OTUNBA __sanmora__

CEO at BISADEG NIG. LIMITED.

[OTUNBA __sanmora__ @sanmorano]

@alpharivelino @jon_d_doe 👌

[Deks @Rhyso_1]

🔴⚪ Nobody is saying it so I will.

Chelsea finished TENTH and everyone moving on like nothing happened.

Caicedo and Enzo alone — €237m. Combined. Just two players. And they finished between Brentford and Bournemouth territory.

Even Arteta in his worst year — Cedric at right back, Holding and Pablo Mari as his first choice centre backs, Ceballos in midfield, Nicolas Pepe still never came close to tenth. Not once.

United finished Fifteenth last season. The press buried them for a week and moved on.

Spurs spent the whole second half of the season looking over their shoulder at the bottom three. Barely survived.

Liverpool threw half a billion at the squad and had nothing to say in the title race when it actually mattered.

But guess who every one is talking about....

Arteta.

The English media has a very specific lens they put on Arsenal. Every trophy comes with a footnote. Every achievement needs an asterisk.

Omo. 👀

The standard they apply to Arsenal has never been the standard they apply to anyone else. And I think a lot of people have just accepted that as normal now.

Arsenal. Champions. UCL Final. All anyone can talk about.

Ah swear, It is not normal. . 😤

COYG. Always. 🔴⚪

[OTUNBA __sanmora__ @sanmorano]

@ChampionsLeague @adidasfootball Give us this day oh lord ! 🙏 #COYG

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

A teacher beheaded and a nation is silent

[OTUNBA __sanmora__ @sanmorano]

@Arsenal Happy birthday star boy.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Bill Gates is often accused of staging regulatory/state capture around the world for the benefit of his business interests, but how exactly does he do it?

An example from Nigeria this past week provides answers.

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Any country where pupils get lined up on the streets, much less in the rain, to welcome a president on a supposed condolence visit after the killing of over 200 citizens is not a normal country.

Any president who allows this is not a normal president; any state governor who allows this is not normal too.

What happened today was an abnormality of the most abhorrent class. I repeat, we are not a normal country, neither are we governed by a normal president. The Benue State governor is not normal too.

Some things should never happen and this was one of them!

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Political illiteracy is a devastating ailment to suffer.

When you are politically illiterate, you will make up 85% of your country's population, but you will control only 9% of its wealth despite having full voting and citizenship rights. You will never be able to organise and mobilise politically to change this status quo because you won't even realise that this is not an economic issue, but a 100% political one.

When you are politically illiterate, a 9% minority population will control 90% of your country's wealth, and this ownership will be built ENTIRELY on theft, but you will never challenge them. In fact you will even vote for their white-supremacist-with-extra-steps political party and give them direct adminstrative control over parts of your life because "they know how to pick up the garbage on time."

When you are politically illiterate, the 9% who have spent more than a century eating your lunch and becoming obscenely wealthy at your expense will convince you that your problem is not their obvious and continued theft and fraudulent domination of your economy, but some poor window cleaner from Mozambique, or the guy from Nigeria who sells weed, and lives in the same impoverished neighbourhood as you.

When you are politically illiterate, you will never be able to figure out what political formation represents your economic and geopolitical interests, and you will simply vote for the party your parents and community have always voted for. You will spend every second of every day desperately hoping and wishing that something - anything - would change about your life, but when you have the opportunity to change the power that literally dictates your life, you will definitely vote for ANC because it is Tata Madiba's party or MK - a party without a manifesto - because something something kwaZulu Natal.

Pathetic.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Apparently, Trump's government is planning to use Africa as the off-ramp/final solution for its immigrant "problem." According to these articles, Angola, Rwanda, Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Eswantini, Libya, and others have already been contacted.

This is a terrible idea from Africa's perspective, and any African leader who agrees to this should be deposed the very next day and locked up in prison.

To begin with, these are not merely "migrants." Many of these proposed deportees are criminals from some of the worst gangs and drug cartel groups in Latin America like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, who are currently sitting in U.S. prisons. These are the worst of the worst - killers, pedophiles, and rapists.

They were of course, the direct result of multiple U.S. government actions in Latin America, and in classic oyibo fashion, now that the headwinds have changed and they no longer want to deal with the mess that they created by flooding 2 continents with guns and drugs, they want to outsource the consequences- to the "shithole."

