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Who gave the Order? @officialABAT
Loadtsad Promomedia Limited, owned by Seyi Tinubu, said the following while testifying before the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry: 'The ad board was switched off on October 20 because its primary aim was for advertisement and not illumination.
Loadtsad Promomedia Limited, owned by Seyi Tinubu, said the following while testifying before the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry: 'The ad board was switched off on October 20 because its primary aim was for advertisement and not illumination.
But it was only that night they have to turn it off while youths were there
“The billboard does not serve the purpose of providing illumination for that place. It does not provide light for that place, it is purely for advert purpose,” Abimbola Eniola,
“The billboard does not serve the purpose of providing illumination for that place. It does not provide light for that place, it is purely for advert purpose,” Abimbola Eniola,
the company’s secretary, told the panel.
Shortly after the ad board, which provided illumination for the protesters at night, was switched off, armed soldiers arrived at the scene and opened fire on the crowd on innocent youths holding Nigeria flag.
Shortly after the ad board, which provided illumination for the protesters at night, was switched off, armed soldiers arrived at the scene and opened fire on the crowd on innocent youths holding Nigeria flag.
I had a discussion with someone yesterday that brings to my mind the nature, to some extent, of the damage that the current Japa wave is doing. This time, not to the body-corporate #Nigeria
I've discussed that in some form here, and I've done a thread on the effects on the middle class, who are the primary movers of this migration.
I recommend reading @tundeleye's 2017 piece about why people were leaving #Nigeria bit.ly/2WvirUH
I recommend reading @tundeleye's 2017 piece about why people were leaving #Nigeria bit.ly/2WvirUH
The #LekkiMassacre of two years ago merely accelerated what was already a trend.
But not much is being said about the effect of this trend on the lower classes, the people who used to be house helps, nannies, stewards, drivers, cooks and maiguards.
But not much is being said about the effect of this trend on the lower classes, the people who used to be house helps, nannies, stewards, drivers, cooks and maiguards.
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Shey you never hear
About the things wey happen there
Abi your eye never clear
Mankind so wicked
Let's talk about my government
Open your mind and your ears
Wetin happen
Shey na jazz o
Make my people suffer suffer
All their nyanshes don dey open
#EndSARS
#LekkiMassacre
Shey you never hear
About the things wey happen there
Abi your eye never clear
Mankind so wicked
Let's talk about my government
Open your mind and your ears
Wetin happen
Shey na jazz o
Make my people suffer suffer
All their nyanshes don dey open
#EndSARS
#LekkiMassacre
Everything don scatter scatter.
Twentieth of October 2020
You carry army go kill many youth for Lekki
Na so water o, water runaway my eyes.
Nothing you go talk wey go justify the case of their murder.
The Chief of Staff, the commander And the army wey carry order.
Twentieth of October 2020
You carry army go kill many youth for Lekki
Na so water o, water runaway my eyes.
Nothing you go talk wey go justify the case of their murder.
The Chief of Staff, the commander And the army wey carry order.
Mr. President, Mr. Governor
Godfather, gbo gbo ijoba
All your atrocities
All of your corner corner
Make all the deadbody disturb you for your dreams
The money wey you thief yapa for your azza
You don turn our graduates to common beggars
All the book them go no matter
Godfather, gbo gbo ijoba
All your atrocities
All of your corner corner
Make all the deadbody disturb you for your dreams
The money wey you thief yapa for your azza
You don turn our graduates to common beggars
All the book them go no matter
1. It was a faithful night at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos, with conditions that were ripe for disaster. A tragedy that shocked the World. On that penultimate night of the peaceful demonstrative rallies, a Twitter user twitted that the Army were on their way to the tollgate,
2. but innocent Nigerian youths maintained their positions. Armed with just placards & our loud voices, singing the National Anthem at the top of our lungs, we thought that those were symbolic, & they would save us. WE WERE WRONG! This is a very Sad Nigerian Haunting Story.. 💔😭
3. Overwhelmed by pent-up anger & bursting from the inside to be heard, we never imagined that the Armed Forces who are meant to protect us, were out for blood. At around 7:45 PM on 20.10.2020, our comrades stationed on the lookout, spotted the Nigerian Army directly ahead.
