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[Brand New Virgin @originalBNV]

Tweet of the ages

[Atedo Peterside @AtedoPeterside]

There is a popular misconception that Nigerian youths have a short attention span. In reality, they simply switch off once they detect the first lie. If you want to have a chance of retaining their attention, the first rule is: Do not tell lies #ENDSARS

[Leanne 🍅☭ @Leannenist]

All thanks to Chinese companies instead of western ones

[Onyeka ☭ @R_eq_uin]

Shit like this is happening and stupid Nigerians with the mental fortitude of caterpillars are flinging tribal mud at each other.

Our people are being displaced violently. Forced to flee homes and communities they've known all their lives.

And that's if they're lucky.

Too many of our people are simply murdered. Our women graped. Our children slaughtered in the most heartbreaking ways.

Generations are being destroyed before our very eyes man...

And some stupid, foolish and utterly brainless group of idiots whose greatest achievement will be to serve as fertilizer are more interested in claiming superiority over one another.

I hope each and everyone of you fools get a small taste of the misery you indirectly perpetuate by being asinine fools.

My heart goes out to the innocents caught in middle of this tragedy.

I hope they find moments of peace amidst all this madness.

It's so painful. And so pointless

Black people killing each other with no end in sight for original reasons that nobody can remember.

On and on it goes.

Death begets death begets death 💔

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

We've reached "the pope is a Communist" levels of American hysteria.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The defenders of "press freedom" who claim that the AES "violates the rights of journalists" are now throwing people in jail for posting content from a news platform.

The upside of this is that NED-funded traitors like @DSamsonItodo can no longer go on RT to debate me with fatuous, disingenuous, soundbite-ridden arguments anymore because if he does so and he travels to Europe (which he often does), he might go to jail🤣🤣🤣🤣

[KING ELOM👑🌕 @iamNeare]

Argentina actually killed all the Black people in their country

Argentina is as evil as France🤌

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There is a reason the "all humanity is a victim" framework is more popular in wealthy countries than in poor ones.

In wealthy countries, it offers something valuable: a way to feel politically conscious and globally aware while the fundamental relationship between your comfort and others' dispossession remains unexamined.

In poor countries, in the countries that received the bombs and the coups and the structural adjustment programs and the debt traps, the framework is less popular.

Not because people there are less sophisticated about class analysis.

Because the directionality is not abstract to them.

They know which way the money went.

They know which way the weapons came.

They know which passports required no visa and which ones were turned back at every border.

The "we are all victims" framework is, in practice, most comforting to the people who are least victimized by the arrangement it describes.

This is not a coincidence.

It is the framework doing its job.

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

Bobby Hutton was one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party. After being bombed with tear gas and trapped in a burning basement, he came out shirtless to prove he was unarmed and the police immediately shot him 12 times and he died. He was just 17 years old.

[Ada @ada4amaka]

Because those recessive chromosomes couldn't find oil or important minerals there, so they left them alone quite early..

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

“You will find more traitors than colonizers at the root of Africa’s suffering.” – Patrice Lumumba

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Let me tell you something about Uber (ride-hailing) in Nigeria. I’m speaking as someone who has experienced the system both as a passenger and a driver.

From a passenger’s perspective, you just don’t realize that what you are paying is not enough for the kind of service Uber has sold you. Uber sells you the idea of comfort, and in some cases, luxury, but what they forget to tell you is you can’t afford it. To be fair to you, the fares are biting your pockets, and you deserve value for money, but it’s deeper than how you see it.

From a driver’s perspective, you just desire to make the most profit out of the system, and rightly so, because you need to cover for the cost of maintenance, which really takes a lot, but you fail to understand that you are dealing with a very poor population and any attempt to increase the fares by Uber/bolt will simply make demand go downhill. Who will book you if the minimum fare is 5K? (Currently, it’s around 2k).

When Uber/Bolt first arrived the market, they were strict about the models and years of qualifying vehicles, but as the economy continued to tank, people who had quality cars had to pull their cars from the road as the business simply became unprofitable. You can’t continue to wear and tear your 10 million naira car for nothing. These platforms were losing drivers at a very fast rate, and decided to mitigate that by lowering entry barriers to the ground - to the point that it became an all comers affair. Even 1990s cars started getting accepted on the platforms.

