One of the easiest ways to identify "rich" Nigerians who are yet to move beyond survival mode and defeat the poverty that lives rent-free inside their minds is that they do not understand the value of things, but they are hyperresponsive to branding and price tags.
They do not understand precisely where a Tesla is meant to be used and for what, or how vastly impractical it is to run an electric vehicle in an environment where you charge it with a diesel generator, roads are not properly marked (making assisted driving impossible), and the 50⁰C+ ambient temperature in Lagos traffic potentially turns that huge lithium-ion battery into a giant explosive fire hazard.
They either don't know any of this or don't care - because the real purpose of driving that Tesla in Lagos is to show off a giant payment receipt on 4 wheels. Thus the Model S used very commonly to do Uber in London becomes a status symbol for the "rich-poor" in Lagos, complete with vanity license plates saying "FUEL LOL."
They are the ones who upload the receipts for their overpriced watches and jewellery on Instagram because it is not enough that you merely see that they have "nice" things - you must know *how much* they paid for them. Because the usefulness of the "nice" things is not in the value those things create, but in the price itself. Money is what gives things value to these types, which is why they cheerfully and regularly overpay for everything under the sun - as long as the world knows how much they paid.
That's why they all buy the same impractical, unserviceable cars that they eventually put into storage to gather dust after driving for 6 months; they all try to fuck the same 10 instagram whores in a country with at least 100 million eligible women; and they all live in the same smelly, waterlogged, gigantically overpriced neighbourhoods within a few hundred metres of each other.
They're the ones who proudly and joyfully announce that they paid N6 billion for a "luxury mansion in Ikoyi" that has a diesel generator, an underground shit storage tank, a rudimentary access road surfaced with interlocking paving stones, a constant flooding problem, a huge tree trunk planted into the pavement to hold a mess of ugly electricity wires, and a permanent bad smell from an empty plot of land next door filled with refuse and mosquito-laden stagnant water.
If this description fits you, please avoid me. For your own good.
I've dated single mothers who were amazing people. Probably still will. But my honest opinion is, if you're going to, date them for purely irrational, sentimental reasons like love. Logically, it's the most self-defeating thing you'll ever do. Especially, when you don't have kids
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I just love Nigerians.
A Nigerian in the UK, has replaced the items @KemiBadenoch claimed were stolen from her in Nigeria, and personally delivered it to her home.
Mrs Ibukun Awosika, one of the richest women in Nigeria, shares an interesting perspective on marriage especially in a situation where the women is richer than the man.
Watch here:
“Sharia law is only for Muslims”.
Only lunatics say this kind of nonsense.
The real life experience of people who live in northern Nigeria shows this claim is a lie.
Just last week:
There’s a Christian woman who just came out of jail in sokoto for about 2years. Her offence? Criticising the barbaric terrorists who murdered Deborah for blasphemy in 2022. The name of that woman is Rhoda Jatau. Pls google her. A Christian mother of 5 thrown in jail for blasphemy. But these online lunatics will tell you “sharia is only for Muslims”.
As far back as 2013,
There was an AFP article detailing how Hisbah police conducts random raids on christians and muslims arresting them for indecent dressing and worldly hairstyles.
Read it here: https://t.co/U3TIEQrzY7
I am not telling you what will happen.
I AM SHOWING YOU WHAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.
If you like, let some deranged lunatics here on this app gaslight you and deceive you that “sharia only applies to muslims”.
Go and try to eat publicly as a non-Muslim in Kano or Zamfara during Ramadan, you will find out quickly if sharia applies to you or not. That’s if you even live to tell the story.
Again I am appealing to you:
RESIST SHARIA IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
Especially if you are poor, less privileged or if you are a woman. They will use sharia to kill you, to jail you, to strip you of your rights, to dictate you how to dress, to oppress you and to destroy your life.
Please lend your voice. Kindly share.
I have been warning sane Yorubas about Idris and Shakirat. We have them like that on a coded level.
