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You actually read this stuff?

[Wry @nickleke]

The assumption that I'm cognizant of your matrilineal lineage is unbelievably innacurate.

[Wry @nickleke]

More information required pa!!!

Do hope EFCC forfeitures are beyond the escape velocity of the courts.

Could get ugly.

NDLEA auctions forfeited Lagos hotel, other properties for N6.15 billion https://t.co/2qVU5QrX12

[Ade @adevonbismarck]

Spent a little over 6-months in SA between last year and Q1 this year. Don't think I ever stayed 2-months consecutively in the country. However, I think I have enough perspective to speak on the topic.

Personally, I didn't experience anything related to what we are seeing online but I lose a lot of hope when I see the most extreme posts and South Africans are in agreement in the comments.

Where I struggle the most;

1. Categorization of Nigerians as scammers or mostly drug dealers. This for me is the most hard to reconcile because there are a lot of business/corporate type Nigerians living in SA. It will be dishonest if I do not admit that there are some Nigerians who have dodgy livelihoods. Despite this all Nigerians cannot be relegated or made to suffer for the negative perception around this. I know perceptions aren't created propotionally, but I am too proud of a Nigerian to take such an insult. Countries like the US, Canada and UK - Nigerian immigrants have the most positive perception.

SA citizens shouldn't be allowed to drive this narrative about Nigerians or at least it should be put out with balance. Because if Nigerians in SA are committing crimes its because they let the bottom of the litter slip-in.

They should have a more robust immigration system (in my mind this is the cause of ALL their problems, and I will explain later).

2. Foreigners/undocumented migrants are the problem in SA. In the midst of all the chaos around undocumented immigrants and the historical ineptitude of the DHA. SA probably has 3-5m foreign nationals which means 5-8% of their total population. That's within the avg range for regional commercial centers which SA is surely is for Africa.

There was a research done by OECD & ILO that immigrants contribute 9% to SA's GDP this is something around $40bn annually.

Whatever extreme negatives that might be highlighted around foreigners, even the most obstinate anti-immigrant campaigner can see there is at least a net-off.

The real pressure should be on the SA government to modernize their systems and run it more efficiently, document the illegals by giving a grace period for the illegals to get the required documentation (for a fee) renewable every x years for example.

It will be extremely difficult to correct the past, but the DHA can prevent the future. They need a Canadian/Australian style immigration process to ensure they have more desirable immigrant population.

The risk for South Africa is that the focus of the conversation is on foreigners instead of state capacity. The tiny luxuries they enjoy and the benefits of first-world infrastructure will be gone in about three decades, and they will not be far off from the countries and the "foreigners" they look down on.

[Wry @nickleke]

Viewers discretion HEAVILY advised

Anecdotally , a heat map for these offences will be heavily dotted in Enugu, Anambra , Imo, Kogi, Lagos.
If you profile the abusers, it gets worse.

There's a sociology angle beyond poverty here.

https://t.co/MjIZKWIyG5

[Wry @nickleke]

Just seen in my drafts.
The tweet I'll have sent if @Arsenal had won.
As Shakespeare said:
...I will do such things—What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth!"...

Perhaps. Perhaps.
We go again.

[Wry @nickleke]

There's a story behind how Memphis Depay became Dutch Nation top scorer beating out Vans 1,2 & 3, Kluivert, Cryuff.

Also, while Eusebio is clearly a black African & unrelated to any Nigerian tribes or roots but every time I see his picture, I see an Igbo Man.
Undiluted.

[Wry @nickleke]

Occasionally, a random word I rarely use will drop into my head from some vault I didn't know I had.
Today's entry: Cryptorchidism.

Go figure.

[Wry @nickleke]

@KikelomoSowore Let this be the last time, ma'am 😑

[Wry @nickleke]

Roy Wegerle
Eric Wynalda
Alexi Lalas

31 years ago.

A different time.

[Wry @nickleke]

@TheYemiKing Sad.
Probably not the case here but for Carpenters/Electricians, accidents are more common when they work alone.
As a rule, Electricians shouldn't work alone especially when working in roof spaces. Or at heights.

[Wry @nickleke]

I may have a tweet predicting Ghost towns in this Country.
I didn't see it coming via banditry though.
A seance with no attendees.

