Obi Onyeigwe

Multidisciplinary Peacebuilder, Interfaith facilitator, Global Health, Gender Advocate, Board Member IDVRM|Disruptive Development|Lobisti & Welcome AfricaWriter

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

At 5, Aisosa Agbon-Ifo became Nigeria's youngest STEM Olympiad gold medalist. 🏆

Now at 6, he has secured back-to-back victories by winning the 2026 Grade 2 category.

Academic excellence >>>>>>>

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Lagos is flooding again.

We have UNILAG, LASU, Pan-Atlantic University, thousands of engineering students, and hundreds of PhDs.

Where are the practical engineering solutions?

What exactly is the purpose of an engineering degree if our biggest engineering problems remain unsolved?

Are our universities producing problem-solvers or just issuing certificates?

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Educare received this special recognition from the International STEM Olympiad, Rome.

We will continue to build the right technology that powers education and also support our children to shine on global stages.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Students from other countries are arriving for the Grand Finale of the International STEM Olympiad.

This is way bigger than I thought.

Our boys will win the gold medals regardless.

[AfiaTvOfficial @AfiaTvOfficial]

The countdown is over!

Ahead of the 9:00 AM Science & Mathematics Olympiad, Afia TV caught up with Team South East over breakfast to hear how they're feeling before the competition.

Stay with us for live updates, interviews, and reactions as events unfold.

#ScienceOlympiad

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The competition is tomorrow, and the boys are ready.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Today in Rome, I could see different government delegates from other countries, including China and Singapore, right here to support their students for International STEM Olympiad.

No single government delegate from Nigeria.

Is this how much our government abhors education?

[Obi Onyeigwe @ObiPodo]

@winexviv Wishing the boys a great and grand outing as they compete and become victorious as winners 1st,2nd and 3rd. Go boys...all eyes on you!

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

By 2036, the South East should produce Africa’s strongest pipeline of engineers, builders, teachers, nurses, doctors, technicians, founders, AI workers, and globally employable professionals.

The South East must make intelligence socially prestigious again.

Any society that allows children to cheat in exams is manufacturing future incompetence.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

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

[Obi Onyeigwe @ObiPodo]

@nwanyi_ocha Nnem ijiya!

[Obi Onyeigwe @ObiPodo]

@Japa_Queen Nne! Are you considering contesting for any post come 2027? Think about it and you will be supported.

[Obi Onyeigwe @ObiPodo]

@winexviv @IsioguFrankie In fact I'm in Abuja, because of this I'm going to open a sterling bank account sharply.

[Obi Onyeigwe @ObiPodo]

@SamAmadi Indeed I agree with you De Sam, interesting to note that this quote was a major text of our Sunday school reading studies last Sunday. Topic: Hard work. We looked at difference between hard work and smart work. What a coincidence Sir.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Now a Disgraced Country Indeed

Today, as the world marks World Health Day, we must pause for honest reflection.

Nigeria, a nation of over 200 million people, continues to grapple with one of the weakest healthcare systems in the world. Our primary healthcare structure is almost comatose. We now record worse infant mortality outcomes than India, a country with a larger population, while health insurance coverage in Nigeria remains below 5%. These are not just statistics; they are a painful indictment of our priorities.

Recent disclosures by the Honourable Minister of Health show that out of the ₦218 billion appropriated for healthcare capital expenditure, only about ₦36 million has been released. This is deeply troubling.

At the same time, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has projected over ₦135 billion for legal expenditures.

Let us reflect on this.

The amount earmarked for election-related litigation is far higher than what has been made available for primary healthcare, the very foundation of a nation’s wellbeing. This is the same primary healthcare system expected to serve millions of Nigerians and support critical institutions such as:

1. University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City

2. University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar

3. University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada

4. University College Hospital, Ibadan

5. Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife

6. University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin

7. Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua

8. University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu

9. Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos

10. Aminu Kano University Teaching Hospital, Kano

11. Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos

12. University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri

13. Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, Nnewi

14. University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt

15. Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto

16. University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo

17. Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria

18. Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki

19. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi

20. Federal Medical Centre, Yola

These institutions represent hope for millions. Yet, they remain underfunded, overstretched, and burdened by systemic neglect.

A nation that prepares more for electoral disputes than for the health of its citizens is a nation that has lost its way.

We must begin to ask the difficult but necessary questions: What are our true priorities? What kind of nation are we building? And for whom?

Healthcare and education are not optional; they are the foundation of national development. Any country that neglects them undermines its own future.

Nigeria must urgently reorder its priorities. We must invest in the health and wellbeing of our people, strengthen our institutions, and build a system that works for all, not just a few.

A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Obi Onyeigwe @ObiPodo]

For those in the U.S.A start calling the White House

[Mike Arnold @MikeArnoldTruth]

A Letter from a Blanco Home Office
Or: What $9 Million Bought Today

I am writing this from a small home office in the Texas Hill Country. No marble columns. No mahogany conference tables. No staff. Just a desk, a calling, and sixteen trips to one of the most dangerous places on earth — where I have buried friends, built schools for children the government pretends don't exist, and carried the testimony of survivors that the powerful have spent fortunes to silence.

