Folashade Anozie

Mamba disciple.
All about joy, love, good stories and moments. Host @thesncpodcast + @dottedbridges

[Scott Colom @scott_colom]

Important folks know the backstory of this ad. My twin brother, Andrew Robert Colom, @andrewcolom, wrote, directed, and produced this ad, and starred alongside me in it. (He's not AI). 😂

Kayland Partee (@KaylandPartee) did the cinematographer and helped with a lot of my great content. These 2 are another example of the awesome talent from and in the Sip!

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Aaron Ford will be Nevada’s first Black governor, NBC News projects.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed wins the U.S. Senate race in Michigan, defeating former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers. https://t.co/szC4uBdNpC

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.

These results were only possible because outstanding candidates stepped forward in every region of the country — including in areas once considered long shots. They came from different backgrounds and represented a range of political perspectives, but were united by shared values, a belief in public service, and a commitment to putting the people of their districts and states first.

We also owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of election officials and volunteers from both parties who helped ensure a smooth election and carried out one of the most essential functions of our democracy.

While this administration has another two years in office, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes wherever we have the power to do so, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: Democrat David Crowley wins Wisconsin's governor race, NBC News projects. https://t.co/F9BD00LNMU

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: Democrat Gina Hinojosa wins Texas's governor race, NBC News projects. https://t.co/GSwEVSB5yv

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: Democrat James Talarico wins U.S. Senate race in Texas, NBC News projects. https://t.co/EbwSxF8pnZ

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: Democrat Xavier Becerra wins California's governor race, NBC News projects. https://t.co/xVoWt1C9Oc

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms wins Georgia's governor race, NBC News projects. https://t.co/mxugcZ9Gw4

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

The Inside The NBA crew reacts to Ernie Johnson announcing this will be his last season on the show ❤️

[Ernie Johnson @TurnerSportsEJ]

It’s time.
🤟🤟🏾🤟🏻🤟🏽

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

[Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour @GRVlagos]

Dear Lagosians, This is my promise to you.
I will never in any language tell you to live in your parents house as an answer to the expensive rents and housing deficit.
Instead we will work tirelessly to deliver a 100,000 units of housing that are not only accessible but truly affordable.
Enact laws that protect tenants and create an agency to investigate and enforce said laws.

I will never in any language tell you that Traffic is a lifestyle.

Instead we will deliver the entire rail network in 2years by opening the project to private sector procurement. Our focus will not be how to pad or steal money it would be on making movement in lagos more effective and affordable.

I will never in any language tell you that we do not know or understand how much waste is being generated in Lagos state, neither will we tell you to go back to you village when you complain about the state of the enviroment .

We will rid the waste management system of the corruption and racketeering that has left lagos covered in filth. We will create a waste to energy and waste to wealth value chain. We will build out proper sewage processing facilities and empower local governments to participate in waste management.

Lastly under no circumstance will any public official boast about expensive watches whilst so many struggle in poverty.

My promise to you is high impact governance, actions you will feel, because Actions speak far louder than words.

#ourlagos.

[Netflix @netflix]

Welcome to Hillman

A DIFFERENT WORLD IS NOW ON NETFLIX

[Lasisielenu @lasisielenu]

To the president and 36 state governors 😔

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[Renegade @_wapnen]

I went to secondary school in Barkin Ladi 20 years ago. This is what SS1 - 3 boys were doing, night shifts in the blistering cold. I did it too. My mates in Oyo were sleeping or studying. I’ve watched this shit deteriorate in real time.

Barkin Ladi now looks nothing like it did when I graduated 14 years ago. I went to the same junction we used to buy stuff during outings last year & I was shaking. They don’t speak the same language. Crisis after crisis. Slowly, the people who used to till those lands are now doing menial jobs in the south. The names of the villages have changed. The senator representing that region was killed few days after I graduated when he attended a mass funeral of people who were massacred by the Fulanis who now occupy their homes. 14 years ago guys.

Trying to raise awareness about this state-backed conquest feels like screaming under water.

Few months ago, my aunt in mangu came to ask for money to trade cause she can’t farm anymore. Their farms were attacked 3 years ago. They wouldn’t dare go back.

