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Our film Nigeria's Miracle Baby Scammers is out now on @BBCAfrica's YouTube channel and BBC iPlayer
A reminder that this covers some difficult subject matter and might be a tough watch.
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- They made her take her sanitary pad off.
- They made her bend over and spread her legs, while coughing.
-They didn't let her use the toilet, despite her asking.
-They did this to a 15 year old Black girl because teachers believed they smelled weed.
-No drugs were found.
Another Met Police scandal: a black girl was stripped and searched at school. The search, which involved the exposure of her intimate body parts, took place without an appropriate adult present and with the knowledge that she was menstruating. Case review:
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My heart is hurting, man.
She actually thought she'd done something wrong and was being arrested justly.
Can you imagine how terrified she must have been when she clocked what was happening?
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The HBO documentary about Tina Turner was truly heartbreaking, especially when she said it wasn't a good life & that the good didn't outweigh the bad, because of all the abuse she had suffered.
Truly hope she rests in peace.
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Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei has suffered burns to more than 75% of her body after she was allegedly set on fire by her ex boyfriend.
The marathon runner, who competed in the Paris Olympics, is in critical condition. She was attacked at home.
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"In Nigeria, one product tested up to 6.8g ."
Meanwhile in major European markets there is no added sugar in formulas for kids.
Later, when people from these countries say they do not trust the West, it will be written off as ignorance and incidents like this will be ignored.
Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds theguardian.com/global-devel…
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When talking about femicide, I think it's important to call these men what they are... men.
They're not 'monsters', 'animals,' or 'devils,' they are human beings.
They are husbands, boyfriends, fathers, brothers, uncles, cousins, friends.
They are men.
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Will there be an investigation into the handling of Richard Okorogheye's case?
Why was his disappearance initially classed as low risk, despite him having sickle cell?
What happened to the officer who allegedly said "if you can't find your son, how do you expect us to?"
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More than 800 children have been kidnapped in schools across Nigeria since December.
A state of emergency has not been declared, no major press conference has been held.
Twitter deleted a single tweet from President Buhari, 48 hrs later and the platform has been banned.
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Trigger warning: femicide
38-year-old model Kristina Joksimovic was allegedly strangled, dismembered and pureed in a blender by her husband, Thomas (a pseudonym).
They had two children together.
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Interesting that he touched on how difficult it was to socialise without alcohol in England.
We don't talk about it enough, but British drinking culture is really problematic.
Tom Holland: ‘I felt enslaved to alcohol’ theguardian.com/film/2023/ju…
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And here I was thinking the Black people of Europe were actually the Black people of Europe.
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“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman."
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Lagos state police have confirmed the death of the three year old son of Afrobeats singer Davido and his fiance Chioma Rowland.
The police told the BBC eight domestic staff are being questioned over the death.
bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c515…
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Sad for the team, but especially Sancho, Rashford and my baby Saka.
As minorities KNOW that our Britishness is always dependent on our visible success, one mistake & it becomes void.
We are reminded we are not quire enough. I really pray these boys are supported and held.
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Why are people who voted for Brexit, to 'regain sovereignty' and 'take back control,'upset that Caribbean nations want to become republics?
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The global femicide crisis is worsening and it's terrifying.
Everyday we are hearing about more and more horrific violence against women and girls and nothing is being done about it.
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I'm so rattled by the revelation that N400,000 is £753.
I actually need to lie down.
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No Netherlands, no Belgium, no Germany, no UK....
Canada is adding Nigeria, Malawi and Egypt to the list of African countries from which it is banning travellers amid concerns about the spread of COVID-19’s Omicron variant. torstar.co/kkm350H06z1
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Saka and Rashford's IG comments are already full of abuse, people using monkey emojis.
On God, you people are so so sick
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It was also horrible seeing how even when she had escaped her abuser, she was routinely re-traumatized.
Rap lyrics using the horrific things she endured as punchlines, interviewers consistitenly asking her about her abuser. A whole MESS.
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"Black people are four times more likely to be reported as missing in England and Wales-but campaigners say their cases are being ignored. "
Re-sharing this massively important piece by the ever brilliant @Nadine_Writes for @Independent : independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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"The [shooting] victim was my driver, he came down to ease himself. All of a sudden we heard these gunshots from those policemen there. The bullet hit him and he fell down."
Video via @bbcnewspidgin x @RealBanjo
#EndSARS #EndSARSProtest
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What is there to say? We are simply not seen as human beings by many. The impact on this child is unbearable to think about..
