Yesterday, Nigerian-American author Tomi Adeyemi accused Nora Roberts, a renowned American author of plagiarising her book title.
Get this, Tomi’s book is titled Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisa #1) while Nora’s is titled Of Blood and Bone: Chronicles of the one #2). They both have Blood and Bone in common as you can see. According to gist on Twitter, Nora announced her book title earlier in the year than Tomi.
Nora Roberts book was announced since January. The book is book 2 in a series. Tomi's book came out March.
Not to mention that maaaanyyyyy books have similar titles.
You have it all wrong if you think Nora Roberts couldn't have intended to ride on the Blood and Bone wave.
She is big and all, but when was the last time you read her book? The Year One?
Cut Tomi some slack and quit gaslighting her.
Lmaooo I don’t care don’t try and tell me Nora Roberts didn’t know that Tomi’s book was called Children of Blood and Bone. I also don’t care that Nora’s been writing mediocre novels since before Tomi was born. The titles were too similar, the internet exists, her publishers knew.
I actually do believe Nora Roberts jumped on a trending topic by naming her new book something really close to Tomi's. She's been accused of this before. When you're as big a machine as Nora is, these kind of machinations are not unusual.
What’s a trending topic without memes?
Lmao "Blood and Bone" sounds like a title my uncreative, dumb, self can come up with.
Someone legit contacted me and said I'm a Black/POC author and shouldn't be making a case for Nora Roberts, that I should be supporting my own, no matter the circumstance.
We really are living in the Upside Down.
Nora Roberts that reached out to Tomi herself didn't make as much noise or put down Tomi's work the way you people are doing, na wa. She made a PR mistake and now her book wasn't even that good ?
Nora Roberts is writing a series. The books were probably named before you got your publishing contract, madam.
Of course no one is talking about how they attacked Okorafor. Insisting she was being petty and jealous of the success of someone she's supposed to see as a contemporary. What do you say about Adeyemi calling out Nora Roberts erroneously?
Apparently, after the topic became hot on social media, Nora Roberts reached out to Tomi to clear the air, she didn’t know of Tomi’s book title.
Nora also addressed the issue in an article she published yesterday. Read it here.
On Wednesday during a protest in Abuja against the interference of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) in politics, political activist Deji Adeyanju alongside two others — Daniel Abobama and Boma Williams — were arrested by the police.
Deji Adeyanju was arrested today while leading a protest to demand the neutrality of @PoliceNG in the forthcoming election.
He stood for the Shiites. He stood for IPOB. He stood for victims of SARS.
He stood for the common man and woman. He stood against injustice, human rights violation and abuse of office.
It is time to stand with Deji.
All Nigerians have a right to protest!
I sent two persons to court to see what happen at court, if the court refuse to free @adeyanjudeji today, I will send two SAN there tomorrow on my expenses.
Deji Adeyanju has been granted bail.
The Buhari admin is sending a message; that if anyone dares protest, they will be shot by the military, or illegally arrested and detained.
Deji and the others will reportedly be remanded in prison custody in Nasarawa state till January 21, 2019. Read more reactions here.
On Monday, a Nigerian Twitter user tweeted about how her date ditched her with a ₦83,000 (about $228) bill.
How can you go on a date with a man and eat 83k only you? These babes sef no de fear God.
How will you go out and eat 83k naira on another person's bill? Did you have visions of rapture??
Anyway, I believe the 83k gist is a lie. It’s a format to get guys to send her money.
Many guys on twitter are running on low self esteem, I’m sure her DM is filled with those who want to send her a ‘token’.
In a few hours, she may be 200k richer. It’s a bait.
Just heard that one girl ate 83k on a date with a man.
That amount is the cost of Expession of interest forms for KOWA, YPP, and many political parties.
Such gluttony constitutes more threat to our democracy than Buhari.
Just know the kind of people you go on dates with and most importantly respect yourself.
It's Poverty mentality that would make you feel 83k food is expensive. How much is 83k sef that y'all are going yen yen yen.
83k on food? If it was me that a man takes out to eat 83k food, I will tell him "my crown, no don't waste money". Let me take 3k to the market, buy vegetables and make soup with correct meat and swallow. The remaining 80k we use it to buy house or car. This is how u build a man.
– it's so stupid when Nigerians outside Nigeria starts converting naira to $ or £ everytime there's drama involving money on the timeline.
"83k is $200, that's not much money." yeah well, to YOU!
So a man abandoned a lady and ran away during a date simply because of 83K bill.
A criminal complaint should be filed against that man.
83k Bae wrote a thread on the full gist the following day. Reads like a made-up story if you ask me but don’t take my word for it, read it here.
Yesterday, in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos state, Nigeria, a Lagos State Traffic Management (LASTMA) official was killed by an officer of the NPF Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad (FSARS).
According to gist, the LASTMA official, Rotimi Adeyemo arrested the FSARS official Olakunle Olonode for violating traffic rules, he reportedly wasn’t wearing his uniform.
An argument ensued and Olakunle reportedly shot Rotimi dead. In a twist of events, an angry mob was said to have mistaken the FSARS official for a armed robbery and beaten him to death.
The SARS officer that allegedly shot dead LASTMA official (Rotimi Adeyemo) at Iyana Ipaja, Lagos was beaten to stupor by irate mob at the scene. He also died while being rushed to the hospital.
Both corpses were deposited at Mainland General Hospital morgue, Lagos for autopsy.
So, a SARS police officer shot and killed a LASTMA officer in Lagos because he was stopped from driving against traffic by the LASTMA officer.
People gathered around, apprehended the SARS officer and beat him to death immediately.
Apparently, SARS shot and killed a LASTMA official yesterday. Maybe the state govt and Ambode will finally do the needful now. That's close to home.
The killing of a LASTMA officer by a SARS operative is pathetic, the killing of that SARS official is not pathetic. For the first time jungle justice seems fine by me.
You see the anarchy we are talking about? The SARS officer that killed a LASTMA officer was beaten to death. People are getting pushed to the wall.