We already have far too many homegrown and foreign problems of our own on this continent. The very last thing we need is a couple of million of the world's very worst people - people so bad that even their original countries of origin have refused to take them back - coming here to set up shop and become a new pipeline for crime, foreign interference, war, and - inevitably - racial apartheid bullshit.

You guys better tell your presidents to tell Mr. Trump to keep that shit in America. We are not his refuse dump. America should lie in the bed that it has laid. We are not the ones who have spent 2 centuries causing economic devastation and social dislocation across Latin America, so we cannot be the ones to bear the fallout.

No surprise to see Angola featuring prominently in this plan. On the rare occasion that the U.S. government invests money in an African country's infrastructure (Lobito Railway in this case), you can be sure that in addition to being extractively-intentioned, it will also come with the devil's conditions.

Also, Equatorial Guinea in particular should be ashamed of itself. A country that is almost impossible to visit as a fellow African, but which is discussing the possibility of accepting the dregs of American society from U.S. jails.

https://t.co/4n19dLUwa2

https://t.co/fLtrEuHXAz

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Nigerians cannot challenge the other Nigerians who sit on their collective destiny in Abuja. Cannot revolt against them. Cannot protest against them. Can't even speak out against them.

But they will travel across the Atlantic Ocean to another man's country on another man's continent, and "challenge" the locals there to a language competition to prove that na them sabi English pass. English that is not your father's language, and which cannot change the metaphorical price of garri in the market. So you will win the competition and then what??? Keir Starmer will give you a knighthood and a certificate of "I Sabi English Pass Englishman"?

The fact that you thought this was a good idea, and you apparently STILL think so, to the extent of doing a fucking flyer and posting it on Twitter just further makes the point I've always made about you UK diasporans and your total absence of any brand or model of self-awareness. It's like they lobotomised you people at Heathrow airport!

You people's blithe, completely unhinged and devastatingly confident brand of retarded oversabi is terrifying!

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Said it since last year. Every African account that discusses geopolitics and economics has been absolutely nuked by successive algorithm tweaks.

Electric Space Boer wants African users to only discuss sports, celebrities, sex, and nonsense. Higher conversations are haram.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Nigerian conventional media cannot dedicate airtime to exploring how American and European oil interests are trying to kill local oil refining in Nigeria, which is eating into their profit margins, hence the NNPC's sudden discontinuation of its successful Naira-for-crude policy.

This discontinuation is directly going to cause petrol prices to rise by anything from N200 to N700 per litre, which will worsen the cost of living crisis in what is already a desperately impoverished economy, and there will be a physical death toll - as in some people are going to die because Shell Pernis Rotterdam does not want to keep haemorrhaging revenue and market share to Nigeria's new refiners, but Nigerian corporate media has no coverage of any of this. Even though its core audience is directly affected.

What Nigerian media has latched on to as the biggest story in the country is a salacious gossip story about a female senator being sexually harrassed or not sexually harrassed by the senate president. And then they will bring on and every idiot including this 81 year-old eleribu afofungbemu to prattle endlessly about it, because it will get engagement and mimic actual civil discourse in a country that has more people living in extreme poverty than the rest of Africa put together.

Rubbish.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

It depends. If you're referring to the vast majority of South Africa, then the obvious answer is yes. Jan Anthony Van Riebeeck is to Black South Africans what King Leopold II is to Congolese.

But if you're referring to Orania specifically, they'll tell you that they bought the land from the government in 1994, which technically is true.

What they won't mention is that their ability to buy land in 1994 was a direct result of the Socialism-for-white-people economic welfare scheme that was Apartheid, where they were economically rewarded for just existing while white, and 89% of the country's population was systematically prevented from participating in the economy using laws, segregated education and open brutality.

It doesn't take a genius to work out the reason why Johannes the white-collar professional could afford to buy land for thousands of rands at the end of apartheid, while Thapelo his domestic assistant (who was legally prohibited from learning a skilled trade under apartheid, locking him into a lifetime of government-enforced low-income wage-slavery) could not.

Of course, they know all this better than you and I, but nobody is more dishonest than a white South African who has chosen to believe that they earned everything they have fair and square.

[CAF @CAF_Online]

Major Tournament. 🔥

That’s the tweet. #TotalEnergiesAFCON

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Signs that you've walked into an information operation organised by a foreign intelligence agency as an African journalist:

- A shadowy NGO flies you out for a program in Accra/Nairobi/Cape Town for a week and puts you up at the local Kempinski/4 Seasons, which start from $500/night.

