@EleluAyoola U people have statted wit ur subtle suport for terror? Is their a badge 4 a terror mastermind? U asked us to do investigation to know if they are bandits abi? If it was d other way round,do u feel there will be any yoruba man left in that vicinity,they would uv bin burnt alive.
@dolawanle They don't understand dat when we sweet talkers make our choices only the sweet talked gets to know we are serious and ready to move with them,congrats maam for riding with someone dat keeps u laughing...
THE CURSE OF ETON: WHY NIGERIA’S ELITE CHILDREN KEEP DYING IN THE SHADOW OF ENGLAND’S MOST FAMOUS SCHOOL
A survivor speaks — after nearly six centuries, he may be the last one standing
By Kio Amachree | Stockholm, Sweden | President, Worldview International
They reach out to me to come back and it’s only because I am the only Black graduate in my class. In fact I am the oldest Black graduate the school has in its records. All those who came before me — Toks Akintola the son of the Premier of Western Nigeria, Dilibe Onyeama and John Mbu — are dead. I was the fourth in nearly six hundred years to make it through that school without any problems.
Akintola was asked to leave as was Onyeama. Mbu ran away. There was a nationwide manhunt for him with his face in every newspaper and they found him working under the name Jimi Hendrix washing dishes in a hotel. The white boys encouraged him so much into hating himself — that was what I told the newspapers when they followed me around Eton asking why did he run away, did Dilibe Onyeama’s book Nigger at Eton have anything to do with it.
His father begged the school to allow him back to finish his studies and when he was allowed back he turned to me one day in Eton High Street to complain that I was happy to be the only Black student. I told him he was mad, misinformed, and called him an Uncle Tom. When he got to Harvard he went crazy on drugs, they threw him out, he was dead aged thirty.
Today as I write I remember that try as I wanted to, I never liked the man. He was easily led down the garden path into self-destruction because the rich white students he so desperately wanted to emulate made him a plaything and they messed him up badly.
I am letting loose today after all these years because I am fed up with people distorting history. I respected Ambassador Mbu — he treated me like a son — and when his second son Eddie killed himself, another Eton graduate, I felt for the man. Two sons he sent to Eton, dead at such young ages.
I decided at John’s funeral, which I attended in his father’s home town in Cross River State — the only friend of his who turned up — that I had a great time at Eton, I survived the curse as I call it, so let’s leave it at that. Let me not push my luck because funerals were becoming too commonplace for my liking.
Unfortunately one of the two mixed-race boys that joined me at Eton — the Stewart twins — they were both expelled for crazy behaviour, carrying knives to fight racists. Everyone was racist in their eyes. I never saw anything like it. Why win scholarships to an all-white school to spend your time screaming racism? One was dead at thirty. One went mad, I hear.
Gegbi Ojora went there for A levels. He died recently after I begged him to stop drinking, keep away from those people. I screamed at him.
All my friends dead. Only me left.
Well there is another Mbu but I never hear from him, and he survived because he was disciplined — and therein lies the secret. You cannot go to these elite institutions that are dominated by people who live the most privileged lifestyles on the planet and try to mimic them. You need to stay grounded, disciplined and focused. Taking drugs and drinking yourself to death is not going to help anyone.
For too long children of powerful rich Nigerians have tried to be like their white counterparts, and in my time that was the beginning of the end. In my case my father kept an eye on me. My father was very strict and the Nigerian flag was flown from morning till night. I only identified as Nigerian — nothing else. Back then it was the best thing to do. Nigeria was an oil-boom country, we were treated like stars. So why try and be Lord Blackface when I was Chief Kio?
I sold Nigeria from morning to night and up till today all my friends say Kio never faced racism at Eton because he was the racist. If you understand — I looked down on them, flipped the coin, flew the flag, played Fela loud, very loud, had my three showers a day while they went dirty, ate my Nigerian food. Yes I was proud to be African.
Which is why I am alive.
You cannot come from a country where there is no electricity and be talking grammar. I tell the young Nigerians in these posh schools: do not pretend to be what you are not, and most of all do not be part and parcel of your parents’ desperate attempts to social climb. It will kill you.
I rest my case.
Kio Amachree | Stockholm, Sweden | President, Worldview International
#TheKioSolution #EtonCurse #NigerianDiaspora #IdentityIsArmour #ProudlyAfrican #WorldviewInternational #SurvivingEton
@Iyoaiye_@largestb1 This one is ur life,if u check the last 2months of ur life,labiur party and ADC has taking a lot of space in ur head rent free,u will not rest until NDC takes too much of ur brain power,ur hunger is of the brain....
This is a clear reflection of how ur brain works....
Many of ur likes are the only miracle late buhari performed,from selling recharge cards to ordering federal ministers around without common waec oooh,u became OON.
a clear example of how nigeria got to where we are as a nation.
There is something we all need to reflect on as the 2027 elections draw nearer. The opposition may have plenty of aspiring candidates. Still, it is clear they appear fragmented, recycled, and largely unclear about what exactly they are offering Nigerians beyond dissatisfaction with President Bola Tinubu.
So far, none of those seeking the presidency has presented a convincing, practical alternative agenda or a clear roadmap for what they would do differently for the country.
Nigerians will not risk losing President Tinubu to those who don’t have clear plans, ideas, workable policies or a vision capable of moving our dear Nigeria forward.
So, it is PBAT till 2031 ✔️
Most of us don't have a political party that we are fully aligned with,we only know @PeterObi@GRVlagos@GAOlawande leaders like @BOGbadams and the likes,na where dem go, we go.... it's very simple and we are unapologetic about it.
@EjioguPC@ADCVanguard_ Hey bro,pls don't quote it out like dat,I get where ur coming from,what I was actually trying to avoid is the turner for those that are not convicted of wher they are headed politically,they can easily sell yorubaness to them easily,pls get where am coming from....
@renoomokri nd @fkeyamo said they fought abacha,he actually brot back pump pricece from fro.22naira to 11naira, Am sure @sowore would hve compared reasons 4 d struggle den nd the present situation u people are part of,@G_sparking n sibblings go just dey laff.
@Truthfully000@LaurenAy79002@abdullahayofel Ur the mumu,wey ur people nor train u with dignity to remove ur eyes from what belong to others,withiut them hiding it,yorubas sure know wen to say I've had enough.eyin werey tutu yii.