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IDUMUJE-UGBOKO CRISIS: SOCIAL MEDIA, TIRED OF LIES ABOUT NED NWOKO…
The social media especially Facebook had been suffused in recent times with a tale of two themes. One a personality, PRINCE NED NWOKO and second a community, IDUMUJE-UGBOKO.
The tone of the narrative on Ned Nwoko and Idumuje-Ugboko ( the land of his birth) had followed a pattern – hostile, bitter and hateful.
A babbling bard like an angry bird has been singing and singing and singing….
We call it IWEDIKE! ( Resentful begrudge of nobility)
The diatribe mostly by Ned Nwoko’s fellow tribesman (Azuka Jebose) from Onicha-Ugbo has been spewed for too long now with repetitive dissonance, tasteless in intent and meaningless in value.
Same old lamentations. Same old lies – Ned Nwoko is a land grabber, Ned Nwoko is a bully. What a boo!
The Ned Nwoko Media and Communication Directorate has reached its wit’s end watching a boring circus of empty song jarring the ears morning, afternoon and night – every day! Social media is tired. We are tired of tales.
By strategy and orientation, we are totally averse to rebutting aggressive charges. Reason that a comeback to an insult ( no matter how festering ) is not often the best elixir for a riposte for obvious purposes.
By Ned Nwoko’s radiant standing, he can never descend to the gutter. A man with so much glory and honour pampered by amazing grace can only walk in fanciful measured steps. No decent man will lace his shoes to run after nothing. It makes no sense to dignify nonentity. To do such would be infra dig. So let it be with Ned Nwoko and his minuscule maligners.
But for social courtesy, it is necessary to make particular clarifications.
Contrary to the story of chroniclers of falsehood, Ned Nwoko is not land grabbing Idumuje-Ugboko Prince. He stands today at the centre stage of endless ovation with the development of the first sports university ever in sub Saharan Africa, STARS University located in his home town. A multi billion Naira timeless legacy that would from generation to generation celebrate the mythic destiny of one man interlaced with the good fortune of a people – Anioma and far afield.
It is on record as a proven fact that all Idumuje-Ugboko farmers had been compensated by Hon. Prince Ned Nwoko of which over 200 million Naira was spent for compensation over the land acquired for the building of the university and an international golf course.
The irony of the 90 hectares granted with C of O is that it is the same land that various Onitcha-Ugbo families claim belong them and the Ned Nwoko foundation has paid these families close to 200 million Naira just for peace sake.
The idea for the settlement was to stop them from farming at the golf course land, within the STARS university.
Though most of the farmers are not the original owners of the land as they are itinerant crop cultivators and strangers farming on Idumuje-Ugboko ancestral land, they were paid compensation for peace and harmony, sequel to a request by the then Obi of the kingdom, the late Obi Albert Okwuwadiegwu Nwoko.
It bears emphasis to state that all documents relating to the ownership of the land where the STARS university is located, were duly and legally acquired by Hon . Prince Ned Nwoko.
No one has been forcibly dispossessed. So the tale of a 92 year woman allegedly locked out of her farmland is false. An old story fabricated in futility to hoodwink.
It is worthy of note that in deference to the implementation of the peace agreement brokered by the Obi of Owa kingdom, HRM Emmanuel Efeizomor and other royal fathers in Anioma area, to withdraw all cases in court including the land dispute, Prince Ned Nwoko has fully complied.
On criminal murders in Idumuje-Ugboko, it is silly slander to link Ned Nwoko. He has no hand in such gory crudity.
There was the incident of one Ugochukwu Nkenchor and another Onicha-Ugbo boy who were fighting over a farmland with cult groups resulting in Ugo’s tragic death. The farmland in dispute is far from the STARS University land. The murder case is with the police and of no interest to Prince Ned Nwoko or his family.
The other case was on Sunday 13th October 2019 involving one Ogogo Blessing, who came into Mount Ned Nwoko’s Resort Idumuje-Ugboko with his girlfriend to swim in the pool under rain unknown to the managers of the tourist centre. He eventually drowned. He did not use the life guard and the security couldn’t have helped him under that circumstance.
The Mount Ned Nwoko Resort is a public place where people from all walks of life come in for functions and tourism. The management has been extremely careful in security arrangements.
Blessing’s case was like a man who doesn’t know how to drive getting on the wheels of a car without permission and crashes the car killing himself. It was practically a suicide mission. Who do you blame?
It is important to note that Prince Ned Nwoko has shown empathy to the family of the deceased led by one Ifeanyi Ogogo, a Pastor with the Mountain of Fire Ministry, Issele Uku. Only a man with innate fellow-feeling over human grief he never caused could have been this humane. How is Ned Nwoko a murderer?
The infamous mayhem in Idumuje-Ugboko relating to lingering kingship tussle was never at any time plotted by Ned Nwoko. As a man of peace with refined temperament, his conducts are above board. That clearly explains why he has been demanding for SOCIAL JUSTICE over the bloody infractions in his beloved community as a conscientious son of the land.
