Tosin Osasona

Justice and Security Policy Enthusiast; Conflict Analyst; Omo Yoruba Atata

[PATRIOTIC SOJA ($TSIR-MUNCHAN) @Pressman2040]

🚨🔥 👮‍♂️Nigerian Police in the heat of battle in Zamfara 👮‍♂️💥🔥🔥🔥

Bagega-Anka Road, Zamfara yesterday.

Our police officers and tactical teams were right in the middle of it armored vehicle hit, but the fight continues. See them securing the area, rifles up, moving with courage under heavy conditions. This is the reality on the dangerous roads of Zamfara.

They’re out there daily taking the heat so civilians can move safely. Massive respect to every officer and personnel holding it down.

🙏🙏🙏 Pray for their protection, strength, and victory over bandits. Nigeria stands with you!

If you support our security forces, drop 🔥 and share this.

[Yorùbáness @Yorubaness]

The young Bolu and Femi of Abolarin College, Oke Ila Orangun, warmly welcomed the Alayemore of Ido-Osun in a modern and inspiring style, beautifully rendering the Oríkì Ajísọlá 🖤

[HRH banke oniru @HRH_bankeoniru]

Yoruba vocals just do something to a song, everything else sounds like it's trying too hard.

#subtlelanguage

[Tosin Osasona @babakamoru]

@Pressman2040 May he find rest and may God watch over his family. Sad one

[TUNJI DISU @TunjiDisu1]

OUR OWN IRON LADY
A Tribute to Inspector Aderibigbe Abimbola (Bimbo)

When I was sent to reorganize the Special Anti Robbery Squad in Ondo State, I knew the weight of the task. SARS is not a place for the faint of heart. It is a world of shadows where we go after the most dangerous criminals in the land. It is a place that many men would never dare to step into. That was the world I was building a team for.

Then came Bimbo.

She was a natural detective. You did not have to teach her how to see what others missed. You could give Bimbo a task and go and rest because you knew in your soul that the job would be done well. She had a quiet power that you cannot find in a police academy manual. She had a sharp instinct and a fire for justice that never went out.

Bimbo was never afraid. Not once. She did not care how big or dangerous a criminal was. To her, the bigger they came, the bigger they fell. Where hardened men would hesitate, she stepped forward. Where others were busy calculating the risk, she was already on the move. We called her our own Iron Lady and she earned that name every single day .

But what breaks my heart now is remembering the woman behind the warrior. This fearless force of nature had the most wonderful smile for everyone. She could walk out of an operation that would give most people nightmares and greet you with a warmth that made you forget the darkness she had just faced. She was iron on the inside and gold on the outside.

She was the only woman on the team. Just one. But she never asked for a softer path. She worked with every unit and traveled across states. She slept in cramped cars and on hard wooden benches. She stayed out in the field for days at a time side by side with the men. She matched them stride for stride and often she was the one leading the way. She never asked for special treatment because she never needed it. She only needed the mission.

A huge part of every success we had in Ondo State belongs to her. That is not sentiment. That is the honest truth. She was the engine that ran quietly but powered everything around her.

I remember when I was transferred to Oyo State and faced with a high profile kidnap case. The pressure was suffocating and we were making no progress. I did what I always did when the stakes were highest. I called Bimbo. She came. Like a well oiled machine she helped us crack that case within twenty four hours. Where everyone else saw a wall, Bimbo found a door.

And now she is gone.

The cold hands of death have taken her and the Nigeria Police Force has lost a rare and brilliant gem. She was the kind of detective people think only exists in movies. But she was real. She bled for this job. She gave up her comfort and her rest so that others could be safer in their homes.

Bimbo did not just close cases. She opened a path for every woman in uniform who will come after her. She proved that one person can make a difference.

Rest now, Iron Lady. You slept in cars so that others could sleep in peace. You smiled at the world and feared no one. You gave your all so that justice would not sleep. The field is quieter without you. The force is lesser without you. But your legacy is louder than any siren we will ever sound. Good night Abimm!!!

#OurOwnIronLady #RestInPeaceBimbo #NigeriaPolice #WomenInUniform

[Tosin Osasona @babakamoru]

@TunjiDisu1 May God watch over her family, her service and dedication is appreciated.

