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Celebrities › Jide Kosoko Laments Debt Following N300m Movie Cinema Loss by Godszilla(op): 5:09am On Oct 24
Veteran Nollywood actor and filmmaker Jide Kosoko has said he is in debt after his film, Eleko: Oba Esugbayi, failed to recoup its production cost of over N300m in cinemas.

Kosoko disclosed this in a now trending clip from his interview on African A-List published on October 17, where he explained that the money used to produce the film came from investors who expected returns on their investment.

According to him, the film which premiered in the cinemas in March, failed to generate enough revenue to recover its production cost, while the little money earned was shared among those involved.

“My film ‘Eleko: Oba Esugbayi’ that recently came out and we took to the cinemas, cost us over N300 million. Do I have 300 million? You should know that some people gave it to me and it was not that they dashed me, they invested in it and we took the film to the cinemas,” he said.

He added, “Different things happened and we did not earn our money back. The little that was earned was split. As I am, if you hear someone with debt dancing around their neck, it is me.”

PUNCH Online had earlier reported that Kosoko revealed he had been living with diabetes since 1996, saying his decades-long experience with the condition had given him a better understanding of his health.

“I became diabetic in 1996; I understand my health better than some doctors do. Do not misquote me. I am not saying I know how to do everything, I just do not want to die,” Kosoko said.

He also spoke about his personal life, disclosing that he had lost three wives, including the mother of his daughter, Bidemi Kosoko, who died during childbirth.

“I lost my wife during childbirth; that’s Bidemi’s mother. I have lost three wives,” he said.

https://punchng.com/jide-kosoko-laments-debt-following-n300m-movie-cinema-loss/

Foreign Affairs › IDF Kills Hamas Terrorist Involved In October 7 Abduction Of Shani Louk by Godszilla(op): 10:12am On Oct 21
A Hamas terrorist who took part in the abduction and murder of Israeli hostage Shani Louk during the October 7 massacre has been killed in an airstrike.

The killing of Tamer Muhammad Ibrahim al-Sabbagh in northern Gaza’s Jabalia on Monday marks the final member of the Hamas cell that was seen abducting Louk on October 7, 2023, with three others killed earlier in the conflict and one captured by Israeli forces.

Infamous photos taken by AP freelance photographer Ali Mahmud showed a half-naked woman, later identified as the German-Israeli Louk, lying unconscious face-down in the back of a pickup truck in Gaza.

Footage spread of her being paraded through the streets of Gaza by a group of armed men, becoming one of the symbols for Hamas' atrocities and raising concern over her welfare.

The 22-year-old tattoo artist was kidnapped from the Nova music festival near Re’im and died in the Gaza Strip.

In late October 2023, forensic examiners confirmed Louk's death after they identified a piece of her skull.

In May 2024, IDF soldiers operating in Gaza located Louk’s remains and returned her to Israel for burial.

According to the IDF, al-Sabbagh had carried out advanced attacks on Israeli troops and civilians and acted to restore Hamas’s capabilities, 'in systematic violation of the ceasefire'.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16225759/Israel-eliminates-Hamas-October-7-terrorist-killed-abducted-Shani-Louk-parading-semi-naked-body-truck-scenes-sickened-world.html?ico=comment-anchor#
Foreign Affairs › Crude Oil Exports From Strait Of Hormuz Largely Return To Pre-war Levels by Godszilla(op): 7:45am On Oct 03
Exports of crude from the strait of Hormuz have largely returned to levels seen before the outbreak of the Iran war, as oil producers and the shipping industry have found alternative ways of transporting crucial fuel out of the Middle East.

Pipeline exports and ship-to-ship transfers are among the methods being used, according to analysts tracking the situation, while the US military continues to escort some vessels. However, flows of refined products such as diesel remain constrained, pushing prices higher.

At least 16.5m barrels per day (bpd) left the region in September, according to figures from the global trade intelligence firm Kpler, equalling the pre-war average, excluding Iran. The figure is 10.5m bpd higher than the monthly average for March, during the first weeks of the Iran war.

Since the conflict began on 28 February with US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Tehran has sought to exert its authority on the strait of Hormuz and has at times even declared the strategic waterway closed.

However, Iran’s control appears to have declined in recent weeks, as oil exporters have found workarounds to address the disruption.

About 40% of the region’s crude is now transported without transiting the strait, compared with just 17% before the war, through Saudi and Emirati pipelines, according to Kpler analysis. Saudi Arabia was able to restart operations on its east-west pipeline in late September, after it was damaged during drone attacks, allowing exports from resume from the Red Sea port of Yanbu.

In a sign of the other adaptations, the majority of crude transported through the strait of Hormuz is carried on a shuttle fleet mostly comprising very large crude carriers, sailing with their satellite transponders turned off. The cargo is moved on to different tankers in open water, usually off the coast of Oman or Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates

.More than 70% of the crude that passed through the strait in August changed tankers, whereas before the war almost no Gulf crude changed ships in the Gulf of Oman.

However, the recovery in exports from the region remains unbalanced, and supplies of refined products remain constrained.

This poses a problem for businesses and households that depend on refined products such as diesel to run their cars, vans and lorries.

The average diesel price in the UK hit an all-time high of 199.18p a litre on Monday, with many motorists already reporting prices above £2 on some forecourts.

