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Ah ah ah🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️ Hanty Tiwa and Hanty Yemi are subbing each other today o. So the gist is Yemi said some people need to stop increasing each other’s butts in pictures and Sis Tiwa caught the sub!!! What’s all this now? Because of bumbum😩😩🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Via #thenetng https://www.instagram.com/p/BrqEL0xAIWm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v2ng4txpcgj2

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On February 18 1977, a battalion of soldiers descended on Kalakuta Republic– the sprawling compound where Afrobeat icon Fela Anikulapo Kuti lived. .. By the time the day was over, the building was in flames, the man locked up in jail and his 78 year old women’s rights activist mother Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti laying critically injured from being tossed out of an upstairs window during the rampage. .. Fela’s unending squabbles with successive military governments in Nigeria is stuff of legend: he openly mocked them mercilessly in his songs. He lashed out at them without fear and coined disparaging terms to describe their reign. .. His last record before the events of February 18 was titled Zombie. As the name implies, it was a brutal caricature of the military hierarchy. It mocked the ‘obey the last order’ orientation of the military. The song was popular among the frustrated citizenry who had endured a bloody civil war only a few years before but now had to contend with the high handed-handedness of a military government. .. At the same time, Fela’s blatant refusal to see the government of the day as legitimate did not go down well with the General Olusegun Obasanjo led government. As if to rub it in further, he named his communal compound as a republic; independent from the Nigerian Republic. .. And Fela did as he pleased, breaking every rule of ‘constituted authority’. He lived openly with over two dozen women (who he called his ‘Queens) and smoked his beloved weed without fear of being censured. .. On the morning of the 18th, his compound was overrun by one thousand soldiers who had come to ostensibly arrest Fela for harbouring under-aged girls in his commune. In the hours that followed, he was pummeled by the soldiers, his female associates raped and his mother flung out from a window. She would die later from injuries sustained from the day’s events. .. Read more on thenet.ng #TheNetNg @thenet.ng