I will die on this hill:
A lot of Nigerian weddings are financial stupidity disguised as culture.
You don’t have ₦5 million.
You borrow ₦5 million.
You spend ₦5 million feeding people who came to eat.
Then you spend the first two years of your marriage paying back the money.
And we’re calling this a “dream wedding.”
Let us talk about kidney failure in Nigeria.
A dialysis session costs between ₦50,000 and ₦100,000. You need three a week. That is about ₦600,000 a month.
And the money is just buying you time. Nobody is getting a cure at the end of ₦600,000 a month. 🧵
“You will lose friends, you will lose lovers, you will lose comfort. But if in losing them you find yourself, you have gained more than a king.”
— Marcus Aurelius
Game theory explains why working harder inside a broken system is the worst response to that system. Because a system is never truly broken. It's just producing exactly the outcomes its own incentive structures were designed to produce, whether intentional or not. Working harder inside this system increases your output in the payoff matrix, but it simply won't change the actual structure of the system's matrix. Thus, the correct response is not more effort. Instead, you must aim to identify whose interests the current structure serves and position yourself in favor of those interests rather than against them. Change the game, or play the game that is actually being played. Either way, you must stop optimizing for the game you wish it to be and start acting realistically.
Had Tinubu allowed PDP, LP and NNPP to thrive without placing and financing moles to fight them, there wouldn’t have been Atiku, Obi and Kwankwaso sitting under one roof today.
As a Hausa proverb wisely cautions, when digging a trap, do not make it so deep that if you fall into it, you cannot climb out.
Some of you really compared Alex Otti to that “bleaching cream” Governor in Enugu that looks like leftover ofeakwu. This was a clear chance to fix an issue and earn goodwill, yet he chose the usual APC-style approach, bullying instead of leadership. What an idiot.
Nigerians please we need justice for Elozino Joshualia Ogege. My secondary school friend. She wasn’t just a classmate, she was my friend we sat together in school. She was a decent girl. Elo was not wayward.
They killed her Nigerians. They plucked her eyes while she was alive, breast and heart before she died.
She was a brilliant student, a first-class student from 100 level to 300 level at Delta State University Delsu.
She only went to look for a house to rent Nigerians😭
She told a security man working in DELSU, Onoriode (Onos), who had access to the school environment that she was looking for a house, he then told her he would help her get accommodation. That was how he lured her. Delsu claimed they are contract staff from a security company. Guess what? This security man is an Ex-convict.
He did not act alone.
He worked with other Yahoo boys including Desmond and their gang and with the help of a security supervisor identified as Nwosisi Benedict Uche. The mastermind was a Yahoo boy who came from Ghana, and got those Yahoo boys to look for a girl for ritual for him. He had 2 houses already in Abraka. Elo was not their first victim.
They planned it.
They waited for her inside the school environment, campus 3, overpowered her by putting something on her face and took her away.
They drove her out of Abraka into a bush.
According to their own confession, Elozino was crying and begging them to let her go even after they took her eyes alive she was still begging them. 😭
But they did not stop.
They killed her and removed parts of her body for ritual purposes to use for what they call “Yahoo Plus” money rituals.
They took those parts to a native doctor identified as Ojokojo Robinson Obajero, who they believed would perform money rituals for them.
The police tracked her phone and arrested them after the family reported she was missing because they couldn't reach her.
The Delta State Police PRO, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, confirmed that the suspects confessed and that the crime started as a missing person case before turning into a murder investigation.
Even the Commissioner of Police at the time, Muhammad Mustafa, confirmed arrests and said they were ritual killers.
One of the masterminds even died while trying to escape arrest.
But since 2018… what has happened? Elon have had no justice since 2018.
The case has been in court. Adjournment after adjournment.
Delay after delay. Years have passed. No clear justice. Are they bringing the judge?
My friend left her house to look for accommodation and never came back.
She trusted the wrong person a security man inside her own school. Delsu refused to show concern for their negligence. How can you employ an Ex-convict? Why would a security company employ an Ex-convict?
Elo is gone we know but we want justice. And till today, it feels like justice is still being delayed.
