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The Radical Truth, London (2026)

29/04/2026

Dear Nigeria, don’t sweep this obnoxious incident under the carpet. Nigeria Police Force you have a duty to restore your lost trust to Nigerians by expediting actions towards this beeeeet that has dragged you to the stinking mud. We can not entrust beeeets in uniform to police Nigeria, let full justice take it’s cause on the monster Ogbegbe!!!
Pathetic!!!💔

28/04/2026

This metal was not decoration.
It was not discipline.
It was not “control.”

It was a tool of psychological destruction.

This iron muzzle was used during slavery for three main reasons — and every one of them was designed not just to control the body, but to erase the human being inside it.

1. It was used to stop enslaved Africans from eating the fruits of the land they were forced to cultivate — apples, pineapples, oranges, cashews, bananas, sugarcane.
They planted.
They watered.
They harvested.
They watched the land overflow with food.
Yet they were starved.

Their own hands fed empires, while their mouths were treated like crimes.

Hunger was policy.

2. It was used to silence African spiritual songs.
Songs of memory.
Songs of grief.
Songs of God.
Songs of war.

The slave masters understood something dangerous:
A people who can sing can still remember who they are.
A people who remember who they are can still resist.

So they crushed the songs.
Because the songs carried courage.
The songs carried codes.
The songs carried unity.
The songs carried rebellion.

They were not just stopping sound.
They were trying to kill spirit.

3. It was used to prevent enslaved parents from teaching their children African languages.
Because language is identity.
Language is culture.
Language is history.
Language is power.

If a child cannot speak the tongue of their ancestors, they grow up cut off from their roots, their names, their worldview, their gods, their memory.

So they forced foreign words into African mouths — and tried to suffocate the old ones.

Sometimes, slave masters would force an apple into the mouth of the enslaved before locking the metal mask.
Not out of kindness.
Out of cruelty.

So the tongue would swell.
So speech would become impossible.
So choking would hover near death.
So silence would be guaranteed.

Imagine that.

Your mouth filled.
Your face caged.
Your voice stolen.
Your hunger mocked.
Your identity suffocated.

This was not just slavery of labor.

This was slavery of voice.
Slavery of thought.
Slavery of memory.
Slavery of the soul.

And yet…
even behind iron,
even behind chains,
even behind silence,

they still found ways to survive.

And that is the part history can never muzzle.

Rules are Rules

28/04/2026

Most people see the Vatican as just a church.
But what if I told you that for nearly 1,700 years, some of the biggest secrets of power on Earth have been hidden beneath the very ground of Vatican City?

Under the Vatican lies a massive underground complex tunnels, chambers, archives, and facilities that the public has never been allowed to see. Officially they say it’s just the Vatican Secret Archives and ancient catacombs.

But insiders claim something much deeper is going on.

According to suppressed accounts and whistleblower rumors, elite figures within the ancient Roman power structure maintained contact with non-human entities what some ancient texts called serpents, dragons, or watchers. Modern researchers refer to them as Draconian reptilians.

Think about the symbolism:

🐍 Serpents all through ancient Rome
🐍 Dragon imagery in royal bloodlines
🐍 Obelisks and pagan monuments sitting in the center of the Vatican

These symbols didn’t start with Christianity. They came from older mystery religions that Rome absorbed.

The theory says beneath Vatican City, ceremonies were conducted where elites
offered ritual sacrifices in exchange for power, influence, and knowledge from these entities.

Now ask yourself…

Why were the Vatican archives sealed for centuries?
Why were entire books removed from the Bible?
Why were the Gnostic texts buried and hidden until the 1940s?

History might not be what we were taught.

Because the same families that ruled ancient Rome, the Dark Ages, and the medieval church never disappeared.

They just moved their power underground.

And sometimes…

The truth hides in the places the world is told never to look. 👁️

09/12/2023

Don't fall sick. Even if you can afford the care here, you may not be able to access that care on time. If you can, find ready conduits that can help move the sick out of the country as quickly as your politicians can. They have destroyed EVERYTHING.

No, it's not about competence anymore. They are deliberate. And you won't blame them. They don't rely on these facilities, so why bother? If they spend money on these facilities where will they get money for their kids to buy million dollar condos and live like princess and princesses in America, Europe and Dubai? Where will they get money to service those friends of yours who defend their criminal practices on and offline?

