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[KING OF ALL SPORTS @Emmanuel_Tips]

They have names. They have families. Bring them home. 💔

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

NIGERIA’S STOLEN CHILDREN
A Two-Year-Old. A Beheaded Teacher. And a President Who Sends Statements.

#BringThemHome #NigeriaFailing #TinubuAccountability #StolenChildren #Christianah

Twelve days ago, armed bandits rode into the Ahoro-Esinele community in Oriire Local Government Area, Oyo State, on motorcycles in broad daylight. They moved swiftly from classroom to classroom, abducting the principal, teachers, and dozens of pupils  across three schools simultaneously. The affected schools included Baptist Nursery and Primary School, Yawota; Community Grammar School, Esiele; and L.A. Primary School. 

Among the stolen was a toddler.

Her name is Christianah Akanbi. She is two years old. She attends Yawota Baptist Nursery and Primary School.   She has been missing for twelve days.

The kidnapped children in Borno, abducted in a separate simultaneous attack on May 15, include some pupils aged five and below. 

And one teacher — mathematics teacher Michael Oyedokun — was beheaded by the gunmen.  Not killed. Beheaded. On camera. As a message to a nation and its president.

In total, at least 82 schoolchildren were abducted between May 13 and 15, 2026, during separate attacks in Borno and Oyo states.  As of Children’s Day, yesterday — Wednesday, May 27 — several pupils and teachers were still in captivity, twelve days after the abduction. 

The children have not come home.

So what has President Bola Ahmed Tinubu done?

He has issued statements.

In a statement on May 18, issued by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President condemned the killing of the abducted teacher as barbaric and assured the nation that security forces are working round the clock to rescue all remaining victims. 

He has made promises.

Tinubu said: “Cases of kidnapping further make imperative the establishment of state police to man some of our underserved areas. The National Assembly should accelerate the enactment of the law creating state police.” 

He has expressed sympathy.

On Children’s Day, he said children abducted in Oyo and Borno states remained a priority for his administration, and that the government would not abandon affected families. 

And he has deployed the full weight of presidential rhetoric.

“To those children, their parents, and their teachers, I say this as a father and your President: you are not forgotten. You are not abandoned,” Tinubu declared. 

Twelve days. Still missing. Not forgotten — just not rescued.

This is not new. This is the system.

By the weekend after the Oyo attack, one of the kidnapped teachers had been killed — not just killed, but beheaded on camera. On Monday, the Presidency issued a statement in which President Tinubu sympathised with the people of Oyo State and Governor Seyi Makinde and gave a promise Nigerians have become familiar with: “The bandits and all their local collaborators will be fished out and made to face the full wrath of the law.” 

Strong, stern words. But that is hardly the first time such assurances have been made. 

As heavily armed bandits behead a teacher in Oyo State, kill a former lawmaker after nine days in captivity, and abduct at least 1,100 people across northern Nigeria in just four months, President Tinubu’s political machinery is quietly accelerating toward a second term in 2027. 

To grieving families and a terrified populace, the contrast has become impossible to ignore: while the President condemns each new atrocity with a familiar script, his support groups are mobilising grassroots structures in all 36 states to secure his reelection. 

The question every Nigerian parent is now asking aloud is the one no presidential statement answers: Why are the children still not free?

Security agencies have not officially disclosed the exact location of the abductors, though ongoing operations are believed to be concentrated within forested areas connected to the Old Oyo National Park.  The local government chairman spoke of kidnappers being “surrounded.” The Grand Chief Imam of Oyoland appealed for the children’s release before Eid al-Adha. Ohanaeze demanded action. Teachers in Ogbomoso took to the streets in protest.

And in Aso Rock, the President celebrated Children’s Day.

He celebrated children excelling in school, learning vocational skills, living with disabilities, and those persevering despite hardship and displacement.  Beautiful words. Professionally crafted. Utterly disconnected from the specific, named, breathing child named Christianah Akanbi who has been sleeping in a forest for twelve nights, aged two.

