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Entrepreneur/ alternative energy provider (Solar,wind,Bio and Thermal) / power solutions consultant/ mentor/motivational speaker .electrical engineering solns

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@chimzybaby15 @Prince_dc21_ Hmmmm. At first I wanted to bash you, on a second thought, your point is very deep. Comes from a place of higher thinking, seeing beyond the glamor. 🫡

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@BTCBarstoolsETH @alihadi68 @BBCSport Someday you will wish for same third world

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@ZadokYohann Congratulations 🎊 👏

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@lynn130415 Kilo fii da. The first time una win, because Gadiola want his boy to achieve success. All thanks to Everton. You played one of the most shitty football to get here. Dont play. We will be back untop. We are a winner at Chelsea. Even your anthem sucks.

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@Adunniolaide02 What kind of insensitive and stupid man is this, cant some men set boundaries. Haba kilode.

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@Compass_01 @speedlinexx I would rather we keep Gusto as against Fofana, liability and careless guy

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@realidraphael @yabaleftonline Lots of you are just so plastic. She might be learning, networking with genuine people that might elevate her in her next venture, she might also just want to earn a living to sustain a project. Just think, guys. Haba

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@BobbyBlueschels @FabrizioRomano If you are supporting him, you're not a true Chelsea supporter. The man is a bloody coward and a traitor 😤. He was bitching with Mancity and our results was going south and was claiming because he wasn't backed. A losser and low life.

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@Mikeliberation Have checked his booking stats. Men book him more to celebrate their woman. And you think spend that much on arts, the joke is on you.

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@__Casmia @iamlarrygee Stop living in the past

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

If South Africans catch this boy 😂

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@YemmyAj @NigeriaStories Where is the lie

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@Buchi_Laba Oga calm down, his pain and tears �� was as a result of not having a child even at 48yrs, even when he had the opportunities. Nobody holy, you sef fit dey mumu for one babe like that 😏

[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

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@EmekaIkoro_ @LydiaTeeanaJaja Are you serious with this information

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@zyainy See a nice work we did in Lagos

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@zyainy I've seen many comments. It's not the best, but still functional, with a loss of about 40% depending on the orientation, placing panels flat is because we are close to the equator and the sun travels over head from east to https://t.co/bPWy3ZX5LJ it works but loses efficiency

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

This should be headline news EVERYWHERE.

A Pfizer insider who was former head of toxicology in Europe has just come out and said something that many "conspiracy theorists" suspected.

He estimates that 20 000 to 60 000 people in Germany have died from the c*vid vaccine.

This was said at a parliamentary enquiry commission in Germany.

So why isn't this massive news being reported everywhere?

Is the mainstream media that has recieved millions in funding from Bill Gates deliberately covering this up... 🤔

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@Tipster_Gafado @WellsJorda89710 Spotted a mental breakdown.

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@Emiearth Gbenu eh soun joor. Where una dey all this while. Leave us alone 😔 malu