These Police Officers just parked me at Bolade, Oshodi, pointed guns at me, and forced me to transfer N100,000 them. When my bank app showed "exceeded transfer limit", they dragged me to a nearby POS to do it with my card.
They initially demanded 150k each.
They were 4 in number.
These are the names I could copy:
Francis Adekunle
2087495551
Kuda
Friday Ikpe
9136237110
Okay
This is the phone number of the notorious Officer Friday Ikpe 09136237110. I got it from his opay
@PoliceNG@BenHundeyin@Princemoye1
Please my mutuals, if you see this on your TL, help repost or tag other relevant authorities until these criminals are apprehended.
@ShehuSani We already know this. Anyway, the important question that anyone who isn't biased should be asking is... most INEC chairmen become hated post elections, so why is Amupitan's case different?
Everyone knows why. Except those who are pretending to be asleep.
You must be willing to apply the same logic you would employ to managing your personal business to choosing who manages the affairs of the country. Anything other than that is sheer duplicity or malice.
Lifting the suspension of Governor Simi Fubara is nothing to cheer about. The suspension of the Rivers State Governor and the State House of Assembly was unconstitutional when it was done six months ago and is still illegal today. President Tinubu had no power to suspend a democratically elected governor and state lawmakers. The Rivers shenanigans only signpost the dictatorship of the Tinubu administration. -AA
Summer is here now, and our Nigerian artists are killing festivals all over Europe. It looks great, feels great, but begs the question: Why can't we replicate that here?
Money. Or the lack of it.
After Covid, whatever was left of our live industry finally crashed, with Detty December being the only time we can get anything of note done here.
Creating shows is a loss-making venture in Nigeria. Touring is a bigger drainer, due to lack of infrastructure and lack of any significant ticketing. There are no venues, insecurity is rife, and when you meet the final boss of "we are too poor to buy tickets," despair sets in.
Odumodublvck did the Greastest School Tour in H1, 2025. While it was a great marketing experience for fans, it pretty much was a loss-maker, rationalized as experiential brand marketing to deepen the connection between fans and the artist. Llona is on tour now, I'll be interested in his data since he has had a broader range of stops.
Business isn't charity.
That's why we can't even have monetary figures on concerts and festivals. Live Nation will report "Artist A made $20 million from ticketing." While Nigerian reports focus on the sum of the bodies in the crowd: Artist A fills up 20,000 capacity stadium in Anambra." No mention of the financial realisation from that many people.
Artist headline concerts in the west are done for money, while in Nigeria, they are chalked off as marketing. To improve connectivity.
Brand sponsorships/partnerships fill up that gap, by picking up the tab. But that means, culture has left the hands of the industry, and into the office of marketing executives, who decides what comes alive, and what doesn't.
So, unless you can travel to Western festivals, you as a Nigerian might never see your stars perform live. And even if you do, it's either a small showcase to market a new album, or a branded event where they can't bring their highest selves.