“Diesel carries the sharpest risk,” said Kpler analysts, who found that less than 20% of pre-war levels of refined products shipped through Hormuz were being transported

They recorded a seven-day average of 677,000 bpd of refined products as of Monday, compared with 3.6m before the conflict.

Even as oil exports from the region have increased, the level of threat to ships operating around the strait of Hormuz has not disappeared.

“New routes emerge, cargos are rerouted, risk is priced in and absorbed. The danger is assuming that resilience equals security. It doesn’t,” said Richard Meade, the editor in chief of shipping publication Lloyd’s List. “Oil flows have recovered because the market participants have accepted greater operational complexity and higher costs. The underlying threat remains.”

The danger to vessels and their crew was highlighted on Tuesday, when three Liberian-flagged tankers were hit by projectiles while transiting the strait.

The price of crude remains at elevated levels and moved higher again on Thursday, as traders balanced the recovery in some Middle East exports with uncertainty over a long-term solution to the conflict and reopening of the strait.

The price of Brent crude briefly was back above $100 a barrel on Thursday, up 3% to $101.

The rise came after reports that China had suspended exports of oil products to regions beyond Hong Kong and Macau
, a move that would add further pressure to oil markets. Oil analysts said China’s decision could suggest it was concerned about the availability of domestic products.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/01/crude-oil-exports-strait-of-hormuz-transport-gulf-region-diesel
Business › Re: Why Are Chinese Not Selling Cheap Cement In Nigeria? by Godszilla: 11:16am On Sep 20
They are already is just that Nigerians still dont fully grasp it yet.

most cannot see the forest for the tree.
Flets:
Eventually the Chinese will exploit the ethnic division in Nigeria to their economic advantage

The Chinese don’t joke around
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Business › Petrol Hits ₦1,395/Litre As Dangote Hikes Price Again by Godszilla(op): 6:05am On Sep 13
Petrol pump prices jumped to N1,395 per litre on Saturday as filling stations adjusted to the Dangote Petroleum Refinery’s latest pricing regime, which raised its gantry price to N1,350 per litre.

Checks by our correspondent showed that the Dangote-backed MRS filling station in Alapere, Lagos, changed its price from N1,310 to N1,395 on Saturday.

The price was N1,385 at the Mobil filling station on the same axis.

The Matrix filling station at Kara, Ogun State, sold petrol at N1,360 per litre, while Nigerian National Petroleum Company retail stations in Ibafo dispensed the product at N1,380 a litre.

It was also observed that some filling stations had yet to adjust their pump prices as of 6pm on Saturday.

Bovas sold petrol to motorists at N1,280.

The Dangote refinery increased the gantry price of premium motor spirit from N1,265 to N1,350 per litre, effective Saturday, 12 September 2026.

The PUNCH had earlier predicted that there could be a fresh hike in fuel prices following the rise in oil costs.

The latest adjustment is the fourth upward review of the Dangote refinery’s petrol gantry price since August 21.


Dangote had increased the price from N1,165 to N1,185 per litre on August 21 before raising it to N1,200 on August 26.

It subsequently increased the price to N1,265 on August 29 and has now added another N85 per litre, taking the gantry price to N1,350 in three weeks.

The successive increases have raised the refinery’s petrol price by N185 per litre, or about 15.9 per cent, in 22 days
https://punchng.com/petrol-hits-n1395-litre-as-dangote-hikes-price-again/

Foreign Affairs › Iran Faces Strait Of Hormuz Paradox As Strategic Value Of Chokehold Erodes by Godszilla(op): 8:09am On Aug 26
Internal calls to end war get louder as Gulf neighbours plan alternative pipelines to cut reliance on waterway

Is the strait of Hormuz, recently cited by the office of the Iranian supreme leader as “the pillar of Iran’s new security order”, and as transformative as possessing a nuclear weapon, in reality becoming a fast-diminishing asset, leaving Iran increasingly vulnerable to the new planned US wave of economic sanctions?

It is the key debate that is raging inside Iran, with many different conclusions being drawn for Tehran’s negotiating strategy. Those who warn the strait’s value as a chokehold on the world economy will erode, leaving the country without foreign exchange reserves, argue that Iran’s negotiators should seek a deal soon

One analysis written by Hamid Paktinat, the founder of the Forum of Economic Activists, suggests the construction of alternative pipelines and export routes by Iran’s Gulf neighbours will halve the strait’s strategic value within three years.

Those who worry about wasting assets inevitably set store by the separate visits this week to Tehran of Oman’s foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, and Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir. These two men are critical to renegotiating the terms for the reopening of the strait and the revival of the discarded memorandum of understanding agreed by the US and Iran in June.

The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, and the parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, have both recently made unusually blunt comments about the need to end the war – and the economic consequence of continuing it. Ghalibaf said that regardless of how much military power Iran possessed, “if people are hungry” and there was no economic growth, the country could not endure. Security, he argued, could not be sustained without a functioning economy. He added that, as someone with a military background, “we know the value of peace better than those who talk about peace”.

Pezeshkian was even more blunt: “The war must end at some point,” he said. His argument was that Iran should end the conflict now, while Tehran still believes it is negotiating from a position of strength, rather than wait until its position weakens.

