If Nigerians had faced the truth and speak with one voice against the corrupt leeches called Nigerian Politicians who have weaponised poverty then no Nigerian will have to depend on relatives to raise their children as a corrupt free government will have created a safety financial net for all Nigerians and no one will have to resort to charity to raise their kids.

But what did Nigerians do, we allowed a certified treasury thief called Tinubu to be in charge of Nigeria's Treasury.

Like Fela Kuti sang, until we are ready to fight against it, the suffer head will continue.

Eriokanmi:
Kwam1,.oba awon agbero

True talk.

Kwam 1 and MC Oluomo's thugs are the reason we now have the debacle called Tinubu as Nigeria's President. Kwam 1 is the official musician of APC and MC Oluomo is Tinubu's election day thug in chief.

Wasiu joined Tinubu's election day thuggery in the last election as there is a video on Youtube of an Igbo contestant in the last election in Lagos saying that to prevent him from voting at a polling station near Wasiu's house in Lagos Wasiu slapped him.

With the thuggish support of Wasiu and MC Oluomo's gang of killers on election days, Tinubu has been able to steal enough billions from the treasury of Lagos State and install his cronies as Governor in Lagos since 1999.

Tinubu has been looting Lagos State for the past 25 years and counting and this is how the drug gangster was able to steal enough money to bribe the shameless Supreme Court judges to rubber stamp Tinubu's theft of Nigerias Presidency.

Tinubu is now richer than Nigeria as 10 months is far too much time to allow a thief like Tinubu be in charge of Nigerias Treasury.

The late Senior Advocate of the masses Gani Fawehinmi warned Nigerians many years ago that Tinubu is a criminal but we did not listen.

Tinubu Is A Criminal, Deserves 10 years In Jail - Gani Fawehinmi
https://www.facebook.com/nativereportersng/photos/a.1565382027077091/3343276239287652/?type=3

The Truth Tinubu Must Be Told By Dele Momodu
https://www.nairaland.com/7868333/truth-tinubu-must-told-dele

butpro:
Na all these fans wey Dem no send work...... K1 one can't go this low.

You are probably right that K1 may not have sent his boys but K1 is a confirmed bully.

There is a video on Youtube of an Igbo contestant in the last election in Lagos saying that to prevent him from voting at a polling station near Wasiu's house in Lagos Wasiu slapped him. I am Yoruba by the way but I can't stand anyone close to Tinubu as they are all gangsters.

Also around the last election, news surfaced that Wasiu and Tinubu's thug in chief (Mc Oluomo) were drawing up plans to include some killers from MC Oluomo's gang as Wasiu's band boys to facilitate their Visas and those killers will then go on an international manhunt to eliminate David Hundeyin as reprisal for the guy exposing Tinubu's Drug and Money laundering past to Nigerians. If true, then this plan will not have been considered without Tinubu's knowledge.

In the 90's, Wasiu went to play at Yaba Tech and when the boys asked him for money, he pulled out a gun to threaten them but had to run away when multiple boys responded by pulling out their own guns too. Wasiu is also said to have threatened Kwara Poly guys with his gun when they were getting close to him after a show.

There is a Youtube video of Wasiu slapping one of his band boys on stage. In another Youtube video, this same aggrieved ex drummer narrated how a former band member of Wasiu was slow in bringing the name of people that Wasiu will praise sing. When the man who was around the same age as Wasiu eventually approached Wasiu to give him the list, Wasiu dragged him by his cloth, tore his cloth and punched the man in the face thus breaking the guys glasses and the blow of Wasiu's punch and shrapnel from the glass splinters damaged the guys eye to the extent that as at today, the guy is blind in one eye and almost blind in the other eye and can not walk without being led by the hand by his family members who hold him by the hand to beg for money to survive.

Wasiu is so heartless and diabolical according to his Ex Drummer and whenever his band boys have a meeting with Wasiu in Ogun State, Wasiu feels they are not good enough to sleep in his mansion and instead they have to sleep on mats in a mosque.

