Faruk Ibrahim

founder: YETC, The ICONS Group. Chelsea FC. Voice of the Voiceless.

[Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki @bukolasaraki]

I am pleased to join other dignitaries and well-wishers at the State House Banquet Hall this afternoon to celebrate the 84th birthday of His Excellency General Abdulsalami Abubakar, GCFR, and the public presentation of three books written in his honour.

[OBI OF ABUJA🇳🇬 @icekied]

Today is another Saturday where Abuja car owners would take their cars to Apo mechanic for repairs.

A lot of them would return home after wasting the whole day there only to find out a few days later their mechanic did nothing and even added more problems to their cars.

#Abuja

[𝑰𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑨. 𝑶𝒏𝒊 PhD @IdrisAOni1]

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God bless you/JazākumuLlāhu khayr. Āmīn.

[Idris Akinlabi @eedris_akinlabi]

When you start working in corporate you realize that people aren’t really that smart.

[Greg Nwoko 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 @nwoko_greg62705]

Murdered and body never found:
Alfa Bisiriyu Apalara: Killed in 1953:

He was 35. His attackers put his body in a canoe, tied a stone to his neck, and dumped it in the Lagoon a few kilometers away. His body was never recovered.

Read:

Alfa Bisiriyu Apalara was born in 1918 at Itoko, on the outskirts of Abeokuta.

He had Qur’anic and basic Western education before moving to Lagos to work as a carpenter.

In Mushin, then a rough settlement for street boys and miscreants, Apalara lived hard and got into trouble. In 1945 he was jailed for theft.

By 1950 his life changed, like Saul becoming Paul on the road to Damascus.

He began praying and fasting daily, cut ties with his past, and even divorced his wife to leave Mushin’s bad life behind. That same year he started an Islamic crusade, preaching in the open at Ebute-Metta and Mushin street corners.

He became a sharp, fiery speaker and drew a large crowd, mostly women. He was later turbaned as the lead preacher of a Lagos Mainland mosque.

Apalara’s sermons attacked idolatry, weak Islamic practice, and Yoruba cults, especially Agemo, Awo Opa, Egungun and Oro.

He became popular and respected in the Muslim community, but his bluntness drew enemies.

From 1951 clashes started. Once his followers blocked a masquerade procession from passing his crusade, and the masquerades withdrew.

In 1952 another confrontation turned into a fight between a masquerade group and his supporters. After that Apalara lived under constant threats because he knew cult secrets and called their faith “empty”. Converts to his movement were usually tough men.

On the night of 3rd January 1953, Apalara preached for the last time against the cults at Tapa Street, Ebute-Metta. Hours later he was ambushed and hacked down with cutlasses and an axe.

He was 35. His attackers put his body in a canoe, tied a stone to his neck, and dumped it in the Lagoon a few kilometers away. No body was ever recovered.

Eleven men were later arrested, tried and convicted for his murder.

Justice De Comarmond and a jury at the Lagos High Court found Joseph Ogundipe, two Oteka brothers and eight others guilty based on circumstantial evidence with blood trails from Tapa Street to the foreshore, Apalara’s belongings left in his house, and witness testimony.

On 26th May 1954 the men were sentenced to death by hanging, and they were executed on 27th May 1954.

[Greg Nwoko 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 @nwoko_greg62705]

The case went to the West African Court of Appeal. Lawyers included Ali Balogun for the first appellant, A. Tejuoso for the 3rd, 7th, 8th and 11th, and G.B.A Coker for the 2nd, 4th and 9th. Tejuoso also led Coker for the 5th and 6th.

The 10th appellant argued his own case, while the Crown was represented by Mr. Madarikan, who later became a Supreme Court Justice. The appellants claimed the verdict was unreasonable and that the judge misdirected the jury on manslaughter and on treating witness Yesufu Aka as a possible accomplice.