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Unarmed, peaceful protesters at Lekki toll gate being shot at, one day after Governor @jidesanwoolu inaugurated a panel to investigate brutality & human rights violations by SARS.
#EndSARS
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Mafia books? Is that not a microagression? Lmao. #loveisland
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Jake is spending all this time reassuring the others and NOT Liberty 🚩🚩🚩 #loveisland
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Someone in my comments said there was more action taken over the footballer who kicked a cat, than what happened to #ChildQ and...well, there's that.
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The mass gaslighting of Black and brown people in England about what we are seeing/experiencing is nuts.
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Someone Yoruba needs to go on 'Hot Ones' so I can properly gauge how spicy the wings are.
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'casual misogyny'
'locker room talk'
'micro-aggressions'
All phrases designed to minimise seriousness and gaslight those on the receiving end into believing they're doing too much.
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Been reading some v interesting takes on this 'blackfishing' debacle, esp from Christiana Mbakwe-Medina.
She used the term 'ethnic smudging', to refer to how these girlies take from Black, Latina, Arab etc aesthetics to appear racially ambiguous.
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Misogynoir is a rite of passage for a lot of people when they're adolescents, but they never do the work of unlearning it.
They don't unpack why they have so much vitriol for Black women, they just say sorry when the mask slips and they're caught.
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After the way SK did Raven, I made up my mind never to root for any LIB couple again.
Tiffany and Brett are testing me, but I will not be moved.
I'm here for mess only! #LoveIsBlind
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So many observations from the brilliant #Beckham documentary, but perhaps the most fascinating is how the English public (still) hold 20 something year old footballers to a higher standard than their elected officials.
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I know Nigerians are 'resilient' and all that, but being exposed to so much tragedy/trauma on a daily basis is A LOT.
The violence, brutality and cruelty is relentless.
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People are (predictably) saying 'this is racist', when in reality she's created a solution to a very real problem.
As a student midwife, she's seen the lack of knowledge about how conditions like jaundice present on Black skin. This is potentially life saving.
Student creates app to improve care for black babies bbc.in/4gDLHww
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Fully support them doing this and I hope to see more women doing this.
How can you treat your kids like that and still expect support?
If you have no children, then you have no children.
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Lafiat Tijani has won Nigeria's first gold medal at the #TokyoParalympics.🥇
Tijani, who won in women's 45kg powerlifting, was a silver medalist at the 2016 Rio Games.
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Respectability politics won't save you. Neither will your Russell Group degree, your 'good english' or your overall Black excellence. Hope you know?
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Being triggered by the word 'nerd' when you're over the age of 18 is really strange.
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Someone needs to answer for all these warehouses stocked with Covid-19 palliatives.
Nigerians suffered through weeks of lockdown and these items were just there? Rotting away?
Whether it's evil or stupidity, someone has to be held accountable.
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When Yom told me she was interviewing Wizzy I screamed
The way we stan this guy in our house.
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Raven's 'friend' doing a series of 'I told you so' Tiktok's is so very weird.
Celebrating and laughing at your friend's heartbreak in the name of 'i was right'?
Also, it was the xenophobia people had a problem with not the skepticism of SK. #LoveIsBlind3
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#BBCYoruba dug up this timely video of Governor #Ajimobi praying. He said he didn't want any other role than governor.
Well, his prayers were answered, as he lost his bid for @NGRSenate
The power of prayer eh?
#NigeriaDecides2019result
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Mel's Wardrobe's pregnancy/labour story is harrowing.
Thank God they both survived and are happy and healthy.
There's a reason Yoruba's greet new mothers with “Eku ewu omo,"-- "congratulations on surviving the dangers of childbirth."
It's no joke.
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Not Black on Black violence as a teaser 😭😭 #loveIsland
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One day we're going to a proper conversation about the specific brand of xenophobia leveled at Nigerians, or 'naijaphobia' as I like to call it.
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Today, I start my new job as a Senior Journalist/Reporter at the BBC.
Still based in Lagos, but will be doing a lot more work across the continent.
Much ♥️ to my digital team, who I will miss a lot, especially my partner in crime @josh_akinyemi.
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This is a really difficult watch, but it's phenomenal, essential reporting by our colleagues in Gaza.
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At Lagos International Airport and there is currently no power...and by the look of it NO GEN.
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"Joe Biden was not arrested in South Africa while trying to see Nelson Mandela, his campaign has conceded.
