Bariyu

Tranexamic acid debater. Ventriloquist. Puppeteer.

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

Election season is upon us and campaigns have officially started officially started. Papa is here to tell about C.I.C, party of the "youth"

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

@terencecrawford 🙏🏿

[Ikhide R. Ikheloa @ikhide]

There is a long cherished history of collaboration and support between Africans and African Americans. Our post colonial leaders (Nkrumah of Ghana, Azikiwe of Nigeria, etc) were nurtured and educated in historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), their leaders like Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture) etc also found solace in Nigeria and Ghana during the civil rights struggle. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Nigeria in November 1960 for the inauguration festivities for Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief Nnamdi Azikiwe.

In the sixties and seventies Nigerian universities and some secondary schools had African Americans as teachers and coaches.

Many of us are alive and thriving in the US because African Americans took us in when white folks and institutions would not. I taught at an HBCU and they successfully sponsored my green card application. Thousands of us are married to African Americans, just like the sojourners before us.

We tend to compare those of us who flew into the US (a self-selected group) with the average African American. Apples and oranges. Use the average African at home to compare with the average African American. Using pretty much every yardstick, when you think of it hard, given where African Americans come since the middle passage, I can only call them geniuses.

Their scholarship, their cities, their art and music, their warriors, their prowess in sports, their economic power beat ours. Go inside their worst public schools and compare them to our best and you will weep for what we have not done to ourselves. And yes, if African Americans constituted a nation, they would be a superpower.

1. The narrative about African Americans that informs the thinking of many Nigerians is straight from the racist right wing bible that demonizes the African American. Now, the average African American easily beats the average Nigerian at home, dem nor be your mate. Compared to Nigerian schools, their schools are well-funded, and well-resourced, their teachers are certified and well paid, and their roofs don’t leak. Where do you get off looking down on them?

2. There is an ongoing fight for racial equity and social justice in the American context. It doesn’t mean that they are as miserable as folks in Nigeria. I can walk the streets of Baltimore or Chicago past midnight and I will be fine. If I feel unsafe, a call to the police and they will be there in no time. African Americans are comparing their quality of life to that of the other and saying, this is unacceptable. I wish Nigerians would do that for themselves.

3. The poorest American can always find a homeless shelter to spend the night in, a food bank to get some food, and a social welfare network to tide him/her over. The poorest American can walk into a hospital and would be treated, no one would be denied access because dem nor get police report, dem nor get money, yen yen yen. And we are talking real hospitals o, not big empty halls with big signs attached to them!

3. It will take a century of purposeful work on Africa to get Nigeria (and Africa) to be where the African American nation is in terms of resources and expertise. They have challenges but some of America’s best scientists, doctors, engineers, teachers, astronauts, soldiers, policemen, etc. are African Americans.

4. Numbers don’t lie. In my county (local government) alone we spend half of our $6 billion annual budget on education. Our public high school building would put today’s University of Lagos to shame, lol. The cost per pupil to educate a child is at least $20,000 a year. Higher if the child is special needs. So, don’t be making mouth because a few of you middle class folks can get on a plane and rise from using resources that were fought for by people seeking a just nation for all.

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[Bariyu @Bariyu]

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[Adepoju @AdepojuSamuelA]

Tinubu is a master stratestist- Thats what it means

Let me share a story I heard, and I know many people would have heard too.

Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu was the Balogun Musulumi of Oyo State. He had a big mosque in his expansive Molete residence in Ibadan, which was hardly free of activity on any given day. Adedibu's engagements in the mosques were complemented by prayer sessions observed by visitors and political associates who thronged the residence daily.

Yet, there was hardly a day itinerant pastors, and evangelists did not visit the residence to offer prayers for the politician and his family. Adelabu was comfortable with the two dominant religions so much that each time he succeeded in installing the governor of the state, among the offices he craved to fill were the Chairmen of the Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board and the Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board.He leveraged on his network with Christian and Islamic leaders and groups for political advantage.

It was, therefore, not strange when, in the early hours of this fateful day, a pastor came to the residence to pray for the Balogun Musulumi. Adedibu was comfortable enough with the pastors that many of them had access to his private quarters. Adedibu knelt before the pastor as he offered the prayers.

