Ikhide R. Ikheloa @ikhide

Watching two souls heal each other is a gift. So happy Benny found his forever home with Walter. Adoption saves more than just dogs. It saves hearts. 🐶❤️

Mind you, this is what intelligence sounds like to most Nigerians. This is exactly why I’m insisting that the Olodo argument shouldn't be limited to English-speaking vs Agbero-sounding. Neither determines intelligence. Nigeria has many English-speaking Olodos.

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Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection

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“God made Blues right after he made woman.” — B. B. King

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#NaijaDiary A day in the life of a nurse

"The roadside mechanic who cheers the national football team with passionate abandon is the same man who, the following week, sells adulterated fuel to passing motorists, or who looks away as a neighbour’s motorcycle is dismantled for parts to be sold to the very criminals who will use them for hit-and-run attacks. This is not nihilism, but a cold calculus: the state has long ceased to offer protection, so the citizen builds his own shelter by making peace with the predators." - Abdullahi Hamza on Facebook 06-27-2026 Read 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾😭😭😭 The Dönmeh, a Turkish word meaning “converts” or “turncoats,” were a sect of crypto-Jews in the former Ottoman Empire who lived a life of outward conformity and hidden devotion. They came into being in seventeenth-century Salonica, now Thessaloniki in Greece, after the Jewish mystic Sabbatai Zevi declared himself the Messiah. When the Ottoman Sultan forced Zevi to accept Islam in 1666 to escape execution, hundreds of his followers went with him into Islam, and in doing so they formed a community that was syncretic in form but singular in purpose. In daily life the Dönmeh bore an Islamic face to the world. They observed the public rites of the Muslim calendar, attended mosque, gave Muslim names on official registers and kept the outward habits expected of Ottoman subjects, for to do otherwise was to invite suspicion and persecution. In much the same manner, Nigeria has bred its own multitude of turncoats, not in the sphere of faith but in that of national belonging. The public square is a stage upon which politicians and ordinary citizens alike perform a strenuous patriotism, yet the private recesses of the heart and the hidden ledger of daily action often tell a story of banditry, insurgency and a quiet treason against the very republic they claim to serve. The politician is the most visible of these double souls. He steps to the podium in a flowing agbada of green and white, his voice rising with practised fervour to invoke the name of the fatherland, the sacrifice of the ancestors and the radiant future that awaits a united Nigeria. Yet this same man, when the cameras are switched off and the aides have withdrawn, is often a financier of nomadic raiders, a silent partner in the diversion of military logistics, or a tribal chieftain who stokes ethnic enmity to ensure that his own region will vote for him again. The analogy extends far beyond the political class, for the ordinary Nigerian has also learned the art of the double life. In public, at the town hall meeting or the village square, one hears the ritual denunciations of bandits and insurgents, the chorus of solidarity with the armed forces, and the stern declarations that Nigeria must be indivisible. At church and mosque, prayers are offered for the president and for peace in the land. But in the private economy of survival, that same citizen may be the informant who tells the kidnappers which trader has just collected a large payment, the driver who transports stolen cattle across state lines for a fee, or the village elder who negotiates with the insurgents not to drive them out but to keep the raids confined to neighbouring communities. The roadside mechanic who cheers the national football team with passionate abandon is the same man who, the following week, sells adulterated fuel to passing motorists, or who looks away as a neighbour’s motorcycle is dismantled for parts to be sold to the very criminals who will use them for hit-and-run attacks. This is not nihilism, but a cold calculus: the state has long ceased to offer protection, so the citizen builds his own shelter by making peace with the predators. The tragedy is that this double life has ceased to be a scandal and has become a condition of citizenship, so that to be Nigerian is increasingly to inhabit two irreconcilable selves: one that salutes the flag, and another that profits from its burning. - Abdullahi Hamza on Facebook 06-27-2026

@olusola_alani Used to? Na now I fine sef!😎

I think the first portrait was in 1976 at my matriculation at the Great University of Benin, the Harvard of Africa! The degree? B.Sc Biochemistry, Second Class, Lower (1979)! Three tough years, because I didn't like the structured classroom culture. I am still here.

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"Everything Ycee said is on point, but the thing is that Peller is not the cause, Peller is a symptom. He's also a victim of the Olodo institution in Nigeria. When we talk about Olodo, some people think they are far from it. I have said this before, the average young Nigerian is an Olodo—dåft and lacking critical thinking. There are certain Olodos who have over 3 million followers on social media, which means the 3 million people following them are also Olodos." — Solomon Buchi reacts after Ycee referred to Peller as an "Olodo Uprising."

CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE

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"Nigerian society is no longer celebrating academic excellence. It’s not even Yahøø culture anymore; now we have a 'Peller culture.' This 'Olodo' uprising we are witnessing is terrible. It feels like we are trying so hard to accommodate ignorance so people won’t feel bad, and now

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"Nigerian society is no longer celebrating academic excellence. It’s not even Yahøø culture anymore; now we have a 'Peller culture.' This 'Olodo' uprising we are witnessing is terrible. It feels like we are trying so hard to accommodate ignorance so people won’t feel bad, and now they seem to be the majority. The massive attack on Nigeria’s educational system is alarming, aside from kidnappings and Bøko Haram attacks." —Ycee

"A lot of what's going wrong in the UK is you're talking around your Muslim population, rather than talking to them." @ericweinstein tells @piersmorgan why he moved two London taxi drivers to tears during his visit. Watch more 👇 📺 youtu.be/XJH5YSo1ifg

Trump does the equivalent of Watergate a dozen times a day smh.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

3 days ago

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

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“To start akara business doesn’t take a lot of money. To start roasting corn or kuli-kuli doesn’t take much. We have encouraged Nigerians as best as we could, we have given people a grant, I also gave to several others.” -Remi Tinubu, First Lady of Nigeria. Husband is building coastal highway. Wife is telling people to roast corn and sell kulikuli by the roadside. What kind of satanic leaders do we have?

“To start Akara business doesn't take a lot of money. To start roasting corn and kuli-kuli doesn't take much. We didn't give them a loan, we gave them a grant. We have encouraged Nigerians as best as we could.” - First Lady Remi Tinubu

COVER REVEAL Leonard came to England with a plan: work hard, pass his exams, and become something more. Then he met Natasha. She is magnetic, unpredictable, and impossible to resist.

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Wow.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

3 days ago

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

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Iran vs. Trump 🤣🤣🤣

衝撃bot @minnano_dougaww

3 days ago

狩る側から狩られる側になる瞬間

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Because of you, we won this race. I’m proud to be the Democratic nominee to represent the community that made me who I am. I’ll work with everything I have to live up to your trust. To all who knocked doors, spread the word, or pitched in: I couldn’t be more grateful. Thank you

It's not because of the trappings of power o, but I would make a good vice chancellor! Hmmmm! Let me text my good friend Jagaban!🏃🏾‍♂️🏃🏾‍♂️🏃🏾‍♂️