Tosin

Eat. Pray. Love. Grow.

[Tosin @titabs]

@cyn_nthia 😂🤣

[Tosin @titabs]

Also, I've seen Cameroonians online saying that Nigerians cannot cook.

[Tosin @titabs]

As soon as he mentioned Ope's parents i was like "KINI?"

[𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 @AsakyGRN]

Cameroonian man fires back at Opeyemi Famakin for constantly criticizing Cameroonian food. The insults he unleashed were so brutal that even Opeyemi might need a minute to recover. 😭💀

[Tosin @titabs]

You know it's not jollof but it has a very light orange hue so it's confusing, but then you also think that it could be fried rice, but it's not quite fried rice. It's a sad wannabe combination of jollof and fried rice.

[Tosin @titabs]

I have eaten Cameroon jollof and I promise you that it's nothing to write home about.

First, why do you want to be included in the jollof conversation when you're not part of West Africa?

Also, why do we have to praise your lackluster, flavorless and lifeless food?

[Tosin @titabs]

I'm not even a fan of Ope but I watched his video and I totally agree with him.

[Gbemi O-O @GbemiOO]

You’re a Dj who has been contracted to play at a kids party on children’s day, why haven’t you curated kid friendly songs?
Why are kids hearing all the curse words ?

[Kachi @_Kkachee]

Ermm. I know I’m Nigerian. I also happen to be a citizen of Canada. So focus on that. If you don’t have an answer, you can move it or ignore this tweet. Thanks

[Tosin @titabs]

@cyn_nthia Okay okay. I get. Lol.

[Tosin @titabs]

@cyn_nthia Ah....you like chocolate ice-cream?

[Bukky baby @theOlubukolami_]

Or do we talk about how normalized pedophilia is in this damn country ???

These are adult men sexualizing Emmanuella, a young girl that grew up in front of our eyes and today, her comments section is filled with pedophiles !!!

[Tosin @titabs]

Engagement farming without a blue tick is a waste.

Rubbish!

[Safwan AhmedMia @SuperSaf]

Hot take: The UK has the best food in the world!

[Tosin @titabs]

😂🤣

[Baron Samedi @AyoKnight1]

@Madridghost1 Okay she wants you to know she bought a car

[Renegade @_wapnen]

I went to secondary school in Barkin Ladi 20 years ago. This is what SS1 - 3 boys were doing, night shifts in the blistering cold. I did it too. My mates in Oyo were sleeping or studying. I’ve watched this shit deteriorate in real time.

Barkin Ladi now looks nothing like it did when I graduated 14 years ago. I went to the same junction we used to buy stuff during outings last year & I was shaking. They don’t speak the same language. Crisis after crisis. Slowly, the people who used to till those lands are now doing menial jobs in the south. The names of the villages have changed. The senator representing that region was killed few days after I graduated when he attended a mass funeral of people who were massacred by the Fulanis who now occupy their homes. 14 years ago guys.

Trying to raise awareness about this state-backed conquest feels like screaming under water.

Few months ago, my aunt in mangu came to ask for money to trade cause she can’t farm anymore. Their farms were attacked 3 years ago. They wouldn’t dare go back.

For more than 10 years, we’ve had internally displaced persons from Borno living in our house, after my mother took them in. They only go back to their so-called homes for funerals. 3 brilliant kids; Elizabeth, Margaret and Grace (named after my now late mother for her benevolence). The dad does security work, the mom cleans. Who knows what they could’ve made of themselves back home? I do, they’d have been compost for aliens.

It always starts small then it spirals out of control. We’ve seen all kinds of terror. I wish they just came and shot people but that’s not fun enough. Bullets are for runners. They’ll slice pregnant women open to kill their fetuses. They’ll feed women their kid’s fingers. They burn people alive, hack them with machetes. When people try to defend themselves, that’s when soldiers come in. They call it farmer-herder clashes. They say cattle was rustled. Cattle was rustled? That’s why you renamed my village and put 200 people in a mass grave ?

I remember @YarKafanchan saying that she wept after the 2015 elections cause she knew her people would die like flies & then what happened in southern kaduna? When people talk, they say where’s the evidence? But what about the bodies? Dying is a morbid thing to be skilled at but boy, we have experience.

We’ve seen “strategists” platform them and defend all manner of wrongdoing on the alter of political correctness.

Omoh, let me just stop here.

[Tosin @titabs]

I understand that Nigerians in Nigeria don't understand that you can't just convert to Naira and start comparing. The cost of living and the pricing dynamics are very different and those are the first things they need to consider.

[Oluwafunmilayo @FunmiKolz]

So many adults are traumatized cos their parents stayed

[Tosin @titabs]

Without mentioning my monthly income, I gave him the figures of my montly rent and bills. He was silent

[Tosin @titabs]

I was talking with my cousin in Nigeria and he was telling me that no matter what I earned in Nigeria, I'm earning more now because if you convert my pay to Naira blah blah blah...

I stopped him right there.

[Tosin @titabs]

5 million Naira is approx 5000 CAD.

You expect someone to just hand it over to you, just like that? Ahhhh!

[Tosin @titabs]

I'm so grateful that even as the first child of my parents, I've never had to deal with black tax.

[Tosin @titabs]

Black tax is crazy!

[Sola 🇨🇦🇳🇬 @SolaTheAnalyst]

“What is Sola doing in Canada that he cannot send 5 million naira?”

Those were the exact words from a relative to my father during the planning of my grandfather’s burial.

I had sent ₦300,000 the week before.

When my father told me, I sat in my Toronto apartment staring at my bank statement. Rent due. Bills due. Groceries low. Savings needed saving😭

That is the part of japa life nobody talks about.

I no go lie. Some diaspora folks are genuinely stingy. We all know one or two.

But most of us dey empty ourselves quietly to keep up. Some people back home don’t know what life out here actually costs.

Black tax is the biggest elephant in our family WhatsApp group. Nobody is brave enough to point at it.

My people abroad and back home, what is the one thing about black tax we need to start saying out loud?