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The 10 longest military conflicts and rivalries in history 🏰 Reconquista: 781 years 🦅 Roman–Persian Wars: 681 years 🛡 Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars: 675 years 🌙 Arab–Byzantine Wars: 421 years 🏹 Yaqui Wars: 396 years ☪️ Yemeni–Ottoman Conflicts: 373 years 🦅 Russo–Turkish Wars: 350 years 🪶 Arauco War: 347 years ⚔️ Spanish–Moro Conflict: 333 years 🦁 Ottoman–Persian Wars: 309 years

The beginning of the end of poverty porn in West Africa. Where will the corresponding move in East Africa come from?

The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af

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Burkina Faso Introduces New Humanitarian Rules to Protect Vulnerable People Burkina Faso has introduced a new decree aimed at moving beyond simple aid toward long-term resilience and the preservation of human dignity. Key changes under the new policy, approved on July 2, 2026,

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Choose your allies wisely. Some give you physical infrastructure, mass transit technology, and the possibility of a better life for your children in their own country. Others give you Powerpoint NGOs, social media skit contests and 96% visa refusal. Whoever the shoe fits...

The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af

2 days ago

Nigeria-China Rail Partnership Delivers New Trains for Lagos Lagos has taken a major step toward modern public transport with the delivery of new trains for the Red Line. This is what value-aligned partnerships can look like. Through its cooperation with China, Nigeria’s

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Independence Day of Top Countries 🇮🇳 India — 15 August 1947 🇵🇰 Pakistan — 14 August 1947 🇺🇸 USA — 4 July 1776 🇧🇩 Bangladesh — 26 March 1971 🇦🇫 Afghanistan — 19 August 1919 🇮🇩 Indonesia — 17 August 1945 🇫🇮 Finland — 6 December 1917 🇲🇲 Myanmar — 4 January 1948 🇰🇪 Kenya — 12 December 1963 🇵🇭 Philippines — 12 June 1898 🇸🇩 Sudan — 1 January 1956 🇻🇳 Vietnam — 2 September 1945 🇲🇽 Mexico — 16 September 1810 🇲🇾 Malaysia — 31 August 1957 🇹🇷 Türkiye — 29 October 1923 🇳🇬 Nigeria — 1 October 1960 🇧🇷 Brazil — 7 September 1822 🇨🇦 Canada — 1 July 1867 🇦🇺 Australia — 1 January 1901 🇿🇦 South Africa — 31 May 1910 🇦🇪 UAE — 2 December 1971 🇨🇳 China — 1 October 1949 🇳🇵 Nepal — 28 May 2008 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — 23 September 1932 🇫🇷 France — 14 July 1789 (National Day)

There is a video of Africa's richest man saying that he has had to obtain 35 different visas just to be able to travel around Africa. A random homeless drunk from Hamburg who has never held down a steady job has more access to Africa than Africa's richest man on account of the complete accident of German citizenship and ancestry. That should be the end of the conversation about whether identity or social class comes first. Dangote comes from the highest possible social class in existence on the continent of Africa, but by default he still has fewer movement privileges ON HIS OWN CONTINENT and in the world outside than the lowest born 6-fingered European orphan with Downs Syndrome. To get the same movement and access privileges as the European retard orphan, Africa's wealthiest human being would have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a foreign passport that gives him what the orphan retard baby born in a brothel in Naples gets automatically at birth for free. Any African who thinks class comes before race because of something Karl Marx wrote in a book in the 19th century is an adherent of just another goddamn religion. Das Kapital is their holy book, Karl Marx is their deity, and Friedrich Engels is his designated prophet. It's really no accident that people like that react to Lenin, Mao, Deng etc, the exact same way that Catholics and Sunni Muslims react to heretics.

