Pathfinder

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

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[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The YouTube premiere of the documentary everyone is talking about is currently counting down to showtime 👇🏾
https://t.co/c3H65Y3cfZ

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

A university semester's worth of international economics and geopolitics delivered under 4 minutes by @Big_Mck for @Spearhead_Af

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

The Empire That Divided Africa Is Still Drawing Lines

America has once again shown us that democracy is only sacred when it protects white power.
Republicans in Louisiana have redrawn the state’s congressional map, reducing Black-majority districts from two to one and effectively weakening Black voting power. They call the old map gerrymandering, but the new one is, too. The only difference is that this version benefits white voters, so suddenly, it becomes acceptable.

This is not new. This is the same playbook the empire used in Africa. Draw artificial borders. Break people apart. Turn majorities into minorities. Fracture unity. Make movement and trade difficult for Africans, while the same people who drew those borders move freely across the continent. Whether in Louisiana or in Africa, the empire understands the power of a united people. That is why it works so hard to divide us.

[Mike Holden @binaryfootball]

I was 18. I backed Nigeria each-way to win the World Cup.

My reasoning was solid. Jay-Jay Okocha, 20. Finidi George, 23. Daniel Amokachi, 21. Sunday Oliseh, 19.

I was on long before the Johnny-Come-Latelys.

What I didn't have was any concept of probability. I couldn't even tell you what price I took.

There's a huge difference between looking ready, feeling ready, and being ready.

It took me another thirty years to fully understand the gap between talent and readiness.

The age bell curve I'm running on every 2026 squad traces back to this moment.

Full piece: https://t.co/sIVUZyHME3

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Africa Is Not More Corrupt Than The West

Donald Trump’s presidency is a gift to Africa because, through him, Africans are learning in real time that corruption is not our inheritance.

Trump sued his own tax authority and awarded himself a $1.8 billion settlement simply because his business and personal tax returns leaked. This is the "leader" trusted with managing American taxpayers’ money.

This incident and more like this show that corruption is not an African problem. It is a global problem. The difference is that in the West, corruption is often better packaged, and hidden behind institutions, legal language, and respectable titles. The scale of it is so massive that Africa could spend a hundred years trying and still not come close.

[TriggerFinger📸 @jey_reff]

Real shit. If you want to test this out, download TikTok on a new device and do not login. Tell me what the default content is on your fyp lol.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

If there is something you need to watch this week, let it be this

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Try and watch @realJudebela's Power and Plunder YouTube series, especially the Murtala and Babangida episodes.

If you're completely illiterate about your country's historical context and place in the geopolitical world, you won't be afterwards.

I won't elaborate.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

It is deeply terrifying, and frankly a sickening display of comprador treason, that a former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, is now openly calling for foreign military interventions in his own country. It is absolutely shameful and disgusting that a former Head of State, a man who naturally had access to unredacted, highly classified intelligence reports detailing the ruthless mechanisms of Western imperialism, is advocating for the very forces that destroy nations. He has watched firsthand as foreign interventions systematically created burning, failed states across Africa, as seen in the catastrophic destruction of Libya, the endless balkanization of Sudan, the engineered chaos in Somalia, and the corporate looting of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

And this imperial devastation is not limited to Africa alone. If we look at Latin America, we can easily point to the CIA-backed bloodbaths in Nicaragua, the violent overthrow of democracy in Chile, the funded death squads in El Salvador, and the corporate extraction in Guatemala. Yet, this exact same man is confidently sitting on national television, calling for those exact same foreign predators to intervene in his own sovereign country.

Listen very carefully to the treacherous statement he made during his recent AIT interview. He declared, "If our government cannot do it, if they cannot protect us, we have a right to call on the international community."

Now, on the superficial surface, the naive public might interpret this as a bold, direct attack on the current political establishment. But on a much deeper, geopolitical level, this is a calculated psychological operation. This is especially true when you recognize that under this current Tinubu administration, Nigeria has practically surrendered its territorial sovereignty by allowing the US government and AFRICOM to negotiate military drone bases in the North, and by quietly permitting foreign intelligence to dictate our security parameters under the fraudulent guise of fighting "insecurity."