WACA reviewed all evidence carefully and dismissed every appeal. The court held that the trial judge had properly explained the law on “corpus delicti” proving death without a body and that the jury had enough evidence to convict each man.

Detective Sergeant John Aboderin cracked the case. A mystery informant from the Awo-Opa cult tapped his window at night, gave him 15 names and described how Apalara was killed at No. 8 Tapa Street and dumped in the Lagoon.

Aboderin, himself a cult member, followed the blood trail to the foreshore.

He told the court that Apalara was killed by a wing of the Oro cult that was abusing its powers for smuggling and burglary.

He explained that cult members attacked naked to avoid blood stains, used juveniles to collect clothes, and cut the body into pieces in line with the Oro maxim “a ki ri ajeku Oro” no leftovers are ever seen.

So Alfa Bisiriyu Apalara, the 1950s Lagos cleric who preached hard against Oro, Awo Opa and Egungun and won many converts from traditional religion to Islam, was murdered on 3rd January 1953.

Eleven men paid with their lives for it on 27th May 1954.

May his soul and unrecovered remains rest in peace.

Source: Research from the NAI

[Daily Trust @daily_trust]

BREAKING: Bandits Kidnap 50 Zamfara Elders On Reconciliation Mission
https://t.co/aZYpSpbXhZ

[Abdul Vibes @ab_chikaire]

No, yall treated the crisis in the North as “northern problem” and it is finally happening to you down south.

[A D É K Ú N L É 🩵 @kunle_pata]

I was in a bus one day from VI to Berger, and this guy and a lady started talking. From the vibe, it was already looking like the beginning of a love story 😄

Then the driver asked for fare.

The lady didn’t even make a move to pay, and this guy confidently brought out ₦1,500 to cover his one alone. As if that wasn’t enough, he still had the audacity to be shouting, “Change ₦300!” 😂😂

Eventually, the lady had to pay for herself… and just like that, the conversation died instantly.

I could literally see the disappointment written all over her face 😭

[OLA ⏳ @A_kinola02]

You will understand why that Bayern game ended 5-4.

[Dr. HM Okpanachi🇳🇬(MBBS) @Dr_statesman]

When ojukwu died, one of his major properties is a hotel in Zaria which none of his family members has knowledge of and he willed it his daughter that was unknown until his death.

[MOSS 🗿 @blavkmoss]

Chelsea won 2 ucl and were not in top 4 when we won the first ucl😂😂

Chelsea are the only team in the world to win every trophy in Europe and local 😂😂

Chelsea stopped psg from becoming a menace in Europe to win the cwc 😂😂

Your club has to win the ucl before you can play in the super cup final, winning the ucl is automatic qualification to play in the cwc 😂😂

Chelsea has been there, and have also conquered 😂😂

But your stupid club can’t even win the ucl and you claim to be the best 😂😂

Yeah I agree, you are the best losers of all time 😂😂😂

[Elvis Tunde @Tunnykvng]

The most depressing trophy parade in the history of trophy parades

[OB @CFC_OBED]

I can say that Chelsea fans are the best when it comes to this banter thing . It’s so personal to them 😂

[Abiodun A. Adeleke👨🏽‍💻 @iamAbiodunAA]

Chelsea beat PSG in a major final. Chelsea came out to play PSG in that final and won them convincingly like the big boys do!

Chelsea, I h8te them so much but they are not cowards!

In 2012, Chelsea took the game to Bayern Munich in their home as well especially when they needed to get a goal and during PK!

[LERRY @_AsiwajuLerry]

If no be fake life wetin Arsenal wan use Champions League trophy do

[XabiDanger_ @Danger_Hazard10]

A moving hater will always meet his luck

[TG OMORI @boy_director]

Can Arsenal rent it for a commercial?

[Dave @DaveCiaga]

There’s no way Chelsea will be in that form as Arsenal and not win Champions League,, it’s just impossible

[Goals Side @goalsside]

Chelsea remains the only team to have conquered Europe 🏆

Won everything there is to win. 💙