Chris De La Crème ⚖️

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Set unreasonably short deadlines for yourself. Work expands too much if you give yourself a lot of time.

some of you don’t deserve phones. evil much.

my “playing recommended tracks” on spotify has just locked in. jams and gems back to back. niggas I’ve never heard. now any song I wanna play, I head to YouTube music, so I don’t mess with the feng shui 🤲🏽

“sapa for hold us down but my lawyer he found a loophole” — real shit from my everlasting taker @BlaqBonez 👑

In 1998, I was fired from my corporate job while 9 months pregnant because and I quote, “my priorities would be elsewhere after the baby is born.” The lawyer I hired told me I didn’t have a case because discrimination like “that” was almost impossible to prove. So I got pissed. Took the LSAT. Went to law school. Passed the bar. Had 3 more kids. Twelve years later, another woman from that same company was fired for the same reason. She sued them for a million dollars, and won, partly because I had kept every piece of evidence from what happened to me years prior demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination against women. That company no longer exists. My law practice is thriving. And that baby they said would derail my priorities? She’s a brilliant attorney now working at my firm. Turns out my priorities were indeed, elsewhere.

Anytime you're afraid to try some new shit...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.

“I can’t lie, I’m hard to deal with” — and you think it’s a flex? lmao. fool.

You have to be insane to look at what has become of Nigeria and still ask “if not Tinubu, who else?” That to me, is the definition of madness.

In 2017, a Nigerian businessman’s shipment of Fanta and Sprite was seized and destroyed in the UK because the benzoic acid levels were unsafe for consumption. That’s when the truth came out: those drinks were never meant for the UK market. Same brand, same company but completely different quality depending on where you live. Nigeria’s NAFDAC allows 250mg of benzoic acid per litre in soft drinks. The UK limit is just 150mg. In our hot climate, the companies add even more. Independent tests have found some drinks reaching 300–400mg. Here’s the problem: benzoic acid (sodium benzoate) reacts with vitamin C (ascorbic acid) especially in heat to form benzene, a Group 1 carcinogen. Nigeria is a very hot country. Yet we’re given higher amounts of this preservative. The companies and NAFDAC say higher levels are needed because products spoil faster in heat. But if heat makes the chemical more dangerous, why add more of it here? There are still no clear warnings on the bottles. Most Nigerians have no idea. NAFDAC approval doesn’t mean the product is safe by international standards. It means it passed Nigeria’s lower standard. We have become a dumping ground for substandard goods. Children are even more at risk. Their smaller bodies absorb more damage from sugar, artificial additives, and these chemicals. We’re already seeing kidney problems in young people that shouldn’t be happening. Parents, please pay attention. Your children’s health is being built right now by what you give them daily. Better options exist: • Zobo (hibiscus drink) • Kunu • Tiger nut milk (Kunnu aya) • Coconut water • Homemade fruit juices and smoothies • Ginger drink, tamarind drink Make them yourself so you know exactly what’s inside. Look out for your family. The government and companies won’t. Your health and your children’s future is worth more than a cold drink. Health is wealth. P.S. Check labels. If you see both sodium benzoate and vitamin C, be extra careful. And yes, most mass-produced soft drinks are unhealthy even without the benzoic acid issue.

