Yoruba Center in Havana, Cuba I saw among the Yoruba pantheon of gods at the center, the statue of a god named Obatala whose inscription / explanation said:
“Father of the Igbo nation, Master of all divinities, Creator of man in various forms, Gentle Lord of the Pure White!”
THE NEXT TIME YOU FEEL LIKE GIVING UP, REMEMBER THIS PHOTO OF ELON MUSK.
IT WAS TAKEN AFTER HIS THIRD ROCKET EXPLODED.
HE HAD JUST LOST $100 MILLION OF HIS OWN MONEY. SPACEX WAS WEEKS AWAY FROM BANKRUPTCY. TESLA WAS STRUGGLING. HE WAS SLEEPING ON FRIENDS’ COUCHES.
THE MEDIA CALLED HIM RECKLESS. INVESTORS PULLED BACK. EVERYONE TOLD HIM TO QUIT.
INSTEAD, HE BET EVERYTHING ON ONE FINAL LAUNCH. IF IT FAILED, SPACEX WAS DONE.
THE LAUNCH SUCCEEDED — AND CHANGED HISTORY.
TODAY, SPACEX IS WORTH OVER $1 TRILLION AND DOMINATES THE PRIVATE SPACE INDUSTRY.
MOST PEOPLE QUIT RIGHT BEFORE THEIR BREAKTHROUGH.
ELON KEPT GOING WHEN EVERYTHING WAS AGAINST HIM.
THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND ALMOST SUCCESS.
Russia sold Elon Musk three broken rockets for $8 MILLION and laughed him out of the room. He went home and built SpaceX. It went public today at $1.8 TRILLION and made him the first trillionaire in human history.
– In 2002 Musk flew to Russia to buy an old ICBM missile to send a greenhouse to Mars.
– The Russians thought he was a joke. They quoted him $8 MILLION per rocket and dismissed him entirely.
– On the flight home he opened a spreadsheet and calculated he could build the rocket cheaper himself. He had never built a rocket in his life.
– SpaceX was founded with $100 MILLION of his own money from selling PayPal.
– Most of the aerospace industry gave it two years before it collapsed.
– The first three rockets exploded. By 2008 he was nearly bankrupt. Tesla was also failing at the same time. He had one launch left.
– The fourth rocket worked. NASA noticed. They handed SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract within months.
– Today SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share targeting a $1.8 TRILLION valuation.
– The largest IPO in human history. Bigger than Saudi Aramco. Bigger than anything.
– Musk's net worth crossed $1 TRILLION today. The first human being in history to reach that number.
– He controls over 82% of SpaceX's voting power post IPO and cannot sell a single share for one year.
– The same Nasdaq that has listing rules waived them specifically for SpaceX, dropping it immediately into index funds.
– Millions of people's retirement savings now own SpaceX stock whether they chose to or not.
The Russians who laughed him out of that room in 2002 work for an economy worth $2 TRILLION.
The company he built out of embarrassment is now worth $1.8 TRILLION on its own. He did it in 24 years starting with a spreadsheet on a flight home.
@Uptownoflagos@trigottista Na una they unnecessary things relevant and give them fire. Ignore them fkn hell out of them.
Focus on Peter marketing not from this gbasgbos to another gbasgbos they are sapping your positive energy!
We need DJ in every LGA across the federation. we will escort every electoral materials and INEC official to the LGA after counting the votes. We will do night break vigil at LGA.
Come one come many and enjoy yourself. Item 7 go dey.
If they say No, we will count them too.
I just received my brother, colleague, and partner in the New Nigerian Project, His Excellency Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, CON, our presidential candidate, who, together with some distinguished leaders of our party, held a closed-door meeting which lasted about three hours.
In the course of that meeting, we reviewed the activities of our party and discussed a few recent issues that have been a source of concern to all sides, and we amicably resolved all the issues
We have always been on the same page on the bigger picture, i.e., winning the elections for all candidates of our party and rescuing Nigeria from the misgovernance of the APC-led government. However, a few issues have arisen, and we have agreed on how to handle them moving forward.
I want to use this opportunity again to call on all members of our party to stop the bickering and name-calling and focus on the bigger picture. Both His Excellency Peter Obi and I, as well as other leaders and stakeholders of our party, will continue to consult and engage with one another to address and resolve concerns, strengthen the unity and cohesion of our party, and ensure that we remain focused on our shared mission of rescuing Nigeria and building a better future for all.
Happy Democracy Day.
~HSD
“Elections are rigged in Nigeria because Nigerians want it to be rigged. I will do whatever is possible to protect votes come 2027 election, but it is now left for Nigerians to decide if their votes will count. Because if you vote and stay in your polling unit and insist your votes must count, it will be counted. But some Nigerians would rather vote and go home, then hours later go to night vigil to start praying, because they think they are the only ones God created. The problem of Nigeria is leadership”.
-Mr. Peter Obi, NDC presidential candidate on his recent visit to Washington, D.C.