🏛️Raymond🏛️

•OSINT Researcher
•I write my analysis on X and Substack
•Independent.

[🏛️Raymond🏛️ @Raymondisnice]

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[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

The real tragedy of living in a third-world country is that you can do everything right and still struggle because the environment is designed to make ordinary things unnecessarily difficult.

[🏛️Raymond🏛️ @Raymondisnice]

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[🏛️Raymond🏛️ @Raymondisnice]

Ukraine being cut off from Starlink doesn’t come as a huge surprise to me. While researching Russia’s satellite alternatives, I noticed that Ukraine is still heavily dependent on the very system that helped weaken Russia’s position: Starlink. That dependence creates a vulnerability of its own. I wrote an article about it if you’re interested.

[🏛️Raymond🏛️ @Raymondisnice]

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[🏛️Raymond🏛️ @Raymondisnice]

My mom is completely sick right now and NONE of the hospitals took her in. Some prioritized money before admitting her which we can’t afford. Whilst other increased the bill immediately and made it look like an auction for the highest bidder or who had more money. This really broke my heart. I don’t know why we do this to ourselves. I cried a lot. No one took her in. No one.

[Lasisielenu @lasisielenu]

To the president and 36 state governors 😔

[Opeyemi Marcus @ArakunrinSugar]

This is Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko. Students came out to peacefully protest, and the state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, responded with gunshots against students.

Yesterday, the governor met with Army chiefs. Today, soldiers arrived on our campus and opened fire on unarmed students.

Let that sink in. This is a university that has seen its fair share of student protests over the years. With fee hikes, strikes, and insecurity in the host community, we have marched for all of it. And in all those years, even during the most chaotic of them, including 2009, when angry students burnt down a police station in Akungba, live bullets were never the answer. Soldiers, when they showed up, moved barricades and drove past. That was the unspoken rule. You do not turn guns on students.

That rule was broken today.

What changed? A governor who sat with army chiefs less than twenty four hours before soldiers showed up shooting at the same students he is meant to serve and protect. Students who have blocked roads before without a single bullet fired now have live rounds aimed at them, on the governor's order.

Watch the video. This is not a rumor. This is not exaggeration. This is a Nigerian soldier firing on Nigerian students on the grounds of Adekunle Ajasin University, for daring to protest.

#AAUA #AkungbaAkoko #EndStudentBrutality #OndoState

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[‎أَبُو إِيمَان @Northerner0]

Hassan the Fulani man isn't just accusing Senator Shehu Buba, he is providing facts, evidence, videos, and pictures. It is no longer just an accusation, he is effectively demanding that the authorities arrest and thoroughly investigate the Senator…

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

How the CIA interfered in Nigeria’s intellectual development to prevent socialist class consciousness.

In the 1960s, when Capitalist America was locked in a high-stakes Cold War with the Soviet Union, the CIA was completely terrified that newly independent African intellectuals, fresh off the heels of throwing off European colonial chains, would naturally embrace Soviet communism, Marxist-Leninist class analysis, and radical anti-capitalist revolutions against their former Western colonizers. Instead of deploying fighter jets, heavy artillery, and ballistic missiles to fight this specific ideological battle, the CIA masterfully weaponized money, art, academic funding, and literature. Their calculated goal was to gently, subliminally steer the brightest African minds toward Western liberal democracy, competitive individualism, and free-market capitalism, and decisively away from revolutionary, socialist class consciousness.

The CIA obviously could not openly hand over dollar bills to proud Nigerian writers, because this was the fiery era of sovereign, anti-colonial struggles against Western imperialism, and absolutely no self-respecting, anti-colonial intellectual would ever accept direct funding from Washington. So, the CIA brilliantly funneled millions of dollars through a highly sophisticated, covert front organization called the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), and a philanthropic shell foundation called the Farfield Foundation. Operating out of its luxurious headquarters in Paris, the CCF presented itself as a wealthy, independent, and progressive organization dedicated strictly to promoting "freedom of expression", sponsoring literary magazines, and supporting avant-garde artists worldwide. In reality, every single cent of its operational budget was directed, controlled, and funded by the CIA.

To prevent militant, socialist networks from ever forming on the continent, the CIA recognized that it needed to build, control, and monopolize the physical platforms where African intellectuals gathered, ensuring these spaces were firmly, safely aligned with Western interests. In 1961, the historic Mbari Club was founded in the university town of Ibadan, Nigeria. It rapidly became the most vibrant, electrifying, and celebrated center for literature, theater, poetry, and visual arts in West Africa. It served as the ultimate gathering place for Nigeria's rising literary titans, including Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, and J.P. Clark. What these brilliant, fiercely patriotic young Nigerians did not know was that the Mbari Club was heavily, consistently subsidized by the CIA through the Farfield Foundation and the CCF. By secretly funding the lease of the building, the publishing costs of their journals, the travel allowances of the writers, and the logistics of their events, the CIA successfully ensured that the very epicenter of Nigerian intellectual life was tied to Western patronage and not Soviet sponsorship.

This initial reality does seem highly counterintuitive and paradoxical because it was inside this exact Mbari Club that some of the most powerful, enduring Pan-African thoughts were conceived. Chinua Achebe published "Things Fall Apart", which contained a powerful anti-colonial consciousness that permanently shattered the racist Western propaganda claiming Africans had no history, culture, or civilization prior to the arrival of white men with their gunboats. Additionally, Wole Soyinka wrote "A Dance of the Forests" to sharply interrogate the political hubris of the newly independent political class, Christopher Okigbo composed his prophetic, avant-garde modernist poetry, and J.P. Clark captured the visceral human textures of local life. These monumental, anti-colonial Pan-African works were successfully produced largely because the CIA did not openly tell Nigerian writers what to write, or try to dictate their creative processes.

