Imagine someone selling fake antibiotics, fake asthmatic or fake drugs for diabetes and hypertension knowing that some people’s lives depend on them.
This is not just crime, it’s a silent massacre.
Nigerians must wake up. Counterfeit drugs are killing people daily in Nigeria.
By the way, if you're African and you're new to geopolitical awareness, you can use this picture as a guide to know who is on your side and who is your enemy in this world.
Notice how China and Russia voted?
Then notice how your oyibo faves voted (or abstained, which is also a type of vote)?
Shebi "not everything is about race"? You see how white people ALWAYS instinctively bunch together, from Andorra to Norway, whenever it's time to do some racist shit?
That's called Pan-Europeanism.
The antidote is Pan-Africanism.
My name is Zainab. I’m 27 years old. An SS.
That is, I live with sickle cell disease.
My parents are both AS.
Oh, they They knew.
They were told.
They still married.
They said God approved it. They said love would be enough. They said faith would cover the consequences.
I am the consequence.
I was diagnosed before I was two. My childhood memories are not playgrounds or cartoons,they are; hospitals, needles, and adults whispering when they thought I couldn’t hear.
In primary school, I missed classes so often that teachers stopped asking why. Some classmates thought I was pretending. Some thought I was cursed. I learned early how to smile while feeling different.
By secondary school, the pain episodes became more frequent. I would wake up excited for school and end the day on a hospital bed. I watched my mates grow normally while my life moved in pauses, school, hospital, recovery, repeat.
At 15, I lost my younger brother to sickle cell.
We were both SS.
That day changed me forever.
My parents broke down in front of me — crying, apologizing, saying “We followed faith. We didn’t think…”
But the damage had already been done.
Sometimes I forgive them.
Sometimes I resent them deeply.
Both feelings live in me.
In university, I tried to be normal. I joined sickle cell advocacy groups, volunteered with awareness organizations, spoke at events, encouraged parents to test their genotype. People call me strong. They call me a warrior.
What they don’t see is me crying alone at night after another silent pain episode.
They don’t see the fear that comes with planning a future in a body that doesn’t always cooperate.
And Relationships?
That’s another wound.
I’ve been loved… briefly.
The moment conversations turn serious about marriage, children, commitment….they leave. Some are honest. Some ghost me. Some promise forever and disappear quietly.
One man once said he would do anything for me. He talked about taking me abroad, better care, a life without fear. I believed him. For the first time, my heart rested.
Then one day, he stopped calling.
That heartbreak triggered one of the worst crises I’ve had as an adult. Not because of physical stress but because hope collapsed.
Now I’m older. The pain episodes come differently. Less dramatic, but more exhausting. My body recovers slower. My fears are heavier. I ask myself questions my parents never asked each other.
I am strong, yes.
But I am tired.
If you are AS and the person you love is AS, please love your unborn children enough to stop and think. Faith is not a license to ignore knowledge. I am a proof to that
I didn’t ask to be a lesson.
But if my life can prevent another child from being born into avoidable pain, then my voice matters.
That’s why I’m writing this to you. Because people listens to you and this story needs to be heard. I hope that your audience share this till it reaches those who are about to walk by faith and not by sight, Sickle Cell is real!.
Adeyinka, keep rescuing lives, I love how you raise awareness and say the truth unapologetically, those who do not like you are probably those who wish they could be you. Have you met you?. Oh,I see you Queen Ade💪🏻
My mom is a prosecutor and every year she brings up the fact that Mother's Day is the day with the lowest crime.
I think that says a lot about how many moms commit crimes throughout the year, but can't that day because they're too busy being celebrated.
I just realised the reason why our parents are always cranky when you throw bangers 😭😭😭😭😭. E come be like say make I call police arrest everyone cuz????
At this point the federal government should just ban united Nigeria airline
from flying cos it’s not effective at all. How can your move people’s flight by 5-6 hrs
I just spoke with Hon Sarkin Yaki Jabo Member Sokoto State Assembly who visited Jabo after the strike at 10:30pm last night. The US strike in Jabo near Tambuwal wasn’t a precision strike. No casualties. Missiles landed in a plain field 300metres away from a Local Hospital
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BREAKING NEWS: This morning in Birnin Kebbi, a 30-year-old man identified as John has been accused of beheading a young almajiri student, Salisu Hassan, of Malam Mai Nasara Islamic School. Authorities are investigating the incident and local tension is rising in the axis.
The video below is the Hausa version narration of the incident by one of the School students.
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BREAKING NEWS: Notorious armed bandit leader Mustapha Babaro has reportedly imposed a ₦50m levy on Yargoje and communities surrounded it, Kankara LGA, Katsina State. Residents say he issued a stern warning to villages yesterday, that fail to pay within the set deadline will have repercussions.
If this can happen in an LGA that held two peace parleys with bandits in less than 3 months, what kind of truce are local authorities in Katsina State actually reaching and how effective is it in protecting communities?
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Many people encouraged me to appear on Arise TV to respond to some of the views expressed there. I kept explaining that I could only speak if invited. Well, Arise came knocking yesterday - and the question about Trump came up. Here’s how I responded.
My main point is that Nigeria is no longer facing a single group or insurgency. Instead, it is confronting a mosaic of groups that constantly splinter and rebrand. We need a nationwide strategy that cuts across states, regions and all groups.
i built an app that blocks social media until you read Quran
rule: read Quran once daily → unlock instagram, tiktok, etc. for 24 hours
it’s now live on app store. who’s trying it? 👇
https://t.co/YZyHCotYGh