If a Nigerian desires jollof rice for breakfast, rice and fish stew for lunch, ofada rice for dinner, we must insist that he is not in the province of "peperipe peperipepe, no go dey do pass yosef." Trouble is not with this level of desire in the 21st century. Short thread.
We must insist: live within ur means is not the issue. A no-brainer. We must however not allow the mischievous owners of this message in the leadership and their social media army to get away with daylight conceptual armed robbery.
Jan 25, 2019 • 31 tweets • 5 min read
Nigerian Universities: Facts & Figures by ASUU Chairman Adebayo Oni.
1. Less than 10% of the universities have Video Conferencing facility.
2. Less than 20% of the universities use Interactive Boards
4. Internet Services are non-existent,or epileptic and slow IN 99% of Nigerian Universities
Dec 14, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Philosophically, tradermoni was bound to happen. When less than a million people have controlled the world's 6th largest supply of oil for 4 decades and locked out nearly 180 million people, that makes them one of the world's wealthiest elite.
2. That's a lot of money within this hermetic but sociopathic group comprising civilians and their enablers in the military. What you are witnessing with tradermoni is far more than the patronage of one political party. Those opposed to it in the other party are just forming.
Dec 12, 2018 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
1. Some ask: Pius, why do you hold such a low opinion of the Nigerian social and political elite as a collective? Primitive is your ever ready descriptor when you write about them as a collective. Why? I will answer with some illustrations. Come with me.
2.Throughout history, civilization has been measured in stages by man’s ability to impose order on primordial chaos by deploying his genius to exercise aesthetic authority & control over his environment. To this end, he innovates, invents tools.
Dec 10, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. Some people imagine that ownership of Nigeria is going to be a shoo-in for their kids. U parachute in ur kids after they receive d best education abroad, wangle them nepotistic jobs in CBN and other plum places where there is no level playing field for kids of d downtrodden.
2. The way u see it, while d kids of d downtrodden are N-Powered & tradermonied, ur own kids in rigged plum jobs are marking time, ready to move in, own Nigeria & become d masters of dis downtrodden kids u are using as internet trolls d way u are lord & master of their parents.
Nov 26, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Thread. 1. It is infuriating to hear from official griots: d Prez cannot restructure. Only NASS & state Houses of Assembly can. Face ur reps. And bla and bla and bla. Of course d Prez cannot restructure with a stroke of the pen. U think we are stupid? U think we don't know that?
2. The Prez cannot restructure is what is on paper. Nothing in Nigeria works that way. Everything in Nigeria works & moves in d direction that every institution in d polity, every branch of dat democracy, every herdified citizen believes to be d wish, will, & desire of the Prez.
Nov 16, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
1. The Failures of My Generation.
A great deal of what's on display in Nigeria is d tragic failure of my generation. We are d parents of these millennials openly defending political thieves & crooks. We were d last generation who had to account for every penny we brought home.
2. Where did you get your new shoes? Where did you get this? Where did you get that? Your accounting and accountability skills had to be impeccable. Failure to properly explain things could result in backhand slaps from your mom or koboko or pankere from your Dad.
Nov 16, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Thread.
I have now listened to @bukolasaraki's soundcloud audio of an address in Yoruba to his supporters in Ilorin. It is indeed a galling tell-all, a compelling compendium of his grievances and animus against President Buhari.
2. Predictably, Buharideens are gushing all over Facebook and Twitter. I suppose they see this in their usual one-track way: Saraki implicating himself. Evidently, they have not thought thru d full implications: they never think thru d implications of anything concerning Buhari.
Nov 16, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. Thread
My aburo, @ayosogunro's brilliant submissions on d damage we, diaspora Nigerians, sometimes do to the body politic reminds me of an essay I wrote back in 2013 entitled "Wish me What You Live Abroad or Get Thee Behind Me, Buddy". I want to thread excerpts from d essay.
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D Nigerian who is wrongly wired at home has a formidable ally abroad. This foreign-based ally of the home-based defender of the status quo is one of Nigeria’s most dangerous enemies. Unlike his partner at home, he does not possess the valuable excuse of ignorance.
Jun 2, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
1. If I had my way, I'd ban the word, 'empowerment', in Nigeria. Like everything they touch, Nigerian politicians have ruined it. It is now effectively part of the country's vast architecture of corruption & dehumanization of the masses.
2. You loot public funds with impunity. You impoverish the people to near extinction. You pauperize and diseducate them till they lose the cognitive capacity to recognize human dignity. Where poverty & hunger reside, human dignity is fanciful theory.
Apr 27, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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Someone asks me: what's your beef with Godswill Akpabio? In that question lies the apotheosis of the Nigerian tragedy. U say there is no security in d land. The Buharideen asks: what's ur beef with Buhari? Garbage in Lagos? What's your beef with Ambode? And patati. And patata.
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The funeral of civics is d best thing to happen to d Nigerian political office holder. I don't give a rat's ass about Godswill Akpabio so I have no beef or chicken or grasscutter with him or any politician. I just don't do nice with them cos of their collective report card.
