Ojoajogu Joseph Akuh

Mechanical Engineer | Industrial Innovator | Aspiring Leader. Passionate about engineering & sustainable growth

[Ademola @Demo4show]

This reminds of a friend that graduated with 2:2.

His strategy was sending emails.

He kept sending emails to professor in Canada.

He found a professor.

The professor was really interested in him.

The professor assisted him to review his SOP.

He got a funded admission.

He is now in Canada.

If you have have a low grade.

Make sending emails your daily work.

Just one day, it might be your turn.

Stop the doom scrolling on social media.

Follow important people like me who is interested in your growth.

I wish you good luck.

You will need it.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

A mistake that cost me years. I thought preparing was the same as progressing.

I read the books. Took the courses. Built the perfect plan. Waited for the perfect moment.

Meanwhile people with half my preparation simply started, stumbled, and figured it out in public.

Preparation feels productive. Very often it is just fear wearing a suit.

You do not learn to swim by studying water. You learn by getting in.

I eventually understood that clarity comes from action, not before it. The plan reveals itself as you move, never while you wait for it.

Now I start before I feel ready, on purpose, because ready is a feeling that only arrives after you begin.

If you are still waiting to feel prepared enough, stop.

The water is right there. Get in.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

Fix the small thing that drains you every single day.

The squeaky door. The slow phone. The chair that hurts your back. The app that steals your evenings.

We endure a hundred tiny frustrations because each one, alone, feels too small to bother with.

But small, multiplied by daily, multiplied by years, becomes an enormous quiet tax on your peace.

Spend the little money. Spend the one afternoon. Remove the friction for good.

You never realise how heavy the small annoyances were until the day they are finally gone.

A smoother day is not a luxury.

It is a hundred tiny reliefs you handed to your future self.

[Fathers Diary @Fathers_Diary]

Everything to teach your kids from today;

- Chess
- First aid
- Resilience
- Astronomy
- Persuasion
- Adaptability
- Self-respect
- Self-defence
- Cooking skills
- Assertiveness
- Managing time
- A good attitude
- Public speaking
- Problem solving
- Self-awareness
- Gardening skills
- How to volunteer
- How to negotiate
- Living off the land
- Basic home repair
- Starting a business
- Money management
- Good communication
- Don’t watch the news
- Emotional intelligence
- How to manage stress
- Basic car maintenance
- How to make a decision
- How to influence people
- How to be a great mother
- It’s okay to feel your emotions
- Mental frameworks for thinking
- Understanding healthy relationships
- Building others up, not tearing them down
- Problem-solving over memorization
- Exploration over conformity
- Creativity over rote learning
- The value of hard work.
- How to be kind to everyone.
- Why failure is the path to success.
- How to think, not what to think.
- How to adapt, not conform.
- How to lead, not follow.
- How to create, not consume.
- Taking care of animals.
- Good use of language.
- Opposite sex relationships.
- Healhy food choices.
- Music, listening and performing.
- General culture.
- Foreign languages.
- Leadership.
- Stoicism.
- Fasting.
- Sports.
- Video games.
- Spirituality.
- Travelling.
- Copywriting.
- Drawing.
- Self love.

What would you add?

[Kayode Okikiolu @KayodeOkikiolu]

How do we fix this?

It is happening right in the middle of civilization!

[Kay @Dwriteway]

NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR PRODUCT.

They care about what their life looks like after they buy it.

Sell THAT. Every single time.

[Doyinsola TOYE @doyinsola_toye]

You are not intelligent enough to plan your life.

Surrender fully to the leadership of the Holy Spirit.

And it's a daily surrender, not a one-time thing.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

Here is a truth nobody tells you early enough.

The real reason to chase more money is not the cars or the clothes.

It is time.

Money, spent wisely, buys back your hours.

That washing machine gives you back a Saturday morning.

The dishwasher hands you an extra hour with your kids.

A good fridge lets you cook once on Saturday and eat well all week, instead of standing over a pot every single night.

Hiring help for the tasks that drain you is not laziness. It is buying back your one life, piece by piece.

So do not just work to afford things.

Work to afford time.

Time to sleep. Time to rest. Time to be happy. That was always the point.

