Ridwan Omooba

'Jus Ad Bellum'

[Ridwan Omooba @chiefow]

In Just one week Obaseki got Oshomole removed as APC national chairman and renames Adams Oshiomole Crescent to Bukola Saraki Boulevard, Auchi.

Tiri Gbosa for Obaseki.

[Luqman Gidado Ph.D @LuqmanAGidado]

I strongly oppose any form of negotiation with bandits/violent groups. Engaging criminals through negotiation encourages further acts of terror, and diminishes the sacrifices of our security personnel. National security must be anchored on justice, accountability and decisive action against criminality.

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

“We’re not South Africans’ mates in any manner. They are not the kind of people that should look us in the face and att@ck our people” — Journalist Seun Okinbaloye fumes

[KALYJAY @gyaigyimii]

Meet Professor Julian Aboagye Dacosta Quinones, the first man to beat Xenophobia from the Bafana Bafana in 1926

[Gabby Otchere-Darko @GabbyDarko]

This is serious. But, what happened on Arise News this morning reflects what is going on elsewhere.

If social media, for instance, is anything to go by, the anti-South African sentiment building across the continent is reaching alarming levels and must be addressed.

Many Africans appear to be supporting Mexico against South Africa in tonight’s World Cup opener. On the surface it is only football. In reality, it reflects something much deeper.

Sport is often the clearest expression of public sentiment. When Africans find themselves cheering for a non-African nation against an African one, it suggests that the wounds caused by repeated attacks on fellow Africans in South Africa remain raw and deepening.

If anyone doubts this, they should read the reactions to Julius Malema’s calls for Africans to rally behind Bafana Bafana. The comments are an absolute nightmare. Instead of solidarity, there is anger, resentment and painful reminders of xenophobic attacks. The sentiment is: “It’s the job of South Africans to support their team. We won’t steal their jobs.”

That should alarm every Pan-Africanist. This is not just bad for South Africa. It is bad for Africa.

The African Union and regional leaders cannot treat this as a series of isolated incidents. It goes to the heart of Pan-Africanism and the idea that an African should feel at home anywhere in Africa.

A borderless and prosperous Africa cannot be built on resentment, suspicion and Afrophobia. The lesson from tonight, I suspect, is not that Africans are against South Africa. It is that many Africans are deeply hurt.

And, unless that hurt is confronted, the greatest casualty may not be football, but the Pan-African dream itself.

[Ridwan Omooba @chiefow]

Mexico 2
Xenophobia 0

#FIFAWORLD26

[Ridwan Omooba @chiefow]

@MarioNawfal The same Pakistan meditating between Iran, America and Isreal? Just wow.

[Oyo Matters @Oyo_Matters]

“The Nigerian government should not be paying ransom to terrorists. They should rather learn from the United States, where, when citizens are kidnapped, they spray the entire location of the kidnappers with drones, making them all fall asleep, then rescue their people and eliminate the terrorists.” — Femi Falana SAN on government payment of ransom to terrorists.

[INALEGWU @tchaloyi]

His advice is spot on.
In 2021, I was driving in Abuja from Kubwa to Garki past 10 pm. As I passed Wuye junction and approached the flyover before Area 1 roundabout, I noticed a car parked by the road and some people fighting. I knew something was definitely wrong. I slowed down, turned off my headlamp and started approaching the vehicle gently (yes I take risks that much for people I don't know). One man was shouting help oh, help oh, ahhhh, ahhhh... Cars were passing but of course, no one stopped. I don't blame them at all!

I took courage and sped off as if I wanted to run into them and put on the full headlamp. Noticed three people were dragging. Immediately two ran away leaving the only man who was shouting for help. They ran towards the national stadium axis. But knowing how daring those guys can be, I asked the man to come in and I took him straight to area one. Na who dey alive dey drive car.

Apparently, he was a taxi driver whose car broke down and he decided to wait in the car for his mechanic. They collected his phone and the money he had made that day. He should be in his early 50s. They beat him. He was so lucky they didn't st@b him because he was dragging with them. But he was alright.

