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[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

On matters of security, the bulk stops at the President's table. Like in other countries, Jonathan is the Chief Security Officer.Stop Boko H

[Akintola Steve @Akintola_steve]

the servers spread across the world are called PoPs - Points of Presence.
each PoP is a server sitting in a city, caching copies of your static content.
when a user in that city requests your website, the nearest PoP serves the files instantly, without going back to your original server at all.

the original server is only contacted when the content doesn't exist in the PoP yet, or when the content has been updated

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@aleeygiwa Congratulations

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@ChifeDr @gechife Condolences. May God bless her soul.

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@mikeachimugu01 Remuneration, the night shift must have a higher paygrade for it to be attractive and productive. Kindly incorporate this point with the automation plan.

[Johannes Maria @luo_yuehan]

How US Sanctions on China Backfired

From how Chinese citizens define freedom differently from their Western counterparts, to the ongoing Nvidia chip saga and the Trump trade wars, they dive into everything you need to know about what might soon become the biggest economy in the world.

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@ChifeDr @gechife

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@winexviv A simple and less costly design but needs more improvement to be practical especially in protecting the pupils from the elements.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The key identifier of an "elite" class is not merely their bank account balance but their ability and willingness to use their economic and political heft to shape the society around them.

That's why a hereditary landowner and member of the UK House of Lords is considered an elite, while your average Premier League footballer (who may have more money than the HoL member) is not. The difference is in the willingness and ability to wield that power meaningfully.

The reason I keep on saying 'Nigeria has no elites' is that I was born and raised among the subset of Nigerians who erroneously consider themselves to be elite, and I am very familiar with their thought process. It is the exact same thought process that you would get from a sugarcane seller in Mile 12 market if overnight he was given a house in Maitama, a Lexus SUV, a beautiful yarinya and N150m in the bank.

The nouveau-riche sugarcane seller would not be concerned with higher thoughts like how to use his newfound fortune to transform the economic reality of Mile 12 market while positioning to benefit from the transformation. Nope. He would only be concerned with ensuring that he keeps hold of what he has, so that he never has to sleep in a wheelbarrow on a side street off Ikosi Road again.

That's exactly what the privileged Nigerian is upstairs - a sugarcane seller who happens to live in Ikoyi. No matter how many decades they have spent in Ikoyi, their reality is still defined by the desperate quest to escape or avoid poverty. Every Nigerian millionaire or billionaire that you know feels financially insecure. Doesn't matter whether they are worth $1m or $25bn - they are all viscerally terrified of sinking into poverty, and the sum of their decision making is a series of short term deals and compromises to avoid poverty, without any kind of higher, long-term guiding principle.

I know this especially well because I was raised in a house where everybody who is somebody in Lagos stopped by once in a while to work on a real estate deal with my old man, and I would regularly overhear everybody from bank CEOs to retired military generals and air vice marshalls saying things "Our leaders are [insert whiny complaint]." And I would wonder - who are the "leaders" that these extremely privileged people sound so oppressed and intimidated by? Is it not their friends and coursemates from Jaji?

Later on it made sense when I realised that once you are in power in Nigeria, you become God, and even your family changes its rules for you. I've seen families override their olori-ebi because one 50 year-old uncle became somebody in Abuja. Conversely, as soon as you leave power in Nigeria, you sink into total irrelevance and people treat you like your body has a smell. The entire Nigerian sense of value and self-worth is welded to money and power. Once you don't have these 2 things, you might as well be wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak - even your family and contemporaries stop treating you with respect.

The effect this has on elite formation is that unlike in other societies where elites gravitate toward different ideas shared by different camps, and then fight for the right to imprint those ideas on their society (Democrat vs Republican; Maoist vs Dengist; Tory vs Labour etc), privileged Nigerians ONLY gravitate toward one thing - economic power. They have no elite sense of identity outside of money in the bank, a 4-wheeled status signaller on the road, and an overpriced house in a neighbourhood that has a constant bad odour and potholes.

That is also why Nigeria's political actors do this thing called "decamping" where they switch affiliation to whatever political party is in power. Their entire conception of the world is built around access to the levers of economic power so that they can avoid ending up in a wheelbarrow in Mile 12 market.

That's literally all there is to Nigeria.

200 million sugarcane sellers.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I've just come out of a conversation with a contact who is engaged in the Sahel, and the one piece of advise I have for the multiple Burkinabés from media, academia and civil society who are currently being contacted by the usual suspects to lend their vocal and intellectual support to the artificial anti-Traoré bandwagon that Paris and DC are putting together is this:

Remember that there is nothing special about you.

