Gbemisola Esho

GDE Google Developer Expert, Security Engineer,@Womentechmaker Ambassador, Freelance Journalist All opinions expressed are mine.

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

AFCON is a joke right! Okay congratulations to Morocco.

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

To make this technical concept fun and easy to digest, I actually created a comic about it! 🎨📖 Check it out below and let’s work towards a truly multilingual internet. 👇
#GhanaSIG
#EGIGFA
#2026GhanaSIG
#GhanaSIGFellowship#InternetGovernance

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

What is Universal Acceptance (UA)? It ensures ALL valid domain names & email addresses (regardless of language, script, or length) work equally across all apps and devices. It's how we break language barriers and bring the next billion people online! 💻🌐 #UADay

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

Exciting update! 🎉 I’m currently participating as a 2026 Fellow at the Ghana School of Internet Governance (#GhanaSIG). We just wrapped up a deep dive into "Universal Acceptance" via @ICANN Learn, and it’s an absolute game changer for digital inclusion. 🌍👇

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

@ChidiOdinkalu 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

In April 2026, these 3 girls - Chimfumnanya Stephanie Aghaduno, Abasiofon Otobong Sampson, and Damaris Oluwasemilore Oyerinde - represented Nigeria at the European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) in Bordeaux, France.

66 countries participated, but unfortunately, Huaijin Lou from China won the gold prize. Our girls will try again next year and this time bring home the gold.

It was fully funded by ex-Olympiads from Special Maths Academy with zero support from the government.

Education needs to regain its place in our society.

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

@winexviv Awon oni Kulikuli this is what is called empowerment.

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

@Real_Giilo People are writing bestsellers, winning grammy awards, fashion designers making waves, folks building robots and some people nations have public transport to space.
Kulikuli is the way to integrate is way to integrate into the digital ecomony, E ku ise ma.

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

@Real_Giilo That is the issue really , in this same country where young people are building autonomous drones, weaponry, unicorns ,children are taught how to code, agentic AI , quantom computing someone is talking kulikuli and akara as empowerment.

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

@DejiAdesogan This is what you call intelligent "policing" Sun Tzu 001 no need to run around if only the could work with the military.

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

AFCON is a joke abi? Okay now

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

@Tudeskij15 @dammiedammie35 I was waiting for folks like this .

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

I am excited to be selected into the Ghana School on Internet Governance .
I will be exploring a deeper understanding of internet governance, digital rights, cybersecurity, data protection, and policy development.
#GhanaSIG
#EGIGFA

#2026GhanaSIG

#GhanaSIGFellowship

[Buchi Michelle Okonicha @mchelleOkonicha]

Daim Hackathon!
My team won in the AI Racer category at the DAIM(Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Modelling) @UniOfHull hackathon, in collaboration with the Artificial Intelligence Society.

This experience opened me to further understanding of reinforcement learning..

[Uncle Sola @solaadio]

Apostle Bolanta inviting his church to the PRG Kaduna conference.

[UNCLE DEJI™️ @DejiAdesogan]

JUST IN

Repentant’ bandits in Kaduna State have killed a commercial driver and abducted 9 other persons in two separate attacks along the Kaduna–Birnin Gwari Road and in a village within Birnin Gwari LGA

“ONLY A DEAD BANDIT IS A REPENTANT BANDIT”

[Gbemisola Esho @gbemiesho]

Amina walks 8km every morning not for exercise for WiFi.
Her homework is due, her future depends on it. The nearest internet connection is an hour away on foot.
This is what the digital divide actually looks like.#CivicRouter
#DigitalInclusion
#InternetForAll
#CommunityNetwork

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

I studied architectural design in Cameroon and every architect they taught me was European. Every movement, every theory, every name on the required reading list. The Great Mosque of Djenné, the Moorish arch, Great Zimbabwe never appeared on any syllabus.

Now I am studying management and every economist is Western. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian who built an entire economic framework for African development, has never appeared in a single lecture. Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist who argued that Western aid is destroying African economies, same.

Two disciplines. Not one African name in the required reading.

This is not only an architecture problem. It is medicine, law, economics, history. Every field is taught through a foreign lens and when a student tries to think beyond it they are disciplined for it.

We are not behind because we lack knowledge. We are behind because we were taught that ours does not count.

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie was born #OnThisDay in 1936. He became a priest at 30 in 1966. 5 yrs later, he was made a Bishop & he became Catholic Archbishop of Lagos 7 yrs after ordination at 37.

In 2003, he was elevated to the Cardinalate.

In his prime, Cardinal Okogie was the most formidable voice for dignity, justice, accountable government, & against military rule. Today, he turns 90.

He can look back at his priestly & episcopal service with pride & gratitude.🎂🙏🎂

[BSAT Properties @BSAT_Properties]

Sued His University to the Supreme Court and Won ₦20,000,000!

Case: Victor v. F.U.T.A. (2026) 8 NWLR (Pt. 2044) 33

Imagine graduating, knowing your grades were wrongly calculated, but being handed a lower class of degree than you earned. Most students would accept "fate" and move on.

Mr. Adebayo A. Victor refused to back down.

What makes this story incredible? Victor was a layman (not a lawyer), yet he personally prosecuted this case through the entire hierarchy of courts for nearly two decades.

The 19-Year Battle for a 2:1
In 2007, Victor graduated in Mechanical Engineering from FUTA, receiving a Second Class Lower.

Convinced his scores were wrongly recorded, he spent four years begging the university to re-mark 10 specific courses. The university ignored him.

In 2011, he sued. The journey was brutal:
2013: The trial court dismissed his case on a technicality. Victor appealed and won a retrial.
2017: The High Court finally ordered FUTA to re-mark his scripts. FUTA refused and appealed.

2022: Under Supreme Court pressure, FUTA finally complied and re-marked the scripts.

The Plot Twist: Victor was right all along. The independent re-marking officially upgraded his degree to a Second Class Upper. His correct certificate was physically handed to him in open court at the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court Defends Student Rights
With the degree secured, the Supreme Court turned its attention to the university’s conduct.

Led by Justice Helen Moronkeji Ogunwumiju, JSC, the apex court established a massive precedent:
The Duty of Care: While universities have academic autonomy, they owe a "Duty of Care" to their students. They must provide fair assessments and transparent complaint procedures.

The Penalty: By ignoring Victor for years and causing him to lose international scholarship opportunities, FUTA breached that duty.

The lower court had awarded Victor a mere ₦500,000. The Supreme Court threw that out as too small and reviewed the awards upward:
₦18,000,000 in General Damages for emotional distress.

₦2,000,000 in Litigation Costs.

Total Takeaway: Victor walked away with his rightful Second Class Upper degree and ₦20,000,000 in compensation.

The Big Insight
"Justice is not a fencing game where one party seeks to outsmart the other." Whether you run a university or a business, you cannot hide behind institutional bureaucracy to ignore legitimate complaints.

Huge respect to Mr. Adebayo Victor for his unmatched resilience!

Could you have held on for 15+ years to defend your academic rights? Let’s map it out in the comments!

© Law Parlor