KING ELOM👑🌕 @iamNeare

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While most of you are engulfed in the theoretical science of Marxism. I myself is focused on the practical science of Marxism. Historic application n how it works out (not some smooth Grammar disconnected from reality) Saying we peddle "reactionary anti-Marxist sentiment" on

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The 28 Billion Dollar Contradiction: Why Nigerian Parents Break the Children They Educate Abroad Letters from Stockholm By Kio Amachree There is a peculiar cruelty embedded in one of Nigeria's proudest traditions, and it is time somebody named it. Between 2010 and 2020, Nigerian families spent an estimated 28.65 billion dollars, more than the federal government's entire education budget in most of those years, sending their children to schools abroad. Between 2020 and mid-2025 alone, another 11.1 billion dollars followed, according to Central Bank of Nigeria balance-of-payments data. In the first half of 2025, the figure was 1.39 billion dollars in six months, a sum nearly equal to the government's entire education budget for the year. The destinations are the familiar names: Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse, Cheltenham Ladies' College. Then Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, Imperial. Across the Atlantic: Harvard, Wharton, Georgetown, MIT. In 2022, the United Kingdom alone granted 65,929 student visas to Nigerians, an eightfold increase from 2019. UNESCO counted nearly 85,000 Nigerian students enrolled in tertiary institutions abroad in 2021, and the real number, including secondary school pupils, is almost certainly far higher. This is an extraordinary act of parental sacrifice. It is also, too often, the opening move in an extraordinary act of parental sabotage. The Bargain Nobody Explains to the Child Here is what actually happens, and every Nigerian family with a child abroad knows it, even if few will say it aloud. The child is sent, at nine or eleven or thirteen, into a world the parents have chosen precisely because it is not Nigeria. The child boards at a school where he learns to question his teachers, to debate his elders, to treat evidence as superior to authority and merit as superior to age. She learns that a girl may speak first, choose her own career, choose her own husband, or choose no husband at all. He learns that "because I said so" is not an argument. This is not an accident. It is the product the parents paid for. Western education is not a suitcase of certificates; it is an operating system. You cannot install it and then be surprised when it runs. Then the child comes home. And the same parents who spent 45,000 pounds a year, roughly the price of thirty Nigerian university educations, to have their child's mind rebuilt in Windsor or New Haven now demand that the finished product behave as though none of it happened. Kneel when you greet. Do not question your father. Marry from our village. Take the course we chose. Come home by the hour we set, at twenty-six. Your opinions are welcome when you are asked for them, which is never. The Psychology of Making Yourself Big by Making Your Child Small Let us be honest about the motive, because the motive is the disease. For a certain kind of Nigerian parent, the child abroad was never entirely about the child. It was a flag planted at owambe parties and old boys' reunions: my son is at Oxford; my daughter is at Penn. The school fees were a form of competitive display, education as Rolex. But display purchases have an inconvenient habit of appreciating. The child returns not merely educated but transformed, more fluent, more credentialed, more worldly than the parent who paid for it all. And here the insecurity begins its ugly work. The parent, no longer on the same intellectual level as the child he created, reaches for the one currency in which he still holds a monopoly: tradition. Hierarchy. Age. Respect. The traditional village framework, in which seniority is wisdom and obedience is virtue, becomes a weapon for cutting the child back down to a manageable size. It is not culture being transmitted. It is dominance being reasserted. The parent makes himself big by making the child small, because the alternative, meeting his own highly educated child as an equal, is unbearable to his ego. I say this as someone who was sent to Eton and to Wharton, and who has watched this drama play out across three generations of Nigerian families on four continents. The pattern is unmistakable. The Casualties The costs are not abstract. They are the First Class graduate of a British university sitting silent at his father's table, medicating a depression no one in the family will name, because mental illness does not exist in the village cosmology. They are the daughters ordered home from careers in London or Toronto to marry strangers deemed suitable by committee, their degrees repurposed as bride-price enhancers. They are the sons who chose art or music over medicine and law and were declared failures, disowned, in some cases, by fathers who confused a child's autonomy with an insult to their own authority. They are the young returnees who break under the weight of the double life, Western in the office, traditional in the parlour, and slide into alcohol, into estrangement, into breakdown. And yes, in the worst cases, they are the ones who die early: by suicide that the family announces as a brief illness, by hypertension at forty, by the slow attrition of a life spent performing a self they were educated out of. Nigeria does not keep statistics on this. Nigeria does not want statistics on this. The tension has a name in every diaspora WhatsApp group and none in any official document: the returnee's dilemma. You were sent away to become superior. You are punished on arrival for having become it. The Contradiction, Stated Plainly If you believe Western education is superior, and 28 billion dollars of family money says Nigerian parents believe exactly that, then you must accept what it produces: children who think independently, question authority, and expect to be treated as autonomous adults. If you believe the traditional order is superior, the deference, the hierarchy, the parental veto over careers and spouses, then keep your children home and raise them in it honestly. What you may not do, with any integrity, is purchase the first and then demand the second. That is not parenting. That is fraud committed against your own child, with the child paying twice: first in the loneliness of exile, then in the humiliation of return. What Sending a Child Abroad Should Mean There is a better bargain available, and wiser families already practice it. Send the child abroad, if you must. Nigeria's universities, starved of funding and paralyzed by strikes, leave many families little choice; only a third of the 1.8 million applicants to Nigerian universities in 2022 found places at all. But understand what you are signing. You are not buying a certificate for your mantelpiece. You are commissioning a new kind of Nigerian: one who can hold Kalabari and Cambridge, Yoruba and Yale, in the same mind without shame. When that child returns, your role is not to shrink them back into the village. It is to learn from them, argue with them as equals, and let the two worlds negotiate honestly inside your own household. The families that manage this produce Nigeria's finest exports: confident, bicultural, whole. The families that do not produce the walking wounded of the diaspora, and, too often, early graves. Nigeria's greatest asset was never her oil. It is her children. We spend billions to polish them abroad and then spend their whole lives trying to scratch the shine off, so that we may feel tall standing next to them. It is wrong. It has always been wrong. And the parents doing it know exactly why they are doing it. Kio Amachree is the Founder and President of Worldview International, a Stockholm-based diaspora accountability and advocacy platform. Hashtags: LettersFromStockholm, TheKioSolution, NigerianDiaspora, JapaGeneration, EducationAbroad, NigerianParents, GenerationalTrauma, DiasporaVoices, WorldviewInternational, Nigeria

