@ezembadike@kthesorcerer Nigeria has a massive population and still cannot compete globally due to government incompetence. Import everything, export nothing. Where is Nigeria competing globally aside from violence and dilapidated infrastucture.
@karo_osogba@cchukudebelu White people figured this out in the 40s. Simple electricity that even your peers in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa can distribute more effectively than you.
In the past 2 decades, the rest of Africa quietly left Nigeria behind.
Infrastructure wise, our best city Lagos, is not in the top 15 in Africa. Even if you leave out South Africa & Morocco.
The only thing that barely gives us relevance is the population itself that's unfortunately led by the dregs.
A journey started when we accepted (with a shrug), that Government couldn't provide 24 hours electricity - and did nothing about it.
Fela sang about this as far back as the 1970s.
Where are we at today? We are on the cusp of normalising kidnapping, every day.
N.B: The Tinubu Regime is not responding to pressure from Nigerians, it is responding to external pressue.
Is Nigeria cursed, or are we the curse?
The past 10 days in Nigeria have witnessed unprecedented negative news, a level of chaos, insecurity, and institutional decay that should trouble the conscience of all the leaders.
Our country is now going through troubling times, not by fate, but by our collective leadership failures that allow insecurity, lawlessness, and institutional decay to thrive. Each day confronts us with a new tragedy and a new reminder that our beloved country is drifting amid a clear absence of competent, compassionate, responsive and responsible leadership.
We have all watched a nation blessed with people of strength and resilience drift into avoidable disorder. We should be asking ourselves: Are we cursed, or are we the curse?
The past 10 Days in Nigeria
1.11/11/25 – 6 senior directors from the Ministry of Defence were kidnapped along the Kogi axis, reminding us that even those tasked with securing our nation are no longer safe.
2.15/11/25 – A senior military officer, a Brigadier General, was brutally executed, a grave signal of the danger engulfing both civilians and security personnel.
3.16/11/25 – 64 civilians, including women and children, were abducted in Zamfara, with innocent lives also lost in the attack.
4. 17/11/25 – 25 schoolgirls, young children with dreams and innocence, were abducted in Kebbi and their Vice Principal was killed, adding to the heartbreaking list of attacks on our nation’s future.
5. 18/11/25 – Worshippers praying peacefully in a church in Kwara State were violently disrupted, with some killed and about 38 abducted. A place of worship, meant to be a sanctuary, became a scene of fear.
6. 18/11/25 – A disturbing crisis unfolded at the PDP Wadata Plaza headquarters. Instead of de-escalation, elements within the security agencies worsened the situation and further instigated it. Rather than focusing on protecting citizens, the government watched with amusement, encouraging the destruction of political parties and the weakening of our democracy.
7. 18/11/25 – During the All Nigeria Judges’ Conference, judges who should embody neutrality and integrity were seen standing as the APC partisan song “On Your Mandate We Shall Stand” played ahead of the President’s address. This troubling moment further eroded public trust in institutions expected to protect the rule of law.
8. 19/11/25 – Soldiers heading to rescue the Kebbi State abducted schoolgirls were ambushed, showing once again how undersupported our security forces have become.
9. 21/11/25 – Nigerians awoke to the devastating news that over 300 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted from a Catholic school in Niger State.
10.22/11/25 – Bandits opened fire on farmers in Kaduna killing one of them.
23/11/25- Terrorists Ambush, Gun Down 5 Police Officers, Injure 2 in Sabon Sara, Darazo LGA, Bauchi State
November 23, 2025
And just as I was speaking about this, I received yet another devastating report about the abduction of 13 female farmers in Askira-Uba LGA of Borno State today by suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP Terrorists.
No serious nation survives on excuses, indifference, or absentee leadership. What we are witnessing is not inevitable, it is the direct consequence of we the leaders not valuing human life. Nigeria is bleeding because those elected to protect the nation have chosen comfort over courage, politics over people, and power over purpose.
We the leaders must remember that governance is not a title, it is a duty to protect every child, every community, and every citizen. We need competence, compassion, and a government that shows up when it matters the most.
To every Nigerian shaken in these past 10 days, my heart is with you.
You deserve safety, you deserve peace.
We deserve a government that values our lives above politics.
Nigeria must rise again.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
The minute you understand the history of British colonisation and the wider logic of imperialism is the minute you free yourself from the mental tyranny of artificial constructs like "tribe."
Once you learn that the modern day "Yoruba," "Igbo" and "Hausa" identities are products of colonisation, and that there was in fact no such thing as a "Yoruba" or an "Igbo" people before the British created Nigeria (even the word "Yoruba" is an exonym that has no meaning in the language it describes), you finally understand the true extent and ugliness of what colonialism really was.
It was an audacious social and economic engineering project on the kind of scale that only a paranoid delusional who thinks he is a god should even be able to conceive of. The idea was to convert these diverse groups of millions of free African peoples (who constantly opposed and fought against the British empire) into self-replicating imperial drones who would eternally fight each other for the temporary privilege of being the most favoured servants of the empire, without it occurring to them that they could band together and break free from the empire instead.
Nothing was a coincidence. From their deliberate unbalancing of the tripartite ethnic power-sharing arrangement through the fraudulent census that counted more people in the Sahel than by the coast (the basis of Nigeria's everlasting population myth), to their use of the BBC World Service to brand the January 1966 putsch as an "Igbo coup," to their subtle and repeated use of Goodluck Jonathan's middle name (Azikiwe) on BBC Hausa and RFI Hausa during the 2011-2015 regime change operation...all of it was planned and deliberate.
And once you understand that the biggest threat Nigeria actually faces comes from DC, Paris, London, and Brussels - not from any group of Nigerian idiots doing whatever idiocy they are doing - you gain a proper sense of perspective, and you grasp where you stand in the wider world. At that point, "tribalism" starts to resemble dog faeces to you, because you understand where it came from, what role it serves, and who actively maintains it - including the American bot farms that have created "Nigerian" accounts with matric number handles to fan the flames of ethnic conflict all over Nigerian social media since 2022.
But I know that maybe like 50 people will even read this tweet this far because even though a Nigerian man will risk his life to scoop 50 litres of ka-boom-boom from a fallen petrol tanker, the sight of paragraphs is where he loses all motivation in life.
At best the sorry blockhead will comment "Grok summarise this" in the comment section.
Khaliah has faced a terrible injustice that has impacted her life in unimaginable ways. She needs our help to reclaim what was wrongfully taken from her.
Please consider donating or sharing her story. Every bit counts. https://t.co/UcrmsxiYz6
@iAmNnamdiKanu20 @nwa_nne@SaharaReporters If you think that forcing your own people to sit at home and not work is an accomplishment, you're a daft animal.
L'Accapareur - A Hoarder's Tale
This is my first ever original comic book story. If you are curious or just want to support this anthology with such an incredible lineup of artists:
https://t.co/o9D0sUMsQm