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[DEO @Deo87_]

Rest easy brother Dr. Jeffrey O. Ukhurebhor 🕊️

We’ll all miss your energy

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

Campaign starts today and this is why I’m supporting Peter Obi.

I will also be supporting and posting various candidates too in the NDC. It will be a marathon race.

Let us all support them.

[DEO @Deo87_]

@paschal_nwokoch professor

[Paschal Nwokocha @paschal_nwokoch]

7 circumstances

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

H.E Peter Obi.

No public office blemish, no corrupt cases, no shady pasts - walks the talk & has proven that there's an upright way to do politics.

You're the man we say you are & thrice the man you think you are.

In my lifetime, you will be president and THAT IS NEXT YEAR.

[DEO @Deo87_]

@Tutsy22 Ehyaaaa 😂

[Gloria Okonkwo @okonkwo_gloria]

@davido David if your uncle wins this election, please tell him to work fir people of Osun. Take Alex Otti as an example, APC cannot penetrate Abia state because of the evidence of good governance. If you do your work you don't need to look back

[Maxvayshia™ @maxvayshia]

His name is Dr. Vanman Toinpre Steven. Just finished his housejob at UPTH, awaiting youth service.

Myself and Dr. Italia, his coursemate, were speaking about him just 3 days ago as she was worried about him, we having not heard from him in a while.

Yesterday, we got the news that he was dead. Killed on his way to work, a few kilometers from his place of work where he was on private practice.

He just wanted to make a honest living. We wonder again when all these will stop. When Nigerians will finally decide that it is enough.

The Nigerian Medical Association in Rivers State mourns. The NMA National, mourns.

Go well, great man. You will be missed. ❤️🕊️

[DEO @Deo87_]

@MaziChubby Congratulations

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I have been thinking about something lately, and the more I think about it, the more disturbing it becomes.

A lot of Nigerians became poor without doing anything wrong.

They didn’t stop working. They didn’t become lazy. They didn’t suddenly become irresponsible.

They simply woke up one day and realised that the money they had worked for could no longer buy the things it used to buy.

Think about someone earning ₦100,000 a month.

The person still wakes up early every morning, goes to work, puts in the same hours, probably works even harder, gets promoted occasionally and does everything society says a responsible person should do.

Yet every year, that person seems to be able to afford less.

At some point, ₦50,000 could buy a reasonable amount of food for the house. Today, you can enter the market with the same ₦50,000 and genuinely wonder where the money went.

Nothing happened to you.

The economy happened to you.

And I think this is something we don’t talk about enough.

Imagine working hard for years, only for circumstances completely outside your control to quietly reduce the value of everything you have worked for.

You didn’t lose your job.

You didn’t lose your salary.

But somehow, you lost your standard of living.

That is poverty too.

And this is why I struggle with the way we sometimes discuss palliatives.

Of course, when people are hungry, you must find ways to help them immediately. There is nothing wrong with providing temporary relief.

But surely, the bigger question should be:

Why did millions of working Nigerians suddenly need palliatives in the first place?

If a man could comfortably buy a bag of rice from his salary a few years ago and today he needs government assistance to buy that same bag of rice, giving him rice may solve today’s hunger.

But it has not solved the actual problem.

The real problem is that his labour has lost value.

And perhaps that is what we should be obsessed with fixing.

How do we make the Nigerian worker’s income valuable again?

How do we make ₦100,000 buy more next year, rather than less?

How do we make food cheaper by producing more?

How do we reduce the cost of energy and transportation?

How do we build an economy where salaries can actually keep up with the cost of living?

Because when I think deeply about it, perhaps one of the greatest things a government can do for its people is not to keep giving them money.

It is to build an economy where the money they earn has value.

There is dignity in being able to take care of yourself from the product of your own labour.

There is dignity in a teacher being able to feed a family from teaching.

There is dignity in a nurse being able to pay rent from nursing.

There is dignity in a young person working an honest job and gradually seeing life improve.

People should be able to look back after five years of hard work and say, “My life has become better.”

Not, “I earn more money today, but somehow I can afford less.”

That is the part that keeps bothering me.

Millions of Nigerians are not asking to become millionaires overnight.

They just want hard work to make sense again.

And maybe that should be one of the simplest ways we measure whether our economy is actually working:

Is the ordinary Nigerian who works hard becoming progressively better off, or progressively poorer?

Everything else is secondary.

[SEUN Durojaiye 🇳🇬 @DurojaiyeSegun]

During my postgraduate days at UNILAG, there was this guy who would always drive to lectures in his 2004 Toyota Corolla. He worked with FAAN.

Whenever exams were approaching, he would always want to borrow my notes and make photocopies because he liked the way I structured it. I had a way of highlighting important points and adding side notes, some of which would later turn out to be likely exam questions.

We had this particular course he had been battling with. At that point, his mindset was simply to write the exam, pass somehow, and probably end up with an E.

So I picked him up. We would have WhatsApp voice calls while going through the course materials together. We did it consistently, and we both ended up with an A.

