Mujtaba.¡

Go big or Go Home

[Mujtaba.¡ @mujimagaji]

A little late to the party 😅, but we’re here 👨🏽‍🎓👨🏽‍⚕️. Alhamdulillahi 🙂

[Mujtaba.¡ @mujimagaji]

Youri Tielemans was just unplayable for Belgium.
Undoubtedly the best player of the game.

[Mujtaba.¡ @mujimagaji]

You just have to feel for senegal 😔

[Mujtaba.¡ @mujimagaji]

No senegal 😭😭😭

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

All the records broken by Lionel Messi today:

Most FIFA World Cup finals goals by a football (soccer) player - 18

Most FIFA World Cup matches played in by an individual - 28

Most matches won by a player at the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 18

Most minutes played in the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 2,489

We are witnessing history.

[Mujtaba.¡ @mujimagaji]

@Faisal_Marapha @micdsnr Just pick one 😅

[Mujtaba.¡ @mujimagaji]

Take a bow 🙇🏾‍♂️
The youngest and oldest Argentinian goal scorer.
World cup All time highest goal scorer
The All time GOAT
THE GREATEST TO EVER PLAYED
MESSSIII .! MESSSI

[Zainab @zaiinabb234_]

The fact that we have to convince people to not vote tinubu is very sickening. How dumb can someone be?

[Whemïmor @hy_wemmy]

This economy is so fuvked, you will be sitting here thinking you’re bad with money and all you did was buy food.

[Sadiya @Halima_Fajr]

Tinubu’s failures do not make Buhari a better president. The same way Buhari’s failures do not make GEJ any better.

We have consistently had poor leadership and these comparisons are annoying.

[OLAMIDE not Baddo🧢 @Hirazzy]

Nigeria na comedy show. Dem dey share fridge to people wey no get electricity. 😂

[West Africa Weekly @WestAfricaWeek]

Nigeria isn’t broke. It is being looted. While citizens face hunger, darkness, and failing infrastructure, ₦39 billion was reportedly spent on renovating Wike’s event centre, ₦128 billion in the power sector remains unaccounted for as tariffs rise, and billions were allegedly diverted to a private farm while millions lack water. At the same time, ₦11 billion went to presidential vehicles and lawmakers plan billions for travel and welfare. Taxes keep rising, corruption thrives, and Aso Rock stays lit while Nigerians sit in darkness. So what will Nigerians do. Remain silent?

[Abu Jabir Penabdul @PenAbdull]

The “Epstein files” tells you everything you need to know about the showdown between truth and falsehood, between the Godly society and the godless society, between good and evil. Don’t follow the lifestyle of these godless, evil, bloodsuckers, follow the religion of Truth (Islam)

[JP Attueyi @jpattueyi]

This comparison is intellectually dishonest.
South Africa’s personal income tax ≈ ₦60tr.
Nigeria’s ≈ ₦3tr.
And we’re supposed to conclude:
“People opposing tax reforms are just tax evaders”?
That’s not analysis.
That’s misdirection.

Let’s deal in facts.
1. You cannot tax income that does not exist.
South Africa has:
• A far larger formal labor force
• Higher median wages
• Stable payroll systems
• Reliable employer reporting

Nigeria has:
• Over 60% informal employment
• Millions earning below subsistence level
• Wages eroded by inflation
• Weak payroll enforcement
You don’t get South Africa level income tax from a population that is largely informal and underpaid. That’s arithmetic, not ideology.

2. Tax revenue reflects state capacity, not citizen morality.
Countries don’t collect taxes because citizens are “obedient”.
They collect taxes because:
• Income is traceable
• Services are visible
• Enforcement is credible
• Trust exists
Nigeria struggles with all four.
Blaming citizens for structural failure is policy cowardice.

3. South Africa taxes income, Nigeria taxes survival.
In Nigeria:
• VAT hits the poor hardest
• Inflation is a hidden tax
• FX instability destroys real wages
• Fuel and power costs are privatized
When people resist “reforms”, it’s not because they’re criminals.
It’s because the state keeps extracting without delivering.

4. High tax revenue is an outcome, not a starting point.
South Africa didn’t tax first and then build institutions.
It built:
• Functional registries
• Banked wage systems
• Enforceable contracts
• Credible public services
Then taxes followed.
Trying to reverse that order is how states collapse legitimacy.

5. The laziest argument in public policy:
“Anyone who disagrees with us must be guilty.”
That logic would mean:
• The poor oppose taxes because they’re criminals
• Businesses resist taxes because they’re immoral
• Citizens complain because they’re dishonest

No.
They complain because the social contract is broken.

Bottom line:
Low tax revenue in Nigeria is not proof of tax evasion.
It is proof of:
• Informality
• Low productivity
• Policy failure
• Weak institutions
Until government fixes income, stability, and trust, tax “reforms” will look like punishment, not progress.

You cannot tax your way out of economic dysfunction.
You must build your way out first.

[Najib @Rilwannajib]

I get it. We’re all supposed to explain to a tax officer which money is what/how we spent our money, to be faily taxed. Fine. So who’s going to explain to the public how the money were taxed is spent? Or accountability is only for the masses you keep trying to push into poverty?

[Abdull Ibrahim, MD @Yantumakii]

The day Nigerian doctors internalize the fact that we are just another set of employees amongst many others is the day we will truly be liberated.

The gatekeeper role we assigned to ourselves is unrealistic at best, delusional at worst.

We are not the managers of the system.

[Mujtaba.¡ @mujimagaji]

This madrid game is pure joy, especially if you watched it 😂😂😂

[Dami’ Adenuga @DAMIADENUGA]

Do y’all agree with him?

[Mujtaba.¡ @mujimagaji]

@Yantumakii As one friend summed it up “ as Nigerian we’re an emotion away from abusing power “.