The basic lack of regard for other people's fundamental human rights is the father of all the problems we're seeing on the TL this morning.

It's why authorities will secretly install CCTV cameras at a female UniAbuja hostel to watch girls bathing and jerk off to it.
It's why someone will yank a random woman off the street to kill her and sell her body parts.

It's why militia and herders from The Ethnicity That Shall Not Be Named waltz into people's farmland and homes to kill them and take everything they have.

Force is Nigeria's religion!
Arguably if you draw the line back far enough, it is the same disease that saw our ancestors raiding each other's villages to capture human beings who were put through unspeakable horrors right there on the West African coast before being sold to European slave buyers.
The idea that Africans have value and their lives are important is arguably more accepted outside the continent than on it.

Outside of their immediate family and friends, do Nigerians believe that other people's lives matter? That other people have rights?
Or is Nigeria just a mad scramble at state and non-state level to see who can use violence and coercion to fuck each other over the most?

Because the Fulani terrorist shooting children in Benue and the security guard jerking off to candid porn at UniAbuja are not so different.🤷🏿‍♂️

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28 May
Dear world, Pidgin is a language on its own. there is no such thing as "Pidgin English." Thinking of Pidgin as a dialect of English is like thinking of French as a dialect of Portuguese.

Just because two languages share vocabulary doesn't make one a variant of the other.
Pidgin uses a lot of English words =\= Pidgin is a type of English. Pidgin has its own grammatical structure and syntax which can never make sense to a non-speaker.

That's why there are lots of people who speak fluent pidgin and cannot speak English to save their lives.
It's very unhelpful to think of pidgin as a derivative of English because

a). That is a continuation of the "slave English" misconception about pidgin from the 1700s and

b). A large portion of pidgin vocabulary also comes from Portuguese, French and Yoruba among others.
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27 May
Middle Belters (2010-2015): "FULANI HERDSMEN ARE KILLING US!"

Rest of country: "Yes but apparently you're killing their cows too. These tensions are partly driven by climate change and demographic expansion. Wealthier countries must commit to lower emissions by 2040."
Middle Belters (2015-2019): "NO WE MEAN THEY'RE LITERALLY MASSACRING US IN OUR THOUSANDS!"

Kayode in Ijora: "I have been speaking to some of my friends from the north and based on my findings, this narrative is biased and untrue. You should commit to peace instead of agitation."
Rural Southern Nigeria (2019 - 2020): "HELP! THEY'RE KILLING US TOO! THEY'RE RAPING AND KILLING US INDUSTRIALLY!"

Adetoun in Idumota and Titus in Ijanikin: "Something something agitations something IPOB something Nnamdi Kanu something Igboho something stop threatening stability.
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27 May
What is 2+2?

German: "That's easy. It's 4."

Nigerian: "You know, I can see why some say 22 and some say 4, and there is definitely an argument for both points of view. I just think we shouldn't lose sight of the foundational importance of civility while holding this discourse."
*Places purple cloth on the table*

What colour is it?

Pete from Sydney: "That's purple mate."

Osato from Ekehuan Road: "This is a very good question. You see, one of the founding principles of civil society is the right to disagree. Who says there must always be one answer?"
Osato from Ekehuan road (cont'd): "The writings of Aristotle from over 2,000 years ago impressively delineate objective fact and subjective perception. Insisting that this cloth is purple is what we call the Fallacy of Hasty Conclusion. Where is the evidence of its purplehood?"
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16 May
My adult life is just one long unbroken tale of me sacrificing everything I was born into for the sake of ideology, belief in people and personal conviction, only for Nigeria in every single instance to find impressively creative ways of showing me that I don't have sense.
Who is the werey who walked away from a 9-figure inheritance and an arranged marriage to the daughter of the chairman of an oil servicing company, to move into a 2-bedroom flat in Bariga and marry my girlfriend from NYSC?🤚🏿
Who is the person who comes from the SI Unit of Lagos establishment families, and then decided to become some sort of Nigerian Che Guevara class traitor?🤚🏿
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16 May
They really got NTA Newsline to Donna entire segment defending Frank Akpan and lying about this case.

This guy must be the most powerful 20 year-old in the history of Nigeria.

Certainly not like he has powerful people in the federal government backing him or something!!!
Whoever tagged me in this, thanks for killing my appetite this night. I was in the middle of my supper.
This is how far ritual killers in Nigeria's federal government are prepared to go! This is how far reaching and insidious this is!

A whole NTA Newsline doing a whole Sunday evening segment to misrepresent Frank Akpan as a rapist who killed in "self defense"🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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15 May
An innocent human being was murdered while just trying to make her life better. That's what all this is about.

It's about Ini Umoren.

The ability to always maintain such perspective is a very useful life skill. Not everybody can have it, unfortunately.
When Dr Ignaz Semmelweiss in the 1800s theorised that doctors should wash their hands to cut cross-infection, despite a successful trial of his idea, his colleagues ganged up on him and had him stripped of his license and locked in a psychiatric home where he was beaten to death.
It wasn't about the patients for them. It was about hierarchy and maintaining the status quo and not being outshone by an eccentric Young Turk whose idea led to a 99% drop in cross-infection at his maternity unit.

This behaviour is as old as humanity. It's not unique to us.
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