Thank you for your kindness and the trust you have placed on me. I do not regret to inform you that @the_beardedsina and I have decided to step down from Aunty Esther's matter. The previous tweet is my best attempt at salvaging the situation. But I've been tired for a while.
While we respect her religious belief, we do not have to be a part of it and the ensuing consequences. Her church people have said she would be disfellowshiped if she takes the blood transfusion. Her family have said whatever happens to her, is the will of God, while fighting against blood transfusion. It is best we leave her in their care if religion trumps medical science. Dr Sina has spoken with care and medical experience, and all of that fell on deaf ears.
My best wishes goes to @AUNTYMUSE_ who has been by Aunty Esther's side daily. She leaves the house at first light to be with Aunty Esther and most nights, sleep on the floor, just to look after her. She is the liaison between myself and Dr Sina on one hand, and the hospital or Aunty Esther on the other hand . Still, there is no insult she has not gotten from Aunty Esther on this matter. In fact, Aunty Esther asked her to lie to Dr Sina and me, about her decision, but she refused. Aunty Esther is not a good or honest person.
I'm not sure what to do with the money now. But I'll be happy to leave it in the care of the family or church to do as they please. Dr Sina and I have agreed to compensate @AUNTYMUSE_ for her time and effort. It is an uneasy job to be a care giver.
Thank you all, and God bless 🙏🏾
I have just read the entire 56 pages of this paper, “I am a Bandit: A Decade of Research in Zamfara State Bandit’s Den,” delivered by Dr. Murtala Rufa’i in September 2021, and I have provided a summary so that you wouldn’t have to read the entire document.
1. Contemporary rural banditry started in Zamfara in 2011, and the first gang was formed by two criminals known as Kundu and Buharin Daji.
By 2021, just a decade later, over 120 bandit gangs have emerged and had presence in six states. 10,000 bandits operated in Zamfara alone, killed over 12,000 people, stole more than 250,000 cattle, destroyed about 120 villages, and displaced 50,000 people.
2. As far back as 1891, banditry had existed in Zamfara, so it is not a new phenomenon in that region of the country.
Oral historians spoke of it and accused traditional rulers of colluding with bandits to rustle cattle and rob people. In fact, in the colonial period, bandits killed 210 traders and stole goods worth about 150,000 British Pounds.
The colonial government had to respond swiftly by stationing armed policemen in all strategic routes to curb this menace.
3. There are different speculations about the emergence of banditry in present day Zamfara.
The first speculation is that politicians recruited some youths and gave them arms to achieve their political agenda in 2011. After winning the elections, these armed youths were abandoned. Since they had weapons, they began to rob people and rustle cattle, and instead of state authorities tackling this challenge, they gave the bandits amnesty and state pardon.
The second speculation is that the bandits are simply aggrieved groups fighting for justice. They had since been subjected to extortion, exploitation, and deprivation by different state agencies. They formed a group named Kungiyar Gayu, which means ‘an association of young guys,’ to fight for social justice.
The third speculation is illicit mining. Illegal miners, seeking to gain the upper hand over their competitors, armed young boys from the forests of Dan Sadau, Dan Gulbi, and Bagega, all major mining areas in Zamfara State, a state blessed with huge gold deposits. These local miners collaborated with illegal foreign groups of South African, Chinese, and Russian origins to supply arms to the young boys. They delivered arms using helicopters. Some traditional rulers are also alleged to be involved in these illegal mining activities.
4. Sheik Gumi, after a tour to some of the bandits’ dens, provided an estimate of 100,000 arms in the hands of bandits, which raises the question of how these bandits get weapons.
The ‘porous border thesis’ provides an explanation. Nigeria has about 1,950 official borders, but there is an absolute shortage of manpower to oversee these borders. Even when these borders are manned, some of the officials have been accused of conniving with bandits to facilitate the movement of weapons into the country.
5. Teenage boys, young girls, and even married women, are involved in banditry. Some attacks have been carried out by teenage boys without the consent of their elders.
The young girls provided services such as intelligence gathering and serving as cooks to the bandits. Sometimes these armed girls were charged to look after the kidnapped victims so that they do not escape. These women also received their share of the ‘spoils of war,’ in cash and cattle.
