Blessing Bliss In 2013, I was a Senior Secondary (S.S.) 2 student preparing for my promotional exams. Like many students, I was eager to advance to the next class, looking forward to new challenges and opportunities. That same year, the people of Abba community in Nwangele Local Government Area, Imo State, shared a similar sense of anticipation. The community, along with Nkwerre, Njaba, and Isu, had just received news of an ICT Centre project, one that promised to bridge the digital divide, create job opportunities, and equip youths with vital technological skills. For the first time in years, mothers praised Chukwu Okike Abiama for remembering their community. Parents envisioned employment opportunities for their children, while young people dreamt of acquiring digital skills in the promised hub. However, 12 years later, the ICT Centre remains nothing more than an abandoned structure, an unfulfilled promise lost in the shadows of corruption, mismanagement, and neglect. I...

I woke up one morning, stretched lazily on my bed, and reached for my phone like most of us do.  Scrolling through my timeline on X (formerly Twitter), I stumbled upon a post by Alex Onyia, a name that had become familiar to me ever since I came across his Educare Academy. His tweet stopped me in my tracks: “We will be remodeling hundreds of classrooms and toilets, starting with schools in remote villages in the South East. It will be one classroom and toilet per chosen school at first. That’s my plan with @gaiuschibueze and others that may wish to participate. Nothing so fancy but will be extremely conducive for learning for the children. I am very particular about school toilets.It’s core for students’ hygiene and has been neglected for a very long time. We need to restore hygiene in our public schools. I read the tweet again. And then once more. This was different. In a country where citizens are conditioned to expect little from their leaders and even less from their fellow cou...