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kangminhyuksho:
Happy birthday to one of my favorite drama moms Kim Jung young ahjumma. Good mother o, bad mother o, she dey act all pieces!

nah, this is our ajumma for life

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Everyday247:
Anybody have 61k?

I need it to subscribe to grok waifu 🥵

I have 70k

Hohenheim:
Dandadan season 2 of to an amazing start. 10/10 right now

Hope it worth hype??

CoolUsername:
Nigerian-made action horror comic. It's called Celestial Eyes. It follows a paranormal detective (who can violate my human rights anyday btw) who solves strange cases in Lagos.

Pretty good so far, it has nice art, the mc seems interesting, it also has fanservice and gore so I can't complain.

My biggest gripe is that there is some pseudo-intellectual yapping that feels like padding and takes time away the good parts.

All in all it was good read so I thought I'd give it shout here to support a Nigerian creator who is actually making good stuff.

PS: the fourth Pic is basically just the opposite of "Nah, I'd win."

Check it out:
https://globalcomix.com/c/celestial-eyes

pOrt it to webtoons or any manga subs

abduleez1:
Man, so many factors.

China has already rejected Hollywood movies in general, not just CBM per se. It's very few Hollywood movies that can gross fairly well in that market now.

Chinese love monsters or Kaiju movies or sea creatures that's why Aquaman 2 did $65mn almost two years ago. And explains Venom's phenomenal performance in that market. And Godzilla x Kong making $122mn last year.

CBMs are probably seen as pro American or big representations of America. Also they've been giving less screens to Hollywood films and CBMs.
SUPERMAN wasn't even helped with Trump supporting it. So that was ALWAYS going to hurt it.

Chinese are very anti American these days. Also, this era coincides with Trumps 2nd term bid. The tariffs fight, and ensuing geopolitical tensions. It's also spilled to the movies.

The Chinese Communist Party are also weaning their audiences off Hollywood films. They've become self reliant now in their own local movies. Eg, Ne Zha 2 flexing its might earlier this year. Local Chinese movies have grown more patronage from mainland Chinese moviegoers and the quality can now be compared to Hollywood films and a much better relatable sociocultural themes.

They necessarily don't need Hollywood films to keep their cinemas in business now, as their homegrown industry can now do the job.
Hollywood films are just looked now as additional boost for local cinemas not the shiny new toys they were looked as before.

So movies heavily promoting or seen as pro America will suffer.

There's also the fact that the average Chinese audience are now more selective and have grown better taste in movies. It's unlike before where shitty movies are rejected everywhere else but SAVED in China. That scenario won't work no more.

There's also niche factors peculiar to the market. For example, Fantastic Four— the number "4" serves as a bad omen for average SE Asians (China, Korea, Japan). The number 4 sounds similar to death in their own language.

So these are reasons why even big movies like Avatar and Avengers: Doomsday are going to seriously suffer in China. They aren't touching those bonkers level box office or enthusiasm no more.

Generally, Hollywood films ain't doing too well in Asia recently.

Chinese films depends on IQyi

Korean and japan films depends on Netflix

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Sympathy for mr venegamce

Bae donna was super badass in this movie

It was quite interesting


The director is not your mate, so many impressive films under his beltu

hkayofficial:
Good Evening guys,

Pls, I'm having a case of missing file at the LG Secretariat (Ikeja 1) and I'm unable to do my monthly clearance because of this.

It has been hard to reach the LGI.
Pls, what can I do about this?
Is there someone that can be of help Pls?

Hehe you go sweat small

Geminas:
Why is my Green card blank?

Probably issues with nysc portal

Racheal45:
can statement of result be used for NYSC

Yes

folake4u:
Smoke some weed?

Dey play abi you want them barred you from practicing law

make i go watch her latest thriller

our mommy is coming with a new thriller where she will be peeling us

tensazangetsu20:
Why?

E go tey before you enter nigeria again

E fit day miss you

tensazangetsu20:
I am different sha. Even for holidays I no wan visit.

i day pity your papa

GloriousGbola:
Only diesel and kerosene can be refined in this manner

More Importantly it cannot be done in an environmentally friendly manner.

The land is polluted and so is the air

In a few years there will be endemic breathing disorders in Rivers state because this was allowed to go on for so long

not different from what shell n co has been doing

Strangers from hell is so good



FL is so moe on this hsirstyle

that asst dir from our movie is so seggso

hehe wetin be this one again

A web developer should not call themselves an "engineer", no matter if they're working on the frontend or backend. Neither should mobile developers. The only people who can have such a title are those who actually build the technologies that the web developers and everybody uses. I.e. the language architects and engineers, people building browsers, operating systems, compilers, etc.