He would usually tell me that if I ever needed anything, I shouldn't hesitate to let him know and that he would come through for me. Most times, I ignored the offer because I was also doing fine on my own.

About two years after our master's programme, I had a cousin who had graduated for years but was still struggling to secure employment. He had twice gotten a fully funded scholarship in the US and was denied visa twice. He also tried Australia and was denied three times.

He eventually gave Belgium a shot, got admission, and was required to present a blocked account, meaning he needed to show proof of a certain amount of money in a Belgian account. The amount was approaching €13,000.

He had nothing, and his resumption deadline was fast approaching.

He reached out to me. Even though he had never told me about his plans to travel, I decided to do everything I could.

I reached out to two of my friends in the UK, but they couldn't help because they were still trying to establish themselves t ground. I also contacted someone in the US who was on a fully funded scholarship. He told me his monthly stipend wasn't even up to $2,000 and that, after paying rent, he had less than $300 left.

Then something told me to reach out to my old master's classmate from UNILAG.

I narrated the situation to him. He asked me straight up, "How much do you need?"

I told him we needed €14,000 in a Belgian account.

He asked, "Will that be enough?"

The next day, he provided €14,000.

A few weeks later, my cousin's visa was approved. While he was heading to the airport, my same friet also gave him ₦2 million in cash, this time, a gift.

Today, my cousin has emmigrated to the US, happily married to an American woman who is also a scholar like him. They now have two children.

I have also become his go-to person for almost every thing he needs done in Nigeria. When he bought his first home in Maryland, Mende, Lagos, I was the one who went for the inspection, received the funds in my account for a Duplex, and handled the closing deal for him.

There is hardly anything I need today that my cousin wouldn't go the extra mile to do for me.

Life has a funny way of bringing people back into your life.

Sometimes, the person you think you are helping today may become the person who changes your life tomorrow.

Never underestimate the value of being genuinely useful to people.

Be useful. Be kind. Build genuine relationships. You never know when life will bring the same person back to you in a different season.

[TheQueenScholar🎀 @marian_lance]

Do not give up. Keep Improving. Keep Moving❤️

#Careers #rejections #opportunities #scholarships #ouisucceed

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

The Airplane, Internet, Electricity -

No other innovation in human history, trumps these three.

No other innovation will ever trump these 3.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

I'll be giving out Scholarships, 5 Laptops, and supporting 50 people with data.

Stay tuned. Blessings 🙏🏾

[DEO @Deo87_]

@maxvayshia @MDCNOfficial @MDCNOfficial

[Maxvayshia™ @maxvayshia]

Good day @MDCNOfficial . Medical Doctors are dying almost on a weekly basis due to stress and work overload. We keep losing friends and colleagues. We all await an answer to this pertinent question raise by this handle.

Doctors on the TL, do you know any colleague who has been a victim of stress induced illness from work overload? Kindly speak out and tag the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria to your responses.

[DEO @Deo87_]

@maxvayshia Congratulations chief

[Maxvayshia™ @maxvayshia]

Just got re-elected, but to a higher level in the Nigerian Medical Association. A higher office but more demanding. The reward for good work is more work.

By His Grace, i will deliver again.

[DEO @Deo87_]

@osemagnum 💚💚
I have 💙 already

[Medzonetv @Medzonetv]

The new Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (11th Ed) officially recognizes Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh. 🇳🇬

She is the hero who stood her ground against Ebola to save a nation of 200 million.

Seeing her name in these pages is a win for every Nigerian health worker.

[🦉 🧘🏽‍♂️spiRituaL🧘🏽‍♂️ @spiRiituaL]

A lot of companies and organizations are looking for visibility or ways to improve, and somehow you might be the person with the juice they need.

Many of you are jobless, want something different for yourselves, or have enough time on your hands wasting away.

Many of you are good at identifying problems, solving problems, storytelling, creativity, branding, marketing, and more.

Use your phone or computer and browse through companies in places like New Zealand, Australia, etc.

For example, on Google, type:

“List out 50 telecom companies in New Zealand.”

Or…

“List out 50 agricultural companies in New Zealand.”

Or…

“List out 50 energy companies in New Zealand.”

Go through their company websites.

Watch as many videos of them on YouTube as you can.

Study how they communicate.

Many of them are struggling with storytelling and advertising.

Many of them are yet to update something from their end.

For many of them, their logo doesn’t speak well for their identity.

Find something you know they are missing out on.

Find something you know they can improve.

Email them.

Call them.

Tell them you have been studying their company for a while because you love what they represent.

Tell them you created an advert for them with a stronger story and better representation.

Sell yourself as much as you can.

People buy belief before they buy ability.

Many opportunities are given to confidence, not perfection.

Perfection gets noticed later.

Confidence gets you into the room first.

Every powerful person you admire was underestimated by someone… until their results made disbelief expensive.

Get in touch with as many companies as you can.

One day, the confidence you projected will become the reality everyone else sees.

That’s how impossible reputations are built… and how life goes from nothing to something.

You don't have the finances to start life in another country doesn't mean you don't have what it takes to start life in another country.

Before you think of impossibilities, think of positioning.

Position yourself first... #ThingsDeySup.