A US soldier shared a testimony from her time overseas.
She said her team used to laugh at her and call her "church girl" because she prayed before every mission. Some told her they did not want to hear her prayers. She prayed anyway.
Later, she was pulled off the road as punishment.
She said her team started getting hit by bombs every time she was not with them. Then her team leader came to her and asked her to come back.
He told her, "We keep getting hit and we need your protection. Whatever you're praying, it's working."
She said she went back out, and they were never hit again.
Maya Johnson brought home 300 people, and nobody from her group died.
This is a powerful reminder that prayer is not weak. This testimony shows that the one true God hears, protects, and still answers prayer.
Nigeria is facing a troubling contradiction.
What type of country are we trying to bequeath for our children?
The same lawmakers who have proposed a fine of ₦10 million and up to two years in prison for dual political party membership have simultaneously removed certificate forgery, age falsification, and false declarations as grounds for challenging an election in a tribunal. This is in direct contradiction to the provisions of the Constitution of Nigeria (1999, as amended).
This situation raises a fundamental question about the priorities of our political system.
In any serious democracy, the gravest offense in public life is deceiving the people to gain power. Submitting false documents, falsifying one’s age, forging certificates, and making dishonest declarations to electoral authorities are among the most serious offenses in any democracy. Such actions not only lead to automatic disqualification but also warrant criminal prosecution.
Yet today, our electoral system seems more focused on protecting political structures than on upholding the truth.
There is no justification for prioritizing punishment for party alignment over punishing false certificates, forgery, and other forms of deception in the pursuit of public office.
Laws should strengthen democracy, not weaken it. They should promote ethical leadership rather than lower standards for those who aspire to govern.
A nation cannot rise above the integrity of its leaders. If we truly want a better Nigeria, our laws must defend truth, character, competence, and accountability. We cannot continue to tolerate criminal behavior.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
If Gov Soludo finishes this second tenure and Onitsha Divisional Library is not yet fixed to global standard, it will be a shame to him.
We had offered to fix it but Tony Nwora blocked it to score cheap political point.
It’s sad that critical education infrastructure as important as Onitsha Divisional Library is ignored in Anambra State.
My everyday joy comes from being a father and a husband to a woman who loves the idea of having a family and nurturing it.
When all the bills are paid and the kids are fed, my happiness knows no bounds.
That is my source of happiness.
Nothing else comes close to this.
On #PeterObiAt64
We, the Anonymous Investigators Community of Nigeria, have dug deep into Peter Obi’s past. Here are all the shocking facts we uncovered!
Born in Onitsha (1961), Obi earned a degree in Philosophy from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
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A Nigerian Christian who’s an armed robber will ensure that they pray to God before and after operations.
For them, worship—surrendering to the supremacy of God—is more important than the impact of their action on others.
A Nigerian Muslim who sells hard drugs, you can go to buy and you are told they have gone to pray. You have to wait until they are done with prayers. They don’t joke with prayers.
For them, worship—surrendering to the supremacy of God—is more important than the lives the substances they sell are going to ruin.
This how they are programmed. And that’s exactly the problem I have with religion.
There’s a reason your pastor can forgive you no matter what you do, but will never forgive you at the suggestion of changing church. You can commit whatever atrocities and you will be cool as long as you don’t leave Islam.
Worship!!!!!!
Worship is so important to those that brought you this religions.
You are taught to elevate “worship” above anything else, including your relationship with others, for a reason.
The reason is simple. Once you can worship, you definitely can surrender.
That’s the source of our docility as a nation.
Five Years Without Pay: An Urgent Call for Justice for Staff of Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Today, I met with a group of teaching and non-teaching staff of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and heard their pathetic story. What they shared with me was both shocking and heartbreaking. These are individuals who were duly employed by the university between 2019 and 2020, yet have remained without pay for five years.
They informed me that despite multiple petitions and appeals — both within Nigeria and to relevant international bodies — their situation has remained unchanged. What they face is not simply delayed salaries, but complete exclusion from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), which has made the disbursement of their lawful earnings impossible.
Their accounts are harrowing. Some have lost their homes due to eviction. Others have suffered broken families, untreated medical conditions, and in some tragic cases, the death of colleagues who could not afford basic healthcare. These are not isolated incidents but the consequences of systemic neglect and failure.
While we continue to lament poor investment in education, here is a clear case where even the most basic obligation to educational workers — the payment of salaries — has not been met.
This is not just a labour issue; it is a moral and humanitarian one. I call on the Federal Government to act swiftly and decisively to resolve this matter. The affected staff must be immediately enrolled on the IPPIS platform, and all outstanding arrears must be paid without delay. A nation that neglects its educators and university staff undermines its own future. Their dignity, like that of every Nigerian worker, must be protected. -PO
In Nigeria, a child who can recite Shakespeare is called brilliant. One who can fix a generator is called 'unserious.'
That’s why we have a country full of grammar — and no light.
Lebanese, Chinese, and Indians are dominating Lagos Ibadan Express-Way with factories while our people are dominating with prayer grounds.
~Ewa LS Ekuma
One of the easiest ways to identify "rich" Nigerians who are yet to move beyond survival mode and defeat the poverty that lives rent-free inside their minds is that they do not understand the value of things, but they are hyperresponsive to branding and price tags.
They do not understand precisely where a Tesla is meant to be used and for what, or how vastly impractical it is to run an electric vehicle in an environment where you charge it with a diesel generator, roads are not properly marked (making assisted driving impossible), and the 50⁰C+ ambient temperature in Lagos traffic potentially turns that huge lithium-ion battery into a giant explosive fire hazard.
They either don't know any of this or don't care - because the real purpose of driving that Tesla in Lagos is to show off a giant payment receipt on 4 wheels. Thus the Model S used very commonly to do Uber in London becomes a status symbol for the "rich-poor" in Lagos, complete with vanity license plates saying "FUEL LOL."
They are the ones who upload the receipts for their overpriced watches and jewellery on Instagram because it is not enough that you merely see that they have "nice" things - you must know *how much* they paid for them. Because the usefulness of the "nice" things is not in the value those things create, but in the price itself. Money is what gives things value to these types, which is why they cheerfully and regularly overpay for everything under the sun - as long as the world knows how much they paid.
That's why they all buy the same impractical, unserviceable cars that they eventually put into storage to gather dust after driving for 6 months; they all try to fuck the same 10 instagram whores in a country with at least 100 million eligible women; and they all live in the same smelly, waterlogged, gigantically overpriced neighbourhoods within a few hundred metres of each other.
They're the ones who proudly and joyfully announce that they paid N6 billion for a "luxury mansion in Ikoyi" that has a diesel generator, an underground shit storage tank, a rudimentary access road surfaced with interlocking paving stones, a constant flooding problem, a huge tree trunk planted into the pavement to hold a mess of ugly electricity wires, and a permanent bad smell from an empty plot of land next door filled with refuse and mosquito-laden stagnant water.
If this description fits you, please avoid me. For your own good.