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Amara Nwankpa
@Nwankpa_A
Policy Analyst
Mar 25 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
So, I asked ChatGPT to help me illustrate Odumeje's powers. Thread: We started with my favourite "Ganduka Gandusa", which it interpreted as an ancient ethereal and mystical energy. So the illustration is set against a backdrop that blends elements of the cosmos with an ancient forest. Image
Feb 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Outside Nigeria, there's no other country where I have done more miles than France. ImageImageImageImage I think Netherlands ranks close second ImageImageImageImage
Sep 29, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The series of tweets on "Dorm" accounts from this account illustrate how financial ignorance and economic illiteracy can end up doing unintended and irreversible damage to the economy.
Thread: 1. Lets start with the fact that the author of this tweet - who is also a member of Nigeria's parliament - calls it "Dorm" accounts. It suggests ignorance of the name and the policy intention of these kinds of accounts. The correct name is "Dom", short for Domiciliary Accounts.
Aug 11, 2021 • 30 tweets • 4 min read
Important Update on #StopAbujaPoliceRaidsOnWomen - THREAD The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ruled in favour of six women who were harassed and abused during raids by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), police and other law enforcement agents in April 2019.
Jun 1, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
When I say that there is an exclusive Nigerian identity fostered by the state, this is what it looks like. The national solidarity is engendered by patronage through oil blocks and monthly transfers. The average Nigerian lives at the margins of the state, participating by proxy. When a part of Nigeria says they are marginalised, they often mean to say that the representives of their ethnic group through whom they broker their participation have been poorly treated by the patronage network.
In actual fact, all of Nigeria is marginalised, save the few.
Jun 1, 2021 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
State formation is a process. Every state in the world is somewhere along the continuum working its way forward or backward. This is where I think Nigeria is on the continuum. What do you think? People take Stage 1 for granted because geographic homogeneity is a common assumption. But drawing boundaries can be a violent process. Who are you including that wants out? How do you deal with pockets of opposition that threaten the contiguousness of the map? Crush or resettle?
Oct 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Be prepared to testify! I know from previous experience that young Nigerians are often averse to giving evidence in a judicial setting. There is nothing to be afraid of. Especially in this situation where your testimony will be supported by a mountain of video evidence #EndSWAT Start organising all your videos and pictures. Upload them to a cloud or email to yourself. Make sure you they have geolocation. Create voice memos of your experiences to aid your memory. #EndSARS
Oct 14, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Without being presumptuous, may I make a proposal on how #EndSARS, #EndPoliceBrutality protest could continue and how progressive compromises on both sides are recognized without compromising momentum?: I propose that as soon as the government arraigns those who shot at protesters in Surulere, Ogbomosho, Ile-Ife, Benin, Delta, Abuja etc, the protest stops blocking roads and volunteer marshalls assist commuters to pass while protesters retain their right to hold peaceful vigil.
Oct 14, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I feel the need to remind us that our fight is not against individuals. It is against ideas, systems and cultures that have left us vulnerable and exalted themselves above our wellbeing. As such, winning the battle in the minds of Nigerians of all stature is paramount It is high time we bin this narrative that people meeting with powerful people can sell your free will.
Meetings will happen. Backchanneling will happen. The way out of conflict is not victory, it is resolution.
If what they propose doesn't work, we move.
Oct 11, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
When you are championing a movement against oppression, there's something I refer to as "The Moses Challenge". You have to look out for it and manage it. It's about balancing radicalism and gradualism. Moses initially had an extreme reaction to seeing his people oppressed by the Egyptians. But he soon found out that his biggest challenge was getting the people he wanted to save to trust him. When he attempted to mediate a disagreement, he got hit with:
Oct 11, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
My highlight of the #EndSARS Abuja protest yesterday: Spontaneous support across demographic lines

An older man in Super Eagles tracksuit parked his white Mercedes S500, got out & hailed us. Brought out his phone & followed, making amazing commentary about how humbled he was This woman in her LR4 who I'm certain was headed somewhere else but then followed the protest in her car. Making trips back and forth to supply water and food. She became kabu kabu for protesters.
Oct 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Know your SARS history: The Special Anti-Robbery Squad was founded in 1992 by former police commissioner Simeon Danladi Midenda. The major reason SARS was formed was when Col. Rindam, a Nigerian Army Colonel was killed by police officers at a checkpoint in Lagos. #EndSARS When the information reached the army, soldiers were dispatched into the streets of Lagos in search of any police officer. The police withdrew from checkpoints, security areas and other points of interest, some were said to have resigned while others fled for their lives
Oct 7, 2020 • 36 tweets • 13 min read
Shall we create a thread that catalogues alleged police brutality incidents in Nigeria?
Please reply this tweet with any incident you have personally experienced, come across on your timeline or seen anywhere else on the Internet.
#EndSARs #ReformPolice Joseph Eidonijie Ugbeni
Sep 17, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Ok. Since you have welcomed my comments, let me make a small thread:

I remember when I was doing research for "Swallow: Food Security in Nigeria's Changing Climate", I came across data that puzzled me. Research paper after research paper all seem to be saying that majority of farming households in many parts of Nigeria were food insecure. Didn't make sense. How could you be growing food and still be food insecure?
Jun 29, 2020 • 32 tweets • 18 min read
@mhagayr @IsaIbn "Revolution" in Nigeria: Another View - Joseph Nanven Garba (1982) 145 pages
Why We Struck: The Story of the First Nigerian Coup
Adewale Ademoyega - 1981 - 194 pages
No Place to Hide: Crises and Conflicts Inside Biafra
Bernard Odogwu - 1985 - 271 pages @mhagayr @IsaIbn Years of Challenge
S. O. Ogbemudia - 1991 - 266 pages
Destination Biafra
Buchi Emecheta - 1994 - 246 pages
Biafra: the making of a nation
Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo, Samuel Udochukwu Ifejika - 1969 - 361 pages
Jun 29, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I do not think there is any subject in Nigeria’s history that has been more comprehensively documented than the civil war. Nigerian, Biafran and International witnesses have written countless books, articles and journals. There's even a book compiling all the int'l press coverage The only reason why it appears that these accounts do not exist is because the Nigerian state has carried on like they didn't. That's what we should change.
Mar 22, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Fantastic #COVID19 conversation IG Live today with @purrples SA to @kfayemi on Communications and Strategy.

Thanks to all the participants who took the conversation to another level especially @Facebook - who offered to help with public health comms on WhatsApp and FB Also @MTechLaw who offered to help with content development.
Dec 11, 2019 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
June 15, 2019 @AkuBeyy and Jennifer Ogbogu dragged me to Jiwa, Gwagwa. A small community in the forgotten suburbs of Abuja. 21 kids had been abducted from a Church by the FCDA SDS department for over 3 months and their parents were broken and in despair. The female pastor of the church had been detained and accused of running an illegal orphanage. The kids, now wrongfully termed orphans, had been distributed to various orphanages in Abuja including this popular one in Gwagwalada.
Jul 23, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Facts: 1. Dec 2, 2016 - Justice Kolawole of the Federal High Court ordered the immediate and unconditional release of Zakzaky within 45 days and payment of N50 million in damages for unlawful and unconstitutional arrest and detention. 2. On January 22, 2018, one year after it failed to comply with the court order, the FG through the Attorney General filed an appeal against the court order.
Feb 19, 2019 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
On January 3, 2019, INEC tweeted this:
The Commission set up 2 committees SPECIFICALLY to handle important aspects of the 2019 elections. In a press release posted on its official news site on the same day, @inecnigeria provides the names of heads and members of the committee as well as their responsibilities: inecnews.com/2019-inec-inau…