Reading the mass Arab crash out in the comments of the tweet I'm quoting makes me feel a bit privileged to be African. I thought we were the people with the world's worst identity crisis, but it seems that title belongs to Gulf Arabs.
They are typing every alphabet of anti-black racism they can muster from their souls because an African leader rightly called out some of his people for going to study Wahhabi ideology in Saudi Arabia that has been linked to terror pipelines. Knowing fully well that
a) Said Wahhabi nonsense was literally created by the CIA after Nixon's petrodollar deal with Saudi Arabia, which created American-backed foreign destabilisation organisations like the Muslim Youth World League - thus Wahhabism does not even represent most Saudis, let alone Arab Muslims, and
b) Ibrahim Traoré himself is a Muslim, and he is not speaking badly of Islam, but of a specific type of weaponised, CIA-backed pseudo-Islam that has caused misery to millions of Muslims around the world.
These absolute dumbasses think that something Richard Nixon's CIA created is their religious identity!
I'm never going to complain about Africans again. At least my grouse with our people is that we have an identity crisis due to not remembering who we were 400 or 500 years ago - not the kind of identity crisis where we think that a pseudo religion created by American empire builders after the colour TV was invented is our whole identity.
What a bunch of complete donuts.
Now I completely understand why the Gulf is the way it is. A hundred and something million of the world's wealthiest olodos🤡
I don’t think you people understand what obsession means. It might look cool and fun at first but it’s not a recipe for a healthy relationship, it’s a serious disaster waiting to happen. Obsessive people are ALWAYS abusive and batshit crazy jealous. They’ll love bomb, abuse and gaslight you so much that when they’re done with you, your therapist will need therapy after listening to what you’ve been through.
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
There is no ethnic group in the whole world that gives birth to millions of children & abandon them in the streets the way Hausa people do. We have the worst number of child neglect in the world despite being so called “Religious Muslims”.
Take any population on earth.
For several generations, remove their most physically capable members by force and sell them abroad.
Destroy their existing political institutions and replace them with administrative structures designed to extract rather than develop.
Draw their borders to maximize ethnic conflict and minimize political coherence.
Extract their mineral and agricultural wealth for a century at prices you set unilaterally.
When you leave, install governments that serve your economic interests rather than their populations.
Fund civil wars when those governments are threatened by leaders who want to redirect resource revenues toward domestic development.
Then, three generations later, administer a cognitive test.
Compare the scores to those of the populations who spent the same period accumulating capital, building universities, developing public health infrastructure, and compounding the advantages of political stability.
Put the results on a map.
Call the map a "nature documentary."
Tell yourself the scores show something biological.
Tell yourself the history had nothing to do with it.
Tell yourself you arrived at this conclusion by following the evidence.
You did not follow the evidence.
You followed the map to the place you had already decided to go.
And the evidence, the entire, documented, sourced, cross-disciplinary evidence, is the invoice you refused to open.
In your mother's poverty, she sold akara to give you an education. You work with the Presidency in 2026, but your brain has atrophied from lack of use.
Instead of implementing policies that give the Nigerian child a better childhood than you had, you are asking people to fry akara in 2026 and return to your mother's poverty.
Ironically, this heated "Olodo Uprising" conversation is actually a good sign for Nigeria.
Nigeria is finally having its first endogenous, organically-defined culture war over an issue that is intrinsically important to Nigerian society.
Every other culture war that post-colonial Nigeria has fought until now has been imported Yankee slop, or imported religious slop, or both (LGBTQ, 3rd wave Feminism, "sexual liberation", tithing, NYSC hijab, etc).
A society fighting internal culture wars over its own self-defined issues is a society that is finally obtaining an identity of its own. Long may the war continue, and may the olodos suffer crushing defeat that dooms their uprising to the chapters of a Jude Bela historical documentary released in 2045.
The algorithms have owners. The owners have location-specific agendas. The things the algorithms push in front of your eyeballs are determined by your location and the owners' agenda for it.
That's why there are several Nigerian TikTok creators and streamers who make interesting, engaging content about Nigerian history and current affairs, but except you stumble across them, you won't even know that they exist. What the algorithm will constantly push to your Nigerian eyeballs instead is "Peller" and "Jarvis."
There are funny and intelligent Nigerian stand-up comedians like Bovi who upload Instagram Reels content, but the algorithm will not regularly push them to you. If not for their large offline following, you would barely notice them. The Instagram Reels algorithm will instead constantly push brainrot Nigerian skitmakers to saturate your Nigerian brain with the psychological equivalent of codeine.
If you want to know what agenda the algorithm owners have in mind for a specific location, simply find out who the algorithms have made famous in that location. And if you live in a location where the algorithms want to fill your head with nothing but mindless brainrot, you owe a responsibility to yourself to resist being programmed by rich people who are literally trying to code stupidity into entire populations.
Because everything is war.
Nope.
Not anyone can go to school and get a Bsc, talk more of a PhD.
Do not water down on academic degree to score a point.
You need a certain level of intelligence and rigor to survive the 4 walls of classroom for 4 years.
Dead this mentality abeg 🤲
That same TikTok is the only platform that has a STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering & Math) section
How many times have you watched content from that section?
I wish more Nigerians Did math or understood a little bit of math.
We would understand that 70k minimum wage in 2026 is way worse that 19,800 Corper allowee in 2014.
We can use our brain to calculate the decline we’ve experienced since APC took power.