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@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
This thread confirms exactly what I've always believed they mean by "safe choice". "Safe choice" simply represents the same "I chop, you chop" style of governance that has crippled this country over the decades. This poster more or less confirms this with "economic liberalism" https://t.co/ojo7CUAhJu
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
that he inserted there. Nigerians will not vote for a man who represents the worst form of cronyist capitalism. PDP is merely a vehicle. If Atiku had won the APC primaries in 2015, he'd have been an APC president. Political parties represent nothing in Nigeria.
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
If Tinubu had the PDP ticket, would you still support him based on PDP's so-called economic liberalism despite the fact that he has a history of state capture? The flag bearer of the PDP is a man who inherited INTELS from Abacha after his death, a company that Abacha primed as a
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
siphoning tool through which he tunneled our commonwealth away from this country The same INTELS is what Atiku Abubakar continued to use in the same manner & purpose. There is an existing US senate committee report indictment on Atiku for this same matter. Used this company to
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
tunnel millions of dollars in illicit funds into the US to fund his 4th wife's lifestyle. If he took this risk to send over $48 million into a country with stringent laws like the US, just to fund a woman's lifestyle, you'd wonder what he sent to less stringent states like Dubai.
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
This is the same company that is rumoured to be involved in all sorts of illegal oil engagements in Nigeria. This is the same man who, according to the then Kaduna state governor, incited religious conflict in the ever volatile Kaduna state, just for the purpose of embarrassing
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
President Obasanjo. This is the same man who referred to the massacres in Southern Kaduna as mere "disturbances" This is the same man who panders so much to religious extremist votes that he had to delete his tweet condemning the mindless killing of Deborah, an innocent young
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
woman, then went on Facebook to apologise in Hausa language! Then went ahead to award the state governor, Tambuwal, with the position of his campaign DG, despite Deborah's killers still not being brought to justice! You want Nigerians to vote for a man who, by this action,
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
is guaranteed to keep overlooking such incidents as president because he'd need those votes for his reelection??? This man represents everything that is currently wrong with Nigeria fgs! From the widespread terrorism in the way of ethnoreligious massacres to the deep-rooted
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
corruption that plagues every single fvcking sector in this country! After the past 8 years that Nigerians have barely survived, you want us to hand over our country, yet again, to a man who believes in nothing other than the fulfillment of his lifelong ambition to be president!
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
There is nothing safe about the choice of Atiku as president of Nigeria! The PDP does not have any economic liberalism ideology! Atiku was old enough to know exactly what Buhari represents as a man, yet he crosse dover to APC, & worked assiduously to foist him on Nigerians,
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
then spent 5 of the next 8 years on a jamboree in Dubai, only to return just in time to contest successive elections! I want to make this abundantly clear to everyone who intends to vote Atiku Abubakar, & to everyone who may be considering this "safe choice" nonsense, there is
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
absolutely nothing safe about an Atiku Abubakar presidency! Do not say you were not warned! Bury those thoughts that tell you that if PO does not win, Atiku isn't such a bad option. Let me make it abundantly clear, Atiku & Tinubu are six & half a dozen!
@urchilla01 - KWEKU THE HUSTLER, FOCUSED ON DELIVERING OBIDATTI
This is a man who was able to loot so much funds as a sitting vice president with very little constitutional powers! You see all of that, and you think it's ok to then make him the C-in-C & hand over our resources to him???!!! You're either mad or terribly naive!
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Elrufai cannot plot a Palace coup against Buhari, gang up with 8 other northern governors, to form the infamous G9 governors, to betray Buhari, and expect Buhari not to fight back as the C-in-C of the country. He and his likes, believed Buhari will forgive them, & accept Tinubu.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
But the Buhari i know, doesn't forgive. He likes laughing last, & his dangerous laugh is always the loudest. The man will literally be pinching you, & be blowing the area breeze, so you don't feel the pain too much. As for Elrufai, he can rant to the high heavens, Buhari no send.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Shortly after the 2019 elections, president Buhari started knowing some truth about former president Goodluck Jonathan, and his government. He discovered that almost everything that was sold to him, and said to him about Jonathan were all lies, and propagandas.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Championed by Elrufai and Tinubu's camp in APC. Despite all the efforts Buhari's government made, in trying to indict Jonathan, they found nothing personally authentic, to hold him with. The pockets of corruption they were able to trace, where traced to his appointees.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
All the alleged threats, & misuse of state powers, were all discovered to be lies. Elrufai lied to Nigerians, why Tinubu was busy using the media, to spread propaganda against Jonathan. But the most shocking of all to Buhari is, Jonathan left government, and kept his mouth shut.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Jonathan was doing well internationally, representing Nigeria as an elder statesman, an international envoy, well accepted and respected by the international community. Buhari needed someone who can reunite the country in all fronts, across religious, ethnic and political lines.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
As his successor, but not at the detriment of the North. He saw that person only in Jonathan. Who can be widely accepted as president, and still command the respect & love of the entire country. He secretly picked Jonathan as his successor, and kept it a secret to a few persons.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
To be continued by 9pm.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
But above all, he has just 4 years to steady the sinking ship. To repair Nigeria, revive her dying economy, reunite the country, and conduct a free, fair, credible, and transparent election, just as he did in 2015, that will eventually benefit a Northerner.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
So Buhari settled for Jonathan, and the modalities, on how to perfect his plans started. Elrufai is a product of Atiku Abubakar, who jumped ship, to be loyal to Obasanjo, after Atiku brought him into government. Atiku recommended for appointment, as the head of BPE to Obasanjo.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Atiku also recommended him to for appointment as FCT minister, when Obasanjo asked for a strong person to implement Abuja Original master plan, without fear. But Elrufai betrayed Atiku, to pledged his loyalty to Obasanjo. He went behind to backstab Atiku, before Obasanjo.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
That is who Elrufai is. When he was booted out of government, he started his lies. Using ethic Fulani's as his lying tool. Buhari being a man who doesn't joke with his ethic group, both in Nigeria, and abroad, brought Elrufai close to himself, as someone who champions
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
The fight, of the Fulani people. Politically, he became Buhari's political Godson, because Buhari was based in Kaduna by then. They held different political meetings, Buhari and his CPC members, of which Elrufai became part of them. He lying everyday about Fulani oppression,
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
In the hands of Jonathan's government. How Jonathan was killing Muslims and Fulani's. Lagos media, and political structure, now saw him as a very useful propaganda mechine, to be used. Both Elrufai and Tinubu's camp sold all sorts of negative narratives against Jonathan's govt.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Buhari believed them, because Elrufai is a Muslim, whom Buhari never expected to be lying to him. So when Buhari secretly settled for Jonathan, he told Elrufai his political Godson, his plan and choice in confidence. That Elrufai should keep it as a secret, why he works it out.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Because Jonathan was still a member of the PDP then, they have to look for a balance. How he can decamp without raising eyebrows. Jonathan personally asked for the assurance of the president about this, and the party chairman on the promise. Because he doesn't want any disgrace.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
He was assured of the president blessings, and extra assurance. That his good reputation will not be trashed in the dustbin. For president Buhari to assure Jonathan about his promise, he promised Jonathan to make him a consensus candidate of the APC without primaries.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
So Buhari started to push for a consensus APC candidates, whom he will hand pick. When Buhari took his choice of successor serious, just as he did with the new APC chairman, whom he succeeded in hand picking, Elrufai knew Buhari is serious, and wants to make Jonathan president.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Now the plot to scuttle Jonathan's candidacy through negative media remarks, started. Meanwhile Buhari has set motion in place, through his boys in government, for people to protest to Jonathan's house, to ask him to run for president. But unknown to Buhari, Elrufai has sold out.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
To be continued tomorrow by 8am. Sorry about the typos if any. I didn't edit.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
The whole idea was, for ordinary Nigerians to have that believe or mindset that, Jonathan was actually pressured to come out and run, for president, even against his wish. So it will justify him, when he eventually declares for APC. But unknown to them, Elrufai had other plans.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Elrufai was nursing the ambition to be vice president in 2023, if he can successfully plan a Palace coup, that can outsmarts, Buhari plan. He had Ameachi, or Tinubu as his best bet, to achieving that dream. So he opposed Buhari's selection of Jonathan, as his successor.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
