Sadiq Yahaya

Civil Society Leader || Researcher II Communication Strategist || Optimist || Cosmopolitan ||

[Sadiq Yahaya @SADIQY2030]

O Allah grant us the grace to live a life of service and impact! 🙏

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

As 2025 comes to a close, I'm continuing a tradition that I started during my time in the White House: sharing my annual lists of favorite books, movies, and music. I hope you find something new to enjoy—and please send any recommendations for me to check out!

[SAMBO MAI HULA @SamboMaiHula]

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, international lawyer Robert Amsterdam (@robertamsterdam) refuted claims of a "Christian genocide" in Nigeria.

He stressed that the violence does not exclusively target Christians; Muslims have endured—

[GOSIPA @InvestGombe]

Gombe State is officially a top-tier investment destination! 💎 The pcl. State Performance Index (pSPI) 2025 report ranks Gombe as the No. 1 state in Nigeria for Ease of Doing Business

. This is a major win for our investors and entrepreneurs! #GombeState #Investgombe

[Government of Nigeria @NigeriaGov]

President Tinubu Signs Landmark Nigerian Insurance Industry Reform Act Into Law

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed into law the Nigerian Insurance Industry Reform Act (NIIRA), 2025, a landmark legislation that modernises Nigeria’s insurance landscape and aligns the sector with global best practices.

The Act repeals and consolidates outdated insurance laws, raises capital requirements for insurers, introduces mandatory timelines for claims processing, and strengthens the enforcement of compulsory insurance nationwide.

It also provides for:
•Dedicated protection funds for policyholders
•Digital transformation of insurance operations
•Enhanced supervisory powers for the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM)
•Greater participation in regional insurance frameworks like the ECOWAS Brown Card

NIIRA, 2025 is a strategic instrument in the Federal Government’s vision of building a $1 trillion economy, unlocking investment, restoring trust in insurance, and expanding financial inclusion.

Championed by Sen. Tokunbo Abiru (Senate-Lagos East) and passed by both houses of the National Assembly, the reform is expected to deepen insurance penetration, boost job creation, and strengthen Nigeria’s economic resilience as implementation begins.

.@officialABAT .@TokunboAbiru .@nassnigeria

#NIIRA2025 #InsuranceReform #RenewedHope #FinancialInclusion #EconomicGrowth #NigeriaMeansBusiness

[Sadiq Yahaya @SADIQY2030]

@Cool_Ustaz Masha Allah. Allah ya kaimu alfarmar Shugaba

[Amina J Mohammed @AminaJMohammed]

Congratulations, my sister Maryam Bukar Hassan (@Alhan_islam) on your designation as a @UN Global Advocate for Peace!

Your voice carries truth and endless inspiration.

As you once said: “Peace has always known a woman's name
spoken in the way she chooses courage
over collapse,
again and again.”

Proud to see a Nigerian woman lighting the path of peace.

[Dr. Yasir Qadhi @YasirQadhi]

Alhaji Aminu Dantata might not be a name known to many outside of Africa, but he was a shining star and legendary icon to the people of Nigeria.

I was honored to know him and his family during my childhood, and met him recently in my last visit to Nigeria. As one of the most successful entrepreneurs and business tycoons in Africa, Allah blessed him with immense wealth, and fame and power; yet everyone knew him to be a humble and honest man, and a philanthropist of the highest level: ever-ready to help others less fortunate, never greedy for more. He turned down political office, he never was accused of any scandal, he was ever-beloved to his people, and indeed entire country...

Such men are very rare indeed!

In my visit to him a few months ago, I asked him for advice. He said, "Honesty! Always, be truthful and sincere, and leave the rest to Allah." At the end of our conversation, he remarked, "I am ready to leave this world, and looking forward to return to my Creator."

He returned to his Lord at the ripe age of 93, and was buried today in the blessed cemetery of Baqi al-Gharqad, in Madinah.

May Allah forgive his sins and exalt his ranks and allow his progeny after him to continue his legacy!!

[Open Knowledge Development @open_know_Dev]

We are beyond inspired by the incredible young girls who joined our advocacy skills-building session in Northeastern Nigeria, hosted by the Open Knowledge Development Initiative with the support of Plan International Nigeria.

Through dynamic group discussions, compelling

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

To those who ring the alarm that the APC is intent on a one-party state, I offer you a most personal promise. While your alarm may be as a result of your panic, it rings in error.

At no time in the past, nor any instance in the present, and at no future juncture shall I view the notion of a one-party state as good for Nigeria. I have never attempted to alter any political party registration with INEC.

Equally, my friends, we cannot blame anybody seeking to bail out of a sinking ship even without a life jacket.

#DemocracyDay2025 #DemocracyDayNigeria

[Sadiq Yahaya @SADIQY2030]

in Taraba’s land governance.
This is personal—a passion to empower impactful communication. Inspired by Gov. Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya & @@DrKUHassan's visionary leadership at GOGIS, I’m honored to contribute to Taraba’s journey.
#LandReform #MediaForDevelopment #TarabaRising

[Sadiq Yahaya @SADIQY2030]

I will be leading high-powered training for the TAGIS Media Team in Jalingo on Effective Media & Public Engagement for Sustainable Land Reform!

