Olivia
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Ibadan, Nigeria
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My Mum just called me now, bandits entered Kabba /Kakun in Kogi state, moved primary school pupils into the bush just now
She said everywhere is tensed, it's happening now...
Which way now?
I just told her to be safe 😭
My friend have moved her parents from the village to Lokoja last week as the issue of insecurity keeps getting worse.
@JamesSonayon Congratulations ma'am
@mslaggert Mexico 1 - 0 South Africa
@YOLICOM6 This is sad, we've all forgotten the son of whom we are in Yoruba land due to politics, Politicians did this because of zoning, who will vote if there's no one left, if you know you know, Politicians are doing whatever it takes to grab power and they don't give a F about anyone
When I placed the Renewed Hope Agenda before Nigerians, I did not speak of housing in vague terms. I gave my word that this administration would work to make decent homes affordable again, and that a hardworking family, after years of paying rent, would finally have a path to a house of its own.
Let me account for that promise plainly, by juxtaposing what we pledged beside what we have actually achieved.
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The politicians from southern Nigeria need to be deeply studied.
In fact, a whole department in our universities should be set up just to study those people.
Because the way they have managed to convince many southern youths, some of the most intelligent youths in all of Africa, that their real problem is not the politicians who govern them, but “the North,” is almost a political miracle.
That the reason a pothole in Abakpa Nike is not fixed is because of Hisbah breaking alcohol bottles in Kano.
That the reason they have youth unemployment and underemployment is because of a Sharia court in Sokoto.
That the reason their electricity is unstable, state hospitals are weak, courts are slow, police are corrupt, refineries are not working, and local industries are dying is because the North is too religious.
Not the governors.
Not the senators.
Not the local government chairmen.
Not the contractors who collected money and disappeared.
Not the political families who have controlled the same states for decades.
Not the state assemblies that behave like extensions of the governor’s office.
No. The problem is somehow Kano Hisbah.
This is the genius of southern political deflection.
They have built a system where they can fail locally and outsource the blame nationally.
Meanwhile, the same southern politicians control budgets, collect allocations, appoint commissioners, award contracts, borrow money, tax citizens, control state institutions, and still somehow escape the anger of the same people they govern.
That is the part that fascinates me.
The North has many problems and deserves serious criticism. Nobody honest can deny that. But the way northern dysfunction has been turned into a universal excuse for southern elite failure is a political miracle, second only to democracy itself.
The governor no longer needs to explain why the roads are bad.
The senator no longer needs to explain what he has done.
The local government chairman no longer needs to show where the money went.
The people simply look northward and rage.
And the politicians smile.
As a southern youth, know this: every minute you spend shouting about Hisbah, Sharia, almajiri, or the north is backward, is one less minute spent asking why your own state budget keeps producing nothing.
Nigerian politicians have not only failed many of their people. They have also mastered the art of giving them a convenient enemy.
This is the oldest trick in politics.
Divide the people, make them suspicious of each other, then govern both sides badly while they fight over identity.
There is nothing I would want more than a coherent Nigeria.
Notice I said coherent, not uniform.
I am not talking about this fake “One Nigeria” slogan where everyone pretends we are one people, one culture, one worldview, one moral community, and one historical experience.
That is childish.
Nigeria does not need to become one tribe.
Nigeria does not need to become one culture.
Nigeria does not need everyone to eat the same food, marry the same way, worship the same way, dress the same way, or organize society the same way.
What Nigeria needs is coherence.
A country where different regions can govern themselves according to their values, compete with each other, cooperate where necessary, and still stand together as a serious bargaining bloc in the world.
Because in the international system, small fragmented African states will be eaten alive.
So we must ask ourselves whether we can build a political arrangement where our differences do not become a weapon in the hands of failed politicians.
And this is where both sides need to hear the truth.
If you are a southern youth and you believe the North must become exactly to your taste before you can accept it as part of the political arrangement, then you are not serious.
You may not like Hisbah.
You may not like Sharia courts.
You may not like how conservative northern societies are.
You may not like the way we vote, dress, worship, marry, or organize our communities.
Fine.
But if your idea of a working Nigeria is that Kano must first become Lagos, or Sokoto must first become Enugu, or Katsina must first become Port Harcourt, then you are not yet tired of the state of Nigeria.
A coherent Nigeria must allow Kano to be Kano, Lagos to be Lagos, Enugu to be Enugu, Sokoto to be Sokoto, and Rivers to be Rivers.
