Imagine losing your wife to cervical cancer at 30, getting remarried and then losing your second wife to cervical cancer at 33? Jazz? Owó ayé?
This happened Juan Perón, president of Argentina, and his 1st 2 wives, in the early 1900s. Howww?
2 Timothy 3’1 (TLB)
You may as well know this too, Timothy, that in the last days it is going to be very difficult to be a Christian
Verse 5
They will go to church, yes, but they won’t really believe anything they hear. Don’t be taken in by people like that.
End!
I've been thinking about this almost every day.
What would it actually take to ensure every single child in the South East is in school?
I don't mean reducing the number of out-of-school children.
I mean ZERO.
I'm setting myself a target:
Zero out-of-school children in the South East within the next 24 months.
And within 4 years, I want us to drive illiteracy as close to zero as possible.
I know it sounds ambitious.
There are children out of school because of poverty. Some because of culture. Some because of religion. Some because they have to work. Others because there are barriers we've not even identified yet.
But I genuinely believe this is a problem we can solve if we stop treating it as someone else's responsibility.
So I'm asking for your help.
If you had to achieve this, what would you do?
I want practical ideas. Bold ideas. Crazy ideas. Lessons from other countries. Community-based solutions. Technology. Policy. Anything.
I'll read every suggestion.
If we can solve this in the South East, we'll create a blueprint that the rest of Nigeria and maybe even Africa can learn from.
The FIDE rating list came out yesterday, and for the first time, I am officially 2126+.
I’m now ranked 25th in Nigeria.
For a small boy from Kaduna who started with nothing but a dream, this is something I never imagined.
WARNING: DISTURBING VIDEO
This is the clip of Islamic terrorists who kidnapped children in Oyo State torturing them with fire.
And this post is not even to address the government, but the church.
Tinubu has failed. So we are turning to the spiritual conscience of the nation.
Why is the collective church quiet? This is our question.
Why does this not bother the collective church?
Why does the church only speak during elections and not while the consequences of the election are happening?
During the last election, we were told by some preachers that “Saul will come before David.”
To that preacher: Saul has come now. But where is your voice, like Samuel, who told him he had rebelled against God and that the kingdom would be taken away from him?
We were told by another preacher that this government is like Solomon or something.
Where is your voice, sir?
To the pastors who are close to power:
You have invited present and former government officials to your conferences, seminars, and other high-class elite events this year.
Where is your voice?
Again, Tinubu has failed. But the church is the government of God on this earth.
What we bind here is bound in heaven. We will judge this earth.
“We will judge the world.” — 1 Corinthians 6:2
The prophet and the priest have always been the ones who judged corrupt governments.
We see it throughout the Old Testament.
Why do we use Old Testament patriarchs who were rich as examples for the prosperity gospel, but ignore the prophets who rebuked kings?
During Abacha’s time, the church banded together to rebuke him and warred against him in prayer.
You have not done this against Tinubu. You have not denounced him collectively.
And the blood of the innocent flows.
God is angry. He hates when innocent blood is spilled.
If God is angry, how are you all at ease?
And if you are not at ease, why are you not talking?
In times of national crisis, the church prays like Mordecai and speaks like Esther.
Right now, we are not even sure if either is being done.
The church is the conscience of the nation.
John spoke against Herod.
Jesus spoke against Herod.
Why have you all not spoken against Tinubu?
Terrorists are in Ibadan, Osun, and Kwara. They were in the Middle Belt. We did almost nothing.
Now they are at your doorstep.
To the church in Nigeria, what has happened to you?
You cannot rehabilitate a person that beheads a person.
You cannot rehabilitate someone that offs people for sport.
You cannot rehabilitate someone that kidnaps and rapes children.
Saying goodbye to Medschool in 52 posts, one for every week of final year.
Some serious, some silly, all very earnest. Should have the first one up on substack by tomorrow!