So, this highly publicized statement from Obasanjo is not in any way a genuine attack on Tinubu. He is actually acting as a mouthpiece for the empire, deliberately conditioning the Nigerian people to accept that their domestic situation is entirely "hopeless." He is executing a psychological warfare campaign to prepare the minds of the masses to eventually see heavily armed foreign troops on their soil, not as a hostile military occupation or a nation under imperial siege, but as a miraculous form of "liberation."

But again, none of this is remotely surprising when you consider the source. This is coming directly from Olusegun Obasanjo, the exact same comprador elite who singlehandedly destroyed the foundational education system of his own country by working hand-in-glove with predatory Western and multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, USAID, and the UK Department for International Development.

It was precisely under the Obasanjo administration in 1999 that these foreign agents engineered the Universal Basic Education scheme in Nigeria, and Obasanjo happily implemented it on their behalf to satisfy his Western handlers. Of course, this satanic program was beautifully dressed in colorful humanitarian costumes and aggressively marketed as a revolutionary scheme that would transform primary education in Nigeria, promising free, compulsory, and continuous nine-year basic education for every single Nigerian child.

But on a structural level, what this neo-colonial policy actually did was permanently sever federal funding pipelines and deliberately starve local teachers of their rightful salaries. Understand that before this World Bank intervention, the federal government had a functional system. Before sharing revenue from the Federation Account among the three tiers of government, the state deducted the total exact amount needed for primary school teachers' salaries and basic operational costs directly from the source.

This deducted money was paid directly into the National Primary Education Fund managed by NPEC. NPEC then disbursed the funds seamlessly to State Primary Education Boards and Local Government Education Authorities. Because the money was safely deducted at the federal level before it could ever reach the greedy hands of state governors or local politicians, primary school teachers' salaries were absolutely guaranteed. This effectively ended the dark era of unpaid teachers and ensured that public primary schools across the nation had a steady, reliable baseline of operational funding.

This protective payment scheme was originally introduced by the Babangida administration because he was being violently forced to cut funding for primary education and healthcare under the ruthless Structural Adjustment Programmes attached to the IMF loans he so happily collected. So, under that specific NPEC scheme, the baseline funding for primary education was temporarily shielded from the austerity measures demanded by his Western creditors.

But the main reason the IMF and the World Bank give you loans is never to actually grow your domestic economy, nor is it to properly fund your educational institutions. Their goal is much more sinister. They seek total economic subjugation. So they absolutely had to kill this financial backdoor that Babangida created, which allowed the state to bypass their financial imperialism. And Olusegun Obasanjo, the exact same man who is shamelessly calling for foreign interventions today, happily welcomed this destruction.

His new UBE system strictly stipulated that federal UBE funds could never be used to pay teachers' salaries or cover daily school running costs. These critical operational burdens were violently pushed entirely back onto the states and the local governments, which are heavily underfunded. Consequently, corrupt governors happily diverted whatever local funds they had to bogus security votes or to paving random roads just to open their states up for foreign corporate investments, leaving the teachers to starve.

Furthermore, the federal government simultaneously stopped direct capital interventions. They stopped building infrastructural projects, they stopped supplying subsidized textbooks, they stopped funding essential teacher training, they stopped providing modern laboratory equipment, they stopped providing mechanized agricultural tools for rural schools, and they completely halted digital literacy programs.

If a Local Government wants to access the trapped UBE funding for these basic necessities today, they are legally forced to meet a ridiculous fifty percent matching fund requirement. The vast majority of these local governments, especially those in impoverished rural communities, cannot even come close to meeting this threshold because they simply do not have any functional way to generate enough internal revenue to meet those strict corporate criteria.

This has created a devastating national nightmare where hundreds of billions of naira are currently sitting idle and trapped in Universal Basic Education accounts in Abuja, while thousands of schools across Nigeria are completely dilapidated and look like abandoned war zones. Students are forced to sit on bare floors, learn under leaking roofs, rely on underpaid and demoralized contract teachers, and buy highly expensive textbooks that the state claims it cannot afford to provide.

This intentionally creates a hyper-polarized, deeply unequal situation in the country where people in the commercial cities have slightly better access to education because their local governments can generate enough money through extortionate market levies, heavy corporate taxes, and federal allocation advantages to unlock these matching funds, while our rural communities are systematically doomed to disintegrate into absolute oblivion.