He fell out with Buhari's cabal members, (kitchen cabinet) He led a rebellion against Buhari's choice of candidate, Elrufai alongside some governors. They insisted that, there will be no consensus candidates. It must be party primaries, or nothing. He was banished from the villa
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
The controversy & uproar became so much over Jonathan candidacy, led by Elrufai. Jonathan had to meet with Buhari, to inform him on his loss of interest, & withdrawal from the race. Because he is not ready to taint his image. Since his consensus candidacy can't be guaranteed.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Jonathan left the picture quietly. Buhari now settled for senate president Ahmed Lawan, as his preferred successor, for the APC presidential ticket, and also for power to remain in the North, haven known that Atiku will emerge from the PDP. He was hoping for a Northest contest.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Buhari also insisted on consensus candidacy, so Ahmed lawan, can easily clinch the APC ticket, but governor Elrufai again, now leading a group of 9 politically scheming governors, G9, vehemently opposed president Buhari's request.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
While insisting that Power must be zoned to the south, and the APC presidential candidate, must be decided by party primaries. They became the 9 wise men, from the North. According to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu's camp. They are governors of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, kwara, Niger,
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Plateau, Nasarawa, Zamfara, & Borno state. Elrufai led a very strong rebellion, this time around against President Buhari's choice of Ahmed lawan. All efforts by president Buhari to settle with them, was bluffed. While behind Elrufai and other G9 governors negotiated for VP slot.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Tinubu personally promised the whole G9 governors, the vice presidential slot, unknown, if they work for his emergence as APC presidential flag bearer. They became radicals, as Buhari insists on Ahmed lawan, & consensus. Buhari now directed the APC chairman, to handle his request
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
To be continued and concluded by 7pm. How the APC fued led to the new naira redesign policy, to clip the wings of those governors.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
The APC governors eventually had their way. It was time for the APC presidential primaries. Eagle Square was boiling up with uncertainty. Tinubu's G9 governors prior to the primaries, have been building and mending bridges for their candidate, by arranging for delegates.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
There was too much dollars to play around with, at the Eagle Square, to induce delegates for votes. But no one saw Tinubu's masterstroke before he unleashed it. While other APC presidential aspirants were busy negotiating for votes to buy, from statutory delegates,
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Tinubu openly bought over his fellow Aspirants, by reaching a late agreement with them to step down. He refunded everyone of them the 100 million they paid for party ticket, he paid them double the amount they had spent on delegates, with political promises to go with.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
One by one, 7 of them stepped down for Tinubu on live TV, & handed over their delegates to him. But behind the scene, they were handsomely rewarded. That was the masterstroke that gave Tinubu the APC presidential party ticket. The like of Ameachi & Osinbajo didn't see that coming
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
1. Are you worried about the ferocity of the political class and how they will offer violent resistance against Peter Obi? Let me help you worry less. Come with me to Anambra just at the turn of the century from 2003. Grab a drink, it’s a long thread.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
2. The dedication you see today is the product of a deliberate and principled life. PO’s confidence is not the bravado of someone who doesn’t understand what they were getting into. It was forged in the fire of stiff resistance of brutal players in Anambra State politics.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
3. Players who thought PO was a pushover. His small voice deceived them. They had already burnt the Anambra State govt house, kidnapped the sitting governor before him, tossing the man unceremoniously in the boot of a car! Never happened anywhere in Nigeria before or since.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
4. So brazen were they. A proper law unto themselves. They forced previous governors to pay them heavily each month. Got so bad that schools couldn’t find money to pay teachers leading to strikes that had lasted 2 years. Few civil servants got paid anything in those dark days.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
5. School buildings crumbled from disuse, became overgrown with tall grass and bred snakes. The godfathers didn’t care. As long as they had access to the statutory allocations, Anambra could burn to the ground. Her people needed their own grit and industry to survive.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
6. The godfathers effectively put the Harvard-educated Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju in their pockets until his forgettable tenure ended. Then they ordained a certain diminutive man as their next figurehead. One Dr Chris Ngige, a firebrand in his own right.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
7. To tame him, they took him to a shrine to swear allegiance under the pain of supernatural death. As God would have it, running against their candidate was a soft spoken 46-yr old Peter Obi. The Anambra State cabals wrote off his idealism as naïveté.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
8. So when PO flooded the state with posters asking, “Is Anambra cursed or are we the cause?”, they laughed him to scorn. With time, as the young PO went into the deepest parts of Anambra asking his poser, the message began to resonate. The people had found a champion.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
9. On election day, Anambra people came out en-masse to vote for Peter Obi who was flying the flag of a little known party called APGA. This was significant. Pay attention. Chukwuemeka Ojukwu (APGA) was on the ballot as president against Obasanjo of PDP same party as Ngige.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
10. Obasanjo (PDP) won against Ojukwu (APGA) in Anambra state! But Peter Obi (APGA) won against Chris Ngige (PDP). Remarkable. Such was PO’s allure even in those days. Anyway, the cabal struck. They did their voodoo and boom Chris Ngige became governor.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
11. They reckoned that Peter Obi would just go back to his banking after they had delivered their masterclass of election black magic. But they underestimated the stubbornness of the young bank chairman who took the matter to court where it worked up the process from 2003 - 2006
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
12. Meanwhile the state was overrun by criminals who had steadily lost all conscience. Upper Iweka in Onitsha was an eyesore that was a breeding ground for the underworld. Children had already dropped out of school in record numbers. But for the boy-boy system of apprenticeship,
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
13. Anambra would have totally gone to the dogs. You remember the governor-kidnap I spoke about, it was Chris Ngige. The man had grown a conscience. The plight of his people broke his heart and he severed the tentacles draining the treasury. He dared the Okija shrine
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
14. upon which he swore to take him. He leaned heavily on the premise that if you did right by the people as a leader they will bestow you with real power and legitimacy. And they did. For the first time in a long time, Ndị Anambra saw some reprieve.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
15. The cabals didn’t plan to walk off into the night. They engineered breathtaking violence in Anambra to hobble the governor, but the man refused to cave. Soon it didn’t matter. The Supreme Court ruled in Peter Obi’s favour. That was how PO became governor after 3 years.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
16. No one gave the humble Peter Obi a chance. Who was he going to convince with that tiny voice? He had no one in his corner. No House member from APGA. The cabal couldn’t believe their luck or so it seemed. Until the young man went to work.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
17. He cut expenses and channels of embezzlement like a frenzied farmer in a field of weeds. No avenue of illicit gains was spared. Bloody hell! This wasn’t in the script. He stopped padded budgets mid-flight and cut them to the bone.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
18. ₦430m for govt house was built completely with about ₦80m. To make matters worse, he was practicing some nonsense he called capital formation i.e. saving 15% of revenue. What the actual hell! Time to act. They activated their stooges in the House, who themselves were
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
19. feeling the pinch. “Get that bonzo out!”, was the order. Sure enough the House convened an impeachment hearing. But even then they had taken some liking to him. Honesty does that to you. In their “mercy”, they told Peter Obi to reverse himself. Leave the padded budgets
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
20. as they were & forget that nonsense about savings. Using his tiny voice, young PO refused. O well, they tried, they assured themselves. The gavel came down. He was impeached. Did PO lay down & die? Of course not. He headed back to court & got his mandate back after 3 months.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
21. There are many more things that read like heart-thumping thriller but let’s leave them here for now. Just know that when he was done, Anambra went from 26th to 1st in education in his first 3 years, had the best rural road network, arrested erosion, became cleanest,
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
22. became safest & many more. The man placed his final signature as governor in 2014 on a handover note containing savings of ₦75b (about ₦290bn today) including other investments. All without borrowing. This is world class stewardship in any jurisdiction on earth. Legendary!
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
23. Peter Obi is a man of principles and effortless integrity. He has a lot of courage. He’s as clean as a whistle. He conquered greed. When he says he will do the right thing, it’s not a joke. It has the force of conviction backed by a lived experience that is extraordinary.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
24. But do you know his ultimate super power? YOU 🫵🏽! YOU will vote for him. YOU will be his critic & praise singer. When deviants rise against his good policies, YOU will deny them agency because YOU have the power.