I will be sharing practical tools & strategies from my role as Head of Digital Communications at GOGIS to drive trust & engagement

[Reno Omokri @renoomokri]

Dear @JesvinGeo,

Thank you for your take comparing Christianity with Islam. However, this view is not factual by any stretch of the imagination.

Before I delve into the facts, please note that I am an Orthodox Christian who follows the Jewish Rabbi Yeshua. I am not a Muslim.

More people have been killed during the Christianisation of Europe, Latin America, and other parts of the world than have been killed in Islamic Jihads.

The bloodiest conflicts in human civilisation, which collectively led to the deaths of over 100 million people, were the two World Wars, which were caused and caught by Christian nations.

Western dominance of the mainstream media has given Islam a bad name. But for over a thousand years, when Jews were either banned, restricted or mistreated in Europe, they always had a place of sanctuary in the Muslim world.

After the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of Jews from Spain, it was the Ottoman Muslims and the Moors of Morocco that gave them asylum. Oh, please fact-check. There is $10,000 in it if you can fault me.

The only reason for which a true Muslim will kill you is if you blaspheme the Name of Allah (SWT), or prophet Muhammad, Salla Allahu Alayhi Wasalaam, or engage in sorcery, murder, etc, which have also historically attracted the death penalty in Christian civilisations.

Muslim Ottomans ruled Jerusalem for 400 years, between 1517 and 1917. Ask yourself how many Christians they killed. They allowed the building of churches in Jerusalem, they endured peaceful religious coexistence, and when Catholic Europe expelled all Jews, the Ottomans and the Moors gave the Jews asylum in Istanbul and Morocco:

A lot of the mistrust between Muslims and Christians started during the Crusades. And again, please fact-check me: the Crusades were initiated and primarily directed and financed by the Catholic Church against Muslims. Muslims were not the aggressors. They were defending themselves.

And the Crusaders showed no humanity, sympathy, and decency to Muslims in the Holy Land. Men, women, children and infants were slaughtered. Look, it is a sad fact of history.

Funny enough, as the first Crusaders were coming from France and Germany to the Holy Land, they were perpetrating pogroms against Jews in Europe. If you doubt this, simply research the Rhineland massacres, which were the worst of them.

In contrast, when Saladin fought back and defeated the Crusaders, he showed humanity and mercy by allowing even surrendered Catholic knights to live and have safe passage back to Europe. Again, fact-check me and win $10,000.

No one can put an exact figure on how many indigenous people were killed by the Catholic Spanish conquistadors during the Christianisation of Latin America, but it is in the millions.

And when you talk of science, even the very foundation of the Internet, which enables you to make this claim, was of Islamic science origin,

The word 'algorithm' is named after Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a Persian Muslim mathematician who invented the discipline of mathematics. Without him, there would be no Internet as we know it.

The word 'algebra' is taken from his book, Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala, which means 'The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing'.

The father of modern surgery, Abū al-Qāsim al-Zahrāwī, was an Arab Muslim physician, surgeon and chemist.

Some of the scientific tools we use today were the brainchild of Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham, a Muslim Arab mathematician and physicist who lived over a thousand years ago.

The whole idea of hospitals was invented in Baghdad by Muslims in 805 AD when they founded the Hospital of Baghdad.

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

[Petroleum Technology Development Fund @officialptdf]

INVITATION FOR QUALIFIED NIGERIANS TO APPLY FOR THE 2025/2026 OVERSEAS POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME FOR UNIVERSITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, FRANCE, MALAYSIA (UK&GFM) AND AT THE PTDF OWNED COLLEGE OF PETROLEUM AND ENERGY STUDIES, KADUNA (CPESK) NIGERIA
The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) is pleased to bring to the notice of the public that the applications for 2025/2026 Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme(OSS), has commenced.

The PTDF Overseas Scholarship Scheme is strategically designed to cultivate indigenous talent for the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry and has been recently restructured to further promote the domestication of capacity development within Nigeria. The sponsorship has a comprehensive coverage for flight tickets, health insurance, tuition, bench fees (where applicable), and living expenses.

Scholarship offerings for MSc & PhD programmes under the restructured scheme are as follows:
• Fully funded MSc scholarship will be provided in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Malaysia.
• Fully funded PhD scholarship will be provided in Germany, France & Malaysia.
• Fully funded PhD scholarship for the United Kingdom will now be offered exclusively as a Split-Site Programme at the PTDF College of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Kaduna (CPESK) in collaboration withthree partner Universities in the United Kingdom: Robert Gordon University, University of Strathclydeand University of Portsmouth.    
Key Details:
• Applications should be submitted on or before 4th June,2025.
• Eligibility: Nigerian graduates with proven academic distinction   seeking MSc or PhD degrees in fieldsrelevant to the oil and gas sector.
• Application Portal: https://t.co/jOnzP32eQO

For detailed information on eligibility criteria, programmestructure, application guidelines and partner institutions for MSc and PhD programmes, please visit the PTDF official website https://t.co/ZpBMlFjvY7.

