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[Extremely Underrated⁷ @kumbufavour]

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[Ruffrasta official @Ruffrasta1]

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

[Ayo @Alhajirostova]

American: So there are terrorists causing problems in your country, right?

Nigerian: Yes.

American: That's terrible. Is the government at least doing something about it?

Nigerian: Well, our president addressed the issue.

American: Oh. What did he say?

Nigerian: He spoke about the law of lawf in the holy book

American: ...The law of love?

Nigerian: I guess

American: Okay. Did you send the military after them?

Nigerian: Hmm... at times.

American: What do you mean "at times"?

Nigerian: Sometimes we've heard the military went after them. In some cases, the terrorists ended up killing military personnel.

American: Wait. They killed your soldiers?

Nigerian: Yes.

American: Okay, so then your government retaliated and finished them off, right?

Nigerian: Mm... nah.

American: What do you mean "nah"?

Nigerian: Well, our president also gave an example from the Bible about the prodigal son on how we should accept them with love.

American: Hold on. The prodigal son?

Nigerian: Yes.

American: I'm confused. So you're telling me terrorists killed military personnel, and the response was a Bible lesson?

Nigerian: Something like that.

American: So you guys aren't doing anything?

Nigerian: No, no. We're doing something.

American: Okay. What are you doing?

Nigerian: We're rehabilitating the ones we catch.

American: You're... rehabilitating them?

Nigerian: Yes.

American: Not prosecuting them?

Nigerian: Not according to our president, no.

American: WTF WTF WTF

Nigerian: I never even tell you anything, you don dey cry

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Media Framing of Crime Along Ethnic Lines: Divisive.

As an Igbo man, I have endured stereotypes, judgment, and labelling solely based on my ethnic origins. This is not an isolated Igbo experience. Most Nigerians have, at some point, been reduced to their ethnicity rather than recognised for their true character.

I understand the pain of the ordinary Fulani man today, often unfairly judged by the actions of criminals he does not support, has never met, and who are not representative of his people.

Even in America, such unjust labelling fueled the civil rights movement and prompted Martin Luther King Jr. to declare that people should be judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin.

Every Nigerian ethnic group is known for its unique traditions, occupations, skills, and strengths. Crime, however, has no ethnicity. A thief is a thief. A terrorist is a terrorist. A kidnapper is a kidnapper. They are bad actors, not representatives of any people. They must be identified, arrested, and punished according to the law.

We must decisively abandon the dangerous practice of blaming entire ethnic groups for the actions of a few criminals. It is unjust, it breeds hatred, and it damages our national unity.

Let us proudly celebrate our diverse cultures, talents, and contributions, rather than falling prey to stereotypes and prejudices that politicians and divisive interests exploit for their gain.

A new Nigeria must emerge—one where no citizen is condemned because of tribe, religion, or birthplace. We can cherish our cultural roots while standing united by justice, mutual respect, and hope for a better future. We are capable of this.

A new Nigeria is within our reach. -PO

[nnenna @jknnnee]

Our kids have been in the forest for nearly a month and the First Lady is distributing cars for her husbands re-election 🙂

[lulu @weskastri]

the reason why Palestine isn’t being seen anymore because there’s barely any journalists left. 20% of Lebanon is now under Israeli occupation. 12 million people have been displaced in Sudan. Over 25 million people are facing acute hunger in Congo. Don’t stop talking.

[gst @wearegst]

In just one year, Nigerians spent $1.6B in ransoms.

To put that into perspective, Nigeria’s annual ransom marketplace is now 11 times larger than the country’s entire Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Q1 2025.

Crime has structurally outpaced the formal economy under Tinubu.

[gst @wearegst]

The relentless kidnapping of children has become a devastating and shameful reality in Nigeria.

[Bop Daddy @falzthebahdguy]

Miserable children’s day.
Over 40 still missing in Oyo.
Kidnappers getting richer by the day - because our government allow children to be tortured and then reward the criminals with handsome ransom payments.
Citizens carrying on like we are not already in a battle for our lives.

[Harry Da Diegot @trigottista]

The names of the abducted school children in Oyo State

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

It’s Children’s Day. Around the world, children are with food, with friends, with families. In Nigeria, under Tinubu, a child is more likely hungry, out of school, or kidnapped for ransom.

I created 6 chapters focused on this. Please read and share.

https://t.co/f4d6SlWbKU

[Oluwaseun @officialtelz]

You slept on your bed under a duvet because of the cold

Some toddlers slept on bare floor in the rain after a long day of torture

Yet you defend the government that rehabilitate the terrorists when they are caught?

You won’t escape God’s vengeance!

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.

Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.

You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp

[Renegade @_wapnen]

I went to secondary school in Barkin Ladi 20 years ago. This is what SS1 - 3 boys were doing, night shifts in the blistering cold. I did it too. My mates in Oyo were sleeping or studying. I’ve watched this shit deteriorate in real time.

Barkin Ladi now looks nothing like it did when I graduated 14 years ago. I went to the same junction we used to buy stuff during outings last year & I was shaking. They don’t speak the same language. Crisis after crisis. Slowly, the people who used to till those lands are now doing menial jobs in the south. The names of the villages have changed. The senator representing that region was killed few days after I graduated when he attended a mass funeral of people who were massacred by the Fulanis who now occupy their homes. 14 years ago guys.