@jollynony - naijaPatriot
CORRECTION: Peter Obi was 41 years old on election day 2003.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
There is a sitting Governor, who seriously crying more than other Governors in Nigeria, over the current Naira redesign policy. So i decided to dig a little, to know if there are other reasons, why he is crying more, outside politics. What i discovered is truly shocking. Thread
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
I discovered that this governor is under heavy pressure from bandits, over the naira redesign policy. Because all the billions they made from kidnapping ransom, is now useless in their hands. They are threatening the gov with massacre, if he allows their billions to be useless.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
This governor is among those, who travelled outside Nigeria, to neighbouring west African countries, to invite these bandits, in 2014, because of 2015 election. But since the evil plan they had was just defeated by a phone call, those bandits became useless. But they refuse to go
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
After paying the bandits free money for sometime, for doing nothing in Nigeria, the governor couldn't sustain the payment, and the bandits refused to go. That led to quarrels, that scattered the relationship with this governor and his armed ethic brothers, from other countries.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Some left, while some joined other willing tools like them, who are Nigerian, to venture into banditry, cattle rustling, Kidnapping, & all sorts of crimes. They later become a thorn in the flesh of this said governor. His state became the headquarters of kidnapping in Nigeria.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
These bandits used his state as safe heaven, as they attack and kidnap at will. They did some high profile kidnappings, which generated billions of naira for them in ransom. Different bandit groups. With this new naira redesign policy, 80% of their ransom cash, is now useless.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
The governor who knows that those bandits, had made billions from kidnapping, which stopped their financial burden & stress on him, is scared of their threats. He is now fighting federal govt, to allow the use of new & old note until whenever all the old notes are retrieved.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
He is masquerading with politics, crying more than the presidential candidate of his party uncontrollably, even more than every other governor in Nigeria, that his people are suffering. while behind the scene, he is fighting for bandits not to lose their blood gotten ransoms.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
He even went further to ask his people to spend, & use the old naira notes, that after his party candidate wins the election, he will upturn the naira redesign policy. That message was actually directed to bandits & kidnappers not to worry. That he will secure their ransoms.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
He threatened banks, to revoke their C of O, if they don't accept the new old naira notes. He has directed government departments and agencies, to accept the old naira note for businesses. He has threatened his state citizens with arrest, if they refuse the old naira notes.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Nigerians should ask this governor, what is his business with kidnappers and bandits. Why is there too much blood shed in his state. Since the new naira redesign policy started, Kidnapping has reduced almost to zero percent, in his state, and this governor is not happy.
@Truthfully83 - 99% OPPRESSED
Because it's like his people in the underworld, are currently unemployed. This governor is using politics to make noise, go to radio, & TV stations, even headed to court over the new naira policy, in the name of politics. But it is far from it. He is crying more for Bandits.
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
Jack you have done justice but let me add to it. Adebayo Success lives around my house in Adekunle street Oshodi. After Adebayo Success retired, Baba Daniel took over the union in Oshodi, Baba Daniel brought in Mc Oluomo, Talo Skibo, General, Nah Yam & a host of them. https://t.co/m5gWl3AzNg
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
Most of the union today started as street guys collecting ticket money from market women in Oshodi. The leader then is Ajagbe Bornboy with his brother Austin. Then there are diff factions with their territory, we have Lion junction, Dikort, 36 Kiniun, 52 Tambolo & host of others.
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
Bornboy is an Igbo man who ruled Oshodi then, & they all reported to Baba Daniel, then Oshodi is very volatile & hot that they snatched phones and neck chains freely. After Bornboy went back to his town to contest for LG Chairman, Talo Skibo took over but his reign didn't last
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
Because he's arrogant & stingy so he was removed. That was how Mc Oluomo took over the leadership of Oshodi NURTW, Mc Oluomo is someone who's cool, generous as he distributed the junction among all the factions so it makes it easy to assume the leadership position easily.
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
In the long run, Mc Oluomo became NURTW treasurer, so from treasurer he assumed the leadership position as the interim Chairman Lagos NURTW because election was not held because of crisis between him & Kunle Poly. Mc Oluomo became prominent due to his generosity towards people.
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
Mc Oluomo isn't notorious, most of the happenings attributed to him were false. Mc only became popular becos he spent money for musicians who sang his praises, helped many Nollywood actors & he's generous who's not greedy as most of his boys thrive under him so they became loyal.
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
When Tinubu became governor in 1999, he disbanded them but NURTW took Lagos state to court and won becos they were a registered trade union. Lagos state has to manage them which is the best way to reduce their vices in society & this works. Tinubu changes a lot about Lagos.
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
The narrative that Tinubu brought Agbero to Lagos & empowered them is a blatant lie, small boys & girls who are toddlers & didn't know what Lagos looks like will be giving false narrative but when people like us counter it many in uncouth youth will be insulting us on SM.
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
A lot of propaganda, fake news about Tinubu has been sold to the GenZ especially the lies that come from those who came to Lagos a few years ago from East & don't know how Lagos used to be. Many don't know what transports in Lagos are like before during the time of rugged Molue.
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
Lagos NURTW isn't notorious. The real union is in Ibadan during the time of Akinsola Tokyo, to Elewe Omo & now to one of their boys back then Mukaila Auxiliary who headed Oyo pack management now. Tokyo rules like military govt, anytime they want to overthrow him people get killed
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
One time they wanted to overthrow him, he was in his office with one of his female friends, they gained access to his office & he escaped but the female was hacked to death, all the cars in the compound were destroyed. That's how serious it was back then, but they didn't succeed
@Princekunle - Adekunle (MJ)
It was always infighting from Molete to Iwo road it's so bad then so NURTW Hq from Abuja has to suspend Tokyo & forced him out of chairman because he's been ruling for over 20yrs, Elewe Omo took over still the same problem until Ajimobi banned them & normalcy returned to Ibadan.
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
DISSECTING THE PETITION OF THE LABOUR PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: PART 4 By Michael Chibuzo CONCLUSION From the contents of the entire petition filed by Mr. Peter Obi and the Labour Party, it is very glaring that the legal team of the Petitioners are simply.... A Thread
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
2/ ...embarking on a judicial voyage to entertain their fans and supporters and manage their post-election disappointment in addition to keeping them engaged with talking points until the next election cycle. When you look at all the prayers and alternative prayers contained...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
3/ ...the petition, it smacks of clout chasing or what the Gen Z will call cruise. In the entire petition for instance, the only places where the petitioners made any reasonable attempt to dispute the result of the election as announced by INEC were in Rivers State and...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
4/ ...Benue State, where they claimed they won by polling 205,110 votes and 329,003 votes respectively. In both places, the President-elect was declared winner by INEC. Ironically, the petitioners based their claim on the output of same collation process they are trying to...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
5/ ...discredit due to the slow upload of electronically transmitted results from the polling units to the IREV portal. The petitioners also cannot in good conscience claim or prove they got up to 25% of the votes cast in Sokoto (6568 out of the 586,785 total votes)...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
6/ ...Zamfara (1660 out of 498,078 total votes), Kebbi (10682 out of the 548,983 total votes), Katsina (6376 out of the 1,047,090 total votes), Kano (28,513 out of the 1,674,849 total votes; even PDP couldn't secure 25% here), Jigawa (1889 out of the 908,100 total votes)...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
7/ ...Niger (80,452 out of the 762,369 total votes; the modest votes here is due to FCT factor), Gombe (26,160 out of the 502,780 total votes), Kwara (31,116 out of the 434,738 total votes), Borno (7,205 out of the 455,034 total votes), Yobe (2,406 out of the 370,702 total votes)
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
8/ ...Kogi (56,217 out of the 446,310 total votes), Adamawa (105,648 out of the 714,146 total votes; the votes reflected the sizeable Christian population in the state) and Bauchi (27,373 out of the 842,777 total votes) states where even the deaf and blind know its difficult...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
9/ ...for the petitioner to garner one quarter of the votes cast due to the kind of rhetoric and message of the Candidate during the campaigns which would not have gotten wide support from the voters in these states. Subtract these 14 states from 37 states (including the FCT)...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
10/ ...and you're left with 23 states. Therefore, before you even begin to subtract the South West States of Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo where the petitioner also failed to get 25%, he has already failed to meet the minimum spread required by the Constitution. One is now...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
11/ ...left scratching the head to understand how exactly the petitioner feels he won the election going strictly by the contents of his petition. A look at the presidential election results from the 36 states and the FCT, one can clearly see that it reflects the accurate...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
12/ ...voting pattern in these areas. The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was able to win because he went out to compete for votes in five out of the six geopolitical zones. In the North West, he won two states and came a very close 2nd position in the other five...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
13/ ...states where PDP or NNPP won. Overall, he got the highest number of votes in the North West. In the North Central, the President-elect equally had a very dominant showing, winning four states (Kwara, Niger, Kogi and Benue) out of the seven states while finishing...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
14/ ...a close second in Plateau and Nasarawa States. In the North East Alhaji Atiku Abubakar won in five out of the six states in his home region with the President-elect winning only Borno States where his running mate comes from. That notwithstanding, President-elect Tinubu...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
15/ ...finished second in Bauchi, Adamawa, Gombe and Yobe states while getting 27% of the votes in Taraba State just behind @PeterObi who finished 2nd with 29% of the votes. Now, when you look at the performance of the petitioner in the entire 19 northern states, you will...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
16/ ...see a predictable pattern - he won in Nasarawa, Plateau and the FCT and was runner up in Benue and Taraba States. Plateau, Benue and Taraba are states with Christian majority, which made many embrace his message in protest to the same faith ticket of the APC.
