SerikiTheWriter

I write my mind.

[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

@nctmhsuk1 @lollylarry1 @Equityoyo It's a chicken & egg situation. Do citizens with tendency to act like this deserve calm police officers? Do corrupt police officers deserve citizens that respect them?

The fact remains, if you're wrong, you're wrong, whether citizen or police. Deserving has nothing to do with it

[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

@PRIMEFARMOR @OpewilliamsK @Yomibright_ @chinenyeway @NigeriaStories Is every Nigeria who traveled abroad 5 years ago doing factory work? And even if they are at £10/hr they only need six 8hr shifts to cover that. This can be gotten in two weeks. Their entire environment is even better.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I wouldn’t be where I am today without the love and support that @MichelleObama has poured into me over the years. Her story — from her South Side roots to the White House and beyond — is a central part of the Obama Presidential Center.

[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

@0xgiann1 @Musteethe1st @boy_director But this season when all you needed was to win all your remaining games comfortably to win the league, it wasn't yours? Make it make sense please.

You bottled the league. There's no need to make excuses. You choked when it mattered the most. Irritating chasers! 😂

[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

@0xgiann1 @Musteethe1st @boy_director I know you'd like to tell yourselves that. It's crazy how you people develop sudden amnesia when out on the spot. You all said we bottled the league last year when we didn't even get close enough to challenge properly.

[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

@0xgiann1 @Musteethe1st @boy_director Lol! We're not the ones crying. We're celebrating.

You're the ones always wanting to prove things you cannot after bottling the league.

[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

@Musteethe1st @0xgiann1 @boy_director 😂

You dey try explain to people wey no get any objective sense?

Now dem know injury and also they're tired of 'winning', 😂!

Issokai! We are relieving them if winning. They can join History FC in discussing their past glories. We won't interfere.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

You claim that Walter Rodney was wrong, but the reasons you provided are completely out of alignment with what Rodney actually described in his pioneering, historically rigorous book, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa".

This intellectual failure clearly proves that you did not even bother to read the very book you are vehemently condemning. Rodney never analyzed the modern African post-colonial state to make the claim that Africa's current poverty can be blamed entirely on them. His analytical focus was strictly on pre-colonial and colonial Africa, documenting how the structures of European capitalism actively dismantled African societies.

Before the white colonizers stepped onto the shores of Africa with their gunboats and missionary bibles, Africa was home to powerful, highly organized kingdoms and empires like Mali, Songhai, the Kingdom of Benin, Great Zimbabwe, the Ashanti Empire, and the Kingdom of Kongo. All of these were sovereign African states that functioned with the complexity of modern metropolitan hubs. They had paved roads, highly advanced systems of metallurgy, complex trans-Saharan trade routes, established legal codes, and monumental architecture that stunned early European travelers.

These kingdoms made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for early European traders to engage freely in the slave trade on their own terms. These empires possessed powerful, disciplined armies that routinely captured and killed invading colonial forces because they understood the harsh terrains of the African forests and mountains. This meant the Europeans had to physically break these kingdoms before they could extract the human labor required to meet the quotas set by their corporate shareholders overseas.

To this end, European powers began flooding rival, smaller kingdoms and disgruntled provincial vassals with firearms, deliberately instigating civil wars and forcing these smaller factions to invade neighboring empires to capture prisoners of war to sell to the colonizers. The Kingdom of Kongo, for example, had six major provinces governed by vassals under the Manikongo, the central king. But the Portuguese deliberately flooded these provincial governors with guns and military advisors, giving them the weaponry and the incentive to refuse taxes, deny their traditional allegiance to the central crown, and bypass the tributary duties that allowed the Kingdom of Kongo to function as a cohesive, sovereign state.

All of this reduced thriving African kingdoms into a manufactured bedrock of continuous violence, destabilization, and civil war. The Kingdom of Kongo, for instance, was systematically carved up and shattered, eventually being reduced to what we know today as Congo and Angola. Europe did not merely dismantle these empires in the name of the Atlantic slave trade; they also systematically destroyed local African industries. They singlehandedly dismantled the highly competitive West African textile mills by flooding the markets with cheap, heavily subsidized fabrics from Manchester, they banned the domestic processing of raw agricultural goods, and they outlawed local iron-smelting to make the entire continent dependent on imported European manufactured wares.

