Abdulrasheed mahmud

Engineer(Civil)

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The best thing you can do for yourself as a Nigerian is to use that internet connection of yours while you still can, and follow/read/watch information from a wide variety of sources from all over the world.

Your Nigerian media is a Europe-US information cage. When I say "Nigerian media", I'm not just talking about news platforms. I mean your popular social media bloggers. Your big content aggregators. Your online discussion and image boards. Everything is bought and paid for, and the money is always European or American.

Do yourself a favour and unplug.

Look for news, web content, TV series, movies and discussion forums from Asia, Latin America and other parts of Africa. Watch Brazilian TV shows. Watch Chinese documentaries. Watch Vietnamese movies. Follow social media content creators from Indonesia and Russia. Lurk on Pakistani message boards. Gain a wider picture of the world while you still have access to a relatively open internet that allows you to do so.

It's the best thing you can do for yourself.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Nigerians are deeply unserious people.

So this tweet is getting 1 million views and reactions, but when lst year your National Assembly held a hearing about altering the CONSTITUTION, and the hearing was held in partnership with the UK government and the US government (via PLAC/MacArthur Fdn), you people didn't know that your country has been bought and paid for?

Foreign governments are literally altering your constitution under your nose and you said anyone raising that alarm was a "conspiracy theorist", but now that one random guy tweeted about buying sand from individual Chinese business people who issued him a receipt in Mandarin, THAT is where you oloriburukus draw the line?

Not when your oyibo overlords were literally ALTERING YOUR CONSTITUTION?

God forbid you people.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This was last year in Southern Niger, near Nigeria's border. These "Islamic Jihadists" have diesel generators, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cash, and Starlink terminals. Every kb of data sent on a Starlink network is traceable and identifiable, and Starlink itself is a US military project.

So please explain where semi-literate, "Caliphate-seeking Jihadists" obtained and learned how to use all this equipment; and how they coordinate their operation using internet terminals controlled by the US military, which somehow never shut them down and allowed them keep running even though they definitely knew what they were being used for!

And you're supposed to believe that this is some sort of organic religious movement that somehow took some of the world's poorest people in some desolate part of the Sahel - people who cook with firewood and dry cow dung, and who have never handled N15,000 before in their lives - and magically earned them the $40,000 minimum you need to buy the equipment in these pictures; then they somehow learned how to use all these things that they had never seen before by reepating "Allahu Akbar!" 3 times while turning in a circle.

At some point you have to look at the material facts of the matter, then look at yourself in a mirror and answer the question, "Am I an absolute dickhead? Am I really this stupid?"

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

One day in September 2001, when I was a tiny 11 year-old starting secondary school at Atlantic Hall, back when it was located at Maryland, Mrs Adepoju the class teacher announced a group exercise as an icebreaker. All of us were to write our dream holiday location on a piece of paper, and one by one we would read out what we had written.

She started from the other end of the class, so I got to hear multiple answers before it got to my turn. The answers were basically "London", "America", "London", "London", "London", "London", "London", "UK", "London", "London"...

Now for context, I was already reasonably well travelled at the time, and even though my family was not the kind to go off on a jaunt to London at every given opportunity like some of my new peers, I had been privileged to travel fairly extensively around Africa, and I was visually familiar enough with the places being mentioned to know that people from London generally looked forward to going on holiday to warmer parts of the world in Africa, Asia, Southern Europe and Latin America.

I also knew from personal experience that people from "America" and "London" could be found in their thousands enjoying holidays in Lomé, Zanzibar and Accra. You would often find me as the sole African kid surrounded by white kids playing together in the lobby or private beachfront of Lomé's Hotel Deux Fevrier or Hotel Sarakawa whenever my family was in town.

In addition, the travel sections in the Newsweek, TIME and Readers Digest magazines that my dad bought every week made it clear that safari tours in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa were among the most highly rated holiday experiences on earth. These experiences were so exclusive that it would actually be easier for a Nigerian to take a trip to London than to go on safari in Kenya.

