Ejiro Barrett

Freelance writer, historian, columnist.

[Ejiro Barrett @ejiro_barrett]

@sirlablu This is so stupid and frighteningly unprofessional.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

🇨🇴 Colombia President Petro: "Foreigners used foreign money to commit the electoral fraud imposing a president who did not win the election... and so we are a colony, starting Friday at 3 in the afternoon. A colony."

[Ejiro Barrett @ejiro_barrett]

@abdullahayofel The interviewer is obviously biased

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@Spearhead_Af Did you mean Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea and Liberia?

[AMB. SERAH IBRAHIM @TheSerahIbrahim]

I just had a very disturbing conversation with a South African who is visiting Nigeria, and I am livid.

I’ve been offline for a while, so I’m only just learning about the tragic killing of Chika Ibe, a businessman from Abia State, who was reportedly murdered by South African police officers in his own home in South Africa. This is deeply disturbing, and my thoughts are with his family and loved ones.

Why is this not on the news?
What is the government doing about this?
Why has @GovernmentZA not prosecuted the killers, but hiring @Trevornoah to run ads to visit South Africa, after murdering foreigners.

Why is the whole nation silent? Where is the Giant of Africa to fight for its citizens?
@NGRPresident @alexottiofr

[DON “Tobechukwu” Ade 👑 @Row_Haastrup]

I just heard a story and my body is shaking…

A 13-year old boy in Maiduguri was selling sugarcane in a wheelbarrow for his father.
Inside the scorching sun, he decided to push his wheelbarrow to a nearby tree for shade & for him to rest for a while.

As he pushed his wheelbarrow tired, he mistakenly brushed the front of a parked car & the headlamp fell off. He looked around & couldn’t find the owner. His conscience didn’t let him walk away from the car. So he waited for the owner who happened to be praying in a nearby mosque.
The owner finished his prayers & found this 13-year old boy and the damage he has done. He called the police and ordered the boy be put in prison.

Recently, this 13-year old boy just got released from prison, after spending 47 years in prison, at the age of 60 years.
At this point, I broke down in tears.
He was literally moved from one prison to the other all over Nigeria in the course of this 47 years in prison.
He only got released because a governor granted him pardon.

May Nigeria never happen to you.

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

This woman called ICE on a Native American man, describing him as "big and brown." and saying, "I don't think he belongs here."
The bitter irony is that Indigenous people were here long before the United States existed.

That's what prejudice does.

[Cyborg Warlord @Admiral_Cyborg]

So after 6 years, DNA test results have finally confirmed that an unidentified body deposited at an Ikorodu mortuäry belongs to Pelumi Onifade. He was one of the reporters covering the #EndSARS protests.

Later in October 24, 2020, Pelumi was arrested and taken away by police officers in Agege despite explaining that he was a reporter. He was also wearing a jacket identifying him as a member of the press.

Days later, an unidentified body was discovered at a môrtuary in Ikorodu, Lagos, and it was speculated that the body belonged to Pelumi Onifade.

Finally it has been confirmed...

A government that kills her own citizens!!!

[Ejiro Barrett @ejiro_barrett]

@explorer941 @AFRICANDEMOC I mean, this is just unreal!

[Obiasogu David @afrisagacity]

I just saw this video of a party agent confronting a politician who came to the polling unit with police officers to intimidate the opposition.

This is how vigilant, bold, courageous, and confrontational Nigerians must be in 2027. If this happens at every pulling unit and collation centre, rigging will be impossible.✍️

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Singapore has no minerals. Japan was bombed to rubble in 1945. Vietnam was at war for decades. All three built cities with parks, public squares, functional public transport, and green urban spaces that serve their people.

Walk through Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Douala, or Kinshasa and find somewhere to sit that is not a shop, a bar, or a church. You will not find it.

These cities sit inside some of the most fertile, green, tropical land on earth. And somehow every trace of it was designed out of the urban experience. No parks. No shade. No public squares. Nowhere a person can simply exist without spending money.

The geopolitics argument runs out when you look at who recovered from worse and built better. We are collectively and embarrassingly disorganized and we need to start saying that out loud.

Change does not start with governments. It starts with enough people refusing to accept this as normal. Share this if you agree. Talk about it. Demand better from your city.

[Ejiro Barrett @ejiro_barrett]

@AirtelNigeria why can't I load bundle through the *312# prompt?

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@niyetsel 2

[Ọmọ Akin @GuyMr10]

ARREST THIS POLICE OFFICER NOW 🚨

[Ejiro Barrett @ejiro_barrett]

@NationalGridNg We have less than 4hrs a day.

[𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 @AsakyGRN]

“My 14-year-old brother went missing in 2023 and we later got a call that he was at the police station. When we got there, he told us he was picked up during a police raid alongside other people. Everyone arrested with him was released except him. Since then, he has been in Kirikiri Medium Prison, Mile 2, going to court over a case the police officer himself testified he committed no offense in. Yet the case keeps getting adjourned again and again since 2023. They asked us to provide ₦150,000 for bail, but we cannot afford it. My brother was just a child when this started, and he will be turning 17 soon. Please, we are begging the authorities and anyone who can help to please intervene and help release my brother.”

— Lady pleads.

[Ọládélé 🇳🇬👑 @Oladele]

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Trending Video: Nigerian Army ordered a Cable journalist out of a moving keke, then slapped, flogged, and harassed him, all because they didn’t like how he spoke about them, when he told a fellow passenger that the army was causing traffic.

[Kennedy Wandera @KennedyWandera_]

A fiery speech by South Africa's🇿🇦 EFF leader Julius Malema, over xenophobic attacks targeting foreign nationals.

“You say Zimbabweans take your jobs. Nigerians take your jobs.

You march, close shops and beat up people. Tell us after doing that how many jobs have you created, by beating up these Nigerians, Zimbabweans and Ghanaians?

You beat people because they took your jobs.

You close a shop that hires people. How many have you created after beating and chasing them?

Unskilled men, with no skills, none whatsoever, say somebody took away their jobs. I don't want your votes if you behave like that. Take them away.

Pushing out of school an African child that looks like you, I will never do that. You can take your votes. Make me die with my conscience very clearly.

I will never refuse a pregnant woman of African descent to give birth in the clinics of South Africa. Never!”

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