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Tunde Onakoya

@Tunde_OD

1 year

It is possible to do great things from a small place❤️

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Tunde Onakoya

@Tunde_OD

2 years

About a year ago, I found this little boy in the slums of ikorodu picking scrap from the floor. I adopted him and he has lived with me ever since then. Today is his first day at school 😊

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Tunde Onakoya

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2 years

White to mate in one.

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2 years

Verified Area boy 😎

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Tunde Onakoya

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19 days

It is possible to do great things from a small place❤️.

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Tunde Onakoya

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20 days

WE HAVE DONE IT. #LongestChessMarathon #58Hours #RecordBroken #NewRecordSet

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2 years

We're all Area boys🚀♥️

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Tunde Onakoya

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1 year

Thinking about Ayomide today... We met him as an Area boy under oshodi bridge a little over a year ago but is now a Web developer and graphics designer. No longer a pawn in another man's game, but the hero of his own story❤️

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Tunde Onakoya

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22 days

Game time 🇳🇬

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2 years

We will transform Africa. One child at a time👊🏾♥️

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Tunde Onakoya

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19 days

Dear Shawn ( @CoachShawnMar ), there’s no world record without you. Together, for 60 hours, we showed the world what true collaboration means, trumping competition. We picked each other up during tough moments, both mentally and physically. And you did it with so much grace. This…

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2 years

Final Day: Chess champions from Oshodi Underbridge. - that the world may know that greatness can be found in the most unlikely places. A Thread...

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13 days

Someone gifted my parents a new house today. It’s the single greatest thing anyone will ever do for me in this lifetime. Thank you My mother worked as a cleaner in the same school I attended so I could get an education while my dad worked as a Danfo driver/bus conductor so we…

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2 years

I visited the Area Boys at oshodi recently, it was our first re-union in three months. I wanted to make sure they were doing okay and also talk to them about the upcoming elections so they don't become pawns in another man's game. A thread...

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2 years

I remember the first time we visited oshodi underbridge, I wanted to take a picture of Toheeb and I asked him to smile, he told me he felt Insecure about his teeth. He lost them in a terrible bus accident. We took him to the Dentist yesterday and now he wouldn't stop smiling😊

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2 years

On this day in history, the Canadian high commission visited oshodi underbridge. Chess can change the world 🌍 ♥️ A Thread...

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18 days

Catching up on social media now and I've constantly fought back tears. Love you guys very much. I'll do a proper post when I find the right words to express all of the emotions I feel right now. Let me delve into this Jollof rice for now. It's my first meal in almost 4 days. I…

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2 years

How it started Vs How it's going🚀

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Tunde Onakoya

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2 years

Today makes it exactly two years since I met Odunayo hawking fish on the streets of majidun Ikorodu with her little brother. A lot has happened since then, but two weeks ago, she completed her first year of school and passed her examinations😊 A thread...

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Tunde Onakoya

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2 years

Just a few months ago, Ayomide was just another random street kid working as a bus conductor and living under oshodi bridge will no hope of a future. Today he created his own web page and online store using HTML and CSS. We're creating a new story for the African child🚀♥️

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Tunde Onakoya

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1 year

Yesterday, I finally found the courage to confront a pain I've lived with all my life. This could fundamentally change everything but it's an important first step towards recovery. It all started 27 years ago...

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2 years

♥️♥️

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Tunde Onakoya

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1 year

Found a couple of children hanging outside a school- they were sent out of class for not paying their school fees. I took them back in and paid for all of them. I used to be that kid 15 years ago😊

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Tunde Onakoya

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27 days

On the 17th of April 2024, I will attempt to break the Guiness World record for the longest Chess marathon in the heart of Times Square New York City for 58 hours without losing a game. Doing this for the dreams of millions of children across Africa without access to education.

