ADEGBITE ADEWALE

[Ama Udofa @the_amazingama]

“Uber should have…” “why didn’t Uber…”

Meanwhile Sporting Lagos vs Ikorodu FC was forced to postpone the first ever derby because APC wants to use the stadium to do rally

[Fash Daddy! 🥐 @thefashygram]

APC supporters.

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

"You cant eat GDP"

[Cyborg Warlord @Admiral_Cyborg]

After the discovery of this gold, everyone in Zamfara expected their lives to get better...

But Matawalle had other plans:

He decided to buy SUVS (Bulletproof) and share to Bello Turji and his goons.

The state turned into a war zone.

Death rate was massive, suddenly people were evicted from their houses by terrorists, chinese miners came in, suddenly, those areas were declared "Too dangerous to enter."

Meanwhile, Bello Matawalle is the Minister of State for Defence.

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

See this video of a flooded Lekki from just a few weeks ago.

We have a funny habit of forgetting problems once they stop inconveniencing us. The water goes down, we move on, and then next year, when everywhere floods again, we start complaining.

But between now and then, what can you do differently so we don’t experience the same thing again?

Video: @wale_visuals on Instagram.

[عائشة ✨ @aishah13_shittu]

Aanu werey wo lo rigba? Jibiti lo lu!

[Ibeh @masurge7]

One painful reality is that most people don't know the correlation between elections and their standards of living.

Even on Twitter many Nigerians still see it as football fanaticism of we versus them.

Bro, elections are a thing of life or death and you choose with your PVC

[Sir Chief Honorable Odionwere Lawrence @EkunweL]

If you are waiting for a population to magically begin to behave well, then you are simply wasting your time. It has never happened anywhere in the world.
Law, order, and policing exists for a reason. Without societal guardrails engineered by top leadership, nothing will change.

[Olu The Cipher🌚 @OluCipher]

We have a 95% daily prayer rate, making us the second most religious nation globally... We have the third highest number of churches and the five largest auditoriums on earth…

Despite all this spiritual noise, you can't leave goods unattended with a payment jar anywhere in Nigeria without it being stolen... The thieves will steal the money, go to their place of worship, and give testimony. .. It forces you to look at our massive religious institutions and ask a blunt question:

WHAT ON EARTH ARE THEY TEACHING YOU PEOPLE?

[Mareeya @Mareeyah_]

Nigerians will see someone with a track record of incompetence, vote that person to power and start praying for the opposite to happen.

[Tunde Leye @tundeleye]

In fact, there are more Nigerians in poverty today (152 million), than Nigeria's total population (123 million) at the advent of democracy in 1999. That is totally insane.

[Tunde Leye @tundeleye]

For context, Nigeria's population has doubled since return to democracy in 1999. In every one of the PDP's 16 years, Nigeria's poverty rate dropped. Since 2016, the APC's first full year in power, poverty rate has increase every year and is now higher than 1999's poverty rate

[Ọmọọba Adélẹyẹ ToluCHUKWU 🤴 👑 @BlazeRegent]

There is a sickness in the land that no hospital can cure.

A man stands in the open, sleeves rolled, voice unguarded, ready for the ordinary Nigerian to question him (Peter Obi) like a father answering his children at the evening fire. He offers the rarest currency in our politics: humility that does not demand applause. He makes himself small so the people may feel tall. And what do we do? We spit on the calabash of clean water and run after the one who kicks the bowl over, the one who walks with his chest swollen like a toad after rain, the one who believes the people are only useful when they are on their knees.

It is the same old madness. The same story our grandmothers told under the mango tree and we still refuse to hear.

A young woman is courted by two men. One speaks soft, works hard, shows respect, waits at the door like a man who knows a woman’s dignity is not for the taking. The other arrives with dust on his shoes and arrogance in his throat. He insults her in front of her friends, raises his hand when the mood turns, takes what he wants whether she says yes or no. And yet, night after night, she returns to the second man, lips swollen, eyes lowered, inventing excuses the way a thief invents alibis. “He is just stressed.” “He loves me in his own way.” “At least he is not boring.”

Tell me, is this love or is this the hunger of a soul that has grown addicted to the whip?

Our people have become that woman. We look at the humble man and call him weak. We look at the bully and call him strong. We cheer the one who tramples us because the sound of his boots feels like music we already know by heart. The proverb is old but it still cuts: *the dog that is used to being beaten will bark at the one who offers it meat.* We have barked so long at kindness that we no longer recognise the hand that does not strike.

Perhaps the average Nigerian is not merely a victim. Perhaps we are secret lovers of the chain. Perhaps oppression has become our preferred perfume and we spray it on ourselves every election season, smiling as the bottle runs dry. The hawk does not need to hunt when the chicks keep walking into its shadow and calling it shade.

So the question hangs in the air like smoke after a fire that refused to die: when a man finally opens the door and says, “Come, ask me anything,” why do we turn away and run toward the one who locks the door and laughs while we beg outside?

The answer, if we are honest, is uglier than any politician. It lives in us.

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

This tweet reminded me today of the late Prof Pius Adesanmi, of blessed memory, a mind Nigeria lost too early.

He often wrote about this in his Facebook posts & books.

He warned that Africa's obsession with "leapfrogging" from the pre-industrial to the Information Age is a delusion. You cannot skip the hard work of building basic infrastructure.

The Information Age is built on top of the Industrial Age. You are not just putting the cart before the horse; you are actively whipping the cart to move forward. 💀

He will say that a society cannot bypass the discipline, chemistry, & logistics needed to manufacture a simple pencil and expect to create iPads. Skipping industrialisation doesn't make us tech innovators—it just makes us tech consumers.

That "leapfrogging" was part of the general political scam in Africa. It allows leaders to skip the "boring," difficult parts of development (power grids, steel mills, railways) so they can chase the "cool" parts (apps, startups, smart cities) that look good on social media.

Trying to run a 4th Industrial Revolution on 17th-century infrastructure is a trap. Without a solid industrial foundation, the digital economy remains fragile, imported, & hollow. True progress requires patient capital and production.

[Taiwo_junzi @taiwo_junzi]

Yoruba people swear they have respect and are big on respect till it’s time to prostrate/kneel to greet a driver or other domestic staffs that are older than they are.

Respect hinged on achievements, money and influence is no respect.

Bunch of hypocritical bastards!!!

[Dr. Dream Girl🦋 @AimaMoh]

Children are the most unprotected class in Nigeria.

Only them will be malnourished, out of school, beaten, molested, trafficked, even murdered.

The last thing you should be worried about is how they greet you.

[Kachi Okeke. @carchy_iamazeme]

@ruffydfire In the end, at the core, we are simply not good people. We talk about it, we know how to go about it, but we are very religiously performative people with no respect for human dignity. I understand we might have been pushed to this, but this is us now. This is NIGERIA.

[Harry Da Diegot @trigottista]

FBI can arrest Maduro but releasing Tinubu’s files is where they draw the line on endangering lives?

This is how you know Tinubu is their asset.

[Humanity First @Atomsmade]

Religious psychosis is eating Africans alive and leaving nothing behind!

[Olu The Cipher🌚 @OluCipher]

There is a direct link between our stagnation and our obsession with performative respect culture and extreme religious fanaticism…