El Jefe
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Symbolic analyst. Pan-Africanist. I make asymmetric bets.
Nigeria
Joined May 2015
@NomadicMaajoa I feel obliged to forewarn you that the most likely consequences of your actions may not align with your expectations.
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@got_cake The only people who romanticize the Victorian era are the unschooled. It only takes a reading of Dickens to disillusion anyone. (Also, colonialism singularly saved England from its trajectory of poverty & decline in Victorian times).
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Baba is quoting UNESCO, World Bank and UK Govt figures. They don't even have data on the people they claim are using up the Forex.
CBN Governor, Yemi Cardoso, Blames Forex (Naira) Woes on Growing Number of Nigerians Studying Abroad.
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1. You may skip classes but you must attend clinicals. 2. Don't miss tutorials.3. Study past questions. 4. Always remember that the system rewards diligence, not intelligence.
Med school 101:.
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@ChetoManji Takeaway snacks are traditionally always well packaged. Someone who's on point looks 'takeaway'.
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POS machines proliferating all over the country, and people now pay between 4 and 10 percent in fees to collect their own money. Is this the Fintech revolution we were promised ?.
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@Qhawe___L There's something deeply and fundamentally wrong with the African leadership cadre.
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@KimDotcom The facts:. 1. Excess mortality is recorded in many countries. 2. All the countries with excess mortality have one thing in common.3. Governments in those countries have refused to investigate this phenomenon. 4. We have a good idea what is going on.
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@__LuQQQ "Men are romantics pretending to be realists, women are realists pretending to be romantics".
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Frequently you see people on Twitter talking about things they know nothing about. Case in point : Jim Ovia of Zenith Bank. Jim raised N20 million seed capital in 1989/90 from a consortium of investors, most of whom were Igbo traders in Lagos and and businessmen based abroad. /1.
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@CeeCeeHermes Sometimes in the corporate world, you are not appreciated till you announce your departure.
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@seunosewa You keep doubling down on your dubious position. First you were a defender of the welfare of the people, now you are for electoral integrity. There are eighteen political parties contesting this election, only one is throwing tantrums over the naira redesign policy.
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On +234 twitter, there are accounts that will post an engaging and informative thread, then ruin everything by going underneath to shill their telegram channel which hosts gambling and pornography content. NO.
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@CheburekiMan Russia's modern strategic war doctrine, forged in the aftermath of Gulf War I, which concentrates on missile technology ahead of expensive fighter jets, stealth aircraft and high tech gimmickry, appears to be right and is paying off.
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Surgery Exam. Consultant: Diagnosis ?.Student : CVA sir.Consultant: Localize the lesion.Student: ermmm.Consultant turns to ward cleaner (!):.If a person no fit move one hand. Wetin be that ?.Cleaner: Stroke sir.Consultant to student: Your knowledge is at the level of this woman.
What’s the funniest/worst insult you received/ heard about during medical school?.
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@AdewaleYusuf_ @TalentQL @AltSchoolAfrica ". he told me they stopped hiring Nigerians.". There's an entire subreddit dedicated to discussing holding down two tech jobs, and the vast majority of members are based in the US. Will he stop hiring Americans if he finds them doing the same thing ?.
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Banks are spent, their energy is gone. The founders are old, rich and barred by statute from running them from day-to-day. A generational shift is needed. FinTech bros should stop building apps and start plotting how to take over or build banks.
What we need are new banks. New players who are really there to serve and not to exploit. We also need a new and overhauled CBN while we are at it. February 25th 2023 has so much riding on it for Nigeria.
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Sign a prenup. Offshore your properties. Stop marrying feminists, modernized women, instagram models and their kind.
This Child Support thing in the US is crazy. You can just be working hard and one woman will use part of the money you pay her to hire lawyers who will help her milk you dry. I saw Tyrese crying after the court proceeding with her ex wife and I was pained on his behalf.
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@MichaelPSenger Lockdowns were not the only or major problem. Let's address the elephant in the room.
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@Girl_isBlessed First, all African states were colonized except Ethiopia. Second research the murders of Lumumba, Sankara and Ghadaffi. Third, read the history francophone africa and France, Leopold's & Belgium. Find out about a man named Walter Rodney. He wrote a famous book. Read it.
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@chefobubu @charlezenston Along with hunting for grasshoppers, birds and ant lions ; skipping, riding bicycles, playing 'ten-ten'. We were more 'alive' than the current generation.
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@__JasonMarshall Think of it this way: it's not an illogical system, it just runs on a different kind of logic. (This tweet is not an endorsement).
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@Kanthan2030 Informed people (those not under the influence of US propaganda), find it very difficult, if not impossible, to hate Putin. He is an intelligent, independent minded, forthright and effective leader. One of the greatest in Russian history.
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@seunosewa I don't have a favourite party, I have a credible candidate. Important distinction.
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During the Obasanjo years people returned home from the west to take up jobs and appointments in Nigeria. APC is a curse.
