Creative Producer | Showrunner | IP Lawyer & Strategist AbOriginal Productions โข Okhai Akhigbe & Co Story. Structure. Ownership.
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Who decides if Man Utd gets sold or not?๐ค
๐ด The shareholder agreement, the February deadline & what comes next
๐ค The only scenario that actually fixes Manchester United
The Football Boardroom EP 43 is OUT NOW!๐๏ธ
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When a gunshot tore through his face during a tenement drug bust, his fellow police officers didn't rush to his side or call for help over the radio.
They stood by and watched him bleed on the hallway floor, waiting for him to die.
His name was Frank Serpico.
Born in Brooklyn to Italian immigrant parents, Frank grew up revering law enforcement and joined the New York City Police Department in 1959, determined to protect his hometown.
But as he moved through the ranks, he uncovered a dark, pervasive reality: systemic corruption. Envelopes stuffed with bribe money from gamblers, drug dealers, and local criminals were routinely distributed among officers, from beat cops to high-ranking detectives.
In the NYPD, an unwritten code of silence, the "blue wall", governed everything. You took the money, turned a blind eye, and protected your fellow officers at all costs.
Frank refused every single bribe.
By choosing honesty, he instantly became an outcast within his own department. Fellow officers viewed his integrity as a direct threat. He received constant death threats, found his locker defaced, and was repeatedly assigned to high-risk calls without backup.
When he tried to report the rampant payoffs to his superiors, he was met with warnings, indifference, and active obstruction.
Realizing that the department would never clean itself up, Frank took a lethal risk: in April 1970, he broke the code of silence and took his story to The New York Times.
The resulting front-page scandal rocked the city, forcing Mayor John V. Lindsay to appoint the landmark Knapp Commission to investigate police corruption.
The retaliation was immediate and terrifying.
On February 3, 1971, during a drug bust at a Williamsburg apartment building, Frank stepped through a door to detain a suspect. The armed drug dealers shoved the door closed, trapping his arm and head. Frank screamed for his fellow officers to help him break through.
Instead, they stood back.
A suspect fired a handgun at point-blank range, striking Frank directly in the cheek. The bullet severed an auditory nerve and lodged near his spine. As he lay bleeding in the hallway, his partners failed to broadcast a "10-13" code for an officer down. It was an elderly tenant who called for an ambulance.
Frank survived, but the bullet left him deaf in his left ear and plagued by lifelong pain.
Ten months later, still recovering from his wounds, he stood before the Knapp Commission and delivered damning testimony that exposed decades of institutional graft and transformed modern police oversight forever.
He resigned from the force shortly after, spent years living in quiet exile in Europe, and eventually became the first officer in NYPD history to receive the Medal of Honor for exposing internal corruption.
Frank Serpico proved that real bravery isn't standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the crowd, it's having the courage to stand alone when everyone around you is compromised.
-Inspiring Stories
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Quincy Jones producing, Rod Temperton writing and Michael Jackson on backing vocals, all in one disco floor-filler
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โHow Nice I Amโ never left rotation.
Respect to K-Def one of the illest beats ever, & that Phife sample is everything! ๐ฅ
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A few months ago, my grammar was not particularly great, especially here on X.
Then, one beautiful morning, I received a call from Dr. Oby Ezekwesili ( @obyezeks ) that changed that aspect of my life forever.
She advised me to go back to Primary 3 and rebuild my foundation in English.
She said something profound: Once you fix the foundation, everything else begins to fall into place.
I took her advice wholeheartedly. I went back to study Primary 3 Grammar and Comprehension, and that simple decision transformed my command of English.
I remain deeply grateful to @obyezeks for that invaluable piece of advice. Its impact on my life has been remarkable.
But this experience taught me something much bigger about education.
Many of us are struggling today, not because we lack intelligence, but because we are building on weak educational foundations.
We keep trying to fix problems at the top when the real problems are at the bottom.
Sometimes, the greatest form of progress is having the humility to go back to the basics and rebuild properly.
