Íké

Follower of JESUS CHRIST✝️• Anglican • B.Eng • Writer & Reader • Data Guru📊 •

[Íké @Ichie_Ike]

Has to be Sir Isaac Newton. Despite his difficult and challenging childhood, he went on to have a huge impact in the world of Science, amongst which are formulating the three laws of motion, and the law of universal gravitation.
He truly is a huge inspiration to me.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Name the scientist who inspired you to study Science!

[TYN❥ @talizo07]

@skutii4 Some ppl wear suits nd still don't deserve respect, while others with grease on their hands are the finest example of humanity..

[TYN❥ @talizo07]

My daughter brought her new boyfriend to Sunday dinner last month.

He’s 24, works at a COMMERCIAL TIRE SHOP, and has grease permanently stained into his cuticles.

He didn’t say much, just ate three servings of my pot roast and nodded a lot.

After they left, I told my wife I wished my daughter would date someone with a bit more ambition.

Someone who didn't look like they just crawled out from under a semi-truck.

Two weeks later, my alternator died on the shoulder of Route 9 during a torrential downpour.

I called AAA, but the wait time was two hours.

My daughter must have seen my text in the family group chat because twenty minutes later, her boyfriend's beat-up Chevy truck pulled up behind me.

He didn't have a raincoat.

He just got straight to work in the pouring rain, leaning over my engine bay while semi-trucks flew past at 70 miles per hour, spraying us with dirty highway water.

It took him forty-five minutes of wrestling with a rusted bolt to get the spare part in.

When he finished, he was soaked to the bone and shivering.

I pulled out my wallet and tried to hand him two hundred dollars.

He looked at the cash, then looked at me, and gently pushed my hand away.

He said,

"Sir, you don't pay family.

Just make sure your daughter gets home safe tonight."

I sat in my dry, warm car on the drive home feeling incredibly small.

I had judged his worth by the dirt under his fingernails,

completely missing the size of his heart.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Understand. Don't memorize.
Learn principles, not formulas.

[Math Files @Math_files]

Albert Einstein once remarked, “You know, Henri, I began by studying mathematics, but eventually turned to physics.”

Henri Poincaré asked, “Why was that?”

Einstein replied, “Because although I could distinguish true statements from false ones, I couldn’t determine which were truly important.”

Poincaré smiled and responded, “That’s quite interesting, Albert. I began with physics, but ultimately chose mathematics.”

Einstein, intrigued, asked, “And why did you make that change?”

Poincaré answered, “Because I couldn’t tell which of the important facts were actually true.”

The exchange captures, with subtle wit, the contrasting philosophies of two of the greatest scientific minds.

[Eniola Ugochukwu Olugbemi @SCM_Maven]

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[Rexzzy 🇦🇷 @AFC_Rexzzy]

⁠A perfect example of "a moving man will surely meet his luck."

[BSAT Properties @BSAT_Properties]

Sued His University to the Supreme Court and Won ₦20,000,000!

Case: Victor v. F.U.T.A. (2026) 8 NWLR (Pt. 2044) 33

Imagine graduating, knowing your grades were wrongly calculated, but being handed a lower class of degree than you earned. Most students would accept "fate" and move on.

Mr. Adebayo A. Victor refused to back down.

What makes this story incredible? Victor was a layman (not a lawyer), yet he personally prosecuted this case through the entire hierarchy of courts for nearly two decades.

The 19-Year Battle for a 2:1
In 2007, Victor graduated in Mechanical Engineering from FUTA, receiving a Second Class Lower.

Convinced his scores were wrongly recorded, he spent four years begging the university to re-mark 10 specific courses. The university ignored him.

In 2011, he sued. The journey was brutal:
2013: The trial court dismissed his case on a technicality. Victor appealed and won a retrial.
2017: The High Court finally ordered FUTA to re-mark his scripts. FUTA refused and appealed.

2022: Under Supreme Court pressure, FUTA finally complied and re-marked the scripts.

The Plot Twist: Victor was right all along. The independent re-marking officially upgraded his degree to a Second Class Upper. His correct certificate was physically handed to him in open court at the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court Defends Student Rights
With the degree secured, the Supreme Court turned its attention to the university’s conduct.

Led by Justice Helen Moronkeji Ogunwumiju, JSC, the apex court established a massive precedent:
The Duty of Care: While universities have academic autonomy, they owe a "Duty of Care" to their students. They must provide fair assessments and transparent complaint procedures.

The Penalty: By ignoring Victor for years and causing him to lose international scholarship opportunities, FUTA breached that duty.

The lower court had awarded Victor a mere ₦500,000. The Supreme Court threw that out as too small and reviewed the awards upward:
₦18,000,000 in General Damages for emotional distress.

₦2,000,000 in Litigation Costs.

Total Takeaway: Victor walked away with his rightful Second Class Upper degree and ₦20,000,000 in compensation.

The Big Insight
"Justice is not a fencing game where one party seeks to outsmart the other." Whether you run a university or a business, you cannot hide behind institutional bureaucracy to ignore legitimate complaints.

Huge respect to Mr. Adebayo Victor for his unmatched resilience!

Could you have held on for 15+ years to defend your academic rights? Let’s map it out in the comments!

© Law Parlor

[Íké @Ichie_Ike]

@Tanwa454303 @DagDeenu @EdithOgbuagu If you were properly educated and enlightened, you wouldn't have compared our population to that of Benin in the first place. Someone pointed out the flaw in your submission and you couldn't give him an intelligent response.
People like you always find excuses for incompetence..

[Chicken Catcher🐔 @Only1Etubo]

Last week, I went to visit a family friend at her shop, and while we were talking, she called her 7-year-old daughter to get a bottle of Coke from the fridge. The little girl grabbed the bottle, slipped, and dropped it. The bottle shattered everywhere.

