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We Remember Our Fallen Heroes Today.
Dear Igbo Nation, today marks 56 years since we tragically lost over 4.5 million Igbo brothers and sisters to the Nigerian–Biafran War. They gallantly fought and died so that we might live. 🕊️
Let's Retweet in their memory. 🙏
Fellow Nigerians, good morning.
I woke up this morning after my church service with a deeply reflective heart, and despite every constraint, I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you.
Many people do not truly understand the silent pains some of us carry daily—the private struggles, emotional burdens, and quiet battles we face while trying to survive and serve sincerely in difficult circumstances.
We now live in an environment that has become increasingly toxic, where the very system that should protect and create opportunities for decent living often works against the people—a society where intimidation, insecurity, endless scrutiny, and discouragement have become normal.
More painful is when some of those you associate with, believing you would find understanding and solidarity among them, become part of the pressure you face. Some who publicly identify with you privately distance themselves or join in unfair criticism.
We live in a society where humility is mistaken for weakness, respect is seen as a lack of courage, and compassion is treated as foolishness—a system where treating people equally is questioned simply because you refuse to worship status, tribe, class, or power.
Personally, I have never looked down on anyone except to uplift them. I have never used privilege, position, or resources to oppress others, intimidate the weak, or make people feel small. To me, leadership has always been about service, sacrifice, and helping others rise.
Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them.
However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.
Even within spaces where one labours sincerely, one is sometimes treated like an outsider in one’s own home. You and your team become easy targets for every failure, frustration, or misunderstanding, as though honest contribution has become a favour being tolerated rather than appreciated.
And when you choose to leave so that those you are leaving can have peace, and you step out into the cold, you are still maligned and your character is questioned. Despite all your efforts to continue working for a better Nigeria and engaging people with sincerity and goodwill, those who do not wish you well continue to attack your character and question your intentions.
There are moments I ask God in prayer: Why is doing the right thing often misconstrued as wrongdoing in our country? Why is integrity not valued? Why is the prudent management of resources, especially when invested in critical areas like education and healthcare, wrongly labelled as stinginess? Why are humility and obedience to the rule of law often taken to be weakness rather than discipline?
Let me assure all that I am not desperate to be President, Vice President, or Senate President. I am desperate to see a society that can console a mother whose child has been kidnapped or killed while going to school or work. I am desperate to see a Nigeria where people will not live in IDP camps but in their homes. I am desperate for a country where Nigerian citizens do not go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from.
Yet, despite everything, I remain resolute. I firmly believe that Nigeria can still become a country with competent leadership based on justice, compassion, and equal opportunity for all.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
i just imagined if there were no twitter, i’d be watching atilogwu festivals and learning how to bake cassava bread on nta, thinking the country is safe.
Nigeria Bleeds
Arriving back from my visit to Kano this evening, I received disturbing news and images from Jos of a painful attack at the Angwa Rukuba area, Jos North, Plateau State.
The recurring loss of innocent lives in Plateau State reminds us, yet again, of the insecurity innocent citizens face in our nation without any protection. These continuous devastating headlines are a reminder of a nation that is steadily normalising the loss of its own people.
It is unacceptable that these attacks happen with such frequency, and even more unacceptable that there seems to be no decisive, sustained strategy to end them. No nation or leader normalises tragedy.
The safety of Nigerian lives must become non-negotiable, we cannot continue to mourn what should have been prevented. Enough is enough.
My heart goes out to the families who have lost loved ones. May the souls of the departed rest in peace, and their memories never be forgotten. I pray that we get a country where the loss of lives is no longer a recurring reality.
We cannot continue like this. -PO
“The married ones want divorce, while the unmarried ones want to get married and be loved. Children want to become adults, while the old want a little more time. The unknown want fame, while the famous want privacy.”
— Veteran actor Chinwetalu Agu shares deep words of wisdom
The "Igbo Landing" story that happened in 1803.
An event where Igbo slaves choose to drown in the ocean with their freedom than become another man’s property for the rest of their lives !
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.@POTUS “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”
On Christ the solid rock I stand.
All other grounds is sinking sand.
All other ground…
is sinking sand
FREE THE CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA!!!!!!!!!!
🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
STOP THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#FreeChristians
People want to japa to give their kids a better life. They want to make money to give their kids a better life. They want to leave inheritance for their kids so they have liberty to chase their passion and not feel burdened by the pressure of bills.
Yet, they are always angry, envious and jealous of children with successful fathers.
Saka came out as a youngster under Unai Emery in my naked eye.
He has gone on to from an 18yr old to a 23 yr old EPL super star and now engaged.
God will punish Nigeria 🙏🏾
You are paid to tarnish the image of the very man who sacrificed both his parents fighting for your freedom.
Nigeria broke international treaties to kidnap him from Kenya, you said nothing.
Nigeria Army killed armless Biafra protesters at Nkpor, you said nothing
Nigeria sent troops to his home, killed his men and caused the death of his parents you said nothing. I can go on & on
Now he’s being unlawfully condemned to life imprisonment and suddenly you find the courage to smear him and support the same judiciary you once called corrupt when it upheld the rigging of 2023 General Election.
Or All Eyes are no longer on Judiciary?
History will remember who stood for truth… and who sold their soul for political crumbs.
Did you know why the Igbos & Yam can never be separated?!
Igbos and Yam have history & it will remain in the book of record till eternity.
The Igbo tribe of Nigeria are the ones that domesticated Yam from the wild species.
Yes! You read that right, the Igbos domesticated wild weed Dioscorea abyssinica and D. praehensili and through selective breeding they created magic which is Yam around 5000 BCE that's like 7,024 years ago!
The Portuguese came across Yam in the 15th century, when they started exploring West Africa. Yam moved to America during the 5|ave trade as yam was included as food provision for African on those ships.
During the 16th century, the Portuguese and Spanish colonizers introduced yam cultivation to Brazil and Caribbean territories. £n5|av€d Africans from yam growing regions transferred their agricultural expertise to plantation systems in Brazil.
The colonial powers recognized yams as valuable provision crops for feeding £n5|av€d populations on sugar plantations, reducing operational costs by having £n5|av€d laborers cultivate their own sustenance (yam).
18th century, yam production supported the expansion of sugar plantation economies by providing reliable, culturally familiar food sources for £n5|av€d workers, reducing planters’ expenditures on imported provisions.
You see, without the Igbos what would the £n5|av€d people survived on?
This post is to massively appreciate the Igbos & their ancestors for making a huge mark in history through domesticating a food crop that would change the course of history & a source of huge GDP for Nigeria.
The yearly Igbo New Yam Festival (Iri Ji), which celebrates the harvest of yams in Nigeria is not because the Igbos love yam, it is because the tribe birthed Yam and with such history it is important to celebrate it.
Shout out to Igbos 🙌🫡😀
f you're an Igbo son/daughter reading this, you should be proud!
Lanre
NaijaFarmer.