| 1 | Mar 15, '25 | I didn't know this. | 99.9× | 4.5M | 6.9k | 843 | 4.4k |
| 2 | Feb 8, '25 | Okay, I am now beginning to understand why Xi Jinping cut Jack Ma down to size. (Jack Ma's net worth is $25 billion, still enormous, but not large enough to buy enough influence to | 63× | 2.9M | 36k | 3.6k | 3.9k |
| 3 | Aug 8, '24 | My own is to stay as far away as possible from South Africa. | 55.4× | 2.5M | 9.6k | 1.5k | 244 |
| 4 | Aug 19, '25 | The sachetization of the Nigerian Economy. | 44.6× | 2M | 11k | 2.3k | 530 |
| 5 | Sep 8, '24 | I think Tyrese is right. | 36.7× | 1.7M | 22k | 4.4k | 5k |
| 6 | Oct 25, '25 | This is medical malpractice. | 28.1× | 1.3M | 6.7k | 567 | 1.6k |
| 7 | Sep 14, '24 | He's selling "akara burgers" in the US and is marketing them as "plant based". Secure the bag, by any means necessary, nwanne mmadu. | 23.6× | 1.1M | 15k | 3k | 2.7k |
| 8 | Jun 9, '24 | LOL. Gbajabiamila used to attend House on the Rock. | 21.4× | 974k | 5.8k | 1.7k | 233 |
| 9 | Sep 16, '25 | This is funny. | 20.9× | 948k | 52k | 8.8k | 14k |
| 10 | Jul 31, '23 | This gentleman is remarkably empty, but covers his ignorance with a lot of big words. | 18.1× | 822k | 6.1k | 2k | 77 |
| 11 | Aug 30, '24 | "I was born in Spokane, Washington. I left there when I was very young and was raised on the Navajo Native American reservation in northeastern Arizona, where I attended public hig | 17.1× | 777k | 6.1k | 1.3k | 439 |
| 12 | Jan 23, '25 | Please this is "sweet cassava", with low levels of cyanide. If you try this with Nigerian cassava, you will die. | 16.3× | 742k | 5.2k | 1.3k | 754 |
| 13 | Jun 4, '23 | If you earn ₦100,000 a month in Lagos, and transportation to work is ₦2,000, and back is another ₦2,000. In a week that is ₦20,000. In a month, ₦80,000. You are now spending 80% of | 16.1× | 732k | 4.7k | 1.9k | 107 |
| 14 | Aug 23, '25 | We shouldn't do "open plan kitchens", simply because Americans are doing it. Americans do not cook with ogili, they do not boil beans, they do not make akpu in their kitchens. | 15.9× | 721k | 11k | 1.6k | 484 |
| 15 | Feb 25, '25 | Locally made treadmill. | 15.3× | 696k | 7.5k | 1.2k | 684 |
| 16 | Sep 20, '24 | Never came across a single man with a deep freezer. The deep freezer comes with marriage. | 14.7× | 667k | 11k | 1.8k | 330 |
| 17 | Jul 1, '25 | Engineering professors do not fix generators, anywhere on Planet Earth - anyone who believes they do, did not study Engineering. If you actually studied Engineering, you'd understa | 12.5× | 566k | 5.6k | 1.2k | 477 |
| 18 | May 30, '23 | The Catholic Church in Poland did not "pray away Communism", they took a stand against it. The Black Church in the US did not "pray away segregation", they took a stand against it. | 12.4× | 564k | 7.3k | 4.1k | 235 |
| 19 | Apr 21, '25 | US drone shot down by Houthis. | 11.7× | 533k | 4.2k | 740 | 467 |
| 20 | Oct 27, '24 | Lekki doesn't look "rich"; Yes, there are loads of expensive cars, and big houses; but the surrounding squalor, poor infrastructure, inadequate drainage etc., fills your vision. Ma | 11.7× | 531k | 6.8k | 1.2k | 341 |
| 21 | Sep 20, '25 | I no fit laugh. Some of you swore they were "only after illegal immigrants". | 11.6× | 526k | 6.2k | 1.4k | 438 |
| 22 | Sep 5, '24 | He's encouraging you all to marry Chinese women. | 11.4× | 518k | 6.1k | 940 | 661 |
| 23 | Feb 6, '25 | If you are looking for 10 Black people to defend Apartheid today, 9 of them can be found in Nigeria. | 11.3× | 516k | 4.8k | 1.4k | 178 |
| 24 | May 20, '25 | I don't care how many Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, Oxford and Chatham House lectures you've attended; Business in Africa cannot grow significantly, without reform in governance. Y | 11.1× | 505k | 9.6k | 4.5k | 1.3k |
