Lade Babfemi

Proudly Nigerian, a football fan #Chelsea & Super eagles#

[Lade Babfemi @ladmandadon]

Massive blunt

[Chuks Akunna @akunnachux]

Please listen to John Glover Roberts, Chief Justice of the US.

[Lade Babfemi @ladmandadon]

@jon_d_doe Utopia wife

[Lade Babfemi @ladmandadon]

@tosin_badeniyii I'm well dear. Missed reading ur tweets regularly. Been off here for over a year. You cute as ever. Takia of u dearie

[Lade Babfemi @ladmandadon]

@BashirElRufai You deflecting the question. It's not dishonest but the majority of his tenure favoured the North. Ofcuz I voted for him in his first term. The south west got some juicy post same as North under this dispensation but he was partial, ethnocentric and sectional. Stil respect him

[Lade Babfemi @ladmandadon]

@BashirElRufai Worse than Buhari you meant

[Lade Babfemi @ladmandadon]

@NigeriaStories Sorry for your loss

[Daddy D.O🇳🇬 @DOlusegun]

KIDNAPPED STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN OYO STATE RESCUED FOLLOWING, SURGICAL INTENSE AND WELL COORDINATED OPERATIONS IN OLD OYO NATIONAL PARK AND OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY

1. Following an intelligence-led carefully planned and executed operations, on 10 July 2026, troops of the Nigerian Army, led by the General Officer Commanding 2 Division, Nigerian Army, Ibadan, *Major General CR Nnebeife*, in collaboration with special units from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) specifically the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC),the Defence Headquarters with Special Forces elements from the Nigerian Army, Navy the Air Force and the Nigeria Police, the Department of State Services (DSS), National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and other security agencies as well as local vigilantes/hunters/Amotekuns, in a well coordinated operation rescued a total of 44 pupils and teachers kidnapped by terrorists from Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State on 15 May 2026.

2. The operations, which lasted for more than a month, focused on identifying the terrorists kingpins that masterminded the kidnapping, bursting and dismantling their networks and logistics links, including their informants and hideouts located within the Old Oyo National Park Forest, Oyo State.

3. As part of the operations, multiple arrests were made within Oyo State and in other locations across some States in the Country. These arrests completely disorganized the group, exerted overwhelming pressure on them and ultimately led the terrorist group to *unconditionally release* the pupils and teachers. Further operations are to be conducted.

4. It suffices to note that the operations were carefully planned and executed to avoid collateral damages and to equally ensure that the innocent children and teachers were safely rescued. However, there were some casualties on the part of the security forces.

5. The pupils and teachers are currently receiving medical attention in an undisclosed hospital and will be handed over to the Oyo State Government in due course so as to be reunited with their families.

6. The GOC 2 Division wish to on behalf of all the participating agencies most sincerely and respectfully thank and appreciate His Excellency, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR for the Strategic Guidance, Support and for all the provisions that made the operations a huge success.

7. The GOC also wishes to once again thank the Governor of Oyo State, Engr Seyi Makinde and indeed the good people of the State for their continous support to security agencies especially during the trying period.

8. The GOC also appreciates the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the Hon Minster of Defence, the Chief of Defence Staff, the Chief of Army Staff and other Service Chiefs, Inspector General of Police and the Directors General DSS and NIA as well as Heads of other Security Agencies for their support and for the opportunity to relate directly with all the security agencies to ensure a seamless coordination and execution of the operations.

9. We sincerely thank the various media houses and indeed the entire Nigeria populace for their support, understanding and for having faith in the security architecture of the Nation. We urge all to remain vigilant and continue to support all security agencies by providing timely and credible information that would assist in the ongoing efforts to safeguard lives and properties across Nigeria.

