Rínwà retweeted
never ever look desperate in life, especially when everything around you is falling apart.
remain calm.
money's gone? stay calm.
heartbroken? stay calm.
all your plans collapsed? stay calm.
panic changes nothing, and desperation makes you do humiliating shit. beg for opportunities, chase people who have already left, accept disrespect, make terrible decisions, all because you're terrified of uncertainty and silence.
learn to contain yourself. you will be back up.
learn to accept that sometimes it's simply your turn to suffer. there isn't always a deeper explanation, a hidden lesson or some grand reason behind it. sometimes life just beats the shit out of you, and right now it's your turn.
stop asking "why me?"
well, why not you?
you asked for strength. did you expect strength to arrive wrapped in comfort?
anybody can look strong when life is easy. what's so impressive about that? the real test of character is whether you can remain composed when everything around you is burning. hard times have a way of revealing whether your strength was actually character or just a facade built on favourable circumstances.
you want to know the real flex? life's a complete shitshow and you move anyway. straighten your posture, get your head right and keep going.
lost money? make it again.
lost a person? keep moving.
lost the plan? build another one.
lost your footing? stand up again.
but never, ever lose yourself.
don't let a temporary season of suffering turn you into someone you wouldn't respect when life gets better.
and one day, the same season that nearly took you out will become a story you tell casually. not to prove how strong you were, not to seek sympathy, but because you're genuinely past it. because you've lived long enough to realise just how temporary all of this shit really is, and understand that staying composed doesn't mean pretending nothing hurts. you can grieve, you can be exhausted, you can admit that life is fucking terrible right now. just don't let your suffering make your decisions for you.
never be desperate. take the hit, keep your posture, protect your dignity and let life test how badly you actually want to become the person you've always envisioned.
you can lose almost everything and still rebuild.
just make sure you don't lose yourself in the process.
Rínwà retweeted
I’m extremely disappointed in us as Nigerian youths. Extremely.
I woke up this morning to get ready for work without electricity and without water. The last time we had power in my area was Saturday morning. This is Abule Ijesha, Lagos.
I work a 9–5. I earn a substantial amount every month, and yet I’m still dealing with something as basic as the lack of electricity and water.
And meanwhile, young people on Twitter are still allowing tribal sentiments and religious affiliations to divide us in 2026.
Do you people not understand how limited you are compared to young people in developed countries? Do you not understand that if anything happens right now, the politicians who are the most privileged among us have the means to leave this country while the rest of us remain here to deal with the consequences?
Do you genuinely think the elites care about the tribal and religious divisions they use to keep us fighting each other?
Your Commissioner of Environment and Water Resources in Lagos can be online flaunting a Patek Philippe while young people are struggling with basic infrastructure. And this is just a Commissioner.
They know exactly what they’re doing. They know that as long as we’re distracted by tribe, religion, sex, politics and whatever other silly division they can exploit, we won’t look up and ask the people actually responsible for our living conditions the difficult questions.
This is disgusting.
And honestly, we should be ashamed of ourselves.
Not because we are powerless, but because we have failed woefully to recognize where our collective interests lie.
We keep fighting each other while the people benefiting from this dysfunction continue to live above the consequences of it.
We need to do better.
Rínwà retweeted
By the way my rule in life is I do not voluntarily participate in my own suffering. And I will ditch anything that tries to make me a willing participant in my own suffering. If I can't exit immediately, just know I'm planning my exit and I will exit at some point.
Rínwà retweeted
China’s exploitation of Nigeria? What exactly does that mean in the context of this discussion? Assuming that’s still where we are at.
Chinese manufacturers mass produce commodities in China at cheap prices. Nigerian traders go there, buy them at wholesale prices, ship them back home and sell them at outrageous margins, hiding behind the cost of shipping and clearing.
Now, having understood that there is a huge market here, Chinese manufacturers are simply taking the next step. They will continue to mass produce items Nigerians need at scale, but this time, they’ll ship it down (pay for customs and clearing) and sell directly to Nigerian consumers at cheaper prices.
And somehow, that is the problem?
What exactly did we build in the first place?
What local industry is being displaced by making everyday products cheaper and more accessible to the average Nigerian?
What exactly are we protecting when the only serious argument against cheaper Chinese goods is that they threaten the margins of people who have been importing those same Chinese goods and reselling them here?
“How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.”
I see some Nigerians defending China’s exploitation of Nigeria, and I laugh.
China will never build Nigeria for us. To the world, you are either an immigrant expected to remain grateful or a Nigerian expected to fix your own country.
The moment we understand this, we will stop complaining, stop making excuses and start building a nation that cannot be exploited.
No foreign power is coming to save Nigeria. We either build Nigeria or watch others take everything.
Rínwà retweeted
Tip for law enforcement
Get content creators, Ask them to go film in different areas of Lagos, when these boys pull up, Arrest them all.
Do this continuously across different local governments.
This rubbish will stop before the end of the year
*Serious wahala between some content creator and Lagos street thvgs*
CC: “I’m not giving you a dime anymore, why una dey raise voice for me? Is it your right? Why’re you harassing us ?”
Street thvgs: This is not your fada’s compound, Na we dey secure this place, we’ll collect money from you here. Go and call your police come.