Femi

[Congressman Greg Steube @RepGregSteube]

‼️BREAKING: My amendment to withhold 100% of U.S. aid to Nigeria until its government stops the slaughter of Christians has PASSED.

American taxpayers should NEVER bankroll governments that turn a blind eye while Christians are abducted, tortured, and murdered.

No more wasteful foreign aid!

[Femi @matarus1]

@PrGodsent @JollyAkeju01 Shataap

[Douglas Kendyson @KendysonD]

Hi @jidesanwoolu, @hanneymusawa

I'm deeply disappointed in your @lirs_govng team hounding Selar in the name of claiming creator royalty taxes. I turn 30 in Oct and I've spent the last 10 years building Selar, so this is what the youth mean by policies being created to crush growing businesses. We are the pioneering and largest creator company in Nigeria (Africa actually), and instead of being supported by the government, the LIRS team is keen on trying to scapegoat us to set a precident.

Beyond the huge numbers seen in the headlines, we are still a young company just trying to make our mark for the creator economy in a country where we've never been supported once, we're literally a bootstrapped company. In 2025 alone, we've fulfilled our tax obligation in almost 9 figures and we've never missed out on any of our tax obligation over the years. You can check the records.

We are a software company, we make our ecommerce software available to our thousands of creators in not just Nigeria but 13 other African countries and for that, we earn a small commission of 4%, most of which goes to our payment provider. This is the same business as shopify, teachable, e.t.c There is no reason LIRS is hounding us for a backdated 5% royalty fee on all sales when we've clearly explained our line of business to them and shared everything to prove we are not a royalty based business.

What they're asking us to do is raise our pricing to extort these funds from our creators which is odd considering our creators still pay taxes on their income. No creator company in the world charges as high as even 5%.

Also, less payment gateway charges we get 1-3% max, so where do we pay backdated 5% fees from?

The government would have to decide if it wants the Nigerian creative economy to grow or not.

This conversation is important to me because we pioneered this industry of monetizing digital products online in Nigeria and today we host over 400k creators selling using our platform.

This is an opportunity for the government to show it's committment to making Nigeria work for young Nigerians especially in the creator economy.

Time and money we should be spending investing into our business and it's growth for the GDP of this nation is being spent in long back and forth.

We can't catch up with the west if this is what we're facing at home. Above everything else, disputes like this are distracting from the real work.

If anything, for all our CSR contributions to the education system in the country with our Smart Hustle Anti fraud initiative and our other efforts, we should be getting tax rebates, but we're not even asking for anything but to be left alone to build our business.

Thank you.

[Femi @matarus1]

@richsongocrazy I'm interested

[Femi @matarus1]

@powerfulbadeeu @rukky_nate [email protected]

[Femi @matarus1]

@richtosho Njfp has stopped

[Femi @matarus1]

In your attempt to come down from that your high horse, you angle will sprain, your legs would be dislocated.

When you start facing the reality, glaucoma would do its job to your sight.

elesin

[Foundational Nupe Lawyer @egi_nupe]

People underestimate the profits from petty trading with little capital supports by way of grants or loan. That’s why someone would think supporting Kuli-kuli , akara and roasted corn business is ridiculous. Many of you need to come down from your high horses and face the reality.

[Femi @matarus1]

As you started your garbage with
"If you’ve ever lived in a Nigerian village or rural area, you KNOW frying Akara is SERIOUS BUSINESS!";
may you end up in a village doing a SERIOUS Akara BUSINESS.

As you wrote "FACTS!" in caps, may her "facts" become capitalized in your life.

[Ogbeni @OgbeniAdugbo]

If you’ve ever lived in a Nigerian village or rural area, you KNOW frying Akara is SERIOUS BUSINESS! 🔥

Back in 1994, one of my secondary school mates’ mum was frying Akara… and the woman already had more than 3 houses from it! 🏠🏠🏠

Today, plenty sisters on this app are killing it with Kulikuli — some are even exporting to Canada 🇨🇦 and beyond! No be small thing.

So tell me… why the hullabaloo over what the First Lady said?

She spoke FACTS!

Akara, roasted corn, Kulikuli — these things don’t need millions to start. People have built empires, trained children, built houses, and lived well from them for decades.

