Kate Okorie 🔰

Narrative strategist. Words in @HumAngle_ @mailandguardian @News24 @HealthPolicyW

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Gunmen raid Nigerian orphanage and kidnap children https://t.co/utpIzbTnvE

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

A semicolon is used instead of a comma and a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so -- remember FANBOYS)

Instead of:
I like coffee, but I don't drink it every day.

you can write:
I like coffee; I don't drink it every day.

[Frantz Fanon @waweru]

You’ve got to admire the sheer chutzpah of African govts in using first world technology/techniques in taxation/extortion of the citizenry but applying 10th world standards in service delivery …🤔🤔😭😭😳😳😳

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Irish musician Moya Brennan dies aged 73 https://t.co/mGaNBDMmhK

[Alex Otti @alexottiofr]

Yesterday at Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU), I was honoured to be received by a mammoth crowd of vibrant students as we commissioned landmark projects and unveiled bold initiatives that will shape the future of our great institution.

* Commissioned a refurbished 5 MVA Power Station (upgraded from 2.5 MVA) to ensure steady electricity supply for ABSU, Uturu, and adjoining communities.
* Delivered 3 retrofitted hostels (A, B & C) to improve student living conditions.
* Flagged off construction of:
- 5,000-bed Female Hostel
- 5,000-bed Male Hostel
- Faculty of Agriculture & Faculty of Law buildings
- 1.8km Internal Road Project

At the 30th–32nd Combined Convocation Ceremony, I also announced:

- Automatic lecturing jobs for all First-Class graduates as Graduate Assistants (after NYSC).
- Postgraduate scholarships up to PhD level for First-Class graduates in public universities nationwide.
- A ₦200 million Business Grant to support 100 graduates with innovative enterprise ideas in agriculture, ICT, clean energy, and more.

We also celebrated our best graduating student, Mrs. Oluchi Etumsi, with a personal token, and congratulated our distinguished honourees including His Imperial Majesty, the Ooni of Ife, Barr. Dr. Allen Onyema, and Dr. Stella Okoli.

Education remains the bedrock of our vision for Abia State. We are committed to building institutions that inspire excellence, innovation, and leadership.

Step by step, project by project, ABSU is being transformed into a hub of innovation, excellence, and leadership.

[Health Policy Watch @HealthPolicyW]

World Athletics is rolling out air quality monitoring at events worldwide.

But beyond the stadiums lies a bigger issue: vast regions in the Global South still lack basic air pollution data.

✍️ @ginika___
@WHO @iocmedia @WorldAthletics @CleanAirFund

https://t.co/umHjYdG9Bb

[Health Policy Watch @HealthPolicyW]

@WorldAthletics Expands Air Quality Monitoring, But Can Sports Fill Global South’s Data Void?
✍🏾 @ginika___
@CleanAirFund

https://t.co/h8Ki6TIb7g

[Ìfẹ́ @diaryofa9jagirl]

These are the facts:
1. Nigerians are so quick to label “evil” as culture.

2. The safety of women is ALWAYS negotiable in public spaces

3. The investigation will end NOWHERE

4. Men can gather in groups and become a threat and it is automatically expected of women to ADJUST.

[Idongesit Uduehe(Chef_idy) @IdongesitUduehe]

In this gathering, we have

“A loving brother”
“A loving father
“A loving uncle”
“A loving friend”
“A loving cousin”
“A loving son”

One day we will understand that these ain’t gender wars but deep rooted issues of power, silence, and a culture that protects harm instead of people.

Because how can a man be loving in one space, yet be a perpetrator on another end?

How do we tell women to stay indoors to be safe? instead of teaching men not to violate?

How do we build traditions that restrict victims, but excuse perpetrators?

This is not about women vs men.
This is about accountability vs complicity.

Until we stop raising “loving men” who are silent in the face of violence,
until we stop shifting responsibility onto women’s bodies and movements,
until we confront the systems that has normalize abuse, we will keep gathering like this, naming men by their titles,
while women carry the weight of their actions.

One day, we will understand
safety should never come from restriction,
but from respect.

[Kate Okorie 🔰 @ginika___]

@DebbieAdewale16 stats?