You cannot build excellence on a foundation you have refused to repair.
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Nia Long, Regina Hall, and Sanaa Lathanโall over 50โgo viral after linking up with immaculate face cards! ๐๐ โจ
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Not long after joining Chelsea, Vinnie Jones went back to Watford, with a couple of football mates kipping at his place. One of them looked out of the window one day and spotted a woman on roller skates.
โWahey, look at this!โ
Jones went over to the window.
โOh my God! I canโt believe it!โ
It was Tanya. They'd met aged 12, had a brief teenage romance and lost touch. Years later he was back in his old house and she was living two doors away, going through a divorce.
โDo I believe in fate? Itโs all very spooky.โ
By that point he was known as one of the hardest men in English football. Tanya's path had been very different. At 21, after giving birth to her daughter Kaley, her heart failed and she needed an emergency transplant. She survived, but it left her with medication and health problems for the rest of her life.
When Jones decided he wanted to marry her, he spoke to her dad first.
โYou know what youโre taking on?โ
โYeah, I do know and Iโm going to take care of her and look after her.โ
He never thought of himself as her rescuer. If anything, he reckoned it was the other way round.
โI feel she was saved to save me, and I was meant to look after her.โ
They got married in Watford in 1994. Tanya brought Kaley, whom Jones went on to adopt, and he brought his son Aaron. Over the years she fought off cervical cancer twice and lived with the aftermath of her transplant, while he moved from football into acting and the family ended up in Los Angeles. Illness was never allowed to call the shots.
โWe havenโt got time to think about โwhat ifโ and โwhat aboutโ. We make the most of life.โ
โWeโve been through a lot, so I just want her to enjoy life and for us to grow old together.โ
In 2013 they were both diagnosed with melanoma. Jones had a malignant growth taken from under his eye and was eventually cleared. Tanya wasn't as fortunate. The cancer kept coming back, and for six years he was at every appointment and every treatment, exactly as he'd promised her dad.
On Christmas Eve 2018, already in a great deal of pain, Tanya found out the cancer had spread to her brain.
โThat was the first time we broke down together.โ
Even so, she wouldn't let it ruin Christmas for anyone else. Doctors put her on steroids and she kept celebrating through the pain.
โShe wanted to get through the Christmas.โ
Jones later thought she probably knew what was coming before the rest of them were ready to accept it.
โI think she knew she wasnโt going to make next Christmas.โ
In July 2019, doctors told him they'd run out of treatments.
โIn that last week of her life when the doctors said there were no more treatments, I never told her she was dying.โ
โWe never spoke of that, I didnโt want her to know.โ
He spent every night beside her in hospital, and Kaley came in every morning.
โIn the hospital I slept there every night and Kaley would come every morning.โ
โShe has never ever slept one night in hospital without me there. I have always been by her side.โ
In the end his only request to the doctors was that she wouldn't be in pain, so they let her go home. The family stayed by her over the next few days, still chatting to her as she slept because she could probably hear them.
On the morning of July 6th, Jones heard her cough and ran in. Her breathing had changed. Kaley, Tanya's parents, her brother and the rest of the family gathered at her bedside.
โWe knew it was the end, we were cuddling her.โ
โI kissed her a lot and told her I loved her. I kept saying, โI love you, I love youโ.โ
Her breathing slowed, then stopped. After 25 years of marriage, Tanya passed away with Jones and her family around her. She was just 53.
Later, tucked among her diaries, Jones came across a card. On the front:
โAlways believe something wonderful is about to happen.โ
And inside, her final message to him.
โTo my love Vin, something wonderful happens to me every day. Itโs being with you.โ
โYou are my morning sunshine the moment I wake. All my love, Tanya.โ
Ikhane Akhigbe retweeted
The Spinners - It's a Shame (1970)
Referred to as The Detroit Spinners in the UK to avoid confusion with the British folk group of the same name. Written by Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright & Lee Garrett, the song was both a UK & US Top 20 hit + #3 on the Soul Chart.โค๏ธ
#Legends
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One of the most powerful videos Iโve ever seen as a United supporter. The shift in atmosphere as soon as Carrick goes down the tunnel is exactly what the players need to hear. ๐
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On the night of October 18, 1974, Al Green was at home in Memphis when Mary Woodson, a woman he had been involved with, walked into the bathroom and threw a pot of boiling grits across his back.