For more than 10 years, we’ve had internally displaced persons from Borno living in our house, after my mother took them in. They only go back to their so-called homes for funerals. 3 brilliant kids; Elizabeth, Margaret and Grace (named after my now late mother for her benevolence). The dad does security work, the mom cleans. Who knows what they could’ve made of themselves back home? I do, they’d have been compost for aliens.

It always starts small then it spirals out of control. We’ve seen all kinds of terror. I wish they just came and shot people but that’s not fun enough. Bullets are for runners. They’ll slice pregnant women open to kill their fetuses. They’ll feed women their kid’s fingers. They burn people alive, hack them with machetes. When people try to defend themselves, that’s when soldiers come in. They call it farmer-herder clashes. They say cattle was rustled. Cattle was rustled? That’s why you renamed my village and put 200 people in a mass grave ?

I remember @YarKafanchan saying that she wept after the 2015 elections cause she knew her people would die like flies & then what happened in southern kaduna? When people talk, they say where’s the evidence? But what about the bodies? Dying is a morbid thing to be skilled at but boy, we have experience.

We’ve seen “strategists” platform them and defend all manner of wrongdoing on the alter of political correctness.

Omoh, let me just stop here.

[usman @secmxx]

List of names of the kidnapped victims by terrorists in oyo state, Nigeria. 3 communities were the victims of the event.

[Ikhide R. Ikheloa @ikhide]

I am retired now, and last year I thought, I would go home and just chill for a couple of months. It was rough. I do go home every now and then, but I'd never stayed this long.

I should have planned the trip better. I have been away for almost 44 years, and my system has been used to a certain planet. Everything about and in me was stressed. Nigeria is a different planet.

I did not attempt to replicate my comfort and lifestyle that I enjoy in the US. I stayed in rough and tumble places. It's hard if you do that. It's tough to think, to function, you are swamped with trying to make it through the day, seeing as you are deprived of what are basic services back in the US.

Light, water, good roads, security, they are luxuries there. I have said this before, in Nigeria, no matter how wealthy you are, you are basically poor. Things need to change in Nigeria, the place needs a hard reset and a Marshall plan to replace the inchoate and decaying infrastructure and services. I stayed the entire two months, I was too lazy to try to change my flight, I would have done so.

Would I go back? Absolutely. This time, I'll simply pay for comfort, I am too old to immerse myself in the drama of incompetence. I'll go back for the spirit and the camaraderie. My friends and relatives were incredibly generous and I did not lack, but I could tell they were struggling to keep up with my spiritual, emotional and physical needs. America had defanged me and I could no longer thrive in Nigeria's jungle. Our leaders and their enabler-intellectuals should be lined up and taught a lesson, if you know what I mean. Disgraceful lot.

Sadly, there is no sugarcoating it, Nigeria is in very bad shape. And I speak from professional experience having worked with municipal government in the US for decades. Any attempt to gloss over the mess that is Nigeria is not merely dishonest, it is cruel.

Nigeria needs a cultural and structural reset, one that this version of "democracy" cannot offer. Nigerians have no idea how badly they are being governed. And you don't have to go to the West to see that. Just go next door, to an African country. It's so sad. The two months I spent there, I lost total respect for our politicians and their enabler-intellectuals. They are all grifters.

[Arinze Odira @CaptainArinze]

My dog has been roaming freely around our compound for almost 8 years. To him, that space is his natural home. Anytime we put him in his cage, which is honestly big enough to be rented out for 700k Naira in today’s Lagos, he barks non-stop until he is released. He is used to freedom, and the moment you try to take it away, he resists.

I’ve come to realize that a lot of things in Nigeria are the way they are because many of us don't know any better. We’ve accepted dysfunction as normal. No constant electricity? That’s just life. Insecurity? It depends on the context. Election rigging? Na part of politics. Stealing public funds? That's the game.

And the moment you point these things out, some people push back because you’re challenging the version of normal they’ve grown used to.

Changing this won't be easy, but we can start from our own little spaces. Keep showing people what a better life can look like. Be the light.