Og Ok

Free spirit with a touch of minimalist

[Og Ok @plag100]

Dire straits

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

Do you know that Proctor and Gamble that makes Oral B are no longer in Nigeria. They stopped their local manufacturing and grounds operation in 2023 and left.

So what are you guys using. And what are they looking into? 😊

The ineptitude of NAFDAC is causing all these nonsense. Millions of Nigerians are using fakes.

[Og Ok @plag100]

Who is the small boy now

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

The latest excuse is that the road was awarded under the last administration

Let me laugh first 🤣

Ok which administration awarded Landmark the land to build that world-class water park? Which administration demolished it?

Why was Umahi a lion when he demolished homes, but a pussycat when it comes to this road?

Suddenly, the Minister of Debate is so powerless he is appealing to a private company to allow him do his job abd rescue the GDP of the largest economy in West Africa

A whole lion…..🤣

The Governor nko? He can't build a temporary bypass for only cars and buses?

The worst are the muppets paid in rice and Ac to defend this

Muppets

[Og Ok @plag100]

Some clarity

[Samuel Omogor @SamuelOmogor]

ABUJA FLOODS, THIS IS JUST A TIP OF THE ICEBERG

I decided to keep quiet over the flooding in the FCT, Abuja since yesterday, so i can just read commentaries, and in all honesty, i have read more than enough.

I saw people denying the obvious. People making comments like, "which Abuja be dis?" "Where Abuja get this kind Water?" "This can never be Wuse 2," and so on. But one thing that is very clear is those floods actually happened in the heart of the FCT. Who could have imagined that cars of all kinds will be flooded on Ademola Adetokumbo? But it is happening, thanks to President Tinubu, and his minister Wike.

I have written about this even before the rains started, that Abuja is being destroyed out of greed. I have said it over and over that all the waterways in Abuja were being sand filled and buildings erected, and that the city will pay dearly for it. The supporters of the regime will always come after me. But I can bet alot of those clapping today would be victims either directly or indirectly tomorrow.

Wike is blocking all water ways. Infact, his Hypercity Supermarket and filling station is being built on a place no permanent structure is supposed to be built upon. A cabinet minister. That is how bad the impunity under this regime is. Nigerians didn't see anything near these when the @HQNigerianArmy were in power. Yet we said they were bad.

The truth is water must find it's way, even if forcefully. And that is what we are witnessing. The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NiHSA) has warned that flooding will worsen between August and September. And the FCT was one of the areas it said is of high flood risk. The Tinubu’s regime has warned Nigerians to prepare for flooding, blaming it on climate change, the same regime it's officials are deliberately and flagrantly destroying the our environment through land grabbing of even water ways. As I type, there hardly any green area and water ways Wike has not sold and structures being erected. The sad part is, most of these are done by politically exposed persons. Nigeria haven't seen this level of impunity in it's entire history. Under the military era, corruption was with caution, they were afraid of Nigerians. But under Tinubu? It is very brazen.

Yes, in your usual sycophancy, some of you will say flooding is a natural disaster, but what we are witnessing in the FCT is not a natural disaster, but rather, a 'Wike's Disaster', and Tinubu is watching.

Who would have thought Ademola Adetokumbo of all places would be so flooded? Who would have thought a rich neighbourhood like Katampe that is on a hill would be so flooded? And if these places can be so flooded, then imagine what will happen to low areas like Galadimawa, some areas of Lokogoma, Apo, and Lugbe.

Keep clapping for Wike, some of you clapping today might end up losing all you laboured for including lives as a result. I am not cursing anybody or wishing anyone evil but just speaking the truth. The flooding just started. It would be far worse by next raining season.

Let's continue to clap for what will obviously become DOOM.

#unmutedthepodcast #tegatalks

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. For 25 years I've been trained to be brilliant at the worst moment of your life.

The 3am cath lab. The stent threaded into a closing artery. The bypass. The shock that restarts a heart that had already quit. I've stood in those rooms more times than I can count, and I will never stop being in awe of what we can do there.

But I need to tell you the quiet secret of my entire field:

By the time you meet me in that room, the disease has already won most of the war. We are firefighters who show up after the house is halfway gone. We've built the most sophisticated rescue system in the history of medicine — and aimed almost none of it at stopping the fire from starting.

800,000 Americans still have a heart attack every year. A staggering share of them were preventable — not weeks earlier, but years earlier. We just had no way to see it coming.

That is now changing, and the shift is so profound that ACC President @Drroxmehran and @EricTopol just laid it out as a once-in-a-generation turning point for medicine — a call to move cardiology from reacting to disease to predicting and preventing it before it ever declares itself.