The Iranian central bank governor, Abdolnaser Hemmati, also recently went on TV to warn about the economic pressures. “We are facing four or five major challenges simultaneously, including maximum sanctions, blockade, cutting off oil exports, and a budget imbalance, each of which puts pressure on the economy,” he said. “One of the neighbouring countries told me that if one-fifth of what happened in your country happened in our country, we would not be able to govern the country.”

What is driving these remarks is the pressure on ordinary people in Iran, and an acceptance that the strait cannot become a permanent security doctrine in itself.

Hamid Asefi, a Tehran-based journalist specialising in geo-economics, is one of many warning that if Hormuz is to be played as Iran’s final card every time a crisis arises, this card will gradually lose its value. “A threat that is constantly repeated turns from ‘deterrence’ into a political habit; and a political habit, if not accompanied by concrete achievements, sooner or later leads to an inflation of threats,” he said.

The main question is no longer: can Iran close the strait, he wrote, but if Iran closes Hormuz to the world, does it open the door to power for itself or lock part of its power behind that door?

“This is the Hormuz paradox. In international politics, a lever that is constantly flaunted can become its own enemy because it forces others to plan to reduce their vulnerability […] the main question of Iranian policy in Hormuz must change from: ‘How can we make the passage difficult?’ to ‘How can we make the passage so safe and stable that everyone needs Iran to maintain this order?’”

That does not imply the lever is valueless. Far from it.

According to data compiled by the ship tracker Kpler, only 112 oil and gas tankers went through the strait between 1 and 19 August. Almost 79% used unconfirmed routes, 19% used Iran’s preferred northern route and 2% used the Omani route. In reality many of the ships that used the unknown routes probably turned off their transponders and used US protection along the Oman route.

It also appears that aided by the US government, Saudi, Emirati, Qatari and Kuwaiti oil companies have chartered a small group of oil tankers to take cargo through the southern route to the Gulf of Oman, where they then offload the oil to waiting tankers owned by their customers. Much of the risk is therefore transferred from shipping companies and oil customers to the more highly motivated state oil producers and to the US government. Iran has drawn up a blacklist of about 48 ships that it will try to ban or fine.

But the US government is probably exaggerating the impact of these workarounds. Chris Wright, the US secretary of energy, claimed on 18 August the US navy had assisted in the transfer of more than 15m barrels of oil and other products. He also claimed the average daily transfer of oil through the strait was now more than 8m barrels, but even this figure is less than half the prewar average and is anyway seen as inflated. Most ship data trackers estimate the daily figure at closer to 6m barrels a day.

Arsenio Dominguez, the secretary general of the International Maritime Organization, furthermore dismissed Donald Trump’s outlandish claim that the US navy had all but opened the strait, telling Bloomberg: “Given the very small number of ships that transit the strait of Hormuz, it is clear that this strait is, in practice, not open.” The US president has countered that all mines in the strait have been removed, leaving Iranian drone and naval attacks as the chief threat.

But the fact that before the war the strait accounted for 20% of oil and oil-related products is serving as a catalyst for the restructuring of the global energy infrastructure. Countries in the Gulf are rapidly building a network of alternative pipelines, with the aim of protecting more than half of their prewar exports from the impact of Hormuz by the end of this decade.

Paktinat has looked through the region at the capacity, length and cost of pipelines being prepared in six countries over the next one to four years. He concluded Saudi Arabia’s reliance on the strait of Hormuz would decrease from 70% to 15%. The UAE’s reliance would decrease from 50% to 15%, and Iraq’s dependence would fall from 100% to 30%.

Kuwait and Qatar’s reliance would decrease from 100% to less than half. Bahrain’s reliance would fall from 100% to 15%, he assessed. Finally, Oman’s reliance would change from 0% to becoming a major coastal oil transfer hub for the entire region.

Overall, he says, the strategic value of the strait of Hormuz will be halved within three years and almost lost within six years with the implementation of these projects. The narrow horseshoe waterway will remain, but its strategic importance – the centre of Iranian gravity – will have evaporated.

In the meantime, the US will try to turn Trump’s premature boast that the Iranian economy has completely collapsed into reality. It will try once again to block the vital arteries of the Iranian government across five key sectors: gold, cryptocurrency, technology, shipping and aviation.

Success is by no means guaranteed, as Trump must know from the failure to defeat Iran in his first term. But slowly chipping away at Iran’s economic resilience until the strait finally becomes an irrelevance may be Trump’s only remaining option.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/iran-faces-strait-of-hormuz-paradox-as-strategic-value-of-chokehold-erodes
Nairaland General › Academic Who Accused Jason Arday Of Plagiarism Suspended By University by Godszilla(op): 6:30pm On Aug 20
An academic who accused the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday of plagiarism has been suspended from his post at a Belgian university.

Nathan Cofnas, a self-defined "race realist", was among those to question Arday's work and achievements - prompting a weeks-long plagiarism row prior to his death on 14 August.

Cofnas said he was under investigation by Ghent University "for discriminating against Arday".

The university said a staff member had been notified of a "preliminary disciplinary investigation" and suspended as a precaution.

In a statement regarding Arday's death, its rector Petra De Sutter and vice-rector Herwig Reynaert said they took "recent public statements made by a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University regarding this matter very seriously", and had taken "appropriate action".

They said the university stood for "respect for human dignity and opposes discrimination, hatred and racism".

"We attach great importance to academic freedom and to open academic debate, even when views are controversial. However, that freedom is not unlimited.

