<p><strong>The best place to die is Nigeria.</strong></p><p>Hear me out.</p><p>Attention.</p><p>A gathering to mark the day. </p><p>Media coverage and the possibility of fame, all in the uncomplicated act of dying.</p><p> What more could you ask for?</p><p>But, and this is important, you must do it right. Otherwise, you will be ashes for nothing.</p><p><strong>Step one: pick your crime wisely.</strong></p><p>Some crimes are popular, like roasted meat, suya at the junction. Everyone knows it. Smoky, sizzling, slightly charred, leaving mouths watering and tongues wagging. Everyone talks about it, laughs about it, warns about it. </p><p>Other crimes are secretive, like kidnapping. Many try. Few succeed. Fewer get caught.</p><p><em>And you must be caught.</em></p><p><strong>Step two: choose your audience.</strong></p><p>The bigger, the better.</p><p> Crowds gather like moths to flames, buzzing and circling, waiting for drama. But remember, the right audience depends on the crime. A petty thief attracts neighborhood gossips. A bigger sin pulls in the whole city.</p><p><strong>Step three: make sure someone is holding a phone.</strong></p><p>Preferably several. Every twitch, every sweat drop, every gasp should be captured. </p><p>How else will anyone know you existed?</p><p><strong>Step four: timing is everything.</strong></p><p>You do not want to die on a slow day. Pick a time when people are already outside, when the sun is harsh and even boredom is looking for entertainment.</p><p>Afternoons work best.</p><p>Markets definitely help.</p><p>Fuel queues are excellent.</p><p>People are already gathered, simply waiting for something to happen. You might as well be useful.</p><p>Arrive too early and you will miss your crowd.</p><p>Arrive too late and they will miss it.</p><p>Think of it like a pot of soup. Too much heat and everything burns. Too little and nothing happens, just time wastage.</p><p><strong>Step five: perform.</strong></p><p>This is not the time to be shy.</p><p>Move.</p><p>Speak.</p><p>Beg a little if you must.</p><p>Argue if you have the strength.</p><p>A good performance keeps people watching. Silence makes them impatient.</p><p>Remember, this is not just your death.</p><p>It is content.</p><p>Someone will narrate what you did wrong. </p><p>Someone will suggest what should be done next. Someone will swear they saw everything from the beginning.</p><p>But remember, you are being recorded.</p><p>Do your part well!</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>Step six: control the ending.</strong></p><p>This is where most people fail.</p><p>You think you will have more time.</p><p> You think you can explain yourself. </p><p>You think the crowd will wait for the part where everything makes sense.</p><p>They do not.</p><p>Someone will shout first. Not a command nor a verdict, just the sound of anger looking for a body.</p><p>Someone else will agree, and let me tell you, agreement spreads as fast as fire.</p><p>You should try to speak.</p><p>Your words should trip over themselves.</p><p>Your mouth should open and close like it is practicing drowning.</p><p>But know that it will not matter, because explanations are for quiet rooms, not open streets.</p><p>Something will hit you.</p><p>You will not see who threw it.</p><p>The smell will come before the pain.</p><p>Sharp. Familiar. Like fuel queues. Like generators. Like smoked meat.</p><p>This is where the performance ends.</p><p>The phones will rise higher now.</p><p>Closer.</p><p>Steadier.</p><p>Someone will say this is too much.</p><p>Someone will say it is deserved.</p><p>Someone will say nothing at all and keep recording.</p><p>Heat will erase whatever plan you had left.</p><p>You wanted witnesses.</p><p>You will get them.</p><p>You wanted to be seen.</p><p>All eyes are on you.</p><p>And as the fire settles into you, as noise turns into a dull ringing, remember,</p><p>You did everything right.</p><p>Nigeria will do the rest.</p>
At the end of the month, we give out prizes in 3 categories: Best Content, Top Engagers and
Most Engaged Content.
Best Content
We give out cash prizes to 7 people with the best insights in the past month. The 7 winners are picked
by an in-house selection process.
The winners are NOT picked from the leaderboards/rankings, we choose winners based on the quality, originality
and insightfulness of their content.
Top Engagers
For the Top Engagers Track, we award the top 3 people who engage the most with other user's content via
comments.
The winners are picked using the "Monthly Engagers" tab on the rankings page.
Most Engaged Content
The Most Engaged Content recognizes users whose content received the most engagement during the month.
We pick the top 3.
The winners are picked using the "Monthly Contributors" tab on the rankings page.
Here are a few other things to know for the Best Content track
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Quality over Quantity — You stand a higher chance of winning by publishing a few really good insights across the entire month,
rather than a lot of low-quality, spammy posts.
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Share original, authentic, and engaging content that clearly reflects your voice, thoughts, and opinions.
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Avoid using AI to generate content—use it instead to correct grammar, improve flow, enhance structure, and boost clarity.
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Explore audio content—high-quality audio insights can significantly boost your chances of standing out.
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Use eye-catching cover images—if your content doesn't attract attention, it's less likely to be read or engaged with.
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Share your content in your social circles to build engagement around it.
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The monthly score sums the score on all your insights in the past 30 days. The monthly and all-time scores are calcuated DIFFERENTLY.
This page also shows the top engagers on TwoCents — these are community members that have engaged the most with other user's content.
Contributor Score
Here is a list of metrics that are used to calcuate your contributor score, arranged from
the metric with the highest weighting, to the one with the lowest weighting.
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Comments (excluding replies)
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Upvotes
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Views
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Number of insights published
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Subscriptions received
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Tips received
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