I've always said that Nigeria has no elite. It only has a group of monied people who differ from your average okada rider only in financial status.

Femi Osibona KNEW that his building was structurally defective and yet he sold units to members of his own social circle.
He sold $1.2m a piece worth of nonsense to people whose kids go to school with his kids, and whose parties he attends.

Doesn't matter how much money a Nigerian rich person has. They have the exact same ethical compass and behaviour as your garden variety yahoo boy in Abeokuta.
Nigeria has no elite.

Just different types of poor people desperately struggling to escape from poverty by fucking each other over.

Not just a pointless country, but a hopelessly primitive society with almost no redeeming features.
From birth to death, you hustle desperately for food like catfish beung reared in a tank by a farmer who doesn't feed them frequently.

The food isn't enough, so you eat each other and wallow in stench and filth.

Then at the end of it all, you die a stupid, meaningless death.

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5 Nov
Nothing much to see here.

Just Femi Osibona, rich, educated, UK-resident, high end Nigerian developer who lived in Ikoyi, proudly admitting on national TV that he does not listen to architects and structural engineers when doing projects in Nigeria.
Same dude admitting proudly that he gamed the system to flout planning regulations and build an extra storey on a house he redeveloped in Stoke-Newington, London🌚
Well, after a career of stacking unapproved extra storeys on buildings and ignoring advice from structural engineers, here is where he died.

Under his own stack of concrete Lego.

The quintessential rich and educated Nigerian illiterate pauper.
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25 Oct
The next time the government builds a naval base in Kano or a transport university in Daura, we should be quiet.

Because the reasoning is the exact same as that of siting a $450m "trade and tourism park" near a city whose airport uses a govt subsidy to remain operational.
Cavalier disrespect for data and a belief in steel and concrete - not people - as the basic engine of growth and industry.

That's why a city of 21 million people has no metro rail whatsoever, but has built several artificial islands off its coast where land is sold in USD.
An entire civilisation of people who believe that steel and concrete is a seed that you plant in the middle of the bush and harvest economic growth out of thin air.

Like Ajaokuta, like Tinapa, like Abakaliki airport, like Kano-Maradi railway, abbl.

Slow thinkers.
Read 5 tweets
23 Oct
Side note on the "xyz has tourism potential" myth:

Sudan has more ancient pyramids than Egypt.

The reason you're probably hearing this for the first time or you're more interested in seeing Egypt's pyramids, has nothing to do with having pyramids alone.
corinthia.com/khartoum/disco…
The fact that you have historic or pretty stuff to look at does not mean that you have a comparative advantage in tourism. It just means you have historic or pretty stuff to look at.

Tourism is an industry, not a feeling. There is no sentiment here.
You don't go and spend $450 million on a "tourist resort" in Cross River state because "Cross River state has beautiful landscape and nice weather."

That's a stupid decision to make, based on feelings, sentiment and zero data. We can see the result.
Read 4 tweets
21 Oct
I'm on a Cameroonian TV panel right now and this caller from Yaounde is saying that police brutality happens in Nigeria because "Nigeria's population is too much" and "citizens are trying to overpower the police."

E ma gba mi o...
Can see why one man has ruled them since football players used to wear triangular pant...awon werey
Read 4 tweets
8 Oct
In August, I picked up an unlikely viewing habit - BBNaija. I had an old university mate on the show, so maybe that was what got me interested. I wanted Cross to win is my excuse, and I’m sticking to it...
Anyway as I watched the show and got into it, I realised that it wasn’t actually entertainment - it was a giant marketing machine, and the housemates were the fuel. The Abeg app hit 500,000 downloads pretty much off BBN adverts alone.
I wanted to write something about it so I made some calls to a few former colleagues in the IMC space. I wanted to know what numbers the show did in terms of revenue. They wouldn’t tell me, but I was instead told what the show *spent.* Official figures:
Read 9 tweets
7 Oct
As you people have lost the intellectual argument completely and have gone full ad hominem, and you've gone to tweet screenshots of this tweet (as if I'll ever delete it), let me even help you quote it here.

If you like develop toothache, problem ti e ni yen.
Arewa culture is objectively one of the worst on the entire planet. There are real metrics that can be used to measure this including HDI indices, poverty rate, maternal/childhood mortality, paedophilia (child marriage), terrorism and genocide.

It even still has POLIO.
So if I describe it as an abhorrent culture that needs to be replaced by something fit for humans, I am once again speaking factually.

If you don't like the facts as usual, the problem is 100% your own. I'm not here to make you like me. It adds nothing to me.
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