Bengong is tired

Aspiring alcoholic 🍷
Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist

[Ari🦋✨ @Ariszn12]

I don’t think people fully understand what’s happening. We’re not being priced out of luxury. We’re being priced out of normal. A house, car, Groceries, Childcare, Insurance,These weren’t extravagant expectations 20 years ago.

[rage against dysfunction @oshiokha__]

This scenario is never going to happen to you.

But it's interesting that your intending response to advances from someone you're not interested in is violence.

I wonder, can women mete out the same violence to you? Because clearly covering their drinks around you isn't enough.

[Nans, Esq. @nansbello]

Good evening @Brightgoldenboy
It has been 181 days since you said the violence that women faced during the occurrence of the Ozoro festival was being investigated and there were 16 suspects in custody.
It has been 131 days since you said you were waiting for DPP legal advice.

[TUNA 🦁 EKUN @TundeSmilez]

Good morning to the entire universe.

I just want to tell you all that about 37 teenagers died in the custody of the NSCDC (Nigeria Security and “Civil Defence” Corps) in Niger State.

37 children!!!!!!!!!!! 37!!!!!!!!!! They’re literally babies!!!!!!

[Ria💕 @Uche_Gloriaa]

God is not preparing you for anything,you’re just súffering because of bad gòvernment.

[Esther Umoh @EstherUmoh10]

One of the many wasteful things Tinubu led government used our money for.

[Tomori @otomporo8701]

A drunk cop opened fire at a checkpoint in 2011.

The bullet ripped through my car. Then through my right hand.

That night ended my career as an animator. It cracked my marriage. It left a wound in my mind that still hasn’t closed.

The twist? I sued the Nigeria Police. I won in 2015. The judge ordered them to pay my medical bills.

Ten years later: zero naira.
I live with permanent disability. No help. No justice. Yet, they are shouting “No To Impunity”

@PoliceNG_CRU @TunjiDisu1 @SPNigeria #NigeriaPoliceNotYourFriend

[Basil @basilabia]

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984.

[˚₊ @_girlarchive]

and somehow “i’m on my period” is still treated like a minor inconvenience

[Bengong is tired @uzzy_darling]

Yes.

[𝓜𝔂𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓮 @miell_e3]

Manifesting something queer happening to me 😔

[𝓜𝔂𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓮 @miell_e3]

Manifesting something queer happening to me 😔

[Jessica Pin @jess_ann_pin]

No. For society to work in a way compatible with women's rights, men need to regulate themselves rather than oppressing women and forcing women to regulate men for survival.

We no longer have to regulate men for survival so we increasingly don't. Female sexuality shouldn't have to be suppressed because of male failure to take responsibility. Men need to take equal responsibility. That is what is just and fair.

[Dr. Mary @Oluwamidunsin]

So I went on Nairaland.
I searched “Tinubu”. I also searched “Obi”.
Since they were both governors. I wanted to see Media footprint of who they were and what they represented Pre-2022.
Here is a screenshot. First 2 is for Tinubu. Last 2 is for Peter Obi.
Jan 26/2027. You’ll have to choose 1 of these 2 to lead Nigeria.
Who are you choosing?!

[Naz🍀🍀 @Poeticmedic1]

Bruh everyone is concerned about Margaret Obi's Hermes bag when the actual first lady and wife of the president drove into owerri with a fleet of 80 cars

[Ofe Nkupu (Chief Dorobucci) @Austeen___]

How’s Peter Obi even the lesser evil? Which evil e don do you ? You people are sick in the head.

[SnrmanKiki @KikiowoAyorinde]

It has gotten so bad that Nigerians who won fully funded scholarships to universities in the United States this year could not even resume their programmes because of visa wahala placed on Nigeria. People who worked hard, got admitted, secured funding and thought their lives were finally moving forward are now being caught in the consequences of a government they did not elect to fail them.

And perhaps that is the most painful part. For years, many people thought bad governance would not really get to them. You had a good job, so you thought unemployment was somebody else's problem. You could afford private healthcare, so you ignored the collapse of the public system. Your child was studying in a good school, so you thought the education crisis was for other people. You had a passport and an opportunity to travel, so you thought the country's reputation abroad would not affect you.

Until it did.

Now look at the cost of fuel. Look at transportation. Look at food. Look at electricity. Look at the general cost of living. Look at how much harder it has become for ordinary Nigerians to survive. Look at the number of people who are simply trying to leave because they no longer see a future here. Look at how badly Nigeria has been governed.

And please, if your argument is that Peter Obi is bad (which i dont believe), fine. We have heard you. But there is a simple question for you: the person who is currently there, what exactly has he done?

What has President Tinubu done that has fundamentally improved the lives of ordinary Nigerians? How much more suffering are Nigerians expected to endure before we are allowed to ask questions? How much more should people pay for the privilege of simply existing in their own country?

At some point, it cannot always be about defending the person currently in power because the alternative might supposedly be worse. If Tinubu has had his opportunity and this is the best he can offer, let him leave. Let someone else govern. Let another person try. Let Nigerians have the opportunity to demand something better. Nigeria is not the personal property of any politician. No president is entitled to remain in power simply because his supporters can point to someone they consider worse.

Governance is supposed to make people's lives better, not make them constantly devise new ways to survive the consequences of government failure.

[Oluwatoyin Ann Andrew @AnnSogunro]

If this pops up on your TL, please give us a repost, a quote and please tag anyone who can be of help. We still have a very long way to go.

[•Yasin @roughcoin__]

That one dey, but rn we wan comot seyi papa first

[FitMedic @FEMMY466]

The solution to every medical problem cannot be, let the doctors do it.

There are professionals who train to learn how to sign. Why not advocate for then to be hired instead of dumping yet more work on already overworked doctors?

[Nanyo 💋🖤 @Nanyo_sae]

Somebody's life right now.

You've finished university and you're looking for how to leave Nigeria.

You hear learning French helps, you start learning French.

Your friend tells you German is easier, you start learning Guten Morgen.

Another person says a master's will boost your points, you apply to Miva.

All this while, you still need IELTS Academic or General.

Then someone tells you to get work experience.
Another person says learn a tech skill.
Another says get a professional certification.

At this point, you're not even living anymore. You're just gathering requirements.

When can one actually rest?