The burns were severe. He would spend weeks in the hospital. Moments later she took his handgun and shot herself. She left a note.
He was twenty-eight and already one of the most magnetic voices in American music.
Between 1971 and 1974 he had done something few singers manage: he made desire feel both urgent and easy. โLetโs Stay Togetherโ reached number one. โTired of Being Alone,โ โIโm Still in Love with You,โ โCall Me,โ and โLove and Happinessโ followed in quick succession.
The voice was soft and insistent at onceโclose, almost conversational, yet capable of sudden gospel-sized leaps. Records sold in the tens of millions. Crowds treated him like a living ideal of romantic possibility. He was, by almost every commercial measure, exactly where most artists hope to stay.
The night with the grits did not create his turn toward the church; he had already begun calling himself a born-again Christian. What it did was sharpen the choice.
The distance between the man who sang those songs and the man he wanted to be had become hard to ignore. In 1976 he was ordained and bought the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis, a short drive from Graceland. Industry people called it a waste of a career.
Some fans felt abandoned. Green treated the decision as the only coherent response to having been left alive. For years he largely set the secular catalog aside. He preached, raised children, and recorded gospel albums that never matched the old sales but carried the same voice into a different room.
He returned when he was ready rather than when the market asked. Lay It Down in 2008, made with younger collaborators, earned two Grammy Awards and reminded listeners that the instrument had not gone missing.
He holds a stack of Grammys overall, an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, and the continued respect of anyone who still measures soul singing by intimacy rather than volume. The numbers were never the point he was protecting.
Most people in his position would have stayed on the commercial path. The money was reliable, the adoration was loud, and the public identity was already built. Green heard a different requirement.
He stepped away from the version of himself the industry preferred and rebuilt around the one he could live with. When โLetโs Stay Togetherโ still appears in a store or on a playlist decades later, it carries that choice underneath the melody.
The voice that once made surrender feel inevitable is the same voice that later decided what it would and would not serve. That alignment is what still distinguishes the records. He could have remained the untroubled symbol the moment offered.
Instead he became a pastor who still sings with the old heat, only now from a place that belongs fully to him. In a culture that treats remaining on top as the only respectable outcome, the quieter decision to leave at the height still reads as the rarer form of nerve.
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Believed to be Nigeria's first millionaire, Candido Da Rocha (1860โ1959) was so wealthy that he often sent his dirty clothes from Lagos to the United Kingdom to be washed by a laundryman.
Da Rocha was a rich entrepreneur, businessman, landowner and creditor who owned Water House or Casa dโAgua on Kakawa Street, Lagos Island, Lagos. It was named Water House because it was the first and only house in Lagos in those days to have a borehole and, in turn, sell water to the residents.
Candido Da Rocha, a native of Ilesha, present-day Osun State, was born to the family of Joao Esan Da Rocha, who was captured as a slave when he was 10 years old on his way to school in Ilesha. Candido was born in the Bahia region of Brazil. His mother was Angelica Josephina Da Rocha. His father returned to Lagos, Nigeria, in the 1870s, where he built his wealth and passed it to his son, Candido.
Due to his wealth, his friend, Herbert Macaulay (1864โ1946), nominated him as a candidate in one of the elections of the time. And when Da Rocha met the electorate, he told them:
โI am Candido Da Rocha, your candidate for the House. Vote for me if you like. And if you donโt, all well and good.โ
That statement ended his sojourn in politics as he lost the election by acquiring just 20 votes.
Indeed, Da Rocha was a very modest and generous capitalist.
