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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.

Pootle:
they do. when he was alive he told them not to, even cars or property gifted to him he turned it down or never used them, he also avoided functions both political or social

Remember that he didn't use official cars, both when he was governor and minister. He used his private car, a Toyota Crown (or was it Cressida?) and he lived in his personal house at Ilupeju.

THE GREAT JAKANDE SCHOOL DEBATE

This is my November 5th, 2014 post. The Tolu School Complex is one of the "Jakande Schools".

Lagos State has always been blessed with very good governors. In my view, the best are:

Mobolaji Johnson (Itoikin Bridge, planning the Ring Road system [including Eko and 3rd Mainland bridges], Badagry Expressway, etc)

Lateef Jakande (LTV, Lekki Expressway, Lasu, Low Cost Housing Estates, etc)

Raji Rasaki (Adiyan Waterworks, completion of 3rd Mainland Bridge [Babangida ordered his secretary not to allow Rasaki into his office again, because Rasaki was always disturbing him about the 3rd Mainland Bridge], Lagos Horizon Newspaper, Opebi-Oregun Link Bridge, etc)

Mohammed Buba Marwa - Eko FM, LASUTH, Direct Labour Agency [which patched the roads that were left in a state of disrepair by Mr. No Bitumen ], Marwa Gardens, Eko FM, Operation Sweep


Bola Tinubu (Lasambus, BRT, Kai, Office of The Public Defender, Lagos Emergency Points, Millenium Schools, Lasuth, LASTMA, reconstruction of roads that were left in a state of disrepair by Mr. No Bitumen and patched by Governor Marwa, etc).

Raji Fashola (Okota-Itire Link Bridge, Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, Lasu-Iba Road, Lasmi Cabs, Traffic Radio, LRT, Lagos HOMS, expension and modernisation of the Lekki Expressway, Lagos State Security Trust Fund, etc)


Governors Otedola, Akhigbe (Ikeja flyovers), Mudashiru (rehabilitation of Jakande schools), Kanu, Lawal and Ukiwe also did well. I won't rate them as the best, but I'll say they did very well.

The lone exception is Colonel Olagunsoye Oyinlola (Mr. No Bitumen) who did absolutely nothing. He sat and watched as Lagos roads became filled with ginormous craters, hills and valleys. Awolowo Road was an eyesore at this time.

However, if you tell some people that Governor Johnson did a lot, they will direct your attention to Eko Court and the armed robbery edict. If you tell them that Governor Rasaki was an action governor, they will remind you of Maroko and Ilado. If you tell them that Marwa was very popular, they will tell you that he served Abacha, that Operation Sweep killed many innocent people and they will ask you where he got the money with which he started his airline (some will even tell you that he was one of the people that delivered the parcel bomb to Dele Giwa's house and they will also remind you about Bagauda Kaltho's death). If you tell them that Tinubu transformed Lagos from the huge refuse dumps and bad roads of the 1990s to a clean place with smooth roads, they will tell you that Tinubu owns the whole of Lagos. If you tell them that Fashola brought back sanity to Oshodi and continued the progress started by Tinubu, they will tell you that Fashola is elitist.

But the argument that I find most fascinating and which was revived upper Sunday, is the debate about the tenure of Lateef Kayode Jakande (LKJ).

I believe that Baba Kekere is one of the best governors that Lagos has ever had (you'll see why in a minute), but I also acknowledge his flaws. However, it's very difficult for most people to assess him objectively. They either love him dearly or hate him passionately.


LKJ implemented the progressive/welfarist manifesto of the UPN to the letter. The LSTC was still running at the time that Jakande was governor and he converted some of the LSTC buses (including some of the air conditioned buses) into Scholars Bus, buses that were specifically designated to convey primary and secondary school children to and from school for free.

He utilised the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC) to build low cost houses/flats, which low and medium income people could buy via a mortgage scheme (they paid back in instalments over a 10-25 year period).

Jakande endeared himself to the people by using his private car, a Toyota Crown (or was it a Cressida?) as his official car, rather than one of the long wheel base mercedes limousines that were common at the time. (He used that same car as his official car when he became Minister of Works in the Abacha Government, but his motorcade looked funny to me because the official Peugoet 505 Evolution that was meant to be his official car was often driven behind the Toyota).

Governor Jakande revived the Lagos Metroline plan which had been abandoned by the previous military government. The system had been originally planned by United Nations experts that were advising the Federal Government in the 1960s, but successive governments were not serious about it. Governor Jakande was very serious about it and the right of way had already been demarcated by the time he was removed from office.