[Josh-K 👨🏾‍💼 @joshkstephen1]

My pitch for the Zacch Adedeji Taxation and fiscal policy fellowship. @dayoisrael @APCYouthWing @NigeriaRevenue

[Sir Eazi @mreazi]

Thank You God For Keeping Things Running Smoothly ⛹🏿‍♂️

[Oluwatimileyin✨🦋 @Timmysofine]

- : This is a hyphen.

– : This is an en-dash.

— : This is an em-dash.

The hyphen is used to connect words, like you say. Ex: Twenty-two, ex-boyfriend.

The en-dash is used in the context of a span of time. Ex: 1996–2018, February–March.

The em-dash is used when inserting a thought. Ex: He wouldn't—couldn't—go home.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

I’m an usher in our church.

Ever since I read that John D. Rockefeller served as an usher for most of his career even as he built the oil industry as we know it today, I’ve told myself that if I ever got to America and I ever got to work for the oil industry, I, too, will become an usher 😅

If the richest man in America during his time could be welcoming worshippers and showing them to their seat every Sunday, who am I?

I gladly usher.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

I earned $120K a year working for Shell in 2012.

Ten years and multiple promotions later, in 2022, that figure has doubled to $240K a year.

In 2023, I stumbled on an internal, confidential, document that showed the salaries of my superiors.

I saw that even if I were promoted multiple times again, the best I could hope for in another 10 years was another doubling to around $480K a year.

This may sound crazy saying it out loud but that wasn’t cutting it for me.

I simply didn’t want the next 10 years to be a repeat of the last 10.

I wanted geometric progression, not an arithmetic one.

On my 40th birthday, in 2023, I was asked to make a wish as a blew the candles on my birthday cake.

“Get the hell out of Shell,” I quietly whispered. Months later, I was out.

In 2024, my businesses grossed $500K; in 2025, they did $1M - geometric progression.

It required me to be delusional about my abilities, to bank on the faithfulness of God and to trust that inner voice that always nag at me that I could be more, I could do more and I could have more.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

My kids spent last night debating the exact minute to say happy birthday.

Daddy was born in Nigeria, we live in America, so the birthday technically starts about eight hours before their cake does.

Final ruling: celebrate twice. I did not appeal.

[Oreoluwa Bukola, CFA. @BukkyOA]

Can’t lie to you. If you don’t make a move, you will see literal clowns race past you. Clowns.

Nothing concern life with ‘I am a smart, educated, experienced person’.

You don’t act, you remain there.

[Sarkodie @sarkodie]

Let God do his work never interfere

[Oreoluwa Bukola, CFA. @BukkyOA]

A lot of us speak good English but still struggle to articulate our thoughts in a business setting. You know what you want to say. The words just don’t come out well. It is not your English. It is how you sort the thought before you talk. Let me show you how to fix it in this thread:

If you are an immigrant in the west, this can literally save your job

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[Babajide Sanwo-Olu @jidesanwoolu]

We have begun clearing the illegal shanties and market stalls built along the median of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

As we rebuild the Lagos-Badagry Expressway into a modern 10-lane highway, we cannot allow its median to become a market, a settlement or a site for illegal structures.

There is absolutely no reason for anyone to trade, build makeshift shops or live on the median of a major highway. It is unsafe, illegal and unacceptable.

We often compare Lagos with some of the world’s leading cities and ask why we cannot be like them. The truth is that those cities work because people respect public infrastructure and obey the rules. We cannot expect a world-class city while refusing to show the discipline needed to keep one. Dumping waste indiscriminately or building illegal structures along our highways will not move us forward.

If we want a cleaner, safer and more organised Lagos, discipline and personal responsibility must become part of our everyday culture. That is how we build a city we can all be proud of.

[RecruitmentPQ @RecruitmentPq]

Stop writing cold emails like a robot, your outreach will keep getting deleted.

Here are 15 email lines to replace the ones getting you ignored:

[Hansel Praise @hannytalker]

By 2050, Africa will be home to 2.5 billion people, the largest youth population on earth.

Someone has to figure out how that future gets financed. That’s the entire agenda at #ASIS2026, July 22–24 in Lagos. Read this: https://t.co/hvMKOl9iKO