FA-01-SGR🤴🏿

ENGINEER NOT A PACIFIST 🤖

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jordan Peterson on why the most boring parts of your day are actually the most important:

1. The reason to improve yourself is not some casual self-help aspiration. It is to stop suffering more stupidly than you have to. And to stop making the people around you suffer more stupidly than they have to. Peterson's framing: if you do not organize yourself properly you will pay for it in a big way. And so will everyone near you. That is not a motivational poster. It is a warning.

2. Start by looking around for something that bothers you and fixing it. Sit in your room and ask genuinely: if i had ten minutes to make this place better, what would i do. not as a command. as a real question. Things will pop out. The stack of papers that has been bugging you. The cables behind the monitor you have ignored for six months. the dust. fix those things. Fix a hundred things like that and your life will look completely different.

3. Fix the things you repeat every day first. People treat their daily routines as trivial. getting up, brushing teeth, breakfast, the same small habits. Peterson says those routines probably constitute fifty percent of your life. The things you do every day are the most important things you do. The arithmetic is obvious once you do it. Neglecting them because they feel mundane is exactly backwards.

4. Do not try to fix things outside your domain of competence. If you are walking down the street and see a man who is alcoholic, schizophrenic, and has been homeless for ten years, that is a problem. But mucking around in it will not help him and will very likely hurt you. You have to have humility. You do not walk up to a broken helicopter and start tinkering. Find what you can actually fix and fix that.

5. As soon as you give your mind a genuine aim, it reconfigures the world around that aim. This is not metaphor. It is how perception works. The famous gorilla experiment: people watching basketball players pass a ball, miss a gorilla walking through the middle of the frame because they were told to count passes. You see what you aim at. The world manifests itself differently depending on what you are looking for. If the world is manifesting itself negatively the first question to ask is whether you are aiming at the right thing.

[StatiSense @StatiSense]

📊 WHERE VOTE BUYING WAS MOST COMMON IN THE 2023 STATE-LEVEL ELECTIONS 🇳🇬

Vote Buying Prevalence by Zone:

South East — 41.44%
North West — 35.42%
South West — 24.87%
South South — 22.97%
North East — 15.50%
North Central — 10.23%

Vote buying was most prevalent in the South East (41.44%) and North West (35.42%), while the North Central recorded the lowest incidence at 10.23%.

#Statisense
(Center for Development and Democracy, 2023)

[Pascal Bornet @pascal_bornet]

𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘀, 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮.

I drew this cartoon myself, and I enjoyed it far more than I should have, mostly because the musician slowly started looking like every overqualified employee I have ever met.

The joke is not really the orchestra. The joke is the job description that would come with it.

“Looking for a strategic, hands-on, cross-functional, budget-conscious team player who can lead transformation, execute daily tasks, manage stakeholders, absorb three missing roles, and remain passionate about the mission.”

Somehow, this always gets posted under “exciting opportunity.”

Management calls it efficiency.

Everyone else calls it jazz.

What’s the most ridiculous “one person doing everything” role you’ve seen lately?

#WorkplaceHumor #FutureOfManagement #Humics #OrchestrationDesign

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

What’s more insane than the ‘war with Egypt’ line is the repeated claim that the Muslim Brotherhood is about to take over Florida and Texas.

These people are paranoid warmongering Islamophobic madmen.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

If I weren't there at the very start of a Nigerian telco, I would believe the trope people always put out that things "were guaranteed." Nothing could be further from that.

Let's start with the licensing. You first had to put up a $20m deposit before you could bid. If you bid and won but were unable to pay for your license, you forfeited $20m. Mike Adenuga lost that amount then, and it was a lot of money. It is still a lot of money.

For Econet Wireless, to get that amount the first time, Oceanic Bank had to put it up, backed by guarantees from Delta State, which managed all their federal allocation payments. Getting that first $20m was one of the hardest things I have seen.

Oboden Ibru didn't trust the Zimbabweans; he believed they didn't have any money to invest, and his bank would have to commit more to save the $20m, and he was eventually right.

