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If you're emotionally attached to your tribe religion or political leaning to the point that truth and justice become secondary consideration, your education is useless, your exposure is useless if you can't reason beyond petty sentiment, you are a liability to mankind.
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
Here is the resignation letter Robert S. Goldstein addressed to ODUMEGWU OJUKWU.
Goldstein was the American PR expert Biafra hired to tell its story to the world.
But what he witnessed left him disgusted and heartbroken!
He accused Ojukwu of exploiting the starvation of his own people for international sympathy while refusing to allow desperately needed food through land corridors.
Even more devastating was the fact that Biafran soldiers diverted food meant for starving civilians, keeping themselves well-fed while ordinary families wasted away.
Their suffering was being used as a PR weapon!
Goldstein could no longer stomach it.
His conscience wouldn’t let him continue. So he resigned!
Awolowo said in interviews that food aid went via Red Cross and Caritas, but Biafran soldiers ambushed the trucks and diverted it to troops and elites, so he ordered a stop. Ojukwu’s own US PR man quit in 1968, accusing him of rejecting available land corridors and aid to keep using starvation for propaganda. The blockade was federal policy; both sides blocked effective relief. Tragedy was mutual.
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
This was yesterday when i was talking about it with another colleague. Sigh!
I have a colleague/acquaintance I’m genuinely concerned about. She’s experiencing early signs of psychosis. Having worked in a psychiatric hospital during my internship, I recognise that some of the things she’s been saying and communicating could be early warning signs of a mental health problem.
For several months now, almost every other day, she’s been sending me messages insisting that the rapture would happen on November 9 (yesterday) at exactly 10:57 a.m. She kept saying Jesus was coming for His bride.
I know how sensitive mental health conversations can be, especially when religion is involved. I’m worried that reaching out to her family might be misunderstood or met with religious responses rather than the concern it deserves.
I’m honestly confused about how to approach this because I know that if something like this isn’t properly addressed early, it could become much more serious. I genuinely want to see her get the help she needs.
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
“Azikiwe sided with north”
But I’m meant to believe his kinsmen have my interest at heart
Awolowo pushed hard at the 1958 London conference for Ilorin and Kabba provinces (Yoruba areas now in Kwara/Kogi) to join the Western Region. Ahmadu Bello blocked it to keep Northern size and power intact. Azikiwe sided with the North. The Willink Commission suggested a high-threshold plebiscite but none was held before independence. Colonial boundaries from 19th-century conquests and political deals kept them in the North. Gowon later made Kwara instead of a merger.
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
You’re here thanking your Ibo sisters for carrying on the legacy that Ikemba and Azikiwe could not pull off.
Lol, Let me break your heart:
A Peter Obi presidency will never be attainable.
I see it as an ethnic agenda, and I pity the Yoruba buts who endorse it. Your expansionist project will remain futile, generation after generation just like your fore fathers.
To the stupid Yoruba buts, Look at these images I have attached side by side.
Image 1: Celebrates Ibo women marrying Yoruba men as achieving through the bedrooms of Yoruba elites what Azikiwe could not achieve through oratory and Ojukwu through guns.
Image 2 and 3: Two quote cards attribute to Azikiwe claims about the Ibo people being destined to lead Africa.
Image 4: Shows Ojukwu’s letter to Victor Banjo, proposing Biafran forces enter and “liberate” Yorubaland, with conditions that included Biafran authority over political decisions and a Biafran-appointed administrator for Lagos.
Can you now see how this messages connect across generations. Like I said, you will always FAIL like your fore fathers.
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
Here we go again with the irrational and unreasonable crying, and the thinking that you can insult and bully others to follow your candidate… Dey Play. But, must you always cry hatred?
There are 6 (SIX) geopolitical zones in this country, comprising of 36 states and the FCT.
The total number of Yoruba states is 6.
Take out the SW block, you would still have is 30 states + FCT left to contest in. So you can DEFINITELY win without the Yorubas. The constitution only requires you to win 25% in 24 states to meet the territorial spread requirement. So, your zone and three other zones will do the trick.
You do NOT need the SW block to support you to win the Presidency. Instead of always crying hate and victim, why not just extend olive branches across the Niger and to your immediate neighbors, forge partnerships and strike deals.
Why is your focus ALWAYS on Yorubas? We aren’t even neighbors on the geopolitical zones’ boundary.
A Yoruba candidate won the election without votes from the South East. He didn’t cry hatred when he couldn’t secure 5% of the votes. He understood that it is politics.
This is the political arena, if you want to win, you must forge partnerships.
Let’s even say we all want to be tribal bigots together.
Tinubu failed ( A Yoruba man)
We are left with 2 competent people . An Igbo man ( Peter Obi) and another Yoruba man( Seyi makinde) but somehow you want yet another Yoruba man to take over?
