The day Nigerians manage to draw a line from their "elected leaders" never being able to deliver basic public infrastructure to the fact that they ALL have US criminal records or ties to US secret intelligence, will be the day Nigeria's freedom begins.

Until then, I will continue sounding like a mad man to you people.

Whenever you wake up is your own morning.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Not that this will accomplish anything, since you people hit the "off" switch inside your brains once your religion is mentioned, but for the benefit of the roughly 9 teachable people left in Nigerja, here is what is REALLY happening around you:

1. China is winning the economic war with the US, and the US is aware that it can no longer compete industrially with China, which is already a larger economy than the US in PPP terms. The only reason the US economy is still nominally larger is that the US dollar remains wildly overvalued due to its use as the global reserve currency.

2. The rise of BRICS means that the end of the US dollar as global reserve currency is coming. Once that happens, the US economy will implode, because it is built on exporting USD and importing the world's productivity. Without the overvalued USD as an imperial tool for controlling and extracting from the rest of the planet, the US will basically become Brazil with nuclear warheads.

3. The Trump administration knows this, which is why it has gone into full imperial mode, renaming the DoD to "Department of War," and preparing to deploy the US military across Latin America as part of its 'Monroe Doctrine.' The idea is to secure land, resources, and spheres of influence to compete with China and Russia, since it is no longer the unilateral superpower.

4. In this new multipolar world whose birth you are witnessing, there will be 3 or 4 great powers instead of just one, and all of them will compete and jostle for influence and access to resources. That is what you are witnessing playing out in Nepal, Bangladesh, the Sahel, the Middle East, Venezuela, and many other places. Yes, there are local factors, but everything exists in this wider context of a world being reshaped in front of our eyes.

5. During this reshaping of the world, Africa - the only continent with a majority of its states professing 'nonalignment' with any great power - is the biggest prize that is up for grabs. All of tomorrow's technology, which guarantees economic and military supremacy is built on resources found in DR Congo, Northern Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan and Somalia. (What unique security situation do all these places have in common?)

6.During this reshaping, "international institutions" are debased and made irrelevant. Bibi Netanyahu has an ICC arrest warrant that nobody will honour, and the US government sanctioned the ICC for issuing the warrant, even locking the ICC Chief Prosecutor out of his email and bank accounts. The UN has officially declared Gaza to be a genocide - and nothing happened. And nothing will happen because these "institutions" no longer have of the teeth they once pretended to have.

7. This means that the days of one state cooking up a reason to invade or annex another state - something expressly forbidden since 1945 - are now back. And since Africa has what everybody wants, any great power is now free to deploy a geopolitical meme ("Christian Genocide in Nigeria") and use it to justify invasion to take what it wants. In other words, colonialism is coming back - not IMF/World Bank, suit-wearing, conference-attending, Business-English-speaking, polite neo-colonialism, but open, obvious colonial theft and thuggery. This is not decades away - it is a few years away at the most.

8. Russia considers Europe to be its rightful sphere of influence and trade dominance. Hence it views European access to cheap African resources as a threat. Thus Russia is stepping in to provide military and infrastructure support for African states so that they can start to use their own resources for themselves and leave Europe dependent on Russia. Europe and the US see this as an existential threat, hence their proxy war in Ukraine and their new geopolitical meme ("Christian Genocide in Nigeria") to justify direct military occupation of West Africa.

9. No great power gives a single fuck about "Nigerian Christian genocide." All you are is a means to an end!

[Sir Eazi @mreazi]

SEE WHAT WE DONE ✍🏿

[Omoyele Sowore @sowore]

It turns out that international thief Nyesom Wike has three different properties in Winter Springs, Florida. All of them were hidden under the name of his wife, Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike, who also serves as a Court of Appeal judge in Nigeria, and shared out to his children.

There may be even more properties, but we are making progress. We have already contacted the Office of the Attorney General of Florida, James Uthmeier @AGJamesUthmeier , to notify them that Nyesom Ezenwo Wike @GovWike , has laundered stolen funds (proceeds of crime) to purchase and traffic properties in their state, which are first-class felonies.