Even forming the consortium and selecting partners was a difficult and heartwrenching process. There were meetings that lasted long into the night. I still can't forget a trip I took to Delta and Akwa Ibom to present documents to the state governments, inviting them to invest. Another competing party tried to beat me to Uyo by chartering a private jet as I drove like a maniac and got there by road.

After the bid was won, raising the $285m was the most beautiful financial engineering process I had ever witnessed. The late Osaze Osifo was a genius and one of the smartest people I had ever met. I learned so much from what he and his HSBC Capital team did. Other investment bankers, like the late Laolu Mudashiru of Vetiva, watched and learned, too.

After paying for the license, we now had to raise money for working capital. I personally raised 7 million Naira from New Nigeria Bank to pay for the office rent. Got furniture from Chair Center and another company on credit. My guy, Elias Igbinakenzua, was then an Executive Director at Zenith Bank, and we managed to negotiate a 500m Naira overdraft facility to start the business.

Everyone was broke and stretched. We took a loan from New Nigeria Bank to cover our share of the equity, and the interest on the loan was accruing at 1.8 million Naira per day. We eventually sold half of the shares at a profit to cover the cost. Before then, we were juggling CPs and BAs to cover the initial $20m and dodging Oboden Ibru, who was at wits end.

To add to that, we had a technical partner who lied about bringing in 40% of the capital. They, too, could not raise money, so the pressure was on the existing shareholders, who eventually kicked him out but still left him with 5% for the brand thanks to the intervention of Delta State, represented on the board by David Edevbie.

Today, that company is now Airtel Nigeria, and someone will tell me that "Demand was guaranteed. " Idiots.

Rolling out the service was another story. Educating the market and competing with MTN, who had smarter people and deeper pockets, was brutal. Dem Eleso, their CTO at the time, was a telco savant. Funny thing was that we were offered his services first, but rh Zimbabweans rejected him. MTN snatched him. He became our nightmare.

[Nojeem ‘Nudge’ Yusuf @NudgeTM]

My chart of the week 🇳🇬

Nigeria is selling more to the world than it’s buying from it.

The gap, known as the trade surplus, has more than doubled, from $2.6bn in Q1 2025 to $5.5bn in Q1 2026. Here’s what drove it:

- Petroleum product imports crashed by $2.7bn. Dangote Refinery is now supplying more locally, so we’re importing far less of it.

- Exports grew by $1.8bn. Crude oil production hit 1.71m barrels per day; highest in 5 years. Plus we have recorded significant exports of petrol, diesel, etc.

- A portion of both the petroleum export and import figures is Dangote fuel shipped to Togo and bought back into Nigeria. Can’t hang a number on it, but the round-trip is a net drag on the surplus as we’re paying a trader’s margin to re-import our own fuel.

- Manufactured goods imports rose by $1.2bn. Largely machinery and equipment we still can’t produce locally, mostly from China.

- Agricultural and raw material imports fell slightly. Not because local production increased but because expensive imports are pushing businesses to source locally, and some of what previously rotted before reaching the market is now being used.

- The improvement looks bigger in dollar terms (+111%) than naira terms (+91%), because the naira strengthened by 10% against the dollar over this period.

[FA-01-SGR🤴🏿 @DefendTheLandX]

@SenatorT__ 😂😂😂

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

Africa's Largest Startups by Valuation

1. Flutterwave 🇳🇬 - $3.2 billion

2. Opay 🇳🇬 🇨🇳 - $2.7 billion

3. Wave 🇸🇳 🇺🇲 - $1.7B

4. Andela 🇳🇬 🇺🇲 - $1.5B

5. TymeBank 🇿🇦 - $1.5B

6. MNT-Halan 🇪🇬 - $1.4B

7. Esusu 🇳🇬 🇮🇳 - $1.2B

Fawry 🇪🇬 - $1.2B

9. InterSwitch 🇳🇬 -$1B

Moniepoint 🇳🇬 - $1B

11. Palmpay 🇳🇬 - $850 million

12. MOOVE 🇳🇬 - $750M

13. M-KOPA 🇰🇪 - $600M

14. MaxAB-Wasoko 🇪🇬 🇰🇪 - $526M

15. Chipper Cash 🇺🇬 🇬🇭 🇺🇲 - $500M

Kuda Bank 🇳🇬 - $500M

17. Sabi 🇳🇬 - $300M

[Abubakar Yunusa @Pharmacio001]