The drummer also narrates 1 incident where Wasiu called some Babalawo's to his house to pray do ritual for his band members to prevent untimely death as a few of his bandboys had died around that period. In another incident Wasiu got Babalawos to extract the blood of all his band boys and each one of them had to put a sacrifice on their heads and take it to a shrine as a form of oath taking that they will not abscond from Wasiu after travelling abroad for a show.

The drummer further said that after each show, Wasiu will collect all the sweaty cloths worn by all his band members during the show and they don't know where Wasiu takes their sweaty clothes or what he does with them.

So, Wasiu may not have sent his fans to break the drummers bedroom window but from facts coming out in multiple Youtube video from more than 1 past associate of Wasiu and his election violence against an aspirant in the last election in Lagos, Wasiu is a diabolical and violent bully.

Baba Ijesha own no even reach this stage before he got an 8 year jail term.

The girls father withdrawing the case in my own opinion is null and void. In "civilised" countries, a child can not give consent talk less of what the bastard called Uche James did to the poor defenceless child.

Lagos state Governor Sanwo-Olu , the ball is now in your court. Lets see if you will allow this to be swept under the carpet. You have to assume that the child is yours and do what you would have done in that case.

Uche James must face a lengthy prison term.

The late Senior Advocate of the masses Gani Fawehinmi warned Nigerians many years ago that Tinubu is a criminal but we did not listen.

Tinubu Is A Criminal, Deserves 10 years In Jail - Gani Fawehinmi
https://www.facebook.com/nativereportersng/photos/a.1565382027077091/3343276239287652/?type=3

The Truth Tinubu Must Be Told By Dele Momodu
https://www.nairaland.com/7868333/truth-tinubu-must-told-dele

Do Not Denigrate Nigeria In Your Sermons, Tinubu Appeals To Religious Leaders

I don't blame the criminal President. If the Religious Leaders had denigerated Tinubu enough in their past sermons, the criminal will not be in Aso Rock as we speak.

The late Senior Advocate of the masses Gani Fawehinmi warned Nigerians many years ago that Tinubu is a criminal but we did not listen.

Tinubu Is A Criminal, Deserves 10years In Jail - Gani Fawehinmi
https://www.facebook.com/nativereportersng/photos/a.1565382027077091/3343276239287652/?type=3

The Truth Tinubu Must Be Told By Dele Momodu
https://www.nairaland.com/7868333/truth-tinubu-must-told-dele

Senegal, Liberia Presidential Polls Deepened ECOWAS Democracy Campaign – Tinubu

What cheek, nerve and effrontery from the corrupt election rigger in chief.

Inspirer1:
his ability to do this within a short period is a notable quality for his profession.

Portable's work ethic is phenomenal. He lost his mum at 13 and ran away from home and practically raised himself on the streets. Before he came to the limelight with Zazuu, he had been singing for 10 years.

A lot of people don't actually know how talented Portable is and many think he is a one hit wonder because they have not checked out his vast Audiomack catalogue.

3 of his songs that stand out for me are in the below YouTube videos.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC9qwSFVBcs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD9JAI2Azik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZUBOgiWhg

For now, Nigeria has no business having an official carrier until we can get the basics of providing food, shelter, water, electricity and security for our 200 million people.

We don't want air crashes caused by incompetence and corruption where second hand parts will be fixed onto death traps called planes.

Also, Government officials and their families and cronies will bankrupt the airline by flying for free the same way they crashed Nigeria airways of old by buying tickets for 5 Naira.

kushme:
Whaaat, confidently counting kidnap-money for over 2 hours.

Symptom of a failed state.

This is how Haiti started until it is now being run 100% by gangs of Criminals.

cutecommend:
Women?

(1) The one nagging and calling her hubby a cheat may have different kids in the house.

(2) The one persuading and forcing her hubby to attend church program, be prayerful, read devotional; may have slept with her EX twice in the marriage.

(3) The one that is forcing you to do expensive wedding, may have slept severally with her EX who may have dropped nothing, while you may be tirelessly looking for wedding hall.

(4) The one you are standing for during pregnancy and fighting for her during delivery, may be giving you another child.

(5) When a man is battling to pay bride price, the woman may be "battling" in bed with her EX boyfriend.

