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#Yorùbá : Slavery Damaged & Dispossessed Africa's Sovereignty #timetorecreate #AfricanDream #Oòduà #tiwantiwa #ProudAlkebulan RTs aren't endorsement

[Belinda Ezeofor @BelindaUjuu]

NIGERIA BELONGS TO NIGERIANS!! Celebrate progress. Challenge failure. Demand better and do all three without loosing your objectivity. 🇳🇬❤️

#nigeria
#progress
#governance
#patriotism

[Dr Dípò Awójídé @OgbeniDipo]

It’s always amusing when former President Obasanjo and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar trade allegations about corruption during their time in office. Their public quarrels only remind Nigerians of how much dysfunction existed between 1999 and 2007, especially in sectors they were directly responsible for.

For those of us who were seeking admission into federal or state universities during that period, we remember the chaos vividly. ASUU strikes crippled the entire higher‑education system. In 2003, there was no admission at all into federal and state universities.

I remember living in Ado‑Ekiti for almost a year, trying unsuccessfully to secure admission into UNAD before returning to Abuja disappointed and frustrated.

Yet, in the middle of this collapse of public universities, Atiku Abubakar established the American University of Nigeria in 2003, and Obasanjo established Bells University of Technology in 2004. While millions of Nigerian students were stuck at home with no academic future, the two most powerful men in the country built private universities for the elite. They have never explained this contradiction to Nigerians.

Contrast that with how President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approached higher education. In 2022, he promised that ASUU strikes would end. By 2025, the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, confirmed that the Federal Government had addressed every request made by ASUU. And in January 2026, the Federal Government and ASUU signed a landmark agreement that resolved a 16‑year impasse, including a 40% increase in salaries and allowances for academics.

Challenges such as infrastructure deficits, out‑of‑school children, and digital gaps remain in the education sector, but academic disruption has been eliminated from the higher education sector. A 4-year course now takes 4 years to complete, as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu promised.

Meanwhile, Obasanjo and Atiku have not accounted for the policy failures, the neglect, or the decisions that left millions of young Nigerians stranded. This contradiction in their education policies and the prioritisation of private interests over public welfare raises questions about Atiku Abubakar’s suitability for public office.

[HRH banke oniru @HRH_bankeoniru]

All the children in this video are British singing the famous and ever green song “ labe igi orombo “

Yoruba is legend!

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

VAMOOOOOOOS 🇪🇸🏆

¡CAMPEONES DEL MUNDO POR SEGUNDA VEZ! ⭐️⭐️

[Busola @_pegasus1]

@DeeOneAyekooto

[Ìfẹ́ṣọlá @kootujirian]

Proud to be Yoruba, we are the cradle of humanity!

Our ancestors told us that Ẹlẹ́dùmarè sent Òbàtálá from Ọ̀run to begin creation. For generations, many dismissed our traditions as myths. Today, modern genetics suggests that the ancestors of the Yoruba and Mande peoples inherited DNA from an unidentified archaic human lineage.

Our oral traditions also preserve accounts of some of our divinities and revered ancestors descending from and later ascending to Ọ̀run. Whether viewed through the lens of faith, history, or symbolism, they reflect the depth and richness of the Yoruba worldview.

[CAF @CAF_Online]

You showed the world who Cape Verde really is.
Thank you for everything. Forever proud. 🇨🇻💙

#FIFAWorldCup

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🇸🇳 Senegal have announced their 26-man World Cup squad and this was their announcement video. 👏

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

I didn't want to run today. Then I remembered what a champion once said...

[Folake @BoldlyNigerian]

There are actual educated Nigerians who see a visionary leader like this and say No, we want the man who self confessed that he built nothing of note in Anambra, he built “orderly behavior”…. The “orderly behavior” that he couldn’t even build a system of continuity around.

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[Enezator @Enezator]

A working mom left her child with her grandmother, showing a powerful example of what education really means 👩‍👧💛

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

First Nigerian to play chess at the Louvre 🇫🇷-The world’s most prestigious museum.

