Tomorrow is Children’s Day. Across Nigeria, parents should be buying new clothes, packing lunch boxes, and watching their little ones being happy and excited. Instead, many are lying awake, staring at the ceiling, wondering if their child will be next.
The numbers are unbearable. Over 46 children, teachers, and a principal remain in captivity after armed bandits stormed three schools in Oyo State. This is not a crisis anymore. This is the air Nigerians breathe.
Now celebrities are speaking out. Not the polished, brand-safe statements. The raw, exhausted, tear-stained kind. Because the silence has become unbearable. 
Ivy Ifeoma: “The wickedness of men in this country is enough for God to wipe everyone out”
Ivy Ifeoma took to social media with a lament that felt less like a post and more like a prayer.
“The wickedness of men in this country is enough for God to wipe everyone out but thank God for His mercy,” she wrote.
She admitted she feels emotionally drained by recent happenings. The kidnappings. The killings. The videos that should never exist. The feeling that nowhere is safe.
“God please help us. I’m just tired! And everyone’s quiet. What can we even do?” she added.
That question—”What can we even do?”—is the one nobody can answer. Nigerians have protested. They have trended hashtags. They have begged the government. The bandits keep coming. The children keep disappearing. The bodies keep dropping.
Ivy said only God’s mercy has kept the nation going despite the challenges Nigerians face daily. For a country where faith runs deep, that statement lands like a confession. Not hope. Just exhaustion wrapped in prayer.
Taaoma: “A government that can’t protect its people is a failed government”
On X (formerly Twitter), Taaoma was even blunter.
“Another set of killings and kidnappings in Kwara. The ones in Oyo are yet to be rescued.”
She did not mince words about where the blame belongs.
“A government that can’t protect its people is a failed government. This government is a failed one!”
It is a direct indictment of President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Schools are closing across Oyo State. Four local government areas have shut down completely. Parents are keeping children home. Teachers are afraid to show up.
Taaoma is not saying anything new. She is saying what millions are thinking but too tired to tweet.
Kunle Remi: “May we never become so used to tragedy that we stop feeling it”
On Instagram, Kunle Remi posted something that cut deeper than any rant. It was quiet. Reflective. Devastating.
“As I settle in for the night, I can’t help but think… As you go to bed tonight, remember there are children sleeping in forests. Imagine the cold, the bugs, the fear, the discomfort.”
He painted a picture that should haunt every parent reading this. Children. In forests. Not on camping trips. Not on adventures. Held captive by men with guns, waiting for ransoms their families cannot afford.
“Remember there is a mother holding her baby, helpless. Parents praying for safety. Schools living in fear.”
Then he pointed at something that makes the blood boil.
“And somehow, in the middle of all this… election campaigns and preparations still continue. Bloggers are posting election like everything is normal.”
Politicians are already campaigning for 2027. Rallies are being planned. Posters are being printed. Meanwhile, there are children, alone in the cold and crying for their mothers.
Kunle Remi ended with a prayer that is also a warning.
“May we never become so used to tragedy that we stop feeling it.”
Tomorrow Is Children’s Day
May 27 is Children’s Day in Nigeria. It is supposed to be a celebration of innocence, joy, and the future. Schools hold events. Children being happy and playful.
This year feels different. This year feels like a mockery.
Over 46 children and teachers are still missing in Oyo State. They have been gone for almost a week. Their captors have not released them. The government has not rescued them.
For those children, tomorrow is not Children’s Day. It is another day in captivity. Another day of fear. Another day of wondering if anyone remembers them.
For their parents, tomorrow is another day of praying, waiting, and dying inside.
For Nigeria, tomorrow is a reminder that we have failed the next generation. Not through malice. Through silence. Through exhaustion. Through a government that cannot protect its people. Through a society that has become so used to tragedy that we scroll past beheadings like they are traffic updates.
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The Bottom Line
Ivy Ifeoma is tired. Taaoma is angry. Kunle Remi is heartbroken. They are not celebrities being performative, they are concerned Nigerians.
Tomorrow, the world will wish children a Happy Children’s Day, but for the children of Oyo State, for the children of Kwara, for every Nigerian child who goes to school wondering if they will come home, tomorrow is not happy.
It is Black Children’s Day. A day to remember the ones still missing. A day to mourn the ones who will never come back. A day to ask the question Ivy Ifeoma already asked:
“What can we even do?”
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