Here is what almost no one outside my field understands yet. Point by point.

We've been staring at the wrong thing for decades.

Old cardiology was obsessed with the narrowing — how clogged is the pipe on the angiogram. But here's the twist that still surprises even doctors: most heart attacks don't come from the tight, obvious blockage. They come from softer, "invisible" plaque that isn't blocking much of anything — until the day it ruptures without warning. We were reading the visible enemy and missing the one that actually kills. The real villains are inflamed, unstable plaque and the fire smoldering in the artery wall.

We can now see that hidden fire.

AI-powered CT scans of the heart can detect the dangerous features older imaging missed — the composition of a plaque, and the inflammation glowing in the fat around the vessel, years before anything ruptures. We are no longer guessing which plaque is a ticking clock. We're starting to read the clock directly.

Your DNA can flag the danger before you have a single symptom.

Polygenic risk scores add up thousands of tiny genetic variants into one number. They can identify people carrying 2 to 7 times the lifetime risk — people with normal cholesterol, no family history, no warning signs at all. A young, "healthy" 30-year-old could be walking around with a hidden inheritance we can finally catch and act on decades early.

A photograph of your eye can predict your heart.

This is the one that stops people cold. Deep-learning models can look at an ordinary retinal photo — the kind snapped at the optometrist — and estimate your biological age and your future heart-attack risk. The back of your eye is the only place in the entire body where we can see living blood vessels with the naked eye. It turns out they've been narrating your cardiovascular story the whole time, and we finally learned to read the language.

And now the machines that tie it all together.

Multimodal AI can fuse your genetics, your imaging, your medical record, and the data streaming off your watch into a single forecast of where your heart is headed — a living risk trajectory that updates in real time. Pair that with a new generation of drugs that crush the most dangerous cholesterol particles, cool inflammation, and protect the heart independent of weight — and primary prevention becomes something we've never had before: precise.

Put all five together and something historic becomes possible:

We can identify the person who is going to have a heart attack in 2045 — today. And we can rewrite that ending.

Here's why this matters more than almost anything else in medicine. Of the great age-related killers — cancer, dementia, heart disease — heart disease is the most preventable. We already have the lifestyle levers. We already have medications that work. Statins alone cut the risk of a major cardiac event by roughly 20–25% for each substantial drop in LDL, and we've held that power for years. What we lacked was knowing exactly who to protect, and when to begin.

Now we're being handed the map.

Picture it: a routine checkup — or even an eye exam — quietly generating a risk profile that says this person needs us now, not in thirty years. That is not science fiction. Every single piece already exists and is maturing fast.

I became a cardiologist to save lives. And I'm realizing the most powerful version of that was never the dramatic rescue at midnight.

It's the heart attack that never happens. The room you never end up in. The ordinary Tuesday, twenty years from now, that you simply get to keep — never knowing how close you came to losing it.

The tools are finally here. Our only job now is the courage to use them early — to stop waiting for the body to break before we're willing to care for it.

The future of the heart isn't a better rescue.

It's a life that never needed rescuing.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This is why "forex gurus" sell you a course instead of encouraging you to study institutional finance and understand how interbank liquidity actually works.

If the students of Habby Forex and Jeffrey Benson truly understood capital dynamics, they would never believe the ridiculous claim that Jeffrey withdrew $9 million from an offshore retail broker like Assex Markets or Kwakol. The only way such a massive withdrawal could legitimately happen is if these brokers possessed active clearing contracts and institutional settlement lines with Tier-1 liquidity providers like JPMorgan Chase, which they simply do not have.

The primary purpose of selling courses is to control the narrative and keep students in the dark. The irony is that, strictly speaking, these influencers are not even real forex traders, and their audience fails to realize this due to a complete misunderstanding of market microstructure and broker execution models.

A retail broker like the ones Habby Forex promotes is no different from a Bet9ja shop. When you walk into Bet9ja and place a bet that Real Madrid will beat Barcelona, you are simply entering into a private wager with the betting house.
Real Madrid, Barcelona, and La Liga have no idea your bet exists, and neither the players nor the league earn anything whether you win or lose. Your win is an outright loss for the betting house, and your loss is their direct profit. The betting house remains profitable because they know that over 90% of gamblers will eventually lose all their money, and even the rare few who win substantial sums usually gamble it all back.

