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Naija Economic History reading group update.
A promise is a promise. I can commit to one monthly session on a Sunday. We can start on Sunday 15th September.
Unfortunately I have limited capacity as I want us to be thorough so I’ll select a healthy balance of people across
Nigerian economic history is fascinating. I’d love to start a reading group.
We focus so much on the tired debates in our political history that we neglect tough questions about what facilitated our economic decline. I don’t mean the war or the coups or the oil, I mean the
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May those who profit from war never see peace in this life 🙏🏾🤲🏾
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I was having the worst week last week then one of my favourite comrades sent this pic of our number 1 comrade 🥺❤️🇵🇸✊🏾
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A friend once told me, Palestine is the litmus test of principled liberation politics. Every day on this app proves that to me. Huey knew this, Mandela knew this, George Jackson knew this, Kwame Ture knew this, Angela Davis knows this, the list goes on and on and on.
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But why are we all acting like this isn’t the most Yoruba thing in the world 😂
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Yes, black people can be violent settlers too. Next question.
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Bringing the TL back this striking image of Stuart Hall on crèche duty at the Women’s Liberation Movement conference hosted at Ruskin College, Oxford, in 1970.
Thinking today about how we organise childcare and education for liberation. Suggested readings welcome.
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Let Palestine be the struggle that radicalises you into the cause of human freedom.
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The same institution of police who protected Kate Middleton as she popped in maskless for a photo op, later turned brutality against women in mourning.
If the vigil was illegal, will Kate Middleton share in the consequences or?
#ReclaimTheseStreets
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I’m not going to lie, every time I think of how far Yoruba cinema has come my heart gets full. I have a personal connection to it, as I often say - those old VCDs taught me Yoruba, brought me closer to home and helped me understand the nuances in mummy’s gisting 🤭
On the
Power. Betrayal. Legacy. The legend of Bashorun Ga'a, the man who held the fate of the Oyo empire in his hands, until his own blood altered his destiny.
#HouseofGaa
premieres July 26 ⛓
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Priti Patel is an agent of white supremacy BEFORE she is a woman of colour. She made it clear where her solidarity lies and we owe her absolutely nothing.
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Imagine how different our discussions would be if Fanon and Hall entered the undergraduate curriculum as theorists of capitalism rather than as theorists of a narrow and neutralised conception of ‘race’. The questions we ask of texts will determine what they tell us.
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1492, as Spain sets to begin exploration of the Americas for colonisation, they also announce the expulsion of Jews. Jews went into Auschwitz a group with an already long history of pogroms, exclusion and expulsion in Europe - anti-Semitism does not begin with the Nazis.
“Jews went into Auschwitz and came out as Jews. Africans went into the ships and came out as Blacks. The former is a Human holocaust; the latter is a Human and a metaphysical holocaust. This is why it makes little sense to attempt an analogy.”—-Frank B. Wilderson III
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Went back to reread the ruling in light of this. As the threshold for urgency has been met Israel has been ordered to cease to do the following things immediately, and to stop its military from doing so too:
“(a) killing members of the group [Palestinians];
b) causing serious
A “ceasefire” is what you demand in an armed conflict. In a genocide you demand an immediate end to all genocidal acts and that is exactly what the ICJ ordered with immediate effect. Please stop helping “Israel” spin its historic defeat as a win.
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Some of you claiming to be about revolutionary coalition building but can’t tell the difference between an opp and someone trying to learn. Extending grace is central to revolutionary praxis. Dunking on people doesn’t make you anyone’s vanguard.
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I’m tired of people acting like things are too above the average person’s level of comprehension. No - you’re committed to deliberately complicating relatively simple concepts so that you can feed your ego and feel like you know more than you do.
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Somebody pinch me - apparently I'm starting my PhD this year! I don't have a masters and I've been out of the academy for almost 5 years, but so many beautiful people believed in my project and I am filled with such immense gratitude. More when I get over the shock ❤️
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Arise News carried their bad character to Washington and got suitably schooled.
