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A photo of a 700-pound creature found in a ditch was so astounding that some viewers could not believe their eyes.

Kamaru Usman has defeated Tyron Woodley to become the new UFC champion

- Usman is now the first African champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship

- He became champion after winning via a unanimous decision in Las Vegas Nigerian-American mixed martial artist Kamaru Usman has recorded his name in the history books of wrestling by becoming the first African champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

The 31-year-old achieved this success in Las Vegas when he defeated defending champion Tyron Woodley for five rounds to become the new champion. Usman won via a unanimous decision capturing scores of 50-44, 50-44, and 50-45 on the judges’ scorecard. Woodley had been the UFC’s 170-pound champ since July 2016 and defended the belt four times before losing to the Nigerian fighter.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/nigerias-fighter-kamaru-usman-becomes-first-ever-african-born-ufc-champion

Africa’s most populated country and the world’s 26th largest economy is heading for a meltdown as a direct result of envy politics.

It was an election between a multimillionaire pro-business candidate seen as part of the establishment and a self-proclaimed hero of the masses who railed against corrupt elites and promised to fight for the little guy. While this may seem to be the story of pretty much every election nowadays since the shock victory of Donald Trump in 2016, the results of Nigeria’s recent elections contain a very important message from an imperiled country about the dangers of using socialist rhetoric and envy politics as a tool of governance.

It is a story that shows how the populist tactics deployed by Trump and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have infected the global political discourse, becoming powerful tools for emerging dictatorships and incompetent governments to entrench themselves in power. Whether dressed up in right-wing clothes as in Trump’s case or presented as new age “socialism” as with AOC, the basic method is the same – the weaponization of envy and use of scapegoats to achieve political goals at the expense of good economics and common sense.

If the collapse of Venezuela got the world’s attention, the impending collapse of Nigeria, with six times the population of Venezuela, will be positively seismic. This is what happened, and here is how the world can learn from it.



‘POVERTY IS GOOD’
Typically decided along ethnic and religious lines, these elections took on a decidedly economic posture, with the generally prosperous South voting as one for the first time in favour of Atiku Abubakar. This was an economically liberal challenger and successful businessman who promised to introduce comprehensive cryptocurrency regulation in his campaign manifesto after Nigerians were forced to become prolific crypto traders due to the woes of the naira, which fell over 85 percent in 2016 alone. The largely impoverished North, however, voted almost unanimously for the famously statist incumbent Muhammadu Buhari.

Following four years of woeful economic performance, including Nigeria’s first recession in a quarter of a century, Buhari’s campaign message was no longer that fighting corruption would grow the economy – which it clearly failed to do in his first term. The message was something altogether different – that Nigerians should learn to accept poverty as the price for “fighting corruption.”

While this message elicited stunned reactions from many voters, it turned out to be right on the money in terms of hitting the emotional lever of an even greater number of people.

Despite being far behind where it should be on a per capita basis, Nigeria’s $411 billion economy has a significant population of US Dollar billionaires and millionaires, in addition to a large population of middle class professionals in cities like Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Enugu and Ibadan – predominantly in the country’s South. This fact is often overshadowed by the preponderance of extreme poverty, particularly in the North.

POPULISM IS GOOD POLITICS
For Buhari’s campaign team, it meant avoiding discussions about real issues like Nigeria’s bloated, inefficient, and excessively powerful central government and the unsustainable nature of its welfarist federal budget.



Almost 70% of Nigeria’s 2018 budget is reserved for recurrent expenditure | Source:Daily Trust

To have such a discussion would mean explaining why amidst the naira’s 85 percent fall against the dollar in 2016, Buhari’s government chose to maintain an unrealistic official exchange rate which was used to subsidise religious pilgrims heading to Mecca for the Hajj.

Such conversations would include discussing the opposition’s stated plan to privatise NNPC, Nigeria’s state-owned oil firm that essentially functions as an independent country on its own, with no practical oversight by or accountability to government. Also included would be the federal government’s opaque and inefficient public contracting, procurement and funds disbursement process.



Rather than discuss a lack of investment in education and healthcare, extremely poor power generation and transport infrastructure, or the lack of proper separation of powers making the executive a law unto itself, the campaign was instead spent attacking the convenient fig leaves of “corrupt people”, “treasury looters,” and “arrogant elites”.

In the absence of reasoned debate or actual policies and achievements, a large vote-buying effort was also deployed, in what some have referred to as the “weaponization of poverty.”
Continu reading......http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/what-the-world-can-learn-from-nigerias-unfolding-disaster

American comedian Kevin Hart reacted to an art work by a young Nigerian artist. Opting to buy Eli Waduba Yusuf’s hyperrealism pencil art.

The artist, based in the north central Nigeria’s Kaduna State, tweeted two photos – one of him working on Hart’s portrait and the finished piece. In the February 25 tweet, he asked for retweets till Kevin Hart saw it.

It turned out that the retweets did the trick. Hart said he wanted to purchase the portrait Yusuf had worked on but there was more.


Kevin Hart replied the tweet by saying:

“I also want to support you and your amazing talent by giving you a fee to do a pencil drawing of 3 of my celebrity friends that I can gift it to. DM your info and let’s get to work!” Hart added.