Obi’s Campaign Council Shows He Isn’t Different from APC and PDP
Peter Obi's initial presidential campaign council proves the point I've always made in private to his fervid fans: after all is said and done, Obi is just another Establishment Nigerian politician who has neither
Peter Obi's initial presidential campaign council proves the point I've always made in private to his fervid fans: after all is said and done, Obi is just another Establishment Nigerian politician who has neither
the willingness nor the capacity to be the different and transformational leader that his supporters think he will be. He's merely riding on the crest of the wave of mass discontent with the status quo. The list isn't just inexcusably insular (Igbo men are even state coordinators
for Sokoto and Lagos!), it is also riddled with the type of embarrassing clerical errors and oversights that we've become accustomed to from Nigerian governments. If I were a man that idealistic young men and women have elevated to near sainthood as Obi has been, I would look
A few random but serious thoughts as they concern the 2023 General Elections. It'll be a long thread but please bear with me.
1. The BVAS System.
Most people think the new Electoral Act compels @inecnigeria to use BVAS for the biometric accreditation of voters. That's a lie.
1. The BVAS System.
Most people think the new Electoral Act compels @inecnigeria to use BVAS for the biometric accreditation of voters. That's a lie.
2. What the EA says in sections 47, 60, 61 & 62 is that a smart card reader or tech device will be used to accredit voters; then results transmitted according to guidelines set by INEC.
Nowhere in the ENTIRE EA are the words 'biometric' or BVAS used. Even e-tranmission no dey.
Nowhere in the ENTIRE EA are the words 'biometric' or BVAS used. Even e-tranmission no dey.
3. So while the current Chairman has committed to using BVAS; if he is removed a new pro-government Chairman may decide to use the old smart card readers which 'successfully' accredited voters in 2015 and 2019.
This is why the CUPP warning must be taken seriously.
This is why the CUPP warning must be taken seriously.
This chart shows that you are actually more likely to be lynched in Southern #Nigeria.
It should be food for thought for Southern Nigerians.
It should be food for thought for someone like me, who is a parent.
It should be food for thought for Southern Nigerians.
It should be food for thought for someone like me, who is a parent.
Imagine sitting in your house, and your child goes out, then you hear that he has been killed because of ₦100 ($0.17)?
That is what happened to #DavidImoh's parents. bit.ly/3a0EtF7
That is what happened to #DavidImoh's parents. bit.ly/3a0EtF7
Sadly, too low-income Nigerians have been socialised to see mob justice as normal.
When you add that most of us have no trust in the legal system in any event, we will see more lynchings in future.
When you add that most of us have no trust in the legal system in any event, we will see more lynchings in future.
I just published What is our interest in #Ukraine? link.medium.com/wJJXJfBD2nb
I’d like to begin this by saying something important: the attack on Ukraine is immoral and wicked, and deserves all the uproar that has accompanied it from wherever.
I’d like to begin this by saying something important: the attack on Ukraine is immoral and wicked, and deserves all the uproar that has accompanied it from wherever.
Sadly, that is about where it will get.
The world of geopolitics is not a moral place, and to quote the Athenians when they sent an ultimatum to the Melians during the Siege of Melios, “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
The world of geopolitics is not a moral place, and to quote the Athenians when they sent an ultimatum to the Melians during the Siege of Melios, “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
Herein lies the meat of the matter from my POV: in the end, the world of international geopolitics is about might being right, not about anything else.
This is why @CondoleezzaRice could pontificate about what @KremlinRussia_E has done without irony despite her role in #Iraq.
This is why @CondoleezzaRice could pontificate about what @KremlinRussia_E has done without irony despite her role in #Iraq.
Do you want to move from a President that does not know where his WAEC certificate is to a President that does not know what his real age is? Do you want to go from a ruler whose private wealth consists of 150 cows that never increase to one who can’t tell you how he made
his money? Do you want to go from a dictator who ordered the #LekkiMassacre of peaceful, unarmed, #EndSARS protesters, to one who benefited from the killings to protect his holdings at Lekki Toll Gate? Do you want to go from a head of state who goes to London for weeks to a
leg of state who goes to London for months for the same healthcare?
Nigeria, are you not tired of electing people that say they are going to fight corruption, only to themselves become the face of corruption? Nigeria has too many billions at stake to trust leadership to a man
Nigeria, are you not tired of electing people that say they are going to fight corruption, only to themselves become the face of corruption? Nigeria has too many billions at stake to trust leadership to a man
There are many profiles in courage in the #EndSARS and #LekkiMassacre2020 . The many young men and women who marched peacefully and occupied the toll gate, singing the national anthem and waving our country's flag. The victims who gave their lives for their country.