| 25 | Jun 20, '25 | Iran, which has been under sanctions since 1979, has a working subway system. You don't understand how dysfunctional Nigeria is, till you compare it with other nations. | 11.1× | 503k | 8.4k | 3.2k | 388 |
| 26 | Apr 13, '25 | This is what "progress" looks like. | 10.5× | 478k | 22k | 4.4k | 335 |
| 27 | Feb 22, '25 | Lee Kuan Yew said that in Chinese culture, professions are ranked in this order; 1. Scholar. 2. Soldier. 3. Merchant. We are about to learn the wisdom of thousands of years of Chin | 9.1× | 415k | 6.6k | 1.3k | 1.4k |
| 28 | Sep 16, '24 | This is possible due to technology transfer from Chinese partners to IVM. No Western firm would ever agree to this level of technology transfer to an African partner. | 8.5× | 385k | 4.1k | 1.1k | 310 |
| 29 | Mar 18, '23 | The rest of the world has lived with a dysfunctional Somalia, for the past more than 30 years. They have also lived with a dysfunctional Congo DRC, for the past more than 25 years. | 7.6× | 346k | 6k | 3.4k | 154 |
| 30 | Oct 26, '23 | This is a warning to the younger generation; Please develop a marketable skill, so you don't have to resort to this kind of behaviour in your middle age. | 7.4× | 338k | 5.4k | 2.4k | 62 |
| 31 | May 22, '25 | A lot of the gold illegally mined in places like Northern Nigeria and Sudan, ends up here. | 7.4× | 335k | 10k | 2.8k | 477 |
| 32 | Jan 13, '25 | No Sub-Saharan African nation in the top 20, over the past more than 30 years. | 7.1× | 323k | 4.3k | 1.1k | 849 |
| 33 | May 28, '25 | APC hasn't solved a single problem they accused PDP of not solving - and they've been in office for 10 years. | 7.0× | 318k | 6.5k | 2.6k | 122 |
| 34 | Aug 10, '24 | Black South Africans are passionately telling us Nigerians that; 1. They hate us. 2. We are their enemies. Okay, we have heard. Let them get on with their lives, if they can. | 6.7× | 305k | 4.3k | 817 | 140 |
| 35 | Oct 12, '24 | Help save Peju. | 6.6× | 299k | 7.7k | 9.1k | 159 |
| 36 | Mar 3, '25 | This guy is talented. | 6.5× | 296k | 12k | 3.4k | 1.7k |
| 37 | Apr 8, '25 | This is, very Nigerian. | 6.1× | 276k | 4.3k | 580 | 81 |
| 38 | Jul 1, '24 | Sorry its too late. People across the World, in the Americas, Africa and Asia wanted to preserve their culture and traditions - and be generally left alone; But you lot went around | 5.9× | 270k | 5.7k | 2.1k | 323 |
| 39 | Aug 16, '25 | Nigerians are neither better nor worse than the rest of humanity. What is lacking in Nigeria, are consequences for bad behaviour. | 5.8× | 265k | 6.4k | 2.3k | 244 |
| 40 | Jun 16, '23 | Nigerians are easily distracted. Emefiele had a boss. His boss has a name. | 5.3× | 240k | 5.3k | 2.6k | 10 |
| 41 | Jul 13, '24 | You attend university, lecturer issues a handout. You are supposed to reproduce his/her handout faithfully in the exams. So there's no room for critical thinking. You can see the i | 4.4× | 199k | 6.1k | 2.4k | 246 |
| 42 | Apr 6, '23 | They say you are "fascists" - but fascists are known for wearing these kinds of outlandish uniforms. They wear them, you don't. You don't also send thugs to kill, maim and intimida | 4.0× | 181k | 5k | 3.5k | 25 |
| 43 | Jul 16, '25 | When Buhari "closed our borders", ba? | 4.0× | 180k | 5.3k | 1.2k | 80 |
| 44 | Mar 3, '23 | Everything Peter Obi accomplished, was accomplished without the support of a SINGLE South East governor. This is a BFD. | 3.8× | 171k | 5k | 1.6k | 15 |
| 45 | Mar 3, '22 | India is an interesting nation. It is democratic, but emphatically non-Western, and unlike Japan, it does not want to be "an honorary member of the West". India is BOUND to have fr | 3.3× | 0 | 15k | 3.3k | 313 |
| 46 | May 1, '25 | The reason why Alex Otti is Governor of Abia State, is because a single woman put her foot down, and said no to rigging. This is in contrast to the typical Nigerian Middle Class at | 3.2× | 145k | 6.8k | 2.4k | 108 |
