Joyce Onyemuwa

BEAUTY, PASSION, REASON

[Frantz Kati @bahdcoder]

This is the exact mindset I use to consistently land remote roles in tech.

I’ll show you how I landed a 65k euros remote role, and how you can position yourself to do the same.

[Ochai @mxochai]

I graduated with a first class in Cybersecurity and crossed over $100,000 in earnings on Upwork in the same year, but here’s what it cost me.

[Nigeria Info FM 99.3 @NigeriainfoFM]

🗣️: "Anyone who says there is no God is a fool; I know this because I was one of them."

🗣️: "One day I was watching p*rn in my cell and suddenly my elbow hit the remote control and the channel changed to a broadcast of Creflo Dollar."

🗣️: "It was like a movie; nobody introduced Jesus Christ to me, it was that p*rn movie."

Evang. Christian Chukwuka shares with @JoyceOnyemuwa on the #SunnySide how a usual time of self-gratification in his cell suddenly turned into an encounter that changed his life.

#NigeriaInfoSS

[Nigeria Info FM 99.3 @NigeriainfoFM]

🗣️: "In prison if you fight me, when I get you to the gym, I would use the gym bars to smash your head; I was locked in solitary confinement several times for fighting."

🗣️: "Girls come to visit me in the prison; I got my second son from impregnating the mum in prison."

Christian Chukwuka who served an eight-year sentence in a Swedish prison for a drug trafficking offence explains his story to @JoyceOnyemuwa on the #SunnySide.

#NigeriaInfoSS

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Breaking: OLANREWAJU FADEHAN, the current Head of Examinations at the WAEC office in Awka, Anambra State, has openly acknowledged and confessed the many issues surrounding the 2026 WAEC examinations, including some of the factors that led to mass failures among students who legitimately sat for the exams.

We will get to the root of this. Our students, who have worked hard for years, deserve justice, and we will ensure they get it.

It is a big shame that WAEC has allowed these failures to put the futures of our children at risk.

[Nigeria Info FM 99.3 @NigeriainfoFM]

🗣️: "Is it God that asked them to open universities and schools and charge high fees that even their members can't afford it?"

🗣️: "We bash the government yet we take our children to government universities, but we can't take our children to church universities."

🗣️: "The luxurious lifestyles that these pastors live is what discourages people from going to church."

This caller on the #SunnySide explains to @JoyceOnyemuwa why he is adamant pastors should not live extravagant lifestyles.

#NigeriaInfoSS

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

“Since November last year, the President approved a salary increase for the military and paramilitary personnel, and it has been in the news everywhere. The military high command has continued to thank the President at every given opportunity, but this is August and they are yet to implement it. It’s as if it is a scam.”

— Ex-serviceman speaks out this morning over the non-implementation of consequential adjustments to their pensions.

[FCCPC Nigeria @fccpcnigeria]

Release - Cement FCCPC Establishes Possible Price Manipulation

Tuesday, August 18, 2026: Findings from an industry-wide investigation conducted by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) suggest possible manipulation of prices of cement in the Nigerian market.

This is the preliminary summation of the 40-page field reports collated following a three-month cross-border study by the Anticompetitive Practices Department (ACP) of the Commission, undertaken in response to widespread public complaints over the high cost of cement, a common staple in the country's construction industry.

Concerns were raised over the comparatively high retail price of cement in Nigeria compared with other markets, despite the country's substantial limestone deposits, significant domestic production capacity and reported surplus installed capacity relative to domestic consumption.

Significantly, all the major cement manufacturers in the country cooperated with the Commission by making their records available except one of them.

Publicly available estimates indicate that three major undertakings account for more than 90 percent of installed production capacity in the country.

The ACP investigations extended to markets in Sub-Saharan Africa like Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa as well as Egypt, Morocco and Algeria.

Metrics adopted included the availability of limestone, the basic raw material for cement production, as well as other variables such as population, production capacity and consumption.

In Kenya, for instance, the 58.6 million population (76% lower than Nigeria’s) has domestic cement demand of approximately 9.3m MTPA (metric tonne per annum) in 2025. Retail price in Nairobi is $5.40 (N7,344). Kenya is endowed with limestone.

