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[Oluchukwu @orlucci]

@dom_N5 @winexviv One error I see on this way of thinking by a whole lot of Nigerians is that we single out a person to blame.

Yes, Tinubu is in power today. Yes things has gotten more difficult today. But Tinubu did not start this downward spiral.

The real issue is the system.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I have been thinking about something lately, and the more I think about it, the more disturbing it becomes.

A lot of Nigerians became poor without doing anything wrong.

They didn’t stop working. They didn’t become lazy. They didn’t suddenly become irresponsible.

They simply woke up one day and realised that the money they had worked for could no longer buy the things it used to buy.

Think about someone earning ₦100,000 a month.

The person still wakes up early every morning, goes to work, puts in the same hours, probably works even harder, gets promoted occasionally and does everything society says a responsible person should do.

Yet every year, that person seems to be able to afford less.

At some point, ₦50,000 could buy a reasonable amount of food for the house. Today, you can enter the market with the same ₦50,000 and genuinely wonder where the money went.

Nothing happened to you.

The economy happened to you.

And I think this is something we don’t talk about enough.

Imagine working hard for years, only for circumstances completely outside your control to quietly reduce the value of everything you have worked for.

You didn’t lose your job.

You didn’t lose your salary.

But somehow, you lost your standard of living.

That is poverty too.

And this is why I struggle with the way we sometimes discuss palliatives.

Of course, when people are hungry, you must find ways to help them immediately. There is nothing wrong with providing temporary relief.

But surely, the bigger question should be:

Why did millions of working Nigerians suddenly need palliatives in the first place?

If a man could comfortably buy a bag of rice from his salary a few years ago and today he needs government assistance to buy that same bag of rice, giving him rice may solve today’s hunger.

But it has not solved the actual problem.

The real problem is that his labour has lost value.

And perhaps that is what we should be obsessed with fixing.

How do we make the Nigerian worker’s income valuable again?

How do we make ₦100,000 buy more next year, rather than less?

How do we make food cheaper by producing more?

How do we reduce the cost of energy and transportation?

How do we build an economy where salaries can actually keep up with the cost of living?

Because when I think deeply about it, perhaps one of the greatest things a government can do for its people is not to keep giving them money.

It is to build an economy where the money they earn has value.

There is dignity in being able to take care of yourself from the product of your own labour.

There is dignity in a teacher being able to feed a family from teaching.

There is dignity in a nurse being able to pay rent from nursing.

There is dignity in a young person working an honest job and gradually seeing life improve.

People should be able to look back after five years of hard work and say, “My life has become better.”

Not, “I earn more money today, but somehow I can afford less.”

That is the part that keeps bothering me.

Millions of Nigerians are not asking to become millionaires overnight.

They just want hard work to make sense again.

And maybe that should be one of the simplest ways we measure whether our economy is actually working:

Is the ordinary Nigerian who works hard becoming progressively better off, or progressively poorer?

Everything else is secondary.

[Oluchukwu @orlucci]

@Eseoghenemacau1 @yaygha You won't

[Oluchukwu @orlucci]

@Doctor_Chichi Her head wasn't suppose to hit the water the way it did.

[Rinu Oduala 🔥🔫 @SavvyRinu]

Dear Nigerians, why does accountability seem to disappear in our country whenever power is involved?

Is David Umahi’s house big enough to buy our silence or how did a 26 year old woman end up dead on the floor of a minister’s compound???

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

One of the worst things that can happen to a person is to work for the same money twice. Earn it once, lend it out, then labour harder to recover it than you did to make it.

Not to mention not having it when you need it for your own use.

That is what turns generous people into careful ones. So, before you call a friend unkind, ask who got there before you.

That’s before another truth: anyone you are always asking for something, chances are that you aren’t the only one asking. There is only so much one source can handle.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The most insidious form of mind control is when people manage to colonise the very meaning of words. Words are what humans use to describe and interpret reality, so whoever controls the use of words controls how humans perceive reality.

So you hear "Democracy" and ypu instantly think "USA", or you hear "Dictatorship" and you instantly think "China". Meanwhile what is the dictionary definition of the word "democracy"? Government of the people, for the people, by the people.

