HRH Sir John

|Food & Climate Justice Activist | |Volunteer @ActivistaNG |

[HRH Sir John @RoxyCzar]

Time for Nature: The nexus between COVID-19, Climate Change and Food Security https://t.co/xGIfMGAFIz

[Kenneth | Automating Businesses & Payment Systems @thekennwakanma]

I clearly understand people's frustration with PayPal.

Back in 2020, I had gigs that paid me handsomely.
I worked with HNIs from the UAE, US etc which made my proceeds total to $15k

Trust me the limits on that account was $250k, so a $15k transaction was in order.

PS: not like I withdrew all at once, I only withdrew $4500.

Then came the bomb.

I initiated the withdrawal to my account as i always do, and went to bed..

I woke up the next morning to see an email from Paypal saying my account has been restricted for suspicious activities, my money was on hold for 180 days and that was it.

As if not enough, I wrote emails and made calls to the support team.
Then came the worst of it all.

I reached out to the People I worked with and they communicated to PayPal letting them know my work was legit.

My account was then permanently closed and my money was going to be sent to me after 180 days.

I trusted PayPal and waited for 180 days, only to get a mail that my money was used to solve the harm against PayPal..

Guess how much balance was left for me?

$45.
I broke down, not just because PayPal messed me up.

But that money was going to solve three major issues, relocating to a new apartment, paying for my mum's medical bills, and a $3000 certification I was chasing then.

So if there's anyone who understands PayPal loss, it's me

If PayPal is a hook for you, you can try any of the following alternatives.

1. @dodopayments
2. Adyen
3. Square
4. Paddle
5. Authorize .net
6. WePay

Stripe remains my best.
One reason I didn't add Braintree is that it is owned by PayPal

There you have it

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Nigeria is walking into a one-chance that will shock generations.

FIRS just signed an MoU with France’s DGFiP to “modernise tax administration”, “data-driven enforcement”, “information exchange”, and “capacity building”.

If you like believe sweet grammar.
Translation: Nigeria has opened the engine room of its tax system to France.

Who is advising these people?

Let’s be clear. France is not an innocent actor in Africa. France is the most aggressive economic-intelligence power in West Africa.

They hold CFA countries by the throat.
They control currency reserves.
They shape customs rules.
They monitor financial flows from Dakar to N’Djamena.
They embed “advisers” inside governments.

France does not play.

Without Africa, France would be a mid-tier country nobody sends.

Once France enters your revenue backend, they can read your entire economy like a Bible:
– Who pays tax
– Who evades
– Which sectors are weak
– Which sectors are profitable
– Where money comes from
– Where money goes
– Where wealth lives
– Where political networks hide

That is not “capacity building”.
That is POWER.

And Nigeria handed it over like a Valentine gift.

Instead of building sovereign capacity, we are outsourcing our fiscal brain to a foreign power that survives by controlling African economies.

Even Francophone countries are fighting to escape France’s grip.
Nigeria is rushing into it by itself. Incredible.

France didn’t build wealth with chains alone.
They used African tax, labour, rubber, gold, cash crops, and minerals.

Today, the chains are called:
“MoUs”
“Digital transformation”
“BEPS frameworks”
“Cross-border cooperation”

Same script. New costume.

Now imagine this as Nigeria transitions from FIRS to Nigeria Revenue Service in 2026 with foreign fingerprints already on the backend, algorithms, enforcement logic, data pipelines, and compliance structure.

Who do you fight tomorrow when your tax DNA is exposed?

Does the US give IRS backend to Mexico?
Does the UK hand HMRC to Pakistan?
Does India give its tax system to China?
Does France give Algeria its revenue architecture?

Never.

But Nigeria keeps behaving like a giant that signs away sovereignty for photo-ops.

Nigerians, your future is being auctioned in broad daylight.
Line by line.
Signature by signature.
Document by document.

“Our dear native land” is no longer poetry.
It is slipping away quietly.

Clap if you like.
Play tribal politics if you like.

But hear this truth:
Once a foreign power holds your tax system, your independence is finished.

No guns needed. Just MoUs.

Every sensible Nigerian must speak with one voice.

Not today.
Not tomorrow.
Not ever.

[ActivistaNigeria @ActivistaNG]

Our call is simple: release Abubakar Isah Mokwa and protect the dignity of free speech.
Anything less weakens the foundation of democracy. #FreeMokwa @ActionAidNG @HonBago @motionnigeria @NigerStateNG

[pshegs @pshegs]

Peak Milk is sponsoring ads but not answering how Fluoride became part of what they are giving Nigerians to drink.
There is no single debate going on in our political/regulatory spaces; full compliance to the food colonizers. This generation is outperforming those that sold us into slavery

[Human Rights Journalists Network @HRJN10]

Are you READY???

🎬@aihrffestival (AIHRFF) 2025 is here! 💃💃

Submissions are officially OPEN for this year’s spectacular event, themed “Bridging Divides” – a call for films that inspire unity, ignite change, and tell the untold stories of humanity. 🌍💡

[Plateau Asian girl🌟 @CatiaKyen]

This is the longest soul piercing piece I've read in recent times😢

Written By An SS 3 Girl Named Uren, GSS Manguna, Bokkos, Plateau State. An eye witness account:

My name is Uren. I am from Hurti, a small village in Daffo, Bokkos LGA of Plateau State. I am in SS3 at GSS Manguna.

