A search for a nameless thing.
Ibadan, Nigeria
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“I cannot find anybody capable of producing a solution to the suffering masses of this country. The most unfortunate thing is that the much talked about civilian regime is going to be worse than the military administration.” -Chief Níyì Òníòrorò, The Country is Hard, 1968.
Lábándélé Òníòroró retweeted
Your parents are human. If you want them to treat you humanely, address them humanely.
I was 14 when we first relocated to the village. Left my father to work in the city as mum tended to the new homestead.
She grew increasingly agitated. Very short-tempered. Would lash out at me and my young bro (My elder bro was away in campus). Everything she said, was said at high pitch. So much so, my young bro, who was about 8 at the time started hiding from her. He would follow me everywhere just to be away from her.
That's when I knew it had gotten bad. So one night after she'd cooked. I just told her as respectfully as I could, that she'd changed. I said we'd come to a place where both my young bro and I were scared of her because this new shouting her was not something she'd raised us on.
Surprisingly, she opened up. Said she felt like we were not helping enough, or had to be pushed to do things: sweep the sheep pen, clean the chicken coop, draw water from the well, which was draining her. And she was not wrong, but for us it was just being silly. Childhood laziness. Shirking.
But in that moment, I saw her struggles too. New village, new circumstances, husband far away, not to mention the fear that probably accosted her at night in a new place. Makes you realize they are human too. Just older. Not to mention, we were her entire life now. All friends she had, she left behind.
I told her we were sorry. She said she was sorry, would not shout again. Next morning I was up by 6 am doing last night's utensils. Woke bro up by 8 am, handed him broom to sweep verandah and chicken coop. By the time mom was up, we'd pulled water from the well, tied the sheep and cows and swept the pens. Etc.
At night, she stood to go check if the gate was closed, I stopped her. Told her I would do it. Before I retreated to my simba (hut), to sleep. Became my responsibility henceforth.
There were slipups every once in a while, but the shouting went. So did the hostility. We all did our best to make it work with father away.
Parents have very real anxieties they can't always share with us. Be kind. Be respectful. Parent-child relationship is not a battle for supremacy. It's a negotiation, with yourselves and your ever changing circumstances.
Be with them what you wish to see in them.
Never heard anyone pronounce the name "Obongjayar". Never tried to as well. I think I am scared to.
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Our government demolishes EVERY building where a crime such as kidnapping is carried out. Google it to verify. I didn't make this up. If there's intellectual docility in the Uni, it will appear everywhere including the government.
A student died from a Driver's negligence and the school clinic's irresponsibility...
And what was the response?????
"No Bus should come inside school to pick students"
I don't know, but it just feel like common sense flew out of the window.
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Am I normal finding this funny? 😂 😂 😂 😂
Solomon really did have supernatural wisdom, because he lived a sensuous life of debauchery and idolatry with a frankly staggering number of women in his bed, the literal dream of many men, and whilst in the middle of it, he has the sense to go "This sucks, actually".
Most dudes that deep in just keep on with that kind of lifestyle, not understanding why they aren't happy, or why they feel hollow. Apart from the Holy Spirit, at least.
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Lábándélé Òníòroró retweeted
I remembered when Akinola bullied me and no one could stand up to him, non of my classmates could.. They kept their tails in between their legs... Mass communication cowards, the institution itself thrives on violence and oppression.
A change is needed.
At the health centre, you get maltreated, instead of treated. At the school's gate, you are a cultist, until proven innocent. Really, the students deserve better. This incident just makes me remember all those days I couldn't wait to leave. I sighed, but still worried.
A student has to die before student welfare becomes a priority?
We pay medical and supposed health insurance fees, yet we're checked at the gates daily.
Must someone present an ID card before their LIFE is attended to?
OOU needs more than condolences. We need accountability.
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Stop & search at OOU school gate doesn't stop cultism. Lecturer still jumped 4 floors to flee guys with machetes. Stop the stop & search, its an act of denial of a supposed institution of learning's capacity to proffer solutions. This was why I was locked up for two days. The...
exercise can't be all the great professors can come up with. It is not until more lives are lost that something is done. No life should have been lost in the first place. If we can't be innovative, we can atleast copy a working system from other places.
