Sometimes ehn, I wonder why we Igbos stay silent in the face of injustice.
Ozioma Elizabeth deserves justice and reparations.
She was reportedly picked up from her home in Onitsha and taken to the far North, where she was held in prison for five years without trial.
The Nigerian Constitution guarantees due process and the right to a fair hearing. So why was Ozioma’s case different?
There is so much abuse of power in this country. Let’s not even get into the lawlessness.
Free Onyeka Ozioma. Let her return to her family if there is no lawful basis for keeping her detained.
She is just a poor girl 💔
Some people will think these twins got this job by luck. They are the children of Shehu Malami, a former NNPC director and former Managing Director of the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC).
See how Davido is crashing out. More tweets today than the entire year.
Celebrities are very much aware of the power they wield.
I hope we are more emboldened to bully everyone ahead of January - Burna, Wizkid, Tiwa, Olamide, Flavour.
APC has to leave the Presidency.
❤️🩹🇦🇷 Leo Messi: “Dad, you kept asking me to play in one last World Cup… just days before it began was when your condition got worse”.
“It was the first time you weren’t going to be there with me at tournament… but Mom kept telling me you were going to get better and that you’d be well enough to travel”.
“I kept telling you we were going to reach the World Cup final so you could make the trip, this was my mission once again”.
“After every match, I waited for and missed your message. That’s when I realized how serious the situation really was”.
“I couldn’t stop thinking about going as far as possible, give you more time and the chance to watch one of the games”.
“We reached the final, but you couldn’t be there. I wanted to win it so I could bring the trophy to you and show you another one. I couldn’t”.
“My legs just couldn’t give me any more”.
“This time I tried to push beyond what my body could handle, but I couldn’t”.
“I never managed to feel physically right”.
“We didn’t become champions Dad, but you have no idea how much we enjoyed every match. Once again, you were right: I had to be there and play in it… as you told me, always”.
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Today, the young engineers are learning how to interface the microcontroller with sensors and actuators. They are also learning how to step down voltage using a buck converter.
Their teacher, Chizoba, made a First Class in Mechatronics Engineering with a CGPA of 4.96/5.
The future of our children is looking promising.
Dem don create Coastal Highway Guards because Yorugbas dey steal rods and materials used in building the road in Lagos 😂
For a tribe that currently has the president 😂😂
On Friday between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM, we will have an open day where we will allow parents and other kids to come and witness what our stars are building.
Commissioners of Education from the 5 South Eastern states and other top Ministry of Education staff are invited.
This will give them an idea of what real experiential learning is all about and the new direction of education in the South East.
The address is No. 4 Nwakanwa Street, Independence Layout, Enugu.
We will become the greatest workforce in Africa within 10 years.
An individual is doing this. Now, imagine what could be achieved if a governor decides to do something like this.
We are being led by the very worst amongst us.
This morning we started teaching the young engineers how to program PCB boards they will use to control the drones. We are also teaching them computer-aided design for parts that will be printed using a 3D printer.
Some of the children here are from villages, and you can see how this exposure is transforming their lives.
This is just Day 2, and the impact is clear and exciting. Every child is deeply engaged.
Practical, project-based education is a clear pathway to our greatness.
Look at the “invaders” who recently kidnapped a seminarian at a Catholic Church in Enugu State. The authorities called them syndicates & bandits, but they’re not. They’re diehard terrorists, the usual suspects, cascading across Nigeria as terror merchants with political & religious agenda.
I have been thinking about something lately, and the more I think about it, the more disturbing it becomes.
A lot of Nigerians became poor without doing anything wrong.
They didn’t stop working. They didn’t become lazy. They didn’t suddenly become irresponsible.
They simply woke up one day and realised that the money they had worked for could no longer buy the things it used to buy.
Think about someone earning ₦100,000 a month.
The person still wakes up early every morning, goes to work, puts in the same hours, probably works even harder, gets promoted occasionally and does everything society says a responsible person should do.
Yet every year, that person seems to be able to afford less.
At some point, ₦50,000 could buy a reasonable amount of food for the house. Today, you can enter the market with the same ₦50,000 and genuinely wonder where the money went.
Nothing happened to you.
The economy happened to you.
And I think this is something we don’t talk about enough.
Imagine working hard for years, only for circumstances completely outside your control to quietly reduce the value of everything you have worked for.
You didn’t lose your job.
You didn’t lose your salary.
But somehow, you lost your standard of living.
That is poverty too.
And this is why I struggle with the way we sometimes discuss palliatives.
Of course, when people are hungry, you must find ways to help them immediately. There is nothing wrong with providing temporary relief.
But surely, the bigger question should be:
Why did millions of working Nigerians suddenly need palliatives in the first place?
If a man could comfortably buy a bag of rice from his salary a few years ago and today he needs government assistance to buy that same bag of rice, giving him rice may solve today’s hunger.
But it has not solved the actual problem.
The real problem is that his labour has lost value.
And perhaps that is what we should be obsessed with fixing.
How do we make the Nigerian worker’s income valuable again?
How do we make ₦100,000 buy more next year, rather than less?
How do we make food cheaper by producing more?
How do we reduce the cost of energy and transportation?
How do we build an economy where salaries can actually keep up with the cost of living?
Because when I think deeply about it, perhaps one of the greatest things a government can do for its people is not to keep giving them money.
It is to build an economy where the money they earn has value.
There is dignity in being able to take care of yourself from the product of your own labour.
There is dignity in a teacher being able to feed a family from teaching.
There is dignity in a nurse being able to pay rent from nursing.
There is dignity in a young person working an honest job and gradually seeing life improve.
People should be able to look back after five years of hard work and say, “My life has become better.”
Not, “I earn more money today, but somehow I can afford less.”
That is the part that keeps bothering me.
Millions of Nigerians are not asking to become millionaires overnight.
They just want hard work to make sense again.
And maybe that should be one of the simplest ways we measure whether our economy is actually working:
Is the ordinary Nigerian who works hard becoming progressively better off, or progressively poorer?
Everything else is secondary.
“Onyeaka Ozioma Elizabeth was spotted in the premises of the Federal High Court, Abuja and she informed me that she was arrested at 33 Onitsha, Anambra State over 5 years and 3 months ago by the DSS and dumped in WAWA MILITARY DETENTION CENTER IN KAINJI, NIGER STATE WITHOUT ACCESS TO HER FAMILY or lawyer. Her sister, whose phone number Ozioma Elizabeth gave to me when contacted could not believe that Ozioma Elizabeth was still alive until she saw this video. What manner of trial or justice can come from such illegal and dehumanizing detention? See fear written all over her face. Brought from Anambra to KAINJI, NIGER STATE, to Abuja; towns and cities she has never been to and away from everything that she knows, to face trial. Trial for being Biafran? Why nobody has ever faced trial for being Oduduwa and certainly none will ever face trial for being Arewa. Nigeria, a country of injustice.” - By Barr. Nnaemeka.
40 children are somewhere in the SouthEast seated in a conducive lab learning how to build drones. We are not raising future beggars but future innovators. Thank you @winexviv#bootcamp#Educare#SouthEastMathsOlympiad.
1988, Arsène Wenger discovered George Weah while he was playing for Tonnerre Yaoundé in Cameroon 🇨🇲 and arranged his £12,000 transfer to Monaco.
At the time, Paul Biya was the president of Cameroon.
Years later, George Weah became the president of Liberia 🇱🇷, left office, while Paul Biya is still the president of Cameroon.