If you don't trust your wife, you may have to run DNA

Food for thought.

Can Special Adviser Bayo Onanuga please tell us how much was in Kleptomaniac Tinubu's bank accounts before he became Lagos State Governor and afterwards. Likewise, what was Tinubu's bank balances before and after he smuggled his way into Aso Rock ??

Same guy that was killed in Nov 2021 according to the post below ??

https://www.nairaland.com/6829565/notorious-bandit-leader-dogo-gide

Judolisco:
Opari... Hope dis guy is not yahaya bello part 2....bello had 3 wives when he became governor at age 40.....

Dis one get one Christian wife and one Muslim wife... Odogwu

I know someone (a muslim) who at 42 has 3 wives (Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo) and if he senses any quarrel among them, he threatens them that he will marry a 4th one. The guy na guyman sha so he go sabi sell sand for someone for Sahara desert.

All 3 wives follow him from Lagos to his hometown for the Sallah celebrations and all 3 wives wear the same Aso ebi with him.

MyVILLAGEpeople:
This comment off me.

I have always thought this was happening a lot but now the ladies have confirmed that they allow their men to suck another mans cum. How disgusting and wicked.

All pussy suckers beware as you may have sucked another mans sperm. Yuck.

Men have suffered.

Ofunaofu:
When will Bayo Onanuga, MC Oluomo, and their thugs and hoodlums be tried for the killing, maiming, and destruction of lives and properties of people believed to be from a particular ethnic group because of their democratic choice?

You forgot to add the politicians who funded and sent them. MC Oluomo was pictured shaking hands with the shameless and thoughtless Tinubu in Aso Rock last week.

The Federal Government has commenced the prosecution of a man

Who is the aggrieved here ? Is it Fashola or the FG ? If it is Fashola that was defamed, why is the FG prosecuting the case ? Shouldn't Fashola himself be the one bringing the case to a neutral court ? Is Fashola and the FG one and the same ? Or was the guys accusations correct in the first place for the FG to prosecute him on Fashola's behalf ?

This Nigeria sef. the more you look, the less you see.

Hezzyluv:
How can a fully grown man with 2balls behaves this way?

I think he has now done the operation to remove his male genitals and convert the area into a Vjay because he was telling VDM in a video last week that the police can no longer arrest him for same sex relationship because he is now completely a woman.

For Bobrisky to threaten Portable with arresting him and throwing away the key in such a confident tone means Bob has connections in high places and can call on a return of favours from the high and mighty whenever he pleases.

On another note, any ashawo who knows her job well in Naija always sleeps with police bosses and has them on speed dial. I stumbled across this fact when a lady was crossing slowly and carelessly in front of my car in Ikeja some years ago and I told her to hurry up. Words were exchanged and when she said she was going to break my windscreen, I told her why wouldn't you say such when you are an ashawo. She got angry and tried to open my car door and said she will show me that her own kind of ashawo sleeps with police bosses and that she will deal with me. I quickly accelerated my car away.

yinchar:
This child looks like a carbon copy

The resemblance is striking

Well spoted.

MC Oluomo will refuse DNA test because he know say na him pikin.

This kain situation na him dey make the man mama go behind her sons back to accept the denied child and bring her up herself until the man sees reason or sees the resemblance as the child grows up.

Happened to my uncle who give girl belle when he was 19 and denied it. But my grandmother accepted the child behind his back and allowed the childs mother to visit her whenever she felt like. After my uncle married his choice of wife, he later married the denied woman and brought the denied Mum and daughter into his household (being a muslim) and my cousin - the denied daughter - now has 2 other siblings from her mum and dad and she remains the mans first child and the denied wife and my uncle are still married and the initially denied daughter is over 50 years old.

The first wife had no choice in the matter as her husbands family "elders" were seated all around her.

What must have happened was that the man got his girlfriend pregnant then he went to his family elders to help break the news to the first wife and the mans family elders called that gathering and the 2 wives had no choice but to kneel down and listen to the sermon from the elders which would be along the lines of your husband has done wrong but forgive him after all if someones property increases from 1 to 2, we will not get angry.

