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BREAKING: MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH AS CHILLING ATTACK VIDEO REVEALS FACES OF ATTACKERS IN BRUTAL ASSAULT ON @SOWORE, TEAM IN ADO-EKITI Fresh video evidence has emerged showing the faces of individuals identified as participants in the October 30, 2026, armed attack on leaders and me, as well as members of the African Action Congress (AAC) and members of his team in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, who assaulted one of our team members. The breakthrough comes amid disturbing revelations that CCTV recordings from Tawakalitu Restaurant, where the attack occurred, have reportedly been completely erased after police officers and the DSS took possession of the equipment and took it to Government House only to return it this evening without any images. Today, I contacted the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Michael Falade; the Ado-Ekiti Central Police Station DPO, Mustapha Mohammed; and the state's Rapid Response Squad (RRS) Commander to demand updates on the investigation. Shockingly, the officers claimed there was "no complainant" because I had not submitted a written statement, despite police rescuing the victims, taking them to their hospital, arresting suspects, and recovering weapons, stolen phones, and other devices. I questioned the officers about stolen phones electronically traced to the Governor's Lodge and the missing CCTV recordings; they denied knowledge and abruptly ended their conversations. In another development, Tawakalitu Restaurant management reportedly confirmed that a DPO returned the CCTV equipment, but the recordings had been completely wiped. The management refused to identify the officer responsible for returning the equipment. This is an indication of a coordinated cover-up by the @PoliceNG hierarchy in Ekiti State However, the newly recovered video provides crucial leads in identifying individuals involved in the attack. Their identities and roles need a credible independent body to investigate, and we call for the removal of the CP and other officers involved in the cover-up. SEE BELOW THE BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO SHOWING THE FACES OF ATTACKERS IN ACTION. #RevolutionNow

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In 1951, the Sorbonne rejected Cheikh Anta Diop's doctoral thesis for arguing that ancient Egypt was a Black African civilization. Nine years later, he walked back in and forced them to accept it. Diop didn't soften the argument to make it easier to swallow. He spent the next nine years building more evidence, while the original rejected thesis got published anyway in 1954 as Nations nègres et culture and made him one of the most talked-about historians in Francophone Africa. In 1960 he defended the reworked thesis and was finally awarded his doctorate. He didn't stop at winning an academic argument. Diop went back to Senegal and built Africa's first radiocarbon dating laboratory, so African historical claims would never again have to travel through a European lab to be considered credible. He also developed a melanin dosage test, a method for determining skin pigmentation from preserved tissue, and used it on Egyptian mummy skin samples held in Paris after Egyptian authorities spent over a year refusing to send him access to the royal mummies in Cairo. In 1974, he presented his findings at a UNESCO symposium in Cairo, in front of roughly twenty of the world's leading Egyptologists. Nobody reached consensus on his full thesis that day. But UNESCO's own record of the symposium admitted something important: Diop had exposed real inconsistencies in how African data had been handled in the field up to that point. Diop was never actually trying to win over that room. He was building a lab, a method, and an evidence trail so that the next African historian wouldn't have to ask anyone's permission to study their own continent's past.