There Was An Attempt

16/05/2024

This is why Yoruba people still call the police “olópàá” till date

The colonial Nigerian police force were not allowed to use guns but only sticks to enforce the law? That is why they got the name "olópàá" which translates to "A person with a stick"

What do you call police where you are from ?

15/05/2024

The legend Mr ibu

John Ikechukwu Okafor, born October 17, 1961, popularly known as Mr. Ibu, is a Nigerian actor and comedian.

14/05/2024

The major person that will benefit from the Nyesom Wike-Sim Fubara crisis in Rivers state is Bola Tinubu

See why

Tinubu is fully aware of the crisis in Rivers state and wants it to continue.

Here are why I draw these conclusions:
Bola Tinubu has always been involved in Rivers politics since the days of Chibuike Amaechi. If you watch the trend, every Rivers governor from Dr. Peter Odili, Amaechi to Wike always turned out very influential nationwide. They all eventually ran or attempted to run for the office of the president of Nigeria.

When Amaechi defected from the PDP to the APC in 2014, and partly sponsored Buhari's election in 2015, his interest was to form a national alliance so he could eventually run for president in 2023. It had very little to do with his relationship with Goodluck Jonathan. The GEJ and his wife's issues were just a smoke screen to validate his ambition to be at the national spotlight. In 2018, I met with Amaechi in his office in Abuja. The meeting was arranged by one of his key loyalists who happens to be a respected friend of mine. I was to be involved in the digital campaign for the election of Amaechi's candidate in Rivers state and the re-election of Buhari in 2019. Amaechi never hid his intention to takeover from Buhari as Nigerian president in 2023 in that meeting.

Now, here are the reasons anyone working with Tinubu should be very careful...
All along, Tinubu knew Amaechi was a threat to his 2023 ambition. For Amaechi to become a formidable opposition to Tinubu in 2023, Amaechi must produce a sitting Rivers state governor. Hence Tinubu ensured Amaechi never produced a governor. He silently supported Wike to power in 2015 and supported him again for a second tenure in 2019. Tinubu was probably a part of why all the federal might that Amaechi had could not give him certain control over the election in Rivers state. On the other hand, in Lagos, before 2019, former governor Akinwunmi Ambode had shown signs he would not open up Lagos funds to sponsor Tinubu's ambition in 2023.

He had challenged certain demands from Tinubu already. So Tinubu ensured he was removed from office despite the fact that he was rated as one of the top performing governors in Nigeria at that time. Ambode was disgraced out of office and Tinubu replaced him with a worthy stooge, whose past he had in his hands, and that was how Sanwo-Olu came into the picture. With Amaechi not able to produce a sitting Rivers governor and Tinubu having a stooge he he had absolute control over in Lagos, Amaechi was already not a match for him, especially when it comes to having the funds to buy his way around the country in the 2023 elections. Hence, Amaechi lost out of the equation in 2019 when Wike won his second tenure. Imagine for a second if with the meager funds Amaechi had, he came second in the primaries in 2023, what he would have done to Tinubu's ambition had he had access to the kind of money Wike expended in the PDP presidential primaries added to his.

Let's fast forward to Wike and Atiku's beef.. All the while Wike was dancing around trying to hang things on Atiku, he already had a pact with Tinubu and the person assigned to ensure Wike did not make a U-turn on the Asiwaju agenda was governor Seyi Makinde.

Makinde's singular duty in that purported G5 alliance was to play along with Wike to ensure he supported Asiwaju at the end of the day. This was also why Makinde did have a free ride in his own state elections afterwards. Go and read Makinde's background. When you are done, you will know that ordinarily he is not the type of person that would roll with a Wike type of charcter. He had to do all the childish rigmaroles, which included wearing ashoebi and dancing drunk on live TV, with him to ensure that the Asiwaju agenda was implemented.

Now, to Wike and Sim matters...
I believe that Tinubu may be secretly fueling this Rivers crisis to his future advantage.

Wike's antecedents would make anyone working with him to be careful how powerful he gets. Hence, this crisis creates room for Tinubu to form an alliance with Fubara as an option in any case Wike, in usual defiant manner, gets dissatisfied with Tinubu and works against him in future. This is easily suspicious as Wike has refused to formally leave the PDP despite currently working for the APC government. Hence, Wike is probably perceived as a working time bomb that should be closely watched.

