Daberechi 👩🏼‍💻✨✨✨

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[Tegbe! @TomiwaTegbe]

They don’t. They love policing women’s choices.

[Hon. Jesugbemi @Hon_Jesugbemi]

If this pops up on your TL, please RT!!!!

[JJ @Jomilojju]

Why does the fight over "pregnancy is a death sentence" refuse to end? (2/2)

Because the dead do not quote-tweet. Each survivor is a witness for the defence, and the women who did not make it cannot testify. A grandmother with every birth behind her is the defence's favourite witness. Any neighbour who died in her own second labour left no story to tell.

Surviving is a lower bar than it sounds. Doctors have a name for the woman who nearly died but survived, the maternal near miss. Hospital studies in Nigeria have counted between two and ten of them for every woman who died. Not all of them heal.

Some lose the womb. Across Nigerian teaching hospitals, emergency removal of the womb runs at around two to six in every thousand deliveries, most often to stop bleeding that would not stop. Others leave with a heart that failed late in pregnancy or soon after, a condition Nigeria records at the highest rate in the world, and not every heart recovers. In one Zaria hospital, half the women put on dialysis for kidney failure after childbirth were still dialysis-dependent at discharge and could not afford more. Rarer still, surgeons in Kano have reported a new mother who lost parts of both legs to gangrene. Each year about 12,000 women leave labour with a fistula, a hole between the birth canal and the bladder or rectum left by labour that went on too long, and leak urine or faeces until it is repaired. In one Sokoto study, more than half of the women with fistula also had foot drop, nerve damage from the same labour that leaves a foot dragging. As recently as 2017, repairs fell about 7,000 a year short of new cases. Every one of these women goes into the record as a woman who lived.

The danger is unevenly shared. Just 172 local government areas, about one in five in the country, account for 55 per cent of maternal deaths. In Lagos, 86 per cent of births take place in a health facility. In Kebbi, fewer than one in ten do. A woman in Lagos and a woman in Kebbi are describing two different countries, and each is telling the truth about hers.

Since 2000 the world has cut maternal deaths by 40 per cent. Nigeria's figures improved by 13 per cent. The federal government proposed about 4 per cent of this year's budget for health, against the 15 per cent Nigeria signed up to in 2001. That shortfall is one reason the hospital costs more than families have. Where is the other 11 per cent? I gave the word "sentence" one paragraph in part one. Every year the timeline gives it a week, and that week spares the government that question. Those gaps are the verdict, and the first defendant is the federal government.

Years before any timeline fought over these words, a Nigerian state government vowed that pregnancy would no longer be a death sentence for its women. A government does not promise to end something that does not exist. The phrase was a confession before it was ever a tweet.

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[JJ @Jomilojju]

"Pregnancy is a death sentence for women in Nigeria." (1/2)

Once a year somebody posts that line and the timeline burns for a week. Out come the stories of parents and grandparents who had six children, some eight, and lived. Then the statistics and the insults. Then silence until the next round. The stories are real, and they come from another generation. Women in urban Nigeria now average fewer than four children.

The line is wrong by one word, and the word is "sentence". It convicts every pregnant woman in the country. Most women survive their pregnancies, but by UN estimates about one Nigerian birth in a hundred ends with the mother dead. What each pregnant woman carries is a risk, and no nation on earth buries more mothers. In 2023 an estimated 75,000 Nigerian women died from pregnancy and childbirth, about 29 per cent of all maternal deaths worldwide. In their 2017 estimates, WHO and its partner agencies put a Nigerian woman's lifetime risk at 1 in 21, against 1 in 5,400 in high-income countries. Over a lifetime, her risk is more than two hundred times higher.

I spent almost ten hours in the room before my son arrived. It shook everything in me, and it looked like nothing I had ever seen. I was only the one watching.

Our mothers knew before the data told them. In Yoruba homes, a prayer said over a woman in labour runs A ó gbọ́hùn ìyá, a ó gbọ́hùn ọmọ. We will hear the mother's voice, we will hear the child's. A prayer that asks for both to come through tells you what people fear.