This is precisely how the brokers used by Habby Forex and Jeffrey Benson operate. When you open their trading app, you see live charts of forex price movements, much like watching live scores on a sports betting app. But when you place an order, that trade is logged solely on the broker's private server. The broker makes zero attempt to route or execute your order in the real interbank market. Routing orders to real global liquidity providers requires massive upfront capital, bridge fees, and transaction costs. Because statistics show that roughly 90% of retail traders wipe out their account balance within 90 days, the broker has no financial incentive to incur costs by sending your order to the real market. They simply wait for you to blow your account so they can pocket 100% of your deposit.

This is also why these brokers offer absurd leverage like 1:2000, as it ensures you lose your money as quickly as possible. In the real financial world, leverage consists of strictly collateralized credit lines. In the United States, retail leverage is legally capped at 1:50; in the UK and EU, it is capped at 1:30; and in many emerging markets, it is even lower to prevent systemic risk due to lack of liquidity.

Ultimately, these brokers partner with forex influencers like Habby and Jeffrey Benson to funnel inexperienced traders onto their platforms. They pay these influencers massive commissions for every referral, and under certain affiliate deals, they even pay them a percentage of their followers' trading losses, because client losses are where the broker makes the most money.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

You are merely flattening history to suit your argument, and your entire thesis claiming China was historically a homogeneous society is completely, empirically unsound.

The homogeneity you are witnessing in China today was actually systematically drafted, engineered, and forged during the 20th century, and was legally codified when the Communist Party of China came into power in 1949. China was never historically a homogeneous society.
In fact, the urgent, state-directed push to construct a unified national identity was forced by the reality that rampant tribalism, regional warlordism, and religious jingoism directly dragged China into its painful "Century of Humiliation." They were plagued by endless internal conflicts, bloody regional wars, and ethnic divisions that rendered them utterly incapable of uniting to withstand European, American, and Japanese imperialism.

You hear that China is roughly 90% Han, and you immediately make the mistake of assuming that the "Han" people are just a single, monolithic tribe possessing identical cultural norms, dietary habits, and social traditions. This is factually false. To claim that the Han represent a single tribe is as absurd as claiming that "Europe" is a single tribe, ignoring the French, the Germans, the Portuguese, the English, and the Italians. Native Han populations speak mutually unintelligible languages. A native Cantonese speaker from Guangzhou, a Shanghainese speaker from Shanghai, and a Hokkien speaker from Fujian cannot understand a single word of each other's spoken language without learning Standard Mandarin (which was artificially engineered and mandated by the socialist state specifically to build a culturally cohesive society). And even if you set language differences aside, the historical, cultural, dietary, and temperament differences between the Northern Han and Southern Han have been so vast that they harbored deep regional prejudices, ethnic animosities, and engaged in fierce regional civil wars at several points in their history. Of course, it goes without saying that the Han were also heavily divided along religious, philosophical, and sectarian lines.

Now, the remaining 10% that makes up the 55 recognized ethnic minority groups in China may appear small to a superficial observer, until you realize that these non-Han groups actually occupy over 60% of China’s total geographic landmass. Groups like the Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongols, Hui Muslims, Zhuang, Yi, and Manchus all possess distinct spoken languages, unique written scripts, complex histories, and practice different religions, including Tibetan Buddhism, Islam, Shamanism, and Taoism. China is obviously not Nigeria, but you cannot honestly claim they possessed a naturally homogeneous society or culture.

Now, back to your question: "What do you think would happen if an Igbo Marxist leader starts destroying Yoruba shrines and temples?"

First of all, this premise is a textbook example of bourgeois tribalism, ethnic chauvinism, and complete political illiteracy, absolutely not Marxism. A genuine, scientific revolutionary process does not feature an "Igbo leader" unilaterally imposing cultural destruction on "Yoruba people." Instead, a true socialist revolution involves the Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Tiv, Ijaw, and minority working classes collectively uniting to target the material, economic, and political structures of their common corporate exploiters.

Secondly, a Cultural Revolution does not happen in the cartoonish way you have pictured it in your head. It does not begin with the spontaneous burning of traditional temples or the abrupt abolition of cultural practices. It begins with mass political education, bringing the exploited working class, landless peasants, and informal workers to a collective round table to demonstrate that their material struggles are intimately, indissolubly linked. A successful philosophical and class education will convince the struggling Igbo trader in Anambra that he has infinitely more in common with an impoverished Fulani herder in the bush and a struggling Hausa street hawker in Kano than he will ever have with billionaire oppressors like Arthur Eze, Cletus Ibeto, or local political godfathers. Likewise, the Yoruba worker in Osun who is forced to mold cement blocks under the scorching sun to survive will rapidly understand that his material reality is directly connected to the poor block layers in Onitsha, rather than billionaire monopolists like Femi Otedola and Mike Adenuga combined.

