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[Tomori @otomporo8701]

Driving home, 2011. Checkpoint. Drunk policeman.

3 gun shots, one bullet punched through my car boot into my right hand.

That hand once edit, animated, paid bills and fed my family. Overnight it became dead weight.

Career gone. Marriage cracked. Mind still bleeding daily.I sued the Nigeria Police.

2015: Federal High Court ordered them to fund reconstructive surgery to restore my life.

Eleven years later: zero naira, zero apology, zero accountability.

I still can’t fully use the hand they destroyed. Still begging strangers so I don’t lose it forever.

The Nigeria Police that shot me ignores the court. Who protects the rest of us?
@MobilePunch @TunjiDisu1 @UNDP @NhrcNigeria
#NigeriaPoliceNotYourFriend #JusticeForTomori

[Barbir @Alex_Barbir]

Why do Muslims so clearly want to lie and deceive what is happening in Plateau Nigeria? When Christians are slaughtered day and night by Fulani terrorists, why does everyone consciously lie regarding the truth? What is being concealed? What is the real agenda? How can masses of people on look innocent murder?

[𝑺𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒍𝒊 @sultanwho]

PROTECT CHRISTIANS FROM ISLAMISTS IN NIGERIA

[Eric Hovind @erichovind]

I just finished an interview with Brad from Across Nigeria… and honestly, I’m sitting here stunned.

Today, he buried 14 Christians in a mass grave.
Two were infants.
One was a 4-year-old child.
And this isn’t some recycled internet story or political talking point. Brad was literally there today helping bury them. While on the way to investigate one attack, another Christian community was attacked. He said the violence is happening so fast they can barely keep up anymore.
What shocked me even more is this:
Brad shared that 72% of all Christians killed worldwide last year were killed in this region of Nigeria.
72%.
And hardly anybody is talking about it.
The mainstream media should be all over this. Instead, most people scrolling social media today have no idea our brothers and sisters in Christ are being slaughtered while churches are being forced underground.
Guys… this matters.
Please watch this interview.
Please pray for these families.
And PLEASE share this everywhere you can.
At this point, WE are the media.
WE are how people find out.
WE are the distribution network.
If enough ordinary people start sharing the truth, eventually the world will have to pay attention.
Watch the full conversation and help us get this story out.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

If citizens of the Global North depended on visas to travel the world the way we do in the South, visa processing would have evolved decades ago.

Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs must lead this charge.

Embassies still operating on outdated passport submission requirements should be put on notice. The ask is not unreasonable. Best practice already exists.

But that demand carries no credibility while Nigeria's own missions abroad operate by the same standards. Reform must be reciprocal.

What is needed is simple: a clear timeline for compliance, applied outward to those processing Nigerian applicants, and inward to how Nigerian missions process everyone else. We need a timeline on this, for us and for those who processes ours.

cc
@NigeriaMFA
@BTOofficial
@Ojukwu_Bianca
@France24
@AbikeDabiri
@francediplo_EN
@GermanyInAfrica
@EmmanuelMacron
@officialABAT https://t.co/GwRojYzTY8

[Peter Obi Grassroots Mobilization. @PO_GrassRootM]

BREAKING: Aisha Yesufu declares for the FCT Senatorial seat under the NDC.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you @FranceInNigeria, you are far too kind.

J'aurais écrit ceci en français, mais mon français n'est pas assez fort pour ce que je ressens à ce sujet. S'il vous plait. Merci.

My passport has been returned by @FranceInNigeria. Eight (8) weeks they held it. In their characteristic generosity toward Africans, they have issued me a visa for six (6) weeks.

Let me be clear about what this means in context. This is the shortest Schengen visa I have ever received from the French Embassy. My first, over a decade ago, was six months. The one before this lasted a year. The one before that, a year. There is a four-year Schengen visa somewhere in my records. On the very passport now graced with this extraordinary six-week stamp sit multiple-year visas from the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Canada.

Six weeks. For eight weeks of custody. The mathematics of French generosity toward Africa is its own genre. Thank you @EmmanuelMacron.

I know people who got their passports back after my first tweet on this matter. One had hers held for five weeks (5). It came back without a visa. No stamp. Just a passport returned having contributed nothing to her life but five weeks of immobility. Thankfully, they did not minute on it; a small mercy in an otherwise graceless process. Graceful, I meant to write.

This is not new territory for me. My very first engagement with the French Embassy over a decade ago ended in a visa rejection that came with written text stamped directly onto my passport. I wrote them a four-page letter demanding they never deface a Nigerian passport that way again; mine or anyone else's. I want to acknowledge that they have honoured that. Some things, at least, can be changed by speaking clearly.

Some bad faith readers will conclude this six-week visa is punishment for calling them out publicly. I reject that interpretation entirely. I prefer to see it as consistent with France's broader approach to the continent — an approach the France-Africa Summit in Nairobi will no doubt reaffirm with great warmth, generous speeches, and many photographs.

