Odogwu Akataka

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[Rita Sunshine @1RitaSunshine]

If this drops on your screen, please retweet 😞🤲🏻

[Dr. OTE @tiffany_ehi]

Man I hate Nigeria. I had a double valve (Aortic & Mitral) surgery at no cost at one of the best hospitals - shout to Cleveland Clinic. Please how can I get in touch with Abigail, I want to speak to her. She’ll get through this! Please retweet aggressively

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

Is cold water good for you? Watch this video to find out!

[Ishaku Samaila♟️ @Isamaila007]

They sentenced her to 14 years in prison using Islamic jurisprudence, even though they knew she was a Christian and she had only advised an adult about her faith, yet the world is silent about it.

Please repost; let the world know.

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

Remove the comfort that keeps me average and give me the courage to become who you created me to be. amen

[Aluya_pov @AluyaPov]

This is a stain on the NFP name..like how do you recruit these men?? This man in this video needs to be arrested and needs to serve jail time..all of them needs to be called to order..this is inhuman

[Sir J (J9) @SirJarus]

I stopped at a canteen to have some amala in Offa few days ago and a guy approached me.

I'm used to being approached everywhere and most times I even interject with "From social media abi?" once a stranger walks towards me in such manner.

"Sir, I know you? I was a student of the University of Offa and, last year, you came to our school to talk to us on career and encouraged us", the young man started.

He was wearing what appeared to be commercial okada rider jacket.

A few seconds of confusion. Do I have Twitter followers riding okada? This guy looks too polished to be an okada rider.

"I brought someone here", he added.

This looks like someone I need to have deeper discussion with so I gave him my Whatsapp number as I felt he was at the mercy of the passenger he brought.

Not in a hurry as I had thought as I still saw him after I settled at my table, so I asked him to grab a chair and let us talk the talk immediately rather than on Whatsapp later.

His story goes: He was an accounting student, and was encouraged by the career talk I had given last year and he had enrolled for ICAN ATS, passed stage 1 and expecting result of stage 2 he wrote recently. ICAN has 5-6 stages for ATS route (non-graduate route).

"So what happened? Were you rusticated?", I quipped, with each morsel of amala becoming heavier in my hand.

Then series of bombshells: He had lost both parents. He had been fending for himself almost all his life. He is in his mid 20s. He came to Offa from a nearby village five years ago, for NCE. He got admission into UniOffa as DE to 200L. He spent nights working at a poultry and days a student.

More bombshells: He dropped out in 300L when he could not afford school fees. He could not raise the school fees when he resumed 300L. The poultry work was stressful too. So he started doing okada.

More: His CGPA at the end of 200L was 4.0/5.0. A solid CGPA.

UniOffa school fee is less than N400k, one of the cheapest private universities in Nigeria.

ICAN is cheaper (less than N100k per diet?) but I told him immediately that that ICAN will be useless without a degree. He has to go back to school and complete the degree. Serious employer looks at your degree before your professional cert.

I'm on the Governing Council of the school (he didn't know - a surprise - and he probably thought I was just brought as an external speaker at that career event. And I didn't tell him.) I asked him to go back to the school and enquire whether he can resume the 300L that just started (his set are in 400L now but that shouldn't matter).

I have seen people struggle in life. Not the worst experience, but my mind kept flashing back. Someone is dropping out of school, from a brilliant 4-pointer accounting student to an okada rider because, all his life, he couldn't raise sub N400k. An amount some guys spend on a random night at a tier 3 club.

Touching.

Joe will finish that degree. In shaa Allah.

[publikphigor @publikphigor]

This is what Peter Obi means by reducing the cost of governance.

[† @Basil_jr2]

don't fold nigga. better days are coming.

[JEFFREY @Jeff_Okhai]

Life really does favor some people more than others.

While some of my mates were already in their final year, I was still battling JAMB at 19. I wrote it again at 20. It wasn’t until I was 21 that I finally got admitted to study History and International Relations.

At 22, I started ICAN.
At 24, I became an AAT.
Now, at 28, I’m preparing for my final ICAN stage and, by God’s grace, I’ll be done by the end of the year.

It hasn’t been a smooth road, and the timeline hasn’t been ideal. But I’m still here, still pushing, and almost at the finish line. Sometimes it doesn’t matter how late you start, it matters that you don’t stop.

[Godman Akinlabi @PGeeman]

Until you bite more than you can chew, you are not inviting God to help you come and Chew it. You need grace when you transcend your own strength.

What is your faith project?

[Jerry Eze @RealJerryEze]

CONGRATULATIONS EVERYWHERE !
What God Cannot Do Does Not Exist !! #NSPPD #7amFirePrayers

[Malachy Odo II @MalachyOdo1]

Alex Otti is not even campaigning.

The arrogance of good performance.

[Pelami✨ @UnfilteredLami]

Nigerian parents loveeeeee NYSC

[HALO | CAREER SPECIALIST @Halosznn_]

If you’re seeing this, I hope you get that job before the end of October.

[Big Sister has something to say🤎✨ @thepenielglory]

Immediately, Pastor Nath said God told him that there will be a rain of employment. I burst out laughing and told my sister, "Na me get this one o"

[Ele 🌻 @elenadesaa1999]

Estoy enamorada de esta frase:

Si no sucede de la forma en que querías, va a suceder de una forma mejor de lo que imaginaste.

Esa es la belleza del plan de Dios.

[Najib Adamu Usman, Esq. @NajeebAdamu1]

Called my client. His wife picked up and said he went to see his lawyer. Now I just need to figure out who's getting cheated on here, me or her.

[ً @finallybye]

God has something beautiful planned.