Contemporary Caveman

Socially unusual | Selective extrovert | Likely to air you for dumb takes.

P.O's Stepson...

[Tony Ajah @tonyajah]

If you attend many of these big churches in Lagos, be very careful what you consume from the pulpit this period, because I genuinely think a memo has been sent to many of them.

The patterns are becoming too loud to ignore.

Most of the topics, sermons, statements, and even program themes I’ve been seeing from some of these big churches are psychologically constructed to make Nigerians emotionally withdraw from voting and accepting change as impossible.

Some weeks ago, it was Pastor Adeboye telling people that the next president has already been chosen by God.

Now it is Matthew Ashimolowo saying Peter Obi is the best candidate, but he won’t win.

Then another popular Lagos church is running with a program theme talking about “Jesus being the best political cover.”

And there are many more subtle messages like that flying around.

This is becoming too coordinated to be random.

The timing.

The location.

The pastors involved.

The exact emotional direction of the messaging.

This is psychological manipulation, and many Nigerians are not catching it.

Because APC knows something very important.

They know they no longer have anything tangible to sell Nigerians again.

Fuel is expensive.

Food is expensive.

Electricity is expensive.

School fees are expensive.

Businesses are collapsing.

The naira has been battered.

People are suffering visibly.

So what do you do when performance can no longer convince the people?

You start targeting their psychology.

You start targeting hope.

You start targeting morale.

You start making people feel like resistance is pointless.

That is the new strategy.

And religion is one of the easiest vehicles to use because many Nigerians trust pastors more than they trust facts.

Notice the pattern carefully.

These pastors will subtly admit that Peter Obi or the Obi/Kwankwaso movement represents competence or better leadership, but immediately after saying that, they will emotionally conclude with:
“But he cannot win.”

“God has already chosen.”

“Jesus is the answer.”

“Focus on heaven.”

Do you people not see the psychological game being played there?

It is not direct support for APC.

It is emotional demobilization.

It is convincing Nigerians not to bother participating.

It is making people subconsciously feel their votes do not matter.

Because once people lose hope psychologically, the battle is already halfway won politically.

And sadly, many of these pastors know exactly what they are doing because they understand how emotionally dependent many Nigerians are on religious authority.

They know many church members will never question anything coming from the altar.

That is why you must use your brain this period.

God is supreme.

Jesus is King.

Nobody is arguing that.

But God has also given human beings free will.

The same Bible is full of people making choices and living with the consequences of those choices.

Nigeria today is the result of choices.

Bad leadership is the result of choices.

Corruption is the result of choices.

Silence is the result of choices.

And better leadership will also come from choices.

God will not come down from heaven to thumbprint ballot papers.

Nigerians will.

So when someone tells you “the next president has already been chosen,” ask yourself:
Why then are politicians campaigning?

Why are billions being spent on elections?

Why are parties fighting desperately for power?

Why are propaganda machines working overtime?

Why are pastors suddenly sounding like political analysts?

Because they know votes matter.

And they know people matter.

That is why APC and its supporters are now focusing heavily on psychological warfare.

They know they cannot easily defend the suffering Nigerians are facing.

So the next best thing is to make Nigerians mentally surrender before 2027 even arrives.

That is why you must stay alert.

Pray, yes.

Trust God, yes.

But also think critically.

Because faith without wisdom is how manipulators control people.

[Contemporary Caveman @lazyChefUC]

@gwayyygggg @BigEmmy29 @EfeTheeGreat @Desii_barbi ���😭😭
Misandry dey disguise! Interesting how you didn't see the horrible flaw in your logic.

If a woman CHOOSES to bear her husband's name, it's not a feminist choice? By your logic FEMINISM isn't about women's freedom of choice but about rules laid by one set of women. Hmm...

