Sir Mayor
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Sir Mayor
@Mayorad
Christian | Yoruba | Nigerian | Arsenal | Pharm. Technologist
Edmonton, Alberta Sumali Kasım 2011
273 Sinusundan256 Mga Tagasunod
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My father's best friend was a man called Uncle Bayo who disappeared from our lives without explanation. I was 12 the last time I saw him. He came to our flat in Gbagada, argued with my father in the bedroom for an hour, and walked out without saying goodbye to me. My father never spoke his name again. Neither did my mother. Uncle Bayo became a silence with a shape.
Twenty-six years passed. I was in Philadelphia for a conference. A networking dinner at a hotel downtown. Across the room, a man about my father's age caught my eye and held it too long. He approached me during dessert and said my surname like it was a question he already knew the answer to.
We sat in the hotel lobby until 2am. He told me the story my father never did. They had started a construction company together in the early 90s. It had failed because of a contract dispute with a senator. The senator had paid only half the money and refused the rest. The debt had crushed them. Uncle Bayo had blamed my father for trusting the senator. My father had blamed Uncle Bayo for not reading the fine print. The friendship had shattered. Two men who had been closer than brothers had become strangers over something neither of them could control.
Uncle Bayo had moved to America after the falling out. He had built a new life, a new business, a small contracting firm in West Philly. He had married a Ghanaian woman and had two daughters. He had never returned to Nigeria. He had never called my father. He had assumed the silence was mutual.
I asked why he approached me now. He said he recognised my face because I looked like my father at 30. He said he had been waiting for decades to see that face again, to explain something that was never about betrayal. He said the argument had been about shame, not money. Both men had felt they failed each other. Neither had known how to say it.
I called my father from the hotel room. It was 3am in Lagos. He answered on the second ring, voice thick with sleep and alarm. I told him who I was sitting with. The line went quiet. Then my father did something I had never heard him do. He cried. Not softly. The kind of crying that comes from a place words cannot reach.
Uncle Bayo flew to Lagos 3 months later. They met at the same flat in Gbagada. They sat in the same living room where the argument had happened. They didn't re-litigate the past. They just sat together, two old men with white hair and matching hypertension medication, and let the silence heal.
My father died last year. Uncle Bayo spoke at the funeral. He said the greatest thief in life is not money or failure. It is the belief that there is always more time.
Call them. The debt is not theirs. It is yours.
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@YesItsBash @UnkleAyo He is on a blocking spree. You get blocked once you counter him constructively. He can’t stand what he gives. Make e unblock me too.
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#ThisWeekInUSNigeriaHistory in 2025, Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya made history by breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon alongside American chess master Shawn Martinez in Times Square, New York.
#DYK Tunde is a U.S. Government Exchange Program alumnus. He’s one of 14,000+ exchange alumni in Nigeria driving impact across U.S.–Nigeria life, culture, and collaboration.
#Freedom250
Photo credit: Chess in Slums Africa

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@iamnasboi Another typical Nigerian Man. Enabler of thief thief and lazy behavior.
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@Wizarab10 It is how you stay neutral in all these rogbodiyan for me. How do you do it?
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@Mayorad @ogunmusi @cubanavibez A Foolish simp. I see this kind of men as homosexuals and they need to be given General beating
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I once asked a lady to come pick me up from the airport cause I had to arrive Abuja late at night … and my phone was gon go off or smfin ..she came with an uber to come pick me up as I asked and got me to a hotel room to stay that night …. I sent her the money for the uber and
YOM🗣️@ThaBoyYom
This boy dey use joke spit real sh!t
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Despite the intense back and forth, I didn't even share screenshots of our conversation. It is a line I never cross.
Most of the hardline APC accounts you see attacking me, have been in my DMs before. Regardless of TL insults, I NEVER share DMs.
Me and this guy have spoken extensively on Twitter before AND WhatsApp.
You know how stupid you have to be to screengrab a small portion of our interaction to score points.
You dey explain yourself give small man?
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You quoted my tweet with an introductory message from 2022 @Tunde_OD then blocked me, to prove that I was "famzing" you.
Also share how you were explaining yourself.
When you're ready, you'll go and remove that 5 mins Davido album you sent.
I didn't listen to it.



esquire, óbum.@Obumnemetg
😂💀
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@1mickeymice @UnkleAyo @Tunde_OD At least you for read to understand before you comment. Wetin be ‘na you assume na still you counter assume’? Try follow the advice you dey dish out.
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lool na this mentality i use enter lagos dating pool. dem wan kill me. abeg i no dey try see wife in the beginning again o. thanks
SKB@seyikanbai
“I don’t believe in the ‘girlfriend’ phase. I believe in partnership from the start. I don’t do casual dating — I begin with courtship. From the very first day, I have to see the wife in her.” — Layi Wasabi
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@ogunmusi @cubanavibez This are the issues. Na we dey empower nonsense behavior. Typical mentality of a Nigerian man.
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@cubanavibez My bro , we are Nigerians and there’s an expectation that comes between every Favour
You are seeing it in different light because she’s a woman😊
You are not a villain, Not yet but She commercialised her favour and verbalised it and there’s nothing wrong with that.
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@UnkleAyo This still doesn’t justify the hate towards Tunde from you lots. The sky is too big for everyone to shine. If you think he’s not doing enough, take over from him. But I guess, this is not about the man, it’s politics. Keep playing the game. You know why you’re doing.
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