Anyway sha, Headmaster has spoken on reserves: “the elephant in some room” 😂😂😂😂
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One of my favourite pictures of my little person. I fight so she doesn’t have to grow up in a world which is characterised by such wanton disregard for human life, dignity and freedom. ♥️
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Still sitting with Robin Kelley’s reminder (via Rodney) that Black Studies is not the study of Black people but the study of the world from a Black perspective.
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If you want to understand My
#EndSARS
tweets, read this piece I wrote for
@AJEnglish
. As it went up, the military opened fire on unarmed protestors! Read up and support the movement!
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My daughter turned 2 today and I’m so proud of her, and myself!
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I’m going to lose it, name one functional country where people turn their freezers on and off?!
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Oxbridge has a combined net worth of at least £21 billion. That’s more than 10 times the combined GDPs of the 7 poorest countries in the world. Please stop giving them more money lol.
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I’ve been looking for a thread to share with some context to the
#EndSarsNow
protests for my followers but I haven’t seen one yet – so I’ll do one. Feel free to quote tweet threads in the replies.
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I'm seeing a lot of commentary on the Air Peace debacle and, frankly, Allen Onyema has a very valid point.
The trouble is, many Nigerians don't understand the importance of competition laws for protecting the ultimate interests of consumers.
So what's the charge?
Onyema
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“We must be clear here and not confused, I’m a socialist!”
Kwame Ture’s stunning response to a black man who said he can’t get with socialism because it’s a “white” thing. Karl Marx did not invent socialism.
via
@_AfroMarxist
on YouTube
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My mama used to buy me all these verbal and non verbal reasoning books. Was doing the tests at 3 or 4 years old. She’d come home from work and mark them before making dinner. Eventually, I would learn to read novels with hers and we’d pick them out at WHSmiths together.
Later
My mum got ICAN forms for me when I was in secondary school and kept them in her wardrobe for years. I’m not sure if she spotted that I had a knack for figures, but it was a seed.Decades later, FCCA, FCA, CPA, MBA, CFEI. Intentional parenting is such a powerful tool of influence.
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Can we stop doing this take? How can you centre “labour” in the abstract if you don’t engage the technologies of identity which differentiate and give it meaning? Identity and feelings aren’t in some separate idea space, they emerge from and tell us a lot about material reality.
Libs want to center 'identity' and 'feelings' Marx wanted to 'center' labor and labor power.
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First Degree, Aston University
Second Degree, Harvard University
Former VP, Citibank Nigeria
Former ED, CIB
Former Commissioner Budget and Planning, Lagos State.
Former Board Member, Chevron Oil PLC
Former Chairman, World Bank LMDGP Project
Former Board Member, Harvard Kennedy
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It angers me that I’m supposed to watch this and believe that my solidarity should be with those on the front lines of laundering the reputation of settler colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing. It could never be me.
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If Ethiopian Israelis are not anti-zionists they are just settlers struggling for more advantages in an apartheid system. It’s really that simple.
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NIGERIA HAS NEVER BEEN A SOCIALIST COUNTRY LOL CAN KEMI BADENOCH STOP LYING???
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It’s profoundly neoliberal to behave as though the work of politicisation happens in private. It’s not about giving reading lists, it’s about working through ideas together. The space to learn and grow in public is something we must all be defending if we want to get free.
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The race/class debate makes me want to run my forehead through a wall because an material analysis of race is always already an analysis of class formation. Racial politics is always a class politics (proletarian or bourgeois) and class politics is always a racial politics.
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To make the claim that Marxism is essentially European, you have to ignore millions of colonised people who found in his work the tools to understand their condition.
The black Marxist tradition treats Marxism is a methodology, not a fixed set of conclusions about the world.
“We must be clear here and not confused, I’m a socialist!”