Practicing medicine in Nigeria situates you at that critical place where you meet people at their most vulnerable moments. It's a war out there. For all your prayers, pray that you or yours do not fall sick enough to warrant referral for urgent, expert care in tertiary facility. Pray, fervently. For they have successfully destroyed EVERYTHING. The average citizen is a medical emergency away from the grave.

14/10/2023

The Tears in Cupid's Eyes (For Jada)

The day you chose to leave me
it rained constantly outside
In truth, I swear the rain to be
The tears in Cupid's eyes

I ran outside to feel the rain
and I stayed outside awhile
when the rain was done
along came the sun
and this was Cupid's Smile!
-Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew From Concrete (Poems)

07/10/2023

A young girl presented with severe abdominal distention and pain. The history she gave was hazy, but the summary was that she underwent an egg extraction as a donor at a fertility hospital the previous day or so. She works as a cleaner somewhere and was recruited by a friend who told her she would be paid 140k for the egg donation. She signed a document and submitted to the serial injections ad treatments until the scheduled date and the extration was done.

Now she is in the hospital, in severe pains and with no money for the basic drugs. We asked about the 140k and she said she was yet to be paid by the facility, bank transfer issues, they told her. As usual, donations were made for her to undergo a scan and commence treatment and a day later, her pains subsided for us to ask why she submitted herself to the program in the first place. A pathetic story of poverty and deprivation, of struggles to help not just herself but a sick mother somewhere in Ebonyi state.

She could have slept with men, she's obviously fine, she could have indulged in multiple awkward or criminal things, but she choose the one that she was told would only cost her some little pains and also help bless someone with a child. Also 140k is a whole lot of money to her, money she could never have saved working her current job for an entire year. She planned that some would go for her sick mother's treatment. She has issues with her kidney, her mother. Her body is swollen. Doctors in the Ebonyi state government hospital said they cannot treat her without money. Now she too is stuck with hoping that upon discharge, which she insisted on immediately she could turn on the bed with less pain, her bills wouldn't swallow the entire 140K. She could just die, she said with a rueful smile.

With this line of work, one sees a lot of her daily. Young persons trying to save themselves, their parents or their siblings. Struggling people in need of all the help they can get yet trying to help those who should have ab initio set them up for a better future.
There is no social security net for Nigerians, so people help themselves and theirs in whatever ways they can. If your parents are retired from the civil service, except they retired at the top as directors, perm secs or politicians, etc, their healthcare bills for arthritis, hypertension, and if you are unlucky, diabetes will fall on you, sometimes keeping you in a permanent state of financial struggle until god mercifully kills the parent -for you! It's that sad.

Lessons must be learnt by those who were handed these tragic deals by their natal circumstances.

First, there is no government to save you in your old age. No social security for you. A friend from Gombe, on getting a call that her only surviving sibling collapsed in her farm and had been rushed to FMC, Gombe wailed without consolation. She said she had lost everyone, the last being her father who died inside a banking hall trying to fill forms for his long awaited pensions. Nigeria is like that, many years of civil service often culminate in sickly, aged pensioners fighting to get their gratuities and pensions. If your parents were never civil servants, you may never relate.
So there is no one to help you in your old age, if you are unfortunate enough to live that long in Nigeria. So work towards this reality TODAY with deliberate planning, starting from how and who you marry and raise family with.

For instance, why make kids you won't be able to secure a definitive future for? Yes, it is the innate desire of humans to procreate and have replicas of themselves they call their children, but have you not thought about how your parents left many of you struggling today trying to save yourselves while also struggling to help them?

Are you really sure that because you have "come of age" the next necessary thing to do is to get married- and make kids? Are you sure? Can you afford those bills? Not delivery pack, cesarean section, infant formula, drugs, pampers or those unannounced hospital visits, not school fees or PTA levies, but those tuition fees that should give your wards that edge in life, in a country where there are no jobs, no laws, no regulations for those without connections, can you? Can you? Or like your parents did with you and your siblings, you want to make kids you believe somehow will find their ways around life?

