Déjà Vu

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[Déjà Vu @MannanSparrow]

I'm just thankful for this Life. I can't Explain. Really I can't Explain

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@_Najj Come home and marry

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@zillionokoye I'm interested

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@livescore -)—y

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Ramadan Kareem to you & yours

[Sean Don @BigSean]

10 years of Dark Sky Paradise!!!! This album changed it all for me, I can’t thank you enough

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@NEBASARK American passport & Frodo baggins

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My people 🫶

[Arc. Naji-lal @najilal_]

Wedding guest ft my shades🥹❤️

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@bolajiabu @Nigeriansunni Amen and grant our kids this and more

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[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

In a country that has ambition, people should grow up aspiring to benefit from and contribute to the country's productive economy.

Nobody should grow up seeing NGO work as their visual reference for prosperity, as is the case in many parts of Nigeria and Africa.

The NGO-isation of African economies is a form of hybrid warfare. In tech, for example, there exists a whole subgenre of "tech bros" who do not actually build anything that solves any problems or creates any value, but rather apply for grants and receive what amounts to "free" dollars from foreign governments in exchange for not very much work at all.

The same thing is happening is happening in journalism, where almost no Nigerian journalist is working to figure out a new business model to replace the clearly broken current one that makes journalists poor, and nobody is interested in reporting stories that actually matter to Nigeria's national interests. Everybody is instead busy chasing $2,000 grants from Pullitzer Centre, CDD, CJID, and the rest of the Abuja NGO journalism rabble.

In agriculture, nobody is trying to fix the REAL problems with Nigerian agriculture - security, mechanisation, and storage & transport infrastructure. Instead, everybody is chasing Gates Foundation money and parroting Microsoft Man's narrative about how GMOs will fix everything. Half of Nigeria's harvests spoil ON THE FARM every year due to lack of storage and evacuation infrastructure, but one white man's NGO is busy telling us that what we need to increase our food supply is Monsanto-patented corn, and EVERYBODY is following him because of NGO money!

In education, nobody is interested in the foundational problems - an outdated Victorian curriculum and a widespread lack of basic infrastructure like classrooms and computers. Everybody is instead busy following oyibo NGOs to be talking about AI and IoT-enabled learning for all the 12 students that will ever have access to those things, so that they will use AI to teach them that Mungo Park discovered River Niger, and they can use their IoT-enabled tablet computer to label parts of praying mantis.

In real estate, nobody is building to solve the uniform problem across sub-Saharan Africa - access to relatively cheap, high-quality housing, which immediately elevates low-income earners into middle-class status. Everybody is busy chasing one tiny market of money launderers and NGO people who earn in dollars and pricing condos in Guzape at $400,000. So now you have poorly-built, low-quality, cement-and-glass nonsense multiplying all over Africa and sitting empty for decades while the population of urban slums continues to balloon every year!

NGOs and the influx of foreign government money need to be treated as a critical national security threat across Africa. At least 90% of existing NGOs absolutely do not need to exist and should be shut down. Any influx of foreign state funds into an African country must be subject to oversight, and caps need to be placed on how much NGO staff can get paid, so as not to distort national economies dangerously, as they are currently doing.

[Déjà Vu @MannanSparrow]

This was what we talked about. A position that absolves you from survival mode
@thisisNURU

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

One thing I've always been clear about is that I can only vouch for myself. Many Nigerians who claim to be fighting for a better country, including some of those I once associated with, have found the people and situations that can pay their price.

That's why it is often said that one must never trust the loyalty of a poor man. For some, even if it didn't start out that way, this struggle ended up being a ladder to reach a higher socioeconomic level. For me, I was already born on the higher socioeconomic level, so there was nothing material in it for me.

Some others didn't even have a passport in 2020, so once they found themselves in a position where due to activism they gained access to offers, opportunities, and inducements from the NED/USAID rabble, they had what must have been a difficult decision to make, and I sympathise.

At the end of the day, I have to admit to myself that I have no idea what it means to grow up in Nigeria and be conditioned by its uniquely toxic mix of poverty, greed, and slave ship consciousness. I grew up in Nigeria too, but in a tiny, rarefied elite space that functioned as a bubble. I simply don't understand the mental makeup of Nigerians who grew up in the 'real' Nigeria, so I cannot judge them for making the decisions they do.

But me, I know why I make the decisions I do. 200 million of my countrymen and women may have been conditioned to always look for the best opportunity to sell out, but I am grateful for having been a spoiled child raised with options and an ability to conceive the world differently. I know I can't sell out to anybody because I was born sitting on the things that every Nigerian dreams of selling out for.

It's a shame, but it is what it is. Childhood conditioning plays a huge role in the choices we make as adults, and most of us were not conditioned to possess the self esteem needed to see the bigger picture instead of constantly looking for how to spin EVERYTHING into a petty grift/hustle as the 'sharp guys and girls' we think we are. I hope all of us find whatever it is that we are looking for in life. I hope whatever price all of us have is matched by someone willing to pay it. Eventually, all of us will live with the consequences of our choices as individuals and as a collective.

If you're catching a sub while reading this, then you're absolutely correct.

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G Eazy

[SEUN Yk @YKoluwaseun9]

Which artist would rock this better?

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The changes in seasons only reveal how our days are truly numbered in this Dunya. Don’t allow Shaytan to hand you a Greek gift cos they are only flirting you into deeper pockets of sins. Renounce the power Shaytan has over you & resuscitate your Iman in Allah.

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@Mademoixcel Anyone interested in data cleaning? I have a dataset I could share for trial.

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My kinda places

[holistic mami✨ @LeArielleSimone]

a library on the water. my soul needed this today.

[holistic mami✨ @LeArielleSimone]

a library on the water. my soul needed this today.

[ColeWorld @nocapptd]

Happy January 28th to all those celebrating.

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It's always amazing how a specific music, scent, or voice can throw you back to a moment.

[Ölele Salvador🦅🇬🇭 @OleleSalvador]

🚨ICYMI🇺🇸🎶🇯🇲: Live performance of Sabali(Patience) by @Nas ft. @damianmarley on @JimmyKimmelLive, October 14, 2010

🦅🇬🇭

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@JOBCORNER247 Data analysis

[👑Kvng Olagreat™⚽️ @TheRealOlagreat]

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