Signed
Management

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

The One Who Wears Big Caps for Little Children.

These are my final thoughts before I hand over my phone to management. The team says I need to sleep.
But before the world goes quiet around me, allow me say a few things…

It’s my second time doing this insane thing of trying to break a world record.
You’d think it would be easier now,after all I’ve done it before. But that’s the thing about impossible things:
The first time, you survive them because you don’t yet understand the cost.
Now that I’m fully aware of the exertion it takes both physically and mentally, I’m equal parts excited and terrified. I embrace both.

Today I’ll tell you why I always wear a cap…

The night before I left Nigeria for this journey, something happened.

It was 9pm on a Tuesday night.
I was at the mall picking up some last-minute items.
Two boys, scruffy and barefoot approached me at the car park.
They were hungry and hadn’t eaten all day.
I asked their names.
“Yusuff,” said one. “Ayomide,” said the other. Both young teenagers.
As I turned to check for cash in the car, the light hit my face and Yusuff immediately recognized me and blurted out “Chess players observe,”
I was stunned.
That was our mantra at Chess in Slums, it was what we taught the kids. I asked how he knew this, he explained that he had seen me months prior at their ghetto.
This made sense as we had spent the entire month of December teaching chess and maths to street children in that ghetto. Yusuff wasn’t part of the training but on the day of the final tournament, he watched from a distance as the other kids chanted “chess players observe”. It stayed with him ever since.

He told me his story.
His mother died during childbirth. His father disappeared.
He lived with his ailing grandmother for sometime but had to leave for the streets to fend for himself. It’s been five years of trying to survive in his own
Five years of growing up too fast…He is 15 years old now.

Then, something surreal happened.

A white Range Rover pulled up beside us.
A woman rolled down the window, “Chess master!” she called out.
She stepped out with her son Jayden.
Impeccably dressed. British accent.
She wanted a photo. Jayden loves chess.
She’s a fan.

So there they stood, Jayden and Yusuff.
Both teenagers.
One in branded sneakers. The other barefoot.
One polished by privilege. The other hardened by survival.

As I asked them to introduce themselves,
Yusuff’s confidence crumbled.
He looked down. His voice faltered.

I took a selfie with Jayden and his Mum, and as they drove off I had my epiphany….

And in that moment, I saw it:
The cruel reality of the world we live in
where a boy like Jayden and a boy like Yusuff would never meet
except by accident or because I happened to stand between them.

But what separated them wasn’t merit or character, It was birth. The arbitrary lottery that decides who gets to dream,
and who must survive.

Jayden will likely go on to attend the best schools, see the world, and live fully. While
Yusuff probably ends up doing the bidding of whoever can promise him his next meal.
An Area boy.

I have met thousands of bright eyed children like Yusuffs in this life, whose pain is invisible, and by no fault of theirs live in a world where their suffering doesn’t matter.
Sometimes, we save them.
Sometimes, we fail.
But I will never stop carrying this burden in my heart.

This is why I wear big caps for little children and wear one my self.
So the world may see them in all their colors, not for the suffering they bear,
but for what I know they can truly become.

I hope have shared this burden with you as honestly as I could.
If you ever believed in me, believe in them.
Cheer for them. Donate. Share. Amplify.
We are trying to build the largest free school in Africa.
A sanctuary for every child like Yusuff
where their dreams won’t die quietly.

I do this so their dreams may find validation in my sacrifice.

I have to go now, big day ahead. Gotta make it count.

[Sadiq Yahaya @SADIQY2030]

Lofty vision, indeed. But highly possible with the right leadership.

[Samuel Munzele Maimbo @SamMMaimbo]

Our borders must become bridges. With intra-African trade at just 15% vs 67% in Europe, we're leaving enormous economic potential untapped.

Watch my vision for how the AfDB can transform Africa's trade landscape and create millions of jobs through regional integration.

[Sadiq Yahaya @SADIQY2030]

6. Be under 30 years of age.

If you fit this description or know someone who does, please send a two-paragraph introduction highlighting your skills and motivation to: [email protected].

Thank you!

[Sadiq Yahaya @SADIQY2030]

We’re looking for a young woman with the following qualities for a life-changing opportunity in Gombe State:

1. Unshakable confidence to engage and influence high-profile individuals.

2. Outstanding communication skills, with a bold, articulate, and persuasive voice.

[Sadiq Yahaya @SADIQY2030]

3.Strong digital and media proficiency, including social media savviness and content creation.

4. Striking elegance and a keen sense of style, reflecting professionalism and poise.

5. Full availability to work in Gombe State and embrace its unique opportunities.