Victor Joe Egede

Blockchain, Corporate Law practitioners

[Towolawi Jamiu #EndSarsNow @jharmo]

This video is worth revisiting.

2022: "I will pay WAEC fees for every child."

2026: "Pay ₦50,000 for WAEC."

From promise to burden.

[Victor Joe Egede @VictorJoeEgede2]

@iam_immalove ,

[Ajayi Oluwatobi @OluwatobiAjayiJ]

I want to share a story. I have probably only told one or two people before.

It was 2019. I was building Nord, I owned 100% at this time, and I had to go to China because some of our important suppliers needed to see me and discuss the way forward. I had spent months selling my dream to them, yet there was still no significant order. I had to fly to China to buy more time. However, I did not have enough money. I was very low on cash. Yet I knew that if I did not go on that trip, the suppliers would see me as unserious and the company would slowly just collapse.

I have a good friend who has always been inspired by what I do and my accomplishments. He expressed interest in investing in Nord and I suggested that we visit the suppliers in China together. My plan was simple. I would pay for my flight and we would share a room where he would cover most of the room cost, while I showed him what we could do with our supply chain.

He lives in London and I live in Nigeria. We were supposed to fly and land almost at the same time, although he was scheduled to arrive a few hours before me.
A few hours before his flight, he called me to say he could not make it because of a logistical mix up. He told me last year, in 2025, that he actually had a serious medical emergency and might have died if he had not been in the UK where he was comfortable and had access to care.

At the time, I did not know this. He did not tell me it was that serious. I simply felt he had abandoned me once the scale of the investment became obvious to him. Still, I was kind on the phone and told him it was okay. He remembered that.

My already difficult but important trip suddenly became much more difficult, but I knew I still had to go.

I flew to China and landed alone.

We had initially planned to stay in a $100 per night room which we would share. Of course, I could not stay in a $100 per night room with my budget anymore, so I told my Chinese partner and friend to find me a really cheap hotel that was still close to town.

He took me to one hotel that had a horrible smell. It was going for $25 per night. I was going to take it until I saw that the toilet was a pit toilet.

I said, “No, e never bad like this.”

I asked him to find me a hotel with a normal toilet. He took me to another one. The smell was ok, it looked neat, and it had a normal WC. It was $40 per night. I took it.

I stayed a few days in Guangzhou, then took trains to other cities where my suppliers were located, staying in hotels that cost about $35 to $40 per night.

A few days before my return, I had to visit an important supplier in a city that required a flight. I had to call Nigeria and asked that they send me some change I put somewhere. I think about $150 was sent through Western U. I used it to buy the flight ticket, attended the meeting, and then returned to Guangzhou for the last two days.

When I landed back in Guangzhou, I had almost no money left. I probably had the equivalent of about $5. It could not buy anything meaningful, but I kept it just to convince myself mentally that I was not completely at zero.

Psychologically, I was very low.

The hotel had complimentary breakfast. That was what I would eat in the morning, and then I would go the entire day without eating. I would drink water all day and go for my meetings while my Chinese friend drove me around.

He did not know I was that low on cash.

Some days we would get complimentary lunch from the suppliers we visited. On other days, we did not.

I just maintained an outward positive attitude even though I was tired and hungry, honestly I was just waiting for the day of my flight so I could finally return to Nigeria.

On the day of the flight, my friend found a way to get me to the airport (that is a story for another day, as that was the day he suspected I was really low on cash).
As usual, I had eaten only breakfast, and the flight was at 00:50 am. I was hungry and tired, I could not buy anything while we waited to board.

[Ajayi Oluwatobi @OluwatobiAjayiJ]

As I entered the plane, I asked the air hostess for some juice because I felt like I might collapse. I drank the juice, and a few hours later the meals were served. Eventually, I landed in Nigeria via Dubai.

I remembered this story recently because of the situation in the Middle East.
I began to think about what would have happened if, at that time, I was stranded in Guangzhou with almost no money, just waiting to finish my meetings and catch my Emirates flight back to Nigeria, only to hear that flights had been cancelled because a war had started.

It would have been devastating.

I honestly do not even want to imagine how much that could have affected me at that time.

May God never give us more tribulations than our capacity can handle.

Today, although I am in Nigeria, I am supposed to travel to China this weekend with five members of my team. We had booked Qatar Airways, but since Qatar could not go, I simply told the team to book all of us on another airline.

We have come a long way, God is great.

[Victor Joe Egede @VictorJoeEgede2]

This is a good start, May the president succeed.

[Daddy D.O🇳🇬 @DOlusegun]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated General Christopher Gwabin Musa as the new Minister of Defence.

In a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, President Tinubu conveyed General Musa's nomination as the successor to Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, who resigned on Monday.

General Musa, 58, on December 25, is a distinguished soldier who served as Chief of Defence Staff from 2023 until October 2025. He won the Colin Powell Award for Soldiering in 2012.

Born in Sokoto in 1967, General Musa received his primary and secondary education there before attending the College of Advanced Studies in Zaria. He graduated in 1986 and enrolled at the Nigerian Defence Academy the same year, earning a Bachelor of Science degree upon graduation in 1991.

General Musa was commissioned into the Nigerian Army as a Second Lieutenant in 1991 and has since had a distinguished career. His appointments include General Staff Officer 1, Training/Operations at HQ 81 Division; Commanding Officer, 73 Battalion; Assistant Director, Operational Requirements, Department of Army Policy and Plans; and Infantry Representative/Member, Training Team, HQ Nigerian Army Armour Corps.