What Nigeria needs is restructuring that makes every region carry more responsibility for the choices it makes.
And this is where the North itself must also face its own contradiction.
It is not enough to say, “Leave the North alone. Let the North live by its values.”
That argument only becomes serious when the North also accepts the financial responsibility that comes with political and cultural autonomy.
If the governor of Kano wants to subsidize mass weddings for 2,000 couples, that is his right. But it will make more sense if Kano is generating the money for it.
If the governor of Sokoto wants to subsidize Hajj or support pilgrims, that is his political choice. But it will carry more moral weight if Sokoto is funding it from its own productive economy.
If the governor of Zamfara wants to negotiate with bandits, grant amnesty, or offer concessions in the name of peace, that decision should be borne mainly by the people and resources of Zamfara, not hidden within the comfort of national allocation.
If Kano decides it does not want alcohol sold openly in its society, that should be its cultural and religious right. But it becomes a contradiction when the same political system benefits from VAT and federal revenue that partly comes from products and lifestyles those same states publicly reject.
This is why restructuring matters.
It protects the South from blaming the North for everything.
It protects the North from being constantly insulted for choosing its own values.
And it forces every region to face the cost of its own political choices.
Because right now, Nigeria is structured in a way that encourages hypocrisy.
Southern politicians can fail their people and blame the North.
Northern politicians can defend cultural autonomy while depending on a central pool funded by economic activities they sometimes condemn.
A serious Nigeria should say: live according to your values, but fund the consequences.
NIGERIA: DO NOT LET THESE CLOWNS WRITE YOUR STORY.
Get serious with media and narratives. It affects everything
The NY Post published a story on April 7, 2026. Written by Nina Joudeh.
Headline: "Shocking fraud racket uncovered in California, with tentacles stretching to Nigeria." (https://t.co/y28bzD6leq)
Let me show you exactly what that headline omitted.
And why Nigerians and Africans should read Western press coverage about their continent with EXTREME CAUTION.
Here are the actual facts from the official DOJ press release, published April 6, 2026, the same document Nina Joudeh had access to before writing her story. (https://t.co/vzZJQV37dY)
One man. Ifeanyi Emmanuel Ugwu, 49. Bakersfield, California. He ran Franklin Finance Inc. from December 2020 to August 2023.
He operated 20 bank accounts across nine banks. He collected $5 million from 100+ people and transferred it abroad. That is the whole case.
One man. No cartel. No racket. No network.
Now here is the sentence the headline chose not to reflect.
The DOJ press release states, in its own words, that the money was transferred to "CHINA, Nigeria, and elsewhere."
China is listed first. The money went to China too.
Nina's headline: "tentacles stretching to Nigeria." Not China. Not "and elsewhere." Nigeria.
That is an observable editorial choice, visible to anyone who reads both documents side by side.
Now the numbers, directly from the same DOJ filing. (https://t.co/vzZJQV37dY)
Of the $5 million total, the DOJ specifically confirmed only $580,000 as verified fraud proceeds traced to cybercrime victims. That is 11.6% of the total.
The DOJ charged one count: operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, not fraud, not racketeering, not conspiracy.
No co-defendants were named. No Nigerian crime network was identified. No cartel. No syndicate.
Nothing that justifies the word "racket" in any legal or journalistic sense.
The headline used that word anyway.
Now zoom out to the FBI's own IC3 2025 Annual Report, published the same week as this article.
(https://t.co/7DYHmt8mr2)
Global cybercrime losses in 2025 reached
$20.877 billion.
Nigeria ranked 12th among foreign countries filing cybercrime complaints, with 1,219 reports.
(https://t.co/7OoDUEyYVM)
Canada filed 7,479.
India filed 5,879.
Japan filed 5,764.
The UK filed 4,106.
The biggest driver of global losses?
The FBI's own words: "largely perpetrated by organised criminal enterprises based in Southeast Asia using victims of human trafficking as forced labour."
No NY Post headline about tentacles stretching to Cambodia.
And who topped the FBI's own list of countries receiving fraudulent wire transfers? Hong Kong. Mexico. Indonesia. Vietnam. The Philippines.
Nigeria DOES NOT appear in the top five. (https://t.co/7DYHmt8mr2)
The headline still said "tentacles stretching to Nigeria."
This is part of a recognizable editorial pattern.