The word “barbaric” appears in every presidential statement after every school attack. It has been used so many times it has lost all meaning. What would not be barbaric — what would be signal rather than noise — is a president who grounds a military helicopter in the forest of Old Oyo National Park and does not leave until every child comes out. A president who tells the nation exactly which commanders have been deployed, what their orders are, and when they last reported in.

Nigeria has a constitution. It has an army. It has an air force, a police service, the DSS, and the Department of State Security. One might reasonably ask whether security agencies really need an extra push from the Commander-in-Chief to pursue men who have just kidnapped schoolchildren, slaughtered a teacher, and torched villages.  And if the answer is yes — if the system only moves when the president personally directs it — then the question is not just about this abduction. The question is about the system itself, and who benefits from its convenient slowness.

Over 1,100 people abducted in four months. A two-year-old in a forest in Oyo. A beheaded mathematics teacher. A president campaigning for a second term.

Christianah Akanbi has a name. She is not a statistic, not a campaign issue, not a line in a Children’s Day address. She is a two-year-old child who went to school on a Friday morning and has not come home.

Bring. Her. Home.

Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International and writes on Nigerian governance and accountability.

[Omo Kogi (Yagba) 🌍 @harrysone9]

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[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

This nursing mother was recorded by the terrorists after they were abducted few days ago in Oyo state.

The terrorists have since then beheaded one teacher and they still have 46 children brutally held up in a cave somewhere.

Let the whole world see this.

[Bop Daddy @falzthebahdguy]

Miserable children’s day.
Over 40 still missing in Oyo.
Kidnappers getting richer by the day - because our government allow children to be tortured and then reward the criminals with handsome ransom payments.
Citizens carrying on like we are not already in a battle for our lives.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Pay close attention to this conversation.

Ekene flew in from Germany to school me on Ausbildung as we redesign the Igbo Apprenticeship System.

Ekene went through the Ausbildung program himself, currently works in Germany, and now teaches within the Ausbildung system.

Germany has the strongest workforce and the largest economy in Europe.

Within 10 years, we will build the greatest workforce and the largest economy in Africa.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Character is the public proof of education.

When professors rig elections, when leaders steal public funds, when educated people defend corruption, exploit the weak, or destroy the future of our children for personal gain, it proves one thing:

Without character, education becomes a weapon in the hands of the selfish.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

One of the biggest failures of our education system is that we have convinced society that intelligence is more important than character.

I have never seen a child sent to prison because he scored F9 in Mathematics or dragged to court for failing English Language.

But I have seen children grow into adults who ended up in prison because of bad behaviour.
Because they lacked discipline.
Because they could not control anger.
Because they had no empathy.
Because greed consumed them.
Because nobody truly developed their character.

Yet, every day, we terrorize children over grades as if exam scores are the final measurement of human success.

A child comes home with low marks and the entire house becomes tense.
Parents panic.
Teachers threaten.
Society mocks.

But when that same child lies, bullies others, cheats, lacks compassion, disrespects people, or shows signs of dangerous behaviour, many people ignore it because “at least he is doing well academically.”

That is the tragedy.
Education was never supposed to be only about IQ.

True education has always stood on three pillars:
Character.
Discipline.
Learning.

And somehow, we abandoned the first two and became obsessed with only the last one.

We are producing brilliant minds with broken values.
People who can solve equations but cannot manage emotions.
People who can build apps but cannot build integrity.
People with degrees but without conscience.
And then we act surprised when corruption destroys a nation.

Corruption is not an academic failure.
It is a character failure.

A country does not collapse because people cannot calculate.

A country collapses when people entrusted with power have no discipline, no empathy, no moral foundation, and no fear of destroying the future of innocent people.

Some of the most dangerous people in society are highly educated.

That should force us to reflect deeply.

Maybe our schools should spend more time teaching emotional intelligence.
Teaching empathy.
Teaching self-control.
Teaching honesty.
Teaching dignity of labor.
Teaching integrity even when nobody is watching.

