I hate Tinubu and APC.🖕
Sòrò Sókè Wèrè.
Ekelebe Stunner.
A luta continua; vitória é certa.
Entitled Uppity African. Nigerian. Edoid. Esan.
They are coming.
Achebe is probably the most quotable Nigerian Author on this matter.
"Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it". 😂😂
I was today year’s old when I learned that “you look so take away” is a compliment in Nigeria. I’m afraid to ask the meaning/rationale behind the phrase 🤣😅
@cameforth_
I live with Brits and whenever they want to mock me for mispronouncing words I simply say "English is the only language you speak, you have to speak it well".
Works Everytime.
@nzekiev
@OSAS4l
My mother's Yoruba.
What I saw in the last election shook me.
Members of my Family were pushing the Yoruba Ronu agenda.
Omo I mount my Esan more proudly since then.
Make them no call me half breed.
Edo women are the best to ever walk the earth.
If an Edo woman loves you, your standards will increase.
Edo women are consummate partners.
Bagging an Edo woman is catching lightning in a bottle.
Find yourself an Edo woman today and watch your life transform.
EDO ODION!!!!!!
My mum gave me 10 of these when I was moving to the UK.
Agent of chaos that I am, I ate everything without even cooking it. 😭
She sent some with my aunt 6 months later.
I still ate all of it again.
She sent with my brother another 6 months later.
Guess what I did? 👀
I said I hadn't watched a documentary and this guy said "You should, maybe you'd learn something".
I came back with "It must be a delight to assume you have the monopoly on knowledge".
No one crossed me till the party ended.
They were masters of the language. Saying one thing could mean something totally different. Like “you must be fun at parties.” Took me time to understand that is was an insult.
Hwolshe, Jos.
October 1st, 2016.
I woke up to 52 missed calls.
I called my aunt back. I trusted her to speak calmly to me.
"Ehiz I need you to be strong for me."
I knew.
I knew that the ground had fallen away from underneath me.
The sun had set at midday.
My Father had died.
Na this thing I no understand.
Person share opinion, you disagree.
Instead of you to explain your position.
You open mouth waaaaa, start with curses.
C'est la crase?
The incumbent president of Nigeria stood on a podium during his election campaign and yelled into the mic,
"Na statistics we go chop?"
The crowd shouted back, "No!"
@kenterprenuer
Esanland resisted for 9 years after Benin fell.
Lugard in a letter to one of his officers recognized us as some of the most stubborn people in the south to deal with.
@ThaBoyYom
J Cole in his third studio album 2014 Forest Hills Drive said:
"Don't save her, she don't wanna be saved
Don't save her, she don't wanna be saved
Don't save her, she don't wanna be saved
Don't save her, she don't wanna be saved"
@ameenbaba
My Grandpa was a lecturer. He had lots of books.
At the age of 4 I was reading Robinson Crusoe. My Uncles wanted to take the book from me, he yelled at them
"Leave him! I bought these books for you to read, you didn't. Why stop the one person who has showed interest in my books".
@asemota
The 'spec' thing narrows down the field.
You miss out on so many wonderful people just because they don't fit into arbitrary specifications of what you think your significant other should be.
You miss out on people as they are by focusing on how you would like them to be.
Everyone hates Kevin Odanz. Do you know how terrible you must be for Feminist, Alpha male, Politics Twitter, Igbo Twitter, Yoruba Twitter, Hausa Twitter, Football Twitter, Wizkid Davido x Burna Boy Twitter to cancel you? Even Asue and Akpata Twitter did joint cancelation. 😭
I remember when my Dad passed and someone said we should give one of his houses to one of his brothers 😂
My Father's twin killed that talk there and then.
I've never been prouder of that man.
He said "Don't let it be heard outside this place"
@Chidi_Chikadi
@LupinIkenga
@Grezzy1111
I don't know where you were when the Kano riots happened but I did not see any Caucasian chasing us.
During the pogroms before the war, pogroms, that forced our people back home in the 60s did not involve any Caucasians either.
