ABT NEWS EXCLUSIVE (www.abtnews.net)
ABUJA — As the nation marks another grim and tear-stained Children’s Day today, May 27, the horrifying fate of the Nigerian child has been dragged into the brutal light of day. In a blistering, no-holds-barred takedown, former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has viciously slammed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and the entire political ruling class, declaring they have absolutely “no moral standing” to issue ceremonial greetings to the children they have woefully failed to protect.
While politicians draft empty, hypocritical speeches filled with false promises, the chilling reality on the ground reads like a horror movie. Nigerian children are being slaughtered, stolen from their classrooms, and left to rot in the abyss of illiteracy!
In a fiery post on X (formerly Twitter) that has set the internet ablaze, the furious former Minister ripped into the absolute failure of the federal government. Ezekwesili fiercely criticised President Tinubu, Sen. Akpabio, and other political leaders over their planned Children’s Day messages amid the skyrocketing nightmare of insecurity and repeated school abductions.
According to Ezekwesili, the political class has monumentally failed Nigerian children and should hold their heads in shame rather than issue tone-deaf Children’s Day greetings. She brutally referenced the unchecked wave of savage k+dn@ppings devastating states like Oyo, Kebbi, Niger, Kaduna, and Sokoto, while hauntingly reminding the nation of the 2014 Chibok girls abd¥ction—a tragedy where many victims are still missing 12 years later.
Ezekwesili accused the so-called leaders of heartlessly abandoning vulnerable children to bloodthirsty terrorists, noting that countless schools have been forced to permanently shut down due to the sheer terror of deadly att@cks. Urging leaders to drop the disgraceful ceremonial pageantry and actually focus on protecting children, she delivered a finishing blow: “You have no moral standing to wish anything to Nigerian children. None.”
THE SICKENING STATISTICS AND ONGOING SLAUGHTER
Ezekwesili’s damning verdict is heavily backed by apocalyptic reports pouring in from verified international bodies just days before this year’s Children’s Day. The policies of the federal government towards children are not just failing; they are completely non-existent!
While the ruling class pops champagne in Abuja, recent reports from Save the Children International and UNICEF this year have laid bare a catastrophe: a staggering 28 million Nigerian children and adolescents currently lack access to formal schooling or digital learning.
But how is the Nigerian government responding to this generational emergency? With shameful denial and petty bickering! Just two weeks ago, the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, shockingly went on national television to argue with UNICEF’s figures, bizarrely claiming that the number of out-of-school kids isn’t 15 million, but rather “below 8 million.” For a government to proudly boast that only 8 million children are roaming the streets while they map data is a damning indictment of their twisted priorities!
KIDNAPPED FOR RANSOM: THE NEW NIGERIAN CURRICULUM?
The fate of children in today’s Nigeria is nothing short of a humanitarian disaster. The classroom has become a slaughterhouse and a kidnapping ATM for terrorists. Just days ago in May 2026, horrific reports confirmed that 40 children were abducted as Boko Haram extremists killed eight people in Borno State. Meanwhile, in Kaduna and Oyo States, terrified parents are currently being blackmailed by ruthless kidnappers demanding up to a mind-boggling 1 Billion Naira ransom, alongside fleets of motorcycles, just to return kidnapped children and parishioners alive.
Between the 70 recorded mass school attacks in recent years, the thousands of abducted learners, and the blood of innocent students spilled on school uniforms, the Nigerian child has been sacrificed on the altar of political incompetence.
As the sun sets on this 2026 Children’s Day, the verdict from ABT News and the Nigerian populace is unanimous: Do not wish our children a “Happy” Children’s Day when you cannot guarantee they will make it home from school alive. Dr. Ezekwesili is right—until the Nigerian government can secure the lives and futures of its youngest citizens, their congratulatory messages are nothing but a shameless insult to the blood and tears of the Nigerian child.
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