Because the child who learns discipline may survive failure.
But the child who learns only how to pass exams may someday become successful without values and that is dangerous for any society.

The painful truth is this:
A nation can recover from poor grades.

But recovering from a generation raised without character may take decades.

We must stop raising children only to pass exams.

We must start raising human beings.

[Oby Ezekwesili @obyezeks]

A WARNING TO THE PRESIDENT @officialABAT , GOVERNMENT @NigeriaGov , @nassnigeria @NGRSenate @HouseNGR Governors’ Forum @NGFSecretariat and State Houses of Assembly AND THE NIGERIAN POLITICAL CLASS OF NIGERIA AT LARGE:

DO NOT DARE WISH OUR CHILDREN “HAPPY CHILDREN’S DAY” TODAY .

To the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Vice President, the Governors of the 36 States, the Federal Executive Council, the Members of the National Assembly, the State Houses of Assembly, and the entire political class that has captured and destroyed the Nigeria State:

Do not dare.

Do not dare open your mouths on May 27 to wish Nigerian children a “Happy Children’s Day.” Do not dare release the recycled, ghost-written platitudes your media handlers have already drafted. Do not dare stand in front of cameras, surrounded by carefully arranged children in matching uniforms, to perform a tenderness you have never extended to the millions of Nigerian children you have abandoned, betrayed, and condemned to lives of suffering.

You have no moral standing to wish anything to Nigerian children. None.

Consider what you are dishonorably wishing them.

You are wishing “Happy Children’s Day” to the 39 students and 7 teachers seized only days ago, on 15 May 2026, from a secondary school and two primary schools in Ahoro Esinele community in Oriire district of Oyo State- children aged between two and sixteen , snatched from the southwest in a chilling expansion of a terror that you swore would be confined to the north.

You are wishing “Happy Children’s Day” to the 25 schoolgirls of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Wasagu/Danko, Kebbi State, taken from their hostel at dawn on 18 November 2025, after gunmen killed the vice principal and most of whom are still missing as I write.

You are wishing “Happy Children’s Day” to the 303 students and 12 teachers of St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Papiri, Niger State, seized on 21 November 2025 - children aged 10 to 18, boys and girls- whose abduction forced more than 20,000 Nigerian schools to close indefinitely .

You are wishing “Happy Children’s Day” to the 287 students of the Government Secondary School in Kuriga, Kaduna State, taken by gunmen on motorcycles on 7 March 2024 in broad daylight while you and your political colleagues posed for swearing-in photographs.

You are wishing “Happy Children’s Day” to the 15 children of Gidan Bakuso, Sokoto State, seized from their boarding school on 9 March 2024 as they slept.

You are wishing to the Chibok girls- over 90 of whom are still missing, twelve years after April 14, 2014, while you have moved on, and for your repugnant luxury, speedily rebuilt and redecorated Aso Villa, bought opulent hideous cars, and rotated power among yourselves as if those girls never existed. But their parents who gave birth to them continue to grieve and daily rain curses on the evil leaders that have shown no empathy towards them and their abducted daughters.

You are wishing “Happy Children’s Day” to the children of Dapchi, Kankara, Kagara, Jangebe, Afaka, Greenfield, Bethel Baptist, Tegina - and to the many whose abductions never made the headlines because Nigeria had run out of capacity to grieve.

You are wishing “Happy Children’s Day” to the at least 1,799 students seized in a dozen of the largest abductions since Chibok , and to the 670 children affected by at least 10 school kidnappings in less than two years - a litany of horror compiled not by your security agencies, but by international human rights organisations doing the work your government refuses to do.

Part One ………..

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Today is Children’s Day.

But what exactly are we celebrating?

Children are being kidnapped on their way to school.
Children are learning under trees, inside bushes, inside broken buildings with no protection.
A teacher was beheaded in this country… and we moved on like it was normal.

In the UK, the death of one child, Victoria Climbié, shook an entire nation. Laws changed. Systems changed. Child protection became serious because one child mattered.

One child.

In Nigeria, we bury children, bury teachers, bury dreams almost every week… and nothing changes.

