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8 days ago at an event in Lagos, former UK Prime Minister @BorisJohnson made a strong case for the Peter Obi presidency during a lecture.
The media has been quiet about it, but I'm here to give you the full gist.
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Deborah Hausa Wole Soyinka Rivers State Pelumi
The media has been quiet about it, but I'm here to give you the full gist.
Stay with me...
Deborah Hausa Wole Soyinka Rivers State Pelumi
At the 16th edition of the Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe lecture held in Ikeja, with the Deputy Governor of Lagos and other top government officials in attendance, Boris Johnson indirectly added his voice to the call for a New Nigeria by Obidients
He said, "Britain once had issues with terrorism but today the Metropolitan Police is so impartial that they once arrested Prince Andrew, the son of the late Queen..."
Ayo Ogunsola Obe - The Indomitable Vanguard of Democracy and Human Right in Nigeria's History
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Obe was President of the Civil Liberties Organisation, Nigeria’s first and oldest indigenous human rights organization, from 1995 to 2003, a period spanning the despotic rule of General Sani Abacha and Nigeria’s return to civilian rule in May 1999.
Ayo Obe was for many years the President of the Civil Liberties Organisation, which was at the vanguard of Human Rights Struggle in Nigeria. She took over from Mr Olisa Agbakioba during General Sani Abacha's military era. For many years,
@toluogunlesi I am ready to "reason" with you on this.
#APCandPDPSamePartyWithTwoOffices is not about the people in them. It is about how they act.
1) APC & PDP have competent candidates in their parties but they always choose the worst to give tickets to.
Tinubu & Atiku are egs
#APCandPDPSamePartyWithTwoOffices is not about the people in them. It is about how they act.
1) APC & PDP have competent candidates in their parties but they always choose the worst to give tickets to.
Tinubu & Atiku are egs
You will agree with me that Atiku and Tinubu are not the most competent in both PDP and APC but they emerged with the party tickets.
That's why we say #APCandPDPSamePartyWithTwoOffices
That's why we say #APCandPDPSamePartyWithTwoOffices
2)Both APC and PDP have shown and demonstrated it is all about how much money you have and not about your competence, character and capacity when it comes to clinching their ticket.
#APCandPDPSamePartyWithTwoOffices
#APCandPDPSamePartyWithTwoOffices
[À LA UNE 8H] Emmanuel Macron poursuit ses consultations des forces politiques d’opposition en recevant le secrétaire national d'EELV Julien Bayou puis la présidente du groupe LFI Mathilde Panot et son ancien Premier ministre Edouard Philippe, patron du parti Horizons #AFP 1/5
[À LA UNE 8H] Les frappes russes "détruisent tout" à Lyssytchansk, une ville industrielle stratégique voisine de Severodonetsk dans le Donbass (est), déplorent dans la nuit les Ukrainiens qui s'activent pour obtenir des armes et le statut officiel de candidat à l'UE #AFP 2/5
[À LA UNE 8H] L'armée nigériane a annoncé mardi avoir retrouvé deux anciennes élèves du groupe dit des "filles de Chibok", enlevées par le groupe jihadiste de Boko Haram il y a huit ans, affaire qui avait provoqué une campagne mondiale baptisée #BringBackOurGirls #AFP 3/5
Remember the #BringBackOurGirls campaign Chief Oby Ezekwesili? A fierce critic of the Nigerian military (sometimes for good reasons) ALA Dasukigate.
HAAA !!
That was what came out of the mouth of Oby Ekwezeli when NAF fighter pilots showed her the staggering size and inhospitable terrain of the Sambisa forest.
That was what came out of the mouth of Oby Ekwezeli when NAF fighter pilots showed her the staggering size and inhospitable terrain of the Sambisa forest.
After lambasting the Nigerian military on its failure to locate the Chibok girls in an "ordinary forest" (exact term she used) on CNN's Amanpour, the NAF invite to join in a short tour of the Sambisa forest to observe the search by the military for the missing schoolgirls.
Abubakar Shekau, the fundamentalist warlord who turned Boko Haram from an obscure sect into a jihadist army that killed 1000s across 4 nations is dead, according to officials, mediators & calls intercepted by a spy agency seen by @drewhinshaw & I.
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Shekau's death-if confirmed-removes one the world’s most brutal, effective and little-understood terrorist leaders: a contemporary of Bin Laden, Baghdadi and Zarqawi, who outlived them all.
The insurgency's cackling face for 12 yrs, his death has big consequences for the region.
The insurgency's cackling face for 12 yrs, his death has big consequences for the region.
Globally, he was best known for the 2014 kidnapping of the 276 schoolgirls that sparked the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
His death has been erroneously reported several times before and there has been no official confirmation from Nigeria’s govt, Boko Haram Islamic State.
