Ify Acholonu

Writer | Filmmaker | Lawyer

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@AnthonyB417524 @historyinmemes Perhaps you reincarnated. You never really live once 😊

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@historyinmemes Within the romantic narrative, did he return?

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@Somawellx What is the follow for??

[dat9336 @dat9336]

THE BABIES GONE BE ALRIGHT 😭😭

[The_Bearded_Dr_Sina @the_beardedsina]

To protect yourself from Liver Cancer

Cut Alcohol totally- Alcohol>> liver cancer

Get your Hepatitis B vaccine. Hep B >>> Liver Cancer.

Avoid Taking Mouldy groundnut, Mouldy tomatoes ( Ata Esha). (See pic)
Aflatoxin>> Liver Cancer

Cut smoking. Smoking >>> Liver cancer

Practice safe sex and don't share needles.
Hepatitis C >>> Liver Cancer

Cut smoking
Tobacco >>> Liver screening

Regular screening and tests.
. Some things can be picked early and acted on

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

Alex Ekubo's old tweet about cancer trends online after he passed away from liver cancer.

[SHANK COMICS🌝 @Obacruze]

Please be kind to the next person. Genuinely, be kind. You don’t know what the next person is going through. Bro. To be kind is free.

[Juliet🥀 @Champagne_girl_]

Alex Ekubo bowed out of his acting journey after giving us the masterpiece “Afamefuna” a title that literally means “may my name not be forgotten.” Clean guy, always fly asf 🔥😊

[owopet @Owopet_]

One of the cleaners at my former place of work, always with his Earpiece listening to music while he cleans, i greet everyone at the office like we're pals, hand shake and a "guy hug", eveyone, at the end of most months , i go around giving some of the cleaners 2k each or 1k depending on how much of my salary I've spent before e enter, including the security guys too, i do this because i know how much they earn, and i can tell you its not enough to survive in Lagos, Fast forward to about 6 years later, i had left the organization and i was part of a committee organizing an event for some executives for a retreat at a very nice resort here in Lagos, i never met the manager in person , but we spoke on the phone e few times and i was on the call most of the times with the concierge team. The day we brought the team, the concierge personel was introducing eveyone to the team, and a tall fine gentle man walked in and she said "oh here's our Manager, before i could even open my hand for a handshake, he screamed my name, hugged carried me off my feet, i was still trying to figure out who he was, and he said its me( called his name) , i couldn't believe it , he was the same cleaner guy at my former place of work, now a whole manager?!!!. I hugged him and carried him this time , i was super excited. Apparently while he was a cleaner he was also finishing at National open university, he told how he's always looking forward to the 2k from me every month.😁 . To cut the long story short, i got 70% discount on everything i did, the room, the food i paid almost nothing. 😁. God can lift anyone from anywhere, never look down on anyone , i treat eveyone with same respect.

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@henry_jibunor @the_beardedsina "Now, we're free"- Gladiator's soundtrack

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@gammalin20 Its the 'Aasa's library' for me. We did that with our books too

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@instablog9ja Black out where? I have light o.

[Eastern Heritage Network @heritagenewsnet]

🧠 AN IGBO MAN TOOK ON THE MOST POWERFUL SPORTS LEAGUE IN THE WORLD. AND WON.

Let me tell you about Dr. Bennet Omalu. Born in Enugwu Ukwu, Anambra State. Sixth of seven children. He came into the world during the Biafran War and spent his earliest years running from it.

He eventually made it to America with nothing but his education and his conscience. He became a forensic pathologist in Pittsburgh. Quiet work. Unglamorous. He spent his days studying the dead.

Then one morning in September 2002 the body of Mike Webster arrived at his table.

Webster was a legend. A Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Famer. Iron Mike. But he had died at just 50 years old, homeless, broken, suffering from memory loss, depression and fits of rage so severe his own family could barely recognise him. Everyone assumed it was just the sad end of a hard life.

Dr. Omalu wasn't so sure.

He spent months studying Webster's brain at his own expense, paying for tests out of his own pocket because nobody else believed it was worth investigating. What he found changed the world. Webster's brain was riddled with a degenerative disease caused by years of repeated blows to the head. Dr. Omalu named it Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. CTE.

He published his findings thinking the NFL would be grateful. That they would want to protect their players.

Instead they came for him.

NFL linked doctors called his research wrong and demanded the paper be retracted. They questioned his credentials. They went after his immigration status, knowing he was not yet a citizen and that his visa depended on keeping his job. The pressure was immense. The threats were real. He was a relatively junior Nigerian doctor in a foreign country taking on the wealthiest sports organisation in America.

He did not move.

He kept publishing. He kept finding CTE in more and more former players. He kept speaking. And slowly the truth became impossible to ignore. In 2009 the NFL publicly acknowledged the link between football and brain damage. In 2016 they confirmed it before Congress. That same year the American Medical Association gave Dr. Omalu their highest honour, the Distinguished Service Award.

A film was made about his story starring Will Smith and the whole world watched.

He once said he wished he had never looked at Mike Webster's brain because of everything it cost him. But then he remembers the letters people send him. Former players. Families. People who got answers because of what he refused to let go.

An Igbo boy from a war zone went to America and protected millions of people from a truth a billion dollar industry tried to bury.

That is what we come from. 🖤

Did you know this story? Share it so more people do 👇🏾

[IGBO History & Facts @IgboHistoFacts]

Tinubu bypasses Nigeria’s most senior police officer, DIG Frank Mba, appoints Tunji Disu as IGP

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The hatred against the Igbo did not start the way many Nigerians think.

Before 1914, there was no Nigeria. The Igbo were not a minority. They were a complete civilization decentralized, independent, economically active, and impossible to conquer internally.

They were not dependent on any central authority.

They were free.

When the British created Nigeria in 1914, they merged fundamentally different civilizations into one country for administrative convenience and not unity.

Then something happened.

The Igbo embraced Western education faster than most regions. By the 1940s and 50s, they began appearing everywhere in railways, civil service, trade, banking, education.

They left home and built lives across Nigeria.

But visibility can create suspicion.

Political actors began weaponizing that visibility.

Then January 15, 1966 happened.

A coup carried out by young military officers but it was immediately branded an “Igbo coup,” even though the coup did not install an Igbo civilian government, and not all its leaders were Igbo.

But perception became reality.

A label was created.

And that label changed everything.

An entire ethnic group became associated with ambition, conspiracy, and threat not because of what millions of ordinary people did, but because of a narrative that served political survival.

Fear was manufactured.

Suspicion was institutionalized.

And generations inherited a distrust they never personally experienced.

Nigeria was not broken by ethnicity.

Nigeria was broken the day citizens began to see their neighbors as enemies instead of fellow survivors of the same system.

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@PioneerDavatar @chudy_jnr My cousin also told me this regarding his kids. I weak o

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@EmeIreke Pls how old was your oldest when you relocated them?

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@EmeIreke Good job, nwanna a!! Igbo g'ebi 🙌🏾

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@elonmusk Pls tell our Nigerian government 🥹

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@MTNNG Your Internet service is very poor in the South East. Why?