There's no way your brain functions on updated processor, it definitely loads from a floppy disk.
And for it to boot, you constantly need to tap your forehead intermittently every 15 mins - very possible your frontal cortex is unseating from how incredibly difficult you're attempting to think.
There's nowhere in the world where the girlchild is disadvantaged against the boy-child.
There are more girls in school.
There are more scholarship opportunities for girls.
There are more bootcamps for girls.
We're not advocating for men here.
We're asking children to be treated equally, you idiot.
You'll ask God for bread, Satan will overhear the conversation, go behind God and feed you igneous rock.
International Day of the Boy Child ♥️
Show love to the boy child today. You have a responsibility as a man to raise masculine men who understand the responsibility of masculinity and the burden of manhood. Society will not build itself. It takes men to build it.
To the Boy Child, you matter. The world is your stage. Go and excel 🍷
If money isn’t coming your way lately, pour honey in your left palm, pour salt in your right palm, say a good luck prayer and lick it then come back and thank me.
Only do this on Friday, Monday or Wednesday.
His Excellency
Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori
Executive Governor
Delta State,
Government House Asaba
Your Excellency Sir,
RESIGNATION OF APPOINTMENT AS SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT ON CIVIL SOCIETY AND YOUTH MOBILIZATION.
I write to formally tender my resignation as Senior Special
On Good Friday, we remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This day inspires us to cherish kindness, compassion and always be large hearted. May the spirit of peace and togetherness always prevail.
i took my time to write this piece on Violence against boys (READ ME!)
THE ABUSE WE DON'T NAME: WHEN BOYS ARE TOUCHED AND TOLD IT'S LOVE
There are things we do not talk about. Not because they are unspeakable, but because we have made them so. Because silence feels easier than discomfort. Because truth, when it doesn’t fit our familiar narratives, becomes inconvenient. And so, we do not talk about the boy who was touched.
We say “sexual abuse,” and we imagine a man. We imagine a girl. We imagine violence with a certain gendered choreography. But sometimes, it is a woman’s hand. Sometimes, it is her mouth. Sometimes, it is the warmth of her body that violates. And sometimes, she says to him, “Don’t tell anyone. This means you’re a man now.”
It is easy to ignore because there is no broken hymen. No torn underwear held up as proof. No blood on the bedsheet. Just a boy. Confused. Erect. Ashamed.
And yes, sometimes, she takes his hand and puts it where it should not be. Her breasts. Her vagina. Her clitoris... that quiet power we pretend boys should not know how to spell, let alone touch.
Statistically, and statistics often feel like distant math, but they are real stories with decimal points of pain ... about 1 in 20 boys will be sexually abused before they are thirteen. But I suspect the number is higher, because boys are taught to be men too early. And men are not supposed to cry, let alone confess that a woman took from them what they did not offer.
They are told they must have enjoyed it.
And so, they keep quiet.
Because who would believe that an aunty... yes, that aunty with the powdery perfume and the motherly smile... was the one? Who would believe that it was the house help, the neighbor, the teacher? Who would believe that it was a woman?
Ninety-three(93) percent of the time, the abuser is someone the boy knows. And more often than we dare admit, that someone is female.
Even I, in my work on gender-based violence, have tiptoed around this truth. I have spoken of girls. I have cried for girls. I have advocated for girls. But I have been complicit in the silence about boys.
Did I experience what I am describing? kind of. I may again be suppressing.
And because I did, I know that boys remember. They carry the shadows with them ... into bedrooms and boardrooms and the quiet corners of their marriages. It shapes how they love. How they trust. How they perform and I use that word deliberately...in their sex lives.
It births a kind of PTSD that does not come with flashbacks, but with a constant aching confusion.
Most NGOs ...the ones with glossy brochures and earnest missions ... do not center the boy child.
Perhaps because it is easier to champion the victim we expect than the one who unsettles us.
So today, I name it. I call it what it is: Secret Sexual Violence Against Boys by Older Women (SSVABOW).
To the @UN, to @WHO , to every policymaker and program director who claims to care... this is your reminder: Do more. Say more. Protect more.
Because silence, too, is a kind of violence.
And boys deserve better.
The end.
Thanks for reading my write-up.
Mr. President, Domestic problems Beacons.
I am compelled at this time in our lives as a nation to call on our retreating President's attention to the security challenges at home, which entails that he immediately suspend his ongoing retreat in a foreign land and come home to address the overwhelming security situation across the country.
This urgent call has become necessary following the rising incidents of crimes and criminalities all over Nigeria with an apparent absence of governance.
In the 2 weeks you have been away, over 150 Nigerians have lost their lives to insecurity across Nigeria, especially in Plateau and Zamfara states.
The repeated pipeline explosions in the Niger Delta, further reflect a nation in distress.
In the North East, Borno state leaders are bemoaning the return of insurgency with troops and civilians being killed randomly. In the South East, the story is the same: killings and abduction.
Amid all these, the CEO of the troubling company called Nigeria is retreating far away land in France from the Company's headquarters.
The primary duty of any government is securing the lives and property of its citizens and one wonders the type of retreat going on in another country where peace has been secured by their leaders while blood continues to flow in our country
The fight for a better Nigeria is not about individuals; it is about ensuring that every citizen can see, feel, and benefit from the policies and decisions of those in power.
I, therefore like to urge Mr President to quickly suspend whatever he is doing in France and rush home to take responsibility by addressing these disturbing issues
That is the new Nigeria that the nation seeks.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO