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[OPC Esq. @PeterColeCOnele]

253 St. Mary's Catholic School children, Niger State are still held by terrorists!

253 St. Mary's Catholic School children, Niger State are still held by terrorists!

253 St. Mary's Catholic School children, Niger State are still held by terrorists!

[Real Madrid C.F. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @realmadriden]

👋 Welcome, Mourinho 👋

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

South Africa, Germany and other recent #WorldCup hosts were forced by FIFA to promise all accredited officials, players and staff would be guaranteed visas and minimal immigration interference for the tournament duration.

Why is the United States exempt from that @FIFAcom?

[OPC Esq. @PeterColeCOnele]

@SSE_NGA Unity Mickey Mouse Cup Champions, you'll never sing that..!🤡

[FESTUS OGUN @mrfestusogun]

Bola Tinubu cannot build Coastal Road and name it after himself. It is morally, ethically and logically wrong and highly unacceptable.

When we finally have a new country, all institutions and government infrastructure named after those who destroyed our pasts, corrupt politicians and war criminals will be renamed after well-meaning and truly patriotic Nigerians.

The day of reckoning is nigh.

[Bitto Keren K Esq. @KerenKBitto]

Chibok Girls; The First Lady literally cried on live TV. She was even turned to a meme.

Yoruba children, Yoruba teacher beheaded; President and First Lady are celebrating APC primaries but you don’t see the issue because you are in Lekki & it’s not your nieces or nephews (yet).

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[OPC Esq. @PeterColeCOnele]

@Barrrron296552 @ShannelSimiyu @Basiofon @Wizarab10 This must be a joke ..Someone with over 40 appearances for England😅😅?

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

CHAMPIONS!!!!! 🏆 🟡🔵

[funsodoherty @funsodoherty]

Leadership is about service, not status. It’s not about who looks or acts like a typical politician.

Lagos can work far better than it does today, for the average Lagosian. What it needs is that person who will govern well, for the people, not someone who just makes the loudest noise.

#OTiYa
#ItIsTime

[funsodoherty @funsodoherty]

We talk about roads, power, water, housing, education, health, transportation and the cost of living because they affect our quality of life. But Lagos doesn’t change just because our complaints are loud; it changes because we’re involved.
Your PVC isn't just a card, it’s your seat at the table.
It’s the way to ensure the future of Lagos isn't decided without you.
Phase 3 of the Voter Registration started 4th of May, 2026 and it's still ongoing.
Don't just watch the future happen. Participate. Decide. Create it.

[funsodoherty @funsodoherty]

Had a good conversation with HE @peterobi.

Shared vision. Same drive to fix a system that has failed too many.

The road to a new Nigeria will be birthed through united voices and well-governed states.

Here's to the work ahead.

#OTiYa
#ItIsTime

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

“Why can’t you respect people’s political choices and opinions?”

Well, it is because it’s a matter of self-defense.

This picture was taken in 1970.

These two leftist girls joined the revolution to bring in the Ayatollah.

That’s his picture.

Well, immediately after he consolidated power, he turned against his liberal supporters.

He killed thousands. But the tragic part is that the same Ayatollah killed one of the girls in this picture.

And the other had to flee.

The question is:

if these girls had known that the man they were bringing into power would eventually kill them, would they still have supported him?

Or if they had known, and then saw others trying to bring him into power, would they have opposed them or simply “respected their choices”?

Many people think we are merely playing politics.

I will either be a direct victim or a beneficiary of the eventual political outcome.

Why then shouldn’t I oppose those I believe are supporting a candidate I’m convinced is against my existential well-being?

Politics is self-preservation and self-defense.

If someone wants to hurt me, should I simply respect their choice to do so?

Policies kill.

When Buhari mindlessly rendered the old naira untenable, people literally died because there was a cash shortage and they could not pay hospital bills.

Politics is about life and death. Tinubu negotiates with terrorists.

I heard they took tons of pupils from a school in Ondo a couple of days ago.

Would you have the effrontery to tell the parents of such children to “respect your political choice” when the man you’re campaigning for has implicitly contributed to them losing a child?

Those of you who support Tinubu should know that we are not politicians like you.

We are national pragmatists. We know policies will affect our lives.

So, if your political choice threatens my self-preservation, it is only rational self-defence for me to oppose you on that opinion.

And with all civility, humility, wisdom, and vociferous resolve, we will oppose such opinions.

