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[Lesilo Rula @kay_mahapa]

Sadio Mane has 2 AFCON titles. I will not allow history to be rewritten in my presence. I know what I saw.

[Felix @felixherbt]

Dear Alex Onyia @winexviv,

Concerned Nigerians have read your recent tweet where you said the Ministry of Education is demanding total handover of the Olympiads portfolio so they can sponsor them with government funds.

Please don’t fall for the illusion that the federal government is selling you.

They didn’t care about these Olympiads for 7 years. Now that you’ve single-handedly redefined education and put the finest brains among our teens on the global map, they suddenly want to “sponsor” everything.

Don’t let them politicize your hard work, which they will definitely do if you emotionally allow them.

They will introduce tribalism, disqualify the best students, and push incompetent ones forward just as they’ve always done.

Look at our athletes under government sponsorship. How many times have they missed international appearances?
This is classic Tinubu and APC style.

Please protect what you’ve built.
Our children deserve merit, not politics.

RT by Lending your voice 🙏

[Rita Sunshine @1RitaSunshine]

My mum is dying, please help retweet😩🙏

[Kelex @Kelex_1]

@TheRealATK_ @starzzaz @MattyFC__ A 2cm difference in height is barely noticeable. That should answer your question.

[Kelex @Kelex_1]

@Nsukka_okpa @simeonkoolluck It wasn’t, he literally tripped on his left foot

[Kelex @Kelex_1]

@Heztaylor1 @UnkleAyo They had right before halftime and they missed it.

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

Watch closely, this isn’t happening by accident.

Doug Ford is following the same playbook we’re seeing elsewhere. Step by step, it mirrors what Danielle Smith is doing in Alberta and what the U.S. system has normalized for years.

This is how it starts:
Underfund public healthcare → create frustration → introduce “alternatives” → normalize private, for-profit care → bring in insurance-driven models.

And let’s be clear the capitalist private insurance companies have been eyeing Canada for decades.

There’s been pressure going back to the Harper era to open that door.
Because once it opens, it doesn’t close.

Universal healthcare isn’t just a system it’s a safeguard. And if people don’t pay attention now, we risk waking up to something very different.
This isn’t fear-mongering. It’s a pattern.
And patterns matter.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Nigeria Is Bleeding From Within

It is deeply troubling to read recent World Bank reports indicating that, while Nigeria’s Federation Revenue surged to ₦84 trillion in just three years, a staggering 41% —amounting to ₦34.44 trillion —never reached the Federation Account. This sum exceeds the combined ₦34 trillion earmarked for capital projects in the 2024 and 2025 Appropriation Bills, a comparison that underscores the gravity of the situation and signals that something is fundamentally wrong.

This is not a mere oversight; it points to institutionalised corruption on a massive scale. In 1994, when the Okigbo Panel reported about $12.4 billion from the Gulf War oil windfall as unaccounted for, Nigerians were outraged and the nation shook with indignation. Today, an even more troubling situation appears to be unfolding, yet it is met with a disquietening silence.

We are trapped in a lethal paradox: Earning more as a nation, yet having less to invest in healthcare, education, and infrastructure. From 2025, systemic “deductions” have allowed agencies to capture more resources than entire states and even critical ministries.

These leakages explain why countries with fewer resources are out-performing us across key development indices. With such a broken system, how can we fix power, strengthen our schools, build resilient healthcare, or develop critical infrastructure?

Nigeria has no business being poor. We must stop these leakages through disciplined, transparent leadership driven by character. It is time to redirect our hijacked resources back to the people and move Nigeria into the league of developed nations.

With our collective resolve to change this corruption-infested system, a New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

https://t.co/D0M78xSHCx

[Abby @Abbywabby01]

"When I was 13 I had an experience that changed the way I looked at people for the rest of my life"

[Twoglazzes @two_glazzes]

No be me and una sha😭🤲🏽

[Pablo Alakobar @the_popemichael]

People are mad about what @PayPal has done. No, you should be mad at what they're about to do through @paga

That 75% drop in share in share value is the real thing. Let me try to explain a bit:

In 2021, PayPal aimed for 750 million active accounts by 2025. Instead, growth stalled; as of late 2025, active accounts sat at roughly 438 million, showing almost no net growth over several years (hence the sudden interest in emerging markets like ours).

​Then Increased competition from Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Adyen (solutions that are also not very active in Africa just yet) has forced PayPal to lower its "take rate" (the fee it keeps from transactions) to remain competitive, particularly in its unbranded Braintree business.
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Now, their stock now trades at a very low Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio (around 11x), which is cheaper than many slow-growing retail banks. This suggests that while the business is still a "cash cow," (they've been profitable for a while) investors are skeptical about its long-term relevance in a crowded payment landscape. Guess where isn't that crowded just yet but has serious potential? Why didn't they think about this people? Why did Stripe go hard with a $200m investment in Paystack, and they didn't?

So is it not important to really ask why they decided to answer Tayo after airing him for 10 years? They've finally realized Nigeria is a large market for payments, despite our challenges. If they come in, they'd definitely go for our own indigenous start ups that have been solving these problems.