The fear shows in the habits too. Many women hide their bumps, skip parties and keep the pregnancy off social media until the baby arrives. Some fear that the more people know, the more evil can reach the pregnancy. Others would rather grieve quietly if the baby is lost. There are women who will not walk in the sun at a certain hour of the afternoon, and women who hook a safety pin to the underwear over the bump. One ties a mantle around her stomach, another anoints herself, and another takes holy communion for the pregnancy. Those are the ones I know, and other faiths and cultures bring more. Swap the faith or the culture and you get a different guard on the same fear. A people does not build habits like these around something safe.

Medicine keeps its own list of guards, starting from the first test. Iron tablets, malaria prevention, tetanus injections. Blood pressure checked, blood sugar tested, scans booked, fruit pushed onto her plate. Almost every item exists because something can kill a mother or her baby. The latest national survey found that more than a third of women with a recent birth never saw a skilled provider during that pregnancy, and only about half made four antenatal visits.

When the hospital costs more than families have, they fall back on what they can reach and afford. Poor women end up with the chemist, the unqualified hand, the prayer house or the traditional birth attendant, or give birth at home. The same survey found that more than half of Nigerian births happen outside a health facility. Among the poorest 20 per cent of households, the figure is more than eight in ten.

The federal health ministry's own report says deaths recorded in health facilities fell from 904 in 2024 to 460 in 2025, and that progress deserves its credit. Now set 460 beside the 75,000 estimate. The years differ and the counting differs, yet the gap is more than a hundredfold. The 75,000 is modelled, so some of that gap may sit in the model. Not a hundredfold of it. Either most of these deaths happen outside the building, or the building is failing to count them.

[klexzee 007 @klexzy007]

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[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

CIVILITY IS NOT WEAKNESS. ENOUGH OF THE HARASSMENT OF MY SUPPORTERS. RELEASE RILWAN OLAWALE NOW.

The continued intimidation and harassment of my supporters across the country, the latest being the case of Rilwan Olawale, is disturbing and unacceptable.

President Bola Tinubu has remained a huge beneficiary of our democracy and should not brazenly be destroying it by encouraging and facilitating violence.

Our campaign is peaceful and issue-driven, focused on offering Nigerians a credible alternative built on competence, accountability, justice, and compassion.

We have chosen the path of peace, not violence; persuasion, not intimidation. However, nobody should mistake our civility for weakness, our restraint for fear, or our commitment to peace for an absence of resolve. We will not be intimidated into silence, nor will we abandon Nigerians who believe in a New Nigeria that is possible and will be OK.

I therefore demand transparency regarding Rilwan Olawale’s arrest, his release, respect for his rights, and an end to politically motivated harassment. No government or political party has the right to deny Nigerians the freedom to support a candidate of their choice.
We will remain peaceful but resolute. We will not resort to violence, but we will stand firmly and lawfully against every attempt to undermine our democratic rights.

A New Nigeria is POssible and will be OK. -PO

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Today, I arrived at Abuja Airport from the United Kingdom at 5:30 a.m. and immediately connected to the 7 a.m. Enugu Air flight to Enugu to attend the funeral of late Ifeanyi Nwolie, who was laid to rest in his hometown of Afa, Udi Local Government Area, Enugu State.

Late Ifeanyi Nwolie was one of my supporters who participated in the recent NDC party political activity marred by violence on October 10, 2026. Tragically, he was shot. His death is a painful reminder of the devastating human cost of our nation’s current toxic political environment.

As we approach the 2027 general elections, I appeal to all candidates contesting at the federal, state, and local government levels to reject violence, ethnic division, and religious bigotry. Our campaigns and activities must be based on issues that will make our country better.

Democracy thrives when citizens can freely express their political choices and participate in the electoral process without fear. The process through which we attain public office is more important than the office itself.

My humble pledge to the mother is that God Almighty, whom it pleased to bring Ifeanyi home, has also given her another son in me to support her as Ifeanyi used to.

A country’s greatest strength lies in the rule of law. When the rule of law is undermined, the door is opened to disorder and anarchy. We must work together to rebuild and restore a Nigeria where human life is valued above political ambition, and where every citizen can exercise their democratic rights in peace and safety.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Daberechi 👩🏼‍💻✨✨✨ @daberechi_a]

@benedictnomsu Congratulations!

