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@the_beardedsina Three words: Education. Education. Education.

I was at a Pharmacy this weekend, it was a Top Pharmacy on the Island in Lagos. I wanted to get some meds, I looked into shelf and saw this thing called JINJA Herbal Extract It is sold to people that it can cure stroke, hypertension, diabetes, kidney diseases, osteoarthritis, fibroids, Hepatitis. I had seen it with a lot of my patients and always counsel them about it. I asked the Pharmacist why was a top pharmacy stocking something that doesn't work, in his words the demand is there and people are always buying it for medical conditions I asked the price, He said it was 25k. Imagine how many people would have suffered complications because they stopped their drugs and started taking Jinja Herbal Extract. I then argued and said I am sure it doesn't even have NAFDAC number, He said Yes. It does He picked up a bottle and showed me that The Herbal extract was registered. My mouth opened wide with almost drooling like a Bull Dog. This is the Bottle of JINJA

@Amy_Siskind @RonanFarrow @NewYorker @andrewmarantz Here. archive.is/hOYMn

@kdonmike @SqSehrish Wrong. Try 20 instead.

@SqSehrish 12. If 2 ear phones are 10, then 1 must be 5. 2 men must be 5 for the second clue. 3 shows 5 so the clocks could b4. 5 5 and 2 should be 12.

Only 1 out of 100 can solve this in 10 seconds What's your answer..? 👀

@GuyMr10 Read the 11th commandment aloud.

Billionaire Okoya’s daughter set to marry and I decided to search for the husband’s name on Google and it was unsurprising, except from Nollywood movies, the poor stands no chance in a rich man’s family, they marry themselves to keep the wealth afloat

@AAdeleke_01 @BOBBYFERAN Wow, Governor of Ede, you've really tried.

Dear @BOBBYFERAN, Paying your Dad’s gratuities, your Mum’s salary arrears, and settling obligations of every civil servant at the state and local government level in Osun is not a favour, it is a duty we will uphold regardless of the continuous hijacking of Osun Local Government funds. Osun must never return to the dark days of unpaid salaries under APC. That you are travelling home to Iwo just to vote speaks volumes. It matters greatly. Spread the word. The continuity message of IMOLE, under ACCORD must reach every corner of Osun State. #Imole2.0 #ForAGreaterOsun

@nxt888 Abundant mineral deposit in Africa is a curse than blessing. A good tree doesn't last in a forest. Same as sweet & bountiful fruits are a curse to the tree.

Kwame Nkrumah wrote a book called Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism in 1965. In it he argued that formal independence without economic independence was not real independence. That the control of a country's resources by foreign capital, even without colonial administration, was a form of continued domination. The United States State Department sent a formal protest to the Ghanaian government about the book. A formal diplomatic protest. About a book. The following year, while Nkrumah was on an airplane to Hanoi, the Ghanaian military staged a coup. The CIA's involvement is documented. The book was published in 1965. The coup was in 1966. The Americans protested the book in 1965. He was overthrown in 1966. The sequence is not subtle. The idea that neo-colonialism existed was itself enough to trigger the mechanism. You did not have to be armed. You did not have to be Soviet-aligned. You did not have to be violent. You had to be right. Being right about how power worked was sufficient to activate the termination signal. The label would follow. The operation would follow the label. This is the system that the word "communist" built and maintained. It is still operational. The word changes. The sequence is the same.

@alexanderlinda_ Pleb's way of trying not to be.

Four words I find most annoying in Nigerian English: 1. Menses: OMG this word annoys me soooo much. My mom used to say it a whole lot and oh it icked me sooooo bad😭😭 2. Protein: Mind you, what’s being referred to is the likes of meat, chicken, egg etc. Why do we have to call it “protein”? 3. Toor: I hate this word so much. It’s so irritating mehn. Like why is your response “toor”? Can’t you think of something more witty? 4. Toilet being used as a verb: As in, “do you want to toilet?”, “go and toilet na” 😭😭😭😭😭😭 5. Hubby/Hubstar: “Why? What? Wetin happen?” 6. Undies: What is that? Why are you shy you say “underwear”? Very common amongst nigerian moms. I dislike it. 7. Smiles: Why would you say that? What do you mean by smiles? Doesn’t that sound weird to you?

