ksho

Tired and retiring Nigerian. Twitter is where I come to laugh and bant. My tweets/retweets do not represent any organization I work for or I'm a part of.

[ksho @kshobaby]

😂😂

[ksho @kshobaby]

2 weeks is the optimal time to enjoy and insulate yourself from the failings of Nigeria. Anything longer and you may actually start to hate it.

[Ikhide R. Ikheloa @ikhide]

I am retired now, and last year I thought, I would go home and just chill for a couple of months. It was rough. I do go home every now and then, but I'd never stayed this long.

I should have planned the trip better. I have been away for almost 44 years, and my system has been used to a certain planet. Everything about and in me was stressed. Nigeria is a different planet.

I did not attempt to replicate my comfort and lifestyle that I enjoy in the US. I stayed in rough and tumble places. It's hard if you do that. It's tough to think, to function, you are swamped with trying to make it through the day, seeing as you are deprived of what are basic services back in the US.

Light, water, good roads, security, they are luxuries there. I have said this before, in Nigeria, no matter how wealthy you are, you are basically poor. Things need to change in Nigeria, the place needs a hard reset and a Marshall plan to replace the inchoate and decaying infrastructure and services. I stayed the entire two months, I was too lazy to try to change my flight, I would have done so.

Would I go back? Absolutely. This time, I'll simply pay for comfort, I am too old to immerse myself in the drama of incompetence. I'll go back for the spirit and the camaraderie. My friends and relatives were incredibly generous and I did not lack, but I could tell they were struggling to keep up with my spiritual, emotional and physical needs. America had defanged me and I could no longer thrive in Nigeria's jungle. Our leaders and their enabler-intellectuals should be lined up and taught a lesson, if you know what I mean. Disgraceful lot.

Sadly, there is no sugarcoating it, Nigeria is in very bad shape. And I speak from professional experience having worked with municipal government in the US for decades. Any attempt to gloss over the mess that is Nigeria is not merely dishonest, it is cruel.

Nigeria needs a cultural and structural reset, one that this version of "democracy" cannot offer. Nigerians have no idea how badly they are being governed. And you don't have to go to the West to see that. Just go next door, to an African country. It's so sad. The two months I spent there, I lost total respect for our politicians and their enabler-intellectuals. They are all grifters.

[ksho @kshobaby]

Boo!

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce.

• Starting price: $640,000
• Interior co-designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive
• Range: 280 miles (expected EPA)
• Peak charging speed: 350kW
• 122 kWh battery
• 1,050 horsepower
• 0-60mph: 2.4s
• 800v
• Four-door four-seater
• Four electric motors
• OLED screens
• Weight: 4,982 lbs
• Front motors spin to 30,000 rpm, rears hit 25,500 rpm
• Car uses an accelerometer to capture real vibrations from the electric motors & rear chassis. An algorithm filters out unpleasant frequencies and amplifies only the more “musical” sounds. This can be heard inside and outside the car.
• Paddle shifter on steering wheel changes how aggressively torque is delivered, with five different levels
• The trunk has 21.1 cubic feet of space, the largest luggage capacity the company has ever offered
• 197.6 inches long, about as long as a Tesla Model S

U.S. deliveries start in Q2 2027. More photos in the thread below:

[ksho @kshobaby]

You sir, are retarded. Gas was $2.28 in Texas before your party started the war. How’s a politician bragging about $4/gal gas anyway?

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Just filled my tank. In Texas, gas is $3.99 a gallon.

Hey Gavin—the problem isn’t Chevron, it’s California’s stupid energy policies….

[Christopher Maduewesi @Xtopherewesi]

Michael Johnson might be getting all the sticks (and deservedly so), but there were journalists who actively hounded Tobi Amusan, writing articles that tried to discredit her.

Even fellow athletes contributed to the level of scrutiny Tobi faced after that record.

Because MJ had to even quote Cindy Ofili-Sember as saying in the mixed zone, "I thoroughly (thought) I was running slow..." when he doubted if the timer was accurate.

She ran a British record of 12.50s, and then 12.38s in the final. Before that semis, her PB was 12.53s, so why would people think 0.03 was such a big leap?

To journalists like Jonathan Gault and Cathal Dennehy - those ones wrote articles questioning the shoes she ran with, and were the first to amplify the AIU incident, thinking it would stick. I remember Jonathan even questioning if the wind gauge picked up midway in the race (semis).

