I remember when we were in school in Ilorin, one of my hostel guys got a girl pregnant back home. He begged her not to keep the baby, but she refused.
Fast forward, the baby was born, this guy was still struggling financially. One day, the girl reported him to Human Rights, and they came to our hostel to pick him up. 😂😭
They took him to their office and told him how much he had to pay every month to take care of the child.
When he came back to the hostel, he gave me the full gist. I asked him one question:
“Bro, you don run DNA test?”
My guy looked at me like I was mad. 😭😂 He had never even thought about it!
Long story short, this guy had to save money for months to do a DNA test. The result came back…
99% NOT HIS CHILD. 😭😭😂
Since that day, this guy has never stopped thanking me for saving his life. He even hyped me again today after watching my Manchester United video, and that’s what reminded me of this story. 😂😂😭
#osint lookup... Millennium city kaduna kidnapped family... the ransom video was made to eliminate any chances of geolocation, even the sun position was covered but one clue stands out. the victims were seating on a old log at probably a hamlet meeting point with eating sugarcane waste all over the place... 17km from millennium city lies bugai hill and sugarcane fields next to the hill...the victims are being held in a hamlet in the that axis..... Open osint analysis... all osint community can add to it
I still remember when my colleague was kidnapped on her way home from work early this year.
For two months, her parents ran from pillar to post, borrowing money and begging family and friends to help raise the ransom.
When she finally came home, she narrated how they were gang-raped every morning and night.
The kidnappers chose their victims and temporary married them to themselves celebrating, eating and drinking like it was a legal union.
She said sometimes they shared one woman among two, three, or four men.
Weeks after her release, she was found pregnant.
That same week, we lost her to su!cide. The trauma was more than her heart could bear.
And whenever I see people still supporting this government, I remember her. I remember her parents, I think of other victims that never made it to the media.
How do you watch people suffer d!e like this and still defend a government that has failed to protect them?
Are you human at all or just deliberately wicked?
Hi, I’m Jude from Nigeria, and I make sculptures. Today is my birthday, and it would mean a lot to me if you could share my work and help it reach a wider audience.
Thank you so much! 🤍
Jury selected for Rodney Hinton Jr.’s trial, as he came in court smiling, where he’s accused of killing a cop in revenge after police allegedly shot his 18-year-old son.
Judge ruled he’s ineligible for the death penalty.
I’m extremely disappointed in us as Nigerian youths. Extremely.
I woke up this morning to get ready for work without electricity and without water. The last time we had power in my area was Saturday morning. This is Abule Ijesha, Lagos.
I work a 9–5. I earn a substantial amount every month, and yet I’m still dealing with something as basic as the lack of electricity and water.
And meanwhile, young people on Twitter are still allowing tribal sentiments and religious affiliations to divide us in 2026.
Do you people not understand how limited you are compared to young people in developed countries? Do you not understand that if anything happens right now, the politicians who are the most privileged among us have the means to leave this country while the rest of us remain here to deal with the consequences?
Do you genuinely think the elites care about the tribal and religious divisions they use to keep us fighting each other?
Your Commissioner of Environment and Water Resources in Lagos can be online flaunting a Patek Philippe while young people are struggling with basic infrastructure. And this is just a Commissioner.
They know exactly what they’re doing. They know that as long as we’re distracted by tribe, religion, sex, politics and whatever other silly division they can exploit, we won’t look up and ask the people actually responsible for our living conditions the difficult questions.
This is disgusting.
And honestly, we should be ashamed of ourselves.
Not because we are powerless, but because we have failed woefully to recognize where our collective interests lie.
We keep fighting each other while the people benefiting from this dysfunction continue to live above the consequences of it.
We need to do better.
At 32 I was editing Papa Ajasco and Super Story, trying to become a director.
One night officers who had been drinking shot me through my car. I am 47 now. The hand is dead. I edit with my left hand for $10 and $20 so my children can eat. I won in court.
The police have ignored the judgment since 2015. The officer’s name is in their own report. Ayuba Philip ID 257745.
Please tag em until @TunjiDisu1 & @CspIniedu see this impunity. Thank you
https://t.co/oXBfP8Cx6I
Nineteen graduates left Ibadan to serve Nigeria. On Independence Day, gunmen took them off the Owerri–Onitsha road at Umunoha and marched them into the bush. Families were later shown a video of them sitting on the ground, crying, and told the price is ₦50 million each. That is ₦950 million for people who have not even collected their first allawee. This is not an isolated crime. It is what happens when we keep sending batches of young people down the same highways, on the same dates, into the same corridors.
So nobody talk about the part wey Jesus enter river Jordan go bath soap, specially to seek out that native pope John the Baptist. After e come out from cleansing e begin do big miracles. But if I enter location now na sin abi?
Almost 48hrs later, not a single tweet from the President / Presidency concerning the 20+ NYSC Members who were kidnapped on their way to camp. Instead the president is advertising National Youth Confab.
When will Nigerians feel safe in their own country?
My brother, Wahab Jamiu, was among the passengers kidnapped yesterday on their way to the NYSC camp. His live location stopped sharing along the Onitsha-Owerri Road.
No update has been received so far
Kindly repost, please. 🙏
This one hits close to home because the man in this story is a friend of my husband.
For years he posted pictures and stories about this black bear. Hershel had become a regular part of his Facebook page, and there were plenty of pictures of the two of them together in NW Arkansas. Then somebody turned him in.
Their friendship really took hold in the summer of 2022 when Hershel showed up badly injured from a fight with a larger bear. He could hardly walk on one leg and had a gaping wound on his neck. My husband’s friend fed him, medicated him and helped him recover. Hershel survived and carried a large scar from that fight.
He never claimed Hershel was a pet. Hershel was a wild bear that would take off when unfamiliar vehicles or people showed up. But he trusted this particular man, and anyone who saw the pictures over the years could see there was an unusual bond between them.
On June 29, four Arkansas Game and Fish officers came to his home. They told him Hershel was considered a danger and would have to be removed. He strongly disagreed with their assessment, but he also knew he had violated the rules by feeding him.
Now Hershel is gone. His friend believes Arkansas Game and Fish either trapped or killed him, although he doesn't know for certain what ultimately happened to him.
People can argue about feeding wildlife, and I understand why those laws exist. But I also understand why this hurts. He found an injured bear, helped him survive, and for several years that bear kept coming back to the one human being he trusted.
Somebody saw those Facebook posts and turned him in. Now there won't be any more pictures of Hershel showing up to visit his old friend.
That's a pretty damn sad ending to a remarkable friendship.