The Diary Magazine (2025)

31/10/2025

On the morning of January 29, 1979, sixteen-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire from her home across the street from Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California. Using a semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle she had received as a Christmas gift from her father, she targeted students and staff as they arrived for class. Over thirty rounds were fired, killing Principal Burton Wragg and custodian Mike Suchar, and injuring eight children and a police officer.
The attack stunned the nation-not only for its brutality, but because of the shooter's youth and the haunting motive she later offered. When asked why she had done it, Spencer chillingly replied, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." Her detached words became emblematic of the senselessness of the act, igniting public debate about youth violence, mental health, and gun access in America.
After a tense standoff, Spencer was arrested and later pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, receiving a 25-years-to-life prison sentence. The tragedy left a lasting scar on the community and resonated far beyond San Diego. It inspired widespread media coverage and cultural reflection-most famously The Boomtown Rats' 1979 hit "I Don't Like Mondays"—a song that captured the horror and disbelief surrounding a day that changed how the world viewed school violence.

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31/10/2025

In 2018, during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, 15-year-old Anthony Borges used his body to block the door of his classroom, preventing the gunman from entering and saving at least 20 students. According to People Magazine, Anthony was the last to enter the room and tried to lock the door when he was shot five times, bullets struck his back and legs, shattering his left thigh bone.

Despite his critical injuries, Anthony remained standing against the door until help arrived. He underwent multiple surgeries and faced a long recovery, but he survived. Anthony later became an advocate for school safety and youth empowerment, determined to turn his trauma into positive change. It’s a powerful reminder of courage under fire, and how one teenager’s instinct saved lives.

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31/10/2025

A man with a Wife, kids and family will leave a better life than a Billionaire with no family, no wife no kids will ever.

Some people are so PooR that all they got is money.

– 21 Savage

Do you agree with him on this?

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31/10/2025

Some guys are suffering though.
Imagine you were in a serious relationship with this creature.
It's like pouring water into a basket and hoping it stays.

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31/10/2025

Massive crowds have gathered at the Dar es Salaam International Airport in Tanzania to prevent members of the political elite from fleeing the country. 😂✨

This comes as nationwide protests enter their second day, following the controversial general election held yesterday. 🇹🇿

A revolution is going on in tanzania right now.
Africans are beginning to stand up for their rights.

Remember the woman who won the election elected herself after jailing her opponents.

31/10/2025

Offset says he’s not hvrt and called Cardi B a f:00l, saying he knows she’s not happy with Stefon Diggs

He seemingly addresses Cardi B on his new album, Haunted by Fame:

“You a f;00l if you think that I’m hvrt, you ain’t happy I know how it work. How you married and still giving birth❓Get some h£lp, b:tche, you goin’ b£rs£rk.”
— Offset on “No Sweat”

It sounds like Offset is Upset again… He might be telling the truth. Just because she’s laughing doesn’t mean she’s really happy in that relationship with Diggs.

Don’t you think she could still run back to Offset❓ He might take her back for the sake of their children.

30/10/2025

In 1950s , Memba Kenyatta, managed to seduce a beautiful Italian journalist by lying to her that he was Jomo Kenyatta’s son. The woman fell for the lies and the two got married in 1956.

In the attached photo dated 1960, Memba was in an Italian police van with his wife Julia Gonzalez and son after he caused trouble on the via veneto in Rome by insulting and spitting on passers-by, demanding the release of his “father” Kenyatta

When his wife tried to restrain him, he assaulted her too. The police consequently arrested him and took him to a mental hospital for cure.

Julia Gonzalez de Memba who was an Italian journalist, had married Memba in 1956 after he convinced her that he was Kenyatta’s son.

From that time onwards , Gonzalez became proud that her father in law was leading the fight for freedom in Kenya.

Little did she know that she was living with a conman. Throughout Europe Bernard Memba “Kenyatta” always boasted of being Kenyatta’s son, and at one point appeared on an Italian TV station calling for the release of “his father” from prison.

It was not until early 1962, when Julia Gonzalez discovered during a visit to Tanzania that her husband , Memba, was a masquerader and was not Kenyatta’s son as he had always claimed.

As soon as he realised, his lies had been uncovered, Memba fled from Europe to Africa abandoning his wife and child.