He established the Lagos Television (LTV), the only state tv station (the previous state and regional tv stations had been taken over by the Federal Military Government in the mid-1970s). The NPN controlled Federal Government quickly established a youth oriented tv station on the exact same frequency (NTA2 Channel 5) and LTV was eventually forced to move to Channel 8 (it was forced to move again in the 1990s, when the Federal Government reserved the VHF frequency band for only Federal Government owned stations. It eventually settled on Channel 35).

He also established Lasu, a multi-campus university that was modelled after the University of California multi-campus system.

But, the most controversial policy of the government (and the policy that was the subject of Sunday's debate) was the education policy.

The Federal Military Government had taken over private primary and secondary schools in the 1970s. Part of the reason for the take over was the fear that most of these schools were, in one way or another, controlled by foreign organisations and people, such as foreign missionaries and that it was dangerous to leave the education of Nigerian children in the hands of foreigners. These primary and secondary schools were handed over to the states by the Federal Government (the Federal Military Government also took over regional/state owned universities and still owns and manages those universities today).

Governor Jakande decided that every child must attend school, that they (and their parents) must spend little or nothing to get an education and that this must be done on budget (that is, the government must also not overspend in order to achieve this). So the government created numerous schools (I don't think any government in the history of Lagos has created as many schools as Jakande did).

The scholars buses ferried children to and from school free of charge and the government also reached agreements with publishers to supply books to the schools at no cost to the students.

I took some of those books from one of those students at that time and below are pictures of one of those books.

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You can see that it has the Seal of the Lagos State Government on it. This notice is stamped on some of the pages of the book - "Property of the Lagos State Government. Not for sale" (the notice on the pages of another book reads - "Property of the Lagos State Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Not for sale" ). The name of the particular school was also stamped on the books and it was a huge offence to sell those books.

One of my favourite parts of the policy and one that was hated by many students, is the part that was known as Center. Basically, students from schools in a particular area or neighbourhood would congregate at a centre in which they would be taught woodwork, home economics and other hands on subjects.

So, how can anyone have a problem with this policy?

1) Multiple schools: - Remember that most of these schools were seized from their original owners, most of whom were european missionaries. The missionaries believed in total, all-round education. They believed that it was important to educate the mind, body and soul. So most of those schools had large football fields, cricket pitches, basketball and tennis courts, chapels and mosques and even swimming pools. They also had farms for agricultural science and facilities for music, arts and drama.

Jakande was determined to get as many people as possible into school, so he built new classroom blocks on those sports facilities. Several schools were built in the same compound. You had "Government College, School 1", "Government College, School 2", "Government College, School 3" (sounds like a nollywood movie, doesn't it?) and so on and so forth. Many of the schools (classroom blocks) were built so close to each other that they were poorly ventilated. If you go round Lagos, you'd see a lot of these schools that were established between 1980 and 1982.

Someone complained, "What kind of schools were those? They had no laboratories, no sports facilities, no libraries, just blocks of badly built classrooms".

The original owners and ex-students of these schools were also very upset that their school compounds were being broken up in this manner (a visit to Igbobi College or Maryland Comprehensive Secondary School will give you an idea of what happened. The Aunty Ayo School system was divided into 3 schools!).

2) The buildings: - The quality of the new buildings was also another source of concern. I watched a documentary on Jakande's birthday, in which the project coordinator explained what happened. Jakande told her that he wanted X number of classrooms built at Y amount. She went, did her study and came back and told him that it was impossible. He replied that he had faith in her and he knew that she could do it and restated that he wanted X number of classrooms built at Y amount. That she should find out where she can make savings. So she went back and made some adjustments. Rather than using glass window panes, they used wood. They made other similar adjustments and were able to build X number of schools for Y amount.

This was one of the things that infuriated people the most. One of my friends on Sunday complained that, "I can never like that guy. I don't know why people are trying to whitewash and launder his image. That guy built chicken sheds in my school and called them classrooms!"

Many of those classroom blocks were very basic. Some had no coat of paint, some had wooden windows, no fans, no electricity, etc.

Governor Mudashiru, who took over from Jakande, had to spend a lot of money to upgrade some of the classroom blocks.

3) Interview: - Like I said earlier, the missionairies and the colonial government believed in total education. They believed that they should not only educate the mind, but that they should also develop the body, social skills, behaviour and spiritual needs of the child. So there were sports activities, plays, musical performances, etc.

Thus, prospective students were interviewed and investigated to determine their suitability, not only academically (which would have been determined by the entrance examinations), but also in terms of character.