He believes in rule of law and not propaganda. That those who organized and funded the terror in Idumuje-Ugboko as well as their foot soldiers must be tried as charged. He supports their prosecution as well as the trial of any person that runs foul of the laws of the land. They are being tried for the crimes committed against others. The consequences of not being punished is rather imagined. Deterrence is essential. He asks for no more, no less.
That is all the blackmail and frenzied attacks on his reputation.
All the distractions and lies against him are from people who loath his fortune and good nature.
The Nwoko royal family of Idumuje-Ugboko knows Prince Ned Nwoko. They appreciate what he is building for humanity. They know his background and understand that he will be the last person to use force or violence on anyone. Too sophisticated for that. But they also know that he is not a push over. No one can revoke a land allocated for a noble cause as a university. It will not happen!
We dare say that the vilification of Ned Nwoko will remain a useless vice.
A million traducers and more can never achieve what Prince Ned Nwoko has garnered in life. Thanks to grit and divine grace. He has over 500 students on his scholarships both in Nigeria and abroad. He caused the Asaba Benin road to be dualized. He not only got NDDC to do the Onicha-Ugbo-Idumuje-Ugboko-Ewohimi road but also spent N100 million to maintain the road. He ended Nigeria‘s economic recession. He helped to settle Paris and London club loans for states and local governments across the country. Millions of people were paid or employed because of the refunds the governments received. He has put Idumuje-Ugboko on the world map with the STARS university.
On social media, the defamers song of sorrow is that Ned Nwoko is buying land in his village with his money! Most of them are destitute. They cannot afford to build a house in their homestead. Homeless. None can even visit home. They are neither here nor there. Rudderless without roots like Kenyan folklorist Gerald Angira‘s lost “child of no world “.
LIES have no legs. Crippled by retrogression. Truths beget motion. Blooming glory and life. Here is the trajectory of Ned Nwoko. Light is his lot.
Now to his disparagers! Drum your loudest beat to denigrate Ned. Conjure the most grotesque adjective to label him, mimic Goebbels propaganda to paint him, deploy your worst. Keep gloating. You are just pining in self pain.
You are wasting your time.
We are tired of your sick tales if you are not tired.
The name will not change. Ned is Ned!
He rings a long bell that sounds world wide. He is a Prince of Idumuje- Ugboko. He is a billionaire. He is a philanthropist, He is an international lawyer. He is the founder of one of Africa’s most prestigious universities. The first black African explorer to visit the South Pole, Antarctica on continental anti-Malaria mission. The famous husband of Nollywood Star, Regina Daniels.
NED NWOKO MEDIA.
TO MY BROTHER BOBBY DEE by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode
For my brother Bobby Dee (Chief Dele Momodu) to compare President Tinubu to General Sani Abacha and claim that he is a dictator suggests that he is suffering from a degenerating and worrisome level of cognitive dissonance.
I love Dele and God knows I have immense respect for him but he sounded drained, tired and broken and spoke little sense yesterday in his interview with Seun Okinbaloye of Channels TV.
May I humbly suggest to him to try and take a break from politics and political commentary for a while, get his breath back and attempt to overhaul his intellectual engine?
Not only was he uncharitable and disrespectful to the President, the Vice President, the Ministers, the Senators and the newly-appointed Ambassadors, many of whom have far more experience than him in governance and Government, on that programme but he also insulted the collective intelligence of the Nigerian people.
He and his associates in the ADC should focus more on trying to build up their depleted ranks and form a strong opposition that we can look forward to engaging in the field of battle for the 2027 election rather than continously obsesse and talk about what our President and our party is doing.
The ADC cannot even be described as a sinking ship but rather as a badly patched up inflatable plastic life boat that has not even managed to find its bearing or leave the harbour.
It has no engine, no sails, no oars, no captain, no crew, no navigational equipment, no muscle, no firepower, no war chest, no destination and worse of all it is made of rubber and not steel.
How can such an ill-prepared contraption even float let alone do battle?
It cannot possibly survive the rough seas and harsh winds of Nigerian politics because it lacks gravitas, focus, character, intelligence, discipline and strength.
It needs to be built up, better schooled, better trained, better equipped, better educated and better prepared before it can enter the field and before we can even begin to regard it as an opposition party.
Right now it can only be described as a haven and pitiful gathering of vacuous, shallow, intellectual frauds and political renegades who lack foresight and who have no direction.
The fact that they have failed to take off is not Tinubu’s fault, it is theirs.
The fact that political leaders and the Nigerian people are flocking to APC in droves is not only because our President and Vice President are doing well but also because they view the ADC as nothing but a collection of disingenious, desperate and recycled political losers, who are addicted to power, who offer no credible alternative to governance and who, like the three blind mice, are running around in circles, chasing each other’s long, mangy and wrinkled tails with no where to go.
Watching my brother Dele trying to speak for them is pitiful and is even more disconcerting than his assertion that Tinubu will regret his decisions and will be deserted by everyone around him.