DANJUMA JONAH DANJUMA
Lieutenant Colonel
Acting Deputy Director
2 Division Army Public Relations
10 July 2026

[Lade Babfemi @ladmandadon]

@pallnandi G a

[THISDAY LIVE @THISDAYLIVE]

Global Average Gross Agricultural Income Projected to Increase by 9%. Oluchi Chibuzor and Jessica Erobomhan The global average gross agricultural income per worker is projected to increase by 9 per cent by 2035, driven by productivity gains and... https://t.co/3ne23Vob1z

[Lade Babfemi @ladmandadon]

@sauvamemte @UjuAnya F

[Jabeer AESM @j__baare]

@Imranmuhdz This should be their concern now:

https://t.co/rqQUmUPFvG

[Lade Babfemi @ladmandadon]

@BashirElRufai Easier said when you already wealthy. Be poor or if you were born poor hustling to own a car or home. That view won't hold

[Rapto @heyrapto]

Moniepoint headquarters is in the UK.
241 Southwark Bridge Road, London.

But their operational base is in Lagos.

So let’s call it what it is.

They are hiring in Nigeria, paying in naira, while the headquarters sits in the UK.

The CEO wakes up in London, goes to the office, grabs his morning coffee, pays rent in pounds…

while the workforce powering the system is earning in naira.

And the Customers are Nigerians

Nice one. 🙂

Sometimes, just step back and understand the perspective of what is actually being said.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I've recruited an entire team twice in the past 3 years, and I've also consulted for founders on the continent looking for high quality affordable talent. It's very well known across Africa and beyond that if you're looking for high quality African talent that will work like their life depends on it and won't cost an arm and a leg, you go to Nigeria.

Nigeria lacks lots of things, but qualified, talented people who are ready to work their ass off are not among them. I've seen it first hand. Except you're looking for an astronaut, there is literally no vacancy you cannot fill in Nigeria. Anyone who says they "couldn't fill job openings" in Nigeria is a bloody liar.

It's simply not true and there's nothing to argue about.

[Dr Babatunde @enodamade]

There are no bad tribes in Nigeria, only bad people.
A Kano man saved my family's life during the Kaduna riots.
An Igbo woman paid my way through medical school.
When I served in Enugu, all the nurses and doctors who were Igbo were super sweet and nice to me; I made lasting friendships there, too.
Again, there are no bad tribes, only terrible people.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

One of the most shameless lies still told about colonialism is that European powers gifted Africa its roads, its schools, its hospitals. Shut up! You gifted us nothing. We built it, we paid for it, we bled for it.
Those roads were not built so African farmers could trade with each other or so African communities could grow. They were built to move our minerals and our crops from the interior to the ports and ship them to Europe.

Every kilometre of colonial railway followed the same logic: not to serve us, but to drain us. The hospitals were built to keep labourers alive enough to keep working, not because colonial administrators believed African lives had value, but because a sick worker interrupts the extraction schedule. My grandmother was denied treatment for her twins dying of smallpox because my grandfather was in prison for resisting colonial rule. She lost one of them.

And who built any of it? Our grandparents. Forced, beaten, worked into the ground under quotas, mutilated when they failed to meet them. When someone calls that a gift, what they are really asking is that we thank our oppressors for the infrastructure our own suffering produced.

We also paid for it in cash. In 1932, French colonial commissioner Robert de Guise imposed new taxes on Togolese people whose incomes had already collapsed by nearly sixty percent during the Great Depression. When women dared to protest, France shipped 174 colonial soldiers from Côte d'Ivoire to crush them. Girls as young as thirteen were raped and 12 protesters were killed. That is how the roads, the schools, the administrative buildings, the hospitals were financed: with our blood. Not European generosity.

And when independence finally came, the colonisers left with a bill. They calculated the cost of everything they had built through our coerced labour and our taxed income, called it colonial debt, and demanded repayment from the very nations they had spent a century looting. We paid for our own exploitation. Twice!

In Europe, when a government builds a road, no citizen is asked to be grateful. It is called public service. But when colonisers built infrastructure on our land, with our bodies, with our money, after killing and raping us, we are expected to call it the "benefits of colonialism". The audacity!

[Black_Melanin🥰 @itz_taser]

A lot of Nigerian men have never experienced what they call true love, the only woman that has ever loved a Nigerian man right is their mothers.