It should be noted that not every one of these women chose to become bandits. Some of them were given out as wives to leaders of bandit groups in exchange for protection of their villages.
6. Bandits have also been involved in raping young girls who were sent to fetch firewood or cut grass in nearby bush. In 2012 alone, over 50 cases of rape were recorded in one district, but the number is higher, as many parents often keep silent to avoid social rejection of the victims.
7. Finally, banditry has become very sophisticated, as bandits have grown in strength, tactics…
There has never been a checkpoint at this location on this road. You people are fanning flames you will not be able to put out.
Granted, the altercation between him and your boss was a national embarrassment for him. But descending to this level is even more embarrassing.
Covering his plates is obviously for protection from exactly this type of harassment. If you think he’s broken the law, report him to the armed forces and let him be court-martialed and then send to civilian courts if need be.
At this level of National representation, you can’t descend to these lows!!
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This person was in a serious accident. Fortunately, he was wearing an Apple Watch, which constantly monitors vital bodily functions such as blood pressure, pulse, and even falls.
The watch automatically placed an emergency call to rescue its owner, pinpointing his location on a map and sending an alert message to his son: "Your father has been in an accident: I called an ambulance and you too because you're on his emergency list."
When the son arrived at the scene, he found that the ambulance had already taken his father to the emergency room thanks to the automatic call, and that he had been rescued. This is a great example of how technology can be a blessing, not a curse.
It all depends on how humans use it...
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2. If your tax filing is below N800,000, your tax filing attracts no tax
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4. The tax man will not debit your bank account automatically to collect taxes; you have to file. If you don't file, the tax man can garnish your bank account. It's not an automatic debut once inflow happens
“I guess”—that’s a good way to end it, because by putting it you’ve understood that love in itself is subjective, and what is subjective applies to people differently. But let me press the bruise a little.
Yes, love is emotional generosity; it is the soft spot where the world’s noise quiets and a person’s clumsy edges don’t scrape you as hard. But generosity without judgment is how people go bankrupt, in money and in spirit.
“Room for error” is not the same thing as “room for harm.” There is a holy difference between a mistake and a method, between the human stumbles that ask for patience and the rehearsed cruelties that demand your silence. If love turns you into a museum for someone’s repeated offenses, that isn’t love; that’s archiving your own disappearance.
For me, love is two things in tension: mercy and memory. Mercy says, “I see you trying, I see you tired, I see you more than your worst day.” Memory replies, “I also see patterns, and I will not gaslight myself into forgetting what repetition is teaching me.” Forgiveness is not a duvet you pull over everything; it’s a scalpel. It cuts out rot so the body can heal. The tenderness is real, but so is the incision. To forgive without requiring repair is to offer a blessing to entropy.
The test of love, then, isn’t how much you can swallow; it’s how precisely you can distinguish the swallowable from the poisonous. It’s whether your soft spot has a spine. It’s how you hold someone’s secret without turning it into leverage, how you stay present during their mess without becoming a janitor of their neglect, how you tell the truth in a tone that does not humiliate. Love is attention, yes, the daily noticing that keeps affection alive, but it is also structure: the guardrails that make room for error without inviting collapse. The heart, after all, is not a landfill.
So I agree with you: flaws should irritate us less than the world does when it comes to our person. But the person has to be participating in the rescue. Apologies should come tied to changed behavior, not to your enforced amnesia. Sometimes love says “stay, let’s fix it”; sometimes love says “go, let consequences teach what my tenderness couldn’t.” Both are love. Both are generous. The difference is whether the future is safer than the past.
In the end, the mathematics is simple and difficult: if being with you keeps shrinking me, then my forgiveness is financing my erosion. If being with you makes me truer, kinder, braver, even through friction, then my forgiveness is fertilizing growth. Love is room for error, yes, but not a subsidy for wreckage. I guess. (Wink-wink)
The “Men won’t help you without wanting anything in return” narrative has gone on for too long…
This is how it happens…
(PS: official duties are exempted)
Case 1.