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
17/ ...The victory of the petitioner in Nasarawa state may be surprising to many but on a closer analysis you will immediately understand what transpired. The state has a very sizeable Christian population and tend to be pro-PDP. In the 2023 polls, @officialABAT polled 172,922...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
18/ ..while Atiku of the PDP polled 147,093 votes. The petitioner, Mr. Obi won by polling 191,361 votes. When you combine the votes of PDP and APC in the state, you will get 320,015 votes. In 2015 when President Buhari squared against President Jonathan, Jonathan won Nasarawa...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
19/ ...after polling 273,460 votes while Buhari got 236,838 votes. In 2019, Buhari won Nasarawa State for the first time by polling 289,903 votes while Atiku Abubakar came a close second with 283,847 votes - a difference of 6,000 votes. So, in 2023 what happened basically...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
20/ ...was that the Christian bloc votes (who were usually pro-PDP) went to the petitioner who emerged as the third force and appealed to their Christian sentiment. The APC and the PDP were then left to split the usually Muslim majority votes of 320,015 votes. So, we can...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
21/ ...now see the @PeterObi win in Nasarawa state from the proper prism. When we come to the South, the President-elect won four out of the six states in his South West geopolitical zone, losing Lagos and Osun States narrowly to the @PeterObi and Atiku Abubakar respectively.
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
22/ In the South South, the President-elect was declared winner in Rivers State (contested by the petitioner) and finished second in Akwa Ibom ahead of the petitioner who failed to get 25% in the state. In Bayelsa, the President-elect finished 3rd in a close contest just...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
23/ ...behind @PeterObi but got 25% of the votes while in Cross River State, the President-elect finished second with 31% behind the petitioner who won the State. In Edo State, the President-elect equally finished behind @PeterObi in 2nd even though he failed to secure 25%...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
24/ ...of the votes just like in Delta State. In the South East, the home region of the Petitioner, he performed very well by winning the five states in a landslide (it is ironic that the petitioner did not question the results from most states in the South East, where...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
25/ ...the collation process followed the same manual method INEC used across the country and where upload of the already electronically transmitted polling unit results to the IREV portal were equally delayed like in other parts of the country). Despite the poor showing of...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
26/ ...@officialABAT in the South East, the President-elect still finished 2nd in Imo and Ebonyi States and equally finished 2nd overall in the South East. We can see clearly from the above breakdown that the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu won 3 geopolitical zones...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
27/ ...and finished second in the other three that he did not win. That's how to achieve national spread and win a Presidential election! Now, when you factor all these voting patterns, you will see that the pathway of victory of the President-elect is as clear as broad day light
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
28/ ...and then you begin to wonder why exactly the petitioners really think they have a case if not to keep their base engaged and sell a fleeting hope to them. When you marry the three grounds upon which the petition is built, the pathway the petitioner is attempting to...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
29/ ...cling on becomes obvious. @PeterObi is simply trying to bring the court to disqualify the President-elect on the grounds of alleged double nomination of his running mate & alleged fine of $460,000 handed to the 2nd Respondent in 1993 (29 years ago) by a Court in Illinois.
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
30/ Then if, in the unlikely event that the 2nd Respondent is disqualified, it means his votes are removed from the equation and the votes that would remain principally will be that of the Petitioner and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the first runner-up in the election. Even at that...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
31/ ...a recalculation of the 25% spread will still not see the petitioners meeting the 24 state threshold stipulated in the Constitution. This is why @PeterObi is equally asking the court to extract some votes from the 2nd Respondent before he is disqualified by alleging...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
32/ ...that many of his votes were unlawfully credited to the 2nd Respondent in many polling units. Unfortunately for the petitioners, even that is not enough to enable him meet the requirements of Section 134(2) hence his alternative prayers to the court to cancel the entire...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
33/ ...election and mandate INEC to conduct a fresh election in which the 2nd Respondent, President-elect Bola Tinubu will not be participating (having been disqualified based on ground 1 of their petition). @PeterObi in another alternative prayer begs the court instead...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
34/ ...to order for a runoff election between him and the next nearest challenger, @atiku in the event that the court determines that none of the remaining candidates met the requirement of Section 134(2) of the Constitution. @PeterObi did not claim that BVAS did not work...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
35/ ...which means it should be easy for them prove their claims of vote rigging and reallocation if they have any credible evidence. However, to me, this is perhaps the biggest election petition circus we will witness in our democratic history. Inasmuch as I am glad that...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
36/ ...the petition as shallow and disjointed as it is, will afford the judiciary the opportunity to further cement the interpretation of Section 134(2)b, I believe that our democratic process would have benefited more if the Petitioner simply did the honourable thing and placed
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
37/ ...a call conceding defeat to the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the moment it became obvious that he had lost. This would have afforded the nation the golden opportunity to build on the success of the BVAS and fix few of the loopholes and logistical challenges...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
38/ ...identified in the Presidential Election. However, it is still a good thing for aggrieved parties to seek redress in court instead of the streets, even though the action and utterances of @PeterObi and Datti Ahmed since their defeat, notwithstanding their petition in court
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
39/ ...against the outcome of the election, has been so toxic and inciting with a clear calculated attempt at rubbishing the credibility of the judiciary and hence lay the ground work for discrediting the anticipated verdict from the courts which will definitely dismiss their...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
40/ ...suit and uphold the electoral victory of the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I therefore implore Nigerians to keep faith with our burgeoning democracy, frustrate the sinister agenda of anti-democratic elements bent on foisting an interim national government...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
41/ ...on Nigeria and join hands with the President-elect @officialABAT and Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima as they lead us in this great journey of National Hope Renewal. It is time to lower the temperature, discard the toxic rhetorics and join hands to kick start the...
@Green_rebel234 - Asiwaju Hype Man®
42/ ...great Nigerian industrial and agricultural revolution that will deliver shared prosperity to all Nigerians. Let's do this for the love of country and for our future generations!
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
A review published by @CellCellPress shows mask-wearing may contribute to stillbirths, irreversible cognitive deficits in children, testicular dysfunction, and much more. This suggests the ethical principle "first, do no harm" was violated by mask mandates. Thread.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Before beginning, I want to point out that during the pandemic, I dismissed others' concerns about the topic and insisted on masking. I masked my children in public and I regret doing so. Anti-maskers made me angry. I was wrong. I am sorry. Now, the thread:
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
- "She is breath of fresh air!" - "Would you like to go outside and get some fresh air?" In the English language, there are many phrases and idioms that hint at the beneficial effects of the outside air well-being, equating fresh air with relief.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
What if these turns of phrase actually reflect an underlying biological reality? What if our common expressions reflect important facts about human health?
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
There is a large body of literature suggesting just that. This article from @TheAtlantic, published just months before mask mandates would become the rage among America's elites, examined the question with respect to cognition thoroughly and came to disturbing conclusions.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
At its essence, it cites a number of papers to show, roughly, what this systematic review showed: Elevated CO2 levels, up to 0.5% (5000 ppm; normal atmospheric CO2 is 350 ppm, or 0.035%), impair cognition, mainly of the higher forms of decision-making. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32557862/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32557862/
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
One notable study was this one from investigators from Harvard and Syracuse (ref: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/27662232/4892924.pdf?sequence=1…). In it, investigators a strong dose-response relationship between CO2 levels and multiple cognitive domains in the research subjects, illustrated below: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/27662232/4892924.pdf?sequence=1).