You can see that the first wife got up from her knees to lift the second wife from her knees.

If per chance the first wife is yet to conceive and the new wife is pregnant then the elders will say Ori omo nin pe omo waiye meaning that na pikin head dey call another pikin to come into the world meaning that the first wife accepting the pregnant second wife may be the dose of good luck that will make the first wife to also conceive,

benuejosh:
Not to talk of the letters some wrote.

Those love letters in those days used to start with Lovely Dated.

Even when babe tell you say she get boyfriend, you will tell her that every car has a spare tyre.

A common love poster in those days used to read as follows :-

If you love a bird, set it free; If it comes back it was yours but if it doesn't, it was never yours in the first place.

In those days, to see woman laps no dey easy as girls were brought up to close their laps and not sit carelessly and if an older woman saw a young girl sitting carelessly, it was not uncommon for the older lady to land a hot slap on the girls laps to make her cover up. Sexually inquisitive boys in mixed schools used to go to the extent of placing a mirror under staircase in the hope of catching a glimpse of female pant.

Today everything is in your face including breakfast lunch and dinner.

No shame anymore.

Today some women openly brag about being prostitutes unlike in times gone by where no woman would dare do such for the fear of being disowned by their entire family.

We've lost our way as a nation.

“Those who are talking about malicious embellishment in the budget, they did not understand the arithmetic and did not refer to the baseline of what I brought. But your integrity is intact.

Tinubu.

These Nigerian politicians take us for mugs and they have no shame.

How can the epitome of corruption vouch for someone else's integrity ?? Only in Nigeria.

I immediately took time off work and in the interim I wrote to the new HR Director to step in and the minute I mentioned the term constructive dismissal to him in an email, he started getting worried and asked me to come and negotiate because he knew that as I had been there for more than 4 years, I had the right to sue them for unfair dismissal even if I resigned and claimed constructive dismissal.

In UK Employment Law, Constructive dismissal is when you’re forced to leave your job against your will because of your employer’s conduct.

The reasons you leave your job must be serious, for example, they:

do not pay you or suddenly demote you for no reason
force you to accept unreasonable changes to how you work - for example, tell you to work night shifts when your contract is only for day work
let other employees harass or bully you

Your employer’s breach of contract may be one serious incident or a series of incidents that are serious when taken together.

You should try and sort any issues out by speaking to your employer to solve the dispute.

If you do have a case for constructive dismissal, employment lawyers say that you should leave your job immediately 'cos if you don't, your employer may later argue that, by staying, you accepted the bad conduct or treatment by your employer.

The HR Director in that job had no choice once I mentioned the term constructive dismissal to him but to negotiate a settlement agreement with me that is in 5 figures with a reference that is enshrined in the agreement and that they can not depart from lest I re-open the case and take them to an employment tribunal which is like a court.

A lot of employees in the UK don't realise that once they have been with an employer for at least 2 years, they don't have to put up with bad treatment from their employer as after 2 years if they are dismissed unfairly they can take legal action and even if the bad treatment fits the definition of Constructive dismissal as laid down in UK Employment Law, they can actually resign and take the rogue employer to an employment tribunal for Constructive dismissal which is when you’re forced to leave your job against your will because of your employer’s conduct.

But in everything you have to use NOT just any lawyer but a lawyer that specialises in Employment Law and even if you don't want to spend any money on lawyers, just search google for Employment Law specialists willing to take your case on a NO win, No Fee basis whereby you don't pay them anything if you lose and if you win, they will take a percentage of what you win (typically around 35%).

But if you have a case for constructive dismissal, you have to leave your job immediately because your employer could later argue in court that, by staying, you accepted the conduct or treatment.

The conundrum is that how many people are brave enough or have enough savings to leave a job where they are treated badly ?

For black people living in the UK and working in the public sector (teacher, police, hospital, councils, charities, etc) where racism is rife, they MUST join a top union soon and if their employer has no union, they can use the following online tool to find the best union to join - https://www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union

If I no get UK papers, dem for don deport me tey tey 'cos I no get patience for their racist bullshit which an immigrant without the right papers has to put up with.