His death has been erroneously reported several times before and there has been no official confirmation from Nigeria’s govt, Boko Haram Islamic State.
It's true @Jack knows #Ghana's (and #Nigeria's) Twitter has been active for over 10 years: To learn more read my and @misskstrong's book chapter #ReterritorializingTwitter' in this book edited by
@De_Kosnik and @kpfeldman fulcrum.org/concern/monogr…
@De_Kosnik and @kpfeldman fulcrum.org/concern/monogr…
'#IfAfricaWasaBar' another great chapter in this volume, using data analytics to read the playful politics of Africa's Twitter in the same volume, by @nehakumar
@avakaya_annam and Trevor Perrier
@avakaya_annam and Trevor Perrier
We discuss #dumsor #BringBackOurGirls and other key moments in a crucial 5year period of Twitter's growth in Africa, thru macrodata, ethnography, and media/social history, discussing concepts 'African mediascape' and the strategic redeployment of West's biased-gaze.
In 2014, 276 school girls were kidnapped in Nigeria by the terrorist group Boko Haram the night before their finals.
A lawyer with less than 100 followers tweeted about it with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, and a movement began:
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A lawyer with less than 100 followers tweeted about it with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, and a movement began:
wired.com/story/bring-ba… 1/
From there it exploded, with celebrities ranging from Alyssa Milano and Mary J. Blige to Hillary Clinton and Common leveraging large followings to call attention to the issue.
All the way until it landed on President Barack Obama’s desk. 2/
All the way until it landed on President Barack Obama’s desk. 2/
The online critical mass forced the White House staff to debate deploying more than $250 million in sophisticated military might to look for teenagers held by a group that had never attacked the US, on a mission essentially ordered up by Twitter. 3/
In 2017, @drewhinshaw & I entered a Nigerian cabinet minister’s office to ask why Boko Haram was ascendent. “Because we gave them millions of euros for the Chibok girls!” he said with a nervous chuckle
It was a slip of a tongue that set us on a journey
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It was a slip of a tongue that set us on a journey
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Since then we've tried to understand why it took three years to free the schoolgirls briefly championed by millions: @Pontifex, @KimKardashian, @TheRock all tweeted #BringBackOurGirls. Maybe you did, too?...
Twitter quickly moved on... But the real story had only just begun.
Twitter quickly moved on... But the real story had only just begun.
Those few days of tweets lit a fuse that burned for years, the forces of Silicon Valley reshaping a Nigerian war. Drones,FBI agents,mercenaries & glory hunters flew in to liberate a class of teenagers who'd become a prize in the 'war on terror'
None of them rescued a single girl
None of them rescued a single girl
1. You shouldn’t agree with Aisha Yesufu on all topics, personally I don’t agree with her on personal reasons, “her involvement with the #BringBackOurGirls BBOG - Goodluck Jonathan Saga.” You can as well disagree with her on LGBTQ - Queer & all of that.
2. What isn’t right is dragging her in the mud to advance whatever grudge you have against her. Calling Aisha Yesufu a “Raggedy Bitch” was low in my opinion. Y’all have opened the floodgates for people on all divide to insult her & try to bring her reputation into disrepute.
3. Arewa moral police is dragging her, LGBTQ - Queer are dragging her also, even those who don’t even fully grasp the concept of LGBTQ - Queer rights are equally throwing jabs at her. Many of you are evening running wild, suggesting she’d be deplatformed. I won’t support that.
It's almost impossible to believe, but 6 years after the kidnap of 276 schoolgirls ignited the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, Nigeria is again reeling from a mass school abduction by Boko Haram, this time of what appears to be more than 300 boys. A thread: wsj.com/articles/boko-…
The students were seized from an all-boys boarding school in Katsina, northwest Nigeria and marched deep into a nearby forest. Details of the attack, in a remote region with patchy cell phone reception, remain murky, including the true tally of the missing.
Local officials say 333 of the school’s 800 students are missing and assumed captive. If confirmed, that would make it one of the largest mass kidnappings of schoolchildren in history—and bigger than the abduction in Chibok.
A Thread.
As a Believer, one of the greatest tests of my life is granting real forgiveness to all those who because of Politics twisted my deep agony and agitation for rescue of ChibokGirls into all forms of wicked accusations I have had to bear since 2014. And yet I must.
As a Believer, one of the greatest tests of my life is granting real forgiveness to all those who because of Politics twisted my deep agony and agitation for rescue of ChibokGirls into all forms of wicked accusations I have had to bear since 2014. And yet I must.
In this 2018 tweet, I was recounting how the @BBCAfrica handle broke the news of the abduction of ChibokGirls on the 15th and my immediate reaction was to ask them if the news was “verified”.
