There hv been concerted efforts by members of the Oyo APC to rewrite history. They repeat so often the lie that Ibadan was a peaceful place bfr Seyi Makinde took over office on May 29, 2019. It has become a case of, repeat a lie often enough, & it begins to sound like the truth.

Immediately after he took over the government in May 2011, a violent clash erupted. The bloody clash described as "a recurring decimal" in the state saw one dead and about 10 injured. https://t.co/xeIsmTGeH3
By June 2012, there was another clash. This time between the NURTW and the PDP. The story was that the NURTW were angry that PDP members were singing Arikesola's praises. You can read the report for yourself. https://t.co/ivwUlqtRED
May 2013 - Violence erupted on Thursday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, when known members of the ACN and the NURTW made to disrupt a political gathering put together by the leader of Accord Party, Senator Rashidi Ladoja. https://t.co/Q7pzkQ62W9
August 2013- No fewer than eleven herdsmen have been killed in the last six weeks in some parts of Oke Ogun area; Otu, Ikomu, Igbo-Ora, Iwere-Ile, Iganna, Ilaju and Ado-Awaye. https://t.co/aHCryI21Bq
March 2014 - At least 20 people are reported to have been injured when dozens were prevented from entering the property - dubbed the "House of Horror". Locals suspect black magic rituals were behind the scores of skeletons and rotting corpses found there. https://t.co/lJayav87nO
In May 2016, Governor Ajimobi spoke to Oyo farmers, particularly in Oke Ogun, over the security of their lives and farmlands in the face of continuing clashes between herdsmen and farmers. https://t.co/ubfnJhkMnj
In June 2016, Governor Ajimobi had to shut down schools in the state because of "violent protests in different parts of the city by students in protest against alleged privatisation of primary and secondary schools by the state government." https://t.co/Gxh08CrLrI
From 2016 to 2017, it was one million boys on a rampage. They sacked communities in some parts of Ibadan metropolis like Beere, Born Photo, Ilupeju, Agbokojo, Mapo, Idi-Aro and Akala Way. https://t.co/zQiLGFDCzu
December 2016 – One million boys vs Indomie boys clashes in Ibadan https://t.co/c977Cl2QUx
May 2017 - This was Police Commissioner Abiodun Odude talking about fighting crime including abductions and the one million boys menace in 2017. Last I checked, you do not fight what does not exist. https://t.co/CyrB8SaVkj
November 2017 Farmer/herdsmen clashes are not a new thing in Oyo State either. This report shows a particularly bloody clash that left 10 injured. https://t.co/9daMX1r9s2
By Feb 2018, the Oyo Assembly had to suggest to Governor Ajimobi to equip and "empower vigilante groups across the state, especially in rural areas, as a way of tackling threats posed by herdsmen to farmers." https://t.co/RDN5JDq81P
In May 2018, a girl was shot on the day of the Local Govt elections. Governor Ajimobi’s govt, blamed the shooting on "the recalcitrant cultists engaging in supremacy battle in Idi Oro and Ayeye areas of Ibadan who are yet to embrace our peace initiative." https://t.co/giac2WAyvu
The next month, June 2018, Bodija Market had to be closed down because butchers were exchanging gunshots with policemen https://t.co/LdnTEI2F74
As late as February 2019, hoodlums were still running amok in no other place than an APC campaign rally in Igboora area of Oyo State. A bloody clash left two dead. https://t.co/UYQBQ4nHrH
And just before Ajimobi left office in 2019, in fact, during his thanksgiving service at the Cathedral of St James, Oke-Bola, Ibadan, an SOS was sent to the Federal Government to take "proactive steps…to rein in bandits, sacking and killing farmers." https://t.co/BCbNnCWhkd
It is worthy of note that the remote causes of the issues that escalated into the mayhem of Friday and Saturday, 12th -13th February 2021, have been brewing for decades. In fact, Governor Ajimobi was invited to look into the issue in 2017 https://t.co/ZROVZQHs8t