An average Nigerian man only experienced a conditional kind of love, he has to pay in order to feel loved.

A Nigerian man cannot be loved if he can’t provide or if he doesn’t have money.

[OBALOWE @Obalowe]

The 13,000-Year-Old Secret in Yorubaland That’s Rewriting Human Evolution in Africa 🔥🦴

Around 13,000 years ago as the last Ice Age was ending a man lived and died right here in what is now Isarun, Ondo State, Nigeria.
His remains were found in a rock shelter called Iho Eleru (“Cave of Ashes”).
This is the oldest known human skeletal fossil and burial from West Africa and the only Pleistocene-age hominin fossil ever recovered from the entire region.
The Iwo Eleru Skulls
Discovered in 1965 by legendary archaeologist Thurstan Shaw and his team (the site was first spotted in 1961 by a Nigerian antiquities officer).
They excavated a partial skull (calvaria), mandible fragments, and other bones from an adult male — buried in a contracted position deep in an undisturbed Later Stone Age layer.

Long, low cranial vault. Flattened frontal and parietal bones. Pronounced brow ridges.
It resembles archaic hominins from 100,000+ years earlier or even something between Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens. Scientists were stunned.
Advanced dating (radiocarbon on charcoal + uranium-thorium on the bone itself) pins it at 11,700–16,300 years old (most commonly cited as ~13,000 years).
A 2011 study by Katerina Harvati, Chris Stringer & team confirmed: this skull is intermediate in shape between archaic and fully modern humans.
What does it mean?
Human evolution in Africa was far more complex than the simple “Out of Africa” story.
Possible late survival of archaic traits, ancient admixture, or deep population substructure in West Africa. One researcher even floated the (speculative) idea of a distinct lineage. This one skull challenges everything.
But the story gets even bigger.
The site yielded over 500,000 Later Stone Age artifacts — microliths, scrapers, ground stone axes, and early ceramics.
These hunter-gatherers weren’t just surviving — they were thriving in dense tropical forests.
New 2023 research reveals continuous occupation for 14,000+ years.
They maintained a persistent “forest island” even as climate change turned surrounding areas to savanna.
They harvested African olive (Canarium schweinfurthii) and oil palm nuts as early as ~12,000 BCE — some of the earliest evidence of intensive tropical forest management (proto-agroforestry!).
Fauna? They hunted buffalo, duikers, and other animals from both forest and savanna zones.
Tooth wear on the skull suggests the man lived past 30 years old.
This is the only Pleistocene faunal assemblage documented in western Africa proof that humans mastered rainforests here millennia before farming spread.
Why this matters for Yorubaland & Nigeria:
While East and North Africa often dominate the headlines on human origins, West Africa had its own rich, ancient story.
Iho Eleru puts Yorubaland squarely at the heart of late Stone Age innovation and resilience. Our prehistory is deeper and more diverse than most textbooks ever told.
The remains are curated at the University of Ibadan and Owo Museum (with casts studied in London). A 2024 mandible study further ties it to other African Homo sapiens while noting its robust size.
No DNA yet (tropical conditions make preservation tough), but research continues.
This isn’t myth — it’s peer-reviewed archaeology that belongs to all of us.
The Cave of Ashes holds secrets older than the pyramids. Nigeria’s heritage like this deserves major national protection and global spotlight.
What do you think — does this change how you see African history? Drop your thoughts below! 👇 RT to spread the word. #YorubaHistory #AfricanPrehistory #IhoEleru

[KING CHIDI @guzu_p]

The only reason women crave for marriage more in their 30s is because

• They're no longer sought-after like in their prime:

Since they're not getting the usual attention they once got from men, they just want a man who'll just manage them by changing their single status to married.

• They're looking for who'll now be responsible for their welfare and bills:

Since women know men are providers by nature, they know getting a man to marry them automatically stop them from providing for themselves, their feeding, paying rent and other bills. Now, they get to be taken care of by a man.