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Note that the "high CO2 condition" was only 1500 ppm, or 0.15% CO2. This will become relevant in a moment. This brings us to masking.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Masking has long been insisted to provide benefits to reducing Covid transmission, without downsides. "What's the harm?" It was demanded. The harm has to do with CO2, the levels of which can become very high and cause serious health problems.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
This was the subject of this explosive new paper published in @CellCellPress and the subject of this thread. https://www.cell.com/heliyon/fulltext/S2405-8440(23)01324-5
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
This paper starts by noting that the 8-hour threshold limit for safe CO2 concentrations by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is 0.5%. The 15-minute threshold limit is 3%. The concentration at which death occurs is about 10%.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
The paper reviewed studies examining CO2 concentrations under or near masks and found that they far exceeded even the 15-minute safety threshold set by NIOSH: 0.42-0.94% 2.8-3.2% 0.22-0.29% 2.8% 1.41-1.7% 2.4-2.6% 2.8-3.2% 1.28-3.52% Here's the table:
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Note that one study did find concentrations of only 0.22-0.29%. This was the only study that measured CO2 at the bridge of the mask, which may have artificially reduced the CO2 levels and not reflected those that are inhaled.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Otherwise, virtually all studies exceeded the 8-hour CO2 exposure safety threshold of 0.5% set by NIOSH. Most even exceeded the 15-minute CO2 exposure safety threshold.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
These are the same masks that were mandated for everyone to wear publicly during the pandemic, and which many people wore all day long.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
(As an aside, this increase in inhaled CO2 occurs because masks provide breathing resistance and create a dead space that traps CO2.)
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Now compare these values to the highest values in ppm from the Harvard/Syracuse study that showed strong effects on cognition: 1500 ppm, or 0.15%.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
These studies show up to 3.52% inhaled CO2, which translates to 35200ppm. This is 23 times higher than the highest CO2 concentrations (1500 ppm) from the Harvard/Syracuse study at which cognitive impairment was found in a dose-response manner. This is a disturbing finding.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Next, the study authors asked whether the current research literature shows that these masked CO2 concentrations actually produce increases in blood CO2 levels. After all, maybe the CO2 measured under the mask might be high, but this might not translate to elevated blood CO2.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
The studies reviewed showed a very robust increase in blood CO2 levels. Table below:
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
But do these elevations in blood CO2 levels correspond to the very high CO2 concentrations seen in inhaled CO2 in the first table we showed? The answer is yes.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
To see this, here's the abstract from a 1967 study conducted by the U.S. military where they put human subjects in 3% CO2. It shows a virtually identical 3-4 mmHg increase in arterial CO2 as many of the mask studies shown in the table immediately above.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
In fact, many of the mask studies report a significantly higher elevation in arterial CO2 than 3-4 mmHg, suggesting the possibility that the inhaled CO2 is even higher than the 3-3.5% measured by most of the studies we have seen before.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Finally, the authors reviewed studies conducted on animals that investigated asked at what CO2 levels animals show adverse health effects. It found:
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
0.48% CO2 for 10 minutes per day for 20 days in pregnant guinea pigs caused stillbirth and birth defects in 68% of the pups. I have screenshotted these remarkable and disturbing findings, provided in the image below. Reference: https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDetail/PB80104615.xhtml https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDetail/PB80104615.xhtml
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
😷3% CO2 (equivalent 0.8% for humans) chronically in pregnant rats caused stillbirth and birth defects Reference: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA583166.pdf
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
😷0.3% CO2 (chronically, pregnant rats): Brain damage, increased anxiety, impaired memory and learning in rat pups born to mothers chronically exposed to 0.3% CO2 during pregnancy Reference: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/10520295.2013.872298
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
😷0.3% CO2 (chronically, young mice): Brain damage, increased anxiety, impaired memory and learning in young mice chronically exposed to 0.3% CO2 during development to adulthood Reference: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/10520295.2013.825318
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
😷2.5% (0.5% for humans) (4 hours, male mice): Destruction of testicular cells and sperm in adult male mice exposed to 2.5% CO2 for just 4 hours. Reference: https://rep.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/rep/28/3/jrf_28_3_019.xml Table below:
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
The authors noted that some animal research resulted in a recommendation by the U.S. Navy to keep CO2 concentrations on submarines below 0.8%. This research found at 3% CO2, rat mothers miscarried and gave birth to pups with deformities. This makes inhaled CO2 a teratogen.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Therefore the Navy set the limit at 0.8% to account for species differences and protect female Navy sailors. 0.8%! Recall that most masking studies saw concentrations of inhaled CO2 far above 0.8%. See, again, below. What are the implications for pregnant women?
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Here are a few studies. First, here is a study conducted in pregnant women using N95s, looking at exhaled O2 and CO2. It clearly shows an impact of the N95s on these exhaled gases. Reference: https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-015-0086-z https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-015-0086-z
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Second, confirming this effect is this remarkable paper, showing an increase in red blood cells in women during the period of heavy mask use in Israel. Reference: https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijgo.13715
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
This study is a confirmation of the above data because it demonstrates a robust physiological compensation to low blood oxygen.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
However, we do not have any good evidence in pregnant women (or, in the parlance of the present age: pregnant people who can become pregnant) of the long-term effects of mask-wearing and therefore no evidence that these effects occur in women.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
All we have are animal studies and a clear indication that changes in CO2 concentrations do occur in mask-wearing women.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
It therefore seems reasonable to say, given this evidence gap, that benefits to mask-wearing should be clearly demonstrated to justify mandates. We will return to this.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Let's loop back to the beginning. We mentioned that cognitive impairment occurred at just 0.15% CO2 in a substantial body of human research Yet as we have seen in the masking studies, inhaled CO2 can exceed 3%. Is there any evidence that masking can impair cognition?
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
This recent study suggests that there is. It showed that chess players wearing masks made significantly worse decisions. This is consistent with evidence showing that high CO2 concentrations impair decision-making processes. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2206528119
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
This finding is confirmed in this abstract, showing that prolonged masking modestly impaired cognition.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Other, more short-term studies found no significant effect, which may be due to the duration of mask-wearing and its impact on oxygenation. See, e.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7844352/
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Surveys confirm these findings among healthcare workers. In one survey of 343 nurses during the Covid pandemic, more than 90% reported adverse effects after wearing an N95 respirator on shift. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bdea/3aef30775ad4505dc7a7c19e9b41ff89baef.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bdea/3aef30775ad4505dc7a7c19e9b41ff89baef.pdf
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Headache was by far the most common adverse effect reported, which is believed to be caused by dilation of the brain's blood vessels in response to elevated CO2--the same mechanism by which caffeine withdrawal causes headache. Reference: https://link.springer.com/article/10.2165/00139709-200524040-00003 https://link.springer.com/article/10.2165/00139709-200524040-00003
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Skin breakdown was also remarkably common among these nurses. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bdea/3aef30775ad4505dc7a7c19e9b41ff89baef.pdf As was acne.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Yet a full quarter of nurses also reported noticeably impaired cognition, consistent with what we saw reported above.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Another study among healthcare workers showed similarly high rates of adverse effects among operating room workers, with these increasing over time. By 4 hours, the majority of workers (70%) had some adverse effects. https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9047907/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9047907/
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
This brings us to a recent meta-analysis published on the topic. Most "debunkings" on this platform focused on the SpO2 reading changes, but the other outcomes were more important since they actually affected the experience of subjects.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Is masking harmless? New systematic review and meta-analysis of masking shows: ⬇️blood oxygenation ⬆️blood CO2, heart rate, blood pressure PLUS⬆️risk: Difficulty breathing Discomfort Headache Acne Skin irritation Voice disorder Dizziness And much more https://frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1125150/full
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
The findings in the above meta-analysis are consistent across a wide variety of research publications and are not really disputable. The methodology of the meta-analysis might have been poor, but that doesn't change the fact that the substance of the findings is largely correct.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
As a side note, the modest impact of surgical masking on SpO2 and the irrelevance thereabout could be gleaned by just a passing familiarity with the masking literature. https://scielo.isciii.es/pdf/neuro/v19n2/3.pdf
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
This brings us to the final and most important point. Only two of sixteen randomized controlled trials on masks for infection prevention have shown modest benefits. Meta-analysis, furthermore, does not show any benefit of mask-wearing for this purpose.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
Why therefore, given the above documented and potential harms of masking, were mandates thought to be justified? Here Rochelle Walensky from CDC lies and says that there was no equipoise, meaning there was no debate that mask benefits exceeded harms.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
However, as we have seen, harms of masking are clearly substantial and even potentially serious, while benefits are unestablished. Why therefore were mask mandates implemented?
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
In short, we can speculate that this was done because pandemic policy was woke: so overwhelmed by emotional considerations, critical thinking about risks and benefits was bulldozed:
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
This kind of mass psychosis, thankfully, occurred only in the context of a mild pandemic and not during some other more serious event. We must take it seriously so that we do not find ourselves in a much more serious situation in the future--and behave the same irrational way.
