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[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

"To fill 50 litres of a Corolla car during President Obasanjo’s regime cost ₦3,750. During Yar’Adua’s time, it became ₦3,250. During Goodluck Jonathan’s time, it was ₦4,350. During Buhari’s regime, it was ₦11,900. Now under the current President Tinubu’s regime, to fill 50 litres of a Corolla car is now ₦61,350, and you tell me this man is the hope Nigerians should have for a better future? How d√mb can some of you be?"

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[Oluwatimileyin✨🦋 @Timmysofine]

I moved to Finland.

Not the US, UK or Canada. Finland.

I didn’t realize that would require so much explanation.

There’s an unspoken hierarchy when it comes to relocating from Nigeria. If you’re going to leave, it should be somewhere people immediately recognize. Somewhere that sounds impressive when mentioned casually. "Somewhere your relatives can repeat proudly without needing to clarify where it is on a map."

Finland doesn’t quite fit that script.

Till today, I’ll post something, and someone will message, “Oh, you relocated? US or Canada?” It’s never asked with curiosity. It’s asked with assumption. As if those are the only options that count.

I’ve watched people take on serious loans to relocate. Not because they had a long-term plan or a clear passion, but because they needed to leave. Because staying felt like stagnation, and the destination sounded prestigious enough to justify the sacrifice.

And I understand that feeling more than I’d like to admit.

Nigeria can make you restless. It can make you feel like motion is progress, even if you haven’t decided on the direction.

But here’s what nobody really prepares you for: every country comes with its own weight.

Cold is cold, regardless of the passport stamp. Loneliness does not care whether you are in London, Toronto, or Helsinki.

Finland is cold in ways I wasn’t prepared for. Not just the temperature, though that alone is an adjustment. It’s the silence, I almost feel deaf. The long, dark afternoons where daylight disappears before you even see the sun. The way you are now alone with your thoughts for longer than you’re used to.

In that kind of environment, misalignment becomes really obvious.

If you chose your course because it was convenient, the discomfort magnifies it. If you chose your country for the optics, the silence will eventually confront you with that truth.

You don’t want to sit thousands of miles away from everyone you love and realize you built your decision on pressure instead of purpose.

Relocating is not a personality trait, not a trophy, neither is it a shorthand for success.

It’s a life decision.

So, if you’re thinking about leaving, pause long enough to build a real plan. Choose a course that connects to something you genuinely want to grow into. Choose a country because it aligns with your goals, not because it impresses an audience.

The goal was never to impress anyone, it was to build a life that feels steady when the lights go out and it’s just you in the room.

Start there.

[Non-Fungible Frank @frank_ikemefune]

Classism in Nigeria is just poverty with a microphone..

[Abraham Okah(info hub) @AbrahamOkah2]

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[toyosi @toyosilight]

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[O L A J U W O N™ @iamfadajay]

@Olakunle_Omoba 🚀🚀🚀🚀

[AK @akthawicked]

I am going to call this “The project of my life” and I need your help with it, kindly repost and drop a comment thank you! 👏🏾✨

[Iconuzor @icons_closet]

Tik Tok people are telling the truth. X people are still in denial.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

A 45 year-old Nigerian should leave his house in Yaba and drop off his wife at Mobolaji Johnson Railway Station (built by China Civil Engineering & Construction Company with Chinese government credit), so she can catch a train to Abeokuta on the Lagos - Ibadan standard gauge rail line (built by CCECC with China EXIM Bank funding).

All the clothes on their backs were made in Guangzhou, or at a Chinese-built factory at the Lekki FTZ (also a development funded and built by the Chinese government). The auto rickshaw they ride in to get to the train station was built in Nigeria using tech transferred from a Chinese vehicle maker in Chongqing.

Then he should bring out his Redmi or Tecno mobile device built in Shenzhen and running on an MTN or Airtel 4G network which is built on Huawei and ZTE infrastructure, to shoot a skit about "America good."

The lack of respect is to the point that they're just openly playing in your face, like what are these negroes going to do about it anyway? They took out the last half-decent government you had, nuked 60% of your economy in 10 years, installed a drug pusher whom they're holding files on as your president, and then asked you do record a skit about why you love them for absolutely violating you.

A literal country-sized rapist.

[Kimi Regal @RegalKimi]

The U.S. Mission in Nigeria is now inviting Nigerians between 18 and 45 years, the very age group that should be building skills, industries, institutions and innovation, to compete in a social media skit contest about how American products and ideas shape our lives. I cannot remember seeing the U.S. Embassy in Germany, China, South Korea or other industrial powers asking their young people to run around making skits to promote American brands. When you look at how those countries relate to the United States, you see them negotiating technology, trade, defence and industrial policy. With us, it is content and creativity contests.

