Brand New Virgin

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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

[Black @LilithBlack25]

It has always been a mind control game

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

That's what the US and UK have been doing for years. Nothing changes.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The British atrocities in Kenya must be taught across Africa, because a modernized form of such atrocities is still ongoing via their puppets in power.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Israeli ally vs. Israeli ally and the people of Gaza choose to support the one that is racially and ethnically closer to them.

Then some Marxist theoretician who hasn't touched grass in about 5 weeks will be like "iT's nOt aBouT rAcE, iT'S abOut clAsS."

Sure it is 👍🏾

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This is totally the behaviour of an innocent humanitarian agency that is being falsely accused of atrocities that it definitely did not commit.

When "conspiracy theorists" such as serving US senators and former State Dept staff accuse you of funding Boko Haram, how you clear your name is by destroying the documents that would prove your innocence.

Because you definitely, absolutely have nothing to hide.👍🏿

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

“I would call him Napoleon, but Napoleon made his way to empire over broken oaths and through a sea of blood. This man never broke his word. I would call him Cromwell, but Cromwell was only a soldier, and the state he founded went down with him into his grave. I would call him Washington, but the great Virginian held slaves. This man risked his empire rather than permit the slave trade in the humblest village of his dominions. You think me a fanatic, for you read history, not with your eyes, but with your prejudices. But fifty years hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Muse of history will put Phocion for the Greek, Brutus for the Roman, Hampden for the English, La Fayette for France, choose Washington as the bright, consummate flower of our earlier civilization, then, dipping her pen in the sunlight, will write in the clear blue, above them all, the name of the soldier, the statesman, the martyr, Toussaint L’Ouverture.”
-Wendell Phillips

[BLESSED 🥷 @Dee_9889]

SHOCKING: Yesterday in Kaboji, Mashegu LGA, Niger State, a fierce clash erupted between Dogo Gide’s bandits and Lakurawa fighters. Multiple gunmen were injured.
A military helicopter then landed in the community (near a school/cemetery) and evacuated the wounded bandits, sparking massive outrage and claims the Army is assisting terrorists.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

For those confused, here’s a former MOSSAD director admitting that they treat injured ISIS and Al-Qaeda fighters. “it’s for humanitarian reasons, as it’s always good to treat your enemies in a humane way” he says. But when asked if they can treat injured Hezbollah fighters too, he replies with an emphatic NO.

What other proof do you need about the real sponsors of terrorism?

[Onyeka ☭ @R_eq_uin]

Tick tock

[Yannick Bolasie @YannickBolasie]

All I’ll say is if this was AFCON and they let a man play after he got a red card, the nonsense being said would be crazy

[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.