Sam Obianyor

@ronaldnzimora I agree with this one.

Let me annoy some of you "emergency Igbo culture custodians" some more with more truths and facts and Igbo culture. Here's another fact: If you marry a woman, any child she bears you WHILE STILL LIVING WITH YOU (that is you have not divorced her) is YOUR CHILD, even if another man is responsible for that pregnancy. Yes, our culture says that, any child borne by a woman while living with a man who paid her bride price is his child. This is so we could preserve the concept of no child being a bastard. In the past, AGAIN that is BEFORE COLONISATION and CHRISTIANITY came, even if the man knows the pregnancy isn't his, he either doesn't reveal it and just accepts it (to save face and avoid ridicule) or he divorces her BEFORE she bears the child. In fact, even divorcing her doesn't resolve because the child she bears is still regarded as his child because she took in while living with him! Okay, now y'all can start crying and cursing me again.

@ronaldnzimora In Anambra where I'm from, our surnames arw linked to our fathers/male forebears. This is so too for Enugu. I can't tell for Imo or Abia.

Another fact about Igbo culture for you "emergency Igbo culture custodians". Before colonialism and Christianity, there were no surnames. Children were known by their FIRST NAME and MOTHER'S NAME. For example, if your name is Chibuike and Your mother's name is Mgborie, you were called Chibuike Nwa Mgborie. Why was it so? Because in Igbo culture, the child is seen as belonging to their Mum. Also, back then because most men were polygamous, it made more sense for children to be recognized by their mother's names father than their father's. It was Christian missionaries who introduced the concept of surnames and then instead of retaining the mother's names as the surname, switched it to be the father's name because that was their own practice. Even till date, people might refer to you as "Nwa (insert your mother's name)" Surnames are a "new" and foreign concept for Igbo people. If this upsets you, yet you claim to love your Mum, you are a fool indeed.

@Kene_Nnewi There are still others who have made it in the same Ghana and other places. Bad cases always make news.

IBUTE IKE (Ego Mbute) Sometime December last year my laundry guy came to me to inform me that he's traveling and won't continue to wash my clothes....he brought my remaining clothes in his possession...This is a guy I have linked to all the bigger boys in my community...he goes to their houses, pick up dirty clothes, take to his shop, wash and iron, package and take back and collect his money...He was doing it and things was just moving swiftly...When I asked him where are you traveling to he said Ghana...I asked him again to go and do what exactly? He said he's going to H.K that one of his classmates is there already and is making it big that he doesn't see himself being a bigger boy with laundry business....I took my time to explain to him that he's already a bigger boy who makes money weekly because there's no week he doesn't go round to pick up dirty clothes...After talking to him he told me he already made up his mind sold his washing machine, generator, iron infact someone is on the verge of taking his shop....I asked him the people I linked you up to hope none of their clothes is in your custody he said he has delivered and never picked up fresh clothes...I said okay then safe trip to Ghana...since leaving a work that's paying you to go to HK in Ghana is better ijeoma to you. Life goes on....to my greatest surprise on our way back from Nanka yesterday...I saw him at our community bus stop...I had to tell the person carrying me to stop...I called him Chimezie abi na your ghost? He said Oga Onwa na me ooo...I came down looking at him makachi he's so lean and malnutrished...Boy what happened? Ibuterozi ike na Ghana? He said Oga Onwa what I saw in Ghana is not what I expected....All I said to him is welcome and we zoomed off.. Now he's back to square 1.... "Ife onye Cho ka ofu"

@israel_ajoje The pull on the hair was soft to me. But why do it at all? Why give the referee to a decision to make? If VAR doesn't call, there'll be a huge cry. If the referee doesn't make the call, why then is there the law? A hair pull is a hair pull. Just don't do it.

