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Arike Faulina Ogunbowale is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Mist of Unrivaled. She played college basketball for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, before being drafted by the Wings with the fifth overall pick of the 2019 WNBA draft. She was the Most Outstanding Player of Notre Dame's 2018 national title run, hitting game-winning baskets in both the semi-final and championship game.Arike Ogunbowale was named WNBA All Star MVP in 2021 and 2024.

She was born to parents Yolanda Block Ogunbowale and Nigerian expat Gregory Ogunbowale in Milwaukee. She is the youngest of three children. She is of Yoruba descent and her name "Arike" means "a child you treasure, cherish, pamper and love" in the Yoruba language. Her father served in the Nigerian military while her mother Yolanda played softball at DePaul University and her brother Dare played football at the University of Wisconsin and is a running back for the Houston Texans. She is also a cousin of basketball player Diamond Stone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arike_Ogunbowale

Oluwatobi @_tobyblush

Nigerian-American basketball player Arike Ogunbowale ties the knot with her lesbîan partner, LaLa Ronay.

https://x.com/i/status/2036495940513595816

Realbuckets @realbucketscout

🇳🇬🇺🇸 Arike Ogunbowale is officially off the market.

The WNBA star announced on her socials that she married her longtime partner, Lala Ronay. The wedding took place on Feb. 24.

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A child with sense (those trolls above have none) knows that you cannot run a business by charging below cost price and that this is what will happen if you try to do so.

BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria’s Power Generation Companies (gencos) Have Shut Down
https://www.nairaland.com/8638055/breaking-news-nigerias-power-generation

But those ones are not interested in sense, they are only interested in making noise online to please their paymasters.

How can people who have not finished learning their ABCs expect me to hold high level discussions with them? Do they even understand what subsidy means?

SeverusSnape:
Elder Naptu, he asked you a simple question and you're here foaming in the mouth. What has your balablue saviour done with the funds gotten as a result of subsidy removal?. Oya start foaming again!.

This one is even hallusinating that he gave me a saviour.

Noblex2011:
See your mouth
What have we benefited from petrol subsidy removal? Price increase or weitin?

This one doesn't even know anything. He should be playing with people that are doing ABC and 123.

We are not going to have 24 hours power until we remove the subsidies. Ministers, governments have been issuing promises for decades, it won't solve anything if there's not enough money to run the sector.

Peacock @dawisu

First thing first, to chase Tinubu and APC out of power, we must all register to be members of ADC, the ONLY viable opposition! it's easy, and it's fast! Visit adcregistration.ng Shake me I shake you, let's make Nigeria great! 🤝

https://x.com/i/status/2036164543915721090

Some APC supporters mocked him for constantly changing parties.

Background

Salihu Tanko Yakasai (Peacock @dawisu) was the special adviser on new media to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano. Like his father Tanko Yakasai (who was Shagari's presidential liaison to the National Assembly), he is very outspoken. He doesn't hesitate to speak his mind. This has often gotten him into trouble (just like his father often got into trouble).


He annoyed some Kanawa because he defended his boss, Abdullahi Ganduje during the dollargate scandal.

He also annoyed some Kanawa because of his criticism and mocking of the former Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, when the Emir had problems with Governor Ganduje.


He was suspended from office in October 2020 for criticising President Buhari over the End SARS protest.
Governor Ganduje Suspends Salihu Yakasai For Criticising Buhari Over #EndSARS

He was reinstated a few weeks later.

However, he was sacked in February 2021 and detained by the DSS for criticising President Buhari again and asking him to resign after some school children were kidnapped by bandits.
Ganduje Sacks Salihu Tanko Yakasai Over "Unguarded Comments"

Salihu Tanko-Yakasai: SSS Confirms The Arrest and Detention Of Ganduje's Ex-Aide

"Asking Buhari To Resign Is Not An Offence, Release Tanko-Yakasai" – Falana

His father said that his son was just beginning his journey and he stated that he was arrested 10 times. Salihu Tanko Yakasai then joked that he had 9 more arrests to go.

Some activists complained when he was listed as a speaker at the Soro Soke Summit in 2021
"Activists" Complain As Dawisu Is Listed As A Speaker At 'Soro Soke' Summit


Salihu Tanko Yakasai resigned from the APC on March 21, 2022.
Salihu Tanko Yakasai Dumps APC.

He once again called for President Buhari's resignation on March 29th, 2022 after an attack on a train on the Kaduna-Abuja Line.
Salihu Tanko Yakasai Calls For President Buhari To Resign

In May 2022 he declared his intention to run for the governorship of Kano on the platform of the PRP.
Salihu Tanko Yakasai (Dawisu) Declares Intention To Run For Governor Of Kano

Politics Without Bitterness As Ganduje And Dawisu's Convoys Greet Each Other.

And in August 2023 he returned to the APC. He said that the national chairman of the APC, Dr Ganduje, had invited him back to the APC to consolidate on the gains that he has made.

Salihu 'Dawisu' Tanko Yakasai Returns To APC In Kano

However, in recent months, especially after Ganduje was removed as APC chairman, he has become a big critic of the Bola Tinubu Administration. He claims that the Tinubu Administration only favours southerners and that the north should kick it out of office

South-West FEC Meeting: Salihu Yakasai Criticises Lopsided Projects Distribution


Jungle Justice: The Hypocrisy Of The Southern Nigerians By Salihu Tanko Yakasai


Appointments: Kogi and Kwara are Not Part Of The North - Yakassai

He even had a massive exchange with Bashir Ahmad (the former spokesman of President Buhari). He was questioning why Bashir supports a southern government and stating that President Tinubu only caters to the south and that he will lose the north.

Peacock @dawisu.

Following extensive consultations with family, friends, and political associates we have worked closely with over time, we have resolved to move to the ADC as part of a new direction.

I have accordingly tendered my resignation from the APC and completed my registration with our new party, the ADC.

Those who are interested in joining the ADC can conveniently register using their phones via this link: adcregistration.ng. Your membership card will be issued shortly after.

We pray that Allah, in His mercy, makes this decision a good one, grants the ADC the opportunity to form government at all levels, and makee it beneficial for all Nigerians. Ameen.

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