How did we move from begging for basic amenities to begging for security?
The fact that people are now pleading just to stay alive and safe in their own country is heartbreaking.
Three weeks ago, my 23-year-old neighbor was kidnapped on her way to Kontagora in Niger State.
While in captivity, the bandits repeatedly raped her taking turns sleeping with her night after night. Still, they kept bargaining with her father over the phone, demanding ransom even as they violated her.
Her father fought with everything he had. He hustled day and night, borrowed from everyone, took loans, sold whatever he could determined to bring his daughter home.
When he finally gathered the full amount, he called the bandits and begged them, ‘Please, give the phone to my daughter. Let me speak to her. I want her to know I’m coming for her.’
They gave her the phone.
In a broken, traumatized voice, she told her father: ‘Dad, do not suffer yourself looking for the money. They have been sleeping with me. I’m traumatized. I can’t forgive myself. Even if I’m released, I’ll kill myself. Don’t bother paying the ransom.’
Those were the last words she ever spoke to him.
While her father was still holding the phone, he heard the gunshot. He heard his daughter being killed. Moments later, the bandits sent pictures of her remains to him, a final act of cruelty.
A 23-year-old girl. My neighbor. Someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s friend gone in the most horrific way possible.
This is not just one story. This is the nightmare too many families are living in Niger State and across Nigeria. Young women snatched on the roads, violated, used as bargaining chips, and discarded like nothing.
Living in Nigeria has become truly scary. You wake up, you step out, and you don’t know if you or your loved ones will return home. The fear is constant. The pain is constant. And too often, justice never comes.
Rest in peace to my neighbor.
Let me EXPLAIN something, to those who think this is a JOKE⚠️‼️
The screenshot you see here, was posted by @OlayinkaLere, Wike’s aide.
It was taken from an admin-“ONLY” backend https://t.co/FnztOUI7Gm
This is an access to Full application details including internal status notes, quality checks, full VIN, photo, residential address, polling unit, etc.
These information are not publicly available. Citizens cannot browse or search other people’s applications⚠️
Only authorized INEC officials have access to the “Admin-Only” backend, and this level of detailed application information on the INEC server, specifically via the admin portal https://t.co/8TD40zDspS
Access to https://t.co/FnztOUI7Gm from which Lanre took this screenshot requires login credentials, and is restricted to INEC personnel with appropriate privileges like Electoral Officers, RECs, or designated admins handling applications.
Here’s another catch
The INEC systems like IOMIS and ERMS use role-based access controls.
What this means is simple. Different INEC staff see only what’s relevant to their jurisdiction or duties.
So how did Lanre, who is not even an adhoc staff of the INEC get clearance to login to their server. @inecnigeria we need an answer ‼️
Any Nigerian citizen can check basic voter registration status, track their own applications e.g., voter transfer, updates, PVC replacement, or verify details like polling unit using public tools on the CVR portal https://t.co/6xo7sj8A6x. Even to do this, You typically need to login with your email, fill in your VIN, name, date of birth, etc, to view your own info.
What LANRE, APC, WIKE, TINUBU & INEC just did, is a breach of the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and related regulations‼️
Nigerians Wake the fuck up, these guys are toiling with our future
And we are all calm
This is a declaration of War
If APC and INEC wants war, or a R£volution, >>>>>🤷♂️
_Manjul Vic
It is already a travesty that schools are still operational in Nigeria, but there is nothing worth celebrating today as Children's Day.
I call upon you to bully brands and government organizations who intend to put out children's day posts.
46 children are still in captivity.
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
@PeterObi@OK2027movement I read this with tears in my eyes, we stand with you, in the sun and rain.
You have proven yourself that you are deserving of the followership.
The Nigeria we all desire, we will get it.
President Peter Obi will be a statement from 2027.
It’s Peter Obi or Nothing!!!
What strikes me most about this statement is not the politics. It’s the fatigue beneath it.
This is a man has been attacked from every direction by the state, by allies, by critics and yet he still woke up writing about the mother whose child was kidnapped. Still writing about Nigerians in IDP camps. Still writing about hunger.
That’s a man on a mission that outlasts the institutions trying to contain him.
Nigeria may not always deserve Peter Obi. But Peter Obi refuses to stop deserving Nigeria.