[Tomori @otomporo8701]

A drunk policeman shot me at a checkpoint in 2011.
The bullet tore through my car, through my right hand.

I lost my career as an animator. My marriage cracked. My mind still bleeds.

The twist?
I sued the Nigeria Police. Won in 2015.
Judge said: "Pay his medical bills."

10 years later. Zero naira.
I face permanent disability without help.
@PoliceNG_CRU @TunjiDisu1 @UNDP @NhrcNigeria
#NigeriaPoliceNotYourFriend

[funsodoherty @funsodoherty]

I had a very productive and inspiring meeting with the National Leader of the NDC.

Our discussions were frank, constructive and aligned around a shared purpose, that will lead to a better Lagos, and a better Nigeria founded on competence, inclusion, accountability and service to the people.

I left even more convinced that meaningful progress is possible when leaders unite around principles, purpose, and the public good.

#OTiYa
#ItIsTime

[Ife Salako @ifesalakooffice]

Ire o✌🏾

[High-Chief Aweda, G.C.O.N @Awedathefirst]

I don't understand your question "what does he want to achieve in 4 years?"

Tinubu turned dollar from 700 to 1500, petrol from 370 to 1300, increased insecurity and hunger all in 4 years.

4 years is a lot of time.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

This is INNOCENT IHECHU PASCHAL (Madino) who is currently the Dean Mass Communication Faculty at Abia State University.

He allegedly engages in extorting students via handouts and sorting. Also charges up to N350k for projects.

Once students pay for the projects, he will give them what to copy and submit to him.

We are beaming lights at all universities and polytechnics.

If you are a lecturer currently extorting students by any means, you are advised to stop now.

We need to restore the glory in our universities and start producing top quality graduates to drive Africa to greatness.

[funsodoherty @funsodoherty]

Thursday, May 7, 2026

STATEMENT ON RESIGNATION FROM THE AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC
CONGRESS (ADC) AND JOINING THE NIGERIA DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS
(NDC)

Most of us are aware of developments concerning the ADC that have
collectively resulted in a division of the coalition with some leaders moving to
the NDC and some remaining in the ADC.

We had hoped that ADC would be the vehicle that would unite the opposition.
That is now clearly no longer the case. In these circumstances therefore, we
must each individually make a decision as to whether to remain with the ADC
or move to the NDC.

After due consultation, careful deliberation and prayerful reflection, I have joined the NDC. I am convinced that this is the path that will enable us to
deliver the benefits of good governance to those to whom they are due - every
citizen, without exception.

The battle ahead remains formidable, but I invite you to join us on this exciting,
though sometimes turbulent, journey to a brighter future that has been long-
promised and that has so far proven elusive, but that is, by the Grace of God,
now imminent.

Sincerely,

Funso Doherty

#OTiYa
#Itistime

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

NIGERIA: DO NOT LET THESE CLOWNS WRITE YOUR STORY.

Get serious with media and narratives. It affects everything

The NY Post published a story on April 7, 2026. Written by Nina Joudeh.

Headline: "Shocking fraud racket uncovered in California, with tentacles stretching to Nigeria." (https://t.co/y28bzD6leq)

Let me show you exactly what that headline omitted.

And why Nigerians and Africans should read Western press coverage about their continent with EXTREME CAUTION.

Here are the actual facts from the official DOJ press release, published April 6, 2026, the same document Nina Joudeh had access to before writing her story. (https://t.co/vzZJQV37dY)

One man. Ifeanyi Emmanuel Ugwu, 49. Bakersfield, California. He ran Franklin Finance Inc. from December 2020 to August 2023.

He operated 20 bank accounts across nine banks. He collected $5 million from 100+ people and transferred it abroad. That is the whole case.

One man. No cartel. No racket. No network.

Now here is the sentence the headline chose not to reflect.

The DOJ press release states, in its own words, that the money was transferred to "CHINA, Nigeria, and elsewhere."

China is listed first. The money went to China too.

Nina's headline: "tentacles stretching to Nigeria." Not China. Not "and elsewhere." Nigeria.

That is an observable editorial choice, visible to anyone who reads both documents side by side.

Now the numbers, directly from the same DOJ filing. (https://t.co/vzZJQV37dY)

Of the $5 million total, the DOJ specifically confirmed only $580,000 as verified fraud proceeds traced to cybercrime victims. That is 11.6% of the total.

The DOJ charged one count: operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, not fraud, not racketeering, not conspiracy.

