JUST LIKE THAT

[Uncharted🦇🔊 @JonahJosemaria]

🚨 Nigeria’s New $537M US Consulate Isn’t About Jobs, Here’s What It’s Really For

Consulates serve amongst other purposes as intelligence hubs, and the timing? right before Nigeria’s 2027 elections... We look back at the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when Iranian students reconstructed shredded US embassy documents and uncovered decades of covert interference.

#USConsulate #Lagos #fyp #Africa #Viral

[MM @markmaggior]

Night time in my paintings.

[JUST LIKE THAT @theman_ojc]

@chinenyeway May God bless your new age and grant you good health in long life.

Speedy recovery to your Dad 🙏

[Dr Farouk @Dr_Pharouk]

I don’t know who needs to hear this. Some dentists won’t tell you this, but I will for free. Never use these on your teeth if you don’t want dental issues.

People say they whiten teeth but won’t mention the damage.

Sandpaper, banana peels 🍌, lime 🍋‍🟩, hydrogen peroxide 🧬, acid water, baking soda 🥤, charcoal, salt.

What your teeth need most is daily flossing and brushing with fluoride toothpaste. If you need to whiten your teeth, see a dentist.

Don’t say I didn’t tell you.

[IFEANYịCHUKWU!! @OgbajiIfeanyi]

Saw that Okwuluora Kidney failure video in Enugu and I just thought;

1) Beans - Sniper or dangote cement.
2) Palm oil - Red dye + water.
3) Fried Plantain chips - Either transformer oil to save cost or vegetable oil + nylon to make it shiny and hard.
4) Fufu - Klin i.e detergent to ferment cassava in hours instead of days.
5) Kpomo - formalin to preserve it further.
6) Fresh fish - Industrial dye.
7) Unripe pineapple and banana - ripening in hours with chemicals.
8) Mango - ripening overnight by pouring inside smelly gutter waters.

These are but a few, meanwhile, Nigerian yam, beans are banned across parts of Europe for containing excess pesticides used by farmers without proper measurements.

We virtually consume these on daily basis, and result today is unprovoked kidney and liver damage.

[1980’s Finance @1980Finance]

The Golden Era of Finance

[Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch @FrUgochukwu]

Happy 57th priestly ordination anniversary to Cardinal John Onaiyekan!

Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan was ordained a priest in 1969 at the age of 25.

In 1982, 13 years after his priestly ordination, Pope St. John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of Thunusuda and Auxiliary Bishop of Ilorin at the age of 38. He was ordained a bishop on 6 January 1983.

In 1984, he was appointed the Bishop of Ilorin at the age of 40.

In 1990, he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Abuja at the age of 46, and in 1992, he succeeded as Bishop of Abuja at the age of 48.

In 1994, following the establishment of Abuja as a Metropolitan See, he became the first Archbishop of Abuja at the age of 50.

From 1999 to 2006, he served as President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN).

In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI created him a Cardinal at the age of 68.

On November 9, 2019, he retired as the Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria after reaching the canonical retirement age of 75.

Cardinal John Onaiyekan has remained one of the most respected voices of the Catholic Church in Africa, distinguished by his commitment to the Gospel, justice, peace, interreligious dialogue, good governance, and the common good. May God continue to bless and strengthen him.

[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

My mom took this photo..

On the left I had attempted suicide & overdosed.. I took 80 sleeping pills with a bottle of NyQuil.. with tons of liquor and an 8 ball of cocaine and a little bit of meth..

After 11 years addicted to drugs and alcohol.

On the right I’m almost 8 months sober.

If you would’ve told me back then that life will be better and that I’ll find happiness I would’ve said you were lying. I’m clean and serene these days and life is so beautiful.. my daughter and I

are rekindling our relationship.. I’m rebuilding relationships that I’ve torn apart due to my addiction..

I have friends in recovery who I can call and they will be anywhere I need them to be in a heartbeat. Life is so great and I choose recovery these days.

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

An imam in a small Egyptian village says Jesus Christ appeared to him in a dream and told him that a man named Rahman would explain the gospel to him the following day.

“Last night, a man dressed in bright white came to me in a dream,” Ahmed recalled. “He said, ‘I am Jesus Christ.’” The man then told him, “Tomorrow you will meet a man named Rahman, and he will tell you all about Me.”

