Kyangchat Benjamin

sharing meals and moments of friendship at Wuye, Abuja. In every plate served, there’s unity and hope. #Iftar #Abuja #santegidionigeria

Hon. Bulus Madugu generously donated land to the Community of Sant’Egidio to build a School of Peace for the less privileged and pledged support for the project, during the interfaith breaking of fast in Gombe state at the palace of the emir Dr. Alh. Abubakar Aliyu #interfaith

@choko_Berry @chiamaka___o Nneoma 🙈

@KyangchatB @chiamaka___o Dr. Bako 🫢

Taking my non -Catholic friends for stations of the cross be like 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. #CatholicX

Dear Anglicans and people from other Christian denominations, whenever you go to catholic churches and it is time for communion, abeg, balance well for your sit. You hear wetin I talk? Balance well. Yes, we are stingy with our communion. We don't use to joke with it oh. It is the true body and blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The source and highest point of our faith. We are sorry, but we are not sorry. No vex. Sit down and pray. Anglicans are not allowed to receive holy communion in the Catholic church unless they first go through the process of catechism, and take their first holy communion. The Catholic church and the Anglican church are not in full communion. They can receive only when they are in danger of death: and they must have asked for it, they must believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and they should have been in a state of grace.

@_Kamor St John the Baptist, Kaduna

Fellow “idol worshippers” on the timeline, which parish are we worshipping our idol today?

@frmarcellinus Mun gode

I don dash people medal today. I am very generous. God bless all of you. You deserve it.

@frmarcellinus I did o, I did!

If you abstained from meat yesterday. Gather here, I have a gift for you.

The rich man and Lazarus. Lazarus has a name. The rich man hasn't. The rich man is you and I. Thank you.

@frmarcellinus Thank you

@KyangchatB God bless you. I'll pray for you this morning.

You have done well today. Thank you for showing up even when you weren't feeling very confident. You may think your efforts do not matter in the grand scheme of things. They do. Keep going. God will not shame you. Your breakthrough is near.

Dear Christians, quote this tweet with a photo of you with the ash you received this Ash Wednesday.

@Dorah143 Happy birthday ma’am. May your joy be full

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY 💃💃💃💃 and this year I chose to celebrate it with the pink colour because PINK COLOUR best describes my life currently. Pink simply says “YOU’RE LOVED, YOU’RE CARED FOR and I’ve enjoyed these in excess all my life. Happy birthday Dorothy!

I usually ignore arguments around “white supremacy is the cause of our problems” or “foreign influence is why Nigeria or Africa remains backward,” but this time I will bite. Foreign influence is real. It has always been real. There are countries whose economies and politics have been bent for profit, for strategy, for prestige. There are elites trained, financed, flattered, installed. There are debt regimes, trade asymmetries, security partnerships, and propaganda ecosystems that shape outcomes long after flags are lowered. Even the US, the world’s loudest preacher of sovereignty, has spent the last decade arguing publicly about foreign influence operations burrowing into its politics, media, and intellectual class. Look at the Epstein files and all it has revealed about how deep Russian influence got into everything: from finance, to elections, public intellectuals to entertainers, politicians on both sides of the political divide. So yes, foreign influence exists. It matters. But foreign influence does not operate by magic. It works through local hands. It succeeds because people on the ground open doors and then swear the doors opened themselves. The problem with leaning on “foreign influence” as the main explanation of Nigerian or African dysfunction is that it quietly casts Africans as mentally fragile, politically weightless, intellectually weak, incapable of agency. It implies that Africans collapse the moment external pressure appears. That history happens to Africans, never through them. It is a deeply degrading position, even when dressed up as radical critique. Plenty of countries around the world endured colonialism, Cold War meddling, proxy wars, ideological capture, relentless external pressure and what you might call neocolonialism. Some still managed to build functioning states, industries, infrastructure, and public services that work. They did not escape the world. They organised themselves inside it. The foreign influence argument insists that Nigeria is uniquely cursed. Take the palm oil example, since people love throwing it around. Oil palm is West African in origin. That much is not in dispute. Of course industrial cultivation in Southeast Asia did not begin with Malaysia sneaking into Nigeria to steal seeds as the myth goes. It began in the 19th c, when European colonial and botanical networks moved oil palm from West Africa to the Dutch East Indies, where it was planted, studied, propagated, and later spread through regional networks, including places like the Singapore Botanic Gardens. So while Malaysia did not take seeds from Nigeria, they took a crop native to the region, treated it as an industrial problem to be solved, and built a multibillion-dollar industry around it. Nigerians treated the same crop like background scenery, argued endlessly about who wronged us, and now import what we could have produced at scale. This is the pattern. Everything becomes a conspiracy so nobody has to name the conspirators at home. Nigeria has no excuse for the daily humiliations it has normalised. No excuse for electricity that barely exists outside private generators. No excuse for public hospitals so derelict that the political class will not enter them even for routine procedures. No excuse for the anyhowness that passes for governance. There are villages and towns so abandoned by development that if someone who died forty years ago were resurrected today, he would be able to find his way from the grave back to his village on foot, by memory alone. The roads, the paths, the absence of change would guide him. Time passed. The state did not. This is not white people remote-controlling Nigerians like puppets. This is a political economy built for extraction, protected by stories that turn failure into fate and looting into grievance. You ask whether the military rulers who accelerated this destruction really came up with it on their own. They did not need to invent greed. They did not need to invent impunity. They did not need to invent the pleasure of power without consequence. Foreign powers may have preferred certain outcomes. Local actors did the work of turning preference into policy, policy into habit, habit into culture. So yes, you can talk about foreign influence. Study it. Expose it. Fight it. But keep the same energy for the Nigerians who signed the contracts, looted the budgets, dismantled institutions, outsourced their shame, and converted governance into a private inheritance. Because the argument that foreign influence explains everything ends in one place: Nigerians explain nothing. And for me, that is the most degrading story of all.

@FrUgochukwu Amen

For those making important life decisions: May God grant you clarity of mind, peace of heart, and courage to choose what leads to life. May God silence every fear, order every desire, and guide each step by His wisdom. Amen.

Starting the year by daring peace 🕊️ Today, Sant’Egidio Nigeria walked for peace, lifting prayers for a world wounded by violence and war, As Andrea Riccardi reminds us: “If we want peace, let us start with ourselves and our choices. Fraternity is already a space of peace.”🕊️

@AfamDeluxo Happy New Year to you

Happy New Year. Obinigwe dị ebube, daalụ maka afọ ọhụrụ. We go argain this year. 🙏🏿

@Hijade_sanJose @Pontifex Amen

@Pontifex 🌟Saint Joseph rose in obedience to protect the Child, trusting God even in exile and uncertainty. Saint Joseph, guard us when the path is difficult.🙏

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family. As we contemplate this mystery with wonder and gratitude, we think of our families and the light they can bring to the society in which we live.

A heartfelt THANK YOU to all our amazing sponsors for making our Christmas Lunch across Nigeria possible!Especially grateful to @WellsOfTreasure and @NASCOFoods for their incredible support. Your generosity brought joy and hope to thousands. 🙏🎄 #ChristmasLunch #SantEgidio