"It goes hand in hand with responsibility and may be restricted in order to protect the rights of others."

They said Arday's death should "prompt reflection" and that lessons should be learned "regarding the way we treat one another both within and outside the academic world, particularly when people become the subject of public controversy".

Cofnas works as a postdoctoral researcher at the university's department of philosophy and moral sciences, according to his website.

His role at a Cambridge college was terminated in 2024 after backlash to his view that, under a true meritocracy, black people would "disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment".

Cofnas claimed to have put Arday's work through plagiarism detection software which found that "many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source".

He also noted that a retired professor had previously raised concerns about Arday's subsequent academic articles, which led to two journals issuing correction notes.

Questions were also asked about Arday's claims that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, and 300 miles in three days for charity, which Arday said had raised more than £5m for charity, as well as running 600 miles on a treadmill in six days.

Arday - who became Cambridge's youngest black professor in 2023 - was found dead in Battersea, south London, having resigned as a professor of sociology of education the week prior.

The 41-year-old had faced weeks of media coverage over plagiarism allegations and questions about his achievements. He denied the claims.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevmrjd9lj1o
Foreign Affairs › Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Godszilla: 7:20pm On Aug 16
"And there were, I’m afraid, plenty of holes in Arday’s CV. The non-existent academic positions at Ohio State University and the University of Glasgow (both of which the institutions denied); the Master’s degree from Birkbeck that the university could find no record of; the earlier biography that was never published; the 30 marathons in 35 days; the racist incident with a pig’s head that the police claimed never took place; the claim that he took part in the famous TV series 7 Up, which would have been impossible given his age; the claim that he was non-verbal until the age of 11, which was disputed by several of his school friends, including one who remembered him as a ‘chatty patty’; the £5million he allegedly raised for charity that turned out to be part of a collective fund-raising initiative involving over 100 people"
Foreign Affairs › Re: Jason Arday : "There Is Subtle And Overt Racism In The UK" - UK Based Lawyer. by Godszilla: 7:32pm On Aug 15
Kobojunkie:
Again, Jason Arday was a person who did not merit the position he occupied and likely deprived a more qualified individual of that position. What happened to him was not racism. His lies simply caught up to him, and like many of those before him, he probably chose the coward's way out. 😒😒
you have been trying to make a clear point here and that's a fact that nobody can argue against that Jason was not qualified and lied on so many thing. But some people believe because he is a black man his fault should be ignored if you question it,the only reason is that you are a racist or you are not a self aware black man. so you must,as a black man defend Jason even when it's obvious that he is a fraud.

whites are racist and its not exclusive to them alone sames as blacks because humans a tribalistic by nature. our own blind tribalism has destroyed this country beyond repair
Foreign Affairs › Re: Jason Arday Found Dead In Battersea, London by Godszilla: 1:00pm On Aug 15
HardMirror:
so what? How many white professors do you have in Nigeria? And who stopped blacks from progressing?
I wish the people shouting racist racist as the only reason why this whole thing happened could explain or answer this your simple question genuinely?
Politics › Re: "‘Come and Arrest Me!’ - Man Laments Hunger, Insecurity Under Tinubu by Godszilla: 12:03pm On Aug 02
Amovingman:
My question is that can Peter obi change Nigeria
oh obviously NO he can't. The devil you know is way better than the angel you don't know. please continue on your path of self destruction. godspeed grin
Video Games And Gadgets For Sale › Homebrew Playstation 5 by Godszilla(op): 6:32pm On Jul 18
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Foreign Affairs › They Made Us Say He Was A Martyr’: Families At Iran’s Largest Cemetery Mourn by Godszilla(op): 6:05pm On Jul 10
Six months on from the bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters, families remembering loved ones at their graves at Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran tell their stories

Sepehr, 25, was shot and killed during January’s mass street protests. His father became widely known because of a video he recorded on his phone in their home city of Kahrizak, close to the capital, Tehran. In the video, his father kept repeating: “Sepehr-e Baba, where are you?” It is an intimate Persian form of address, something close to “my Sepehr, my child”.

Sepehr became known by that cry, and the same words are now written on his gravestone: “Sepehr-e Baba, where are you?”

Today, there is a crowd around Sepehr’s grave. People arrive, speak, stand for a while and then leave. The mother of a 16-year-old boy killed during the nationwide women’s rights protests in 2022 is there.

Sepehr’s father says he does not fear arrest and speaks with a courage that seems to come from the place where grief has hardened into something else. He gestures to the people gathered around him and tells them they are free to film and take pictures as they like.

“I’m waiting for these people to fall,” he says. “Don’t doubt it – they’re already gone. This regime will not go back to what it was before [January’s crackdown on protesters]. I’m telling all of you this.”

Mohammadreza was 38 when he was killed in Tehransar, an area in western Tehran. At his grave are his sister, with long curly hair, and his elderly mother, who wears a pale blue headscarf. “My child had a hard life,” she says. “He didn’t have a good life.”

“I cursed [Ali] Khamenei,” says his mother. “I was very happy when they [US/Israel] killed him. But my heart aches for these children of ours. I wish they had been here, too; they had dreamed of seeing Khamenei gone. There is so much longing in it. I miss my son. We have to endure.”