Referees make two kinds of mistakes. The kind that gets talked about and the kind that gets buried. Today there was one of each. Lisandro Martinez was sent off for pulling Calvert-Lewin's hair. IFAB Law 12 explicitly states that a player must be sent off for making a clear action to pull the hair of an opponent with force. The referee saw force and the law gave him no alternative. That decision has a legal basis whether you agree with the assessment or not. Then there is the first goal Leeds scored today. Okafor fouled Leny Yoro before his header that led to the opener. That foul was not called and the goal stood. Bruno Fernandes stood in front of Sky Sports cameras afterwards and said he could not talk about the referee or he would get into big trouble. He did not need to say anything else. The smile said the rest. Both things can be true simultaneously. The red card was legally defensible. The uncalled foul was not. United have a genuine grievance on one count and a harder argument on the other. Knowing which is which matters. The reason Bruno Fernandes unfortunately could not speak freely is FA Rule E3. It prohibits any player, manager or club official from making post-match comments that imply bias, question the integrity of a match official, or bring the game into disrepute. It is a serious offence under the FA Rukes. Marco Silva was fined £80,000 under FA Rule E3 for post-match comments implying bias against a referee following a Premier League match in December 2023. José Mourinho was fined £50,000 and handed a suspended stadium ban for suggesting a referee was afraid to give a penalty. The rule exists, in theory, to protect referees from reputational damage and to maintain the integrity of officiating. In practice it means that the people with the most direct experience of refereeing decisions, the players and managers on the pitch, are the ones legally prevented from discussing them publicly. Everyone else, pundits, journalists, fans, can say exactly what they think. The participant who lived it cannot. That tension is not incidental to football's relationship with accountability. It is central to it. Referees do not have perfect games. Neither do players. The difference is that players face consequences for their errors in real time. Referees do not and players can't complain. How fair exactly is that? My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

@ummuh_Zahra What do women really want? He's kind but broke. He's rich but distant. Did you also reach out to him? Did you try to comfort him? Did you try to understand him too? Everything in this story is just the woman's side.

When I left my marriage, the first question people asked was: “Did he cheat?” I said no. They looked confused. “So why leave a good man?” Yes, he was a good man. He didn’t cheat. He didn’t hit me. He provided. He came home every night. But I was slowly disappearing. I would talk, and he wouldn’t hear me. I would cry, and he’d say, “You’re too emotional.” I needed comfort and got silence. There were nights I was unwell, restless, struggling beside him, and he never noticed. Not even a simple “Are you okay?” I started asking myself: “If something happens to me here, will he even know?” One day I told him, half-joking but serious: “My fear is that I could be dying, and you wouldn’t notice.” He laughed. But I meant every word. That’s when it hit me: A man can be good and still be emotionally absent. I didn’t leave because he was bad. I left because I felt alone in a place that was supposed to feel like home. So tell me: Is presence more important than provision in marriage? And if you were in her shoes, how long would you stay? 💭 Cc: chinyere charity

@slimvnsn Wonderful witing skill. Keep at it. Quite creepy. Is it the unseen forces, the heritage angle or the quintessential government abandonment? Good one bro.

