O’shaqs

The Fears you don’t face becomes your Limit.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Many of these children will have since been burned alive and blown apart by Israeli weapons.

[James Donnelly 🇮🇪 @JamesDonnellySF]

Yeah blowing up babies can be quite tiring can’t it.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Robert Kraft runs a massive Zionist surveillance and propaganda center inside Gillette Stadium

[brandon* @brndxix]

they ran this on the news like it was a completely normal thing

[lamech @lamechrgdd]

nigerians really lack accountability gan, naso dem dey blame jonathan for being weak and not rigging the elections, instead of accepting that you were at fault and he respected your stupid decisions

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Double-tap strike on a child trying to rescue a rescue worker. During a “cease fire.”

This comes as Israeli media and politicians are calling a documentary about this sort of attack a “blood libel.”

[Boogey Odey @BoogeyThat]

In Nigeria, as a people, we are wired to be cowards.

[Kunle Kenny -The Joy Dispenser @kunle_kenny]

We cannot be getting used to this as a people! Eight lives lost last night to terrorism! This is crazy!

[Tife$ @bolubentley]

nobody swallow US propaganda reach africans especially nigerians dem too gullible🤣

[Big Cuz @imohumoren]

Kurt Zouma got more criticism for kicking a cat than Lindsay Clancy for murdering her three kids and I’m not remotely exaggerating

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Remember you cannot say you want freedom for this kid.

That would be antisemitism and you might hurt the feelings of a billionaire Jews in the USA.

[Chude @Chude_ND1]

For two weeks now, this boy has been exposing terrorists and their sponsors with undeniable video and pictorial evidence, but still no word from any of the security operatives. So cold!

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

For the record, Uber never made or intended to make money in Nigeria. Anyone who is familiar with Uber's core business model knew this since 2015. Uber's business model is to enter a market, set its fares well below those of the existing traditional taxis, burn VC money to absorb the losses while driving taxis out of the market, then raise prices after it becomes a monopoly.

That model needs a large middle market segment to work - people who don't own or drive their own cars but have enough discretionary income to regularly pay for comfy private transport. In Lagos and Abuja, there are only maybe a couple of hundred thousand people within that income segment. People above it who own their own cars and/or have their own personal driver don't need a ride hailing service, and the vast majority below it who don't, generally aren't willing to pay even the VC-subsidised "cheap" fares because what is considered "cheap" in San Francisco is definitely not cheap in Bariga.

In the ideal market, Uber is only competing against the traditional taxi. In the extremely price-sensitive environment of Nigeria, the opportunity cost of taking an Uber in the minds of the addressable market is the cost savings one can make from taking a danfo, BRT bus, korope, keke, okada, or even literally walking instead. All the VC dollars in the world cannot subsidise a trip made in a low-capacity, air-conditioned, 4-wheeled car into ever becoming cheaper than a bus or rickshaw trip over the same distance. The only people who were regularly and predictably using Uber to get around were a small minority of well-heeled, mainly female customers who chose not to own or drive their own vehicle for various reasons - and this was far too small a market segment to build the Uber business model on. The mathematics made no sense from day 1.

Also from a driver and cars POV, Uber is known to operate like a pyramid scheme. It depends on a constant stream of new drivers and cars being onboarded onto the platform to replace the drivers and car owners who drop out in vast numbers everyday after realising that after fuel, repairs and depreciation costs in Nigeria, it is mathematically impossible to make any real money on Uber. The best one can do with it (as I did for 3 months in 2016) is just use it to temporarily get by - but the fuel costs will eat nearly half of whatever you make, the repairs will be expensive and incessant, and your car will be transformed into a pile of moving metal trash with next to no resale value.

There was no real business case for Uber Nigeria, and this was known as far back as 2015 just 1 year after launch. The real reason it stayed another 11 years after the entire initial set of drivers and car owners pulled out citing everything I just said, is that its real business in Nigeria was not ride hailing, but **data gathering.**

Uber is part of the US military industrial complex, like every other thing out of Silicon Valley. Edward Snowden's leaked files already showed us that the American NSA uses Uber, Lyft etc as its "God's Eye" system, giving the US government round the clock surveillance access into where people go, what routes they use, what items they buy, what social relationships they have etc. Thinking of Uber as just a ride hailing app is like thinking of Google as just a search engine.

Over 12 years in Lagos and Abuja, the data Uber has collected would have given whoever gathered it some extremely useful, and possibly dangerous insights into whoever might be a person of interest. The data would include people's home address, work addresses, which Airbnbs they book to meet their side pieces, which takeaway restaurant they order from, what pharmacy they buy condoms or morning after pills from, what routes they take to work and back, where their kids go to school...

I'm willing to bet that the decision to end Uber's presence in Nigeria was not sudden at all, but merely the expiration of whatever US government contract it was executing.

[MR. JAY @JayMCFC_001]

So three white meth addicts were holding 163 kidnapped children but y'all want us to be afraid of Black people and immigrants? What?

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

iPhone XR to iPhone 17, Nigeria's crisis of self-esteem

#ICYMI From iPhone 17 replicas to car model “upgrades,” Nigeria's infamous "I-better-pass-my-neighbour" cultural meme has graduated from simple nuisance to driver of real economic jeopardy.

Fuelled by a debilitating societal inferiority complex and high levels of extreme poverty, a new trend of disturbingly obsessive brand awareness has created a booming "insecurity economy," characterised by after-market smartphone design modification, "car model upgrade" body kit installation, Indian temple hair importation, and many other dodgy activities built exclusively around exploiting the insecurities of 230 million poor people.

Already a struggling, sub-industrialised economy with IMF-imposed economic austerity, Nigeria has now become an economic opportunity for unscrupulous suppliers in industrialised countries, as Nigerians haemorrhage their money on a desperate quest to signal imaginary status to one another.

It’s time for a cultural shift. Scientific education, economic empowerment and spiritual awakening must displace obsessive, spiritually bankrupt, low-level consumerism. If this will be Africa's century, the continent needs its most populous country to break free from this psychological trap.

[GT Atas @GodstimeAtas]

We need a good leader in Nigeria who will close the door on American CIA agents.

[KING ELOM👑🌕 @iamNeare]

They flaunt their IMMIGRANTS going to destabilize other countries while crying about other immigrants coming to their country.

Ret-rded White people🤡🤡🤡

[Mind of the Motherland @UncolonisedMind]

Just another news story, as usual.

We are so accustomed to Africans dying that we barely even flinch when hundreds of our people dies.

If this happened in Europe, we would see “Pray for Europe” plastered all over social media by the same Africans. Free Palestine hashtags everywhere, but hardly any outrage when our own people die.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with showing solidarity with other people. But charity, as they say, begins at home.

Until a child dying in Sudan, South Africa, Zambia, the DRC, Nigeria, or anywhere else in Africa becomes a concern to other Africans; until the plight of people in the South becomes a concern to those in the West, until what troubles the East troubles the North, we remain far from achieving genuine continental liberation and unity.

African lives must matter to Africans.

[Iwu Nna @DaddyTwinzz]

Notice how quiet banditry news has become lately? A few months ago, videos like this were everywhere. Underreporting is not the same as resolution, less coverage doesn't mean less banditry. Now the headlines have thinned out and it almost feels like the problem is under control. But has anything really changed for the people living through it?
Forced abductions and open raids still happen. They just don't get the same attention anymore.
When the noise dies down, people assume the problem is gone. The people living it know better.

[Maxvayshia™ @maxvayshia]

Confidently saying in public that you are called upon only when corruption, rigging and hooliganism are needed to win an election, is very wild.

A whole new level of shamelessness unlocked.