@hiphoplibrary
@Joe__Bassey
Maybe he wasn't.
He was flawed, horrifically so, but he is better than whatever Libya is now.
I bet you don't know that the black Libyans were killed in large numbers after his fall.
@IbizugbeAndre
@harrizone98
One of my guys wey I been dey do small thing anytime e ask, I see say e post Asiwaju for Whatsapp.
Dey hail am.
I no talk.
I mount dey wait the next billing.
@toluogunlesi
@PeterObi
In 1998 your homie said he was 52.
This is 2024, 26 years later.
26+52 = 78.
Your boy probably doesn't know his own birthday and picked this day randomly but Peter Obi is your problem.
@0peyem1
@Motownblue
Matthew 23:23 KJV - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
This mechanic said my car can be sold for 2.9m. When I told a friend that buys and sells cars, after a thorough check, he said I can still sell it for 3.5m worst case.
What is it with our people and dishonesty?
@NjaajaanII
@isitbyforcee
Please don't lump all of us into one category.
It's extremely reductive to say every single Nigerian is a particular thing.
Do better.
@asemota
I remember when the Oba Erediauwa passed.
It took a while before the Palace made an announcement.
My father, his brothers, some other youngins and I sat together.
Out of the blue, my Father said "E be like say Oba done die o".
We doubted (the youngins)
A few months later, we knew
Carnegie?
Carnegie built so many libraries that are still in operation.
The library in my neighborhood here Liverpool was built by Carnegie.
Rockefeller's contribution to medicine as we know it?
As Oga
@asemota
said, go and watch "The Men who Built America" and come back.
Lol, how many did Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan lift during the Gilded Age in the late 19th Century USA?
If William McKinley didn’t get assassinated, Teddy Roosevelt
wouldn’t have been president and the USA we see today would have taken a far different direction.
When I worked in banking, we were explicitly warned that the bank would never pay ransoms for us.
Why?
The logic is once you pay, they'll target more staff and keep kidnapping.
Why did Naheeba's ransom increase? They saw that Nigerians were raising the funds.
Bastards.
Nigerian brands were giving out millions to someone for waking up at 4am to cook but nothing for the family that was kidnapped, whose loved ones have been begging for help with fundraising for almost two weeks now🙃we are very unserious here
@Wizarab10
You can do genetic testing and get results like this.
It'll show where your ancestors were from taking into account certain genetic markers that are prevalent in certain areas.
Selah.
There's Edo women in my top 5.
The best by far
See love?
Leave am for Edo girls
See care?
No go deyyyy
See affection?
No one comes close
See mekwe?
Untouchable
You see understanding?
Incomparable
Is it peace (Ofure)?
Bucket loads
Cleanliness?
Indubitable
THE BEST IN THE WORLD
Modern dating damages us.
We walk around with baggage from previous engagements that mar our future relationships.
Trust issues, trauma, the fear of being vulnerable because it has been weaponized in the past.
So we become wraiths.
Neither living nor dead.
Someone already tweeted it but I don’t wanna doubt myself anymore, I don’t want to be in a place where I’m overthinking if I’m overthinking or not, I no longer want to wonder where you are and who you are with cause I know you definitely don’t belong to me alone (Never met a girl
@asemota
It's weird but sometimes our elders just know things.
There's a science to it but it's lost on us the younger generation.
My Grandad and Dad could tell, even on the clearest day, that it would rain.
My mother can tell if you're in trouble even if she's in another country.
A man was once told by an oracle that his deceased father wanted him to sacrifice a goat for him and the man told the oracle to ask his deceased father if he ever own a fowl when he was alive.
-Chinua Achebe. "Things Fall Apart".
History reminds us of how easily the things we hold dear, the places we consider to be eternal can easily be destroyed and become husks.
A city that was once said to be greater than Tripoli, is now devoid of any evidence of its former grandeur.
Birni Ngazargamu Revisited.
Thread on Birni Ngazargamu, the imperial capital of Bornu during its heydays. It was one of the greatest cities in West African history, & one of the most distinguished in African history before its sack in 1808.