Mohammadreza’s sister says his wife now sleeps hugging her dead husband’s pillow, while his son comes and kisses his father’s grave and cries.

“My brother saved a lot of people the night [he was killed]. He brought everyone into the parking garage. At his funeral, people said: ‘He saved our lives that night.’ He was very kind. He had so much loyalty and honour.

“I want to write javidnam [Farsi for ‘everlasting name’ and adopted by families to remember those killed in protests] on my brother’s gravestone, but we were afraid because they [Iranian police] have broken some of the stones. I’m waiting for a little time to pass, for the atmosphere to calm down. Then I’ll write javidnam on his stone. God willing, by next Nowruz [Iranian new year in March 2027] these pieces of shit will be gone.”

From a distance, Mohammadreza’s sister points out Sara’s grave. Sara was 45 when she was killed during the January protests. A CCTV video of the moment she was attacked in the street by plainclothes security forces carrying machetes went viral on social media: her terrified gaze, alone, empty-handed, under the kicks of a plainclothes man with a blade.

No one is at her grave today. She has a large white gravestone, and in front of her name, in parentheses, is the word darya (Farsi for “sea”), which families use to represent eternity.

Nearby, another woman sits at the grave of her own javidnam. “They killed my cousin [in the protests] and this one [pointing to the grave] a day later. We found my cousin after four days, but we couldn’t find this one. My cousin was killed with bullets; this one with a knife.

“I wish they had seen Khamenei’s death. Let those bastards go to hell. They will be finished in the end.”

Mohammad, 28, was killed in Ariya Shahr, in north-west Tehran. Today, his father and young brother are at his grave. They are from the poorer neighbourhoods of the capital. His brother is washing the stone.

“They had grabbed two girls and were dragging them,” says his brother. “He went to save the girls, and those bastards hit him instead. He was a boxer. His friends who were with him told us what happened. Four or five Basijis [the Basij is a volunteer paramilitary branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] had surrounded two girls. My brother and his friends beat the Basijis and helped the girls escape.

“But then the Basijis surrounded them on motorbikes. They beat them until finally one of them shot my brother in the side. He fell and said, ‘I’m burning, I’m burning.’ Then one of them came over and shot him in the head and heart, too. Three times in total.”

Ali was killed by a bullet in Moshiriyeh, south Tehran, and still has no gravestone. The last time I was here, I saw a young man sitting alone at his grave in the dusk, crying, playing a sad pop song on his phone.

“They killed my friend in Moshiriyeh. They arrested me, too, but for some reason they released me, and I wish they hadn’t. Since that day my life has gone black. My friend is under the ground and I’m alive.”

Today, Ali’s whole family is at his grave. His father is middle-aged, thin, with sunburnt skin and a very calm face. Several of his teeth are missing. He thanks everyone who comes. Money is short in Ali’s family and buying a gravestone will be difficult for them.

Ali’s father says: “My son was a footballer. He was 2 metres tall. A goalkeeper. We went to Kahrizak and identified him there. After everything happened on Thursday, we had no news of him until two or three in the afternoon on Friday. Then we went looking for him.”

Ali’s younger sister stands beside her father. He points to her and says: “His sister suffered so much. She was so attached to him.” His mother wears a long black manto (coat) and has a gentle, kind face. She does not speak. She only gives me a soft smile and thanks me for coming to her son’s grave.

Danyal’s father is sitting on a chair. His mother and aunt sit beside the grave. His father says: “These people – the Islamic Republic’s units – have no religion, no faith, no mercy, no decency. One of them was saying they should open fire on the opposing people with machine guns. Their brains have been washed like this.

“The Islamic Republic has done something to them, to the regime loyalists and supporters, so that they think anyone who says anything against the system should be lined up against a wall and shot. They come with that way of thinking and kill everyone. They killed my son.”

Danyal’s father says he has two sons, Danyal and Nima. Nima works in music. Danyal, his father says, was among the first people to be shot and killed in Fardis, west of Tehran. “We opened the body bags one by one, searching through the bodies.

“At one point I lost hope. I said: ‘That’s enough, leave it.’” Here, Danyal’s father begins to weep. “After days of searching, we found him and put him in the morgue.”

The family says the mortuaries were full of bodies, with women and men screaming as they searched for loved ones, opening zipped-up bags one by one. Danyal’s aunt says: “My other brother said there was a girl whose body bag had been left open and she was naked. I said: ‘God damn you. You killed so many people over a few strands of hair, and now you’ve left her here like this?’”

Danyal’s father says the Iranian security forces put pressure on him to declare his son a martyr. “They said we had to write ‘martyr of a terrorist attack’. I said to myself, because of this other child [his other son, Nima], we have to accept whatever they said. Later, when things calm down, we’ll change it.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/10/martyr-families-iran-largest-cemetery-january-protests
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Politics › Re: Yahaya Bello Wins APC Senatorial Primary For Kogi Central by Godszilla: 11:42am On May 19
5starMan:
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I know arguing with you will be like shooting myself in the foot.
How are sure that I am pro Trump on everything he does?
I know you find it difficult to understand that there are people who have the mind of their own irrespective of whoever is in contention whether a tribesman or not, regional man or not, same religion or not and black or fair.
I don't have time for parochial thinking like this.
What is wrong with you guys?
they are sick they probably just don't know it yet
Politics › Re: Yahaya Bello Wins APC Senatorial Primary For Kogi Central by Godszilla: 8:49am On May 19
Sonnobax15:
just listen to yourself angry. Omoh,which kind people I dey share nationality with angry. Imagine justifying criminality and corruption by bringing up a similar case that got away with his. And una expect Nigeria to get better when we have people who have this kind of mentality like you.

