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Akin Olaoye @akintollgate

Those tweets are vile, toxic and concerning. @Risevest is a very fine organization and this is not what they should be associated with in any shape or form. Rather than locking her account, she needs to apologize for those despicable tweets over the past few years.

I will speak to the leadership team. I am very certain they will respond.

https://x.com/i/status/2042141033647980650

Eke Urum (@eldvine) is the CEO of Risevest. Some people have also accused him of making bigotted posts in the past, but he has denied the accusation.

valar morghulis @eldvine

We saw this late yesterday and started an internal discussion this morning. Expect a response.

https://x.com/i/status/2042179512759165340

Bayo Bilisi @Bayo_Bilisi

@Cuntosaur made a lot of derogatory tweets not only about Yorùbá women but also Edo women.

She also celebrated cross border prostitution.

The big question is, do @Risevest align with these views?

Let's inform them about this development at hello@risevest.com

If you also have a LinkedIn account. Please take the battle there!

https://x.com/i/status/2041934964640391193

YorubaNotNigerian @YorubaNotNaija

Her baby daddy is a Yoruba man

https://x.com/i/status/2041891878103113817

Mr Dhikr @MrDhikr

Otas Evbuomwan, Operations Lead at Risevest, has been making bigoted tweets about Yoruba women since 2013, unprovoked. It’s 2026 and she’s still doubling down on her extremely vile tweets about the Yorubas. A disgusting human being.

https://x.com/i/status/2042010674637709384

Oyinda @yorubachic

Yoruba women have faced enough bigotry on this app to last generations. God will punish anyone who ever tries to gaslight us again.

This is someone who claims to be a feminist and against bigotry.

https://x.com/i/status/2041841528721564077

Oyinda @yorubachic

This lady was in DMs of Yoruba women yesterday telling us that the Yorùbá women we are fighting for are hungry.

SHE'S NOT REPENTANT

https://x.com/i/status/2042151899911094342

Otas Evbuomwan is the US Operations Lead at Risevest. She recently began making tweets against bigotry and accusing others of bigotry, but people have revealed that she has consistently been making bigotted posts against Yoruba women.


Adenike Ajoke @ashantewa1

Feminist, but you hate yoruba women.

This is someone I see some top yoruba feminists kikiki with. Since 2013 o 😂🤦🏾‍♀️, I have a folder full of this for you to know how bad it is, but I’ll keep them for later.
When I tell you some of these feminists will throw you under the bus just because you’re Yoruba, the hatred that they have for you as a Yoruba woman, you don’t want to know.
She literally called us an animal and even inserted colourism at a point!
For how long will we keep quiet about this?

This is why we are telling skit makers and movie actors to stop portraying Yoruba women in such negative stereotype.
We don’t find it funny!
Yoruba women aren’t loose, dirty or ugly. We are one of the most fashion forward, beautiful and educated women in Nigeria.

We care about our health and we’re not automatic infection carriers like it’s been portrayed on here.

My question is, what did we do to deserve this We are just fun loving people that likes to achieve great things and celebrate with owanbe, wearing our gele and aso ofi.

Yoruba women, know who you call your friends!

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Femi Obanlekoko (aka Femzy) is a notorious fake news peddler.

On April 1st he posted fake news that the Nigerian Customs Service had declared Sarkin Mota (Aliyu Mohammed aka King of Cars, who is a popular car dealer) wanted. He said that people had complained to the Customs Service that Sarkin Mota sold defective cars and even the FRSC had complained, so the Customs Service had declared him wanted.

Sarkin Mota threatened to take legal action and Femzy began begging and claiming that the post was an April Fool joke.


Femzy also spread fake news that Eniola Badmus was pimping girls to politicians. People had to beg on his behalf when Eniola Badmus threatened to take action against him.

He had also posted fake news about Adekunle Gold, Simi and their daughter.

Some people say that he had previously been arrested for spreading fake news.

The Central Bank of Nigeria and Polaris Bank have debunked fake news that Polaris Bank is being liquidated. The fake news was shared by a notorious fake news peddler Femi Obanlekoko (aka Femzy).


Central Bank of Nigeria @CenBank

This content is fake. Let the public be guided. The Nigerian Banking System is Safe and Secure

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Polaris Bank Ltd @PolarisBankLtd

🚨 FAKE NEWS ALERT 🚨
Ignore this misinformation circulating online.