Regardless of how you spin this thing. It simply doesn’t make sense.
It is no longer even about bigotry it is simply genuine hatred for the Igbo race.
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
Schrodinger's Christianity.
Nigerian Christians cannot seem to decide whether the US is a Christian country or not. When it bombs the Middle East, it inot acting as a Christian nation. When it legislates LGBTQIA+ rights, it is not a Christian country. When it invades Venezuela, it is not, When it bombs Libya, it is not. When it cripples Cuba, it is not.
But when a Muslim comes into power, the US suddenly becomes a Christian state once again.
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
This government doesn't express itself properly. It sees every suggestion and contribution it does not like as an attack, and it doesn't have good spokespersons.
Let's look at the good side of the reforms. GDP in Q2 2026 was at 4.48%. It's not as high as it was under the Yar'Adua/Jonathan government, but during the Buhari years, the economy grew by 0.9%. Today it's at 4.5%. That's progress. Inflation is down from 30% to 14.6% and is projected to be 12.5% by the end of the year. That is progress.
GDP per capita in dollar terms has gone up since 2023 by 47%. If we continue at this rate, by the end of next year, GDP per capita will be back to where it was in 2005. Our reserves are at $55 billion, and yes, a lot of it is driven by portfolio flows, which are volatile, but we are lucky that there is a war in the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices are high. Investors would like to stay in Nigeria because of that and the high returns, and therefore we get the portfolio flows.
We are also making progress in terms of diversification. 20% of our exports are coming from the Dangote Refinery. There are clearly foundations being laid for stability. It's not the end, but the first step towards stability.
I'm not a fan of politicians, but we need to give credit to President Tinubu's administration for bringing us back from the brink.
— Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, speaking today at the Oxford Global Think Tank conference convened by Arunma Oteh.
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
Two interesting things I discovered this week are:
1. That you can get genuine court affidavits online from the Nigerian Federal High Court. A genuine one, not the ones those roadside people give you.
The website has all sorts of affidavits, even ones I didn't know existed.
2. The National Population Commission has a working portal. You can register your newborn online and get a certified birth certificate that is accepted worldwide.
You can do all these things without any bureaucracy.
For 1, visit: portal.fhc.gov.ng/
For 2, visit: vitalreg-selfservice.nationa…
Joseph Adedeji
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
Esq, distinguishing figurative intent from literal, is simple. And please, drop your abstract examples of metaphor; the case at hand involves two real, verifiable conditions.
If a teacher says 'my class is a zoo,' and a staff says 'no, students are not animals,' the teacher won’t produce animal charts to prove her point, she just laughs and says 'it’s just a figure of speech.'
But when Mum Zee said 'pregnancy is not a death sentence' and people kept giving cases of maternal mortality to prove her wrong. You didn’t take that as a sign that the exchange wasn’t about a metaphor but a literal assertion of fact??.
When a dispute is fought using factual evidence, it is a literal debate over actual outcomes, not a literary exercise. You don’t use factual evidence to argue “the class is a zoo”, nor “life is a journey” nau😂.
It was AFTER sufficient medical opinion saturated the air on the subject that they tried taking the “literary” license to evade the critic of the travesty.
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
On Friday, 30th of October, I will present my manifesto for Lagos, outlining my vision and priorities for the years ahead.
My focus is to sustain our progress, address areas that need more attention and create opportunities for every Lagosian to thrive.
The future of Lagos must put people first and our plans must reflect their hopes, concerns and everyday realities.
From completing and connecting our rail lines, improving road and water transportation and expanding access to affordable housing, to strengthening security and upgrading healthcare across our 57 LGAs and LCDAs, we must keep making life better. Every community deserves safe roads, reliable public services and opportunities to prosper.
Education, skills development and job creation will remain central to our vision. We must equip young people with the knowledge, technology and practical skills to succeed, support entrepreneurs and small businesses and ensure that talent translates into opportunity, regardless of background, gender, religion or place of origin.
We must also protect our environment through better waste management, flood prevention, improved drainage and the protection of our coastal communities. We will continue to promote responsible governance, support traders and businesses and manage public resources to deliver real value.
Progress is not just about how far we have come but how many lives we improve along the way. Building on the foundation laid by successive administrations, we must protect what works, improve what needs attention and embrace ideas that meet Lagos’ changing needs.
My commitment is to a Lagos that is safer, more accessible, prosperous and inclusive. A Lagos where opportunity reaches every community and every resident has a stake in our shared future.
Together, we will build on our progress and move Lagos forward with purpose, accountability and the people at the centre of every decision.
That is my PROMISE.
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
Nothing bad at all. Azikiwe our first ever President was Ibo.
Our VP in the Second Republic Alex Ekeweme was Ibo
Our first ever military Head of State,Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi. was Ibo.
Our first ever Senate President of Nigeria , Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was Ibo.
