If Ifá survived centuries of slavery, colonialism, missionary hostility, criminalisation and ridicule…
What exactly did the people preserving it see that made them refuse to let it die?
I’m genuinely curious.
Because traditions do not survive that much pressure for hundreds of years simply because “people were stupid.”
#IseseDay
Dear @PeterObi
In the spirit of that transparency, let's walk through your own record.
2010: You hired Acces International, a firm in Monaco whose entire business is helping wealthy people hide who really owns what. Secrecy, sold as a service.
Acces brought in Alcogal, a law firm in Panama. Their job is to supply fake directors and shell companies in countries that refuse to share ownership records with outsiders.
Then you built a five-step process to add extra walls.
Step one: on November 17, 2010, a company called Gabriella Investments Limited was set up in the British Virgin Islands, named after your daughter. You chose the British Virgin Islands specifically because it does not hand over company ownership records to foreign governments.
Step two: that same day, 50,000 shares of Gabriella Investments were handed to another company, Hill International Holding Corporation, based in Belize. Belize is a small Central American country, also known for refusing most outside requests for ownership information.
Step three: two people were installed as directors, Antony Janse Van Vuuren and Lance Lawson. These are not your business partners. They are strangers paid to let their names appear on public paperwork instead of yours, so anyone searching for the real owner finds them, not you.
Step four: In 2017, the whole structure was renamed PMGG Investments, and a new entity was created, The Gabriella Settlement, a trust also registered in the British Virgin Islands.
Step five: a company called Granite Trust, based in New Zealand, was made the trustee in charge of that trust. Trusts registered in New Zealand are specifically known for making it almost impossible to trace who actually controls the money inside them.
Five separate steps, in five different countries, each one chosen because it does not cooperate with the one before it.
That is not how a person manages an investment. That is how a person makes an investment impossible to find.
Alongside all this, you stayed on as a director of Next International (UK) Limited, a company in the United Kingdom, for 14 months after you became governor, before resigning "on phone," with no paperwork.
You held foreign bank accounts while governor, which Nigerian law does not allow public officers to do.
None of it was ever declared to the Code of Conduct Bureau.
We would not know any of this if not for a leak.
You didn't declare it.
A leak in 2021 that happened to catch you, along with 35 other world leaders, in a dataset you never chose to make public yourself.
No proxies, no surrogates, no walls.
Your own words.
I have seen the same level of degeneracy here on X. You will see a boy or girl without any form of corporate or international exposure telling Drs, PhDs and highly successful people to shut up and listen.
It’s a broken society.
A young girl stands up and calls a billionaire who owns UBA, “Tony”….? Someone old enough to be your father?
They zero regard for elders and accomplishments and they are very arrogant, rude, mundane, materialistic and selfish
You dey online dey make enemies bcs of Nigerian politics - the people you're fighting for are dining and chilling.
I'm sure after these video, Davido go chop Semo or fried rice inside wike house, drinking premium wine while they gist about the election.
Is Davido fighting for a better Nigeria or his uncle political success?
The people that died in Osun bcs of the election just wasted their lives and put their families into bigger problems as their wives and children will bcm someone's burden.
But the people they died for will continue to enjoy life and our commonwealth.
You're too young to be political naive. Don't make political enemies, it doesn't worth it.
West Africa is at the risk of becoming the new Middle East full blown. JNIM which is an affiliate of Al Qaeda is fighting across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger republic at the same time in order to capture those countries.
They control and tax 50 percent of the land territories in those three countries.
JNIM fighters are drawn from the following ethnic blocs namely;
1. Fulanis
2. Tuaregs
3. Arab Mujahideens
4. Radicalized black Africans who are from the local population who have pledged allegiance to Political Islamism.
What JNIM wants to do in Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Niger is to repeat another Syria. Al Nusra front, an Al Qaeda, pro Sunni and Arab group were used to destroy Assad and they rebranded to become a government themselves.
Have you asked yourself why Al Qaeda (JNIM) is not waging war on Mauritania? This is because the minority Arabs elites ruling the majority 70 percent black population of Mauritania have excised Mauritania from ECOWAS and turned it into an Arab colony. That’s the ambition of JNIM in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and finally Nigeria.
What this USA war commander is saying in short is that, until NATO or any other military alliance from superpowers, this Jihadists will conquer West Africa. This alludes to what TYF has been saying about the imminent threat we face as West Africans in this century.
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Today, I proudly join all children of Odùduwà, and the sons and daughters of Ìrù Land across the world, in celebrating Isese Day 2026.
Isese Day is a sacred occasion to honour our rich Yoruba heritage, reconnect with our ancestral traditions,
On Isese Day, we celebrate the richness of Yoruba culture, our history, traditions, language and the values passed down through generations.
May we continue to preserve our heritage, respect our roots and pass its beauty on to those coming after us.
Happy Isese Day! Àṣà wa ni òrò wa.
