AribaIV

Husband. Father. Fam Med. Loves God, values peace. liking/retweeting a tweet isn't an approval.

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@UncleZubs Lol, no be only heart, Dem thief em Purkinje fibres 😆

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@Adesunkanmifiz Full body MRI nko?😆

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@Sir_Fin 🤣

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@Sir_Fin Perspire to aspire.
About the igbo thing though, Peak fooling knows no tribe bro

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@Sir_Fin Possibly farming?

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Jason Arday Story

A British academic (sociology of education) who became famous as the youngest Black professor in Cambridge University’s history, then saw that reputation collapse under accusations of plagiarism, fabricated or exaggerated achievements, and questions about his life story. He resigned in early August 2026 and was found dead at his home in Battersea, London, on 14 August 2026 (death treated as unexpected but not suspicious).**

The inspirational story he told
Arday (born 1985 to Ghanaian immigrant parents in south London) presented himself as an extreme underdog success. He said he was diagnosed with autism and global developmental delay as a toddler, was non-verbal until nearly age 12 (learning to speak after years of therapy), and only learned to read and write properly at 18. Despite this, he went to university, got a PhD, rose rapidly through academic ranks (including a professorship at Glasgow), and in 2023 became a professor at Cambridge’s Faculty of Education at age 37 hailed as a historic first for a Black academic there and one of the youngest professorial appointments in Oxbridge history.

His research focused on race, inequality, higher education, neurodiversity, mental health, and related social-justice topics. He held various trustee/advisory roles (e.g., Runnymede Trust, British Sociological Association), received awards for neurodiversity and influence, and claimed major charity fundraising (around £5–5.5 million) via extreme endurance feats like running 30 marathons in 35 days (including some with a fractured leg after a seizure) and 600 miles in six days. He also claimed other dramatic experiences (attacks, medical crises, etc.). Media and universities celebrated this as proof that barriers of race, class, disability, and neurodivergence could be overcome.

What unravelled
Starting in mid-2026 (after earlier quiet concerns), detailed public scrutiny especially a Substack analysis by Nathan Cofnas and follow-up reporting by outlets like The Telegraph and The Guardian raised serious problems:

- Academic work:
Large sections of his 2015 PhD thesis (and some later papers) closely matched or copied earlier work by others (notably a 2009 thesis), sometimes including the same errors. Liverpool John Moores (his PhD institution) had looked into related complaints and attributed issues to “honest and reasonable error,” but the volume of overlaps fuelled plagiarism accusations. Cambridge later opened its own investigation into his qualifications and appointments.

- Life-story claims
Former primary-school classmates gave mixed accounts some remembered him as non-speaking or needing extra support; others described a chatty “class clown” who cracked jokes and spoke normally. Other biographical details (extreme running distances/fundraising totals, certain visiting roles or affiliations, specific threats/incidents like a pig’s head delivered to his parents, TV appearances, etc.) were questioned, revised by him, or lacked independent evidence.

- Broader pattern
Critics argued the rapid rise and celebration were enabled by universities prioritising diversity narratives and an inspiring backstory over rigorous checks on scholarship and claims. Supporters saw the scrutiny as unfair pile-on, possibly laced with racism or ableism. Arday denied being a liar, admitted some early errors (citing inadequate support due to his disabilities), and framed the pressure as unbearable.

The end
On 5 August 2026, after Cambridge announced an investigation into “new information” about his qualifications and honorary appointments, Arday resigned from Cambridge and his Jesus College fellowship. He said the personal cost of the public examination had become too great and that stepping away was not an admission of the narratives against him. Nine days later he was found dead.

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@Edkhine Probably not, I think he was an LTH product, not OAU.

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@Josh_ObiOzor @JollyPaps1 @HayHaiGee I am proud of you son for coming out and admitting being a closet admirer of the musician🤣. My comment was from the nostalgia, reminiscing about our house job times and not about the musician nor her chosen genre.

[Dami Ajayi @JollyPaps1]

Saint Janet is dead. This shocking and sad news was announced yesterday, and a corner of Nigeria’s internet has been grappling with the sparse information around her demise.

Every blog carried the same news item, hardly furnished with any detail—not quite an obituary. Little wonder, there are speculations that diabetes contributed to her ill-health and death, speculations that have been squashed.

Saint Janet was the stage name of Janet Iyun Ajilore, a juju musician renowned for repurposing gospel songs with lewd lyrics. She called herself the General Overseer of the St Bottles Cathedral. Her performative sainthood was predicated on her “inability to sin.” These subversive descriptions, when stacked, are hilarious, close to panegyric praise poetry, and wholly representative of her standing in nightlife circuits in southwest Nigeria.

I was introduced to her music around 2012, in Ilesa, during my pre-registration housemanship. Her music spewed out of a phone in an operating theatre during an emergency Caesarean section. The lead surgeon, a registrar, was Igbo, he could not comprehend the music in his operating room. The phone owner was his assistant, a house officer and socialite nicknamed Leninger.

Leninger identified as a St Janet devotee. His phone was filled with her live plays. Sung mostly in Yoruba, St Janet’s juju music drew heavily from hymns and folk songs. The twist: gospel music derailed into the outrageous terrain of sexcapades.

If the prerogative of juju music was to insert sexual innuendoes for the sake of propriety occasionally, St Janet’s mission was to dispel every notion of propriety.

She held court telling stories that approached sex simply as what it was: a human act. Sex was neither a taboo nor a taboo subject. Body parts were not off limits. Sexual dalliances were examined with both journalistic curiosity and fraternal humour.

In a St Janet set, the Christian and carnal, the sacred and secular, piety and pornography were mere suggestions, without any clear divisions. Sordid details in hallowed bedrooms became fodder for barroom banter. Part of her performance was that she appeared unassuming, self-effacing. She presented unembellished, her appearance quite plain. In fact, her stage name, ‘Saint ’, is a nod to her unassuming appearance, which sharply contrasts with what she does to and with the microphone.

St Janet’s music was frowned upon by society, seen as vulgar and poisonous. I must say it takes a bit of courage to power through her set if you are uninitiated. Dutch courage always helps. Little wonder her devotees are not teetotallers. In a sense, she came ahead of her time. She was seen as a figure corrupting the youth when, in fact, what corrupted our youth and society is more insidious. But trust a society that does reflect, St Janet’s success as a juju musician hardly scaled into mainstream success within the juju spheres in southwest Nigeria. Brand and value alignments be damned, St Janet knew her bag was playing live music, and she held on to it steadfastly. Her music is eternal, evidence of her courage and innovation.

Rest in power, Saint Janet.

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@JollyPaps1 Jollypaps, this is nostalgic! HJ chronicles. I remember Leninger being an 'outlier'.
Anyway, to Dubic or not?

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@akindemijemi @Gamgoth 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@akindemijemi Once them put mouth for your matter, ẹ don be!

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@akindemijemi Until his people shouting hossanah today gather at the market square to crucify him. It's only a matter of time!

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@akindemijemi Lol

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@akindemijemi OYO

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@SocialistHB I appreciate that but it doesn’t answer my question, and I mean this as a genuine point - what is their actual role? Where is their scope?
What differentiates a nurse/physio/pharmacist from an ACP, and what differentiates an ACP from a doctor?

[Dr Ali G (🦋 @dralig.bsky.social) @AlisonGeorge10]

Pls can someone share this heartbreaking story w/ current & past @MidwivesRCM leadership🙏🏼

Until they stop spreading dangerous misinformation, like Caroline Flint on @LBC, & start listening to pregnant & labouring women, there’ll be more avoidable tragedies💔

@JamesTitcombe