If we think in the physical world, construction workers aren't considered engineers when they assemble bridges. No. They follow the guidance of the engineers, just like developers follow the specs created by *real* engineers.

If you call yourself a "software engineer", but you're a web developer, I immediately assume you're a forking zbeba. I don't give a fork if you're programming in C# or Java. You're building CRUD applications. You're not an engineer.

GloriousGbola:
How are jobs advertised these days?
Back in the day na to get Tuesday guardian and copy all the ads and then send your cv. A person with a first already has his foot in any door. Check every advert. The problem is that if you are not also among hustlers you may not know what to do.

If you grow up in a civil service family in a civil service state all you know is waiting - which is not how it works.

jobs these days are based more on experience and skills than degree

which is why you will see companies hiring highschoolers than uni grads

shimps never learn


he go and find his real father

folake4u:
Caprisun.

if you are a true caprisun drinker, you will notice that caprisun of 2006 is different from caprisun of 2023

boomers are stuck in the big cities with millenials


gen z are moving to small cities


as for me, i don go back my village day work


things are cheap there and i get to enjoy grandma cookings and sure funds

Gerrard59:
That's the problem with highly populated countries. The scenario you outlined happens in China and India. I once asked a Chinese grad at a job fair here, why Japan since your country has a much bigger economy? His response? The competition is too fierce. So, we've to go out. The same applies to university admissions. It's so competitive that bright folks have to go elsewhere so they get into good schools. Even after graduation, jobs are fiercely competed for in China notwithstanding the size of the economy. Invariably, birth rates are very low because the young people are tired and burned out. Whereas in Nigeria, young people are having four children. Tomorrow, they blame Tinubu 🙄

millenials are the ones having children here and there , gen z are too.busy aborting

Gerrard59:
My candid career advice especially if you're not from Lagos/SW or weren't born and bred in Lagos: if you get a job, especially from a good company, in Lagos, accept it. Work, garner and hone your experience. Expand your network. Then you can move elsewhere or to your preferred region. The exposure is priceless.

No gen z in the right mind would want to work in lagos

GloriousGbola:
how long does it take to boil a kettle water?

i am thinking of buying one because there is an overly wasteful use of gas to boil water

note that if the issue is your gf running out of gas, it is cheaper to buy a second backup cylinder. so when one runs out you can swap the backup and replenish the next day

just get a hot plate or best a wood stove

Japanese movie titled whos camus??


bunch of college undergrads decide to shot a movie end up filming their lives


relatable if you have read the stranger by albert camus or kafka metamorphesis

More than fifty legal cases were filed in rapid succession. Some were emergency applications. Others aimed to freeze bank accounts, block board meetings, suspend elections, or issue restraining orders against AfriNIC’s leadership. The goal was not just to defend a legal position. It was to paralyze the registry entirely.

And it worked. As AfriNIC tried to clean up its records and assert control, it faced a coordinated legal pushback. Every step taken by the registry was met with a countermeasure in court. Every attempt at reform was slowed by injunctions. The legal process became a tool of exhaustion.

Mauritius, a country that had welcomed AfriNIC with open arms, found its judiciary transformed into a battlefield. The smallest procedural weakness within AfriNIC was turned into ammunition. Lawyers exploited every inconsistency. The registry, unprotected by any political authority or international framework, stood exposed and alone.

But the battle did not remain inside courtrooms. Cloud Innovation also launched a campaign in the public arena. Journalists who covered the story were contacted by lawyers. Technical experts who spoke publicly received legal threats. Letters of warning were sent. Some were asked to retract comments or face lawsuits. Accusations of defamation multiplied.

One by one, voices fell silent. In technical forums across Africa, anxiety spread. Contributors who had helped build AfriNIC preferred to stay quiet. The atmosphere shifted. Discussions became more careful, more restrained. People hesitated to speak. A wave of self-censorship settled in.

Only the boldest continued to raise concerns. The rest watched from a distance. Waiting. Hoping. Sighing.

The case of Cloud Innovation is more than a legal dispute. It is a masterclass in how to capture a technical institution using entirely legal means. It demonstrates the vulnerability of community-based governance when left unsupported. It reveals how easy it is to exploit a vacuum of continental coordination.

Because Cloud Innovation is not just a company in a contract dispute. It is a sophisticated structure with global operations and unclear internal dynamics. On paper, it followed procedures. In practice, it overwhelmed them. Upstream, it looked like a normal member with proper documents. Downstream, it operated as a disruptive force, manipulating procedures, blocking governance, and dragging the registry into a spiral of inaction.