ISESE DAY 2026: CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGE AND SHARED VALUES
As we commemorate Isese Day 2026, we extend our warm felicitations to traditional religion practitioners and the entire people of Ogun State, particularly our sons and daughters who continue to uphold and preserve the rich cultural heritage, traditions and values handed down to us by our forebears.
Our culture remains an important part of our identity as a people. Beyond the celebration of tradition, Isese Day offers another opportunity to appreciate the religious diversity of our society and reaffirm our collective commitment to peaceful coexistence, mutual respect and tolerance.
As we celebrate, we urge everyone to continue to promote those values that unite us and strengthen the bonds that have sustained our communities for generations.
We wish all traditional religion practitioners a peaceful and memorable Isese Day celebration.
Happy Isese Day 2026!
Today, I join the good people of Apapa Constituency 1, the people of Lagos, and all sons and daughters of Yorùbáland at home and in the Diaspora in celebrating Isese Day 2026.
Isese Day is a celebration of our rich cultural heritage, identity, values and the enduring traditions handed down to us by our forebears. It is a time to honour our roots, appreciate the wisdom of those who came before us, and reaffirm our responsibility to preserve our heritage for generations yet unborn.
As we mark this significant day, may the wisdom of our ancestors continue to guide us, and may peace, unity, progress and prosperity prevail in our communities and across our dear State and nation.
May Isese bring renewed hope, abundant blessings and greater harmony to our people.
Àṣẹ! Isese a gbe wa o. Aṣeyí Samọdún!
Happy Isese Day 2026!
#MadamDeputySpeaker
#IseseDay2026
#RichYorubaCulturalHeritage
#Iseseagbewao
I Am From A Tribe Called "The Yorubas" And Our Pedigree Is Deeply Rooted In The Soil Of Africa.
My Culture Is Not Demonic And My Ancestors Are Not Evil. I Am My Ancestor's Reincarnation.
Happy Isèsè Day!!!!!!!
Being a good person does not guarantee a good life.
Morality does not provide immunity from disease, poverty, betrayal, accidents, injustice, or tragedy. Good people can suffer terribly, while terrible people can prosper.
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Isese Day: Preserving Our Culture, Modernising Its Expression.
There is something deeply reassuring about a people who still remember who they are.
As we celebrate Isese Day, we should celebrate not merely a calendar date or a collection of ceremonies, costumes and festivals, but the enduring cultural inheritance of the Yoruba people. Isese is, at its heart, about memory, identity, values and our relationship with the world around us.
A society that forgets its culture eventually loses part of the vocabulary with which it understands itself.
But preservation must not mean freezing culture in time.
If Isese is to remain relevant for generations yet unborn, we must have the courage to preserve its essence while modernising the way we understand, document and present it.
Our ancestors lived in a world very different from ours. They developed sophisticated systems of governance, agriculture, medicine, commerce, diplomacy, spirituality, art, architecture, conflict resolution and community organisation. They told stories, transmitted wisdom through proverbs, celebrated seasons and milestones, and built institutions around family and community.
Much of this knowledge was transmitted orally.
That was appropriate for its time. It is not sufficient for ours.
The world has changed. Our children live on smartphones. Our grandchildren will increasingly learn through artificial intelligence, digital archives and immersive technology. A culture that depends exclusively on oral transmission is vulnerable to distortion, neglect and eventual disappearance.
Therefore, the task before us is not simply to celebrate Isese every year. It is to institutionalise its preservation.
We should document our oral histories. We should record our elders. We should digitise Ifa corpus and Yoruba folklore responsibly. We should catalogue traditional music, clothing, architecture, food, festivals, names, symbols and indigenous knowledge. Our universities should treat African indigenous knowledge systems as serious fields of scholarship rather than curiosities at the margins of academia.
Our children should be able to scan a QR code and hear an elder explain the meaning of a proverb. They should be able to visit a digital museum and understand the history of their town, lineage or kingdom. A young Yoruba person in London, Lagos, Abuja, New York or Johannesburg should be able to access reliable knowledge about his or her heritage without having to depend on hearsay.
This is how culture becomes enduring.
We must also distinguish between culture and its accumulated practices.
Not everything inherited from the past must automatically be preserved in exactly the same form. Every living culture has evolved. Practices that are incompatible with contemporary law, human dignity, public health or universal standards of decency should be examined honestly.
Modernisation does not have to mean cultural abandonment.
Indeed, the greatest respect we can show our ancestors is to understand what they were trying to achieve and find appropriate ways of carrying those values into our own time.
For example, the traditional emphasis on community can inform modern civic responsibility. Respect for elders can coexist with merit and accountability. Traditional dispute-resolution principles can inspire modern restorative justice. Indigenous ecological knowledge can contribute to environmental stewardship. Our artistic traditions can become industries. Our textiles can become global fashion. Our cuisine can become an international culinary brand.
This is where Isese can become much bigger than a festival.
It can become an engine of cultural and economic renewal.
Imagine properly curated Yoruba cultural centres across our major cities. Imagine annual international Isese festivals attracting scholars, artists, tourists, filmmakers, designers and members of the African diaspora. Imagine museums that tell our story professionally.