Alawa Augustine

Software Developer || AIESECer💙

[Alawa Augustine @Agladima_]

Started in September 2023.
Graduated in June 2026 @UoPeople 🎓
Worked, studied, struggled, and kept going.
Worth every moment.
Onwards. 🚀

[Alawa Augustine @Agladima_]

The end of my journey as a Frontend Developer on the Entity Support Team (EST) at @AIESECinNigeria

More than code, I learned collaboration, ownership, and how to build products that create impact.

Grateful for the experience and everyone I worked with. On to the next chapter.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The most useful political statement I have ever read was this simple quote from Chairman Mao: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".

Everything else is just a series of fantasies and illusions that people sell themselves so they can sleep well at night. Whatever style of government you pretend to have, it is always underwritten by men with guns, and its stability always ultimately comes down to what the men with guns choose to do.

Your "democracy" is a children's fairy tale you tell yourself to make the world more palatable - it is men with guns that enforce and implement decisions, and it is men with guns that will escort you into a police car, a courtroom or a prison if you choose not to obey whatever instruction you have received.

Your "theocracy" is a lie because God has no power to make you do anything without the men with guns making you carry out his will. Mecca and Jerusalem are the 2 allegedly holiest in the world, and they're both filled with men with guns, purportedly carrying out the will of God.

Every type of human society is held together by men with guns. A good society is one where the interests of the men with guns align with those of the people without guns, and a bad society is one where the men with guns live parasitically off the people without guns.

ALL societies are dictatorships of men who control the guns. Some just include a whole lot of extra steps to obfuscate that basic fact. I personally prefer the societies where the men with the guns do not hide their control and their interests align with those who do not have guns.

Growing up is realising that "democracy" is like Santa Claus. It's a story told for 5 year-olds to feel involved in the world's decision making. You didn't put Tinubu, Trump or Macron in power with your "vote" you fucking peasant.

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

Shortly after 9/11, the United States launched a covert global campaign against terrorism that operated beyond the boundaries of law. This is an investigation revealing all the secret abductions and prison ran by the CIA and the African governments that collaborated.

[AIESEC in Nigeria @AIESECinNigeria]

Some conversations are too important to miss.

If you're in Calabar, we'd love to have you join us for SafeSpace2.0. Show up, engage with us, and be part of the conversation.

We can't wait to welcome everyone tomorrow💙

[Edache @Uncensored_fr]

Your mental health deserves more than a scroll and a shrug.
Tomorrow, 10am–2pm at CES, UNICAL, Safe Space 2.0 goes physical with doctors, mental health advocates, and speakers for real conversations and real support, not just talk.

Register here: https://t.co/IZkqCbb25z

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Whatever happens in Nigeria, my conscience is clear.

I set myself on fire and nearly lost my life trying to stop this plague from becoming president, and everybody who had the power to help me just stood by and stared.

Now the Israelis are on Arise TV licking their lips.

Well done everyone.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Some people out there genuinely still think that one Bola Tinuboobooroo somewhere is the one making these decisions.

I am tired of explaining what should be obvious to anyone but the world's most hard-headed people...

[gst @wearegst]

Abuja’s flood crisis is by Wike’s design.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

European Parliament Slanders Burkina Faso, The Spearhead Responds

In a June 18, 2026, session, the European Parliament made its latest futile attempt to slander the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso, a government which has given more to the Burkinabé people in the 4 years it has been in power, than the “benevolent” France ever attempted to in its decades lording over its former West African colony.

In this report for The Spearhead, @PanSpear weighs the EU’s latest slander campaign against the facts.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

The Disturbing Reports from Osun State University

I have read with deep concern the troubling reports of soldiers invading students’ hostels at Osun State University, Osogbo, during which students were allegedly assaulted, humiliated, dispossessed of their personal belongings, and female students subjected to degrading treatment, including rape.

Every Nigerian deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. Our Armed Forces are renowned for their courage, discipline, and sacrifice in defending our nation. They are not known for such barbarity against the very citizens they are sworn to protect.

I therefore urge the military high command to conduct a thorough, transparent, and impartial investigation into these allegations. Anyone found culpable should be brought to justice. Holding offending personnel accountable will not only ensure justice for the victims but also preserve the honour and integrity of our Armed Forces while serving as a deterrent against future abuses.