I'm providing all this context to explain why it seemed pretty obvious to me that writing "Kenya" as my dream holiday destination was a valid and reasonable choice. Instead, what happened when it got to my turn was that I read out "safari in Kenya" - and the rest of the class burst into laughter and giggles. I was utterly confused at first. Did they not hear me correctly?

They did.

As one of them helpfully explained in between subsequent chortles, "We're talking about places like London and New York, what is *Kenya*?" The inference of course, was that *Kenya*, located in Africa as it was, did not belong in the same conversation as "London" when discussing destinations.

What constituted a "dream holiday" for these children of Nigeria's elite was a Virgin Atlantic economy class ticket to Gatwick Airport, a 4-week stay with their NHS auxillary nurse aunty and her 2 kids in a cramped 2-bedroom council terrace in High Wycombe, and an Oxford Street shopping rampage yielding 50kg of excess baggage for the return trip, filled with WH Smith pencils and Primark clothes to show off to each other at the end of term party.

While the actual inhabitants of London used monthly payment plans to save up for their once in a lifetime Thomson package holiday tour in Kenya, these ghettofabulous sons and daughters of the Nigerian "elite" looked forward to a cold, uncomfortable experience on a miserable umbrella island as their "dream holiday". Not because it was a dream holiday, but because that was the social expectation they all enforced on each other.

And if you knew better, they *laughed* you.

That day was the first time I experienced something that I have gone on to experience many, many times over the intervening 25 years of my Nigerian life - the existential dread of being surrounded by people whose information level is so far below the one I operate with that we genuinely have almost nothing in common.

It's an experience I am so used to that I no longer bother to explain myself to Nigerians. The people who think that London is a dream holiday destination definitely think that "Iran is a terrorist regime that murdered 30,000 protesters."

Of course they do.

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

@Gebrehi46037573 @DavidHundeyin It always baffles me on how a lot of people from south are just catching up to these propagandas, I swear a lot of us grow up in north fully aware of these , from far lower background than people like David

[Mustapha Halilu @sirmusty12]

These are few of the many sins of Dangote:

# Creating massive job to teaming unemployed youth
# Investing in Nigeria instead of capital flight
# Importing jobs and Exporting unemployment
# Introducing a healthy competition in the oil and gas industry
# Being a Nigerian, and investing massively in Nigeria

Say no to continue fuel importation, come and establish your own refineries and give us job,

@ishaqsamaila5
please don't reduce yourself to a mouthpiece of oil cabals that held us to ransom for too long

Dangote has come to emancipate us from them

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

@vdmempire You are loud and ignorant, you don’t know economics, you don’t have any idea about investment, the monopoly you keep shouting you don’t even understand it. You keep shouting without evidence, you sit down blabbing rubbish, just following trends and spewing nonsense.

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

@ahameed02 Congratulations Dr. Sir, Thank you for everything. Your impact to both graduates and undergraduates students can not be overemphasis, your dedication and hard work during your time in office will always be appreciated. Thank you 🙏 we are grateful.

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

@ahameed02 🤭🏃🏾‍♂️

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

@ahameed02 Ameen 🤲🏽

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

@FS_Yusuf_ That’s Monday’s giveaway be that

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

One step at a time Nigeria 🇳🇬 will be better in sha Allah

[Abdulhameed U. Abubakar @ahameed02]

Entrepreneur. Investor. Visionary. Dangote.

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

@AITraderGlobal Interesting project , let’s go @Ibntaimiyyah03

[Uncle K Esq @Supheey]

Ladies and gentlemen……

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

@Fulani_Tutor Derdam 😂😂

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

@Fulani_Tutor Sleep like a baby

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

@yakubwudil I have a structural jokes, but I’m not statically determinate to say it.

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

@AliAbdaal I would paint 🎨. I like painting so much.

[Abdulrasheed mahmud @Raheed7]

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