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Public Service | HR enthusiast | @RoehamptonUni alumnus | Jack of all trades | 😁

[Máfejópamí @VillageParrot]

You see how the entire world came together to criticize FIFA President, pressuring him and demanding his resignation?

That’s how the entire Nigeria should be unanimous in voting Tinubu out.

[Basil @basilabia]

In the 1970s, Nigeria & Cameroon signed agreements to build twin defensive dams on River Benue. Cameroon built its own: Lagdo Dam. Nigeria is yet to.

We are losing billions of dollars to the flooding, a potential 300MW of electricity, and irrigation for 150,000 hectares of land.

[Apapa Highest Paid ⛵️ @apapa606]

@HonShield @Toniichris @PoliceNG @TunjiDisu1 Up until now, @Brightgoldenboy has yet to issue any statement regarding the woman who allegedly died at Dave Umahi’s house.

[@𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 @OneJoblessBoy]

"Kenneth Okonkwo said as my spokesperson he has so many hidden things that if he is provoked or sued, he will bring out and that's the only thing I'm suing him for - to bring those things out..."

Peter Obi explains why he is suing his former spokesperson.

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

Took a break, I think it was good for my mental health.

Spent time walking, and interacting with real people - instead of arguing and angrily blocking some twat - 1,000 km away from me.

Social media tends to encourage negative passions like anger.

[D S W @waxdee]

@Franko_Nero2010 @SaharaReporters 🎯

[Ahmad Salkida @A_Salkida]

Running a newsroom in sub-Saharan Africa has stretched me in ways I never anticipated. Grants disappear without warning. Local advertising or subscription is an extreme sport. Real philanthropy for journalism is almost absent, and when funding appears, it is crowded, competitive, and tilted toward safer, less disruptive themes. You push for accountability, and governments bristle. Corporations shut their doors. Your reporters navigate legal threats, online harassment, and real physical danger. The public value of this work is obvious. The market value is not. Profit has never been the reason to wake up and do this again each morning. What keeps me here is impact. The farmer who got his land back after we exposed the grab. The detainee who walked free because we would not drop the story. The quiet policy reversals that happened because the facts refused to disappear. Somehow, @HumAngle_ has survived six years. That survival is not just ours. It belongs to the communities that trusted us with their pain and who endured the crossfire of violent conflicts across Africa. Today, we mark another year.
We are still here.

[The Beat-Oven✨ @The_BeatOven]

All the countries that have been bombed today will get back and rebuild entire towns and cities before Tinubu finishes his coastal road

Or before Adelabu gives us light

[Omoyele Sowore @sowore]

What unfolded over the past 24 hours at the FCT Police Command and the Wuse Zone 2 Magistrate Court was nothing short of a troubling display of roguish power, undue pressure, and then resistance by a critical mass of activists around.

The sequence began with an incident involving the Minister of Works, Engr David Umahi, and a businesswoman and mother, Tracy Nicolas Ohiri, who accused the self-acclaimed powerful minister of owing her N250million and making passes at her while she pursued legitimate path to recover her funds. Following events at the FCT Command Headquarters in Abuja yesterday, during which I confronted Mr. Umahi, it became clear that what had at first appeared to be a simple complaint had evolved into a larger operation involving senior police officers acting under ministerial pressure.

This afternoon, Mrs. Ohiri was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ope Ibrahim at the Wuse Zone 2 Magistrate Court, accused of defaming the minister, Engr. David Umahi. When the matter was called, the magistrate heard arguments on bail shortly after Mrs. Ohiri pleaded not guilty to the bogus charges. Despite strong opposition from the police prosecutor, the court granted her bail, stating clearly that the law did not permit her continued detention under the guise of continuous "investigation".

Two sureties were requested, and we stepped forward to process the bail documentation.