@aaryntwt @PopBase Kinda easy, when tired of her smelling shi*.

@PopBase how you cheat on megan thee stallion

Megan Thee Stallion seemingly accuses Klay Thompson of cheating in new Instagram story: “Cheating, had me around your whole family playing house... got “cold feet” Holding you down through all your HORRIBLE mood swings and treatment towards me during your basketball season now you don't know if you can be “monogamous”???? bitch I need a REAL break after this one .. bye yall”

@akintollgate @Borngreata22 @YettyO_JP @NELFUND "Dem regular trademark." Fela Kuti.

@Borngreata22 @YettyO_JP @NELFUND Opening a rebuttal with insults only reflects a low IQ. I open up my CS to debates where everyone can counter or offer their opinions. Rather you chose insults!

You celebrate buying a House & Car with a loan, but you are criticizing a first class Engineering Graduate for acknowledging his own academic success ? If some of you are honest, you will be asking @NELFUND to change policies, so First Class Graduates shouldn’t have to repay loans. Even better is not using loans to fund living expenses during months of ASUU strike. Chairman of NELFUND is Zenith Bank Founder - Jim Ovia and it’s MD is Akintunde Sawyerr, a former DHL & Medtronic Executive. I saw this combo and realized only good outcomes will emerge from this!

@officialTiman @omoiyaakeem With due diligence; landed property always appreciating & gives better equity. Hindsight is sure painful, but could've been prevented with "chickening money". I feel you, really do. Accept my sympathy.

@omoiyaakeem Investing in land, my building just got demolished today.

drop a mistake you’re not proud of but learned from.

@T_PACT @_empighalo @savndaniel "I borrow money to deposit for mortgage" It's possible, but highly unlikely it'd be approved in the UK.

@_empighalo @savndaniel I borrow money to deposit for mortgage, you wan come collect 10% of money wey I borrow take do notary. Kuku carry AK47 nah...

How much did 10% of the value of the UK property amount in naira as professional fees? If we have the facts, we will be able to assess if the SAN's fees were excessive. But there was no way that SAN would have collected 5,000 naira from you. It would have been best if he did it, pro bono.

@instablog9ja My pet hate.

