You are unlikely to ever be as rich as Dangote, and you have already missed the boat to fame as either an athlete or an artiste. But you have gained immortality by your efforts in pursuit of a sustainable and relevant educational system for the youthful victims of Nigerian..👏🏿
From the videos we saw, this lady and her late husband were being held with some other kidnapped victims.
Since you engaged the terrorists and they ran away, where are the other victims?
This is why he’s not corrupt. He has more to lose from being a corrupt politician. Because then all his wealth will be questionable. Not accepting gifts, pensions, etc.. is not out of pride. It’s to create a very clear gap between his office and his personal finances.
As a guy, it is important to always have correct men around you.
Men that will mention your names in spaces of opportunities.
Men that will protect your own at all cost.
Men that tell you the truth when you fuck up.
Men that aren’t stingy (a totally different thing from not having).
Men that don’t sing your shortfalls and secret to outsiders.
Men that are financially and career ambitious, yet contented with their achievements.
Truly, the best of men are still men.
Fellow Nigerians, good morning.
I woke up this morning after my church service with a deeply reflective heart, and despite every constraint, I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you.
Many people do not truly understand the silent pains some of us carry daily—the private struggles, emotional burdens, and quiet battles we face while trying to survive and serve sincerely in difficult circumstances.
We now live in an environment that has become increasingly toxic, where the very system that should protect and create opportunities for decent living often works against the people—a society where intimidation, insecurity, endless scrutiny, and discouragement have become normal.
More painful is when some of those you associate with, believing you would find understanding and solidarity among them, become part of the pressure you face. Some who publicly identify with you privately distance themselves or join in unfair criticism.
We live in a society where humility is mistaken for weakness, respect is seen as a lack of courage, and compassion is treated as foolishness—a system where treating people equally is questioned simply because you refuse to worship status, tribe, class, or power.
Personally, I have never looked down on anyone except to uplift them. I have never used privilege, position, or resources to oppress others, intimidate the weak, or make people feel small. To me, leadership has always been about service, sacrifice, and helping others rise.
Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them.
However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.
Even within spaces where one labours sincerely, one is sometimes treated like an outsider in one’s own home. You and your team become easy targets for every failure, frustration, or misunderstanding, as though honest contribution has become a favour being tolerated rather than appreciated.
And when you choose to leave so that those you are leaving can have peace, and you step out into the cold, you are still maligned and your character is questioned. Despite all your efforts to continue working for a better Nigeria and engaging people with sincerity and goodwill, those who do not wish you well continue to attack your character and question your intentions.
There are moments I ask God in prayer: Why is doing the right thing often misconstrued as wrongdoing in our country? Why is integrity not valued? Why is the prudent management of resources, especially when invested in critical areas like education and healthcare, wrongly labelled as stinginess? Why are humility and obedience to the rule of law often taken to be weakness rather than discipline?
Let me assure all that I am not desperate to be President, Vice President, or Senate President. I am desperate to see a society that can console a mother whose child has been kidnapped or killed while going to school or work. I am desperate to see a Nigeria where people will not live in IDP camps but in their homes. I am desperate for a country where Nigerian citizens do not go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from.
Yet, despite everything, I remain resolute. I firmly believe that Nigeria can still become a country with competent leadership based on justice, compassion, and equal opportunity for all.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
It’s even hard to troll Burna Boy, apart from the Diddy made up story what else ? 😂
Talent wise who DARES to challenge him ?
Touring wise who DARES to challenge him ?
Grossing revenues who DARES to challenge him ?
DAMINI OGULU IS THE BLUEPRINT.
@tkb417 The true character of a partner who married you in wealth can only be revealed when there is lack. Until then, it is okay to keep assuming you married your best friend.
I remember during my university days at Ekiti State University, I had a hostel mate whose parents had to struggle for months, sometimes starving to raise just ₦50K for his tuition.
Whenever he knocked on my door, I already knew it was to ask for garri. So I would often leave a bowl of garri at my doorstep for him. At one point, he drank garri so often that he vomited it.
Fast forward to now, on Sunday, he reached out to me from the United States. He is currently a Proffesor of Physics at Arkansas State University. He reflected on those difficult times, how I used to give him ₦30 for bike transport to and from lectures, how I would take him along to my girlfriend’s hostel so we could eat swallow, egusi spiced with sawa fish together, and how we would go to Ado Market to buy those ₦500 starchy shirts for both of us.
He remembered how I would wake him up for compulsory night classes in the cold Ado nights, and how, when he fell sick, I used my own tuition fee to pay his medical bills, then lied to my mother just to get another one.
He recounted everything… and then sent me ₦500K “to buy some green bottles.” And that’s just a fraction of what he has done for me in recent times.
Never look down on anyone. Today’s struggle can become tomorrow’s success story. I think kindness is an investment that never loses value.
The Most depressed person in the family is not the mother, not the father but it's the eldest son of the family. To all first born sons, may you win. WiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiN.🤲🏻🤲🏻
So this is how we are thinking of redesigning the Igbo apprenticeship program “Igba boy”.
For the pilot program, we will likely take in 200 persons to engage in the training on global quality carpentry, bricklaying, tilling, plumbing, HVAC, POP and electricals.
The trainees will engage in an intensive 1 year program which they will be housed and fed. No holidays during the program. An additional 3 months will be on business and commercialization.
Once they complete the cohort and they meet the standards set, they will be settled with a good amount of money to build on the business arm of their skills. Those who don’t meet up will be dropped off from the program.
We will be visiting training centers in Togo and Germany in the coming weeks to solidify our plans and training partnerships.
Let’s brainstorm… what do you think?
Biko, in this election season, I appeal to all Igbo political gladiators: campaign freely, support whomever you wish, but leave Ndigbo as a collective out of your statements.
Do not question our collective choices. From 1960 to date, Ndigbo have consistently voted in line with what we believe to be our interest.
The Igbo people have never operated as a monolithic political bloc directed by any single voice or authority.
We have no central parliament that determines a unified electoral position.
Our strength has always resided in the independence of thought and the agency of our people.
Our voting patterns reflect our understanding of our interests, shaped by history and lived experience.
That history is not a light one.
It carries the weight of displacement and adaptation; the scars of the transatlantic slave trade; the disruptions of colonial rule; the trauma of pogroms; the devastation of civil war; and the persistence required to navigate structural constraints in its aftermath.
Yet, we endured. We overcame. And more importantly, we rebuilt.
It is therefore important that, even in moments of political contestation, we approach our collective identity with respect and responsibility.
What may be described today as political setbacks must be situated within the broader historical arc of a people defined by resilience, enterprise, and renewal.
Let us not, in the urgency of present contests, diminish that enduring story.
I appeal to all: engage robustly in politics, but allow Ndigbo the dignity of agency.
Respect our long arc of survival.
Respect our right to choose.
Respect the wisdom of our people.
Uche bụ akpa onye ọbụna; onye ọ bụla na-ebu nke ya.
As a people, we are guided by Uche, Uchu, and Egwu Chukwu.
Osita Chidoka
21 March 2026
Don't cut off your broke friends because you are looking to build new relationship with rich strangers. Grow with your friends. The blessings of one should reflect on others.
It is not lonely at the top if you keep your friends.