So you have passengers complaining, “oh, the Ubers don’t have AC” “the cars are terrible” “the services are sh#t.” Drivers on the other hand, with each visit to Apo mechanic village, Zuba or Ladipo, continue to be discouraged from maintaining their cars, as it’s simply not sustainable. For instance, an AC component, known as the compressor, went from 20k to over 60k within a space of 2 years. Car servicing (changing of oil went from 5k (oil filter inclusive) to 25k for a 4 plug engine within the space of 3 years. In the same period the fares barely increased by 100%.

All the while passenger and drivers have been busy blaming each other, and failing to realize that the ECONOMY is the problem. The platforms themselves don’t really care, because as long you complete a ride, whether you make profit or not, or as a passenger you get the worst service possible, they still earn their commission.

This is why I keep shouting that building anything hoping to exploit loopholes and relaxed regulations for profit doesn’t qualify as building solutions. And I will continue to stand on this. Whenever you people are ready, we will talk about an ECONOMY that works for all, and not just for those at the top of the pyramid.

[Omoefe Fortune @Omo_Efe001]

Very true.

I used to think about a local Uber service but after due consideration I realized that building the app and making cars available isn’t the problem. How many people are willing to pay 20k in Delta if they can pay 3k for same service?

The People are poor. There are ideas that can make a lot of us rich because we’re still very far behind in development. The enabling society isn’t there. Fuel is unaffordably expensive to more than 90% of the population.

A plane can afford to transport it in less than 2 hours even. But it’ll be expensive mainly because most people can’t afford that. And for a the cargo delivery service to be cheap, it has to have many deliveries. And you certainly won’t pay 200k comfortably for a delivery.

[Harry Da Diegot @trigottista]

Tinubu is a thief and that’s why everyone who is around him and supports him is also a thief

[Emeodi Mba @EmodiMba]

This one is only after yahoo boy's stories, while he chills with Yahoo men for Villa and co.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Literary what Martha Stewart went to federal prison for and he just announces his kids are all guilty.

[Barra Hart @barrahart]

Casually meeting with white supremacist separatist groups while indigenous South Africans with the geopolitical literacy of two fired bricks chase their fellow Africans out of the country.

May Donald Trump remain president of that terror state in the Western Hemisphere for life.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The US ambassador to South Africa is now openly meeting with white separatist groups.

I have warned and warned because that's all I can do. Whatever will be will be.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest oligarch is the biggest Welfare recipient in history, by orders of magnitude.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Once again, a reminder that this company now controls a flagship defense tech company in Nigeria.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Burkinabé students now need government permission to study abroad. This means that whether your father is a cabinet minister or a private millionaire, there is no way for their children to escape the state of the country's educational system

Which leaves them no choice but to make sure that the facilities available to students in the country are befitting of their own children.

That is how a country develops an actual elite. Not like Nigeria where as soon as I finished secondary school, my parents put me on a plane to England to enjoy a standard of education that no Nigerian alive today will ever enjoy in Nigeria. The class my parents belong to is called a pseudo-elite.

A proper elite is what is coming together now in the AES. Just wait. If there is no change of Nigeria's trajectory, within 10 years, Nigerians will start going to university in Burkina Faso and making it out to be a status symbol.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Thabo Mbeki On Who Is Blocking Africans From Working Together

While addressing an audience at an event marking the 2026 Africa Liberation Day on 25 May 2026, former South African president Thabo Mbeki shared an anecdote that answers the question often asked by ignorant Africans or disingenuous outside interests: "Is it colonisers that made you not build infrastructure 60+ years after independence?"

The answer, it turns out, is "Yes."

Knowing and acknowledging this reality does not remove responsibility for the material improvement of Africa from Africans. What it does is reframe the discourse away from nonexistent or surface solutions towards the deeper political solution to Africa's development challenges - full sovereignty and continental economic and political unity.