#globalcitizensfestival make Ghana sweet small this evening. December go jam. Nana Akufo-Addo has really branded Ghana very well to the international community. 🙌
It's a hammerhead worm and you should kill it immediately. It's harmless to humans but can secrete a mild neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin to protect themselves and paralyze their prey. Tetrodotoxin is poisonous to humans but hammerhead worms produce such a very dilute concentration.
The main reason why you should kill it is because it destructive to ecosystems because it is a voracious predator of earthworms, which are vital for maintaining healthy agricultural soil.
It is actually not native to Nigeria but bringing plants from abroad can introduce them. You now see why I supported the ban on bringing flowers from other countries? They can mistakenly introduce destructive invasive species like this.
In February 2021, a Kenyan man, Alex Ngata, noticed his late father’s phone lost network signal. He immediately suspected foul play and went to a Safaricom shop to renew the line. The moment the new SIM card was activated in his phone, a flood of backlogged text messages poured in.
The messages revealed a terrifying reality. Notifications showed continuous, heavy transactions draining his late father's bank accounts. Alerts confirmed that mobile banking apps had just been newly installed and configured on an unknown device.
Right after replacing the SIM card at Safaricom, Alex visited NCBA Bank, Equity Bank, and Co-operative Bank, where he officially confirmed that Sh2.8 million had been siphoned from his late father's bank accounts via mobile banking applications (the NCBA App, Eazzy Banking, and MCo-op Cash).
The banks confirmed that the stolen cash had been transferred directly to a specific mobile number: 0716 546633. Armed with the bank statements, the transaction logs, and the destination phone number, he reported the heist to the DCI.
Once the report was filed, the DCI's Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) alongside the Operations Branch took over the case.
The very first move detectives made was pulling the logs for 0716 546633, the Safaricom line that received the stolen Sh2.8 million. Detectives ran a registration check on the recipient phone number, and discovered a chilling anomaly: the number belonged to a dead person.
Specifically, the line was registered to Rev. Peter Kania, the former Secretary-General of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA), who had passed away several months earlier.
To the detectives, this was a bizarre and unprecedented situation. The mechanics of how a deceased father's line could drop signal and how a dead clergyman could actively transact baffled investigators.
CRIB detectives immediately ran a forensic analysis on the SIM card’s historical tower data, tracking where the phone line was physically "pinging" cell towers when it accessed the banking apps. This mapping data proved the SIM card was active long after Rev. Kania had been buried.
To understand how the fraudsters knew the exact account balances of Alex's late father, detectives turned their eyes toward the financial institutions. Cyber-auditors reviewed the digital footprints left behind on the banks' internal servers. Every time an employee views a customer’s private profile, the system logs their unique credentials.
The audit flagged that Equity Bank teller Eutycus Mutembei had zero operational reason to access these specific accounts. His credentials were caught red-handed browsing through the financial portfolios of recently deceased, wealthy individuals.
As the tech teams unraveled the digital trail, a massive "can of worms" was exposed, revealing a highly organized SIM-swap syndicate that operated with chilling precision inside Kenya.
Detectives discovered that the syndicate did not guess targets at random. They systematically monitored newspaper death announcements and obituaries to identify wealthy individuals who had recently passed away, knowing their bank accounts remained liquid while grieving families were preoccupied.
Shockingly, the fraudsters had even attended Alex's father's burial arrangements. Posing as well-wishers and friends, members of the syndicate actively helped the family raise funds and sold portraits of the deceased to mourners. This proximity allowed them to comfortably phish for family dynamics, look at death certificates, and figure out who would be handling the estate.
Once a target was selected, the operation relied on an active, illegal data breach within financial institutions. Armed with account details provided by their insider, Eutycus Mutembei, the syndicate would execute the fraudulent SIM swap to intercept the bank OTP codes and drain the funds.
Let us talk about kidney failure in Nigeria.
A dialysis session costs between ₦50,000 and ₦100,000. You need three a week. That is about ₦600,000 a month.
And the money is just buying you time. Nobody is getting a cure at the end of ₦600,000 a month. 🧵
When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.
The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.
India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.
Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.
The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.
So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.
This is what consuming Red dye(Sudan) in Palm-oil does to the human body after almost 2 years.
The couple you see on your screen are the latest victims of Palm-oil adulteration I wrote about this evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Iyoyo Pedro.
They granted me permission to post this photo of them after our video call this night.
The photo on the left was taken on the 12th of April, 2025 when Jessy Fulton, a Haitian marine biologist was brought to Nigeria by her husband, Mr. Pedro shortly after their wedding.
The photo on the right is a screenshot taken this night during my video call with them.
Unfortunately, from April last year till this month, this beautiful couple have been unknowingly consuming adulterated Palm-oil containing red wood paint colour, Sudan shoe dye II, rice water and stale cassava flour.
At the moment of making this post, this couple have been diagnosed with a broad spectrum of carcinogenic anomalies, digestive health collapse and a critical liver.
Jessy, the wife just confirmed to me that the last time she was able to move her bowels without the use of heavy laxatives and suppositories was November last year.
If you know anyone who is mixing red dyes in Palm-oil and selling to the public, PLEASE help me expose them.
Help me bring the law to them.
Ivan
That atomic there nu what going on there? News from there lately is crazy. The attention has now shifted from Kasoa to Atomic junction. You all should be safe out there. 🤦♀️
Don’t throw away the plantain peels, Dry it for 3 days, mill it into powder, mix one tablespoon of the powdered peels with honey and take twice daily for your STOMACH ULCER🍀…. The economy is too hard to lose this medicinal peels😁
NO POLICE OFFICER HAS ANY RIGHT TO TAKE YOUR DRIVING LICENSE
Under the new law, no Police officer in Ghana can stop you to demand your driving license again says MTTD boss Alexander Obeng tells drivers
-A Big Win to all Drivers ✊✊
If you see it anywhere in your apartment, treat as a health emergency. It is a silent killer.
I once ignored it & after weeks - caught a resp infection.
Check for roof or plumbing leaks. Your walls might be wet.
Cross ventilate always. Use extractors in kitchen & bathrooms.
4 yıldır sert zeminde ara sıra yastıksız yatıyorum. 1 hafta denedim full yastıksız ve sırt üstü yatmayı. uykunun 4. saati uyanıyosunuz tüm uykunuzu almış ve enerjik bi şekilde. 1 hafta sonunda hafıza kaybı yaşamaya başlıyorsunuz. denemek serbest.
I battled with molds and mildew in my house last year, everything I tried failed. Then I found this fruit called Tagiri (Christmas Melon) and it fixed the problem. If you have the same challenge in your house just place them around corners of your house and it will do the job.
Whenever your baby starts breaking apart toys like this, unbuckling themselves from their car seat, or taking apart other objects, get them some LEGOs or snap blocks ASAP. It could be an early sign of strong spatial reasoning, which is often linked to math skills as they grow.