Every human is innately a segregationist and are bound to display it blatantly or subtly depending on circumstances. Call it clique, tribalists, xenophobes, racists, misogynists, misandrists...
Today, I’m beyond grateful to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the legendary 2Baba for their contribution to the arts, their blessings on my sophomore, and for leaving my generation multiple standards to aspire to.
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"We are not into illegal mining... Niger State Civil Defence Corps don't have the right to shoot at us... We are under 18, and we are not allowed to be taken inside a cell... Heat cannot kill a gold miner..."
Following the deaths of miners in Niger State custody, a witness has called for justice and a full investigation.
Any society, where there are no clearly defined consequences for misdemeanors or the strict enforcement of such, is bound to retrogress or, at best, stay stagnant.
In March 1980, 50 men suffocated to death after officers locked them in an overcrowded Black Maria and rejected their pleas for fresh air.
▶️A day earlier, police officers had raided Isolo and Mushin in Lagos following what they described as an armed robbery incident and arrested 68 men for wandering.
▶️On the day of the incident, all 68 pleaded not guilty in court, but were ordered to remain in custody pending further investigation. They were then packed into a Black Maria designed to hold about 30 people.
▶️After several hours in the overcrowded vehicle under the afternoon sun, many were unconscious when they arrived at Ikoyi Prison.
▶️47 died before reaching Lagos General Hospital, while three others died in hospital. Doctors attributed the deaths to suffocation, worsened by hunger and dehydration.
▶️Many of the victims were later identified as ordinary workers, including spray painters, mechanics, glass cutters and carpenters.
▶️A survivor, Mohammed Garba, told a government inquiry that detainees had shouted that they were suffocating while the van was still outside the court. He said a policeman responded, "A dying man does not talk."
▶️In May 1981, nine police officers charged over the deaths were acquitted after a prolonged trial.
Coventry City striker Taiwo Awoniyi graduated from the PFA Business School yesterday. 🎓
Congratulations on achieving your Diploma in Global Football Sport Directorship, Taiwo 🤝
The Nigerian mentality is baffling. Doesn’t want to pay taxes, wants free education and medical care, wants standard education and medical care, wants lecturers and doctors to earn millions. They believe they’re 1.3mbpd is oil rich and can cater to all govt expenses lmao
Dear Black people, stop telling your story like this, the exceptionalist narrative serves eugenics. Please foreground your work, your ambitions and your future. You really cannot be 43 and still looking in the rear view mirror to 12, when there is 53, 63, 73, 83 to come.
At some point, Nigerians will raise up to fight the system with everything they have because the country can not continue like this.
How can citizens buy flight tickets, a 5:30 PM flight, @flyairpeace will wait till the minute the flight was supposed to be taken off and announce casually to waiting passengers that the flight has been shifted to 8: PM? By 8:PM another shift and so on till around midnight and you tell the passengers that the flight has been canceled? And in all these, not even a sachet of pure water for the passengers. There was no arrangement to get the people accommodations, nothing. Imagine passengers have to sleep on the seats at the departure hall. Where is that done?
The agencies responsible for protecting the citizens are sleeping and acting like it is none of the business. The Minister of Aviation, @fkeyamo since he came into office have acted like the spokesman of private airlines association. The next thing is to sing on your mandate we stand, then attack the opposition.
If my train in Germany is delayed for three house while I am supposed to take the train, I and every other passengers will be compensated. If it is canceled, accommodation will be provided. Transportation to the accommodation and back to the train station, the food and water will be on the railway company, DBahn. I will still be compensated. And all these will be done with alot of 'sorry sir', 'sorry ma'. If it is a flight it is even worse. But in Nigeria we are treated like slaves by airlines that we paid our hard earned money in our own country and the government agencies that are supposed to regulate them don't even care.
Nigerians must wake up and demand this country work by force. Citizens of the developed countries we look up to didn't sit down and watched some gang of criminals do whatever they like with them forever. They demanded for it, sometimes even violently. We as Nig must insist the right thing is done at all times. When things like these happen, citizens that can afford it must go to court.
We certainly can't continue like this