The same way they're reaching out to you and acting as if they respect you and your work, is the same way they've reached out to many of us across the sub-region. I promise you are not special to them at all. You're just useful. For now. The respect and reverence they are treating you with is the same affected "respect" they have bamboozled us with for 500 years, because they know that nothing gets a black man's pussy wet like receiving "respect" and "honour" from his European overlords.

They did the same thing in Nigeria between 2011 and 2015. Every squirrel, antelope, Aisha, Dipo, and Japheth who offered even the mildest criticism of Goodluck Jonathan was immediately carried aloft and paraded around as a champion of this and that by the oyibos. It didn't take them long to figure out that "Jonathan Must Go" was their ticket to what seemed like everlasting favours, treats, and funding from oyibo, and they all started unanimously pushing to oust the president that took Nigeria to #1 economy in Africa and 3rd fastest growing on the planet.

Many of these people didn't even dislike Goodluck Jonathan - they just saw that pretending as if Nigeria was being ruled by Pol Pot was their ticket out of poverty and obscurity. Some of them built this career grift in 24 months all the way from Twitter into Chevening scholarships, IVLPs, Mandela Washington Fellowships, speaking appearances in Taiwan, Canadian passports, etc etc. But those were only the lucky few. The vast majority of this demographic got discarded like a used pure water bag immediately the oyibos got their desired regime change.

Since they got their regime change, Nigeria has fallen off a cliff from #1 to #4 in Africa, losing over 60% of GDP in just 10 years. I will repeat that for emphasis. While other countries in Africa grew at 2-5% annually over the past 10 years, Nigeria SHRANK by over 60%, and you can now find Nigerians desperately searching for a better life in Burkina Faso, Algeria, Mali, Libya, Tunisia, Liberia, and even Niger which used to hold the title of "poorest country in the world." Most of the loudmouths who helped make this a reality have fallen back into obscurity and poverty.

Many of them are in their 40s and 50s now, and they're still busy chasing gigs and hunting for $1000 here, $2,500 there. A few of them did become puppet unicorns, but the vast majority are back to being absolutely nobody 10 years after they allowed foreign attention and dollars to override their natural caution and stampede them into the 2nd worst ever national mistake in Nigeria's history after the completely unnecessary civil war.

Many of them walk around in a constant state of confusion now, unable to understand why their lives are much worse nowadays, and the oyibos who seemingly cared so much about whatever they had to say between 2011 and 2015 are no longer answering the phone or replying messages. If you allow these same oyibos to inflate your egos and use it to push your mouths into parroting their narrative for their own geopolitical goals, the exact same thing will happen to you.

Before you allow the thirst for white people's validation and money to shape your responses to the questions they are currently deluding you with, just ask yourself this one question:

All those years when Burkina Faso was the deadest country on the planet and Blaise Campaore's regime was shooting Burkinabés dead in the street, where were all these bleeding heart white people? Why didn't they care then?

Why do they care about Ibrahim Traoré now? What is this REALLY about?

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[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Every out of school child in Alaigbo is a potential future threat. That there are out of school children is a recipe for impending disaster. We need to catch it early and eliminate it.

We should criminalize leaving children without basic formal education in Alaigbo!

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

X (Twitter) is a school, but you choose your electives

You can “study” Money or Law by simply following handles. You can learn how to preserve bananas or buy cheap air tickets

It is free, it is open, and it will enrich you

Or

You can follow paid handles to discuss tribes

Your call

I repeat, in 10 years, you will look back at how you wasted your youthful years because an old bigot gave you cash to abuse another tribe

Make your future in your youth, or you will be poor as you age. Chase down opportunities in your youth, use your time well

Amen

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@jimidisu Sincere condolences sir.

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@fimiletoks Shallow comparison.

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@InibeheEffiong .

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@winexviv This is a great initiative. What is the admission criteria for the students ?

[Anambra 1st son @UchePOkoye]

Most of you don't understand the staggering number of low quality of human beings we have in Nigeria.

Just go to the market or any clustered area and see how people live like p!gs.

Look at how people run down public infrastructure, it stems from poor mentality and value system.

Visit trenches, and GRA then compare notes.

If people are educated and empowered enough, they'd be able to take care of themselves and their environment.

If the government builds beautiful infrastructure amidst poverty, people will run them down.

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@odogwu_ogidi BB , by b no h, by z , b,, hi, c no off ...nz

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@landmarkafrica This is not the end. That is the spirit!!

[ikebaba @ikebaba2003]

@History_Nig @meks2850 Collective intentional amnesia. When you get older and the next life awaits the soul, trips to memory lane often occurs and regrets abound. No one seeks pity those who wish remember their history and always put it in perspective.