UK visa Application centre in Lagos Nigeria. No political affiliation privileges here? 👀
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@Natachyy Play along. Pay the requested amount into his account, then take receipts to the police, icpc, Gwarimpa water board and the press. Make an example of him.
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@ayosogunro This is not accurate. Christian missionaries recruited the outcasts of society. Christianity's underpinning philosophy freed many from a permanent underclass position and upturned social order. The late Prof Sugrue expands on this in his lectures (available on YouTube).
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@IfeIfeolarinde @asemota I agree. He has a right to free association, his critics also retain their right to express their opinion. A balanced equation.
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@TimeyinPI Staff and operations in most cases are a reflection of managerial capacity. Usually no point seeing the manager when the quality of service is substandard.
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@nigeriasbest Sinwar who fought for his people against Zionist apartheid and occupation is a terrorist but the Israelis who jail minors, shoot women and children, bomb refugee camps, rape prisoners, steal Palestinian land are not terrorists ?.
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I raise you : . 1. Nigerian Civil War.2. Maitasine riots.3. SAP riots.4. June 12 agitation.5. Abacha's reign of terror.
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@Ssaasquatch This is a problem tech can easily solve. A tamper proof silo that encrypts all information files submitted and renders them unreadable, but opens them simultaneously when certain conditions are met eg a given date. But we are not ready.
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@asemota We are obsessed with status in this part of the world. I once had a senior government official escort me outside her office just to see what car I came in.
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@OgbeniDemola It looks likely to happen in South Africa instead. Preparations are underway and most black people there are oblivious.
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@Catchoris Your hot take is a hot mess. No publisher made Things Fall Apart a success. The merits of the book, and the light it cast on African pre colonial society have been discussed & written about ad-infinitum since 1958. Avail yourself of the literature.
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@El_NathanYakubu Pro tip: generally speaking, pikin wey dey comot canulla don well. Consider switching to oral meds.
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@ali_naka These are principled people, they are not playing around and wasting time. Our degenerate comrades are busy trying to please their oppressors.
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@pyjama_ceo Let us assume he is even right and you worked with/for Ibori. The core of his petition is that James Ibori is a dubious character and should be avoided. However he does not realize the contradiction on his argument: James Ibori is working with his principal !.
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@backtolife_2022 Never in history has a group taken a vaccine then blamed the unvaccinated for their mortal fear of catching the same disease the vaccine allegedly protects against.
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@nigeriasbest Hopefully you will soon get to the part he revitalized public services, restored national assets stolen by oligarchs, destroyed the mafia and stopped street killings by gangs, reinstated state pensions for the elderly, grew the economy, modernized the military, won two wars.
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I know at least two of those initial investors who are alive today. One is a retired professor another is now a prominent player in oil and gas sector in Rivers State. I wish people would stop undermining the work people like Jim have put in to become what they are today. / 5 End.
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Kaycee Madu appointed Minister in Canada: "Igbos are doing well all over the world !".@nwanyi_ocha proposed as Commisioner in Anambra: "fool, idiot, moron. Oyibo lap dog, gutter snipe local champion". This is not how I planned to spend Saturday morning.
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@opeawo It's 77 airports and 1400 airfields - and you don't get any prize for knowing why many of those airfields exist. Hint: they're not for transporting food or facilitating tourism.
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@michaelpsenger They keep rotating the cast of characters so that they can diffuse public anger. When resentment builds up in the populace against a political figure, it's exit stage left. It's deliberate.
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This picture reminds me of Hillary Ojukwu (now deceased) who attended UNIBEN. A nephew of the Ikemba, and also a carbon copy.
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@Grossman4NJ @OgbeniDemola Your people terrorized more Africans than any communists ever did. Remember Algeria? Mau Mau ? Congo ?.
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@Qhawe___L You need to accelerate plans to drive these people out and back to Europe, and I am not kidding. They are planning to replicate Israel in Southern Africa.
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Unless this government is removed, and I see no pathway to that outcome, we are headed for 2k/dollar in 12 to 18 months. We must resign ourselves to this.
Tue 16 Jan, 2024 • 09:00 AM . 💵 1 USD ⇛ ₦1,309.037.💷 1 GBP ⇛ ₦1,629.608.💶 1 EUR ⇛ ₦1,392.827.💶 1 CAD ⇛ ₦967.962. v1.1.2.
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@sophiadahl1 I'm tired to be honest. Despite all the evidence that has emerged, and more that is still coming out revealing the scam and scandal that is COVID-19, people are still lining up to get vaccinated.
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@AmakaAnku Nigeria spent more money than South Africa on its elections and achieved a worse outcome; your post doesn't compute.
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@PulkitRega @MagnusCarlsen @agadmator It does, but women are free to decline. Judith Polgar only ever played in the male category.
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@a_ma_ka__ @ZenithBank @officialEFCC 1. Write an official letter to Zenith Bank at the bank where you lodged funds explaining what happened. Ask for an amicable resolution or you will seek legal redress. 2. Copy the CBN in your letter (VERY IMPORTANT). Your money will be refunded to you within two weeks.
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@hnshah "Breaking Bad is a co-founder story disguised as a drug-dealing story. ". Except that it's not. You're stretching here.