• They want to eat their cake and still have it:

Since feminism taught women there's a positive side about whoring around, they know being in a committed relationship in their prime limits them from living the lifestyle they want and being accountable to a man. And since they're are more sought-after in their prime, they make use of the opportunities to explore their options by turning down serious relationship in their prime to enjoy life to the fullest just to want a serious relationship in their 30s when they know the attention has shifted to younger women.

Women are strategists who plans every of their steps. Every of their actions are calculative. No woman is single in her 30s by mistake. She dated multiple men, cheated on alot of them, broke their hearts, or chased them away with her bad character.

Any woman looking to get married in her 30s is a woman who's looking to eat her cake and still have it.

Never accept a woman who didn't give you her prime in her decline.

Never be the retirement plan of an evening newspaper.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

One day in September 2001, when I was a tiny 11 year-old starting secondary school at Atlantic Hall, back when it was located at Maryland, Mrs Adepoju the class teacher announced a group exercise as an icebreaker. All of us were to write our dream holiday location on a piece of paper, and one by one we would read out what we had written.

She started from the other end of the class, so I got to hear multiple answers before it got to my turn. The answers were basically "London", "America", "London", "London", "London", "London", "London", "UK", "London", "London"...

Now for context, I was already reasonably well travelled at the time, and even though my family was not the kind to go off on a jaunt to London at every given opportunity like some of my new peers, I had been privileged to travel fairly extensively around Africa, and I was visually familiar enough with the places being mentioned to know that people from London generally looked forward to going on holiday to warmer parts of the world in Africa, Asia, Southern Europe and Latin America.

I also knew from personal experience that people from "America" and "London" could be found in their thousands enjoying holidays in Lomé, Zanzibar and Accra. You would often find me as the sole African kid surrounded by white kids playing together in the lobby or private beachfront of Lomé's Hotel Deux Fevrier or Hotel Sarakawa whenever my family was in town.

In addition, the travel sections in the Newsweek, TIME and Readers Digest magazines that my dad bought every week made it clear that safari tours in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa were among the most highly rated holiday experiences on earth. These experiences were so exclusive that it would actually be easier for a Nigerian to take a trip to London than to go on safari in Kenya.

I'm providing all this context to explain why it seemed pretty obvious to me that writing "Kenya" as my dream holiday destination was a valid and reasonable choice. Instead, what happened when it got to my turn was that I read out "safari in Kenya" - and the rest of the class burst into laughter and giggles. I was utterly confused at first. Did they not hear me correctly?

They did.

As one of them helpfully explained in between subsequent chortles, "We're talking about places like London and New York, what is *Kenya*?" The inference of course, was that *Kenya*, located in Africa as it was, did not belong in the same conversation as "London" when discussing destinations.

What constituted a "dream holiday" for these children of Nigeria's elite was a Virgin Atlantic economy class ticket to Gatwick Airport, a 4-week stay with their NHS auxillary nurse aunty and her 2 kids in a cramped 2-bedroom council terrace in High Wycombe, and an Oxford Street shopping rampage yielding 50kg of excess baggage for the return trip, filled with WH Smith pencils and Primark clothes to show off to each other at the end of term party.

While the actual inhabitants of London used monthly payment plans to save up for their once in a lifetime Thomson package holiday tour in Kenya, these ghettofabulous sons and daughters of the Nigerian "elite" looked forward to a cold, uncomfortable experience on a miserable umbrella island as their "dream holiday". Not because it was a dream holiday, but because that was the social expectation they all enforced on each other.

And if you knew better, they *laughed* you.

That day was the first time I experienced something that I have gone on to experience many, many times over the intervening 25 years of my Nigerian life - the existential dread of being surrounded by people whose information level is so far below the one I operate with that we genuinely have almost nothing in common.

It's an experience I am so used to that I no longer bother to explain myself to Nigerians. The people who think that London is a dream holiday destination definitely think that "Iran is a terrorist regime that murdered 30,000 protesters."

Of course they do.