#JustVibez

Let each man tread the path he has chosen.
It is better for me to stand and fight because if I run,I will only die tired.

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

50K Business Grants for Kulikuli, Akara, Roasted Corn, in a country where a bag of rice costs more..

Marie Antoinette..🇳🇬🤔

[Inibehe Effiong @InibeheEffiong]

Suddenly, pseudo intellectuals are pushing the dubious narrative that akara, roasted corn and kuli-kuli are sustainable means of livelihood.

How about groundnut and sachet water business? They should include them too.

The defenders of this wicked regime are telling us that Remi Tinubu has donated billions of Naira to NGOs.

First, they should tell us where she got such money from.

Second, they should provide the names and locations of the benefiting NGOs, and verifiable evidence that the donations have been properly utilized.

The advocates of akara economy should set up this business for their siblings and family members to demonstrate the efficacy of their postulations.

Since your mother sold akara to train you, why haven’t you opened akara factory for your wife, daughters, sons and political associates to promote and sustain your mother’s entrepreneurial legacy?

With the collapse of public education, how many akara sellers in this country currently can afford to pay their children’s tuition in private schools?

How many akara sellers can pay the rising costs of tertiary education and healthcare?

How many akara sellers can afford to pay the rising rents in Nigeria today?

How many akara will one sell to be able to buy fuel?

If akara, roasted corn and kuli-kuli are viable and sustainable microeconomic investments in Tinubu’s Nigeria, let the defenders of Tinubu show us members of their families that are engaged in this enterprise.

The point is not that akara, roasted corn and kuli-kuli aren’t necessary foods, the point is that we are all witnesses to how the Tinubu family has amassed wealth and captured state power to entrench and further their selfish and greedy ambitions.

We have seen the insane convoy of Remi Tinubu, Seyi Tinubu and their benefactor in Aso Rock.

It is deceitful and disrespectful for the same family that is living in opulence, amidst the ravaging and dangerous hunger in the country, to be pushing akara, roasted corn and kuli-kuli economy.

Bola Tinubu’s regime has been a wasteful and disastrous experiment.

We have seen how he is destroying our economy. But his annoying and power monger wife feels she can lecture the victims of their misrule and incompetence about the viability of the akara economy.

Enough of the silly expositions.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

It is painful when people who ought to know better are deliberately bent on keeping the masses in poverty and retrogression. You are educated up to Masters degree and live in developed society, you should know and do better. Your education and exposure is supposed to reflect in your thought process.

If you live abroad, it means you've been exposed to better. You know what a working system looks like. You know that quality education should be made compulsory and free to kids. You know that minimum wage should should get you your basic needs - including rent, clothing and feeding. You cannot be thousands of miles across the ocean pushing for policies that drives us deeper in poverty. Are you mad?

I've talked a lot about my life experiences and I'll restate. I went to secondary school with the privileged, and that exposure made me see what a good life was and made me want better for kids that grew up in the environment I grew up in, and for all disprivileged kids in the country. I went to UNIBEN and saw another side to life and realized comparatively that many Nigerian kids have their childhood and youth stolen from them through deliberate systemic poverty. It is not right! Having lived abroad, I lived the experience of a working system and wept for an entire generation of Nigerian youth that has been robbed of dignity of decent living. There is nothing special about the West. If they can do it, we can do it too. The Asians have done it. Other African countries have left us behind. The Nigerian people have to enjoy a decent life and a quality standard of living without having to leave home. We all deserve a better life at home.

As bad as South Africans are, they are evil to foreigners. You Nigerians are evil to your own people. How do you explain that you sit abroad supporting and promoting policies at home that keeps people in abject poverty and sink them further into a hole their generation will not be able to recover from. You are raising your kids to compete globally and take their seat at the tables of this world where countries you reside in are giving free education, preparing their kids for the world of tomorrow in Tech and AI, empowering their kids in STEM, giving millions of dollars in grabt for innovations. You want other people's kids to use your lunch money to start frying akara in 2026. Is that the plan you have for your own kids? The god you serve and the one you don't serve, will strike you mad.

If you are at home supporting this madness, you are not exempted because the whole point of your education is to know how to think. So fvcking think! Dem use poverty swear for you?

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

It is intellectually dishonest to blame BBN, Peller, Carter Efe et al. for this Olodo Uprising, the truth is that the rulers of Nigeria, temporal and spiritual, are the true enablers of the weaponized ignorance that has birthed the mass stupefaction..🇳🇬🤔

[Lukas Not Podolski @OtitoNosike]

I think there is a curse attached to intelligence: an aversion to the limelight. The truly intelligent rarely feel the need to prove that they know because their curiosity is directed towards knowing, not displaying.

The unintelligent, on the other hand, often feel a greater urgency to perform intelligence than to acquire it. They would rather appear knowledgeable than become knowledgeable.

