Ben Bassey

Son of God | Storyteller | New Media Specialist | Content & Communications

[Sierraloaded ™ 🇸🇱 @Sierraloaded]

BREAKING: APC National Chairman Passes Away

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[marie @astou_jolie]

you don’t need thicker skin - you need safer environments.

[Barry® 🥏 @Olawalebarry1]

Please don’t scroll past 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
My 12yr old younger sister has been missing since last Wednesday 💔

Every hour feels heavy without her. Please help us repost this till she is found 🙏🏾

[Four-eyed Edo Boy™ @Alex_Houseof308]

Call for help, please don’t ignore 🙏🏽🙏🏽

We are still looking for my uncle, Mr Martins Oni

He was last seen Wednesday April 29th, 2026 in Lagos (Mile 2 Togo park) on his way to Surulere, driving this Highlander (LSD 202 HB)

If you have any helpful info, please reach out to 07042796231. Thank you 🙏🏽

[𝑳𝑶𝑵𝑮 𝑳𝒀𝑭 @LongLyf2]

Omphile is still missing. A simple repost can help bring Omphile home.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

VEVO was the only reason YouTube didn't get sued out of existence in 2009.

Universal and Sony were ready to pull every music video off the platform. The labels argued YouTube was generating billions on their content while paying back almost nothing. Eric Schmidt's solution: let the labels build a parallel platform where they controlled the ad sales, the curation, and the branding. They called it Video Evolution. VEVO.

The deal was simple. Every "official" music video would route through a VEVO-branded channel. The labels owned the inventory. They sold premium ad slots that regular YouTube videos couldn't access, charging advertisers top dollar to run alongside Beyoncé instead of a random gaming clip.

The leverage was real. In 2010 when https://t.co/dqNjjTgbQ2 tried to renegotiate licensing, UMG pulled every Universal video off the site. MTV's online platform collapsed. The labels had figured out something the platforms hadn't priced in. The platforms needed the labels far more than the labels needed any one platform.

JustinBieberVEVO had 33.6 million subscribers. His personal YouTube channel had 4.2 million. TaylorSwiftVEVO had 27.3 million. Her personal channel had 2 million. The VEVO suffix marked the most valuable real estate on the platform.

Then YouTube counter-punched with Content ID. Every fan upload using a licensed song could now be monetized directly for the labels. By 2016, YouTube had paid labels over $2 billion through Content ID alone. The labels stopped needing a parallel platform to get paid. YouTube was already paying.

In 2018, YouTube started "consolidating" VEVO channels into Official Artist Channels. Artists could not opt out. The 33.6 million Bieber subscribers got auto-merged into a single channel without VEVO branding. https://t.co/sDEAF89gM6 shut down the same year, despite generating 25 billion monthly views.

The VEVO logo still sits in the corner of every official music video. That's the only thing left of the last time a record label cartel had real leverage over a tech platform.

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

In China, a teacher and their students built a two-stage rocket using plastic bottles and water pressure:

[Joy Ojeabulu @Euphoria_Sticks]

I am not having the best week but I will really appreciate it if you can help repost this until he is found.

He is very vulnerable and my friend and his family are losing their minds over this search. Please help us find Marvelous.

If you see this, PLEASE RETWEET.🙏🏽

[Alayo💖 ✨ @Aunty_Akanke]

A follow up video and her account details for those who her led to donate 🤲🏾

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: For the first time, we are observing plants breathe in real time.

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[Muna @Munalozy]

I fear losing God's favour.

[Benedict Dayas Toks @BenedictDayas]

This might be ridiculous but I want Twitter to do its thing!

My friend just opened his shop at 58 st. Finbarr’s college road akoka, Lagos.

I can vouch for him! Honest dude with integrity. He’s my guy!

If you see this, please RT
If you’re around Unilag, Yaba, please patronize him! 🙏🏾

[Ayomide Tayo @AOT2]

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ile ise yin o ni jona o.

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[Ben Bassey @BenBassee]

The Israelites who said Moses took them out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, all died there. They turned a journey of a few months into 40 years. Hence why Zechariah's mouth was sealed until John was born.

[Ben Bassey @BenBassee]

There's a key diff btw Abraham and Zechariah. Abraham never spoke his doubt, rather he said "Let Ishmael live"(Gen 17). Even Sarah laughed "within herself." Words are spirits & life. Everything we see was spoken into existence.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Why did Angel Gabriel comfort Mary but scold Zechariah?

A friend asked this on her WhatsApp story, and I casually started typing… then realized I was walking into something far deeper than I thought.

Yes, there’s the obvious difference in language:
Mary asks, “How will this be?”
Zechariah asks, “How will I know?”
One seeks understanding. The other seeks proof.

But the deeper layer hit me while reading. I suddenly remembered Abraham asked God almost the exact same question: “How will I know?”, and instead of rebuke, God told him to bring animals, cut covenant, and swore to him in the way ancient people sealed unbreakable promises. God literally bound Himself to His word.

And here’s where this explodes:

John the Baptist isn’t just “Zechariah and Elizabeth’s miracle baby.” He is covenant momentum. He is the outworking of that ancient oath. The Abrahamic promise is the engine pushing history forward. John exists because God already swore once, and when God swears, reality is obligated.

That’s why Zechariah’s hesitation matters. He’s a priest. A man of Scripture. A guardian of covenant memory. He knows this story. He knows the oath. Yet he still asks for another sign. He was basically asking God to swear twice.

And God doesn’t.
He silences him, not to punish him, but to force him to sit inside the weight of a promise that doesn’t need reinforcement.

Contrast that with Mary. The village girl with no priestly robes, no temple access, no institutional authority… yet she instinctively stands on covenant faith. She doesn’t ask for proof. She simply asks how God intends to do what she already accepts He will do. And when she sings, she anchors her song in the same Abrahamic oath Zechariah should have trusted from the beginning.

That’s Luke’s quiet reversal: The priest hesitates, the girl believes.

And when Zechariah finally gets his voice back, he doesn’t brag about his personal miracle. He confesses the very thing he doubted:

“God remembered His holy covenant,
the oath He swore to Abraham.”

God doesn’t need to swear twice. Believe Him the first time.

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God sees all we do

My wife was boiling some rice for me to eat with stew for dinner. She began teasing me that I could not cook simple, plain rice. So I told her I would take over cooking the rice, and she should go to bed.

[Ben Bassey @BenBassee]

There's no sin too big or too small for God to forgive, and He is willing to forgive us. In Jeremiah 3:12 NLT, He said, “O Israel, my faithless people, come home to me again, for I am merciful. I will not be angry with you forever."

[Ben Bassey @BenBassee]

God sees all we do

My wife was boiling some rice for me to eat with stew for dinner. She began teasing me that I could not cook simple, plain rice. So I told her I would take over cooking the rice, and she should go to bed.

[Ben Bassey @BenBassee]

Jeremiah 31:19 says, "I turned away from God, but then I was sorry. I kicked myself for my stupidity! I was thoroughly ashamed of all I did in my younger days.’

We all sin and 'if we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves'(1 John 1:8).