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Is This A Real Man?🤔🔥🔥
If you have to allow a problem into your life first, so people can applaud you for how you solved it, you are NOT a real man.
You are just a Nigerian politician!🤷🏽♂️
The First Lawmakers: My Reflection on Home, Discipline, and Duty
Law and order do not begin at the police station or the courthouse; they begin at home, in the quiet corners where parents teach their children right from wrong. When this foundation cracks, society inherits the fallout.
As a police officer, I’ve witnessed this truth play out in heartbreaking ways—parents arrive at stations, not with pleas for justice, but with demands for us to parent for them. “I want you to detain my child, I want you to discipline him.” “Torture him,” as though pain alone could rewrite a life long gone astray.
A retired soldier once came into my office in Ago Iwoye, demanding we kill his son, a university student arrested for cultism. His rage was volcanic. Yet, the very next day, that same man returned, food in hand, asking after his son’s well-being. When I joked, “So you don’t want us to kill him again?” his eyes betrayed a truth every parent knows: anger is often the flipside of helpless love.
Years later, I met that young man again in Shagamu. He’d survived his schooling, married, and become a father himself. When I asked if he’d ever want his daughter near cultism, his “No!” was instant.
Another father once begged us to help keep his drug-addicted son for weeks. “Keep him here,” he insisted. We refused—not out of indifference, but because cells are not rehabilitation centres. If anything were to happen to the boy, or if he escaped, who would the father blame? The police. Yet discipline cannot be outsourced. It must be nurtured, patiently and persistently, at home.
This brings me to a delicate truth: many of us grew up in an era where parents and teachers wielded firmer hands. My own father believed in the “reset button” of a good beating—a method he swore straightened my stubbornness (and yes, I laugh about it now). Teachers, too, disciplined freely, with canes and stern words. But times have changed.
Today, some see corporal punishment as archaic, even abusive. I am not here to debate methods—what worked for one generation may not work for another. What matters is engagement.
The problem today isn’t a lack of discipline; it’s a lack of presence. Parents once corrected their children directly, even if harshly. Some have handed that duty to strangers—teachers, police, and social workers. But no institution can replace a parent’s guidance. A child raised without boundaries at home will test them elsewhere—in cults, drug dens, or crime.
To be clear: I am not discouraging parents from reporting wayward children. If your son steals or your daughter vanishes, come to us. We will help. But do not confuse reporting with surrendering. When you hand us your child and say, “Fix them,” you misunderstand our role. We enforce laws; we cannot replace love. We investigate crimes; we cannot teach values.
The retired soldier’s son changed not because we jailed him, but because his father chose to fight for him, not against him.
Parents, hear me: society’s fabric is woven in your living rooms, at your dinner tables, in the quiet moments when you choose patience over fury, presence over absence. The police cannot replace your voice. We cannot instil the values you withhold. Our cells are not classrooms; handcuffs are not teaching tools. When you outsource parenting to the state, you gamble with life—and with the peace of communities.
Yes, parenthood is hard. It is exhausting, thankless, and often terrifying. But it is also sacred. Your children watch how you love, how you forgive, and how you rise after failing. They notice when you prioritize work over conversations, screens over eye contact, and fear over understanding. The boy who joins a cult, and the girl who slips into addiction—they are not born rebels. They are shaped by unmet needs, unheard cries, and lessons left untaught.
To the father who sees his son slipping away: Stay. To the mother who feels out of her depth: Ask for help. To the parent who thinks it’s too late: It isn’t. Discipline without love breeds resentment, but love without discipline breeds entitlement. Find the balance.
My generation’s parents were far from perfect, but they owned their role as first teachers. They scolded, they punished, and they stayed. I urge present parents to do the same—not with the harshness of the past, but with the wisdom of your own heart. Meet your children where they are. Listen. Correct and love.
I write this not as a Commissioner of Police, but as a witness. I’ve seen the worst of humanity—and the best. I’ve watched reformed cultists become devoted fathers. I’ve seen shattered families rebuild. Let us embrace hope and commit to being the first lawmakers in our homes.
Dictating rules for others to follow just because you believe you are on top, is NOT leadership. You're just a low budget dictator with an unfounded beef with accountability and understanding.💯💯
Just saying!