A $600 million investment in African Natural Resources and Mines Limited (ANRML), Kaduna’s mining and steel sector during Malam Nasir El-Rufai’s tenure. Today, the facility is operational and ranks among largest integrated iron ore and steel projects in Nigeria.

📍Gujeni, Kagarko LGA, Kaduna State.

This is how someone confidently told me El-rufai only did roads, as if roads are not part of development and as if projects like this don’t exist. Is this your head? 😏

The good they don’t want you to remember.

[Iran Embassy in Türkiye @Iran_in_Turkiye]

First, learn never to use the word "must" when addressing Iran.
Second, the United States must immediately restrain its rabid dog in the region — the terrorist Israeli regime.
If you don't, you'll add yet another defeat to your growing record of failures against Iran.

[Kadali. @ZuntuAbdulfatah]

Innalillahi Wa Inna Ilaihirraji'un!😭

Cikakken bayani game da matar da aka kashe a garin Marabar Jos bisa zargin satar yara.

Sun kashe ta, ba ta ji, ba ta gani ba saboda jahilci da daukan doka a hannu ba tare da bincike ba.

Wannan yana daya daga cikin matsalolin al’umma su rika daukan doka a hannunsu kenan.

Allah ya jikan ta da rahama.

[Ahmad Salkida @A_Salkida]

Nigeria's military has played a critical role in reversing trajectories that once suggested state collapse, forcing insurgents, terrorists and other armed groups to the margins. Yet persistent governance failures and weak institutional follow-through continue to undermine those gains, leaving many communities freed from one threat only to face another. https://t.co/FRTJrocSAM

[FA-01-SGR🤴🏿 @DefendTheLandX]

In the audio, they are saying they are fleeing due to siting of an Armoured Personnel carrier, meaning they are being challenged.

However, I am almost certain that challenge might not be thorough, once they reach a certain distance that it, the chase stops, the army retreats, then they return another day.

[FA-01-SGR🤴🏿 @DefendTheLandX]

@asemota they could do both to achieve a “political” objective.

American CIA funded the Taliban then the military attacked them, same with narco groups in Latin American. A few other examples exist with other powers across the geopolitical theatre throughout this century.

[Mal. Imran U. Wakili (PULLO) 👑 #iSTANDWITHELRUFAI @IU_Wakilii]

When they say Mallam Nasir El-Rufai demolished markets in Kaduna, they won’t tell you that he:-

Demolished This To Build This!

[FA-01-SGR🤴🏿 @DefendTheLandX]

Very troubling!
They know they will not he challenged, not during or after their siting.

Even if reports are sent to police, little effort will be made to track and cease them. That’s the only explanation for this affront.

We have been in this mess too long to still be having excuses for how bad the insecurity is in this country.

[FA-01-SGR🤴🏿 @DefendTheLandX]

@asemota “Superior force” was meant to be the Federal government - through law enforcement and economic prosperity and ideally, both.

[Ray @cousinray_]

"Next International Uk as at the day I was declared Governor received an overdraft of over $7m dollars & had over 200 containers on the sea. I phoned my wife and told her to take charge and subsequently resigned from a total of 11 companies on that day" - Peter Obi NDC presidential Candidate.

[Tuchel @Officially_Kriz]

Akinwumi Adesina narrates a memorable time as Minister of Agriculture

He was asked to set targets about what they were going to do in office.

He set a target that in 3 years, they'll produce 20m additional metric tons of food.

President Jonathan told him to reduce the target that it was ambitious.

But he ended up exceeding target and doing 21m metric tons.