In Tanzania, with population of 66.3m (72% lower than Nigeria’s) and the domestic cement demand is 9.3m MTPA (2025), a bag of cement sells for $4.80 (N6,528).

In Togo, a bag sells for $6.75 (N9,180). Significantly, Togo does not have limestone deposit.

Comparatively, in Nigeria, market intelligence reviewed by the Commission shows that the retail price of a 50kg bag of cement rose significantly during the first half of 2026.

A bag reportedly selling for between N9,300 and N9,700 in January was selling for between N10,500 and N13,000 by mid-year. By July, prices of between N13,000 and N15,000 were reported in some parts of the country.

The Commission's survey indicates that Nigeria has installed cement production capacity of more than 60 to 65 million metric tonnes annually, while estimated domestic consumption is approximately 25 to 30 million metric tonnes. Nigeria is also a net exporter of cement to neighbouring markets.

Of particular concern to the Commission is that this level of production capacity has not resulted in the downward pressure on domestic prices that might ordinarily be expected in a competitive market with substantial excess capacity.

Information provided by industry participants has identified energy costs, depreciation of the Naira and its effect on imported machinery and spare parts, as well as transportation and logistics costs, among the factors contributing to cement prices. The Commission is testing these explanations against verified information on costs, production, pricing and market conditions.

However, the weight of preliminary findings provides sufficient grounds for the investigation to continue.

Next is to determine whether prevailing cement prices can be explained by legitimate costs and market conditions, or whether there is evidence of coordinated conduct, abuse of market power, restriction of domestic supply, anti-competitive distribution practices or other conduct contrary to the provisions of the FCCPA.

Accordingly, the FCCPC has issued Notices of Commencement of Investigation and Summons to Produce to the key players in the sector...

Please see the slides for full details:

@NigeriaGov @NGRPresident @NGRSenate @HouseNGR

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

Viral video shows congregants touching pastor’s leg for “blessings”

[CrownprinceCom2 @CrownprinceCom2]

Treat with urgent: Disturbing video showing 14 people reportedly held by kidnappers in the bush. 🥺💔

An 18-seater bus was reportedly attacked last night between Omutele and Ankpechi in Ohimini LGA, Benue State. May they be rescued safely. 🙏

[Tomori @otomporo8701]

Driving home, 2011. Checkpoint. Drunk policeman.

3 gun shots, one bullet punched through my car boot into my right hand.

That hand once edit, animated, paid bills and fed my family. Overnight it became dead weight.

Career gone. Marriage cracked. Mind still bleeding daily.I sued the Nigeria Police.

2015: Federal High Court ordered them to fund reconstructive surgery to restore my life.

Eleven years later: zero naira, zero apology, zero accountability.

I still can’t fully use the hand they destroyed. Still begging strangers so I don’t lose it forever.

The Nigeria Police that shot me ignores the court. Who protects the rest of us?
@MobilePunch @TunjiDisu1 @UNDP @NhrcNigeria
#NigeriaPoliceNotYourFriend #JusticeForTomori

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

What I am hearing about WAEC Nigeria is deeply troubling.

This year recorded the highest performance in the history of WAEC and they are not happy about it.

There is something many Nigerians do not understand about WAEC grading.

The score required for A1, B2, B3, C4 etc. may not simply be a permanently fixed number every year.

From the information available to me, WAEC applies statistical standardisation/normalisation based partly on the overall performance of candidates.

In simple English:

If a paper is unusually difficult and candidates generally perform poorly, the threshold required for a particular grade can effectively be lower.

If candidates perform extraordinarily well, the threshold can become much higher.

So hypothetically, what qualifies as an A in one examination could be around 60, while the statistical threshold in another circumstance could be 80, 90 or even higher.

Your final grade therefore may not tell the complete story of your raw score.

This year involved candidates sitting examinations under different modes, including computer-based/hybrid arrangements and the traditional paper-based system.

And there are serious allegations that questions circulated ahead of time in some paper-based centres.

If that happened on a significant scale, it could artificially inflate the overall performance of that population.

Then comes the critical question:

When WAEC carried out its standardisation, were candidates from fundamentally different examination conditions treated as one population?

Because if leaked questions artificially pushed one group’s scores upwards, and those abnormal scores subsequently influenced grade thresholds, an innocent student who genuinely scored very highly could suddenly appear statistically ordinary.

