Those who defended the evil suspension of Twitter because they wanted Twitter to have an office in Nigeria, pay taxes and meet other conditions imposed by the Buhari regime, should tell us where Twitter's office is located and the tax paid by Twitter before the ban was lifted.
A country that's led by leaders with no decency or respect for the truth can never fulfill her full potentials. The Twitter ban was never about those conditions. It was about the bruised ego of a despotic and failed regime that couldn't take rebuke of their incompetent arrowhead.
All that Twitter has promised to do are commitments that a responsible government could have extracted from Twitter by engaging in constructive negotiations. But a tyrant woke up one day and decided to shut down an important cyberspace because his genocidal tweet was deleted.
You said Twitter was operating in Nigeria illegally because it didn't register with the CAC. Yet, you lifted the ban without the registration being effected. Is that not evidence that we are led by liars and despots? And some people see nothing wrong in it. I weep for Nigeria.

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14 Jan
In 2019, I took a round trip flight from Lagos State to Akwa Ibom to vote for Omoyele Sowore for President. As a matter of fact, Sowore was the only candidate that I voted for during the last elections.
I am happy that I gave him my vote. I have no regrets. In 2023, I will either vote my conscience or not vote at all. But what I will not do is to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea.
If Nigeria is not going to experience radical change in leadership in my lifetime, I refuse to be part of those who will keep the status quo in place because they don't want to "waste" their votes.
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13 Jan
The lifting of the ban on Twitter does not call for celebration. It calls for retribution by the sane, conscious and conscientious electorates during the next elections.

As Nigerians, we must imbibe the culture of punishing parties and office holders who inflict pains on us.
A regime/party that stifles free speech, promotes draconian policies and suffocates citizens should be dealt with at the polls by citizens. That is how we are going to build an accountable and a viable democratic country with the rule of law. Buhari's regime shouldn't be praised.
The ban on Twitter last year was actuated by vengeance and done in bad faith. The subsequent attempts to twist the narrative and make the ban about "compliance with regulatory requirements" was an afterthought. We all know this happened because Buhari's vicious tweet was deleted.
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17 Oct 21
This is the latest example of the religious lunacy pervading Akwa Ibom State that I have been talking about.

Are we cursed in Akwa Ibom State?
It will not be well with the charlatans that organized this charade for abusing these innocent children for partisan gain. It will not be well with them.

Can you imagine the madness?

What is Akwa Ibom Children Prayer Network?
The same Government that has not been able to build a single model public school in the last six years, in one of the richest States in Nigeria, is forming a prayer network for children whose mates across the globe are building drones and exploring technological innovations.
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17 Oct 21
Your pastor cannot go out without heavily armed policemen, some even move around with military escorts and SSS operatives. You dare not get close to them without strict security search and compliance with their protocol team.
But they sell stickers with their faces to you and tell you to put them on your cars and doors as a solution to the insecurity that is ravaging the country. The stickers does not work for them, but you believe that it will work for you.

God is not mocked.
God is not an author of confusion.

Jesus Christ did not shield Himself from the people. When His disciples tried to prevent the poor from having access to Him, Jesus Christ rebuked them.
Read 12 tweets
16 Oct 21
There is an ongoing deliberate and likely sponsored campaign of propaganda and lies meant to discredit agitations by citizens for a better country.

The imbecilic views that agents of government are expressing in their desperation to stop the #EndSARS memorial is astonishing.
This tweet is an example of what I'm talking about. To the unsuspecting, the author of this tweet is intelligent, but any good student of history will easily decipher the mendacity and frivolity in it.
The military did not leave power out of pity, the military was chased out of power by courageous Nigerians who constantly went out to the streets to protest. Some of the protests were violent because the military, like the Buhari regime, had no respect for human rights.
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7 Oct 21
ARREST OF CHIWETALU AGU IS ILLEGAL AND UNCONSCIONABLE

By Inibehe Effiong

The harassment and arrest of celebrated Nollywood actor, Mr. Chiwetalu Agu, on Thursday, 7th October, 2021 by the Nigerian Army is illegal, unconscionable and unwarranted.
The actor has not committed any criminal offence known to law. The Nigerian Army should stop ridiculing itself before the international community.
Supposing without conceding that the dressing of the legendary actor amounts to "incitement" as claimed by the Army, it is the Nigeria Police that should have responded. There is no evidence of incitement against him. Nothing was inscribed on the said cloth to incite the public.
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