The children of the poor are treated like they were born without value.
The same poor whose votes politicians desperately need during elections.

What kind of country normalizes fear in classrooms?
What kind of society watches children disappear and responds with silence?
What exactly are we celebrating today?

A nation that cannot protect its children has already started digging its own grave.

Safeguarding should not be luxury.
Security should not depend on your surname.

Every child rich or poor deserves to return home alive from school.

Until Nigerian children are truly safe…
Until education becomes sacred again…
Until human life means something again…

Children’s Day is not a celebration.

It is a reminder of our failure.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I just watched this disturbing video of nursery school pupils of Community Primary School, Umuora Obulechi, Oriuzor, in Ezza North LGA of Ebonyi State, receiving lessons in their terrible classroom.

The government just suspended the teacher and principal for letting someone show the rot in this school.

This same state spent billions sending a handful of persons to the UK for education while ignoring the poor children and poor families.

Let’s find the suspended teachers and support them.

We can pay them a year salary each and find other ways to support them.

For the government that suspended them, shame on you.

Fix this school for Christ sake and don’t be wicked to these children.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Troubling Developments from the citadel of learning.

The reason Universities are regarded as an ivory tower is because its seen as centres for pure, isolated intellectual thought. It's therefore worrisome when they are increasingly pressured to operate outside this norm.

Today, I was scheduled to be at Obafemi Awolowo University at 9am prompt to deliver a keynote lecture, before proceeding to Ibadan for the opposition parties' political summit scheduled to commence at 12noon. The invitation was extended to me several months ago, and adequate preparations had been made. Regrettably, I received the news that the event would no longer be held in the University as planned.

While such occurrences may be dismissed in isolation, it is important to state clearly that this has now happened more than ten times. This is no longer incidental; it points to a troubling pattern that should concern all well-meaning Nigerians. My alma mater, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka was not excluded. The family of one of the renowned UNN Vice Chancellor late Professor Frank Ndili had planned an annual lecture on his behalf and the inaugural lecture was to be delivered, but on the scheduled date it was cancelled by the University authority.

These are not merely personal inconveniences; they raise deeper questions about the kind of environment we are nurturing in our country. Universities are meant to be centres of learning, open dialogue, and the free exchange of ideas. When platforms for constructive engagement are repeatedly constrained, it reflects a worrying shift away from these ideals.

This concern becomes even more pronounced when viewed against my engagements across the world, where I have been privileged to speak and interact freely with students and scholars in respected institutions. In the past 24 months, I have delivered lectures in notable universities globally including Oxford University, Cambridge University, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Chicago University, University of Pennsylvania, Imperial College, to name a few. Those environments continue to demonstrate openness to dialogue, critical thinking, and shared learning, values that should equally define our own institutions.

We must ask ourselves: what kind of nation are we building if spaces meant for intellectual engagement are gradually shrinking? A country’s progress is anchored on its ability to encourage knowledge, debate, and the contest of ideas, not restrict them.

Nigeria must work towards becoming a place where ideas thrive, where knowledge is shared without fear, and where our institutions uphold the principles they were established to protect.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

A REPUBLIC HELD HOSTAGE: THE AUDACITY OF TINUBU’S REGIME

By Kio Amachree | President, Worldview International

I find it nothing short of appalling that a man whose name has been shadowed by drug trafficking allegations — allegations serious enough to have drawn the attention of United States federal law enforcement — has the audacity to deploy Nigeria’s security apparatus against peaceful activists who dare to oppose him.

This is not governance. This is the conduct of a man who believes the Nigerian state is his personal estate.

Let us be precise about what is happening. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has presided over the award of contracts worth approximately $13 billion to companies linked to Gilbert Chagoury — a man with a Swiss money laundering conviction on his record. And sitting on the board of that very enterprise is Seyi Tinubu, the President’s own son. This is not coincidence. This is architecture. The deliberate construction of a family political dynasty, funded by the Nigerian treasury, protected by state violence, and insulated by the silence of sycophants too invested in their own proximity to power to speak truth.

