Wanderer🙂

Becoming.

[Wanderer🙂 @thelocal_man_]

🙂

[Wanderer🙂 @thelocal_man_]

The plan was to talk on here sha😮‍💨

[cruzey @callmecruzey]

Younger me used to share church flyers with people during evangelism

Older me understands why people throw the flyers away after collecting them

[Wanderer🙂 @thelocal_man_]

This right here 💨

Bliss

[vic @_vicsokool]

Smoking a blunt while watching the rain drop and the trees sway

[Wanderer🙂 @thelocal_man_]

Inshallah

[Big Debs is Whelmed 😪 @adeboladesina]

This particular fuck that is in my head I must fuck it o

[Pioja @Venus_en_ruinas]

Dostoievski describió, sin saberlo, lo que muchos pasamos una vida entera buscando, cuando escribió: "Quiero hablar de todo con al menos una persona, como hablo conmigo mismo".

[October 🍂 @OctByOctober]

ain’t innocent… I’m just well behaved

[Wanderer🙂 @thelocal_man_]

🙃

[Mr Iyamu (101x)🇺🇸 @_101x_]

They say, “101x, why do you hate Mr. Aliko Dangote and the other capitalists ?”

Hate is a very strong word, and I don't think I hate the man. Jesus Christ didn't teach me to hate people. What I feel is dislike. I dislike what his businesses and the broader economic system around people like him have come to represent because, at some point, it feels like they stole my ability to dream and even my right to live a healthier, more dignified life.

Let me explain where I'm coming from.

In a more functional economic society like the US, Switzerland, the UK, and others, purchasing power matters. When people's real incomes and purchasing power are stronger, they can afford to buy more goods and services. That's one of the reasons you still see wealthy people complain about their economic reality: they understand that their standard of living is tied to the purchasing power of their money.

Nigeria is different.

Here, instead of constantly asking why governance has failed to create an environment where people can earn more and live better, we often end up in a situation where businesses simply increase prices to survive the environment they're operating in.

Look at cement. Look at electricity and power. Look at almost everything that has become significantly more expensive.

And before anyone misunderstands me, I'm not saying every price increase is automatically greed or that every business is deliberately exploiting people. That's too simplistic.

The reality is that the cost of producing and distributing goods has gone up dramatically. Fuel, electricity, transportation, imported inputs, foreign exchange and almost every other part of the production chain affect the final price of what we consume.

There are no free goods in an extreme capitalist environment.

majority of us won't live till 40, living till 53 will be a stretch, I see people/more tweets of people saying what we consume are majorly fakes could be true and also could also be the goods are below standard

When the price of an input that practically the entire country depends on increases fuel being the obvious example the cost eventually finds its way into manufacturing, transportation, distribution and, ultimately, the price and sometimes even the quality of the goods consumers receive.

So when people say, “It's because of the war in Iran,” please miss me with the oversimplification.

Yes, geopolitical conflicts can affect crude oil prices, and that can absolutely contribute to higher fuel prices. But Nigeria experienced severe price increases before this particular war even existed. The war can be a factor without being the entire explanation.

Our economic reality is broken, and that reality is being transferred directly into our standard of living.

And that's the part that genuinely depresses me.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life arguing about Dangote, Otedola, Elumelu or whoever else is at the top of the economic food chain.

I just want to live, man.

Why should I constantly be worrying about insecurity, a collapsing currency, unaffordable necessities and the quality of the food and beverages I consume?

You see people constantly questioning whether the products we're consuming are even genuine anymore. Maybe some of those claims are true; maybe some aren't. But the fact that people are even asking these questions tells you something about the level of distrust and desperation that exists.

The amount of sugar in a 3-in-1 Ovaltine feels like it could kill an ant.

And somehow I'm expected to spend my entire existence researching why my country is like this, debating billionaires, defending or attacking businesses, tracking inflation and explaining economic failures.

I'm tired.

I don't want to be incubated in this Nigerian research anymore. I don't want every waking moment to become another investigation into why life here is becoming harder.

I just want a decent life.

I want to be able to dream.

I want to eat properly.

I want to feel safe.

I want my money to retain some value.

I want to live long enough to actually experience the future I'm working toward.

I am no longer interested in this Dangote, Otedola, Elumelu conversation ( officially retired), I am so happy because we can't run away from this reality we will live together in it, in peace and harmony.

Please, Lord, just let me live.

