iyiola

Just a Regular guy on regular trips, medic and more

[Joseph A @Brochacho_Kun]

@AnimexTwts Where is Fate Strange Fake? No love for this show?

[iyiola @_Iyiola_]

Fate strange fake is the best anime released this year ! , so far.

[iyiola @_Iyiola_]

A lot of people are actually sleeping in the fate series

[Anime Aesthetics @anime_]

Fate/Zero (2012) vs Fate Strange Fake

[iyiola @_Iyiola_]

@CollinRugg 3rd world country behavior

[Lady A. @Ayo_ln]

Living in answered prayers ❤️

[iyiola @_Iyiola_]

@Ayo_ln @theomotoyosi_ Congratulations odunayo !!

[iyiola @_Iyiola_]

@kusssman On the contrary, wires earphones make my phone fall by catching onto things

[iyiola @_Iyiola_]

✋🏾

[S’ne @Sienethemba]

If you got through today without completely losing your sht. Send me a high 🖐🏾

[Chess.com @chesscom]

16 chess pieces or 1 gorilla?

[Manchester City @ManCity]

A KDB wonderstrike 🚀🤯

On this day in 2018 🗓️

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

The One Who Wears Big Caps for Little Children.

These are my final thoughts before I hand over my phone to management. The team says I need to sleep.
But before the world goes quiet around me, allow me say a few things…

It’s my second time doing this insane thing of trying to break a world record.
You’d think it would be easier now,after all I’ve done it before. But that’s the thing about impossible things:
The first time, you survive them because you don’t yet understand the cost.
Now that I’m fully aware of the exertion it takes both physically and mentally, I’m equal parts excited and terrified. I embrace both.

Today I’ll tell you why I always wear a cap…

The night before I left Nigeria for this journey, something happened.

It was 9pm on a Tuesday night.
I was at the mall picking up some last-minute items.
Two boys, scruffy and barefoot approached me at the car park.
They were hungry and hadn’t eaten all day.
I asked their names.
“Yusuff,” said one. “Ayomide,” said the other. Both young teenagers.
As I turned to check for cash in the car, the light hit my face and Yusuff immediately recognized me and blurted out “Chess players observe,”
I was stunned.
That was our mantra at Chess in Slums, it was what we taught the kids. I asked how he knew this, he explained that he had seen me months prior at their ghetto.
This made sense as we had spent the entire month of December teaching chess and maths to street children in that ghetto. Yusuff wasn’t part of the training but on the day of the final tournament, he watched from a distance as the other kids chanted “chess players observe”. It stayed with him ever since.

He told me his story.
His mother died during childbirth. His father disappeared.
He lived with his ailing grandmother for sometime but had to leave for the streets to fend for himself. It’s been five years of trying to survive in his own
Five years of growing up too fast…He is 15 years old now.

Then, something surreal happened.

A white Range Rover pulled up beside us.
A woman rolled down the window, “Chess master!” she called out.
She stepped out with her son Jayden.
Impeccably dressed. British accent.
She wanted a photo. Jayden loves chess.
She’s a fan.

So there they stood, Jayden and Yusuff.
Both teenagers.
One in branded sneakers. The other barefoot.
One polished by privilege. The other hardened by survival.

As I asked them to introduce themselves,
Yusuff’s confidence crumbled.
He looked down. His voice faltered.

I took a selfie with Jayden and his Mum, and as they drove off I had my epiphany….

And in that moment, I saw it:
The cruel reality of the world we live in
where a boy like Jayden and a boy like Yusuff would never meet
except by accident or because I happened to stand between them.

But what separated them wasn’t merit or character, It was birth. The arbitrary lottery that decides who gets to dream,
and who must survive.

Jayden will likely go on to attend the best schools, see the world, and live fully. While
Yusuff probably ends up doing the bidding of whoever can promise him his next meal.
An Area boy.

I have met thousands of bright eyed children like Yusuffs in this life, whose pain is invisible, and by no fault of theirs live in a world where their suffering doesn’t matter.
Sometimes, we save them.
Sometimes, we fail.
But I will never stop carrying this burden in my heart.

This is why I wear big caps for little children and wear one my self.
So the world may see them in all their colors, not for the suffering they bear,
but for what I know they can truly become.

I hope have shared this burden with you as honestly as I could.
If you ever believed in me, believe in them.
Cheer for them. Donate. Share. Amplify.
We are trying to build the largest free school in Africa.
A sanctuary for every child like Yusuff
where their dreams won’t die quietly.

I do this so their dreams may find validation in my sacrifice.

I have to go now, big day ahead. Gotta make it count.

[iyiola @_Iyiola_]

Are they really one with such big smiles and full teeth 😅😅😅

[iyiola @_Iyiola_]

Love death + robots and black mirror in may…. Sweeet

[Netflix @netflix]

LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS
VOLUME F***
MAY 15

[iyiola @_Iyiola_]

Subtle jab at @DavidHundeyin ??

[Gospel Rap Unheard🎧 @SirVicMusic]

@DavidHundeyin Yesterday, I told my wife that the most important thing I want my children to have is the ability to think critically. Always take a step back and think 360° before any action or words.

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

Back in 2011, I gained admission into Lagos state University to study medicine and surgery, but it was the same year they increased the tuition from 25k to 250k. Had to forfeit as my parents could not afford it.

Today, I'm a @TEDx speaker at the same university 😊.

[iyiola @_Iyiola_]

Rid she just wipe that syringe on her gloves 🤯

[iyiola @_Iyiola_]

@ola__liam A sterling ring shouldnt be that expensive IMO, but you got what you asked for and boz is 100% free of wrong doing here.

[tao te chic @taotechic]

if I have children, I will show them an athlete’s mindset first, an artist’s second; how commitment and resilience breathes life into vision and ideas