A pattern, not an anomaly.

I will be writing a full article next week to express my appreciation to @FranceInAfrica in the spirit this moment deserves.

I write this ready to bear whatever consequences follow. But I will write. After all, it's a love letter. Merci beaucoup.

cc
@NigeriaMFA
@BTOofficial
@Ojukwu_Bianca
@France24
@abikedabiri
@francediplo_EN
@GermanyInAfrica
@officialABAT
@WilliamsRuto
@CNNAfrica
@BBC
@FRANCE24
@ARISEtv
@DW_GMF
@dwnews

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

This is an opportunity for @Ojukwu_Bianca and @NigeriaMFA to start a necessary conversation with these foreign missions. The ask is not complicated. @UKinNigeria is already leading on this; the standard exists and it works.

I wish this also fell under @BTOofficial and the Ministry of Interior. Because they never miss opportunities like this. Fingers crossed on immediate actions.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

https://t.co/VpvgRfNoKk

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Troubling Developments from the citadel of learning.

The reason Universities are regarded as an ivory tower is because its seen as centres for pure, isolated intellectual thought. It's therefore worrisome when they are increasingly pressured to operate outside this norm.

Today, I was scheduled to be at Obafemi Awolowo University at 9am prompt to deliver a keynote lecture, before proceeding to Ibadan for the opposition parties' political summit scheduled to commence at 12noon. The invitation was extended to me several months ago, and adequate preparations had been made. Regrettably, I received the news that the event would no longer be held in the University as planned.

While such occurrences may be dismissed in isolation, it is important to state clearly that this has now happened more than ten times. This is no longer incidental; it points to a troubling pattern that should concern all well-meaning Nigerians. My alma mater, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka was not excluded. The family of one of the renowned UNN Vice Chancellor late Professor Frank Ndili had planned an annual lecture on his behalf and the inaugural lecture was to be delivered, but on the scheduled date it was cancelled by the University authority.

These are not merely personal inconveniences; they raise deeper questions about the kind of environment we are nurturing in our country. Universities are meant to be centres of learning, open dialogue, and the free exchange of ideas. When platforms for constructive engagement are repeatedly constrained, it reflects a worrying shift away from these ideals.

This concern becomes even more pronounced when viewed against my engagements across the world, where I have been privileged to speak and interact freely with students and scholars in respected institutions. In the past 24 months, I have delivered lectures in notable universities globally including Oxford University, Cambridge University, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Chicago University, University of Pennsylvania, Imperial College, to name a few. Those environments continue to demonstrate openness to dialogue, critical thinking, and shared learning, values that should equally define our own institutions.

We must ask ourselves: what kind of nation are we building if spaces meant for intellectual engagement are gradually shrinking? A country’s progress is anchored on its ability to encourage knowledge, debate, and the contest of ideas, not restrict them.

Nigeria must work towards becoming a place where ideas thrive, where knowledge is shared without fear, and where our institutions uphold the principles they were established to protect.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Adéṣẹ̀tọ́ @Illusionist_126]

Do you know what the main problem is with you folks and shite arguments like this? You are treating these children simply as symbols of governmental failure rather than as human beings with present, immediate needs. It is also evident most of you do not know how NGOs and Civil societies work. For example, you cannot simply walk up to a public school and start handing out incentives to pupils without due permission from the Ministry of Education. If you also try to antagonize the government, your efforts will be utterly frustrated.

You will go on to condemn Tunde for compromising while you remain morally spotless but also entirely useless to the children in question. You want to keep them under the bridge, theoretically, so the bridge can function as an indictment of the state. Do you actually think you are more righteous by performing outrage on social media?

Listen, the children under the bridge are already there. The question is not philosophical anymore. They are hungry, undereducated, exposed to violence, and statistically on their way to lives you hypocrites will later lament. If he leaves these children right now and start supporting your candidate, will this immediately destroy all the slums in Lagos State?

All of you using these children's suffering as rhetorical ammunition against someone trying to address that suffering directly, I want to ask you plainly now: What exactly are you proposing instead, and when does it begin?

[The Lord's storyteller @LajuIren]

Jesus died and rose again. Never to die again. Happy Good Friday! Happy Easter! Happy eternal life to all who believe in His name, and to all who will, soon!

[Pastor Tomiwa Immanuel @TomiwaImmanuel]

A government that cannot end such brazen and repeated terrorist attacks should not be campaigning for re-election.

[Spiricoco Twittter @SpiricocoNg]

When something tragic happens to Muslims, Muslim stakeholders don’t wait for the government.

They take action. Their governors, clerics, scholars, activists, and influencers swing into motion.

Heck, didn’t about 33 Muslim SANs provide legal defense for the killers of Deborah?

But it is not so with us Christians in the Nigerian church. Muslim authorities take the protection of Muslims as their responsibility.

Even though they are the terrorists, killers, and aggressors, their leaders and institutions still mount a defense for them.