🏛️ Ancient civilizations didn't just shape history—they built the foundations of the modern world. Here are some of the civilizations whose ideas, inventions, and institutions continue to influence us today: 🇮🇶 Mesopotamia — Writing, law codes, cities, mathematics 🇪🇬 Ancient Egypt — Engineering, medicine, architecture, calendars 🇬🇷 Ancient Greece — Democracy, philosophy, science, the Olympic Games 🇮🇹 Ancient Rome — Law, roads, aqueducts, republican government 🇮🇳 Ancient India — Zero, decimal system, metallurgy, Ayurveda, yoga 🇨🇳 Ancient China — Paper, compass, gunpowder, printing, civil service 🇮🇷 Ancient Persia — Postal systems, imperial administration, infrastructure 🇲🇽 Maya Civilization — Astronomy, mathematics, sophisticated calendars 🇵🇪 Inca Civilization — Road networks, terrace farming, civil engineering 🇱🇧 Phoenicians — Maritime trade and the alphabet that influenced many modern writing systems Modern civilization is the result of thousands of years of accumulated knowledge. The technologies and institutions we rely on today often have roots stretching back to these remarkable societies. Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica, UNESCO, World History Encyclopedia.

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England built the world’s first underwater tunnel, then turned it into a shopping arcade. When Marc Brunel and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, completed the Thames Tunnel in 1843, it was hailed as one of the greatest engineering achievements of the Victorian age. People came from across England simply to walk beneath the river. It was something the world had never seen before. There was just one problem. The money to build the approach roads for horse-drawn traffic never arrived, so the tunnel opened to pedestrians instead. Before long, its vast brick arches were filled with shops, market stalls, musicians, entertainers and food vendors, turning the world's greatest engineering marvel into one of London's most unusual shopping arcades. In 1869, the tunnel finally became part of London's railway network. More than 180 years later, trains still pass through the same tunnel every day. An engineering masterpiece that began life as the world's most extraordinary underground shopping street. Follow @oaksandlions for more on England's history and heritage. #England #EnglishHistory #VictorianEngland #Brunel #LondonHistory