A prominent Imam in Oyo State walked in during the prayer session. Without missing a beat, Adedibu cracked open one eye, and in his Ibadan dialect told the old Imam who had only been turbanned a few days before, " Baba, onise ara ni Olorun. Tori yin ni ase n se adua. Pastor loji mi laaro yi, won ni awon ota fe gba emi Lemomu wa ti a sese je. Mo ni yo mo pe ti a ba ranse si yin. E dakun, ekunle ka pari adura fun yin ( Baba, our Almighty Allah works in mysterious ways. We are holding this prayer session for you. The pastor woke me up this morning with a troubling prophetic vision he had that some evil people are working hard to kill our newly turbanned Imam and that we need urgent prayers to stop them. I felt it might be too late if I sent for you before we hold the all-important prayer. Please kneel for prayers so that we can ward off the evil plan.

The Imam promptly knelt, and the prayer session continued. The pastor and Imam took their leave afterwards. They were hardly out of earshot when Adedibu's aides in unison queried the claims of their leader: "Baba, the pastor never said what you told the imam". Adedibu then replied; "Omode ni n seyin. Lemomu ba wa lori'kunle niwaju pastor. Awa ni o fi s e 'wasu ni Mosalasi Jimoh. Yo'pe "Lahilah illah lau, e wa ma wo Balogun Musulumi ti nkunle niwaju pasito... Iyun ni gbogbo Janmmah o mo so kiri. A mo bayi,ofin to mu eegun, ti mu eleha!" (All of you are reasoning like children. The Imam met us kneeling down before a pastor. On Friday he will begin his sermon with, "Laillah...! can you imagine a whole Balogun Musulumi kneeling before a pastor for prayers and everyone will take that to town. But now that we have both knelt before the pastor, he dare not mention the encounter on Friday or any other day. The law that indicts the masquerade has also indicted the woman in purdah. They are both covering their faces and bodies!".

[DaSuKi @chukaobi]

They kidnapped children in Nursery 1.

THEY KIDNAPPED CHILDREN IN NURSERY 1!

THEY KIDNAPPED CHILDREN IN NURSERY ONE!!!

THEY KIDNAPPED 39 CHILDREN IN NURSERY SCHOOL!!!

@SecWar @PeteHegseth @SecRubio @RepRileyMoore @realDonaldTrump @tedcruz @SenTedCruz @RepHuizenga @billhuizenga

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

And Ebere writes himself into the history books. #ArsTot

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

Eberechi Eze has brought the missing ingredient to Arsenal. Prayers. #ARSTOT

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

One of the strongest visual images of Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo are those his dusty shoes. He should keep wearing them for as long as he can. They convey a powerful message of asceticism and sincerity.

[Gege @nigeriasbest]

Nigeria faces an existential threat.....this is beyond 2027 politics.

We need a national consensus:

1. Restructuring must take place.

2. Any state with theocratic rules must either repeal them or leave Nigeria.

Simply replacing Tinubu with Obi or Atiku solves nothing...

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

@asemota @knightofdelta 😔

[Tunde Leye @tundeleye]

Be wary of those who demand unity when justice is required.

[Dr POPOOLA 🌐⚕️ @popoolaadaniel]

My two aunties were kidnapped in this video, the old woman running slowly is my grandma.... Please @HQNigerianArmy @PoliceNG Help !!!!

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

@Frankyjiggy If you know as the man carry football matter for head? He can only face nurses because he doesn't have the official capacity to interfere.

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

If na Okwute, we for qualify for this world cup.

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Brigadier General of the army of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?!

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

Sad for Osimhen. 😥

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

I really have been out of touch!

[Dame Sa 🐝 3.5% @LongCovidHell]

“The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), once thought to just cause a childhood illness called glandular fever, has turned out to be the trigger for an autoimmune condition called lupus. EBV was also found to cause multiple sclerosis (MS).”

Viruses are not benign. https://t.co/8BJScry2dk

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

If you refer to your fellow Nigerians as People of the Book, your attitude is likely to be conciliatory and collaborative. If you refer to them as infidels, even to their faces, your attitude and actions are likely to be combative and malevolent.

​And that's led us to here.

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

"Ahl al-Kitāb."
​It means "People of the Book."
​That's how I heard my late father refer to Christians and Jews. He explained they worship the same God and have similarities in scripture, but somewhere along the line, the other two religions got it wrong.

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

It was until I went North that I realized there were other, more hateful terms of reference. I first heard someone called "arne" to his face in Zaria. Most of the friends I made were unfamiliar with the term "People of the Book." All they knew were "arne, infidel, and kaffiri."

[Bariyu @Bariyu]

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