I always had my reservations about the UK isolating and housing Asylum seekers onto the Bibby Stockholm barge (a sort of floating prison, drowning and fire hazard in my view) as I could not help but think that that could have been me isolated from society as an unclean nuisance who does not deserve to be housed amongst the rest of the human populace.

In their rush to seem to be hard on Asylum seekers, they rushed to move some of them onto the floating prison without waiting for the results of tests already carried out on the water supply on the floating barge only for the test results to come back saying the water supply on the barge was not fit for human consumption or use in any form as the water was contaminated with the deadly Legionnaires disease than can kill humans and then they removed the Asylum seekers from the floating prison and relocated them elsewhere but it is worthy to note that even after the results came back saying the water supply was deadly, the officials did not tell the Asylum seekers to stop using the water until later on the day the deadly test results came back.

British racists and Anti immigration politicians must be licking their lips now as they are now shielded from being labelled racists because any racist looking anti immigration policy in the UK for now will be fronted by Rishi Sunak (Prime Minister) and Suella Braverman (the home secretary) who ar both Ethnic Minorities and people of colour and Suella in particular is competing with herself to roll out the most obnoxious and inhuman Anti immigration policies that target ethnic minorities like herself (obviously to garner future votes for herself from white people).

It beggars belief that despite the UK Fire brigade saying that the Barge was a fire disaster waiting to happen (imagine 500 people roasting to death on a floating barge or drowning in the sea in the event of a fire outbreak on the Barge) Grenfell Tower block fire disaster that killed loads of mainly ethnic minority residents in the fire outbreak in the tower block because the local council did not take residents warning serious because the residents were mainly ethnic minorities.

Despite the warning from the Fire brigade, Suella Braverman (an ethnic minority woman) in order to impress and gain future votes from the white populace went ahead to approve that 500 Asylum seekers would be housed on the barge floating prison (meant originally for 220 people) when there are actually more than 150,000 Asylum claims still unprocessed and if she was not just playing to the gallery, the obvious solution would have been for her to employ an additional Army of staff to treat the backlog of 150,000 Asylum cases waiting to be processed.

To those still saying that there is no racism in the UK, I recommend you read the following post :- https://www.nairaland.com/7810479/those-still-saying-there-no#125242533

I once lived in a shared house in the UK and this white woman (Ex Army) used to relish telling me that her late husband (also white) used to call his mixed race daughters Niggers and the first time I let it pass thinking it was unintentional but the second time she mentioned the same thing to me and judging by the fact that it was not necessary for the conversation at hand, I told her point blank never to mention such to me and she stopped henceforth. It was her own way of trying to call me a Nigger by hiding behind her story telling about her late husband.

In my opinion based on my personal experiences, the UK remains and will always remain the most racist place under the sun but I NEVER put up with racism in the workplace no matter how benign or overt it is, i always call it out in the workplace as some managers in the uk believe that you have to be subservient because you are from an ethnic minority and they always get taken aback when I stand against such. I've got too many battles with racism (in different flavors) that I have encountered in the work place in the UK. It comes with the territory of having a mind that believes that Oyinbo is NOT superior to me because I am black. Some Oyinbos in the workplace can not handle that and after initially being friendly because they expected me to be subservient, the minute they discover otherwise, they become outrightly hostile to me but that's their business.

I remember once losing out on getting a top Finance post because the CEO (a New Zealand lady) called me for the second interview and asked me why my brothers (i.e fellow Nigerians were into Online fraud). I explained to her that its not all Nigerians that are fraudsters but only the lazy ones. I still did not get the job but the lady being from New Zealand was ignorant of the fact that such statements could get her and her company into trouble in the UK and in any case she was only saying out loud face to face what a lot of white people say about Nigerians from behind their keyboards.

I know that a lot of companies in the UK tolerate racism in the workplace and turn a blind eye to racist managers and staff but that is not a reason for a person of colour to keep quiet when he or she encounters such.