- The NGO doesn't clearly explain who is funding the largesse and why. You are encouraged to have fun, eat the food, and make sure to take part in whatever program they have organised at the 5 star hotel.

- The program in question is facilitated almost entirely by white people. The greatest extent of local involvement is that an African is the one operating the projector or passing around the notes for audience participation.

- The goal of the program is to get you to write something specific, but the muzungus spend hours nudging and gaslighting you into agreeing that it was your own idea, and that you will write it because you want to, not because you are obligated to.

- The muzungu facilitators use phrases like "We do not want to dictate what story you should write or how to write it. We're only trying to help you become better journalists."

*TRANSLATION*: "We absolutely want to dictate what story you should write and how you should write it, but we need you to convince yourself that it was your idea so that you will organically publicise and defend the published story, and you will also assume all blowback or consequences. Our muzungu lives and reputations are more important than yours - your job is to be our cheap, effective, expendable ventriloquist dummy without realising it."

- Despite having all the money to fly you around Africa, wining and dining you all the way, the NGO isn't interested in using its money and influence to get your published article placed in international media - it specifically wants it placed in the local media you work with, because your audience is the target of the entire operation.

- The NGO refuses to be identified anywhere in writing as the sponsor of the project in question. It does not agree for your sponsored article to be labelled correctly as sponsored or supported. It wants to leverage your name recognition and your audience to push a specific message, but it wants to remain entirely hidden out of sight.

- In some cases, the NGO makes you sign a non-disclosure agreement to ensure that its role in your story remains hidden. (This is important because in journalism, visibility is everything, so a funding entity wanting to be kept hidden to the extent of making you sign an NDA is a MAJOR RED FLAG.)

- If the article in question blows up spectacularly in your face and generates backlash, the muzungus repeatedly encourage you to stay quiet, to not defend your honour publicly, to avoid engaging on social media, and to keep reporting any news developments about the issue to them.

That's actually an intelligence agency trying to ensure that its classified operation remains concealed, that you don't reveal information that could lead back to it in the process of engaging and defending yourself, and that it is on top of any change in situation so that it can cover its own ass adequately. You will, of course, receive no help whatsoever. Your entire purpose is to be expendable.

And in case you're thinking, "Wait I've had experiences with elements of all this, but it was BBC Africa Eye instead of a shadowy NGO with unclear funding - surely that couldn't have been a clandestine intelligence operation?" My answer is, unending layers of doubt, misdirection, and deceit are literally the lifeblood of foreign intelligence operations.

Go forth and be a mug no more.

Good morning.

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

Education is the antidote to blind followership, even as ignorance is the lifeblood of every dictatorial hegemony.

Educate a man, and you render him a conscious being, who can no longer live peaceably as a slave, owned by another...

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[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

When I have found myself provoked into wanting to write or speak about our maddening realities, I have found that I had already done so in the past, and my words have echoed back at me. We have talked enough, the time to act is nigh..🇳🇬🤔

[Omoyele Sowore @sowore]

This is how to counter irresponsible policing worldwide. Know your rights, stand for/by them, and invoke them without fear. We should live freely, as it is our inherent right. #revolutionnow

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Now that the temporary euphoria over the "Detty December Economy" is over, I think I can now point out that it is an absolute travesty that the most significant economic activity in Africa's largest city is not what business happens among its 21 million people, but an annual diaspora pilgrimage that happens for 2 weeks at the end of the year.

You people are witnessing Nigeria shrinking in economic importance and potential, and you're busy celebrating it because shortlets on Victoria Island were fully occupied for 2 weeks. That's the big genius plan for Nigeria's economic salvation? Positioning Lagos as the expensive trenches Zanzibar for the Nigerian diaspora? The economic potential of Africa's largest city should be reduced to becoming a Christmas party island?

The plan is not to ease and accelerate the economic interactions that take place among 21 million people in a densely packed city twice the size of New York? The plan is rather to copy Accra and gentrify everything out of the reach of the 21 million human beings that live in Lagos full time?

Una dó o😶

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

Victims are rarely happy, and wishing the victims of Nigeria a happy new year, is an expression of intellectual indolence. My desire is that you will find the courage to fight to become citizens in this new year, and that we all regain the use of our God given brains..🇳🇬🤔