[Tosin Osasona @babakamoru]

State Police and the questions Nigeria can no longer avoid https://t.co/nU5XRIRxgP

[Tosin Osasona @babakamoru]

State Police and the questions Nigeria can no longer avoid https://t.co/nU5XRIS56n

[Tosin Osasona @babakamoru]

My most recent peer-reviewed article has just been published by Taylor & Francis- “Hard Attitude and Unhelpful Laws: The Impact of Restrictive Abortion Laws on Reproductive Rights in Lagos”.https://t.co/hYN9IMKKj5

[GRACE LADOJA MBE @GraceLaDoja]

This week I returned home to Ibadan, Nigeria with my dad, Oba Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, the 44th Olubadan of Ibadanland!!! He will be crowned King on Friday, 26 September 2025. His name, Adewolu, means “the crown has returned home”, and that is exactly what happened :)

[Tosin Osasona @babakamoru]

Yoruba Obaship and the challenge of modernity https://t.co/Nrl8senoJa

[Tosin Osasona @babakamoru]

Yoruba Obaship and the challenge of modernity https://t.co/Nrl8senoJa

[Gbénró Adégbolá ن @GbenroAdegbola]

As guests were seated, what rose wasn’t exactly a military tune.

It was a Yoruba hymn beloved in the Celestial Church of Christ.

Bada is not just an officer. He’s also a Venerable Supreme Evangelist in the Church. A number of Beninoise top officials are also members of CCC.

[Big Sam @oluwa_samuel]

The Music Department at Polytechnic Ibadan is passionately rehearsing one of Late Baba Ara's iconic songs.

[Remi @tolutee]

While we wait for your response to the third question, here is my counter-rebuttal to your piece:

Your response is thoughtful, but it ultimately reinforces my central thesis: ethnicity and politics are historically and structurally intertwined, and material progress alone cannot break that bond. Distinguishing “cultural affinity” from “ethno-nationalism” may be academically neat, but in practice, it is a distinction without an appreciable difference. Ethnicity has always been deeply political, from the earliest states to the modern era.
Throughout most of human history - with the notable exception of colonial “states” fabricated in Africa - ethnicity shaped the state, and the state, in turn, shaped ethnicity. This reciprocal, dialectical relationship long predates colonialism.
The fundamental error of modernists like Mahmood Mamdani is to assume the state is a recent, purely modern invention. In reality, states are ancient, and what we call the “modern state” is simply an evolutionary stage within a much older institutional continuum. What is truly invented is the modernist conceit that states and identities are superficial products of political manipulation- an argument driven more by the ideological and political agenda of our times than by any consistent historical logic.

Now, let’s examine some of your points: /1

[Gbénró Adégbolá ن @GbenroAdegbola]

When you really look at it, Christianity has some profoundly strange roots.

Let’s start with John the Baptist. More vagrant prophet than polished preacher. He lived on a diet of grasshoppers and wild honey, dressed in camel hair, likely with unkempt Nazarite dreadlocks.

Then there’s the jaw-dropping drama surrounding Zechariah and his relations.

Add to that the remarkable eccentricities of the early ascetics, whose extreme lifestyles defined the real spiritual fringe.

And to crown it all, there was Jesus himself, a wandering man of no fixed address, accompanied by a ragtag band of twelve that included some rather shady characters. He had a love for the wilderness, a sharp tongue for the establishment, and, if we’re being honest, quite the talent for stirring up trouble.

Frankly, one can begin to understand why the Jewish council and even Pontius Pilate were so exasperated. What were they supposed to do with a man like that? Except, of course, they weren’t supposed to do anything different.

Every living thing evolves, even faith.

Western Christianity has done a remarkable job of smoothing out much of the weirdness, hopefully leaving behind only the true essence.

Christus regnat!

[Man of Letters. @Letter_to_Jack]

Tunde, @Tunde_OD, special number for your haters.

[Wole Ojewale, Ph.D @woleojewale]

Publication Alert 🔔

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I am very pleased to share our latest paper co-authored with Tosin Osasona on terrorism and national security imperatives in Nigeria.

✅ The Nigerian government’s designation of several groups as terrorist organizations has been a subject of debate…

[Tosin Osasona @babakamoru]

@Thegrey8 @toperants In spiritual and godly form