[Chikamso 🩶 @PromiseEnwelum]

War dey Ba Sing Se o

[Uncle Mobolaji @kuppylee]

I hate how this country is making my relationship with God transactional. Give me give me give me like banbiala. God let them bring light, God let this network be good. Low quality problems. Rubbish!!

[City! @dolapocarter]

Ask the average Yoruba elder what they think about this administration and they’ll say he’s trying his best that our problems have existed before he came

Their generation has to go icl, they’re totally defeated psychologically

[Mayowa A. Balogun @Sweeegu]

Because we have not had stable electricity in Nigeria for decades, we created a class of importers for everything from lanterns, to rechargeable products to fuel powered generators and now to solar batteries and solar powered electronics.

China has evolved their tailored solutions to us every step of the way, we keep jumping from one dependence to another, one import to the next - dependent on the investment, training, manufacturing and innovation of others at scale to militate our challenges

A good chunk of our imports in our history is directly tied to products that help us manage our chronic lack of power - mostly supplied from the same China.

[Wanderer🙂 @thelocal_man_]

Basically.

We are Fucked

[Onyeka ☭ @R_eq_uin]

Simple answer: The OccupyNigeria protests wasn't masterminded by Nigerians.

Now I'm not going to say people weren't upset back then.

They definitely were.

But hey, people are at least 10x more upset now.

More people have died and are dying, more people have been pushed into multi dimensional poverty. More people are starving.

So why isn't Ojota blocked by now?

Why isn't a crowd of 20,000 angry Nigerians marching down Shehu Shagari way?

Why haven't we seen anyone hold up a black goat with a cardboard sign around its neck that reads "My name is Tinubu"?

Easy.

One: The OccupyNigeria protests were organized by the Nigerian Civil-Society-NGO-Media complex.

They rallied protest organizers, social media influencers, political and religious leaders.

They fanned every flame and poked at every wound.

The above entities were heavily funded and directed by the US State department and it's Western sidekicks.

Their goal was to foment resentment and unrest against Goodluck Jonathan... A decidedly average but moderately nationalist president whose administration was presiding over a Nigerian economy growing at 7% a year, and slated to hit $1T by 2020.

That's it.

That's why everybody, their grandma and dog filled the streets.

The United States and it's allies saw a Nigeria whose economy was about to hit escape velocity and the geopolitical ramifications terrified them.

So they did everything to destroy us

Unfortunately for us, they had willing traitors jumping at the chance.

Today the US state department and it's allies are extremely pleased with Chicago boy.

He's given them everything they asked for, and is eager to bend over backwards to give them more.... Even if it kills 30M Nigerians .

So because of this excellent relationship between puppet and puppet master...

Chidi Odinkalu isn't screaming himself hoarse on AIT and exhorting Nigerians to take to the streets.

Aisha Yesufu isn't at Unity fountain with a massive crowd of suspiciously uniformed young ladies with matching outfits and cardboard yelling "Tinubu you have failed!"

It is why Omoyele Sowore is chilling in Radisson Blu and isn't inciting university students to take to the stress and vent their VERY REAL rage at Tinubu.

As a matter of fact, the warrant chiefs in Aso Rock and their handlers in Washington, London and Tel Aviv have deployed millions of dollars, bots and surveillance tech to bribe, hijack or destroy any whiff of what looks like organized dissent.

Until nationalist entities engineer a nationwide rebellion, we will buy fuel for 10k per liter and jumping inside Lagos lagoon to escape ISWAP after they've set up a base in Mowe Ibafo

[Gene Grey @EuginhoCortez]

No country out there is your friend.

Every sensible country is planning ahead and looking for ways to use the needs and weaknesses of other countries to boost their own fortunes..

If Nigeria is not planning, then plan on a tribal or regional basis so you can protect yourself.

[gst @wearegst]

Every single part of your daily peace is governed by politics. If you're holding onto a cracked screen because phones now cost millions or you can't buy shawarma without doing mathematics, you are feeling the real-world weight of state failure.

Everything is politics.

[sami 🍡 @mpregcwn]

i can't help but think it purely depends on your geographical luck

[Mayowa A. Balogun @Sweeegu]

A lot of geopolitics is based on the assumption that unipolarity or hegemony is what will always be. History shows that the post WW2 US world order/hegemony is a unique historical occurrence that was never achieved before and likely won’t be achieved for a while after

The default is multipolarity. We are gonna get back there eventually.