Nobody told Rasheed not to go inside. That was the problem. He was twenty two. Working a contract job in Suleja. The Abuja-Kaduna highway passed right through his daily commute and every morning the white shell of the abandoned hotel sat at the foot of Zuma Rock like something the earth had half swallowed and then changed its mind about. He had heard the stories. Everyone had. The hotel started during the Shehu Shagari regime. Five star ambitions. White walls. Glass louvers. Then the money stopped or the will stopped or something else stopped that no contractor would put in writing. The building sat unfinished for decades while the rock stood behind it watching. Madalla residents called it the ghost building. People from Angwan Koro, the community directly opposite the rock, said the developers never asked the land owners before they broke ground. That the ancestors were never consulted. That the abandonment was not an accident. Rasheed was not from Angwan Koro. He did not grow up with these stories in his bones. He went inside on a Saturday afternoon in March. Just curiosity. He told himself just curiosity. The ground floor was hollow and dry. Footprints in dust that could have been anything. Concrete pillars rising to ceilings that were never plastered. Light coming through window frames with no glass. The doors long stripped by people who needed doors more than they feared the building. He went up to the second floor. That was where he heard it. Not wind. Something beneath wind. A low consistent sound that had no direction. Coming from everywhere and from nothing. The kind of sound that makes the body decide before the mind has finished its argument. He came back down faster than he went up. Outside in the afternoon light he stood with his hands on his knees breathing the specific way you breathe when something reminds you that you are small. An old man from the community was sitting nearby watching goats. He did not look surprised to see Rasheed emerge from the building. Just said "you heard it." Rasheed said yes. The man said the rock speaks when it wants to. That it had been speaking since before the Zuba people named it in the fifteenth century. That the hotel builders heard it too which was why their workers kept leaving. That the structure was not abandoned because of money. Money was just the version of the story that governments could put in reports. He said the building would stand there incomplete until someone sat with the elders of Angwan Koro first and asked properly. Rasheed asked how long that would take. The man looked at the rock. At the face carved into it by something older than any government that had ever tried to develop the land around it. Said it would take exactly as long as it needed to. Rasheed drove his commute differently after that. Eyes forward on the highway. Not because he was afraid. Because some places deserve to be looked at directly and he had not been ready.

@StreetsRider @Somtolism7 Bro, this is an insensitive remark to make. Nigerians appear to have a culture of victimising the victim.

@Somtolism7 Stressful, true. But it’s your right to resign if you can’t cope with it. No come online dey look for engagement say your RCA is 5k per day. Nah,na lie.

I Risked My Life for a Country That Can’t Pay Me — Who Stole Our RCA? I once saw a document in my camp stating that soldiers on operations are entitled to ₦5,000 per day as RCA. I was only getting ₦45,000 a month. Who pocketed the rest? No soldier has ever asked that question. I risked my life for a country that neither values it nor pays me fairly, all in the name of selfless service. Yet, the politicians who claim to lead us can’t even show the same commitment. In Nigeria, the military has been turned into a tool of mental and civil slavery, where soldiers bear the burden of risks, stress, and injustice. True professionalism demands fairness, accountability, and genuine care for those on the frontlines.

@OzorNdiOzor If you are 'bought' and can't finally the ransom, I'm sure that person will be killed.

A victim of kidnapping once recounted that in 2021, he was abducted by a group of kidnappers on his way to Funtua !!! They told him to pay his own release, for 3 million Naira !!! He took them for granted and kept pleading for negotiations !!! He ended up spending 3 nights with them but his family could not meet up with the ransom requested !!! On day 4 day, a different group of kidnappers visited the camp where he and others were being held !!! This new group bought 2 of the captives from the original kidnappers, including him !!! The new Grp purchased him for 3.5 million Naira, and the money was paid in cash to the first group in front of him !!! The 2 of them were transferred to a forest in Niger State, on motor bikes, where he was held for 82 days !!! He eventually paid 10 million Naira before he was released !!!

@Mikeliberation It is 'bride price' not dowry that the man pays.

My friend paid the dowry for his girlfriend on March 28. I went with him along with some other guys. Everything went well, and he was very happy that he would finally be taking his girlfriend home as his legal wife. When we were about to leave, other single ladies from her kindred started packing her things into the car we came with. We all got into the car while she and her husband were still inside her compound, bidding farewell to her people. After a while, she suddenly started crying—seriously crying. We became confused. This was someone who was supposed to be happy that she was finally getting married after a year and three months of dating her husband. Her husband was comforting her and wiping her eyes, telling her to stop crying. Eventually, I realized the reason she was crying—it was because she was missing her family. It had been over 17 years since I last saw something like that. I couldn’t believe it still happens in this generation.

@drpenking This was my first generator in 2006 and I bought it 14k or so.

