I haven't been on twitter today - but someone brought a few of my old tweets to my attention and I can't not address it.
14 years ago, I was 23, so I was definitely not a child. I'm not here to make excuses because I don't have anything to make excuses for. What I can't let anyone do is twist my story to fit false narratives.
In 2012, I lived and helped out at my mom's daycare while I was hustling my music. I tweeted everything that happened in my life, as we all did at the time. Kids can be mischievous. If a child did something I found funny, I tweeted about it. Kids are cute and lovable. I want to hug, kiss and cuddle them. I tweet about it. Nothing I tweeted was from perversion.
I was not famous, so maybe if I was, I would have understood that anything is open to whatever interpretation including being used falsely by a faceless mob. I've never been depraved in my life. You can retweet all the tweets in the world about me loudly crushing on people I admire/d. Or being a cheeky young woman. I wasn't trying to hide it, because I don't have anything to hide.
My team has been deleting some of my tweets because of how sensitive it is for my family. To be honest, I did not want to. I have always spoken against rape and sexual assault even before you knew I existed. It's not a costume I'm wearing, it's who I am. I've never claimed to be perfect. I've never claimed to know everything. I said stop raping women. I stand by it.
There is a Christian genocide in Nigeria.
There is a Christian genocide in Nigeria.
There is a Christian genocide in Nigeria.
There is a Christian genocide in Nigeria.
There is a Christian genocide in Nigeria.
There is a Christian genocide in Nigeria.
Please RT. 🙏🏾💔
There is a genocide happening in Nigeria.
There is a genocide happening in Nigeria.
There is a genocide happening in Nigeria.
There is a genocide happening in Nigeria.
There is a genocide happening in Nigeria.
There is a genocide happening in Nigeria.
RT.
Solomon please I beg you,
Don’t do this to your child.
I’m writing this publicly as an appeal to you and other young parents out there. Pls read this to the end and kindly indulge me.
First of all, let us make something clear:
There is NO verifiable medical link between childhood vaccines and autism. Absolutely NONE. What you are quoting are largely incomplete stories and rumours that have no scientific evidence.
So, let’s do a little deep dive:
Where did the idea that vaccines cause autism start from? Much of this came from 1 particular study published in 1998 that suggested MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine might cause autism.
Since 1998 till now, many multiple scientific studies have shown there is ZERO link between vaccines (or any of their ingredients) and autism. Vaccines do NOT cause autism in anybody. This is the actual medical fact.
Also, it may interest you to know that the research used in that 1998 study was found to be false and misleading. The doctor who led the misleading research lost his medical license, and the medical journal (Lancet) that published it retracted and removed the research paper stating that they believe it never should have been published in the first place. Lancet is one of the world’s oldest and most respected medical journals in the whole world.
When you are less busy, google the name “Andrew Jeremy Wakefield”- he is a well known, disgraced British fraudster who was kicked off the medical profession for his misleading false research linking autism to vaccines.
Vaccine-preventable diseases are very serious and if a child is not vaccinated, that child can develop the disease and could die. If a child develops measles or rubella, and that child is unvaccinated, the child can die.
Before global vaccination programs, measles was killing about 2.6million kids every year https://t.co/TnQTogCPNk
But with vaccines, barely 100,000 kids die every year- mostly in poor countries.
To put this in perspective,
1 in 5,000 kids can die from measles in uk while in poor countries 1 in 100 kids die from measles, this is the massive difference that vaccination makes for a child.
Two doses of MMR vaccine are 97% effective at preventing measles, 1 dose is 93% effective. It is uncommon for someone fully vaccinated to develop measles. These are the medical facts. https://t.co/qKBeAUXVXH
Sorry it’s a long read.
But I have taken the pain to write this because in my medical practice as a family physician, I have seen parents make this dangerous decision to withhold vaccines from their child and that child developed measles and end up in a serious medical emergency including death.
I hope this has helped.
Please 🙏🏿 for the audience, if you read this and run into this post by chance, please help retweet to save the life of a little child and help educate the parent.
Thank you!
INNA LILLAHI WA INNA ILAIHIR RAJI’UN.
The family of the former president has announced the passing on of the former president, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, this afternoon in a clinic in London.
May Allah accept him in Aljannatul Firdaus, Amin.
Signed,
Garba Shehu
13-07-25.