Tinubuโs Anti-People, Reverse Robin Hoodist โCourageโ
By Farooq A. Kperogi @farooqkperogi
โAs a Tinubu-supporting friend pointed out to me on Friday, โThis is a government of the elite, for the elite, and by the elite.โโฆโฆโ
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Those suspected of helping the military may be abducted or killed by the terrorists. Those suspected of helping terrorists may be arrested, detained, displaced, or punished by security forces. As a result, civilians often face impossible choices, with serious consequences regardless of whom they cooperate with.
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I have stopped going to South Africa for any international conferences for mainly 3 things.
1. Border police rudeness: Some years ago I was invited for a conference on conflicts in the Horn in South Africa. I showed email invite to the border policeman at the desk. He rudely asked: "but why can't you people hold your peace conferences in your homes. Why always come to South Africa?" - I think he had a point. Why must we?
Second time it was worse - "But why are you Zomallis and Ethiopians always here."
I reminded him I was actually Kenyan, and I was only in the country for 2 days for an international conference
Reply: "Sheh, um, eh. But what is the difference"
2. As soon as locals figure out you are a black person, possibly African from another country, the automatic assumption is that you are an illegal migrant. You see immediate hostile reaction. Honestly, I found SA one of the most miserable places on earth in terms of peoples' attitude to foreigners. The visceral hatred towards fellow Africans is unnerving. Still one of the most beautiful geographies in Africa.
3. The state bureaucracy and departments filled with people who actually know very little about the outside world. Most of the best people who made South Africa an outward-looking African power are gone. All remaining are small-time apparatchiks stealing from the state and fat toads serving as diplomats. I feel sorry for South Africa.
Barely 24 hours after the death of retired Major General Rabe Abubakar in an armed bandits' den in Katsina State, another armed group has reportedly imposed a N20 million levy on residents of Kwandawa Community in Malumfashi Local Government Area, threatening them with eviction from their ancestral homes if they fail to comply.
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If this is even close to true, itโs the most breathtaking betrayal in American history (after Trumpโs promises to the Iranian people), a new lease on life for the Islamic Republic, likely ensuring it remains in power for decades to come, and the most humiliating and unnecessary defeat in American history.
All the US politicians speaking today couldn't send US astronauts into space.
The US was leasing seats on Russian rockets to reach space until a private company arrived.
Those same politicians, I can assure you, own shares either directly in SpaceX or in a company or index that supplies SpaceX.
It's all performative.
Millionaire legislators complaining about a wealthy private citizen.
Nigeriaโs President Bola Tinubu and his government must urgently address the countryโs horrifying spate of abductions targeting rural communities and internally displaced persons (IDP) in the northern part of the country, as at least 1,100 people have been abducted in three months โ from January to April 2026: https://t.co/PxnKDSN3HH
Why do kidnappers succeed in collecting ransom from their victims?
Based on my job, I learnt something special this week from Security Agents in Mali that we went on a rescue mission together. I don't know if the Nigerian Security Agencies are in collaboration with kidnappers to take ransom and share together, if not no kidnapper can succeed in taking any ransom where security formation is effective.
The story is that, I received a message from Nigeria concerning a 16 year old girl that was trafficked to Mali for sex trade. This victim called her parents about the situation and they passed the message to me from government agency for an urgent rescue.
When I called the number that the victim used to call her parents and I asked the traffickers to send the victim to me so that she can go back to Nigeria, they refused. Later they remove the line from their phone, now the number is out of use. I now informed a security agent about the situation because what is important is to rescue the 16 years old girl from sexual exploitation.
Now, the number I used to contact the traffickers is no more in use. I don't know the name of the village the victim is. I sent the number that they have removed and brake to the security agent. After two hours, they notify me the name of the village and the current new number the traffickers are using. We went on a mission without calling the new number. We arrived at the village in the midnight because it was about 15 hours journey. The second day, Information reach us the exact location the phone number was last used before they switched off the phone. After an hour, information came again that the person is having appointment with somebody by 11:00am. We hang around the place. When the person came around, there was a vibration from one of their security gadget to know the person coming with the number. We monitor her entry to the house. We were able to rescue the victim on 20/12/22. No call. Nothing.
So ransom collection in Nigeria could be between the kidnappers and security agencies. If not, no Nigerian should pay ransom to any kidnapper if really our policemen have the necessary security gadgets.
This is just a trafficking issue and not that some criminals will hide somewhere and calling people twice to pay ransom. You cannot call three times before being caught in Mali.
That is the reason I said, Nigerian Security Agents could be in collaboration with the kidnappers to take ransom from people.