| 47 | Oct 11, '20 | Online fraud is committed online. If you want to combat it, have a dedicated team of computer experts in the Nigerian Police - not a bunch of computer-illiterate extortionists who | 3.1× | 0 | 6.4k | 7.3k | 28 |
| 48 | Oct 3, '24 | Many of these people can now afford electric vehicles, and iPhones (for those who don't use high end Huawei phones). This is what "progress" looks like, not sharing free bread, in | 3.0× | 134k | 4k | 1.9k | 161 |
| 49 | May 12, '25 | Beans wasn't considered to be "expensive food" in Nigeria, till APC came to power. | 2.9× | 133k | 5.2k | 1.5k | 38 |
| 50 | Jun 5, '21 | Blocking access to Twitter is the fastest thing I've seen the Nigerian Government implement - in my entire life. If only they took governance and insecurity that seriously. | 2.9× | 0 | 8.7k | 5.7k | 29 |
| 51 | Nov 6, '24 | I think the Chinese are best prepared for the US this century; They understand the US is an adversary, and a competitor. Europeans are yet to figure out that US is a competitor - a | 2.8× | 129k | 4.3k | 1.4k | 242 |
| 52 | Jan 20, '21 | Neither did Buhari. Nigeria would have been better off if Buhari gave up on his dreams. | 2.8× | 0 | 9.4k | 4.8k | 29 |
| 53 | Aug 2, '24 | My wife recently priced a tuber of yam for 7,000 Naira. Since Independence, Nigeria has not witnessed this kind of food inflation. No amount of propaganda or paid influencers can d | 2.6× | 119k | 4.7k | 2.8k | 55 |
| 54 | Oct 22, '20 | What happened on Tuesday was a crime against humanity. Period. No sugar coating. | 2.6× | 0 | 5.7k | 6.2k | 5 |
| 55 | Oct 23, '20 | Gowon issued the same threats in his 30s. Babangida issued the same threats in his 40s. Abacha issued the same threats in his 50s. Obasanjo issued the same threats in his 60s. Buha | 2.5× | 0 | 5.9k | 5.9k | 23 |
| 56 | Oct 25, '20 | Never forget that on 10.20.20, the Nigerian Army opened fire on peaceful protesters singing the national anthem and holding the national flag. After which they stole bodies of the | 2.5× | 0 | 4.6k | 6.4k | 28 |
| 57 | Oct 22, '20 | Nobody is telling you to march on the streets tomorrow; But stop telling yourselves, "I give up". | 2.4× | 0 | 5.8k | 5.6k | 2 |
| 58 | Oct 22, '20 | They reacted with extreme brutality because they are scared of you, and what your awakening represents. If you respond with fear, you have played into their hands. #EndSARS | 2.4× | 0 | 4.6k | 6k | 10 |
| 59 | Oct 22, '20 | "You messed with the wrong generation" This is the time to prove it. The generation that opposed Babangida and Abacha went through a lot more agony before giving up - and there was | 2.1× | 0 | 4.4k | 5.1k | 28 |
| 60 | Jun 9, '22 | Because I am Igbo man, I should support a person like Rochas? Never going to happen. I will support Seyi Makinde 100 times before I support Rochas. | 2.0× | 0 | 8k | 2.7k | 19 |
| 61 | Oct 31, '20 | The Nigerian Army will cooperate with the US Military to rescue one American, but will shoot unarmed Nigerians, point blank, in the heart of Lagos' financial district. When I talk | 2.0× | 0 | 5.2k | 4.2k | 25 |
| 62 | Oct 28, '20 | What we are doing in Nigeria with #EndSARS is having an impact all over Africa. Keep it up. | 1.9× | 0 | 4.4k | 4.6k | 29 |
| 63 | Oct 26, '20 | Stop underestimating the reach of the Black Diaspora. Do you know how much publicity Lewis Hamilton alone has created for #EndSARS? | 1.8× | 0 | 4.7k | 4k | 9 |
| 64 | May 20, '22 | Peter Obi has been put under more scrutiny in one month, than Buhari has in seven years. | 1.8× | 0 | 6.2k | 2.8k | 14 |
| 65 | Jun 3, '21 | If we call out Buhari when he makes inflammatory statements, and fail to do the same when Nnamdi Kanu does the same - then we are hypocrites. Many of you aren't going to like me, b | 1.7× | 0 | 5.6k | 2.4k | 33 |