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If so, explain or attach evidences. If you are just talking from your gut, you may actually be wrong and that may mean blood on your hands.
No disrespect, a person is in a good economy like Germany with jobs existing, able bodied, sane & chooses not to work! Such is a waste of human existence & Oxygen. Much better dead.
They are like that person given a talent and went to hide it. Such a person deserves nothing
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Doesn't look like his only fear is women.
In Rwanda, 71 year old Callixte Nzamwita has reportedly spent 55 years living in isolation due to an extreme fear of women.
He built a fence around his home at 16 to avoid contact and has relied on neighbors leaving food and water from a distance ever since.
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I get one guy wey get 6 babes at a time. All of them know say na poly him be. He no hide am, nor deceive them. No car and he no dey lie give babe say he get money and all of them still dey support am. This thing go embarrass my guy.
Omo, I just hear one new format wey some guys dey use chop girls o! 😂
Dem go carry babe inside car, then branch one building site wey still dey under construction.. the site no be their own o. Dem go leave the babe inside the car with AC on, come down to greet the workers and engage them in small talks. Before dem leave, dem go bring out small cash give the workers. The babe go dey observe for inside car
Dem go now enter the car and tell the babe say the workers dey really try, say e don spend many millions on the project and still get plenty money to spend so the building go finish on time.
Omo, from that moment, the babe go begin reason am differently. She go wan loyal because she don see say the guy get serious investment and plenty expenses. She fit even begin manage herself financially, with the hope say when the project finally finish, she go enjoy the benefits too.
Lábándélé Òníòroró retweeted
I believe that success, relative as it might be, is indicated more by culture than by any one notable event. What I mean is that success is not a lottery. It is systematic, structural and habitual.
Like me, most of my friends are children or descendants of people who made something significant of their lives. And while not many of them are particularly liquid, it may be false to say they don’t have at least some privilege in the conventional sense.
What I have observed, however, is that people from such backgrounds are more likely to organise themselves and their resources, prioritise relationships, avoid waste, and work with a sense of urgency that sometimes borders on restlessness. They can be labelled as “too serious”.
As if they want to maintain and sustain a streak of socioeconomic security and improve it.
By contrast, most of the people I have met who constantly talk about “hustling” and making money, and I say this sincerely, though I could be wrong, seem a little too relaxed about it all. They can spend hours watching TikTok videos, almost as though to distract themselves from reality. They know several Netflix series and can spend an entire afternoon and evening just talking. They might work, but it’s more intense and unstructured than consistent.
Interestingly, they are also more likely to be swayed by trends and the latest ideas about how to “make it”.
It is fascinating to observe.
And it reminds me of the statement by Naval Ravikant: “Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.”
Anyone who has watched people obsess over the apparent drive and ambition of successful individuals, only to get close enough to discover that those individuals are not particularly driven in practice, but merely seem to hang around like children who have grown bored with their toys, will understand what I mean.
I’d observe and think: how do you claim to want a better life and great fulfilment, yet remain lackadaisical about redefining or strengthening your position to increase your chances? Then, every so often, you become intensely interested in some new idea, try it out in the hope that it will be the one that changes everything, and eventually return to the same pattern.
Perhaps a key distinction both groups is that some people treat success as a way of life, while others treat it as an event they are waiting to experience. And it’s all good.
The irony in Nigeria is that the Police is willing to kill innocent people and protect criminals. I don't subscribe to extrajudicial killings, but if this were a protest, killing/shooting is imminent.
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Never knew they could repossess the prepaid meter. That's insane.
Saw this on one of my Whatsapp groups.
EKEDC IN DESPERATION
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I installed an 18kW solar power system at my property in Lekki Phase 1, relegating EKEDC supply to a backup status. Since then, I have been having more frequent visits from personnel of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), coming to check my prepaid meter.
On one of those visits, the EKEDC team stood watching the meter for motion to indicate consumption. When the meter wasn't moving, they called me to say they suspected I had bypassed the meter. I told them I had enough solar power for my daytime needs and only used their supply as a backup for the dark hours. To prove this to them, I switched on my inverter bypass for about 2 minutes so my consumption would be from EKEDC. They saw the meter rotating normally. They were visibly upset and one of them mumbled something like "This ọ̀gá no wan gree us chop". They left.
