Maple Tammy Dappa

@asemota @Ogbeni_Manuel Exactly. And the light only turned green after the crash. Why such speed with red lights on? Madness.

@Ogbeni_Manuel He was turning left. The biker should not have been on that lane and was moving too fast.

WTF????

@AsakyGRN Just make money, you will enjoy Nigeria. Jumpology!

Moment a man got stuck on a Ferris wheel at Maurix Amusement Park, Akure, Ondo State, after the park ran out of diesel… he eventually had to jump down 😭

@instablog9ja Why is this so hilarious? 🤣🤣🤣

Power cut sends Nigerian hostel residents into panic while trying to k+ll a snake 😭

@Raindropsmedia1 No matter how tired a man is, he can't wait to jump into a home that brings him happiness. Why would she want to sit next to him? Why is she even recording?

Wife is upset and says her husband now sits inside his car outside their home after work instead of coming inside to her. 👀🤔💔

This is why my team and I have decided to build @VerseTap. If the pastor/preacher/teacher can be in control of their timing and pace by having all their passages automatically accessible to them, the 5-10secs it takes media to catch up can be managed. It's live and free to use.

@TENIBEGILOJU202 This should be on YouTube Music.

BREAKING!!! NIGERIANS HAVE COMPOSED A SONG FOR WIKE!!! Kindly retweet massively till it gets to Wike and his political halleluyah boys.

@ritzyken @NigeriaStories Logic has suffered in the hands of these people.

@NigeriaStories "A president cannot be in office while his election, eligibility and electoral victory is being contested in court(s)" So if the sitting president wins in November 2026, will he step down to face his tribunal/petitions before swearing-in in May 2027?

BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria’s 🇳🇬 next presidential and governorship elections may hold in November 2026, following a proposal by the National Assembly to move the polls six months earlier than usual.

@fattylincorn_01 @grok Please summarise what this video is about.

Tax Reform is one of The best decision this Administration has taken!

@ifesalakooffice The conundrum of a country. youtube.com/shorts/DFcNOxW…

Nigerians don’t deserve this in this age and time. Ire o✌🏽

My mother died in an unexpected accident at her home on Friday night in Baltimore. I want to take a brief moment to honor her life. She was admitted into the first ever female class at John’s Hopkins (a huge accomplishment, because before that, it was men only). She ran a private eye surgery practice for years. She went to Africa multiple times to operate on entire villages to literally heal the blind. She helped anyone who didn’t have money - despite never having much of her own. She gave her life to Christ when she was 42, and never looked back. She lived in God’s grace. For the few who knew her, you know she was incredibly intelligent, kind, and unyielding in her faith and values. She also loved me fiercely despite her difficulty showing it. But she was always proud. Always available. Always genuine. And truly did not care what anyone thought besides Jesus. Also… She was a great stay at home movie date. We’d get double features on the weekends. And I’d get to pick one candy. She was a great cook and liberal with her use of butter. I only found out as an adult that the proper way to make Mac n cheese was not simply “melt a stick of butter then add noodles & powder.” This method also applied to eggs, steak, most other things worth eating. She could hold her liquor like a champ and was always down for a good time. On her good days - she was honestly wonderful to be around. That being said, she was also a terrible driver. She was disorganized, clumsy, could not remember where she put her keys, wallet, phone, shoes or whatever she was looking for - ever. And she’d argue about anything. And that was Florence. No matter what you thought of her, she was consistent. And she bent for no one. Florence was a ball of goodness that struggled to deal with the world around her. She suffered her own demons. And near the end was in great mental and physical pain. Now that she has passed, her pain has ended. And she can finally reunite with her Creator. I hope her worldview is right and she is welcomed home in His arms with a message we’d all want: “well done my good and faithful servant.” Maman, I will miss you.

@officialABAT Yet, it is Rivers State that is under state of emergency. Let's keep deceiving ourselves.

