Aspiring Minister of Petroleum

📍Nothing compares to the promise I have in YOU✝️
📍Future Dr. Mrs. Emi Oga, Iya Ibeji 🥳
📍Unapologetically Christian🙇‍♀️
📍Proud Yoruba Babe👸🏼

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

Favorite bible passages :

John 15:5; I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@TechieClimi_ Me too

I currently have a BSc in Geology, MSc in Business Communications (this was cos of my current job role)

I am now taking certifications in Methane Emissions Management & about to start another MSc in Green Energy Geoscience

Then I’ll do a PhD in Environmental Engineering

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

🙌🙌🙌🙌

[Gift Iyioku, PhD @gift_adetutu]

Getting my doctorate degree from Stanford has been one of the most enlightening and simultaneously most challenging experiences I have ever had.

Stanford expands the horizons of your knowledge and then forces you to catch up, and catch up you must, because everything moves so quickly, but I move even quicker, seeing how I was determined to finish my PhD one year earlier than the stipulated time.
I am forever indebted to my advisor, Russell, his wife, Ruth, who made this possible for me, and the DLCL— my intellectual home at Stanford, where the depths of my knowledge was tested, shaken, and rebuilt.

It’s Dr. Iyioku now, everybody. It’s going to take a while to get used to that, but it sounds like I earned it.

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@lyvragl @IkudayisiJ Absolutely incredible 🙌🙌🙌

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@ENGRxxd Damn girl🙌🙌🙌

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@deltanmuslimah Me too😂

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

So fucking inspired. I can’t stop reading🥺

Primarily because I just started taking certification courses to transition into Methane Emissions Management, and I’ve been so worried about pivoting when my career is doing so well right now.

This just showed me, I can do it🥹

[Enomfon Akpan @mydearenomfon]

Hi women, can you post pictures or talk about your academic achievements? I need some motivation this month.

If you see this tweet, share it so women can see it.

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@mydearenomfon I’m waiting for you Low Carbon Strategy / Carbon Management experts to post your profile o🤲🏽

Help me plug your pathways 🙏🏽

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@AdewuyiRoseline Of the greatest Ife🙌🙌🙌

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@UdefiAmarachi @IkudayisiJ COREN🙌🙌🙌🙌

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

Omo, God has been so good and kind to me o, cos I’m realizing if it’s by effort, connection or degree, I shouldn’t be here.

Abba😭🙏🏽🙇‍♀️

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@a__vanita You won’t feel pain, but you can feel them pulling and working on you

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@Dearme2_ 100%🙈

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

This new season, I just wanna be the fittest, finest, most financial stable and mentally healthy I can be.

Just living my best happy girl life🤗🙈.

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

Gosh, my worship playlist is fire

Damn🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@sholary Thank you

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

🤵‍♀️

[khaleesi🧍🏽‍♀️ @shelovesore]

post a picture you think is pinterest-worthy

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@Croz__6 @connectwithtola Stop dismissing his experience. I had the same experience landing in PH 5weeks ago. I legit thought we were all going to die.

I fly in and out of PH every 2weeks and believe me when I tell you, that was not turbulence.

Something is very wrong in PH

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

@connectwithtola Me too. I didn’t cry until we got back to Lagos.

I think I was in shock.

I have a work trip tomorrow and I am still so terrified I canceled.

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

Anyone who hasn’t experienced this would not understand how you feel in this moment.

Everything inside of me went silent. I did a 21days praise night afterwards.

This is the third near miss landing in PH in the last one month. Something is wrong!!!

[KING OF LUZANGA - Tola Joseph Fadugbagbe @connectwithtola]

✈️ Normal plane turbulence and an outburst experience are significantly different.

Now that I am a bit stable, let me narrate my experience yesterday on Airpeace flight P47190 en route to Port Harcourt from Lagos.

The flight was scheduled for 6:40 a.m. takeoff 🛫. At around 6:37 a.m., we were already taxiing and getting ready for takeoff.

Shortly after takeoff and the aircraft broke into the top of the cloud layer, we felt the balance that comes with a plane cruising in the clear air above the clouds.

Of course, turbulence is normal even when a plane cruises on autopilot. I have felt turbulence countless times in my nearly a decade of frequent flying locally and internationally.

Fast forward to when we were approaching Port Harcourt, the pilot announced that the weather in Port Harcourt is terrible and if there are no improvements, he would have to take us back to Lagos.

Just before landing 🛬, the pilot announced again that the weather hasn’t improved so he would consider a circular holding pattern while he awaits Port Harcourt weather update. He gave up to 30 minutes for this.

The pilot held the plane on a circular pattern up to 5 times and shortly after that, he announced that the weather in Port Harcourt has improved greatly.

This is the moment things were about to go haywire.

I usually seat by the window while on a plane. I already saw the water bodies at the region so it was clear that the plane was descending. Anyone can also tell this from the change of altitude.

Just as the plane was breaking down from the cloud deck, we were hit by an intense microburst (strong crosswinds that are extremely beyond safe limits).

Suddenly, the plane speed accelerated faster and began to climb back into the clouds.

At this very point, the wind shear was in charge. A moment, it took us heights unimaginable. Another moment, the plane feels to decline into abyss.

The wind shear tossed the aircraft at will like a dice as the plane maintained an accelerated constant speed.

The plane’s ambiance changed. Everyone began to pray at the top of their voices, children were crying.

I reminded God of what he had promised me in life that are yet to come to pass. I reminded him that he had promised to be with me according to his words and promises. I can’t die now because his promises are still underway. I prayed.

I asked him for mercy and constantly repeated these words:

SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS

During the moment, the plane was thrown in and out of the clouds while it sought balance. This isn’t your “regular” turbulence as “regular” turbulence isn’t enough to prevent a plane from landing. This was a fully blown go-around experience I don’t wish for anyone.

At some points, I could feel my spirit leaving me, it felt like the end was coming.

It’s very difficult to narrate in full, my entire experience. Sigh!

When we finally climbed back to the cloud tops, everything came back to normal. This time, we were already heading back for Lagos.

Not too long, I saw a ray of sunlight from the cumulonimbus clouds and hope was restored.

I didn’t cry during the haywire moments until we landed in Lagos.

I cried briefly in the aircraft and when we disembarked, at the boarding gate, I cried again.

Before leaving the aircraft, I walked to the cockpit to salute the high professionalism of the pilot.

I asked myself, what if the plane couldn’t beat the microbursts to incline back to safe regions in the clouds?

What if the microbursts sink the plane and everything goes out of proportion?

If it was a smaller or older plane, would we have survived the downdraft?

So many questions on my mind.

I have been shaking since returning home. I have cried more than ten times. This is the first time I have shed tears in over 16 years.

I want to appreciate those who called and texted me. I stopped receiving calls yesterday because once I tried to explain what happened, I ended up crying.

Above all, God be praised. 🕊️

[Aspiring Minister of Petroleum @geophummie]

Not announcing until we’re done having kids😋

[Ginger @Gboye_Rave]

These days, many young ladies are getting married in private and keeping it off social media.