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Feminist. Lover of life. I have hope and as a matter of fact, it's all that matters.

[🦋🦋🦋 @timiidasilva]

Without hope, faith is paralyzed.

[🦋🦋🦋 @timiidasilva]

💔💔 😞

[carter🌚 @carter6f]

“We won the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, but Nigerians had no idea what we went through. The NFF didn’t pay for our hotel, our training bus was taken away, and we were eating rice for lunch and dinner every day. We had to use our own money for food and even rent a mini bus ourselves”😳

— Jay-Jay Okocha

[cam @binzwish]

fuck it, hot body summer round two

[Lord Of Warri @Lord_Of_Warri]

There is a fundamental difference between solidarity and business, and confusing the two makes absolutely no sense.

Nigeria stood with Black South Africans during apartheid because it was the right thing to do. We spent enormous political, diplomatic and economic capital supporting the anti-apartheid struggle so that fellow Africans and fellow Black people could be free in their own land. There was no profit motive behind that support. The objective was liberation, not dividends.

MTN, on the other hand, is a business.

MTN did not come to Nigeria out of charity, brotherhood or gratitude. Nigerians pay for every call, every SMS, every gigabyte of data and every transaction made on their platforms. MTN earns money because Nigerians pay for its services.

In 2025 alone, MTN Nigeria generated approximately ₦5.2 trillion ($3.8 billion) in revenue, making it the largest telecom operator in Nigeria and one of the most profitable businesses on the continent. Nigeria is now MTN Group’s largest market and contributes about 28% of the entire group’s service revenue — more than South Africa itself contributes to the company. Nigeria and Ghana were specifically identified by MTN as the major drivers of the group’s profits, dividends and shareholder returns.

Those profits do not disappear into thin air.

They support shareholder dividends, pension funds, institutional investors and the broader South African economy. MTN’s recent dividend increases and share buyback programmes were largely driven by the strong performance of MTN Nigeria and MTN Ghana.

So when someone says, “Whatever we’ve done for South Africa, South Africa has done for us too because of MTN,” one has to ask:

Did MTN give Nigerians free airtime?

Did MTN provide free internet?

Did MTN build infrastructure without charging customers?

Did South Africa subsidize Nigerian telecom bills?

Of course not.

Nigerians built MTN Nigeria’s success with their wallets. MTN profits from Nigeria because Nigerians willingly pay for a service they use. That is commerce. That is capitalism. That is business.

Nigeria’s support for the liberation of South Africa was something entirely different. It was solidarity with oppressed people with no expectation of financial return.

Equating Nigeria’s sacrifice during the anti-apartheid struggle with a private company making trillions of naira in revenue from Nigerian consumers is a false equivalence and an intellectually weak argument.

Supporting a people’s freedom and running a profitable business in their country are not remotely the same thing.

[🦋🦋🦋 @timiidasilva]

Love him😂

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Kylian Mbappé responds to racist remarks from Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla:

“You are a despicable woman and unworthy of your position.
You do not represent Paraguay, that country which has sweated passion and honor throughout the competition. Through your recklessness and your brazen racism, the entire world has already forgotten the journey and the historic effort that your players accomplished during this World Cup, making way for an incompetent woman who gives the worst possible image of her country.
I will never allow people like her the freedom to spread their hatred and racism across the world.”

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

The only way out really is through

[🦋🦋🦋 @timiidasilva]

Smh

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Chris Brown has been found liable by a jury for $13 million in damages after his housekeeper was mauled and permanently disfigured by one of his dogs.

According to the lawsuit, Brown fled the scene instead of calling 911.

(https://t.co/6YsenkcXiN)

[Lisa 🧚🏻‍♀️ @lisa_talking]

history book needs whole chapter for this icon

[Favored Sinner @FavoredSinner]

Lol. People are not dirty by by default, they are dirty by the system around them.

I remember when the bin workers went on strike in Birmingham last year. People who you would think were clean and neat, suddenly there was rubbish piled in front of their houses and rats everywhere.

Point of my shalaye, the problem is not the people, it is what the government puts on ground for them. In Lagos only about 11% of waste is collected the proper way, so nearly half of it ends up dumped in the canals and drainages because where else will it go? Then the same drainage blocks and the place floods.

Government will provide what people need first, the right drainage, the right refuse management, and then you enforce the cleanliness. You don’t expect people to fall in line when there is nothing on ground for them to fall in line with.

[rose @wynrosei]

men happened

[Bhila @Bhila_official]

It’s not a boycott, but it’s us showing solidarity with our people who are stranded in South Africa.

We love Mafikizolo. Their music has a special place in Zimbabwe, it wont change.

We don’t dance when there is a funeral

[Peter F. Pan @Woulk3r]

You guys need to stop seeing people as commodities.