This generator was never sold for even 50k. Calm down with the lies

@Admiral_Cyborg I served in the North & can confirm this. One cause is the easy divorce there. A woman with kids is stranded! I've seen women doing it with her kids outside, and sometimes in the room. Market days are the worst. Men stand in queues to have fun.

There’s a lie we Nigerians love to tell ourselves. “That kind of thing doesn’t happen in the North.” It does. It just doesn’t make noise. In the South, prostitution is loud. Streets, clubs, hotels, you see it, you snap it, you tweet it then you debate it. It’s exposed, messy, and impossible to ignore. But in the North, it wears silence like a veil. Religion didn’t erase prostitution. It buried it: Under Sharia, under community shame, under the fear of being cast out, but what you get is not purity, it's invisibility. No neon lights. No open hustle. Just coded movements, hidden arrangements, and a system that survives by not being seen. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: The more a society pretends something doesn’t exist, the more dangerous it becomes for the people trapped inside it. Because when it’s hidden: There’s no protection No conversation No accountability Just silence… and survival. In the Northern Nigeria, prostitution isn’t just a “moral failure” it’s tied to poverty, displacement, and conflict. Women in IDP camps, young girls with no economic options, what happens there rarely trends. Why? Because it clashes with the image of moral superiority. So it’s easier to look away. Meanwhile, the South gets labeled “immoral” because its problems are visible. But visibility, for all its chaos, at least allows scrutiny. The North chose silence. The South lives with exposure. Neither solved the problem. But only one pretends it doesn’t exist. And sometimes, the most dangerous society is not the one that is openly flawed but the one that hides its cracks behind religion and calls it righteousness.

@marioleo71 @chaplinez70 Happy birthday Mario. I follow your show with Sammy in Port harcourt, and I love every bit of your conversation. Happy birthday and enjoy the very best.

@chaplinez70 Thank you so much for your message and your wishes, @chaplinez70 🥳🥳

Happy birthday @marioleo71 Best wishes today and always. Enjoy.

@krizta_weist @Tope_Orus Our friends will vandalise your car to steal it, even when they don't know what it is!

@Tope_Orus Is dash cam illegal in Nigeria or why is it not popular here at all?

If a Car Hits you from Behind who is at Fault? Let’s break it down simply. You’re driving peacefully. Suddenly gbam! someone hits your car from behind. The first question everyone asks is: “Who is responsible?” As a lawyer, let me explain this in simple terms. Generally, in most road accident cases, the driver who hits another vehicle from behind is presumed to be at fault. The reason is simple: every driver has a legal duty to keep a safe distance from the vehicle in front, stay attentive, and be able to stop safely if the car ahead slows down suddenly. If you run into someone from behind, the law assumes you were either following too closely, speeding, distracted, or not in proper control of your vehicle. That is what the law calls “negligence.” You cannot simply say, “He stopped suddenly.” The law expects you to anticipate that vehicles in front may slow down or stop at any time because of traffic, pedestrians, potholes, or emergencies. That is why you must leave enough space between you and the next car. However, it is not automatic in every case. There are situations where the driver in front may also share responsibility. For example, if the front driver suddenly reverses without warning, has faulty brake lights, stops in the middle of the road without good reason, or intentionally “brake-checks” another driver. In such situations, the court may find what is called “contributory negligence,” meaning both drivers share blame. If the matter gets to court, the judge will look at evidence witness statements, police report, pictures, videos, road condition, and the behaviour of both drivers. The law does not guess; it relies on facts. But generally speaking, if you hit someone from behind, you will most likely be held responsible unless you can prove something unusual happened. So please, keep a safe distance. Avoid distractions. Do not tailgate. One moment of impatience can cost you repairs, compensation, and legal liability. Drive safely. Copied

