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BREAKING NEWS!!!! So, the next king of England was so happy to meet me 😌 Then, he presented me with the HIGHEST RECOGNITION for a young person in social impact, The Diana Legacy Award, which is in honour of his dear mother. Also, I met the fabulous @cuppymusic who is so kind

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Violent Brigerton wanted Lord Anderson to be her "Misteress" and we wondered where Benedict got his "Be my mistress" from. It runs in the family

@1644vms Absolute cinema

funniest fucking week on this app

@mao_0k I said the same thing! 😍

Iman and David Bowie

@haevong Finally! Some Iman and David representation. I've been asking for this

love story seasons i would like to see

Iman and Bowie

@racingwithro ciao Bella Are you alive?

SF-26 please, don't break my heart

@duchessmabboud "Google" ❤️💯

Reintroducing, ABBOUD, M.C. LL.B., Second Class Honors (Upper Division) First in my bloodline to get past high school! Dad and Mom, I know you’re proud.🥹🤍🖤🕊️

@BleedFromThorns I love that I use Twitter and I find incredibly smart movie nerds having good takes like this 💯

Whitney tells Henry in 4x02 “you want what you can’t have and I want what you already have.” Whitney seems to struggle with being attracted to Henry v wanting to be him. Max Minghella’s father is Anthony Minghella, director of The Talented Mr Ripley #IndustryHBO #IndustrySeason4

@imoteda @ChifeDr This is so beautiful

Yupp. We also provide free blankets and a rocking chair by the window so you can rock and sigh while staring at nothing. Seriously though, it’s actually a sign that you raised a well adjusted child who is able to sort himself and is busy learning and making friends. I asked for a check in system. We don’t have to gist every day but she texts me when she’s in class and when she’s home. She doesn’t remember every single day but as long as I get it at least 3 days a week, I don’t stress. The first month was so rough for my mental health then I realized she’s doing exactly what I want her to do; making friends and building a life.

Welcome to the club. We crash out about our kids slow responses on Tuesdays.

I've never been wrong a day in my life

@DrewBreez A CHARACTER!

I wrote about #IndustryHBO and Harper dragging this show to the prime time promised land by being the Black high achiever her bosses need but hate. There’s more fast and heavy TV reviews on my Substack, bigblackcommentary. open.substack.com/pub/bigblackco…

@elnathan_john Your mind>>>>>> It is always a delight to read things you write

Please allow me to provide a slight different perspective. I don’t think the problem is ignorance, or lack of exposure. Let me begin with the ones on top. Most of the people wrecking Nigeria, and many of the idiot aides defending them online, have travelled widely. Some shuttle in and out of London, Dubai, Paris, Berlin with enviable regularity. They know exactly what functional airports look like. They have used steady electricity. They have enjoyed public transport that works. They have tasted what it means to live in a place where the state does its basic job. And yet they return home perfectly comfortable reproducing dysfunction. Now this is the same with those at the bottom. Even for them the issue is not that they don’t know what a good country looks like. There is social media, or they have relatives who probably live abroad. They know it is possible. It is that many people, even poor people, but especially those close to power, are deeply uninterested in true equality, uninterested in reducing our violent hierarchies, uninterested in living in a society where there is no one beneath them. It sounds harsh but I really do think that even on a cultural level, Nigerians do not desire equality. They just don't want to be at the bottom of the ladder. But you see that ladder, too many people want, even need it. In Hausa we say, duniya kwandon dankali - Manya kan kanana -- the world, a basket of potatoes, the big ones piled on top of the small ones. (You know like how those people who sell tomatoes or potatoes on highways hide the small of bad tomatoes or tomatoes at the bottom of the basket🤣). We love that basket arrangement. We just don't want to be the rotten tomato or small potato at the bottom. The middle class madam does not want to sit in the same train as her housemaid, even if she is happy to sit next to people she is richer than in public transport abroad. The junior political aide, who has narrowly escaped extreme poverty and begun to put on flesh since leaving his village to work for a politician, does not want shared amenities either. He wants to go back to the village and be bowed to. Be called oga. Have people kneel. How many Nigerians genuinely want their children in the same schools as their drivers’ children? How many want to use the same hospitals as their gatekeepers as the women braiding their hair in the market? How many want public goods so good that private alternatives become unnecessary? So airlifting everyone abroad, like the Devil took Jesus to a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, will not magically produce consensus for reform. Exposure alone does not create virtue. What many people actually want is the ability to escape, not the obligation to fix. They want to travel abroad occasionally, take photos in Cape Town or Joburg or Seychelles, and return home to lord those images over people who cannot leave. Mobility becomes a status weapon. Dysfunction becomes useful. I remember a moment in Kaduna that clarified this for me. NEPA took light. It was getting dark. A young girl shouted to their gateman: Maigadi, bambamta mu da saura!—“Gateman, distinguish us from the others.” She wanted the generator turned on. She was delighted at the idea of being the only house glowing on a pitch-dark street. That sentence contains a political philosophy. This is why Nigerian elites are comfortable building vulgar mansions surrounded by potholes, shanties, hunger, and decay. Wealth means nothing without visible poverty to frame it. Power requires contrast. Hierarchy needs spectators. If everyone had access to dignity—reliable electricity, clean water, functional transport—how would big men be worshipped? How would pastors promise what governments should provide? How would politicians and traditional leaders maintain relevance? How would people (even average Nigerians) find poor people's children to turn into slaves, aka housemaids? How else would someone have the temerity to beat his chest and ask: do you know who I am? So the problem is not that Nigerians don’t know better. Many know. They just don’t want a society where dignity is common. They want one where it is scarce—and personally controlled. That is a harder problem than ignorance. And it cannot be solved by excursions.

@TheGermanGift You wey be baller

Why are you all blowing up a tweet about me being broke? Damn I hate these bloggin’ ass nigguhs man.

@senpaiadaa We've recorded a 100% repayment which is due to how well we designed the program, by engaging with members of the community as our liaison, and they in return track the payment on our behalf.

@TeweDami Have there been instances when they’ve not been able to repay back? What happens then?

I have raised over 20k USD and provided microfinance to women farmers and business owners in IDP camps across Abuja, Nasarawa and Borno State through my work with @Rebirth4Change

@beethelighted A star

I left my offline job in Nigeria to pursue studies abroad with just $750 against $10,000 in tuition and living costs. I took the leap into the unknown - today I earn over 30x my old salary and I’m graduating with flying colors.

@timiibigi_too It was by the overwhelming mercies of God babes 🙈❤️

@TeweDami You ehnnnnnn 😂you did Law School on your own terms. It ended in Congratulations at the end 👏👏

I travelled to London, in the week of my bar finals to attend a Postgraduate scholarship interview with @SchwarzmanOrg. I landed in Nigeria a few hours to my first paper. I passed the bar and got the scholarship.

@yettydlaw_ @SchwarzmanOrg We gotta do what we gotta do

@TeweDami @SchwarzmanOrg Hearty congratulations 🍾🎊 Now, this is AUDACITY ❤️

@grown_lawyer Cheering you on

Haaa! Wow! I need to do something