Mideh💚🌙❤️ $LOL

#ISLM_MAXI

[Mideh💚🌙❤️ $LOL @BrownMideh]

@OloriOfOloris She said he didn’t send the vn to her

[Nicki Minaj @NICKIMINAJ]

Fathers add such a unique dynamic. Balance. Fun. Protection. Friendship. Loyalty. Patience. Teachers.
The list goes on.

Often under appreciated online, but irreplaceable in real life.

Quite mesmerizing to observe.

Dear Dads all over the world, thank you.

#HappyFathersDay

[Mideh💚🌙❤️ $LOL @BrownMideh]

@scentsbydanna Thank God people can see through it, thought I’m the only one

[Nicki Minaj @NICKIMINAJ]

https://t.co/3rDKZYvWir

It was nice talking to you, Bryce. @ibrycecrawford

[Raymonte @BDTRELILBROTHER]

I love Nicki Minaj

[𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕛𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕪 𝔼𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕖 @FeelTheBass86]

On @Riley_Gaines_’s talk show on @FoxNews, The Riley Gaines Show, she conceded that @NICKIMINAJ has not been canceled despite the smear campaigns. She also calls out the hypocrisy from certain audiences

“She’s still climbing, she’s climbing in the charts. She’s still wildly successful. She’s incredibly wealthy. She has her loyal Barb army. She’s still culturally relevant. She’s still effective… The same people who are screaming at her for her politics are the hypocrites who don’t actually care about the harm, the swatting, the d**** threats, or the real danger to her kid. They only care when it fits their narrative…”

[Olandria♡ @LashaeAsh]

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[Mideh💚🌙❤️ $LOL @BrownMideh]

@NICKIMINAJ My wallpaper since last year

[Wizkid @wizkidayo]

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[TOYIN ABRAHAM AJEYEMI @toyin_abraham1]

Coming soon💪💪💪

[DJ TUNEZ @DJ_TUNEZ]

Original, No be chinaaaa! 🤭♥️🎾

[Mideh💚🌙❤️ $LOL @BrownMideh]

@wizkidayo are we going to be seeing you in uk this year? I want a straight answer yes or no?

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

Those are some of the boys from Oshodi underbridge by the way😊

Forming fine boy now

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

I remember this vaguely, but I read something someone shared last year that if you’re ever lucky to be blessed with motion, that wind at your back, run.

Run fast and far, for the wind is fickle and legs do tire. A moving man will meet his luck, as long as he never stops.

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

It is with great pride that I present to you the very first Nigerian Adire chess board. Each one sells for a million naira(700 dollars).

It’s a limited collection of just 100 pieces. 50% of proceeds goes towards charity and I will personally hand deliver to the first 20 people.

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

First Nigerian to play chess at the Louvre 🇫🇷-The world’s most prestigious museum.

[BIG MERCY👸🏿 @just_me_YES_ME]

I disagree ooo, Gen Z Alakada is doing so well but just look at Alakada in her millennial prime 😭😭😭

[Vincent The Therapist @mrhighfoster]

He is 31 years old

At nine months old, a failed measles injection by a local nurse caused avascular necrosis, leading to lifelong hip pain and leg weakness until his hip replacement surgery

Four of his siblings died in childhood (likely related to sickle cell trait in the family), making his survival a "statistical miracle"

At age 10, he dropped out of school due to poverty but returned after his mother worked as a cleaner for six years to pay his fees

He learned chess as a kid at a local barber's shop in a Lagos slum while playing video games with friends

Barely spoke English when he started secondary school (mostly Yoruba at home) but quickly picked it up from classmates

His mother was a petty trader (thrift clothes seller), and his father sold spare parts. They met in a Lagos market

Chess helped him develop a strong photographic memory, which he used to cram for exams and survive without parental allowances

He became Nigeria's No 13 ranked chess player and earned the National Master title at age 20

He won gold medals representing Yaba College of Technology in the Nigeria Polytechnic Games and the RCCG Chess Championship

He also won the National Friends of Chess Tournament and the Chevron Chess Open

He got a diploma in computer science and used chess winnings to support himself through school

Founded Chess in Slums Africa in September 2018 as a volunteer-driven nonprofit after visiting slums like Majidun

The organization has reached thousands of underprivileged kids, including producing a 10-year-old champion with cerebral palsy

Tunde Onakoya broke the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon (over 60 hours) in Times Square, New York, in 2024

Featured in CNN African Voices for his work

Tunde has a younger brother (two years apart)

He credits chess with saving him from slum poverty and giving him an "intellectual identity"

He once simultaneously won 10 chess games at the DLD Conference in Germany

First African to win the Lideramos Youth Award for Social Impact in Spain.

Won the Corporate Chess Championship in Malawi with a perfect 7/7 score

Tunde dreams of building the world's biggest chess institute in Nigeria
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Tunde Onakoya has brought attention to Africa through Chess.

He started teaching chess at a younger age to children.

I'm talking of around 2013/2014 when he was meeting at parks around Lagos State, just to teach kids in the open (mostly after work hours)
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Today, I am more interested in telling you more about him, and how he has also risen from a place of deep poverty and struggles.

He has done soooo much for people and it's only expected that these past impacts would show on him as well

You might have your reservations about him, but you cannot downplay how he used the game of chess to bring great changes to children's lives.
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A lot of children now have access to education, purpose and meaning, thanks to Chess.

You are also part of his story. Tunde didn't do all these alone.

Your support, your accolades, your retweet, your reposts, everything

So look at the bigger picture.

Think of the kids whose lives have changed from taking alcohols and drugs on the streets of slums, to having regulated mental health and more purpose driven lives, due to Chess and the opportunity it brought.
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Tunde can't certainly please everyone, and yes, there might be actions that many people would attribute to him being human.

But if children would smile again, because he created an opportunity for them to have their smiles again.... Then it's one of the best legacies anyone can ever have.

And you also can create your own legacy to which nations would applaud, recognise and help preserve 🫂

The sky is big enough for you, I and Tunde to shine and shine bountifully well ❤️
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✍️ Vincent the Therapist