P. Michael.
Global Anti Human Trafficking Organization (GAHTO). MALI.
One year ago, Fulani Islamic terrorists stormed Yelwata, Nigeria, slaughtering more than 200 Christians.
Most were women and children sheltering at a local Catholic mission.
Today, we remember the martyrs. The world must not forget the Christian genocide in Nigeria.
"๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐" โ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ -๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐
A criminal defense attorney cut straight to the heart of the Karmelo Anthony trial with one line: โ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆโ. That single sentence may be the whole case.
The facts are not in dispute. Anthony, now 19, is charged with mโrder in the April 2025 stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet (NBC News). Metcalf died in his twin brotherโs arms. Anthony has pleaded not guilty and insists he acted in self-defense โ but the attorney walking through the law explained why that defense is in serious trouble.
By the account presented in court, this was a verbal altercation in which the defendant appeared to provoke the confrontation himself, allegedly saying โ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ดโ while reaching into his bag. He was then touched. ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐. As the attorney put it, you are not justified in plunging a knife into someoneโs chest unless they are coming at you with a weapon capable of deadly force โ โ๐ข ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ, ๐ข ๐จ๐ถ๐ฏ, ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏโ.
The evidence keeps cutting against the self-defense story. Prosecutors showed jurors surveillance video of a confrontation that lasted only about four minutes, and a 17-year-old witness testified that Anthony was asked to leave the other teamโs tent roughly fifteen times before anything happened (ABC7 / 11Alive). ๐ ๐ค๐ง๐ข๐๐ ๐๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ค ๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ค ๐ฆ๐๐๐ญ, and bringing one is not the behavior of a frightened kid defending his life.
None of this is complicated, which is exactly why activists have worked so hard to make it about everything except the facts. A teenager is dead. Another teenager brought a blade to a school sporting event and used it. ๐๐๐ฅ๐-๐๐๐๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐, ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ, and the jury is now being shown the difference.
๐๐จ๐ฎ๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ค ๐ฆ๐๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ๐จ๐ง, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ง๐จ ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ.
Amid the ongoing armed violence, farmers are among the worst hit as terrorist attacks disrupt farming activities, despite being subjected to extortion payments to armed groups.
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Austin Metcalf is dead.
Letโs stop dancing around the obvious.
Austin Metcalf received the death penalty.
Karmelo Anthony received 35 years.
One of them lives.
One of them gets a gravestone.
Save the faux outrage.
The real victim in this case is NOT the convicted killer.
The real victim is the young man who will never come home again and the family that will spend the rest of their lives grieving a loss that can never be undone.
This was a track meet.
A place for competition, teamwork, and sportsmanship.
NOT violence.
NOT murder.
And spare us the racial narratives.
Murder is wrong regardless of the race of the victim or the perpetrator. Any decent society should be able to agree on that.
Austin Metcalf lost everything.
His family got a life sentence of grief.
And while some are busy turning this tragedy into a racial debate, the Metcalf family is looking at the empty chair at the dinner table and remembering who actually paid the highest price.
Austin Metcalf got the death penalty.
Never forget that.
Maturing is realizing that Africa would have been MUCH better off with $0.00 humanitarian aid from the USA and Europe being sent the past 75 years.
Via our "kindness" we have destroyed many of the price signals and incentives in African countries. We created a culture of dependency that has ruined Africa. All that has been achieved is 100x more human misery in Africa, which is now spilling over into other continents.
Africa would have been better off allowing the evolutionary process to continue without interruption.
There you go. The United States is built on a limitless ethos of entrepreneurship, innovation, and excellence. Canada is built on feminized and "empathetic" parasitic taxation fuelled by envy and resentment toward those who produce.
Actually, about this:
Elon once offered the UN $6 billion for World Hunger in 2021 - on the condition that the UN provided Open Source Accounting and allowed him or anyone else to track and audit exactly where the money was spent on.
Which I think is a fair request considering that UN had multiple high-profile embezzlement cases such as what happened in Somalia in 2010 and Ethiopia in recent years. There's even one being actively probed right now in Sudan.
UN has not have a good track record of monitoring where other people's money go to, and that's an understatement.
The UN's response? They said they would at best, offer summaries and high-level category reports...which is not very helpful. It was also not going to be an open ledger, so no one outside of UN leadership could see where the money would go to.
So...the offer fell through because the UN was unable to provide trackable details on where the money goes to, making auditing extremely difficult. The rest is history, which is now being actively memory-holed by you OP.
Sure hate Elon that he bought Twitter, at least be fair.