| 66 | Oct 28, '19 | This is like saying Wall Street has produced more millionaires than Harvard. The mission of a university is not to "produce millionaires". It is to produce thinking men and women. | 1.6× | 0 | 5.3k | 2.7k | 23 |
| 67 | Jul 18, '22 | I remember when ₦500,000 was equivalent to more than US$3,300. In those days, people called for "Dr. Okonjo-Iweala's degree from Harvard University to be withdrawn". Well, the same | 1.6× | 0 | 5.3k | 2.7k | 25 |
| 68 | Feb 13, '21 | This administration is full of former June 12 activists. "Yesterday's heroes" are "Today's oppressors". | 1.5× | 0 | 4.1k | 3.2k | 18 |
| 69 | Jul 23, '19 | I'm deeply suspicious about Nigerian telcos, the speed at which 1GB of data is exhausted, is not normal. | 1.5× | 0 | 4.7k | 2.3k | 7 |
| 70 | Sep 27, '22 | "If you vote for Obi, he will not win, your vote will be wasted, and Ndigbo will not get anything from the Center". Well, I haven't gotten anything from the Center since 1999, so I | 1.5× | 0 | 5.7k | 2.2k | 15 |
| 71 | Jul 27, '19 | We've "banned" or threatened to ban everything from; Tomato paste Rice Palm oil Wheat "Chocolates & fancy dresses" "Seedless grapes" Now milk; To "encourage local production". | 1.4× | 0 | 4.2k | 2.7k | 14 |
| 72 | Jul 21, '19 | A client told me the only reasons he's settled his family abroad are; 1. Safety - Nigeria not safe. 2. Education - Nigerian schools are not value for money. 3. Prospects for his ch | 1.4× | 0 | 5.2k | 2.2k | 39 |
| 73 | Dec 27, '18 | While everyone claims "China is colonizing Africa", most are unaware that France has controlled the monetary policy of; 1. Senegal 2. Mali 3. Cote d'Ivoire 4. Togo 5. Benin 6. Nige | 1.4× | 0 | 4.2k | 2.6k | 100 |
| 74 | Apr 8, '20 | No way. At least the Turkish Government can provide 24 hours electricity. There's no service the Nigerian Government can reliably provide. If you put the Nigerian Government in cha | 1.4× | 0 | 3.9k | 2.6k | 32 |
| 75 | Nov 3, '20 | 1. Trump never bothered to tweet about Lekki, Oyigbo or any massacre/human rights abuse in Nigeria. 2. This is what I meant by a type of "Christianity" that makes Africans believe | 1.4× | 0 | 3.9k | 2.6k | 59 |
| 76 | Jan 19, '19 | Atiku is not debating because Buhari is not debating. Buhari is his main opponent. His point is that he has nothing to gain by debating second tier candidates. The intellectual cha | 1.4× | 0 | 3.8k | 2.4k | 9 |
| 77 | Jun 6, '21 | Abacha banned Radio Kudirat. Buhari banned Twitter. Same difference. But some of you will never learn, you are already promoting an El Rufai Presidency. | 1.4× | 0 | 4k | 2.8k | 10 |
| 78 | Jul 20, '19 | "Nigerians are intelligent people" Great, but who isn't intelligent? Japanese? Germans? Indians? Chinese? We've got to go beyond that - and ask ourselves, what have we accomplished | 1.4× | 0 | 4.5k | 2.4k | 19 |
| 79 | Feb 19, '20 | "Nigeria will be respected when Buhari becomes president" Many of the people who said this are now in Canada. | 1.4× | 0 | 4.8k | 2.1k | 16 |
| 80 | Dec 10, '22 | I've lived abroad. This kind of desperation is common when your rent is due. | 1.4× | 0 | 5.4k | 1.7k | 115 |
| 81 | Oct 13, '22 | Shagari invited Ojukwu back from Cote d'Ivoire before the 1983 elections, to weaken Azikiwe's hold on South East's politics. (If you understand Nigeria, you'll be able to connect a | 1.3× | 0 | 4.8k | 2k | 72 |
| 82 | May 22, '21 | Please refuse to marry a man "who insists on fresh meals every day". It is that simple. Nobody should be allowed to be that inconsiderate in 2021, especially if he is broke or near | 1.3× | 0 | 4.7k | 1.9k | 48 |
| 83 | Jan 8, '20 | Boko Haram and the Nigerian Army fought a pitched battle at Monguno, you didn't pray for Nigerian soldiers. Today, you want to "pray for American soldiers". Some of your minds are | 1.3× | 0 | 4.3k | 2.2k | 11 |