Instead of twisting her words mischievously and taking one part out of context, why not celebrate the message of hope, self-reliance, and small beginnings?

No business is too small if you do it with wisdom, consistency, and prayer. Many big men and women today started with “ordinary” things.

Rural hustlers, village champions, and street entrepreneurs — una dey try! 💪
Drop your own Akara/Kulikuli success story below. Let’s trend the positive side!
#SmallBeginningsBigWins #NaijaHustle

[Femi @matarus1]

@PrGodsent Ma pa e danu

[Femi @matarus1]

This is the worst administration in the history of Nigeria. Very corrupt and insensitive. Bloody foolish woman. Nonsense

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

“To start Akara business doesn't take a lot of money. To start roasting corn and kuli-kuli doesn't take much. We didn't give them a loan, we gave them a grant. We have encouraged Nigerians as best as we could.”

- First Lady Remi Tinubu

[your boy Armani 🫂 @armanifeante]

With just 3000 naira you can be 22years old again

Go to the nearest high court in your area.

Ask for the affidavit center and when you get there

Tell them you want to declare your age and within few minutes you would get a stamped legal document stating that you are 22.

Cut out soda, bread, noodles and register for a running club and hit the gym

For just few hours work, you are now an MSc holder at 22. 😎

Age is a social construct!

[Field Marshal of the Han Dynasty @General_Oluchi]

I agree with Bayo Onanuga and here’s why:

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Since YCee has awakened Nigerians to the “Olodo uprising” debate, here’s a report on how the big tech giants weaponize their algorithms to dumb down the Nigerian/African population.

It’s my favorite report for the @Spearhead_Af from last year, but evergreen. Make sure you follow the @Spearhead_Af for more of this every single day.

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

The reason South Africans don’t get into the news is because they’re irrelevant, so they think their nationals are saints across the world.

They’ve sentenced a South African drug dealer to prison in Sierra Leone this week, another 42 deported from Ireland.

We’ll give you that publicity since that’s what you want, so you can know there are bad eggs everywhere. Idiots.

[Femi @matarus1]

Ti e ti baje

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.

Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.

If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.

Can we please retire this excuse?

[Femi @matarus1]

@elonmusk A typical brits with a south African madness. Baba olowo aye, e n siere Sir

[Femi @matarus1]

@wearegst I would be donating to this platform. I pray they're not being taken over by APC and the government

[Simon Thazhigilla Simon🇳🇬 @Thazhigilla_]

I am Nigerian, and right now my dream is bigger than me.

Only about 4.5% of medical literature globally are represented on Black skin.

That means millions of Black patients are learning from systems that barely look like them. Medical students study diseases on skin tones that are not their own. Doctors are trained with visual references that often fail Black bodies.

That gap has consequences.
So I am deciding to build towards changing it.

I’m starting with a book.
But the larger vision is far beyond that. I want to help build software and medical visualization tools that make Black medical representation impossible to ignore.

This is not just about diversity aesthetics, this is about accuracy, education, visibility and better healthcare outcomes.

One day, I want a Black child studying medicine anywhere on earth to see themselves fully represented in what they learn.
And I believe we can build that future.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Nigerian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all.

The Nigerian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Nigerian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr N250k/month Union Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all.

At. All.

The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that N1bn townhouse in Parkview Estate. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you.

So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable.

Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen.

That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the N300m house in Lekki that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing.

If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7.

Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place on Banana Island, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to Burna Boy. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist.

Them no really send any part of your papa at all.

[Pastor Who @PastorMarvy]

90% of the iPhone is manufactured and assembled in China. Nobody looks at an iPhone assembled in China and says “China built Apple.”

95% of Tesla cars especially Model X and Model Y are sourced and manufactured in China. Nobody looks at a Tesla and says “China built Tesla”

90% of Nvidia AI chips are fabricated in Taiwan by the TSMC. Nobody says Taiwan built Nvidia.

But when an African/Africans do the exact same thing, suddenly that understanding disappears.
Then it becomes:

“China built it for Africa.”
“Americans built it for Africa.”

Aliko Dangote and Nigeria built the largest single train refinery in the world. He is Nigerian and an African.

Thank you!