Nigerians, how long will this continue? How long will young girls keep dying like this? How long will cases like this be forgotten?
Please speak up. Please don’t let this case die. Please people I'm begging y'all to help us speak. They already confessed to doing it. They should have been sentenced to death already. All the people involved.
Help us cry for justice @Hybrid_Ola@_meera__abdul@AdageorgeA@oku_yungx@Austeiin@lilyally98@instablog9ja
This is the news on BBC. It's everywhere on the Internet too
https://t.co/nCChLD1g8f
#JusticeForElozino #EndRitualKillings
If you join the U.S. military & die in active service, your designated beneficiary can receive up to $500,000 in life-insurance benefits, in addition to a $100,000 death gratuity from the DoD. What exactly is the personal benefit of joining the Nigerian military under similar risks as Onye Igbo? 🤔
A quick lesson on inflation:
100,000 units of NEM Insurance bought in 2003 at ₦0.48 cost ₦48,000.
Today those shares are worth ~₦3.13M.
Sounds like a 65× return.
But adjusting for inflation:
₦48k (2003) ≈ ₦1.1M today
Real return: ~3×
Inflation eats gains quietly.
The Tiger Base police unit Owerri Imo state is notorious for deaths in custody.
1. Our investigation reveals that in 2022, three youth leaders handed over a suspect to the Tiger Base unit. About three months later, the suspect, a young man, Okechukwu Ogbedagu, died in detention. Amnesty International reviewed an autopsy report which revealed that the deceased victim suffered severe injuries to the neck, including broken neck bones, bleeding around the neck, and damage consistent with strong pressure applied to the neck. These injuries indicate that the neck was forcibly compressed and violently bent or twisted. Such actions would have blocked breathing and blood flow to the brain, leading to suffocation.
This demonstrates that the deceased may have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment. To cover up this atrocity, Tiger Base officials charged with murder the three youth leaders who reported the deceased. They were eventually released on bail after spending six months in deplorable conditions in Tiger Base detention cells.
2. Another concerning incident is the case of Japhet Njoku, a security guard accused of theft, who died in Tiger Base detention on 6 May 2025. To conceal their actions, Tiger Base officials told his family—after repeated demands for answers—that he was beaten to death in the cell by other inmates.
However, an autopsy report reviewed by Amnesty International revealed that he died from severe pneumonia, which impaired his breathing and significantly reduced oxygen levels. He had been held for several months in a Tiger Base cell under harsh, cold, and unsanitary conditions, without proper medical care, conditions that likely contributed to his death. Before the coroner‑ordered autopsy to determine the cause of death could be conducted, Tiger Base officials repeatedly obstructed the process.
Terrorists move in convoys.
Hundreds of them.
Motorcycles. Trucks. Columns of men carrying heavy weapons.
Villagers see them.
Soldiers report them.
Sometimes they even announce themselves before attacking.
Yet somehow, they still arrive at military bases untouched.
Nigeria has an Air Force. Jets. Attack aircraft. Surveillance capability.
But when terrorists gather in the open deserts and forests of Borno State and the Lake Chad Basin, the skies are often silent.
No reconnaissance.
No strafing runs.
No bombs falling on advancing columns.
Instead, the terrorists arrive. They overrun bases. Young Nigerian soldiers; poorly supplied and outnumbered, fight until ammunition runs dry.
Some die.
Some run.
Some are captured.
And by the time help comes, the attackers are already gone.
Weapons stolen.
Armoured vehicles taken.
Another base erased from the map.
The question that should haunt every Nigerian is simple.
How do hundreds of terrorists move freely across known territories, in the age of satellites, drones, and attack aircraft?
War is supposed to be brutal.
But what makes this one unbearable is the quiet suspicion that many of these deaths were preventable. Young men sent to fight. But not properly supported.
And somewhere in Nigeria tonight, another soldier is staring into the dark, wondering if help will come when the shooting starts.
We are here in the lift of Banana Island School Apartment.
We have been stuck here for almost 40 minutes.
We are all about sophisticating in here. Nobody seems to be doing anything about it.
We spoke to the land lady's daughter, she said they will see what they can do. Can you imagine ?