Imagine scoring what would ordinarily be excellent marks, only to receive a surprisingly poor grade because you were being compared against an abnormal national distribution.

That is the heart of what needs to be investigated.

And it wouldn’t affect only computer-based candidates.

Honest children who wrote paper-based examinations without cheating could also have been punished by the abnormal performance of people who had access to questions.

The innocent students potentially become the victims of the malpractice they never participated in.

This is why WAEC cannot simply tell Nigerians that these children failed.

Show us the data.

What were the raw scores?

What were the score distributions?

What thresholds produced A1, B2, B3, C4, C5 and C6 in each major subject?

Were those thresholds changed after marking?

Were computer-based and paper-based candidates standardised separately?

How were centres showing statistically abnormal performance treated?

And have results changed after candidates requested reviews?

Because I am also receiving disturbing reports that some people who aggressively challenged questionable results got their cases reconsidered, while millions of ordinary parents may not even know they can request a review.

If that is true, it is unacceptable.

A child whose parents have connections cannot have greater access to justice than a child sitting somewhere in a village.

And there is another dimension that must not be ignored: I am receiving serious allegations of internal management problems within WAEC Nigeria, including concerns about how staff who question certain decisions are treated.

Those allegations also deserve an independent investigation.

This is not an attack on WAEC.

It is a demand for accountability.

The Federal Ministry of Education and National Assembly should urgently invite the leadership of WAEC Nigeria.

Because behind every A1, C6 or F9 is not just a statistic.

There is a child. There is a family. There is a university admission. There is a scholarship. There is a future.

We cannot gamble with the destinies of an entire generation of Nigerian children.

[DAWN Commission @DAWNCommission]

Nigeria's rice mills are not closing for one reason: they are being squeezed from five directions at once.

DAWN Commission's new policy brief breaks down what is happening and what needs to change.

Download the full brief here: https://t.co/HBysPSomzW

[Davido @davido]

This was a statement by Senator Fadahunsi now on video. Translation

"From now on, whenever you see Accord members, kill them. I authorise you to kill them. They have wives and children too. This is a Federal Government election. On election day, even if they come with voters card, we wont allow them to vote" - Senator Francis Ade Fadahunsi, Senator representing Osun East Senatorial District in the National Assembly a whole sitting senator !!

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

“My Daughter Has Sickle Cell Because of a Foolish Mistake I Made Due to Religion”

— Nigerian man cr!es out over what his family is currently going through after his daughter was born with sickle cell

According to him, he was once a devoted and “d!e-hard” religious follower who tried to live strictly by his interpretation of the Bible. He claimed that he and his wife dated for three years without having s£x, despite both of them knowing that they were AS.

He said that because of his strong religious beliefs, he convinced himself that God would not allow them to have a child with sickle cell disease. However, he now regrets the decision and says he is struggling with the reality of his daughter’s condition.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

This WAEC glitch has significantly affected thousands of children.

They should release the answer scripts for students to review and challenge them.

If nothing is done by the end of this week, we will have to take the matter to court.

The pain for students has been unbearable.

[Malachy Odo II @MalachyOdo1]

He has been moved from Nsukka to the State CID in Enugu.

His lawyers were given the impression that he will be arraigned in Court this morning only to get there and be told that they are not ready for court yet.

One day, this country will truly belong to Nigerians.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

We have officially started the bootcamp today in Enugu. 40 engineers are participating.

These children are going to learn how to make drones from scratch to help tackle security challenges and also speed up hospital medication delivery.

They will also learn hardcore Robotics and AI, Automechanics, Bricklaying, Welding, and Electricals.

This will be the beginning of a new direction for education in the South East.

We are raising real problem solvers with real skills, not a theory-based generation without skills.

The future is exciting!

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I just learned this morning that Bryan Eze qualified for the International Economics Olympiad in China to represent Nigeria, but the Ministry of Education said that there is no money to sponsor him.

They approached the Ebonyi State Government for support and the government said that they are not interested. So he missed it.

I became curious after he won the Sterling Bank National Online Maths Quiz yesterday.

This is heartbreaking.

[Chude @Chude_ND1]

This Government is pushing a dangerous bill. This needs to be looked into.