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. Ego sum, ego existo

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

Hey guys, I'm testing the Twitter Spaces feature as part of a test for our podcast launch. We go live 8:30pm (WAT)

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[Harri @Harri_obi]

I’m certain OPay’s Head of Marketing didn’t have a prison-to-influencer brand deal in his 2026 strategy or budget.

But that’s the beauty of marketing; nothing is a fixed variable. You can budget for Fisayo Fosudo and end up with Lawrence Anini

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

Moment ARISE TV discontinued its interview with Wike’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, after he refused to answer questions from Rufai Oseni this morning😳🙆

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

@ManjaroBoss Bruno Fat-nandez 😭😭

[Robin Bairner @RBairner]

This could be the greatest football moment ever captured on video

[Abolaji Rasaq Oluwapese @bolazeal]

Atheism Is Not Your Rebellion

It's only Nigerians who can somehow turn atheism into a form of rebellion. 😂

Bro, atheism is not a lifestyle. It is not a fashion statement. It is not an excuse to misbehave. It is not "my parents are too religious, therefore I am now an atheist." And it is certainly not a passport to become everything your conservative upbringing told you not to become.

Atheism, in the simplest sense, is the absence of belief in gods. Finish.

You can be an atheist and still be conservative. You can be an atheist and be disciplined. You can be an atheist and never drink alcohol. You can be an atheist and remain faithful to one partner. You can be an atheist and respect your parents. You can even be boring. There is no Atheist Headquarters issuing igbo, tattoos, and piercings upon deconversion.

But Nigerians have a special talent for turning ideas into something else.

We did something similar with feminism. A serious political and social philosophy about women's equality enters Nigeria, and before long, some people reduce the entire thing to "I don't cook for men." Meanwhile, feminism is considerably bigger than who washed the plates.

Now atheism too has entered Nigerian hands.

Somebody quarrels with his pastor, discovers Christopher Hitchens on YouTube on Tuesday, changes his X bio to "Freethinker" on Wednesday, starts insulting everybody's religion on Thursday, and by Friday he has somehow concluded that atheism requires him to become a public nuisance.

Calm down. 😂

You may simply be irreligious.

You may be agnostic.

You may be questioning your faith.

You may be angry with organized religion.

You may simply hate your church.

You may even just be going through your own personal rebellion.

All these things are legitimate experiences, but please don't package all of them and write ATHEISM on the package.

Because atheism doesn't automatically make anybody intelligent, rational, moral or sophisticated. An atheist can still be stupid. An atheist can still believe nonsense. An atheist can still be tribalistic, corrupt, misogynistic, fraudulent and superstitious.

Removing God from an irrational mind doesn't automatically produce a rational human being.

And this is particularly funny in Nigeria because some of our newly minted atheists haven't even completely evicted Jesus from the building.

Small NEPA transformer explosion:

"JESUS!!!"

Plane enters turbulence:

"Blood of Jesus!"

Danfo nearly hits them:

"Jesu Christi!"

My sis in disbelief, who exactly are you calling? 😂

Of course, these expressions can simply be cultural reflexes. That is precisely the point. Leaving religion intellectually is different from disentangling yourself from a lifetime of religious culture.

So take your time. Read. Think. Question. Learn philosophy. Learn science. Understand skepticism. Understand the difference between atheism, agnosticism, secularism, humanism and simply being pissed off with religion.

And most importantly, develop your own moral compass.

Don't escape one form of dogmatism only to join another.

Your personal crisis does not have to become the public face of atheism.

Some of us are just here quietly not believing.

Leave atheists out of your rebellion. 😂

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

@bafrekauiux Na lie. Say god

[Arike Sugar Sugar❤️✨ @yettydlaw_]

Dear @MTNNG , it is with a heart filled with joy I use to inform you that you have until 11:59pm Monday, 31st of August to duly respond to my comprehensive well broken down mail with a duly comprehensive report and review 🤝

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

If person yab me like this, I fih send am flowers.

[Spaghetti Mafia @italian_Spencer]

You have a remarkable talent for contributing to conversations in a way that makes everyone else suddenly very aware of how productive silence can be.

[khalifa aminu @inventorkhalifa]

I created an AI Smart Glass to help blind people walk without a cane or a guide 👓
But this is not like the smart glasses people are used to seeing

Because this Glass combines AI, sensors, and GPS to help the user detect things in front of them, avoid obstacles, and know their location

But the most amazing thing is if the user gets lost, the GPS tracking system can help locate where they are from anywhere, and then send the location to the phone of the person taking care of them via WhatsApp or Email 📲

And now I am further developing it to a new level of AI + Voice, so it can speak with the user and also help them understand their surroundings

I have put the video showing how it works completely in the comment. 🎥
SHARE this project 🤝🔥
Let the world see what a young Nigerian can build

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

@GILTOOE @blaqsinner20 @Poseidon_nexus @Chetuyachinago I undoubtedly will get behind this idea. I’m not an ideologue. If it’ll give us the desired result, I’m all for it. Just speaking from a scale angle. We’re already oriented towards tribal and factional politics. Further divisions may exacerbate it

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

@GILTOOE @blaqsinner20 @Poseidon_nexus @Chetuyachinago You don’t get it. The OG context wasn’t really about just good governance. It was more about how Africa can resist imperialism (particularly neocolonialism from the West). My argument was simply that having small ‘successful’ states may likely not give us the united stand we need

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

@blaqsinner20 @GILTOOE @Poseidon_nexus @Chetuyachinago Exactly my point. Creating homogeneous states isn’t the solution. In actuality , that even creates deeper tribal lines that makes any meaningful cooperation impossible

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

@R_eq_uin Respect, brother. You have arrived at the right place. Both ideologies can merge to give us the right solution

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

@GILTOOE @Poseidon_nexus @Chetuyachinago What better head-start did China have that Nigeria doesn’t? Clearly, small unit governance still has to exist for a country of this size. Unless what you’re calling for is small independent states (countries).

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

@R_eq_uin @chuks_pi @udoma_akpaku @3D_Realmer @Chetuyachinago Chief, it’s possible. We’ll be few at first. With a few tricks up our sleeves, we’ll multiply. I’ve identified media as a key tool. I’m experienced in it. We can do this (left an earlier comment regarding community)

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

@R_eq_uin How can we build this together? Instead of simply espousing ideas, I believe we can act on them. I’m deeply interested in this and would mind other like-minded individuals to fellowship with. We can start small. Just conversations for starters and see where that leads.

[xyz™ @TheMagiq]

@Chetuyachinago Hey chief. Lovely writeup. Can you please follow back. I’d like to shoot you a DM

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

“I created opportunity for more than 30 South Africans since I started running this shop. I have all the legal documents, and I will not leave until a directive from the government” – Man laments

[Show Dem Camp @ShowDemCamp]

The kind of love that pulls you back every time 💌

‘SPELLBOUND’ with @luuusanda

Now Showing on YouTube #AfrikaMagik

[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