The revolution cannot begin until this fundamental, class-conscious philosophical education is complete. And if you attempt to make the lazy argument that Nigerians are too uneducated or tribalistic to understand Marxist theory, permit me to enlighten you: when Vietnam was under brutal French colonial occupation, over 90% of the population was completely illiterate, because the French imperial governors deliberately kept them uneducated to maintain social control. But Ho Chi Minh did not throw his hands in the air and conclude that his people were too illiterate, stupid, or primitive to wage a revolution grounded in scientific Marxism, nor did he decide that a military strongman was the only solution. He recognized that a true revolutionary struggle must actively transform the consciousness of the masses, which is why he spent over twenty years tirelessly educating the people. He personally trained hundreds of young Vietnamese revolutionaries in political economy, anti-imperialist strategy, and mass organization. He then commanded these newly trained cadres to go deep into rural villages and set up underground study cells. He wrote his revolutionary essays not in complex French prose or classical Chinese scripts, but in basic, accessible vernacular that local peasants could easily assimilate. These pamphlets were smuggled into rice paddies, rubber plantations, and factories, where literate workers read them out loud to those who could not read. In these simple essays, he clearly defined their class struggle: explaining why they were starving, identifying who was stealing their land, and showing them how to organize. Before Ho Chi Minh, there were dozens of patriotic, anti-colonial rebellions in Vietnam, but they all failed miserably because they lacked a disciplined organizational network and a clear political theory to mobilize the masses. Even after the 1949 revolution succeeded, Ho Chi Minh did not rest. He deeply understood that a strongman government, where the people remain passive spectators to their own governance, will never build the resilient institutions required to industrialize. For this reason, he organized massive literacy drives, placing millions of citizens in education camps where they learned to read using materials centered on anti-imperialism, agrarian land reform, and national sovereignty.

Again, I must forcefully emphasize that nobody simply stands up on day one to start burning traditional shrines or banning cultural heritage. The primary focus before the revolution is rigorous class analysis and organizing the masses; after the revolution, the focus becomes launching an aggressive, state-funded mass-education campaign to integrate the entire population into the running of the state.

After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the Bolsheviks did not assume power as a cabal of arrogant "strongmen" playing savior over the poor masses. They recognized the urgent need for mass enlightenment, establishing mandatory study camps for millions of Russian youth where they were taught to read and write while reciting foundational revolutionary principles like "We are not slaves, slaves we are not." The Bolsheviks equipped entire trains, river steamships, and trucks with mobile printing presses, libraries, projection screens, and political speakers. These "agit-trains" traveled across the frozen expanses of Siberia, Central Asia, and the rural countryside to show educational films, distribute anti-imperialist literature, and conduct lectures on the revolution. Leon Trotsky transformed the entire Red Army into a giant university, mandating that political commissars teach soldiers how to read, write, and analyze historical materialism alongside their tactical military training.

China took this concept of political education even further than the Soviets immediately following their revolution, systematically integrating ideological study into every single facet of daily life. Apart from launching comprehensive literacy campaigns for the peasantry, the soldiers, landlord loyalists, and feudal lords of the deposed Kuomintang government were placed into mandatory education camps. These former oppressors were forced into daily study groups to read Marxist-Leninist-Maoist texts, write detailed political autobiographies analyzing their upbringing, and undergo public self-criticism to openly confess their former bourgeois and feudal errors. China went as far as directing over 16 million educated urban youths during the "Down to the Countryside" movement to live in rural villages, teach local farmers how to read, and ensure that every corner of society was politically literate, class-conscious, and fully integrated into the revolution.

And finally, you asserted that "culture and identity must remain an integral part of our society."

I agree with you in principle, but we must be exceptionally, analytically careful here. The "cultural identity" you religiously, emotionally, and passionately defend today is actually not our authentic pre-colonial culture. It is a balkanized, distorted, and heavily manipulated version of our culture that was forcefully imposed upon us by the British Empire on behalf of the global capitalist network. The British already carried out a brutal, highly sophisticated cultural revolution in Nigeria, and what millions of people in Nigeria today treat as "ancient, unchangeable tradition" in Igbo, Yoruba, and Hausa societies is actually a modern administrative construction engineered by British colonial governors.