NEVER.
It's sad and scary that is the truth.

like someone said "living is prison when you live around clown 🤡 ". Sad sad
Politics › Re: N10,000 Can Feed Modest Family For Several Days - Tinubu's Aide, Tope Fasua by Godszilla: 8:41am On May 09
Memphis357:
It has to be these two afflictions of the mind that Batists have been gripped by, for them to shamelessly canvass for his reelection. And on that note, one can only feel pity for them and pray they are healed and rehabilitated. It takes a certain level of damage to a person's mind before they fall in love with the very source of their sufferings and enslavement.
Spot on.

Sad, really Sad
Christianity Etc › Re: RCCG Not APC Church; Why I Protested In Past – Adeboye by Godszilla: 8:58am On May 03
If N120 fuel could make you angry(protest), why is N800(let's just assume its the US-Iran war effect) not making you angry?How can someone be angry that fuel jump from around N60 something to about N120 in 2012 but it doesn't make same person angry when it jumped from N200 to N800 over 300% increase in 2024?

If CAN asked you to protest back then how come you don't see the wrong in not angry(protesting) now. it show the person's character,

"The law controls the lesser man while principle controls the greater man" - Mark Twain
Foreign Affairs › Harrowing Goodbye Messages Leak From Iran As Citizens Were Ordered To The Street by Godszilla(op): 7:37am On Apr 08
Harrowing goodbye messages leak from inside Iran as citizens are ordered 'to bring children to the streets' before Trump announces two-week ceasefire


As the clock ticked toward President Donald Trump's 8pm Eastern deadline for Iran to come to the negotiating table, panic gripped the nation.

Facing the threat of devastating military strikes, terrified civilians told the Daily Mail they were frantically evacuating major cities and saying goodbye to loved ones - even as defiant government leaders deploy a chilling tactic: ordering their own citizens onto the streets as human shields.

The call to gather at infrastructure sites came directly from an Iranian official, captured in an Associated Press video clip.

Speaking in Farsi, he urged 'youth, athletes, artists, students and professors' to assemble at power plants the following day at 2pm local time, arguing that their presence would expose any American strike as a war crime.

The extreme request came after President Trump wrote on Truth Social: 'A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.'

With the President openly pledging a 'Power Plant Day' and 'Bridge Day' to dismantle Iran's infrastructure, sources in Tehran and Isfahan described scenes of chaos - road blockages, mass evacuations, and state television brazenly instructing citizens to gather around key sites with their children.

'They are announcing on national TV - come to the streets and bring your children,' one source with family inside Iran tells the Daily Mail. 'It's their thing to use people as human shields. Same pattern as in Palestine. They do this instead of surrendering or making a deal.'

He added: 'Government supporters will go. They are barbaric. They believe even if they die - even if their children die for the sake of Islam - they will end up in Heaven. My mom says every night they come onto the streets, chanting death to America, death to Israel. Even until midnight.'

Thankfully Donald Trump announced late on Tuesday night that Iran has agreed to a two-week ceasefire and will re-open the Strait of Hormuz, after Tehran submitted a 10-point peace plan to end the war.

Despite the terror, some anti–regime citizens see a glimmer of hope that the new Ayatollah's grip on the country might finally be loosened, if not shattered.

'At the end of Trump's message, you can clearly see he mentioned that 47 years of death and corruption will end - so that means no more Islamic tyranny,' the source added.

But Trump's ultimatum appears to be explicitly about Iran's blockade and nuclear program, not regime change. His public messaging has framed a successful deal in terms of denuclearization, not necessarily toppling the entire Islamic Republic.

Trump's rhetoric has left many Iranians conflicted. One points to the tension at the heart of his message: 'It's paradoxical - he says a whole civilization will die tonight, but also blesses the great people of Iran.'

Across the country, citizens are bracing for the worst. Supermarket shelves are being stripped bare as people stockpile ahead of threatened rolling blackouts and severed supply chains. One Iranian says he and his family have already stocked up on water and supplies - but fear cuts both ways.

They are very stressed,' the source says, 'but at the same time, if this war ends now, it would literally be a living hell - because the government would retaliate.'

For many, the regime is as frightening a prospect as American airstrikes. The government's crackdown on communications has prompted a wave of digital self-erasure: two Iranians - one in Tehran, one in Isfahan - are already saying their goodbyes and frantically deleting message threads with contacts abroad

.My internet connection keeps cutting out for long periods. If our chat stays on Instagram, it could put me in serious danger - the regime randomly connects people's phones to the internet in the streets and checks their apps. I have to delete our chat. Wishing you a path full of success.'

That was Bahareh's last message. She asked that her surname not be published.

For those with the means, leaving the city is the only option. Major roads are jammed with families fleeing to remote areas, far from the power grids and military installations likely to be in the crosshairs.

One Iranian says his entire family has relocated to his uncle's villa in the countryside. 'They are safer there, it is a pretty calm and peaceful place,' he said, declining to say where.

