David Sowemimo

Ecosystem Architect | Founder, GOAT Academy (Student-preneurship & Youth Wealth Creation) | Agribusiness • Fintech • Governance | Husband, Father, Friend

[David Sowemimo @dafidimimo]

A BROKEN BRIDGE

Yesterday, I received a call from my niece, a Kyiv-trained physician. Her message was straightforward yet startling: “Uncle, please let your children start learning German.” Without a blink, I responded with a resolute, “God forbid!”

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[David Sowemimo @dafidimimo]

@Haleemarh_Gumel Not all profits come in cash.

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

30 Minutes With GSW https://t.co/FBLuBqeuE2

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

When I was a journalist, we had a very strong debate regarding the establishment of the State Police in our newsroom.
Mr Malagu, a veteran journalist who hailed from the North but was raised in Lagos, argued strongly against the idea.
His reasons were verifiable.
He said we should go to the North and see how politicians had been deploying religious police that was largely funded by the state to disrupt legal business activities, which the Islamic religion classified as Haram.

He said we should look at how the government used the security apparatus to intimidate and manipulate election outcomes during elections. He mentioned Lagos, Port Harcourt, Ekiti, Edo and other states and reasoned that if those states had their own police forces that are under the governor, it would have led to a clash between the state forces and the federal forces, and this would lead to chaos on the street.

He also mentioned the use of such state police officers to selectively prosecute political opponents by seating governors who might target the businesses of their opposition members or their houses, relatives and friends, all in the name of ensuring such an opponent is destabilised and unable to marshal his or her strength to contest against the ruling government.
He reminded us of how the EFCC, CPC, Code of Conduct Bureau, the Judiciary and other government agencies had been deployed to harass, investigate and persecute selected politicians belonging to the opposition party by the ruling party in Nigeria's recent history.
He mentioned the then-governor Aregbesola's Social Mobilisation thugs, who were political thugs under state employment, raised to cause chaos during elections for his political party all over the southwest

He talked about the structure of such a system, which would include building police structures, creating a parallel local judiciary system, and building prisons for convicts within a state.
He talked about the proliferation of arms and weapons within the state, as the state government would have to buy weapons for these police officers, and practically make more weapons available for police to arm their armed robber friends or even commit robbery by themselves at night while pretending to be police officers by day.

He talked about the mayhem groups like the Oodua People's Congress, MEND, Bakassi boys, Egbesu boys, who were informal "security" apparatus that sprang up with democracy around 1999.
How they basically targeted members of other tribes living within their states, who they accused of being criminals and how this led to jungle justice and the death of many innocent Nigerians, including the ALUU 4 and others.
He insisted that Nigerians are too divided along ethnic and tribal lines to be given the power to have police officers who would use their powers to push their bigoted worldview on the populace

He talked about the merit of recruiting police officers and training them properly, when we all know that when the state governments funded institutions like LASTMA, LAWMA, OGROMA, OYRTMA and so on, the juicy positions were given to cronies of the state governors, members of the ruling party, friends, family members, registered members of the political party and so on.
He said meritocracy will take a back seat and nepotism will be the order of the day.

He said a lot.

When he was done, those of us who wanted to argue for it based on the American System of government in which the equivalent of local governments had local sheriffs, the states had NYPD, LAPD and so on and the federal government had the FBI, all kept quiet and silently agreed with him that our peculiar nature as a people may not be ready to embrace such an audacious idea.

The day after this discussion, the Nyanya Bombing of 2014 happened.

We watched with shock as human beings were reduced to mere body parts flung all over the street by terrorists in Abuja.

The newsroom was in a state of shock.

Mr Malagu, our Head of News, the son of a Fulani Chieftain from the North who grew up in Lagos and could speak several languages, took his teary eyes away from the TV and said, "We need state police in Nigeria. We need it right away. Security is about information and investigations. If we had state police, someone would have heard something, someone would have informed someone, a contact or an agent somewhere would have whispered something to someone, and this would have been prevented.
Crime is local. The gap here is a gap of a lack of information because the police are too cut off from the people. Policing is not about checkpoints and stop and search only; it is about "see something, say something"

We need state police!

I agree with him wholeheartedly that even in America, the systems are sometimes abused, and we have seen several cases of selective prosecution, racial profiling, political persecution, like the Russia Hoax sponsored by a political party against the candidate of another political party and so on.

