Tchalae

Sarcasm is my hobby | Writer, Award Winning Essayist | I warmed seats @ Nottingham University Business School |

[Emmanuel Echeta @PenTitan]

Tinubu: "And so... the groundnut oil must never run before sgidoksvhdb 'cause where do we go from there...?"

Idiots: 👏👏👏👏👏

Obi: "If you look at our energy production capacity, we are just at 43% of our potential"

Idiots: "Lol. This is why I said Obi can never be president. We are at 45%, not 43%. All this man does is lie. How do we put our country in the hands of someone who always falsifies figures to prove a point?"

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

"He needs to build and own the platform either structurally or ideologically. I see neither!"

MoG, it is almost as though Peter Obi can never win in your assessment.

Firstly, he has an ideological platform. The Obidient movement.

That is why his followers will move to any party he joins. Why? They believe in something that he stands for.

There is nothing more ideological a structure than that.

Secondly, Peter Obi was criticised for 'not knowing how to play politics'.

So, he aligned with those who know how to 'play' it. Now, he is being criticised for doing it.

Secondly, we are making these conclusions as though Peter Obi is not the number one target of the current administration.

This man's passport was forged.
This man was denied a venue for his convention.

This man has been denied the chance to create his own party.

The president's Chief of Staff is on record asking some people to go to his party to destabilize it.

An entire Act was passed into law to trap him in ADC.

Rev'd, how are we ignoring all these obstacles and still saying Peter Obi is a weak politician?

Have we ever seen any politician in recent Nigerian history who faced this much pressure without either being in jail, collecting bribes to join the opposition, or just outright quitting?

A person is going against the behemoth that is Tinubu while still standing, and we call that man weak?

Lastly, you said he should build a new structure. With what time?

2027 is just next year. We have a nation to save from the deathly fangs of Tinubu.

Thank God you are a finance professional. If your company is facing bankruptcy, you need bailout cash first.

It is not building a side business to save the company that would be your priority.

That will come after the company is saved.

Peter Obi has shown such resilience, agility, and inventiveness.

They truncated one party; he pivoted. They passed a law to trap him in that one; he pivoted, too.

Now he is a flagbearer with an army of obidients and Kwankwasiyas ready to scale hurdles to vote for him.

The goal of his enemies was that he would not be on the ballot.

He is on the ballot. He won. That's all that matters.

Peter Obi overcame all barriers. And that's why we can never call the man an amateur or weak politician.

No, we cannot.

[Tex @TexTheLaw]

And this is why government and governance in a multireligious country must always be unapologetically secular.

[Wale Lawal @WalleLawal]

The most important story you’ll read this week:

In the 1970s, a Nigerian radio cleric built a pipeline between northern Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, sending young men in search of a purified Islam. The returnees would transform Nigerian Islam and unsettle the society around them.

https://t.co/bovJQDbaiE via @republicjournal

[Tchalae @tchalae]

@NaijaFlyingDr Two diaspora billionaires- Awotona and Ogunlesi. Awotona did not turbo charge from Nigeria

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

The most powerful way to counter this narrative isn't by rushing to list our tech founders & CEOs. While those achievements are amazing, our first response should really be dismantling the stigma around care work itself.

When we immediately pivot to highlighting "bigger" accomplishments, we inadvertently validate the pastor's underlying insult, that care work is something to be ashamed of. It's not.

There is absolute dignity in honest, essential labor. Caring for the vulnerable, working those long shifts, & yes, changing diapers, is incredibly honorable work that keeps entire societies functioning. This is what we should be emphasized.

We can absolutely celebrate the startup founders & the care home owners, but we need to put just as much respect on the frontline care workers. There's zero shame in making an honest living.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Just praise @PeterObi and all the APC cretins will be in your mentions. The energy they have for him while Nigeria is on fire cannot be explained away by tribalism. This is a mental illness.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

For Nigerians, please don't play the game of political banter with paid APC operatives. Block them and keep stating your points against the bad governance we have had. They are a distraction that needs to be isolated.