Your mention of Singapore as a colony that grew richer than Britain is also fundamentally false and intellectually dishonest on several levels.

First, Singapore’s Gross Domestic Product is roughly 500 billion dollars, which is a drop in the ocean compared to Britain’s 3 trillion dollar economy.

Secondly, you cannot compare Singapore to the African nations that were colonized, because the structural model of imperialism used by the British Empire to govern these two territories was entirely different.

In Africa, the primary, non-negotiable goal of colonization was pure raw material extraction. The British invaded to loot physical resources, such as gold, copper, rubber, cocoa, and cotton, and ship them back to the British metropole. This model stripped the African colonies of their natural wealth, leaving behind absolutely no domestic processing industries, no universal education systems, and no transport networks other than the railway lines built specifically to move raw materials from the interior mines straight to the coast.

On the other hand, the British did not colonize Singapore to extract rubber or minerals from its soil, because the island had no natural resources to speak of. Instead, they colonized Singapore to serve as a strategic commercial and naval gateway. They needed a duty-free port to secure vital trade routes between India and China, and to counter Dutch naval dominance in the Malacca Strait. Because of this specific imperial role, the British built a massive, deepwater port, established English common law, and created a centralized administrative and financial infrastructure. Consequently, upon independence, Singapore did not inherit a depleted landscape of empty mines; instead, it inherited a highly functional, globally connected maritime trade hub.

When the British formally withdrew, they merely handed the keys of this strategic outpost to the United States. The Americans aggressively used Singapore to support their imperialist war of aggression against the people of Vietnam. They used the island to refuel fighter jets, repair warships, stockpile heavy munitions, and house military personnel. Because of this strategic role, the US military and its corporate allies built a massive, state-of-the-art petroleum refining infrastructure in Singapore to process Middle Eastern crude into the jet fuel, diesel, and napalm required to sustain the relentless devastation of Vietnam.

Even after the United States was humiliated and forced out of Vietnam, they did not abandon the Singapore project. American and Western multinational corporations happily transferred high-tech manufacturing technologies to Singapore, built massive skyscrapers, and integrated the island into the global supply chain. This is because Singapore is precious to Western capitalists as a premier tax haven, where they can set up shell companies, launder illicit corporate wealth, and dodge billions of dollars in taxes.

Your mention of Switzerland is equally fraudulent.

It is historically true that the Swiss did not formally send military gunboats to Africa, and they never held official overseas colonies under a Swiss flag. But even without a formal colonial office, Swiss banks, city-states, elite merchants, and mercenary soldiers were deeply embedded in, and profited immensely from, the European colonial system. Swiss financial institutions and local cantons invested heavily in joint-stock colonial enterprises like the South Sea Company, which held the absolute monopoly on transporting enslaved Africans to Spanish America. Furthermore, when enslaved people in Haiti rose up in a glorious revolution against French colonial rule in 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte deployed hundreds of Swiss mercenaries to brutally suppress the rebellion and attempt to re-enslave the population.

So during the slave trade, the Swiss happily pocketed massive profits from chattel slavery by serving as the quiet financial and logistical backbone of the trade. And even after brave African revolutionaries fought hard and made the slave trade too expensive for Europeans to manage, forcing the formal abolition of slavery, the Swiss continued to line their pockets with wealth extracted from Africa.

Today, Switzerland is where Western oil and mining conglomerates set up complex networks of shell companies. They hire armies of elite corporate lawyers and ruthless accountants to draft fraudulent transfer-pricing reports that allow them to conceal their massive African profits, ensuring they pay little to no taxes to their host African nations. Meanwhile, secretive Swiss banking vaults serve as the ultimate safe havens for billions of dollars in looted public funds smuggled out by corrupt African comprador elites, and Swiss trading houses in Zug and Geneva dominate the global trade of African gold, oil, and cocoa without ever physically touching a single gram of the raw material.

The fact remains that you did not read the book, and this is precisely why you rushed to unleash such an embarrassing, historically ignorant statement on the development of Africa.