Is it a business move? Yes. But forget our anger, that's even in the past. For the future, we need to let payments be done by people who built solutions when Paypal wasn't here! Again it's your personal choice, but dey with who been dey with you from the beginning.

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

PayPal locked Nigerians out of the global digital economy for 21 years. No receiving payments. No withdrawals. Just ‘send-only’ status while our freelancers and businesses struggled. Now that we’ve built a billion dollar fintech ecosystem without them, they want back in. The audacity.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

For quality of life, it is better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong, rather than a pessimist and right

[MBENGA ARTS @MbengaBenjamin]

If the algorithm showed you my art, I appreciate any support I get

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

A fire engulfed a building in Lagos State 6 days ago. The name of the building is Nigeria House building in Lagos.

As I write this tweet,
There are human beings trapped inside the rubble of the collapsed building.

FOR 6 WHOLE DAYS.
The Nigerian Media is silent.
The Nigerian Government is doing nothing.

THERE ARE PEOPLE TRAPPED IN A COLLAPSED BUILDING IN LAGOS FOR 6 DAYS.

Please kindly lend your voice!!!!
Let us not watch these people die!!!!

[Nedu Ani @Nedumcity_]

Kene is to relocate to the UK this January but Kene has been trapped under the collapsed building since 24th December till now. Both the Lagos State Government and Nigerian emergency services have done little to nothing to help rescue Kene.

This is truly a disgraced country.

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

Today marks 25 years since the first commit to FFmpeg by Fabrice Bellard

FFmpeg was made to play DVDs, DivX and other video files for free, and continues to be developed by enthusiasts

FFmpeg changed the world, powering all online video

Happy 25th Birthday FFmpeg! 🎉🎁🎂

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The technology may already exist, but that doesn't mean that Nigeria has it. CFM International, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, GE, etc do not share the patents or blueprints behind their jet engines. They only share generalised information and basic operating principles. So as a recipient of that generalised information, you might "know" how a jet engine works, but they will never share what metal alloys they used to make their engines, their design specifications to make it fuel efficient, wind tunnel testing data, safety testing data etc. In reality, you are not much closer to having that technology than a farmer in the 16th century. All you have is the ability to rent temporary access to it by paying money to the manufacturers and their designated maintenance companies.

This means that every jet engine in Africa is foreign-made, and all significant maintenance involving proprietary knowledge on those engines is usually done abroad, which means vast amounts of USD must be spent regularly just to keep Africa's airspace running, and the US government can ground almost every plane in Africa if it likes by issuing sanctions that prevent engine manufacturers or maintenance firms from doing business with African airlines.

That isn't theoretical BTW. It's exactly what happened to Russia in 2022, when NATO sanctions against Russia made Russian Airlines unable to access spare parts and supplies to keep their Boeing and Airbus fleets operational. And that's why Russia accelerated its indigenous Yakovlev MC-21 program, which has created a fully homegrown alternative to the Boeing 737 with indigenous engines, body, and avionics.

Just because a technology exists and you have access to it does not mean that you have the technology, especially when it is a complex technology like aircraft engines. You're basically just renting space on it from the technology owner, and if you have a geopolitical disagreement with the owner, it can lock you out and return you to the stone age at any time. That's why countries often need to "reinvent the wheel."

If Nigeria ever becomes a wealthy and important country in the future, US trade sanctions are 100% guaranteed. To prepare for those inevitable sanctions, multiple technologies that we are currently renting must be fully localised. Not that they impose sanctions and then we realise that we can't build roads anymore because the technology to drive bridge pillar piles into a river bed was something we were just renting from white people. That's why Ziko's jet engine is important. It won't power a passenger aircraft anytime soon, but it provides the technical foundation to even begin that project.

If your country has no Ziko's, then you don't own your country. All of you are just tenants of richer countries.

[Ojay★彡 🇫🇷🇵🇹 @oiseoje_]

Went to stay with a relative for a while, who had 4 girls and 1 boy, their gen had just been recently loosed and all the parts stolen leaving just the skeleton, they got a second gen and every night we wanted to put on that gen, i and the boy would carry that gen down two flights of stairs, roll it to the back and put it on and when it was time to turn it off, we would carry it back up, every single time and do you know how heavy a Generator is to be carrying it across stairs back and forth???

anytime the mom bought a bag of rice, we would be the ones to sweat and carry those heavy bags up those flights of stairs, I'm not even complaining because i believe in roles, and everyone just needs to play their part.

The man might even have been the one to buy rice and carry heavy rice to the kitchen

My only issue is you guys never complain about patriarchy when it favours you and its irritating.

"Daddy in the parlor watching film"
Man that is sitting there thinking about how to pay the next house rent, children's school fees, stock the house food, maintain the cars, pay back loans.

Tbh matriarchy sef might not be bad, lemme be working for myself since my money will be my money and her money will be our money, shey its cooking and cleaning no wam, let another person be shouldering responsibilities.