Kwame Ture’s stunning response to a black man who said he can’t get with socialism because it’s a “white” thing. Karl Marx did not invent socialism.
via
@_AfroMarxist
on YouTube
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If you want to cry for the SW, read this Western Region Development Plan for 1962-68.
Before we even get to the numbers, we deserve so much better from our administrators. The coherence, the rigour, the framework for putting it together.
@AigFoundation
has talked about how
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Skinfolk really ain't all kinfolk. Not because they're race traitors. Not because they're Uncle Toms. It's because their interests are fundamentally structured by class interests. They're interests are not the same as ours.
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Translation: Airlines can cry all they want, when they’re ready, they’ll enter the FX market. CBN has met its contractual obligations.
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BDCs are buying at N980/$, selling at N1020/$. N40 spread, not from CBN o, eyin naira defence crew 😂
“What you’re seeing now is to show, what happened before has no economic fundamentals. It’s just a bubble, and the bubble has burst.”
President, Association of Bureaux De
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I saw one tweet yesterday where someone said I fit be Cardoso pikin 😂
Anyway sha, if both of the men in this picture live up to the assignment they were picked for, and follow the milestones that were set out, Nigeria will never be the same again. They will be written as heroes
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I’m published, peer reviewed at that! Here’s me, Fanon, Huey and other pals on why “Anti-Blackness theory” is killing liberation politics...
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“Democratic legacy”
The British are 1% of the world's population. But 2 billion people speak our language while billions more live under our democratic legacy, benefit from antibiotics, phones, TVs, the internet & all our other inventions, and are protected by our military. But yeah, whatevs John.
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When a Governor comes out and tells you about the size of the debt left to him, but doesn’t comment specifically about the debt servicing implications on the budget, he’s not ready to work. He’s preparing his excuse.
When he now comes out to say this is why he can’t pay
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I don wake. Lets talk about "naira defence" for a quick second.
1. As at July 2023 - the last time the CBN approved new BDC licenses - there were 5,687 BDCs. On March 1st 2024, the CBN revoked the licenses of 4,173 BDCs, leaving us with 1,514 BDCs.
2. The CBN, as far as we
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The only kind of representation I’m interested in.
@zarahsultana
is truly remarkable ❤️
The right to protest is under attack from the Conservatives'
#PoliceCrackdownBill
.
This evening I joined women in Parliament Square to say: We will not be silenced. We don't accept more police powers.
Let's
#KillTheBill
and defend our rights.
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People genuinely think the UK is cheaper than Nigeria and I blame the japa influencers.
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“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?” - No one could speak love in the dark like bell hooks
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I just got the most wonderful news!
One of the most intellectually generous scholars I know, Professor Olutayo Adesina (University of Ibadan), has been awarded one of only eight Global Professorships worth over $1 million by the British Academy!
What’s even better is that his
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I’m sorry but just so people understand the absurdity of the claim. El Rufai was the first governor in Nigerian history to secure a loan facility directly to the subnational level.
He got $350million to deepen the capacity of the state to generate revenue and promote
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Was just reminded of this video of
@BarnabyRaine
teaching my hours old daughter the one thing she needs to know in this life ❤️
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National liberation =/= Nationalism. That’s a hill I’m willing to die on.
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After creating an unequal playing field to starve your own airlines , they try to use cheap blackmail tactics to bully you into forking out to protect their profits even after you’ve done your duty.
The God of Allen Onyema does not sleep 😂😂😂
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We will never solve poverty under capitalism. Capitalism wasn’t designed for that.*
We will never solve poverty. The world wasn’t designed for that. 🧵
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Starting a thread with a list of places to go for data and information on governance and economy in Nigeria. I’ll add it to my highlights.
Drop yours too👇🏾
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Taking this as an opportunity to do a master thread because I’m tired at this point. We all understand the challenges of operating in Nigeria, the vast majority are neither new nor surprising. Despite this, there are so many distortions and half truths in the discussion that I
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Customs duties were never increased, the exchange rate did. Someone who wanted to be a president.
