Efe_Paul_Azino

Vagabond and doer @lagospoetryfest, @creativeafricang, @marokomag |Author For Broken Men Who Cross Often (@farafinabooks)

[Efe_Paul_Azino @EFEPAUL]

"The Nigerian state, having learned from the Abacha years that direct repression generated too much international attention, developed more sophisticated methods for neutralizing dissent. Instead of killing intellectuals, it began buying them."
https://t.co/dTc6OrApmd

[Jola @Jollz]

It’s in line with the renewed hope agenda

[Umuọfià Arts and Books Festival @UmuofiaBookFest]

The Umuofia Arts and Books Festival is set to host world-renowned novelist and serial Booker Prize nominee, Chigozie Obioma (@JCObioma), in Enugu, in his first book reading in the eastern region of Nigeria. 

Details on the event and how to register here: https://t.co/X9Y775kxze

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

african presidents used to write poetry and translate shakespeare. look how far down we’ve fallen.

[Efe_Paul_Azino @EFEPAUL]

@pamilerinjacob Happy birthday ✨️

[Tolu Daniel @iamToluDaniel]

For my latest with the Common Reader Journal. I write about how Modern African Literature Confronts the Constraints of the Global Politics of Reading. https://t.co/xqgwlQY29Y

[Narrative Landscape Press @NarrativeLscape]

You can now pre-order The Challengers: The Disruptive Nigerian Entrepreneurs Creating a Billion-Naira Company by Eghosa Imasuen (@eimasuen).

The book tells the story of the founders of the VFD Group (@VFDGroup), a major player in Nigeria's modern financial sector.

[ndụka. @NdukaEbubeDike]

We Don’t Talk About Biafra Enough

https://t.co/LBrWX5yHkz

[Wale Gates @walegates]

Apologies to Patience Jonathan 😭

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked https://t.co/a8dowJ3gSt

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

For me any presidential candidate must also be, if not THE leader of the political party but a frontline leader. If a person as loyal to the frontrunner as this fearless politician is, is complaining publicly of lack of due process in the party even before the elections, then the front runner must not be a silent voice. You must be seen, not just to be a good face for the party, but a proactive leader of the party who shows that he can lead the change that he promises for the whole country. Otherwise how do you convince Nigerians that you can lead a whole country if you cannot take charge of your own party and show that you can do things differently? How do Nigerians trust that you can change things in the much larger, infinitely more complex place that is Nigeria?

[-valar morghulis- @eldivine]

There is no nationwide police mobilization. No MOPOL deployments, no state of emergency on kidnap for ransom.

It’s barely even an election topic. No one is worried about losing votes.

All while every city and every corner of the country is experiencing daily kidnaps.

The IG of police is not even stressed. Police are still collecting money at checkpoints.

We really are not angry enough.

[Ọmọ Akin @GuyMr10]

Lagos Protesters don change am for Police

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

No Election should hold if Amupitan is directing INEC. That should be the hill we stand on.

[Premium Times @PremiumTimesng]

Data compiled and analysed by PREMIUM TIMES shows that the mass school abduction crisis has worsened under President Tinubu.

Although his administration will mark three years in office on 29 May, it has already recorded at least nine mass school kidnapping incidents

READ MORE👇
https://t.co/eG3hFFkdXW

[SANTAN @Santandave1]

LAGOS NIGERIA!
I’m announcing my first ever headline shows here, and we have made sure this homecoming will be special. Sign up for early access here! https://t.co/6RTJy6ubeT

[Prudencio Aguilar. @kolatubosun]

Howard French and I discussing his really important book "The Second Emancipation" at the NYBAL Festival last year.

https://t.co/5d80LRgFT6

[Channels Television @channelstv]

Protest Rocks Ibadan Over Abduction Of Pupils, Teachers

[Káyọ̀dé Ògúndámisí 🇳🇬 @ogundamisi]

Bola Ahmed Tinubu,

You are the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. At a time when citizens from your own region, the South West, including Yoruba men, women, children, and toddlers, are being held captive by terrorists in Yoruba forests, your campaign team considered it appropriate to fly three helicopters bearing your photograph over a Yoruba town, months ahead of an election, while captives continue to cry out for help.

This display reflects a troubling lack of sensitivity to the pain, fear, and anxiety that affected families and communities are enduring. At a moment when Nigerians are looking to their government for decisive action, compassion, and leadership, such political spectacles send the wrong message.

Mr. President, if you genuinely care about the safety and welfare of Nigerian citizens, you should rein in this insensitivity and ensure that every available effort is focused on securing the release of those being held captive and restoring public confidence in the government's commitment to protecting its people.

Leadership is measured not by displays of political influence, but by the ability to respond effectively to the suffering of citizens and uphold their security and dignity.

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

For the past 3 yrs, my good friend, @OKChinda, has been the face of @OfficialPDPNig in the Green Chamber of @HouseNGR. There is no record that he has resigned or been removed. As at today, he remains the Minority Leader of #Nigeria's House of Representatives.

He also currently holds the nomination of the ruling @OfficialAPCNg to run as its candidate for the position of governor of Rivers State in #NigeriaDecides2027.

How one man can be both candidate of ruling party & leader of the opposition in parliament must be one of the miracles of #Nigeria's civil rule under the #TinubuSystem.

This is not politics. It is #OrganisedCrime.

https://t.co/B2ORK0RJku

[Channels Television @channelstv]

The APC, President Tinubu and those who work with him suffer what in economics we call the "illusion of money"... By the devaluation of the naira to the dollar, it gives you an illusion as if additional money is coming in, but that money has no purchasing power,' says SDP's Adebayo.

I sympathise with Mr Morka [APC spokesman], and I understand now that if this is the framework of their own analysis, even 50 years is not enough to get it right, he added

#SundayPolitics