@kevinnbass - Kevin Bass PhD MS
ADDENDUM: It is important to note that many masking symptoms also overlap with those of Long COVID and may contribute to some of the psychogenic aspects of long COVID syndrome. @VPrasadMDMPH talks about the lack of link between COVID and long COVID here
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
I explain the bombshell Norwegian paper that links loneliness to long COVID, but can't link COVID to long COVID in kids and adolescents. This is an important & damning paper https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/bombshell-new-study-on-long-covid?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf
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@bunmi_speaks - afrika_confidential
Organ harvesting in Nigeria is an international business that involves some of the biggest so-called "philanthropists" in the world. It did not start today, & it actually happens under the supervision of ur politicians who u kiłł & fight urselves over. Keep shouting One Nigeria. https://t.co/RWrJQgFxSJ
@bunmi_speaks - afrika_confidential
Nigeria is a deathtrap, but no worry, una eye go soon clear! Ur biggest enemies are ur politicians becos u're just a means to an end for them. Keep fighting each other over them instead of fighting to liberate urselves from their captivity and demanding a total disintegration. https://t.co/q9I3xny4mN
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
I can't believe that we are openly comparing tech to Yahoo and some people are blatantly making a case for fraud because according to them, “it helps more people.” Let me tell you a story again of the damage Yahoo has done to Nigerian tech but we still survived and thrived.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
2002, I had my first cybersecurity gig in Nigeria with Econet and FirstBank. We partnered with a company called Sensepost in South Africa to come and do penetration tests and security assessments. What we uncovered was so important that I decided to go deeper and learn.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
I was in America and there was the InfosecWorld security conference in Florida and I decided to attend. This was as far back as 2002 and I didn't realize we had the Yahoo stigma already. I carried my business cards proudly with my Lagos address. I was sharing it with everyone.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
I started noticing that people were avoiding me but I thought it was my imagination until I met someone from RSA who was discussing security tokens in the earliest form. He liked my input and asked for my card. I gave it to him, he read it, quickly returned it, and walked away.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
It was then that I finally realized that they were all avoiding me. He actually read the address out loud before returning the card. That was the first time I understood what national shame meant because of some miscreants who wanted to collect small $1k here and there.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
It was a hard struggle to do anything beyond Nigeria in cybersecurity then because of Yahoo. I realized that I was on a doomed path. It became clearer when Sensepost got 200 more customers in six months globally but I was still struggling with two in Nigeria and begging them.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
It was a consulting assignment with the IFC for @ChifeDr and his company Socketworks that made me start believing in the potential of African tech again. I saw someone like us do well in America and come back home to try to do even bigger and succeed. A positive role model. https://t.co/6QqM5D6x7y
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@ChifeDr Socketworks was the first venture-funded startup in sub-Saharan Africa but there was no Techcrunch and @ulonnaya to tell the story to the world. We relied on the IFC to mention it in a press release that didn't go far and wide enough and many didn't hear of him and his work.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@ChifeDr @ulonnaya Doing that project made me realize that the services part of tech was also as important as building products. We decided to double down on it and that was where I got my next shocker. We were supposed to do an AML (anti money laundering) project for a telco across Africa.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@ChifeDr @ulonnaya It quickly became a regulatory requirement for payment companies and platforms. Compliance was a big deal. So we engaged a potential South African partner once again. They didn't respond to us even when introduced from the highest levels of the telco. I was confused.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@ChifeDr @ulonnaya It wasn't until a South African friend explained to me what was happening before I got it. The AML company in SA didn't want to ruin their reputation by working with Nigerians. It took a decade before we finally started working together on telco projects. Yahoo struck again.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@ChifeDr @ulonnaya We still persevered. The telco didn't see us as a threat because of our Nigerian origin and we helped them scale their payment products. Being Nigerian with the telco was even an advantage. Everything was well until I saw gaps in telco payments and decided to invest in startups.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@ChifeDr @ulonnaya I met this small Kenyan payments company in Dubai during a Mobile Money conference. They presented a product that filled the gap that I saw with card payments for online merchants. I engaged them and wanted them to work with my telco client across Africa. They were hesitant.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@ChifeDr @ulonnaya I visited Nairobi several times and found out that they didn't have enough resources to work in an Africa-wide project. A problem I once had that made us fail. I decided to invest $100k in them. We agreed terms but they finally reneged and killed the deal. Why? I was Nigerian.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@ChifeDr @ulonnaya The effort I made to get these guys to take money and make money is funny. I decided to spread and invest that money in West African startups. One of them is now the most valuable startup in Africa. The success of Andela, Flutterwave, Paystack, and others redeemed us once again.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@ChifeDr @ulonnaya Nigerian tech people struggled to get where we are today despite the stigma of Yahoo Boys. Anyone comparing Yahoo Fraudsters with tech people needs their head examined because all Yahoo has done is drag us back. It should be eliminated and not encouraged.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@ChifeDr @ulonnaya In summary, just don’t put Nigerian tech and Yahoo fraud in the same sentence. Not in the same paragraph and not even in the same statement. It does more damage than you can think. Compare it to something else like politics, please. Abeg 🙏🏿
@knightofdelta - The Crypto Priest
This is why it is lonely at the top and makes no sense to drag people to join you there. After all, we are all born, we all live, and then die. We will only be remembered by nature for the DNA we left behind as offspring. While some find happiness in intellectualism, most just want to engage in hedonistic pleasures in the short years of their lives. Nature does not care which one we do. At the end, the people with no care about how to make the world a better place will have tens of baby mamas, while those who want to make things better are too busy, and end up with 2 - 4 children from the same woman, max two women. And this is why the gap between the rich and the poor will never close. The ones with lots of children don't have the resources, both mental and financial, to give their offspring the kind of head-start in life that those with fewer children can. Only a few will be able to break out of the rut. Meanwhile the offspring of those with the resources will have to deliberately sabotage themselves to be come poor. Ray Dalio has 1.3 million followers on X while Kim Kardashian has 75.1 million. Do you.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
Post on strategy and commerce: 18k views, 20 bookmarks. Single-digit retweets or quotes. Post on Nigerian politics: 50k views, 200 bookmarks, 50 quote tweets. 2000 retweets. Post on Mekwe:... ...250k views, 2000 bookmarks, 200 quote tweets, 5000 retweets, and ends in tabloids.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
When the truth is too painful to accept, it is easier for some to concoct lies and whataboutism in their defense. I remember my grandfather’s first political adventure. He realized that a lot of the members of his party were in a certain cult. He asked his brother why so?
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
His brother answered that those who are going to Hell always want companions. He also told my grandfather not to join any group without telling him. He had joined and regretted it. He loved his brother enough to not let him make the same mistake.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
I still can't forget the meeting with Chief Anenih at the Hilton in Abuja in 1999, when he saw his nephew (my late friend) and me at a political caucus meeting we stumbled into at Rockview Hotel. He told us to come see him after. When we got there, he warned us sternly.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
His verbatim words were “Your hands are clean and you want to get them soiled. Our hands are soiled and that is why we are in this” My friend abandoned all hope of politics after that. He died from an illness later. Those words never left me.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
I walk freely any anywhere today because my hands were never soiled. I can also choose to live where I like without anyone questioning me. It is because of grace that my grandfather didn't take that wrong turn. He stood his ground. Was framed for murder and beat the case.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
Late Barrister Giwa Amu was his solicitor in that case and it was a landmark case in Edo State. We have had senators and SANs in my family but none ever got their hands soiled.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
What is the advantage of being a Nigerian? Forget all the ego based answers in your head. It is local knowledge and relationships. The Igbo trader figured it out before most did. Local demand for products is massive and they find a way to get and sell it at a good margin.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
The reason imports far outstrip exports is not because of lack of patriotism or exotic tastes, it is pure demand and supply. Where there is a market that can buy it, the trader finds a way to supply it. They do the volumes and become insanely wealthy. They know the local markets.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
We keep talking all of this nonsense about “tech” but the truth is that those who have succeeded in tech stumbled on demand. OPay or Moniepoint didn’t have a grand strategy to go offline from the beginning, the market pulled them into it. Pushed also by regulators for OPay.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
There is no pent up demand for tech in Nigeria. Tech has to find the places where there is real demand and go there to optimize. It is why most of our tech plays are efficiency innovations. I remember going through this over and over with the founders of @riby_hq many years ago.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@riby_hq A lot of what we term as innovations are optimizations. True innovation is zero to one. Optimization is one to n. Because scale also builds upon scale, it is important to find scale and build on top of it. The Igbo trader created distribution where there was none. Zero to one.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@riby_hq The only technological platform that is already at scale in Nigeria was made possible by telcos who also built on the distribution provided by these traders to get to the market. OPay and others also learned to build on them. Unless you are building on others in tech you’ll fail.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@riby_hq There is no zero to one distribution for tech products and app stores are not the answer. I have been speaking with enterprise tech founders recently and they are all realizing the “one chance” nature of our local market. The demand for enterprise tech is outside Nigeria.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@riby_hq It is easy to get fooled by Nigerian numbers but the market for most things that are not basic needs is quite small. We pitched a deal to a friend who runs a bank recently and he laughed at it because he felt the market was small. These founders want to raise $3m. He woke me up.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@riby_hq Most of our seed stage investments will fail if they aren’t built upon a distribution structure to help scale them. This is why telcos remain the natural partners in African tech but there is so much distrust between them and startups because they don’t understand each other.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@riby_hq The telcos don’t need startups they need technology that can bring them efficiency. They can afford to buy it globally at the best price. If you are not that global tech provider as a startup today then, sorry. The same applies to our informal markets. They’ll soon afford better.
