Oko Ilu

Do you know the interesting thing about this? Before 2034, they are going to build 11 new stadiums and refurbish 4 existing ones. They’ll complete the construction of 11 new stadiums from the scratch and Nigeria still won’t have steady supply of Electricity.

These new ambassador-designates have not officially taken up their foreign posts. They just finished induction training yesterday. 31 of them haven’t even secured necessary host-country approval till today. This country is not designed to make it. This is MADNESS!!

Rufai Oseni to Gen. Usman: Sir, is the feeding allowance for our soldiers only ₦3,000 per day? And is it true that soldiers are forced to buy their own service goggles, night vision devices, boots, and other essential kits? Gen Usman:

Bruhh!! This was Sani Abacha stadium, Kano state, NIGERIA in 2009. How can a country be this regressive???😩

Imagine surviving a terror attack, setting up a watch to protect your people, only for the Nigerian Army to show up not for the terrorists, but to arrest YOU. Are we really fighting terrorism in Nigeria?

Please note, this is not happening in UNILAG alone. Here in the University of Ibadan, there’s a CBN hostel. The hostel fee was 80k and 160k, it increased to 1 MILLION+ after Tinubu’s “reforms”.

This is exactly the same thing I’ve been thinking about for a while. It appears like we’ve confused good policy design with good policy outcomes. Subsidy removal, FX liberalisation, tax reforms and those “hard economic policies” sound good and they appear correct on paper. But these policies assume a functioning safety net, productive capacity that can absorb the shock, and a state that reinvests the savings into the people. Strip those away and you’re not implementing any reform, you’re just transferring pain downward which is what this administration has been doing. Three years in and the people have not benefited from these policies. Commodity prices up 3–4x, school fees unaffordable but ofc, there is NELFUND lol, real wages destroyed. The “savings” from subsidy removal haven’t visibly returned to citizens in any form. Good policies without structural follow-through aren’t good policies. They’re just austerity disguised as improvements and we all would be used as collateral damages for the perceived improvement.

Guys please I don’t know how to verify these men, dem just come the lekki toll gate and cut off the security cameras. Saying they are from the government, hmm 🤔

I created a new page where you can find videos of 2023 APC election violence. It’s important you listen, download and share the audio at the top of the page. Share it everywhere on WhatsApp. A govt that kills its people does not deserve to rule us: 1000reasons.vote/2023

In corporate, we call these independent non-executive directors.

For the second time, guys. If you live in Nigeria and have no financial strength to relocate anytime soon, treat the 2027 election as a priority. See it like your life depends on it, because in actual sense, it does. Listen to me: Tinubu will be ruthless with policies if he wins again. The economic frustrations will push many to the edge of suicide. Nobody will come to your rescue. After 2027, Tinubu, Akpabio, and most governors will be done. No more elections. They will definitely have nothing to lose. They’ll retire comfortably in their mansions scattered across the US, Canada, UK, and Europe… while regret becomes your daily meal. Be smart with your vote in 2027.

Lagos Rent Displacement Theory. This is what a friend told me about the theory of ongoing displacement in Lagos due to crazy rent prices. Those in Island paying 12-15million to rent a 3-bedroom and unable to afford it any longer take the option of relocating to Mainland. They then decide to invade Gbagada, and pronto. 5million naira rent gets jacked up to 7.5million. They have outmuscled the hitherto Gbagada tenants. Those ones either match them or move to Shomolu jejely. The ones in Magodo cannot afford the 10m rent again, and are ready to pay 5m for house in Ketu. The displaced people from Ketu, then move to Berger to displace the hitherto residents of there. The earlier residents of Berger nko- They are then displaced to Arepo, Mowe and co. Rent in Iyana-Ipaja for some houses is already 2 million naira. That is how unbridled capitalism makes life unattainable for millions.

HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS

I remembered how I joined my elder sister praying and hoping Agbani Darego would win Miss World 2001. She became the first Black African winner and made history that day. Our house erupted in shouts of joy that still live rent-free in my head. Nigeria was set to host Miss World 2002 as the winner’s country. It was meant to be our big moment to showcase our culture, tourism, and potential. But the religion that keeps giving “peace upon peace” happened. Conservative Muslim groups called the pageant immoral. Riots broke out, especially in Kaduna, with churches torched and over 200 lives lost. The “religion of peace” could not tolerate women in evening gowns and swimsuits. The organisers had no choice but to pack the girls and flee to London. The grand event that should have brought Nigeria global glory was forced out of the country. Till date, it still disappoints me deeply. The same group of people keeps spoiling any speck of goodness that finds its way here.👌🏾

You people are saying someone sat down in 2022 and thought "Let me open a twitter handle to 'impersonate' Prof Joash Amupitan. I'll also link his email address and phone number to the twitter handle." This is what you really want people to believe?

