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[Solyricon @Solyricon]

Girl to girl….the grass is greener wherever you stand because you are a good thing. And the one who finds you obtains favor from the Lord

[NaNa🌼✨ @sil_vee_yah]

Thanking Him in advance because I know May will be a great month for me.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

"Envy no one. For whatever you see, a price was paid."

Absolute truth.

[Vincent The Therapist @mrhighfoster]

He is 31 years old

At nine months old, a failed measles injection by a local nurse caused avascular necrosis, leading to lifelong hip pain and leg weakness until his hip replacement surgery

Four of his siblings died in childhood (likely related to sickle cell trait in the family), making his survival a "statistical miracle"

At age 10, he dropped out of school due to poverty but returned after his mother worked as a cleaner for six years to pay his fees

He learned chess as a kid at a local barber's shop in a Lagos slum while playing video games with friends

Barely spoke English when he started secondary school (mostly Yoruba at home) but quickly picked it up from classmates

His mother was a petty trader (thrift clothes seller), and his father sold spare parts. They met in a Lagos market

Chess helped him develop a strong photographic memory, which he used to cram for exams and survive without parental allowances

He became Nigeria's No 13 ranked chess player and earned the National Master title at age 20

He won gold medals representing Yaba College of Technology in the Nigeria Polytechnic Games and the RCCG Chess Championship

He also won the National Friends of Chess Tournament and the Chevron Chess Open

He got a diploma in computer science and used chess winnings to support himself through school

Founded Chess in Slums Africa in September 2018 as a volunteer-driven nonprofit after visiting slums like Majidun

The organization has reached thousands of underprivileged kids, including producing a 10-year-old champion with cerebral palsy

Tunde Onakoya broke the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon (over 60 hours) in Times Square, New York, in 2024

Featured in CNN African Voices for his work

Tunde has a younger brother (two years apart)

He credits chess with saving him from slum poverty and giving him an "intellectual identity"

He once simultaneously won 10 chess games at the DLD Conference in Germany

First African to win the Lideramos Youth Award for Social Impact in Spain.

Won the Corporate Chess Championship in Malawi with a perfect 7/7 score

Tunde dreams of building the world's biggest chess institute in Nigeria
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Tunde Onakoya has brought attention to Africa through Chess.

He started teaching chess at a younger age to children.

I'm talking of around 2013/2014 when he was meeting at parks around Lagos State, just to teach kids in the open (mostly after work hours)
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Today, I am more interested in telling you more about him, and how he has also risen from a place of deep poverty and struggles.

He has done soooo much for people and it's only expected that these past impacts would show on him as well

You might have your reservations about him, but you cannot downplay how he used the game of chess to bring great changes to children's lives.
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A lot of children now have access to education, purpose and meaning, thanks to Chess.

You are also part of his story. Tunde didn't do all these alone.

Your support, your accolades, your retweet, your reposts, everything

So look at the bigger picture.

Think of the kids whose lives have changed from taking alcohols and drugs on the streets of slums, to having regulated mental health and more purpose driven lives, due to Chess and the opportunity it brought.
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Tunde can't certainly please everyone, and yes, there might be actions that many people would attribute to him being human.

But if children would smile again, because he created an opportunity for them to have their smiles again.... Then it's one of the best legacies anyone can ever have.

And you also can create your own legacy to which nations would applaud, recognise and help preserve 🫂

The sky is big enough for you, I and Tunde to shine and shine bountifully well ❤️
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✍️ Vincent the Therapist

[KAYLA PARRILLA @kaylaparrilla]

If there's no shoulder to cry on, there's definitely a floor to kneel and pray.

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

The only difference between your family sleeping in peace and my family waking up to bombs is your geographical luck

[Nathaniel Bassey @nathanielblow]

Spiritual warfare 101 - No matter how overwhelmed you “feel” inside, never show the devil. You see, the devil is NOT Omniscient, so he does not know all things. The things he knows about us are things said and spoken of us. Or the things we let out from our mouths ourselves or by our reactions and actions. So while you may be overwhelmed in your soul, the way he gets to know is from your reaction. And because he is a wicked and oppressive entity, when he knows where it hurts, he robs it in the more.

But responding in praise confounds him. This is exactly the rationale behind the idea that praise confuses the enemy. Because he can’t understand why his onslaught is not causing you to give up and give in.

So beloved saints of God, regardless how you feel right now, find a way to release your praise !

“14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.”
Psalm 71:14.

You are BLESSED 🙂

[Yhettyqueen ❤️ @Its_Yhettyqueen]

Imagine loving your wife so much that you publicly beg Veekee James to give her the honeymoon you couldn’t… real love still exists ❤️🥺

His wife won in life fr fr

[Ms. Aria 🪞 @venusofurbano]

You have to strongly rebuke anyone that insists they know you better than you know yourself

[Grove Kifasi ✟ @GroveRKifasi]

I’m a foooooooool

But the Bible says

“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.”
1 Corinthians 1:18

Somebody shout PAWA!

[GodLogic_GL @GodLogic_GL]

If you haven't read the Bible in a while, read a few verses today.

If you haven't prayed in a while, pray & thank God for all that you have.

If you haven't been to Church in a while, go this weekend.

Surrender to Christ & walk with him, it's the best decision you can make.

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[Mims @Mimsugs]

@EkeVanVictor @koinoniaeni You came to my mind when he said the name! Didn’t even saw the post about you being there. May the prophecy manifest in your life!

[Hallelujah Challenge @HC_XFamily]

Let’s retweet until retweet is tired 🤣

#HallelujahChallenge
#HallelujahChallenge2026
#HallelujahChallengeFeb2026

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

women aren't rehablitation centres for badły raised men

[Nathaniel Bassey @nathanielblow]

#HallelujahChallenge
Let’s retweet until retweet is tired 😂

[𝔸b𝕒𝕫𝕫 @abazwhyllzz]

I must sing “Tobechukwu” or “See what the Lord has done” before the end of January.

Happy Sunday ��️

[Deborah Ocheido @d_ocheido]

Jacob collected the blessing from Esau

Esau had more money and possessions than Jacob

What was the blessing then?

There’s not one record in the Bible that Esau heard from God

But Jacob saw Angels and kept hearing the voice of God

The blessing was a relationship with God!

[Nick Hinton @NickHintonn]

Apparently, the secret to life is just having gratitude towards God all the time.