[🦋🦋🦋 @timiidasilva]

I understand this but it’s not very genuine or well thought out 🤔.

[HotNewHipHop @HotNewHipHop]

Cardi B hopped on IG live after performing "Pretty & Petty" at the BET Awards and urged her fans to be respectful toward BIA 👀

"Please don't pick on that girl. I am very big against Internet bullying, unless my fans have to..."

"I don't want to be the reason why somebody gets on the Internet and has a bad day or gets depressed or feels bad or feels like the world is against them. Because I really went through that before."

[Leo Dasilva @SirLeoBDasilva]

The first thing Singapore did was to educate its people.
This journey is not even going to be long.
Nigerians are already very smart people.
Give quality primary and secondary education.
Bring in companies that can employ thousands of people.
Set them up in several states. See this mining situation. Get a hold of it and make it a very formal sector.
Allow the people who want to sell Akara and other things access to soft loans. Create a structure with every bank to help them be accountable. Like a credit score.
Fix electricity.
If it’s too hard to change all the lines, create solar plants for different clusters while you take a few years to fix power lines to be efficient.
Step by step, country will be better.
I don’t know why we don’t have a leader that wants to do this.
It’s not rocket science.

[🦋🦋🦋 @timiidasilva]

I think it’s very important for churches to start putting out statements when cases like such arise. Actions > intentions

2 things the church cannot keep doing: being silent in the face of abuse and trying to keep abusive church members from facing justice.

[🦋🦋🦋 @timiidasilva]

The church tried to subvert justice. Gosh.

[Brooda John @Nigeriangod_]

This was the man who murdered my dad’s friend daughter in 2011 by stabbing her over 77 times in various parts of her body, his Name is AKOLADE AROWOLO

He was a RCCG youth pastor and the church tried to subvert justice back then

She was the breadwinner of the house while him a struggling youth pastor with no job or funds and heavily rely on her salary s a banker

Their daughter was just 3yrs old when this useless man took my friend’s life

It started from small beating and shouting then it became a regular thing

We fought hard for her to leave this useless man alone but she always find an excuse for him

Every week is a different mark on her face filled with heavy makeup and shades to hide her scars

She didn’t come to work on that said day and her colleagues got worried and had to call me cos we work in close proximity to each other, I was clueless to on why she didn’t show to work and put a call across her phone and BBM but none went through

Her colleague persuaded me we should both go to her house during our lunch break and we went, on getting to her house her flat doors were locked, it was when I peeped through the kitchen window I saw blood and screamed for help, the kitchen door at the back of the flat got broken and what I saw was her lifeless body in the pool of her own blood

I almost screamed the whole building down with the whole neighborhood rushing down towards the kitchen,it was the most awful crime scenes I’ve ever seen

This horrible man lied she stabbed herself to death and his church supported him until a great pathologists proved them wrong and he was finally sentenced to death by hanging in 2019 and still waiting to be hanged

If you want people to talk about men to stop beating their wives then I’m not the kind of person, if you don’t leave when I advice you to leave then be prepared for whatever outcome you get cos you can see the rates of FEMICIDE in recent years

I’ve written this story over and over again on this platform to encourage women to leave at the first sign of violence

Leave to LIVE

[SeychellesStateHouse @StateHouseSey]

President Herminie welcomed Nigerian star @ayrastarr to Seychelles ahead of her 29 June Independence show at Stad Popiler.

[dominique☼ @saokodomi]

no shade it’s actually scary how many people think misogyny has to present itself as extreme hatred of women and violent rhetoric for them to consider it as such. casual misogyny is dangerous precisely because it often presents itself as normal, harmless, or “just a joke”

[ɒɿɈɘႧ @D0ntHurtY0self9]

She also mentioned that because of these losses, there's a big void in artistic advancement across the board. The people who died would have mentored the next generations, the way it's always been. Their absences are absolutely felt. Didn't put this together until she said it.

[Pablo Escobar @officialbat419]

This documentary on MC Oluomo was made in 2010 by this foreign journalist documenting their actions in the early 2000’s to 2010’s in Oshodi, Lagos, Nigeria.

The driver in the video, MAMOK was shot dead.

[Oo Nwoye @OoTheNigerian]

I like Mr. Eazi and Temi. They are smart, hardworking and fortunate people.

However, it is important for Nigerians who while living their lives, should consider what they gleefully put out in public.

Showcasing you have more (critical) resources than people that are literally dying from absence of those resources has little upside.

There are so many directions in which their content could go and they choose this direction.

Yesterday, the Billionaire Collison Brothera used their fortune to try solve respiratory illnesses.

I personally believe Mr Eazi is tangential to the clown Cuba Chief Priest so it is not out of ordinary to expect the out put to be same.

Nigeria needs out spoken HQBs.