With hours left until the 8 p.m. deadline, the world is watching to see whether last-minute diplomacy can pull back from the brink - or whether Iran goes dark tonight.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15713089/Iranians-children-streets-human-shields-Trump.html#

Foreign Affairs › Iran Executes 18-year-old Musician Over Protests In Latest Show Of Defiance by Godszilla(op): 8:33am On Apr 06
Iran has executed a teenage musician as it steps up the barbaric practice in a sickening show of defiance.

Amirhossein Hatami, 18, was hanged in the notorious Ghezel Hesar prison outside the capital yesterday, despite hopes he would be spared because of his age.

The talented guitarist was arrested on January 8 and accused of committing arson against the feared Basij paramilitary's base in Tehran during anti-regime protests.

He was held in solitary confinement for weeks, his long, curly black hair was shaved off, and he was paraded on national television being brutally interrogated.

Amirhossein was convicted of 'Moharebeh' ('Enmity Against God') and sentenced to death on February 7. On Thursday the judiciary announced he had been 'hanged at dawn'.

The Iranian judiciary's Mizan Online website said he acted 'against national security' on behalf of Israel and the United States by breaking into 'a military centre and destroying it in order to seize the weapons stored there' during the protests.

But Amnesty International said it was 'outraged by the arbitrary execution of the teenage protester', adding the trial was 'grossly unfair' and that he had been sentenced to death less than a month after his arrest.

Now fears are growing for dozens more on death row, with reports that four other men have been moved to pre-execution solitary confinement in the same prison as the teenager.

Mohammad Amin Biglari, 19, Ali Fahim, 23, Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani, 51, Shahin Vahedparast Kolor, 30, are understood to be at the 'undisclosed location for execution'.

Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi shared their pictures before news broke of Amirhossein's killing and wrote: 'The bloodthirsty regime in Iran is preparing to commit yet another unforgivable crime.'

He added: 'These young men are condemned not for anything they did, but because of what they represent.

'This regime's sham courts do not seek justice; they seek to terrorize Iran into silence
. They will fail.'

Amnesty International had warned they were among 11 men at imminent risk of execution who had been 'subjected to torture and other ill-treatment in detention, before being convicted in grossly unfair trials that relied on forced confessions'.

It had been hoped that Amirhossein would be spared as the regime had previously said it would differentiate between what it chillingly described as 'deceived youth'.

His killing follows the hanging of four political prisoners earlier this week, convicted on charges of rebellion for membership in the banned People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) after the supreme court upheld their sentences.

Meanwhile, Iranian wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, 19, was killed alongside Mehdi Ghasemi and Saeed Davoudi, 21, last week.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Director of Iran Human Rights NGO, said: 'Amirhossein Hatami was executed following a grossly unfair trial and on the basis of forced confessions.

'The execution of three protesters and four political prisoners in just two weeks signals that the regime has intensified its war against the Iranian people.

'As it struggles for survival, the authorities view the Iranian people, who are demanding fundamental change, as the primary threat to their existence.'

He added: 'Hundreds more now face imminent executions in the coming days and weeks. We must not allow the ongoing war to overshadow the Islamic Republic's atrocities against the Iranian people!'

At least four top anti-regime figures were brutally executed in Iran since Monday, while another 15 political prisoners have been sentenced to death in recent days.

Pouya Ghobadi and Babak Alipour were hanged on Tuesday, a day after Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi and Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar.

All four were political prisoners belonging to PMOI and had been sentenced to death over two years ago.

According to Iran Human Rights, their executions were carried out in secret without their families being notified in advance.

Alipour, a 34-year-old law graduate, was jailed in 2018 and 2021. He suffered from intestinal infection and prostate disease during his previous incarcerations, which were left untreated for a prolonged period.

He was arrested again on 27 December 2023 and transferred to the notorious Evin Prison, where he was under interrogation for four months.

Ghobadi, 32, was an electrical engineer whose five family members were jailed and executed in the 1980s. He was arrested in February 2018 and 2019.

In November 2019, he was jailed in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary. He received a ten-year sentence and was released in February 2022, before being detained again in February 2024.

Sangdehi, 60, was arrested in 2024 and was being held in the Evin prison.

Daneshvarkar, also 60, was an engineer and had spent the last years of his life in Evin prison. He was prosecuted in a joint case alongside several other political prisoners on charges including membership in the PMOI, 'assembly and collusion against national security,' and 'forming illegal groups'.

The executions came amid Iran's war with Israel and the United States, which erupted on February 28 with strikes that killed the Islamic Republic's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.

There has been a surge in executions during the war, as the Islamic Republic seeks to demonstrate its strength as the US mulls pulling out and leaving the regime in place.

At least 145 people are confirmed to have been killed in 2026 so far, with more than 400 other executions reported but not verified, according to Iran Human Rights.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15702307/Iran-executes-18-year-old-musician-protests-latest-defiance-amid-war-against-US-Israel.html
Foreign Affairs › Iran Executes Champion Wrestler, Saleh Mohammadi & 2 Others by Godszilla(op): 10:52pm On Mar 19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpLROrYGwDU?si=E6bj3TXHOkj4B4UY

Iran has executed three people who were accused of killing two police officers after taking part in anti-regime protests.

Champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, 19, was reportedly killed in a public hanging along with Mehdi Ghasemi and Saeed Davoudi in the city of Qom on Thursday.