We will never be able to understand the magnitude of what Tunde has done with this kids. May history be kind to him.
He went to the slums to pick up little kids that nobody ever gave any chance in life, he introduced them to chess, gave them a reason to live, and is now taking them abroad.
Thank you Tunde. May God bless you.
Bro Gbinle attended a meeting we held at College of Health sciences, BSU.
He came without a single escort and we handled his hotel arrangements.
He preached, we were blessed and he left.
This thing is simple oo
📹 EXCLUSIVE | Large quantities of crude still gushing from the Trans-Niger pipeline three days after an explosion was put out.
Our Correspondent, Soibi Oruwari, visited the site today on the outskirts of Bodo in Gokana LGA of Rivers State.
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#NigeriaInfoFM
@MikaelCBernard I think social media is one of the reasons we have not had a successful protest. We give too much info and bask in the imagination of how it will be. The hormones are released and we think we have done it already.
The protest that will succeed will not start from Social media.
If you won't hear it from "conspiracy theorist" Dave, who cites public record information that requires you tobuse your brain too much, maybe you will hear it in simple, plain English from the vice-president of the USA himself:
That the purpose of 80 years of US foreign policy has been to maintain Africa and the Global South in poverty at all costs, because our poverty subsidises the wealth of America and the Global North - a parasitic, wicked system of economics they euphemistically called "Globalisation," to confuse us about its true nature;
And that said "globalisation" project has failed because China refused to remain a hewer of wood and drawer of water, and its economic rise has lifted Africa and the Global South along with it, which is why America and the Global North are now fighting with each other as they try to figure out a new economic system in a world where China has used their oyibo racial-economic hierarchy to wipe its ass.
The same China, incidentally, that many of you absolute donuts do not realise is probably the biggest reason why you are alive today and you have a smartphone and an Internet connection to read this tweet.
We will all learn geopolitics together.
This is not true. More people died in Obigbo/Oyigbo alone in Rivers State than in all of Lagos. It just didn't get as much coverage because again, it wasn't Lagos.
Some of you don't even know that 53 women were kidnapped from Obigbo and raped in Mogadishu barracks for 3 months.
I can't love Ghana more than a Ghanaian. I do love Ghana a whole lot, and it is the only country close enough to my heart to compete with the country of my birth. But at the end of the day, even if I obtain Ghanaian citizenship, I know I can still never love Ghana as much as any random Efua from Koforidua, because I am not Ghanaian. It is what it is.
Having said that, I really hope that Ghanaians come to understand their true position in the world, and that there are in fact, well-resourced and capable people in this world who are working day and night on the Nigeria-fication of Ghana. And I know this because I've lived through the incremental Nigeria-fication of Nigeria since I was born 35 years ago.
Nigeria wasn't always like this. Nigeria was once so stable and prosperous that over 1 million Ghanaians migrated there in the 1970s. The incremental collapse of Nigeria didn't just happen because "Nigerian leaders are corrupt." No matter how corrupt and inept a country's leadership is, if that country has the human and natural resource abundance that Nigeria has, it is much harder for it to fail than to at least be mediocre. Nigeria's failure was and is a carefully planned and executed project.
An economy doesn't go from $560 bn and number 1 in Africa + 3rd fastest growing on earth, to $199bn and no 4 in Africa with zero growth, over the space of just 10 years through "incompetence." Mere incompetence cannot reduce an economy by more than half its size in just a decade without black swan events like war, famine, or natural disasters. Just deliberate policy decisions carefully aimed at destroying an economy and facilitating the escape of its best and brightest talent, so that it can go back to being an impoverished oilfield and cash crop plantation with no future.
The primary means by which these well-resourced actors were able to completely take over the Nigerian state was by seizing total control over Nigeria's information space, and it is impossible for me not to see the same patterns repeating themselves in Ghana. When you start seeing foreign state actors keeping journalists, social media influencers, celebrities, artists, media platforms, and every other influential entity in the media and culture space on retainer, that means a "soft" coup is in the works - only there's nothing "soft" about it.