Out of interest, I did a quick google search of employees complaints about racism in the workplace in the UK and n the link below are the employee reviews posted on glassdoor.co.uk.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22reviews%22+%22glassdoor.co.uk%22+%22racism%22&sca_esv=913d894b4ad63b06&sca_upv=1&ei=52v8ZcSAMfXPhbIP-piEwAU&ved=0ahUKEwiEkIes7oWFAxX1Z0EAHXoMAVgQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=%22reviews%22+%22glassdoor.co.uk%22+%22racism%22&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJCJyZXZpZXdzIiAiZ2xhc3Nkb29yLmNvLnVrIiAicmFjaXNtIjIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBDIIEAAYgAQYogRI40NQ9RlYzDxwAXgAkAEAmAGhAqAB-Q-qAQUwLjYuNLgBA8gBAPgBAZgCCaAClw3CAg4QABiABBiKBRiGAxiwA5gDAIgGAZAGAZIHBTEuNC40oAf0Gg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp


There is no where where you have a majority of white people like in the UK where you will not find racism towards black people or victimization of black people and if some people who have lived in the UK for decades tell you what they have experienced from managers (white, black and Asian) in the work place you will marvel.

I remember resigning from a job once as an Accountant when my Asian manager in a Private publishing company was queried by her Top Directors as to why she is allowing a Nigerian to sign cheques for suppliers and one day I went to lunch and came back and saw her packing all the cheque books away from my desk saying that she could no longer allow me to sign cheques as she had not fully checked my references and knowing where she was going, I said fair enough, but why did she allow me to sign cheques the previous day and she had no answer (as she sussed out that I knew where she was going) and she eventually went into her office to bring out a letter from Barclays Bank that showed that the former Accountant (not a Nigerian but an Asian like her) stole £10,000 from them.

I promptly reported her prejudice to the HR Director who by chance happened to be a mixed Race guy who then forced her to apologise and the chap asked me if I still wanted to continue in the self employed contract role and I reluctantly said Yes (which I didn't mean) and on asking my Asian manager (also an accountant) if she wanted me to continue in the role she said no as she could not change her self and in the end she was forced to pay me off as I was a self employed contractor and she still had the effrontery to ask me to do some more accounting postings before I left to which I refused.

I've also actually been sacked by a company that buys cameras on lease and then rents them to the BBC and what was my offence ?? Not doing the VAT Fraud they were accustomed to doing prior to my joining them. Thank God I left accounting for Good and moved back into IT more than 5 Years ago.

There is even an NHS Hospital where I was a Systems Accountant and I ended up resigning in 2006 because I did an NHS sponsored ECDL exam, scored 92% and the Carribean invigilator (unbeknownst to me at the instigation of my Carribean line manager) asked me to retake the exam as she was not sure I did not cheat to pass and I had to educate her that she should forget what she reads on the internet and that not all Nigerians are fraudsters or exam cheats and that some of us were already highly educated before we left Nigeria.

These NHS winches turned it into a disciplinary hearing against me because I sent an email to them that made them look silly for their prejudice and their NHS kangaroo court found me guilty of losing my temper (after being accused wrongly of being an exam cheat)
and my "punishment" was that they would be watching me for the next one year to see if I lost my temper again. I went back to my desk thought about the implications for my freedom of expression for the next 12 months and withing 30 minutes, I resigned and 2 days later, I relocated back to Nigeria to open a restaurant ( which didn't work out due to pilfering staff - hence my coming back to the UK in 2008).

In my above 3 jobs, I really had no rights to sue the said employers because the first one was a self employed contractor post, the second one I had been there for less than 2 years ditto the NHS one as well but in my job before the last the minute they tried to intentionally move me to work in a team headed by a guy whom HR themselves had classified as "discriminatory" in his behaviour a year earlier, I told them that if I am forced to move to that guys team in spite of them knowing of his past discriminatory behaviour, I would hand in my resignation and it would be a case of constructive dismissal.

The manager and her manager who probably had not heard that term before ignored my statement, did their magic with HR and decided I was the one to be moved to the discriminatory guys team in spite of there being a Polish lady and a subservient Indian lady who could have been moved.

Why you MUST always stand up to Racism and unconscious bias in the workplace in the UK.

