chima Umeh.

I pay attention to the details

[Ken Pela @KKenPela]

🎉 Happy 64th Birthday, @PeterObi

Today, we honour not just the man you are — but the mission you embraced.
Today, we do more than celebrate your birth —
We honour your sacrifice.
We salute your courage.
We reaffirm the hope you’ve given us.

Thank you for accepting the responsibility to run — not for power, but for purpose.
To carry a burden that was not yours alone, but which you bore with grace and discipline.
To give Nigerians a reason to believe again — not in a messiah, but in themselves.

Because of your choice to stand, millions of Nigerians have chosen to rise.
All across the world — from the streets of Asaba and Burutu, to Lagos and Onitsha to London, New York, Toronto, and Accra — the Obidient Movement is on the move again today.
Men and women — young and old — are marching not just to celebrate your birthday,
but to say thank you for sparking a movement of conscience, conviction, and character.

This week, we have seen ordinary citizens using their time, their talents, and their treasures to honour a man who reminded them that integrity is not weakness, and that politics can be sacred.
We have seen banners printed, rallies self-funded, venues secured, and sacrifices made — all without coercion or compensation.

And in these acts of solidarity, we are reminded of Romans 8:17:
“…if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory.”

You, Mr. Peter Obi, have partaken in the suffering of this nation — and through you, a new generation now seeks to share in the glory of rebuilding it.

The Obidient Movement is not a fan club.
It is a generation rising to reclaim their country.
And you remain the spark, the steward, and the symbol of what is possible when vision, humility, and sacrifice meet responsibility.

For me personally, you are my inspiration to keep going —
To keep speaking truth…
To keep believing…
To keep working for a New Nigeria and a Better Delta that is POssible.

May God renew your strength.
May your legacy outlive politics.
And may Nigeria — someday soon — become the nation you dreamed of, and we dared to fight for.

Happy Birthday, our leader. You have given us hope. We will not waste it.

#POat64 #PeterObi #ObidientWorldwide #ObidientMovement #HopeRestored #NewNigeria #BetterDeltaIsPOssible #Romans817 #KKP

[Punch Newspapers @MobilePunch]

In about three months from now, it will be October 1 and we will again roll out the drums in celebration of 65 years of our independence. However, amid this fanfare, how has the average Nigerian fared? Better or worse?

https://t.co/XAvND05BhD

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

Woman in Benue speaks on killings in benue state calls on President Bola Tinubu for a solution

[Osita Chidoka @osita_chidoka]

It is not only unacceptable, but it is also inequitable and unjust.

The state-based educationally disadvantaged state has failed in its mission of inclusion.

We should transition to a school-based inclusion program. You cannot attend Bayero University secondary school in Kano and claim a disadvantage against the student from community secondary school Omor in rural Anambra.

Educational disadvantage is a function of poor instruction, not a congenital birth disadvantage.

The concept of educationally disdavantaged state is now an embarrassing false and negative categorisation of citizens from those states.

Osita Chidoka
18 January 2025

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

“Electing a Pope Isn’t ‘Emilokan’—Let Africa Win the World Cup First” – Bishop Kukah.

In a stirring interview on Channels Television’s Political Paradigm, Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Sokoto Diocese offered sobering insights into global religious leadership and the African place within it.

Speaking just after the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV in Rome, Kukah emphasized that the papacy cannot be reduced to regional entitlement. “Electing a pope is not an ‘Emilokan’ scenario,” he said, referring to the Yoruba term meaning “it’s my turn.”

Kukah cautioned Africans against projecting political sentiments onto spiritual matters. “Let’s win the World Cup first,” he said with candor, pushing back against recurring calls for an African Pope. “You can’t say, ‘These people have had their turn, now it’s ours.’ It doesn’t work like that.”

[Olaudah Equiano® @RealOlaudah]

Nigeria is radicalizing the Igbo, one injustice at a time.

There’s something about persecution that does two things to a people: it either breaks them, or it makes them beasts of survival.

