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Your average human

[Fatima @Fatima_UT]

Apt

[Amira Nadya Alfa @amiraibalfa]

You betray your own potential when you repeatedly choose comfort over growth, fear over courage, and short-term gratification over the life you know you could build.

[Amira Nadya Alfa @amiraibalfa]

Fresh peppers, straight from the farm to your table 🌶️🌱 Courtesy of @Mayintaville

[M. Castells @shamol_coder]

THINGS MY DAD SAID TO ME THAT I THOUGHT WERE USELESS AT 15 AND NOW SAY WORD FOR WORD TO MY OWN KIDS AT 41.

1. "You can be mad at me. You still have to be home by 10."

[I Z A L A @el_uthmaan]

Fwd as received

*Professor Idris Bugaje wrote:*

A strange thing is happening in Nigeria.

A young man spends 20 years climbing the educational ladder.

6 years in primary school.
6 years in secondary school.
4 to 6 years in university.
1 year of NYSC.

By the time he is done, he has invested roughly 6,500 to 7,000 days preparing for life.

Then life arrives and asks a simple question:

“What problem can you solve?”

Silence.

Not because he is unintelligent.

Not because he is lazy.

But because somewhere along the journey, we confused education with certification.

We taught people how to pass exams, not how to create value.

Think about it.

An electrician who never attended university can walk into a building worth N500 million and confidently power every room from the foundation to the penthouse.

A graduate with multiple certificates may stand beside him unable to identify which wire powers the building.

One has credentials.

The other has capability.

The market pays for capability.

That is why reality often delivers a rude mathematical lesson.

If a graduate earns N100,000 monthly, that is N1.2 million annually.

A skilled technician charging N40,000 per job and handling just two jobs weekly earns over N4 million yearly.

Same country.

Different skills.

Different outcomes.

The tragedy is not that one earns more than the other.

The tragedy is that we keep preparing millions of young people for a race that no longer exists.

We celebrate admission lists like victory trophies.

We celebrate graduation photos like guaranteed employment letters.

Then we act surprised when hundreds of applicants compete for one vacancy.

Imagine 1,000 people chasing 10 jobs.

Basic mathematics says 990 people will be disappointed.

No motivational speaker can negotiate with arithmetic.

Yet we continue producing graduates faster than we produce opportunities.

That is like manufacturing keys without building doors.

The painful irony?

The people we once looked down on are increasingly becoming the people we depend on.

When your transformer fails at midnight, you do not call a philosophy graduate.

When your water stops running, you do not search for a political scientist.

When your air conditioner breaks in April heat, theory suddenly becomes less important than technical competence.

The economy has a brutal honesty.

It rewards usefulness more than status.

Nations that understood this long ago built prosperity differently.

They stopped asking only, “How many graduates do we have?”

They started asking, “How many builders, technicians, machinists, coders, welders, mechanics and innovators can we produce?”

There is dignity in intellectual work.

There is dignity in skilled labour.

The mistake is ranking one above the other.

A society that worships certificates while neglecting competence eventually discovers that framed documents cannot build roads, repair machines, wire factories, manufacture products or create wealth.

The future belongs to people who can solve problems.

Whether they learned it in a lecture hall, a workshop, an apprenticeship centre or under a mango tree is secondary.

Because at the end of the day, the market does not award marks.

It awards value.

And value has never asked to see anybody’s certificate before writing the cheque.

May Nigeria win 🇳🇬🇳🇬

Engr Prof IM Bugaje

Executive Secretary,
National Board for Technical Education (NBTE)

[Fatima @Fatima_UT]

Apt reminder

[Amira Nadya Alfa @amiraibalfa]

Some people are always worried they’re “behind.”

Behind what?

Behind life?

Life isn’t linear. It has no universal timeline, no single finish line, no master schedule everyone is supposed to follow.

The real question isn’t, “Am I behind?” It’s, “Behind whom?”

[Amira Nadya Alfa @amiraibalfa]

My books are now available at Zamani Bookshop, Church Road, Kano.

For those in Abuja, you can place your order by sending a message or WhatsApp to 07077705170.

Additional outlets will be announced soon. Thank you so much for the support.

[Rev. Fr. Chinenye John Oluoma #FadaOluoma @fadaoluoma]

Before Halal Becomes Haram

The Tinubu administration signed a partnership agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on how Nigeria can benefit from the global halal economy valued at above 7 trillion dollars. Since that news broke, some persons have written to express their fears and suspicion, some others see it as an islamization( a word many people now bandy about without substantiation)strategy.

Halal means "permissible" in Islam, as against "haram" which means unlawful or bad. Halal is an Islamic principle that governs what Muslims eat, drink, how they are prepared. It has extended to businesses and finances too. Broadly speaking, it is an Islamic ethical principle that guides a range of things.

Let's use meat as example. A meat is halal if it is slaughtered and prepared following specific guidelines. Part of the guidelines says the animal must be cut incisively and decisively such that it's death is instant, the blood must be drained. Any animal subjected to some torture or pain before it's death becomes haram. This is to avoid animal cruelty.

