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Ikhide R. Ikheloa
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Ikhide R. Ikheloa
@ikhide
I read. I write.
- Good night, Mr. Gene Deitch, Tom and Jerry and Popeye Director (1924 - 2020). Thanks for the stories. 😪
- I don’t know why I came to America. The year was 1982. Nigeria was a world super power, our embassies all over the world routinely denied white people visas to come to Nigeria (yes, we did!).
- That Open letter to Biden tho, Adichie nailed it, she sat down and wrote it with her blood. See enh, Adichie, I am sure has Biden’s cellphone number, she doesn’t need to write a letter to get his attention, the letter was for the benefit of the world. And it went viral, I hear
- Back home in Nigeria, you are a different animal, a menace, actually. And we are forced to "thank you for your service" with crumpled Naira notes each time you bleat, "Anything for the boys?"Whenever I walk the streets overseas/abroad in my 🇳🇬 Nigeria Police uniform, I’m often stopped by locals who say, "Thank you for your service." 📍 Downtown - Denver, Colorado USA.
- “Soludo's wife displays humility: Waiting in line to board a commercial flight and collecting her luggage on arrival.” This from a government account. What did Nigerians do to deserve this?Soludo's wife displays humility: Waiting in line to board a commercial flight and collecting her luggage on arrival.
00:00 - True. There was actually a flu pandemic in 1957. It affected Nigeria greatly. My mother wrote about it in a love letter to my father.
02:17This is the benefit of historical records and systematic research. My Edo brother fell my hand. See sensible logic instead of crazy theories? - “When an idol becomes too powerful and arrogant we tell him the wood it was carved from.” - Igbo Proverb.
- “There was a writer named Chinua Achebe in whose company the prison walls fell.”
- “Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.” - Chinua Achebe 😍
- I am definitely not coming back home to stay. I have lived in the US for over four decades. I visit home periodically, for about two weeks at a time. I am retired now, and with no purpose in mind, I went to Nigeria on July 18 and just returned September 23 after two months. The
- I am not an Obidient, but I will say this: Tinubu and the APC stole the presidency from Peter Obi. They must return it to him. Period. It’s so disrespectful, the crude and arrogant manner with which they snatched the ballot boxes from the hands of millions of hardworking Nigerian