I have watched Nigerian governance for decades. What is unfolding today represents a depth of institutional capture and brazen self-enrichment that is genuinely without modern precedent. The suffering of ordinary Nigerians — the cost of food, the collapse of the naira, the daily indignities visited upon a people of extraordinary resilience — is not collateral damage. It is the predictable consequence of a government whose primary purpose appears to be the extraction of national wealth for private benefit.

Tinubu is not popular. His inner circle is doing him no favours by lying to him on that front. A leader surrounded by flatterers is a leader walking toward a cliff, and no amount of manufactured applause will change the direction of that descent.

I will go further. The pattern of behaviour I have observed — the financial networks, the strategic positioning, the foreign relationships, the immunity from consequences that would have destroyed any other political figure — raises questions that the international community has an obligation to examine seriously. It is my considered view, informed by decades of political and financial analysis, that this administration serves interests that extend well beyond the Nigerian people it was elected to represent.

The arrest, harassment, beating, and killing of Nigerian activists must stop — immediately and unconditionally. These are citizens exercising rights guaranteed under the Nigerian constitution and recognised under international human rights law. Every act of repression adds another entry to a ledger that history — and, I believe, international courts — will one day balance.

To my fellow members of the Nigerian diaspora: the exposure of these crimes is not optional. It is our civic and moral duty. We are beyond the reach of Tinubu’s security services. We have platforms, legal tools, financial leverage, and international networks. Let us use every one of them.

Nigeria is not Tinubu’s inheritance. It belongs to its people. And the people are watching.

Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International and a veteran commentator on Nigerian governance, accountability, and diaspora mobilisation.

#EndPoliticalArrests #TinubuMustAnswer #NigeriaDeservesBetter #ChagouryContracts #DiasporaAccountability #FreeNigerianActivists #NigeriaCorruption #WorldviewInternational #JusticeForNigeria #TinubuRegime

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The South East Maths Olympiad Junior category winner Onwubiko Chimdiebube and his Maths teacher Master Chisom Unachukwu arrived Lagos this morning for consular appointment at the Italian Embassy tomorrow for International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale in Rome.

He also won the first position in Nigeria National Maths Competition few days back in Abuja.

The next batch of students and their teacher will be in Lagos on April 27th for their appointment.

Both students and teachers will be going to ROME this July 2nd - 8th to compete with 154 countries.

They will shine in global stage and will bring back our gold medals.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

This star boy Onwubiko Chimdiebube Victor from Evergreen Schools Enugu will grow up to become one of the greatest scientists in Africa.

He is currently in JSS3 and already tearing Engineering Maths apart.

He is the only person that got a perfect score at elimination stage for South East Maths Olympiad.

He also won first position and got the N3 million Junior category prize.

He will be going to Rome this July to bring home our Gold at the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale.

He will be competing with 154 countries.

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

WHERE WERE YOU? An Open Letter to Nigeria's National Assembly

Kio Amachree | Stockholm, Sweden
I Watched the Rot Up Close. Forty Years Later, Nothing Has Changed.

Between 1981 and 1982, I served my National Service at the Nigerian National Assembly. I was not watching from a distance. I had duties connected to the Presidency itself, which brought me into daily contact with Senate President Joseph Wayas and the senior political figures of the Second Republic. I sat inside the machinery of the Shagari administration. I watched it from the inside — the corruption, the rot, the theft of public resources conducted in plain sight while legislators postured, quarrelled, and positioned themselves for the next allocation.

I was a young man then. I told myself: Nigeria is young. It will learn. It will correct.

I am writing this forty years later. And what I am watching is the same damned show — same script, different cast, exponentially larger sums.