If the CIA had literally walked into the Mbari Club in Ibadan and tried to explicitly dictate, censor, or micromanage the conversations, brilliant, uncompromising minds like Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe would have rejected them and thrown them out immediately. Instead, the CIA brilliantly used its funding to act as a silent, invisible gatekeeper. They did not have to physically silence, ban, or arrest radical Marxist writers. They simply, strategically made sure that the non-Marxist, liberal writers had the biggest megaphones, the widest distribution networks, and the highest international platforms. By quietly funding the Mbari Club's rent, covering their publishing costs, and bankrolling their international travel to prestigious global conferences, the CIA successfully ensured that writers who focused on individualism, local culture, and bourgeois aesthetics became celebrated global superstars. Meanwhile, radical writers who focused on working-class solidarity, anti-capitalist struggles, and socialist revolutions remained underfunded, unpublished, and completely obscure.
The CIA in the 1960s was perfectly fine with, and even actively promoted, anti-colonialism, cultural negritude, and African artistic pride. What they were absolutely terrified of was class warfare. They desperately wanted to steer African intellectuals toward Cultural Nationalism (the safe, performative celebration of African identity) and decisively away from Marxist Socialism (which involved organizing, educating, and arming the peasantry to overthrow capitalist structures).

The CIA could care less how the newly independent African celebrated their tribal heritage, and whatever beautiful poetry they wrote about the glory of their ancestors was none of their business. They would happily, enthusiastically promote you even if you fiercely criticized European racism, British colonialism, or white supremacy. They could easily tolerate all of these cultural protests so long as Nigeria's massive oil wealth, raw resources, and cash crops continued to flow to Western capitals completely uninterrupted. What they were absolutely terrified of, and heavily, invisibly censored, was class consciousness. Writers who explored socialist ideas, class struggle, and anti-capitalist revolutions were simply not eligible for Western funding, international distribution, or global marketing, which successfully ensured that their works were buried completely away from public view. This was because they knew that if the African working class were enlightened about Marxist thought, they would immediately rebel against the local comprador class, organize general strikes, and dismantle the entire capitalist system that has reduced them to peasants in their own homeland. It is also critically important to emphasize that the CIA was perfectly happy to see the Mbari Club uplift the colonized African. This is because the primary motive for spending millions of dollars funding the Mbari Club was absolutely not about stopping the intellectual "uplifting" of Africans, but rather about completely controlling how they were uplifted.

It is crucial to note that the young Nigerian writers were completely unwitting, innocent participants. Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, and others had absolutely no idea that their creative sanctuary was secretly being funded by American intelligence agents.
In 1967, courageous investigative journalists exposed the fact that the CCF and the Farfield Foundation were actually covert CIA fronts. African intellectuals across the continent felt deeply betrayed, humiliated, and outraged. However, by that time, the CIA's covert mission had already largely succeeded: the foundational, defining era of post-colonial Nigerian literature and intellectual thought had been established, funded, and firmly anchored in Western liberal traditions, successfully steering an entire generation of our greatest thinkers completely away from Soviet socialism.

[Nze @nzemmili]

There's a Fulani dude called Hassan exposing who sponsors their terrorism and calling them out with evidence, yet the Arewa twitter is completely silent.

It is the Southerners that are raising the alarm. What's exactly is going on?

[David get PVC @geezy__david]

this country stupid gan, person go dey talk how he no see job with wetin he study for school, you go dey paste am "learn skills".

"i can't see job i studied agric" - learn a skill
"i just graduated" - learn a skill
"i am in 300l" - hope you are learning a skill there is nothing outside o

so whats now the point of the university if na skill he or she dey come out learn?

like why not use the 4years to focus on the skill since na wetin he go still come outside do?

[🏛️Raymond🏛️ @Raymondisnice]

First pregnant ladyboy case would be from Thailand.

[Нем🥖 @wuthi11_]

🇹🇭🇺🇸 The U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has arrived at Laem Chabang Port, Thailand.

[🏛️Raymond🏛️ @Raymondisnice]

“SECURITY agencies” 🤡 doing the heavy lifting here.

[MALEEK 1.0 @Maleekoyibo]

Now that Senator Shehu Buba Umar has been exposed with evidence for being a major sponsor of terrorism, what is the next line of action?

All the Nigerian security agencies have been mute.

[Baby🌚 @Beebee_kimm]

Skill wan wound 3rd world country; “Build a skill, learn a skill.”
Leave me alone please.

[🏛️Raymond🏛️ @Raymondisnice]

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[Vaughan @oluwafifunmii]

When he wins re election, he go first launch that tax full time then remove electricity subsidy. Everybody eye go come clear well.

[🏛️Raymond🏛️ @Raymondisnice]

China benefits more from
Russia being at war than NATO but that’s a debate for another day 🙂

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

The war in Ukraine is NATO’s war.
NATO wanted. NATO provoked it. NATO is determined to keep it going.
NATO wants war with Russia. It becomes more obvious every day.

[Ezinne😌 @EzinneamakaO]

What is really giving Tinubu the guts to ask for a second term ?

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

Before there was the Jewish Holocaust, Germany had commited genocide in Namibia in 1904 and murdered more than half of the population.