As I got up to ask if she was okay, she immediately got up, ignored the broken glass around her, ran out of the shop, and started crying. Her mother was livid. She called her back into the shop to face the consequences and yelled some hurtful words at her.

I helped clean up the mess and asked the child to stay outside because her mom was so upset. Then I asked the mother why she was so angry. She said the girl was too playful. I told her I had been watching and that the child wasn’t playing at all; she simply slipped and fell.

She repeated that the girl was always too playful. I acknowledged that she might be, but that wasn’t why the Coke dropped. I saw what happened: it was clear that she slipped.

I then asked her to try to understand the difference between a child being playful and an accident happening. After all, she could have dropped the bottle, too, if she had slipped. I reminded her that while our children can sometimes be playful, accidents happen, and they are still just kids.

We shouldn’t beat or punish them for every mistake. Sometimes, we need to talk to them instead.

Imagine being so afraid of your parent that you run over broken glass just to avoid being punished. What if she had slipped again and gotten seriously hurt? All over a mistake that could happen to anyone.

I understand that parenting is hard and can be exhausting, but we need to stop taking our frustrations out on our children. It’s not okay.

She was quiet for most of the conversation because I was upset, too. Later, she wanted to use food as a way of apologizing, asking her, “Come here, I know you are hungry. What would you like to eat?” but I insisted that she talk to her daughter instead. I wanted the child to understand that it was just an accident and to hear from her mother that accidents happen.

Sometimes, that’s what children need most, not punishment, but understanding.

So, my fellow parents, please and please and please. These kids are just kids. Their brains are just developing, and they need our help, support, and guidance through these stages. Do not blame and punish them for everything.

[Íké @Ichie_Ike]

@DagDeenu @Tanwa454303 @EdithOgbuagu 🤣 I'm still waiting for him to answer your question..

[Íké @Ichie_Ike]

@Omoiyaagbaa @KelOnovo Spot on! His advice doesn't align with the post he quoted, not one bit.

[Mustafa @oprydai]

Study calculus.

not because exams exist.
because reality moves.

• derivatives → how things change
• integrals → how change accumulates
• limits → what happens at the edge
• gradients → where systems want to go
• differential equations → how nature evolves

motion, heat, fluids, control, optimization, robotics, ML.

all of it speaks calculus.

without it, you see outputs.
with it, you see dynamics.

[Oloye. @Ol0ye]

Stadiums will be built and completed in 24 hours.

During half time, they'll change the direction the stadium is facing so that the sun doesn't enter the Chinese team's eyes.

[HONITEL👑 @HonitelHQ]

Nigerians have this terrible habit of pocket watching and sizing people.

It has become such a habit that they don't even realize when they're doing it.

The average Nigerian will size you up before according you any level of respect. From customer service staff at the bank to receptionists, waiters, waitresses, business owners, people at the gym, parties, clubs—you name it.

You could be talking to a Nigerian for the first time, and they'd be stylishly looking at the kind of phone you're using, the watch you're wearing, the car you drive, the wig you're wearing, your bag, and so on. The moment they perceive you to be rich, you can immediately notice the difference in how they talk to you and treat you.

And this is exactly why so many Nigerians live fake lives.

They call it packaging.

People have realized that looking rich often gets you more respect than actually being respectable. So everybody is trying to look like they're doing better than they really are.

This sizing culture is also why Nigerians pocket watch so much.

People are constantly calculating how much you make in a month, what you do for a living, how you can afford to travel all the time, where you got the money to buy your car, how you're able to live in a particular neighborhood, and so on.

They don't do this because they want to be inspired to go harder. Most times, it is simply pocket watching.

Someone said a few days ago that, "So a helicopter flight in Monaco is $150, and Sophia Egbueje made it look like $100,000."

Mind you, she didn't imply it. She didn't say anything about the cost. But because Nigerians are professional pocket watchers, they filled in the gaps themselves and ran with it.

They do this all the time.

And the craziest part about pocket watching is that once people have sized you up, mentally calculated how much you make, and concluded that you're rich, they automatically start thinking they're entitled to some of the money you make.

Such a ridiculous way to live life.

[DON “Tobechukwu” Ade 👑 @Row_Haastrup]

If I tried to give my fiancée (now wife) money when we were dating, she would ask me what it’s for & why you are giving her money. She would reject it

I could remember the one and only time she asked me for money, 11k to be precise, 3 years into our relationship. It was cos she was in a very tight corner — she was going for her clinicals driving her dad’s car when she had a minor accident and needed it fixed before she returns home.
If you see how excited I was when she asked me for the money ehn. 😂🤣

But now that we are married, if I give her money, she go just dey shine teeth 😂🤣
She believes that if you are neither an orphan nor crippled, then you shouldn’t be collecting money from a man who isn’t your husband. That’s how they were brought up & that’s how I’m bringing up my girls.

Now you see why I really get pissed on this app when I see how men are spending on women they aren’t married to and more disgusting is women feeling entitled to a man’s money.

Your parents simply failed in giving your proper training, that’s all.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

A rule that will lower your anxiety: Don’t replay conversations you can’t change, and don’t pre-live ones that haven’t happened. Focus on the next right action. Most stress comes from living everywhere except the present.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Some people become moral only after they lose the ability to sin. They praise restraint when temptation disappears, preach loyalty when options dry up, and call themselves wise after desire stops choosing them. Character measured after appetite retires tells you very little.

[Íké @Ichie_Ike]

@oforezika @Pr0ud_Princess So you mean you don't trust your husband? Why did you marry him then?

[Siddharth @s7ddharth]

finishing a workout or run before 8am will teach you how much time you actually have in a day