The Northern Christian Section of CAN broke up from the Southern Leadership of CAN. To allow the South focus on drawing tattoos, hosting politicians, buying private jets, worshiping celebrity pastors, and being politically correct cowards. While they focus on fighting the persecution and genocide of Christian in the north and middle belt by Islamic extremists. Christian communities in Adamawa which is a 50 percent Christian state were Attacked by Islamic Terrorists this week The Terrorists who already promised Adamawa Christian death if they did not convert to Islam, targeted churches and Christian-owned properties. In Mayoladde village, three churches, ECWA, EYN, and LCCN, were burned down. 28+ Christians were killed. This is the X account of CAN @CANmedia_ kindly go there and see if they have made any statements or offered any prayers or called out the government about this attack. Then search the handles of the National Catholic leadership and top Pentecostal churches or search online to see if the top churches in Nigeria have made any statements or even offered any prayers for the Souls of the dead. Now check your Christian leaders in the national assembly, executive Council, state executives etc and see if they even know that 3 Churches were burnt and 28 Christians were killed by Islamic Terrorists this week in Adamawa The silence and lack of solidarity is dangerous. It is what emboldens the Extremists. Now imagine what would have happened, if Christians shouting Hallelujah to Jesus, went to burn down 3 mosques in the south of Nigeria and murdered 28+ Muslims because they refused to convert to Islam. I will stop here. The image is from Adamawa.

@Tina_rayx How is owning a benz make you above his class?

This man walked up to me after church and asked for my num. I gave him cos he's good looking and he's nice afar. I went straight to my car and he went to his. He's driving a camry while I drove pass him with my Benz. I know in his mind, he would have known I'm above his class but we can be friends though.

@RealOsuofia Our icon, Happy birthday sir! Enjoy good health and happiness. Jah guide and protect

It's my 71st birthday today! 🎉

@AdageorgeA All these fake stories. If someone steals a house document, what will they do with it?

I remember in 2022 A friend was telling me how happy she was that her junior brother has gotten a land...she said that they celebrated with his friends... I just ask her to buy me pepsi...we celebrated it together.. That same week on Saturday, she told me her brother was sick...she went to his place and clean up and cook for him.. Then something in my mind ask me to tell her to ask for her brother documents of the land..the thing keep disturbing me, I told her...she said that was not the priority,that her brother should get well. On wednesday they to took her brother to the village cuz the sickness wasn't look normal anymore, on Thursday evening he dead in the bathroom... My friend came back to Lagos feeling so bad and crying...she went back to his house... someone has search his house,took some items and also stolen the document of the land... She was shocked...I was more shocked..

@SouthgateB38238 @GbengaWemimo If you are married to a woman, you won't say this. We are married, we know.

@GbengaWemimo Implausible story,doesn't make any sense, married for four years, pregnant for the first time-no woman will be that careless by disobeying a medical practitioner and also say I don't feel pregnant,she would've done simple home test to confirm,fabricated.

His wife was at a press conference where the Governor was addressing traditional rulers Suddenly she felt lightheaded, vomitted and fainted The governor himself told his aides to take her to the hospital close to the venue They ran tests at the venue The result indicated his wife had malaria and that she was also pregnant She called her husband immediately He picked her up at the hospital and took her home The doctor told her not to take some medicine that could affect the baby He recommended a particular medicine, and the husband bought it that same day Two weeks later, she began to bleed Her husband rushed her to the hospital The doctor asked her if she had taken any medicine for malaria apart from the one he recommended She said she had some drugs at home, which she was used to, and she took them because she had never used the one the doctor recommended before The doctor told her the medicine she had taken had affected the pregnancy She had suffered a miscarriage. Her husband was furious They had been married for four years, and that was the first time they had gotten a positive pregnancy test Why did you use those medicines? asked the husband "I didn't FEEL like I was pregnant. I read about it, and I saw that I was supposed to be having some symptoms if I were pregnant. Since I didn't have the symptoms, I felt I was not pregnant and could take those medicines."

@MTN180 @2wise5238671 @MTNNG MTN na just thieves!!!

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@GeneralSnow_ Isèèè. O ga dili gi mma

Mentality of an Igbo Man!