Chinonso Ikeh

Dad, Husband, Servant, Partner @HakkoreI

Instagram: @hakkoreintermediary

Evolving...

[Chinonso Ikeh @ikeh_nonso]

@felakinging FYI Trevor Noah is not overrated. He's actually one of the best there is. Here's the thing, you can't really appreciate his kind of comedy if you don't have a global perspective of topical world happenings.

[Osita Chidoka @osita_chidoka]

Before You Blame the Nigerian Worker

Yesterday, I walked into a second-tier bank in Abuja that I had known for years.

The building was once magnificent. Now it looked tired. The staff looked even more tired — overwhelmed, attending to several customers at once, but still trying to keep things moving.

Then I discovered that the data service inside the banking hall was so poor that customers trying to download the bank's app or complete transactions on their phones had to step outside.

I asked one of the staff why the bank couldn't simply provide Wi-Fi for customers.

She smiled. It was the kind of smile that said: Sir, Wi-Fi is the least of our problems.That smile stayed with me.

We complain about the Nigerian worker — poor attitude, indifferent service, low productivity. Sometimes rightly. But how often do we examine the environment in which we expect them to perform?

Many companies declare impressive profits while their staff work without some of the basic things that make people productive: reliable internet, functioning equipment, clean facilities, adequate staffing and a pleasant workplace.

We want world-class outcomes from people working in decidedly non-world-class conditions.

As I moved in and out of the bank — outside to download the app, inside for assistance, outside again for the token — I watched the staff patiently trying to help customers despite circumstances they did not create.

I left with more empathy than irritation.

This does not excuse poor service. Workers must take responsibility for how they treat customers. But employers must also take responsibility for the conditions in which people work.

Before we conclude that the Nigerian worker is the problem, perhaps we should look more carefully at the Nigerian workplace.

Sometimes, the person behind the counter is simply trying to do a difficult job in unnecessarily difficult conditions.

Osita Chidoka
3 October 2026

[Oluyomi Ojo @OluyomiOjo]

I remember a bank CEO who is now my egbon and mentor telling me on the first day we met, "Yomi, call me <inserts first name>. A proper African man setting me up. I responded with "Egbon, won ko mi be"... He laughed, and we've been super chilled since then.

Read the room. Discern. Even in oyinbo land... read the room. Here's Dr Maya Angelou setting the record straight. Sometimes it's not just about age...

It's a different thing if the company policy explicitly says "first-name basis"

[Masara Kim @masskeemz]

Terrorists killed her first husband. Years later, after she found the courage to remarry and rebuild, they killed her second husband too. While still battling that trauma and struggling to feed her children, they attacked her again — this time on her own farm while she was trying to collect some potatoes for her daughter’s tuition 💔.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

This afternoon I took the boys out to a beautiful restaurant in Rome.

After lunch, they left the table untidy and wanted to leave with me. I called them back and asked them to observe everyone else for a few minutes to see what they would do after eating.

They observed that everyone clears their table and leaves it very tidy, just the way they found it.

I asked them to do the same. That’s first-world behavior.

Leaving your table untidy after eating in a restaurant is third-world behavior, and that’s what you often see in our country.

They appreciated the lesson and took note of it as part of their experience.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

If technology becomes the ultimate criterion, the human person risks being reduced to data, a cog in a machine or a commodity. If, however, technology is integrated with a wise perspective, it can become an instrument of growth, justice and fraternity. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Pat Utomi @UtomiPat]

The iconic tv talk show Patito’sGang returns to millions of eyeballs next week with its home on its You tube Chanel, and severall local and international television networks. It will be joined, from the same stable, as a weekly series, by TV debutant Profiles in Enterprise:

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby — a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist — to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display in the Hope and Change lobby at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.

[Nairametrics @Nairametrics]

BREAKING: Seplat Energy appoints Tony Elumelu as Chairman, names Effiong Okon CEO https://t.co/r03i4irceP

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

Can I beg that after elections

All campaign buses be converted to Ambulances and donated across the country to save lives

Some can also be converted to school buses

[Dr KALU, OON @DrKalu_]

Governor Alex Otti understood very well that there's something evil about government houses that make governors not to deliver to his people so he decided to lead Abia State from his house.
This is almost 4 years and Otti has not set his feet into the government house.
Peter Obi also ruled Anambra State from his house.

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Now you can download and read Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical of his pontificate. The document was released by the Holy See on May 25, 2026.
The encyclical develops the Churchʼs social teaching in light of artificial intelligence, situating new questions of human dignity, labor, and the common good within the tradition that runs from Rerum Novarum through Centesimus Annus and Laudato Si'.
Download and read the full encyclical as a PDF here: https://t.co/yy0QKOMwyc

[Chinonso Ikeh @ikeh_nonso]

The mystery of a person vocation unfolds in ordinary things #fridaymorning

[Chinonso Ikeh @ikeh_nonso]

@Amaebo3 @AdebanjoPhelumy @Idemudiacharle3 Dumb vs dumber

[Chinonso Ikeh @ikeh_nonso]

@yabaleftonline This is not marriage but certainly a contract

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True currency is steadfast friendship

[Chinonso Ikeh @ikeh_nonso]

@NigeriaStories This is not Asari, na AI 🤣

[Tony O. Elumelu, CFR @TonyOElumelu]

Today, I turn a year older. And every year on this day, I reflect on something far bigger than me.

For a long time, I believed luck was something that just happens to you. Then I realised, luck can be engineered. Opportunity can be democratised.

Hope is not just a feeling; it is a system we can build.

[Chinonso Ikeh @ikeh_nonso]

@UcheMaryOkoli Real presence

[Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch @FrUgochukwu]

I always look forward to these Lenten reflections from Bishop Alfred Adewale Martins of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos. The reflections are always deep and rich. Thank you, Baba.