Think about these things critically.
There are no punishments for not having children or getting married or setting up a family where you have to struggle daily until your strength finally fails and you pass the baton of the rat race to your children. There are lots of people out there, brilliant kids who would have done well for themselves in this life, had their parents given them a chance from the day they took their first breath or even allowed them to keep their meagre 30K/month salary without falling on the farm or having kidney problems.

You are a victim of these erroneous assumption that when a person "comes of age" the right or next thing to do is to marry and make kids, "raise a family," please don't make anyone else go through these things. Focus on ameliorating the bad deal you have already been handed in this life. Don't become a burden too to some children tomorrow, especially now that you are yet to have them. The selfishness that instructs us to start a family we will struggle to give an edge in this wicked life, and this terribly evil country of lunatic leaders with no plans for citizens is a mortal sin. Do not commit this sin.

09/09/2023

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE GOVERNOR OF RIVERS STATE HIS EXCELLENCY, SIR SIMINALAYI FUBARA, GSSRS ON THE GRUESOME MURDER OF SP BAKO AND THE SECURITY SITUATION IN PARTS OF AHOADA EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA

Yesterday, 8th September 2023 at about 7.00 pm, I was briefed on the security operations around the Odiemudie Community in the Ahoada East Local Government Area of the state and the gruesome murder of SP Bako Angbashim, the Ahoada Divisional Police Officer, by a bunch of criminals, presently at large.

S.P Bako and his team ran into an ambush while returning from their operation where they were attacked by the criminals. Unfortunately, he was shot in the ensuing gunfire, captured and eventually murdered by his captors.

Credible intelligence from the security agencies traced the entire incident to one Gift David Okpara Okpolowu (a.k.a. 2-Baba) and his criminal gang, who have established camps in the locality and are responsible for the resurgence of violent crimes, including kidnapping and terrorism in Ahoada East Local Government Area of the State.

As a responsible Government, we cannot fold our arms and allow criminals and crimes to rear their ugly heads and thrive in any part of our State.

Accordingly, upon the review of the entire incident and the security situation in the affected areas with the security agencies, we have decided on the following measures to bring the murderers of SP Bako to justice and arrest the deteriorating security situation in the Ahoada East Local Government:

First, the prime suspects, Mr. Gift David Okpara Okpolowu (a.k.a. 2-Baba) and all members of his criminal gang are hereby declared wanted.

Secondly, a bounty of one hundred million (N100,000,000.00) naira is hereby placed on his head for anyone who gives useful information that would lead to his arrest and prosecution.

Thirdly, His Majesty, Eze Cassidy Ikegbidi Eze Igbu Akoh II, is hereby suspended indefinitely for acts of complicity in ceding control of his territory to the notorious David Gift and his gang to freely operate and carry out their criminal activities.

I reiterate our commitment to guaranteeing the security of all residents and assure everyone that we will do everything in our power to hunt down Gift David and his gang and bring them to justice.

Finally, on behalf of the Government and people of Rivers State, I hereby extend my profound condolences to the family of SP Bako, especially the wife and children and the State’s Police Command for this irreparable loss.

SP Bako was a fine, brave and dutiful police officer, who gave up his life to keep us safe and secure. He died in active service to his nation and we remember him for his extraordinary bravery and sacrifice.

The Government of Rivers State will not allow his family to suffer the pains of his sudden and irreplaceable loss alone as we pray for the peaceful repose of his soul.

Signed

His Excellency,
Sir Siminalayi Fubara , GSSRS,
Governor of Rivers State

Saturday, September 9, 2023

01/09/2023

ON RELIGION
We all know that friend or relative who would've been a fine human; kind, compassionate, selfless, full of empathy.. but for their religion. Ironic, right? Their religion instills in them (like in us!) certain traits, passions, fears and promises that pitch them against adherents of other faiths. Religion makes them promises and inspires in them certain fears that are only avoidable or achievable through adherence to certain rituals or codes of conduct that practiced as stipulated in their sacred texts or instructed by their clergies are incongruous with common sense or the basic principles of peaceful coexistence in heterogeneous settings.

Having subscribed to a particular faith, a believer who ordinarily (without the identity of faith) would regard the next person as just another human would instead see them as arne, kafir, infidel, muslim, christian, jew, pagan.. who as such is unqualified to be treated as a brother or a sister. It doesn't matter whether the person is a good human or not, s/he just does not belong to their faith. Period. God forbid their child marries them, or they eat what they cook..