In the case of a "hard" coup, the attempt will fail if the people resist it, or the state catches wind of it early enough. But in a "soft" coup, the minds of the people are turned into the very weapons by which their government and sovereignty are undermined. In the case of the "hard" coup that was planned against JJ Rawlings, your government could destroy the plot by arresting the 8 spearheads. In the case of a "soft" coup where the minds of 10 million Ghanaians have been sufficiently weaponised and moulded in favour of whatever narrative the foreign state actor is trying to push, what does the government want to do? Arrest 10 million useful idiots? That is what makes it so dangerous.
You guys need to understand that the ongoing colonisation of your arts, culture, media and entertainment spaces by the usual obroni actors is NOT benign. Someone feels threatened by geopolitical events around Ghana, as well as the new Ghanaian president's apparent willingness to engage diplomatically with his neighbours like an adult, instead of needlessly making enemies out of close trading partners because one Emmanuel Macron in Paris doesn't like Red Beret Man in Ouagadougou.
They feel threatened enough to bypass the traditional media ecosystem because they feel Ghanaian journalists still retain a measure of professionalism and geopolitical awareness that makes it hard to use them as sock puppets. They're instead going after the young, impressionable, socioeconomically repressed, social-media-famous types who are drunk on their newfound fame and apparent power, and will do whatever they are told for the opportunity to eat dinner with the Norwegian ambassador and get an all-expense-paid trip to Paris, which might be their first time ever having a passport, let alone leaving Ghana.
Whatever the goal is of using these types to engineer a soft coup in Ghana's information space, you can be sure of one thing - it is not to help you. If you doubt this, you only have to think it through logically:
Question - What is Ghana's primary economic problem?
Answer - An import-dependent economy barely held together by exporting unprocessed cocoa and gold nuggets, leading to a never-ending cycle of predatory IMF and World Bank loans which can never realistically be repaid.
Question - What is Ghana's economic solution?
Answer - Build out a value chain for its resource exports so that for example, instead of exporting cocoa at $7,000/ton, Ghana can export finished cocoa-based products including food, make-up and pharmaceutical products worth at least 1000 times the raw price of cocoa. In addition to boosting export revenues and reducing pressue on the cedi and need for borrowing, this also creates millions of much-needed new jobs.
Question - What countries do these influencer-sponsoring state actors come from?
Answer - Industrialised countries from Europe and North America.
Question - What pays the salaries of these sate actors?
Answer - Government revenue earned in large part from corporate and personal income taxes levied on industrial and manufacturing operations.
Question - In the case of Switzerland or Belgium for example, where do the cheap inputs for these industrial processes come from?
Answer - Brong-Ahafo region, via Tema Harbour, Ghana.
Question - So if Ghana stops exporting raw cocoa and unrefined gold, and starts exporting exporting finished goods after building out a value chain in-country, what happens to those jobs and taxpayer revenues in Europe and North America?
Answer - Ɛyerae. Otilor.
Question - So if you're a European diplomat in Ghana, is it in your interest to fund anything that could help Ghana to EVER develop industrially?
Answer - Fuck no.
Question - And if you are funding something, what is the only possible end goal of what you are funding?
Answer - Well, that should be pretty obvious. To ensure that Ghana keeps doing EXACTLY what it is doing.
That's how the real world works. It is harsh and simple - people do what is in the shared interests of the group they belong to. It is the demonstrated shared interest of obroni to live parasitically off African resources and people. They will do and have done WHATEVER is needed for them to maintain their standard of living at your expense.
If they have gone as far as plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba with poisoned toothpaste (https://t.co/38YJC9Niap), and trying SIX different times to kill the greatest person in Ghana's history (https://t.co/s3AMNFDfbq) before they finally executed a coup using their local proxies, you can rest assured that sponsoring some social media influencer who comes from a humble background to implant destructive messages in your subconscious is the very least they are capable of.
For your own good, if you do not wish to see Ghana go through what Nigeria has gone through, you better quit allowing any pseudo-intelligent social media speaker of Borɔfo to gaslight you into believing things that are not in your interest. It's the French ambassador's job to protect French interests, not yours. If that means funding the son of a plantain seller who managed to accumulate 300,000 Twitter followers, then that is what he or she will do. Because they're protecting their own interests.
In the name of God, you had better protect your own too.