Kevin Darnell Hart, 39, is an American comedian, actor and producer. He was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hart’s career took off after winning several amateur comedy competitions at clubs throughout New England, those feats culminated in his first real break in 2001 when he was cast by Judd Apatow for a recurring role on the TV series Undeclared.



The series lasted only one season, but he soon landed other roles in films such as Paper Soldiers (2002), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Soul Plane (2004), In the Mix (2005), and Little Fockers (2010)


There recent Oscars had no host for the first time in three decades, after Kevin Hart bowed out amid a backlash over past tweets slammed as homophobic.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/tweeter-magic-us-comedian-kevin-hart-to-buy-piece-by-nigerian-artist

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Lagos, Jimi Agbaje has condemned violence during the presidential and National Assembly elections in Lagos.

According to him, the only way to stop such incidents is by “voting out the tyrants”who are leading the commercial center.

He, however, urged voters not to be cowed by the intimidation of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos but come out and vote for the PDP.

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Every African must listen to this speech if we really want Africa to change for better.

Every young African needs to listen to this powerful speech delivered by Prof Lumbamba to a set of young Africans At Fearless 2017.
Prof Lumumba was a former Director of Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission. He is also a staunch Pan-Africanist and has delivered several powerful speeches alluding to or about African solutions to African prboblems.


He described Africa as a continent of 1 Billion people that can not feed themselves, a continent with young people that don't have faith in themselves, a continent with aboundant resources that his people does not know how to utilise, a continent where religious leaders preach gospel of convinience.

He presented that if all of these must change, then young Africans have choice to make.

Watch the speech below

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2019 Presidential election had come and gone but Nigerians cart creators are still busy with art works of different kinds depicting happenings during that election.

One of such is this beautiful video created to mock former president,Olusegun Obasanjo and PDP flag bearer in the election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

The video below is one of them!


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2019 Presidential election had come and gone but Nigerians cart creators are still busy with art works of different kinds depicting happenings during that election.

One of such is this beautiful video created to mock former president,Olusegun Obasanjo and PDP flag bearer in the election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

The video below is one of them!


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2019 Presidential election had come and gone but Nigerians art creators are still busy with art works of different kinds depicting happenings during that election.

One of such is this beautiful video created to mock former president,Olusegun Obasanjo and PDP flag bearer in the election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

The video below is one of them!


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A Nigerian woman has expressed sadness as she wept profusely following Buhari's emergence as winner of the 2019 Presidential election.


Woman cries as Buhari wins Presidential election

It is not a good time for some Nigerians following the declaration of Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the 2019 election.

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A Twitter user @CObianyido has taken to the platform to share a video of herself weeping following the re-election of President Buhari as she said she can't take it.

Jagaban With dancing skills after election Victory



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President Muhammadu Buhari has been pronounced winner of this year’s presidential election.

Mr Buhari who defeated his predecessor to clinch the position in 2015 general election has again trounced his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Watch below how he reacted to the news as he watches INEC chairman declaring him the winner of the presidential elections.

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In a short acceptance video made by the governor, he thanked God and the people of Oyo state for allowing him to serve them for about sixteen years.
He said he is happy with the result of the election and thanked the people of Oyo State for allowing to become the first governor of the state to spend 8 years in Office.

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They just burnt the guy that disrupted elections at Baba ewe unit.

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Electoral violence: Muslim man helps Christian woman who was almost killed for voting a different party after collecting money. She was cut badly and police refused to help

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This was how people of Victoria Garden City(VGC) Lekki, Lagos organised themselves while waiting for INEC officials.
This photo was how the polling unit was as at 8:30 A.M this morning



This surely is the most organised polling unit I've ever seen anywhere in this country.

See the moment Presidential candidate of APC, Muhamadu Buhari, his wife, Aisha Buhari and PDP vice presidential candidate Peter Obi voted in their respective polling units
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The man was spotted using his Gift of playing the guitar with his tongue at ECWA Good News Church in Jalingo, Taraba State, Nigeria.

"A man’s gift opens doors for him, and brings him before great men"... Proverb 18:16

I pray his Gifts will open more doors for him

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The man was spotted using his Gift of playing the guitar with his tongue at ECWA Good News Church in Jalingo, Taraba State, Nigeria.

"A man’s gift opens doors for him, and brings him before great men"... Proverb 18:16

I pray his Gifts will open more doors for him

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This woman is one of Nigerians in Diaspora that are not really happy with the leadership in the country.


This woman and Buhari must have had serious beef in another life with the way she’s attacking him


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Woman stabbed house maid on the head with digger because of ordinary hair gel.
This is Wickedness of highest order!


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A woman who could not afford to withhold her appreciation for her husband burst out with eulogies at a public event, leaving the humbled man so touched that he also could not hold back his tears.

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In the video, the woman could be heard saying:

“You always make me proud. You are not rich but there is nothing I want that this man doesn’t do for me.