Hence, Tinubu's strategy would be to ensure Fubara remains at logger-heads with Wike while he strikes a deal with Fubara never to allow his impeachment, and by so doing keep Fubara secretly loyal to him all through. This way, also, Wike cannot have access to the Rivers state funds and his power would gradually be diminished with time. This leaves no room for anyone financially powerful enough to challenge Tinubu in the near future (2027). I came to this conclusion when I observed Fubara's body language before now and his sudden boldness to confront the House Of Assembly members loyal to Wike.

Unlike, when this issue first started where Fubara decried the efforts of the police to frustrate him, Fubara now pallies with police.

Police have allegedly taken over the Rivers state Assembly complex moments after a high court in Port Harcourt restrained Wike's loyalists from parading as lawmakers and Fubara ordered relocation of sittings to the Government House following the emergence of a factional speaker loyal to him. No commisoner of police posted to Rivers state would carry out Fubara's orders on this matter without first hearing from the IGP who would have also acted on the president's tone on this matter.

So when I see people, especially those loyal to Wike, trying to drag Tinubu into this matter, during their various press releases, as though he would side with them against Fubara, I am tempted to conclude that they probably do not understand that Asiwaju is the most dexterous politician in Nigeria, who often gets the best for his interest in every political crisis.
Again, these are just my opinions and I stand corrected. Also, this article is not for those who think linearly. It is intended only for those with the ability to foresee events based on antecedents and can comprehend possible outcomes.

So before you react, take a deep breath and use your mind critically.
Thank you!

11/05/2024

Remember osoufia?

The name Nkem Owoh may not be popular with a lot of Nigerians, but mention the name “Osuofia” and you will get an instant reaction from them.

09/05/2024

Take all the time you need

09/05/2024

If you think voting is important, then you are still sleeping deeply and it's time to wake the f@ck up the house is burning. It's all of them, no matter how much you want to believe in heroes and saviors. You are been played in a masonic duality game controlled by the same group.

08/05/2024

Repost to educate someone

The 2002 Miss World riots were a series of religiously motivated clashes that engulfed the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna

06/05/2024

Here the story fascinating story of a gorilla Who took care of a boy…

Back in 1996, an unidentified 8-year-old boy slipped away from his mother, climbed over a barrier, and fell into the Gorilla Enclosure.

Due to the 20 ft fall, the boy broke his hand and suffered a deep laceration to his face. Seven gorillas inhabited the enclosure. Gorillas are known to be fiercely territorial animals.

They will fight to the death to defend their families. However, one of the gorillas, called Binti Jua, meaning “daughter of sunshine” went over to the boy and cradled him in her arms, all while her own young child was on her back.

She then went over to the edge of the enclosure and waited for the zookeepers to come and collect the child.

Binti handed the child over peacefully before returning to the rest of the gorillas. Binti received worldwide praise and received regular treats for the next few weeks.

The boy and the mother have never been identified, but the boy did stay in a hospital for 4 days.

Animal behavioral experts claim Binti used her maternal instincts to look after the child. This may have been influenced by the fact that she had her own baby Gorilla with her at the time.

05/05/2024

The Story of how Agege Bread 🍞 came about

We’ll start this story with how “Amos Shackleford” moved to Nigeria from Jamaica in 1913, specifically Ebute Metta in lagos to join the railway industry but quit in 1921 and embarked on a new venture: bread making Amos and his wife Catherine were one of the first people to set up a bakery in Nigeria specifically in Agege, Lagos.

Prior to this, bread was mostly imported from the West Indies. He introduced the dough brake, a kneading device which gives the agege bread texture that we all know as Agege bread today.

04/05/2024

The youngest grandmother in the world

She became a mother at the age of eight years and eight months, making her mother the youngest grandmother in the world.

01/05/2024

Did you know there was a herbalist that could treat malaria as early as 1900’s

he founded an organization that worked with volunteers known as “mosquito missionaries”. With the help of the colonial government.

30/04/2024

Prosti.tution is now hookup, charm is now grace, bad character is now mood swing. Fake live is now packaging. A broke young man is poor Buh a broke young woman is a strong woman, happiness now depends on dru.gs. Drunkard now see addiction as excuse To depression, Molly is now the real joy giver, smokers now see it as a means of taking away pains, cultism is now the norms definition of real men, money is now paddles the canoe of love. Meanwhile “I’m the table” is now a slogan of a lady in a relationship. Our old time friends are now strangers due to financial status. Brothers now selecting brothers according to standard.
What a forwarded generation.

29/04/2024

Depression is real stop asking single friends why aren’t they married. Stop asking married couples without kids what they’re waiting for, stop asking people why they’re too fat. It’s none of your business. Stop telling people to add up a little you are not feeding them. Stop seeing jobless people as lazy people you don’t know how hard they are trying to secure one. Stop people about what fate has offered then you are just so lucky. It’s not your smartness that got you where you are it’s called Grace.

