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If Ikhide Ikheloa has a philosophy for blunt criticism, it is that power must answer to the people. His social commentary focused on three notions: power, truth, and justice. When he runs amok on the Internet, it is those three filters applying themselves and probing: Who does the story serve? What worldview does it promote? Who gets hurt by it?
He says what many writers are thinking but wouldn’t voice for fear of losing career opportunities. Two years after his boycott of the Kaduna Festival, one of then governor El Rufai’s most vocal critics, a writer and activist named Dadiyata, disappeared. The next month, writers and intellectuals attended the festival again. When he lambasted them for their silence, he was voicing what many saw as a betrayal.
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As a Nigerian, I just beg you to 2:35 and watch this video, fact check them and ask yourself once again, “HOW WICKED CAN THE APC GET!!!!!!!
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Ikhide R. Ikheloa retweeted
If you give only 4,000 Naira in monthly offerings, you are wicked—very wicked. You are an enemy of the church. Enemy of the church! You should leave the church and get out! - powerful man of God declares.
According to him:
You want to know the enemies of your church? When you talk about money, they get angry. They always complain. Just know they don’t love your church and aren’t interested in it.
Anyone in church for a year who isn’t asking himself, “What is my f—”—do you want a gate fee? You want a gate fee before entering church? You want a gate fee before realizing you have responsibility?
No gate fee in church doesn’t mean there’s no cost to you. Have some sense! Ask yourself, “Am I not a partner in the ministry?”
How much is your offering? 1,000 Naira on Sunday. That means 4,000 Naira a month. If 1,000 of you give 4,000 Naira, that’s 4 million Naira. That can’t even cover diesel—not to mention the place, running costs, maintenance, staff, and other things.
You are wicked! Very wicked. You are an enemy of the church. Enemy of the church! You should leave the church and get out!
2017, almost a decade ago, I made the coveted Dean of Educational Administration in honor of 30 years of service in public education in Montgomery County, Maryland! 💪🏾
True this. It is also structural and systemic. In planning here in the West, distances are expressed often in blocks. Children soon learn to tell you that their school is a couple of blocks away because the school is actually built two blocks away. There is a system to their planning. The structure informs the culture. We may be berating the victims of our leaders' incompetence and lack of vision.
Can we start teaching Nigerian children how to measure distance properly?
In the UK, Europe, Canada or US, someone tells you a place is 5km away, and you know exactly what that means.
In Nigeria, our units of measurement are “just here,” “near near,” “small trek,” and the legendary “you will soon reach.”
Nobody knows whether that means 200 metres or 10 kilometres!
A society that struggles to understand distance will struggle with spatial planning, mapping, infrastructure and development.
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I believe this will be considered one of the most important videos in US history from this time.
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“It was not our fault. We had no any other option. I was given 10k to mobilize people. We’re here not because we support Tinubu but we need the money to eat. We’re hungry. But honestly, you can’t wear a Tinubu’s shirt & enter even our area. People don’t like him.”
—Man who was hired, & asked to hire people to attend Tinubu campaign rally speaks.