I mean, it was hard to imagine hundreds of schoolchildren being abducted. It was hard.
I mean, it was hard to imagine hundreds of schoolchildren being abducted. It was hard.
My follow-on tweet after asking @BBCAfrica if their breaking news on the abduction was verified is captured below. It sank in my mind that it was BBC News and that by the quality control standards, it was near impossible to break unverified news. Ah. My eyes rolled down tears.
Yes, 2020 has been a turbulent year but the menace associated with the Nigerian saga has nothing to do with the calendar year. Nigeria's present administration is a tale of insensitivity, wickedness and a high level of incompetence.
Six years ago, it was #BringBackOurGirls. The previous administration was castigated and labelled a failure. Till today, some of the abducted Chibok girls are nowhere to be found. The new hashtag is now #BringBackOurBoys.
Peaceful #EndSARS protests were disrupted by the #LekkiTollGateMassacre in October. Few days ago, over 40 farmers were beheaded in cold blood in a gruesome #ZabarmariMassacre and now, over 600 Kankara students are nowhere were kidnapped right under the nose of the president.
@UN_Women Executive Director @phumzileunwomen briefs the Security Council on the anniversary of resolution 1325: despite good initiatives and progress, we are still falling short! #WomenPeacePower
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In #Nigeria, 250 girls disappeared from a school, in the most shocking act of provocation. And the world failed to #BringBackOurGirls.
We had to wait until last year to see the first successful conviction for sexual and gender-based violence at the International Criminal Court.
This is Day 2 schedule for @NigBarAssoc (NBA) 6TH AGC, 2020.
Look at the topic of discussion, and look at the speakers.
TOPIC: WHO IS A NIGERIAN? ... A Debate on National Identity & citizenship.
*SESSION SPEAKERS*
*Governor Nyesom Wike*
Executive Governor, Rivers State
Look at the topic of discussion, and look at the speakers.
TOPIC: WHO IS A NIGERIAN? ... A Debate on National Identity & citizenship.
*SESSION SPEAKERS*
*Governor Nyesom Wike*
Executive Governor, Rivers State
*Pastor Tunde Bakare*
Chairman, African Advisory Council of the Royal Commonwealth Society
*Dr. Oby Ezekwesili*
Public Policy Analyst / Senior Economic Advisor, AEDPI and Co-Founder of #BringBackOurGirls Movement
Chairman, African Advisory Council of the Royal Commonwealth Society
*Dr. Oby Ezekwesili*
Public Policy Analyst / Senior Economic Advisor, AEDPI and Co-Founder of #BringBackOurGirls Movement
*Salamatu Hussaini Suleiman*
Immediate Past ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security and Former Minister, Women Affairs & Social Development, Nigeria
*His Excellency, Peter Obi*
Former Anambra State Governor
Immediate Past ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security and Former Minister, Women Affairs & Social Development, Nigeria
*His Excellency, Peter Obi*
Former Anambra State Governor
1. It is six (6) years already, since the abduction of April 14th, 2014 In Government Secondary School (GSS) Chibok, where 503 students were on School extension writing their Final High School Exams (WAEC/NECO)
#6YearsTooLong #ChibokStory
#6YearsTooLong #ChibokStory
2. The School is the only high School in the entire LGA and the community requested as it be turned to Co-education School for male students to also have access because of the closeness to their farming communities.
3. Thus; the reason of having large number of students in that school at the time of abduction. Many have questioned that, it wasn't possible to have that large number of students in a Village School. Note: The Chibok is a missionary hub, they started education early and still do
On this day 6 years ago, we woke up to 2 bomb blasts at a motor park/bus station in Nyanya. The strategic blasts occurred just before 7am when commuters were trying to make their way to their places of work. 100's died, 100's more were injured.
Boko Haram claimed responsibility.
Boko Haram claimed responsibility.
Later that night, while Abuja + the rest of the country reeled from that attack, Boko Haram rolled into Chibok & abducted 276 school girls from their dorm; would have been more but some girls jumped off the trucks. Today is the 6th anniversary; over 100 girls are still missing.
I remember the first ever #BringBackOurGirls march like it was yesterday... Standing at Unity Fountain with @AbangMercy and co, and beginning the march led by @obyezeks. Then it started drizzling, and folks started turning back.
"Are you salt? Are you salt?" Madam Oby asked.
"Are you salt? Are you salt?" Madam Oby asked.
I came on @Twitter eleven years ago in April of 2009.
In all its Good, Bad and Ugly moments, one thing stands out for me: I love that many more citizens use their Voice.
If you are one of the 1 Million people that follow this handle, I hope we continue learning together.🙏🏾
In all its Good, Bad and Ugly moments, one thing stands out for me: I love that many more citizens use their Voice.