I am deeply saddened and outraged by the series of tragic events that have shaken our nation in recent days. From the cowardly suicide bombing in Konduga, Borno State, to the horrifying lynching of innocent travellers in Plateau State, and the deadly explosion in Kano, these attacks on innocent lives are unconscionable and must not stand. The bombing in Borno claimed the lives of innocent Nigerians and was a cruel attempt to spread fear. I have directed the National Emergency Management Agency to provide urgent support to survivors, and I extend my deepest condolences to the Government and people of Borno State. I also urge our security forces to intensify efforts to hunt down and rout the remnants of Boko Haram and crush their ability to inflict harm on soft targets as a diversionary tactic. In Plateau State, I strongly condemn the barbaric murder of 12 wedding guests - peaceful citizens who were simply returning from a joyous occasion. I have ordered the Nigerian Police Force to work with all relevant security and intelligence agencies to ensure that those responsible are swiftly apprehended and prosecuted. These killings must not go unanswered. I also call on the Government of Plateau State to act decisively to end this vicious cycle of violence and work with security agencies to get to the root of this recent incident and use it as a deterrent against future occurrences. Freedom of movement is a non-negotiable right of every Nigerian, and we will not tolerate any attempt by anyone or group of people to curtail that fundamental freedom through acts of extreme violence and fear. Furthermore, I sympathise with the families affected by the explosion at a scrap metal facility in Kano, where five lives were lost. This tragic incident highlights the urgent need for stricter adherence to workplace safety protocols. I have directed the relevant agencies to investigate the cause and take appropriate actions to prevent a recurrence. I offer my heartfelt prayers to the families of all those we have lost and to the injured. To the people of Borno, Plateau, Kano, and Kaduna States, I stand with you in grief and resolve. We will not rest until justice is done and peace and safety are fully restored across our land. May the souls of the departed rest in peace, and may God continue to protect the Federal Republic of Nigeria. ~ Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR President & Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

@mrmacaroni So sad and disheartening. Yet, it's Rivers State that has state of emergency for months now. Human lives means nothing to the Nigerian state.

Over 200 Nigerians killed in Benue!!! 200 PEOPLE!!!!! 200!!!!!! I don’t think we understand the gravity of this Barbarism!!! What exactly is the Government doing??? 200 PEOPLE??? Just like that!!!!

@folastag @Odoemmanuel_ Na dis type wey beef dey comot person teeth

If there was no video, you’d think i was lying 🤣🤣🤣 @Odoemmanuel_ Cow Boy o

@tosinolaseinde Could you please not give oxygen to their small mindedness? I saw one of the comments and ignored it with the 4 likes it had at the time.

