Onome Akinbode-James

Duke '22. Changing the world one little act of kindness at a time #ItBeginsWithYou ......... Team Africa is not a country

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

This protected species discourse is exposing a deeper education problem up and down the chain and I hate that no one is talking about it

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

Naomi takes it!!! I’m so happy to see her shining

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

I think the most wholesome part of the Câpe Verde-Argentina match is the fact that the Cape Verde players are Messi fans. They’re asking for his jersey post game and Vozinha said it was his dream to play Messi and he stepped up

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

@alexisohanian @AGrillz +1 to this thread, I’m a former Duke basketball player building sports tech for film study and would jump on this as all I do is watch the women’s sport. Trying to navigate to the wnba and women’s tennis tab in the espn app has gotten very old.

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

Vozinha working overtime

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

Who’s on the back side of that loose ball and doesn’t grab it, of course it’s D’Aaron Fox 😭

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

D’Aaron fox selling again

[WNBA @WNBA]

Puttin’ on a SHOW 🔥

Miela Sowah gettin’ straight buckets, up to 14 PTS in the 4th!

SEA-GSV | Watch free on League Pass with WNBA ID: https://t.co/OpG3gf37gq

[DGov @omoluabi1sq]

@TheSerahIbrahim

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

I’ve never felt similarly about the issues people have with Rebecca Lobo but today….. phew. Ryan talks about how Maya Moore moved on and if she was here the lynx would have not missed the finals for 7 years. Rebecca: Crickets!!! , Ryan comments on Betnijah Laney’s consistency. Rebecca: crickets!!!, No shade to Sabrina but Sabrina boxes out , Rebecca: not crickets, definitely starting to catch something suspicious here #WNBAFinals #WNBAPlayoffs #WNBATwitter #WNBA

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

@ayo_mik_ This casting, ko necessary 😂😂😂

[sandra @its_sandrra]

i sing it like i’m the one that cheated

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

Why has Dijonai Carrington been sitting out these series 🤔, this is a whole different game with her in. Other connecticut guards have been so tentative

[Ossy FA @iamossy_]

Ran into a former classmate of mine from back in college. He is Egyptian. Bright guy. A little crazy too. Participated in the Arab spring that sent Hosni Mubarak packing. Dude immediately asked me what dafuq is happening in Nigeria, and that he has been following up with proceedings before, during and after the Nigerian election, but to his greatest surprise, Nigerians are just talking and not doing anything on ground to register their displeasure on the election.

I did my best to explain to him why we aren't hitting the streets just yet, the court process, tribunal, bla bla bla bla...Bruh rudely cut me off and said: "you people are too afraid", that we are weak, scaredy-cat, and cowards; and that all we do is talk talk talk....speak beautiful English like Americans (...afterall you people are very educated, he added), and after talking, nothing happens. He took a slight dig at us which I let slide. And then he added, "if you people don't do anything about the election, nobody in the world will take Nigerian youths serious.

His words sank deep into my heart cus it was said with so much pain and authority. I could feel his angst, and the little jab he veily took at Nigerians, but I felt that doesn't matter. I stood there transfixed to the ground listening to him speak. Helpless. Motionless. We chatted about old times, school, career, old friends, business, family, etc, before dabbing and bidding ourselves goodbye.

His words were cold, somewhat mockery, but real. It came from a good place, I thought, maybe not, it ranged through my head.

I hope the Judiciary save the country from descending into anarchy. The law is plain and simple. If they choose to knee-cap justice, the people have every right to reject unjust interpretation of our laws.

#AllEyesOnTheJudiciary

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

There are so many things I want to say about the past 3 years, but I am contractually prevented from saying them by my publisher, because they're going to be in my book 'Breaking Point: A Journalist’s Search For Joy In Times Of Chaos'.

Suffice to say that I personally have paid a much higher price for all the work I do than most people are aware of. I have lived my ideology and walked my talk, but it has come at a massive personal cost, and I've had to chest it because what else can I do? I've always understood that if you want to be taken serious, you have to demonstrate how much of a bastard you are capable of being. The world has no use for peaceful people.

Polite, inoffensive people who only speak well-conjugated English and do little else are not respected, and will never be. The world only takes any notice of people who DO, not people who SAY. If the world pigeonholes you as a coward who only likes to talk, you will never get anything out of it.

The reason why Neymar and Ronaldo are now playing in the Saudi League and there is some social liberalisation happening across the Gulf today is because our contemporaries at Tahrir Square 12 years ago decided to DO instead of SAY. Their actions changed the Arab world forever. They have something to tell their children.

I personally have done my part, and I have paid a terrible price for it. Just how terrible you really have no idea. The last time I had a fixed address, I was 28. I'm 33 years old now. I have never tried to be a hero. Everything I ever did was because I genuinely believed in walking my talk and acting my beliefs. That's why I've never asked for help or complained about my circumstances.

Wednesday September 6 is the day that Nigerians will demonstrate to the world whether we have come of age and we deserve to be taken seriously, or if we are still polite English speakers who will find ways to merge with the wall when our backs are pushed against it. It sounds like a cliche to say that the world is watching, but the world really is watching this time.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the drug trafficker, document forger and unelected impostor illegally occupying the presidency, expects that he has successfully compromised Nigeria's judiciary, and will have his ludicrous power grab legitimised by the court. Despite this, he himself is so unsure of how this will play out with the Nigerian people that he has temporarily fled the country as he did during #EndSARS, citing the excuse of the G-20 summit - which actually starts on Saturday the 9th.

I myself am doing media work at the G20 summit and I can tell you for free that nobody shows up this early. He and the rest of the world are simply waiting and watching to see whether Nigeria's 200 million+ people will by silence and/or cowardice, consent to be mocked in a way no other population of people this size has ever been mocked in recorded human history.

His gamble is that we will. My hope is that we will not.

If we prove him right, then the sacrifices that some of us have made would have been for nothing, and Nigeria, with all of its 200 million people would have agreed to be treated as if it is of no more consequence than Burundi or Equatorial Guinea. If we prove him wrong, then the future is whatever we want it to be.

Whatever happens tomorrow, the world will be watching all 200 million Nigerians.

[gaut @0xgaut]

Someone built a frontend to Reddit that looks like Outlook so you can browse it all day at work without worrying about who is looking over your shoulder.

I love the internet.

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

@vintage_duckie @heisrema @heisrema and lateness, 5&6

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

@DavidHundeyin @elonmusk 👀👀

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

@aproko_doctor I'm happy for you lol. It really is a problem of misunderstanding. The feature was originally to identify the right account for people who could be impersonated (either as a parody or for malicious reasons). Now the social meaning is different and SM is capitalizing on it

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

So much respect for them!! making me rethink returning to college basketball haha. I remember seeing a coach I played for throwing a tantrum on the sidelines when I attacked the basket. There's film too 😭😭

[Onome Akinbode-James @Onome_AJ]

Casually caught the last minute of the @novawbb and Miami game. The attitude of everyone from the players in the huddle down to the coach after the missed layup with the game on the line is so telling. The little keep your head up you're good from every side?