I am equally certain that you have never bothered to read about visionary revolutionary leaders like Thomas Sankara, Kwame Nkrumah, and Patrice Lumumba, who fought relentlessly against Western imperialism but were systematically assassinated, betrayed, or forced out of power by Western-backed operatives. You clearly ignore how Patrice Lumumba’s body was literally dissolved in acid by Belgian agents to erase his physical memory, how Thomas Sankara was betrayed and brutally murdered under French supervision to halt the Burkinabé agrarian revolution, and how Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in a meticulously planned, CIA-funded coup just as he was unifying the African continent against neo-colonialism.

Furthermore, I am positive you have never analyzed the predatory terms of trade enforced by the World Trade Organisation, which systematically penalizes African nations with crushing tariffs, trade barriers, and economic sanctions if they dare to process their own raw materials locally. Under this highly engineered tariff escalation model, the WTO ensures that raw African cocoa, unprocessed gold, and crude oil enter Western markets with zero import duties, but the moment an African nation attempts to refine that oil, process that cocoa into chocolate, or smelt that gold into jewelry, they are hit with astronomical, protectionist tariffs designed to keep African economies permanently locked at the bottom of the global value chain as cheap, disposable suppliers for European and American corporations. They punish industrialization while rewarding raw material dependency, forcing Africa to export its wealth for peanuts only to buy it back at a thousand times the price.

If you had ever bothered to educate yourself on these historical realities, your heavy colonial chains would have been shattered, you would have been liberated from this pathetic state of mental slavery, and you would not be spending your limited intellectual energy undermining the very book that exposed the genocidal, systemic crimes of the empires that traded your own ancestors like mere commodities on a global balance sheet.

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.

Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.

You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp

[Here's What I Reckon: @angryaboutbikes]

@CallumLyon Every year my rent goes up more than my wages do, don't need to be Carol Vorderman to work out why I'm never saving anything

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

As Nigeria counts down to 2027, my team and I have spent the last five months building something big.

It’s called Power and Plunder — a series that takes you through the entire history of Nigeria’s leadership.
From Tafawa Balewa in 1960 to the current administration, we’re doing deep dives on every single leader who has occupied that office. How they governed. What they built. What they destroyed. And how, for better or worse, each one shaped the course of this country.

First episode drops Wednesday, May 6th. Watch this space.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The hardest thing to explain to someone inside the imperial consensus is the concept of structural violence.

They understand individual violence.

One person harms another person.

There is a perpetrator and a victim and a clear causal chain.

What they cannot see, what the entire educational and media apparatus has been carefully designed to prevent them from seeing, is the violence that happens when a system is arranged so that certain people predictably die, predictably suffer, predictably lose, not because any individual decided to harm them specifically but because the overall arrangement of power requires their subordination.

The people of the Global South do not die of poverty because individual Americans wish them dead.

They die because the international economic architecture, the terms of trade, the debt structures, the conditions attached to IMF loans, the intellectual property regimes that prevent technology transfer, the agricultural subsidies that undercut developing world farmers, is arranged, in aggregate, in a way that concentrates wealth in already wealthy countries and extracts it from already poor ones.

And that architecture was designed.

It was negotiated.

It was implemented by specific people in specific rooms making specific decisions about who would benefit and who would not.

This is violence.

It does not look like violence because no one is pulling a trigger.

But the deaths it produces are just as dead.

And when you try to explain this to someone whose entire identity rests on the belief that what they have they earned, and what others lack they failed to achieve, you are not making a political argument.

You are dismantling the story that makes their life make sense.

They will not thank you for it.

They will defend against it with everything they have.

Because the alternative, accepting that their comfort is downstream of other people's dispossession, is not a policy position.

It is an identity catastrophe.

[INALEGWU @tchaloyi]

Most people never check this. They just wipe outside of their fridge and think they’re clean. But the real danger is hiding where you never look. Right in the rubber around the door. One simple paper trick will shock you. Walk with me

Grab a sheet of paper and go to your kitchen right now. Open your fridge door.

Your fridge might look clean on the outside, but inside that rubber seal could be quietly growing bacteria. When the seal becomes weak due to age, dirt, or cracks, warm air seeps in. The temperature starts fluctuating. Tiny water droplets form. Black mould starts growing deep in the rubber folds.

That mould releases spores that float around and land on your food. Even food in containers. Bacteria love the warmer spots and multiply fast. Your milk sours more quickly. Leftovers grow slime you can't see at first. One bad seal can make your whole family sick.