Then those who played specific, special roles during/after the crisis such as @dj_switchaholic (who exposed the Massacre live) @SavvyRinu @AbdulMahmud01 , members of the Lagos State Judicial Panel who, against all odds and lies from the seats of power, spoke the TRUTH.
Our country owes them all.. I commend them.. Looking back years from now, #EndSARS and the #LekkiMassacre will be the recognized as the seed of the liberation of Nigeria's youth and the country’s citizens from the tyranny and selfishness of Nigeria's corrupt political elite.
1. Now that the Lagos State @followlasg Judicial Panel of Inquiry has affirmed that peaceful Nigerian citizens protesting police brutality were massacred at #Lekkitollgate in Lagos a year ago, the individuals in the @HQNigerianArmy and @PoliceNG who gave the unlawful
orders for the extrajudicial killings — as well as those who pulled the trigger — must pay for their crimes with prosecution and punishment.
2. As I said when the news of the killings broke to the world, these are violations of international humanitarian law in addition to
2. As I said when the news of the killings broke to the world, these are violations of international humanitarian law in addition to
national laws. This was mass murder, and attempted mass murder, pure and simple. The perpetrators must not go free, and adequate restitution— which is also within the mandate of the judicial panel — must be made to all the protesters who were murdered in cold blood, injured, or
I will be dropping screenshots of idiots who said #LekkiMassacre was a false story, just because of a diabolical ethnoreligious and political ideology. They sacrificed respect for human lives at the altar of political allegiance.
Stay with me.
Stay with me.
Mark him and never forget.
Mark him and never forget.
1. There are no angels & saints in leadership in Nigeria. Only lesser devils. There are no coincidences. Everything’s been prearranged. All you see around you in 9ja, is designed. Events of 20.10.2020 is no different.
#OccupyLekkiTollGate #EndSARSMemorial #LekkiMassacre #EndSARS
#OccupyLekkiTollGate #EndSARSMemorial #LekkiMassacre #EndSARS
2. From the ‘Asaba Massacre’ & the ‘Biafra Genocide’ by Gowon’s forces, to the killing of the Shiites in Zaria, down to the most insane, violent & chaotic suppression of the #EndSARS protests. Nigeria is a huge crime scene, the political & tribal mafia reign supreme.
3. You just have to manage your expectations. It’s easy to commit Genocides in Africa & go scot-free. Value for life in Africa, especially in mother country Nigeria, is ZERO!!
8 months ago,the Federal Govt of Nigeria @MBuhari and Lagos Govt @jidesanwoolu murderously connived with @HQNigerianArmy @LCCTollRoad and @Loatsad_Promo to kill peaceful #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate.
See thread for NAMES OF some of the SLAINED HEROES.
SAY THEIR NAMES:
See thread for NAMES OF some of the SLAINED HEROES.
SAY THEIR NAMES:
OLALEKAN ABIDEEN AJASA
Was shot and killed by @HQNigerianArmy on #LekkiMassacre at the Lekki Toll Gate #EndSARS Peaceful protest.
On this #FathersDay Lekan would have been with his 2 children who are still in Primary School and now has nobody to fend for them.
They need Justice.
Was shot and killed by @HQNigerianArmy on #LekkiMassacre at the Lekki Toll Gate #EndSARS Peaceful protest.
On this #FathersDay Lekan would have been with his 2 children who are still in Primary School and now has nobody to fend for them.
They need Justice.
AYOOLA ADENIJI GABRIEL ADEDUNGBE
Ayo was a peaceful #EndSARS protester killed by @HQNigerianArmy on #LekkiMassacre
Ayo was unjustly murdered.
Federal Govt @MBuhari and Lagos Govt @jidesanwoolu continue to LIE that nobody died in their bloody orders to shoot peaceful protesters.
Ayo was a peaceful #EndSARS protester killed by @HQNigerianArmy on #LekkiMassacre
Ayo was unjustly murdered.
Federal Govt @MBuhari and Lagos Govt @jidesanwoolu continue to LIE that nobody died in their bloody orders to shoot peaceful protesters.
We would be sharing some of the images that the Media has refused to show.
Their reason was that these images are "too gory".
The Nigerian Media should step up and act like journalists,not cower and hide evidences for the government.
We deserve the TRUTH.
#LekkiMassacre #EndSARS
Their reason was that these images are "too gory".
The Nigerian Media should step up and act like journalists,not cower and hide evidences for the government.
