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In 1982, Ndigbo were distracted by the return of the war hero.

In 2018, Nnamdi Kanu whose passports had earlier been siezed in Nigeria emerged mysteriously in Israel.

Days later he took to the microphone and began to sing about Biafra, referendum and "No elections ..."

Who would play the spoiler in 2023?



Peter Obi is building momentum....

Nigerians are dreaming....

Many are willing to dig deep into their pockets and spend their bottom dollar on the Peter Obi campaign...

He is the most popular Nigerian politician right now...

A Yoruba driver told me yesterday that his vote and those of his family belong to Obi....

A neighbour from Kano told me he is mobilising for Obi...

A former colleague from Oyo told me everyone in Ibadan is talking about Peter Obi....

I just saw a video of Peter Obi in Sokoto.

The crowd I saw were ecstatic...



Obi would be president....

If merit, integrity and performance mean anything for the Nigerian voter...

Peter Obi would be an atonement for the tragedy of the Buhari years....

Buhari was a disaster foretold...

Only Peter can bring hope back.

Only Peter can restore that hope that had been lost in the cacophony of confusion and lies that characterised the Muhamadu Buhari era...

But danger lurks in the corner...



All of the momentum Peter Obi has built could one day could disappear in a second...

Those who have kept Nigeria in the doldrums are watching in trepidation....

They are losing grip....

No scandals yet....

No hint of Igbo man this or that...

But all that could change in a second...



Simple....

Give a lunatic the microphone...

Tell him yo return to the studio to talk about Biafra. ..

To be adamant that it must be referendum or death.... Biafra or Biafra. ...



These Biafra noise had been used to disorganise Igboland for eons....

During the census of 2006, Igbos were told not to register....

It was Ralph Uwazurike and his MASSOB Army. ..

In 2018, Nnamdi Kanu emerged from God knows where...

Not Long after, he returned to the studio and announced that any Igbo who dares to talk about elections was sired by a Fulani tanker driver at Obollo Afor. ...

Millions of Igbo youths were discouraged from voting...



2023 is here...

Who would be empowered to disorganised Ndigbo again with idle talks of Biafra?

How do we in the Peter Obi camp respond when the detractors play their hands?

We must be vigilant and strategic. ...

#PeterObi4President

Massiveglory:
Oop abeg which kain tyme be this.

Many feared injured as Muslim worshippers, hoodlums clash in Lagos

By Sampson Unamka On May 1, 2022

Many were feared injured in the early hours of Sunday when a group of Muslim worshippers and hoodlums clashed in Marina area of Lagos.

The reason for the fracas, which lasted from 1am-am, according to sources remains unknown.

The Nation learnt that several dangerous weapons such as cutlasses, knives and others were used during the brawl, which saw several properties vandalised in the Marina area.

An eyewitness said: “I think the area boys tried to rob the Muslims during their early morning prayers and the Muslim folks resisted them which caused the fight.”

It was gathered some men from the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps(LNSC) later showed up and chased the hoodlums away.

VIDEO: Muslim worshippers, hoodlums clash in Lagos pic.twitter.com/pYMtlEHCxV

— The Nation Nigeria (@TheNationNews) May 1, 2022

naptu2:
Radio

First there were many MW stations, none of which was able to really capture my attention. We had Radio Lagos, RCOS, B.C.O.S/Radio O.Y.O, Ogun Radio/OGBC and of course the king of them all Radio Nigeria 1 (1089). Radio Nigeria 1 was the first place to go to for the 7am news and whenever there was a coup.


RN2

Then came the glorious Radio Nigeria 2 (RN2). RN2 played great music and they had superstar presenters. It was the first FM station in Lagos. I paticularly enjoyed listening to the station in the afternoons and at weekends. RN 1 catered to the older folks, while RN2 was the new exciting station for the younger folks (these roles were replicated on tv, with NTA Ch 10 being for the older folks and NTA 2 Ch 5 for the younger folks).

RN 2 had superstars like

(Your Willing Willy) Willy Egbe
Sunny Irabor
(JAJ) Joseph Akinyemi Johnson
Ohi Alegbe
Jones Usen
Ihria Enakhimo (one of the funniest human beings on tv and radio)
(Bonny with the face) Boniface Onogwu
Godwin Asuquo
Momoh Kubanje
Tony Ibegbuna (he was the voice of the station when it started. It seemed like he did all their jingles).