I wish to urgently call on the Federal Government of Nigeria to end the inconsistency in duty charges as it is affecting the general business atmosphere in the country. The federal government should stop the arbitrary and ever-increasing customs duties as
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Locally manufactured Augmentin launching. Corticosteroid on the way. Whilst GSK was exiting, MeCure was listing and building local production capacity.
E sweet my belly. MeCure was my proudest pick last year. Got in at N3.91. No need for profit taking when the horizon makes
MeCure to produce first locally manufactured ‘Augmentin’ amid manufacturers’ exits -
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The problem is they think it’s a cute joke because they know it won’t actually happen.
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Revolutionary politics must come first and foremost from a deep belief in and love of humanity. Without love, without a belief in our capacity to transform through empathy, learning and struggle, we have no hope for creating a just world.
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I ate from the same plate as my daddy mostly until I was in secondary school.
Sometimes it was rice, but mostly okele - ground rice, poundo, amala etc. My mum used to give him the best pieces of meat and he was always fair in sharing it. We’d take turns to pick - of course
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Someone is casually trying to buy N18 billion in Bitcoin. This money will pass through the Nigerian financial system and EFCC is firing rounds in Wuse.
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Fun fact: could be all of them or none of them. Race is not a stable historical category.
Speaking of whether or not Ruth Negga can "pass" in
@Netflix
's PASSING film, Ebony magazine rolled out a quiz in April 1952 that asked, "WHICH ONE IS NEGRO? WHICH IS WHITE?"
How many can you guess correctly? (And yes, I have the answer key lol).
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That’s the Country Director for Nigeria at the World Bank laughing at her question. God abeg 😂😂😂
Arise News carried their bad character to Washington and got suitably schooled.
Anyway sha, Headmaster has spoken on reserves: “the elephant in some room” 😂😂😂😂
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@TimbaKudakwashe
There are two senses in which this is the case for me. 1) In recognising that the struggle against colonialism is not over - Palestine experiences ongoing settler colonisation. 2) it’s a test of someone’s commitment, to hold fast to the principle of freedom when it gets punished
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My daughter and I just watched her godfather
@BarnabyRaine
on
#Newsnight
. My heart is overflowing with love and I’m thanking my lucky stars to experience the friendship which flows from such a beautifully principled commitment to freedom and justice.
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This is part of the myth Europe tells itself to ignore the sickness at the heart of its culture. They pretend that they were safe havens, that they didn’t turn away Jewish refugees that they entered the war for noble reasons.
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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People Who Just Read White Fragility About Race.
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There’s a lot of new things happening but why is everyone shocked by the things they said they wanted to do from May 2023?
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Through my labour of love, I stumbled on the National Repository of Nigeria online via the National Library of Nigeria.
Hundreds of monographs and books on Nigeria:
Almost 200 journal articles:
A wealth of Gazettes and
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Those selling Argentina’s Javier Milei’s far-right agenda as a model for cost cutting in Nigeria won’t report that:
- Argentina’s debt to GDP is 79.9% (IMF), Nigeria’s is 41.3% (IMF). Most of Argentina’s debt is external and dollar denominated. Most of Nigeria’s debt is domestic
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I think if we replace “nothing to do with” with “is categorically not determined by” we’d get a fairer assessment of the intervention. At least in my reading.
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Just called my secondary school English teacher, who taught me how to debate and is now like an adopted mummy to me. I have some big news for her.
She asked me to guess what she was doing. Turns out she was just about to start a debate with her class who were all busy
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You saw $10,000 for two orange juices and this tweet passed the sense check?
dawg. someone legit spent $21M last night at the Secrets Palace in Lagos. 😂
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Single mum here 🙋🏾♀️ - this policy is violent as fuck. ID is integral to the capacity to access the most basic provisions, especially given hostile environment.