Today, they tried again.

A congressional briefing on the Nigerian Christian genocide — organized by a coalition of advocates, eyewitnesses, and people of conscience, convened at the personal initiative of Ambassador Sam Brownback — was cancelled. Not because the witnesses weren't ready. Not because the evidence wasn't overwhelming. Not because the cause wasn't just.

It was cancelled because I was on the speaker list.

Out of an entire panel, they singled out one man. The one man whose name has been invoked by spokesmen for President Tinubu. The one man the Sultan's circle has felt compelled to respond to. The one man Sheikh Gumi — spiritual advisor to the underwear bomber, banned from Saudi Arabia for being too radical — has posted about repeatedly. The one man they flew business class to Abuja, rolled out the red carpet for, and tried to turn into their stooge.

The one man who walked into their press conference and indicted them instead.

I have been here before. Not in these circumstances, but in this place — the place where the enemy overplays his hand and thinks he has won. Where the room gets cancelled and the powerful smile and the machinery of money and influence exhales with relief. Where the controversial voice gets removed and the managed narrative moves forward unopposed.

They do not understand what they have done.

They did not cancel a briefing today. They baptized a movement.

The Nigerian government and its allies have spent more than $9 million in Washington since October — four registered lobbying firms, former Trump advisors, Republican insiders, and ecumenical NGO operators with conflicted leadership — all deployed to soften the language, manage the narrative, and silence the voices that have actually been in the camps, walked the killing fields, and carried the testimony of the survivors. First they removed the words "Christian Genocide" from the briefing title. Then they tried to remove me. When that failed — when the coalition held — they cancelled the entire briefing rather than allow the truth to be heard in a room on Capitol Hill.

Let that land.

They would rather cancel a congressional briefing on Christian genocide than allow one witness to speak.

But here is what $9 million cannot buy and what no lobbying firm can manufacture: a coalition of Nigerians and Americans — bloodied, educated, and wide awake — who just watched the mask come off in real time. Who heard the cancellation notice and responded not with despair but with prayer. Who are not demoralized but unified. Not silenced but clarified. Not retreating but advancing — with a ferocity and a focus that did not exist this morning.

They thought they were cancelling a briefing. They were lighting a fire.

I think of the men and women who have walked this road before. Who wrote their most powerful words not from platforms of triumph but from cells, from exile, from the margins where the powerful put those they cannot refuse to control. Who understood that the attempt to silence truth is itself the loudest possible confirmation that truth has found its mark.

I am not comparing my sacrifice to theirs. I am simply noting the pattern. The pattern that says: when they cancel the room, you build a bigger one. When they pull the platform, you find higher ground. When they spend $9 million to manage the narrative, you tell the truth for free to 200,000 people and let God sort out the math.

They should have learned in Abuja. The harder you try to suppress a truth, the more explosive it is when it finally comes out.

We are going to Washington anyway. The briefing will go on — perhaps smaller in size, but I believe greater in impact. The witnesses are ready. The evidence is documented. The FARA filings are public record. The lobbying contracts are filed with the Department of Justice. The cancellation notice is timestamped. And a pastor in London has footage of people collecting pounds sterling to rally for Tinubu outside 10 Downing Street on the same day his government's lobbyists were cancelling our briefing in Washington.

It is all connected. And now the whole coalition knows it.

To the people of Nigeria — the displaced, the bereaved, the survivors living in camps your government pretends don't exist — I want you to know that today, a room full of your advocates hit their knees and lifted their voices and refused to be moved. They are coming. We are coming. Not with $9 million. With testimony, and scars, and the truth that no amount of money has ever been able to permanently silence.

To Washington — we are on our way.

To Aso Rock — you have not cancelled a briefing. You have confirmed our case.

To the God who called this movement into existence and has sustained it through every attempt to extinguish it — we trust you. We have never trusted anything else.

Now here is what I need from you.

Don't call your congressman. They don't care. Many of them are bought and paid for by the same machine that cancelled this briefing today.

Call the White House instead. President Trump doesn't need a spineless, conflicted congress to do the right thing. He has already designated Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern. He has already ordered strikes against ISWAP. He already knows what is happening to Christians in Nigeria. He just needs to hear from you — from the 200,000 of you who have been watching, praying, and standing — that the time for half measures is over.

Call 202-456-1111. Tell them the Nigerian government spent $9 million to cancel a congressional briefing on Christian genocide.

Tell them it didn't work. Tell them the truth is coming to Washington anyway.

This time, let's shake the earth together.

Rise.
#EarthShaker

[Obi Onyeigwe @ObiPodo]

@winexviv Chukwu emena!

[Obi Onyeigwe @ObiPodo]

@Doctor_Chichi Hi Dr. Chi

[Somto Okonkwo @General_Somto]

“I Entered a FREE Government Bus In Abia And Didn’t Expect This Song. Dear Governor Alex Otti, This Was Recorded On a Free Abia State Bus Today. The People Are Grateful.” ~ Lady

[Obi Onyeigwe @ObiPodo]

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