You are quick to criticise an overpopulated small state below sea level whenever it floods.
But you are quick to give another state that doesn't have any of these issues, yet floods, a quick pass.
What are you?
It is now two years since @bosuntijani first shared plans for a new design system for the government. Not a single update in 2026.
https://t.co/9pmwsMqzE8
The reason Western populations keep voting for politicians who promise to stop immigration while their economies quietly depend on immigrant labor is not hypocrisy.
It is the logical behavior of people caught between two things they need and can only admit to needing one of.
They need the labor.
The hospitals don't run without it. The farms don't produce without it. The delivery economy doesn't function without it.
They need the story.
The story that they built this themselves. That the prosperity is native. That the abundance is earned and not, in any part, extracted.
The immigrant in the hospital ward and the immigrant at the border are the same person.
But one is invisible infrastructure and one is a visible threat.
The political genius is keeping them in separate mental categories.
It is exhausting.
It is very well funded.
When are people going to understand there is not such thing as privacy anymore? We have lived in a recored future for 20+ years already.
Our surveillance state just leveled up significantly in the past few years with LLMs and AI.
I don't want to imagine the humans we are creating for the future.
It's almost a curse to have lived in a time where you could screw up and get a little wild at a nightclub and you didn't have to worry about it being on the internet for the rest of your life. Where humans interacted with each other without phones. When the risk of being filmed in public was a photograph with terrible resolution. When we played at the park until sundown with our friends, without our parents. It was a happier life back then.
“The reported ‘murder’ of a Nigerian trader, shot multiple times outside his shop in Witbank, Mpumalanga Province, amid heightened anti-immigrant and #xenophobic tensions, is two failures at once, namely South Africa's failure to protect everyone within its borders, and Nigeria's failure to move from after-the-fact statements to real protection for its citizens abroad.
If #Pretoria failed to protect, #Abuja cannot look on idly. Nigeria cannot continue to appear distant when its citizens are exposed to intimidation, displacement and violence abroad.
A government’s responsibility does not end at its borders. Nigerians must know that wherever they live, work or trade, their country will demand protection, accountability and justice when they are harmed.
Nigeria holds leverage it rarely spends. This is the time to use it decisively. This cannot continue.”
cc: @officialABAT@NGRPresident@CyrilRamaphosa@GovernmentZA
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.
October last year, a committee was set up by the FG to review NYSC, a link was sent out for people to share their thoughts on the needed reforms. I can bet that none of those attacking the eventual reforms recommended have done anything on it. I challenge them to come out and show us their recommendations that were not included in the Reform.
We are never proactive when it comes to finding solutions. We only react, curse and insult people when the results are out.
The irony in this story is overwhelming.
The guy fled China in 2014 because he faced prison for fraud and corruption. No-one believed China, despite them issuing an Interpol Red Notice for his arrest. Western media and US officials universally presented him as a brave dissident unfairly harassed by the "CCP" in a "politically motivated" way (https://t.co/z0vpZvYDrT) because he was fighting corruption (see this VOA story for instance: https://t.co/0rC47K7QDM), a complete inversion of reality.
Steve Bannon even started a nonprofit with him called the "Rule of Law Society." The irony writes itself.
Long story short and true to form, Miles Guo used his "dissident" credibility in the US to - guess what - defraud Americans of $1 billion.
And here we are, 12 years afterwards, with US courts essentially concluding "yeah no, he is actually a crook, our bad."
Which makes it probably the most expensive fact-check in history: $1 billion of damage to verify what an Interpol Red Notice said a decade ago.
I know I'll sound like a broken record but this is yet another fantastic illustration that the kneejerk anti-China bias in Western media is actively harmful. When China says "careful, that guy is a dangerous crook" maybe, just maybe, it's worth checking before branding him with a heroic "dissident" narrative that he can then use to rob your people's life savings... Just a thought 🤷
Good morning
Yesterday I talked about how we’ve been programmed to see Nigeria as a failed state.
Today let’s be honest: Yes, plenty of things still dey pain us light, roads, insecurity. But pretending nothing is moving at all is also a lie we tell ourselves.
Tinubu’s government is doing the hard structural work subsidy removal, naira float, tax & electricity reforms. These are not quick fixes. They are the foundation.
The question is Are we ready to support the difficult but necessary path, or do we prefer the sweet lies that promise heaven in 2 years?
Singapore is a unitary city-state. The entire contiguous area is Singapore. No regions, no state, no LG just Singapore.
Nigeria is a Federation of States, regions. You may be thinking of educating your people as a region or state while someone else's priority is how to get bandits to hajj.
🚨 Zlatan Ibrahimović on Japan crashing out of the 2026 FIFA World Cup after their heartbreaking defeat to Brazil:
“Football can be very cruel. Today Japan leave the World Cup, but they leave with their heads held high. They pushed Brazil to the edge, made them suffer and forced one of the greatest football nations in history to fight until the very end. That’s something no one can take away from them.”
“I don’t want to hear anyone calling this a failure. Failure is not giving everything. These players gave everything. They ran, they fought, they believed and they represented their country with incredible pride. Sometimes football rewards you, sometimes it breaks your heart. Today it broke Japan’s heart.”
“I saw the tears after the final whistle, and those tears tell you everything. They cared. They believed they could make history, and for a long time they looked capable of doing exactly that. The result hurts, but the performance deserves respect from the entire football world.”
“If Japan continue producing players with this mentality, this won’t be the last time they surprise the biggest nations. They have shown courage, discipline and personality throughout this tournament. Today they lost the match, but they won the respect of millions of football fans around the world.”
{@FoxNews }
Looks like someone in Washington just updated the travel schedule.
"America First" has a way of becoming "Nigeria Next."
Soon we'll probably start hearing urgent calls for "democratization," "protecting democratic values," and "supporting civil society".
APPROVED #NYSC REFORM 2026
Some of the landmark reforms include:
1. A technology-driven call-up process.
2. Risk-sensitive deployment to better protect corps members.
3. A redesigned six-week orientation programme with stronger focus on leadership, entrepreneurship, digital skills and specialised career streams.
4. Skills-based primary assignments aligned with academic background and career pathways.
5. Modern governance with civilian operational leadership while the military continues to provide security support.
6. Improved camp standards through a national grading and certification system.
7. A new graduation ceremony to replace Passing Out Parade, and redesigned NYSC uniform that reflect professionalism and national pride.
This reform journey began in 2025 through a broad-based, multi-stakeholder review involving the Federal Ministry of Youth Development, the Federal Ministry of Education and the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Policy and Coordination.
UPDATE 🤔
The Katsina State Government has declined to comment on the reported arrest of seven suspected Boko Haram and ISWAP commanders at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport on June 18. The suspects were apprehended upon their return from the 2026 Hajj pilgrimage and handed over to the Department of State Services (DSS).
The state government stated that the matter falls strictly within the jurisdiction of federal security agencies. This comes amid allegations that some suspects participated in the pilgrimage through the Katsina State Pilgrims Welfare Board claims the government has denied.
While the federal government has celebrated the arrest as a major victory, the state government's silence raises further questions about how the suspects obtained travel documents and who facilitated their journey.
We spearheaded this fight for democracy for 30 years....
Lost the most soldiers.
Buried the most dead bodies.
Suffered the most hateful attacks.
Arrested, shot, assassinated, bombed, exiled, humiliated, beaten, battered, bruised.
But we kept on playing Opposition cos we knew we deserved better.