When Rahman arrived in the village as foretold, Ahmed asked, “So, Rahman, who is Jesus?” Rahman and his ministry team shared the life, love and message of salvation of Jesus Christ with him.

Ahmed then invited them into his home to speak with his wife, sister and daughter. According to the ministry, the entire family chose to follow Jesus Christ.

Photo: Instagram

[JUST LIKE THAT @theman_ojc]

@SirAlexanderrr Interested.

[JUST LIKE THAT @theman_ojc]

@SirAlexanderrr Interested.

[NORTHERN SCUM🐊 @Unserious_Exrha]

As a hater, I must confess that football peaked🤲🏾😭

[Brittnie Brent @BrentBritt58901]

Can you imagine your daughter✝️
Innocent and precious..

One day walking in public only to be
- kidnapped,
-raped,
-converted to Islam

and married against her will?

All you have left is her memory?

Christian girls are being
Kidnapped in Egypt.

This is just a FEW of them💔

[Port Harcourt Socials @PH_Socials]

Missing Person

Last seen on 29th January, 2026

He left St. John's, Iwofe, on his way to JDP Roundabout in Port Harcourt to meet a friend

The friend arrived at the meeting point to pick him up but couldn't see him and his phone has not been reachable till date

Anyone with useful information about his whereabouts is urged to contact the family on:
08106652525

[Pharaoh👳🏾‍♂️👑 @MrMekzy_]

If you receive any DM like this from your mutual, do not make the mistake of clicking that link. If you do, your account is gone. If any of your mutual sends you a message like this it means their account is compromised. These are just two out of the many I’ve received.

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

Blood Money: How Nigeria's Gold Pays the Kidnappers, Arms the Bandits, and Protects the Foreigners Who Dig It

By Kio Amachree
Letters from Stockholm

STOCKHOLM — In April of last year, the Nigerian Air Force bombed the village of Kurebe in Niger State, killing at least fourteen villagers, including minor girls and a woman. The military said it acted on intelligence. What the intelligence apparently missed was this: while Kurebe's farmers were being buried, Chinese-affiliated miners operating under the licences of two Nigerian companies, Eso Terra Investment Limited and Majelo Global Resources Limited, were plundering minerals in that same axis, and they were doing it by bribing the armed faction of the terror warlord Dogo Gide for access.

Sit with that. The villagers got the bombs. The foreign miners got a receipt.

This is the true architecture of northern Nigeria's carnage, and the paper trail now runs from the pits of Zamfara to the fortresses of Abuja.

The money first. Nigeria's own transparency agency, NEITI, puts the loss to illegal mining and gold smuggling at nine billion dollars every year, roughly 13.7 trillion naira. And the country's officials are no longer pretending it is small men with shovels. The Commissioner of Police for the Federal Capital Territory, Ajao Adewale, said it plainly in August 2025: powerful Nigerians are the primary drivers of these operations, using foreigners merely as fronts, while banditry and terrorism are bankrolled through this criminal network. That is a serving police commissioner describing a terrorist financing scheme run by his country's elite. In May 2026, Solid Minerals Minister Dele Alake disclosed that more than 327 persons, including foreign nationals allegedly linked to illegal mining and terrorism financing, had been arrested, a disclosure made only after United States lawmakers publicly linked Chinese illegal mining in Nigeria to terror funding.

Now the warlords, by name, because the villagers of Zamfara already know them.

Residents told Daily Trust that the bandit leaders Bello Turji and Ado Alleiro own mining sites across Maru, Bukkuyum, Maradun and Tsafe local governments. In Birnin Magaji, communities entered an agreement with the kingpin Dan Karami giving him control of all mining sites in Gotal and Shamshalle in exchange for being allowed to live. A commander called Damina levied 200 million naira on the village of Mutunji after hearing a local miner had struck gold. The gunrunner Sububu ran gold mining around Bagega alongside arms trafficking and kidnapping logistics until soldiers killed him in September 2024, travelling, tellingly, with 198 escorts. And in Birnin Gwari, the al-Qaeda-linked group Ansaru fought a pitched battle against Dogo Gide's bandits in 2024, killing the wanted terrorist Mudi and his son, in a war of supremacy over gold mining sites whose product is smuggled into Niger Republic. Investigators across Zamfara, Niger, Kaduna and Kwara have found the same pattern: armed groups use proceeds from illegally mined gold, lithium and tantalum to buy weapons and finance kidnapping and violent operations. Eighteen villages in Dansadau district alone are mined by bandits. The ransom your cousin paid was seeded by the gold under his own village.

