Nigerian politician Peter Obi will run for president in the West African nationโs January elections, ensuring that the opposition to incumbent Bola Tinubu will once again be fragmented https://t.co/xNczHDLYgC
In May 2013, a Cleveland neighbor named Charles Ramsey became an overnight sensation after helping rescue Amanda Berry, a young woman who had been missing for nearly a decade.
His live interview right after the rescue became one of the most unforgettable moments in television history.
Charles starts by setting the scene in the most Charles Ramsey way possible:
"Heard screaming. I was eating my McDonald's, I come outside, I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of a house."
He thought it was a regular domestic dispute.
So he walked up to help.
"I open the door and we can't get in that way because of how the door is, it's so much that a body can't fit through, only your hand. So we kick the bottom and she comes out with a little girl and she says, 'Call 911, my name is Amanda Berry'."
That name didn't hit him right away.
"When she told me, it didn't register until I got to call the 911 and I'm like, 'I'm calling the 911 for Amanda Berry?' I thought this girl was dead, you know what I mean?"
Then the detective on the scene asked him a question that made the whole thing sink in:
"Charles, do you know who you rescued?"
What makes the interview unforgettable is that Charles had been living next door to the kidnapper the entire time.
He had no idea.
"I've been here a year. I barbecue with this dude, we eat ribs and whatnot and listen to salsa music."
He describes the neighbor as someone completely unremarkable:
"He just comes out to his backyard, plays with the dogs, tinkers with his cars and motorcycles, and goes back in the house. So he's somebody that you look and you look away because he's not doing nothing but the average stuff. Nothing exciting about him... well, until today."
When more officers went into the house and rescued two other women, Charles couldn't believe what he was seeing:
"They went up there, you know, 30 or 40 deep, and when they came out it was just astonishing because I thought they were going to come up with nothing."
And then he delivered the line that the entire internet would quote for years:
"I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. Something is wrong here, dead giveaway. Either she's homeless or she's got problems, that's the only reason why she runs to a black man."
Tinubu approves Abuja land for ambassadors-designate
President Bola Tinubu has approved the allocation of plots of land to Nigerian ambassadors and high commissioners-designate in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory minister, Nyesom Wike, disclosed on Wednesday.
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"Any insurgency that lasts more than 24 hours, a government official has a hand in it" - General Sani Abacha
IS says it was behind Nigeria's Adamawa football pitch attack https://t.co/kUy7pE3Bow
Today in Abuja, I had a breakfast meeting with some diplomats that included, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria and his Colleagues from European Union, Germany, Canada, and France. It was an enriching discussion on relationships. -PO