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24 May, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Very interesting argument being made by @breketeConnect on his radio station in Abuja this morning.

Let me see if I can do a small thread that summarises his arguments...
He says that @BBCAfrica's thing on him is an attack on the masses. That the Beeb has no credibility and northern #Nigeria is being fooled because of the Hausa radio they have provided (BBC Hausa to the uninitiated).
So he makes the rather interesting point that a station that tore the #British monarchy apart, made a prince leave with his wife, and so has zero credibility in London should not be the one to talk, but northern #Nigeria is allowing itself to be deceived.
Now the conspiracy is coming.

He claims the babe at the head of @BBCAfrica is a Yoruba lady related to @YeleSowore, and since he denied Sowore a platform for #RevolutionNow, they are angry, hence the attack on his person and influence.

These allegations need confirmation.
Ahmad now says BBC Pidgin was an attempt to rival his station. That they are a struggling, dying station.

Someone who claims to be in London has called in and is assisting with the BBC opprobrium.

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24 May
Someone asked on @Quora, "What are the main factors that are militating against the Nigerian government not paying high premium to her citizens’ lives?"

I have made an effort to answer. Please feel free to disagree, and let's debate it (I may not respond immediately).
The answer to the question is centuries in the making.

#Nigeria's elite does not value the lives of their citizens because it's just how it is, and how it has been since the two slave trades, Trans-Saharan and Trans-Atlantic.

Look at these two maps, one Arab, one English.
This first map is a transliteration of an ancient Arab map of African trade routes.

The Trans-Saharan trade started long before any European came this way, and one of the important components of this trade was slaves.

Note where the Arabs sourced most of their slaves from.
Read 8 tweets
11 May
In Western countries, there is a lot of talk about de-escalation of force, risk analysis and appropriate use of force. Many governments, even in some authoritarian countries like #China, see de-escalation of force as "less is more".

Let me tell a short story...
Back in 1989 when #China burst into the pro-democracy riots that culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre, the protests were spread around the country.
Most people outside China don't know this.
In Beijing, Deng Xiaoping sent in the tanks to crush the protests, and of course no one challenged him. However, again unknown to many, in China most of the local prefectures have a significant amount of autonomy.
Read 11 tweets
21 Apr
Upon gaining power in 1979, Margaret Thatcher made the defeat of inflation in the UK its number one priority.

The 1970s were a difficult time for #Britain inflation-wise, and Meg Thatcher was willing to do anything to stop it.
In my latest piece in @BusinessDayNg, I disagree with my editor.

He thinks we are headed towards stagflation, I'm certain we're already there.

The full text is here, bit.ly/3duFRz3, what follows is a summary.
With #Nigeria's food inflation at 23% and headline inflation at 18%, @cenbank doesn't appear to be giving rising consumer prices the attention it deserves.

Rising prices are compounded by low-output growth and high unemployment, the textbook definition of stagflation.
Read 9 tweets
12 Apr
I had a meeting this morning with a big boy to talk about a job.

During the meeting, an antique car passed by the bistro and we talked briefly about antique vehicles. He told me a rather interesting story...
He worked in Abuja for a decade, and when he moved back to Lagos at the end of 2019, he felt he needed a driver, so he hired one.

Now, Oga has an antique 1968 Mercedes Benz W115 convertible, Wilma, which he drives once in a while when the weather (and traffic) permit.
A few months ago, his new driver, let's call him Bob, took Wilma for a spin and bashed her.

Even worse, Bob didn't tell Oga the fate that had befallen his beloved Wilma.

He simply put her back under the tarpaulin and said nothing.
Read 11 tweets
5 Mar
"Moving on" is no longer an option in #Nigeria. Everything must be interrogated.

As an example, an excuse that was given by those who attempted to do a food blockade against their "fellow Nigerians" was because of the violence meted out against Northerners in Oyo.
To my mind, that excuse fails the smell test.

Food was also blocked from going to Ikpoba Hill in Benin, and Onitsha Main Market, two big markets from which distribution happens to other places in their respective regions.

Are Benin and Onitsha on the way to Oyo?
Why punish Benin and Onitsha for the sins of Oyo if this was not an attempt to show who had power, an attempt that failed miserably.

The truth is that the economics of the attempted blockade simply did not add up, and this should be a lesson for all involved.
Read 20 tweets
4 Mar
Today's lesson is about @GazetteNGR and the attacks that happened on their website a few weeks ago, and yesterday.

Both attacks were the classic denial of service attacks aimed at getting the site offline.
A distributed denial of service (DDOS) is an attack done by multiple computers flooding the server that the attacker wants to get offline with false traffic requests, thus overwhelming it and putting it offline.

Anyone can fall victim to DDOS.
Now here is the thing: a DDOS can be bought.

Most of the people who sell DDOS attacks as a service are based in #Russia or #Ukraine.
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