This is exactly what I mean when I say the media can create a narrative and then feed it to the fans until everyone starts repeating it.
Rashford spends a season at Barcelona, performs, wins LaLiga and puts up 14 goals + 14 assists… and somehow the obsession with his lifestyle disappears.
Now he's back around England and Manchester United, and suddenly we're back to:
“Rashford spotted on a yacht.”
“Rashford wearing a £23k watch.”
“Rashford partying.” 😭
Meanwhile, Olise is simply “enjoying his vacation.” 😂
They choose who they want to love, who they want to dislike, then push that framing hard enough that fans eventually start doing the work for them.
You don't have to love Rashford.
But stop pretending the media aren't capable of manufacturing a perception around him.
The agenda is loud. 🔴
No Nigerian would ever attack or harass another foreign Black man in Nigeria because he is an immigrant or outsider.
It's alien to us; we can't even conceive of it.
We may not have a GDP of $100 trillion or high-speed rail, but when we say we are “Giants of Africa,” it's because we have bled and shed for Africa unequivocally and individually.
We didn't help South Africa fight Apartheid because we wanted to migrate to Durban; we did it collectively because it was the right thing to do.
We ask for nothing more than basic respect.
Proud.
Buhari borrowed $1 billion loan to fund the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.
That loan was backed by a pledge of 67,000 barrels of crude oil per day & repayment started in 2024, with maturity in June 2029.
What this means is that we are using crude oil to repay loan for a non-functional refinery till 2029.
- Where’s Buhari today?
- Where’s Port Harcourt refinery?
“When people were accusing and challenging me of keeping quiet when I should be talking. I prayed, and God said the kidnapped Oyo kids will be released dramatically. He didn’t say when or how.”
— Pastor Adeboye in America
Three weeks ago, my 23-year-old neighbor was kidnapped on her way to Kontagora in Niger State.
While in captivity, the bandits repeatedly raped her taking turns sleeping with her night after night. Still, they kept bargaining with her father over the phone, demanding ransom even as they violated her.
Her father fought with everything he had. He hustled day and night, borrowed from everyone, took loans, sold whatever he could determined to bring his daughter home.
When he finally gathered the full amount, he called the bandits and begged them, ‘Please, give the phone to my daughter. Let me speak to her. I want her to know I’m coming for her.’
They gave her the phone.
In a broken, traumatized voice, she told her father: ‘Dad, do not suffer yourself looking for the money. They have been sleeping with me. I’m traumatized. I can’t forgive myself. Even if I’m released, I’ll kill myself. Don’t bother paying the ransom.’
Those were the last words she ever spoke to him.
While her father was still holding the phone, he heard the gunshot. He heard his daughter being killed. Moments later, the bandits sent pictures of her remains to him, a final act of cruelty.
A 23-year-old girl. My neighbor. Someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s friend gone in the most horrific way possible.
This is not just one story. This is the nightmare too many families are living in Niger State and across Nigeria. Young women snatched on the roads, violated, used as bargaining chips, and discarded like nothing.
Living in Nigeria has become truly scary. You wake up, you step out, and you don’t know if you or your loved ones will return home. The fear is constant. The pain is constant. And too often, justice never comes.
Rest in peace to my neighbor.
Ruqaya Jaber fled the city of el-Fasher on foot on the day the RSF took over. She fled with a group of men and women. When the RSF stopped them, the men were pulled aside and only the women were allowed to continue
Watch the full investigation on YouTube: https://t.co/X2q5NxhUBz