A nation that respects human dignity builds confidence in its institutions. We must never tolerate impunity or the abuse of power.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

When we criticize religious leaders for failing to call out bad leadership, and for extravagant spending on large auditoriums while people suffer from lack of jobs and hospitals, people say we should face the leaders and leave the religious houses out of it because they’re not the government. I agree, they’re not the government. Pastors shouldn’t be held accountable for the lack of good roads, hospitals, or schools for the average person.

But now, tell me, why are these same pastors trying to convince the average person that the work of security is in the hands of God, and that the government has done its best? Are you people not mad like this?

God is not building us hospitals. God has looked away from our bad roads. God seems not to be interested in building factories for us. And, quite frankly, we’re not angry with Him for looking away from all of this, because we have a government that collects our taxes, manages our resources, controls our money, and regulates our trades. That government has access to our national treasury, and all we’re asking of them is to use what we have to build a society where humans can live.

And now you, who have been saying we should leave you alone because you are not that government, are telling us that our security can only be fixed by God? You mean the God who has abandoned our schools, our hospitals, our roads, and has failed to build us a single factory? You mean that God will now go into the bush to rescue the children He watched get kidnapped?

Again, are you people not mad like this?

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Interestingly, one of the worst things about the Nigerian character - bloviating, buffoonish overconfidence - is also a superpower that sets Nigerians apart when it is intentionally harnessed and channelled correctly.

Whenever Nigerians (born and raised in Nigeria) learn how to combine their social confidence with actual intellectual substance and a good amount of self awareness, the world will have a serious problem on its hands.

I believe in my people🙏🏿

[gst @wearegst]

A reminder that the president is YOUR elected official. His job description under Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria explicitly states:

"The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government."

The constitution does not say the primary purpose of government is to issue orders regarding security; it says the primary purpose is to secure the people.

When orders fall short, the immediate next step is:

An administrative overhaul under Section 218(2) of the 1999 Constitution.

Prosecution of confirmed terrorists and funders.

Instead...

The terrorists have been reintegrated into society, and funders are shielded by political bureaucracy and left walking the streets completely free.

Meanwhile, his Attorney General (Lateef Fagbemi, SAN) and the EFCC Chairman (Ola Olukoyede) are still securely in office, protected by low-level conviction statistics.

[Alawa Augustine @Agladima_]

A new Nigeria is POssible

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

My Vision for a Productive and Prosperous Nigeria

Today, being the 1st of July, 2026, I wish to humbly recall that when I decided to contest for the office of President of Nigeria, I pledged to place Nigeria on the path of unity and national transformation. Now, as the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, I will, in the coming weeks and months, provide insights into the roadmap that I am confident will help curb abuse in government, halt the decline in the quality of life of Nigerians at all levels, and usher in an era of unity, peace, sustained progress, and prosperity.

This vision is anchored on a commitment to unity, inclusion, social justice, equity, and the freedom of every citizen to pursue lawful dreams.

Central to this proposed roadmap are significant reforms in education and healthcare, which are at the core of human capital development.

Robust human capital is indispensable infrastructure for national progress. It serves as the fundamental capital upon which daily life, economic expansion, and the delivery of essential public services depend.

These are foundational areas that we must reform with energy and determination if we are to reap the demographic dividend of our youthful population.

From the outset of my presidency, we will establish a task force dedicated to drastically reducing the menace of out-of-school children. We will place greater emphasis on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to support our drive for massive industrialisation, anchored on our agricultural endowments and value addition across value chains organised around industrial parks to be located in development zones across the geopolitical regions of the country.

Funding and improving the equipment of TVET institutions, through partnerships among government, the private sector, and social entrepreneurs such as faith-based educators, will facilitate apprenticeship opportunities in the private sector, similar to the German dual education system.

The situation in which unemployment remains high while Nigerian entrepreneurs establish businesses elsewhere because skilled labour is scarce must be confronted decisively. Doing so is essential for the common good and for facilitating our transition from a consumption-driven economy to a production-driven one.