[Ibrahim Kazeem, MBA. @peng_writer]

Owa-Onire: A Ghost Town and One Man Left Behind

*“Everyone ran. Lekan stayed. Now he’s the only name left to answer when the wind calls Owa-Onire.”*
When the security team of 100 men from the drone unit, MOPOL, and the Anti-Kidnapping Squad rolled into Owa-Onire today, they found nothing but silence. No markets, no voices, no children. Just empty compounds, a locked mosque, a quiet church, and one man standing in the middle of it all.
The operation is part of the Inspector General of Police’s push to screen the Kwara South forest belts. Ifelodun, Isin, Oke-Ero, Ekiti LGAs — troops are moving through all of them. But Owa-Onire stopped them cold. A town wiped clean.
The only person left is Lekan, a prince of the town. He calls himself “the landlord” now, and the title fits. The big mansion, the abandoned houses, the mosque, the church — all of it belongs to the crickets and to him.
He didn’t stay out of courage. He stayed because “Bororo’s War” took everyone else. It didn’t start with one attack. Bandits came and came again. Kidnappings became routine. Then they took the monarch himself and held him in the forest for months until a ransom was paid. After that, the people couldn’t take it anymore. They locked their doors and left. Some went to Okeonigbin. Most just disappeared into somewhere safer.
Owa-Onire isn’t alone. At least 28 communities in Ifelodun LGA are deserted. The same fate has swallowed Oro-Ago, Omugo, Ahun, Oke-Oyan, Owa-Kajola, Owa-Onire, and Oba in Isin LGA. Residents say over 23 villages have been overrun by suspected bandits. Ancestral homes stand empty. Farms rot. Towns become names on a map with no one to say them.
Lekan eats from his farm. That’s how he survives. There’s nowhere to buy food here, nowhere to buy anything. He’s alone with his land and the memory of a town that used to be alive.
The team leader handed him ₦10,000. Lekan took it quietly. He said he’d go to Okeonigbin to buy foodstuffs — the nearest place that still has a market.
He also told them people came into the community last night. He doesn’t know who they were or what they took. He just knows he heard them, and in the morning, nothing had changed. He was still alone.
Visibly disturbed by what they saw, the senior officers from Abuja and Lagos said no Nigerian community should be reduced to this. They described Owa-Onire’s abandonment as a failure that demands immediate action, and pledged to push for sustained security presence and concrete measures that will allow displaced residents to return home without fear.

— Elder Oyin Zubair.

[Wry @nickleke]

The occasional tweet specifying staff of different businesses who use personal accounts to receive payment.
It should be a national register instead.
Log in, lay complaint.
Administrator posts here & other places.

[Wry @nickleke]

Sometimes, I think about that Policeman in John Wick 1 & .
Jimmy, friendly & always at the scene just after the deed is done.

A wise man. Will probably die in his bed with instincts like that.

[Wry @nickleke]

Well...

[36kinniun media👑 🦁 🕊 @fattylincorn_01]

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, has appointed former Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana and ex-Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, as the Director-General of his campaign ahead of the 2027 Lagos governorship election.

The appointment was announced at an expanded meeting of the campaign council as preparations for the 2027 polls continue.

[Wry @nickleke]

@afalli *Narrator's Voice*

[Wry @nickleke]

Listen to oyinbo podcasts.
Frequently, their businesses come to the brink of failure.
BUT
They never have receivables due(monies due but unpaid)
Failure is not down to someone holding their payment.
Here, companies get to their last 1m but have 60m with clients due but unpaid.

[Wry @nickleke]

Horrible thing when the top government official of your state has checked out mentally.

[Wry @nickleke]

You're not your tweets ke, eh, Banger person?
With your spinal chest pls.
Chest it thoracically.

[Wry @nickleke]

@Bisola_____ Ma'am, I'm asking for your opinion.
The Argungu festival further north has more positive publicity than the Ilorin Durbar which I regard as "less popular".
Surely, there must be something to learn & emulate from the Ojude Oba experience?

[Wry @nickleke]

When I saw the Knicks results vs the Cavs, I did one thing.
Looked up Patrick Ewing.
Big man's Big man.
Totally outclassed by Hakeem in 94 but he still carried his head high.
I'm glad he's alive to see this.
Seems Fitting.

[Wry @nickleke]

Listened to some Dagrin this evening.
I wonder, if we get past the legal issues, could a Music Director use AI to age Dagrin in his videos & re-release them?

To what end & purpose?

I haven't figured that out yet.
Could be a vanity idea.
Could be something with depth.