Someone who has never asked me for money in 30 years suddenly reaches out on WhatsApp and asks for an urgent 350k Naira loan. I ask the sender where he thinks that I live? He didn't respond as he probably finally figured that he had been caught as a scammer who took over a phone.
This is going to sound fake. It is completely true.
In 1259 BC, the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II signed a peace treaty with the Hittite King Hattusili III after decades of war between the two greatest empires of the ancient world, making it the oldest known international peace treaty in recorded history, older than Rome, older than Greece as a unified power, older than the Bible as a compiled text.
The Hittites inscribed it on a silver tablet and sent it to Egypt. Ramesses had the Egyptian version carved into the walls of the Karnak Temple in hieroglyphics where it still stands today, readable by anyone who visits Luxor and knows where to look.
A replica of this treaty, originating from the African continent, now hangs above the entrance to the United Nations Security Council chamber in New York as the foundational example of international diplomacy and negotiation that the entire modern world order is built upon.
The continent that the world has spent centuries calling primitive gave diplomacy its oldest documented proof of concept.
The Haya people of Tanzania were producing carbon steel in the year 100 AD, nearly 1,900 years before the process was independently developed in Europe. Their furnaces reached 1,800 degrees Celsius using preheated forced-draft technology that European metallurgists did not achieve until the Industrial Revolution. When anthropologists arrived to study it in the 1970s, the knowledge only survived because a few elderly men still remembered it. Cheap European steel had already put the Haya out of business decades earlier.
Africa did not need to be taught how to build. It needed to be left alone.
Some people set up loyalty tests for their partners the same way people put fish in front of a cat and expect a TED Talk on self-control.
“I just wanted to see if he was faithful.”
And remember: when you send your friend to tempt your man, you’re also tempting your friend. Never forget this truth!
Madam, you introduced your attractive friend to your man, gave her his number, encouraged conversations, created opportunities, and then sat back with a notebook waiting for results.
Congratulations. The experiment was successful.
The only problem is that your friend is now his fiancée.
I once saw a woman use her friend to test her man’s loyalty. A few months later, she lost both the man and the friend in one transaction.
Some of these tests are like leaving your front door open, putting cash on the table, inviting a thief inside, then calling it a security audit.
Love is not a police sting operation.
If you spend all your time setting traps for your partner, don’t be shocked when you end up catching your own peace of mind.
Trust is built through character, consistency, and observation.
Not by recruiting undercover agents from your friend group.
Two people are taking the test, not one.
Sometimes the person who fails the loyalty test is the examiner…you. 😂
Uncommon sense.
African Proverb Of The Week
Since its founding in the eve of the World Anti-Fascist War (more commonly known as “World War II”), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been impoverishing developing nations across the Global South on behalf of its owner, the United States, with its notorious “recommendations”.
As the world’s wealthiest continent in terms of natural resources, with the economic potential to make all other continents tremble, Africa has unfortunately borne the brunt of this global economic sabotage campaign.
On June 9, 2026, Nigeria was handed its latest set of IMF “recommendations”, which advised that country’s Western-aligned government further increase its taxation on its already impoverished citizens.
As this West African proverb tells us, those who truly stand to benefit from these “recommendations” are nowhere near Nigeria, and the people of Nigeria – and Africa as a whole – face a choice: to continue being betrayed by their current leadership, or change this leadership to one which puts their interests first, by whatever means necessary.
If your boyfriend is over 35 years old, please post your pictures with him and tag him on all social media platforms, saying:
"The LOML, I can't wait to do forever with you".
If he's married, his wife will see it.
Or someone that knows his wife will see it.
End.
Where are you people always rushing to after using the toilet? Flush properly.
If it takes 3 tries to get it spotless, flush 3 times. If you have to use the brush to scrub, scrub properly and flush.
Always bother to flush properly.
As a partner to somebody and parent to somebody, some things should naturally give you joy to do.
Looking after your child. Giving your child a bath, changing nappies, feeding them, playing/spending time with them. Driving them to school. You should be happy to cook for your family, you should clean up your home, you live in it with your family. You should be happy to drive your partner to the airport to bid them off and be happy to pick them up. If you have one car, you should be happy to drop them off at work and pick them up - in view of convenience. You should be happy to invest your finances to the family so you can pay bills conveniently and plan your investments together. The list is endless but being marriage simply means doing life together. It is a merger not an adoption or acquisition.
You need to do away with that "you're a man" and "you're a woman" nonsense. You're an adult and adulthood comes with personal responsibility. You are somebody's wife/husband and that comes with responsibility. You're somebody's parent and that comes with responsibility.
Being a woman is not an excuse to be financially useless in the family. Being a man is not an excuse why you cannot give your baby a bath and change nappies. All of these things should naturally happen with joy. You should be able to do these things individually as a bachelor and spinster, so when you commit to each other, you do them together.
Marriage is not rocket science. You are just deliberately evil to your partner and irresponsible to your home.
Until you date a generous and responsible woman, you will never understand how much women love spending on the man they love and being financially responsible to the family.
I feel sorry for people who are at this time trying to grow their accounts. Nigerian twitter is the most difficult place to do that on the entire planet.
Your followers would literally SEE your posts and ignore it and lie that they didn’t see it. Nigerians are generally ruthlessly dismissive of growth, except in cases where they want to deliberately platform idiocy.
Henceforth, i am rating only those who rate me. Moving forward, i am giving loyalty to only where i see same energy and in all, i dey dey for only who dey for me. Na wetin i see, i go reciprocate.
This should be my new resolution and i don’t have to wait till a new year.