Makanjuola Gideon Olanipekun

am friendly to people if you are good person.....Olanipekun

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

The Mercator Projection And the False Narrative of African Overpopulation

The idea that Africa is "overpopulated" and that the poverty of its people is a function of geographical poverty is one of the most persistently promoted myths in western-dominated global discourse.

In this video, @Big_Mck forensically takes apart this myth, and the adjacent myth of Africa's small geographical size which has been promoted for centuries by the Mercator Projection, revealing them for the pernicious lies they are, and linking these lies totheir ultimate beneficiaries in the capitals of Europe and North America.

[The Yoruba Times @TheYorubaTimes]

BREAKING: “I Smuggled a Phone Into the Toilet to Record Them” , Hassan Allegedly Exposes More, Claims Bandits Collected Guns and Ammunition at Senator’s House Before Benue Massacre, Says He Risked His Life to Capture Secret Videos, Claims Same Senator Was Later Sent by President Tinubu to Pay Condolence Visit After the Attack

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

We have to admit we are animals in 9ja

[Ayekooto @DeeOneAyekooto]

Congratulations to the good and great people of Ondo town on today's celebration of Ògún Festival

[FWBIGNAME @bigname_o]

THIS CLEARLY ISN'T JUST A REGULAR GUY. WOULD YOU HAVE NOTICED IN TIME? 🤭

Watch Till The End 👀🎬

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

‘If They Finally Kill Me, I Have Paid My Dues,’ D English Alhaji Says He Might Be Murdered After Exposing APC Senator and Erstwhile Chairman, Senate Committee on National Security, Shehu Buba as Terrorist Sponsor https://t.co/qTi2IXctla

[Bayo Bilisi (Back Up) @Bayo_Bilisi]

Please help me tag all those Ilorin alfas, make dem come face Bandit as dem no want Irú ẹkún...

[The Yoruba Times @TheYorubaTimes]

JUST IN: Islamic Council under the Sultan of Sokoto rejects DSS attempt to investigate Senator Shehu Buba.

[Kemmy @dspkemo]

A traveler who visited Chevron said the company’s facilities have ambulances and a hospital for its staff, while the surrounding community where Chevron operates has none.

He also said the community lacks internet access and adequate security, while the offshore station where the oil is transported has both internet and security.

According to him, this makes it seem like the company prioritizes its staff while doing little for the host community.

[Mide.O 🩷 @Midatlblog]

The Yoruba started the Nollywood as early as 50s and they have been using sophisticated camera as at that time-Veteran Actor Nkem Owoh replies Critics.

[Revolutionary Youth! @torty_mercy]

The person who invented the word “wonders shall never end” had Nigeria in mind!!!

Senator Peter Onyekachi Nwebonyi went to campaign in Izzi, Ebonyi State, but there was no bridge connecting him to the town.

So, he stood on the other side of the river to solicit for votes.

I’m speechless.

[AKORAYE🦢🦢🦢 @Ayoola0527]

If he don talk am, no talk again all those Alfas wey dey bark no really matter.

[The Yoruba Times @TheYorubaTimes]

Tani Olohun Urges Yoruba Traditional Rulers to Speak Up — “They Have Insulted and Ridiculed You, Dragged Your Names Through the Mud, Yet You Did Nothing. But the moment I respond, they use the Sharia police to track my movement. I urge you to speak up and put an end to this.”

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

“I’m on my way to Africa, I’m coming home, I’m not American-African, I’m African-American. I’m 99 percent African and 1 percent American. Thanks to everyone who connected me to Burnaboy. I’m going to Nigeria” — American Singer Tyrese

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

British Children Stir Reactions With Their Rendition of the Timeless Yoruba Classic, “Lábẹ́ Igi Òròmbo”

[G. S. Babatunde🌕 @gsbabatunde]

What is captured in this video is not mischief. It is tragedy. It is the painful sight of young people deliberately destroying public infrastructure that was meant to serve them, their families, and generations to come.

To watch youths use stones and hammers to break apart a newly constructed road drainage, all for the purpose of extracting iron rods, is to watch hope being dismantled in real time. This is not survival. This is self-sabotage.

We must call it what it is: vandalism. And it is a shame that such acts have become all too common, particularly in parts of Northern Nigeria where government has invested scarce resources to build roads, drainages, and other basic amenities. The question then becomes, why destroy what was built for your own good?

The answer cannot be poverty alone. Poverty explains desperation, but it does not excuse destruction. When we pull out iron rods from a drainage, we are not just stealing metal. We are inviting floods. We are inviting accidents. We are inviting the collapse of the very road our mothers use to go to market and our children use to go to school. We are turning public good into private scrap, and in the process, condemning our own communities to further decay.

This is the dangerous cycle we have found ourselves in. Government builds. Citizens destroy. Government borrows again to rebuild. And the cycle repeats while nothing truly develops. No nation grows this way. No society progresses by eating its own future.

What this video exposes is a deeper crisis: a crisis of orientation, of civic responsibility, and of hope. When young people see no value in public property, it is because somewhere along the line they were made to feel that government does not belong to them. That projects are not for them. That the future is not for them. That despair is a more powerful motivator than patriotism.

But we must reject that narrative. Roads, drainages, schools, and hospitals are not gifts from politicians. They are rights. They are investments paid for with taxpayers’ money. When we destroy them, we are stealing from ourselves.

To the youths involved: you are not “smart” for removing those rods. You are mortgaging your tomorrow for a few naira today. To community leaders, parents, and authorities: we must do better in mentoring, in enforcement, and in creating opportunities so that energy is channeled into building, not breaking.

A society that destroys what it builds will never rise. Let us condemn this act in the strongest terms, and let us begin the harder work of rebuilding not just infrastructure, but mindset.

©El-Masjid Abdul Umar
22/08/2026

[The Yoruba Times @TheYorubaTimes]

ISESE DAY 2026: Young girl stuns in the iconic Agogo hairstyle during the Isese Day celebration in Osun.

[The Nation Nigeria @TheNationNews]

VIDEO: Isese Day 2026: Egungun masquerades take centre stage as Lagos celebrates Yoruba culture, heritage

Source: X | TheYorubaTimes
----
Follow us for more breaking news and video content

For more stories: https://t.co/GX9bhs3WZ5

[Imaginary Governor® @Tutarhymes11]

@ChuksEricE That vehicle is registered online on https://t.co/nSWzOfskF2 so what’s their problem?

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

“In Osun State, I know a man I raised who’s nicknamed ‘Half Salary’” — President Tinubu drops heavy jibe at Aregbesola