Funmi Iyanda
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She’ll make a great first female president of Nigeria, yes?
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I believe Busola Dakolo.
Every word she uttered.
There are many layers of power, politics, manipulation and crime woven through her brave revelations.
I expect that Pastor Biodun will go to jail or whatever the equivalent of that is in Nigeria now.
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That’s Ms Lynda Chuba-Ikpeazu. A long term House of Rep member who could have been speaker. She was the first winner of MBGN pageant and one of the most impressive. She has multiple degrees in communication, business and law. Businesswoman, politician, sports administrator.
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One of those who testified before the panel was Emmanuel Iloanya who said he raised over N27 million from the sale of three landed properties including where he buried his second daughter to secure the release of his 20-year-old son, Chijioke who was arrested on November 29, 2012
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The potential genius of the
#EndSarsProtests
as a trigger point for change is that it is harder to politicise along ethnic and religious sentiments which are Nigeria’s eternal Achilles heel.
I hope this generation smashes it.
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Poverty is not an identity, it is a state which can befall anyone and should be fleeting.
Any society for which poverty becomes an unchangeable reality for generations of people or unmovable by education, hard work or information is a failed society.
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There is no flaw in this representation of the modern urban Nigerian male. None.
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The way to stop slavery in Africa is to fix African states and economies; integrate, trade, enable the mass of Africa. This must be done by Africans. Everything else is cosmetics and optics.
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They have always done this.
Over 200 killed in one day on the outskirts of Lagos in 1995, Odi levelled in 1999.
They usually target the poor, this is the first time they will massacre the middle class l think.
End of a bad era has begun 20.10.2020
#EndBadGoveranceInNigeria
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Beware of the intellectual and other forms of righteousness, there's so much we don't know or understand yet.
Be open, be curious, be questing, that is intelligence.
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When someone dies relatively young, or suddenly, try not to make comments about getting regular check ups and things that suggest we have absolute control over our lives.
Just wish them on and remember to live.
Scarily and exhilaratingly, life happens … to us all.
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Whatever the outcome.
Nobody is rigging themselves into office without a battle come 2023.
Nobody without sense is getting past Nigeria’s youth army.
#EndBadGovernanceinNIGERIA
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I stopped commenting directly on politics because it finally dawned on me that majority do not hate the system, they resent not being part of the system. They are obsessed with policians who are obsessed with power, neither being interest in policies.
It’s mesmerising to watch.
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If you recognise your brother here (l see no women), disown him.
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What is the most courageous thing you ever saw your mother or father do?
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Laugh, at yourself, at life.
Laugh...from the belly.
Have sex too, goddamn it ... and only with adult people you like, who like you too. No games. No force. No power.
You deserve that.
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Eventually a generation of Nigerian youth will have to "tear pant" mentally and culturally to begin a youth revolution/movement and organise a new self sustaining political party rooted in culturally confident, knowledge led progressive anarchy.
Save yourselves babies.
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Livestream the trials.
#EndSARS
I have seen powerful images and videos of the
#CandleForSARSVictims
vigils held across the country. It calls for very sober reflections.
Yesterday, the orderly room trial of the police officers involved in the surulere incident began.
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You can’t counter gaslighting with reason. Aim of gas lighting is delegitimising, distraction and erasure.
Gas lighters are effective because they have so long abandoned reality, their lies convinces them and confuses others
In the confusion and chaos, they restore status quo.
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I swore off politics because l am done with popular cyclic trauma vouyerism and addition to performance of woe- mongering.
However, this Sowore situation is crazier than usual.
Why is he such a threat and to whom?
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Starboy! -1
London! playing this special show!And all my profits will go to the evening standard dispossessed fund! The victims of the Grenfell tower!❤️
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Tboss, the lightest, most apparently refined, more foreign and confident female unconsciously stroke many's deepest insecurities.
#Bbnaija
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Be ruthless about cutting off anything that limits, traps, stifle or restrict you.