It became something difficult to categorize. Not a rogue actor. Not a state. Not a traditional business. But something else. A legal and financial fog. A presence that could not be pinned down, yet one that reshaped the entire environment.

What made it worse was the silence.nNo continental body stepped in. No African Union statement. No coordinated pressure from regional institutions. No visible support from development agencies. The field was left open. And Cloud Innovation kept advancing.

Meanwhile, AfriNIC meant to be the guardian of a shared public resource, was slipping into coma. No budget. No elections. No functioning board. Just a skeleton staff, legal briefs piling up, and an entire region left in limbo.
A Crisis of Sovereignty and Vision

By now, it is clear. This story is not only about IP addresses. It is about sovereignty. It is about vision. And it is about the structural weaknesses of African digital governance. In late 2019, AfriNIC attempted to react. A disciplinary procedure was launched. Ernest Byaruhanga was dismissed for serious misconduct. A police complaint was filed. The matter was referred to the prosecutor’s office.

But nothing could be recovered. The WHOIS system had no mechanism to revoke addresses. Once the transfers were complete, the blocks vanished into the global secondary market. They became almost impossible to trace or reclaim. What was needed was a continental emergency mechanism. A coordinated legal response. Regional treaties. Diplomatic pressure. But none of that existed. Instead, AfriNIC was left to face the consequences alone.

More than an individual failure, the scandal exposed a collective vulnerability. In any other region, this would have triggered a parliamentary inquiry, an intergovernmental alert, or at the very least a public investigation. In Africa, it triggered silence. Despite the gravity of the events, AfriNIC continued to operate. Barely. The episode revealed that even a well-intentioned, community-led institution could be dangerously exposed if it had no political backing and no protective architecture.

The current crisis between AfriNIC and Cloud Innovation is rooted in that history. When foreign actors discover structural gaps, they move in. They know that there will be no rapid continental response. No diplomatic firewall. No shared defense. They know that silence means permission. This is not a technical issue. It is a political one. The governance model failed because it lacked support. AfriNIC was not abandoned because it was weak. It was weak because it was abandoned.

Africa handed its digital keys to a registry it never truly backed. Not politically. Not legally. Not diplomatically. If there is to be a future, it must begin by learning from this past. Because digital sovereignty cannot rest on fragile foundations. It must be built with structure, with unity, and with courage. Cloud Innovation’s legal maneuvering has led AfriNIC into a slow suffocation. And the continent has watched, mostly in silence.
Institutional Paralysis and the Weight of Silence

As the legal machinery set in motion by Cloud Innovation expanded, AfriNIC began to choke. The registry, once envisioned as the technical compass of Africa’s Internet, now found itself adrift. Leadership was unclear. Governance had stalled. Even day-to-day operations became a struggle.

Holding a board meeting became an obstacle course. Elections were frozen. Staff were demoralized. Legal fees drained resources. Decisions were postponed or blocked entirely. AfriNIC was no longer steering Africa’s digital future. It was barely surviving.

One by one, the safeguards fell apart. Court rulings in Mauritius froze the registry’s bank accounts. Shareholder meetings were suspended. Injunctions limited the actions of its directors. The board became fragmented, with some members resigning and others constrained by legal threats. The very structure that had kept AfriNIC functional collapsed under the weight of litigation.

Each time the registry tried to move forward, a new lawsuit appeared. Each time a reform was proposed, another injunction followed. The institution, already fragile, became legally immobilized.

Outside the courtroom, a darker shift was taking place. A climate of fear had settled over the African Internet community. Developers, activists, and engineers who had once been vocal became cautious. Many stopped speaking altogether. Legal threats had made discussion dangerous. In public forums and technical mailing lists, the energy disappeared. People watched, but few dared to act. And the silence was not limited to individuals.

International partners grew distant. Governments remained quiet. Institutions that should have spoken out stayed on the sidelines. Even longtime allies of AfriNIC hesitated to intervene. Without support, AfriNIC began to collapse from the inside. Internal divisions emerged. Different factions formed. Petitions were filed. Accusations circulated. Decisions were delayed or rushed without consensus. Mistrust spread across the ecosystem.

At the same time, African Internet service providers who relied on AfriNIC to allocate IP resources found themselves blocked. Delays became the norm. Network expansion plans were suspended. Public tenders were put on hold because necessary resources were unavailable. But even more troubling than the operational delays was the loss of confidence. The AfriNIC crisis revealed something deeper. Africa lacked an emergency protocol to protect its digital institutions. No legal shield. No continental backup plan. No binding solidarity between member states.