And many more. There were shows like Willy Brunch, Sunny Side Up, Martin Street Special (before the Martin Street studios burnt down), Police Diary, I Beg Una, etc.

Radio Nigeria One later caught my attention with a beautiful breakfast show called Radioscope. In the years that I was hooked on that show (1988-1993) it was hosted at various times by Zachary Mohammed (Captain ZM), Manny Onumonu and Evelyn Russel.

Radio Nigeria Three was set up in 1989 (it was the first community radio station in Nigeria and broadcast in pidgin, igbo yoruba and hausa) and I often listened to them in the evenings.

RN2 is now known as Metro FM, RN3 is now known as Country Radio and RN1 moved from MW to FM and is now known as Radio One.

OGBC 2
Then came the Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation's second station (OGBC2), the second FM station that could be received in Lagos. It blew RN2 out of the water. It was lightyears ahead of its elder sister OGBC (which transmitted on the MW band). It had great presenters like

Ladi Akeredolu-Ale
Larry Ichiejile
Olusesan Ekisola
Aderinsola Aladeselu
Peter Okodua
Busayo Olaifa
Toyin Shogbesan.
Ambrose Shomide
Toba Opaleye

Its breakfast show, which included Headliners (newspaper review) and Bournvita Sports Special with Larry Ichiejile/Izamuje was second to none. It rode on the wave of the golden age of hip hop by playing all the latest hip hop tracks that people wanted to hear.

It was one of the key sources of information during the June 12 movement. People got anti-government news from OGBC2, The Punch, The Concord, etc; pro-government news from the NTA, Radio Nigeria, Daily Times and New Nigerian and impartial news from The Guardian and The BBC. Then the government shut down OGBC temporarily.

Raypower
The very first private radio station actually began broadcasting without permission from government. The station debuted sometime in the middle of the year (broadcasting on 100MHz), then they were ordered to shut down by the NBC, then they legally started transmission towards the end of the year on 100.5MHz.

It virtually wiped out OGBC and RN2 from the airwaves. They were broadcasting from Alagbado, but they had a relay station on Bookshop House in Marina, thus their signal was clearer across Lagos than OGBC and RN2's signals. They poached a lot of talent from OGBC and Radio Nigeria. People like Ambrose Shomide and Momoh Kubanje joined the station. They had presenters like

Olusesan Ekisola (the first General Manager of Raypower, he was poached from OGBC).
Steve "The Sleek" Kadiri.
Dennis Tha Menace Ogi
Ogee Onazi.
Sule "Solazo" Ellams
Becky Ellams
Lola "L Boogie" Mogaji
Ibiyemi Olufowobi
Busola Faiga
Doe Abrahams
Tony Akiotu

They had Milo World Of Sports (which attempted to compete against Larry's Bournvita Sports Special on OGBC), Newspaper Headline Review, Jukebox (with Olusesan Ekishola), Rock Radio (with Dennis Da Menace Ogi), Doe Abraham's calypso show, etc. They also collaborated with The BBC and broadcast Sports Round Up, Sports World, News Hour, etc. It ruled the airwaves for much of the Abacha/June 12 crisis era and people depended on their news for information about what was going on.


Rhythm

And the Murray-Bruces finally floated a radio station. Their selling point was "More music, less talk" and they won people over by playing mainstream music that people liked (hip hop, R&B and soul). Rhythm has endured and has remained one of my top two favourite stations since 1997. They've had presenters like

Femi Sowoolu (formerly of OGBC)
JAJ (formerly of RN2).
Eldee The Don.
Steve (the South African)
Naphtali Tope Brown (Brown Sugar)
Nnamdi Anazia
Kemistry

And more recently

(The Wildchild) I.K Osakiodua
Phoenix
(Big Time) Onome Oyaide

At breakfast time I would often switch between the sports, newspaper review and news programmes on OGBC2, Raypower and Rhythm, before OGBC2's quality and signal strength depreciated.


Cool FM

Between 1998-2010 Cool FM had undoubtedly the best collection of nigerian on air personalities in one radio station that I have ever heard. The only radio station that has had anything like that (and they are a distant second) is Radio Nigeria 2 (in the early 1980s).