Ask the Jews.

For centuries, they were hunted, hated, and humiliated by empires. But they didn’t vanish. They evolved. They adapted. And today, the Jews are arguably the most powerful tribe in the world economically, intellectually, and politically. Ruthless when necessary.
They are unapologetic about their survival.

[Olaudah Equiano® @RealOlaudah]

Ganduje: China runs a one party system, and it works for them.

Me: China also executes corrupt public officers, and it works for them very well.

[Marquis Of Infamy 🪶🪶🪶 @Unabombaar]

Obi of Onitsha is the only 1st Class monarch in 🇳🇬

No scandals

No controversies

No scamming

No sending minions from the palace to cause division & steal lands/people who do not want them

No involvement in politics

He spends his time being a custodian of rich Igbo culture.

[chima Umeh. @Chimaobi_L_U]

@vanguardngrnews We have been here even 10,000 years before the flood

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The British head of state is an unelected hereditary monarch called Charles Windsor, and he Britiah upper house of parliament (House of Lords) is made up of 800 unelected life members drawn from the UK elite who have the power to introduce legislation and delay bills from the (elected) House of Commons.

The more you step out of the mental cage that colonisers created for you, the more you realise that "democracy" is just a story they have told very successfully - the power structure at the core of their society is NOT democratic, and the core processes that define their societies are guided by elite consensus and NOT 1-man-1-vote.

If African countries have competent leadership that understands and aspires to sovereignty, Africans should learn to completely ignore these white people when they start using their loaded terms like "junta" and "regime" to narratively attack their legitimacy.

Ibrahim Traore has been in power in Burkina Faso since 2022. The House of Windsor has been in power in the UK since 1826, when it was still known by its original German name "House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha." Before having anything to say about Ibrahim Traore and Burkina Faso, the BBC should first explain to British people why they have spent 199 years under the control of one family and its 800 elite associates from finance, industry, arts & culture, and academia.

They should fix their "junta" at home in Westminster before rubbernecking their long oyibo necks 6,000 km across the Atlantic at a country on another continent. Nobody is buying this nonsense.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Yesterday, at Johns Hopkins University, USA, I honoured the invitation to speak on "Politics and Change in Nigeria" from Professor Peter Lewis, the famous author of "Growing Apart: comparing Indonesia and Nigeria".

In discussing this very critical issue, which directly impacts the direction of a nation, I pointed out that the failure of a nation depends largely on its Political Leadership. Competent, capable and compassionate political leadership, with integrity, will help nations to achieve sustainable growth and development.

In my speech, I tried to assess 3 of our comparable nations - China, Vietnam and Indonesia, from 1990 till date.
In 1990, the year the measurement of the Human Development Index (HDI) was started, these 3 comparable nations, including Nigeria, were all classified under the medium category of the HDI measurement. 35 years later, 3 of these nations have moved up to the High category of HDI while Nigeria has fallen into the low category.

Within the same period of 35 years, from 1990 to 2025, the GDP Per Capita of these comparable nations have all improved. As of 1990, while Nigeria had a GDP per capita of $556, China had $317, Indonesia had $578, and Vietnam had only $99. Nigeria, obviously, had higher GDP per capita than China, while Vietnam had less than one-fifth of Nigeria's per capita. Today, Nigeria's per capita is about one-fifth of Indonesia's ($5000) and Vietnam's (4400) GDP per capita and below one-tenth of China's (1300) GDP per capita.

In the area of poverty, Nigeria with about 50 million poor people, had the least number of people in poverty in 1990 than any of the three countries. While China had about 750 million people living in poverty, Indonesia and Vietnam had 85 million and 60 million poor people, respectively. China alone had about 15 times the number of poor people than Nigeria. Today, however, Nigeria has more poor people than these 3 countries combined.

