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[𝕁 𝕀 𝕄 𝕄 𝕀 𝔼 ™ @Jimmie_tobie]

Why would an INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission Chairman be wearing an APC cap?????????? Why?????????

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

You don't help the crises in Nigeria by this kind of dangerous oversimplification, lumping Fulani militia with Islamic jihadists.

These are distinct groups who as far as we know, are not working for the same goal. It also has the effect of demonising a whole ethnic group, the majority of whom are not involved in this violence and many of whom are themselves victims of the violence. Militia (of yes mostly Fulani extraction) who have turned kidnapping into a business model kidnap Muslims and Christians, Fulani and non Fulani and collect ransom from anyone they are able to kidnap. There are also militia who terrorise those in the north central (aka middle belt) and that is a different crisis. And then there are the Islamic jihadists who are different from these groups.

In fact Islamic jihadists have for years (mostly unsuccessfully) tried to recruit Fulani militia groups to join their jihadi cause. Treating them all as the same will only accelerate the merger between these groups and that merger if it happens will lead to even worse violence.

This is not a question of Christian survival. It is a failure of government, complicity of politicians across board which has made everyone in the affected areas a likely victim. Fulani people are also afraid of travelling on roads where Fulani militia operate. Fulani people also get kidnapped and killed. Muslims are also afraid of the jihadists who take over villages and force them to pay taxes, kill them and abuse their women and children. Muslim villagers are also forced into labour and killed by militia engaged in illegal mining.

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

Some people are actually advocating that "education should be more expensive" - in a nation where "Boko Haram" emerged from.

Please note: tertiary education isn't supposed to be as "exclusive" as it was in 1956. You expect all the children in Nigeria to graduate from secondary schools - and the basic requirement to be a secondary school teacher is a bachelor's degree (or at least a HND).

For those who claim, "tuition fees should be one million naira" - who can afford this? And who will teach the next generation of Nigerian children? Will you not compound an already existing education crisis?

[Sam @ilynem]

Manifesto? Let’s see what was in Tinubu’s 2023 manifesto.
1. 12% GDP growth? Fail.
2. Stabilising Naira at 300 per dollar? Fail
3. 15,000 MW and constant power? Fail
4. Triple spending in Education? Fail.
5. Raise healthcare budget to 10%? Fail.

No one cares about your manifesto

[cuban 🍂 @cubantobacco]

the pH of the vagina is so acidic it can completely dissolve $1.25T in market capitalization

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.

-Toni Morrison

[Mazza @YaaMazz]

this is very important because theres a significant proportion of men that think they can beat her in a match

[Mo @__MoFash]

These are the questions I expect people to be asking.

I insist that it’s unwise for a people to be in perpetual opposition. Leave opposition work for politicians, but demand your entitlements from whichever government is in power.

Don’t cheat yourself by being foolish.

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

The plane does not have enough fuel for the trip, but there is nothing we can do, we have to fly over the pacific with it

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

“Independent and expert led metadata analysis”??? For a fucking short story prize? Because one person said someone in the Atlantic you essentially treat a writer like a criminal? And you want us to applaud you after one month of this criminal trial??? Loooooool!!!

[Eni Adeoluwa @Enioluwa]

It’s interesting how people attend fashion shows, pick out videos of men dressed a certain way, put them together, and suddenly the conversation becomes, “We are losing our men.”

Meanwhile, that same fashion show has plenty of men wearing regular shirts and trousers, but those videos rarely get the same attention.

It is a FASHION SHOW. A FASHION SHOW! Nobody is losing anything.

If you want to see men who fit your definition of “masculinity,” go to a stadium on a Saturday, visit the gym near your house, and have a field day.

We really need to be more mindful of the narratives we push, especially when we know, and have seen, how these narratives can put people’s lives and safety at risk.

There are things we all dislike or disagree with about other people, but that doesn’t give us the right to ridicule them or encourage hostility towards them.

You have a platform. Use it responsibly.
Leave people alone!❤️

[abracadabra @md_abracadabra]

Anytime I see you people concerned about “what is going on with men” it is when you see them wearing wigs or gowns. When will you guys be concerned with men abusing kids, rxping women, engaging in violent crime or some real moral wrong. When?!

[valking ♔ @_VALKlNG]

Prado for apc youth, Keke for Nigerian army against bandit

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Nigerians do not know how to have normal connections to public figures. They are trapped in unhealthy parasocial relationships with politicians. Once a Nigerian has accepted a politician as their god and personal savior they lose all sense.