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johnie:
I have a cousin who wanted to be a journalist at the time. He introduced me to Time and Newsweek.

This sparked my interest in foreign affairs.

and made me pay close attention to foreign news on NTA.

Chris Anyanwu and one gentleman whose name I can't recall now were NTA's foreign correspondents at various times.

They were usually in Geneva for OPEC meetings with Alhaji Rilwan Lukman.

Coverage of the Iran Contra crisis in which Col Oliver North was the main character.
Contra crisis by these internationals is quite memorable for me. I was shocked at the level of subterfuge.

Others were the assassination attempts on President Regan and Pope John Paul.

These events shocked me at the time even though I was conscious of the assassination of Gen Murtala much earlier

Godfrey Odu was the main foreign correspondent. Lola Ogunbambi also attended Opec and other meetings (she was always reporting from Geneva and Vienna. I was in a meeting with her years ago and she was talking about how Dubai was a sand covered country when she often reported from there in the 1980s.

GloriousGbola:
I also remember

Air Ace comics
Whizzer and chips

Yes! Whizzer and Chips!

johnie:
As usual, great job Naptu2!

The idea of an eavesdroppeing character for Pa Johnson was a brilliant one.

I think there was also a female cartoon character who used to eavesdrop. Maybe she was Pa Johnson's partner. Can't quite recall now.

I think the Daily Times also had a publication which appeared on Fridays called Weekend Times. It was light hearted, unlike Daily Times, which carried hard (political, economic, etc) news.

Dele Jegede and Jossy Ajiboye was also a popular cartoonist then.

I think one was with Daily Times and the other with Punch. I can't recall fully now.

There was Boye Gbenro as well.

Obe Ess also had a cartoons series in The Guardian called CON-versation.

There was an adventure comic strip that used to appear in the Daily Times in the 70s. I can't remember the name now. It was my interest in that comic strip in the Daily Times that got me introduced to comics proper later.

Peter Obe documented major events through photographs which featured in the Daily Times. I think he set up his own agency later and syndicated the photographs.

Of note, was his visible presence at the National Stadium whenever there were important sporting events, notably matches of the Greren Eagles.

Sunmi Smart Cole was another notable photographer associated with the newspapers. His photographs appeared on the Guardian on Sundays. Unlike Obe's, they took on the form of art rather than news.

I don't know yet if you listed Classique Magazine below. It was founded by May Elken Ezekiel (MEE) after she left MKO Abiola's Weekend Concord.

Technically, books may not qualify as publications in the context here. I would have added the Pacesetters Novel Series!

Thanks for the memories!

I'll go through other posts and see what I can add to this important documentation.

Aha! Thank you for reminding me of the cartoonists.

Komle mentioned David Lasekan and that name rings a bell, though I can't immediately remember that cartoons that he drew. I remember that Jossy Ajiboye was in thr Daily Times and I seem to associate Obe Ess with the cartoon page on Vanguard.

The two pictures of Sunmi Smart Cole's that pop into my head anytime someone mentions his name are the picture that he took of General Muhammadu Buhari (Buhari looked menacing in that picture) and the picture of Babangida and his little daughter Halima when she was a toddler (she put her finger in her father's mouth).

Many people have mentioned Classique and Tell, but I associate those magazines with the 1990s rather than the 1980s.

johnie:
I don't know why, but the charater, Asterix comes to my mind whenever I see the Croatian football player Luka Modric.

I learnt the German words, Achtung, Blitzkrieg, Schnell and others from the WW2 war comics. Also about D-Day.

Uncanny Tales and Strange Tales had very strange themes. I still think about some of their stories and just wonder.

There was an edition in which the main character was a smooth talking man who could talk his way out of any tight situation he found himself.

He got into trouble quite often and when charged to court would prove his case eloqeuently.

Eventually he died and along with others appread before a throne to be judged. Turned out that in that realm, people dont speak!

The following are characters from British comics (I can’t remember the names of the publications):
Hotshot Hamish
Mighty Mouse
Billy (of Billy's boots)
Denis the Menace

There were a few VERY good Nigerian comics as well. Unfortunately, I can't remember their names right now.

Hotshot Hamish! That was the other football comic. I think it became part of Roy of the Rovers at one point.

There are many of these comics that I remember, but can't remember them very well.