Pastor Paul Adefarasin in a short video he made to sensitize Nigerians about their civic right of electing their leaders, He enjoined Nigerians to consider some qualities before casting their vote for any candidate.
Some of the qualities include Values against genocide,evidence of their CV, economic viability,economic development e.t.c
Watch the video below:

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Dino Melaye made this statement as he tackled Festus Keyamo on Channels TV.


“The APC is not only unpopular, they have demonstrated incapacitation... This election is not between @MBuhari and @Atiku. This election is between @MBuhari and the masses of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” -@Dino_Melaye

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One of Nigeria’s greatest strength — and perhaps weakness — is her ability to make global headlines for birthing some of the most ingenious people to have walked the planet.



Today, on this episode of Nigeria’s talent export is Wendy Okolo, the first black woman to bag a doctorate — not honorary — degree in aerospace engineering, anywhere on the planet.



Born to a family of six in southeastern Nigeria, Okolo says her number one heroes are her sisters — Jennifer and Phyllis — who taught her biology, and other sciences with their day-to-day realities.



Okolo received her B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2010 and 2015 respectively.



During her undergraduate years, she was in the African Student Society at the University of Texas at Arlington. She was also the president of the society of women engineers in the university.



Okolo’s career has taken flight at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. agency responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.



She was only 26 years old when she became the first black woman to obtain a PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.



INTERNSHIP AT NASA — AND HER IMPOSTOR’S SYNDROME



During her undergraduate studies, she interned for two summers with Lockheed Martin working on NASA’s Orion spacecraft, first in the requirements management office in systems engineering and then with the Hatch Mechanisms team in mechanical engineering.







As a graduate student, she worked as a summer researcher from 2010 to 2012 in the Control Design & Analysis Branch at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright Patterson Air Force Base.



She worked with the team that flew the world fastest manned aircraft, which flew from coast to coast in 67 minutes — this normally takes over five hours for some of the fastest jets around.



Okolo said she had to battle impostor’s syndrome when she found out she would be working with such a great team.



“I was like I am sure these guys are so smart, what am I going to bring in,” she said. She went on an error in the code in the systems and she fixed that and “that fixed the impostor syndrome for a while”.



Now, Okolo is an aerospace research engineer at the Ames Research Center, a major NASA research centre in California’s Silicon Valley.



NAMED THE MOST PROMISING ENGR. IN THE US GOVT



In 2019, she won the BEYA Global Competitiveness Conference award for the most promising engineer in the United States government.

http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/meet-wendy-nigeria39s-nasa-whizz-who-is-first-black-woman-to-bag-phd-in-aerospace-engineering

This Christian film is good one to watch for every christian

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These was found at Iwo road, Ibadan opposite Toun hospital.
This is sad, So sad,all because money!

May God save us ooo

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NIGERIA IS A JUNGLE IN THIS VIDEO CUSTOM OFFICER SHOT AND KILLED A GUY COMING FROM ABROAD BECAUSE OF FIVE THOUSAND NAIRA. THIS IS SO SAD........

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As dangerous as it is, a man who nearly lost his life while fighting with a lion has narrated how he was able to kill the wild animal with his bare hands.

Travis Kauffman, has shared details of how he was able to kill a mountain lion with his bare hands while out running.



Kauffman, 31, said he had gone out for a hike when he started hearing some sounds and within seconds the lion jumped out from no where and pounced on him.

”It was going up towards my face so I threw up my hands to kind of block my face, at which point it grabbed onto my hand and wrist and from there it started to claw at my face and neck.

“And that’s when kind of my fear response turned into more of a fight response.

“Because I’m a recent cat owner, I know that the back claws are pretty dangerous when it comes down to an attack. And I was pretty worried about its claws just sinking into my my stomach and groin area.

“I was able to shift my weight and get a foot on its neck…I stepped on its neck with my right foot and just slowly after a few minutes I thought I would be getting close and then it would start thrashing again and I had a few more scratches that resulted from those thrashes at that point, and I’d say another couple minutes later it finally stopped moving.

Rebecca Ferrell, who works with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, said;

“It’s definitely not something you hear every day.

“We know it sounds hard to believe, but his survival instinct kicked in and he did what he had to do.”
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/31-year-old-man-fight-a-lion-killed-it-with-his-hands

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the presidential and National Assembly elections earlier scheduled to hold on February 16, by one week.

The elections will now hold on February 23, while the governorship and State Assembly elections, which were to hold on March 2, have been shifted to the 9.

This decision was made on Friday after a meeting by commission’s management to review its preparations for the elections.


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Nigerians are creative!
Looking away from the political angle to this creative work, the creator of this video deserves award!

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Dele Momodu Writes Emotional Note To Deji Adeyanju As The World Celebrates Valentine’s Day


This is so emotional! Momodu wrote;

‘’My dear Deji, today, as the world celebrates a day of love, I wish to send you my love, wherever the powers that be have kept you incommunicado. Let me console you with the eternal words of the great Poet WALT WHITMAN: "Weep not child
Weep not my darling
With these kisses let me remove your tears
The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious
They not long possess the sky..."’’
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/dele-momodu-writes-emotional-note-to-deji-adeyanju-as-the-world-celebrates-valentines-day