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[YOUR BRAT @i_Marz]

And He is still holding me.

[Unkonfined @unkonfined]

When everyone else left, God stayed.

[Nans @nansbello]

When Nigerians continue to memeify our problems, this is what happens. Keep making your jokes and skits and calling them “satire”. The people you are doing it for will satirize you back and in a crueler way.

[Obiasogu David @afrisagacity]

The building in the first frame has been trending since yesterday. Isaac Fayose, who sparked the trend, claimed that the building (belonging to an unnamed Senator) is located in Asokoro, Abuja.

Well, I did a quick check and what I found is mind-blowing.

The modern castle belongs to Senator Kenneth Eze Emeka, a senator representing the Ebonyi Central Senatorial District, under the APC.

Before being elected, for the first time, to the Senate, in 2023, he had served as the Executive Chairman of Ezza South LGA.

Strikingly, he built this mansion shortly after becoming a Senator. What's worse? He is from one of the poorest LGAs in the South East.

Before venturing into politics, Senator Ken Eze - as he’s fondly called - had not held any official top management position in the private sector. His only pathway to wealth was politics.

How did he climb in politics? He is a close friend of the former Ebonyi state governor, Dave Umahi. After helping Umahi win the 2015 governorship election, Senator Ken Eze was rewarded with the LGA Chairman position, through which he accumulated wealth and rose to the Senate.✍️

[Ahmad Nguru. @AhmadUsman__]

As I said, there are kind of vanities that are exclusive to third world elites.

[Ruffrasta official @Ruffrasta1]

This is your ambulances, hospitals, pipe borne water, electricity and good roads joined together in one person’s home.

[gst @wearegst]

A reminder that the president is YOUR elected official. His job description under Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria explicitly states:

"The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government."

The constitution does not say the primary purpose of government is to issue orders regarding security; it says the primary purpose is to secure the people.

When orders fall short, the immediate next step is:

An administrative overhaul under Section 218(2) of the 1999 Constitution.

Prosecution of confirmed terrorists and funders.

Instead...

The terrorists have been reintegrated into society, and funders are shielded by political bureaucracy and left walking the streets completely free.

Meanwhile, his Attorney General (Lateef Fagbemi, SAN) and the EFCC Chairman (Ola Olukoyede) are still securely in office, protected by low-level conviction statistics.

[Babatunde Gbadamosi @BOGbadams]

Now, there can be no further doubt.

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

"I laughed over the Ycee 'Olodo Uprising' topic, not because I found it funny, but because he was identifying something in his time. However, he was seeing the latter stage of something that started in my own generation when I was probably his age.

I spoke about weaponized ignorance for the first time in 1994 when I wrote a piece on it. He is identifying the same phenomenon. The 'Olodo Uprising' was fathered by weaponized ignorance."

— Dele Farotimi

[Pharaoh👳🏾‍♂️👑 @MrMekzy_]

If your significant other doesn’t like onions, you blend it into the food. Meet yourselves in the middle.

If your S/O doesn’t like sleeping with light on? The middle ground is usually that you should get an eye mask.

If you’re clingy and they aren’t? You cling a little less, they lean in a little more. That’s usually where the middle is found.

If you love PDA and they don’t? Dial it down a little, they dial it up a little. Meet yourselves in the middle.

Life isn’t hard, date considerate people that actually like you.

[Dr. Olawale Ogunlana @doctorwalesmd]

I was in FGC Odogbolu that year.

Teachers bought cars so much that it felt like it was a competition.

My Intro Tech teacher bought a VW Golf
Another teacher bought a BMW 3 Series
A Fine Arts teacher drove Nissan Maxima
Other teachers who were in to businesses now had more than two cars.
Even Guidance and Counseling teachers bought Mitsubishi Gallant that year (automatic transmission, not manual).

I remember always peeping through the glasses of the cars to see how clean these cars were.

It was crazy. Being a Principal of an FGC almost felt like you were a Commissioner of a sort. You had power and they moved like mad.

Teachers had it so good that year.

We must not forgive every single person involved in taking this country’s economy to where we currently are.