I live in London and a few days ago I applied for a well paying IT job at a major Tech player in Europe with more than 50,000 employees in more than 20 countries with a turnover of almost 6 billion Euros.

A few hours ago today I saw a missed call from an internal Recruiter from the company. I quickly checked the lady's LinkedIn profile and saw that her education is just O'Levels plus an NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) in Beauty Therapy which is equivalent to 4-5 GCE O'Levels. This is not a major issue but what turn out to be a bigger issue is her small town mindset (bordering on unconscious bias / racism) because she lives in a town in England that has a population of less than 70,000 compared to London where I live a city that has a population of 14.8 million.

A town is generally larger than villages and smaller than cities and it means that a lot of Oyinbo people who have lived in small towns or villages and haven't really lived in London (the capital of England) have not worked closely with intelligent black people and not a few of them have some ignorant narrow minded sentiments about black people that border on unconscious bias / racism.

Back to my story.

After checking out the internal recruiters profile on LinkedIn, I returned her call and withouth much ado or talking about the role her first question was about what rights I have to work in the UK and I replied that I have a British Passport and she then asked whether I had another passport and I replied that I had a Nigerian passport as well.

She immediately said that since I had a Nigerian passport she can not pass my CV to the hiring manager because the role is with the Ministry of Defence (MOD).

I pointed out to her that I was born in the UK at a time when just being born in the UK automatically gave you a British Passport but she said that being born in the UK was not enough.

I was beginning to get irritated at this point so I told her that my Nigerian passport had expired (which it has) and I told her more importantly that my younger brother born in the same UK by the same parents has worked severally in the past with the Ministry of Defence.

Digressing :- Na the same racist attitudes dem take delay my then 7 month pregnant ex wife for Naija by denying her a settlement visa thus ensuring that she gave birth in Naija instead of in the UK. So, now there are some jobs my son may be denied (God forbid) in future because although one of his parents was born in the UK, he was not born in the UK whereas my daughter will be able to apply for such jobs because she was born in the UK just like her Dad.

Back to my story :-

I told the recruiter that my younger brother born in the same UK by the same parents has worked severally in the past with the Ministry of Defence (MOD). She did not have an answer to this and mumbled something about the possibility that my brothers roles at the MOD had different criteria about having second citizenships.

Nowhere on their job Ad on LinkedIn had mentioned anything about the fact that having a dual Nationality may preclude you from beind considered then i would NOT hav applied for the role. I think its just her illiteracy, bias and prejudice that was at play here and its just like when an Oyinbo man says that the fact that a black man has a british passport does not make him british. I remember many years ago as a student cab driver and one of my Irish customers asked me on sitting in the back of my car the following question :- Where are you from and I answered that I was from Nigeria and he replied as follows - Thank god you did not say you were Brittish because YOU are not (the caps at the end emphasizing that he shouted the last 3 words meaning that he was disgusted with black people saying that they were british).

Back to my story again - Today's female recruiter then said that in order not to waste my time she will consult with her colleagues and ask if my having dual British / Nigerian citizenships would preclude me from applying for the role which will entail working with the MOD.

I agreed to her statement BUT she then went on to ask me if I had traveled out of the UK ?. I did not wait for her to finish her sentence as by this time I had had enough and I just told her that she was being racist and that she should get over herself. She made an attempt to mumble something but I promptly ended the call and blocked her number and also blocked her on LinkedIn after sending her a text to tell her how I felt.

Below is the text message I sent her :-

Your questions were bordering on RACISM and I was born in the UK well before you were and I am NOT a migrant that is only fit for the Bibby Stockholm Barge. You need to come out of your RACIST mindset as this is 2024. RIDICULOUS TYPE OF RACISM.

The Bibby Stockholm Barge is the detention centre (floating prison) that the immediate past home secretary Sualla Braverman conjured up to be holding Asylum seekerrs on despite the fact that the London fire brigade warned that it was a fire risk and the water supply on the boat later turned out to be poisonous to humans.