[Julius J. Adebayo @HeIsJayjam]

This is one of the best speeches from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ❤️

[THINK YORUBA FIRST @ThinkYoruba_1st]

Lisabi Festival 2026 didn't come to play🔥🔥🔥
Stay tuned for more 🔥

[Ayekooto @DeeOneAyekooto]

The Analysis of Music Extravaganza, a song of Sikiru Ayinde Barrister

[Stockman @StockmanNigeria]

When a man is building a house, his neighbours can shout all day that the walls are crooked.

But if they bring no blocks, no cement, no plan, their noise will not stop the roof from rising.

In the end, it is not the loudest voice that completes a house,
it is the one that knows how to build.

[Equipe du Sénégal @GaindeYi]

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[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

MY SYMPATHIES FOR PAPA AJASCO - THE HONEST ANALYSIS

I hold deep respect for our entertainment veterans - for their years of toil, their decades of sacrifice. So much so that it genuinely pains me to see any of them in a state of struggle. But sentiment, however sincere, cannot be allowed to colonise analysis, and analysis demands the cold company of facts and logic, however uncomfortable their arrival.

SHALL I BEGIN?

Does Pa Abiodun Awoyinka knows such a thing as "Intellectual Property?"

I heard, in that interview, an unfortunate attempt to cast the legendary series producer Pa. Wale Adenuga as villain. His offence? Refusing Pa Awoyinka the free and indiscriminate use of a character he did not create. The producer, by every standard of law and industry practice, was simply protecting what was lawfully his. Yet the actor framed this restraint as cruelty, and offered it as explanation for his later years of relative lack.

Pa. Awoyinka should attempt the following questions and in his answering, I am convinced that somewhere in the answering, he will encounter reason.

1. Is he the first actor to play Papa Ajasco?

NO!

Long before Pa Awoyinka took the role in 1996, the legendary Pa Peter Fatomilola had already inhabited the character - in 1983. More than a decade earlier.

2. Did Pa Peter Fatomilola hold the character hostage and then blame others for his limitations?

NO!

That gifted thespian moved on - gracefully, productively - appearing in numerous iconic productions across genres and generations, carving an identity that belonged to him alone.

3. Did Pa. Wale Adenuga ever chain anyone to his company?

NO!

If Pa Peter could exit without conflict, so could any other actor. More telling: in 2006 - two decades ago - the near-entire cast of the Papa Ajasco series was suspended and replaced following an act of copyright infringement.

And what happened next?

They returned. Almost all of them, Pa Awoyinka too, came back with apologies and appeals for reinstatement. Now I ask - if the conditions were truly so cruel, why return? A man does not crawl back through the door he claimed was a cage.

4. Hugh Jackman first played Wolverine in X-Men in the year 2000. He inhabited that character for twenty-four years. Has he ever appeared as Wolverine in any film not authorised by Marvel?

NO!

Why?

Intellectual property (IP) rights. Wolverine belongs to Marvel - not to the man whose face the world associates with those adamantium claws.

The same way neither Toby Maguire, Andrew Garfield, nor Tom Holland owned the character spiderman, no matter how well they interpreted the role or how much of a fan favorite they are. An actor is simply licensed or contracted to portray a character, not entitled to own it.

5. Why then did Pa Awoyinka not simply leave, if the arrangement was so unbearable?

Job Security.

What Pa Awoyinka will not say, and what the interviewer - more invested in the harvest of clout than in the discipline of substance - did not bother to ask - is that WAP Productions offered something most of the industry could not: consistency. A daily series. Payment per episode. Regular, steady, guaranteed income.

In an industry where Pa Awoyinka's peers spent their days chasing roles, navigating uncertainty, and begging for placement, he had a reliable table set before him. Whatever figure he claims per episode - multiply it by weekly appearances, by months, by years. The total is not a small thing. Very few of his peers were ever afforded such opportunity.

Papa Ajasco was the most watched series of its era. To be on that screen was premium privilege not punishment.

My sympathies for Pa Awoyinka are real, and they remain. But sympathy is not a blank cheque. It will not be issued at the cost of another man's integrity, reputation, and legacy.

When the music changes, the dance must change with it - the one who refuses to learn the new steps will tell you the drummer is wicked.

Good Morning, Severally.