The question then is, what exactly did these countries do to be able to achieve the desired growth and development? That is where political leadership comes in. These comparable nations, and indeed other progressive nations, unlike Nigeria, have competent leadership with character, capacity and compassion, committed to prioritizing investment in critical areas of developmental measures; Education, Health, and pulling people out of poverty.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[IGBO History & Facts @IgboHistoFacts]

Security Checkpoints Along Onitsha To Enugu Expressway.

1. Army Gate Onitsha
2. Nkwelle Junction
3. Awkuzu Junction Army
4. Awkuzu Junction FRSC
5. Dunukofia LG hqts Police
6. Enugwu-Ukwu Junction Police
7. Amawbia Junction Police
8. Unizik Junction Army
9. Mopol base Awka Junction Police
10. Prince and Princess hostel front army
11. Amansea boundary Police
12. Ugwuoba boundary Police
13. Ugwuoba bridge police team
14. Ugwuoba Junction Army
15. Ugwuoba Junction NDLEA
16. Ugwuoba Junction FRSC
17. Ugwuoba Central Army
18. Oji River Junction Army 1
19. Oji River Junction Army 2
20. Ezeagu express Army
21. Near Nkwo ezeagu Police
22. Near tiles factory Police
23. Umumba Ndiuno express Police 1
24. Umumba Ndiuno express Police 2
25. 9th Mile Checkpoint
26. Nude express (approach to ninth mile) Police
27. Ngwo express Army
28. Ngwo express anti terror squad
29. Onyeama Hill (near refuse dump) Army
30 Onyeama Hill (near coal mine) Army
31. Abakpa Interchange Police
32. Abakpa Junction FRSC.

32 checkpoints! This is what a traveller moving just 105 KM from Onitsha to Enugu will endure. A checkpoint after every 3.7 km. So sad!

[chima Umeh. @Chimaobi_L_U]

@yabaleftonline Anambra

[chima Umeh. @Chimaobi_L_U]

@ruffydfire You are talking about the best, you didn't even ask if they want good for our country or if they want better for our country, but you skipped the realistic good and better and jumped to the best

[chima Umeh. @Chimaobi_L_U]

@NWAMADITOOBOY @emanuelpeters16 @Ode_Luwa Is he lying??

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

I am deeply saddened and troubled by the tragic news of yet another senseless killing in Bassa, Plateau State, where over 50 innocent Nigerians have lost their lives. This heartbreaking incident comes barely a day after I visited Plateau—a land of courageous and resilient people who, for years, have continued to cry out for justice, peace, and protection.

To return from such a visit only to be confronted with another round of bloodshed is both painful and unacceptable. No nation can thrive when its citizens are slaughtered in their homes and communities without consequence.

What is happening in Plateau State is no longer isolated violence. As rightly pointed out by Governor Muftwang, this has become a deliberate, systematic pattern of coordinated attacks. It is imperative that the federal government urgently rises to its constitutional responsibility to protect lives and property across Nigeria.

This is not the time for promises and press statements. It is time for concrete, strategic action. The people of Plateau need more than sympathy, they need security. The federal government must immediately deploy reinforced security operations and actionable intelligence to dismantle the criminal networks behind these atrocities.

We cannot continue to mourn our fellow citizens daily while those responsible walk free. There must be justice—and it must be swift, transparent, and total. The perpetrators must be identified, apprehended, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Nigerians deserve to live in peace, with dignity and without fear, in every corner of this country. My heart goes out to the bereaved families, and I pray that the souls of the departed rest in peace. May God grant the people of Plateau strength in this time of profound grief. –PO

[chima Umeh. @Chimaobi_L_U]

@masuzafi We are all important, I am igbo

[chima Umeh. @Chimaobi_L_U]

@MezieAbia @NigeriaStories Sorry to say this, you better remain silent over what you nothing about. Stop showing your ignorance

[chima Umeh. @Chimaobi_L_U]

@vanguardngrnews May he rest in peace

[chima Umeh. @Chimaobi_L_U]

@Drweloveu At least he left the children with their mothers to take care of them, but women will bring another man's child her husband and be pretending that it's the husband's child