They are codedly radicalizing young Yorùbá youths on X towards Islamist views not Islam. When Southwest governors gave Isese adherents public Holiday and Idris was spilling hatred against it was when I knew we are dealing with a wahabi.
Nobody dare use state powers to promote religion in Yorùbáland except you are looking for war. This minority extremists in our midst must not be allowed to have breathing space. They lie, they blackmail and make excuses for terrorism.
They are useless people. We don't want be like Arewa ideologically and spiritually. They have destroyed their lands with religious extremism. A big burden on the rest of Nigeria.
Tinubu can board an helicopter from the Lagos airport to his residence. But the show of power is necessary for subservience and humiliation. He enjoys seeing his subjects in agony. 🤷♂️
@pallnandi Intuition is powerful, but recognizing unhappiness requires us to pay attention, listen, and connect on a deeper level. It’s all about understanding, not just sensing.
@pallnandi Because we're raised to be selfish and not to be considerate of the man. The man is our taskmaster. Why would we give a damn about how he feels?
The era of women who cared about their men were my grandmother's era. That long ago.
It seems we have forgotten that this big headed bigot and former SSA to @FollowLagos Governor @jidesanwoolu, @Riddwane told the world that Nigerians were "hunted down and executed" in 2020.
What did the Death, Brutality, and Corruption Enforcement Agency, @PoliceNG, do about this claim? Was he ever invited for questioning?
Popular ex footballer, Tijani Babangida who played for Nigeria and wore the shirt of the Nigerian Super Eagles for 10years.
He had a tragic accident where he lost his only son, and his brother. His son was only 1year old when he died.
The accident, which occurred along the Kaduna-Zaria expressway in May2024, claimed the lives of Babangida's younger brother and his one-year-old son. His wife was also seriously injured, losing an eye and now needs face reconstruction surgery.
Tijani himself almost lost his legs; his wife is still battling for her life.
What did Nigeria do to help him?
What did the NFF do to help him?
What did our Ministry of Sports do to help him? Apart from go to the hospital for pictures when Tijani was in Nigeria, what exactly did the nigerian government do for Tijani after losing his son, his brother, and almost losing his own life and his wife?
Tijani had to pick up his Dutch passport and go back to the Netherlands where his former team Ajax have now received him and started raising money of about 170,000 Euros to help with his recovery.
How can you treat a man who gave ten years of his life representing this country in such a manner? That he now needs to go back to a football club to seek help.
As I said in another post,
This is a country that strangulates its brightest, suffocates its youths, disregards its veterans, asphyxiates its aged and empowers the very worst in our society to rule over the rest.
There is a deranged lunatic in Abuja right now running wild grabbing land and destroying people’s lives all because today he is a minister.
The first ever military cadet in Nigeria is about to have his house demolished and his land stolen by this lunatic. A military veteran who wore our gallant uniform and received bullet wounds fighting for Nigeria. This is how Nigeria repays those who give their lives for it.
There are retired civil servants who are owed their pensions across this country. Someone will work for 35years in the service of the public and retire yet a governor will decide to owe them their rightful pensions. Some of this old aged pensioners end up being sick, being hungry, being homeless and many end up dead from the many travails and suffering they face.
Yet in the same country,
A governor will be in office for only 4years and be entitled to cars, salaries, allowances and benefits for life. Read that again: for life! They are never owed a penny even when they are out of office.
But a person who worked as a teacher, or nurse or a civil servant for 35years will never be paid their gratuity for decades after retiring; and many of them will be owed pensions until they one day die in a road accident on one of their many trips to the government office to demand their entitlements.
And this is the same country that some delusional idiotic people want to blackmail others into patriotism. A country that will watch its own people rot in suffering - even the very people who have served the country with their blood, their toil, their sweat and their lives.
Before an American president asked the people not just to think what the country can do for them, America was already a country that gave its own people the best opportunities in the entire world.
