Saved By A Catholic Covenant in Chile But Who Wants Journalist Ben Edokpayi Dead — Tape Surfaces About How I was whip-lashed By Scores of Togolese Gendarmeries As I celebrated With The Eagles after their win over The Sparrowhawks
Saved By A Catholic Covenant in Chile But Who Wants Journalist Ben Edokpayi Dead — Tape Surfaces About How I was Whiplashed By Scores of Togolese Gendarmeries As I celebrated With The Nigerian team following their win over Les Éperviers (The Sparrowhawks)
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https://twitter.com/ojbsports/status/1594296253457858561?s=20&t=inzeuYpT1IK3cQd0uSTKQw
https://twitter.com/BenjaminEdokpa1/status/1594442715499941888?s=20&t=6-tomKWykKhwHU0HCsGm9w
’86 My Worst Year As A Journalist! Whiplashed And Assaulted By Togolese Policemen; Newswatch Banned By The Military Dictatorship After A Sequence Of Events That Included My New York Times Interview at Tafawa Balewa Square
NIGERIA AT 25; MISSPENT PAST AND SOMBER PROSPECTS https://nyti.ms/29DlJvH
Celebrate Black Excellence In The Midst of Repression!
A FCA Primer In The Quest for a Stable Democracy https://govcon.mofo.com/false-claims-act/moforecast-podcast-predictions-on-the-false-claims-act-fca/
More Perspectives from AFCON!
https://medium.com/@benpayi/86-my-worst-year-as-a-journalist-58d1d5ddd394
Breaking: Several Officials and Players from the Atlas Lions and Pharaohs Slapped With Fines at The AFCON Tourney. The errant players in a bust up that started in the tunnel approach to the dressing room, after their match in Cameroon have been identified. They are Sofian Boufal and Marwan Mostafa Daoud. I recall being in a similar situation at a World Cup Match in Lome, Togo.
Committee to Protect Journalists: The experience of Indian photojournalist Rahul M. in the hands of overzealous policemen (sent to me by CPJ) reminds me of that Togolese experience when I was a sports journalist for Newswatch magazine. I traveled in 1987 to Togo to cover a Junior World Cup game between Togo and Nigeria as a photojournalist. At the game which was won by the Flying Eagles I went onto the field to take pictures of the exuberant players. And then right in the act of taking pictures I was descended on by whiplashing gendarmeries and my explanation that I was a journalist was to no avail. I was lucky that I left the field with bruises, a sprained neck and no fractures. To make matters worse I arrived in Nigeria the day after the match to find that the Dictatorial and Repressive military regime (Under Major General Ibrahim Babangida) had proscribed Newswatch magazine for six months, and my story was never published. This was a year after they had arrested and imprisoned my friend Nduka Irabor, who later became a parliamentarian. To be clear, I have never been imprisoned. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-04-mn-24188-story.html
NIGERIAN MILITARY REGIME IS REINING IN ONE OF THE FREEST PRESSES IN AFRICA https://nyti.ms/29C87P1
https://cpj.org/blog/2016/02/i-kept-telling-them-im-a-journalist-but-they-kept-.php
A sad day that would have been made more pleasant if my girlfriend had agreed to travel with me to Togo. Anyways after the disappointment of being beaten by Togolese Policemen and not being able to file my report because the Military proscribed Newswatch. She was at the premises waiting for me when I arrived from Togo and of course home we wentWura should not be confused with baby Mama who I first met when she was 27. Wuraola, who is now in America, was a first year University of Lagos student and a Newswatch intern when we started dating.
We also have idea how the hired copycats in Nigeria weaved in a car and Van subplot in Edo and Delta State.
How our affair became politicized and dramatized on film is beyond understanding.
https://medium.com/@Mawureh/surprise-your-african-mom-is-lowkey-naive-9631eeb9253f
https://www.cafonline.com/news-center/news/caf-disciplinary-board-media-release-x8378
https://twitter.com/osasuo/status/1488669095251820550?s=20&t=S7zPc87WKHZQezhutOAzag
1995 in Nigeria during our family’s visit to our elder brother Major General John Edokpayi. I was the guardian of the home when he was away in India for a military course.Picture shows me, my son Ime and his cousin Efosa Edokpayi, who just graduated from the University. This is the same Nigerian Army house where I lived with Rita Duke and was seen with Wuraola Ogunsanya, when I was a staff at Newswatch. I left Nigeria in 1989. So you see why India is also concerned about a scandal of innocent photos and inexplicable CIA spying? THere is clear evidence that the CIA spied on a Nigerian Army Home. Is it a crime for a civilian, who was a journalist for an independent journal, to live with his brother in the Army? At no time during my stay there was I privy to military information. Wuraola Ogunsanya Abeg ask Debra, where was Frank or Andrew in Festac Town? I never lived in the same house with any half brother. https://www.army.mil.ng/
More Perspectives
NETWORKS / CYBERCRIME PENTAGON
‘Not the progress I would have hoped for’: Pentagon fails latest financial audit, Report Haunted By Indian Ocean Hijack
Shocker Is Somebody Falsely Claimed I Died In An Ethiopian Airlines Hijack That Included An American Ambassador. A previous hijack and my report is One of the reasons the Embassy facilitated a Special Visa .
Right To Sue for fraud, Identity Theft and prolonged pain and suffering — Hijacked But Only On An Airplane
Never held nobody or probed nobody against their will. Never been an illegal company. Most importantly, the only time I have ever been held against my will was on an hijacked Airplane, a decade before that horrible crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight 767 within the Indian Ocean. The Pilot was the same on our hijacked flight from UAE. You get the point :) Terrorism through Algorithms and satanic coders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCuh_2M4o3A Last time I checked America is a DemoCrazy. These criminals aka Ransomeware Gang need to be forensically unearthed. https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-director-compares-ransomware-challenge-to-9-11-11622799003
I wrote about the incident (which was also covered by the International Herald Tribune acquired by the NY Times in 2013) in a feature titled A Race To Save Nigeria’s Threatened Languages.
https://www.theafricantimes.com/a-race-to-save-nigerias-threatened-native-languages/
Buttressed by another one titled
Who Really Has The Right Journalistic Perspective On Africa?
https://www.theafricantimes.com/who-really-has-the-right-journalistic-perspective-on-africa/
We projected a Win for Karen Bass In The Los Angeles Mayoral Elections As Well.
https://www.theafricantimes.com/the-karen-bass-mystic-that-tops-it-off-for-women-of-color/