In January 2026, the New York Times published
"The Screwdriver Salesman Behind Trump's Airstrikes in Nigeria," written by Ruth Maclean, the paper's West Africa bureau chief.
(https://t.co/lgP7l7VWhZ)
The story characterized Emeka Umeagbalasi, a civil liberties advocate, former Amnesty International volunteer, former Human Rights Watch associate member, and founder of Intersociety, primarily by his side business selling tools in an Onitsha market, and framed him as the central explanation for a US military airstrike on Sokoto.
The story did not lead with the fact that US Senator Ted Cruz, Representative Riley Moore, and Representative Chris Smith had cited Umeagbalasi's research in formal congressional contexts over the preceding months.
It did not lead with the fact that Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Makurdi Catholic Diocese had testified before the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee in March and November 2025.
It did not prominently address the fact that the Nigerian government itself stated it had provided intelligence for the Christmas Day strike.
Former senator Shehu Sani, former presidential spokesman Reuben Abati, and Arise TV anchor Rufai Oseni all publicly challenged the framing. (https://t.co/qoiarpterz)
Intersociety formally accused the paper of misrepresentation and false attribution in a press statement. (https://t.co/nPo3oflc9Z)
A full independent analysis of the NYT story and its omissions was published by TheCable. (https://t.co/pGQ2z2lXaB)
The observable pattern across both stories is the same. A man transmits money to China and Nigeria.
The headline mentions Nigeria.
$8.6 billion in investment fraud driven by Southeast Asian criminal enterprises. No equivalent headline.
A US military strike driven by US senators, US lobbying firms, and US military command over twelve months of congressional activity.
The headline names a Nigerian man selling screwdrivers in Onitsha.
What disappears in every telling is the complexity. What stays is the Nigerian name.
To every Nigerian and every African reading Western press coverage about their continent: the DOJ's documents are public and free at https://t.co/WFCX10u8tK.
The FBI's annual cybercrime report is public and free at https://t.co/9ArECzP7D3.
When a headline says "stretching to Nigeria," check what the actual filing said.
- Check which countries were listed first. Check what the charge actually was.
- Check whether there were any co-defendants.
The headline is not the same thing as the document. They are two different objects, and one of them is a choice.
Ifeanyi Ugwu broke the law. He will be sentenced on July 27, 2026. That is right and proper. This post does not dispute that, and it does not defend what he did.
But a single unlicensed money transmitter in Bakersfield, California, with 11.6% of total funds confirmed as fraud proceeds, sending money to China, Nigeria, and elsewhere, is not a "shocking fraud racket with tentacles stretching to Nigeria." It became that because of an editorial decision.
The DOJ's own title for the same case was: "Bakersfield Resident Pleads Guilty to Operating an Illegal Money Transmitting Business."
No tentacles. No racket. No Nigeria in the headline.
Nigeria is 220 million people. It is a country. It is not a tentacle.
Read the source documents. They are public. They are free. They tell a different story.
Nigerians, Get Serious With Media and tell your own stories.
These editorial choices keep insulting 220 million people. Let's put an end to that narrative.
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I've never seen a comedy this intelligent, in today's society they wouldn't get away with this😂😂
Old comedies >>>>>>>
@FBN_help, please I wanted to recharge my prepaid meter no, 0159006661833 #10000 around 2am today, so it was sent to BEDC instead of IBEDC, no token was sent and I was debited, please kindly help me refund my money
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#ThisWeekInUSNigeriaHistory in 2025, Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya made history by breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon alongside American chess master Shawn Martinez in Times Square, New York.
#DYK Tunde is a U.S. Government Exchange Program alumnus. He’s one of 14,000+ exchange alumni in Nigeria driving impact across U.S.–Nigeria life, culture, and collaboration.
#Freedom250
Photo credit: Chess in Slums Africa
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It is with great pride that I present to you the very first Nigerian Adire chess board. Each one sells for a million naira(700 dollars).
It’s a limited collection of just 100 pieces. 50% of proceeds goes towards charity and I will personally hand deliver to the first 20 people.
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If an attention seeking racist man says a culture is retarded because one adorns his regal Agbádá outfit to a historic location to play chess,we must all stand firmly against it regardless of our biases
Quote this with a picture of you proudly repping your country and your tribe
@PoojaMedia Yeah, tears of joy 😂
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How these guys were able to dance to Fela instrumental without missing a step baffles me. Beautiful ❤️😍
@TundeTASH Based on Believe 🙏
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