Halal is also about forbidden things like pork, alcohol. Under the halal principle, a Muslim avoids alcoholic drinks and products that contain alcohol. Let's assume that panadol for pain relief has alcohol in it, a Muslim will see it as haram. Yet, Muslims do need pain relievers, so they invest in pharmaceutical companies that make pain relievers without alcohol, and that is regarded as halal. Same goes for food products. Islamic financiers and governments will invest in businesses that produce food commodities that avoid ingredients considered haram.

In financing, Islam forbids playing the usurer, so you have Islamic banks that share profits rather than lend money based on interests, Islamic banks are interest free, all these are part of the halal principle. Now, what I have done so far is to explain what halal means from my own understanding, you can Google and do more research.

The federal government didn't collect loan from Saudi Arabia for halal, the federal government signed a partnership with Saudi Arabia on how to boost halal in Nigeria so that Nigeria can also benefit from it, it is a staggering 7 trillion dollars global economy.

What this means is that if any group of people decide to open a beverage or meat processing factory that uses the halal guidelines, they will receive capacity building, expertise and maybe funding too from Saudi Arabia. Their products will have access to the Saudi market among other things.

Brazil is not just a Christian country, it is almost totally a catholic country until recently when non catholic denominations started making some inroads there. Yet, Brazil is the highest exporter of halal meat in the world. It means that Brazil slaughters cows in a halal way and exports them to Muslims across the world and smile to the bank. That's halal economy and economics.

You don't have to be a Muslim to run a halal business, you also don't have to eat halal products to sell them to those who eat them. It is business or economics and not religious pilgrimage.

Countries register halal businesses. Britain is the global leader in Islamic banking. Australia, the USA and many others recognize halal businesses both on individual levels and corporate levels.

I know that in Nigeria, ordinary animal easily becomes a spiritual or demonic being once we call it 'bush baby' and we are told it will rip your hearts out. A cobweb becomes demonic attack. The human like cries of cats elicit holy ghost fire. In Nigeria, normal and natural things become strange and spiritual.

That's why I'm sharing this with you before your WhatsApp group and social media warriors turn halal into haram. In Jeswish religion, halal is kosher, it started with the jews and as Christians, we share scripture and traditions with the jews.

This is not a defense of a government policy, it is an elucidation of a global phenomenon. Whatever you make of it is yours

[Fatima @Fatima_UT]

@Siruzzle Interesting

[Adam Wren @aswren]

I just found a property dispute ruling in north London that involves a dead Nigerian general, a woman that dies during the court case & then turns out to have never existed, and two sets of people alleging fraud and identity theft against eachother, including a Nigerian judge 🧵

[Fatima @Fatima_UT]

@Siruzzle Looks to clinical. Dama dai wani green environment that will teach you self sufficiency or survival skills through farming and the likes. This looks like torture.

[Fatima @Fatima_UT]

it appears i have been using an ungrateful phone. These technologies sef.

[Ife Dada @IfeDada2]

Any time my friend charges her iPhone it tells her thank you…now I want my own too to tell me thank you but I don’t know how. Help meeeeeeee

[Amira Nadya Alfa @amiraibalfa]

In the coming decade, we are likely to witness a surge in relationship challenges, the rise of AI-centered religious cults, and the emergence of new psychological and behavioral disorders, all as a result of the growing influence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives.

[Fatima @Fatima_UT]

Great opportunity to join, repost and share to contacts who may benefit. Allah's blessings always.

[Amira Nadya Alfa @amiraibalfa]

Launching in June!
I’m starting a WhatsApp group on Child and Learning Psychology to share ideas on how to support children’s holistic growth academically, emotionally, and socially.

Who’s interested in joining? Let me know, and I’ll add you when we begin!

[Amira Nadya Alfa @amiraibalfa]

Imagine for a moment that the greatest threat to your soul is not the devil himself, but the sheer fear of him. History has shown us that when fear takes the wheel, it doesn’t just drive, it speeds off a cliff.

[Amira Nadya Alfa @amiraibalfa]

@KareemReal Even in pain, you’re spreading joy, respect! I’d love one of the books because I’m hungry for good reads and your taste in books is top tier.

[Fatima @Fatima_UT]

@Siruzzle Allah Sarki, Allahu akbar! Allah ya jiqan Abba da ghafara, ya sa ya huta albarkacin wannan watan, ameen.
Wounds like this, time never heals.

[Fatima @Fatima_UT]

Alot of tailors will not make it to heaven walahy.

[Amira Nadya Alfa @amiraibalfa]

At the end of your life, there’s no award for suffering or constantly sacrificing yourself just to prove something to others.

[Fatima @Fatima_UT]

We are our problem in this country.

[Bamidele👨‍💻 @Bamidele__Felix]

Rather than embarking on #IgboMustGo protest, why not just grant them #Biafra that they've been asking for and let everyone rest.

You want them to be restricted to their land, yet, you're not willing to grant their land sovereignty, o wrong now.

[القرآن @Quranconnect_]

Wallahi whoever says these words (Dua), Allah will open up everything for them🤍