The universe always listens to a stubborn heart but first you need to show up and speak.
All my love,
Fortune Kurobo,
Miss Amity /2nd Runner up Miss Universe Nigeria 2025♥️
@missuniverseng
“when i launched my book club, it wasn’t in a cozy café. it was in a reading group at downview women’s prison. i’ll never forget what one of the women shared with me: ‘perhaps if i’d read more books when i was younger, i wouldn’t be here now’.”
— dua lipa at the booker prize
Fellow Nigerians, good morning.
I woke up this morning after my church service with a deeply reflective heart, and despite every constraint, I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you.
Many people do not truly understand the silent pains some of us carry daily—the private struggles, emotional burdens, and quiet battles we face while trying to survive and serve sincerely in difficult circumstances.
We now live in an environment that has become increasingly toxic, where the very system that should protect and create opportunities for decent living often works against the people—a society where intimidation, insecurity, endless scrutiny, and discouragement have become normal.
More painful is when some of those you associate with, believing you would find understanding and solidarity among them, become part of the pressure you face. Some who publicly identify with you privately distance themselves or join in unfair criticism.
We live in a society where humility is mistaken for weakness, respect is seen as a lack of courage, and compassion is treated as foolishness—a system where treating people equally is questioned simply because you refuse to worship status, tribe, class, or power.
Personally, I have never looked down on anyone except to uplift them. I have never used privilege, position, or resources to oppress others, intimidate the weak, or make people feel small. To me, leadership has always been about service, sacrifice, and helping others rise.
Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them.
However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.
Even within spaces where one labours sincerely, one is sometimes treated like an outsider in one’s own home. You and your team become easy targets for every failure, frustration, or misunderstanding, as though honest contribution has become a favour being tolerated rather than appreciated.
And when you choose to leave so that those you are leaving can have peace, and you step out into the cold, you are still maligned and your character is questioned. Despite all your efforts to continue working for a better Nigeria and engaging people with sincerity and goodwill, those who do not wish you well continue to attack your character and question your intentions.
There are moments I ask God in prayer: Why is doing the right thing often misconstrued as wrongdoing in our country? Why is integrity not valued? Why is the prudent management of resources, especially when invested in critical areas like education and healthcare, wrongly labelled as stinginess? Why are humility and obedience to the rule of law often taken to be weakness rather than discipline?
Let me assure all that I am not desperate to be President, Vice President, or Senate President. I am desperate to see a society that can console a mother whose child has been kidnapped or killed while going to school or work. I am desperate to see a Nigeria where people will not live in IDP camps but in their homes. I am desperate for a country where Nigerian citizens do not go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from.
Yet, despite everything, I remain resolute. I firmly believe that Nigeria can still become a country with competent leadership based on justice, compassion, and equal opportunity for all.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Today will mark 6 weeks since the Ozoro incident happened where women were sexually violated by men and boys en masse. 6 weeks later and no update, no prosecutions, not even a conclusion to the “investigations”. Just another incident of GBV being swept under the carpet.
@BlaqBonez This vocal challenge is going crazy…. @BlaqBonez
so I had to put my own twist on it
If you leave before the drop, you missed the whole point.
3 mins. Lock in. 🎤
https://t.co/Rk1T4TpeBL Bodaxious 🫶🏽
@BlaqBonez This vocal challenge is going crazy…. @BlaqBonez
so I had to put my own twist on it
If you leave before the drop, you missed the whole point.
3 mins. Lock in. 🎤
https://t.co/Rk1T4TpeBL Bodaxious 🫶🏽
When I interned at the Nigerian Prison, there was not one day we don’t have men come in for RAPE.
It was so triggering for me, from raping their daughters, strangers, nieces, etc.
Some men raped & robbed a woman, she died on the spot from hypertension.
Back here to say that something is deeply wrong with the people at @chowdeck who made it so I cannot order from restaurants on addo road when I live 10-15 minutes from them.
I don kuku delete the app✋
The capital budget for just 40 Lagos lawmakers ₦87 billion now exceeds the state’s entire capital allocation to health, pegged at ₦68 billion.
Statistically, this means the comfort of 40 politicians is valued more than the health of over 20 million residents.
There's nothing wrong with being in a relationship,if I hear that you're helping man to wash baggy jeans,I'll find you and you won't like what I'll do to you.
A teenage sickle cell sufferer Rebecca Talabi, 16, says she looks forward to a pain-free future after receiving a life-changing bone marrow transplant from her only remaining sister & sickle cell advocate Simply Sayo. The sisters have been through a lot. https://t.co/W9fYezMOD9