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#SundayMorningThots The FALSE EQUIVALENCE of Prices: 🇺🇸 vs 🇳🇬 Hhmm since IBB "swallowed the bait of @imf" in the 1980s, both Nigeria and Nigerians have ot been the same again; the economy has suffered hyper inflation from one year to another, one Govt to another, and no respite

@gono_eric @ishaqsamaila5 Hhmn true or not, they are "two of same kind", one a six and the other, half a dozen"; neither of them has the moral (authority) to say a word to us about power, or anything. If only they have shame!

@ishaqsamaila5 Assuming this post is true... I think it is better we suffer electricity issues and be alive. The insecurity we have today is a result of the kind of seeds that were sown during his time as head of state. So just go to hell!

“I heard Obasanjo's government spent $17 billion on power. If I had such an amount when I was President, Nigeria would not only have had stable electricity, we would have built a nuclear power station. In my time, $1 was about ₦1–₦10. Sometimes I even wish it was ₦120 to $1 then — Nigerians would have seen wonders.” — General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida ,

@adoseof_niisi @fattylincorn_01 @Autopreneurr Exactly. I hope it'sn't put 2gthr in haste, too soon after Disu's appt, unless 'twas drafted long ago and just being released. 2ndly a 60mo transition is too long, smtin dis controversial & sensitive shld be done fast, b4 lethargy set in and derail everything. 2yrs MAX #MyThots

@fattylincorn_01 @Autopreneurr All these things can be achieved in less than 30 days but he knows He will be off the seat before then and that will be the end of everything. Another reason to believe naija no fit make am again

Breaking News!!! IGP Tunji Disu proposes as follows: -60-Month Transition to Decentralise Policing -3% Federal Allocation Nigeria -60% of existing police personnel to move to state services -40% to remain within federal structure -Mandatory use of body-worn cameras -National police standards board to supervise federal, state police. Emeka Amadioha Mbaise Oparah

If the algorithm show you this Yoruba Art, give it all the support you can.📌🧡

@grok @abubakr__b17 @popsicles88__ @grok, I didn't know that maternity test also exists?

The hospital is fully to blame. Clear failure in newborn ID protocols (bands, matching, verification) caused the switch. Both maternity & paternity tests confirm it. The couple should sue for negligence, records, and support—while figuring out next steps for the child involved. Heartbreaking mess.

My husband and I are not the parent of our last child. We have been married for six good years and we have three kids together. Recently my husband started making moves for us to relocate abroad and apparently if you are travelling with children

Hhmn, exaggerated or not, multiply this by the no. of govs (past & present), ministers, senators (serving & rtrd), LG chairs etc; you'll knw where a large chunk of 🇳🇬 💵💵 is, and why there's little or nothing left to do anything for the citizens. 🙄😢 facebook.com/share/1CHfsxxw…

@mrkingsley1987 @luxemiaa Hhmn, there's no way I'm letting anyone take my seat; not when you have to 💵💵 for a 💺 on most airlines these days. Never!

@luxemiaa I keep seeing this in flights- passengers consistently occupying seats not meant for them because they didn't do proper Seat Selection during Flight Booking. ..you did well by demanding for your Seat... they should do better next time

This woman said: Just boarded my connecting flight home from Tokyo and guess what? Someone is sitting in my window seat 😂 I can’t make this stuff up… twice in one day! I told them they were sitting in my seat and they replied “can you sit over there because we’re all together?” I said “no”. They were taking too long to move so I motioned the flight attendant and she yelled “take your assigned seats so we can go!”. The man got up and moved across the aisle to his.......

Hhmn, on the face of it, this is a "kind" gesture from Governor @seyimakinde and it should be applauded; other Guvnrs would probably do the same. But, seriously, employees of Govt are less than 10% of the population, so what should the other 90% do? Apartheid & Discrimination!

@Azeem_Views @zoomafrika1 @grok @grok, I see Air Peace listed here; does that mean Nigeria is rated high?

@zoomafrika1 @grok Is Ethiopia is really poor country? If yes then how they got 167 planes??

Largest Airlines by Fleet Size in Africa. 1. Ethiopian Airlines 🇪🇹 - 167 planes 2. EgyptAir 🇪🇬 - 73 planes 3. Airlink 🇿🇦 - 70 planes 4. Royal Air Maroc 🇲🇦 - 60 5. Air Algerie 🇩🇿 - 56 6. Air Peace 🇳🇬 - 37..... Show more

@Ogunwaref1 @BOTAD01 Hhmn, but that's the story of 90% of Nigeria families today. So sad about the grandson, but it's true. 😢

@BOTAD01 Hmmmmm, that grandson own make my heart ache small !!!