Mohammadi was sentenced to death in February, less than three weeks after his arrest, over the murder of a security agent during the anti-regime protests on January 8, according to Amnesty International.

He denied the accusation and claimed his earlier confessions had been extracted under torture. But the court dismissed his claims without any investigation.

Ghasemi was accused of participating in the killing along with Davoudi, who was also accused of murdering another policeman on the same day.

Their deaths, which marked the first official executions related to the protests which began last year, were reported by the judiciary's Mizan Online new agency.

The individuals were involved in the killing of two law enforcement personnel, Mizan said, adding that their execution was carried out after they were found guilty of the capital offence of 'moharebeh', or 'waging war against God'.

Iran Human Rights condemned the three men's deaths, claiming they followed 'grossly unfair trials, based on confessions extracted under torture and coercion'.

'We consider these executions to constitute extrajudicial killings, carried out with the intent of creating terror to suppress political dissent,' the Norway-based NGO added.

The organisation claimed Mohammadi had turned 19 last week while Davodi would have turned 22 this weekend.

Protests broke out in Iran in late December against the rising cost of living before morphing into nationwide anti-government demonstrations that peaked on January 8 and 9.

Iranian authorities later launched a brutal crackdown on the protests claiming they had turned into 'foreign-instigated riots' involving killings and vandalism.

Tehran has acknowledged that more than 3,000 people died during the unrest and attributed the violence to 'terrorist acts'.

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), however, has recorded more than 7,000 killings, while warning the toll could be far higher.

The brutal crackdown also saw the deaths of more than 220 children, the agency said.

Other human rights organisations have tallied many more, and medical professionals have estimated that 30,000 could have been killed.

By late December, as protests slowly began to take hold across Iran, the regime had already carried out more than 2,200 executions in 91 cities, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

This was the highest figure in decades, signifying an unprecedented peak in brutality in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's 36-year rule as Supreme Leader before his death.

In the aftermath of the security forces' brutal massacre of protestors on January 8, 9 and 10, many Iranians describe a 'sea of blood' separating civilians from the lethal government that rules them.

The protestors arrested in the government crackdown have alleged abuse while in custody, including forced nudity, exposure to cold conditions, and 'injections with substances of unknown composition', according Iran International, citing a source close to a detainee in prison.

Samira Parvareshkhah was arrested by security forces on January 9 in Rasht and was released two days later with 'extensive bruising' across her body, Hyrcani Human Rights Media claimed.

Shortly after returning home, her condition deteriorated with severe nausea, and she died while being transported to Bandar Anzali Hospital. No official explanation has been provided for the cause of her sickness.

During the nationwide 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protests of 2022, over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini who was arrested for wearing her hijab incorrectly, authorities dismissed similar mysterious deaths as cases of overdose or suicide.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15662423/Iran-executes-teenage-champion-wrestler-anti-regime-protesters.html

Foreign Affairs › Six US Allies Back Potential Strait Of Hormuz Coalition by Godszilla(op): 5:04pm On Mar 19
Six U.S. Western allies announced in a joint statement on Thursday their support for a potential coalition to reopen the strait of Hormuz for commercial ships and oil tankers.

Reality check: The statement does not include any commitment to send naval vessels or other resources to make that happen. For now, it's largely a gesture to placate President Trump, who has railed against allies for declining to help secure the strait and warned that a failure to do so could undermine the future of NATO.

UK and allies say they are ready to join 'efforts to ensure safe passage' in strait of Hormuz
The UK has joined European allies and Japan in saying they were ready “to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the strait of Hormuz”.


In a joint statement, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan condemned Iran’s attacks on commercial vessels and oil and gas facilities in the Gulf, while expressing “deep concern” over the escalating conflict.

The statement said:

We condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces.

We express our deep concern about the escalating conflict. We call on Iran to cease immediately its threats, laying of mines, drone and missile attacks and other attempts to block the strait to commercial shipping, and to comply with UN Security Council Resolution 2817.

It continued:

We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the strait. We welcome the commitment of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning.

We welcome the International Energy Agency decision to authorise a coordinated release of strategic petroleum reserves. We will take other steps to stabilise energy markets, including working with certain producing nations to increase output.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/six-us-allies-back-potential-strait-of-hormuz-coalition/ar-AA1YZVrw?ocid=BingNewsVerp
Foreign Affairs › Hamas Urges Iran To Stop ‘targeting Neighbouring’ Countries by Godszilla(op): 8:03am On Mar 14
GAZA CITY - Palestinian militant movement Hamas on March 14 called on Iran to refrain from targeting neighbouring countries, while affirming Tehran’s right to defend itself against Israel and the United States.

“While affirming the right of the Islamic Republic of Iran to respond to this aggression by all available means in accordance with international norms and laws, the movement calls on the brothers in Iran to avoid targeting neighbouring countries,” Hamas said in a statement.

Hamas, which has fought a devastating two-year war with Israel in Gaza, also called on the international community to “work towards halting” the ongoing Iran war immediately.

The group previously condemned the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, on Feb 28 as a “heinous crime”, openly acknowledging his longstanding support for the Palestinian movement.

“He provided all forms of political, diplomatic and military support to our people, our cause, and our resistance,” the movement said soon after the killing of Khamenei. AFP

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/hamas-urges-iran-to-stop-targeting-neighbouring-countries

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