People have pain and trauma that Nigeria has inflicted on them, and unfortunately they have a right to never wish to associate themselves with this mess called Nigeria.
You can’t blackmail people into patriotism. If a country has failed its own people and the government continues to fail its own people, it is demonic and delusional to be demanding patriotism.
The countries that demand patriotism of its citizens are countries that first ensure that its citizens are treated like human beings and have a life that is worth living.
So while I personally want more Nigerians abroad to speak well of Nigeria, I am very much aware this is a country that kills its best, strangulates its brightest, and empowers its very worst to rule over the rest.
#HumanRightsDay
I AM READY TO TESTIFY AGAINST AFE BABLOLA IN THE CASE OF DELE FAROTIMI
Nigerians should understand that the case of Dele Farotimi against Aare Afe Babalola, CON,OFR, SAN is one of the most significant cases to come up in Nigeria in this decade. It is a case where a man is persecuted with the instrument of state power for saying the truth against a powerful person in Nigeria and against the Nigerian judiciary. In my work as the head of Due Process Advocates (DPA) Foundation, I have evidence to substantiate the contentious assertions made by Farotimi.
For those who do not understand the issues at stake; in his book, Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System, Farotimi stated that Afe Babalola had exerted some corrupting influence over the Nigerian judiciary. That assertion is a candid opinion based on facts. It is true as to Afe Babalola and as to the Nigerian judiciary. The only thing surprising in all this is the fact that Farotimi had the courage to say it in a book. From one incident involving Afe Babalola that I am aware of, I easily came to the same conclusion as Farotimi. I encountered the power and influence of Afe Babalola. He possesses no doubt a pervasive and probably corrupt influence over the judiciary and the police.
In that case, I realized how impossible it would be for me to confront the man because I could see that the police and the courts would not be fair or just in any matter in which the man’s name was mentioned. I was left with the impression that if Afe Babalola had an interest in any matter, the Nigerian justice system was as good as a jungle justice system. It was a extensive influence by one man over the whole system of justice, which clearly undermined any notion that the courts are the last hope of an ordinary person.
If you wonder about the encounter I am speaking about, it has to do with a case of domestic violence and child custody dispute between one Dr. Nnamdi Ikpeze and his wife Florence. Dr. Ikpeze is a law lecturer in Afe Babalola University. He had a dispute with his wife, Florence, which resulted in the wife fleeing from Ekiti to Port Harcourt with their three minor children. Her reason for fleeing was to escape domestic violence. She had reported the incident of domestic violence to DPA before she moved to Port Harcourt. She contacted us again months later and reported an ongoing police arrest incident. What happened was that she had file a petition for custody at the Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt. It was a petition against her husband, Dr. Ikpeze. The case was ongoing and the processes had been served on the husband, including a hearing notice.
Instead of Dr. Ikpeze responding to the court in Port Harcourt, he went to Afe Babalola who apparently took his side and decided to protected him from having to respond to the court in Port Harcourt. Instead of appearing in court, with the backing of Afe Babalola, Dr. Ikpeze procured the police from Ekiti Command to drive all the way to Port Harcourt to arrest Florence and their three children and Florence’s sister. They were taken all the way from Port Harcourt to Ekiti State where the police simply handed the children over to Dr. Ikpeze, while Florence was held at the police station.
DPA sent letters to the police demanding due process for the lady. The next day, police made it clear that the parties should go to “Baba” who would adjudicate the matter. It was clear that the police were acting under the instruction of “Baba”. The Baba was Afe Babalola. They treated him like God. It is always dangerous when a man plays God.
We learnt that the mother of Dr. Ikpeze was also a lawyer who happened to be the Dean of the Law Faculty at Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Afe Babalola without consideration of the law or the facts of the case, took the side of Dr. Ikpeze. By the way, my letters on the matter were presented to Babalola. Dr. Ikpeze and his mother were busy telling Babalola all manner of lies against my person.