Jonathan didn't close down the borders without planning for the short term effects.😂
When he wanted to remove the fuel subsidy, he held a town hall where everyone spoke & outlined plans to buffer Nigerians against the effects.😅
He didn't force his way into power.😪
People keep forgetting that Jonathan was terrible and clueless as well, just not as clueless as his successors.
The country wasn’t heading anywhere dawg.
@possibleoge
It's the reciprocity that I find hard.
I'll listen but that energy to talk isn't always present. 😅
Sometimes a man just doesn't want to talk.
There is a pandemic of Nigerians with Visitor Visas in Canada seeking asylum or looking for LMIA jobs.
This is partly as a result of fake unlicensed immigration agents back home selling bogus dreams of “you can EASILY switch your Visitor Visa to Work Permit” to people.
I was looking through my Dad's Bible today and I found his handkerchief .
Miraculously it still smells like him.
When you lose someone, you lose their smells too.
Grief is never ending.
Banking is a cut-throat world
I'm glad I'm out
I can only imagine what she must have been told by her supervisors
Me and the boys would drink beer, laugh at the insults that were thrown our way but we knew it hurt
If not for those drinking sessions many of us would've unalived
Finally someone that gets it.
When my father died I chanted "Do not go gentle into that goodnight" "Invictus" and "If" many times.
They became my shield and my spear with which I went into battle everyday.
In the beginning was the word, and the was God.
.
Poems are nearer to prayers than to stories, but in poetry there is no one behind the language being prayed to. It is the language itself which has to hear and acknowledge. For the religious poet, the Word is the first attribute of God.
27 is a funny age to be.
Your friends have kids, while some of them still live with their parents .
You've felt what it is to win, experienced some loss.
You've done bad things.
You've done good things.
You've lived (I hope).
To 27 🥂
Now to do great things.
@Reizqah
@Osarenoga1
It's appalling to see "educated" people pushing bigotry.
I don't understand it.
Come Edo, no matter where you are from, as long as you're a decent person, we'll treat you decently.
All this rogbodiyan based on ethnicity is unnecessary and to be frank, evil.
It is evil.
My mum gave me 10 of these when I was moving to the UK.
Agent of chaos that I am, I ate everything without even cooking it. 😭
She sent some with my aunt 6 months later.
I still ate all of it again.
She sent with my brother another 6 months later.
Guess what I did? 👀
In 1998 your homie said he was 52.
This is 2024, 26 years later.
26+52 = 78.
Your boy probably doesn't know his own birthday and picked this day randomly but Peter Obi is your problem.
The moment I jam the loml and we've agreed on contract terms, signed the deal and done a Fabrizio, I'm deleting my Snapchat.
Iniquity abounds on that yellow app.
I've read:
The Lion and the Jewel (Play)
The Trials of Brother Jero (Play)
The Man Died (Prose)
Abiku (Poem)
Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga (a translation of
"Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀" by D.O. Fagunwa)
Alright reads but none truly resonated with me.
Have you read/tried reading Prof Wole Soyinka’s work in the past?
If yes, did you find it difficult to read and what genre did you read? Prose, poetry or play?
If not, why haven't you read it? Do you think it’s because people say it is “difficult” to read?
Please engage 🙏🏿
How do you support someone that says he wants to reduce your purchasing power?
How???
It's the equivalent of supporting someone that looks me in the eye and says "I WILL DESTROY YOU"
Reduce their purchasing power
Slow down the economy
Increase the tax brackets
Fools started clapping
Same Fools went ahead to vote for a fossilized man who happens to be a drug dealer and addict with a dead brain.
See where we are today!!!
@unapologetic_w
@Edmundorbini
Maybe it's something old that has come again.
"In those days Okudo was still alive. Okudo sang a war song in a way that no other man could. He was not a fighter, but his voice turned every man into a lion."
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
They got robbed and one of them wanted to assault my mother.
My Father took a knife to the head defending her.
He won, they left, he got better and never spoke of it.