I am not a politician. I belong to no political party or movement. I am a citizen of this country from an old and consequential family that has served Nigeria for over a century — before independence, through independence, and long after the generation that built this nation had been forgotten by the very institutions they created. My grandfather, Chief Sekin Amachree, sat at the 1958 Constitutional Conference and the Willink Commission. My father, Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC, was Nigeria's first Solicitor-General, its first African Permanent Secretary of Justice, and the United Nations' first African Under-Secretary-General. These men did not give their lives to this country so that its treasury could be looted by arrangement while an elected legislature looked the other way and negotiated its own comfort.

So I am asking you — the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria — with every ounce of authority my name, my history, and my conscience afford me: Where were you?

The Man at the Centre

Let us be precise about who we are discussing and what the public record shows.

Gilbert Chagoury was convicted in 2000 of money laundering and aiding a criminal organisation. In the 1990s, he set up accounts in Geneva for the Abacha family, enabling them to benefit from illegal transfers of over $120 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria. He later paid $600,000 in fines to the Swiss court and refunded $66 million to the Nigerian government. He was formally identified by American investigators as a central figure in the looting of Nigeria's treasury under Sani Abacha. He was, for a period, barred from entering the United States.

This is not gossip. This is not opposition propaganda. This is documented, adjudicated, internationally settled legal history. The man has a conviction. The man has a record. The man has a file.

And yet.

In 2024, Chagoury's Hitech Construction company was awarded the $11 billion Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project. The contract was awarded without any public bidding process. Then — and this is where I need the National Assembly to sit up straight and listen — in March 2024, the Nigerian government released N1.067 trillion to Chagoury's firm without a request being sent to parliament. Human rights lawyer Femi Falana described this as illegal, stating: "Any money that the government spends must first be approved by the National Assembly. What has happened is illegal."

Illegal. Not irregular. Not questionable. Illegal. Said by a senior counsel, on the record, in public. And the National Assembly produced nothing consequential in response.

This was not the end of it. It was merely the beginning of a pattern. In early 2025, Chagoury's ITB Nigeria was selected to execute a $700 million Lagos ports renovation contract — despite having no significant experience in port construction. President Tinubu personally had the final say. Then came the Snake Island Port — a 45-year concession worth $1 billion, handed to another Chagoury subsidiary. And in January 2026, in what can only be read as a calculated display of impunity, President Tinubu conferred the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger — Nigeria's second highest national honour — on Chagoury, citing "his contributions to the country."

The contributions, it appears, run in both directions. The President's son, Seyi Tinubu, sits on the board of CDK Integrated Industries, a subsidiary of the Chagoury Group — the same group collecting billions in federal contracts. That same son has gone on television to assure Nigerians that his father is not in office to enrich himself or his friends.

I watched men say similar things in Dodan Barracks and on the floor of the Assembly in 1981. They believed — or pretended to believe — that Nigerians could not see what was directly in front of them. Some things, it seems, do not change.

The Pattern You Have Permitted — Again

The £746 million ports financing agreement was sealed during Tinubu's state visit to London, with Chagoury reportedly part of the Nigerian presidential delegation. Questions about interest rates, repayment terms, local content, and job creation remained unanswered. Nigeria is borrowing internationally, at commercial rates, to fund contracts awarded — without tender, without competition, without parliamentary scrutiny — to a single businessman with a money laundering conviction on his record.

In the Shagari years I watched contracts disappear into the pockets of the connected. I watched legislators perform outrage in committee rooms and then collect their share in the corridor. I was young and I was angry and I thought: surely this cannot continue. Surely the institution will correct itself. Surely someone will stand up.

Forty years on, I am still waiting.

The government borrows money, awards contracts to friends of the President, and those same friends return again and again for the next deal. The faces rotate. The mechanism is identical. And the National Assembly — the constitutionally mandated check on executive power — sits in its chambers, fights over car allocations and sitting allowances, and calls it governance.

I saw that in 1981. It was shameful then. In 2026, with these sums, with this documentation, with this brazenness, it is something beyond shame. It is a dereliction so complete it has become structural.

What I Am Asking

I am not asking you to be heroes. I am asking you to do your jobs.

