Davina

Here is what debt does that guns cannot. Guns create martyrs. Debt creates administrators. A country occupied by foreign troops has a clear enemy, a clear grievance, a clear politics of resistance. A country administered through debt service obligations has a finance minister who explains, with genuine regret, why this year's budget cannot include what last year's promises said it would. The resistance has no target. The enemy is the interest rate. The interest rate has no face. It has a formula. And the formula was agreed to, signed, ratified, by your own government, which was elected, which "represents" you, which is therefore evidence that this arrangement is the outcome of your "democracy" and not of external imposition. The elegance of it should be studied. Not admired. Studied. So that it can be dismantled.

Let me tell you what Lee Kuan Yew actually believed. He believed in an authoritarian developmental state He believed in long-term industrial planning. He believed in controlled media. He believed in strict limits on political opposition. He believed the Western liberal democratic model was not appropriate for Asian societies. He explicitly and repeatedly said these things. He also believed in meritocracy, in building institutions of genuine quality, in zero tolerance for the kind of corruption that allows elites to loot rather than invest. Not one of these beliefs is what the IMF prescribes. So when you ask "how come it worked in Singapore," the honest answer is simple: Because Singapore did not do what the IMF tells African and Latin American countries to do. If your argument is "poor countries should copy Singapore," then your argument is: strong state, industrial policy, sovereign wealth fund, long-term planning, rejection of Western liberal democratization pressures, state ownership of strategic assets. Say that argument out loud. See if it sounds like what you were trying to defend.

Trevo is now 150k!!! A friend had very large fibroids and avoided surgery because she was told she would die if she tried it. Then she met someone who sold her trevo to shrink it. She took at least a bottle weekly. After a year, the fibroid didn’t shrink; it grew bigger. She was told to keep going.... This is how fear + false promises keep people stuck. Fibroids don’t magically shrink with supplements. It only delays proper care, making things worse.

Adeleke paid my dad's gratuities and salary arrears, he also paid my mum's salary arrears both owed by APC. I will travel home to Iwo just to cast that my one vote for him. I will go home and vote for him.

Maybe I should even apply to be a Notary Public. One Lagos SAN’s Abuja office once wanted to charge 10% of the value of my UK property to witness my signature on a mortgage application form. I offered them N5k, but they said they don’t take that kind of money. I left and went to another firm in Wuse 2. Once I said I was a lawyer, they happily did it for me for free. I later went back and gave them a bottle of Hennessy VSOP.