The paradox is a tad fascinating. You would expect those who know the most to speak the loudest, yet it is so often those who know the least who are most eager to be heard.

Perhaps that is how the scales balance themselves. Those who know remain preoccupied with learning, while those who do not know advertise themselves with remarkable confidence. And in exposing the limits of their own understanding so publicly, they may be reminded of the vastness of what they do not know and, perhaps learn.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is genuinely shocking, and says so much about our approach to China.

I decided to check for independent reviews of the English version Xi Jinping's latest book, published a year ago, to see what people had to say about it since I hadn't read it myself.

To my surprise, I couldn't find any: not a single thoughtful review about the book out there! Even on Amazon, check it for yourself (https://t.co/1LVlhACA53): the book has only 3 ratings, that's it.

No matter where you stand on China, you’ve got to admit that’s pretty crazy: the sitting president of the world's rising superpower publishes a 700-page book explaining exactly what he's doing and why, and we don’t even care to look.

If there ever was a fact that illustrates just how willfully ignorant we are about China, this is it.

All the more because we then go spew the usual clichés around how secretive and impenetrable the Chinese system is: the book is on Amazon for $21 for crying out loud!

Anyhow, this felt so wrong that I figured I'd fix it. I bought the book, read it attentively and wrote what I hope you'll agree is a thoughtful review of it.

The book contains genuinely surprising passages, such as Xi writing that oversight of the Communist Party by "the judiciary, the public, and the media" was not just something the Party must “readily accept,” but something that he framed as historically decisive - an essential component to "escaping the historical cycle of rise and fall" that has doomed every dynasty in China's history.

Other passage that I'm sure would surprise many: a common narrative out there is that China blames the West for the century of humiliation and is driven by revenge. Well, Xi explains that's not true at all: the century of humiliation was China's own mistake, originated in the Ming Dynasty's disastrous "policy of national seclusion" that "resulted in China missing out on the opportunities presented by the Industrial Revolution" and "led to China’s decline."

All in all, the book is remarkably self-reflective and thoughtful. For instance Xi recognizes that his drive for “full and rigorous internal governance” - including to rid the Party of corruption - risked "instill[ing] fear and apprehension, or intimidate members into inaction.” He emphasizes the need for pragmatism in this regard, codified in a framework called the “Three Distinctions” that separates honest mistakes - made while experimenting, reforming, or operating without precedent - from deliberate violations committed for personal gain.

And many other surprises still. I found it a genuinely fascinating read for anyone interested in how the Chinese system works and how Xi thinks - or anyone interested in governance, period, as so much of what he writes is pretty universally applicable.

This is the link to my review of the book, an article I titled "The Book the West Refuses to Read": https://t.co/DYowWEESOd

[Marvin the Paranoid Android @Boboye_Ak]

He has been to the final twice. They should have come to meet him there

[Emmanuel Echeta @PenTitan]

Una cutoff mark no be brace oo

No be hat-trick or R32 qualification or quarter final
No be even final

Na world cup trophy

So take am easy as you dey celebrate 4 goals against country wey you no fit pronounce.
Games plenty for front👍

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"You might be dead" is a remarkable sentence.

It contains, in four words, the complete psychology of the savior complex.

You don't know where I'm from. You don't know my country's history. You don't know what political tradition I come from, what my people have survived, what we built before and after contact with American power.

You just know that without America, I might be dead.

The assumption is total. It is not argued. It doesn't need to be argued. It is the water the argument swims in.

The world before American intervention: darkness, death, dictators.

The world with American intervention: the possibility of survival, extended generously from Washington.

This is not a political position.

This is a creation myth.

In this myth, the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have no history, no agency, no political tradition, no capacity for self-determination until America arrives and either saves them or, regrettably, fails to save them in time.

We were here before you arrived.

We had revolutions, philosophies, legal systems, agricultural civilizations, and democratic traditions before your country existed.

We will be here after your empire has gone the way of all empires.

The sentence "you might be dead" tells me nothing about my mortality.

It tells me everything about how you see the world.

[Danny Walter 🧸 @AjeboDanny]

The reason parents are strict and set many rules for children is because they pay for everything. Once you start earning your own money, you usually gain more freedom.

It also applies to relationships. If someone has to pay for everything, don’t expect to be free from control.

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

All the records broken by Lionel Messi today:

Most FIFA World Cup finals goals by a football (soccer) player - 18

Most FIFA World Cup matches played in by an individual - 28

Most matches won by a player at the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 18

Most minutes played in the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 2,489

We are witnessing history.

[Lukas Not Podolski @OtitoNosike]

The people I cannot understand are those who take banter personally. I have never understood that level of attachment. Ronaldo does not know you and, in all likelihood, never will. Messi, whom I love and stan, does not know I exist either. Why then should anyone become so emotionally invested in these people that mere words about them are enough to make them attack strangers personally?