Also, it was under this same administration that the Christian Association of Nigeria and massive Islamic Associations such as NSCIA, JNI, and JIBWIS actively lobbied the government. These are organizations that receive tens of millions of dollars annually from foreign nations like Saudi Arabia, the US, and the UK under the deceptive guise of "humanitarian aids" and "religious grants". They lobbied the Obasanjo administration to aggressively integrate Christian Religious Studies and Islamic Religious Studies into the core school curriculum, making them strictly compulsory under the Universal Basic Education scheme.

This fatal political concession practically turned our secular school systems into neocolonial theological institutes. It opened the floodgates to seamlessly integrate radical Salafi-Wahhabi doctrines and Western evangelical subservience directly into the Nigerian educational system, effectively weaponizing religion to divide the youth and program them for absolute docility.

It is also incredibly important to note that it was precisely Obasanjo who violently ripped Nigerian markets open for foreign corporations to feast on the blood of the country. He ran a brutal, uncompromising privatization and commercialization program that involved him auctioning off hundreds of state-owned enterprises. He sold off our commercial banks, our national cement plants, our state oil marketing groups, our federal hotels, and our sovereign vehicle assembly plants to the absolute highest bidder, effectively transferring national wealth into the hands of a few comprador oligarchs and foreign cartels.

Because of his policies, most state-owned enterprises today are either fully bought by foreign corporations or they are controlled by ruthless private monopolies. And since they are owned by private individuals, maximizing shareholder profit becomes the absolute, primary goal of the institution, completely disregarding the welfare and survival of the Nigerian people. For example, in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria today, only 49 percent of the joint ventures are state-owned, while the controlling 51 percent belongs entirely to international oil majors. This means that if anything goes wrong in the global oil sector, the prices of fuel are instantly skyrocketed locally, and the crushing economic burden is seamlessly pushed onto the necks of impoverished Nigerians just to keep Western shareholders happy and to balance corporate books on the tears of the masses.

So this is exactly why I am not surprised for a single second that the same man whose neoliberal policies singlehandedly crippled the educational system of the country, who opened our borders for NGO vultures to feast on our sovereignty, who introduced compulsory religious education to aggressively brainwash the masses, and who shamelessly sold off our sovereign state-owned institutions to the highest foreign bidder, is once again sitting on television calling on foreign military interventions to come and occupy the country.

What truly surprises and sickens me is that a large population of Nigerians still hold this man in high regard. They actually believe he is an elder statesman fighting for the good of Nigeria, completely ignoring the glaring historical fact that he was a primary architect in the coalition that maliciously imposed the Western-backed puppet, Muhammadu Buhari, into power, accelerating the total economic and security collapse we are suffering today.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

The greatest and most lethal achievement of the American media apparatus is the 9/11 propaganda. It is so complicated, so deeply psychological, and so maliciously crafted that only about two percent of humanity did not fall for it.

Indeed, the precise reason the 9/11 propaganda was so overwhelmingly successful is that it was brilliantly compartmentalized. On the surface, it was heavily disguised as the handiwork of Arab Muslims who are supposedly jealous of Americans, who hate them for their freedom, and who despise Western democracy. This superficial narrative safely manufactured absolute public consent for all anti Islamic military campaigns in the Middle East, successfully justifying the total destruction of sovereign nations by the West and America.

On a deeper level, those who study further and dig deeper into the mess to discover the real truth still end up getting thoroughly propagandized. These people boldly claim it is the Jews that orchestrated it, insisting they did it to force America into the Middle East, thereby pushing a sanitized counter narrative. This successfully paved the way for all sorts of Jewish conspiracy theories that falsely blame all American military interventions in the Middle East on Israel or Bibi Netanyahu, completely ignoring the imperial core.

Of course, these two groups are both dead wrong, and this is exactly why the propaganda succeeded on a massive global scale. This is also why the ruling class invented the left and right political paradigms, ensuring that the people end up endlessly blaming each other, while the corporate oligarchs that actually control the entire globe continuously line their pockets with our resources, our stolen labor, and our precious minerals.

Funny enough, it is not difficult at all to find out who truly executed and benefited from 9/11. You do not need to check grainy CCTV camera footages, you do not need to read heavily redacted classified CIA documents, you do not need to interview paid witnesses, you do not need to analyze structural debris, and you do not need to interrogate political scapegoats. All of these investigative exercises are too much work, they are deliberate media distractions, and they are not even necessary.