Grandfather: Born and raised in a small village in the hinterland. He migrated to the city at age 28 and started his own family. Son: He was born and raised in the city but visits the village with his dad once in a while or when there are family events. He left the country at age 32 and settled down abroad to raise his own family. Grandson: Born and raised abroad. His first visit to Nigeria was when he was 10 years old and he visited twice after that. These three men are from different generations but the same blood. Grandfather always talks about his adventures while growing up in the village and how he missed all his friends and most importantly, how he would love to retire in the village. Son always talks about the city where he was born and raised and how he has many plans to do many things in the city with some of the people they grew up with. At least, he visits the city once every 2 years. Grandson never wants to talk about the village and also gets bored with the "City's stories". He never sees any reason to visit since his last 3 trips were not interesting. All he wanted to do was to start his life very early and live. 3 different generations. 3 different perspectives on life issues. 3 different realities.

#SundaySpecial Hhmn, this episode occurred on a Friday (not sure exactly when), but it shows the wickedness, callousness, and derangement of typical Nigeria👮‍♀️👮‍♀️. To be clear, some Lagos drivers are INDISCIPLINE, but 🇳🇬 👮‍♀️👮‍♀️are EVIL, their Heaven FAR! 👇 instagram.com/reel/DV2aRNhCJ…

@Yorubaness Ẹgbàajì o dín ẹ̀ẹ́dẹ́gbẹ̀ta

What is "3,500" in Yoruba Language?

@StatiSense Hhmn PLS don't say Lagos has busses or transportation system; a bus system that has no schedule or timetable and which cannot be dependend upon for its regularity is as good as none. This is yet another opportunity to remind @followlasg to allow #Tata busses use BRT/HOV lanes.

PUBLIC BUS COVERAGE: LAGOS VS LONDON Population: 🇳🇬 Lagos — 17.2 million 🇬🇧 London — 9.8 million Total buses deployed: 🇬🇧 London — 8,797 🇳🇬 Lagos(BRT) — 358 Persons per bus: 🇳🇬 Lagos — 48,045 🇬🇧 London — 1,114 London maintained one bus for every 1,114 residents in 2025. In contrast, Lagos required a single bus to serve 48,045 people. This coverage gap indicates that London deployed over 43 times more buses per capita than Lagos. #Statisense (LAMATA, TfL & World Population Review, 2025)

@IAmSteveHarvey Hhmn 2 places really, no three. 3. Niagara Falls 2. Victoria Falls and 1. A Steve Harvey Show. In no rigid order.

If you can travel anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?

@Billsfan1991DMP @oksalt31 @JamesTate121 Hhmn, it's been a while since I took anyone with the name 'Scott' seriously; and when I was about to give some the benefit of the doubt, then came this Scott. Apologies to the few good, serious folks who have the name Scott!!

@oksalt31 @JamesTate121 And you are utterly unserious if you truly believe he is "setting the U.S. and the world on the right path" in ANY way.

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. "These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless. "And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House. "The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt. "Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too. Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now." - Charles Pierce

Hhmn, the reverse is the case in Nigeria actually, esp in Lagos; former factories and hitherto warehouses have been closed down, sold out and converted to churches. Now people go to where they previously worked, to pray for fresh employment.

Washington, D.C., January 20, 1953. Dwight D. Eisenhower had just been sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. The ceremony ended. The crowds thinned. And Harry S. Truman—who had led the nation through the final months of World War II, authorized the atomic bomb, and launched the Marshall Plan—walked to Union Station to catch a train home. Not a private railcar. Not a military aircraft. A regular passenger train. He bought his own ticket. There was no press spectacle. No staged farewell. Truman simply boarded a Baltimore & Ohio train bound for Independence, Missouri, and took a seat among ordinary travelers. No security cordon cleared the aisle. No one was removed from the car. Within minutes, passengers began to recognize him. They didn’t panic. They approached him. They shook his hand, asked questions, shared opinions. Truman chatted easily, smiling, looking like a man relieved of an immense burden. One passenger later recalled him saying he was glad to be going home—that he had done his job. What makes that ride even more remarkable is where he was going: not to wealth, but to financial uncertainty. In 1953, former presidents received no pension. No staff. No office allowance. No benefits. Once out of office, they were private citizens again. Truman’s only steady income was his modest Army pension from World War I—just over $100 a month. He had a house in Independence (owned by his wife Bess’s family) and little savings. Corporations offered him lucrative board seats. Companies proposed endorsements. Speaking tours promised easy money. He refused them all. Truman believed profiting from the presidency would cheapen it. The office, to him, was a public trust—not a brand to monetize. So he returned home and lived modestly. He wrote his memoirs to earn income. He sold family land. He walked the streets of Independence without escort, stopping to greet neighbors, visiting the barber, mailing packages himself. This wasn’t performance. It was character. Yet his financial strain embarrassed lawmakers. By the late 1950s, leaders in Congress agreed that former presidents should not face hardship after serving the nation. In 1958, the Former Presidents Act created a pension system for ex-presidents—largely in response to Truman’s situation. Ironically, Truman hesitated to accept it. He worried it looked like charity. Eventually, he agreed—saying the system mattered more for future presidents than for himself. That train ride symbolized something larger than a journey home. It reflected a time when a president could step away from immense power and return to ordinary citizenship. Truman never confused the office with his identity. He had served, and now he was done. Today, security realities and modern expectations make such a scene unimaginable. Former presidents travel with protection, staff, and lifelong benefits. The presidency has grown into something far more insulated. Truman died in 1972, still living in the same modest home in Independence. He never sought grandeur in retirement. The man who helped shape the postwar world returned quietly to private life. That image—Harry Truman on a passenger train, chatting with strangers—remains a reminder of leadership defined not by privilege, but by humility. Power, in his view, was temporary. Character was permanent. And when his time was over, he simply went home. #EducationalPurposesOnly #educationalcontent #knowledge #educationalpurposes #informationalpost