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A few thoughts on this sad development 👇👇

20 academics criticizing an paper is fine; good science, really

10000+ hate mail for studying schools in Sweden is insane

Anonymous docs/ prof (hiding in faceless accts) on twitter smearing researchers is insane
[thread] https://t.co/QYldLD3WO0


In April 2020, @jflier and I saw this coming

We saw increasingly heated and personal attacks against scientists merely for having a range of views on COVID19 (PS there is no playbook/ right ans)

Tying science to naked politics was also bad idea, we

Yet, repeatedly that is what happened. Twitter 'experts' displayed an absolute intolerance to other views

Folks who disagreed weren't just wrong, they were malicious actors spreading "disinformation"

Really? Someone worked for 25 years as faculty to suddenly spread lies?

Disinformation has been so misused that it has lost meaning.

I recently saw an ID doc & lab researcher in the UK be accused of spreading "disinformation"

hahah, get outta here, you are trying to say "i disagree" but your keyboard is broken

Personal attacks have become so bad that I have seen a lab researcher accuse a doctor of wanting to engage in inappropriate relationships with patients due to diverging views on vaccine messaging

Seriously? It was a low point even for twitter
These moρlahs, guided by the bigot Alι Mµsαlιαr did not fight against any oppression, Britishers or landlords. The moρlah rebellion is a vιolent vehιcle of jιhαδ. Its sole purpose: to mαssαcre Hindu-s, convert them to ιslαm and establish M sovereignty.


Tyrant Tιρµ was largely responsible for the forced conversions in Kerala. He surrounded homes of the H and forced them to convert to ιslαm, consume bεεf and be circµmcised.


Fleeing persecution from the rogue, many H fled to Tiruvanantapuram. There too, common M would now and then be enraged and wage jιhαδ on the helpless Hindu-s. The forcible conversions and desecration of our temples were the norm of the day.


T L Strange, a special commisioner of the Malabar region was appointed to enquire into the reasons for the outrages. He filed a report "Malabar Manual" in 1852 where he firmly says that the reason for the 'uprising' was M rεligιous fαnatιcism —


Moplah outrages on H was a regular occurrence in Kerala as we will show below. The most gruesome one in 1921 is what is famously referred to as such nowadays. In the aftermath of 1921, a special tribunal of 3 judges convened in Calicut.

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**Thread on Bravery of Sikhs**
(I am forced to do this due to continuous hounding of Sikh Extremists since yesterday)

Rani Jindan Kaur, wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh had illegitimate relations with Lal Singh (PM of Ranjit Singh). Along with Lal Singh, she attacked Jammu, burnt - https://t.co/EfjAq59AyI


Hindu villages of Jasrota, caused rebellion in Jammu, attacked Kishtwar.

Ancestors of Raja Ranjit Singh, The Sansi Tribe used to give daughters as concubines to Jahangir.


The Ludhiana Political Agency (Later NW Fronties Prov) was formed by less than 4000 British soldiers who advanced from Delhi and reached Ludhiana, receiving submissions of all sikh chiefs along the way. The submission of the troops of Raja of Lahore (Ranjit Singh) at Ambala.

Dabistan a contemporary book on Sikh History tells us that Guru Hargobind broke Naina devi Idol Same source describes Guru Hargobind serving a eunuch
YarKhan. (ref was proudly shared by a sikh on twitter)
Gobind Singh followed Bahadur Shah to Deccan to fight for him.


In Zafarnama, Guru Gobind Singh states that the reason he was in conflict with the Hill Rajas was that while they were worshiping idols, while he was an idol-breaker.

And idiot Hindus place him along Maharana, Prithviraj and Shivaji as saviours of Dharma.
"I lied about my basic beliefs in order to keep a prestigious job. Now that it will be zero-cost to me, I have a few things to say."


We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.

Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)

It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.

Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".