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[Sola 🇨🇦🇳🇬 @SolaTheAnalyst]

The last time I was in Lagos I paid to enter a beach in Lekki.

Not a resort. Not a water park. A beach.

Sand. Water. A coastline that existed long before any of us were born.

Someone bought it. Fenced it. Put a gate on it. Now you pay to touch the ocean.

What kind of government sells its people access to nature?

Happy Democracy Day. 🇳🇬

[A6788CC @A6788C]

Grown men jumping around celebrating right in front of a crying child,

that right there is what footballs all about⚽️❤️

[Becky🏴‍☠️⚓️ @JustBotBecky]

Women prefering rooms to be warmer than men's preference doesn't make it "room temperatures designed for men". It's easier to add an extra piece of clothing as not everyone wants to see a shirtless man and a man shouldn't suffer because a woman thinks she's entitled to have the roomtemperature set to her desire.

I got too many stories of female collegues acting entitled as if they were more important than anyone else. Room temperature was just one of the things. I'm just tired to hear how everything is misogynistic, made for men and how women claim to suffer in areas that I know they freakin' do not suffer in.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Uncanny Manny @uncannymannyyt]

Please President Xi, for the love of God destroy all these Western cartels with efficient production and low prices.

[Rae @ragefighthouse]

I’m an immigrant who’s lived and worked in the UK for 16 years. I have a North American accent and I’m white.

I’ve never once been told to ‘go back’ to my ‘shithole country’ or to ‘stop stealing jobs from British people’.

You’re not concerned about immigration. You’re racist.

[Ambar @Ambar_SIFF_MRA]

>Three women, all aged 32
>From Ōamaru, New Zealand
>Used lube and two s*x toys on a passed-out drunk man
>The unconscious man was the boyfriend of one of the women
>Incident occurred at a “Dirty 30” themed birthday party
>Wrote lewd comments and drew pictures on his body while he slept
>Took photos and a short video of the acts and shared them among themselves
>Each charged with three counts of indecent assault
>Jury found all three NOT GUILTY
>One woman separately pleaded guilty to posting an intimate visual recording without consent

If genders were reversed, it would have been world wide outrage and men would have been jailed.
But females get special privileges in society.

[Daniel Dumbrill @DanielDumbrill]

When you hear stories like this - and there are many - it becomes harder and harder to take the “China national security threat” narrative seriously.

This should have been Trudeau’s epiphany moment. Instead, he still talks about how fortunate it was that Canada didn’t build closer ties with China, because it's a country that supposedly doesn’t share the same values.

Herein lies the real purpose of the endless atrocity propaganda against Beijing: it keeps countries like Canada locked in their abusive relationship with their "greatest ally" while rejecting the very relationship that would have been in their national interest.

Much of the atrocity propaganda against China is funded by the very same power that nearly abused Canada into exploring an expanded relationship with China, and for the most part, it works.

When they put an end to Indonesia's aviation industry, they were a bit more direct about it though, and they actually succeeded.

[Max The Airbnb Guy🏡Best Shortlets @Maxtheairbnbguy]

Lo & behold the Nigerian dream. "I better pass my neighbor." Classism. I get car, other people no get. I carry car go NYSC camp, I dey chill for my car while others dey parade ground. I wear NYSC uniform, you never wear am. A society of slaves and imbecils. Individualistic classists.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Isn't it funny how what was once the 2nd poorest country in the world now has the money to build housing and infrastructure for its people after getting rid of French colonisation and reclaiming its sovereignty?

And it built all this without needing a single NGO.

Funny right?

[T.S @ThetundeT]

In my first year in Canada, I worked on a project with some artisans and I had an argument with a Ukrainian guy amongst them. He looked me in the eyes and in very broken English said “In my country, You, less than puppy. Less than dog”

[Joe☭🔻 @ScottishCommie]

Yanks always think they have some kind of moral authority to judge other countries. They'll get on here and cry about the treatment of women in Iran meanwhile they have fucking concentration camps that they dont care about/do anything about

[Elliot @elliot_solution]

A Nigeria medical doctor governed Rivers State and stole N100 billion or $75 million from state funds.

He wasn't arrested because the wife was a Supreme Court Justice.

He served two terms. 1999 to 2007. Oil-rich state. Theoretically one of the wealthiest in Nigeria.

In January 2007, three months before his tenure ended, the EFCC released an interim report. Fraud. Money laundering. Conversion of public funds. Abuse of oath of office.

The number they put on it was over N100 billion stole from Rivers State.

Odili did not wait for the charges.

He went to a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt.

On March 23, 2007, Justice Ibrahim Buba granted him a perpetual injunction.

The EFCC was barred from investigating him. Arresting him. Prosecuting him.

They could not even look at Rivers State finances during his eight years in power.

Odili walked out of office untouchable.

His wife is Mary Odili. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2011. She sat on that bench until she retired in 2022.

For 11 of those years she was one of the most powerful judicial officers in Nigeria.

During the same years the EFCC was trying to appeal her husband's injunction.

The EFCC filed the appeal in 2008. It went nowhere.

Justice Ibrahim Buba, the judge who signed the original injunction, was later removed from the bench for issuing similar orders shielding other powerful people.

In 2018 the Court of Appeal finally granted the EFCC leave to challenge the 2007 ruling.