This is not about holidays, it’s about a state which is angling for opportunities to strip us of our most basic rights.
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Now we’re talking.
Throwing money at irrigation, fertiliser and seedlings without addressing the storage and logistics side of the value chain is like pouring into a sieve and hoping for the best.
At c.N3.5trn, Nigeria’s annual post-harvest losses are over 9 times higher than Agric budget for 2024.
Our first insight was at Benue State, where a staff of the Agric Ministry said:"If you go to my Local Goverment, you will begin to Cry."
So, we drove to the Local Government.
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Not me thinking about how I need more money then discovering my daughter’s nursery’s plan to bump fees up by over £300 a month. I’m actually spun and I’m tired. Nationalise childcare.
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Same Binance the UK shut down to regulate. Same Binance the US just fined $4.3 billion.
All over money-laundering and regulatory infractions.
Bring them to the table. Regulate them well. Strengthen KYC. Just don’t be lying about the facts.
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One last one.
Cardoso is asserting his independence.
The CBN won’t ban importers from the FX market - dairy or anything else. If the FG wants policy in that direction they should make laws and regulate.
It’s not about connections now, the CBN won’t feed the oligopolies
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Especially grateful today, on Nakba 73, for all the Palestinians who have taught me so much of how to carry revolution in my heart wherever I go. Palestine will be free. We will all be free. ❤️🏹🇵🇸
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A read: What actually Happened in Bristol – and How a Narrative is Built
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On Bristol:
The left needs to stop looking on at political violence it views as "unstrategic" with disdain. If all we can offer is hollow parliamentary alliances and not long term political organisation, that is a failure of the left - not of those resisting.
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The Special Anti-Robbery Squad was established in 1992 to combat a sharp increase in armed robberies and kidnappings. Initially, the 15 officers assigned to this unit operated undercover and didn’t wear uniforms.
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More energy in defence of Priti Patel than smoke for the MPs who *literally* called for the deportation of their constituents in a pandemic. Get out of here!
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As a Black Marxist, it irks me no end that I’m trapped between weirdo Marxists who think ‘Race’ is a purely superstructural phenomenon and currents of black thought which make glib declarations about what Marx’s project was which show that they’ve never seriously engaged with him
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People generally don’t realise that SLS was a CBN Gov during crisis. That’s why I see so many parallels between him and Cardoso.
A timely reminder of this kernel from those days:
“No matter how strong your institutions are, they can be weakened by weak men. A central bank is
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Cute. Just so we're clear:
1. Binance does not need to be registered in Nigeria to be a body corporate. It is a legal entity engaging in an activity within Nigeria's borders which is subject to regulation - not even Binance itself is disputing this.
2. Striking that you
You’re constantly capping on my quotes.
1. Binance is not a body corporate in Nigeria.
2. The offense does not exist. The govt does not even know who uses Binance. How will they know that criminals moved money via the platform?
How do you prove that Binance, a foreign
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The way the meaning of this speech was twisted needs to be studied. Begging party delegates in Ogun state not to favour the Ogun indigene over him in the party primaries when the agreed rotation reverted to the southwest became tribal politics.
There were so many examples of
100 years from now, this campaign speech by Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be revisited in history classes.
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After demanding subsidies and single digit credit from government you’ll smuggle it out in the name of freedom to make profit while the Nigerians whose commonwealth funded those interventions are starving.
ENKR.
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I’m a stan when it comes to the CBN and I’m unapologetic about it. If you know what is actually required to achieve what the governor and deputy governors have accomplished in the last 10 months, you would be too.
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My favourite brand of racism is when rich people complain about being insufficiently revered by servants 🤩
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I think one of the things that worries me most about politics today is how quickly the collective assumption that people essentially cannot change has settled in despite so many compelling examples of how they do all the time and how they get radicalised constantly.
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