Dubem

The little things count🌹

[Dubem @ms_dubie]

@bukkkola Lizzy baby 😍😍

[Harley knows you are lonely and so she @miss_ezeani]

After the premiere of The Trade, I got chatting with producers. I asked them why they didn’t just let Eric get away? He was the perfect villain. You’re rooting for him.

Guess what they replied? Nigeria and Nigerian board restrictions.

Another time, I was cast for a movie that ended being cancelled because the NPF refused to approve how the script portrayed them. It was either they shot it without NPF which was the soul of the plot (ie use any other uniform that doesn’t suggest the NPF, what’ll be the point?), or not shoot at all. They canceled.

The Nigerian creative industry is not just restricted by “obvious” factors… there’re things that go on behind the scenes that greatly stifle ideation.

In the movie Top Gun, the US Navy provided them access to the Ranger aircraft carriers, fighter jets, and ACTIVE-DUTY military pilots to perform the aerial stunts.

In Transformers, the production received massive logistical support. They provided them with helicopters, Raptors, and actual military bases to use as filming locations.

In Ironman, Marvel Studios was granted access an air force base and actual military aircraft to film the scenes where Tony Stark's experimental suit clashes with the US Air Force.

To mention but a few.

But in Nigeria, if you wear Camo as a civilian, you’ll witness wonders.

The state of this nation affects EVERYTHING. It ruins things in ways you can’t begin to imagine until you have skin in it.

You go outside to shoot, you have to deal with street louts. You have a script that touches major sectors, and you’ll have to seek approvals upon approvals, or risk your movie been banned after release.

If this series even remotely refers to a particular national body, and the plot becomes too real, it’ll only take one person who feels attacked to can it.

These people are not stupid. They’re also navigating Nigeria like everyone else.

Let’s be kinder with our criticism.

[Engr. Timi @teemee_lehin]

If I am to google what carbonara is while reading a book, they should google akara.

Idk why we have to hand hold anybody in fiction.

[Cinderella Man @Osi_Suave]

Nothing will count as justice if ASP Usman Nuhu isnt sentenced to death and shot at Eko Atlantic.

Alongside the other policeman who held the magazine and give him a bullet to kill that young man.

[🪞 @allldiamonds]

i've learned to stop carrying the weight of the aftermath of someone else's deceitfulness; I just show up fully and see what happens

[LOLO👸🤍 @Nazannwa]

lmfao. actually, I fuck with this.
if people can talk about their sexual escapades, why can't people talk about their non sexual escapades?
why does it always bite you people when someone say they aren't sexually active? 😭🤚

[Dr. Oyewole Abidemi @Themandemi]

That guy just attacked Tunde unprovoked.

You guys really platformed a proper idiot.

You think your performative noise on Twitter makes you a better person than those walking the walk and changing lives daily?

A proper scallywag.

[voiceofabayomi @voiceofabayomi]

I really don’t know how to explain it, but this feels like music.
Like if someone asked me to define music and give examples, this song would be one of them.
It sounds like what music is supposed to sound like.

[sid @atcinemeral]

slice-of-life television at its absolute finest & i genuinely dont think they can ever replicate this again.

[. @UcheKl]

Igbo.
If you struggle while speaking it native speakers will laugh at you.

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.” - Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns.

[Luna M ✨ @tiredfeminist_]

Terrible partners will literally cost you your life

[M-Jay🪅💜 @Jamesoflife]

People in the quotes and replies aren’t even clocking the main issue here which is that men have mastered the art of discrediting women’s achievements under the guise of faux criticism as long as it doesn’t revolve around them. Whether it’s women bagging degrees, losing weight, acquiring wealth or celebrating a milestone, there’ll always be a man to belittle and minimize it

[C H I E F, the NuriaStore Bookseller @bennetowuonda]

Am I the only one who reads a really good book or an article and be like,

Wow. people are so intelligent, emotional, and articulate.

[Peter F. Parker @Woulk3r]

Charles abeg.

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

RIP to these young people who worked at United Capital but sadly died last week in Afriland Towers fire. This is saddening.

Just look at their ages 😭 my God!

[Sam @ilynem]

I like the massive publicity they have given this talented lady. In the end, talent will always win. You can sit on your couch and spew your envy in the guise of cultural pride, but you will never bring down her creativity.

[•EZIØ• @ezioakwawo]

I really hate the way you people talk about depression.

[kaeto @kaaetoo]

I don’t know why people like repeating this lie. The ‘further’ in front of it, is it for fancy? 😭