There are always alternatives.
You will find it once you free yourself from entrapment which limits our immense ability to create alternative realities for ourselves or recreate ourself.
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I was telling those HONY stories on Good Morning Nigeria.
Did from 1995-1997, a national show on NTA which l conceived as a 23 year old youth corper.
Stories so bad, l started rehabilitating people.
Never thought we’d still be here 23 years later.
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He’s also building bespoke agric machinery and tech for farmers as well as producing rice . He and his +50 strong, mostly self educated under 30 engineers, many including women.
This he built from scratch.
This business should get deserved institutional support to scale.
Meet Jerry Mallo,a 27 year-old Car Producer who has built Nigeria’s first ever sports car which he calls Bennie Purrie.
He produced the car from scratch with his team at Bennie Technologies in Jos, Plateau State. 🇳🇬
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Eucharia Anunobi is an incredible looking woman, her features are exotic and her style is iconic. Her IG reels, although grounded in christian faith, have a charming universality. Her performance and staging of them is deliciously camp and unfailing hilarious. She’s brilliant.
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I’m teary all this tbh.
Been talking for a long time about a generation confidants know l call the “tear pant” generation. Those who will start the youth cultural revolution that might lead to political change.
Suddenly l am daring to hope it may happen in my time✨
#EndSWAT
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I’m very sad they executed Hauwa. She was only 24 and doing her job.
Alice the 3rd captive is a mum of 2 whose mother has already died unexpectedly from the trauma of her capture.
Leah is still captive.
Truly saddened.
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An even younger generation of Nigerian women (15-23) are currently speaking up and openly naming their rapists, sex attackers and sex predators most of whom are in same age bracket and school mates.
This is great.
In a lawless patronage system, shame is a useful tool.
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10 years on, what Twitter taught me...
People really just want power, access to power or proximity to power.
Those who deny this are usually arseholes.
Those in denial are often bigots.
Those unaware are mostly fools.
And that’s just that.
✨
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I’m sad so many people are sad.
I feel for everyone suffering.
I’m sorry there’s so much suffering.
Sending a heart full of love to whoever needs it right now and can feel it.
Hold on.
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I hate the term strong woman as though strength was antithesis to woman as though strength is not what it takes to be female human as though strength is not an enforced state of survival of womanness as though this was not a curse hurled upon woman by men and women.
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People often ask how l can be friends with such diverse kinds of people.
I always say l don't require my friends to be like me, l just need them to not be evil.
That's all.
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If there’s only one person left who believes in you, make sure it’s yourself.
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Look at that embroidered aso-oke iro and buba on Mrs Victoria Gowon in the 70s.
I want a re-imagined update.
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Do not become unevenly yoked with those who crave representation in order to replace the oppressor rather than change system of oppression.
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#EndsSARS
Tell you a story.
My friend, sisi Remi, late, was 11 years older and often exasperating wise.
Once, after a brutal protest clampdown, l shouted myself hoarse about the evil doers, the back bitters and the sell outs. I lamented that nothing had and can change....
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My cook’s 4 year old is spoilt as her mother had her late. We all spoil her cos she was born with a resting bitch face so she scares us.
She follows her mum everywhere so l insist she leave her with me. She starts gloriously wailing as per usual.
So l ask her if she hates me
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Does anyone else find corporates asking for retweets to contribute money to disaster relief distasteful or am l now fully nuts?
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There's nothing successful l've ever done that people did not initially abuse, ignore, belittle or stifle. Nothing. It's a good sign. 😉
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My dream is that Nigeria builds herself into the biggest, most powerful, prosperous nation of black people on earth.
That way, the negotiations will be about power, which is the language of the world.
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Daughter wants a pet snake, l say no. She says she'd take out the teeth and venom, l say that's unkind, she says that's rich from a woman with snakeskin accessories. I want to trade her in 🙄.
