• About
  • Advertise
  • Our Privacy Policy
  • Contact
Friday, March 24, 2023
No Result
View All Result
  • Login
MetrowatchXtra
  • WORLD
  • BUSINESS
  • POLITICS
  • HEALTH
  • SPORTS
  • OP-ED
  • ENTERTAINMENT
  • WORLD
  • BUSINESS
  • POLITICS
  • HEALTH
  • SPORTS
  • OP-ED
  • ENTERTAINMENT
No Result
View All Result
MetrowatchXtra
No Result
View All Result
Home

Obi Cubana: When Taking Photos becomes Capital Offence

0 0
0
•Obi Cubana (Iyiegbu)-r and DCP Abba Kyari (l).

•Obi Cubana (Iyiegbu)-r and DCP Abba Kyari (l).

Opinion |  By Fredrick Nwabufo | 01. 02. 2022
‘Why always Obi Cubana?’ The businessman has become a news staple. Every week Obi Cubana is in the news – but sometimes for controversial reasons. The light, including coyotes, now trail Cubana wherever he goes. ‘Why always Obi Cubana?’
Obinna Iyiegbu, better known as Obi Cubana, is not a spin-off of chance. His business roots are public knowledge in Abuja. From a modest but popular restaurant and bar in Garki, the business, which defined nightlife in Abuja in the early 2000s, mushroomed into more successful lifestyle brands.
Obi Cubana operated his businesses in the shadows until recently when he decided to step into the floodlights of the paparazzi and social media carpers. Although popular in the entertainment circle, the famous burial ceremony of his mother in July 2021 reputed to be the biggest funeral in Nigeria’s recent history thrust him into national consciousness.
It has been a gallop from one controversy to another ever since. The recent controversy is over a photograph of him with Abba Kyari, deputy commissioner of police, who was suspended for an alleged link to Hushpuppi, the self-confessed fraudster. Without obviating the essence of optics, Obi Cubana is a celebrity, so, naturally he is a magnate of attention. People will always want to take pictures with him. It is only natural.
Also, Obi Cubana is not a public officer. He was neither elected nor appointed to any government office. He is a citizen who happens to be successful in business. He has rights, like all of us, to association and personal liberty, and he is entitled to live freely without hassles.
‘Why always Obi Cubana?’
Young Nigerians need role models. At a time when the national moral tapestry is in tatters and the youth taken up in vanity, ritual killings and financial fraud, Nigeria needs lodestars; people with verifiable means of income; people who have gone through the mills to become successful – not overnight successes — and people who are renowned for industry, hard work, and charity.
Fine examples like Obi Cubana abound. But we live in a society that eats its own. Enterprising young men who should be held up as specimens of the true Nigerian dream are maligned, hounded and pulled down.
At a time like this – when there are secessionist agitations and strain on the national unity, men like Obi Cubana who embody the Nigerian resilience and communality should be deployed as a rallying point for the youth.
A society that eats its finest seeds cannot fulfil its purpose and thrive beyond the status quo.
•Nwabufo aka Mr OneNigeria is a writer and journalist.
Tags: Abba KyariNigeria PoliceObi Cubana
MetrowatchXtra

MetrowatchXtra

RELATED POST

REPORT | Police, Military, DSS Indicted for ‘Alleged’ Corruption, Impunity
SECURITY

Anticipated Violence: Police on Governorship Election Day, Heavily Man Lagos Roads

by MetrowatchXtra
March 18, 2023
0

By Henry Oladele and Yemi Adeleye The Police Command in Lagos State on Saturday,  mounted very heavy security posts in...

Read more
Abba Kyari

BREAKING | Appeal Court Rejects Abba Kyari’s Associate Bail Request

March 17, 2023
Narrow Escape! Teslim Folarin, Oyo APC Gov Candidate, Escapes Assassination

Narrow Escape! Teslim Folarin, Oyo APC Gov Candidate, Escapes Assassination

March 17, 2023
police

Gov Poll: Police Deploy 11,000 Personnel in Delta

March 16, 2023
Elections: Arrested ‘BVAS Syndicate’ Are INEC Engineers, Say Police

Oyo 2023: Probe Killing of Man Wearing Cloth with My Picture — Folarin urges Police

March 5, 2023
INEC Ad Hoc Staff Attacked in Gombe

INEC Ad Hoc Staff Attacked in Gombe

February 25, 2023
Load More

APO

Recent Posts

  • Veteran Nollywood actor, Aguba who demanded ‘Israeli virgin’ returns home
  • Why I petitioned DSS to arrest Peter Obi – Keyamo
  • Guber polls: How we won without Peter Obi – Abia Governor-elect, Otti
  • OPINION | Good Governance in Nigeria? — doubtful, given our democratic practice, By Clement Uwayah
  • OPINION | Elections 2023, Bruised Political Parties and Crushed Nigerians, By Magnus Onyibe

Recommended

Oshiomhole Wins APC Senatorial Ticket

Oshiomhole Wins APC Senatorial Ticket

10 months ago
Of Fortune and Virtue: Remembering Anenih’s Life and Times

Of Fortune and Virtue: Remembering Anenih’s Life and Times

1 year ago
MetrowatchXtra

MetrowatchXtra is an online daily newspaper poised to act as a catalyst in our debate and desire for well-governed Nigeria and provide the much-needed platform for all, irrespective of social, religious or political divide, to express their views.
Metrowatchxtra Nigeria

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Our Privacy Policy
  • Contact

© 2022 Metrowatchxtra Nigeria

No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
  • World
  • Business
  • Science
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Tech
  • Health

© 2022 Metrowatchxtra Nigeria

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist