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😱Our film 'The Cost of Being An Atheist' has been longlisted for a
@onewm
award in the TV documentary category.
It tells the story of Mubarak Bala, a vocal atheist from Kano who was jailed for 24 years on blasphemy related charges
Full film here:
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- They made her take her sanitary pad off.
- They made her bend over and spread her legs, while coughing.
-They didn't let her use the toilet, despite her asking.
-They did this to a 15 year old Black girl because teachers believed they smelled weed.
-No drugs were found.
Another Met Police scandal: a black girl was stripped and searched at school. The search, which involved the exposure of her intimate body parts, took place without an appropriate adult present and with the knowledge that she was menstruating. Case review:
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My heart is hurting, man.
She actually thought she'd done something wrong and was being arrested justly.
Can you imagine how terrified she must have been when she clocked what was happening?
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The HBO documentary about Tina Turner was truly heartbreaking, especially when she said it wasn't a good life & that the good didn't outweigh the bad, because of all the abuse she had suffered.
Truly hope she rests in peace.
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"In Nigeria, one product tested up to 6.8g ."
Meanwhile in major European markets there is no added sugar in formulas for kids.
Later, when people from these countries say they do not trust the West, it will be written off as ignorance and incidents like this will be ignored.
Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds
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Will there be an investigation into the handling of Richard Okorogheye's case?
Why was his disappearance initially classed as low risk, despite him having sickle cell?
What happened to the officer who allegedly said "if you can't find your son, how do you expect us to?"
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That's insufferable finalists to you.
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More than 800 children have been kidnapped in schools across Nigeria since December.
A state of emergency has not been declared, no major press conference has been held.
Twitter deleted a single tweet from President Buhari, 48 hrs later and the platform has been banned.
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Interesting that he touched on how difficult it was to socialise without alcohol in England.
We don't talk about it enough, but British drinking culture is really problematic.
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And here I was thinking the Black people of Europe were actually the Black people of Europe.
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“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman."
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Lagos state police have confirmed the death of the three year old son of Afrobeats singer Davido and his fiance Chioma Rowland.
The police told the BBC eight domestic staff are being questioned over the death.
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Sad for the team, but especially Sancho, Rashford and my baby Saka.
As minorities KNOW that our Britishness is always dependent on our visible success, one mistake & it becomes void.
We are reminded we are not quire enough. I really pray these boys are supported and held.
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People are 'tired of the racism card,' when they should be tired of racism.
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Why are people who voted for Brexit, to 'regain sovereignty' and 'take back control,'upset that Caribbean nations want to become republics?
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I'm so rattled by the revelation that N400,000 is £753.
I actually need to lie down.
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No Netherlands, no Belgium, no Germany, no UK....
Canada is adding Nigeria, Malawi and Egypt to the list of African countries from which it is banning travellers amid concerns about the spread of COVID-19’s Omicron variant.
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Saka and Rashford's IG comments are already full of abuse, people using monkey emojis.
On God, you people are so so sick
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It was also horrible seeing how even when she had escaped her abuser, she was routinely re-traumatized.
Rap lyrics using the horrific things she endured as punchlines, interviewers consistitenly asking her about her abuser. A whole MESS.
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"Black people are four times more likely to be reported as missing in England and Wales-but campaigners say their cases are being ignored. "
Re-sharing this massively important piece by the ever brilliant
@Nadine_Writes
for
@Independent
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"The [shooting] victim was my driver, he came down to ease himself. All of a sudden we heard these gunshots from those policemen there. The bullet hit him and he fell down."
Video via
@bbcnewspidgin
x
@RealBanjo
#EndSARS
#EndSARSProtest
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What is there to say? We are simply not seen as human beings by many. The impact on this child is unbearable to think about..
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Unarmed, peaceful protesters at Lekki toll gate being shot at, one day after Governor
@jidesanwoolu
inaugurated a panel to investigate brutality & human rights violations by SARS.
#EndSARS
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Someone in my comments said there was more action taken over the footballer who kicked a cat, than what happened to
#ChildQ
and...well, there's that.
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Someone Yoruba needs to go on 'Hot Ones' so I can properly gauge how spicy the wings are.
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I don't know, maybe because they're working?
Why do interns feel obligated to getting paid? Lol
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Been reading some v interesting takes on this 'blackfishing' debacle, esp from Christiana Mbakwe-Medina.
She used the term 'ethnic smudging', to refer to how these girlies take from Black, Latina, Arab etc aesthetics to appear racially ambiguous.
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After the way SK did Raven, I made up my mind never to root for any LIB couple again.
Tiffany and Brett are testing me, but I will not be moved.
I'm here for mess only!
#LoveIsBlind
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"Adopted"
See, what happens when history isn't taught properly in schools?
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A prophet once said:
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So many observations from the brilliant
#Beckham
documentary, but perhaps the most fascinating is how the English public (still) hold 20 something year old footballers to a higher standard than their elected officials.
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I know Nigerians are 'resilient' and all that, but being exposed to so much tragedy/trauma on a daily basis is A LOT.
The violence, brutality and cruelty is relentless.
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Lafiat Tijani has won Nigeria's first gold medal at the
#TokyoParalympics
.🥇
Tijani, who won in women's 45kg powerlifting, was a silver medalist at the 2016 Rio Games.
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In enemy territory, because that's how much I love Wizkid 😭😭
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Someone needs to answer for all these warehouses stocked with Covid-19 palliatives.
Nigerians suffered through weeks of lockdown and these items were just there? Rotting away?
Whether it's evil or stupidity, someone has to be held accountable.
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When Yom told me she was interviewing Wizzy I screamed
The way we stan this guy in our house.
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Raven's 'friend' doing a series of 'I told you so' Tiktok's is so very weird.
Celebrating and laughing at your friend's heartbreak in the name of 'i was right'?
Also, it was the xenophobia people had a problem with not the skepticism of SK.
#LoveIsBlind3
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#BBCYoruba
dug up this timely video of Governor
#Ajimobi
praying. He said he didn't want any other role than governor.
Well, his prayers were answered, as he lost his bid for
@NGRSenate
The power of prayer eh?
#NigeriaDecides2019result
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One day we're going to a proper conversation about the specific brand of xenophobia leveled at Nigerians, or 'naijaphobia' as I like to call it.
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"Being a Nigerian is abysmally frustrating and unbelievably exciting." - Chinua Achebe
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Today, I start my new job as a Senior Journalist/Reporter at the BBC.
Still based in Lagos, but will be doing a lot more work across the continent.
Much ♥️ to my digital team, who I will miss a lot, especially my partner in crime
@josh_akinyemi
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This is a really difficult watch, but it's phenomenal, essential reporting by our colleagues in Gaza.
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At Lagos International Airport and there is currently no power...and by the look of it NO GEN.
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"Joe Biden was not arrested in South Africa while trying to see Nelson Mandela, his campaign has conceded.
The US presidential contender had repeatedly said he was arrested during a trip there in the 1970s, when South Africa was under apartheid" :
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To be clear, the 'race card' doesn't exist.
Race is not some 'excuse' POC's use, it's an integral to our identities & impacts everything in our lives.
Dismissing experiences and critiques of racist behaviour as such is so insulting.
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She's right.
It might be taboo because of how the parent-child relationship is idealised, but some parents resent, envy and dislike their kids.
Lest we forget, some people have kids because they feel they have to, not because they actually want them.
Some of you have enemies for parents. I won’t even lie. Your parents are the source of your misfortune
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⚠️ TW: r*pe, sa.
"Female surgeons say they are being sexually harassed, assaulted and in some cases r*ped by colleagues.
BBC News has spoken to women who were sexually assaulted in the operating theatre while surgery took place."
No words.
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Kudos to Laila for being a true professional, despite the repeated attempts to undermine and mock her for doing her job.
Arise News Correspondent, Laila Johnson-Salami
@lailajohnsonsal
questions Senator David Umahi about the Lagos-Calabar Highway Project’s environmental impact assessment. She asks whether the project has received final approval from the Federal Ministry of Environment or if an…
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This is so sad.
Many of our parents spend their whole lives working in the abroad, dreaming of the day they go back home to rest, only to find it worse than when they left decades ago.
My mum retiring back to Nigeria for a year and unretiring herself back to the US and swearing to never retire to Nigeria again is funny n sad for me. She saw things. 🤣😪
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- 105M living in extreme poverty.
- 10M+ out of school children.
- 3rd 'most terrorised'country in the world.
- 2nd recession is under 5 years.
- Food inflation at a 31-month high.
- Unemployment has more tripled in the last 5 years.
Nice anecdote though.
People are always complaining that things are not working in Nigeria. The woman selling food by my house said she makes 5k profit a day. That’s 150k a month. My mason makes 90k a month at 3k daily. How much is a banker’s salary? Nah pride be our problem.
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What they aren't saying is they expect women, who already experience discrimination at every level, to set up initiatives for boys and men too.
The expectation is always that women centre the needs of men and they're outraged it isn't happening.
International Men’s Day they did almost nothing. Over 80% of the CEOs of the companies listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange are men. This is not as a result of lack of resources.
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Stomach churning to use in Europe, but just another day in Afghanistan?
“… which is a sort of a vacuum bomb, which to be fair the US has used before in Afghanistan but the idea of it being used in Europe is stomach churning”
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Since when did the Nigerian Correctional Service start making this type of information publicly available? And to what end? Other than to humiliate?
“After thorough examination, it was revealed there was no evidence of gender or genital organ realignment. Bobrisky’s male biological characteristics remained unchanged”
— The Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS).
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For the like the 100th time this year I'm asking
🗣🗣🗣🗣did we miss rapture?
Are we the ones left behind?
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Remember that viral fake news story about the man who drove the Italian
#COVID19
patient from Lagos to Ogun?
Who demanded N100M not to spread the virus?
Well, I tracked down the man whose photo was used in that story & he told us its impact on his life.
🎥
@josh_akinyemi
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So, this Tega lady cheated on her husband & he forgave her. Good!
An example many young men should follow, too many of you will allow small cheating to scatter your matrimonial home.
I'm glad he didn't allow the devil to use him & chose to keep his family together 🙏🏾
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Tim Westwood was 2 when Nigeria gained Independence.
I hate that you people made me look that up 😭
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If you or anyone you know has experienced sexual harassment at university, please get in touch.
You can fill out the form 👇🏿or get send a DM.
Africa Eye: Do you have a story of sexual harassment by a lecturer at university?
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What makes it sadder is that every Black person knew if it ended in a loss, the racism would jump out immediately.
It's so predictable, it's pathetic.
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They don't spend money because they care, it's about ego.
They want to show off their wealth and feel powerful.
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As is often the case, "tradition" really means control.
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So I think my old man is bored, this morning he decided to bake bread, just because...and this evening he's handed me stacks of old Nigerian newsmagazines to read.
Some of these are older than me, but the themes are eerily similar to 🇳🇬 today.
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Whenever old tweets from a certain demographic resurface, dark skinned Black woman in the UK already know what to expect.
One day we'll discuss why degrading and mocking dark skinned Black girls/women is a rite of passage for you guys.
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This woman is dead and yet.
Her son is in his 40s and yet
He has a father who is living and yet.
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Some of the responses to this are so bizarre and steeped in misogyny.
Why does a man publicly affirming his partner rattle you guys so much?
yeah Stormzys never letting her go again
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The way the firstborn instinct kicks in every time. 😭 I was meant to be an observer, why am I coordinating?
