Vin Petrol

You need discipline more than you need motivation | Lost my (2009) old account

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

LMAO.

What is going on between Kenya and SA twitter?

[Mwikya. @_demwiky]

South Africans think everything they say is positive because of Their HIV

[Chilx @iamchilx]

I no even dey panic again.

I just dey pray, dey do my thing.

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Usuals🌝 @its_usuals]

“As I arrived home to have some rest, I started having seizures, the security guard rushed with a spatula on my teeth, hospital confirmed I was dead; thankfully, I always have US🇺🇸 Visa and left for the US🇺🇸, MRI confirmed tumor in my brain, I had surgery and my penis stopped working”

—Julius Agwu

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

LMAO. Gats be banter sha.

[Gene Grey @EuginhoCortez]

Drogba was barely better than Yakubu Aiyegbeni

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

My boys are just understanding the concept of colonisation and they are livid.

[Oyinkansola @oyinkanbadejo]

Bet on yourself. Don’t count yourself short. You owe yourself the chance to see just how far you can go. Be delusional about it like mad

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

Terrible Independence Day speech from Tinubu.

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

APC happened.

Never seen, read of an evil organisation like her.

[Olúṣeun Onìgbìndé @seunonigbinde]

We used to debate Independence Day speech line by line. TL would be filled with conversations on ideas, errors and opportunities.

What happened to us!

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

Solid speech.

[Atiku Abubakar @atiku]

State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, GCON | ADC Presidential Candidate, 2027 https://t.co/Y5ZqVahX3r

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

LMAO.

Man this is insane.

[Vanguard Newspapers @vanguardngrnews]

Many Nigerians continue to struggle to afford food, school fees, medical bills and transportation. Their circumstances didn’t begin with the reforms of the last three years. Their struggles are the accumulated consequences of decades of low productivity.

— President Tinubu

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

Never seen a narcissist like this in my life.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💣 BREAKING: Cristiano Ronaldo announces he has LEFT PORTUGAL NATIONAL TEAM CAMP. 🇵🇹

��After the National Team coach’s press conference, and following a conversation with the President of the Portuguese Football Federation, I have decided to leave the National Team training camp”.

“In due time, I will tell all Portuguese people the truth about the reasons that led to my departure from the national team, to which I have always dedicated myself”.

“Now is the time to wish good luck to Portugal and to all my teammates”.

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

Buhari talk more.

[Àgbà John Doe (back up) @jon_d_doee]

When Peter Obi becomes president, all these political sycophants will disappear.

Even the US president with all his power, doesn't get this much type of ass kissing people on full display.

Waste of tax payers money and a crass display of old men and women who are shameless.

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

Oraimo dey sell that Lonitor more than 60k.

LOL. Bring it on China.

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

Local retailers cannot compete with this, but these prices are very inflation friendly.

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

That man changed my life.

You just earned a follower.

[Olayinka Post @0xYinka]

Bruh, schools that charge like 20m per year here sef no be like this.

This is a public schools ooo... like Babasanya's Iganmode Grammar School public school.

We are not in soup, we are soup.

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

Lmao. This admin is mxd person.

[Ryanair @Ryanair]

🥀

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

I spent 47 days as one of several thousand African migrants seeking to enter Europe through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea.

Story on @fijnigeria tomorrow, Thursday and on Friday.

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

Scapegoat Palmer before official announcement, then slot Rashford and Rice in.

LOL.

[England @England]

Tino Livramento, Kobbie Mainoo, Cole Palmer, Marcus Rashford and Declan Rice have all been ruled of our forthcoming UEFA Nations League fixtures.

James Garner and Morgan Gibbs-White have subsequently been called up and will join up with the rest of the squad on Tuesday.

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Five days into my next undercover investigation, set to be released by @fijnigeria later this week, I sent the picture in Frame 1 to my three-man backroom team. They all laughed at me, one of them remarking I looked “like a fisherman”.

The pictures in frames 2 and 3 are from my 44th day on the field. Nobody was in ebullient mood this time. They all screamed instead. None of them could say it, but I knew I could pass for a mad man on the streets.

Meanwhile, Frame 4 is who I was before I embarked on the project.

It is the first time ever that I’ve given the public a glimpse into the making of an undercover investigation. I do it this time to contextualise public understanding of the physical, material and mental cost of investigative reporting. Behind every daring work of investigation you have read is several weeks, sometimes months, of self-sacrifice by the journalist.

Of higher importance, I do it to remind younger journalists that investigative journalism isn’t the white-collar stardom propeller many seem to think it is; more often than not, it is about getting your hands dirty while still believing this is hands down the best job in the world!

It feels good to be fully back on social media after nearly five months out…

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

Said this in the summer. He is a rugged 9. Better than Welbeck.

[Vin Petrol @TheMEPhoenix]

I think Chelsea should pursue Brian Brobbey as a second ST/W.

[Atiku Abubakar @atiku]

I have watched Yusuf Aliyu’s video repeatedly, and each time, my heart breaks.

A child with such intelligence, clarity and confidence should be in a classroom building his future—not struggling for survival in a community surrounded by gold but buried in poverty.

I cannot look at him and see an “illegal miner.” I see a Nigerian child failed by the country that should have protected him. I see brilliance trapped by poverty and enormous promise abandoned by leadership.

I appeal specifically for his safety. His courage must not expose him or his family to intimidation or retaliation. I am prepared to support his education and ensure that the brilliance we have witnessed is not buried by poverty. Any effort to reach him must be handled responsibly through his family and appropriate child-protection channels.

But this video raises a question that should trouble the conscience of every Nigerian: how can a community sitting upon gold remain so poor that it cannot educate its children? How can its wealth leave the soil while hunger and deprivation remain in its homes?

This is an indictment of the Tinubu administration. The Federal Government controls Nigeria’s mineral resources, yet the communities producing that wealth remain without schools, opportunities or protection.

The contrast is revealing. President Buhari established PAGMI to register, train and integrate artisanal miners into the formal economy, with Niger State included among its intervention states. Tinubu inherited that framework but has met these vulnerable citizens with raids, detention and the label “illegal miners.”

Buhari saw people to formalise. Tinubu sees poor people to criminalise.

This boy is evidence against the Tinubu government. His intelligence exposes the opportunities it has failed to provide. His poverty exposes the injustice of Nigeria’s mining economy. His presence at that site exposes an administration that has left brilliant children without a ladder out of deprivation.

The government must explain what became of PAGMI in Niger State and how 37 Nigerians died in the custody of a federal agency. Calling them “illegal miners” cannot erase their humanity or excuse their deaths.

As a father, a grandfather and a Nigerian, I refuse to look away. I will continue to speak for these children because their lives matter, their dreams matter and their future belongs to Nigeria.

The gold beneath their community should build classrooms and livelihoods, not graves. —AA