@MabreyTed @grok please summarise the debate here for me. Thanks

I am looking forward to the next set of hires that decided to apply to Palantir after reading your post. Please don’t delete it Paul. We work here in direct response to this world view and do not seek its blessing. Our work with DHS, which has spanned the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, began in the immediate response to the murder of Agent Jaime Zapata by the Zetas in an effort dubbed Operation Fallen Hero. I believe Agent Zapata and those who have taken the thankless jobs of protecting our way of life by risking their own deserve the very best tools we can possibly give them. When people are alive because of what you built, and others are dead because what you built was not yet good enough, you develop a very different perspective on the meaning of your work. Paul’s perspective is very similar to that of Google in 2018 when it walked away from Project Maven; the DoD’s flagship program to bring AI to warfighting. Google embraced the luxury belief that our way of life is given and that, as the best and brightest of us, they were above wrestling with the hard questions in the muck and mire of how to continue to ensure their privilege. It was much easier to sell ads. Like our DHS agents, I also believe our soldiers deserve the very best tools as they risk their lives to protect mine. The sentiment expressed below, that engineers have the luxury of working on other cool stuff so should not sully themselves with the functions that provide the bedrock of society, is something I thought we had largely left behind. Now I have a greater understanding of one of its root causes. For those of you who are interested in joining, we are not looking for partisans at Palantir. Our mission spans administrations and political climates and our culture is one of constant disagreement. We do collectively believe that competence in our government is a prerequisite for our way of life and assume the burden of falling forward on the goal to provide it every single day. We are in a situation today where no matter the immigration policy the citizenry votes for, it cannot be executed; reality has largely been divorced from the statutes for decades now. This is first a question of competence, not politics. If the electorate cannot steer the execution of our government because the government cannot execute, our institutions lose all credibility, and the risk moves from an X debate to a much more fundamental one. We work to attach the steering wheel to the car and revitalize the institutions our societal fabric depends upon. We are looking for people who read something like this post and think it is crazy to demonize working towards a more effective government. In order to understand if Palantir is for you, I encourage you to do your research. Read Karp’s book “The Technological Republic.” The book eviscerates the vapidity of silicon valley expressed here but also explores the positive thesis of what are the principles that actually matter when wrestling with the questions of how to empower the functioning of the state. It is perhaps the most important debate we should be having and Karp has been the leader of that conversation, so out in the open about it the book is an NYT Bestseller. I’d also encourage you to read The First Breakfast blog series that Shyam has championed; I think it is one of the foremost examples of impactful, non-partisan, civic engagement that exists in our country right now. We are very open about our views and how deeply they are reasoned if you care to read them. We hire believers. Not in the sense of homogeneity of belief but in the intrinsic capacity to believe in something bigger than yourself. Belief is required because 1) our work is very, very hard and 2) you should expect to weather attacks like this all the time; from all sides of the political aisle. In order to stand out, build something with our software that you believein and bring it to your interview. The only way to counter these bullies is not to argue but to build. Our work is authentically complicated. We protected the lives of special operators during failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we were the backbone of Operation Warpspeed to accelerate vaccines during Covid, we were the coordinating backbone of the Afghan withdrawal, we have enabled David to resist Goliath in Ukraine. These, and many, many other efforts too numerous to list here have been necessarily intertwined with heated political debates about the worthiness of engaging in these effort at all. My politics have not agreed with many of the policies our software has enabled. But through all of them I have held the steadfast belief that if our government institutions are not competent, politics does not matter. That is something I believe. So if you believe that engaging with the problem of 100,000 fentanyl deaths a year, stopping human trafficking, or merely in reconnecting the laws our elected representatives create with the reality of what is implemented we believe you aren’t a bad person. If you think that “building things people want” is all there is to life I wish you all the best. There is a place for you in the society we will protect on your behalf. If you are willing to engage with the messy, messy process of “building things the people need” then you may have a home at Palantir.

@asemota And this is the core reason those who relocate abandon the supposed entrepreneurship.

Subsistence hustling disguised as entrepreneurship

@tosinolaseinde 5. Your ability to pull back from the mental vacation (from the stress of Nigeria). 6. The relevance of your ideas to the new environment. 7. Your ability to find new ideas and start from scratch. 8. Your bills

@tosinolaseinde It depends on a combination of factors. 1. Your mode of entry and the level of flexibility to figure out things. 2. Your capital base or continuous inflow from Nigeria. 3. Your mindset towards business. 4. Your underlying reasons for relocating.

I’m hearing from the Nigerians that relocated to the UK say that their entrepreneurial spirit reduced when they got to the UK. What do you think is the reason? 1.) The external environment. Is the UK environment not an entrepreneurial one. 2.) They were doing business to survive so now that they have a decent job they do not have a need for it. 3.) The system has structure that doesn’t require entrepreneurship. I’d like to hear from you

@PolitlcsUK @JAHeale I need a notepad in my life right now.

🚨 NEW: Reform UK has been handing out books titled "Highlights from My First 100 Days by Kemi Badenoch" - with every page left blank [@JAHeale]

Once you identify areas you need to work on in your life, get on it and refuse to be indulged by friends and family in the name of tolerance. Your Co-traveler, Mister Maple

This is why I constantly call Hubert to flush the toilet when he forgets to do so instead of doing it for him, so he doesn't grow with the bad habit and take it with him to boarding house, university hostel, workplace, etc. You get the point?

If we genuinely desire to develop ourselves, improve, and become better versions of ourselves, we must resist the urge of indulgence. Often times, those close to us, out of love and concern, refrain from pointing out certain flaws and shortcomings to avoid offending us.