[Emeka Mba @emekamba]

Where the Tracks Used to Be

My mum came back to Nigeria after a decade. She was so excited to get to Nomeh, to see family, breathe the dusty air of village life, feel home again.
As we drove in, she asked me: "When did we pass the railway station? I didn't feel the bump."
She was waiting for the tracks. That little jolt that always meant, we're here, we're home.
There was no bump. There are no tracks.
I grew up making train journeys across Nigeria, even fonder memories of the train rides from Enugu to Nomeh. The station, we simply called it Station; was the heartbeat of the town. Women, kids hawking okpa and cold drinks. Travellers leaning from windows. Noise. Commerce. Life. Nomeh was busy. Nomeh was connected.
But even after the train stopped running, the tracks now overgrown with weeds, reminded us of something familiar.
Then one day, and people in the town still remember this, men came with lorries and police escorts, claiming to be from the Chinese company tasked with reconstructing the rail line. They removed the tracks and loaded them onto the lorries and drove away. The local boys took what was left, the stones from the sidings, and sold them to builders in town.
The station building is still there. Hidden behind thick bush. Like a secret the town is ashamed of.
Not a stone remains on the ground.
And my mother sat in the car, quietly realising that the place she remembered, the bump, the hawkers, the sound of trains, exists now only in our memories.
Some things you can't explain about this country. You just feel them in your chest.
I have heard talk of a new rail line, same narrow gauge, to continue from Aba to Enugu, and up to Maiduguri.
But for now; We have no tracks. Where exactly are we going?

The last slide taken from the window of my truck in 2017.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The best thing you can do for yourself as a Nigerian is to use that internet connection of yours while you still can, and follow/read/watch information from a wide variety of sources from all over the world.

Your Nigerian media is a Europe-US information cage. When I say "Nigerian media", I'm not just talking about news platforms. I mean your popular social media bloggers. Your big content aggregators. Your online discussion and image boards. Everything is bought and paid for, and the money is always European or American.

Do yourself a favour and unplug.

Look for news, web content, TV series, movies and discussion forums from Asia, Latin America and other parts of Africa. Watch Brazilian TV shows. Watch Chinese documentaries. Watch Vietnamese movies. Follow social media content creators from Indonesia and Russia. Lurk on Pakistani message boards. Gain a wider picture of the world while you still have access to a relatively open internet that allows you to do so.

It's the best thing you can do for yourself.

[JP Attueyi @jpattueyi]

APC is reacting to the use of “Operation Wetie” by Seyi Makinde because deep down they know they are pushing Nigerians towards just that and they hate that Seyi Makinde is pointing it out.

I will explain.

“Operation Wetie” was a dark chapter in Nigeria’s history, particularly in Ibadan and the old Western Region in the 1960s.

The phrase comes from Yoruba, “wẹ̀ tí e”, meaning “pour petrol on it.”
And that’s exactly what happened.

During a bitter political crisis involving the Action Group, factions loyal to Obafemi Awolowo and Samuel Ladoke Akintola clashed after disputed elections.

What followed was mayhem:
Homes burned
Political opponents attacked
Law and order broke down
Violence became a political tool
It got so bad that it helped trigger the 1966 Nigerian military coup, and Nigeria’s long detour into military rule.

So why would Seyi reference “Operation Wetie” at the opposition summit?

He is simply trying to remind the APC of what happens when:
1. People lose faith in electoral integrity
2. Political actors push systems to the breaking point
3. Institutions meant to be neutral are seen as compromised.

History shows that when citizens begin to believe that outcomes are predetermined, tensions rise, and bad actors can exploit that environment.

Have you listened to how apc people brag online?
They tell you the result has already been written.
They ask you if you couldn't stop Bola when he wasn't president, how would you stop him now that he is president.
They tell you that Bola is no Jonathan.

There are growing concerns in some quarters about the independence of key institutions, including Independent National Electoral Commission.
Allegations and rumors, like those surrounding the appointment of Amupitan, are too serious to be ignored.

Yet Amupitan hasn't resigned.

Institutions should be accountable to the people but INEC is not yielding and Bola is yet to way a word about it; reinforcing the belief that he intends to snatch it, grab it and run with it.

Seyi is invoking “Operation Wetie” as a reminder of how quickly things can spiral when trust in the system collapses and Nigeria cannot afford a repeat of that era.

If anything, this moment calls for transparency from leadership and vigilance from citizens.

Bola still has a lot of time to do the right thing. He has 30 governors, he is incumbent so he can showcase why he should be reelected, then he should give the people a free and fair election then let the best man win.

Othwrwise, history shows it’s very hard to control what comes next.