Try the simple paper test 👇🏽

Take your paper, put it halfway in the door. Close the door gently on it. Now pull the paper slowly.

If the paper slides out easily, your seal is weak. No tight grip means air is escaping. Try this on all four sides. Top, bottom, left, right. Do the freezer too.

Clean the rubber first with warm soapy water and a soft cloth. Get all the sticky bits and mould out. Dry it well then test again.

If it is still loose, it's time to replace the seal. Your food stays colder, and the fridge consumes less electricity because the motor works less. Most importantly, you stop feeding hidden germs to your family.

Do this check today. It saves money, health, and wasted food.

INALEGWU.

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

Let's talk about the thriving business of poverty.
In this personal story, I want to show you how easy it is to fall below the poverty line in a struggling economy, and why it is very dangerous for the entire nation.

[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

@niransamuel @DavidHundeyin https://t.co/zTXYNhUeSW

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

🚨 President Donald J. Trump calls for a pause on all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.

[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

@EZYNNA_ @DavidHundeyin @grok https://t.co/zTXYNhUeSW

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

🚨 President Donald J. Trump calls for a pause on all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

The internet constantly tells women that men are terrible listeners because the second a woman starts venting about her day, the man immediately interrupts to offer a logical solution. We are taught to view this as him being dismissive, emotionally unintelligent, or invalidating our feelings.

​The strict, unpopular truth is that to a man, fixing the problem is his absolute highest, most desperate form of empathy.
​Women vent to connect; we want our partner to just sit in the dark with us and validate the emotion. But men are hardwired to view the woman they love being in distress as an active threat. When he immediately offers a spreadsheet, a strategy, or a solution to your problem, he isn't trying to silence you. His brain has recognized that something in the world is hurting his partner, and his immediate, visceral instinct is to assassinate the thing causing you pain.

We constantly shame men for "not just listening," completely ignoring the fact that his attempt to fix your life is his most profound declaration of love.

[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

@lekankingkong

[BIG VIRG @drealbigvirg]

The concept of YouTube and Spotify ads will never make sense to me.

The people who can actually afford the things being advertised are already on Premium. No ads. No interruptions. Just music and videos in peace. Meanwhile, I’m on the free plan and you’re showing me ads for iPhone 15 Pro, forex trading masterclasses, online MBA programmes, luxury real estate in Dubai, and some car I will only ever see in music videos.

Who is the target here?

Because the rich guy you’re trying to reach is on ad-free Spotify listening to smooth jazz. I’m the one here being forced to watch two unskippable ads about investment apps while checking my account balance before buying data.

You’re advertising wealth to the financially stressed.

Make it make sense.

[Mr. Thomas Shelby OBE @ibkzzle0]

THIS IS A LESSON ON TWO POINTS
1. IT IS NOT EVERYONE YOU BANTER:
There are some of my Ogas on this app, no matter how or what they tweet. It is 0 banter. I see their tweets and move on NO LIKE, NO RT, NO COMMENT. Why you may ask?
Because these are people that offline, my relationship with them is DEFINED as EGBON to ABURO or MENTOR to MENTEE. While I can banter with them in person and they will understsnd that its just banter... ONLINE banter adds a level of "see finish" to such relationship. AS A WISE PERSON, always use your head....
"Se bi o ti mo....elewa sapon"
2. There is an African proverb "Wjne you give someone a goat.....you hand over the rope on the goat's neck"
If you ever helped someone...
FORGET ABOUT IT.....don't turn that help to a LEASH on their neck. Mr Olabode had no reason whatsoever to start shaming Akowekowura for bantering him. What mr Olabode just did is called "Sin Iregun" in Yoruba and its not a GOOD THING.

[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

This is unacceptable.

#MTN
#CustomerCare
#PoorService
#BadResponse

3/3

[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

Top of the day.

We have discovered that MTN Fiber X is seriously disappointing customers in Abesan Estate.

They collected our money to provide internet services, but once there is a problem, they stop responding. This is not the first time we are experiencing this issue.
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[SerikiTheWriter @SerikiTheWriter]

Presently, in Abesan Estate, especially on 2nd and 3rd Avenue, we are facing serious downtime. Over 32 routers are down, with more than 10 routers affected on both 2nd and 3rd Avenue alone. This problem has lasted for over 10 days without any solution.

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