Me

Funemployed. Follower of Jesus. Nigerian. Africanist. Music lover...and etcs that I haven't discovered yet.

[Yomi!🏌🏾‍♂️ @asquareeeeee]

This guy has done more for this country than all of you hating on him…what was his crime ? Accepting national honors and deciding not to be political…suddenly he’s part of the problems of the country even after giving hope to hundreds of hopeless kids…I hate it here man😂

[Promise @CAPTAINKALADIMA]

Even Obi Cubana and Cubana Chief Priest that are championing the City Boys movement, aren’t getting half of the heat Tunde Onakoya is getting for being invited to speak at a program that is not even a political rally. Tch

[Me @Gracechaser]

@the_popemichael Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Anyone who wants to fight bad governance needs to be able to infiltrate the inner circle.

You don't speak truth to power by excluding yourself. You speak truth to power by being in a position to be heard.

[Me @Gracechaser]

@ryansbury @Yhur1stLuV @olamide_adee Is it better to complain and be passive and wait for a Messiah in Aso Rock instead of trying to help children?

How do you know that Tunde isn't going to have a frank conversation with Seyi Tinubu? How do you know he's not trying to influence things privately?

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

@Lexycabana Yes, and there were Jews who collaborated with the Nazis to exterminate other Jews as well. Wherever there is a human population, there will always be traitors and collaborators. There is nothing uniquely African about that.

So what the fuck is your point?

[Me @Gracechaser]

@Gavira_03 @felixherbt GOD BLESS YOU!

So many Nigerians are addicted to learned helplessness. They do nothing but complain. They feel hopeless so they hate seeing hope in others. And they assume that even people like Tunde are doing nothing if they are not complaining loud enough.

[Me @Gracechaser]

@IAm4rmani @felixherbt So in developed countries, there are no NGOs? There are no activists?

[Me @Gracechaser]

@felixherbt So, kids who learnt chess and got scholarships would have benefited more from Tunde Onakoya if he didn't set up Chess in Slums and just complained about Tinubu?

Even if we got a perfect president, our problems won't end in 1 day. We need to do what we can in the meantime.

[Me @Gracechaser]

@HeartsBloomHere Thank you!!! Nigeria is full of people who shout unnecessarily and I find them crass, primitive and VERY childish!

Sometimes you just need time to process your emotions and find the words so you don't end up becoming a loud dimwit screaming upandan.

[Mummy of London @ImaniDH_]

I understand him cos I’m able to write my thoughts out really well but to verbalise isn’t always as precise

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

I’m not even the most socialist guy in the room, but I understand many Nigerians to be so captured by this exclusivist-capitalist doctrine that they think that elitist and exclusionary strain of capitalism is the natural order of things.

This is a loose example but then I recently read a tweet where someone talked about free train rides in Luxembourg, and guess who was complaining about it being unsustainable, citing all kinds of polished pseudointellectual hypercapitalist reasoning? A Nigerian. Weyrey, Ki lo Kan e? 🤦🏾‍♂️

For people who come from profound poverty, we are bombarded by the most visceral and infuriating imagery of deprivation in the world, yet we remain wedded to the most exclusivist capitalist mindset.
Sometimes this is a genuine mystery to me.

And you can see this in everything we do.
Our young creators rarely gravitate toward the best, most affordable, or most accessible products, ones that make life easier for everyone in society. Instead, we want to make the most senselessly expensive and exclusive products.

The popular internet personality who makes grills wants to sell million-naira grills exclusively to the rich. The guy who makes shoes wants to slap a million-naira price tag on them. The musician-turned-fashion-designer only stocks million-naira clothing. The traditional fashion designer brags about his thousand-dollar price points, and the wannabe celebrities brag online about how they paid 1.7 million naira for an agbada that looks no better than what a roadside tailor would produce.

You can draw a straight line between this ‘I-better-pass-my-neighbor’ mentality of faux exclusivity and the perpetuation of poverty in Nigerian society.

In short, many of you are deeply deluded about how a true society should be structured and how it should function. It is genuinely sad to think about.

[Me @Gracechaser]

@ngee_danielle @ThatPHCBoy Which "creative messaging"? Companies have full milk versions and cheaper versions and they promote both. And they CLEARLY mention when it's filled milk.

And yes, why call it "fake"? Something can be cheap and of lower quality, that doesn't make fake.

[Me @Gracechaser]

@Chymeodins @Kimberly_Wotas The original post suggested that all Naija milk is FFMP. But @askddietitian helpfully explained that we have full milk, filled milk and skimmed milk. Each with its own purpose, label and pricing.

We should read the labels that are already there, not advocate for new labels.

[Me @Gracechaser]

@Ayandaloti @wearegst @pdbraide This is a good point. But also, @wearegst showed an article showing that FFMP is exported mainly from the EU.

I still think gst shouldn't broke-shame those who can't afford real milk. But I now understand why they focused on EU standards specifically.

[Me @Gracechaser]

@grok @wearegst @0xfiredropper @grok so what is the solution? To stop selling FFMP? Has @wearegst offered any specific solutions on making real milk more affordable? Even if there was a big FFMP label on milk, would that cause someone like a market woman (who can't afford real milk) to stop buying FFMP?

[Me @Gracechaser]

@ossynoya This is the issue: @wearegst is not against selling of fake milk. It just wants the govt to add the label FAKE MILK instead of "filled milk with vegetable fat".

Even though the long name, cheaper price, and ingredient list already tells you clearly that it's not real milk.

[Me @Gracechaser]

@wearegst @pdbraide I agree that we need to keep government to account. But complaining that we don't follow the rules in a different jurisdiction is weird. We should focus on doing what's best for Nigerians, not doing what the EU thinks is best for Nigerians.

[Me @Gracechaser]

@wearegst @pdbraide "Our lives are not substandard". Yes, I agree. But are you saying that for every country that doesn't follow EU standards, their lives are substandard?

American regulators are also relatively relaxed when it comes to their food industry. So are American lives substandard?

[Me @Gracechaser]

@amaraxoge @the_popemichael Thank you!!! Honestly, who funds gst?
I know things in Nigeria are bad but gst ONLY posts negative news.@ZikokoCitizen also posts news that's negative but they're more balanced and objective. I trust them. Those gst people, it's like they have an agenda.