- He does you a favour, then collects your number.. then still try to take you out, then he asks you to meet him somewhere, then you guys fuck.
Case 2.
- You ask him for a favour, he said he’d do it only of you sleep with him, you consider, then go link up with him, fuck, and get your favour.. or you decline.
Case 3.
- He does you a favour, you notice there’s more where that came from(the man gather), then you find a way to fuck his soul so it can enable you get more favours(this case is so rampant)
Case 4.
- You see a fly dude that looks established, you gbe sumo, give him ezigbote tlof-tlof, then later start begging him for money(POST PAID: this is also rampant)
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You see how in all the cases, you were the one that still decided whether or not it would lead to sex ?
You solely had the power to decline in all cases but you chose to fuck for favours..
Why didn’t you get this favour from other people that don’t demand sex(Brother/Sister/Cousins/Uncles/Aunties/Female/Friends/Pastor/Lapo) ?
Exactly!
You’re simply using SEX to procure needs, wants, access to places and favours..
YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM.
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I’ve written about this at least three times, and each time I wondered if people would dismiss it as extreme or built out of fantasy. I’ve come to realize that many of our people, especially, and quite surprisingly, the younger ones, are so mentally weathered that they now confuse docility for humility on the global stage.
I flirted with the idea in a post about how South Africa was disarmed of its nuclear capabilities before power was handed over to Black people, and some young Africans argued that it would be too ambitious for Africa, as a unified front, to possess a nuclear weapon and other pretty serious military deterrents. They serenaded me with arguments about how we should focus on providing basic amenities first. But how do you reasonably negotiate to expand your revenue base with global sharks who have trapped you in an extractive system designed to keep you perpetually poor?
When China tested its first nuclear weapon in 1964, its economy was in a worse state than Nigeria’s is today. The country had just emerged from the deadliest famine in modern history, but they built the bomb anyway. And what did it bring? Clout and leverage. It gave them the strategic weight to navigate the Sino-Soviet split and opened the path to a global respect that eventually brought even the United States to the table. From that moment, the world understood that China could no longer be overlooked.
They only had to take a few more steps built on that foundation to solidify a momentous economic breakthrough.
Geopolitics has taught me one thing; you must always prepare for hypotheticals, because the entire global system is a game of hypotheticals. One could even argue that the reason Africa keeps losing is because we never prepare for them. We negotiate from weakness, we plan for the past, and we pretend the world is more moral than it is.
If they can treat Iran, an oil power, the way they do, with all its regional strength, industrial progress, and ideological clarity, what exactly do you think is stopping them from decimating us if we one day grow some balls to challenge them?
It is with the utmost sadness that I once again reaffirm what I have consistently said: Nigeria has become a crime scene.
How else does one explain the recent revelation by the Senate, which uncovered the audited accounts of the NNPC from 2017 to 2023? The Senate uncovered ₦210 trillion in financial irregularities, ₦103 trillion in so-called “accrued expenses”, and another ₦107 trillion in unaccounted “receivables.” No documentation. No accountability. No consequences.
This is not just another scandal, it is a clear and damning confirmation of a nation held hostage by monumental corruption.
Our national budget within the said period of 2017 to 2023 is as follows:
2017 ₦7.440 trillion.
2018 ₦9.120 trillion
2019 ₦8.916 trillion
2020 ₦10.590 was initially approved and in June revised to ₦9.974 trillion due to COVID.
2021 ₦13.588 trillion.
2022 ₦17.130 trillion
2023 ₦21.830 trillion
Total: ₦88.010 trillion
Our total national budget within the said period was not up to 50% of the said financial discrepancies and irregularities.
This is a criminal institutionalised betrayal of the Nigerian people and a grave threat to the future of the society our children will live in.
No responsible nation can continue to function like this without confronting this truth. This criminality masquerading as governance must be stopped and dismantled for a better Nigeria.
A new Nigeria is POssible.
-PO
And no he doesn't speak English. Yes, it's an AI voice translation of the original French audio, with AI lip-synching to match the new audio, so you can avoid embarrassing yourselves with the dumb "Is this AI?" question.