Debo.K

God….Islam....Family.…Football....Anime…Clairsentient….Empath….Human

[Debo.K @debomcgreg]

We Promise Forever In A World Where Life Itself Is Temporary

[hope⁷ 💗 @lshriwoo]

episode 1 house of the dragon 2.2gb. hope say i go ride vhagar too 😭

[De Prof™ @rahmandeprof]

I think the issue is that people often reduce Islam to a religion in the modern sense of the word—a set of rituals, beliefs and acts of worship. If that were all Islam was, then perhaps one could say, “I am Yoruba first and Muslim too.” But Islam is much bigger than that.

Being Yoruba tells me my ethnicity. It tells me the language of my ancestors, aspects of my culture, certain customs, histories and social experiences—and all of these are recognized and valued by Islam. But being Yoruba does not tell me why I exist. It does not tell me where I came from before birth or where I am going after death. It does not tell me what the purpose of suffering is. It does not give me a final moral standard by which good and evil are measured. It does not settle questions of worship, law, justice, family, economics, governance, sexuality, death, accountability or the meaning of life itself. Guess what does—Islam, the comprehensive manual to living.

I'll go on and say that Islam is not merely an identity among identities. It is a worldview. It is the lens through which every other identity is understood. That is why a Muslim can proudly be Yoruba, but he cannot place Yoruba above Islam. The reason is not that Yoruba culture is evil or haram. Rather, culture itself has limits. Culture can preserve language, customs and communal bonds, but Islam, by the wisdom of Allah with it, gives those things direction and judges them.

When a cultural practice is good, Islam affirms it. When it is harmful, Islam corrects it. When it is noble, Islam elevates it. When it conflicts with Islamic dictates, Islam replaces it. And in that case, the question will not be whether being Yoruba prevents someone from being a true Muslim. Of course it doesn't. The real question is which identity serves as the foundation for every other identity.

For a Muslim, Islam is the foundation because it answers questions that ethnicity, nationality and culture were never designed to answer. I am Yoruba by ethnicity. I am Muslim by aqeedah (creed and belief), worldview, purpose, allegiance and ultimate identity. One describes where I come from, and the other describes who I am.

[🅱️ASH-AAR🛑 @YesItsBash]

This is a whole different level of hating 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Hlovo @hlovo_]

They’ll destroy your mental health and blame it on the moon

[Debo.K @debomcgreg]

@yettie_ade The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

[🦋 fairy 🧚‍♂️ @thisdecfairy]

literally me supporting my man in everything

[Big Uncle @Usmanashafe]

That grandma in blue was just going her own way oo but she couldn’t hold it anymore and she had to just branch 😂😂

Happiness is contagious 😁

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

15 psychologists who figured you out before you did :

1. Sigmund Freud — your unconscious is running the show, not you
2. Carl Jung — the parts of you that you hide end up controlling you
3. Abraham Maslow — you cannot find purpose before you find safety
4. Viktor Frankl — suffering becomes bearable the moment it has meaning
5. B.F. Skinner — your behavior is shaped by what follows it not what causes it
6. Albert Bandura — you become what you consistently watch and repeat
7. William James — your habits are literally rewiring your brain every single day
8. Ivan Pavlov — your triggers were trained into you long before you noticed them
9. Erik Erikson — every stage of your life has one question it needs you to answer
10. Alfred Adler — most of what drives you is the need to feel that you matter
11. Karen Horney — anxiety is not weakness, it is what unsafe childhoods produce
12. Leon Festinger — when your beliefs and actions clash, your mind will lie to fix it
13. Daniel Kahneman — you have two minds, the fast one makes most of your mistakes
14. Martin Seligman — happiness is not the absence of pain, it is the presence of meaning
15. Erich Fromm — the greatest human fear is not death, it is the freedom to choose your own life

[blue @bluewmist]

YOU MUST LEARN TO ENJOY LIFE WITHOUT NEEDING AN AUDIENCE TO SEE THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING LIFE

[PRIEST🇵🇹 @onlyonepriest1]

Nigerians and their English😭
Emeka.....the fuel inside the generator e plenty or e small?
Emeka::::: e plenty small

[Dehkunle @ibDehkunle]

“Tamba”

[Iyke @currentiyke]

How many of you watched Kyle XY?

[Dera II @Neutral_OC]

Bro married a drama queen and got a free copy 😭🤣

[Shola 👑 @itsSh0la]

If you’re proud of your father, retweet and like this tweet.❤️

[Allah Islam Quran @AllahGreatQuran]

Ya Allah, please forgive me. If I am ever ungrateful. 😥💔

[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

[Dirmax✨🌍 @JustDirmax]

When two last borns get married 😂

[0xyus @yusufstilldeyyy]

It becomes stronger as you get closer to the toilet or when you’re looking for your keys to enter the house.😭😭😂😂😂

[Roro ☃ @RoRoFli]

My Sibling: please stay alert I will call you to open the door for me.

Me in deep sleep wondering how the Goat in my dream knows my name.

[Zoya🕊️ @Zoya_ki_batein]

The groom surprised his bride by having her students with Down syndrome be the ring bearers 💍❤️