I was suprised when a few minutes later (earlier today), a manager from the company called me and the minute he mentioned the company name, I told him that I no longer wanted to work for their company. He then said the female recruiter was upset that she made someone feel the way I felt and me and this manager then discussed and I told him I was upset because I could sense her unconscious bias and this was what I was addressing and that even after I told her that my younger brother has worked at the MOD in the past and we were both born in the UK by the same Nigerian parents, she sort of bluffed over that and even when I agreed with her that she should go away and find out if my having a Nigerian passport would bar me from applying for the role, she still went ahead to ask me if I had been out of the UK ?? and I felt like she was asking me to denounce my Nigerian Ancestry.

At the end I thanked the Manager for being open minded enough to reach out to me immediately and I said she should pass my apologies to the lady and that it was not personal but that with the toxic divisive anti immigrant rhetoric going on in the UK at present (fueled by the last home secretary - Suella Braverman), he should not be suprised that some people from ethnic minorities including black people are feeling singled out and picked on to be vilified as illegal immigrants and it is the case that not every one with a dark skin colour is an illegal immigrant as a lot of them were actually born in the UK and have had the right to be in the UK from birth.

The manager agreed with me regarding unconscious bias and he said that even though I don't want to apply for that particular role anymore, he would still like to consider me for future roles and I said thats OK. When he prodded me again about whether I will reconsider being put forward for the original role, I told him that because of his reaching out to me which shows that he is forward thinking, I would consider the original role as long as I don't get victimized if I get the role and he said that was OK.

I ended the call by thanking him for a) his forward thinking, his openness and swift reach out and I asked him to give my apologies to the recruiter lady and explain why I was upset initially as a lot of ethnic minorities in the UK who have the legal right to be in the UK are feeling vilified as illegal immigrants courtesy of the divisive rhetoric of the immediate past home secretary Suela Braverman and he agreed with me.

I may still not get called for interview or get the job but I will ALWAYS call out racism and unconscious bias in the work place in the UK whether it is disguised or not and a lot more of us in the UK should do the same 'cos at the moment, black people are at the bottom of the pecking order in the UK unlike our African American cousins in the US who have fought discrimination in the workplace to an extent that you see black people holding top posts in American society courtesy of a) the dogged and continuing resistance of Black Americans and b)Affirmative action that is enshrined in American law.

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Wawelexy:
Yoruba call this Àlànbééré... They lied to us that it will turn to a snake after seeing it, but there's a song you have to sing to avoid it turning to a snake...

African and hoax are like 5 & 6

The song you have to sing to avoid it turning to a snake is as follows -

Alayonbere mo ri e, mo ri e mo ri e, mo ri e, ko to dejo mo ti dabere. (Alayonbere I don sight you o but before you have the chance to turn into a snake, I have turned into a needle)

Zico5:
When will Akpabio resign over budget padding? Nigeria is just a theater of play. Instead for those principal officers of the Senate to be suspended for fraud, they are the one suspending a senator. I have given up on this country many years ago.

Senator Shehu Sani said a few days ago that the minute you are a whistle blower in the Senate or House of reps, your colleagues will suspend you and stop your salary and allowances hence even the ones who want to say the truth will NEVER do so for fear of what to eat and how to fund their lavish lifestyles.

So, NOTHING good can come out of the National Assembly nor from Tinubu, Wike, Akpabio and the lot of them corrupt, greedy and wicked Nigerian politicians.

NFBI:
We didn't come to this world to have only sex

The most important organ in his body (his brain) is intact and I will not be surprised if in the near future, he becomes a world class computer programmer since his brain, eyes and one hand are still intact.

Ilide:
Some girls can pay the sacrifice. But oyibo love is fire shaa. If they love you they love you.

Spot on. Their own love is pure and when they fall out of love, they tell you straight away without deceiving you just to get money from you unlike some women from a certain country and continent who don't have love in their hearts and everything is commercialized to them.

Melagros:
If this incident had happened in Nigeria the victim could have been buried since

Compare that with America where apart from the millions in compensation his employers will pay him, don't be suprised that very soon the guy will be driving a fully funded Government provided car that is adapted with hand controls.

A tale of 2 countries.