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Tunde Onakoya

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2 years

I grew up supporting @ManUtd and today I got to meet one of my heroes @Evra right under oshodi underbridge where he got to learn chess from one of the boys. He told me that I was also one of his heroes and this truly means a lot to me😊

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Tunde Onakoya

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21 days

It's officially 1 full day of playing continous chess in our attempt to break the @GWR for longest chess marathon. @CoachShawnMar and I have played 60 games and the fatique is naturally setting in. But one thing we will not do is stop. We will raise a million dollars and bring…

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Tunde Onakoya

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2 years

Chapter 28 🎉

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2 years

The way everyone is super excited about my Twitter verification 🥺♥️ Tear just finally dropped😊

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2 years

There’s a barbaric tradition known as “Money wife” in a remote village in Cross river state called Becheve where girls as young as 10 years old are being sold into marriage I decided to travel down to learn more about how these girls are being robbed of their childhood A thread

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Tunde Onakoya

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3 years

How it started How it finally ended.

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Tunde Onakoya

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18 days

Tunde Onakoya. The man who gives little children big caps to wear. Now the world sees them through your light. Homecoming soon 🇳🇬

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Tunde Onakoya

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20 days

30 billion for the children as @davido places his chain around my neck. 😄 Thank you very much for stopping by after your successful outing at @TheGarden . 🙏🏾 Keep streaming. Keep sharing. Keep donating. #ChessMarathonForChange

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Tunde Onakoya

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13 days

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of 🇺🇸❤️

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Tunde Onakoya

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2 years

Just got an email from Unicef. It begins🚀

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Tunde Onakoya

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17 days

We made front page on New York’s biggest newspaper. I’ll always remember this city fondly for many reasons, but it’s time to go home now 🇳🇬 ❤️

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2 years

How it started VS How it's going😊

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Tunde Onakoya

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2 years

5 months of our love story♥️ It's still day one, of forever. TD

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Tunde Onakoya

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2 years

I feel greatly honored to be a recipient of the Royal African award by the Ooni of Ifè😊

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Tunde Onakoya

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22 days

We haven’t even started yet and Nigerians are already trooping in to camp out with me😊❤️🇳🇬.

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Tunde Onakoya

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18 days

Just got access to my social media accounts. Can’t believe we really did this against all odds. still feels like a lucid dream. Thank you everyone 🇳🇬 ❤️

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Tunde Onakoya

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2 years

Goofing around on a Saturday morning 😊

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Tunde Onakoya

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3 months

Looks like we're global now ❤️

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@historyinmemes

3 months

Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya played 10 games at once in Germany and won all of them

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Tunde Onakoya

@Tunde_OD

2 years

I am going to build the biggest Chess academy in the world and it's going to be a safe haven for under-privileged children and orphans to get quality education and chance to pursue their dreams. Tuition free. I'll quote this tweet in a couple of years to say "we did it🚀♥️"

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Tunde Onakoya

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20 days

My people, it's crunch time. We have just 5 hours left to break a new world record for the longest chess marathon, and our mission to raise a million dollars for children's education has become our top priority. This is our purpose, our reason for being here. Let's demonstrate…

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Tunde Onakoya

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1 year

This adorable little Hausa girl walked into our Chess class and asked if she could join us. She was born and has lived all her life under the bridge with no education because her mother lives in abject poverty. I hope the world never takes this beautiful smile from her.

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Tunde Onakoya

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2 years

I'll only address this once... I will live life on my own terms and your unsolicited advice about my personal life is irrelevant to me. X

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20 days

40 hours in! We are just 18 hours from the moment we have all been waiting for. The love from different corners of the world is incredible, and my gratitude is beyond words. Let’s continue spreading the word until we hit the 58-hour and $1m milestone for the education of…

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Tunde Onakoya

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Happy birthday legend ♟️ @CoachShawnMar

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Tunde Onakoya

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2 years

My Dad sold the car he used as a Taxi so I could pay my WAEC examination fee on deadline day. It was an incredibly painful sacrifice because this affected him to a point where he had to leave Lagos and go back to the village to work in a bakery.

Man of Letters.

