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[Neutral @uwaisumar]

@The__Abdullah @KafinHausaa I think it’s intentional. He’s just trying to cause commotion

[John Oyesile, mPSN. MRCPharm. @OyesileJohn]

I doubt you would have been a medical doctor if your first 30 years was in the UK. You definitely won't have been able to afford it or would been indebted to the government of the UK to the tunes of over 70k pounds.

In your 30yrs in Nigeria, the government subsidized your education and made it easy for you to earn the capital with which you embark on your 6yrs journey in the UK. The 30yrs in 9ja gave you a solid foundation upon which your growth in the UK was built.

You should be smart enough to know this but social media validation trumps intelligence most times.

[Neutral @uwaisumar]

@BILLDOZER6900 @FAFO_TV The chance of death outweighs any chance of the opponent getting up in that flying knee kick.

[Neutral @uwaisumar]

@dammiedammie35 Political touts are the most delusional people on earth 😂😂😂

[Neutral @uwaisumar]

@UncleRajj A whole minister fa. I thought that statement is reserved for NYSC staff and young lecturers.

[Neutral @uwaisumar]

Please remind me why they rate Van Dirk?

[Benjamin Rubinstein @BenFRubinstein]

The beginning of the end

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Breaking down UN terminology — what’s the plenary, who can observe, and why only some resolutions are binding. Al Jazeera’s Alma Milisic explains.

[Neutral @uwaisumar]

Dominik Szoboszlai 🔥🔥

[H’s mom @aiishadahir]

His name was Uwais al-Qarni.
And the angels knew his name.

Uwais wasn’t a famous scholar.
He wasn’t a warrior.
He wasn’t even a companion of the Prophet ﷺ — because he never met him.
Yet the Prophet ﷺ told Umar (RA):
“If you meet Uwais, ask him to make du‘ā for you.”

[Muhsin Ibrahim @muhsin234]

The biggest fitnah ravaging the soul of Nigeria is the deep respect we give to dirty money. — Dr Marzuq Ungogo.

[Emeka @Emeneks]

And that’s more than enough

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The key identifier of an "elite" class is not merely their bank account balance but their ability and willingness to use their economic and political heft to shape the society around them.

That's why a hereditary landowner and member of the UK House of Lords is considered an elite, while your average Premier League footballer (who may have more money than the HoL member) is not. The difference is in the willingness and ability to wield that power meaningfully.

The reason I keep on saying 'Nigeria has no elites' is that I was born and raised among the subset of Nigerians who erroneously consider themselves to be elite, and I am very familiar with their thought process. It is the exact same thought process that you would get from a sugarcane seller in Mile 12 market if overnight he was given a house in Maitama, a Lexus SUV, a beautiful yarinya and N150m in the bank.

The nouveau-riche sugarcane seller would not be concerned with higher thoughts like how to use his newfound fortune to transform the economic reality of Mile 12 market while positioning to benefit from the transformation. Nope. He would only be concerned with ensuring that he keeps hold of what he has, so that he never has to sleep in a wheelbarrow on a side street off Ikosi Road again.

That's exactly what the privileged Nigerian is upstairs - a sugarcane seller who happens to live in Ikoyi. No matter how many decades they have spent in Ikoyi, their reality is still defined by the desperate quest to escape or avoid poverty. Every Nigerian millionaire or billionaire that you know feels financially insecure. Doesn't matter whether they are worth $1m or $25bn - they are all viscerally terrified of sinking into poverty, and the sum of their decision making is a series of short term deals and compromises to avoid poverty, without any kind of higher, long-term guiding principle.

I know this especially well because I was raised in a house where everybody who is somebody in Lagos stopped by once in a while to work on a real estate deal with my old man, and I would regularly overhear everybody from bank CEOs to retired military generals and air vice marshalls saying things "Our leaders are [insert whiny complaint]." And I would wonder - who are the "leaders" that these extremely privileged people sound so oppressed and intimidated by? Is it not their friends and coursemates from Jaji?

Later on it made sense when I realised that once you are in power in Nigeria, you become God, and even your family changes its rules for you. I've seen families override their olori-ebi because one 50 year-old uncle became somebody in Abuja. Conversely, as soon as you leave power in Nigeria, you sink into total irrelevance and people treat you like your body has a smell. The entire Nigerian sense of value and self-worth is welded to money and power. Once you don't have these 2 things, you might as well be wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak - even your family and contemporaries stop treating you with respect.

The effect this has on elite formation is that unlike in other societies where elites gravitate toward different ideas shared by different camps, and then fight for the right to imprint those ideas on their society (Democrat vs Republican; Maoist vs Dengist; Tory vs Labour etc), privileged Nigerians ONLY gravitate toward one thing - economic power. They have no elite sense of identity outside of money in the bank, a 4-wheeled status signaller on the road, and an overpriced house in a neighbourhood that has a constant bad odour and potholes.

That is also why Nigeria's political actors do this thing called "decamping" where they switch affiliation to whatever political party is in power. Their entire conception of the world is built around access to the levers of economic power so that they can avoid ending up in a wheelbarrow in Mile 12 market.

That's literally all there is to Nigeria.

200 million sugarcane sellers.

[Neutral @uwaisumar]

@SirJarus Gerrard

[NonyKingz @NonykingzMusic]

#Casanova Out Now ✨🔥🎶

https://t.co/ya3JPjqctx

[أبو بكر الصديق @iamAbubakarBash]

Private company but it was the country's president that fired the MD and the board entirely? 😂🤣
Who are the other shareholders? Where are they?

[Neutral @uwaisumar]

@ChukwunyeluOrji @TheoAbuAgada Osinbanjo was given the opportunity at the early stages but he overextended his role by suspending the SGF & firing the DSS boss while in acting capacity, the cabal had to adjust that privilege. So, he personally played himself into obscurity.

[Neutral @uwaisumar]

@DrJoeAbah If they had brought in companies with expertise and financial capacity like Siemens at the initial privatization, things could have been different by now. Rather they sold to people that are struggling to replace blown transformers & poles let alone improving the whole system.

[Neutral @uwaisumar]

@DrJoeAbah I think it all goes back to who acquired/bought the facilities. In the power sector they were politicians and novice businessmen who had no prior experience in the industry. So they lacked the expertise and financial resources needed to transform the industry hence the failure.