The only thing you ever need to do is to follow the money trail. 9/11 brought plenty of tears, generational trauma, and profound sadness to the good and hardworking Americans and other nationalities present in that building, but it also brought unprecedented generational wealth for plenty of multinational corporations. Immediately after 9/11, the US government approved over eight trillion dollars for military budgets alone, an astronomical amount that would have been completely impossible to justify to the public if 9/11 did not happen.

A huge percentage of this massive sum went straight into the offshore bank accounts and executive pockets of defense cartels like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman. This money was explicitly supposed to cover the stealth fighter jets, precision guided cruise missiles, bunker busting bombs, heavy artillery, and armored transport vehicles required to support the military operations for the so called global war on terror. Also, to physically sustain the invading troops in the region, you need to handle their daily feeding, their emergency combat medical supplies, massive base construction, tactical gear, mercenary security details, and endless fuel supply chains, which are all guaranteed taxpayer funded contracts given to logistical monopolies that generated hundreds of millions of dollars for them in daily revenue alone.

When Iraq inevitably fell to American imperialism, George Bush handed Halliburton massive no bid contracts to rebuild and exploit the Iraqi oil fields, contracts which continue to generate billions of dollars for them even today as we speak. Furthermore, Wall Street asset managers like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, who hold the controlling shares in these defense cartels, saw their portfolios explode in value. They essentially monetized the slaughter, trading human tears for stock buybacks, leveraging the geopolitical chaos to absorb failing global assets, and completely monopolizing the postwar reconstruction efforts in a closed loop system of imperial extortion.

So if you do the basic math, you will easily recognize that this whole global shenanigan is one of the biggest corporate wealth transfers in human history. Of course, this blood soaked profiteering is not exclusive to the Iraqi war. The billions of dollars they confidently announce on your television screen as humanitarian aid packages to Ukraine are also part of this monumental wealth transfer scheme. They are not actually flying briefcases full of cash to Eastern Europe to share directly to Ukrainians in the streets, nor are they trying to help them survive the total economic devastation they had to endure due to the war. The money actually never leaves Washington. It ends up directly in the pockets of domestic military industries, private military contractors, Western logistics monopolies, and corporate lobbying firms.

This is exactly why, as every continent on the globe is almost in flames from manufactured regional wars, as engineered insecurity has pushed gas prices to the moon, as record hyperinflation destroys the working class, and as the cost of living becomes completely unbearable for the average citizen, the ruling class remains completely untouched. These oligarchs are recording billions in quarterly earnings, handing out massive executive bonuses, securing untouchable tax exemptions, and expanding their corporate empires into absolute global monopolies.

And they will confidently continue to line their pockets because they effectively own the entire planet, and their ultimate authority can never be challenged, because they absolutely control the mainstream media, the global banking system, and the academic institutions that ensure we interpret their manufactured conflicts strictly in the context of religion, ethnicity, and race. They do this so that we continue to violently fight each other over scraps, while they use our stolen wealth to build luxury underground bunkers and orbital escapes where they can comfortably retreat when the planet they destroyed finally becomes too hostile for human survival.

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

A patient’s relative just asked: "If a fever is the body's natural way of burning off a viral infection, why do we immediately give Paracetamol to lower it? Aren't we helping the virus?"

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

Episode 6 of #powerandplunder is live.

Ever wondered why the first president of Nigeria failed so catastrophically that people welcomed a military coup?

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

Nigeria's First President Was a Disaster.

#PowerandPlunder

[Xen @lawrenx_]

seen a lot of people not understand this.

so let’s explain.

let’s say a land in Lekki is selling for ₦10m today and you think it’ll be worth ₦20m next year but you don’t have ₦10m right now.

so you meet the landowner and say “I’ll pay you ₦900k today just to reserve my right to buy this land at ₦11m anytime within the next year.”

the owner agrees.

two things can happen:

1. land goes to ₦20m → you exercise your right, buy at ₦11m, immediately sell at ₦20m.

profit of ₦9m. all from a ₦900k deposit.

2. land stays at ₦10m or falls → your reservation expires worthless. You lose the ₦900k.

the landowner keeps it and moves on.

the person who just bought the land outright?

they spent ₦10m. Land went to ₦20m, they made ₦10m profit.

good.

but you made ₦9m with only ₦900k.

thats the power.

but if land crashes to ₦5m, they still have land worth ₦5m.

you have nothing. your ₦900k is gone.

simple rules:
- only do this when you’re very sure the price will jump
- don’t use money you can’t afford to lose
- don’t wait till the last minute to cash out

That’s LEAPS.