Gonzalez although abandoned with her baby, still maintained that Bernard Memba was still her husband. According to her, divorce never existed in her vocabulary, and her husband’s actions were not a reason enough to break her marriage.

On May 30 1962, she wrote to Jomo Kenyatta proposing to write his biography in Spanish. The only pay she wanted for this work was for Kenyatta to accept her child as his grandson even though she knew they were not related.

30/10/2025

When China Almost Became Black: The Afro-Asian Connection They Never Taught You 🇨🇳🌍

What if I told you that centuries before “globalization” had a name, the Indian Ocean was already doing it? Ships were crossing, ideas were mixing, and the world wasn’t divided by color; it was connected by curiosity.

And curiosity? Oh, it did its job. Let’s just say some brothas saw China and thought, “These noodles might need some seasoning.” 😂 (Relax; it’s history, not Tinder.)

Black Africans have been present in China since at least the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD). They were known as Kunlun, merchants, sailors, artists, and even heroes in Chinese literature. By the time of the Ming Dynasty, Admiral Zheng He was sailing from China to East Africa, bringing back giraffes, gold, and, yes, stories of Africans who fascinated the empire.

And before someone yells “Afrocentrism!”— calm down. This isn’t Afrocentrism; it’s history with receipts.

From African traders in Mogadishu and Malindi to records of Africans in Ming China and Portuguese Macao, the truth is clear: the world didn’t start divided. It started connected.

Because history isn’t about who conquered whom; it’s about who connected with whom.

30/10/2025

In 1969, Samuel L. Jackson and a group of students at Morehouse College staged a protest demanding greater student participation in shaping the college’s curriculum and policies.

They took control of a campus building and held several members of the board of trustees inside for about two days. Among those detained was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s father, Martin Luther King Sr. The protest ended peacefully, and no one was harmed.

Although Jackson and the others were suspended for two years, King Sr. chose not to press charges. Later, he invited Jackson to his home to talk. During their conversation, King Sr. recognized Jackson’s energy and interest in television and encouraged him to explore acting.

Jackson took the advice seriously, returned to Morehouse after his suspension, graduated in 1972, and began his path toward becoming one of the most recognizable actors of his generation.

30/10/2025

𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗞 𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗞𝗔 — 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗗, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗘𝗗.

If you lived in Nigeria between 1993 and 1998, you remember the quiet — that heavy silence that came with order.
Fuel was ₦11 per litre.
The naira traded at ₦22 to $1.
Federal universities charged less than ₦1,000 per session.
You could drive from Kano to Calabar and return home safely.

And in that stillness, one name echoed through the barracks, the press, and the streets — Frank Omenka.

Colonel Frank Omenka served in the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) under General Sani Abacha, where he headed the Interrogation Unit — the nerve centre of counter-intelligence.
To the nation, he embodied discipline. Within the ranks, he was precision itself — a man whose presence meant control, not chaos.

The DMI of that era was no ordinary office. It was the backbone of Nigeria’s security architecture.

Omenka and his team worked quietly, preventing threats before they could destabilize the country — coup plots, cross-border arms trafficking, and foreign infiltration.
Every operation was driven by coordination, not competition.

It was a time when Nigeria’s intelligence community functioned as one disciplined body — DMI, SSS, NSA, and NIA — all synchronized. Every returnee, journalist, or activist arriving at Murtala Muhammed Airport showed up on someone’s radar.

Back then, the system had eyes everywhere — and memory that never blinked.There was structure. There was fear. But there was order.

That order slipped away after 1998.
When the chain of command broke, chaos replaced caution, the new era — one where silence gave way to noise.

Security officers still recall the story of a foreign-trained Nigerian investor who returned to Jos in the early 2000s. He came home from the United Kingdom to start a factory — a patriotic act that should have strengthened local industry.
But within weeks, he was ambushed and killed.
An officer later remarked, “If it were during Abacha’s DMI, that man would have been protected before harm came close.”

Today, Nigerians in the diaspora — from Houston to London, Toronto to Atlanta, Manchester to New York — talk about home with mixed feelings

30/10/2025

A thousand years before anyone knew what bacteria was, a brilliant physician in Baghdad used a few pieces of meat to save countless lives. His simple method for finding the location for a new hospital was nothing short of genius.

30/10/2025

Cameroonians are not happy with the fact that paul biya has forced his way into the government house again.
As you can see in the video,protesters are been bullied into submission.

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