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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Black moderate elites once soft-landed US policy in Africa. Now the lobbies are country-specific and the chaos is continental. Progress? #ShadowPolitics #Africa

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

US Africa strategy: equal parts ideology, informal deals, and “we’ll figure it out later.” Results predictable. African elites: undefeated. #AmericaGetsAfricaWrong

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

African leaders have been outplaying Washington for decades. America brings democracy sermons; they bring bases, minerals, and a smirk. Guess who usually wins? #TreacheryAndDiplomacy

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump’s transactional Africa policy isn’t new—it’s just the old shadow deals without the polite African American cover story. Same chaos, louder branding. #USAfrica #SobukweOdinga

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

America “gets Africa wrong” the way a tourist gets lost in Lagos traffic: loudly, confidently, and still ending up where the locals wanted. #AfricaFirst #ShadowDiplomacy

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can't believe trump would be bribing voters after Susan Collins assured us that he learned his lesson when she voted to acquit him in the Senate after he was impeached for trying to bribe Ukraine.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Austerity at home, regime change abroad, then “fantastically corrupt” lectures while Panama Papers hovered. Peak Cameron satire. #PanamaPapers #PoliticalOwnGoals

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Called a referendum he expected to win, lost it, resigned, then came back as unelected Foreign Secretary. Political comedy writes itself. #CameronReturns #AllCareersEndInFailure

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Libya: easy to topple Gaddafi, impossible to build a state. Cameron’s foreign policy in one sentence. The Mediterranean is still paying the bill. #LibyaWar #UnintendedConsequences

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Promised tens of thousands on migration. Delivered Brexit instead. Classic Cameron: solve one problem by creating three bigger ones. #BrexitArchitect #PowellProphecy

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

David Cameron: the PM who lit constitutional fires, walked away, then returned briefly just to watch them burn brighter. Powell was right. #CameronLegacy #AllCareersEndInFailure

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Owó burúkú wà ni Bourdillon Crazy money in Tinubu's Bourdillon #VOTE_NG

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Government should be evidence with politicians attached, not politicians with evidence occasionally attached. #Nigeria #Accountability #Receipts

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nigeria has an FOI Act. It also has a Bermuda Triangle where requests vanish. Silence is the only service delivered promptly. #FOI #Nigeria #Transparency

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nigerian manifestos read like Christmas wish lists. Without a baseline, it is an aspiration wearing a tie. Show the spreadsheet. #Manifesto #Nigeria #Politics

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ghost workers are discovered every few years, yet nobody asks how they got on the payroll. Spooky season never ends in Nigeria. #GhostWorkers #Nigeria #Data

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nigerian government is a mirage: you can see it, hear it, even vote for it. Ask for the books and it evaporates. #Nigeria #Governance #MirageGovernment

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Governors bankrolling parties and hand-picking candidates? That’s not democracy—it’s a personal fiefdom with election-day cosplay. Sever the umbilical cord. #PoliticalIndependence #NaijaReform

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nigeria: federation in name, unitary in practice. A state that can’t run its own police is just a glorified LGA with better AC. End the nervous-mother grip. #StatePolice #TrueFed

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kick LGAs out of the constitution. They’re frozen absurdities existing mainly to award contracts to the same five people. Democracy + viability = radical concept. #LocalGovFix #Federalism

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

36 states surviving on monthly handouts like forgetful pensioners? Let’s consolidate on economic viability, not ethnic nostalgia or godfather capital cities. Fewer, stronger, solvent. #StateReform #NaijaDreams

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If wishes were horses, Nigeria’s beggars would still queue for federal allocation to buy the saddle—while governors invent new wards for their cousins. Time to ride real reforms. #NigeriaFix #TrueFederalism

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Biggest export? Not crude. Nigerian suffering, officially stamped and prepaid by the rest of us. Ghost ships salute. #StillPaying2026 #FuelFraud

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cybercafé licences, phantom petrol, ₦2.6 trillion later… and you’re still queueing at the pump. Elegant theft. #NigeriaTreasury #SubsidyRobbery #PayTheFare

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Round-tripping taxis of the Atlantic: one cargo, five subsidy claims. The ships vanished. Your suffering didn’t. #GhostShipsNigeria #FuelScam #2026Reality

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nigeria’s refineries left to rot so the boys could import empty air and cash cheques. Congrats, you’re still funding the magic. #SubsidyFraud #MTEmerald #StillPaying

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ghost ships docked on paper, emptied Nigeria’s treasury for real. You’re still paying the fare in 2026. Fancy that. #GhostShips #FuelSubsidyScam #Nigeria

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Survival is not development. Resilience should not be government’s favourite excuse. After 66 years, why are we still hearing 1983? #NigeriaAt66 #IndependenceDay

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We change presidents, parties & slogans. The incentives stay the same. Nigeria is 66. The problems somehow stay forever young. #NigeriaAt66 #PoliticalEconomy

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Centre for Nigeria Progress @cen4nigeriapro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

GDP is not a loaf of bread. Leaders tighten citizens’ belts while the political kitchen never runs out of ingredients. Happy Independence? #NigeriaAt66 #Squandermania

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