[Daberechi 👩🏼‍💻✨✨✨ @daberechi_a]

@thisyvonne_ Amen

[Rinu Oduala 🔥🔫 @SavvyRinu]

“Young people don’t like participating.”
What do you call this sort of participation? 👇🏿

[Ihuaku @ihuakuchidubem]

And today is for every single person we lost in the 20/10/2020 Lekki Toll Gate massacre. May the Nigeria they fought for and dreamed of come true. 🕊️💔

[Oluwakemi Oyefeso @i_am_agbeke]

NIGERIANS MAKE ONA NO SLEEP O

@inecnigeria has refused to publish the voters register ONLINE.

Even offline sef, as per @ARISEtv report, it wasn’t published in some polling units in Lagos and people have to personally request for it. No be so o!

The danger of waiting till day of election is that if your name is missing from your polling units, you will be disenfranchised and won’t vote o!

Why are opposition sleeping?
@PeterObi
@KwankwasoRM
@atiku
@seyimakinde
@sowore
@NGRSenate
@iamHSDickson

Make ona no sleep o
INEC is already flaunting the electoral laws.

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

@inecnigeria has disregarded the Electoral Act by failing to publish the voters’ register online for public scrutiny, even after the statutory 90-day deadline has passed.

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

FLASHBACK: Despite Denial, Leaked Memo Showed Lagos Govt Approved N61m For Mass Burial Of 103 #EndSARS Victims https://t.co/Eed7s06rw9

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

ENDSARS LEKKI TOLL GATE: NEVER FORGET OCTOBER 20, 2020

Today, October 20, 2026, marks the sixth anniversary of the Lekki Toll Gate shootings, a painful reminder of the price Nigerian youths paid in their demand for a better country.

On that fateful night, peaceful #EndSARS protesters were met with gunfire. Lives were lost, many were injured, and the nation was left with questions about justice, accountability, and the sanctity of human life.

We must never forget. We must never normalise injustice.

As we remember the victims, I reaffirm my belief that a New Nigeria is possible—a country where citizens are protected, not brutalised; where young people are heard, not silenced; and where government power is exercised with responsibility and respect for human rights.

Nigeria must become a nation where no citizen is punished for demanding good governance and a better future.

May the souls of the departed continue to rest in peace. May their sacrifice strengthen our resolve to build a Nigeria where this tragedy will never be repeated.

A New Nigeria is POssible. A Nigeria where every life matters. -PO

[QueenDoris @QueenDoris16]

Dear married women, especially Igbo women! If you find yourself in a meeting with in-laws, both families’ kinsmen/elders, or church elders, do not waste your time going there!

No matter what your husband did, it’s your fault.

Even if he cheated, gave you HIV, or got another woman pregnant, they will blame you for not keeping your home.

They might ask you to kneel and apologize for making him cheat, beat, or mistreat you.

In these settings, it is always your fault.

For your own sake, do not attend! Damn them and damn that buffalo you married!

[Christian Emergency Alliance @ChristianEmerg1]

Nigeria: A Christian mother, Liatu Samuel Dawa, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for the “crime” of evangelism.

Liatu shared her faith with a woman in Borno State who later converted to Christianity.

For that, Liatu is now behind bars and her family in hiding after Muslims threatened their lives.

The judge, A.B. Kumdila, imposed the harsh sentence.

This ruling is a gross miscarriage of justice.

The disgraceful action must be overturned and Liatu immediately returned safely to her family.

Free Liatu Dawa.

[Yvonne O. @thisyvonne_]

Prayers for PO.
Day 11/100

Father, take away and disappoint the confidence of Peter Obi's enemies. Every evil system they place their hope upon is uprooted and destroyed in the name of Jesus! Amen!

[Yvonne O. @thisyvonne_]

Prayers for PO.
Day 9/100

Every counsel aimed toward working against Peter Obi becomes the counsel of Ahithophel. It crumbles and falls in the name of Jesus!.Amen!

[Mayor of X | @mayyor_]

I just have a strong feeling that Peter obi will win the elections by a landslide to the point apc can’t rig