We have seen this script before. In Black America, the most celebrated paths became entertainment, music, comedy and sports. A powerful culture, yes, but not a powerful economy. Fame without ownership. Visibility without structural power. Now a similar model is being exported to Africa in the language of opportunity and cultural exchange.

Meanwhile, countries like China, India, South Korea and Germany are pouring resources into engineers, technicians, researchers, inventors and manufacturers. They reward innovation. We reward skits. They build industries. We build followings.

Entertainment can change individual lives, but it does not build nations. Skills do. Innovation does. Production does. If we keep training our brightest 18 to 45 year olds to chase virality instead of mastery, Africa will become a continent that is visible yet not powerful, loud yet not influential.

We must decide whether we want to be a viral continent or a visionary one. Only one of those choices leads to real power.

[Bimbola Royale @bimbolaroyale]

Many broken marriages already had cracks that were being patched in Nigeria. The egalitarian nature of European societies only expose them.

A lot of Nigerian marriages aren't built on genuine love, MUTUAL respect, and partnerships. If your understanding of being a husband is financial provision only, in a society where your wife can earn as much as you or even more, you become worthless. If your understanding of being a wife is only to do house chores and take care of the children, your husband will seek everything else outside.

Abroad, your money + your spouse's money = household income. Bills cannot be paid by one person. Otherwise, they will burn out. And if you want a partner that will split bills with you, you have to pull your weight in home management: cooking, cleaning, etc. Both you and your wife cannot go out in the cold all day, and you come back home expecting them to go and cook for you every day. They will start to resent you after a while.

Child care is not the prerogative of one person. Both partners have to sit down to plan how children will be cared for: school drop-off and pickup, hospital appointments, extra-curricular activities, etc. It's all too overwhelming for one person to handle.

And the big elephant in the room is abuse. Whether physical, emotional, financial, or even psychological, abuse is completely frowned at in this society. If you abuse your partner and they file an official report, best believe the marriage is over. There are no in-laws that will advise them to keep enduring. There are no religious leaders to blackmail them into staying in the marriage. There is no fear of social stigma.

Until everyone understands this and stops being selfish, divorce rates will continue to increase.

[Prince Fynn @Prince_Fynnd]

Once men start eating:

1. Pineapples
2. Cucumber
3. Watermelon
4. Bananas
5. Oranges
6. Apples
7. Strawberries
8. Coconut
9. Mangoes
10. Avocado
11. Eggplant
12. Onion
13. Broccoli
14. Garlic
15. Ginger
16. Carrots
17. Blueberries

And start exercising and getting morning sunlight, you’ll gain more strength and stamina and boost your overall health.

Repost for others to learn!

[iDAN 🦸🏽 @dangbanamanager]

Someone bought an iPhone 17 Pro Max and sent it to Nigeria for about $200. When the phone arrived, @CustomsNG seized it and demanded 212,000 naira, which was paid. Then @ndlea_nigeria started asking for the sender’s personal details, a letter explaining their relationship to the recipient, and even the phone’s receipt.

Since all identification had already been provided when the phone was shipped, the person escalated the issue to @DHLGlobal and @DHLAfrica because the whole situation made no sense.

Eventually, @ndlea_nigeria withdrew their request, but @DHLGlobal / @DHLAfrica still claimed the shipment was on hold. And out of nowhere, Customs came back again, now demanding 600,000 naira, saying the phone had been undervalued.

Nigeria is run by criminal gang.

[Job Corner @JOBCORNER247]

Your Offer Letter is coming this week!

[O L A J U W O N™ @iamfadajay]

Eeeeeasily the best project in the country this year, imo.❤️

[BAMIDELE🕊 @thenihiin]

Name an album where you can listen to every song from the beginning to the end and not have the urge to skip a song?

[O L A J U W O N™ @iamfadajay]

@toyosilight Yooooo!😭💔

[O L A J U W O N™ @iamfadajay]

@OvahFlo @fxreszn Autotune? C’mon bruhh!😂. Autotune is to afrobeats what hi-hats are to trap music, it’s a core essential atp, some just obviously overdo it. Asake belongs to the elite class of artists that still sound great with or without it, and that NPR set is all the proof you need!

[O L A J U W O N™ @iamfadajay]

@OvahFlo They delivered on this joint like mad!💯That’s one of the best bands in the world bro. Do your research, there’s evidence all over the internet!

[O L A J U W O N™ @iamfadajay]

@OvahFlo These guys are playing stadiums and arenas every other weekend! Coming from that to play “behind a desk” in a small enclosed room full of a handful of people and still keeping it locked is not child’s play bro.