Is the US government a government "of" the people? No, it's actually a government of a small group of rich white men who control absolutely everything from abortion law to music record labels. They fund and control a political doupoly where nothing changes as power passes back and forth between both parties, except some peripheral culture war bullshit. The will of "the people" is not meaningfully represented and they have no actual say in how they are governed because the extent of their involvement in the system is to vote for either the blue or the red branch of the same system owned by Peter ThielMuskWinklevossGatesEllisonEpsteinvonWhiteManberg.

Is it a government "for" the people? Fuck no, even Americans will tell you that. The purpose of the US government is to help rich white people become richer at the expense of everybody else including poor white people. There is literally a court decision (Citizens United) which gives unrestricted power to US corporations over US electoral compaigns. Meanwhile, the US has the world's largest population of imprisoned people (most of whom are used as slave labour because prisons naturally, are part of their economic system), as well as a shocking prevalence of homelessness for a supposedly wealthy country.

Is it a government "by" the people? Not even close. Americans know as little about their government and the things it does as people who have never been there. No American ever voted for their government to fund terrorists in your country halfway around the world, or create and arm drug cartels in your country that can't locate on a map, or fund colour revolutions and regime change operations in your country on the other side of the planet whose name they can't pronounce. Yet their government does all these things and more, because they have no real involvement in or visibility over how it works.

But that is a "Democracy". And not just any democracy - THE "democracy".

Yet China, where citizens understand exactly how their government operates; where the process of entering government is entirely transparent, accessible and obvious to everyone with no hidden infrastructure or secret societies controlling anything behind the scenes; where the state exists entirely to serve the Chinese people and make their lives better instead of getting embroiled in multiple foreign wars and genocidal adventurism; where 96% of Chinese households own their own home; where the state has been able to build the world's only national bullet train network - that is the nation that is apparently "not democratic."

Using the dictionary definition of "Democracy", China is in fact a "Democracy" and the US runs a feudalist system of governance.

But when you colonise the dictionary and dominate what people take into their brains everyday for several decades, this entirely factual tweet becomes "controversial".

That is literally mind control.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Peller’s Wedding Guests: Foreign Espionage And African Entertainment

When influencers and "foreign guests" collide, as is the case here, we are not watching a wedding but a social engineering operation

It is very clear here that the rise of our internet sensations is often engineered. When foreign money starts flowing into our digital spaces, it is time to start asking who is really behind the screen and what they’re buying with those "gifts." It’s time for Africans to stop being spectators to our own subversion.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

Social media has convinced a whole generation that everyone else is winning while they alone are behind. You are comparing your ordinary Tuesday to a thousand people's highlight reels, edited, filtered and posted on their best day. Of course you feel like you are losing.

The game is built to make you feel that way, because your attention is the product being sold. Log off the scoreboard for a while. Your only honest comparison is the person you were last year.

Are you a little wiser, a little healthier, a little further along than that person? Then you are winning, quietly, in the only race that was ever actually yours. Everyone else's timeline is not your deadline.

[Oluchukwu @orlucci]

@chigoziebashua @Wizarab10 Y666

[aether @bluewdrift]

Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I myself am a "men". Most of my friends are also a "mens". I have no idea who African women are referring to when they say that "men" prefer women who wear wigs over their natural hair. I can use myself and my sizeable friend group across 9 countries on the continent as enough of a sample size to categorically state that African men overwhelmingly prefer their women's natural hair.

Yet everytime this conversation pops up, we hear about this mythical creature called a "men like women in wigs." On behalf of African men, allow me to say it again that if "men" prefer female wigs over female natural hair, then we must be women - that does not apply to us at all.

We grew up with you people. You are our sisters, cousins, schoolmates and friends. The first picture of the female form that we saw and fell in love with as your brothers, nephews and high school boyfriends was you in your natural state. I don't think you realise how powerful that is. The girl from the next classroom that was every African boy's first love was a girl appearing in her natural state. That is the default picture of love that stays with us for life! We did not wake up one morning at 17 and suddenly decided that female beauty = a woman wearing a Hollywood production on her head.

That is fake news!

We've always loved you as you are.

