As a survivor of kidnapping and banditry, one of the things that still breaks my heart is remembering how we survived in captivity.
From the very first day I was kidnapped alongside 10 other victims, we were forced to trek deep into the forest to their hideout. Along the way, we survived on stolen yams and maize taken from people's farms. The bandits would order us to dig up yams and harvest maize before they cook it on open fire for us to eat.
When we finally reached their camp, some of the bandits brought raw rice. They cooked it without seasoning, without cooking oil just plain, stony white rice. They would pour it onto a nylon bag for us to eat. Before you could even take two handfuls, the food was gone.
Omo, I suffered. I cried bitterly.
After 22 days, I was transferred to another group. There, the food changed, but not for the better. We were fed ground guinea corn prepared by their errand boy. Sometimes they added a little salt, sometimes nothing else.
Most days, we ate only once or twice. Water was even worse. Several of us had to share just one litre of water. The only time we drank enough was during long treks whenever they moved us from one location to another.
The hunger, thirst, exhaustion, and uncertainty were unbearable. Looking back today, I still don't know how I survived it all.
I am forever grateful to God and to my mother, whose sacrifices brought me back home alive. 💔😭���🏽
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Nigerian politicians are painful to watch. Not entertaining. Not dramatic. Painful. A country as large, populous, and strategically important as Nigeria is busy playing small, stupid games while the rest of the world hardens its borders, stockpiles power, and quietly prepares for conflict. This is a dangerous historical moment, and Nigeria is wasting it.
Outside Lagos, this is the richest state in the country, and it has almost nothing to show for it. No shared prosperity. No durable institutions. No civic confidence. Just a handful of stupendously rich politicians, men with so much money and so little restraint that they can destabilise an entire state for sport.
What makes it worse is the audience. Too many citizens watch these manoeuvres the way one watches a Netflix series. With commentary. With jokes. With team colours. As if this were fiction. As if it were not their lives being slowly hollowed out. As if poverty, insecurity, and institutional collapse were abstract concepts rather than daily facts.
This is not a moment for choosing between rival factions of the same rotten political class. There is no moral clarity to be found there. There is no hero waiting in the wings. There is only the insistence that this chaos is normal, that this is how politics works here, that there is no alternative.
But none of this is normal. It is not normal for public office to function as a private war chest. It is not normal for a state to be rich and its people perpetually poor. It is not normal for a country of this size and importance to drift while the world rearranges itself.
At some point Nigerians have to refuse the performance. To stop treating dysfunction as spectacle. To reject the lie that this is the best we can do. This is not politics as usual. It is a slow, collective failure, and pretending otherwise is part of the problem.
There are 165 Children from St Mary Catholic School still in Captivity by Kidnappers 🇳🇬
There are 165 Children from St Mary Catholic School still in Captivity by Kidnappers 🇳🇬
There are 165 Children from St Mary Catholic School still in Captivity by Kidnappers 🇳🇬
There are 165 Children from St Mary Catholic School still in Captivity by Kidnappers 🇳🇬
There are 165 Children from St Mary Catholic School still in Captivity by Kidnappers 🇳🇬
Today marks 28 days abduction of Christian school children kidnapped from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Minna by Fulani terrorists 💔 💔
In no particular order these are the names of 265 students, teachers and non academic staffs in captivity.
I beg you all in the Name of God, let’s not forget the 165 Children of St MARY Catholic School still in Captivity by Fulani Kidnappers
Please.
Please.
Lend your voices. Use your platforms. Keep demanding.👏🏾
WE DEMAND THE RELEASE OF ST. MARY'S 165 NOW
WE DEMAND THE RELEASE OF ST. MARY'S 165 NOW
WE DEMAND @NGRPresident TO RESCUE ST. MARY'S 165
WE DEMAND @officialABAT TO RESCUE ST. MARY'S 165 NOW
WE DEMAND @officialABAT TO RESCUE ST. MARY'S 165 NOW
WE DEMAND @officialABAT TO RESCUE ST. MARY'S 165 NOW
Christian Children as little as 4yr are in captivity.
Aside terrorism, these Islamic terrorist groups are a bunch of pedos just like their prophet.
We can’t imagine the horrible things done to both boys & girls.
We can’t stay quiet about this!
I beg you all in the Name of God, let’s not forget the 165 Children of St MARY Catholic School still in Captivity by Fulani Kidnappers
Please.
Please.
Lend your voices. Use your platforms. Keep demanding.
A total of 315 Christians were abducted (303 students, 12 teachers) on the 21st of November, 2025.
50 students allegedly escaped 3weeks ago, leaving 253 students and 12 teachers left in captivity for nearly a month now.
Our lives mean nothing to this government.
The children kidnapped from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri Minna (has not been released). Today is the 27th day since they were abducted. We demand the immediate release of the remaining 165 innocent children.
Please lend your voice, don’t stay silent.
SPREAD THE WORD!
I beg you all in the Name of God, let’s not forget the 165 Children of St MARY Catholic School still in Captivity by Fulani Kidnappers
Please.
Please.
Lend your voices. Use your platforms. Keep demanding.
In 2016 on Christmas day, I will never forget it.
Fulani herdsmen attacked my village, killed my cousins and other family members, burnt down my grandparents house, my uncles houses and people's houses. We spent our Christmas running for our lives.
Since then, anytime farmers go to the farm they don't always come back alive.
In 2021 my grandmother and my aunties went to the farm, they all were butchered, cut to pieces by herdsmen except for one who survived but lost her hand because they thought she was de@d.
On the 12 of December, the same village, some people were in the farm harvesting beans as usual, Fulani herdsmen came with their cows and started eating the beans, the women spoke to the Fulani herdsmen to remove their cows and they started attacking them, all of them ran for their lives except for one who fell down and Fulani herdsmen were able to amputate her hand and cut her shoulders. But thank God she was able to escape.
Yesterday @instablog9ja and @SaharaReporters posted it and told people she was attacked because her family rejected a marriage proposal by Fulani herdsmen. They changed the narrative and made everyone believe she was attacked because of a marriage proposal. This is the same village that has always been under attack by Fulani herdsmen since 2016.
I may not have a big voice here or a lot of followers but I'll not keep quiet and allow you to lie to everyone about this.
“Hello I am a serving Corp member here in kebbi state, one day I visited an orphanage within the vicinity and I met this young boy named uzochukwu, he is a Christian, he is four years old, he was kidnapped and resold, the policemen caught the kidnappers, took them to court and kept all the children in a Muslim based orphanage home. Uzochukwu speaks igbo fluently and he said he's from St Teresa nursery and primary school 33 nmafam ( he is not sure if the school is at enugu or onitsha) he is in nursery 2. Please you can help uzochukwu to reunite with his family by rebroadcasting this message to anyone who lives in enugu or onitsha or someone who knows the school. Uzochukwu said that he grew up in the village. The orphanage home is here in Birnin kebbi”