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Investigative journalist, author & filmmaker | 2023 James Currey Fellow @Cambridge_Uni | https://t.co/07XivAeu4N

Sep 25, 2020, 6 tweets

This one was an NDDC scholar crying out against the Nigerian govt for abandoning him in Aberdeen without paying his fees. We all ran the story and generated publicity and his fees got paid.

Now he's supporting SARS from Aberdeen because he is lawyer, heh heh.

Typical Nigerian.

"I've got mine, so screw the rest of you!"

- Nigerian Human, (1960-)

"Nigeria is a terrible place that needs to change! Except the problem does not directly affect me."

- Nigerian Man, (1960-)

"My professional ego is more important than systemic change that will change the experience of living in Nigeria."

- Middle Class Nigerian Human, (1960-)

"I don't live in Nigeria anymore, so I can offer the most atrocious opinions on Nigerian issues because you're too poor to enter a plane and confront me here."

- Nigerian In Diaspora (1980-)

"Nigeria's government is terrible! Until I benefit from it or I'm no longer directly harmed by it. Then I will defend it just to be contrarian."

- Nigerian, usu. in Lekki, Ikoyi, Maitama or Diaspora, (1990-)

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