Pre-colonial Igbo societies were overwhelmingly decentralized, horizontal, and fiercely republican in nature, operating under the well-known philosophy that "Igbo have no kings" (Igbo enwe eze). But because the British found no centralized monarchs, they realized it was administrative chaos to extract taxes, enforce forced labor, and loot solid minerals from an autonomous population. So, they explicitly invented and appointed "Warrant Kings." The various traditional kings scattered across Igbo societies in Nigeria today, whom people proudly view as their "ancient culture," were actually a British colonial creation designed explicitly to exploit and subjugate the Igbo people. In ancient Igbo societies, community disputes and ecological crises were settled through democratic village assemblies and consultations with traditional priests. Yet, after the British cultural revolution, the Igbo population became overwhelmingly Catholic and Anglican.

A perfectly identical argument applies to Yoruba society. Pre-colonial Yoruba kingdoms were sophisticated, constitutional monarchies operating under strict institutional checks and balances. The Oba (King) was not an absolute ruler. In the Old Oyo Empire, for instance, the Bashorun and the council of kingmakers (the Oyomesi) possessed the constitutional power to force a tyrannical Oba to commit suicide by presenting him with a symbolic calabash. The Ogboni society provided further judicial checks against royal overreach. The British deliberately dismantled these democratic checks and balances under the system of Indirect Rule. They elevated the Oba to a supreme, sole authority responsible only to the British District Officer, effectively transforming constitutional monarchs into despotic colonial autocrats. The exact same colonial engineering occurred across the Hausa kingdoms, where indigenous belief systems were erased or restructured to fit colonial administrative ease. So today, these traditional monarchs and kings, who parade around in expensive hand-woven attire and are celebrated as the face of "African cultural pride," are actually the vestigial organs of British imperialism. These traditional rulers, if anything, represent the historical and present-day face of our oppressors.

So, when you passionately argue that our "cultural pride and identity" must remain an integral part of us, we must confront you with a direct question: which specific culture and identity are you defending? Because clearly, the cultural identity, traditional hierarchy, and religious structures that exist in almost every part of Africa today were engineered by Western colonizers and shoved down our throats to facilitate capitalist extraction. If you are talking about returning to the authentic, pre-colonial structures that existed before the white man arrived, then you are advocating for a massive, radical Cultural Revolution, something you previously claimed was impossible in Nigeria. If you are advocating for preserving the current, colonial-engineered traditions as they exist today, it means you are still comfortably wearing invisible colonial chains, defending a culture that was carefully designed by European administrators strictly to allow global capitalism to flourish. The toxic tribalism that plagues Nigeria and the rest of Africa was manufactured for this exact same reason: to keep the working class divided along ethnic lines while foreign corporations extract the wealth.

The early generation of Pan-Africanists who fought for flag independence in Nigeria and across Africa completely failed to understand the non-negotiable need to dismantle these colonial-engineered cultural and administrative extraction systems. Consequently, today we are forced to live under grinding neocolonialism, while the Chinese, who had the courage to systematically dismantle all feudal, imperial, and colonial structures, are living in first-generation smart cities, launching exascale supercomputers, and completely outmaneuvering the Western empire in scientific advancement, technological sovereignty, and mass education. Today, another wave of superficial Pan-Africanists are holding hands, forming emotional circles, and dancing under the same distorted cultural umbrella, emphasizing an "African culture" that was watered down, weaponized, and designed by European masters strictly to facilitate the extraction of capital from African soil.

Indeed, those who stubbornly fail to learn from the material realities of history are forever doomed to repeat its greatest tragedies.

[Og Ok @plag100]

Men's week

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

This week marks International Men's Week 2026.

I started to put together this thread last week & this morning - I have all my thoughts together.

From one man to another,

From the core of my heart to yours,

From the recognition of my struggles to yours,

I share this:

[Og Ok @plag100]

Pay attention

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Every Nigerian needs to pay very close attention to this official press release by the Finance Minister of Nigeria, Taiwo Oyedele. This serves as the direct response by the Federal Government to the International Monetary Fund 2026 Article IV Concluding Statement on Nigeria.

The recent IMF statement on Nigeria is overflowing with glowing praises for the Tinubu Administration and their supposedly brilliant economic policies.
The IMF is loudly cheering for the reunification of the foreign exchange market because the gap between the official and black market exchange rates has remained below 5%, which is absolutely fantastic for foreign investors since they love predictability, guaranteed margins, and zero currency friction. They also excitedly applaud the fact that Nigeria's foreign reserves have built back up, supposedly providing a comfortable cushion against global economic shocks. Finally, the IMF highly commended the Tinubu government's decisions to eliminate deficit monetization (which stopped the CBN from printing money to fund government projects) and to permanently remove petrol subsidies.