[Tchalae @tchalae]

@JasonNonso @AnyanwuMalachy Spot on

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

West Africans need to stop forcing our history into Abrahamic or Middle Eastern narratives. It’s historically inaccurate, and honestly, it reflects a deep cultural insecurity.

You Ijebu people are not Jews. Queen Sheba did not visit Ijebuland. Hausas are not Arabs from Baghdad. Igbos are not Israelites. We need to stop romanticizing foreign origins as if our civilizations only become meaningful when linked to the Middle East.

West Africa already has a rich, ancient, and sophisticated history of its own, you have the Nok, Ile-Ife, Benin, Oyo, Gao, Mali, Kanem-Bornu, Igbo-Ukwu, and countless others. Many of our ancestors had lived and developed cultures in these lands for tens of thousands of years before Judaism, Christianity, or Islam even emerged.

There is nothing inferior about being indigenous to Africa. We do not need borrowed identities to validate our existence, intelligence, spirituality, or achievements.

Our history stands on its own. Stop it!

[Tchalae @tchalae]

@Erhi_Orisha @gbengadewoyin @the_critic @markessien @oakcha The reverse is the case, we aligned with the Yorubas in Nigeria’s early republic for political expediency, not the other way around. Similar thing happened again when the current Olu was about to ascend the throne due to his mums Yoruba heritage.

[Tchalae @tchalae]

@IseekRetards @docneto @Thazhigilla_ Subgroup according to whom? Don’t drown in the mud of your own ignorance, language is Yoruboid that’s about it, 80% proto-Yoruba, shared culture and ancestry trace to Benin. Language similarity alone does not make one a subgroup. Pick up a book.

[Tchalae @tchalae]

@IseekRetards @docneto @Thazhigilla_ Says someone dancing intellectually naked on the internet, you’re already flaunting both stupidity and ignorance

[Tchalae @tchalae]

@IseekRetards @docneto @Thazhigilla_ Saying this 100 times still won’t make it true

[Tchalae @tchalae]

@Rossflower13 @Thazhigilla_ Real three musketeers 😂😂

[Tchalae @tchalae]

@sxdiqcarter_ Shuwa Arab is different from Hausa, People pick a common denominator language to communicate when they don’t understand each other, Hausa in the north and Pidgin in the South south, SW is not the entire Nigeria

[Piero HINCAPIE @Dentalgiorgio]

Nigeria wasn't heaven in 2013 but there was something bullish in the air. Things felt possible to achieve, festivities felt like festivities, and multinationals were opening country offices every other day. International chains were all trying to be part of the party. Startups flourished and folks actually had the freedom to organize and speak freely to the government and stakeholders.

[Tchalae @tchalae]

@ChifeDr The Irony of it all is that there are 4-5 data points for admission to medical school-MCATs, GPA, Essays and Interviews, in some cases CASPER test. People use only two data points to make conclusions, even when the difference between top performing percentiles is marginal.

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

What a strange little performance this is.

A man who likely benefited his entire life from invisible networks of class, education, geography, culture, and social familiarity suddenly discovers an almost priestly devotion to “pure objectivity” the instant diversity enters the conversation.

You people speak of the MCAT the way medieval clergy spoke of holy relics — as though a standardized exam has descended from Sinai untouched by wealth, coaching, privilege, educational inequality, or institutional advantage.

And the truly comic part is watching grown adults scream “racism” because medical schools dare consider that physicians might need qualities beyond competitive bubble-sheet filling.

Medicine is practiced on terrified human beings, not on Scantrons.

But outrage merchants cannot survive nuance. Their business model requires panic, caricature, and the perpetual fantasy that society was once a flawless meritocracy until minorities arrived to spoil the arithmetic.

[Tchalae @tchalae]

@DesmondOElliot @officialABAT “Surulerians” sounds so fancy 😎