If you are one of the 1 Million people that follow this handle, I hope we continue learning together.🙏🏾
Thanks @ChineEzeks for making me join @Twitter to be able to engage my passion of teaching Public Policy . You gave me the insight on hashtags and helped birth #PublicPolicy101.
The vision stays alive.
Daaalu! 🤴🏿❤️🤗🙏🏾
The vision stays alive.
Daaalu! 🤴🏿❤️🤗🙏🏾
In my 11 years on here @Twitter , I have watched a good number of you grow into amazing leaders in civic society, business and government. I have watched you excel get married and become parents. Watched you innovate solutions to advance humanity.
Today, I celebrate you folks.
Today, I celebrate you folks.
Thread: The #coronavirus pandemic underscores the importance of our elected officials. Black women are often ignored/marginalized by the pundit class, so I want to amplify some of their leadership/efforts. This isn't an A-Z encyclopedia but it's a start. #BlackWomenLead 1/10
Senator #KamalaHarris is a leader on intersectional policy/advocacy & sounded the alarm early about Trump's indifference to #Covid_19. She leads on paid sick leave, unemployment benefits & tirelessly advocates for BIPOC, children, workers & more. 2/10
Mayor #LondonBreed was the 1st mayor in the country to put in place a stay at home order. Her proactive leadership is being credited for the low level of cases and deaths despite the size and the 7 million population of San Francisco. #BlackWomenLead 3/10
Décadas passaram em que as autoridades britânicas ignoraram crimes de muçulmanos em gangues de estupradores de crianças e o perfil das vítimas: meninas brancas / sikh. Vou traduzir um documento interno de assistentes sociais de Rotherham, em Yorkshire, ajuda a explicar a omissão.
"Devemos ter grande cuidado ao redigir este relatório para assegurar que suas descobertas incluam os valores da diversidade de Rotherham. É imperativo que sugestões de um fenômeno cultural mais amplo sejam evitadas." (The Times, 24/09/2012.)
O tal do fenômeno cultural mais amplo cuja inferência os assistentes sociais tentaram abafar já estava sugerido na Holanda, em que relatos de gangues muçulmanas que levavam meninas não-muçulmanas à prostituição e drogas já tinham aparecido em 2001. (Radio Netherlands, 18/12/01.)
Today’s State of the Nation Broadcast is aimed at unveiling the true enemies of Nigeria. Please lend me your ears as we separate chaff from grains, tares from wheat, villains from heroes, and perverts from patriots. #SOTNB2020
Let us read Isaiah 5:20-24, a text of Scripture that, in my opinion, captures today’s topic in its entirety. #SOTNB2020
Fellow Nigerians, I welcome you to a new decade in the 21st century. About a hundred years ago, our founding fathers began the quest to build a great nation. #SOTNB2020
The Unbearable Lightness of Max Boot
@MaxBoot reveals that the most important thing about a president is mannerisms. Max will vote blindly for any deranged policies of any Democrat, because the Democratic candidate will not offend Max's sensibilities.
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@MaxBoot reveals that the most important thing about a president is mannerisms. Max will vote blindly for any deranged policies of any Democrat, because the Democratic candidate will not offend Max's sensibilities.
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@MaxBoot By the way, whatever happened to the #BringBackOurGirls movement? This is the kind of cool @MaxBoot likes in a presidential couple, above all else, policy positions and any substantive progress on anything be damned. @MaxBoot is a thinker & a strategist extraordinaire, you know.
Best wishes for your birthday @ObyEzekwesili. I still recall that evening in June 1993 when you walked into my house in the Samaru campus of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where I was teaching.
You demanded to know what we were doing to restore the stolen mandate of M.K.O. Abiola. You had said you got my contact from Shehu Yahaya, a mutual friend in the Lagos branch of Concerned Professionals.
What’s a bloody banker doing organising street protests all over the country I asked her? The moment the police tear-gassed and beat us up in Lagos Island for exercising our democratic right to protest, I realized I must struggle.
14 April is the 5th anniversary of the Chibok Kidnapping. When the barbaric incident occurred, the whole world expressed utter outrage and heartbreak, and promised to stand firmly with Nigeria until the girls are re-united with their families thanks to #BringBackOurGirls. 1/3
In the above address @MichelleObama said "In these girls, @BarackObama and I see our own daughters." Britain, Israel and China pledged drones, spy planes and advisers to find them. Five years on, we have simply moved on while 112 of the girls remain in the grip of #BokoHaram. 2/3
Where is the outrage, the media attention, the promises? Are they still a priority for @MBuhari? Would we forgot them in such a haste if they were our own daughters? We evidently need to bring back these girls and every person being kept by #BokoHaram back to the limelight. 3/3
