Protests hit several Nigerian states as residents demand the immediate rescue of schoolchildren and teachers abducted by gunmen in Oyo State.
States with ongoing protests include, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Bayelsa, Delta, Kano, Edo, Plateau, Taraba, Lagos, Enugu, and Abuja
Protesters have gathered in Lagos to demand the safe release of the kidnapped students and teachers from Ogbomoso, Oyo State, and to call for improved security across the country.
We are on the ground bringing you live updates and reactions from the protest.
I have over 1000 undeniable campaign facts, informations, records and statistics against APC and president Tinubu.
From insecurity, the poor Economy, unemployment, human rights violations, corruption, poor governance, politics, infrastructures, loans, high cost of things, poverty, hunger, tax, draconian policies, etc.
I shall use them here on twitter to campaign vigorously against Tinubu and the APC for 2027. I will promote OK and NDC ticket for free.
Breaking... Churchgoers walked out of church premises when the Delta state government send delegate to appreciate God for his 3 years in office, with food stuffs.
Hello PIDOM one if your young friend from Lagos who chatted with you when you were still in hotel, has been arrested.
@UNOFFICIALFACT he needs you, he said he avoided your calls when he was threatened, by an unknown caller.
He's in sell now, please he needs your help.
If you observe, they have slowed down on the new tax law brouhaha.
They are watching.
They are monitoring
They are waiting for just one thing.
Be wise, don't fall into their trap.
Go get your PVC. Vote OK and the NDC to avoid this avoidable disaster.
BREAKING NEWS: Presidential candidate of the NDC, Peter Obi, has officially named former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, as his Vice Presidential candidate for the 2027 general elections.
The AAC presidential candidate omoyele sowore, said after he pushes for,500k minimum wage, the governors now demand for 100k minimum wage for Nigeria workers
Breaking News!!
House of Reps Committees on Host Communities and Public Petitions held a one day retreat at Protia Hotel Owerri.
One of their adopted resolutions was a recommendation to the Federal Government to confer National honour on ex-militant leader Tompolo.
PIDOM SAYS
Breaking.....
A South African community activist, Thato Molosankwe, who recently went viral for confronting foreign shop owners and telling them to leave the country, has now reportedly been sh0t de@d in his own house.
Reports say he was shot five times just days after
I got information that someone on twitter has been pencilled down for arrest over the AI doctored video of VDM and president Tinubu. To the best of my knowledge, the person might be innocent, but someone has to be used as scapegoat, to serve as a deterrent to others.
This order is from above.
I will keep you guys posted.
Do the math, @MTNNG took ₦55,000 from me in just three days for a service that was supposed to last a full month, and now they are offering ₦341 as compensation. That is not a remedy; it is an insult. #OCCUPYMTNNOW#AACOURPARTY
If you knew @DavidHundeyin since 2020, you'll know they're cabers who truly wants to destroy David's image, David made @WestAfricaWeek what it's today, we all know what's going on, David has many enemies and they're all mostly From Nigeria.
We watch and keep watching.
I could have exited with bang last year and taken the entire platform down with me, like these this same group of people did when they took the Parallel Facts website down while exiting before they invested in WAW 3 years ago.
But I'm not that kind of person.
I had grouses. I had beef. But I won't destroy something I built just because I have beef with someone who is running it. I'd rather leave it for the person and go do my own thing, which is exactly what I did. It's like the biblical story of Solomon and the 2 women claiming to be a child's mother. It's easy to see who the real mother is by gauging who is willing to light it on fire to prove a point.
West Africa Weekly was my child. I told the story of how it began in my book. I was living in this dirty Airbnb studio apartment in a dingy building called French Hostel in Akweteyman, Achimota, Accra. It was called French Hostel because most of the tenants were students from Cote d'Ivoire and Cameroon. This was where I was at rock bottom in 2021. Still winded and confused from ending up in exile after End SARS, running out of money and options, waking up everyday and wondering where the hell I fit in this new world post-October 20.
Then someone here on Twitter tagged me on a post about something called the 'Substack Local Fellowship', and even though I wasn't really sure whether I wanted to go back to investigative journalism, it was at least a temporary way out of my existential conundrum. In my application, I named the prospective newsletter "West Africa Weekly", because I thought I would put out a new piece every week and since I was in Ghana, I wanted to cover Ghanaian stories too. I ended up getting it, and they asked me to nominate a graphic artist and editor. I nominated my editor from @NewsWireNGR, @TheFavoredWoman and that was how it all began.
Just me in a cheap, dingy apartment that had a cockroach problem, a cheap Dell Latitude laptop, a Vodafone 4G MiFi router, the promise of a $7,500 funding tranche every 3 months, some editorial support from Fola, and however far I was willing to go to get a great story. That's where all of this began. Just me and my cheap laptop in an urban slum somewhere in Accra.
From there, the world heard my voice. I told Itunu Babalola's story and nearly got arrested in Cote d'Ivoire in the process. I went after loan sharks owned by Chinese triads. I went after Nigeria's biggest corporates. I told the story that could have ended my career because of how close I was to it. I went after a drug lord-turned-politician who was running for president, and eventually won. I took the FBI, CIA, DEA, IRS, USAO and State Dept to court and won, only for them to refuse to carry out the court order to date.
Somewhere along the line I was granted political asylum and I got taken into the journalistic equivalent of a witness protection program because my life was under threat. Nigeria's National Intelligence Agency attempted to kidnap me from Ghana. It was the craziest adventure of my life, and it was nearly the last one.
So naturally when it was time to accept investment and move this operation from one crazy daredevil with his newsletter and YouTube channel to a structured operation with a board and reporters and HR, I wasn't going to say no. I was tired and I needed to rest.
And so despite all the subsequent humiliations, annoyances and grievances after I let other people control what I built, I was never going to burn it all down just because my time there was up. My baby is always my baby regardless of who controls it. Most people are just finding out today that I left WAW nearly 8 months ago, only because the new management decided to act this drama on the TL.
They will be fine or not. I wish this could have been handled differently, but to each his own. Nobody can take my memories away from me, and I will always remember what I built. Not what it has become.
Peace and love be unto ye. 👋🏿