Nigerians don’t trust systems, they trust people.
Because institutions fail, Nigerians build personal networks as their safety net. Your person becomes more reliable than the police, the courts, the government, even the economy.
This is why:
corruption thrives.
godfatherism survives.
merit struggles.
loyalty becomes currency.
It’s not cultural, it’s adaptive behaviour.
اللَّهُمْ أَكْتِرَ مَالَهُ وَوَلَدَهُ وَبَارِكَ لَهُ فِيمَا أَعْطَيْتَهُ
Allahumma akthir mālahu wa waladahu wa bārik lahu fīmā a'taytah.
O Allah, increase his wealth and his children and bless what You have given him
I can't be President Tinubu’s campaign DG because I'm not a member of the APC. People don't understand. It's not that one is not qualified. Who's more qualified than me? Even if Mr. President calls me, I'll say no and tell him why.
In 2015, the Minister of Transport was the governor of Rivers State. He was the DG of Muhammadu Buhari. Before you knew, I pulled the carpet off his feet. He lost. He didn’t get 25 percent. In 2019, he was Minister of Transport; he became the DG, and he lost his state too.
Bukola Saraki was the DG of Atiku campaign in 2019. He was running around doing ‘Atikulated’, I called him, ‘Why are you doing Atikulated? Go home!’ He lost his state! Lost his own seat, too!
In 2023, Aminu Tambuwal became DG of Atiku. He lost his state! In the same 2023, Lalong was the DG of APC, the present president. He lost his state!
I don’t want to lose my state! I will be in my state. I have two states: FCT and Rivers. What is important is that you are able to deliver those two states. So it is not about being DG. If you are DG and you don’t win your state, what is the essence of the DG?”
- FCT Minister Nyesom Wike responds to a question on whether he would have wanted to be DG of the APC presidential campaign council.
Eating does not invalidate your ablution.
The general rule in Islamic jurisprudence is built on a famous principle in Fiqh, famously stated by the companion Ibn Abbas:
إنما الوضوء مما خرج وليس مما دخل
Ablution is only broken by what exits the body, not by what enters it.
This means using the restroom or passing wind breaks Wudu, but eating a meal does not.
There was a time in early Islam when eating food cooked over fire required Wudu, but the Prophet (peace be upon him) later cancelled that ruling. This concept in Islamic jurisprudence is called Naskh (abrogation), which is a situation where a later ruling comes to cancel or replace an earlier one.
However, there is one major exception: Camel Meat.
If you eat camel meat, whether cooked or raw, your Wudu is broken and you must perform it again before praying.
There is a famous Hadith on this:
أن رجلا سأل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أتوضأ من لحوم الغنم قال: إن شئت فتوضأ وإن شئت فلا توضأ. قال: أتوضأ من لحوم الإبل؟ قال: نعم فتوضأ من لحوم الإبل.
A man asked the Prophet (peace be upon him): "Should I perform Wudu after eating mutton?" He said, "If you wish, perform Wudu, and if you wish, do not perform Wudu." The man then asked: "Should I perform Wudu after eating camel meat?" The Prophet said: "Yes, perform Wudu after eating camel meat."
Therefore, unless you are eating camel meat, your Wudu (ablution) is perfectly valid.
Allah knows best.
Full grown adults that can’t swim, cycle, skate, backpack, take a gap year, vacation, play an instrument or speak multiple foreign languages. Just a lifetime of hustling and trying to leave survival mode. These are subtle poverty metrics that no one really talks about
Boards have their own rules and policies different from HR policies and rules.
Executive members of the Board (CEOs and EDs) are bound by both as they are both employees and part of the Board.
Non-Executive members of the board (NEDs and Chair where the chair is not executive) are bound by Board rules and policies but not necessarily by HR rules and policies.
Nobody sits anyone down and teaches them these things. They are residual knowledge.
Board chairman is mostly not an executive position ie not a position you come to the office on daily basis and be involved in day to day running of the company.
They are usually not bound by some company policies.
Imagine me calling General Magoro by first name when I dey Oando lol. Those times wey na generals dey chair company boards.
My mouth no fit carry am as a poor man but I think TOE is probably too involved in some of the low level operational activities of his companies. Na see finish. But hey, maybe that is why the companies are doing well.
I think our biggest problem young people is getting into marriage with generalisation about the gender of our partners..
Call it delusional but I think you should always believe the person you are marrying is different from your experience, getting into marriage with the “Men are this, women are that”, is already judging your partner for a thousand faults of others.