They had amazing presenters like

1) Lakeside (Lekan Saheed). He was definitely my favourite. The guy was INSANE!

2) Iyke The G (nobody else plays the kind of music that he plays. It's almost like he reads my mind).

3) Dan Foster (the Big Dawg. He has an unusual ability to connect with his listeners).

4) Kemi Adetiba (amazing impersonations).

5) Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi

6) Olisa Adibua (yes, the same guy that hosted "Top Of The Pops" on NTA2 Channel 5 c1988-1992)

7) Dare Art-Alade

8 ) Tosyn Bucknor (she also co-hosted the crazy Fanta show with Lakeside).

9) Mark Silvere (an american that first presented the Good Morning Nigeria Show. He also had the ability to connect with his listeners [he often prayed for them on air]. Made a good team with Dan Foster).

10) Keith Lane. The very first voice I heard on Cool FM (on the day they started transmitting). This guy is the definition of insane! He introduced "Radio Grafitti" to Cool FM and it hasn't been the same without him (no one has his level of insanity). His first stint at Cool FM ended when he complained about a decision that management were about to make and invited listeners to call in and talk about it. He was brought back several years later, after Dan Foster left the station, but listeners hated him because they kept comparing him to Dan (Dan is nice and friendly, while Keith is irreverent and insane).

11) Charles Supo Orija (the king of news).

They also ran the Bournvite Sports Special with Larry Izamuje for a while (at first it was networked with OGBC2, then it was exclusively on Cool FM) and also had Sports Express with the Sportsvision crew.

Now I just shuffle between Rhythm, NigeriaInfo and Classic FM. No radio station is particularly dominant or strong enough to get my attention exclusively. Raypower lost the right to use their relay station, so their signal isn't particulalrly strong and they also lost a lot of their best presenters. The 2010 tsunami also saw Cool FM losing their best presenters and I don't listen to them anymore. OGBC2 and RN2 (now known as Metro FM) are shadows of their former selves.

naptu2:
When a brainless fool is causing death and hardship to millions of people, while he is enjoying peace in a far away land, when he is profiting from the destruction that he is causing and people are trying to cover it up and pretend that he does not exist, when his supporters are blaming "Fulani herdsmen" for the death and destruction that he freely admits that he is causing, then it is my job to shine a light on it so that something will be done about the maniac.

All those that are trying to deflect or cover it up so that the maniac can continue sending his murderous terrorists to kill people with the excuse that they are enforcing a useless sit at home have failed. I will continue to call out the terrorist and expose their murderous activities until something is done to bring it to an end.

There's absolutely nothing that his followers and apologists can do to stop me.

naptu2:
All you need to do is go to his Twitter account and look at the responses now and compare them with the responses before I started creating threads about him and you'll know that this is not what he craved for.

Where, previously the responses to his posts have been by mindless followers who praise and hail his hate speeches, now people are calling him out, confronting him and petitioning Twitter to ban him. That's the difference.

Most of the people that are replying now, did not previously know that he was the source of the unknown gunmen. Now they know and are willing to take action to stop him. That's the difference.

naptu2:
As far as I am concerned, anyone who asks me to stop posting about Simon Ekpa and his acts of terror, who didn't complain when people were posting about Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, Iswap, Mohammed Yusuf, Ansaru, etc. is only saying so because he wants to cover up the fact that Ekpa is a terrorist. Anybody who tells me to stop is basically working for Simon Ekpa or sympathetic to him and he or she doesn't want anyone to expose the fact that Ekpa is a terrorist.

naptu2:
The people that are saying that I should not create any thread about Simon Ekpa's pronouncements are the exact same people that were dancing all over the threads that I made about Abubakar Shekau's pronouncements. What makes it OK for me to make threads about Shekau and not OK for me to make threads about Simon Ekpa.

All of them are not well at all.


Shekau Reads Boko Haram Ideology, Recites Nigeria’s National Pledge In New Video
https://www.nairaland.com/5224625/shekau-reads-boko-haram-ideology

NoQualmz:
See this chameleon. You’re also one of the biafraouds on this platform.

We also await your usual thread this evening on what Simon Ekpa said or didn’t say and Monday’s thread.

Mouth piece of an Abakeleke terrorist miscreant