Tiletile Azeez.

A Political science grad| Citizen of a nation yet to be| Fascinated by development stories, sharp debates, and ideas that challenge perspectives.

[𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝔂 👑 @lorddrey]

Oga shut the fuck up. That you wear a tie and suit does not mean you know what you are saying. Shut the f up.

The problem of Nigeria and West Africa at large is multifaceted.

Bad governance is a contributory factor, but it is not the only factor. In fact, bad governance itself is an orchestration. It was bound to happen in Africa.

Africa's poverty is multifaceted. Colonialism played a role. But isn't it the only instrument.

1. Africa was set back through Colonialism. The wealth gap from that era matters a lot and gave the other race a huge advantage. Telling people to forget the past is understandable, but denying its impact is foolish.

However, some places that experienced this made it through despite the inequality in resource possession. We can cite Singapore, Japan, South Korea etc. I do not even envy those countries, they are slaves to the US and have zero sovereignty, but that is a conversation for another day.

2. After independence most African countries were only free on paper not practically. Imperialism became a thing. West African countries for instance Nigeria, were still ruled by the Queen even after independence. Those countries we love to reference had minimal Western interest and influence on them because they lacked the resources on African soil. The only Western influence on them later on was based on Security and spying on China.

As a matter of fact, francophone countries still pay the colonial levy to France.

3. After Imperialism, we metamorphosed into neo-colonialism. our present condition.

Countries like Nigeria have no independent government. Great Britain, and the US still influence our policies, system of government, economic model, and even Security.

So the average Nigerian thinks that when they vote the votes count and it elects their leaders. True and False.

Your votes don't really count in the way you believe. Your leaders are to some extent pre-ordained by Great Britain and the US. They decide at least 40% who controls your affairs and who they back to win elections.

This is why they send in independent observers to monitor your elections and approve the leader if it played out how they want by sending in congratulatory messages or not.

If it's someone they can't control they start a smear campaign against him and kick him out of office by labelling him a dictator or criminal and sponsor the opposition they can control. And even go as far as activating an uprising by funding opposition lines.

This is why Peter Obi did a campaign in Chatham to get the approval of the British elites and extend his international influence, appeal, and acceptance.

4. Bad leaders: The impact of bad leaders in Africa's underdevelopment is there, but very minimal and not exaggerated.

Why So?

(a) You don't elect your leaders, they are chosen.

(b) Your leaders are not allowed to express their managerial skills, policies are dictated to them or they can't get loans, can't win elections, and therefore can't modify hostile policies or they will lose access to aid.

(c) Your system of government is alien to you. It was not designed for your development in mind, it was designed with your control in mind and handed over.

This is why every nationalist African leader ends up being assassinated or designated a dictator or internally taken down through a local uprising funded by superpowers.

If you pay attention you can recognise the pattern from Kwame Nkruma to Thomas Sankara to Gaddafi.

African leaders have their flaws. But Africa inherently has no leaders because they are not allowed to lead themselves.

And there is no way any African leader can function and develop their nation if he plays by the rules handed to them.

This is why no matter who you elect, Democracy, Capitalism, and a Federal Republican system of government can never lead to progress in Nigeria or any part of West Africa.

It worked in Japan and South Korea, but that does not mean it can work in Africa. Nigeria is very diverse.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

A fitting response to the headfucked retard @scrowder by @Big_Mck for @Spearhead_Af

[Pastor Who @PastorMarvy]

90% of the iPhone is manufactured and assembled in China. Nobody looks at an iPhone assembled in China and says “China built Apple.”

95% of Tesla cars especially Model X and Model Y are sourced and manufactured in China. Nobody looks at a Tesla and says “China built Tesla”

90% of Nvidia AI chips are fabricated in Taiwan by the TSMC. Nobody says Taiwan built Nvidia.

But when an African/Africans do the exact same thing, suddenly that understanding disappears.
Then it becomes:

“China built it for Africa.”
“Americans built it for Africa.”

Aliko Dangote and Nigeria built the largest single train refinery in the world. He is Nigerian and an African.

Thank you!

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Engineering❌
Technology (not fintech apps)❌
Scientific research❌
Construction❌
Infrastructure Financing❌

Journalism™️✅
Entertainment✅
Civil society✅
Social media content creation✅

Whenever you wake up is what?

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

"Africans need to tAkE reSponSibiliTy and sToP tAlkIng aBouT cOloNiSatIoN and bLamInG wHitE mEn fOr EveRytHinG."

Meanwhile, here is someone about to miss out on life-saving treatment because these 7 white American men and 1 token black man in Brooklyn, New York, told her that a certain form of medical treatment is a "sin," based on their interpretation of a portion of a book written 2,000 years ago by goat herders in what is now Palestine.

This idiot has probably never left Nigeria before in her life, and cannot locate Brooklyn on an unmarked map of the world. But a group of Muzungus in Brooklyn are making her decisions for her, up to and including whether she chooses to live or die.

And THAT is what it means to be colonised. Whether you have a fucking flag and national anthem or not.

You morons are still under occupation.

[Tiletile Azeez. @tiletile_azeez]

😂😂

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

I've spoken before about my experience lecturing in School of Health Technology, Jega, Kebbi.

I was lecturing 300L students, environmental microbiology.

During exams - 8 out of 10 students cannot spell biology talk less of answering questions.

They all graduate, eventually.

[P0liticalbaby 🇵🇸🇨🇩 @mao_0k]

I am convinced that if Nigerians had to choose between a functioning society and having money in our current corrupt reality, many would choose the latter because they can manufacture strange hierarchies based on basic shit and position themselves at the top of the food chain by leveraging ‘plugs’.

