This is Keren-Happuch Aondodoo Akpagher, a 14 year-old student of Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja who died of sepsis earlier this year.

A used condom was found inside her. The school has successfully stonewalled and prevented all information from emerging. I know because I tried.
Her mom is on my WhatsApp and I lose the will to live everytime she puts up a story, because it's always about her daughter.

This is her current profile picture where she is pleading with fellow parents and other students to speak up. So far, nothing.
If you're wondering why this school has been able to keep this scandal contained, a peek behind the curtain at who owns it provides an answer.

Akinsola Akinfemiwa is the former CEO of Skye Bank, current Chairman of @heritagebankplc and a board member of @TCN_NIGERIA.
This is what Nigeria is in 2021.

A school that costs N750,000+ per term has had a 14 year-old female boarding student raped on its premises, leading to her excruciatingly painful death by sepsis.

But because it is linked to power, her mom is left to fight alone.
NB: While doing everything to frustrate the investigation and stop journalists from accessing information, Premiere Academy went and hired @pr_redline, which is the Public Relations arm of the Marketing giant @CSPGrey to distort the public story with sponsored articles.
The FCT Police Command is now holding on to the autopsy report and playing games with it.

The usual thing the Nigeria Police Force does when it is being paid by a powerful entity such as Mr. Bank Chairman above, to bungle a case that would embarrass him.

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2 Dec
Nobody is passing judgment, but I remember 20 years ago in JSS1, my French teacher called Madam Oni punished a classmate called Ikenna Onwumere by wiping the chalkboard with the duster and then dusting his face with it.

Ikenna was asthmatic. And she knew.
She then made him walk from the classroom to the sick bay by himself while he started having an attack, and we could only sit and watch it happen.

Madam Oni was never prosecuted, fired or even reprimanded by the school. She died last year and I was seeing flowery condolences.
My point?

Even expensive schools in Nigeria have extremely problematic ideas about child rights, school bullying and assault. They are expensive, but they are operated and staffed by Nigerians nonetheless.

If a school like Dowen is culpable, they will never admit it.
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2 Dec
When I wrote this thread in September, I had no idea that one of the biggest agricultural industry stories in Nigeria's history was 2 months away. One of the recommendations here was the use of partnerships.

Then this happened.
This is quite possibly the single biggest partnership between food processors in Sub Saharan Africa, and I’m tempted to ignore talking about the potential upsides to toot my own prescient horn.🙃

We're keeping it professional, so here's what this merger means for the industry
Cumulatively, both companies have spent over 80 years manufacturing and marketing flours, pasta instant noodles, semolina, sugar, cooking oils, starch, breakfast cereals and everything in between.

It's a bit like Diego Maradona and Cristiano Ronaldo signing for the same team.
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30 Nov
The LASG whitepaper on the Lagos #EndSARS judicial panel report in pictures. A thread. ImageImageImageImage
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29 Nov
The science I grew up learning was a boring, reliable, opinion-free, globally constant entity. Pi was 3.14 whether you lived in Beruit or London or Bulawayo.

Now we have celebrity scientists eho hold contradictory positions and people who say things like "Trust the science."🤷🏿‍♂️
I grew up learning that science existed to be constantly challenged, and scientific fact could only be established using the "scientific method" as against consensus and "because I said so."

Maybe the rules have changed since then, I don't know.
Apparently, there is no longer any such thing as universal scientific fact in this COVID era. Now there are just widely varying opinions which are all supposed to have value because the holders wear white lab coats.

Nothing is true anymore. Nothing is a lie.
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17 Nov
I have a lot of questions about this. First of all, why has @SecBlinken removed Nigeria from this list of religious freedom violators? That placement was one of @SecPompeo's last actions in office.

What has changed in Nigeria since November 2020? state.gov/religious-free…
Second, why is the public link to this press release on the @StateDept website broken? Why did I have to go hunting through the newsroom section to find it, and why does the URL show that the press release has been deleted?
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14 Nov
I have just received a message from Cote d'Ivoire about Itunu Babalola. She is still in prison in Abidjan where she has contracted a serious infection and apparently she is dying.

All those promises by NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri, OYSG etc - audio.

She's finally dying.
For those who don't know, this is Itunu's story.
westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/when-abuja-f…
She's so far gone that the guy who reached out was only asking for her parents' contact details, presumably to inform them about their soon-to-be-dead daughter's condition.

Before slipping into unconsciousness, she showed him my name and he found me on Facebook.
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