Mary

Christian| Catholic| a twin| graphics designer| OBIdient| Real estate

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

Don't say I did not tell you o, yes you, oya come and buy now o 😊 what are you still waiting for

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

@TechCrushHQ The experience I've had with techcrush is fresh. This is the first time I'm actually doing anything majorly on tech

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

You just have to start.

And I'm still learning, one step at a time.

#RiseWithTechCrush
#Tech4Africans
#LearningWithTechCrush

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

Day 2 — The Tech Myth I Debunked

One of the biggest myths I always heard about tech was:

“Tech is only for people who are naturally good at computers.”

Honestly, I used to believe it too.

I thought you needed to be a programming genius, have a powerful laptop, or

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

and keep going.

There have definitely been moments when I’ve looked at something and thought, “How am I supposed to understand this?” 😂

But then, step by step, it starts making sense.

My biggest lesson so far?

You don't have to be a tech expert to start a tech journey.

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

@JuanjuanLi49236 Amen... thanks

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

Please help us find Angel, she's been missing since October last year. Angel is just 6 years old and her next birthday is two days from now. If anybody has any useful information about her whereabouts please contact her father on 08036228978. Thanks 🙏
https://t.co/osMWAL1ogy

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

@Sachinettiyil Eternal rest grant unto Father Cruz O Lord and may your perpetual light shine upon him. Amen 🙏

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

@clevabanking is number one in mobile banking. Very flexible and easy dollar - naira tranfers.

#clevaistwo

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@Harmless12345 🤣🤣

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@Mallam_jabeer Congratulations

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@Nig_Farmer D

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@RealOsuofia Happy birthday legend

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

@Oludeewon I need a new laptop for my video editing

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

You just know how fake it is when they had to make Diddy pretend to care about little girls.

They told GEJ point-blank (that they will form a Parallel Government if the 2015 election did not go their way). From where did they get such confidence? From Barrack Obama of course!

These are men that couldn’t even tolerate the EndSARS Peaceful Protests & the Hunger Protests; they had to quickly jail little children.

They are soooooooooooooooo afraid of karma.

USAID is a CIA Front that used $5 billion in 2014 to ignite a Colour Revolution in Ukraine. They oxygenated the SaiBaba Psychological Operation in Nigeria at the same time as well.

#CHANGE was red meat that took on a life of its own. Nigerians wanted something to excite them, & they got it. These are no more mere allegations, thanks to Elon Musk & DOGE.

By the way, @USAIDNigeria’s X account has been deactivated, thanks to David Hundeyin.

Finally, it’s looking like this internet generation of Nigerians may win this war of attrition against the one-percenters called The Establishment. We must win, or die trying!

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

@vakkai Amen

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Nigerians struggle with numbers. And few things make this more painfully apparent than when I point out that immigration to Europe/North America/Oceania is not, and can never be a significant economic solution for 200 million underemployed Nigerians.

The math is so simple that an 8 year-old can grasp it: Divide the total number of Nigerians alive who have ever left Nigeria or were born outside Nigeria by the 210 million estimated Nigerians in existence. Multiply the result by 100. The answer is the total possible percentage of Nigeria's population for whom immigration is even a realistic possibility.

Single digit percentage.

But say this, and Nigerians IN NIGERIA will fight you, because they all genuinely and truthfully believe that they will get a visa to that oyibo paradise where all their dreams will come true. Even though statistically, they're all going to live and die in Nigeria. They'd rather waste an entire lifetime in limbo dreaming of escaping someday, instead of taking any action to change where they actually ARE.

It's fascinating. It reminds me of what someone here once pointed out - that every Nigerian who has ever lived since the beginning of Nigeria, has prayed for, and expected riches, miracles and blessings, but 99% of those prayers have never been answered. They lived and prayed and died in poverty, still praying. And despite Nigerian prayers having this statistical 99% denial rate, Nigerians still believe that their prayers will be answered because the statistical 99% believe fervently that they are the statistical 1%.

A society of terminally delusional fantasists.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The problem with UK diaspora Nigerians in particular is that you don't know the history of Black UK immigration, so you don't know your place in that system.

You've never heard of Enoch Powell, or the Windrush era, or "No dogs, Blacks or Irish," or why the UK ever admitted Black migrants in the first place. You think your 2019 "japa" is something that just happened devoid of historical or geopolitical context, based on your personal effort and hard work.

You think your UK skilled worker/care visa makes you a hardworking, educated, taxpaying, contributing member of British society, and you get offended when that recognition is consistently denied to you. Because you don't understand your role in British society and why they gave you that visa.

The first Black UK immigrants in the modern era (the so-called Windrush generation from the Caribbean) were enticed to move to the UK between the late 1940s and the early 1970s, with promises of higher wages than they could get for their skills at home. The immigration pathway was even easier for them than for you, because they were classed as citizens of the British empire, and they did not need visas to move to England.

Due to a shortage of men after WW2, Britain needed labour to rebuild its destroyed infrastructure and revitalise its economy and tax receipts. Hundreds of thousands of men from Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, St Lucia, etc brought their skills, energy and families to contribute to the UK, like you lot are doing today. The post-WW2 London Underground and the wider Transport For London network were built and staffed almost entirely by Jamaican men. At a point, TFL opened recruitment offices in the Caribbean to recruit migrants directly from there - such was its dependence on West Indian migrants to keep London's economy functioning (sound familiar?)

There is nothing great about the UK's infrastructure today that our Caribbean cousins did not significantly contribute toward. They literally rebuilt the UK's capital and significantly contributed to the growth of other cities like Birmingham, Manchester and Bradford. And after all these undeniable contributions, how did the story end?

In 2015, the UK Home Office started hunting down the surviving members of this generation, claiming that they had no legal right to be in the UK, and they should leave within 30 days or be deported to countries some of them had left before they gained independence. In the 30 years before 2015, the children and grandchildren of these Black migrants who built the UK had been economically and socially converted into an underclass that was overrepresented in crime statistics and invisible practically everywhere else except sports and entertainment.

If you knew all this, you'd have realised by now that your "Skilled Worker Visa" or "Care Worker Visa" is just Windrush Part II, and those "Jamo" people some of you look down on and warn your children against associating with, are exactly what the UK is going to turn your children and grandchildren into, if it isn't merciful enough to deport you and them first. They once used West Indian labour to carry out essential functions that they couldn't themselves, until their population recovered and they didn't need those blackies anymore. They're simply doing the same thing again, with a bit of extra English to massage your ego and make you feel important.

Ultimately your story in the UK will play out the same way as that of our cousins from across the Atlantic - economically and socially restricted to ghettos in a few cities where your children have only 2 real possibilities open to them: somehow make it as a professional footballer, or drop out of school and become a drug dealer in Hounslow with a Drill mixtape on Soundcloud. You and your kids will then be invoked by politicians as a "social burden on the British state" and become the face of the immigration Bogeyman they trot out to white voters every election.

History is very important.

[India Naftali @indianaftali]

🎗️An entire nation holds its breath, watching history unfold.

Witness the powerful moment Israelis watch the hostage release live in Tel Aviv.

On @i24NEWS_EN

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

Please help find little Angel, she has been missing since October last year. If you have any information on her whereabouts please call her father Mr Josephson on 08036228978

[Mary @mari_mayrie]

We, together with some of our members, visited one of our own whose daughter went missing since October 16th last year.( Twins Alive Foundation Lagos Chapter).

Twinny, we pray that our next visit is to come celebrate the return of your daughter with you in Jesus' name. Amen