Trying to raise awareness about this state-backed conquest feels like screaming under water.

Few months ago, my aunt in mangu came to ask for money to trade cause she can’t farm anymore. Their farms were attacked 3 years ago. They wouldn’t dare go back.

For more than 10 years, we’ve had internally displaced persons from Borno living in our house, after my mother took them in. They only go back to their so-called homes for funerals. 3 brilliant kids; Elizabeth, Margaret and Grace (named after my now late mother for her benevolence). The dad does security work, the mom cleans. Who knows what they could’ve made of themselves back home? I do, they’d have been compost for aliens.

It always starts small then it spirals out of control. We’ve seen all kinds of terror. I wish they just came and shot people but that’s not fun enough. Bullets are for runners. They’ll slice pregnant women open to kill their fetuses. They’ll feed women their kid’s fingers. They burn people alive, hack them with machetes. When people try to defend themselves, that’s when soldiers come in. They call it farmer-herder clashes. They say cattle was rustled. Cattle was rustled? That’s why you renamed my village and put 200 people in a mass grave ?

I remember @YarKafanchan saying that she wept after the 2015 elections cause she knew her people would die like flies & then what happened in southern kaduna? When people talk, they say where’s the evidence? But what about the bodies? Dying is a morbid thing to be skilled at but boy, we have experience.

We’ve seen “strategists” platform them and defend all manner of wrongdoing on the alter of political correctness.

Omoh, let me just stop here.

[Elizabeth Gaskell stan account @Ms_Ojo]

There is nothing remotely amusing about the way politics is played in Nigeria.

I don't find it entertaining nor strategic.

[Queen • Brand Strategy & Marketing Psychology @QueenetWrites]

When I was younger, I used to avoid politics because it overwhelmed me. It made me angry, helpless, emotional. I convinced myself it was better not to care too deeply.

Then something happened that shattered that illusion.

In my second year of university, I heard about an infamous burial in my are. An entire family was brought home: Father, mother, and children in coffins.

They were murdered in the north. And what happened after?

Nothing.

No outrage No justice. No accountability.

Just pure inhumanity.

I was so emotional like I was in secondary school when I heard about Chibok girls and how the government handled it. So, I decided to make research. To understand why...

I realized politics is not some distant game played by powerful men in Abuja. Politics is life and death. Politics decides who gets protected and who gets buried.

As I grew older, I watched everything around us decay little by little. The economy collapsing under the weight of greed and incompetence. Prices rising while hope disappeared. Graduates with no jobs. Parents working themselves to exhaustion just to survive. Electricity failing. Security failing. The naira bleeding value every single day while leaders live untouched by the suffering they create.

And somehow we are still expected to smile through it. To normalize it. To defend it.

It's heartbreaking that people are being displaced from their own homes in the north. Did we care this much that now, insecurity is everybody's problem?

Now, that we've come to realise that even if you're "careful" and you "don't move around carelessly" Nigeria could happen to you.

That’s why I can no longer separate myself from politics. Because politics is everything. It determines whether people eat or starve, whether families sleep safely or bury their loved ones, whether young people dream or simply endure.

Everything is politics.

And at some point, silence becomes complicity. If after all this suffering, all this pain, all this destruction, you still support Tinubu without questioning the damage being done to ordinary Nigerians, then you don't have a conscience.

[Temitayo O. Esq @Tbabz__]

One fatal cultural flaw of ours is the collective inability to appreciate how politics at every level impacts on the most minute detail of your everyday personal life forever. E.g there’s an invisible yet straight line between your government and your height/dentition/genes, etc.

[Extremely Underrated⁷ @kumbufavour]

48 mins went by so fast. A fantastic watch

[P0liticalbaby 🇵🇸🇨🇩 @mao_0k]

Performing Forever: Wedding to Celebrity Pipeline & Romantic Capitalism (Video Essay)

People are using their weddings to launch their careers. Traditionally we were only privy to the romantic lives of the famous, wealthy & powerful. But either decentralisation of digital platforms people’s romantic lives have now become fair game for content creation

Full video on YouTube:
https://t.co/X4AgdRHnUp

[mike @mikealebiosu]

but if this country soft, all of us go enjoy am now. so why do i have to fight other citizens because i want a better environment for myself?

omoooo, this one go far o.

[Rinu Oduala 🔥🔫 @SavvyRinu]

Someone has to say it and I will.

The only reason why people are still trying to push Atiku for presidency is because we have too many extremely selfish “elites” who will not support a reformer because all they are waiting for their own turn to benefit from the national cake.

Only few are interested in Nigeria as a country. The rest just wants their share too. That’s why the Nigeria project will never make it.

There are too many “Emi lo kans” who do not see Nigeria as a nation that can ever be bound in freedom, equity, peace, unity and inclusivity.

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[co-creator with God. 🥼🩺 @MaryRoseMalomo]

Taking a flight for 25k and 270k in one lifetime(a lifetime of less than thirty years mind you) is abysmal.
What a country.😭