Now the question every northern mother should ask: why are the foreigners safe?

Because they pay the killers. The WikkiTimes investigation documented the bribes to Dogo Gide's faction directly. Reporting by The Times of London found Chinese firms striking security deals with insurgents, with some miners operating as spies for Chinese businesses controlling gold sites. Protection is a line item. The villager has no such budget, so the villager is the product: kidnapped, taxed, displaced so the pits can expand. It is not perfect immunity — four Chinese workers were kidnapped in an attack at Ajata Aboki in Shiroro that killed scores, including security operatives — but the asymmetry is the business model. As the Vice Chairman of the Miners Association of Nigeria told Truth Nigeria, for every Chinese arrested for illegal mining, there are Nigerian politicians and village chiefs behind them.

And when arrests happen, watch what follows. Two Chinese nationals paraded in Bukkuyum in April 2020 were never heard of again. Researchers documented political godfathers pressuring government to free arrested Chinese miners in Zamfara. In Niger State, mining in Shiroro, Munya and Kagara was officially suspended over bandit attacks, yet the governor and cabinet members sat down in September 2023 with the very actors, including Chinese investors, whose operations the suspension targeted. The suspension applied to the law. It did not apply to the money.

Which brings us to the presidency, and here precision cuts deepest. There is no published evidence that any occupant of Aso Rock takes a cut from the pits. What is documented is worse in its own way: six years of a presidential mining task force chaired by the Inspector General of Police, the Chief of Army Staff and the National Security Adviser, and nine billion dollars still departs annually on private jets from Nigerian airstrips. Senator Adams Oshiomhole alleges retired military officers coordinate illegal mining nationwide. Reporting has named former Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar and former Defence Minister Aliyu Gusau as alleged cartel beneficiaries, allegations both men deserve the chance to answer in a courtroom that never seems to convene. The House of Representatives opened a probe in November 2023. It has gone silent. President Tinubu calls for illegal mining to be treated as an international crime while his own security architecture cannot explain a single godfather prosecution. As Professor Farooq Kperogi wrote, arresting poor artisanal miners while leaving financiers and corrupt officials untouched is judicial theater. The military bombs forests while the mineral money flows. A presidency that can find Kurebe with a fighter jet can find the flight manifests of the gold jets. It chooses not to look.

So let the ledger be read aloud. The gold funds the guns. The guns take the children. The ransoms return to the sponsors. The sponsors sit in Abuja, in barracks, in Government Houses, shielded by the very services sworn to hunt them, while their foreign partners mine under warlord escort. Nigerian blood, as Kperogi put it, converted into foreign profit — with Nigerian hands doing the converting.

The diaspora is assembling this record for jurisdictions where silence has no veto: the EFCC seizure logs, the WikkiTimes documents, the company registries of Eso Terra and Majelo Global, the Dubai gold import data. Under the Isabel Precedent, every naira of it is traceable and every asset it bought is freezable. The warlords will die in forests. Their bankers should answer in court.

Until then, remember Kurebe: fourteen villagers dead by their own air force, and the mine still open.

Kio Amachree is Founder and President of Worldview International, Stockholm.

Hashtags:
#BloodMoney #KurebeMassacre #NineBillionDollarHeist #TerrorFinance #IllegalMining #ZamfaraGold #DogoGide #BanditryEconomy #FollowTheMoney #WhoProtectsTheMiners #IsabelPrecedent #EndImpunity #Accountability #WorldviewInternational #LettersFromStockholm #NigeriaDecides2027

[Nedu_🔥 @Hhonor_]

We have something in Nigeria that is worth even more than crude oil.

We have fertile land.

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

🥹 https://t.co/fbqVYUqebT

[90s Football @90sfootball]

When Nigeria shocked Spain at the 1998 World Cup...

[Mimi @Mimi_yakigar]

She asked a legitimate question. A South African minister publicly labelled Nigerians as drug dealers, and a Nigerian journalist asked for accountability.

Instead of answering, suddenly the question was “disrespectful” and she was threatened with being kicked out.

At this point, I genuinely believe some South Africans are simply intimidated by Nigerians. The hostility is becoming irrational. You cannot publicly stereotype an entire nationality and then become offended when a Nigerian has the audacity to question you.

She asked a question. If the statement was defensible, defend it. Threats and intimidation are not answers.