[Prem Soni @ValueWithPrem]

The Rich understand this while,
Middle class is still collecting tickets.

The Stadium Scam.

Imagine a cricket stadium with exactly 50,000 seats. The management issues 50,000 tickets.

One ticket = One seat. Guaranteed.

For decades, this system was honest.
The ticket was just a receipt.
The seat was the value.
You held the paper because you couldn't carry the chair home.

Then, the management noticed something interesting. People outside were trading tickets like currency. "I'll give you two tickets for your watch." "I'll give you five tickets for your bike."

They realized that people trusted the paper more than they checked the stadium.

So, the management got greedy.
They started printing extra tickets for seats that didn't exist.
They sold 100,000 tickets.
Then 500,000 tickets.
Then 1,000,000 tickets.

They became billionaires selling claims to a game that was already sold out.

Then, one day, it happened.
Foreign ticket holders rushed the gates. They wanted their seats.

The management didn't have them.
So they did something historic.
They locked the turnstiles.

They announced on the loudspeakers:
"We are no longer exchanging tickets for seats. The ticket is the value now."

This actually happened.

The Stadium is the Bank.
The Seat is Gold.
The Ticket is the US Dollar.

For years, $35 was a guaranteed receipt for 1 ounce of Gold.
The paper was just a claim check.

But the US government printed more Dollars than they had Gold.
When other countries (like France) got suspicious and asked for their Gold back?

President Nixon locked the turnstiles.
In 1971, he "closed the Gold window."

He told the world: The Dollar is no longer a claim on Gold. It is the money.

Today, there are trillions of "tickets" floating around. But the amount of Gold hasn't changed.

That is why the price of everything keeps going up. It’s not that the seats are getting more expensive.

It’s that your ticket is worth less.

You are saving in paper tickets.
While the rich are buying the stadium.

[Mpire @mpiredivine]

Every New Day has it's own vibe and the best way to navigate the day successfully is to flow with the vibe and make your own way through it.

Today is a good day to win 💪🏾

[Johnson C @Strategist365]

They don’t want intelligence, they want obeisance.

People who hate accountability but like the aura of accountability.

People who hate the process but love the end product.

When dealing with women, better to deal with those who are already practically accountable rather than those who love the aura of accountability without evidence of this in their own lives.

[Dr. God Abeg ooo @josh_uglyasf]

Bro didn’t know when he came out of the closet 🤣🤣

[Pharaoh👳🏾‍♂️👑 @MrMekzy_]

This is just how i live my life! I have absolutely no energy to fight for anybody. Fight for you ke?? Are you money??

[Contemporary Caveman @lazyChefUC]

@Blvckboy_Emics @_ogbonnia_ @Cryptobuddiee @UnkleAyo Boy, 45 years salad... Mixed feelings, but I won't mind a plate, just for tasting 😋.

[Contemporary Caveman @lazyChefUC]

@Jojo_Amandy @UchePOkoye *Taught not thought... Your message is valid tho.

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

Anytime I see this man’s videos I always learn something new.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The Global South has learned the obvious lesson from the Israeli trashfire - develop deterrent capacity or become the empire's food.

But the empire has not learned its obvious lesson - that its self-acclaimed exceptionalism is all a lie.

[OBIARAERI, Nnaemeka Onyeka. @emekabk21]

And we have governors in these states

We have a commander in chief

Please who is the Army Chief again

TY Danjuma said the same thing

Why are other ethnic nations too cowardly to stop this madness

[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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[Contemporary Caveman @lazyChefUC]

@BrosOlawale @HaYoMiDe_ Thank you!

[Contemporary Caveman @lazyChefUC]

@keepsmilinidiot @DavidGeo14 @Prime_Xedge @seandeman193 @Catchoris Ok, congrats! You know some music theory jargon... Doesn't invalidate his point tho.

[Contemporary Caveman @lazyChefUC]

@ms_gmn @Chi_Non_So007 @best_babe1 @_Ojonya THANK YOU!!!
I don't get how almost everyone in the CS seemed to miss the OPs point!

Comprehension can be really tough.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

No one can accuse the obvious of being "conspiracy theory" anymore - the empire sees African economic unity and intra-African trade as a mortal threat.

And here's why