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Often when l say to a woman, you are so beautiful she quickly parries it away with a retort about being smart or clever.
I know you are darling, that doesn’t stop you being beautiful nor does that beauty need to take a backseat.
Besides, beauty is order, which is accessible.
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Don't confuse piety for integrity.
The pious is often a coward encased in the rigidity and dogma of his existential insecurities.
In denying himself and others these human insecurities the pious sits oblivious in the necessary deception and lies of his surbodinates and allies.
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If a person asks who do you think you are, it's really a commentary on their own fear. An unconscious recognition of their own sense of less
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Such a strong society metaphor.
Cage something so powerful and beautiful, reduce it to an unrecognisable version of itself until it dies is typical mindless cruelty.
The mindlessness is what makes it so effective because the cruelty is unplanned, slow and casual. It just is.
“
@Austynzogs
: A starving lion along with other underfed animals have been found at the Gamji Gate zoo in Kaduna.The animals were at the verge of starvation. Footage & photos of showed animals very thin with ribs clearly visible & this has sparked a rescue by a wildlife group
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Once you start looking at everything from root not symptoms you’ll likely become more empathetic, possibly kinder, wittier, brittler and therefore less sexy and much less sellable.
A substance, not a commodity, but who the heck wants to be things when they can buy things 😉
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Somehow repositioning a victory as defeat. Tuck that bias in. Try.
World Cup 2018: Senegal capitalise on poor defending in 2-1 win over Poland
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In all of this, we must link the profiling of the youth with what seems to be a cultural aversion to any open expression of, or apparent symbols of individuality, brilliance, difference, joy and personhood.
A chronic visceral opposition to freedom.
Where does it come from?
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So proud of generation tear pant.
Been waiting for them and the circumstance to enable them a long time.
#EndSarsNow
#EndPoliceBrutality
end patriarchy, end repression, end feudalism, end cronyism, end religiosity, end extremism.
#ShutItAllDown
Progress freedom prosperity
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Shaking from PSTD. We were always getting shot at by police or army. My earliest memory is being grabbed from nursery school by my father on Okada fleeing gunshots in 1976, last was 2012, countless in between.
This must be the last
20 October 2020
#LekkiMassacre
#LekkiProtest
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This is lovely to be counted amongst so many great broadcasters.
Just to set the record straight. I never worked for NTA. I owned the intellectual property to NEW DAWN which was my brain child and produced by me through my company which l registered in 1996 as a 25 year old. 🤍
NTA Nostalgia
Ruth Benemiasia Opia, Eugenia Abu, Hauwa Baba Ahmed, Tokunbo Ajayi, Fatima Abass Hassan, Modele Sarafa Yusuf
Chris Anyawun, Sadiq Darba, Funmi Iyanda, Cyril Stober, Frank Oliseh, Yinka Craig, Ayinde Shoaga
Kindly add to the list, share their old clips and tell…
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Safe movement in Lagos, most densely populated city in Africa and epicentre of covid-19 in Nigeria is a volatile issue.
Mr Musiliu Akinsanya as NURTW chairman is a key determinant of how that will work at grassroots. It’s in our interest to hold him up to scrutiny.
Tonight. 8pm
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Why is it so difficult to just up and go to a beach in a city surrounded by the ocean and Lagoon without needing a “beach house”, a “joint”, plug or boat.
You know, just take a walk by the beach
In terms of stuff that impact well being and health, the “poor” seem to do better
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Trailer for my Eyo doc from 2012. If you show some love, l might upload the video to my YouTube channel. They held the rain for this one. 😜
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I apologise, l should have gone first. Many moments with both.
Can’t tell the one l recall most of my father without context but l remember my mother beating up our rapist neighbour, getting him arrested and taking in his son to raise with us in our face me l face you room.
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This government and the whole political class of today is finished.
They may dig their heels in, more protests and chaos will follow.
They will lose.
In the anger, hurt, pain and loss, there has to be a plan for the future.