Nigeria’s ginger export collapsed from a staggering N26 billion($47.5 million) to absolute zero in a span of just three years, wiping out the livelihoods of thousands of families. The official excuse is being branded as a mere "fungal" disease, which is ridiculously funny, insulting, and misleading. A mere disease can kill a handful of crops, but it can never systematically wipe out an entire agricultural belt spanning hundreds of thousands of acres. When a disaster of this magnitude destroys crops across multiple communities in Kaduna and neighboring states, we can be rest assured that this is a man-made, policy-driven disaster without a single shred of doubt. Indeed, the N26 billion export figure quoted was not from 2024. Nigeria’s export of ginger in 2024 had already plummeted to a pathetic N6.2 billion, roughly 4.7 million dollars, which forces us to ask what actually happened between 2023 and 2024 to pave the way for this historic, sudden decline. Everything began in 2017, when the World Bank sent their economic hitmen to Nigeria to convince the federal government that our agricultural output was poor. They claimed the issue was not because the predatory terms of the World Trade Organisation banned the government from subsidizing local farmers, providing modern tractors, building secure storage facilities, or protecting domestic markets from heavily subsidized Western imports. Instead, they deceitfully concluded that Nigerian farmers were doing poorly simply because they lacked access to modern, high-yielding, corporate-patented seeds. As usual, the incompetent Nigerian government under the Buhari administration rolled over, spread their laps, and eagerly accepted a 200 million dollar loan from the World Bank to kickstart the APPEALS project. Nigeria historically grew two traditional, highly resilient, non-genetically modified varieties of ginger known as UG1, locally called "Tafin Giwa," and UG2, locally called "Yatsun Biri." Under this APPEALS program championed by the World Bank, ginger farmers in Northern Nigeria were instructed to abandon their local, highly resilient seeds. Instead, they were forced to source new, delicate foundation seeds from the National Root Crops Research Institute in Umudike, Abia State. The NRCRI does not operate in a vacuum: it functions within a complex global network of funding, corporate interests, and academic research heavily bankrolled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the agro-chemical giant Monsanto. Under this collaborative framework, the Gates-funded institute provided the laboratory methodology and the modified parent seeds, while the World Bank’s APPEALS project supplied the logistics, the demonstration farms, and the training to force farmers into growing these highly dependent seeds. . Traditionally, farming ginger is not rocket science. All a farmer had to do was make a small hole in the soil, drop the seed rhizome inside, cover it up, and let nature do the rest. But because the farmers were forced to abandon their traditional seedlings and adopt the genetically fragile, volatile, lab-grown tissue cultures from the Gates-funded institute, they no longer had that luxury. The institute's labs simply lacked the capacity to mass-produce these delicate seeds at the industrial scale required for nationwide agriculture. This is where the World Bank's economic traps clicked shut. Under the APPEALS program, farmers were trained to cut the healthy foundation rhizomes into tiny, microscopic pieces weighing a mere 4 to 5 grams. These tiny buds were then dipped in a specialized, highly expensive chemical fungicide wash, placed into artificial nursery trays, and kept under protective, climate-controlled shade nets. The farmers had to baby these nurseries, watering them with meticulous care just to get the single buds to sprout into disease-free green seedlings over a thirty-to-forty-day period. Once these fragile green shoots reached a height of 10 to 15 centimeters and developed a weak, independent root system, the farmers had to carefully transplant them directly into pre-prepared ridges in the open fields. At first, it looked like a miracle. The farmers saw a temporary 67% surge in their ginger yields, which was paraded by World Bank PR teams as a massive success. But the APPEALS program was only scheduled to last for six years. In 2023, the World Bank packed up their bags, collected their interest, and quietly left the country. Naturally, the farmers attempted to continue farming on their own to maintain their profit margins, but they ran into a fatal wall. It is not enough to train farmers to use delicate, laboratory-engineered seeds: you must also fund the highly specific chemical inputs those seeds require to survive in the wild. As soon as the farmers tried to buy the specialized fungicides and chemical washes needed to protect these hyper-sensitive crops, they realized the prices had skyrocketed by over 300%, making them completely unaffordable for the average rural farmer. Desperate, the farmers tried to source cheaper, local alternatives, but these fragile seeds are so biologically delicate that the slightest deviation in chemical treatment or soil temperature renders them sterile and highly vulnerable to pathogens. This is how Nigeria's ginger output collapsed from 47 million dollars in 2023, to a pathetic 4.7 million dollars in 2024, and finally to absolute zero by 2025. There are many performative reforms currently ongoing to supposedly rescue the Nigerian ginger market. But the cold truth is that the World Bank and Bill Gates successfully destroyed a thriving, self-sufficient local industry that fed millions of homes, and this is not the first time this economic sabotage has occurred in Nigeria. Look at what they did to our cocoa industry in the late 1980s. Under the brutal dictates of the World Bank's Structural Adjustment Program, the federal government was forced to dissolve the Nigerian Cocoa Board, which had historically guaranteed price stability, provided free high-quality seedlings, and subsidized essential pesticides for local farmers. Once the market was liberalized, our local farmers were left completely defenseless against the volatile swings of the global commodities market and the predatory pricing of Western buying cartels like Cargill and Barry Callebaut, systematically crashing Nigeria's dominance in global cocoa and reducing our once-proud farmers to low-wage laborers for multinational corporations.

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Let me tell you how it happened. Nigeria’s ginger export hit zero from N26 billion within 3 years. The official story blames fungal blight. But here is what actually happened. When Nigerian farmers lost their indigenous seed supply, grant-aided interventions arrived with replacement seeds. An associate professor at Lagos Business School flagged publicly that some of those interventions involved GMO organisms that weakened indigenous crops and compromised soil health. That is not a conspiracy theory because it is a documented academic concern. Now that Nigeria spoke got destroyed by the GMO seedlings….what is not the result? Nigeria was forced to import ginger from China to fill domestic demand. Chinese ginger has none of the pungency, oleoresin content, or quality that made Nigerian ginger a global premium product. And the ginger now sitting in Nigerian markets tastes like wood because it essentially is wood. The two indigenous varieties that built Nigeria’s global ginger reputation, the Tafin Giwa and Yatsun Biri, had decades of soil relationship and quality built into them. Once the soil was degraded and those seed varieties were displaced, the product that returned was a pale imitation. Nigeria did not just lose a market. It lost a seed. And without a National Ginger Seed Bank, which nobody has built, it may never fully get it back.

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If you know the story behind this and think the leadership of Nigeria isn’t compromised and intentionally/strategically killing its own economy then you really deserve such a government.

Just so you know Nigeria’s Ginger export went from N26Billion to zero in the last 3 years

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I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s. Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph. You too can connect the dots: 1000reasons.vote/looters

Fun fact, i initially wrote this song for firstklaz, shared with his manager, didn't get a response, then i tried to get it to kizz Daniel literally impossible, so i dropped it😂😪🤦🏾‍♂️

@stonersaintslut locked in kpa

manager said to start a gc for my drops. i’d predominantly share my music, art and designs, beats that i produce and projects i find interesting, but you can also join if you just want to connect with other alt creatives. :) if you’re interested, like the post, or send a dm.

@MrCharlesky interested

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