Banjo, Damilola

Investigative Journalist || 🎖️Emmy nominee || 🎓 @columbiajourn || Building @karahousemedia || ✍️ @pass_blue || Arit Okpo stan account.

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

#FreeDanielOjukwu

Today, @Mazi_OJD’s rights have once again come under attack for following public money and asking questions about how it was spent.

@Mazi_OJD is an investigative journalist with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) and a 2023 participant in BudgIT’s GovSpend Media Fellowship, an initiative designed to strengthen accountability journalism by equipping journalists to investigate government expenditure and track public funds.

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#Journalismisnotacrime

[Daniel Ojukwu (OJD) @Mazi_OJD]

For God and for country.

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

Mount Sinai Health not only wants to send me back to Lagos but to my village because what in the medical bankruptcy is the bill?

E je ki n ko ere oko dele nah! 😢

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

#FREEDANIELOJUKWUNOW

[HOPE BEHIND BARS AFRICA (Criminal Justice Reforms) @hopebehindbar]

Hope Behind Bars Africa condemns the arrest, prosecution and remand of @fijnigeria investigative journalist Daniel Ojukwu (@Mazi_OJD) at Kuje Correctional Centre. Ojukwu was arraigned on 10 November 2026 on 12 counts of alleged cyberstalking and criminal defamation arising from investigative reports on public expenditure and government contracts and will be kept till December 1 before his bail is heard.
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#FreeDanielOjukwu #ProtectPressFreedom

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

This is outrageous!!! Journalism is never a crime. There’s no reason for Daniel to be held in custody for 21 days. He could have been granted administrative bail.

[Premium Times @PremiumTimesng]

Court remands FIJ journalist Daniel Ojukwu over 2023 reports about presidential aide

https://t.co/6liY1Xu1Zp

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

One thing I’d like to see dismantled is the penholder-ship in the Security Council. Colonial paternalism is written all over it. The excuse for it is irrational and an adamant cling to “how it’s done”. Countries and territories have people capable to discuss their issues.

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

This is no way for anyone to live. Wasting your entire 20s and 30s hoping from visa to visa keeps you behind your global contemporaries.

Nigeria really needs to work but I can’t even hold my breath on that one.

[💖+💡 @chi_quiero]

Just to encourage someone.

When we came, on a student visa (almost 2 decades ago) the route to ILR, for so many, was 10 years. Getting any company to sponsor you if you weren't in the health sector (Dr,nurse,etc) was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

When our student visa ran out,my husband jumped on the post-study work visa(he was the last set before they discontinued it for a while).

The difference btw then and now is that the 10years route then wasn't straightforward. While you are just applying to renew on the same visa category you are already on, then we had to find what visa to jump onto once the one you were on was running out.

So after the post-study work ran out, we had to jump on the entrepreneur visa. We did that for another three years and it ran out.

After that we had to jump again into a student visa(payinginternationalschool fees for another two years). It was while on this visa that we qualified for ILR.

You can imagine how much in fees we had to part with for our family. I don't even want to mention how much that entrepreneur visa cost us.

But,in the end,we got there. And we are recovering.

All the years we spent working for visa fees,we have our passport now and we are recovering.

I know it look gloomy now but 10years will come and it'll go and you will achieve the goal that brought you,then you'll begin to recover.

It's heartbreaking, I know, but as long as they don't change the rules again in the coming years,there's a silver lining.

You'll all be fine.

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

You’re proudly Nigerian, then a nincompoop masquerading as a pastor publicly opens his mouth and shame wears you like a trench coat on a bitter winter evening.

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

I’m all for women having a firm handshake but now you’re drilling my ring into my fingers. 🤣😢

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

@KunleAdebajo That should be a lone walk. Do take water and Imodium with you sha. 😄

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

@116Olivia All of you sound like CNA. Now I know where that comes from.

[ADESOLA ABISOYE @oloyenaija1]

'WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU MAKES YOU STRONGER, BUT THIS ONE WEAK ME MAKE I NO LIE'.

Spent some days on field trying to tell a mysterious story-- one that raises curiosity.

Behind this single docu-story (out this week) lies emotions, humanity, risk and then daring decisions.

[PassBlue @pass_blue]

Europe Seeks a Lasting UN Security Council Role on AI https://t.co/KEnRrgYXRk

[Premium Times @PremiumTimesng]

INVESTIGATION: How Anthony Kila falsified all his academic qualifications – from Bachelor’s to Doctorate
https://t.co/rFSn2Rq7PL

[Binaifer Nowrojee @NowrojeeOSF]

As the first woman to lead @OpenSociety, it is incredible to me that over 80 years, not a single woman has served as UN secretary-general. 

The world needs one who is visionary, bold, and ready to take this organization into the future.

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

People who went to Columbia vs me who went to Zoom school?

Covid did that one 😢

[Olivia @116Olivia]

Every single day I’m grateful I went to Columbia. Top notch people there. Thee best.
Thank you God 🤍

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

@116Olivia Haha!! Sense of humor: 100% 🫡

[Banjo, Damilola @RealBanjo]

Olivia the cook 😄@116Olivia

[PassBlue @pass_blue]

The Ebola Outbreak Shows That the World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic https://t.co/3oCHpJYMSV