During the Second World War (1939โ1945), when the authorities of Kings College were looking for a place to relocate the students in the boarding house (among whom were Tiamiyu Bello-Osagie, who would become one of Nigeriaโs most celebrated gynaecologists; Adenekan Ademola, son of Nigeriaโs first indigenous Chief Justice, Adetokunbo Ademola; Dapo Aderemi, son of Sir Adesoji Aderemi, the legendary Ooni of Ile-Ife) Da Rocha volunteered his Bonanza Hotel on Customs Street, Lagos, and did not collect a dime for the period it was used.
Even after the war, when the colonial government asked influential Nigerians to contribute to the rehabilitation fund, Da Rocha made substantial donations, and he instructed that the amount should not be disclosed to the public. He was also famously known for tossing coins from his balcony to little children.
Despite his wealth and vast contributions, no monument in Lagos bears his name, although his legacy endures in the Water House, his philanthropic spirit, and the parlance โDo you think Iโm DaโฏRocha?โ, a saying still used among the Yoruba to reference wasteful spending.
Candido Da Rocha died in 1959 and was buried at the Ikoyi Cemetery. He was 98. #HistoryVille
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THE MOST TERRIFYING MICHAEL JACKSON MOMENT
THE LAWYER HANDED HIM HIS OWN NOTES...
march 1, 1996. michael jackson is 37. he's under oath in a lawsuit, and a camera is rolling.
the lawyer slides two handwritten pages across the table. michael reads them and says it's his handwriting.
deposition = you answer a lawyer's questions under oath, on camera, before the trial. anything you say can be played to a jury.
what's on his list:
โ 0:09 "yes, it's mine"
โ 0:26 things he wanted to set straight in a tv interview
โ 0:35 the interview was with diane sawyer
โ 0:43 "people have lied on me"
โ 0:48 the bleached skin rumor
โ 1:01 a rumor about president clinton's inauguration
โ 1:07 "don't judge a person unless you walk a mile in their shoes"
โ 1:26 "jesus said to love the children"
โ 2:04 "people completely lie on me"
what actually got me is that he wrote it down. the most famous man on earth sat at home and made a list of what people said about him.
i rewatched 1:26 three times. he's quoting the bible to a lawyer. he looks like he means every word.
he was never convicted of anything. in 2005 a jury found him not guilty on all 10 counts.
but the list didn't get shorter. it got longer every year until 2009.
the scariest part isn't the rumors. it's a man who had to keep a written list of them.
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Michael Jackson said he didn't write Billie Jean, he just got out of its way, and Thriller still sold about 70,000,000 copies.
The claim sounds mystical, but it describes a real working method. He set 1 clear target, a song with a great bass hook, then stopped forcing it and let it arrive days later. That is deliberate preparation followed by deliberate absence, and it is how many creative people actually work. The goal is fixed in advance, and the solution is allowed to show up on its own.
His advice on dancing carries the same idea. Thinking is the mistake, so you drop the mind and become the sound. Skilled performers know that conscious control slows them down once the skill is trained. Practice is where you think, and the stage is where you stop.
Notice the shyness as well. When the interviewer pushed him to demonstrate, he deflected, called himself shy, and only then showed it. That fits the pattern: he is at ease inside the work and uneasy about explaining it, because explaining is a thinking task and the work is not.
There is a caution here. Saying the music wrote itself also removes the credit from the person and the years behind it. A hook found in a car on Ventura Boulevard came after a lifetime of training that made the idea recognizable when it appeared. Inspiration only lands on a prepared mind.
The skill is knowing when to stop trying.
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๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐๐ฅ๐๐ฑ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ โ ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐
"He's a guy with a massive heart and immense quality. He is a great guy who is always willing to help everybody"
๐๐ฎ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐ โ ๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐
"He's a top, top player, but he's even better as a person. So for me, the culture of the club should be built around him. He's always there with the right attitude."
๐๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ โ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐๐
"Brunoโs a great leader. He cares about others, he cares about improving others, he cares about helping others."
๐๐จรฃ๐จ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฌ, ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐
"Bruno Fernandes was a very important person for me on this journey with the national team. He helped me settle in, helped me understand that I didn't need to be nervous at the beginning, and that I could be myself."