Jakande's policy dictated that school districts were divided into catchment areas. Principals of secondary schools had to accept students from specified primary schools in their catchment areas (so long as the student passed the G2 primary school leaving certificate exam [one of the easiest exams you could ever take). It was also very difficult for the principals to expel these students, except the student failed promotion exams twice.

The result was that many unruly students were admitted into these schools. Discipline broke down. It became quite normal to read stories in the newspapers about students beating up teachers and even principals. This was also one of the reasons why the old Principals Cup Competition was suspended. Extreme violence often accompanied these football matches. Secondary school students went to school and football matches with axes (known as UTC), cutlasses and other dangerous weapons.

4) Carrying capacity: - The policy led to a dramatic increase in school enrollment and this put a huge strain on facilities (despite the rapid increase in schools and classrooms). Most schools, pre-1979, had a student-class ratio of 25 or 30 students per class. This changed during the Jakande era and it was not unusual to see classrooms with 60 to 100 students.

5) Shift system and boarding facilities: - Jakande's aim was to provide education to as many people as possible, so it was very strange that he abolished the shift system.

Pre-1979, people who were unable to get an education when they were younger and those who could not make it into the regular morning session because of space constraints, could enroll in the evening school system. Most schools had both a morning and an evening session (usually using the same school buildings, but sometimes using separate buildings). Jakande abolished that system and the morning session became the only session. For example, the facilities that were used for St Gregory's College's evening session became the Government College Victoria Island (GoCoVi). The shift system was initially created by the civillian and military governments of the 1960s, when the launched "universal education" policies. The facilities overstretched the existing facilities, so they had to introduce a shift system.

Jakande also abolished the boarding school system. The government planned to demolish the hostels and build classroom blocks where the hostels previously stood.



Now, certain families have a tradition of attending the legacy schools in Lagos. The legacy schools include:

CMS Grammar School, Methodist Boys High School, Methodist Girls High School, Anwar-Ul Islam Model College (formerly Ahmadiyya College and before that, it was known as Saka Tinubu), Anwar-Ul Islam Girls High School (formerly Ahmadiyya Girls College), St Gregory's College, Holy Child College, Baptist Academy, Kings College, Queens College, St Finbarr's College, Our Lady Of Apostles Secondary School, Maryland Comprehensive Secondary School, Aunty Ayo International School, etc. (All of these schools, except Kings and Queens College, were taken over by the State Government. Aunty Ayo was divided into 3 and 2 of the schools were taken over by the State, while one remained private).

I know a family which has had at least one member in a particular school every decade since the 1920s. I know another family in which the tradition is so strong that the children are brought back to Lagos, from wherever they are in the world, to attend a particular school (or its sister school). These families were very angry at the way that Jakande was "destroying" "their" schools. The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Okogie, launched scathing attacks against Jakande in the newspapers. He also instituted several lawsuits against the Lagos State Government. The families made several attempts to stop the LASG's attempt to "destroy" their schools. The Old Boys of Igbobi College stopped funding the school at a point, because they were depressed by what was happening to it.

It became an insult to be referred to as a Jakande boy or Jakande girl (they were synonymous with the word "thug" ) or for someone to say that you attended a Jakande school.


However, like my other friend would point out, this policy enabled many people who would probably have been uneducated and a problem to society, to get an education, get a job, feed their family/be independent and contribute to Nigeria's development. Cricket pitches, football fields, etc are a small price to pay in exchange for that.

Once upon a time, when I was a kid, there weren't enough primary and secondary schools in Lagos. Students had to attend school in shifts. Some students went to school in the morning while others went to school in the evening (so that the authorities could use the same classrooms for many different students).

Governor Lateef Jakande was determined to change this situation. He built schools and classrooms in every available space. This brought him into conflict with a lot of people that claimed that he took their land and built schools on them.

The Tolu School Complex in Ajegunle was one of the many complexes that contained many schools that Jakande built.

There'll be more about the debate about Jakande'a policy in the next post.

The Tolu School Complex fell into disrepair over the years. Area boys congregated in the area, the buildings were not maintained and the facilities were not upgraded.

The photo below (of the Tolu School Complex) is from my 2023 thread.

Church Boy P @ChurchBoyPee

Has been there with about the same number of schools since at least the 80s. Ojoku, Temidire, Express, Olodi, Reservation, to mention a few. Very sad remembering the number of kids that died there (late 80s to mid 90s) as a result of inter-school violence. Olodi Apapa my hood.

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Church Boy P @ChurchBoyPee

Really? That's your take? Even after I still praised Lagos govt for reviving the schools? Tolu school complex had multiple people dying almost every Friday at least from 1987 till around 1996 when Marwa became governor and shut down that school complex for a full year+.

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