No co-defendants were named. No Nigerian crime network was identified. No cartel. No syndicate.

Nothing that justifies the word "racket" in any legal or journalistic sense.

The headline used that word anyway.

Now zoom out to the FBI's own IC3 2025 Annual Report, published the same week as this article.
(https://t.co/7DYHmt8mr2)

Global cybercrime losses in 2025 reached
$20.877 billion.

Nigeria ranked 12th among foreign countries filing cybercrime complaints, with 1,219 reports.

(https://t.co/7OoDUEyYVM)

Canada filed 7,479.
India filed 5,879.
Japan filed 5,764.
The UK filed 4,106.

The biggest driver of global losses?

The FBI's own words: "largely perpetrated by organised criminal enterprises based in Southeast Asia using victims of human trafficking as forced labour."

No NY Post headline about tentacles stretching to Cambodia.

And who topped the FBI's own list of countries receiving fraudulent wire transfers? Hong Kong. Mexico. Indonesia. Vietnam. The Philippines.

Nigeria DOES NOT appear in the top five. (https://t.co/7DYHmt8mr2)

The headline still said "tentacles stretching to Nigeria."

This is part of a recognizable editorial pattern.

In January 2026, the New York Times published
"The Screwdriver Salesman Behind Trump's Airstrikes in Nigeria," written by Ruth Maclean, the paper's West Africa bureau chief.

(https://t.co/lgP7l7VWhZ)

The story characterized Emeka Umeagbalasi, a civil liberties advocate, former Amnesty International volunteer, former Human Rights Watch associate member, and founder of Intersociety, primarily by his side business selling tools in an Onitsha market, and framed him as the central explanation for a US military airstrike on Sokoto.

The story did not lead with the fact that US Senator Ted Cruz, Representative Riley Moore, and Representative Chris Smith had cited Umeagbalasi's research in formal congressional contexts over the preceding months.

It did not lead with the fact that Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Makurdi Catholic Diocese had testified before the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee in March and November 2025.

It did not prominently address the fact that the Nigerian government itself stated it had provided intelligence for the Christmas Day strike.

Former senator Shehu Sani, former presidential spokesman Reuben Abati, and Arise TV anchor Rufai Oseni all publicly challenged the framing. (https://t.co/qoiarpterz)

Intersociety formally accused the paper of misrepresentation and false attribution in a press statement. (https://t.co/nPo3oflc9Z)

A full independent analysis of the NYT story and its omissions was published by TheCable. (https://t.co/pGQ2z2lXaB)

The observable pattern across both stories is the same. A man transmits money to China and Nigeria.

The headline mentions Nigeria.

$8.6 billion in investment fraud driven by Southeast Asian criminal enterprises. No equivalent headline.

A US military strike driven by US senators, US lobbying firms, and US military command over twelve months of congressional activity.

The headline names a Nigerian man selling screwdrivers in Onitsha.

What disappears in every telling is the complexity. What stays is the Nigerian name.

To every Nigerian and every African reading Western press coverage about their continent: the DOJ's documents are public and free at https://t.co/WFCX10u8tK.

The FBI's annual cybercrime report is public and free at https://t.co/9ArECzP7D3.

When a headline says "stretching to Nigeria," check what the actual filing said.
- Check which countries were listed first. Check what the charge actually was.
- Check whether there were any co-defendants.

The headline is not the same thing as the document. They are two different objects, and one of them is a choice.

Ifeanyi Ugwu broke the law. He will be sentenced on July 27, 2026. That is right and proper. This post does not dispute that, and it does not defend what he did.

But a single unlicensed money transmitter in Bakersfield, California, with 11.6% of total funds confirmed as fraud proceeds, sending money to China, Nigeria, and elsewhere, is not a "shocking fraud racket with tentacles stretching to Nigeria." It became that because of an editorial decision.

The DOJ's own title for the same case was: "Bakersfield Resident Pleads Guilty to Operating an Illegal Money Transmitting Business."

No tentacles. No racket. No Nigeria in the headline.

Nigeria is 220 million people. It is a country. It is not a tentacle.

Read the source documents. They are public. They are free. They tell a different story.

Nigerians, Get Serious With Media and tell your own stories.

These editorial choices keep insulting 220 million people. Let's put an end to that narrative.

[Governor Amuneke @KevinblakC]

We stand with the innocent.
We stand with the brave.
Justice for civilians.
Dignity for our frontline men