But this is not the case for the Nigerian church, who are being innocently killed by Muslims.

It doesn’t matter how many people Muslim terrorists kill in Jos, Kwara, Kano, or Borno.

It doesn’t matter how many priests or friars are kidnapped.

It doesn’t matter how many pastors are burned in their cars, or how many Christians are killed in their homes.

It doesn’t matter.

Hardly any prominent pastor makes a strong, demanding statement to the government.

We rarely see a coalition of influential ministers making firm, decisive statements or petitioning the government.

It seems that no matter the tragedy, our conferences still go on.

Our music concerts are still held as scheduled. We still shut down stadiums.

We still gather and gleefully upload arrival reels in our exotic cars on social media.

We are dying, and yet we are at ease.

The Bible places a woe on that:

“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria…” — Amos 6:1

The reason we behave this way in the South is because we think what is happening in the North will not reach us.

Judah thought so too. They believed the calamity that befell Northern Israel at the hands of the Assyrians would not happen to them in the South.

But it did.

And remember, we are meant to stand for one another.

Mordecai told Esther that she had been placed in power so she could use her position to save her people:

“For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place… And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” — Esther 4:14

So what is the essence of the money, access, power, reach, and influence we constantly boast about, if we cannot use them to help save our own people?

[khaleesi🧍🏽‍♀️ @shelovesore]

Let break down this “not all men” stuff for you people

Out of 10 men in a room, one cracks a sexual joke.
Two of them actually find it funny.
Three of them don’t find it funny but chuckle just to fit in.
Four of them don’t find it funny but don’t say anything.
None of them says, “stop, that’s actually disturbing”.

Later, 9 men go back home believing they’re part of the good majority, unlike the man who cracked the sexual joke. But from a woman’s perspective, there isn’t much difference between the people who laughed, the people who laughed just to fit in and the people who said nothing.

All three do the same thing. They keep the room safe for the men who cross the line. And that’s the part “not all men” doesn’t address.

Women aren’t always saying that all men harass, but what we are saying is that a lot of good, polite men end up protecting the system where harassment feels low risk.

I understand why men resist this framing, but doing nothing is not the same as doing no harm, when the environment itself is what enables thr harm. The least you guys can do for women is to SPEAK UP.

It’s the same thing going on with this raping festival, some men wouldn’t participate but they wouldn’t stop the men that are participating.

But since they’re not part of the majority, they think they’re the “good” ones, when all they’re doing is protecting the system that keeps failing women.

[Gbemisola Taiwo @MisolaofJesus]

Sometimes I sit with the reality of how unkind this world is to women, and it breaks my heart.
It is one thing for the world to fail women.
It is another thing entirely for people to organise cruelty against women and give it a cultural name.
That is barbarity!
That is evil!

[The Lord's storyteller @LajuIren]

So if 30 people buy 100 tickets each now, we will cross 100m this week be that. Tickets cost an average of 10k. Please retweet for Destiny helpers to see. I want more young girls to see #OnobirenTheMovie

[The Lord's storyteller @LajuIren]

For this baby! Only in theatres!

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

In Delegations, Nigeria competes well.

Again, in a bitter twist of irony, we thank Nigeria for having the third-largest delegation at COP30, with 749 delegates, similar to China with 789 delegates.

While Nigeria needs to have a strong voice in global climate discussions, this spectacle comes at a heavy cost to our people with about 150 million living in multidimensional poverty, struggling daily with food insecurity, inadequate healthcare, and limited access to basic services. Yet, our leaders travel in large numbers, funded by taxpayers, attending climate talks abroad while the citizens they are meant to serve continue to suffer.

Compared to China, which had about the same contingency, China has a high HDI, while Nigeria has a low one, with a key measure of life expectancy at the lowest 54 years, against China's 79 years. China's GDP stands at $18.74 trillion, while Nigeria’s GDP is barely 1% of that size, a little over 200 billion dollars. China’s GDP per capita is about $13,300, whereas that of Nigeria is below 10% of that, reflecting the deep economic disparity between the two nations.

Moreover, 63% of Nigerians live in multidimensional poverty, which is about 150 million people, the highest number in the world, facing deprivations in health, education, and living standards, while it is only 3.9% in China; meanwhile, China’s population is about seven times larger than ours.

This stark contrast illustrates why Nigeria should not be sending a delegation of this size. The human and financial resources expended on hundreds of officials travelling abroad could instead be directed toward urgent social investments at home, improving healthcare, education, and living conditions to lift our people out of poverty.

Our participation on the international stage must reflect responsible leadership, one that truly prioritises the needs of our people and demonstrates our genuine capacity to engage meaningfully in global climate action.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[nuna @thisjoygirl]

Nigerian women are most likely to start a business than any where else in the world

We don’t have to be the perfect anything to have policies or initiatives that truly help them

With Nigeria’s current economic realities, funding women-owned business should be front and center