@asemota - Osaretin Victor Asemota
@riby_hq Speed and iteration are important because according to Sully, if you are not monsters then you are food.
@Detolanny - De Palmwine Tapper of Badagry
I once missed admission into UNIBEN in 2004 cos WAEC did not forward my certificate to my sec sch on time. Maybe I should have just created a WAEC certificate myself after all, I sat for SSCE & passed. We are just supporting illegality cos it's Tinubu that's involved.
@WanjiruNjoya - Wanjiru Njoya
Let's recall why the history of African barbarism matters: to COUNTER the dominant but false narrative that Africans were playing happily together when suddenly the British invaded. The culture war was started by the LEFT. Never forget that. We're fighting defence, not attack.
@ItsTaz1989 - Taz
Just a reminder of what the British found when they got to Africa:
@MikaelCBernard - Mikael C Bernard
I don’t think Nigerians understand the magnitude of the scam that Rehoboam pulled on them, bcos if they did, this country will not contain everybody. This man literally increased the price of PMS for no reason. Fuel subsidy was not removed, NNPC still remains the sole importer of PMS and nothing changed, except the fuel price of PMS. This is exactly why they’re massively recruiting PR experts. They’ve given you nothing, but made your life 4X more expensive than it was under Buhari. These guys literally lied to Nigerians about subsidy and FX, on the first day of office. If this happened in any other country, by now, the UN would be sending peacekeeping mission. But again, it’s Nigeria sha, they’d move on.
@jibrinSAN - Jibrin Samuel Okutepa SAN
I don't mind revisiting this post over and over. *The tragedy of Nigeria.*
@FinPlanKaluAja1 - Kalu Aja
Living in POP ghettos with generators and bad roads You have no parks or libraries in your GRA. Your life goal is to squirrel your kids to school abroad and then preach to the great unwashed back home to be patient and defend their tribe. Any child born in the 1980s has never experienced 24/7 power supply in 🇳🇬 , that child can be born in any of the 774 LGA and this statement will be true. Giant at 63 still importing PMS, tufia. Yet your individual Twitter page is filled with prayers and genuflections to mortals to get money for summer What a waste.
@FinPlanKaluAja1 - Kalu Aja
Do you know what a Nigerian Governor is? 1. You are given free cash every month to spend, you don't have to generate any revenue. no receipts are required 2. You can govern and live anywhere on earth. A Nigerian governor lived in the Netherlands, another in Dubai 3. You can take LGA funds and spend Yet....you stay 8 years and poverty increases in your State Hopeless
@brotherbarth - Brother Barth
ENEMIES OF IGBOS ARE ENEMIES OF NIGERIA. NO TRIBE BELIEVES IN A UNITED, PRODUCTIVE AND FUNCTIONING NIGERIA MORE THAN IGBOS. 1. Any force (home or foreign) that wants to hold Nigeria backwards will invest anything to hold the Igbos down and far from Political Leadership of Nigeria. 2. Any where you see people plotting against the Igbos on Nigeria's matter, you can be 100% certain that they are enemies of Nigeria. 3. You know that people are committed to a course when they invest in it. 4. No tribe has invested in all States of Nigeria and FCT more than the Igbos. 5. Whilst other tribes are wary about investing outside their regions for fear that they will lose the investment if Nigeria ceases to be united, but the Igbos believing in Nigeria's unity invest everywhere in Nigeria because they are ready to make Nigeria work. 6. The enemies of Nigeria deceive gullible people with the idea that Biafra desire for cessation was show of disbelief in a united Nigeria. Truth is that it remains a bold step to make Nigeria work, despite the efforts of her enemies. That is why despite all they suffered, since after the war, they remain the highest investors in Nigeria's project. 7. Truth, that many shy away from is that the classification of IPOB as a terrorist organisation and making criminals out of its members is part of the grand plan to hold the Igbos down. A way of giving the dog a bad name in order to deal with it. 8. Truth is that if 50% of what Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (I'm not his disciple) complains about (and for which he seeks independent Biafra), are implemented, he won't be fighting for cessation, and Nigeria will be a better country. 9. It may interest you to know that the profiling of Igbos in Lagos before, during, and after the 2023 elections remains part of the grand plan to hold Nigeria down. The more the Yoruba people they're able to make to believe that Igbos are there enemies, the more they're able to keep Southern Nigeria youths divided and incapable of resisting the destruction of Nigerias Constitution by the Courts following the 2023 Presidential election. 10. I know the enemies of Nigeria will come under this to attack me, or twist the truth. I leave them to their conscience. One thing is certain, truth never dies. Imagine the President presenting an empty box as the 2024 Budget to the joint sitting of Nigeria Senate and House of Representatives. What was that meant to achieve? How much low can Nigeria sink before the younger generations of the North and SouthWest Nigeria realise that who they call fathers have been deceiving them as far as hatred for Igbos are concerned. 11. An incontrovertible truth is that Nigeria will not make any meaningful progress until the younger generation of Nigerians reject the lies of their fathers, unite with one another and fight the common enemy in selfish politicians that continue to stupidly plunder the country's resources. 12. Until then, Nigeria younger generations will remain the greatest victims of the failing Nigeria caused by selfish politicians. Now amount of Japa will bring succour to Nigerians. Japa is abnormal. It should not be celebrated. Sadly, that is the situation presently. Celebrating the abnormal. 13. I write from the wilderness.
@OluAyoola7D - Dr Ayo
So when I saw the quoted post. I thought it was very hilarious. Bigotry olympics was already in full swing. And if you are a budding ronu please calm down first, don’t be triggered yet. Hear me out before you get all riled up. If the quoted post was a lie then you should simply disprove it. Oh by the way I laughed in the comments and I saw a lot of ronus in my mentions saying they have found me out, that with the shape of my head I am definitely an Igbo man. That was hysterically funny! Anyways back to the main progression, all you need to do was disprove it but of course, you couldn’t disprove it. Because your lots are the ones singing the “Igbos are taking over everything”. For several long decades the Yoruba nation was known to be the most educated of all the ethnicities. We are coming from a long standing practice of a whole village contributing money so that one of their sons can afford high end education. And become the glory of that village. It was a thing of pride and our forefathers did it. We placed very good value on education. On the other end the Igbos embraced trading. The problem with you ronus is that you hardly ever think. You have demonstrated to lack every capacity for any type of reasoning. Not potentiality for inductive reasoning, that if you took a pie of a Pizza you already seteris paribus knew how the whole pie tasted. No faculty for abductive reasoning, that you should be able to take a “best guess” of an outcome given available information of events. Zero adeptness for Syllogism, that if all mammals are animals, and all Lions are mammals then it ought to be that all Lions are animals. Ronus will tell you that that all mammals are animals, and all Lions being mammals does not mean all Lions are animals. Some Lions may be trees, ronu custom logic. No appreciation for Causality whatsoever, that if you shoot a gun, the gun loses a bullet. No aptitude for deductive reasoning, that if I have a large bag that fails to contain my book, then my book is also large. No talent for lateral thinking or even observation, the ability to be able collect unbiased facts relevant for one’s arguments. The abilty to test a proven pattern on a different situation/circumstance. Nigeria has suffered in you people’s hands, honestly. If a Yoruba family decides that it was better to have a child who studied abroad than to have a property in Lagos,Nigeria. Does that not preclude that the Yoruba family think themselves wiser than the Igbo family who is coming to own(buy) the property rather than have his own child study abroad. How then can you be triggered by the statement of the obvious? Why then should you be infuriated? The reason you are infuriated is because your own fathers do not have houses to sell to Igbo men to send you to school abroad. The ones who were sent abroad have since bought their fathers new properties, some of them have permanently relocated their parents. I happen to know a lot of them, they are in US/UK marrying Igbos and Edo babes. They are not hungry and crying and begging for alms on the TL, lol, no. They are not crying about how “the igbos have taken over everywhere”. They are not miserable, they were grateful that there was an Igbo man who was ready to do business in Lagos and could buy their fathers’ properties in full payment. It was a win-win, for if all Yorubas want to send their children for education abroad, simple reasoning would already have had you know that the properties will not be sold to another Yoruba. Harry, knew how dumb you are, and that’s a shame. Because normally, we Yorubas come with the deepest sourced philosophies. If you are not bastards, truly then you are a big shame to the fore fathers who made science out of spiritual divination, Ifa, the binary code on which computers function. He knew you were dumb, and that that simple statement will hurt you real bad. And boy, was he right!