[Ghost Writer ✍️ @Prezain_LJ]

You need to see the joy on olodos' faces when a very academically sound person doesn't succeed in life. They relish it. It's almost as if it gives them more reasons to talk down on education and intelligence.

When we were graduating, after I finished as the top student in my class, many of my coursemates were really eager to see how I would turn out. In fact, I would always hear them gossiping: "No be by Best Graduating Student. To make am for life no be by acada. Street na military. We go see."

I'm glad I turned out really well. Even most of those who went to Ghana for "updates" after school and eventually resorted to fraud can't measure up to my accomplishments. Till today, many of them still randomly call me and jokingly ask, "Senior man, you just dey chop dey go. You no wan give men update na!"

Deep down, they genuinely believe I must be secretly involved in fraud. This is the society we live in, where many young people have come to believe that you can't succeed legitimately, and that every young man who is doing well for himself must be involved in fraud. Even many elderly people and police officers aren't exempt from this line of thinking.

I haven't seen a country that is trying so hard to make education unattractive like ours.

"School na scam."

"No be by BSc. You get BTC?"

"Education is the key to success. Oya, use the key start Benz na 😂."

"Lecturer pack 1999 Camry, student don pack Lexus beside am."

If we continue this way, in a few years, there will be nothing left of our educational system. We are so money-centred that we don't even realize education can be an end in itself and not necessarily just a means to an end.

Everything has become, "How much do you have in your account?" or "Use your intelligence buy Benz na."

This is one of the reasons it really hurts me to see highly intelligent and brilliant people end up poor. I'm always rooting for academically sound people to succeed because I genuinely want people, especially young people, to see that you can make it legitimately through hard work and academic excellence.

Any society where only the olodos become financially successful while the brighter minds, the ones who believe in due process, continue to struggle is a society that is bound to fail.

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

The memefication of outrage is what will ensure that no matter how egregious the actions of politicians, Nigerians will, instead of reacting in any useful way, turn to memes and skits, giggling as their home burns down.
Reminds me of the timeless words of satirist Peter Cook who, at the height of the satire boom of the 60's in Britain and worried that political comedy was turning into a facetious distraction, said that Britain is "in danger of sinking, giggling into the sea".

[Kunle Kenny -The Joy Dispenser @kunle_kenny]

The #OlodoUprising is everywhere o! It’s not just content creators. It’s in our churches too—from the pews to the pulpit. It’s why a pastor will confidently say fibroids are caused by abortions and no member stood up to correct the foolishness. Olodos are everywhere!

[Nans @nansbello]

“Terrible husband, good father”
What the hell does that even mean????How can a man that was terrible to my mother be a good father to me???????????

[Brooda John @Nigeriangod_]

I’ve never seen anyone tell a man to endure a bad wife, as soon he has a bad wife or he start complaining about his wife,the first thing he’s asked to do is “leave that woman and marry another woman”, nobody is asking him to pray or fast for his wife or be patient with his wife but when a woman marries a bad Husband everyone is suddenly telling her to pray, the church tells her to endure and fast and give him time to change.

They’re telling her she’s a mother and men are big babies so she need to treat him as one, she should nurture a grown man,it’s the reason why they associate endurance,patience and long suffering with the female gender

Why’s endurance meant for women and men are told to love themselves and never tolerate any forms of disrespect from a woman?, if you like endure rubbish from a man, he wouldn’t tolerate the same from you.

[gst @wearegst]

Breaking: Following the kidnapping of 39 children and 7 teachers in Oyo State, President Tinubu has announced the launch of FreeTV, a platform offering Nigerians access to over 100 free television channels!

[YOUR BRAT @i_Marz]

@middlebyanjay @beha_hun And here you are foisting some form of content upon us to consume. 😭

[Kunle Kenny -The Joy Dispenser @kunle_kenny]

A moving woman will eventually understand feminism.
It is sacrosanct to your self actualisation that you see yourself worthy of the highest form of respect as a human being and not anything less because you’re a woman.
Again, a moving woman WILL learn feminism.

[Dr. Bernie 👑 @iamlordbernie]

Do it next year.

Allow the women to shine.
It’s not a competition.

[akin🇪🇸 @the_akinola]

“i better pass others”

the average nigerian mentality