While the paperwork was being finalized, intelligence emerged that the Commissioner of Police in charge of the "IGP Monitoring Unit," Akin Fakorede, had mobilized the legal team to obstruct her release. The prosecution, therefore, returned to the magistrate seeking a remand warrant on the claim that bail conditions could not be met; this was false.

Almost immediately, correctional officers stationed at the court were called upon to transfer Mrs. Ohiri to the custodial facility in Keffi, Nasarawa.

What followed was intense opposition from members of the Takeitback Movement to what was perceived as an effort to override the court’s bail ruling. Mrs. Ohiri's supporters present at the court also protested the move. The magistrate had indicated that once sureties had necessary papers and IDs the process should proceed. However, when efforts to complete the bail documentation resumed, Mrs. Ohiri’s case file could not be located in the registry, a development that immediately revealed a high-level administrative interference.

The atmosphere escalated further when armed mobile police officers arrived in a van sent from the FCT Command and positioned themselves at the court premises. Concerned about the direction events were taking, I reached out to the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, who intervened as I made it clear that we won't stand for further reckless police connivances to violate the right of Nigerians, the police contingent was then withdrawn from the courtroom, but the Custodial Officers from the Nigeria Correctional Service and their bosses contacted stated that since a remand Order had been obtained they must take custody of Mrs. Ohiri.

Ultimately, the resistance and protest paid off, as it was possible to prevent Mrs. Ohiri’s immediate transfer to Keffi. Arrangements were made to keep her within closer proximity to the magistrates' court to enable the completion of bail formalities at the earliest opportunity tomorrow.

There are now reports that magistrates may not sit tomorrow due to ongoing renovation work at the court complex. Nonetheless, efforts will continue to ensure that Mrs. Ohiri completes her bail process and reunites with her family.

#FreeTracyOhiriNow

[D S W @waxdee]

@basilabia @cchukudebelu 😨

[Chelsea Boss @Dchelseaboss]

Nigerians are really Gullible people 💔

[D S W @waxdee]

@jpattueyi @cchukudebelu I've had this conversation with so many ppl and at this point I'm tired of explaining to adults why a working Nigeria is to all our benefit.
How can ppl not see that no man can provide everything for himself? So many Nigerians don't realize how dysfunctional Nigeria is 🤦‍♀️

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

As a rule of thumb, Nigerian firms that require staff to "attend prayers every morning" - are a lot more likely to lack professionalism, and owe their workers several months worth of salaries.

(This is my experience). Professionally managed firms tend to be more focused.

[D S W @waxdee]

@Admiral_Cyborg @cchukudebelu This is the reason I've been saying for years; DISBAND ALL CHECK POINTS AND REPLACE THE WITH PATROL teams.
Over the years, I've been stopped by sketchy looking men at police check points and I sometimes suspect they aren't police, I just parted with some money to spare my life

[Rinu Oduala 🔥🔫 @SavvyRinu]

The terrorists who killed Deborah in the North because she was Christian & the terrorists who killed Hillary in the South because he was gay.

I hope you murderers know there is no difference. Anyone in Nigeria should also be able to kill you to protect their "values." Evil folks

[Gesare Chife @gechife]

This is why I don't tolerate homophobes on my TL, hate and bigotry are never harmless. How can people murder a young man for being gay, then actually show up at his funeral to taunt his family. If you defend this you are evil and certainly not a Christian.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I don't know who started tribalism in Nigeria, but all tribes are guilty of it to a large extent. I have stated ours here many times and how we even have a very derogatory Edo word “eghoen” for people of other tribes and saw them as inferior. I later realized it was all rubbish.

The craziest part is that the person who was instrumental in making me lose all of those beliefs of superiority was an Edo Prince and my first Philosophy lecturer, Professor Iro Eweka. He made me see the flaw in all of man’s beliefs and how culture was manufactured.

Philosophy was my first foray into abstract and critical thinking rather than dogmatic beliefs, as even science as I knew it then was more dogma than experimentation and proof.

