The most useful political statement I have ever read was this simple quote from Chairman Mao: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Everything else is just a series of fantasies and illusions that people sell themselves so they can sleep well at night. Whatever style of government you pretend to have, it is always underwritten by men with guns, and its stability always ultimately comes down to what the men with guns choose to do. Your "democracy" is a children's fairy tale you tell yourself to make the world more palatable - it is men with guns that enforce and implement decisions, and it is men with guns that will escort you into a police car, a courtroom or a prison if you choose not to obey whatever instruction you have received. Your "theocracy" is a lie because God has no power to make you do anything without the men with guns making you carry out his will. Mecca and Jerusalem are the 2 allegedly holiest in the world, and they're both filled with men with guns, purportedly carrying out the will of God. Every type of human society is held together by men with guns. A good society is one where the interests of the men with guns align with those of the people without guns, and a bad society is one where the men with guns live parasitically off the people without guns. ALL societies are dictatorships of men who control the guns. Some just include a whole lot of extra steps to obfuscate that basic fact. I personally prefer the societies where the men with the guns do not hide their control and their interests align with those who do not have guns. Growing up is realising that "democracy" is like Santa Claus. It's a story told for 5 year-olds to feel involved in the world's decision making. You didn't put Tinubu, Trump or Macron in power with your "vote" you fucking peasant.

Part 2: The $13.4 Billion Gold Trail — Why the UAE Really Funds Sudan’s Genocide And there’s a lesson here for Nigeria too. Don’t trust, verify. #Sudan# #UAE# #Genocide# #Africa#

Nigerians are sleeping... it doesn't end there, The amendment bill explicitly mandates that all bloggers operating in Nigeria must establish a verifiable physical office in any of the country’s capital cities maintain accurate employee records, "and belong to a recognized national association of bloggers headquartered in Abuja." @magin82ow has a lot of explaining to do,

So apparently yesterday ~$128M in mostly long liquidations hit the market, the usual cascade played out elsewhere. On @protocol_fx the Liquidation Brake simply rebalanced. Positions stayed alive at healthier LTV. No hard wipe, no funding bloodbath, no “you’re liquidated” email. This is the difference between a protocol that collects liquidation fees and one designed so you survive the volatility. Source:

I've spent the last several months researching, travelling, and studying why countries like Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada and Finland built some of the world's best public education systems. One thing became clear: Nigeria doesn't just have an education problem. We have a school management problem. Today, I'm releasing a white paper that proposes a new way to transform our public schools, keeping them publicly owned while introducing world-class management and accountability. This isn't about politics. It's about giving every Nigerian child the opportunity to attend a world-class public school. I hope this sparks one of the most important conversations our country has had about education. Read it. Criticise it. Improve it. Share it. If we get education right, we change Nigeria. Here is the link

I've been thinking about this almost every day. What would it actually take to ensure every single child in the South East is in school? I don't mean reducing the number of out-of-school children. I mean ZERO. I'm setting myself a target: Zero out-of-school children in the South East within the next 24 months. And within 4 years, I want us to drive illiteracy as close to zero as possible. I know it sounds ambitious. There are children out of school because of poverty. Some because of culture. Some because of religion. Some because they have to work. Others because there are barriers we've not even identified yet. But I genuinely believe this is a problem we can solve if we stop treating it as someone else's responsibility. So I'm asking for your help. If you had to achieve this, what would you do? I want practical ideas. Bold ideas. Crazy ideas. Lessons from other countries. Community-based solutions. Technology. Policy. Anything. I'll read every suggestion. If we can solve this in the South East, we'll create a blueprint that the rest of Nigeria and maybe even Africa can learn from.

Build what the world needs and even you can’t stop them from flooding the gates!!! Here is a resounding fact that the @zama team has built a critical piece on the World Computer!!! Uponly from here 💯💯

I remember pitching integrations with Zama to a particular Web 3 protocol which would have shot their use case and customer base by 1000% and the response I got was “We aren’t sure how there’ll be users after their TGE” Told em: not betting on this team is a sure way to loose out on what will become the De-Facto Standard for DeFi/Tradfi The rest they say is history

When asked why we adopted @zama 's FHE for Health Records in Africa?? it really boiled down to a deep understanding of the problem with traditional health data encryption. Standard encryption-at-rest for health records solves the wrong problem.

I genuinely have no problem with this young man, but implore his father Gov @CCSoludo to please address the harassment of young men in Anambra State by different State Security Agencies These men will harass you just for carrying a full “HAIR” you’ll be violently threatened and extorted!! If you maybe are an artist and made your hair into any style there’s a very high chance you’ll follow them to the station if you don’t remit the money they demand from you!! It’s becoming Alarming and must be addressed, I don’t see anyone harassing the Governors son and Extorting him where he makes his videos, the youths of the State his father governs should not live in such fear either

Other countries are Arming themselves to the Teeth and dead prepared for any External Aggression Nigeria has already been infiltrated by you know who!!! And I don’t mean their proxy jihad ISWAP Militia, I mean those who armed them!!!

Why Smart Nigerians Are Forced To Post Brainrot 🤦🏿‍♂️ The 1.85B Giveaway Exposed Government gives 50k for akara while importing 70% of our drugs? Graduates jobless, engineers doing madness for views. This brainrot cycle is INTENTIONAL. Algorithms bury sense, push stupidity. Leaders disconnected AF. #OlodoUprising# #BrainrotNigeria# #NigeriaLeaders# #EconomicHardship# #fyp#