@Letter_to_Jack

2 years

It’s Father’s Day today. Let’s celebrate fatherhood, paternal bonds and the influence of fathers in our society. Quote or Reply with a narration of that sheer act of selflessness and sacrifice your father pulled at any point in your life that you will never forget.

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Tunde Onakoya

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4 months

On day two of the DLD conference, I played a simultaneous chess match against 10 players at once. After an almost two hour battle of wits ,I managed to win all the games. The Chess exhibition helped us raise enough money to support the education of 100 children in our academy.

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2 years

How it started VS How it's going

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2 years

Helpless when she smiles 🍀

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2 years

Life update: Fawaz got his first modeling gig recently and could very well be on his way to super stardom as a chess player.

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21 days

A message from me to you. 🙏🏾 #ChessMarathonForChange @thegiftofchess @chessinslums

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2 years

Dayo lost his Job as a Danfo driver/conductor with his former boss because he was volunteering with us during the oshodi underbridge chess project. Today, we got him his own Mini-Bus to start his transport business and earn a decent living♥️

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2 years

I appointed Dayo as our Chief security officer and he left his hustle(For two weeks) as a bus conductor to commit himself to this project He served us diligently. He was quick to pacify any violent outbursts and he made sure we felt safe the entire time. He's a Good man.

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Tunde Onakoya

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1 year

Hope if everybody runs, you choose to stay😊❤️

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Tunde Onakoya

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21 days

Game number 100. ♟️ 87 against my main opponent @CoachShawnMar . 13 against external challengers. We are now 31 hours in, with 27 to go! That puts us officially past the halfway mark. It’s looking possible now. 💪🏾 Keep streaming, keep donating. …

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1 year

Just about a year ago, Fawaz was a bus conductor living under oshodi bridge, today he got to hang out with one of the coolest billionaires in the world. This is what dreams are made of❤️

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2 years

👑 💓

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2 years

Back in 2011, I gained admission into Lagos state University to study medicine and surgery, but it was the same year they increased the tuition from 25k to 250k. Had to forfeit as my parents could not afford it. Today, I'm a @TEDx speaker at the same university 😊.

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3 years

How it started How it’s going 😊

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Tunde Onakoya beats a very worthy opponent and one of New York’s finest, National Chess Master Shawn Martinez! 6 hours down, 52 hours to go! #TundeChessMarathon

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2 years

The only future worth dreaming of is one that includes all of us ♥️. We won!

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2 years

Fawaz is now officially worth 2 million naira from prize winnings specifically donated to him for winning the Chess and mental maths tournament. He says he would like to give some of the money to his ailing Grandmother in the village as she's the only family he has left🥲♥️.

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2 years

In this final thread that officially brings the oshodi chess project to an end, I'll share the good, bad and ugly. We finally got accommodation for all 51 children but it came at a cost. The End game: Helping the oshodi underbridge children find their place in the world again.

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I have struggled to find the right words to capture all of the emotions I’ve felt in the last couple of days-it is indeed one of those weeks when decades happened. I had woken up in the middle of the night some two weeks ago, cancelled my flight back home and decided to pursue…

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2 years

Proverbs 22:29 ♥️

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1 year

Elizabeth was hawking biscuits under oshodi bridge with her Mum when we met her in 2021. They didn't have a place to live but she wanted to go to school so we paid for her exams Today,she gained admission into Unilag to study Education and history. I'm not crying I promise😊

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001 @davido Thank you for showing up for me legend 🇳🇬 ❤️

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2 years

Tonight, my heart is filled with Joy that knows no bounds😊 I think the time is finally right to share this story with the world. I'm sorry if this makes you cry, it's a journey that has brought me to tears several times but it's an important story i must tell. A thread...

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2 years

More new students today 😊

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For the dreamers ❤️

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5 years of friendship Over 800k dollars invested in spreading the gift of chess from Africa to the rest of the world Endless conversations about our shared passion for using chess to change the world. I finally meet Russell in person for the first time in New York City🇺🇸❤️

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60 hours 🇳🇬

Sky News

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19 days

Chess champion plays for marathon 58 hours to break record Full story ⬇️

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I played against an 8 year old chess prodigy at the Marshall chess club, I managed win right in the nick of time. Boy’s a super fast genius and I’ll clearly be no match for him in a few years.

