It’s been raining back to back for the whole week now, this is a very cold morning.
We have children who have been sleeping outside under these conditions for 28 days now with zero from the government.
An entire state can get wiped out in one night and Nigerians will go to work the next day. We’re being exposed to an insane level of violence and we’re scrolling away
We cannot possibly be okay with the fact that there are still children waiting to be rescued. We cannot be comfortable with that knowledge. We cannot scroll past it, discuss it for a moment, and move on as though it is normal. It is not normal. It should never become normal.
Isn't it ironic how the "champions of Islam" burnt down arguably the second largest Islamic institution in sub Saharan Africa and killed every single scholar because they refuse to accept the abomination they called jihad? Now we might not like it, but those people took us back
These are the kinds of conversations we should have in the North.
I was at a gov't facility in Minna on Monday.
The doctor came out at some point to tell the nurses to stop sending people once it is 1pm. The majority of the people sleeping on the floor waiting were sent home.
Marcus Aurelius was right when he said the crowd will forget you no matter what you do. So the only real question is whether you spent your years chasing their approval or actually living for yourself.
When you’re known as the strong person, people often forget that you’re human too. They become so used to seeing you carry everyone else that they don’t notice when you’re struggling to carry yourself. The compassion they freely offer others can feel harder to access