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“1 + 1 ≠ ½”

[🐜iSocial Xtrovert @philictee]

@_PastorUmoEno I appreciate your initiative.

[Pastor Umo Eno @_PastorUmoEno]

Yesterday, I met with 2,272 Village Youth Presidents from across Akwa Ibom State as we took a major step towards strengthening grassroots security.

The youth leaders will be profiled, trained, and integrated into our security architecture to support intelligence gathering and community security management in their respective villages.

I also directed all Local Government Chairmen to designate Supervisors for Security and approved the provision of 10 additional Hilux patrol vehicles to support security operations across the State.

Security is everyone’s responsibility, and we will continue to protect our communities and preserve the peace that Akwa Ibom State is known for.

[Big Smoke - @Skepta]

🗣️ TINUBU!! TINUBU!! TINUBU!!!
How many times have we called your name?! 😡

[🐜iSocial Xtrovert @philictee]

🦁 🐾

[🐜iSocial Xtrovert @philictee]

I, U. M. P., have formally resigned my membership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), effective 05 May 2026. Withdrawing any prior expression of membership.

#ADCResignation #Obidients

[🐜iSocial Xtrovert @philictee]

https://t.co/Mh4TCjH9R5

[The Nigeria Lawyer @Nigerialawyers]

“You Cannot Be Judge In Your Own Case” — Nigerians Reject @inecnigeria Self-Conducted Forensic Probe That Cleared Chair Amupitan Cite Nemo Judex In Causa Sua https://t.co/HDUokx0dqn via @Nigerialawyers

[NoteS. @NoteSphere]

“..Copying is when there is no transformation, no recontextualisation, and no commentary. There is only extraction: taking someone else’s creative equity and converting it straight into sales.

To put it more clearly:
Referencing is drawing from the same visual history or cultural moment, shared silhouettes, inherited forms, and parallel aesthetics that evolved independently. It means building on what already exists in order to arrive somewhere new.

Copying is reproducing a specific creative idea with minimal or no transformation, no credit, and no intent beyond commercial extraction. It’s creating near-identical products designed to substitute for the original in the same market.”

[🐜iSocial Xtrovert @philictee]

The time for the Nigeria we deserve is now...

We are POsibble.

[Your Abuja Doctor🩺 @medicalbaron]

@General_Somto One day, Nigeria will prevail.
Not parties, not individuals, but the country.
Until that day comes when we all collectively decide to put our country first, more AGBADo and EWA go touch una.
🚶‍♂️

[🐜iSocial Xtrovert @philictee]

Anywhere @PeterObi is, I am there.

[🐜iSocial Xtrovert @philictee]

I'm in.
#ADCed

[JP Attueyi @jpattueyi]

This comparison is intellectually dishonest.
South Africa’s personal income tax ≈ ₦60tr.
Nigeria’s ≈ ₦3tr.
And we’re supposed to conclude:
“People opposing tax reforms are just tax evaders”?
That’s not analysis.
That’s misdirection.

Let’s deal in facts.
1. You cannot tax income that does not exist.
South Africa has:
• A far larger formal labor force
• Higher median wages
• Stable payroll systems
• Reliable employer reporting

Nigeria has:
• Over 60% informal employment
• Millions earning below subsistence level
• Wages eroded by inflation
• Weak payroll enforcement
You don’t get South Africa level income tax from a population that is largely informal and underpaid. That’s arithmetic, not ideology.

2. Tax revenue reflects state capacity, not citizen morality.
Countries don’t collect taxes because citizens are “obedient”.
They collect taxes because:
• Income is traceable
• Services are visible
• Enforcement is credible
• Trust exists
Nigeria struggles with all four.
Blaming citizens for structural failure is policy cowardice.

3. South Africa taxes income, Nigeria taxes survival.
In Nigeria:
• VAT hits the poor hardest
• Inflation is a hidden tax
• FX instability destroys real wages
• Fuel and power costs are privatized
When people resist “reforms”, it’s not because they’re criminals.
It’s because the state keeps extracting without delivering.

4. High tax revenue is an outcome, not a starting point.
South Africa didn’t tax first and then build institutions.
It built:
• Functional registries
• Banked wage systems
• Enforceable contracts
• Credible public services
Then taxes followed.
Trying to reverse that order is how states collapse legitimacy.

5. The laziest argument in public policy:
“Anyone who disagrees with us must be guilty.”
That logic would mean:
• The poor oppose taxes because they’re criminals
• Businesses resist taxes because they’re immoral
• Citizens complain because they’re dishonest

No.
They complain because the social contract is broken.

Bottom line:
Low tax revenue in Nigeria is not proof of tax evasion.
It is proof of:
• Informality
• Low productivity
• Policy failure
• Weak institutions
Until government fixes income, stability, and trust, tax “reforms” will look like punishment, not progress.

You cannot tax your way out of economic dysfunction.
You must build your way out first.

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

Nestlé has recalled these baby products.

So before you mix that next bottle for your baby, read this thread carefully as it concerns their well being.

If you feed your baby NAN, SMA, or Alfamino, a toxic bacteria has been found in some batches. And you might have it in your house right now.

You see, Nestlé has issued a massive global recall for several baby formulas (products in the image above) because they found a toxin called Cereulide (from Bacillus cereus bacteria) in some batches.

This toxin causes severe nausea and vomiting in babies. And the scary part is that boiling water does NOT kill it. The toxin is heat-resistant. So even if you prepare the formula correctly, if the powder itself is contaminated, your baby is at risk.

Now, NAFDAC has not released a specific alert for Nigeria yet. BUT our markets are porous. And people import ‘UK SMA’ and ‘Imported NAN’ every single day. So if you buy your formula from supermarkets that stock imported goods, or you bought it abroad, you need to check the last stock to see if your tin look like any of those products.

If yes, go to Nestle’s UK Website (SMA & Alfamino) and Nestle’s MENA Website (NAN) to verify if your batch does not fall under the recalled ones.

If your batch code matches the ones on that list, please DO NOT USE IT.

And please, don't keep this information to yourself.

If you have a friend, sister, or neighbor who uses SMA, NAN, or Alfamino, retweet this or send this to them NOW.

You might be saving a baby from poisoning today.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

We are supposed to be rejecting the tax bill, not addressing people how to adjust.

[🐜iSocial Xtrovert @philictee]

@KunaSagbeHq @rudeboypsquare Oya! Keep moving.