Today (19-Oct-2026), three of them came to my premises with a notice of disconnection. The last time I loaded an EKEDC token was in July 2026 and I still had ample units left. When I asked why they would disconnect me, they said the reason was "LOR" (Loss of Revenue). They said my slow consumption indicates a faulty meter and I had to pay them ₦112,606 for loss of revenue.
I told them my meter was not faulty and that they could test it if they wanted. The lady said they were losing revenue and they had to make up for it.
I didn't know whether to laugh or to be angry. I have no intention of paying EKEDC a dime for its loss of revenue due to my taking steps to protect my interest.
But, I share this story for all who are investing in solar power to know that the DisCos are now desperate. They now have "Loss of Revenue" as a reason for your disconnection from their supply. It is simply that they are not making enough money from you.
I am waiting for EKEDC to disconnect me from their grid before I lodge a formal complaint to the regulatory authority.
We are in interesting times in Nigeria!
Raphael Awoseyin
19-Oct-2026
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My neighbour, Timi, cooked and ate only beans and lived in a walkwa- sized room.
We talked every day till 1 or 2 am. He made me love finance. I have told him over 70 businesses I wanted to start and accessed them from the finance angle.
I will never forget him
Today well spent with my brother Segun Agbaje, Group CEO of GTCO. With 51 years of friendship between us, it’s a pleasure catching up and exchanging ideas 💭 …F.Ote💲
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Read a story tonight(link below)of a male pastor handjobbing guys in his church.
I am so interested in sycophancy development. How human brains are wiped and you input your own OS(operating system), because I know the strategy is the solution as well as the problem. Not force
The story
I write this with a very heavy heart, but also with a sense of responsibility towards those involved in the whole mess and as a way of informing the general public.
A young student reached out to me on X in 2019. He desired to have an encounter with the Holy Spirit, and I gave him a call. Within an hour, he was filled with the Holy Spirit, and not only him but other students in his room and beyond that his entire hostel.
We were on that call for over three hours, and even after I hung up, the fire of the Holy Spirit continued to burn in the entire hostel.
It was unbelievable to many who had never seen the move of the Holy Spirit in that light before. The president of the student fellowship on that campus heard about what happened and asked the young man to reach out to me and invite me to their annual programme at their university
They were all students, and when they reached out, I responded as I have always done. I told them I would pay for my own transportation and upkeep. I expect no honorarium from them, but I expect them to be eager to learn about the Lord Jesus and walk in the reality of His power through the Holy Spirit.
I went to their school and attended the event. It was monumental, as diverse kinds of miracles broke out at that event.
This campus fellowship president somehow decided that he would align himself with me and the work of God that has been placed in my hands.
I, however, do not believe in ministers submitting their ministries to another person or someone claiming that he was the one who gave another person a platform to thrive as a believer. I believe that if a young minister needs my support to stand on his own and thrive, I should not restrain myself but make sure I offer everything I can to ensure that such a young minister becomes successful.
I supported this young minister in every way; he wove himself into my network, his became the adopted ministry that members of our fellowship supported financially and materially in every possible way.
We set up his church in 2021 and built a church for him so that he would no longer need to rent a space in 2024.
By all standards, he came into success, and I can beat my chest that he would surpass those of us who started a bit late because he started early, and he was having a very strong impact on his community and the body of Christ at large.
Three weeks ago, he called me and told me he was in some financial mess and would need my help.
I ignored him because I had noticed a pattern with him over the years, which I found to be very unflattering.
He was always begging, cajoling, manipulating, and sometimes even acting in an aggressive manner towards people for money.
I had called him aside and warned him several times to desist from this mindset. "I have not chopped anything out of his money" is not the right mindset of a believer.
I also knew that the same way he called me soliciting for funds, he would have called several other members of our ministry the same way.
That was his Modus Operandi over time so that he would get as much as possible from as many people as possible to resolve one issue.