And I repeat, never fight a stranger!

Behind the Activ-Go" branding is a stark reality: Nigerian Milo is a sugar bomb sold as nutrition. While the world cuts back on processed sugar, our local formula remains a concentrated health risk.

I'm not sure where people get the impression that manufactured insecurity in Nigeria is "sabotaging" Tinubu’s government. Did Tinubu tell you that a safe and secure Nigeria is part of his agenda? Someone that is a stage actor placed in that seat by his US benefactors to be part of their Kabuki dance as they destroy whatever is left of Nigerian sovereignty? I think people need to consult history and read about Mobutu Sese Seko. DRC was one of the worst governed, most unsafe, least stable countries in the world under him and the CIA backed him for 32 years. It's not the CIA's business whether its puppet governs a country well or not - in fact the worse its puppet governs, the better for its interests. The most important thing you need to understand about US foreign policy as an African is that your life isn't just unimportant, but not even a factor at all. "Africa" according to the white people who rule the world, is not a place where 1.4 billion people live, but a stretch of resource-rich land where resources are to be extracted cheaply. Whatever happens to you in the process of that extraction is not the US government's problem, and you need to understand that. Back when the primary resource extracted from Nigeria was oil, the manufactured insecurity centred around oil installations, and all it did was keep the surrounding areas poor and unsafe, so that at no point was there ever a serious conversation about the effects of oil extraction on those communities. Eventually the American and European oil extraction entities realised that offshore was the real game and they diverted altogether from onshore extraction. Now their offshore operations have little or no interaction with Nigeria, and they are protected by American and Israeli security. Your "navy" and "NIMASA" are basically controlled by Israeli contractors, FYI. Now that attention has shifted to solid minerals in the middle belt and North, the manufactured violence has mysteriously exploded there. Its only purpose is to depopulate the region and make it available for mining - Sen Riley Moore's recent 'recommendation' explicitly mentioned "cooperation with US mining interests" as a precondition for peace in case you've forgotten. Tinubu's role is to watch it happen, release a mealy mouthed statement, and do nothing. That's why they put him there. I know it might be hard for you to process, but to understand how the world works, you need to understand that the lives of 230 million Nigerians were never a factor in the decision to impose a puppet president from Washington DC. As far as the decision makers are concerned, this land that contains your ancestors and your childhood memories and everything you hold dear and precious, is just an entry on a spreadsheet titled "Rare Earth Mineral Locations." They see your entire continent and its 1.4 billion inhabitants the way you see a farm you bought that has anthills on it. Your interest is in what you can get from the soil, not with the billions of ants who call that place home. Unlike during direct colonialism, you can't just roll in the bulldozer and destroy the anthills, so you find some of the ants who are willing to work for you, and you get them to destroy their own anthills. You deploy an orange beret "Revolution Now" ant leader to misdirect and mislead any ants that want to organise a resistance against you. You deploy "civil society" ants to convince the 1.4 billion ants that what they need is "democracy" instead of organised resistance and obtaining the industrial means to resist. You deploy electoral candidate ants to waste ant resources and destroy, institutions and subvert ant society. You deploy religious ant leaders to teach the ants to pray for individual salvation instead of carry out group resistance. And then you give the bulldozer to Boko Haram/JNIM/ISWAP/RSF ants to physically destroy the anthills, so the ants blame themselves for their own destruction. Then the farm is yours.

While this is going on, the Kwara State governor is launching the steel horse sculpture in front of the government house and calling it an achievement

Let me state it here for the benefit of those who dont know: it takes a country at least 25 years to produce a General in the army. This is aside the financial and other investments the country will have to make to get a General. A country like US or Russia will declare war if any of their active general is killed in another country, talk more in their homeland. Earlier this week US spent more than $500 million to rescue their colonel trapped in a mountain in Iran war, mind you a colonel is less than a Brigadier General.