Banter is meant to be incisive, to cut and to pierce; that is precisely why it is banter. What fascinates me is not even the insults themselves but what they reveal. There is something unsettling about allowing your emotions to become so dependent on people who have never shared a moment of their lives with you. It tells me that, somewhere along the line, admiration became identity. That is a dangerous thing, because once someone else becomes your identity, even a joke will be interpreted as an attack on your existence.

If you have a good head on your shoulders, you will purge yourself of such a nasty habit.

[Emmanuel Echeta @PenTitan]

Messi without Di Maria:

5 goals

Ronaldo with Bruno Fernandes, Joao Neves and Vitinha:

357,000 comments begging Bruno to pass to him

[Emmanuel Echeta @PenTitan]

"Ronaldo is 41! He would have carried Portugal on his back if he was younger"

Meanwhile 39 year old Messi is tracking back to midfield to collect the ball, moving it while feinting, then creating a clear chance to a teammate who misses it. Then he pursues the rebound, shoots, catches the rebound and scores

What is your excuse?!

[Unpopularfootyx @Unpopularfootyx]

🚨🎙️ ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIĆ ON LIONEL MESSI'S INFLUENCE ON ARGENTINA AFTER THEIR WIN OVER AUSTRIA:

“I'm obsessed with watching Messi.

Not because he's my friend.

Not because of nostalgia.

Because after all these years, I'm still trying to understand how one player can control a football match without touching the ball every minute.

I watched Argentina today and the first thing I noticed wasn't the scoreline.

It was the way Austria reacted whenever Messi moved.

One step to the left, defenders follow.

One drop into midfield, the entire shape changes.

One glance over his shoulder panic.

That's not football.

That's psychological warfare.

And that's why I laugh when people reduce him to goals and assists.

They don't understand what they're watching.

Messi isn't just Argentina's best player.

He's Argentina's system.

He's their confidence.

He's their belief.

He's the reason every teammate walks onto the pitch thinking the impossible is possible.

People ask me about the GOAT debate.

What debate?
Seriously.

What debate?

For me, there isn't one.

The debate exists because television needs content and social media needs arguments.

When I watch football, I don't see a debate.

I see Messi.

Then I see everybody else.

That doesn't mean other legends weren't incredible.

It means I've never seen another player influence a match, a team and an entire generation of football the way Messi has.

And today was another reminder.

He didn't need a hat-trick.

He didn't need to score from 40 yards.

He just needed to be Lionel Messi.

And suddenly Argentina looked like a completely different team.

That's greatness.

Not when everything depends on you.

When everybody becomes better because you're there.

I've played against great players.

I've played with great players.

But Messi is the only player I've ever watched and genuinely thought:

'This isn't normal.'

The scary thing?

Opponents know exactly what he's going to do.

And they still can't stop it.

That's why I don't waste my time with comparisons anymore.

Some players become legends.

Some players become icons.

Messi became a category of his own.

And after today's performance, if you're still asking me who the greatest footballer of all time is...

You're asking the wrong question.

The right question is:
Will football ever produce another one like him?”

[YOM🗣️ @ThaBoyYom]

I doubt it’s about this…

REL!GION caused this 100%

“Praying Mother”
“He who finds a Wife has found a good thing”

Then they go about thinking they carry one special thing that can only work for whoever is fucking them

Divine Grace wey need ‘fornication’(sin) to work

Clowns!

[DEFENCE HQ NIGERIA @DHQNigeria]

To the Fathers working miles away to build a better future at home: your sacrifice does not go unnoticed.
Happy Father’s Day.

[Emmanuel Echeta @PenTitan]

To the Men who sacrificed their dreams to make ours come true.

To the Men who bent their backs to work so ours would always stand straight.

To the Men who became our life coaches, in words and deeds.

To the Men who love us unconditionally, who are always available when we call, and turn up in every situation.

To the Men who may not be present in every picture, but are present in every moment.

To the Men who, everyday, give up a part of themselves to make us whole.

To the Men who always have money to send us, whether they have jobs or business is bad.

To the Men whose absence is felt the greatest, and whose presence assures the highest stability.

Happy Father's Day

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Having considered the distress my description of non rent-paying wives as "squatters" may have caused those dearest to me, I want to retract that tweet and apologise.

I now realise that "squatter" was derogatory and for that I'm sorry.

The term I meant to use is "parasite"

[Yehgha @yaygha]

I would typically not answer the question of a person who did not answer mine but I'll make an exception for those who may have difficulty answering the flipped question.

She gets
1. Increased social status
2. Inheritance and next of kin rights
3. Unprotected sex without the fear of pregnancy
4. Free accomodation, food and drinks for life
5. Free therapist, emotional tampon and personal problem solver for life
6. Security
7. Long term commitment