Religion deludes some believers into thinking that they are better followers of God, inheritors of a coming paradise only available to them. Everyone else is going to Hell.
Their hell. Religion separates, bitterly. Religion draws solid lines between Us and Them, and this based solely on unproven claims, ancient tales, and the twisted narratives of charlatans and sweet talkers.

Before it was humbled by science (for those who think it has) religion prided itself in flaunting its superiority over all of man's endeavors, in fact it was so sure of its superiority that at some point in history it scorned and dismissed all other ideas man invented or deployed to help find answers to the questions of existence. It specifically picked out empirical science and ensured its persecution so dedicatedly that had science not had Truth as its sole guide, we wouldn't be reading these words today nor talking of vaccines, penicillins or insulin, instead we would be cowering in caves chanting rants, dancing around a fire and invoking air over a simple case of chicken pox or febrile convulsion.

Interestingly, despite this odious pomposity, the singular task religion set out for itself since the Begining, the task of telling with clarity or satisfying acceptance what life was before conception and what happens after death, remains as unsolved today as it was in the Beginning. This failure has frustrated so many that bolder fellows dismiss religion as a laughable idiocy, an anachronistic myth that has lived out its usefulness -and should be discarded completely. In fact seeing how religion has been central to many human travails, some now declare the central concept of the Divine as false.

You can hardly blame them. Look around you and see what religion has made of your friends, relatives and enemies.. humans who would have been faithful to the nobler traits of our being but for their subscription to their faith are strangers to common sense and good character. Turn on the news and behold what Religion has done to the world. Well, many say the world would have been or will be worse without Religion, but this cannot be proven because man has never been without Religion, in fact the anti-religionists are the ones with proofs as to how the world would be better without Religion. They are quick to point to how those advanced societies where Religion has been restricted to strictly individualized spaces, or even allowed it to gradually whither away enjoy better peace and progress than those with absolute or pseudo-theocracies. They'll tell you that it is safer to live in Copenhagen than Medina, Rome or Calcutta. And it is not untrue, check the stats.

We must find the courage to interrogate the teachings of our faith, if we must keep the faith and aspire to inspire others to join us in doing so. A good place to start with this is by admitting that faiths are directly the results of our natal circumstances, and not God-ordained good luck. We are Muslims because we were born into Muslim homes or societies. We are Christians because we were born within a demographic where Christianity has a solid voice. We must avoid that ridiculous self-flattery that makes us say we were destined to be Hindus or Jews or Muslims or Christians, and so find pride in identifying as such. It is not true.

What is true is that a religion that does not help us become better humans; compassionate, true, empathetic, accepting of others irrespective of their faith or stations in life, cannot with certainty, tell what will become of us after death -and should be followed with caution, because it could be false. A false faith does not only rob us of the triumphant freedom of human fellowship and the joy and happiness that comes with just being a human who was born pure with endless liberties to enjoy the earth and its fullness thereof, but instils in us a baseless malice towards humans who have done us no wrong -other than not belonging to our faith.

If we desire growth, be it intellectual, spiritual, financial.. we must be bold enough to filter and discard unhelpful beliefs or teachings the way we discard clothes that no longer fit; for nothing is sacred that stands against common sense and the promotion of goodwill, love and kindness towards all men irrespective of their stations in life, ethnicity, colour, culture, language -and faith.❤️

29/08/2023

Aretha Franklin -1
Whitney Houston -2
Sam Cooke -3
Billie Holiday -4
Mariah Carey -5
Ray Charles -6
Stevie Wonder -7
Beyoncé -8
Otis Redding -9
Al Green -10
Celia Cruz -18
Frank Sinatra -19
Marvin Gaye -30
Nina Simone -21
Adele -22
Hank Wiliams -30
Luther Vandross -31
Brian wilson -57
Howlin' Wolf -59
Kate Bush -60
Umm Kulthum -61
Robert Plant -63
Bjork -64
David Ruffib -66
Ronnie Spector -70
Roy Orbison-71
Hector Lavoe -73
Emmylou Harris -79
Chris Cornell -80
Army Winehouse -83
Michael Jackson -83
Gal Costa -90
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan -91
Anita Baker -92
Bob Marley -98
IU -135
Rocio Durcal -139
Bono -140
Mahathini-153
Dion -154
Marc Anthony -167
Debbie Harry -168
Buddy Holly -174
Lana Del Rey -175
Iggy Pop -176
SZA -180
Karen O-184
Alicia Keys -185
Ofra Haza -186
Bonnie Raitt-187
Fela Kuti -188
Joan Baez-189
Jung Kook -191
Anohni -192
Brandy -193
Paul Westerberg -196
Burna Boy -197
Billie Eilish -198
Rosalia -200