Dennis Osadebay another senate president was Ibo.
Nwafor Orizu a Senate President was Ibo.
The first Senate President of the Fourth Republic, Evan Enwerem was Ibo.
After him was another Ibo, the charismatic Chuba Okadigbo.
After him another Ibo, the stabilizer, Anyim Pius Anyim.
Then right after him another Ibo, Adolphus Wabara.
The we had Ken Nnamani who opposed OBJ and stood on the side of history to reject the "third term agenda".
So Ibos have lead us. Especially in positions where it mattered the most—the national assembly where the laws that govern us as a people are made.
It is fallacious to assume that Peter Obi is the first man to want lead us.
Yorùbás can allow Charlatans like Obi to be governor especially when making a point, but we will never present a character like Peter Obi to the centre. Never!
Let the North speak for themselves
The first issue is that @PeterObi can not be house boy to all these Ibo great men politically. What is his pedigree? Who is he in the grand scheme of things?
Secondly, what is the value of the Ibo vote in Nigeria? Ziltch, nothing, zero. It doesn't matter if the entire 20 million of you vote, it still wouldn't amount to anything. The South South has electoral value than the Ibos.
Thirdly, what is the economic value of the Ibos, take them out of Nigeria and everyone will pause for a second, observe and continue as if nothing happened.
An example is the "Sit-at-home" that went on for 5 years. It paralyzed the economy of the entire South East but was so insignificant that the rest Nigeria did not notice anything was amiss. What we did notice was an avalanche of Ibos trouping to the SW and other parts of Nigeria enmass to escape their economically dry region.
Obi Epitomises everything that was wrong with the "Sit-at-home".
Fourthly, all the positions that Ibos held previously were "dashed". They didn't have to work for it because they pitched camp with the PDP who used them as low end side chicks.
When APC took over, everything was based on merit and the amount of contributions to the party's success at the polls. The Ibos once again made a suicidal political choice by rejecting APC and presenting the lamest of candidates—Peter Obi.
Lastly, no one forgets history.
Even as Ibo leaders tried under OBJ and Jonathan to erase history from our schools, we will never forget.
It wasn't about the Coup in January 1966. It was the malicious intent and manner it was carried out and the subsequent and utter greed at appropriating everything to themselves. We saw it in '66, we saw it again under Jonathan we see it in MDAs that Ibos are appointed and have authority.
The other regions are weary of another charlatan like Obi. Even as brilliant as Soludo is, if he runs it will take everything for him to be accepted because of history; how much less a
man whose personal advisors are mad men.
Bayaan 💎 retweeted
Joseph, you hold this view because you see the same figures such as Moses, Jesus, and Abraham in the Quran, and you assume it copied the Bible. No, it did not. Let me explain some historical and theological nuances you don’t know to you.
The Quran does not contain the Bible. However, it shares the same historical framework because both originate from the same divine source. God sent thousands of prophets with one core message: Monotheism.
Over centuries, the followers of these past prophets failed to protect their scriptures. Human errors, political edits, cultural biases and deliberate alterations corrupted the original texts, therefore burying the core message under layers of human interpretation.
Because of this widespread corruption, the Quran serves as the final divine filter. If you check the Quran, you would see that it confirms the original truths given to those past prophets while correcting the theological contradictions men inserted into the older texts.
This is why the Quran recounts similar events but changes the theological implications entirely. When you read older translated texts, you find prophets allegedly committing gross moral crimes or doctrines like inherited sin.
The Quran filters out such human slander and restores the pure narrative of individual accountability and the honorable status of the messengers (peace be upon them).
Trace this back to your point about language. You point out that the Bible was not written in a single language as if that is an advantage. That is a critical vulnerability.
You know why? Jesus spoke Aramaic, yet the earliest surviving biblical manuscripts are in Greek. The Greek ones were translated to Latin, and then English.
Every time a text jumps across entirely different language families, the original linguistic structure collapses. A human translator interprets ancient idioms and injects their own cultural bias.
Take an ancient Semitic idiom as a practical example. In Aramaic, calling a person a "son of God" was a common cultural metaphor for a righteous servant. It carried zero literal meaning.
However, when translators moved that same text into Greek, it entered a society built on pagan mythology where gods routinely fathered literal children. The Greek audience applied their own cultural lens to the translated phrase.
They stripped away the Semitic metaphor and interpreted it as a biological fact. That single linguistic shift birthed an entirely new theology that corrupted the original monotheistic message. That chain of translation is how those original messages got butchered in the first place.
Fortunately, Islam shut down this loophole. The final revelation was locked in its original Arabic to preserve the divine source code and protect the corrections it established.
We have translations across almost all languages for basic understanding, but the Arabic remains the supreme standard to prevent men from replacing the word of God with the mindset of a translator.
I hope this helps your understanding.
Allah knows best.