A manifesto for a new Nigeria.
#Lekkitollgate
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Too many overpriced low level services in Lagos, too many.
Things you can google, order, read up on are repackaged as expertise.
This includes health care where desperation is highest.
It's cruel.
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Just hold on, one more minute, one more day, everyday. Allow the scale of your ambition outweigh your despair. Hold on. It will pass. ❤️
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Linda Ikeji is set to be the king, queen and tsar of television in Nigeria. She's clear minded about her content genre and the Nigerian audience psyche. She's focussed, uninvolved and pragmatic. I like and admire her.
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Anger is a high cost emotion, should be used sparingly to power your highest desires/ambitions, don’t waste it on the undeserving.
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Even though secret culty Abuja was always more liveable, l preferred Lagos because of her insouciance, her drive and mercurial energy.
Now Lagos is mostly an insecure poser with shit food, endless traffic and pretend commerce.
Her rudeness is now undeserved and unironic.
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You must spend less time explaining yourself and more expressing yourself.
You will do well to extend this courtesy to others.
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This nice lady interviewer asks me about body shaming and trends.
Told her l pay no heed as my engagement with my body is only in relation to its ally role to carry and help maintain the energy of my ambition to fulfil my spirit’s purpose.
Don’t think she likes this answer 😁
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I do feel emotional about the end of Trump presidency. America casts a large shadow over the rest of the world. When that shadow is overwhelmingly laced with hatred, ignorance and repression as it was in the past 4 years, it’s emboldens copycats despots and idiots everywhere
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UK racism is the Yoruba demon variety, it will kill you so slowly and insidiously, it will kill you die so that no one can directly accuse it and your obituary will real died after a brief illness.
It is complex, it is chronic.
Glad a new generation is not ‘greeing anyhowly.
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A real prayer point should be God do not let me see the woes that would make me dependent on the benevolence of "naija big man". 🙏🏽
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I have never wanted to be married. I like it for others who like it for themselves but as for me ms funmi iyanda, no, thank you.
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Sow good seeds on many waters..... 💜✨
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Worked in sports journalism (1995-2004), sports admin (2000-2002, resigned), all l can say about the stories of athletes’ exploitation, disorganisation and chaos from Tokyo is, it’s always been like that, like everything else. It needs to be restructured, like everything else.
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I’m not afraid of dying.
I’m afraid of not living.
Aliveness for me is creating, breathing life into being, birthing realities.
Everything else is a distraction, some nice, some nasty, most avoidable.
Some find this disconcerting, as we are conditioned to value distraction.
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1982, l think.
A tanker explosion in heavy traffic, on ikorodu road.
Shocking images of people burned alive on the news.
I was sad and scared,
lt’s my route to pry school.
2018.
Another one.
Between 1982 and 2018, l can recall 4, in Lagos.
I’m numb.
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The revolution is mental, the resistance is physical.
You cannot win the future with the mentality that created the past.
The present is where that switch can happen by fighting not for your group but for the idea of liberty of the human person/spirit.
Focus.
#EndSARS
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I'll just leave this here for those who politicise the suffering of any other person.
#ChibokGirls
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I’ve come to look out for activism that plays out personal traumas which because it’s a deflection from the grown up task of self knowing self checking and self loving often become a dangerous desire to impose unacknowledged personal misery on others by way of self righteousness
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The whole Cardi in Nigeria experience is brand perfect on both ends.
Full marks.
Also, Cardi is a lot smarter than her yanshe and vocal decibel let on, a great and necessary camouflage.
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My 16 yr old's mag's out in print. She saved from pocket money over 6 weeks to do it against my short sighted advice
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Might as well give him a book deal and reality show whilst we are at this foolishness of "celebing" an A grade criminal suspect. Mshew!
Evans advises kidnappers to stop crime - …Says it doesn’t pay By Nwafor Sunday The caught notorious and billion...
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