A reservation bet on a stock’s future price.

[Ewgi @Ssaasquatch]

Haven’t shared this before, but a lot of people ask me how I do it, so here goes:

Long-dated options, or LEAPS, are a powerful way to aggressively compound portfolio gains if you have high conviction about the future price of a stock. I have personally made a lot of money doing this. Yes it works!

LEAPS gives you opportunity to control at least 100 shares of a stock without owning them. I use this mostly for swing trades I plan to dump in <1 year or two. No point doing this for long term holds.

Eg: A stock trades at $10 and you believe it can hit $20 within a year, Instead of spending $1,000 to buy 100 shares, you buy 3 call contracts with $11 strike (will explain this later), expiring roughly a year from now. Some people do short dated ones too. That’s fine as look as it’s not too short. You need time for your thesis to play out. Avoid ODTEs if you know what’s good for you except you’re an idiot.

Assume premium is say $3 per share? Each contract would cost: $3 x 100 = $300. 3 contracts would cost: $300 x 3 = $900. Total cost = $900

Now suppose the stock doubles to $20 in one year, just as you projected.

Each contract is now worth:

($20 - $11) x 100 = $900. Meaning 3 contracts you bought would be worth $2700

Summary:
Initial cost: $900
Final value: $2700
Profit: $1800

Assuming you bought the stock outright:
100 shares at $10= $1k. If the stock goes to $20, your shares are worth $2k. Profit: $1k.
In other words, LEAPS compounded your returns with lesser capital and vice versa.

Are there risks involved ? Of course. A lot of risk.

If the stock does not rerate meaningfully higher, you can lose most or all of your capital.

A wise man once said, “Leverage is for idiots.” and he wasn’t exactly wrong.

This isn’t something you YOLO, and definitely not with a large chunk of your port. I personally never risk more than 10% of my port (Okay fine, I’m lying. It goes as high as 20% sometimes)

You only use LEAPS when your conviction is extremely high and you believe the stock can rerate aggressively to the upside.

Now here’s the real alpha:

How do you manage risk and find the right stock for this kind of bet?

This is the filter that has consistently worked for me:

1. I like beaten down assets with improving business margins ie Growing revs & bottom line, positive or improving EBITDA (adj), and a low D/E ratio.

On the technical side, the stock should be trading within say 10% of their 52-week low, RSI below 40, and sitting on key support across all long timeframes.

The goal is to always find a mispriced asset, not to catch a falling knife.

2. Buy around 10% OTM strikes ie If a stock is at $10, I’m looking around the $11 strike.

That way, the stock only needs to move above the strike plus the premium paid for the trade to become profitable. If you buy very far OTM strikes, you can still lose money even if the stock moves meaningfully higher. This is essentially baba ijebu.

3. Theres no point holding the contract into the final 60 days unless it is already deep ITM and you are comfortably profitable. Read up about something called thetas and option decays.
At that point, either sell it, roll it, convert to shares, or take the loss on the chin. You live to fight another day.

4. Only buy LEAPS when implied volatility is low cos Low IV = cheaper premium. Thats when LEAPS make the most sense cos you don’t want to overpay for optionality, then be directionally right and still get hurt cos IV compresses.

My current LEAPS:

$HIMS
$SOFI

As always, This is not financial advice. Just sharing what works for me.

There are tons of tutorials on YouTube that explain the mechanics better, but take this as a primer.

You’re welcome :)

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

After 7 months of hard work across 3 countries, my team and I at @Spearhead_Af are pleased to announce that my new documentary titled 'What Happened On October 29' will premiere in Accra at the WAGMC Auditorium, University of Ghana, Legon.

It will also premiere in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Friday May 29, and in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday May 31.

For the chance to win an exclusive free IV to the premiere (Accra only), kindly comment below and tag @joyfwen

[Julliet Njeri 🇰🇪 @JullietNjeri]

How Nigeria is dealing with the consequences of "improved seed varieties" aka GMO seeds...

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Dear Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia and Kenya, Emmanuel Macron is not your friend and France is not your partner - he is your predator and France is what France has always been.

Nothing has changed.