1. My career as journalist is a blend of God’s Grace, Sleepless nights, over 100 books and shades of honor, threats and silence. Since 2017, I have chased around 100 stories, accomplished about over 80 and lost a few bylines to keep my life.

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http://2.To  the glory of God, I have published with Over 20 Magazines and Newspapers, plus one long video and great photos. Worked with over 100 editors in every continent you can imagine. I was a hunter too at some point. I do photography, with the lenses of my sense

3. Today, I am interested in introducing myself to Twitter. After my introduction, I would remain The Uknown Achebe. In this thread, I would share the TOP 50 pieces of my career as a journalist. I am shy though... but I will try.

4. This piece was intriguing and sad. I travelled across many opaque rivers, far beyond the margins of Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja to locate tribes that still kill Twins in Nigeria. My reward: thatched red huts, delicacy of grass cutters & missionary prayers.

5. It’s not words but silence that speaks for Hamsatu Allamin. In this piece, I travelled to the epicenter of Nigeria’s insurgency to meet the single most powerful women in the Boko Haram crisis. After a few minutes with Allamin, she looked to me like a Greek goddess, not a woman

6. Two extremes exist in ape conservation or poaching. The first, those who see apes as gods - worthy of worship. The other, those who see apes as piece of business. Both extremes are dangerous. A balance isn’t necessary. Just stop killing apes for money or rituals.

7. Imagine communities burying 10 youths every week. Imagine children dying in their mother’s womb. Imagine the groans of the elderly. Imagine fishers going blind. Yes, fake heath remedies and poverty and big lies on national TVs. I wrote from Ogoniland, Rivers, Niger Delta

8. I won’t rant about Burna Boy. But if my opinion will ever count, he is not Fela. Falz instead looks closer to Fela. Maybe not in the majesty of his styles and activism but his idea that music can be more than lyrical pleasure.

9. Probably you are not aware we have Jews in Nigeria. I wrote from Port Harcourt, about how this small group is pushing to break new grounds politically and spiritually. Someday, they believe, they would return to Jerusalem. Isreal, not Nigeria, is their home.

10. The government has been on this for years, staining what is already a deeply tortured human rights image. Daily protests. Unknown mass graves. Bullets and amnesty report. Court orders and the nonchalance of one government I know.

11.The most important thing after this COVID-19, is to insert history back into Nigeria’s education curriculum. Not colonialism but internal events that shaped the realities of Nigera. Without properly telling the story of the Nigeria Civil War, the scar would ache every May 30.

12. Oil exploration in the Niger Delta is like multiple traps. Those who survive oil spill may die by gas flare. Those who survive both, risk facing polluted rivers and farms. A few more numbers die by the government bullets. Those who can’t fight as militants die in silence.

13. In Borno, some sets of brave women have come together to fight against Boko Haram. The insurgents know them and had severally warned them to stay away from the crisis. A few have died, many derailed but some 100 faithful heroines remain. Their memories must not perish.

14. South Africa is an important player in African unity and economic integration. Nigeria is the single most important factor. I looked at how xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa and impending economic wars - as at that time - would shape the future of Africa.

15. The economy might be hopeless at this point. But its potential is undoubted. When I looked at the Nigeria’s rice sector, immediately after the government border closer, it revealed how well we can do as a nation outside of oil.

16. Some sources are good story tellers. You ask for a quote but they give you punch lines. For those from Anambra, this is your humble hero: Archbishop Emeritus Maxwell Anikwenwa, aka the door to political power in southeastern Nigeria.

17. Have you ever wondered how climate change can be linked to perpetual poverty? It’s really a complex question. I made the answers very simply in this piece that took me to three states in Nigeria.

18. President Buhari wasn’t doubted. It was his failings that shoke his support base. That was in his first term. So when he retuned for the second term as president, he had the opportunity to turn doubts to certainty, panic to assurance and hate to love. Can he? Find out.

19. This is the second most dangerous reports I have done. One source told me: “if you publish anything against us, we would kill you”. I laughed and published the report. After all, those who die by bullet and others killed by gas flares are still victims of familiar fate.

20. While men fight for crude oil and multinational jobs, the Niger Delta women turned to a less dangerous oil: palm oil. Small mills, news seed varieties. Smoke and sweat and smile - all to swell the purse.

21. At the peak of Zamfara crisis and banditry, I wrote this piece. We looked at how the conflict is evolving, the links to Boko Haram and the troubles of having 3 wives and 25 children. I narrowly escaped abduction that night as the bandits struck near my hotel.

22. I am speechless. Just read and make the speeches on behalf of me. If there is love in sharing, then accept the pleasure of doing this for me. What are friends for?

23. Ogoni clean-up, the most important evidence of government commitment to redeeming the Niger delta came with many controversies. In this piece, I wrote about the politics, lies and half-truths of a cleanup taking place on radio/TV more than the polluted Ogoni land.

24. Recently, I wrote about the Boko Haram amnesty. Amnesty is part of war strategies world over. But the context for granting amnesty can be the difference between one that is worthy or dubious. So does Boko Haram, considering Nigeria’s realities, merit amnesty? Find out here