The US presidential contender had repeatedly said he was arrested during a trip there in the 1970s, when South Africa was under apartheid" :
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada…
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#EndSARS Protests: Army Insists Only Blank Bullets Were Fired At Lekki Tollgate
channelstv.com/2020/11/14/en…
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To be clear, the 'race card' doesn't exist.
Race is not some 'excuse' POC's use, it's an integral to our identities & impacts everything in our lives.
Dismissing experiences and critiques of racist behaviour as such is so insulting.
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She's right.
It might be taboo because of how the parent-child relationship is idealised, but some parents resent, envy and dislike their kids.
Lest we forget, some people have kids because they feel they have to, not because they actually want them.
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⚠️ TW: r*pe, sa.
"Female surgeons say they are being sexually harassed, assaulted and in some cases r*ped by colleagues.
BBC News has spoken to women who were sexually assaulted in the operating theatre while surgery took place."
No words.
bbc.co.uk/news/health-667750…
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Kudos to Laila for being a true professional, despite the repeated attempts to undermine and mock her for doing her job.
Arise News Correspondent, Laila Johnson-Salami @lailajohnsonsal questions Senator David Umahi about the Lagos-Calabar Highway Project’s environmental impact assessment. She asks whether the project has received final approval from the Federal Ministry of Environment or if an exemption has been granted.
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- 105M living in extreme poverty.
- 10M+ out of school children.
- 3rd 'most terrorised'country in the world.
- 2nd recession is under 5 years.
- Food inflation at a 31-month high.
- Unemployment has more tripled in the last 5 years.
Nice anecdote though.
People are always complaining that things are not working in Nigeria. The woman selling food by my house said she makes 5k profit a day. That’s 150k a month. My mason makes 90k a month at 3k daily. How much is a banker’s salary? Nah pride be our problem.
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This is so sad.
Many of our parents spend their whole lives working in the abroad, dreaming of the day they go back home to rest, only to find it worse than when they left decades ago.
My mum retiring back to Nigeria for a year and unretiring herself back to the US and swearing to never retire to Nigeria again is funny n sad for me. She saw things. 🤣😪
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TW: femicide.
Christiana Idowu’s murderer was her friend, they even attended the same church.
Yet he kidnapped her & demanded a ransom from her parents. They paid it, but he killed the 21 year old anyway and buried her in a shallow grave.
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What they aren't saying is they expect women, who already experience discrimination at every level, to set up initiatives for boys and men too.
The expectation is always that women centre the needs of men and they're outraged it isn't happening.
International Men’s Day they did almost nothing. Over 80% of the CEOs of the companies listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange are men. This is not as a result of lack of resources.
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Since when did the Nigerian Correctional Service start making this type of information publicly available? And to what end? Other than to humiliate?
“After thorough examination, it was revealed there was no evidence of gender or genital organ realignment. Bobrisky’s male biological characteristics remained unchanged”
— The Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS).
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For the like the 100th time this year I'm asking
🗣🗣🗣🗣did we miss rapture?
Are we the ones left behind?
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Remember that viral fake news story about the man who drove the Italian #COVID19 patient from Lagos to Ogun?
Who demanded N100M not to spread the virus?
Well, I tracked down the man whose photo was used in that story & he told us its impact on his life.
🎥 @josh_akinyemi
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So, this Tega lady cheated on her husband & he forgave her. Good!
An example many young men should follow, too many of you will allow small cheating to scatter your matrimonial home.
I'm glad he didn't allow the devil to use him & chose to keep his family together 🙏🏾
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Tim Westwood was 2 when Nigeria gained Independence.
I hate that you people made me look that up 😭
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If you or anyone you know has experienced sexual harassment at university, please get in touch.
You can fill out the form 👇🏿or get send a DM.
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What makes it sadder is that every Black person knew if it ended in a loss, the racism would jump out immediately.
It's so predictable, it's pathetic.
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They don't spend money because they care, it's about ego.
They want to show off their wealth and feel powerful.
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So I think my old man is bored, this morning he decided to bake bread, just because...and this evening he's handed me stacks of old Nigerian newsmagazines to read.
Some of these are older than me, but the themes are eerily similar to 🇳🇬 today.
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Whenever old tweets from a certain demographic resurface, dark skinned Black woman in the UK already know what to expect.
One day we'll discuss why degrading and mocking dark skinned Black girls/women is a rite of passage for you guys.
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This woman is dead and yet.
Her son is in his 40s and yet
He has a father who is living and yet.
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The way the firstborn instinct kicks in every time. 😭 I was meant to be an observer, why am I coordinating?
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