OYEBODE Victor Chukwuemeka

Believer, Fashion Designer

[Maliq @MasterMaliq]

As a Muslim, there's something that genuinely bothers me.

Millions of Muslims live in Christian majority countries, build mosques, preach Islam publicly, distribute Qur'ans, open halal businesses, and demand religious freedom,and rightly so.

Some even call for aspects of Shariah to be accommodated in the societies they've moved to.

Yet in some Muslim majority countries, Christians cannot openly preach the Gospel, build churches freely, or practice their faith without restrictions.

Why?

If we demand religious freedom for ourselves, we should be willing to grant it to others.

Truth does not need censorship.

If Islam is the truth, it has nothing to fear from a church, a Bible, or a Christian preacher.

You can't demand tolerance and freedom for Muslims abroad while denying the same freedoms to others at home.

The double standard needs to be called out.

[Chisom Agbafor @ChisomAgbafor]

The Nigerian government has done something impressive.

They have convinced millions of people that struggling to eat, struggling to pay rent and struggling to survive is a personal failure instead of an economic one.

That's genius.

[Chukwuedozie Nwa Charlie @TheCharlesIsidi]

By the way, if you scored 150 in JAMB in my day, you didn’t even say it, you just pretended like they didn’t release your result.

[Fakaika🦅🇵🇹 @Faksback666]

Secondary school management now have a problem with baggy trousers,they’re telling students to slim fit it 😂😂

This is proof that teachers are just haters of things that’s considered “cool”

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

Back at our innovation hub today preparing the kids for their tournament on Saturday.

At the end of the day, this is my greatest real estate and single measure of success. When the noise fades out, I can always return here and just be a teacher.

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

Yes. Fawaz now works with a prestigious fashion brand, Ayomide is completing his degree at Miva university, Jamiu won the United Nations games in New York and will be returning this summer for an internship with @icnnyc

This is my life’s work and promise to every child I meet.

[Vincent The Therapist @mrhighfoster]

He is 31 years old

At nine months old, a failed measles injection by a local nurse caused avascular necrosis, leading to lifelong hip pain and leg weakness until his hip replacement surgery

Four of his siblings died in childhood (likely related to sickle cell trait in the family), making his survival a "statistical miracle"

At age 10, he dropped out of school due to poverty but returned after his mother worked as a cleaner for six years to pay his fees

He learned chess as a kid at a local barber's shop in a Lagos slum while playing video games with friends

Barely spoke English when he started secondary school (mostly Yoruba at home) but quickly picked it up from classmates

His mother was a petty trader (thrift clothes seller), and his father sold spare parts. They met in a Lagos market

Chess helped him develop a strong photographic memory, which he used to cram for exams and survive without parental allowances

He became Nigeria's No 13 ranked chess player and earned the National Master title at age 20

He won gold medals representing Yaba College of Technology in the Nigeria Polytechnic Games and the RCCG Chess Championship

He also won the National Friends of Chess Tournament and the Chevron Chess Open

He got a diploma in computer science and used chess winnings to support himself through school

Founded Chess in Slums Africa in September 2018 as a volunteer-driven nonprofit after visiting slums like Majidun

The organization has reached thousands of underprivileged kids, including producing a 10-year-old champion with cerebral palsy

Tunde Onakoya broke the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon (over 60 hours) in Times Square, New York, in 2024

Featured in CNN African Voices for his work

Tunde has a younger brother (two years apart)

He credits chess with saving him from slum poverty and giving him an "intellectual identity"

He once simultaneously won 10 chess games at the DLD Conference in Germany

First African to win the Lideramos Youth Award for Social Impact in Spain.

Won the Corporate Chess Championship in Malawi with a perfect 7/7 score

Tunde dreams of building the world's biggest chess institute in Nigeria
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Tunde Onakoya has brought attention to Africa through Chess.

He started teaching chess at a younger age to children.

I'm talking of around 2013/2014 when he was meeting at parks around Lagos State, just to teach kids in the open (mostly after work hours)
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Today, I am more interested in telling you more about him, and how he has also risen from a place of deep poverty and struggles.

He has done soooo much for people and it's only expected that these past impacts would show on him as well

You might have your reservations about him, but you cannot downplay how he used the game of chess to bring great changes to children's lives.
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A lot of children now have access to education, purpose and meaning, thanks to Chess.

You are also part of his story. Tunde didn't do all these alone.

Your support, your accolades, your retweet, your reposts, everything

So look at the bigger picture.

Think of the kids whose lives have changed from taking alcohols and drugs on the streets of slums, to having regulated mental health and more purpose driven lives, due to Chess and the opportunity it brought.
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Tunde can't certainly please everyone, and yes, there might be actions that many people would attribute to him being human.

But if children would smile again, because he created an opportunity for them to have their smiles again.... Then it's one of the best legacies anyone can ever have.

And you also can create your own legacy to which nations would applaud, recognise and help preserve 🫂

The sky is big enough for you, I and Tunde to shine and shine bountifully well ❤️
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✍️ Vincent the Therapist

[Daniel Regha @DanielRegha]

Visa fees should be after visas have been approved, or at least refund the payment upon rejection.

It's only right. If you don't want someone in your country, DON'T TAKE THEIR MONEY.

[EgoKuwait 🇰🇼 @Egokuwait]

Pidgin is not Razz

Pidgin is not Razz

Pidgin is not Razz

Pidgin is not Razz

Pidgin is not Razz

[Ivy🔻 @surrviiver]

yall couldn't even handle different skin colours bfr

[YOM🗣️ @ThaBoyYom]

Divorce glow! 💅 💅

Married Divorcee

[Iveomachukwu @iphy_chidozie]

What makes this ‘Date cancelled’ trend funnier is the fact that these men are not making the tweets up.
Women tweeted those things. The men only changed the Nouns and Pronouns.
Actual humans (ladies) tweeted those things.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

You're not the step mother. You're the mother that stepped up.

A Queen I stan.

[🌹M.A.D.D.Y🌹 @amadaoffor]

Thisssss!

Remove Pidgin, remove Yoruba, remove Igbo, Ibibio, Ijaw, and let's hold conversations in plain English because Nigeria isn't a country with 500 languages and 371 tribes.

[Bayomi @SemudaraAbayomi]

Unilag Math: Students are paying 1m,2m for accommodation outside school. Let’s charge them 950k. Even though this was built with tax payers money.

[🌹M.A.D.D.Y🌹 @amadaoffor]

There is a satirical gender war ongoing where men are mocking women's financial incompetence and borderline stupidity, and your solution to it is... THIS??????

[N’wa Mucanyi 🫶🏾 @KhananiShingan1]

You finally start making middle class money but it’s 2026, not 2014 and there isn’t a middle class anymore . You’re either rich or poor 🤣🤣

[Bayomi @SemudaraAbayomi]

They made sure all the sets that knew what SUG was graduated 🤣🤣🤣

[Hauwa 🌟🌬 @Hauwa_L]

Rehabilitation for bandit. Prison for students that protest. Best in country. 👍🏾