In 2019, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff, Training/Operations, Headquarters Infantry Centre and Corps; Commander, Sector 3, Operation Lafiya Dole; and Commander, Sector 3 Multinational Joint Task Force in the Lake Chad Region.

In 2021, General Musa was appointed Theatre Commander, Operation Hadin Kai. He later became Commander of the Nigerian Army Infantry Corps before being appointed Chief of Defence Staff by President Tinubu in 2023.

In the letter to the Senate, President Tinubu expressed confidence in General Musa's ability to lead the Ministry of Defence and further strengthen Nigeria's security architecture.

Bayo Onanuga
Special Adviser to the President,
(Information and Strategy)
December 2, 2025

[BITCOIN CHIEF (AKA OMA JI EGO) @gaiuschibueze]

Stop donating to local terrorists and others destroying Ala Igbo. Chief Gaius Chibueze tells Ndi Igbo at the World Igbo Congress Convention in Boston.

To make Ala Igbo great again, we must reject those who want to destroy it.

@MAIGAmovement

[Baddy of Lagos 👑 @_belikebaddy]

I’ve really had a hard time believing that this is going to be a reality but I have faith, please support me by retweeting this.. God bless you ❤️

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Nigeria has a wonderful tech infrastructure opportunity that may not repeat itself soon with @bosuntijani as minister. We finally have someone from the tech space in charge of the ministry that regulates telcos and ISPs. This is the time we should be building more data centers.

[POOR MAN PIKIN @starboyfendi]

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[BITCOIN CHIEF (AKA OMA JI EGO) @gaiuschibueze]

I proposed our Public Ranch Rental System at @ohanaezefarm to Gov. @PNMbah months ago to help solve the Fulani herdsmen/farmers crisis in Enugu state. No reply yet which is typical of the govt culture in Nigeria.
So I’m putting it here and wishing the killings stop in our state!

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

I’ll say a few things…

1. The anger, the hate, the love, the applause, the criticism, all of it is valid and I embrace it.
2. I am a world record holder which means I have attained something no one else in the world has ever done. I was recently honored and awarded by the city of New York.
To be honored and received by the President and the highest office in my own country for this reason is not a crime. (It is not even a national honor by the way).

I have declined many awards.

Comparing me to people who have received awards and recognition from countries that have committed war crimes is at best laughable.

3. I have no interest in partisan politics because of the sensitivity of the work that I do. If that ever changes, then I would resign my role as CEO of chess in slums Africa.

4. The rhetoric that Chess in slums only exists or is relevant because of bad governance is not accurate. The real impact of our work is in the synapses. We’re using chess as a tool to teach cognition and improve academic outcomes. Using it as a social intervention tool is because those children have fallen through the cracks and cannot make it to the classrooms. This is not charity or “NGO”. What most of you measure as the most tangible impact is we just dignifying the stories of the children you see all the time on the streets but pay no attention to. The real impact here is ensuring they have the critical capacity to think for themselves and putting them through formal or vocational education.
I continue to consult with educational institutions and tech companies around the world, so my work will always be relevant and whatever resource or influence that gives me, I will use all of it to serve the children who deserve a place in the world as well.

5. A visit is not an endorsement. I will visit many more people and will continue to sell my chess boards.

6. You may not understand my intentions or character because the only thing you know about me is what I let on social media. But reputation is not character.
It’s been 10 long years of staying with this one thing, so I know for a fact that I have earned the benefit of the doubt.

7. Again, I embrace the love and the hate. But I care for none of it.
In a decade or two, the Chess/STEM institute will stand and it will be a place where thousands of children will dream again and be educated in a way that makes them valuable to the world.
All the strong opinions we have now falls flat in the face of this.

8. Finally, I appreciate everyone who has ever supported the incredible work we’ve done in the last 7 years. We have never applied or received any international grants in this time.

9. We’ve been working with the Lagos state government for about a year now to take kids from Jakande and Isale Eko off the streets. One of them recently graduated from furniture school and is living again. Our collective hurt is valid and we may disagree on politics but there are actual lives at stake and we all have a role to play in whatever capacity to stop this hemorrhage. Yes we will partner with the government to scale this impact and institutionalize it so Tunde stops being the hero of the story. It’s your tax anyway.

10. Finally I’d say this, My fight is different.
I’m not on the fence. I took a stand 10 years ago for the country I want to see.
The truth is I will do many more things that may challenge your perception of me, but I know my heart is in the right place and whatever rooms my vision gives me access to, I will put the dreams and needs of the children first.

I live for the audience of one, and that is enough.

-Tunde Onakoya

[OPEOLUWA 😎😎 @OpeBee]

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[The Guardian Nigeria @GuardianNigeria]

Cardinal Onaiyekan criticizes Tinubu's administration, saying Nigerians' living standards have significantly declined over the past two years.

https://t.co/yP2ibimim4

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Only someone who sees life in a linear form will look at Olamide’s career at anytime since 2010 and say he was stagnant. Olamide has done more for others than he has for himself. That is the sort of greatness many cannot touch.

A lot of greats continue to chase the past, because in that time frame, they were the in-thing; they were the go to stars. Life though calls upon them to evolve and layer up.

Olamide has managed to blend and blur, present and future, by staying atop his game as an artist, building an enduring platform to create stars and projecting possibilities for the future we can’t even begin to imagine. If that’s stagnation, then stagnation is greatness in this form.