The real issue is that you are receiving commercial messaging and social engineering propaganda to convince you that your natural state is incomplete, so that you will spend money to "fix" what was never broken, and some white guy somewhere gets paid off that. We do not control any of the messaging you are receiving! We don't control any social media algorithms. We don't control your TV programming. We don't control Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+ etc. We don't make TV and movie casting decisions.

We don't own any of the supply chains and factories built around manufacturing your insecurity - the most we can do is retail these products that somebody else put in your mind, manufacturer in a Chinese factory, and shipped to your country. If we were the ones in control of any of these things, we would never push such products on you. Even drug dealers don't sell drugs to their own family members.

Anyway that's precisely the problem - we're the world's least powerful men and our weakness has built a superhighway for every Tom, Sandeep and Chung to dump toxic ideas and products on our women and leave us to deal with the fallout. It is precisely because we don't control Media, Politics, War, Industry or Logistics that we haven't built a physical and psychological wall around our women, unlike every other group of men on the planet.

Our weakness as a group is what has left our women's minds and bodies defenseless and open to exploitation from anyone and everyone - to the point where they literally look at their natural form in the mirror and think there is something they need to correct about it. They know that as a group, the only thing we offer to them is penis and they have learned to discount whatever we say, even when we tell them that they're beautiful as they are.

This is a problem that the African rebellion will naturally solve.

When African men take our rightful place in the world and begin exercising power as we should, nobody will need to tell African women that their beauty is not enhanced in any way by laying a dead Indian woman's hair above their own.

Power fixes these problems.

[Mr Lama 🫆 @osman_diamond]

@DavidHundeyin

[Oluchukwu @orlucci]

@omuutii @realJudebela @DavidHundeyin 😀... It's becoming a rare sight

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

In hindsight, one feels very dumb for having taken certain well-promoted narratives at face value.

2 of the very worst of these are "Kenya doesn't have resources" and "Northern Nigeria is poor".

Believing these 2 absolute whoppers as an African is the base layer on the road to completely misunderstanding where you live and what is happening in the world.

You almost have to give the liars credit because getting presumably educated people to believe such absolute nonsense is a truly impressive feat of social engineering. If you can make people believe that violent conflict mineral trafficking in northern Nigeria is "Islamic terrorism", and Kenyan elephants getting fatally poisoned by runoff from gold mining was "elephants eating cyanide tomatoes" then what can't you make people believe?

[Oluchukwu @orlucci]

@DavidHundeyin I was born in Kwara and grew up in Lagos. Schooling was in ogun state all through.

All that while I believed Nigeria was overpopulated. Not until after school when I began working and travelling across the country did I realised that Nigerian is far from over populated.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

The people who are telling you that your poverty is caused by the fact that you are having sex and producing children are now openly wishing they had a higher birth rate than you, and are actively campaigning for it within their societies.

This is to tell you that they understand the importance of numbers.

So when you find yourself parroting empty talking points like, “we are just too many in this country,,” “how can you be having children when you don’t have money,” understand that you have been deceived into misdiagnosing your problems by Western propaganda.

You are not too many, and your birth rate is not why you are poor. You are poor because the people lecturing you are stealing your resources.

[Oluchukwu @orlucci]

This is it.

[robert osei @kctass]

@DavidHundeyin @wanlov Democracy is how you make a foolish person feel that he has the same decisional value for the nation as a sensible person.

Now the foolish person is puffed up and votes more for his foolishness because it’s been validated.

[Oluchukwu @orlucci]

@SegolAssociates @renoomokri 👍🏽

Edited truth = lies.

Context is everything.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

One of the reasons I share almost everything we're doing in the South East is simple:

I want you to copy it.

If a strategy gets more children learning, gets more students excited about STEM, raises academic standards, or inspires excellence, don't admire it from afar or criticize Alex. Replicate it in your region. Improve it. Scale it.

Africa has spent too much time protecting ideas instead of spreading what works.

I don't want the South East to be the exception. I want it to become the template for Africa civilization.

Imagine every region in Nigeria building its own Olympiads, ranking schools, training teachers, identifying talent, and making education a public movement.

Imagine every African country adapting the same ideas to fit their own realities.

That's how continents change.

Education is Africa's greatest opportunity. If something works, copy it.