27/04/2024

THE TOP 10 RICHEST STATES IN NIGERIA ( IGR 2022)

1. Lagos -----N651.2 Billion
2. Rivers----- N172.8 Billion
3. Ogun-------- N120.6 Billion
4. Delta ---------- N85.9 Billion
5. Oyo------ N62.2 Billion
6. Kaduna ----- N58. 1 Billion
7. Edo ------ N47.5. Billion
8. Kano ------ N42. 5 Billion
9. Kwara ------ N35.8 Billion
10. Akwa Ibom ---- N34.8 Billion

FCT --- N124.4 Billion ( will be third if regarded as State)

27/04/2024

From London to Kano in 24day with a Peugeot 🔥

The elder statesman broke records, having driven around 4,000 kilometers in 24 days in a Peugeot 504, breaking the world record.

26/04/2024

Your parents grew up in a generation where the educated ones got the best jobs, best life and future. Even if they didn't go to school, they ensured their kids did so they get the advantages they didn't get - even if they have to force you. Playing chess or football wasn't a guaranteed success for most. That is not toxic. It is exposure. They loved you based on their own understanding of the world.

Now parents of our generation are forcing their kids to play football to solve generational poverty - whether the child can play football or not, or has other interest. In your mind, you're doing the best for your child. But you can't see you're doing exactly what your parents did.

The more things change the more they stay the same. Privilege is what gives you the luxury of chasing your dream. Otherwise, you do what is safest to secure your future.

Before judging and executing parents online, always check for intention. Don't emotionally throw everyone under the bus. The one who burnt her son's passport 2 weeks to a life changing trip to Melbourne was just cruel and malicious, making it unforgivable. But the son chose to forgive her so that is it. The one who didn't want the son to play chess but focus on education was securing the child's future so he doesn't major in the minor. That was love - however the future turned out. Education is still playing a big part in the son's life.

There is a difference between malice and mistake. We now live in a culture of calling out, a culture of outrage, and we should call people out, you should be outraged. But always remember context and never disregard intent.
- Chimamanda Adichie

26/04/2024

In every Extended-Family issues..

Our parents are always the good ones, while our uncles are the evil ones

To our cousin-brothers and sisters, their parents are the good ones, while our own parents are the evil ones to them.

In all of these, everybody Mama na ‘Best Mom’ 🤓

24/04/2024

The man behind the name of Ambrose Ali university

He was a Nigerian doctor and politician who became famous throughout the country during the Second Republic from 1979 to 1983.

23/04/2024

"Poor man wey thief maggi dem go show im face for Crimefighters. Rich man wey thief money dem no dey see im face for Crimefighters"

- African China

20/04/2024

Ever wondered who the mother of Afrobeat legend “Fela Kuti” is?

Meet Mrs Funmilayo Ransome Kuti. We were told in school, she was the First Woman to drive a Car in Africa.

19/04/2024

How old was Adam when he was created?

19/04/2024

Once upon a time.

19/04/2024

If you can’t make a decision, flip a coin, say Decision A is Heads, and Decision B is tails. After you flip it and the coin is spinning in the air you’ll be hoping it lands on certain side. That’s your decision. Don’t even look at the actual results of the coin flip…

18/04/2024

When you see it👀

18/04/2024

This was The first test-drilling for crude oil in Nigeria 🇳🇬. It was at Ihuo (or Iho), near Owerri, present-day, Imo State, 1950.

However, the first commercial oil field was discovered in 1956 at Oloibiri, present-day Bayelsa State, in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

17/04/2024

Here’s the women who wrote the national pledge that are recited in school, work and events

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Get To Know More about the past, knowing history is a better chance to success in the future

16/04/2024

On June 6, 2019, a Gorila at the Kano zoo, North west Nigeria, allegedly “Swallowed” N6.8 million realised from tourists as entrance fee.

According to the account officer the gorilla sneaked into the office where the money was kept and then “Swallowed” it.

14/04/2024

Picture of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe getting ready for a political campaign in urualla in 1960. Dr. Micheal Okpara was spotted too.

The car 🔥

13/04/2024

How the name “Ghana must go” came about.

The most popular bag in Africa, most of us have used the “Ghana Must Go Bag”, But we Never knew the story behind it or how it got its name.

12/04/2024

The car in which Gen. Murtala Muhammad wss as ass.assinated inside