The Bible says “who is he that sayeth a thing and it cometh to pass when the Lord God of Hosts has commanded it not?”
Dele should listen to the Holy Spirit instead of to the pagan murmurings, strange whispers, demonic divinations and conjuring projections of the Prophets of Baal and the Witch of Endor.
To be sure Tinubu started well, he is doing well and he will, by the grace of God, end well with no regrets in 2031.
Anything short of that is the counsel of the ungodly and the manifestation and delusions of a diseased and demonised mind.
I appeal to my brother Dele: leave the ranks of the forces of darkness and join us.
You are far too good for the company you are keep.
Your presence in the ranks of the ADC is like that of a gentle, beautiful, well bred, well fed and well manicured flamingo trapped in a sea of ugly, cruel, loud, angry, starving, cackling and relentless crows and vultures.
It does not befit you.
(Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, the author of this essay) is an Ambassador Designate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a former Minister of Aviation, a former Minister of Culture and Tourism, the Sadaukin Shinkafi, the Wakilin Doka Potiskum, the Otunba of Joga Orile, the Aare Ajagunle of Otun Ekiti and a Legal Practioner)
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Media Respect and Celebrity Responsibility: Lessons from Tiwa Savage Foundation Launch Controversy
Media Respect and Celebrity Responsibility: Lessons from Tiwa Savage Foundation Launch Controversy
By George Omagbemi Sylvester
“Apology from Tiwa Savage’s Team Sparks Debate on Media Treatment, Professional Ethics, and the Role of Journalists in Promoting Cultural and Philanthropic Initiatives.”
Nigerian music icon Tiwa Savage and her management team have issued a formal apology to journalists following allegations of mistreatment during the launch of the Tiwa Savage Music Foundation in Lagos. The controversy, which quickly sparked debate across the media landscape, has raised broader questions about celebrity culture, media ethics, and the professional respect owed to journalists covering high-profile events.
The apology was conveyed through Savage’s manager, Vanessa Amadi-Ogbonna, alongside representatives of the public relations firm Fola PR and management of The Delborough Lagos, the venue where the event took place. According to reports, the foundation launch was held on March 9, 2026, at Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital.
Several journalists invited to cover the event complained that they were delayed for hours at the entrance of the venue, asked to wait under uncomfortable conditions, and allegedly instructed to wear branded polo shirts before being allowed entry. Many media professionals described the treatment as humiliating and disrespectful to the role of the press in promoting public events.
Following public criticism, representatives of Savage’s team clarified that the singer neither authorised nor condoned the alleged treatment. They expressed regret over the incident and promised improved coordination with journalists in future engagements.
The controversy has reignited conversations about the delicate relationship between celebrities and the media. Scholars in media and communication studies argue that the press plays a vital role in shaping public narratives and promoting cultural activities, including entertainment and philanthropy.
Renowned media scholar Denis McQuail once observed that “the media serve as the central arena where social and cultural life is debated, interpreted, and understood.” In this context, journalists covering events such as the launch of a charitable foundation are not merely observers but important partners in amplifying the message and purpose of such initiatives.
Similarly, Nigerian communication scholar Ralph Akinfeleye has repeatedly emphasised the importance of professional respect for journalists. According to him, “the media are not beggars of access; they are stakeholders in the democratic and cultural process.” His argument highlights the fact that journalists provide visibility and legitimacy to events, especially those tied to public figures and philanthropic causes.
The Tiwa Savage Music Foundation was launched with the stated aim of empowering young talents in the music industry through mentorship, education, and professional opportunities. Many observers believe the initiative could play a significant role in nurturing emerging artists across Nigeria and the African continent.
However, communication experts stress that the success of such initiatives often depends on strong relationships with the media. American communication scholar Marshall McLuhan famously noted that “the medium is the message,” suggesting that the way information is delivered can influence how the public perceives the message itself.
In the case of the foundation launch, critics argue that the controversy surrounding the treatment of journalists briefly overshadowed the noble objectives of the project. Instead of focusing on the foundation’s mission, public discourse shifted toward questions of respect, professionalism, and media relations.
Public relations specialists also view the episode as a lesson in event management and stakeholder engagement. Effective public relations practice requires careful coordination between organisers, venue managers, and media representatives to ensure that invited journalists are treated with dignity and professionalism.
Despite the controversy, many journalists welcomed the apology and expressed hope that it would strengthen future collaboration between the entertainment industry and the press. In Nigeria’s vibrant media ecosystem, such partnerships remain essential for promoting cultural initiatives and amplifying stories that inspire the next generation of creatives.
Ultimately, the incident surrounding the Tiwa Savage Music Foundation launch serves as a reminder that respect for the media is not merely a matter of courtesy but a cornerstone of responsible public engagement. As scholars and industry observers continue to emphasise, the relationship between celebrities and journalists must be built on mutual respect, professionalism, and shared commitment to informing and inspiring the public.
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