Amanuel

#ConstantAndNeverEndingImprovement
#Fortitude
Aspiring Investment Advisor, A Hug person 🤗

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

The legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson, would have turned 68 today!

He changed the rules. He broke down barriers to new ways of performing and singing. He made videos that looked like movies. No one has ever reached that level.

[Sky Sports @SkySports]

Yomif Kejelcha breaks the half marathon WORLD RECORD in 56:51 at the Buenos Aires Half Marathon! 🚨

[ye @kanyewest]

“OK” MUSIC VIDEO OUT NOW ON APPLE MUSIC AND SPOTIFY

DIRECTED BY BIANCA CENSORI

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Somewhere in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 🇪🇹

[ye @kanyewest]

ALL OF THE LIGHTS

[àdúrà @AduratheArtist]

Did it work?👀

[Amanuel @Amanuel_INI]

@ADRWC 44

[Kaluputic @Kaluputic]

A little update!!!

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Amanuel @Amanuel_INI]

@MrCharlesky Interesting…how?

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health.

That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease!

We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.

[Sivori @sivori]

Falling down the ethio jazz rabbit hole and it's like peeling back the corner of wallpaper in a room and finding the door to a whole new world.

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨BREAKING: Kanye West made history, after being blackballed by the entire industry, Ye 80k people singing "Heartless" with him at SoFi Stadium

Ye: "That's what 80,000 people sound like ladies and gentlemen... they said I'd never be back in the states. Two sold-out concerts.”

[𝕏 Ghana 🇬🇭 @xghana_]

🚨BREAKING: Ghana becomes the first African country to integrate payment into its Citizens' Identity Card, ditching US-based payment giants Visa and Mastercard in Africa

The card is now widely accepted in over 200 countries for online, in-store, and ATM use. It allows for secure purchases, international payments, and offers perks like insurance and emergency assistance.

Ghana Card holders can activate their card using the MyCitizens App or by dialling *402#

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering.

You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored.

Homer does something far stranger.

Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them.

They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs.

So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits.

Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right.

Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him.

Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads.

In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is.

What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it.

It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

Arabic is a beast to learn but the fact that the phrase “good night” translates to “may you wake up to good news” is unbeatable.l

[Toby @TomolaGroup]

Dangote is about to list his refinery on the stock exchange and the people that need to hear this the most are not paying attention.

Forget everything you think you know about this man for a second and just look at the numbers.

$20 billion refinery. Largest single-train refinery on the planet. Not in America. Not in Saudi Arabia. In Lagos. Already pumping 650,000 barrels a day. Diesel. Petrol. Aviation fuel. This thing is not a plan. It’s not a pitch deck. It’s working. Right now. While you’re reading this.

And he’s offering 10% to the public.

Now here’s where it gets crazy and I need you to read this part slowly.

You buy the shares in naira. Regular naira from your regular account. But your dividends come back in dollars. American dollars. In a country where the naira does nothing but fall. Where your 5 million in savings last year is worth 3.5 million in purchasing power this year. Where you’ve been watching the exchange rate destroy your future in real time.

Someone just handed you a bridge and most of you will be too busy arguing about politics and celebrity drama to walk across it.

$6.4 billion in export revenue backing those dividends. Not projections from a PowerPoint. Real money from real petrochemicals leaving Nigerian ports to the rest of the world and coming back as dollars. Into your pocket. If you own the shares.

Economists are saying this one listing alone could take the entire Nigerian stock market from ₦105 trillion to over ₦200 trillion. One. Company. Nearly doubling everything.

And they’re not stopping. Expansion to 1.4 million barrels a day already in the works. Double what it is now. Within three years.

I don’t care if you have 50k or 50 million. When this IPO opens, you need to be in the room. Not because of hype. Not because Twitter told you. Because the fundamentals are screaming and the opportunity is once in a generation.

The last time something this big happened on the NGX most of you were in secondary school. You missed it. This one is happening in your adult life with your own money and your own decision.

What you do with this information is on you. But don’t come back in 5 years asking why everybody else is collecting dollar dividends and you’re still checking exchange rates on Google with pain in your chest.

You were here. You read it. Now move.

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

This video will change your MINDSET ‼️‼️

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

“Read books,” they said. “It'll be fun,” they said. Now I have a reading addiction, impossibly high standards, and I'm unsatisfied with the real world.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Hazel Scott masterfully plays two pianos at once in 1943