Do you want a public servant or a king? A politician you can hold accountable or a prophet who you kneel before and fellate?

Politicians are not your friends. They are not your gods. They are not your saviors. They should be working for you and should always be challenged, especially when you are voting for them.

[Eziokwu @Iameziokwu]

These are the kind of things I expect the elites in the South East to put their money into and not be shouting money na water.

The rich Igbo families of the 70s, 80s and 90s are mostly broke because of wealth that aren't institutional or can't be passed down to the second or third generation.

Let the South East elites invest heavily in infrastructures that can attract people with little or no government intervention. Build railroads, build avaition schools, buid world standard tech hubs, create free trade zones and see how the future of Ndi Igbo gets brighter.

Its time we moved from individuals wealth that only shares rice and money every december to creating institutions that puts us on the map.

[Babatunde Gbadamosi @BOGbadams]

I know Dr. Pearse VERY WELL.

I know him to be a man of integrity and not a liar.

He has told me this in private before, and I'm glad he's saying it publicly now.

I also know, contrary to the information that Chicago State University claimed to have on their records, that Bola Tinubu, man or woman, did not graduate from Government College Lagos in 1970, because the school was not established until 1974.

I was a student there from 1978, and I witnessed the graduation of the first set in 1979. Tinubu was not there.

I also know that Tinubu did not attend Government College Ibadan. My late Uncle, Chief Waheed Gbadamosi, attended Ibadan Grammar School, while his best friend, late Chief Wole Awolowo, attended Government College Ibadan. I have it on good authority, as far back as 1998, that the man who calls himself Bola Tinubu did NOT attend GCI.

If his educational history is this opaque, wht are you surprised at his buccaneering style of governance?

Why are you surprised at the wholesale borrowing and looting of loans?

We are being ruled by brigands, but if Nigerians are to survive, and prosper, that brigandage must end in 2027, no matter what!

#RigAndKpai2027
#TakeYourFitnessSeriously

[Mr. Anu @Anu_official]

Nigerians often don’t care how much of an inconvenience their actions are to others, as long as they benefit from them.

Basic human decency should tell you to keep your church or event centre’s speakers at a reasonable volume, especially when you operate in a residential area. But apparently, once you’re making money or your members are being spiritually fed, everyone else’s comfort becomes irrelevant.

And this is one of our biggest problems: a lack of consideration for others.
Be decent by default. Be considerate. The fact that something doesn’t inconvenience you doesn’t mean it isn’t a problem for someone else.

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

LA’s new Mayor Nithya Raman is a Harvard and MIT-educated public planner—and it shows ✨

[Ụlọma 💜 @ulxma]

It’s funny how some of you can rightly recognise that hopelessness is a strategy this government is weaponising to drive us into voter apathy, but you cannot recognise that division, hatred and bigotry are equally central to its strategy because doing so would require you to confront your own prejudices and egos. A large part of this division is driven by bots and amplified and given legitimacy through your pre-existing biases.

The goal is to fracture our collective political consciousness, turn potential allies into enemies, and leave us too divided, distracted and consumed by mutual hostility to effectively organise against the people responsible for our suffering. Meanwhile, the political class remain united across ethnic and religious lines in their mutual agenda to fuck us up.

This is a classic strategy of divide and conquer. But it only works if we allow it.

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

In 2014, when Patrick Sawyer brought Ebola to Lagos, one of the people he had contact with slipped away from the tracers. He went to Port Harcourt and a doctor there treated him in secret. That doctor caught it and died. Then we had to start tracing hundreds of new people in a whole new city. All of that from one person who ran.
Now look at North Kivu. On Thursday night gunmen attacked Cantine-Aloya and burnt a health post. One confirmed Ebola patient and five suspected cases ran from a nearby hospital, in one night.

There's no approved vaccine for this type of Ebola. We didn't have a vaccine in 2014 either. What saved us was simple. Keep the sick person in one place, then follow up everybody they touched for 21 days. Lagos reached every single contact. But you can only do that if the person tracing can get to that house safely.

And it doesn't end there. Somebody in that village is going to get a fever next week, and they know what happened to the health post. Plenty of people will just stay home, and it's their mother or their wife who will be nursing them.

So yes, I'm backing this call for a corridor of peace. Let the health workers do their work.
My heart is with the families in Cantine-Aloya.

Peace is part of the Ebola response. Nigeria should know this better than anybody.