Now, the Tinubu Administration, speaking through the office of the Finance Minister, is proudly parading this IMF report like a shiny gold medal. They are framing this praise as an "independent validation" that their brutally painful economic policies over the past few years are finally yielding positive macroeconomic results. The glaring problem here is that this is not something Nigeria as a sovereign country should be celebrating, and this is entirely because of who the IMF actually works for and who dictates their underlying policies. The G7 nations and Western superpowers entirely control the IMF board, and the institution itself exists strictly to protect the financial interests of international creditor nations, massive global investment banks, ruthless hedge funds, and wealthy foreign bondholders. The primary job of the IMF is merely to ensure that the global financial system remains perfectly stable and that struggling developing nations never default on their massive, crippling debts to foreign creditors. Therefore, the IMF works exclusively for the lenders (the global financial-industrial complex), absolutely not for the bleeding borrowers like Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, or any other struggling African nation.

To see how bad this is, just observe this currency unification being praised by the IMF as a massive win for the Tinubu Administration. They are celebrating simply because the exchange rate is now mathematically stable and investors are finally happy. This is spectacularly good for foreign speculators, but it is deeply catastrophic for us because the currency stabilized at a spectacularly weaker level of N1,400 per dollar, compared to N770 in the black market and N450 in the official rate before this administration took over.
So yes, the currency is technically unified, but at a permanently crippled level. Since Nigeria is a heavily import-dependent economy, this unified weakness has made the cost of food, life-saving medicines, basic hospital bills, school fees, transportation, building materials, imported spare parts, and daily survival astronomical, thereby permanently destroying the purchasing power of everyday Nigerians.

Furthermore, the IMF congratulating the Tinubu Administration on increasing the country's foreign reserves might sound like brilliant news, until you suddenly realize that it is this exact, deliberate policy that violently crippled our local industries. Most of the money that makes up these bloated new foreign reserves was forcefully squeezed out of the removal of petrol subsidies, a move that has deeply suffocated our local businesses, artisans, manufacturers, and logistics companies who rely entirely on petrol generators to survive. But this is not even the full tragic story. Even the bloody change they violently squeezed out of the dying Nigerian middle class was not enough to impress these foreign investors. To aggressively entice them, the Tinubu Administration spiked the base interest rate from 18% up to a staggering 27%. This was no mistake. In the US, for example, when you lend money to the government by buying Treasury Bills, federal bonds, municipal securities, or index funds, the interest you expect to make per year is at most 5%. But the Nigerian government is desperately signaling to these foreign speculators and international bondholders to come drop their dollars in Nigeria, effectively guaranteeing them a massive 27% interest by the end of the year. This might look like a huge economic win as foreign capital flows into the country, but this hot money never ends up in the pockets of ordinary Nigerians. It is never used to build schools, pay hospital bills, subsidize agriculture, fix dead refineries, or reduce house rents. The money just sits idly in the central bank to impress the IMF and World Bank creditors, proving to them that Nigeria is highly liquid and perfectly safe to lend to.

The absolute worst part of this trap is that it is not just the CBN increasing the base interest rates. The commercial banks are naturally forced to aggressively increase their lending rates even higher. Today, some predatory commercial banks are charging desperate businesses as much as 35% to 40% interest on loans. This financial terrorism has forced countless local businesses to drastically cut down production, lay off massive numbers of staff, and permanently close their branches in remote areas across Nigeria, forcing them to operate strictly within the suffocating limits of their own personal, depleted capital. It is practically mathematically impossible to borrow from a Nigerian bank, scale up production, create actual wealth, and employ the millions of struggling graduates in our society when you first have to pay 40% to the bank. Add that to the reunified currency making imports insanely expensive, meaning businesses still have to pay extra for imported raw materials, clear goods at exorbitant customs duties, pay multiple state taxes, and buy the hyper-expensive fuel that spiked in price due to the celebrated subsidy removal.

It is very possible to analyze this insulting press release further, but there is absolutely no need to waste the time. Clearly, this administration should not be celebrating warm handshakes, pat-on-the-back press releases, and polite diplomatic smiles from foreign creditors and international bondholders. They should be focusing entirely on the bleeding Nigerians who are brutally forced to carry the crushing, suffocating burden of these massive economic miscalculations just to please a comfortable, wealthy board of directors at the World Bank and the IMF.

[Og Ok @plag100]

So succinctly stated

[Àgbà John Doe @jon_d_doe]

Let me say something.

I agree that the subsidy was a cancer, and I agree with President Tinubu for removing it.

But one thing the APC government has constantly failed to do is show prudence, empathy, accountability, and probity.

Nigerians cannot be suffering and living in fear of their safety daily, and we see elected government officials living in opulence and brazingly weaponizing poverty.