Character and civic education, emphasising the values that foster trust - an essential ingredient for enterprise and leadership - as well as shared national values, will receive significant attention within the tripartite approach to governance that we propose.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

My Vision for a Productive and Prosperous Nigeria

Today, being the 1st of July, 2026, I wish to humbly recall that when I decided to contest for the office of President of Nigeria, I pledged to place Nigeria on the path of unity and national transformation. Now, as the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, I will, in the coming weeks and months, provide insights into the roadmap that I am confident will help curb abuse in government, halt the decline in the quality of life of Nigerians at all levels, and usher in an era of unity, peace, sustained progress, and prosperity.

This vision is anchored on a commitment to unity, inclusion, social justice, equity, and the freedom of every citizen to pursue lawful dreams.

Central to this proposed roadmap are significant reforms in education and healthcare, which are at the core of human capital development.

Robust human capital is indispensable infrastructure for national progress. It serves as the fundamental capital upon which daily life, economic expansion, and the delivery of essential public services depend.

These are foundational areas that we must reform with energy and determination if we are to reap the demographic dividend of our youthful population.

From the outset of my presidency, we will establish a task force dedicated to drastically reducing the menace of out-of-school children. We will place greater emphasis on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to support our drive for massive industrialisation, anchored on our agricultural endowments and value addition across value chains organised around industrial parks to be located in development zones across the geopolitical regions of the country.

Funding and improving the equipment of TVET institutions, through partnerships among government, the private sector, and social entrepreneurs such as faith-based educators, will facilitate apprenticeship opportunities in the private sector, similar to the German dual education system.

The situation in which unemployment remains high while Nigerian entrepreneurs establish businesses elsewhere because skilled labour is scarce must be confronted decisively. Doing so is essential for the common good and for facilitating our transition from a consumption-driven economy to a production-driven one.

Character and civic education, emphasising the values that foster trust - an essential ingredient for enterprise and leadership - as well as shared national values, will receive significant attention within the tripartite approach to governance that we propose.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This is precisely why I said earlier that I only organise with people who identify primarily as anti-imperialists or Pan Africanists, not those whose primary ideological identity layer is "Marxism."

Not because there is any contradiction between being Marxist and being anti-imperial, but because the usual western suspects have done an excellent job of infiltrating Marxist movements and turning the study of Marxist theory into a religion.

That's why western Marxists and their friends in the Global South cannot point to any example of a successful anti-imperial revolution according to their standards. According to them, China is a capitalist hellhole, Russia is a dirty imperialist, North Korea and Vietnam are elite-dominated, capitalist societies that exploit their working classes, Burkina Faso is a fascist dictatorship that hates gays, and Iran's revolution is not valid because it wasn't organised primarily around Marxist theory.

I can never work with such people. I know this for a fact because we briefly employed one of those idiots at The Spearhead and it turned out that apart from looking down his Marxist nose at everything and everyone for not conforming to his unattainable ideals of "revolution" according to his immense 28 year-old wisdom, he couldn't show up to work on time (when he bothered to show up, which was not often), couldn't deliver work before a deadline, couldn't follow instructions because he thought nobody was qualified to give him instructions, couldn't share space with people because he turned out to be the roommate from Hell, had the world's most obvious drug habit, and when he eventually got fired after taking the piss for 3 months, he stole our Macbook and went back to Uganda with it, then wrote a blogpost boasting about stealing our laptop.

Best of luck "organising" with such people.

[Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso @KwankwasoRM]

I was delighted to welcome my brother and National Leader of our great party, the NDC, His Excellency Henry Seriake Dickson, to my residence in Abuja.

I took the opportunity to brief him on the highly productive engagements and consultations I have undertaken across the North West states, which have yielded very encouraging results.

HE Dickson confirmed the successful submission of my candidacy and also announced that my name has been duly uploaded on the INEC portal as the Vice Presidential candidate to His Excellency Peter Obi on the platform of our party.

We remain steadfast, united, and fully focused on the mission ahead. - RMK

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

There's a whole "Traoré is nothing like Sankara" information war going on.

You can't help but notice things.

[Henry Seriake Dickson @iamHSDickson]

I have just visited and held discussions with our Vice Presidential candidate, His Excellency Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, CON.

I was briefed on very positive developments arising from his engagements and consultations in the North West, and he informed me that he has concluded his deposition. We also confirmed that his name has been successfully uploaded on the INEC portal as the Vice Presidential candidate of our great party for the 2027 presidential election.

We remain on course and steadfast in our commitment to the mission ahead.

Long live the NDC. Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

~HSD