That above is Rolling Stone's list of "The Greatest Singers of All Time" as of January 2023. The numbers to the right are the rankings. Laughable, right?😂

How many of those ranked above Fela Kuti, would you, a Nigerian true lover of great music, agree should be ranked above Fela? Bjork? Kate Bush? Willie Nelson? SZA? Lata Mangeshkar? Amy Winehouse? Do you truly agree with Rolling Stone that while Adele, Beyonce and Mary J Blige made the list, Celine Dion cannot be among the 200 greatest musicians of all time?😂

If you took Rolling Stone's opinion on Burna Boy seriously, I am afraid to inform that your knowledge or idea of what is great music is mediocre.

But ironically, even Rolling Stone recognises Burna's towering poise above his peers. Save the god himself, Fela Kuti, name one afrobeats musician on that list. None.

Leave Burna Boy and his music alone. Attack his attitude, attack his nonsense tattoos and mumu hairstyles and dresses, but you see his music and his place in Afrobeats, don't touch that. Except you just dey envy.😏

28/08/2023

Almost every time a young couple declined admission for their sick child, the reason was always; "We are both working, there is no one to stay with the child here." Or the other one where they ask you, "Ha! Doctor, who will stay with the other kids at home? My husband goes to work.. if I am in the hospital who will take care of my other children?"

Then I ask how they met, how the wedding went.. the point is; where are all those relations who insisted that you couldn't marry this person, but the other person? Those relations and friends who turned up at the wedding, cooking, decorating, making all the decisions..eating up all the party rice and stuff..? None is in that age or socioeconomic state where it becomes beneficial for them to stay with y'all while you help them with their needs and they too help with these crucial family needs?

Most of the times they don't exist, or they did but disappeared after the wedding, or the couple made them disappear. It's a fascinating realization for me that the way parents raised kids in the 80s-90s is totally different from how young couples bring up their families these days. I mean, at every point in time, we had someone; a family friend, a cousin, a relative of undetermined connections living with us and helping with taking care of us and home chores while my parents handled their tuitions, apprenticeship payments or something they needed or couldn't afford. When they finally leave, because they got a job, graduated, or just moved on, there is always someone waiting to quickly replace them. I couldn't recall of a time my parents may have rejected a hospital admission for a child because "we are both working and there is no one to take care of our kids."

This is no longer the case with young couples. Even the mother-in-laws are no longer allowed in their homes. While the times demand a strict adherence to the nuclear family structure with everyone including siblings kept at bay for the safety of the kids(?) and the financial sanity of the family, these new generation couples would also do well to realize that this new culture has it downsides too -that are no less harmful to the kids or marriages they seek to protect. Perhaps they are saving money.. or as many of the wives would say with exasperation, "me, I don't want anyone causing problems for me or my marriage.." but you see the downsides as they sit before you exhausted and confused as to what to do as you announce your plans to admit their sick child. In fact, how do you even tell them that the child probably wouldn't be sick in the first place had she enjoyed more home or family care instead of the care offered at the high end creche or daycare?

It's a new culture -a Western phenomenon, where a family must only be wife and kids, and nobody else. But it's kinda scary. As for the idea of chasing money in such a fashion that there is never such a time where at least one spouse is available for the child for an entire day, week, or just 4 days of critical hospital admission, my reply has always been -what is the purpose of making this money, keeping this job you can't afford to lose, if you can't use the money made to take care of the child you seem to be making the money for?

We have to find balance with these things. And this balance should be in favour of the family -especially those vulnerable members we bring into this world without their asking to be part of it. Pursue that career, make that money, but above all else, put that child, that family first. And it is still a beautiful thing to let a child have their grandparents, cousins or other members of the extended family around. Yes. Unwobuagbo, is a popular name among my Ekpeye people, it means The Child is the Community's. It is true.

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