It's like adding salt to our injuries.
From how they display wealth, to even the convoy of elected officials and their arrogance, it shows that they do not see themselves as public servants.

Rather, they see themselves as messiahs who are not answerable to the citizens and can do anything and get away with it.

We have seen several politicians who have fraudulent cases to answer being welcomed to APC in particular, and their cases are no longer being pursued or prosecuted.

If you want Nigerians to endure the suffering, the least you can do as a government is to ensure the safety of their lives of almost non-existent properties.

And it must be reflected in the conduct and utterances of political office holders.

This is where the leaders get it wrong:

Displaying questionable wealth in the midst of poverty, and showing a lack of empathy.

Therefore, Nigerians have the right to be angry. And Nigerians have the right to reject a failed government.

You cannot lead us by force, and you must show readiness to conduct free and fair elections and commit to handing over power should you lose in that election.

Just as GEJ did.

The Nigerian presidency is not Tinubu's birthright, neither is APC the only political party, nor are their supporters the privileged citizens.

I am a legitimate taxpayer and a law-abiding citizen, and so are millions of us. And I fear for the future of my children.

End.

[Og Ok @plag100]

So inspiring

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Og Ok @plag100]

@Olami_deeEbony How intelligent and financially stable are these girls,no man needs a liability as a wife

[Wisdom.e @wiisdometeng]

The average cross riverian would never enter this busses, they will roll this out during elections to move their supporters and maybe carnival. Electric bus way na diesel gen them go use charge sef😭😂💔

[Slim @onu_slim]

Dear Frank Edoho, this is a financial and life advisory from someone who has been watching.

First, the school fees, the properties, the years of provision, the emotional labour, all of that is gone and it is not coming back, mourn it for exactly 30 days, after that it becomes a tuition fee for the most expensive masterclass in human character assessment you will ever attend, file it under education and move forward.

Second, you are 57 years old, still handsome, still distinguished, still employed, still relevant, still the man who made “is that your final answer” a cultural moment in Nigerian television history. The woman who left that did not leave because you were not enough, she left because some people confuse a blessing for an entitlement, that is her problem now, not yours.

Third, your next investment will not be in a woman who needs building, you have already built two complete human beings from scratch with your resources, your time, and your emotional capacity. Going forward you are only investing in something that already has equity, no fixer upper projects or rehabilitation contracts, you are not NNPC and you cannot afford another turnaround maintenance scam.

Fourth, separate your finances permanently and structurally, whatever you own going forward carries your name only until a relationship has proven itself over years not months, love is beautiful but a joint account requires the same due diligence as a business partnership….which it literally is.

Fifth, the woman making noise publicly right now naming people and building a victim narrative is doing you a favour you have not recognised yet. She is showing everyone watching exactly who she is without you having to say a single word, your silence is not weakness Frank, your silence is evidence, let it speak.

Sixth, stop falling in love with potential, you are a television professional, you understand production, you know the difference between a pilot episode and a complete series, stop funding pilots that never make it to season two.

Now the most important advice of all.

Come back to television, but not with a quiz show this time, Nigeria has moved past multiple choice questions, we are living in an era of N800 billion missing from FAAC, senators buying tax clearance like recharge cards, a Budget Office that has gone silent on the biggest budget in history, and a government that travels the world giving speeches about transparency while accountability stays at home.

Come back with a current affairs programme, sharp, structured, uncomfortable, the kind of show where powerful people sweat under studio lights and ordinary Nigerians get the questions actually answered, hosted by a man who has already survived two public storms with his dignity completely intact, which means nobody can threaten him, blackmail him, or buy him with a land allocation.

Nigeria needs a broadcaster who has nothing left to lose and everything to say, and after what you have been through Frank, that man is you.

The show writes itself, the audience is already waiting, and this time when you ask the question, we will not be thinking about the money.

We will be thinking about the answer.

Is that your final answer Frank?

Make it count this time.

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Rogue EFCC officials stormed a Teaching Hospital in Uyo today and physically assaulted a professor and cardiothoracic surgeon, who's also the deputy chairman of the hospital's Medical Advisory Council, over a death certificate for one of their deceased officers.

They stormed the hospital, dragged the professor out of his office, and proceeded to physically brutalise him.

This is a professor whose work ethic and general demeanour have been described as exemplary by people who know him.

He's also said to be the only cardiothoracic surgeon in AkwaIbom state.

People complain about the dearth of specialist hands in the country's medical sector, while the ones who have chosen to stay and give back are dehumanised in this manner.