We had textbooks that presented the theories, but didn't go deep enough to explain the history and struggles that led to them. Dogma is the root of all bigotry, and even science once had a lot of dogma, as humans were involved. It is why many black inventions were either stolen or hidden.

One of my aunts was probably one of the reasons why I never got married on time, as she kept sabotaging my relationships by sowing seeds of doubt. She did it so well that I never saw her angle was tribalism. She was not married to an Edo man, and her mother was Yoruba, but she harbored a deep resentment for those across the Niger.

It took me a while to unpack the fact that her problem wasn't just with other Nigerians; it was worldwide. She started warning me about Ghanaians, and I cut her off, then got married to one.

Why was she that way? I later realized that it was more about narrative control than anything else. She wanted to be the one responsible for that part of my life and wanted me to seek her advice on my life’s choices. The root of all bigotry is the fear of loss of control.

If you check throughout history, the people who pushed for dogma the most feared passion for other things. Dogma was always about control. All tribes are held together by shared beliefs, which tend to be dogmatic rather than objective.

Before the last Nigerian Presidential elections, some friends surprised me in ways I didn't expect as their long-hidden biases came to light. I also have family members who became Trump supporters in America for biased reasons, too. I didn't invalidate their beliefs; I just tried to understand why, and it all came down to fear.

People fear that what they believe most in and what defines them can be upturned, leaving them with no moral or tribal high ground. That fear is irrational, but they try to rationalize it. Almost everyone is guilty of it to some extent.

I was studying a US Republican economist yesterday, who had predicted Russia's fall based on the data and had also predicted the rise of gold in recent times. She is a brilliant economist who has been denied a position at the Federal Reserve because of her politics.

I went back to study politics, and I then understood why the other side would have concerns. Technically, she is one of the best and most objective researchers, but politically, she is firmly biased. Looking at how someone can have both traits made me understand why America has so many Independents who don't belong to either ideological political construct.

If I were an American voter, I would be an independent. In Nigeria, they call those kinds of people “fencists” (another derogatory term) because they decide to think for themselves and not remain dogmatic.

In life, you have to be a “fencist” in your thinking, always seeking the truth. Dogma only helps the powerful and deludes the powerless.

[Rinu Oduala 🔥🔫 @SavvyRinu]

The roads are really bad. You can't expect a whole vice president to travel on bad roads just because 200+ citizens died. That's preposterous. Just relax and keep dying. Tinubu is fixing Nigeria. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

[𝐃𝐫 𝐁𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 @DrJohnBishop]

In Nigeria, you’re a second class citizen the moment you step out of your village if you’re from a minority tribe. Because you can’t even get some jobs in your own state!

I worked only in northern Nigeria during my 10 years as a doctor and there were some conversations I could never contribute in. Anything relating to politics, religion and their women were a no-go area unless you don’t like your life.

In fact in 2015, during the presidential election, the heads of the community I was working in Katsina advised me to leave until election results came out. And if Baba Buhari loses, I shouldn’t consider returning.

I remember applying for a job in ABUTH Zaria in 2016 and I was told that there was no way I would be considered. Reasons were: I’m not Muslim, not a Kaduna LGA state of origin and don’t have a god-father to even back me for the job.

Maybe the second class citizen comment about going abroad makes sense for those that have not lived outside their bubble in Nigeria. But in my experience, there is not benefit of being a Nigerian citizen and I know people who had it way worse.

There are people who have never experienced any of this and that’s fine. But we all make our decisions from our experiences and I won’t begrudge anyone on theirs.

At least, nobody will accuse me of not telling them about the opportunities they can get when they step outside of their comfort zone.

[D S W @waxdee]

@akanimoh25 @basilabia We pay the govt (FCTA) monthly bills for waste disposal.
Just like your water bill and Nepa bill was squandered by the govt for years, this too is starting to happen.
We don't engage private companies in Abuja like in other states. But in time, it will happen