Otax Osula

Enterprising and Godly

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Immigration is a difficult decision. Getting settled is even tougher. Many don't make it through and are dropped off at the last minute on technicalities, then deported or voluntarily return, and their stories are never told. I don't know which is more painful—doing everything right and still failing, or doing desperate things and being deported.

There is this incident I witnessed on an Iberia flight at Madrid Airport that still haunts me. It was humorous at first, but I later thought about how desperate it was for a man to start stripping himself naked inside the plane because he wanted to leave everything behind, as they wouldn't let him stay with his daughter.

They had to take him off the plane to save others the embarrassment. Another person saw that it worked and did the same thing. They had to come to ask if any others were also thinking of getting naked? A group of four people stood up.

The one that still baffles me is the lady deported from Jamaica, of all places. I knew it had to be for a crime, but she was acting so insane and wanted to open the aircraft door to jump out. She felt that death was better than the shame and uncertainty back home.

People wonder why I came back to Africa when I had all the opportunities to remain abroad. I saw too much indignity being meted out to Africans out there and decided it was best for me to come back and be part of the solution to fix things. I honestly believed tech could be part of the renaissance but never considered that politics and petty tribalism could become the undoing of it all.

I still have hope. I listened to a friend tell her story yesterday of doing everything right in America, getting a PhD and a great job, then losing that job and having only days to leave or be kept in a camp. She decided to leave. This is a brilliant scientist who was working at one of the top institutions. She now has to start all over and pick up the pieces of her life.

The more I hear those stories, the more I look to what China has done and hope and pray that maybe we can pull off such a miracle. According to our parents, “they don't have two heads.” Our corrupt politicians and criminal tribalists may also need to start getting the death penalty before we achieve sanity.

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

Wait till you see what we found.

• ₦3.5bn for a Technical & Vocational Training College in Kaduna.
• ₦1.4bn for road construction in Ogun.
• ₦700m for dental X-ray machines and dental chairs in Ekiti.

All under the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children Education.

And this wasn't a one-off.

While analysing the 2026 budget, we found 11,122 constituency projects worth ₦6.93 trillion that blur agency mandates, making it harder for Nigerians to follow the money and hold the right institutions accountable.

We unpacked what this means for the credibility of the 2026 budget in our Federal Government Approved Budget Analysis.

Every Nigerian needs to know what the government is doing. Read 👉 https://t.co/nxkE5yEr64

[Iyin😎 @O_ladele]

Engineering solutions when all the Engineers are writing ICAN.

Omi lo ma gbe gbogbo yin lo😀

[Doylep @doyleparton]

@lollypeezle Based on my knowledge, chieftaincy titles are meant to reflect character, service, and respect. When someone with a criminal conviction for harming a child is considered, I don't even know if the titles has values anymore

[SARKI_SULIEMAN @Sir_Dongizle]

You can't consume rap music from them MI Abaga, Sauce Kid, Mode 9, Jesse Jagz, Ladi Poe, Vector etc and not come to the conclusion that Odumodu is WACK!

[Chichi @chibzyyyy]

YCee, what a guy!

[gst @wearegst]

Know this: The Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources has a budget of ₦236 billion.

The government is taxing you to swim to work.

[gst @wearegst]

Remember when Minister Umahi dismissed journalist Laila Salami’s request for the environmental impact assessment for Coastal highway?

Lagos is a sinking city & weak environmental governance accelerates this reality.

When your government is led by an O-

[Kiitan 👀 🫆 @meisterkitan]

@Chiora__ They call them òde and they are happy

The leaders know this.

Say something >>>>>> reaction will be comedy. >>>> issue abandoned.

Rinse and repeat

[Olamide . @olamide_adee]

Take student loan to study medicine then pay back when you start selling akara or kulikuli 😍

Beautiful .

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

If Nigeria hasn’t offered you multiple reasons to doubt your own sanity, you are a lunatic..🇳🇬😓

[Àshàké(not Ololade)❤️ @Molayoo_]

You’ll get mocked for speaking good English lol.

[Oṣóyínká 🪔 @sledge_baba]

Comparing Mr Bean and Eddie Murphy to Peller has nothing to do with being an Olodo anymore, that's clearly an early stage of insanity, get checked ASAP.

[Maxvayshia™ @maxvayshia]

“Peller is an entertainer”.

Yea, an entertainer for idiots cos you have to be very slow and of terrible human quality to be entertained by such daily tomfoolery from a boy.

Also, cos you cannot see past money. Currency slave.

[Cross˚ @Elkrosmediahub]

Dear Nigerians, there’s this crystal clear depravity with this family. It is almost certain that they’d be worse if we allow them win a reelection.

Don’t say nobody warned you.
Ire o!

[LADIPOE @LadiPoe]

The way Naij has treated education, it shouldn’t be surprised that more people are outsourcing their thinking

[yimika. @yimikaaaa]

Whenever I catch myself not reading things completely, I remember anti-intellectualism is on the rise, literacy is in decline, and I don’t want to be a VICTIM!

[MacdavidGadgets @mac_david16ayon]

@Owiggy_ E go get age wey you go reach bro you go start dey love your papa more ooo because you go don dey understand some things. 😂

[Bethel @Bethelofenugu1]

Nobody is talking about how primary and secondary school teachers are drowning in poverty in this country
😣😣
I never even mention the nurses self

[Ilemona @I_Am_Ilemona]

Omo! Do you people know how insane it is for terrorists to kidnap a retired general, kill him and then return his body in a handover ceremony where they took pictures knowing they'd leave unchallenged?

Do you people know what kind of trouble we are in?