I don’t know how you all handle your relationships, but I think it’s unnecessary to keep telling the world you can’t cook as a wife and that all you offer your husband is spaghetti and noodles. He may not mind now, but constantly using it to prove he loves you could eventually turn into ridicule.
Enjoy your marriage quietly, stop setting the man up for drags, and go learn to cook. You’re building a family, not putting on an influencer show.
Happy Birthday to Peter Obi, my dearest Big Bro:
I will never forget your kindness to my beloved parents. Thank you for the respect you showed them, for your many visits to Abba, where you gave to Daddy and Mummy the most precious gifts: your time and your attention.
Thank you for walking this still-unbearable journey of grief with my siblings and me.
I remember how you regaled Daddy and Mummy with your stories until we started joking about your obsession with the “GDP of Malaysia.” But your obsession spoke of hope: your hope for Nigeria, your belief in what Nigeria could be. A belief that has always been practical, grounded in numbers and in reality.
I remember when you came to support me as I was being honored by the United Nations Foundation in New York, and I teased you about the inexpensive hotel you were staying in, and you shrugged and said, “it’s just a place to sleep, why do I need to be in an expensive place?”
And then only days later, you once again exhibited your incredible generosity to the causes you believe in, and it reminded me of all the hospitals and schools and churches you have supported over the years, and often without fanfare. You have always been clear about what your priorities are, what matters to you, what you believe should matter, and that is deeply admirable.
I have always admired your humane pragmatism, how you are willing to talk to almost anyone if it will bring about a good outcome.
And how you believe in certain ideals without being an ideologue.
And how you see people as people, knowing that human value is not measured in material terms.
And how you are able to laugh at yourself, and laugh when I tease you about your ‘one shoe and one shirt.’
And how you have always been consistent in the core of who you are.
Thank you for your compassion and your circumspection. For your honesty and your humour. For your willingness to acknowledge flaws, yours and others’, knowing that nobody is perfect. For your fuss-free kindness and your humility that is never performative.
I am inspired by your intellectual curiosity, your eagerness to learn, your genuine love of education (which is why you sought out, and honored, Daddy all those years ago when you learned that he was Nigeria’s first professor of statistics.)
Sometimes it is the simplest of language that captures the most complex of things, and so I will end with simplicity: You are a good man. You are loved. You are appreciated.
May your eyes continue to light up when you talk about the lovely confident Margaret (Thank God she agreed for you!) and your lovely children, A and E.
May joy follow you and yours always.
Mummy called you her ‘first son,’ my siblings and I call you our 'big bro,' and I cannot wait to call you ‘My President.’
I cannot wait for January 16, 2027, when I, with personal pride in you and with hope for what Nigeria can become, will cast my vote for you and your running mate, Former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso
Chukwu dube gi. God Keep you.
With love, Chimamanda Adiche
B.J. ORISASONA, Esq.
LL.B (Hons), B.L ; Barrister and Solicitor of The Supreme Court of Nigeria.
And an Author!🥺 This is the day that the Lord has made!🤭💓
You said it’s okay for your children to fry akara & sell kuli-kuli, that it’s a profitable business.
Alex Onyia, on the other hand, said that he’s grooming kids from his region to compete with the best minds on earth.
Ironically, same you is angry at Alex for refusing to accept akara & kuli-kuli fate for the kids from his region. 🤣
I’ve never seen something like this before in my life. 🤣
The teachers and boys are now inside the Colosseum.
It’s like a dream come true for all of them, having watched the Spartacus and Gladiator movies. And also video games.
This is what we call experiential learning.
Yoruba man is Nigeria's president.
Yoruba man is education minister.
Yoruba man is minister for youth development.
Yet you want a private Igbo man to fund a trip for a Yoruba kid to attend an international academic competition.
Is there no PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC that can admit you?
A Yoruba kid missed an international competition because the Ministry of Education failed to register and fund it. The APC has failed to fund and support that competition for 5 years now.
How did the children of corn leave Tinubu and his Minister of Education to drag Alex Onyia and turn it into tribalism?
So a Yoruba boy wins ‘National Maths Olympiad’. FG refuses to sponsor him to Rome.
Alex Onyia, from his own pocket,organizes the SE Maths Olympiad and takes the 3 winners to Rome.
But some Yorubas are cursing him for not funding the Yoruba boy to Rome.
As how?
Are you people mad?
Tunde Onakoya teaches chess only to the kids from the Southwest, and has taken them abroad. We were happy and celebrated him for doing a great job.
Alex Onyia is pushing for Science and Math Olympiad in the Southeast, and has taken those kids abroad. Alex is now the tribal bigot.
Hypocritical idiots.