He didn't have his phone so no way his mechanic was able to reach him. I took him back to the place again. Back then, Wuye flyover wasn't there. You needed to get to Berger roundabout. As we approached the car, luckily the mechanic was alighting from a cab from the other side of the expressway and crossed over. Waited till he fixed the car and bid him farewell. The man named me "my guardian angel". Lol.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

This is how people cross bridges in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.

Brethren,

The year is 2026.

[Akin Akinwale @mrlurvy]

Interesting read.

For years, the Niger Delta was reduced to images of polluted rivers, dead mangroves and blackened creeks. Everyone spoke about the damage. Very few spoke about the real cause. The truth is simple. Most spills did not come from normal oil production. They came from sabotage, theft and illegal refining.

What changed is the combination of technology, intelligence and local participation. Surveillance now covers thousands of kilometres of pipelines while community based monitoring has created jobs for locals who now have incentives to protect infrastructure instead of exploiting it. This is where Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited changed the conversation completely. By integrating local intelligence into a coordinated security structure, they helped turn pipeline protection into both an environmental and economic project. Security became environmental policy.

Read full details from this article
https://t.co/MRVtENHwY2

[Ridwan Omooba @chiefow]

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[Ọládélé 🇳🇬👑 @Theoladeledada]

The cure for sickle cell disorder is now available at sickle cell foundation Nigeria, LUTH.

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Hantavirus: what you need to know.

Please share widely.

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"The only person that can give Tinubu a push is Mr. Peter Obi. The first strategy is to ensure he doesn’t run. The same thing back in PDP in 2022 is exactly why he left ADC. Wike has justification in his actions over PDP and that was part of why Obi left.”

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Eye witness account of what happened between DJ Tunez and Burna Boy:

[NOLLY @omoelerinjare1]

She is literally a daddy's girl since birth 😍

[Dr. Olawale Ogunlana @doctorwalesmd]

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"Those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble." 
-Chinua Achebe, 1958.

Everybody turns to a content creator once the stars seem to align for them. Getting an American visa is often due to a mix of good fortune and luck, rather than hardwork or intelligence. Go listen to the stories of others.

Smarter people have been rejected.
Again, those whose palm kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit, should drop the ring light, stop being motivational speakers, and simply be humble and grateful.

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

This is a prison in Nigeria.

Dear young man,
Whatever you do with your life,
Please avoid crime, avoid violence, avoid illegality and avoid anything that can ever land you in prison.

The Nigerian prison is a graveyard of dreams and a destroyer of lives.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 THE INSANE STORY OF AMERICA'S F-15 RESCUE MISSION

The U.S. military has a motto it loves to repeat: leave no man behind.

That promise played out on the world stage when an F-15 weapons officer ended up stranded on an Iranian mountain deep inside hostile territory.

The U.S military's response wasn’t “cut losses.” It was “send everything.”

And they did.

Helicopters. Drones. A-10s chewing up mountainsides. Stealth jets overhead. Electronic warfare blanketing the sky. A fake narrative planted by the CIA just to keep the enemy looking the wrong way.

At one point, the U.S. literally turned an abandoned strip of land inside enemy territory into a pop-up military base. Not metaphorically. Actually.

Then, when things got messy, as they usually do in complex operations, they blew up their own aircraft on the way out.

All of this… for one person. Is that admirable, insane, or both?

Because on one hand, this is the kind of loyalty that makes militaries function. If you’re the one flying into danger, you want to believe the cavalry isn’t just coming, it’s already airborne, engines screaming, consequences be damned.

That belief is priceless. On the other hand, the actual price is very much not.

We’re talking about risking dozens of lives, escalating a conflict, and torching equipment that costs hundreds of millions. Not to win a war, not to secure territory. Just to make sure one name doesn’t get added to a memorial wall.

There’s a brutal logic to it: if soldiers think they’re expendable, they start acting like it. Morale collapses, missions fail, wars get lost long before the headlines catch up.

So the military doubles down on the opposite message: you are not expendable, even if proving that requires something wildly disproportionate.

Which is how you end up with rescue operations that look straight out of Hollywood.

Source: AI Telly