| 84 | Aug 13, '19 | Intelligent Nigerians need to understand that individual intelligence is not that important. What matters is "group intelligence". Individual intelligence has never been our proble | 1.3× | 0 | 4.3k | 2.2k | 39 |
| 85 | Jun 10, '22 | I was shaken to the core when a driver recounted how he lost a child, simply because he did not have ₦20,000 to pay for drugs. I remember "saving a person's life" with only ₦6,000. | 1.3× | 0 | 4k | 2.4k | 23 |
| 86 | Jun 14, '22 | We moved into a new house & needed to change the mosquito nets. We met artisans, their fees were above N120,000. Then we met this guy, who figured out we didn't need to change | 1.3× | 0 | 4.9k | 1.9k | 22 |
| 87 | Jul 21, '22 | I am married. We hire somebody to clean the house once a week - and it gives us peace of mind. We order food sometimes, because we are career professionals, and there's a lot more | 1.2× | 0 | 5.6k | 1.3k | 77 |
| 88 | Sep 10, '22 | Truth be told, when I first heard about Peter Obi porting to Labour, I thought his political career was finished. I thought the party would implode, and his prospects with it. Obi | 1.2× | 0 | 5.1k | 1.6k | 16 |
| 89 | Jun 12, '22 | If the only thing the Peter Obi movement does is teach young Nigerians how to organize themselves for politics, then it is a lesson worth learning, that will reverberate for decade | 1.2× | 0 | 4.7k | 1.8k | 9 |
| 90 | Sep 6, '19 | Robert Mugabe's academic degrees Bachelor of Arts (History and English) Bachelor of Administration (B.Admin) Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) Bachelor of Science (BSc.) in Economics Ba | 1.2× | 0 | 3.9k | 1.7k | 34 |
| 91 | Oct 17, '22 | I disagree, 2023 is not like 2015. One candidate is CLEARLY ahead of other candidates in quality and character. And no, his supporters are "not behaving like Buhari's supporters di | 1.2× | 0 | 3.9k | 2.1k | 9 |
| 92 | Dec 16, '19 | If you want to excel in sports, leave Nigeria. | 1.2× | 0 | 4k | 1.8k | 10 |
| 93 | Apr 30, '20 | Don't be fooled by the big English we speak on Twitter. We are under immense financial pressure. May God help us. | 1.1× | 0 | 4.4k | 1.6k | 14 |
| 94 | Apr 20, '22 | I haven't come across a single police station in Nigeria with a working computer - in all the days of my life. | 1.1× | 0 | 4k | 1.8k | 12 |
| 95 | Sep 2, '19 | I visited South Africa just before the World Cup was held there. The hotel receptionist told me that "after the World Cup, they would deal with Nigerians". I swore I would never sp | 1.1× | 0 | 3.8k | 1.8k | 17 |
| 96 | Jun 27, '22 | "Peter Obi", is the first grassroots driven political movement I can recall in Nigeria. Let us not lose sight of the significance of this moment. | 1.1× | 0 | 4.3k | 1.6k | 8 |
| 97 | May 26, '22 | I apologize to anyone I told that "only PDP and APC are vehicles for democratic change in Nigeria". New vehicles will have to built from the scratch. | 1.1× | 0 | 4.4k | 1.4k | 11 |
| 98 | Sep 30, '22 | Do not for a moment, believe that the West (especially US and UK) would be happy with a Peter Obi Presidency. Peter Obi is not the kind of Nigerian politician they are "used to dea | 1.1× | 0 | 4.1k | 1.4k | 25 |
| 99 | May 11, '20 | The Catholic Church has 425 hospitals in Nigeria. Probably the biggest healthcare provider in Nigeria after the Nigerian Government. | 1.1× | 0 | 4k | 1.5k | 28 |
| 100 | Jul 28, '24 | London didn't have a central sewage system, till the "Big Stink" of 1858 drove policy makers mad (heat wave made the sewage filled Thames to stink so much, people retched); Joseph | 0.5× | 24k | 175 | 107 | 14 |
| 101 | Oct 8 | Plans are not sufficient. But planning is indispensable. Q4 2026 is the time to plan for 2027. Strategy. Priorities. Targets. Execution. Excenovation can help you turn your ambitio | 0.1× | 2.8k | 6 | 1 | 1 |
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