We deserve the TRUTH.
#LekkiMassacre #EndSARS
One of the heroes of the #EndSARS #LekkiMassacre peaceful protest.
His name is Adedungbe Gabriel, he was shot in the head by @HQNigerianArmy
He died in LASUTH but the hospital has threatened staffs with jail term if they admit the LOSS OF LIVES (More protesters died in LASUTH)..
His name is Adedungbe Gabriel, he was shot in the head by @HQNigerianArmy
He died in LASUTH but the hospital has threatened staffs with jail term if they admit the LOSS OF LIVES (More protesters died in LASUTH)..
Another #EndSARS protester at Lekki Protest
@jidesanwoolu @MBuhari and Lai Mohammed stated #LekkiMassacre was bloodless and bodyless because they took bodies and expected us to forget.
Nigerians have we forgotten the heroes who stood and died?
#WhoOrderedtheMassacre
Soro Soke.
@jidesanwoolu @MBuhari and Lai Mohammed stated #LekkiMassacre was bloodless and bodyless because they took bodies and expected us to forget.
Nigerians have we forgotten the heroes who stood and died?
#WhoOrderedtheMassacre
Soro Soke.
She gave ample video evidence of how Nigerian Soldiers killed dozens of protesters at Lekki Tollgate & carried their bodies away. They can deny, blackmail, threaten & even try to kill most of us, BUT WE WON’T GIVE UP. #EndSARS is a marathon, not a sprint.
I genuinely fear for Sarah Ibrahim😧
She’s been brave, so brave. Nigeria is a HUGE CRIME SCENE & putting on a brave front is something the murderous APC government hates, more than anything in this world. This is me genuinely fearful for her safety. I hope she is safe out there.
She’s been brave, so brave. Nigeria is a HUGE CRIME SCENE & putting on a brave front is something the murderous APC government hates, more than anything in this world. This is me genuinely fearful for her safety. I hope she is safe out there.
They are renovating the Lekki Tollgate, getting it all spruced up to continue collecting millions of Naira on that road. Apart from the gridlock it causes, THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT NIGERIANS WAS SPILLED!!
These people???, they have no heart. THAT TOLLGATE MUST NOT BE REOPENED!!
These people???, they have no heart. THAT TOLLGATE MUST NOT BE REOPENED!!
#Nigeria tells us that today is #ArmedForcesRemembrance Day, a day set aside for our “heroes” in uniform.
We'll do well to remember the lives that have been lost to various atrocities in this blood-stained country of ours... bit.ly/2N8cTdG
We'll do well to remember the lives that have been lost to various atrocities in this blood-stained country of ours... bit.ly/2N8cTdG
While there is no doubt to my mind that many officers in @HqNigerianArmy are heroes, think Sani Bello who saved the life of Gen. Ironsi’s ADC, Andrew Nwankwo, or Usman Jibrin, who flew many Igbo officers to safety during the pogroms of 1966...
or even Mohammed Shuwa, who ensured that Igbos were protected in the area under his command, the fact is that on the balance, @HqNigerianArmy has a murderous reputation, and as I once referred to them, are an equal opportunities brutaliser.
Today is the last day of 2020, a year most will agree saw years' worth of events happen. I agree with that, but draw the line at saying it was "the worst year in the last 100".
I'm sure that people who lived in 1929, 1937, 1941 and 1966 will have a lot to say about that...
I'm sure that people who lived in 1929, 1937, 1941 and 1966 will have a lot to say about that...
For me, like for many, 2020 started with a lot of optimism.
This quickly gave way to caution when shortly after my return from holiday, I fell quite ill.
This illness ended with me getting a new accessory, my spectacles.
This quickly gave way to caution when shortly after my return from holiday, I fell quite ill.
This illness ended with me getting a new accessory, my spectacles.
No sooner was I back on my feet, than #covid19 caused global panic and lockdown became a thing.
What started out as a cute holiday with @LoladeSowoolu using me as a very willing culinary guinea-pig ended with her broadcasting a video of my now corpulent self attempting to dance.
What started out as a cute holiday with @LoladeSowoolu using me as a very willing culinary guinea-pig ended with her broadcasting a video of my now corpulent self attempting to dance.