Do you agree with his take? 🎤

Introducing The 1966 Archive: I've spent a lot of the last couple of months thinking about the year 1966, and what it means for #Nigeria. A symbolic year in a number of ways: 1. The year our first democratic experiment as a nation ended (the First Republic), succeeded immediately by the first of several military regimes. 2. The Nigerian civil war didn't officially start until 1967, but looking back, 1966 was arguably when the descent began. Had 1966 turned out differently, a Nigeria may have emerged that never saw a civil war. 3. A youth angle: The year that gave us the youngest leaders ever to lead Nigeria. Probably the year in which Nigeria's modern history was most influenced by young people. We even got a Head of State so young he was unmarried and child-free. 4. The year Dodan Barracks became Nigeria's seat of power. It would remain so for the next quarter of a century, making it Nigeria's second-longest-serving presidential residence, after Aso Rock. I have a personal fascination with Dodan Barracks, which has intensified since I saw it up close in January 2023: x.com/toluogunlesi/s… 6. A year of military decrees, and extensive bans (on political, tribal and cultural organisations), and intense debate about what kind of governance structure the country should adopt—the year of the first Constitutional Conference since Independence. A year of massive changes of political and governmental titles and nomenclature. 7. It was also a year of much high-level bloodshed -- two Heads of State assassinated in the same year, alongside several politicians and military officers. Not like Nigeria had not seen political violence and turmoil—1964 was a pretty turbulent year, marked by electoral violence—but the violence of 1966 was unprecedented. Of course it would then go on to be ecplised by the violence of the following three years. But no one knew this in 1966. 8. Interestingly, on the economic front, as democracy was vanishing, the macro-economy seemed to be picking up. Q1 1966 was an outlier Q1 for external trade since Independence in 1960, delivering a record trade surplus. In fact, the preceding two Q1s, 1965 and 1964, delivered trade deficits. 9. One of the major reasons for this surplus was that Nigeria's first oil refinery, in Port Harcourt (wholly private at the time, owned and run by a Shell-BP consortium), had opened at the end of 1965, and so Q1 1966 saw a 75% decline in the import of petroleum products. 10. It was also a peak year for Nigerian oil production (soared above 500,000 barrels per day), before the war sent output tumbling. In 1966, the number of companies that had made commercial discoveries of oil in Nigeria jumped from 2 to 7. That's how big a deal the year was, for oil. You can indeed say 1966 was the year Nigeria's 'oil-rich' status truly began. Why all the story? I find 1966 fascinating enough to focus on as a history project, as we mark its 60th anniversary this year, 2026. So many threads, so many questions, so many lessons. What should you expect? Stories, dates, interviews, a podcast, videos, essays, in-person events, maybe even a pop-up museum, and a commemorative book. Plenty ideas (because ideas are cheap), let's see which ones come to fruition. It will go live at: the1966archive.ng (link not active yet, but watch this space). Logo below done with the help of Gemini. What does it symbolise for you?

@egi_nupe Clearly an indictment on her 'current' employer, if she keeps her current job.

A police woman just lost an opportunity to become a judge because she once collected a bribe of 1m from someone before releasing him on bail. This is a lesson for all those involved in one corrupt practice or the other. The day you will aim to get to the top of your career, one of your evil deeds will hunt you, if you don’t repent.

@theewatomi Poverty, indeed, is relative. Many think they're poor, but they aren't really. Vanity, societal expectations & 'keeping-up-with-Jonesis make people think that way.

i hate poverty so much.

@shewasautumn1 @theewatomi No one is happy & comfortable having nothing.

@theewatomi I HATE IT!!!!!!!!!! I hate it so much! I don’t know how people are so comfortable and happy poor

@boyalonemedia @theewatomi Not yours truly. That's when I unsheathe my dagger because I won't like 'em to help. I suffer in silence & I'm dying.

@theewatomi It turns you into a people pleaser. You avoid conflict because you can’t afford to lose access, help, or opportunities. It makes you overexplain. You feel the need to justify your existence, choices, or mistakes.

@cchukudebelu Globally, no one is truly altruistic under the surface. This phenomenon was demonstrated by Peter Singer in a paper titled "Famine, Affluence & Morality" in his 1972 paper. The difference is, everyone lies about it, but Nigerians don't. Moral preaching aside, talk politics jor.

The qualities Nigerians are supposedly known for like "resilience" and "intelligence", will not help us fight the challenges of this century. "Resilience" doesn't help, when what it means in practice, is infinite tolerance of bad governance. Our so-called "intelligence" is at best, being clever by half. What is needed is selflessness, and a collective tenacity to rid ourselves of bad governance. These attributes are currently not part of the Nigerian psyche. There's also a misplaced pride, which prevents us from learning from others.

@P3ltif3 @osazenoo Be careful what you wish for! It may, by chance, come true. Now that's settled, how old are you? No malice intended, just curious for further engagement.

@osazenoo If the coup would publicise our finance &banking sys, then nationalise our heavy industries to serve the people instead of a few subgroups, then we can have it. And it's unfortunate dat tru the same electoral system we have been electing the rich or demiurge low IQ ecopol class

You are against election rigging but in support of coup. Your IQ is less than that of a chicken.

The most obvious mutual mistake is denialism about inflation. And on his signature issue, immigration, Donald Trump is committing his own version of Joe Biden’s mistake: extremism economist.com/united-states/…