“We’ve donated 100 million to help petty traders and I know people have been talking that I said Akara, but it’s not only Akara, we also have Booli sellers, tomato sellers, vegetable sellers and pepper sellers too, we’ll continue to empower them”
First Lady responds to critics over her Akara remarks
A Nigerian will still tell you that it’s a coincidence that the richest man in Congo is an Israeli?. And Congo should hold its leaders accountable. Very dense people.
Global politics is a game of power, prove your strength and you'll have you way. If you show weakness, you'll be oppressed and plundered just as they are doing to Africa.
They don’t want to do the research. Western “Leftists” (white liberals tbh) have been BEGGING for a reason to attack Traore after their analyses were so abysmally wrong after he took over the government.
And the they know the reason they got it wrong is bc of the racist lens to see international relations through. So in order to prove they aren’t racist, they end up latching onto whatever narrative that bolstered their original claim which generally just leads to doubly down on their racism and projection 🙃
3 days after Traoré is all over the news for breaking off diplomatic relations with France, which gets a good reception, some obscure christian zionist Twitter handle puts out a bullshit tweet portraying a routine change of an accredited Israeli ambassador (based in Cote d'Ivoire) as "Traoré developing closer ties with Israel" and you bunch supposedly "anti-imperialist" dumbasses fall for the headfake instantly without making any attempt to even understand what you are looking at.
And this is precisely why I have zero interest in any kind of western leftism. Your racist, 1-dimensional, brainless, uncritical imperial reflexes are stronger than your supposed ideology. Your own governments are all actively helping Israel murder Gazans and massacre Iranian schoolgirls, and you can't do anything about that.
But you can always pass your dumb, reactive judgements on an African who is actually leading a successful anti-imperialist project, without giving him the 30 seconds of grace it would have taken you to Google Burkina Faso's relationship with Israel and realise that there is no Israeli ambassador to Burkina Faso, there has always been an Israeli ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire who is accredited to Burkina Faso and Togo, and it is ordinary diplomatic process for every new ambassador to officially present himself to all 3 heads of state.
You utter bunch of utter idiots who come from countries led by Epstein Islanders with rape convictions cannot Google things before eagerly pouncing on Ibrahim Traoré to wank your outrage rocks off as if he's your problem!
“When my friend Trump wants to bomb any country, he doesn't do it himself, he gives instructions”
This man is an idiot for drawing inspiration from Trump, and even a bigger idiot for believing Trump is his friend.
Have you people seen this?
Students who went to take their NECO exams got abducted from the exam hall?
This happened in Borno and I hope it gets the same media outrage as Oyo's.
This is unfortunate.
The reason your mother fried Akara to send you to school is so that you can be a better citizen of the society and have a fighting chance against poverty. She didn't do it for you to come online and defend frying of Akara as economic empowerment. Don't waste her efforts.
This amazing surgeon is running for political office yet she still continues to do her job as a medical doctor.
This is the kind of example we need to have and the kind of models we need to celebrate society.
Not people who have no source of income and become fat cats stealing public funds.
“Among all those seeking to lead Nigeria in 2027, including Bola Tinubu and others, I remain the most qualified, competent, and prepared. I have the experience, capacity, and vision needed to transform this nation.”
— Peter Obi
You need to see the joy on olodos' faces when a very academically sound person doesn't succeed in life. They relish it. It's almost as if it gives them more reasons to talk down on education and intelligence.
When we were graduating, after I finished as the top student in my class, many of my coursemates were really eager to see how I would turn out. In fact, I would always hear them gossiping: "No be by Best Graduating Student. To make am for life no be by acada. Street na military. We go see."
I'm glad I turned out really well. Even most of those who went to Ghana for "updates" after school and eventually resorted to fraud can't measure up to my accomplishments. Till today, many of them still randomly call me and jokingly ask, "Senior man, you just dey chop dey go. You no wan give men update na!"
Deep down, they genuinely believe I must be secretly involved in fraud. This is the society we live in, where many young people have come to believe that you can't succeed legitimately, and that every young man who is doing well for himself must be involved in fraud. Even many elderly people and police officers aren't exempt from this line of thinking.
I haven't seen a country that is trying so hard to make education unattractive like ours.
"School na scam."
"No be by BSc. You get BTC?"
"Education is the key to success. Oya, use the key start Benz na 😂."
"Lecturer pack 1999 Camry, student don pack Lexus beside am."
If we continue this way, in a few years, there will be nothing left of our educational system. We are so money-centred that we don't even realize education can be an end in itself and not necessarily just a means to an end.
Everything has become, "How much do you have in your account?" or "Use your intelligence buy Benz na."
This is one of the reasons it really hurts me to see highly intelligent and brilliant people end up poor. I'm always rooting for academically sound people to succeed because I genuinely want people, especially young people, to see that you can make it legitimately through hard work and academic excellence.
Any society where only the olodos become financially successful while the brighter minds, the ones who believe in due process, continue to struggle is a society that is bound to fail.
Awolowo said he doesn't want the children of his cooks or drivers to turn out to be cooks and drivers themselves, reason he made sure free and qualitative education was available to all in the Western region.
People dey defend frying Akara as economic empowerment in 2026
Jobs are scarce, and the ones available are underpaying, but motivational speakers will keep introducing new CV formats as the solution, just to hide the fact that capitalism doesn't produce the gainful employment opportunities it promises.