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20 hours! 💪🏾 38 to go. We’re getting closer and we will get there. Thank you! Thank you!! #ChessMarathonForChange

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2 years

2016 Nothing has changed😊♥️

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6 hour meeting at Microsoft HQ in New York City. There’s a grand plan, and the stars continue to align. Less than 48hours to making history at Times Square

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A New York city chess hustler challenged me to a game, he resigned after 13 moves.

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For the dreamers, for the area boys❤️ ♟️

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3 years

After two intense weeks of chess lessons in the slums of Makoko, we held a tournament to test their understanding of the game and celebrate their excellence. The miracle child with Cerebral palsy Fredinard Won with a phenomenal performance. A star is born.

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3 years

Day 4&5: Today we discovered a boy with Spastic cerebral palsy being mocked by his peers, we brought him into our training center and introduced him to Chess. Few minutes into learning board arrangement and pawn movements, he outperformed everyone in his class.

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1 year

It is possible to do great things from a small place🎉

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2 years

Dreamer boy, who could have thought that your dreams would take you this far. I hope you never stop reaching for the stars✈♥️

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2 years

The works of my hands are blessed by God and there will be no loss in Jesus name. Amen.

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2 months

Earlier today at the US consulate... Lady: are you the founder of Chess in slums Africa? Me: Yes Lady: that's a brilliant initiative, well done. Me: thank you😊 Lady: visa approved.

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3 years

How it started VS How it's going

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3 months

So I'm leaning into my 15 seconds of global fame by auctioning my personal chess board autographed by me. The highest bidder will get a personal chess session and 50% proceeds goes towards renovating a rural school. Starting bid is 500k(500 dollars) Up for 24 hours. Any takers?

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1 month

We just received a million dollars donation from Wall Street!

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My good man @adekunleGOLD ❤️🇳🇬 You flew in to look out for me and show support even when it wasn’t convenient. you and your lovely first Lady @SympLySimi have supported our cause through the years as well before it became popular to do so. Love you man. Thank you!

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2 years

My greatest ambition in life is now to build the biggest Chess academy in the world where children from the poorest places and orphans can have a home and get to learn important skills for the future of work We are going to re-imagine education in a way that includes all of them

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Happy to announce that we just signed a three year grant deal with @lufthansa airlines Global help alliance to build a Chess academy and STEM innovation Lab in Lagos Nigeria. This learning hub will be open and free to street children without access to education.

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1 year

Merry Christmas 🎄 ❤️

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1 year

The greatest miracle of chess is in the inate ability of a pawn to become a queen(The most powerful piece) - Chess champions from Obanliku Becheve A thread...

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2 years

September 1st 2018 The things that excite us are not random, they're in a way connected to our purpose. Follow them♥️

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I grew up here. Feels good to be home again❤️

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2 years

A Manchester United legend/former captain and a UEFA Champions league winner will be coming to play Chess against some of the kids in our academy at oshodi underbridge. Can you guess who it is?😎

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6 months

Some great news! Dr Tayo Ojo has volunteered to do the Boy’s surgery. He’s the same Neurosurgeon that saved Aproko Doctor’s life. Marigold hospital has also agreed to give a good discount. Please don’t stop sharing and donating. We’re making progress! Thank you

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Mathew, one of our most promising chess students in Makoko got hurt two weeks ago in church whilst trying to help carry loud speakers in preparation for service. He suffered some damage to his spinal cord causing complete paralysis of his two legs as well as worrisome weakness of…

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Mama Tunde 😊♥️

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Iya Tunde, èjìré mi òwòn. This is where I come to rest. this is home❤️

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1 year

Dear governor @seyiamakinde , congrats on your re-election as leader of the people of Oyo state. 40 homeless children living under Mokola bridge made this painting and would like to present it to you in person Let’s work together to help them find their place in the world again

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