He liked playing all of us against one another and he was not averse to trading gossip and negative information about to others to another in order to ingratiate himself with someone he deemed a target for his financial benefit.
Within a week, another person from his church reached out to me on X, asking that I let him send me a DM because of something he wanted to report to me.
I reached out to the person, and I was told the most horrible thing that I have heard in recent years.
I was told this young minister sexually molests and assaults the male members of his ministry.
I was told this has been going on for years and that there are many victims who are coming out and demanding justice at his church location.
I reached out to three pastors and begged them to help establish the truth of these allegations.
The pastors reached out to the person who contacted me, and he in turn reached out to the others.
The total number of young men whom this young man had sexually stimulated with his hands until they ejaculated was at least four.
The others whose sex organs he touched and stimulated but not to the point of ejaculation were ten.
In total, fourteen people came forward.
Others told the story of this young man telling them to strip their clothing and using anointing oil to "wank" them in the name of conducting deliverance for them; others talked about how he used guile to collect money from them and even land properties, etc.
My heart sank.
I don't think I have ever cried as I have in the last three weeks. For days, I just remained in bed, staring into space and mourning in silence.
I am no stranger to human beings and their ability to hurt you for loving them and believing in them, but this one hit me in a different way.
His victims are in their late teens and early twenties. They begged me to step in and ensure that they get justice.
I reached out to this young man, and he lied and lied and lied. He said there had been a word of prophecy that something like that would happen, but God said they would come back and beg him, and that he should not defend himself.
I reached out to my lawyer and the Heads of Ministries to seek their counsel.
They said it is a criminal offence and that the case must be taken up with the police.
On the 23rd of September 2026, four of the victims went to the police station to report the case
We also engaged a lawyer for them; a petition was written and submitted.
I called the young man into a meeting last weekend, and I discovered that he was still being sly. He had told the other minister at whose house we had the meeting that he was innocent of the crime three days before the meeting.
His inability to see what was going on and be remorseful was beyond me. It was like seeing a monster come fully out of its cave.
After the meeting that day, I realised that it would be best if i washed my hands of this young man and distanced myself from him completely.
Two days later, I got a call from another pastor. This young man had gone to this friend to tell a version of the story that was still untrue, and he was aiming to use me to sort out his victims, pay off his debts, placate them and make them forgive him so that he could return to the church we built for him to continue his life.
All I was useful for in his estimation was to help him solve the problem, but I was deemed unworthy of the truth, and his victims were unworthy of his remorse or contrition.
I challenged the Pastor to ask him to tell him the truth. I told him not to come to me defending a lie. Did he admit he did those things? I said I wouldn't lift a finger to help him unless he at least owned up to the evil that he did.
The pastor called me back later and said, "He has admitted that he touched this one and that one and those ones and whatever else"
Wow.
As a ministry, we have reached out to his victims, and I will be having a meeting with them in a few days. Therapists have also been invited to be in the meeting, and so have elderly ministers of the gospel.
The aim is for their healing and to ensure that the trauma he unleashed on them wouldn't spread to other people in the future.
I wrote this so that the victims can read in my own hand all that had transpired and note that nothing has been covered up or swept under the carpet.
I am also praying for the young man involved that he would find his way to the Lord in humility and that he would also confront the demon he is fighting by facing his victims and truly apologising to them for the evil he meted out on them.
As for me, I have not been myself, and I believe that by doing this, I will be able to shed this weight on my chest and move on with my assignment in Christ at the same speed I was going before this hard halt.
The pain feels like the cut of a thousand swords. Too many questions and too few answers.
I apologise to the young man's victims. I know they have questions, but I wish they had spoken up earlier. I also apologise to all those who would have expected me to have seen it or noticed it somehow.
I never kept quiet over this young man, as God is my witness. I kept shouting, but only a few listened to me, and at a point it felt like I was deliberately witch-hunting him.
I make no excuses; I should have known, and I am very sorry for dropping the ball in this terrible manner.
I thank you all for your patience.
The police are actively investigating the young man.
His victims are receiving all the support we can give and more.
We have not rested a minute since the moment the information was presented to us.
I thank everybody for their patience.
-GSW-
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