[Kate Okorie 🔰 @ginika___]

@lotoscuffs_ @veeiye 😂😂😂

[Chukwubuikem @no_games12]

@tehmie_ The funny part sef is that we should be advocating for better public transportation infrastructure, not for ppl to buy 2001 cars.

Everybody buys 2001 cars, and then spend 4 hours in traffic everyday, paying 3x what they were paying on transportation before. SMH

[Kate Okorie 🔰 @ginika___]

When I tell people 9-5 in Lagos is actually not 9-5, this is what I’m referring too

Also, you can’t convince me that this is hustle. People are just suffering because of a poorly planned city

[Linda Ikeji Blog @lindaikeji]

Young Lagosian shows the different buses he takes to work and how much each one costs.

When added together, his transport fare comes to almost ₦70,000 every month.

[Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala @NOIweala]

Wishing all, but especially my wonderful women friends and followers a Happy International Womens’ Day! Despite the uncertain and oftentimes gloomy world we live in, we must find the inner strength to keep ourselves, our families, nations and the world going from whatever vantage point we have. I applaud womens’ enduring strength!

[Kate Okorie 🔰 @ginika___]

@Auntyadaa 😭😭😭

[Dejii™ @_Dejii]

“Within minutes (of the interview), I felt a chill. Then I felt hot. Then back to cold and the swings in sensation came sometimes with the bursts of laughter from the audience and I felt hundreds of pinprick-like sensations over my body and felt as I listened, a semi hallucinatory haze upon me. Honestly, I have, until now, never felt such shame in my life”

Ayisha Osori
Panelist on Bwala’s interview on Head-to-Head

[og. @o_gonna_]

I’m not excited by things like anymore, this is not a ‘gotcha’ moment. These guys are smart. They know the side they’re on and they comfort themselves with personal interest over their conscience and to them it’s a fair trade.
They have accepted it and this is just a little price to pay.

We need to demand for what we deserve. Till we decide to march together, nothing will change.

This interview regardless of how disgraceful it is will not add a dent to the APC ship I’m sorry.

[Kate Okorie 🔰 @ginika___]

"It's a tragedy that I know your words more than you do."

That's when you should have self-evicted from the show because it was clearly not the white-washing exercise you and your "research team" prepared for.

[D. H Bwala @BwalaDaniel]

Kindly take a listen to the Head to Head interview I had with Mehdi Hassan in London Conway Hall

[Head to Head @AJHeadtoHead]

“I never said that.”

Here is the evidence for every quote Nigeria’s presidential spokesperson Daniel Bwala denied saying in his appearance on Head to Head with @mehdirhasan.

▶️ Full episode https://t.co/PrWvGs9tkq

[Dr. Olawale Ogunlana @doctorwalesmd]

210 Trillion Naira is unaccounted for by the ex-NNPCL CEO.

For the uninitiated, let me explain in context of how big 210 Trillion Naira is and what it can do for you and me.

1. The current national minimum wage is ₦70,000 per month. To legitimately earn ₦210 Trillion, a Nigerian earning this basic salary would have to work for 250 million years, and that’s assuming they did not spend a single kobo of their earnings. 

Alternatively, you could use this money to pay the ₦70,000 minimum wage to 10 million Nigerians every single month for 25 straight years.

2. Depending on the market, a 50kg bag of rice currently averages around ₦60,000. With ₦210 Trillion, you could buy 3.5 billion bags of rice.

Because Nigeria's population is roughly 230 million people, this means you could personally hand over 15 full 50kg bags of rice to every single man, woman, and child in the country.

3. If an average car has a 50-litre fuel tank, this amount of money would pay for 5.25 billion full tanks of fuel. You could fill up the tank of every single commercial bus and private vehicle in Nigeria every day for decades.

4. If we assume it costs about ₦15 Billion to build and fully equip a world-class, 200-bed modern general hospital, with 210 trillion you can build 14,000 of those hospitals. If it were to be PHCs, you could build 1.4 million clinics.

5. With 210 Trillion, you could build 105,000 kilometers of high class roads at 2 billion naira per kilometer. And if you started building a continuous highway from Lagos, 105,000 kilometres is long enough to wrap around the entire equator of the Earth two and a half times.

Money has never been Nigerians problem. We are NOT poor.