One reason I didn’t engage this tweet is because the tweet seems more like engagement farming than truth.
In forensic psychology and credibility analysis, there is a concept called contextual embedding. When a person experiences a genuine crisis or a sudden shock, their brain naturally fixates on concrete, specific details.
They want accountability, so they name the specific hospital, the specific state, and the people involved. Real grief is heavy and it targets the source of the pain.
This story is completely unanchored. If you truly spent three hours on the phone in a panic while your friend was being shuttled between helpless facilities, those names would be burned into your mind and you would scream them out to warn others.
Keeping everything generic is a tactical choice. It allows anyone from any part of the country to project their own anger onto the post, which drives up our collective frustrations for numbers.
Let’s be truth in our dealings.
Does anyone here know how to change a passport renewal appointment date? I tried rescheduling it online, but I keep getting a message saying it’s not possible at this centre.
Lagos Police begin arresting and extorting dispatch riders plying the new coastal road, seizing bikes and demanding ₦200k. Police PRO when contacted asked “Who commissioned the road for bikes?”
NNPC has four refineries across the country and controls an extensive nationwide network of pipelines and depots, an infrastructure far more robust than Dangote’s reliance on road tankers.
NNPC is also an oil producer, with direct and preferential access to crude oil, an advantage Dangote does not have.
If, despite these structural and institutional advantages, NNPC is unable to compete effectively, then the issue is not Dangote or an imagined monopoly.
A state-backed oil giant with superior assets should not be outperformed by a private refinery unless something is fundamentally broken.