In Bokkos LGA, we farm potatoes, maize and whatever the land agrees to yield, because that is what we know best. That is how we survive. Occasionally, we trade. But it is the land that feeds us.

At the weekend, my people, the Ron and Kulere, held our yearly festival. People came from all over. Not because everything was all right, but because the festival gave us strength. It reminded us that we are still here. We are still alive. And even though we keep losing people, we cannot stop living. Besides, we know everyone will die someday.

On Wednesday morning, before the sun rose, my mother reminded me that we needed to head to the farm early, before the heat turned cruel and our energy, too drained to respond. There is always work to be done on the farm; come rain, come sun, dry or green. Life in our village follows that rhythm.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Just in case you have any doubt about your place in the oyibo world order as an African, always remember that the World Bank, whose largest shareholder is the US government, and whose president has always been a US citizen, gathered African university Vice-Chancellors for a meeting in Harare in 1986, where they were told to close down all universities and tertiary institutions in Africa because "the global market" has no use for African tertiary education.

They were told to focus on primary education, because supposedly the "market" saw more value from African primary education than from African tertiary education. If there were any talented students who needed tertiary education, African countries were advised to send them abroad instead (so that they would obviously remain there after graduating, and become a source of cheap, skilled labour for white economies, while their home countries would never have the benefit of an educated professional class).

In other words, what the oyibo world order wants from Africa is cheap natural resource exports, cheap labour exports, and an African population *just about* literate enough to carry out low level manual or secretarial tasks in the process of its own economic exploitation. Essentially, hewers of wood and drawers of water.

And if you were so intelligent or precocious that you couldn't be satisfied with that, then the height of your professional ambition was for you be to become a middle-class gollywog in London (whose descendants would become part of a social underclass within 2 generations), a nègre in Paris, or just a plain old ni**er in Boston.

And as the table shows, it wasn't just a "suggestion" either. The US-led World Bank subsequently began restricting how much of its financing could be spent on tertiary education in Africa. The result is today's African population - the most gormless, clueless collection of people on the planet who have been trained to avoid all forms of critical reasoning, comprehension, and basic deduction.

When you tell them that the US government is their single biggest multi-generational enemy on this planet, they'll tell you "How can that be? They gave my uncle Jimoh a visa in 2002, and that's what changed my family's fortunes."
https://t.co/Rj6RsLQI0y

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

Love this

[Welsaid Adogu @welsaid_]

Where to volunteer as a data analyst

1. Data for Good: https://t.co/1Q3HHhdOGK
Connects data professionals with nonprofits that need data analysis and insights

2. Techfleet: https://t.co/ZXaXemZdWy
A community of tech volunteers that work with organizations on projects

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[Taiwo Oyedele @taiwoyedele]

May Nigeria work for you!
May Nigeria work for me!
May Nigeria work for us!
May Nigeria win!

Watch my presentation on the Nigerian Economic Outlook 2025 here: https://t.co/fzFv2sJpDI
#maynigeriaworkforus #maynigeriawin

[Premium Times @PremiumTimesng]

Schools Under Siege: How insecurity is robbing Nigerian kids of education

[Human Rights Journalists Network @HRJN10]

Join us today at 2 PM for the Media Resilience in Africa panel at the Africa International Human Rights Film Festival, Goethe-Institut, Lagos. Explore the intersection of media, human rights, and resilience with leading voices. #AIHRFF2024 #MediaResilience #HumanRightsDay

[Michael Thompson Showunmi @Cycogreat]

Lack of acceptance made her split from her husband and friends. Since Esther’s birth, her mum has been on this lonely journey.
Esther is an 11 year child with cerebral palsy. She needs to do a hip correction surgery, get a cerebral palsy wheelchair and enroll for therapies.
RT 🙏

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

In this article on @PanAfricanRev, I examine how the $10bn American investment in Angola's Lobito Railway Corridor is not a departure from the colonial vision for Africa, but a reinforcement of old, terrible ideas that seek to maintain Africa in poverty.
https://t.co/AnLhjbcvB8

[Pan-African Review @PanAfricanRev]

“While China’s success on the African continent shows that it is possible for both parties to win in a trading relationship, the Lobito Corridor exemplifies all that is parochial and hopelessly out of touch about US Africa policy.”

@DavidHundeyin ✍🏽

https://t.co/fe2lPeZsBs

[Human Rights Journalists Network @HRJN10]

https://t.co/aD0UdK10Pg

[HRH Sir John @RoxyCzar]

@Asooreking CPA

[MyIT Consult @myitconsult]

Following the launch of the reformed M&E framework, our M&E team is conducting a system readiness assessment at several MDA (Ministry Department Agency) of Borno State aimed at strengthening the Borno State M&E system & ultimately accelerating the state's 25-year development plan

[Ai Business Journal @ArchieIntel]

BREAKING 🩸
$2.9 TRILLION wiped out from stocks this morning due to fears of a global recession.

THE WORST DAY SINCE 2020 COVID CRASH

[The ICIR @TheICIR]

🚨🔔 EXPOSED!!

New Documentary: The Devastating Cost of @DangoteCement's Operations in Benue Communities.

⏯️Watch: https://t.co/SDcIeCjU88

#ICIRInvestigates #EnvironmentalCrisis #BenueState