Lots of talk about Black British culture today.
Just a polite reminder that @TheVoiceNews has been documenting that culture for 40+ years. 📰✊🏾
This is the front cover of the June issue - which is out now!
Read, learn and respect history! ❤️
Goodnight! x
The abduction of the Chibok girls in 2014 triggered a global movement. One school abduction was enough to unite Nigerians, attract international attention, and place enormous pressure on the government through the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
Yet, what has happened since then should trouble every Nigerian.
Under President Buhari's eight years in office, Nigeria witnessed about ten school abductions. Under President Tinubu's administration, in just three years, we have already recorded over ten school abductions.
Despite these repeated tragedies, there has been neither sustained national outrage nor significant international attention comparable to what followed Chibok.
This raises an important question: have we become so accustomed to insecurity that what once shocked our national conscience is now treated as normal?
At a time when millions of Nigerians are grappling with insecurity, poverty, and hardship, it is deeply troubling that those in power appear more focused on political calculations and preparations for the next election than on addressing the urgent challenges confronting our people.
It is, therefore, no surprise that some observers have labelled us a "Now Disgraced Nation". While we do not agree with any attempt to define our great country by its present difficulties, we must acknowledge that persistent insecurity, economic hardship, and leadership failure have damaged our reputation and standing among nations.
The answer is not denial, propaganda, or political distraction. The answer is leadership that is competent, compassionate, accountable, and genuinely committed to the welfare and security of the Nigerian people.
The Nigerian youth must not become indifferent. We must all refuse to normalise failure.
Young Nigerians - Take back your country!
A New Nigeria is Possible. -PO
The argument for “Let Catholic Priests marry” is nonsense. Do married men not sexually assault women? Do married men not father children outside? It is not about marriage. It is about honesty and discipline.
Any Priest that wants to marry can always renounce his priestly vow of celibacy and go and have as much sex, and father as many children, as he wants to have.
Taking the vow of celibacy is not the problem. The problem is that some want to keep enjoying the benefits of being a priest in the order of Melchizedek and the sweetness of Mekwe at the same time.
Numerous organizations already exist. But do they attend if its not for protests or to dance and eat. I don't know if it's self-hatred, low attention span, poverty, or illiteracy.
@kingsuleiman27 Why dont hospitals report these cases? Also, what happened to their medical oath of care. Many of such girls do not have many options. If you check, some uncles have already made it impossible for her to live in her parents' house. 2. She might have even been groomed and raped.
@Ifeanyi_Online@Uzochukwukwalu2 Exactly. The thing is, many of them dont see women as humans. The first purpose of marriage is companionship. If a couple are unable to live together, they just have to open the 'marriage' or resolve it.
It is with immeasurable sorrow that the MOBO Organisation announces the passing of its Founder and CEO, Kanya King CBE.
Kanya passed away peacefully on 3 June 2026 after a courageous and characteristically determined battle with colon cancer. She was surrounded by her family, close friends and love.
Thirty years ago, Kanya King remortgaged her home, alone, without institutional backing or industry support, to build a stage that would transform British music forever.
She was a single mother from a Kilburn council estate who was told that Black music was too niche, that there was no market and that the industry was not interested. Instead of arguing, she built. Six weeks later, the first MOBO Awards was broadcast to the nation, and nothing was ever the same again.
What Kanya created was never simply an awards ceremony. It was an act of cultural justice. MOBO did not just celebrate Black music; it legitimised it, amplified it and transformed the cultural landscape of the UK.
From Stormzy, Little Simz and RAYE to Craig David, Ms. Dynamite, Amy Winehouse, Central Cee and countless others, generations of artists have benefited from Kanya King's vision.
She built a platform that reached hundreds of millions of people around the world. She was awarded a CBE and received an Ivors Academy Honour in 2025. She never stopped. She never asked for permission. She never accepted that the word “no” was final.
When she stood on the MOBO stage in Newcastle in February 2025, just months after her diagnosis, she told the audience: “I never allowed someone to define my limits. Not in life. Not in business. And I’m certainly not going to have that happen now.”
That was Kanya King. Right to the very end.
The 2026 MOBO Awards, held during the Organisation’s landmark 30th anniversary year, will be dedicated entirely to her memory.
The world was a profoundly better place with Kanya King in it. The MOBO family is heartbroken, but endlessly grateful, proud and inspired by everything she gave to music, culture and future generations.
Rest in power, Kanya.
You built this.
All of it.
@wonkerine64@KINGGGE_ Why is everybody hellbent on nailing on the wife? If she's a trouble, why is she not a trouble to the husband who obviously stands by her?
That thread of married men sharing their marriage experiences. 🥴
80% of the replies are about financial struggles, & theyre blaming their wives for "bringing bad luck" instead of seeing that Nigeria's economy is the primary reason.
One person even said his wife is a corper. You people clearly don’t knw the value of a two-income household.
You'll intentionally target young girls with no jobs while you're earning peanuts yourself, then turn around & complain about financial hardship after marriage.
You want a patriarchal lifestyle on a ₦150,000 salary? Better marry your agemate & build together by pooling resources.