When AfriNIC began to fall, it fell alone. The African Union stayed silent. Member states had other priorities. Regional agencies remained invisible. Civil society, despite being alert, had no levers of influence. The system failed to respond. And the registry became a symbol of something far greater, the fragility of Africa’s ability to defend its own critical infrastructure.

Because IP addresses are not just numbers. They are the architecture of presence in cyberspace. Without them, there is no visibility. No service. No digital nationhood. In other regions of the world, a crisis of this scale would have triggered emergency meetings. Coordination between ministries. Technical audits. Mediation teams. Rapid funding. Political pressure. In Africa, the response was inertia. As if AfriNIC were an isolated entity. As if the registry’s fate belonged to no one. As if it did not matter.

And yet, the warnings had been sounded for months. Letters were sent. Articles were published. Panels were organized. But little changed. The public did not grasp the depth of the disaster. Most media outlets saw the issue as too complex or too obscure. The story became a fog. A nebula, hard to see and harder to explain. Still, this story must be told. Not as a technical anecdote. But as a political lesson.
The Smart Africa Pivot and the Search for Redemption

At some point, someone had to act. While the legal crisis dragged on and the technical community held its breath, one institution slowly stepped forward. Quietly at first, then with more confidence. That institution was Smart Africa. And at its helm stood Lacina Koné.

Calm. Strategic. Unshaken. Koné became the voice of a different kind of African diplomacy. Not the kind that chases photo opportunities. The kind that moves with intention. With precision. With a long view. He understood that AfriNIC’s collapse was more than a technical failure. It was a strategic loss for a continent still fighting to define its place in global digital governance. And he made it clear, at every meeting and in every room, that this was not just about IP addresses. It was about power, credibility, and control.

At ICANN 81 in Istanbul, he began rallying African delegations behind a coordinated message. It was no longer enough to hope the system would self-correct. States had to show up. Speak clearly. Defend the last piece of Internet infrastructure still rooted on the continent.

In March 2025, at a ministerial roundtable in Seattle, the shift became visible. For the first time in years, African ministers sat side by side with technical experts and AfriNIC representatives. Ghana. Benin. Others. All in one room. The tone had changed. Patience had worn thin. The message was now direct: the continent must reclaim what it built.

That momentum carried into ICANN 83. Working with regulators, experts, and state representatives, Smart Africa brought forward a series of recommendations. These included reinforcing transparency, establishing a legal framework at the continental level, and preparing member states for the coming elections. Behind the scenes, capitals like Kigali began building pressure. They called for credible timelines. They insisted on a path out of institutional deadlock. They demanded safeguards against further legal sabotage. The goal was no longer to fix a crisis. It was to create a roadmap for reconstruction.

What made this moment different was the method. Lacina Koné did not raise his voice. He built coalitions. He listened, but he did not wait. Meeting after meeting. Workshop after workshop. He delivered the same message with growing clarity. The digital sovereignty of Africa will not be outsourced. Not again. Not now. And that strategy began to take form.

In early 2025, a list of candidates was assembled for the AfriNIC board. Not a random collection. A team. Selected for their technical depth, ethical credibility, and continental balance. They represented East and West, Anglophone and Francophone, private sector and civil society. There was a purpose behind this coalition. To move past the era of infighting and improvised governance. To give the community a new chance. A clean slate. A united face. It was not a rescue. It was a recovery plan.
From Electoral Breakdown to Diplomatic Shock

By early 2025, after more than a year of institutional paralysis, AfriNIC prepared to hold elections. It was meant to be a turning point. A return to legitimacy. A new start.

The process was placed under the supervision of the Receiver, a court-appointed officer named Me Gowtamsingh Dabee. His mandate was clear: organize transparent elections in line with AfriNIC’s bylaws and the judgment of the Supreme Court of Mauritius from September 2023.

A detailed calendar was issued. Nominations opened. An electoral committee was appointed. An electronic voting platform was announced. The final vote was scheduled for late June.

But trouble began immediately. On June 6, ICANN issued a formal letter of concern. It warned of irregularities. One voting member, recently registered, appeared to be involved in the oversight of the same election. The conflict of interest was clear. ICANN demanded clarity on the voter list, restructuring of the election committee, and full documentation of all corrective steps.

This was not the first warning. Back in March, ICANN had reminded the Receiver that AfriNIC’s legitimacy relied on upholding its core mandate — managing Internet number resources impartially and according to community-developed policy. It emphasized that AfriNIC was not the owner of those resources. It was their steward.