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Either you're for human rights, or you're not.
Either you're for equality, or you're not.
Either you're anti-oppression, or you're not.
There's no half stepping, so stop bullshitting yourself.
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So the jury ruled Amber Heard was defamed when Depp's attorney called her abuse a hoax, doesn't this mean they believe she is a victim of abuse?
The court awards Johnny Depp $15 million as it finds merit in his suit against Amber Heard.
But, the court also finds that Amber Heard was defamed. The court awards her 2 million dollars.
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"He targeted seven victims over 20 years, telling some they'd become a witch if his advances were refused."
Nigerian pastor found guilty of multiple rapes against children and adults over 20 years.
He was arrested while trying to flee to Nigeria:
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Lagos has consistently been labeled one of the worst places to live in the world/on the continent, yet the man credited with much of what we see today is a frontrunner in the race to the presidency.
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The Ooni of Ife, the ancestral leader of the Yoruba people, expresses his support for the
#EndSARS
movement, and reveals his daughter almost 'lost her life' during an encounter with the SARS officers.
#EndSarsProtests
I understand your plight, my 25 year old daughter had a nasty experience with SARS, almost losing her life.
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So, I was looking for info on the various Sars Panels of Inquiry that have been set up & everything was pretty scattershot.
There wasn't one place with everything. So, I bullied/cajoled
@sirstuffy
into helping me collate what's out there.
Here it so far :
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⚠️TW: s*xual assault
Celebrated British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye has been accused of s*xual assault, harassment & a toxic work culture by three ex-employees.
One of the women, all Black, says he described Black women as "low hanging fruit."
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The few years I worked in the UK as a journo were lonely & triggering.
I was often the only Black woman in the room & I FELT it, so seeing all these "solidarity" posts from some people is 😑🙃
In short, stop perfoming & PRACTICE what you post.
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I can’t believe I’m *officially* team Toby, whew what a rollercoaster this season has been.
#LoveIsland
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Many people refuse to acknowledge how much damage colourism does to dark skinned girls, who then carry that pain into womanhood.
"They were young," is not an excuse.
So were we.
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But when we say of you in the diaspora move like colonizers whose only engagement with Naij is Afrobeats and jollof rice/attempting to commodify a hodge podge of cultures, we are the bad guys.
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If a 55 year old man is a "youth," at what age does a person become an adult in Nigeria?
(15 marks)
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I can't stress enough that lives were destroyed during and after EndSars.
People were killed, but the government still deny it.
No one has been held accountable for 20.10.2020, it was called hoax.
People spent MONTHS jail, people fled, people who spoke up were threatened.
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The mass gaslighting of Black people persists, even in war time.
No matter what 'evidence' is provided, there will always be people eager to deny or question our lived experiences.
Always sophisticated excuses to dismiss the racism that people experience. Disinformation is real - but so are reports of abuse against those trying to flee.
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Jakande also came up with the idea for a Lagos metro line in the early 80s, but the project was canceled by the then military head of state Major General Muhammadu Buhari.
We make flimsy excuses for our useless governors so much that it hurts me. Lateef Jakande built 11,729 classrooms in 6 months between March and August 1980. He reduced the classroom-to-pupil size from 100+ to 40 pupils per primary school classroom.
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Yep and this only happens when the parent that stayed is a woman.
Single fathers are almost universally lauded and praised, but whenever it's women cue denigration.
Insulting the parent that stayed is WILD to me.
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So, some people are still tip toeing around calling those French doctors racist with a capital R.
Men who said with their full chests that any "potential" treatment for
#COVID19
should be tested on Africans first. ON LIVE TV.
Please, what else is there?
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The guy is quite obviously a maniac, but she's still describing him as her 'dream partner' AND hoping she can convince him to accept her child instead of locking him off expeditiously.
An unserious somebody.
My dream partner (33M) suggested the idea of putting my (28F) child up for adoption
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