Things will eventually even out.
Political cronies appointed today would be replaced by professionals tomorrow. Inasmuch as we don't have all the answers to so many questions. If indeed we want to destroy insecurity, the State Police is an apparatus that must be swiftly established and empowered to work in Nigeria.

-GSW-

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

June 2026 Dominion Prayers with Daniel Oyekanmi - Rule - Day 27 https://t.co/rgNxaywcjv

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

Marriage can wear you out. It can make you look like you are 46 years old when in reality you are 36 years old.
Marriage can turn a model into an unhappy ogre
Marriage can take away the joy in a healthy soul and turn the soul into a bitter and sour one

I sat across a friend here in Accra for about three hours yeasterday
She has held on to her husband for thirteen years, which had very brief periods of happiness
She wanted to leave him two years ago, but he brought out his service pistol and was going to kill himself when she told him she was leaving
Everybody weighed in, we begged her to stay, and we begged him to change

She stayed, but he didn't change
He was in the army, rose quickly through the ranks, but he had a weakness for certain kinds of ladies
It was as if he were determined to die young and of some terrible disease
In the last five years, his wife, who is a pediatrist, has suffered from several kinds of infections that only God knows how she is still alive

She sent me pictures of some gory green discharges once.
How anything like that could come out of a person, and the person did not pack her bags and run as far as her legs could carry her, is still a wonder to me.
I believe in marriage, but my "For better, for worse" vow ends at the point where my partner begins to tirelessly plot and work hard at ensuring that my death will do us part.

He has bought her a car, a house and sponsored her on four trips outside of the country with the children.
I consider him a friend and a brother.
He, however, does not understand what marriage is; he wants to sleep with "dirty infected ladies" who are way beneath his class because they treat him like a demigod.

He sees his wife as his equal, and he is not sexually attracted to someone on the same level as him.
Most of the time, he finds it difficult to sleep with her. When they finally have sex, after she has begged and threatened, she almost always ends up with an infection

He would promise to do better, but he seemed unable to do better.
She was way above his status when he asked her out and married her
She was the prized stallion, but he wanted to keep her as an artefact in his museum of great achievements while sleeping with ladies who were more at his level.

She turned 36 on April 23, 2026. A mother of two biological sons and one adopted daughter.
She still does his laundry, makes his food, waits on him as the love of her life
She said he moved out of their room two months ago because she saw genital warts all over him and cringed.

He is 45. A businessman who recently resigned from the Army and a lost soul who does not know how to find his way back into his wife's arms were as easy as making a decision to pay attention to her and the children for the next six months.
Stay at home when he is not working, cut off all ties with his other women, and care for her in a sincere way.
Rebuild the bond they once shared while taking deliberate actions to rid himself of the STD he picked up in the course of his misadventures

His wife has decided to give him six months' notice before leaving with the children. She has informed his father and his family of her need to separate from him, and his father had asked her to give him six months to work on his son.

She said she is sure he would never change. I asked her why. She said, "He lives for the validation of others and would sleep with someone who has HIV willingly if the person says, 'So you won't sleep with me because I am sick, are you not supposed to be loving and kind to me?"

She said she noticed his people-pleasing behaviour since the time they were courting. She said she would want to go somewhere, and the girlfriend of his friend would want to go to another place. He would prioritise his friend's girlfriend over her and leave her stranded while catering to his friend's girlfriend so that the friend and his girlfriend can call him a good, selfless man.

She said she felt he had a kind heart at the time because he put others before himself.
She said she and another friend of his had their children around the same period.
One day, she left him at home with their baby, and when she returned home, she found the baby being watched by a fourteen-year-old neighbour.
When her husband returned home, he told her that his friend couldn't get a babysitter, so he left his own child with another child to watch him while he went over to babysit for his friend.

She said that has always been the pattern.

She mentioned how the family would need something, and a friend would need something, and he would take the money meant to fix the family's need and give it out to his friend.
She said she took a loan of twenty thousand dollars from work and handed the money to him to pay off a debt they owed, but he gave the money to his uncle, who called him and asked for financial assistance to marry a third wife.

She made me see how dangerous it is to get married to a people pleaser.
A man who would give everything to impress an outsider while his own affairs are in tatters.
She said he does not want her to leave the marriage, but he does not know how to cut off his friends and girlfriends because he hates to displease people.

She said he would willingly hurt himself to please others, and now that she is married to him, hurting himself also translates to hurting her and the children.

It is obvious that she still loves him and is willing to work with him on the marriage if he would man up and do the needful to keep his home.