Optimising for preferential treatment rather than collective efficiency. Because how else can one brag that they got their passport the next day if the society was working.

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

See raw poverty

If she sells her entire “market”, her profit is not up to N5000. That's what she will feed her children with.

There is no soup kitchen, no welfare, nothing. Eating from hand to mouth, sell or die.

In a nation where billions are being spent on Ai and private Jets

God help us.

[Tao Of Iperu💡🦅🖤🇳🇬 @TaoFeek182]

You see religious tolerance; just leave it for the Yoruba. 🤝❤️

Ara orun meets Onigbagbo 🤝🤝

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

My dad was advising a man that was complaining about his wife not giving birth to a boy because the man said how will his name "survive"

And my dad said something that made me go crazy with my goals

he said,
If you want your name to live and not die, make a name for yourself. your kids cannot keep your name alive.

If you want your name to survive, give your name life by doing things that people will talk about when you die.

he asked the guy "who remembers the kids of Abraham Lincoln or the kids of Thomas Edison or even Nnamdi Azikiwe?"

"Who even cares about the kids of anyone great in history?" we don't.

So if you want your name to not die, make a name for yourself by being a great person or else, your name will die when you die and there is nothing you can do about it.

Every lineage comes to an end.
But the great names in every dead lineage do not die. They outlive generations.

[Toyyib Adewale Adelodun @taadelodun]

This intelligence that will be used to collect taxes must now be used to provide security, healthcare, basics like water, roads & education for our people.

I get letters from my council in London regularly about how my tax is being spent.

Too whom much is given....

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

I'm watching clips from the US Congress and I see them intentionally debating the crisis in Nigeria - event by event.

Then, I zoom in, on the idiots in our own chambers chanting 'on your mandate', celebrating party defections.

The sheer contrast & absolute shamelessness.

[Tiletile Azeez. @tiletile_azeez]

😂😂

[German Shepherd Dad 🇺🇸 & 🔥 @FlagAndFire]

What is your favorite English expression?

Is it this one?

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

One minute of madness through and through

Why is the PDP chairman calling on Trump 😀

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

A Reaper drone can loiter overhead and transmit infrared video for over 27 hours, or up to 42 hours with external fuel tanks, depending on its configuration.

This means every inch of Sambisa and other hotspots can be under constant video surveillance, day and night, if Nigeria secures such cooperation with the US or any partner possessing this capability. China also has similar drones.

Partners provide the intelligence, while Nigerian troops deploy by helicopter and eliminate the terrorists.

There are many ways the Nigerian government can collaborate with partners to defeat this threat once and for all. The unfortunate killing of the general in the field shows that the Nigerian military needs help with logistics, surveillance, and firepower.

We cannot keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

[Mr Macaroni @mrmacaroni]

These terrorist attacks concerns all of us!! Please don’t think it doesn’t affect you. Whether it happens in the North, South, East or West, it affects all of us!!!
We cannot keep quiet while Nigerians are being slaughtered in different parts of the Country! This is madness!!!

[Great Oracle Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary. @AbdulMahmud01]

Where, then, are those who lend their sympathy to terror?

[folowosele adeboye @boye4christ2006]

Some people attempted to clone our application forms.

Let it be made known to you, this is fake.

WE HAVE PAUSED APPLICATIONS FOR NOW.

WE HAVE PAUSED APPLICATIONS FOR NOW.

WE HAVE PAUSED APPLICATIONS FOR NOW.

#10KLaptopsProject

Kindly retweet, I need like 1000 retweets.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The minute you understand the history of British colonisation and the wider logic of imperialism is the minute you free yourself from the mental tyranny of artificial constructs like "tribe."

Once you learn that the modern day "Yoruba," "Igbo" and "Hausa" identities are products of colonisation, and that there was in fact no such thing as a "Yoruba" or an "Igbo" people before the British created Nigeria (even the word "Yoruba" is an exonym that has no meaning in the language it describes), you finally understand the true extent and ugliness of what colonialism really was.

It was an audacious social and economic engineering project on the kind of scale that only a paranoid delusional who thinks he is a god should even be able to conceive of. The idea was to convert these diverse groups of millions of free African peoples (who constantly opposed and fought against the British empire) into self-replicating imperial drones who would eternally fight each other for the temporary privilege of being the most favoured servants of the empire, without it occurring to them that they could band together and break free from the empire instead.

Nothing was a coincidence. From their deliberate unbalancing of the tripartite ethnic power-sharing arrangement through the fraudulent census that counted more people in the Sahel than by the coast (the basis of Nigeria's everlasting population myth), to their use of the BBC World Service to brand the January 1966 putsch as an "Igbo coup," to their subtle and repeated use of Goodluck Jonathan's middle name (Azikiwe) on BBC Hausa and RFI Hausa during the 2011-2015 regime change operation...all of it was planned and deliberate.

And once you understand that the biggest threat Nigeria actually faces comes from DC, Paris, London, and Brussels - not from any group of Nigerian idiots doing whatever idiocy they are doing - you gain a proper sense of perspective, and you grasp where you stand in the wider world. At that point, "tribalism" starts to resemble dog faeces to you, because you understand where it came from, what role it serves, and who actively maintains it - including the American bot farms that have created "Nigerian" accounts with matric number handles to fan the flames of ethnic conflict all over Nigerian social media since 2022.

But I know that maybe like 50 people will even read this tweet this far because even though a Nigerian man will risk his life to scoop 50 litres of ka-boom-boom from a fallen petrol tanker, the sight of paragraphs is where he loses all motivation in life.

At best the sorry blockhead will comment "Grok summarise this" in the comment section.