๐๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ซ, ๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐
"Bruno is very good with the young lads."
๐๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ, ๐๐๐๐
"Bruno is the guy I like to talk to when I have a little bit [of a] problem or if I need advice from a player."
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐๐ซ๐ข๐ค ๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ , ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐
"You saw how great a captain Bruno is. He could see, feel, assess that his team-mate needed that goal. You need such leadership and you back each other" (on giving Rashford the opportunity to take the penalty)
๐๐จ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐๐ณ, ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐
โFor a coach, Bruno Fernandes is a dreamโ
๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ, ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐
"What I can say is that we need more Brunos. That is clear. Not just the quality, the character, not some mistakes, but the character that he has"
๐๐จ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐๐ณ, ๐
๐๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐
"And what I appreciate from him is he never hides. Never hides. He's a leader. He's a leader. And the way he's very emotional, but in a very respected way by his teammates."
๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ค, ๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐
"He trains well, his attitude is spot-on, he's desperate to win, he's desperate to do well"
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Michelle Thomasโs last words to Malcolm-Jamal Warner were โelephant juice,โ which looks like I love you when you mouth it. He was at her bedside when she died in 1998 at 30, and her mother called him the love of her life. Rest in peace to them both ๐๏ธ
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Carrie Fisher was paid $850 a week to play Princess Leia.
George Lucas owned her face.
She was 19. She signed the contract, and with it the rights to her likeness.
Then came the dolls. The action figures. The shampoo bottles. The Pez dispensers. Star Wars merchandise went on to make billions, and none of it was hers.
Lucas later gave her a quarter of a percent of his own profits. By 1980, it was worth about $320,000.
Alec Guinness got 2.25% of the profits on the same film.
28 years later, at Lucasโs lifetime achievement tribute, she stood at the podium and settled the score in front of all of Hollywood.
She put it on the record:
โYou have owned my likeness all these years, so that every time I look in the mirror, I have to send you a check for a couple of bucks.โ
The room laughed. Lucas laughed.
The case for Lucas: he took the risk, Fox laughed at him, and nobody knew it would be Star Wars.
The case for Fisher: she was the face on the box, and the box made billions.
Hereโs the lesson: if you donโt own your name, someone else will sell it.
In the video, she roasts him for four minutes. Watch her, then decide.
Was she joking, or finally saying it out loud?
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50 years ago today, the Jacksons dropped โEnjoy Yourselfโ their first single after leaving Motown, co produced by Gamble & Huff, with Michael and Jackie on lead vocals and Randy officially in the lineup.
A Philly soul/funk that peaked at #6 on the hot 100 and #2 on the R&B charts, later certified platinum. The message is still airtight 50 years later: stop staring into space worrying about what you canโt control, let yourself go and enjoy the night while the music is running hot.
Some advice never expires ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฅ
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He drove his wife to one of the best hospitals in America for a planned caesarean. A routine one. Her second.
Charles Johnson watched her blood collect in a catheter bag for ten hours while he asked for help.
Kira Johnson died at 2:22am.
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, 12th April 2016. Kira Johnson was 39. She spoke five languages, raced cars, ran marathons. The caesarean was scheduled. Everything about it was routine.
Her son Langston was delivered at midday.
By the afternoon her husband could see blood in her catheter. He told a nurse. He was told they would check.
He asked again. And again. A CT scan was ordered and then not performed. He has described being told, at one point, that his wife was simply not a priority right now.
He stood in a corridor for ten hours asking people to look at his wife.
They took her back to theatre just after midnight. There were three litres of blood in her abdomen. She died shortly after.
Her son Langston was twelve hours old.
Charles Johnson has spent the decade since as one of the most effective advocates in American maternal health. He founded 4Kira4Moms. He has testified before Congress. The federal Black maternal health legislation introduced in recent years carries work he pushed for.
He talks about one thing more than any other, and it is not the medicine.
It is the ten hours. He was standing right there, in the building, awake, articulate, asking. And it made no difference at all.