Summon the relevant ministers. Compel the production of every contract instrument issued to the Chagoury Group since May 2023 — the procurement trail, the due diligence records, the legal authorities, the appropriation sign-offs. Commission an independent forensic audit. Refer the N1.067 trillion disbursement — described by senior counsel as illegal — to the appropriate investigative bodies. Ask, loudly and on the record, why a man convicted of laundering Abacha's stolen funds is now the preferred contractor of another Nigerian presidency.

If you cannot do that — if the institution you occupy is so compromised that these basic legislative functions are beyond it — then have the decency to say so publicly and let Nigeria find another way.

My grandfather helped draft the constitutional framework that gave you your institution. My father served this country at a time when service meant sacrifice, not enrichment. I carry their standard. And standing here, forty years after I watched the rot of the Second Republic from the inside, what I see in today's National Assembly is not a corrected institution. It is the same institution, with the same pathologies, dressed in more expensive fabric.

Nigeria is not short of intelligence. It is not short of courage in its people. What it has consistently lacked is a legislature with the backbone to stand between the treasury and those who treat it as personal property.

You were elected to be the eyes and ears of the Nigerian people. I was there when that promise was made. I am watching now to see if it will ever be kept.

Prove me wrong. For once. For Nigeria.

Kio Amachree is a Stockholm-based Nigerian diaspora advocate, political commentator, and President of Worldview International.

#NationalAssembly #GilbertChagoury #TinubuAccountability #ShagariLegacy #NigeriaContracts #PublicProcurement #LagosCalabарHighway #ChecksAndBalances #AntiCorruption #NigeriaDeservesBetter #DiasporaVoices #KioAmachree #SecondRepublic #NigeriaGovernance

[JezebelReborn🧙‍♀️ @JezebelReborn]

@NigeriaStories NIGERIANS, HOW LONG WILL WE WATCH OUR FUTURE BE HIJACKED?

WE MUST HOLD THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ACCOUNTABLE AND DEMAND @SenGodswill AND HIS TEAM IMPLEMENT MANDATORY ELECTRONIC RESULTS❗️

TRANSPARENCY IS NOT OPTIONAL, OUR VOTES DESERVE TO COUNT 📌 🎤🇳🇬

#OccupyNass
#ElectoralReform

[Toyyib Adewale Adelodun @taadelodun]

You are not losing because you are not good enough.

You are losing because your destiny requires more failures than you expected.

Especially if you come from a modest background,
Success charges you a higher entrance fee.

I know this life personally.

I applied to study abroad - 7 visa denials.
I dropped out of school 3 times - still found my way back to university at 30.

For years, I thought it was unusual
Until I started reading the unfiltered stories of successful people and found the truth:

Success always stands on a mountain of failures.

So I understood the script.

When I started building my brand online,
I reached out to events - Rejection.
I wrote to appear on podcasts - Rejection.
Got served breakfast back to back.

I smiled because I knew exactly what was happening.

So I kept building.

Then one day, the calls started coming:

Communities
Universities
BBC
Channels TV
Startups
Deloitte

Today, I have built a family of over 1.3 million across social media.

I am excited about the future. Let the rejections keep coming.

So hear me clearly :

Don't fear failure.
Fear being the person who never tried.
Forget those who laugh. They are spectators.

"It is not the critic who counts…" - Roosevelt.
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter…" - Beckett.

This week, go again.

Apply for that job.
Shoot your shot.
Email that company.
Try for that scholarship.

Even if the chance of "NO" is 95%.

Because sometimes, the only difference between your life now and your life in five years
is one more attempt.

Share this with someone who is trying hard

And follow for more stories on resilience and the courage to keep going.❤

[Dr Oludayo Sokunbi @Oludeewon]

Brag about JESUS.

Carry JESUS on your head.

[Chief Njoku @NemeremNjoku]

The UAE has oil
Nigeria has oil

Nigeria has more natural resources than the UAE

Nigeria has more fertile ground for agriculture than The UAE

There is no income tax in UAE.
Nigeria, a country with diverse natural resources wants to impose income tax

Guess what The UAE has that you don’t have? Good leadership