#EndSARS protester Victor Sunday Ibanga who was killed at the #LekkiMassacre was 27yrs old and hailed from Ikpe Usung Ita Obot Akara local government of Akwa ibom State. He was the first born in his family and a devout Christian who relocated to Lagos in search of greener pasture
Like every young Nigerian, the hardship of life in his village of Ikpe Usung Ita where he helped his mother on the Farmland since his days in secondary school, when he would often skip classes to support her. Victor has 4 siblings Elisha, Sarah, Blessing and Imaobong.
Victor's mother Ndifreke Sunday Ibanga is a widow who had moved back to Ikpe Usung Ita from Calabar after the demise of her husband, when her children were young. "Udo" as she refers to Victor was a pillar in the family. The oldest son of a widow & loving brother to his siblings
#Nigeria’s problems are deeply structural, and not many things show this up as the official reaction to the #EndSARS protests and the #LekkiMassacre.
What both show is that Nigeria as currently structured exists only to protect those in power.
What both show is that Nigeria as currently structured exists only to protect those in power.
Consider this — during the height of the protests, @HQNigerianArmy's leadership pledged loyalty, not to #Nigeria or to its Constitution, but to the person of the President.
This shows that our security forces need a complete reorientation.
This shows that our security forces need a complete reorientation.
The manual under which our armed services are trained and operate has to be thrown away and a new one rewritten.
But that in itself brings up more questions, one of which is who, or what, do they pledge their loyalty to?
But that in itself brings up more questions, one of which is who, or what, do they pledge their loyalty to?
On the 21st of October I asked these questions in my tweet below. I was convinced that it was impossible for the Nigeria Military who had conducted themselves with all sense of responsibility since the protests began; to turn around and behave like wild
Packs of hyenas. I suspected a fifth column. The @HQNigerianArmy is not telling the truth about Lekki and I suspect why. National Security and classified information. The truth is @jidesanwoolu and the @HQNigerianArmy know exactly what they were/are dealing with. It is not pretty
The road to Lekki started in Ughelli where the man in the picture was arrested by Operation Delta Safe. The entire scene was like something from Nollywood. The guy and others drove a Lexus SUV unmarked, unlicenced. They took off when they saw the police vehicle. The police gave
THINGS WE COULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY
Its time to stop making it look like #EndSARS is primarily responsible for the current spate of robbery all around us. The protest is well intentioned, but robbers now gun down bullion van in daylight. This turn of events may consume us all.
Its time to stop making it look like #EndSARS is primarily responsible for the current spate of robbery all around us. The protest is well intentioned, but robbers now gun down bullion van in daylight. This turn of events may consume us all.
Its unlikely there's any living Nigerian who havent received a dose of @PoliceNG madness. But now that we are becoming estranged with many people we share banter with, over a cause that's meant to end police high-handedness; this should make us take a step back in introspection.
That somebody added Rev. Sam Adeyemi's name to a criminal complaint filed in Abuja is like an acute madness to me. The complainant also told the court, rightly so, his investments were burnt. At this point, the people we should dread most are the conspiracy theorists amongst us.
It's amusing to see a lot of pro-government misters trying to spread the disinformation that the #EndSARS protests of October 2020 were "hijacked" and turned into some sort of orgy of violence.
The facts, as recorded in this world of digital media where it is now difficult to hide, is that @NigeriaGov, unable to find "leaders" to either bribe, intimidate or otherwise coerce, cynically turned to thugs to disrupt (not hijack) the protests.
The govt's strategy succeeded to some extent, but the jury is still out, and it is increasingly looking like a case where they won a battle in order to lose a war.
This is where my column in today's @BusinessDayNg comes in: businessday.ng/columnist/arti…
This is where my column in today's @BusinessDayNg comes in: businessday.ng/columnist/arti…
I promised to make a thread of some important tweeps whom I learnt something within this year.
It was supposed to be yesterday, as my birthday gift to you all, but due to some circumstances i couldn't.
MOST INFLUENCIAL PEOPLE IN MY LIFE IN THE PAST ONE YEAR.
A THREAD:
It was supposed to be yesterday, as my birthday gift to you all, but due to some circumstances i couldn't.
MOST INFLUENCIAL PEOPLE IN MY LIFE IN THE PAST ONE YEAR.
A THREAD:
1. We all know how 2020 started, alot of chaos here and there, especially to us nigerians, and students in this nation in particular. first it started with the ASUU strike, and then COVID-19 came in, people lost their jobs and loved ones,
afterwards the #Endsars protest unfolded, and then some ignorant people hijacking the movement and looting both government and private people's properties and businesses, then the #LekkiMassacre by only God knows who is behind it,
