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Pleased to have my speculative fiction published in @IseleMagazine. Here, I explore the concept of child-bearing in a women-only world. Many thanks to Ukamaka Olisakwe @MsOlisakwe for being such a kind editor. iselemagazine.com/2022/04/30/dau…

Sounds like you're not quite sure if you're the first Nigerian to do that bro.

@AttorneyF_ Thank you very much for this.✨

If calling out people who support a government that is actively destroying lives makes me a bully, I will wear that label without apology. I was 17 when Buhari’s first presidential campaign began gaining traction. I couldn’t fully articulate it then but something in me knew that you don’t hand a former military ruler the keys to a democracy and expect him to drive carefully. That 17-year-old cried about Nigeria. Real tears. The kind that embarrass you later but never quite embarrass you enough to take back. Fast forward to 2023. I’m 25, living in Valencia, Spain. I had spent weeks pouring the full weight of that election into every conversation around me until my Spanish boss and every one of my colleagues, none of whom were African, none of whom had any personal stake in what happened in Abuja, understood the gravity of what was at stake. When the results came in and Peter Obi didn’t win, I couldn’t go to work for three days. Three days. Because I had genuinely allowed myself to believe that Nigeria was about to turn a corner. I had even begun entertaining the thought of going home to build a sports law practice from scratch. That was three years ago. I am now married. I have a son. And I have not set foot in Nigeria since, because nothing about the current reality of that country pulls me back. Not nothing about the flight, not nothing about the logistics. Nothing about what I would be returning to. Interestingly, the man we are now fighting to remove from power was one of the principal architects of the Buhari presidency we once cried about. He didn’t just benefit from the rot, he helped engineer the conditions that produced it. And now he sits at the top of the structure he built, presiding over a country that is, by almost every measurable index, worse than it has ever been in my lifetime. Eleven years. Eleven years between that 17-year-old’s tears and today, and the trajectory has been consistently downward. So no. I will not play this cool. I will not soften my language for the comfort of people who have made peace with the unacceptable. I will not pretend that reasonable people can look at this moment and conclude that measured neutrality is the honorable position. My son will know a better Nigeria. That is a non-negotiable.

@adedayoagarau God when?

Yes please.

@AttorneyF_ Omo😂

I was standing outside one of the best luxury restaurants in Paris with my friend/business partner. We were waiting because an American celebrity client of his was celebrating her birthday there, and he’d been invited to shoot the event. One of the Cameroonian security guards outside struck up a conversation with us. When we told him we were Nigerians, the first thing he said was: “Ahhhh… your President’s son!… Asked to be reminded his name and I said Seyi? Wahhhh, big spender!” Then he started doing the cash-spraying gesture and laughing. He told us that anytime Seyi Tinubu is in Paris, he shuts the place down. It was funny in the moment. But when I went home that night, it kept me up.

@BlehisBack "You don't matter in the grand scheme of things."

How do you politely tell someone that they don’t matter in the grand scheme of things?

@snjeriwambugu This is a stunning novel. I loved reading it so much!

Lonely Crowds is a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award & Longlisted for VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. thank you to both organizations !

@MirrorofBryan @PalettePoetry @blukewilson @poetkarankapoor @WorldPoetryCol @ChurchofPoetry @thepoeticswans @BeesPoems @Chiwenite_O @ChinuaEzenwa @SymplyTaiwo I'm kind enough.

Super excited to share my new poem, published by the amazing @PalettePoetry. If you know what it feels like to shrink yourself in spaces that exist to drain your light, this poem is for you. Life itself, is metamorphosis. Enjoy! palettepoetry.com/2026/03/30/wha…

@AttorneyF_ Exactly. I get the inclination of church leaders to always resort to prayers, but this one looks somehow, almost like he's trying to ragebait the victims lol

This is such a nothing statement. The people of Jos don’t need empty sympathy, they need justice. Church leaders in times like this must be vocal to hold political leaders accountable. Raise the right questions, seek answers don’t just play around the issue.

@AttorneyF_ Very silly guy. Sorry my bro

@PiusEkemini Bruh 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ like it’s so easy to say “I read xyz from xyz and it got me thinking” and then write your own article. But he so desperately wanted to erase me.

Saw my tweet, copied it and crafted his own tweet without any reference to me and even published a Substack article with the exact same title as mine. COME ON x.com/attorneyf_/sta…

@AttorneyF_ Facts!

I will never say a bad word about him again as long as his stint with the NT is concerned. This is how legacies are made. Take us to this World Cup and you’re the greatest Nigerian player of my lifetime.

@ChiomaKJane Wow😂

My husband packed my lunch for work this morning 🙂‍↔️🤭. What about you?

@AdewaleAdeife2 I was there at church yesterday and the man was just brilliant all through! Excellent sermon!

Pastor Shola analogy of pain killers and vitamins🔥🔥🔥

@__mofiyinfoluwa Good luck!!

there’s something I submitted for that I would really reallyyyyyyy like to get. We find out next month. Everybody pray for your girl o.

@thenigerianbrat Already buying. Come let's eat.

@PiusEkemini Buy five let’s eat pls

Shawarma from Yum Station will heal me but if I see bread and egg,I go chop.

@Ewabillions Good evening ma

Akwa-Ibom I’m inside you 🤭

@The_Barr_OluT Blessing?😂

My own is: How do y’all be knowing their bums were not thoroughly wiped? What were you doing when you found out? 😭