Cathal in Budapest, caused a scene in the mixed zone when he interrupted my interview with Tobi, asking her about the AIU suspension.

It didn't end there, he wrote an article calling me "a fan with a smartphone," one for standing up to him, and also for using my voice as a Nigerian journalist to speak up for Tobi. Maybe he felt World Athletics shouldn't accredit me for subsequent World Champs.

The witchhunt Tobi has faced is because she is Nigerian. I have seen her (African Games 2024) go through an arduous length to update her whereabouts, despite the then AFN Secretary (Rita Mosindi) sending an email of where all the Nigerian athletes can be found and their room numbers in Accra.

There was an internet outage in Ghana for about 4days, but Tobi knowing what she had faced to clear her name in 2023, was driven for hours until she got stable network to update her portal. She couldn't rely solely on AFN's email, because if a system is out to get you, they won't stop until they do.

Suddenly, 12.1s looks attainable because it's not a Nigerian running it now.

I agree with you that the track community owe that girl an apology.... "let the apology be as loud as the doubt."

[ksho @kshobaby]

Lmao.

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

I believe the liberation of the wonderful people of Cuba from the clutches of communism is close at hand.

Cuba Libre.

[ksho @kshobaby]

Aged like milk. Mumu.

[Dr. Ann Amuta @amuta_ann]

Trump is only against illegal immigration. Why are y’all being dense. Are you illegal? Infact, Trumps presidency is the best time to apply for an Extraordinary Abilities (EB1) green card. I got mine in 2018 and my lawyer said she had never seen as many EB1’s approved so fast.

[ksho @kshobaby]

It is well.

[USCIS @USCIS]

USCIS is applying long-standing law and prior court decisions to require certain aliens with temporary visas who decide they want to permanently reside in the U.S. to return to their home countries to apply for permanent visas through the @StateDept.

We're returning to the original intent of the law to ensure aliens navigate our nation’s immigration system properly.

Here’s what you should know: https://t.co/GeaZd3BeV2

[Tiwantiwa Hub @tiwantiwa01]

There is this Yorùbá idiom, ìtùbíǹùdí wrongly pronounced as ìtùbíǹùbí. The idiom means settling things amicably.

ìtùbíǹùdí is formed from 2 words:
ìtùbí + ìnùdí. Ìtùbí is a product of ìtù and ìbí, while ìnùdí comes from ìnù and ìdí

In this video, I did a total breakdown.

[ksho @kshobaby]

Asshole

[Tim Gill @timgill924]

When I started grad school, I knew a grad student who was about to graduate who just published a paper and cited Marx’s Das Kapital. So I asked him if he had read Marx in the original German and he says no. I told him then that’s academic misconduct and he could either retract 1/

[ksho @kshobaby]

It may appear like that when you are thinking about the 2 or 3 cases of people you know.

But on a large scale, good lifestyle choices like exercising, eating & sleeping well are the biggest contributor to long-term health. This is what medical research shows.

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

Good health is luck sometimes…. You can do everything right and still fall ill.

[ksho @kshobaby]

Such a high quality production. Funny as always

[DRUSKI @druski]

British Actors are taking all the Roles 🎬😂

[ksho @kshobaby]

First listened to Harry Styles’ Watermelon Sugar on a trip to Oak Ridge, TN in 2019 and it has become one of my summer favorite since then.

[ksho @kshobaby]

@Luch_theHipster We are living in wild times.

[ksho @kshobaby]

It cost me $62 to fill my car this weekend. It cost me $37 in January. We are all learning lessons.

[Amaratomi❤️‍🔥👸🏾 @amaratomi]

Never deleting this video😭😂😂

[stayTurntwithbenny @iambennytrippss]

@DeGentleman_ See the full video
This is horrible

[ksho @kshobaby]

The boldness with which the Nigerian Police executed this young man in front of many witnesses shows you how law enforcement works in Nigeria. This is not a rare event.

[Fight With Memes @FightWithMemes]

Bro cleared 5 miles of traffic by... "strategically redirecting" a lane-hogging trucker.

Not all heroes wear capes. 🙏

This guy could open the Strait of Hormuz single-handedly. 😤

[ksho @kshobaby]

Truer words have never been spoken 😃😃
I’m always at the gym at 6am. If I don’t get out of bed between 5:30 (when my alarm rings) and 5:45. Then gym is canceled for that day. Really slim margin.

[Fae - Female Fitness Coach @FaeCurves]

Frequent gym goers know this, you have to move fast when you get out of bed right before your brain starts negotiating