Not saying that’s what ended the marriage though
There is one powerful prophetic medicine that is specifically for grief, sadness, and a heavy heart. People rarely talk about it today.
It is called Talbinah (التلبينة).
What is it? It is a warm, soothing broth made from whole grain barley flour, usually cooked with milk or water and sweetened with raw honey. It gets the name Talbinah because its milky white color resembles yogurt, which is Laban in Arabic.
Our mother Aisha used to order this to be prepared whenever a family member passed away or someone fell severely ill. She would tell the women to cook it and serve it to the grieving person.
She backed this up by narrating that the Prophet said:
التلبينة مجمة لفؤاد المريض، تذهب ببعض الحزن
"The Talbinah gives rest to the heart of the patient and relieves some of his sorrow and grief."
Here is why this is profound. Modern approaches often separate the physical body from emotional trauma. But the Prophetic approach recognizes that grief destroys your appetite and ruins your digestion. When you are deeply heartbroken, you cannot stomach solid food. Your energy drops to zero.
Talbinah bridges this gap perfectly:
1) It is a soft liquid broth, meaning it goes down easy when your throat feels tight from crying or stress.
2) The barley is packed with complex carbohydrates and nutrients that restore energy to a physically exhausted body.
3) It is warm and sweet, which triggers a natural comforting response in the human brain.
It is a biological support system. It gives the physical body the exact nutritional strength it needs so the mind is equipped to process heavy emotions.
Allah knows best.
He was just playing his part as brother, little did he know all his brother’s political friends he knew by default would later become his political friends and foes.
Imagine he wasn’t there when his brother needed him?? That would have been the end to their political journey.
@Babajiide My estate is full of men in the fifties and sixties that are worth $1m+ from decades of 9-5. Most retire as senior managers in oil & gas, banking, telecoms, law firms, etc.
Young people don’t believe in patient wealth. They want a million dollars at 35, not 55.
The prophet ﷺ said ;
“On the Day of Judgment, the sun will be brought close to the people until it is only a mīl away from them.”
Sulaym ibn ‘Āmir said:
“By Allah, I do not know what he meant by mīl whether the distance of the earth or the mīl used as kohl for the eyes.”
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My conspiracy theory (which is no conspiracy theory at all) is that Nigerians are being burdened with low quality problems by design. That’s the structure. This is how things are to be.
How do you tell someone operating on survival mode to look beyond their current reality?
Not being exposed to money early enough in life can be a big disadvantage.
I used to be very fearful of calling large sums in the early stage of my career. Until something happened one day, I had a colleague who didn’t even graduate college asked for a huge amount and was paid on the spot while me I was basking in “what if they say it is too much?”
From that day, I joined the “500 million is really nothing” gang.
Some of us can’t pronounce huge sums without stuttering.
✅Let’s learn something tonight.
You guys have heard about cupping, which is Hijama. You know about the black seed. But there is another major branch of Prophetic Medicine that is almost entirely forgotten today.
It is called Sa'oot (سعوط).
What does it mean? Sa'oot is the Arabic term for administering medicine through the nose. Think of it like modern nasal drops or nasal inhalation. The Prophet (peace be upon him) used this method and heavily prescribed it for respiratory illnesses.
The most famous use of Sa'oot in the Sunnah involves a root called Qust al-Hindi, which is Indian Costus.
During the time of the Prophet, when a child had swollen tonsils (belubelu in local parlance) or a severe throat infection, mothers had a painful habit of physically pressing on the tonsils with their fingers to treat it.
The Prophet saw this and rebuked it. He told them to stop torturing their children and commanded them to use Sa'oot with Qust instead.
The process is very straightforward. You take the finely ground powder of the Qust, mix it with a few drops of olive oil or water, have the sick person tilt their head back, and drop it into the nostrils.
The medicine travels through the sinus passage, clears the respiratory tract, and attacks the throat infection directly from the source.
It shows the depth of Tibb an-Nabawi. We were not just told what herbs to consume. We were given the exact medical pathways to administer them long before modern clinics created nasal sprays.
Allah knows best.
LOL— Let me even say this, I grew up in Kogi, so I know what it means to struggle for water. From around year 2000 to 2013, getting water was a daily challenge.
Fast-forward to this year: while travelling, I happened to pass through the same route we used to take to fetch water. You won’t believe what I saw, people were still fetching water the same way we did in the early 2000s.
It genuinely makes me wonder: what exactly has the government been doing in that state?