❤️🗣️ Gabriel Magalhães on missing the decisive penalty in the Champions League final:
“I felt terrible. I felt like I had let my teammates down. For a moment, I felt worthless.
But what happened afterwards surprised me. The love and support from Arsenal fans was beyond anything I could have imagined.
The staff, my teammates, everyone at the club stood by me. But the fans were incredible. They bought my shirt, shared messages of support, created pictures and videos, and flooded social media with encouragement.
They reminded me that mistakes are part of football and that one moment does not define a person or a season.
I will never forget the love you showed me during one of the hardest moments of my career.
Thank you, Arsenal family. ❤️
@dmayornoni@Steadi_lady Yes, I followed it all. Women work and contribute financially, give birth, yet men dont want to contribute their fair share of house chores, and your excuse is outsource. Why didn't you outsource your financial responsibility and childbirth, too?
"PREGNANCY OPENED MY EYES TO HOW DEEPLY PATRIARCHY HAS FAILED NIGERIAN WOMEN. 😫💔
Four pregnancies. Four beautiful children. Three in Nigeria and one abroad.
I was present throughout all four journeys. During the three pregnancies in Nigeria, I attended virtually every antenatal appointment with my wife. Every scan. Every test. Every check-up. I was there. I was also present at the hospital for the birth of all my children. In fact, all four babies were handed to me almost immediately after their mother carried them after delivery. But that is not even where I am going with this.
During those antenatal visits in Nigeria, I would see countless pregnant women looking exhausted, hungry, stressed and worn out. Some would arrive with babies less than a year old strapped to their backs while carrying another pregnancy. And almost every single time, I would be the only man there supporting his wife. The only man.
Every time we got home, I would ask my wife the same question "Where are the husbands of these women? Is this really how women are treated in the hands of this God-forsaken men?" 😫
I was born and bred in Nigeria, nobody teaches all this things. I read and learnt it myself and I understand the fact that a woman should never go through pregnancy alone.
Then I moved abroad. And my eyes opened even wider. During my wife's last pregnancy, despite working full-time, I never missed a single hospital appointment. Not one. And whenever we arrived, the waiting rooms were full of husbands supporting their wives. Men taking notes. Men asking questions. Men carrying bags. Men holding hands. Men showing up. That was when I realized something. Maybe I was not the normal one in Nigeria. Maybe that was why I always looked odd. Because what I was doing abroad was normal. What I was doing in Nigeria was treated like I was doing something extraordinary.
That was when I truly understood how deeply patriarchy has damaged Nigerian men and, by extension, their wives.
Nigerian men, stop this nonsense. Pregnancy was created by both of you. You may never fully understand what these women are going through physically, emotionally and mentally, but the least you can do is support them with your presence. And please, don't ever compare pregnancy to you going to work.
Look at the picture of my wife during our last pregnancy. Look at her tummy. Look at what her body had to go through just to bring another human being into this world. And you dare compare that to any work in the world? Are you mad or something? 😫
After everything pregnancy does to a woman's body, some of you still call women fat. Some of you still call women lazy. Some of you still call women cranky. Some of you still complain about stretch marks. Haaa. 😫 Every time I looked at my wife during those final months, I was genuinely afraid for her. The physical sacrifice alone was enormous. The discomfort. The sleepless nights. The body changes. The risks.
Men, respect these women. Give them their flowers every single day. They deserve far more than a simple thank you. And as for me, I still tell my wife thank you. Thank you for risking your life four different times for our family. Thank you for carrying our children. Thank you for enduring what I could never endure. Thank you for doing something that neither I, my father, my grandfather nor any man who will ever live can do.
African men wake up from your slumber. Women deserve more than gratitude.
They deserve respects"
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The best, and most enduring, encapsulation of the Arsenal identity is not a race, a trophy, or even a style of play. You will find it in a quiet statue at the Emirates: a boy in 1945, kicking a ball under the manager's car outside Highbury, retrieving it, and being offered a job for nothing more than his enthusiasm. Ken Friar stayed seventy years: messenger, secretary, managing director, life president. He was recognised before he had proved anything, and he never left. That is the club's deepest pattern. It sees people not as they are, but as they could become. Recognition, offered first, becomes loyalty that outlasts everyone.
Years back a father was always r@ping his 9yrs old daughter and by the time she was 11yrs old it had become a constant thing for the father to do, she eventually told her mom and after confronting the husband which he denied it then she set a trap for him
After few weeks she eventually caught her husband pants down r@ping their daughter and she broke down in tears crying, she eventually reported to the church what her husband had been doing to their daughter
The pastor called a meeting and during the meeting he said “ the girl is possessed by demons and it’s why she’s seducing her father to r@pe her, they succeeded in brainwashing the woman with that logic and said the girl will go through a deliverance program.
When I had the story a year later I was furious even the useless man who was narrating it cos it happened in their church was siding with the pastor and the father, some men there agreed I had to furiously leave that place and never speak to anyone of them again.
Why make excuse of such incest done by the father towards his innocent daughter?.
@Oluomoofderby These are not isolated cases. The majority of these cases involve men who came over here as adults, which underscores the regular topic on this app in the homeland about men's behaviour towards women and sex. If we want to be honest, we need to look at the root cause.