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@seunonigbinde @jidealexoni If a professor of law cannot insist on his rights under the constitution, the rest of us must watch, amused and powerless, from the sidelines. One must never cry more than the bereaved.
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@OgbeniDemola Imagine France stating that its national interests lie in Niger's uranium. Downright insulting.
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Resign en-masse and hand over to the real winner of the election.
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@asemota The US, UK, France, and EU (which incidentally label Capt Traore a dictator), would disagree with you. Democracy is an idea, but not all ideas have universal application. As Deng Xiaoping famously said: "it matters not if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice".
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@sophiadahl1 They hate the fact that people are fighting back and the truth is coming out. Note how they never go into specific details of the "disinformation".
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@asemota The pragmatism of Igbo men is undefeated. On the other hand, as Buhari showed us, a bad government can do fifty years worth of damage in eight. Rehoboam was planning to borrow from public pension funds before he was stopped. So there's that as well.
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The mistake many people make is in assuming their modern marriages are the same as those of their parents. The default setting for your parents' marriage was 'partnership'. The default setting for modern marriages is 'contract'. Proceed accordingly; the streets are unforgiving.
Sometimes, you are just not prepared for the level of insanity you see or hear. This pain the man saw is a lesson enough for men, and maybe women can see how their actions are a lesson for others.
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Cheat codes in life :. 1. Constantly strategize. You must outthink the opposition. 2. Plan long term .3. Build solid networks .4. Be relentless. Never give up.5. Exude confidence. Fake it if necessary .6. Learn from mistakes. Be teachable .7. Optimism.
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@knightofdelta Storm in a teacup. Let's keep some perspective here. The issue is about £800 owed as salary. Someone stole $25k from his client and nothing happened to him.
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@asemota This is very true. I met Dangotes COO Kunle Alake in 2013 (a missed opportunity in that encounter for me, but that's another story) and he stated :. ". we sell necessities only. Basic goods. Rice, flour, sugar, cement. We don't do luxuries no matter the margin.". That's focus.
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Whatever reputation RCCG once had is now in tatters. It appears that a major component of their business model is the ordination of corrupt politicians.
The RCCG fell off. If you go through a very careful scrutiny of a corrupt Nigerian politician, you'll find RCCG lurking in the end.
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The bar rises every day. This generation needs to possess the skills of Sherlock Holmes just to chat up a stranger on a bus. Good luck with that.
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@Echecrates @asemota Misleading headline. A Blue Marlin is worth $2.6 million where it's worth $2.6m and that place is certainly not Warri.
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@_marcba It's the language not the users. JavaScript is junk. Just because it has a monopoly and we're all forced to use it doesn't make it any less junk.
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In 1989/90 banking was the Wild West and bank failures happened every other week. Investing in a bank was a very risky proposition. The hotelier I above references this as the reason he declined to invest, but also says this was the most costly financial decision he ever made /3.
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@amuta_ann She has no control over where the cat goes - cats have a will of their own. Besides consider this : the cat like your yard (and maybe you too) that's why it comes over. Considering your neighbors character, your yard may be the only place it gets some peace.
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@Qhawe___L SA really failed over the last 30 years. Africa may have to fight the anti-apartheid battle again.
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@TheCryptoDog The moneyed class and their tradfi advisers with very few exceptions dislike crypto. It upends the social order.
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Crypto twitter:. Ethereum was $4 in 2015. $1500 would have gotten you 375 Eth worth $1.7M today. What cheap coin should we be accumulating today with a 5 year horizon ?.
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"On inspection, you are well dressed, but on examination, your brain is dull to percussion.".
What’s the funniest/worst insult you received/ heard about during medical school?.
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@Manasxeh @asemota @Jollz @D_enigma007 @PromixBlue I tried. How I tried. Ever heard the saying "in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king" ? Not true. In the land of the blind the one eyed man is an oddity.
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It was a long and tough journey and Jim was rejected many times. I know this for a fact, because a man I consider a mentor who is alive today and runs a big hotel in Benin City was approached by Jim to invest in Zenith when it was still an idea, and turned him down. /2.
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@asemota I recall when I bgan to notice the switch from 'Italian leather' to 'Vero Cuoio' on shoes and bags, but I never made this connection. Also, Sapele wood is prefered by manufacturers for guitar bodies and the interior panels of high end luxury cars.
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@Kanthan2030 An ancient and classic technique: allow the enemy keep his hallow, what you want is the crown.
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@cecild84 Take a look at their president. Study history lifestyle, background and speeches. Does he seem like a person with patriotism for Guinea Conakry burning in his heart?.
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@gechife I wonder what's driving this at the deepest level. Nothing computes. Is it a cult with some hidden plan ? A hoax ?Contaminants in the water or food supply causing brains to short circuit ? . I really want to know.
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@layorz1 @BurtonPixels @kyalbr There's more to the story. Gallo apparently concealed information on the HIV virus to avoid giving credit to earlier French researchers. The issue became so contentious and politically charged, the US and French presidents had to step in to resolve it.
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