Are you in the diaspora? Renewing your Nigerian passport is now easier than ever. Swipe through for the updated step-by-step guide to the NIS Contactless Passport Application System. 🇳🇬

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Nigeria Youth for Education @NGYouth4Edu

2 days ago

Most young university students are distracted, underperforming, and risking their future but their parents, guardians, and even they themselves are too blind to notice it. When a student is losing focus on their academics, watch out for these 6 abnormal behaviour patterns.👇

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How it is vs How it should be! Why are our roads always Brown, unlike in other countries?

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Pascal’s Law - It is straightforward. When you apply pressure to a liquid trapped in a closed container, that pressure spreads evenly in all directions throughout the liquid and the container walls. Picture a U-shaped tube filled with oil. If you gently press down with a small force on a small piston on one side, the liquid cannot be compressed. Thus, that same pressure quickly reaches the other side and pushes up on a larger piston with a much greater force. This means that a small push on a small area can lead to a large push on a larger area. This principle is why hydraulic systems in car brakes, jacks, and large machines can lift heavy loads easily with just a light touch. The liquid transfers the pressure without losing any of it...

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Famous Faces & Landmarks Featured on World Banknotes 1) 🇺🇸 United States → George Washington 2) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom → King Charles III / Queen Elizabeth II 3) 🇮🇳 India → Mahatma Gandhi 4) 🇨🇳 China → Mao Zedong 5) 🇷🇺 Russia → Moscow Kremlin 6) 🇯🇵 Japan → Shibusawa Eiichi / Mount Fuji 7) 🇰🇷 South Korea → King Sejong the Great 8) 🇹🇷 Türkiye → Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 9) 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia → King Salman & Masjid al-Haram 10) 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates → Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque 11) 🇶🇦 Qatar → Traditional dhow boats & national landmarks 12) 🇫🇷 France → Marie Curie & Eiffel Tower themes 13) 🇨🇦 Canada → Queen Elizabeth II 14) 🇦🇺 Australia → Queen Elizabeth II & Indigenous art 15) 🇳🇿 New Zealand → Sir Edmund Hillary 16) 🇧🇷 Brazil → Effigy of the Republic & jaguar 17) 🇲🇽 Mexico → Benito Juárez & Frida Kahlo 18) 🇦🇷 Argentina → Eva Perón 19) 🇪🇬 Egypt → Ancient pyramids & mosques 20) 🇿🇦 South Africa → Nelson Mandela 21) 🇹🇭 Thailand → King Vajiralongkorn 22) 🇻🇳 Vietnam → Ho Chi Minh 23) 🇨🇭 Switzerland → Le Corbusier 24) 🇵🇰 Pakistan → Muhammad Ali Jinnah 25) 🇧🇩 Bangladesh → Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 26) 🇳🇵 Nepal → Mount Everest 27) 🇮🇩 Indonesia → Sukarno & Mohammad Hatta 28) 🇰🇪 Kenya → Jomo Kenyatta 29) 🇳🇬 Nigeria → Alvan Ikoku 30) 🇸🇬 Singapore → Yusof Ishak Note: The featured people and landmarks are real, while some banknote visuals are artistically recreated for design purposes.

We do not live in the greatest country on earth. That is the lie they tell us to conceal that we live in the greediest country on earth.

Top 10 manufacturing countries 2026 1. 🇨🇳 China — $4.6T 2. 🇺🇸 USA — $2.9T 3. 🇯🇵 Japan — $867B 4. 🇩🇪 Germany — $830B 5. 🇮🇳 India — $490B 6. 🇰🇷 South Korea — $416B 7. 🇲🇽 Mexico — $364B 8. 🇮🇹 Italy — $280B 9. 🇫🇷 France — $247B 10. 🇬🇧 UK — $238B 🖇️ Source: crossdockinsights. com

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