Rivers State fought back. The state Attorney General and the Speaker of the House of Assembly took it to the Supreme Court to block the EFCC.

The Supreme Court dismissed their appeal on March 10, 2025.

18 years. That is how long the injunction held.

18 years the EFCC could not ask Peter Odili one question about N100 billion.

He is 77 years old now. He has never been tried. Never been charged. Never spent a day in a cell.

The draft criminal charges prepared by Festus Keyamo in 2007 are still sitting in a file. Nobody has read them in court.

Meanwhile Nuhu Ribadu, the EFCC chairman who first investigated Odili in 2007, is now Nigeria's National Security Adviser under Tinubu.

The man who tried to prosecute him is now the second most powerful security official in the country.

And Odili is still free.

😂💀🇳🇬

[Wow, He’s Tsonga! @_aboihasnoname]

History books.

[gst @wearegst]

No.

Maggi bouillon in Nigeria reaches up to 25g sodium/100g. That’s nearly 60% above the WHO benchmark for bouillon (15g/100g) and the EU’s maggi bouillon formulations.

Nestlé’s double standards and NAFDAC’s laxity is causing harm to Nigerians.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Mr. David Hundeyin: While I understand your position here, you are entirely too harsh on the poor masses in Nigeria in whose name you are supposedly fighting for.

Yes, it is undeniably true that many Nigerians do not see the bigger picture.
They do not see how foreign corporations are funding the insecurity currently ravaging the North, how the IMF and World Bank are basically boardroom terror organizations destroying the economy of the Global South, or how the Nigerian government only serves the vile interests of a select few elites and their puppet masters in Western capitals.

All of this is true, but what is equally true is this: it is not this poor majority that will change this country.

This may seem counterintuitive, as the poor are the ones feeling the crushing weight of a dwindling economy, hyperinflation, and an epileptic power grid.
But as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels outlined in lovely book "The Communist Manifesto", a true change in government can only happen when the classes of society hold hands and unite under a common umbrella.

The poor and uneducated form the overwhelming majority of society and obviously possess the brute muscle to pressure the system.

However, they cannot articulate a well-structured plan, they cannot write manifestos, and they cannot understand the complex logistics required to sustain a massive protest.
They lack the financial war chest to fund a prolonged struggle, the legal expertise to bail out captured comrades, the media expertise to combat vicious state propaganda, and the strategic foresight to negotiate terms when the ruling class is finally brought to its knees.

The Hollywood theater of poor people carrying pitchforks to overthrow their government is pure, delusional fantasy.
An oppressive regime will always have a police force and a military that are heavily armed, well-trained, and eager to shoot live ammunition at protesters.
Drawing again from the works of Marx and Engels and their studies on class struggle, the fundamental catalyst that brings to light any true revolutionary movement must start with the Middle Class (the Bourgeoisie/Intelligentsia).

The middle class is educated; they possess the knowledge to decode complex geopolitics and translate it into simpler terms for the average farmer to understand, just as Thomas Sankara did in Burkina Faso.
The middle class has the resources and the time on their hands to properly coordinate protests and build formidable intelligence networks.
They can outsource the technology to bypass government censorship, they have the international connections to expose human rights abuses to the global stage, and they possess the ideological backbone required to turn disorganized public anger into a lethal, targeted political weapon.

The most famous revolutionary movements in history like the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, were all ruthlessly and carefully planned and organized by educated, wealthy, middle-class citizens. Even Fidel Castro of Cuba came from a wealthy family, and his father owned a robust sugar business.

Yet, even when the lower and middle classes unite, the upper class and the military still hold all the cards.
Even the celebrated 1979 Iranian Revolution was only successful because factions within the military and the government decided to commit mutiny and flat-out refused to protect the Shah.

If impoverished Nigerians were to relinquish their daily survival hustle and storm the streets en masse to protest against the government, what do you think will happen? Just like ENDSARS, the state will wait for the cover of night, turn off the lights, and gun down unarmed protesters in cold blood.
Then, their puppet masters in the Global North will instantly provide them with diplomatic cover, and the rest of humanity will simply move on.

Therefore, the struggling masses do not need to understand your complex geopolitics for a revolution to happen. If the comfortable, educated elite(who claim to know it all) do not get off their high horses and join forces to mobilize the streets, absolutely nothing will change.

A revolution does not happen in a vacuum; it requires a spark forged by intellectuals, fueled by the fury of the poor, and executed with ruthless, unwavering precision. Until the educated middle class is willing to sacrifice its comfort, weaponize its privileges, and bleed alongside the common man they so eagerly criticize, you're basically tweeting into oblivion.

[The_Artist @edifix_studios]

As per “Strait of Edo”

[JOEY🎙️ 🎶 @Jochainzz]

Your political commentary on this app needs to rise above "I hate Tinubu/APC" evolve into the ideological discuss. For instance, this sh!t right here would never happen under a socialist government. This lithium will be processed here into batteries, creating jobs for the masses.

[Hannah Rachel @hannahmuktar]

One of the best ways to achieve a better Nigeria is to close down Kogi state and arrest all its indigenes

[gst @wearegst]

According to independent laboratory tests, Nigeria’s Fanta contains EU banned synthetic dyes (Carmoisine E122 or Allura Red E129).

They were found in Fanta Strawberry, Fanta Orange variants, and other local soft drinks.