Should this man decide that enough is enough, pack up his family, and head off to a country where he's valued and treated with dignity, it will be Nigeria's loss.

[Og Ok @plag100]

@haifah_er_abba Was she bleaching before she got pregnant

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@rispyyli The tummy is an obstacle

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It's about time

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Where is the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?

This is not just a question; it’s a critical demand for accountability in a national emergency. As we approach the end of this year, Nigeria will be home to approximately 140 million people living in extreme poverty—the highest number in the world. We are grappling with one of the hungriest populations globally, staggering insecurity, an unemployment rate exceeding 80 million among our youth, and one of the worst places to be born, with infant mortality rates worse than those of a nation seven times our size.

In the midst of this chaos, where has our President been? Spending 196 days abroad in 2025 alone—more than he has spent within his own country, at a time when we face profound crises.

Since December 2025, Nigerians have not heard a word from their President. Reports indicate he opted for a holiday in Europe while the nation was plunged into a New Year marked by hunger, anxiety, and uncertainty. There was no New Year address, no national broadcast, no leadership voice to provide reassurance or guidance.

This lack of presence starkly contrasts with what we see in comparable developing nations where leaders step up in times of crisis. In Nigeria, following U.S. military strikes on our soil, our President remained silent. Instead of directly addressing the nation, Nigerians learned about these critical events from foreign media, American officials, and the vague communications from the Presidency’s aides known for their propaganda, rather than from their own leader.

This is not governance; it’s neglect. The President was seen abroad yet again for another summit while remaining absent from his own country when he is needed the most. Earlier this year, he even sent an AI-generated image to the nation instead of addressing his people face-to-face.

Are we to believe Nigeria is being governed, or is it merely being managed from elsewhere? Leadership is not simply issuing press releases; it’s about standing before the people, engaging with them, and offering clarity.

We are not asking for perfection; we demand presence. Nigerians are eager to hear from their President through direct media briefings. They deserve to understand the state of their country. You cannot run Nigeria like a personal business or a private club; it is imperative to rebuild and grow our economy through unity and clarity.

Progress is impossible without unity and consensus, and it begins with strong leadership that sets the tone. No policy, reform, economic plan, or security measure can thrive in a divided nation. When leadership withdraws, unity falters, and the fabric of our society unravels under the weight of mistrust and division.

In a time of crisis, the absence of leadership is not just troubling; it is perilous. Silence in the face of crisis is the loudest form of failure.

A New Nigeria is not just POssible; it is essential. -PO

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Succinctly stated

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Prosperity cannot come by taxing Poverty

As I travel the world and meet leaders who have transformed their nations, one lesson is clear: lasting economic and social progress begins with national consensus. Transformative leaders—those who successfully unite their people around a shared vision—share a defining quality: honesty. Government must be transparent and truthful because citizens deserve nothing less from those who lead them. True leaders do not exploit their people to enrich themselves and a few cronies; they build trust, unity, and shared purpose - the foundation of sustainable progress.

It is against this standard of honest leadership that Nigeria’s current approach to taxation must be measured. If taxation is to function as a genuine social contract, it must be rooted in sincerity, fairness, and concern for the welfare of the people. Every tax policy should be clearly explained, including its impact on incomes and its expected contribution to national development. Without this transparency, taxation becomes a tool of confusion and burden rather than a mechanism for growth and development.

Nigeria must rethink taxation if it is serious about economic growth, national unity, and shared prosperity. The purpose of sound fiscal policy is not merely to raise revenue; it is to make the people wealthier so that the nation itself becomes stronger. Yet today, Nigerians are asked to pay taxes without clarity, explanation, or visible benefit.

The solution begins with empowering small and medium-sized enterprises in every community. When small businesses thrive, jobs are created, incomes rise, and the tax base expands naturally. You cannot tax your way out of poverty - you must produce your way out of it.

This makes the ongoing tax fraud saga particularly alarming. For the first time in Nigeria’s history, a tax law has reportedly been forged. The National Assembly itself has admitted that the version gazetted is not what was passed into law. Yet citizens are being asked to pay higher taxes under this manipulated framework—without transparency, without explanation, and without corresponding benefits.

There is no virtue in celebrating increased government revenue while the people grow poorer. Taxing poverty does not create wealth; it deepens hardship. Any tax system that makes citizens poorer violates the fundamental principles of good governance and sound fiscal policy.

Nigeria needs a fair, lawful, and people-centred tax system—one that supports production, rewards enterprise, protects the vulnerable, and restores trust between government and citizens. Only then can taxation become a true tool for unity, growth, and shared prosperity. -PO