In my opinion, he is a very weak man. Weak men do cruel things.
If you see a man hurting little children and small animals. If you see a man who likes to hurt women and abuse teenagers. It is a serious indication of weakness.
Men who hurt things and people who can't fight back are weak.
What they are doing to things that can't fight back is called cruelty.
Jeffrey Epstein was a very weak man, and so were those who travelled to his island to torture young girls.

A man who would rather hurt himself and harm his family to please others is a weak man who thrives on public validation or affirmation.

My fingers are crossed on the issue.

I told her I would have left the marriage long ago if I were in her shoes. If only to destroy the facade of a good life her husband was projecting, and force him to rebuild with me or move on to someone else.

Love, however, affects those who feel it very differently from the way it affects those of us who are watching the drama from the outside.

-GSW-

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

Global Night of Glory June 2026_The Sceptre of Rulership https://t.co/Zg8DgitQNY

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

Good morning family
It’s today.
Thanks for all your support and prayers.

This is location for all coming

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[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

Male isolation tends to feel like it came from nowhere. The thirty-year-old still has his college friendships running on inertia. The forty-year-old still has work friendships running on proximity. But I’ve seen what comes after that. The kids leave. Work changes. Somebody retires. And one day a man who used to have people around him all the time sits in his kitchen and realizes he doesn’t actually know who to call.

There wasn’t a single moment he could point to. He didn’t become harder to like. He just never built anything that didn’t depend on showing up in the same place as someone else. The realization felt sudden. It had been building for decades. It just took decades for the consequences to catch up.

That’s why “no one checks on me” so often shows up later in life, after a divorce, after retirement, after the kids move out. Not because the world suddenly turned cold, but because all the things that used to create contact for him finally ran out at the same time, and he never built anything of his own to replace them.

[David Sowemimo @dafidimimo]

@jmkejebi @GbengaWemimo Thank you for your response. Well, personally I don’t believe leaving is the answer. What happens if the next person also suffers dyspareunia?

[David Sowemimo @dafidimimo]

@PrincewiIIChuka Stopeeeeeeet!!! Be fair nah, these are our kinsmen

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@GbengaWemimo 🫡

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

GOAT Academy at The University of Abuja yesterday

Well done @dafidimimo

[David Sowemimo @dafidimimo]

@Big_marvis Correct. May you have those with political correctness stand up for you on global stage on your day of calamity. DAY-45!!!

I know this is more about your urgent #2k sha. I post this here make no be like say I no help you.

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@iamdormani @UNOFFICIALFACT You are who you are looking for. Man up or get robbed all over again!

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Dear NDC and OK supporters, hope you have seen the reason why you must not go to court?
Election must be won and lost on the field on election day. The court or tribunal is not an option.

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@peculiarpat1 @GbadamosiRidw20 @OchiJnr Ha... medical kinni? Emergency! Emergency!!

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@GbadamosiRidw20 @OchiJnr Wow. And your title is "Dr."? Enough said...

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@Omojuwa PETER OBI IS YOUR BREAD WINNER

Thank you Nigerians for helping Omojuwa again this morning. His Sapa avoidance strategy is on posting Peter Obi daily for his urgent #2k. If you refuse engage this post today, hunger for kill am!🤣😂

[David Sowemimo @dafidimimo]

@Omojuwa I for vex if you no mention Obi!!! Good job my boy 👍🏾

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Celebrating Global Excellence in Our Youth.

I am immensely proud to see the official tweet from former U.S. President @BarackObama , celebrating the incredible brilliance of our own Njideka @AkunyiliCrosby . Her exceptional talent has brought our shared history to the global stage through the unveiling of the first joint portrait of President Obama and former First Lady @MichelleObama .

This monumental achievement is a powerful reminder to Nigerian youths of what is possible when talent is met with hard work and discipline. Njideka, who is also the daughter of our late Dr Chike and Prof. Dora Akunyili, embodies the very best of the excellent Nigerian spirit.

As the great philosopher Aristotle rightly noted, excellence is not an accident; it is a habit, the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution. Njideka's global success proves that true greatness comes from this consistent, daily dedication to one's craft.

I urge our young people to look up to
individuals like her as true role models. Success is not found in shortcuts, but in the relentless pursuit of excellence, honouring one's roots, and using your gifts to make a global impact. If we remain committed to merit and hard work, the new Nigeria we desire will be built by such exemplary minds.

With focused and hard-working youths, a new Nigeria is POssible. -PO