Those warnings were not heeded. On June 13, a case filed by the Tanzania Internet Service Providers Association triggered an emergency ruling by the Supreme Court of Mauritius. The judge ordered an immediate suspension of both the electronic vote and the final in-person election scheduled for June 23. Parties were instructed to explain themselves before the end of the month.

Despite the court order, chaos followed. On June 23, an in-person vote took place in Port Louis. Dozens of voting proxies were submitted without proper verification. Several members later discovered that votes had been cast in their name without consent. Others reported being approached with offers to transfer voting rights. A now-infamous video showed participants handling stacks of proxy forms with no apparent limit. Even more troubling was a piece of campaign material circulated under the name of the Numbers Resource Society. It bore AfriNIC’s official logo, raising questions about unauthorized access to internal databases.

That day, the rules were not just bent. They were broken. On June 25, ICANN responded with rare bluntness. In an open letter copied to the highest authorities in Mauritius, it expressed serious concern over what it called shocking allegations. It reminded the Receiver of the requirements of ICP-2, the global framework that governs the recognition of Regional Internet Registries. And it made one thing clear. If trust in the election was not restored, AfriNIC’s recognition could be reviewed.

ICANN listed fifteen detailed questions. They covered everything from proxy validation and data access to transparency in vote counting. The Receiver was given twenty-four hours to respond. ICANN warned that it could block the publication of results and would not hesitate to make its entire correspondence public.

But the final blow came from within. The government of Mauritius, until then mostly silent, issued an official statement. It denounced organized electoral fraud, citing forged proxies and the involvement of foreign nationals from Rwanda and Kenya. Some had reportedly left the country the night of the vote. Complaints were filed by civil servants and by telecom companies like Emtel. The Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies ordered additional border surveillance. It also began consultations with the Attorney General about legal action to stop any attempt at publishing the disputed results.

As this was happening, the Receiver reportedly began counting votes in private, with no external supervision and no communication to the community. The government, for the first time, broke ranks. It publicly questioned the integrity of the process and the role of the Receiver himself. What had started as a recovery mission had now collapsed into full diplomatic crisis.
Taking Back Control. Once and for All

I am not writing these words from a place of abstraction. I am writing them from the margins and the crossroads of this continent. From community forums to international summits, I have spent the last 15 years listening, learning, contributing, and sometimes warning. I believe in a future where Africa governs its own Internet. Where infrastructure is not outsourced. Where policy is not imported. Where digital sovereignty is more than a wakanda slogan.

But that future will not come through hope alone. The AfriNIC saga is no longer a technical dispute. It has moved to three battlefields at once. Inside courtrooms in Port Louis. Inside ICANN’s offices and policy boards. And inside diplomatic backchannels, where Kigali and others are quietly redrawing the lines.

From the corridors of the Internet Governance Forum in Oslo to the red phones in African ministries, all eyes now turn to Lacina Koné and the team at Smart Africa. For many, they represent the last credible hope to rebuild what has been lost.

But let us be clear. The AfriNIC of yesterday will not return. This crisis is not about temporary dysfunction. It has exposed the deep erosion of institutional models that were never protected, never reinforced, and never truly backed by the states that created them. ICANN has announced a compliance audit. It will determine whether AfriNIC still qualifies as a Regional Internet Registry. The outcome remains uncertain. But one way or another, a threshold has been crossed. There is no going back.

Togo’s Minister for Digital Economy, Cina Lawson, said it best:
“Even if Africa has to build a new registry, we must learn every lesson from this crisis. We need strong institutions, with clear rules, real accountability, and a governance model that belongs to the continent.”

Because it is not enough to break from the old path. We must do so with method. And with courage. As long as African institutions rely on external recognition, and lack clear political and legal backing, they will remain vulnerable. We cannot expect resilience from structures we leave unsupported.

If a new registry must emerge, it must follow ICP-2 principles. It must be community-based, non-profit, accountable, and transparent. But most of all, it must be treated as a critical resource, not symbolically, but politically Africa’s digital future will not be secured by declarations. It will be secured by structure, by vigilance, and by political will.

A new generation is watching. Their dreams are not built around slogans. They speak the language of code, of networks, of infrastructure. They want more than connectivity. They want control. They do not pray for miracles. They trust protocols. And in this new digital gospel, many now call for salvation in the name of the Father, the Son… and the IP address.

AfriNIC may disappear.
Its name may dissolve into the shifting sands of history.
But the dream of the founders must not be buried.