Obama is the most quotable US president in history. But of course, it's difficult to know that when Trump is your Mount Everest. Good luck with your race, but it's already clear you may not be suited for the seat. Put more energy into creating your own legacy, rather than attempting to tarnish those who have already won.

@NigerDeltaEngr @InsideLucysHead Hhmn, I worry for cabbie too; hope he doesn't end up same way as Frankie. 😕🤦

@InsideLucysHead Epic ending 😆 🤣

A man walks out to the street and catches a taxi just going by... He gets into the taxi, and the cabbie says, "Perfect timing. You're just like Frank." Passenger: "Who?" Cabbie: "Frank Feldman. He's a guy who did everything right all the time. Passenger: "There are always a few clouds over everybody." Cabbie: "Not Frank Feldman. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the Grand-Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone and danced like a Broadway star and you should have heard him play the piano. He was an amazing guy." Passenger: "Sounds like he was really something special." Cabbie: "There's more. He had a memory like a computer. He remembered everybody's birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order and which fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse, and the whole street blacks out. But Frank Feldman could do everything right every single time.” Passenger: "Wow, what a guy!" Cabbie: "He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jams. Not like me, I always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank, he never made a mistake, and he really knew how to treat a woman and make her feel good. He would never answer her back even if she was in the wrong; and his clothing was always immaculate, shoes highly polished too. He was the perfect man! He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank Feldman." Passenger: "How did you meet him?" Cabbie: "I never actually met Frank. He died and I married his widow."

@Ebyletdynamic @Moonlight_myths Hhmn, co-asking! 🙏 Interesting read. 😅

@Moonlight_myths Title of the novel, please 🙏

My husband walked out of the courtroom smirking because he thought he won the divorce. He got the house. The savings. Even the dog. But what he didn't know... was that I let him win. The day our divorce was finalized, he strutted past me like he was untouchable. I didn't fight. I didn't cry. I didn't even ask for a dime. The judge signed off, and just like that, everything we built was his. And that's exactly the way I wanted it...for now He thought I was weak, heartbroken, and defeated. But the truth? I was calm because I had something he didn't. A secret I knew that would change it all. One that could blow up everything he was so desperate to protect. You see, two months before we even filed, I found the messages. Late-night texts, hotel receipts, even a second phone. He was cheating.

@MendeFreeman @BOTAD01 Hhmn, well he did not make a demand, it was the church that offered to pay for his service; so I believe God (will) understand. I have a Q for @BOTAD01 sha, how did you translate "transgression" to Yorùbá? 🙄🤦😅

@BOTAD01 Work of God way you suppose do free🤣🤣

I remember the day I walked from Eksu campus to Iworoko with just N5 in my pocket. As I walked past the Osekita hostel to the main road, tears dropped from my eyes. I can't call home because there is nothing back home. The last N5 can only buy either groundnuts, sugar, or sachet water so I have to prioritize what I will use it for. When I got home, I brought out gaari, bought groundnuts, and begged for sachet water from a neighbor, then drank the gaari and I went to sleep. I can't even read so I didn't bother to open any book. I was sleeping when my friend came in and woke me up and said their church in Akure (his mum was a church founder) wanted to translate Sunday School studies from English to Yoruba. He told his mum to wait because he knew I might be interested so he asked me first. The sleep disappeared straight away! I charged N10k to do the job and he called his mum back. She sent N5k that evening and promised to send the Sunday school studies through a driver the following day. That gig gave me life afterwards because that N10k was like N100k. When it seems all hope is lost, please don't give up. Help will come from where you least expect but at the same time, don't be lazy! Help will come!