@bunmi_speaks - afrika_confidential
The problem Nigerians are trying to solve as "poor governance" is much more complex than they think. You're still very much under the control of your c0ł0nial masters. And until you're ready for that conversation, running to the polls every four years with your "PVC" will only be an exercise in futility. Take a listen. Choosing politics over total liberation is putting the cart before the horse. It won't work. And that's the reason most Afrikan countries remain exploited and the only beneficiaries are the cr00ked politicians and their imperialist friends. Wake up Nigerians. Wake up Afrika. Afrikan nations can never truly be free if we're still c0ł0nized but acting like free people. Rev0łution, not elections.
@wandyvirus - Ayọ̀wándé Adálémọ 🇳🇬
You see, this thing called entrepreneurship is not just about books alone. Not SWOT, not MRR, ARR, etc. He simply didn't understand the industry he chose and who the power brokers are. He saw NURTW as louts and a threat instead of collaborators or competitors. Either view would have helped him. I remember @tokeeto of @foundingLAG, we had meetings with NURTW and RETEAN because they OWN the routes. We travelled to the capital of NURTW (ìbàdàn) and had first-hand experience and advice from Auxiliary and other excos. They pivoted their business model.After then COVID19 struck. When I read things like this that put the blame squrely at the government door, I ask, is the NURTW not a key member of the NLC? It is a member of a significant trade union. In my own line of business, securing my asset is a big task as they are mostly outdoor and subject to vandalism. We organised the street to protect those assets. I am not going to cry about government, speaking plenty English, I know that doing business in Nigeria is not a behind-the-desk-I-have-an-app thingy. 6 months into operations he is throwing in the towel. It is beyond technology or MBA buzz words. Businesses anywhere in the world are either the blue or red ocean. The red ocean is harder still. Big shipping lines have to deal with things like pirates. In Mexico, they have to deal with the ever-present kidnapping and insecurity. In Iran, in Iraq, Afghanistan....these businesses know that an MBA class will not work when a push comes to a shove. In Nigeria, if you don't get it, don't do it. You can not be Ajebutter and think everyone else is. One meeting could have changed a lot of things in his favour.. just one meeting. Case in point @touchandpayme the owners of @paywithcowry. They will start powering payment for yellow buses in Lagos. That's over 12 million trips...each month! We arrogantly write off our collaborators and then turn around and cry about @followlasg. It is business silly! It is tough. It is Nigeria, and that is a reality we all have to deal with. In almost every sector you have their type. At least NURTW belongs to organized labour. How about those gangs that don't belong anywhere? Just murderous boys who damage at will? Yet we deal with them. We have them on our payroll and get security reports from them. We hired a supervisor who coordinated and ensured our infrastructure was not vandalised. It works. I can come on social media and cry that my fibre has been cut or our access points have been destroyed or our solar panels gone. I can write an epistle on how government is the problem. I choose not to do that. I braved the odds,rolled up my sleeves and get in the ring. There are days I get into fist fights when they become unreasonable. But the market is worth it, the experience is out of this world. The reward is unquantifiable. Bàbá Ìjẹ̀bú pays Nm each year to secure his gambling booths. Each....year Ask Bet9ja, ask @akinalabi of Nairabet. It is the reality of our society and it is not sad. If you are putting boots(physical and human assets) on the streets anywhere in the world, you face brutality. Ask restaurant owners in Tottenham and ask how they cope with "men dem". How much do they pay to the mobs? It is not strictly a Nigerian problem it is a problem for anyone putting infrastructure and assets on the ground. Otherwise, stick with the app (call it fintech, edtech, anytech),figure out customer acquisition product/market fit and all the startup buzz words. You will be fine. If you don't have the heart for it, stay away from the streets. By the way how is @Shuttlersng doing it? NB: I also have a failed startup where $3m went down the drain. So I am speaking from both perspectives.
@tobicomm - Tobi
As seen on Linkedin. Stories like this is how you know Nigeria cannot make. Not with the current crop of leaders anyway. https://t.co/NYBzBSZHDQ
@wandyvirus - Ayọ̀wándé Adálémọ 🇳🇬
I have seen takes like this in response to my tweet. 1. I don't need you to understand my tweet. I made that tweet to address another tweet that says the govt is responsible for the failure of a 6 month old start-up. And it comes from the "govt is bad" (translated APC is bad) zombies. 2. NURTW is NOT illegal. There's nothing illegal about their dues and fees. They are part of organised labour and collect rent from their union members.They have a structure around them across Nigeria not just Lagos. In that sector, you WILL negotiate. I am unapologetic about it and i know that none of you "yabacon" offsprings will get it. If you see me as doing PR for Union members you call agbèrò, then you just made my point. You lots should keep your heads in Silicon Valley asses. 3. My industry is high tech, not transportation. In my Industry vandalism and sabotage is the order of the day. "Iron condem" will cut your buried fiber, and try to cut your Telecom towers and poles in collusion with "guards" and sometimes security agencies. They will steal your manhole and expose your ducts to not just the elements but also pollution. That open manhole immediately becomes the next ṣálángá.if I organise street urchins and pay them to protect my infrastructure from Oṣòdì to Ìkòròdú, from TBS to Abúlé Ẹ̀gbá, to give me heads up if there's a digging around my buried cables and to patrol my infrastructure at night when most vandalism happens and you call it bribery as a business model, I don't know what adjective to use for your extraordinary stupi.dity. 4. Finally wait for "ease of doing business" and all the plentiful English you all like to bandy around; or step into the ring and build infrastructure that is perversive and that catalyzes "doing business easily", significantly improves security and fosters law enforcement response and digital economy such that the next generation of enterprise will not need to go through what we went through. Pontificate and dance for VC money. Shout P&L like it is the magic wand for attracting investors. It is fine your call, your world. In MY world, it is COLLABORATION-AS-A-BUSINESS. It is structured and accountable. I forgot you didn't read what I really wrote you are just going Bunkers because it is coming from an @officialABAT ardent supporter, it is also a slap on the face of the Yabacon army. Stick with your silicone valley rhetoric, while I am building and at once working with govt to improve conditions for startups. I have been here longer than you. I will be here a while. Take my tweet as a lesson or keep your head buried in the sand of absolute stupi.dity and pretentiousness . I did not come in peace.
@dom_lucre - Dom $Lucre Memecoin
94.6% of the population in Detroit vote Democrat. Detroit is a predominantly Black city. I constantly hear us complain about “nobody doing anything for us” My question to the Black community in Detroit, why are we voting for the people that aren’t? Your politicians wear BLM pins but won’t restore Black prosperity. The black Wallstreet bombing was ordered by a Democratic Governor James B.A. Robertson. The same is being done today through policy. The same thing is happening today. Let go of the false narratives that your enemy gives you, make a change this year.
@Onye_Game - Eziokwu bụ Ndụ
Here is a Benue Man bragging of his people's involvement in the 1966 Pogrom on Igbo people. "Red Bridge of Makurdi" where fleeing Igbos were Massacred in Benue by middle belt people. That you forgot your history and real enemies doesn't mean that those enemies forgot it as well https://t.co/RqG2X4XndC