I generated this image to make you understand my point better. Even though Man City finished second on the English Premier League table and Manchester United finished third, Man City are in a mournful sadness while Man United are celebrating.
This is the philosophical condition of all human ambition. Our joy and suffering are not measured in absolute position, but in distance from where we thought we would be.
Let me tell you how it happened. Nigeria’s ginger export hit zero from N26 billion within 3 years.
The official story blames fungal blight.
But here is what actually happened. When Nigerian farmers lost their indigenous seed supply, grant-aided interventions arrived with replacement seeds.
An associate professor at Lagos Business School flagged publicly that some of those interventions involved GMO organisms that weakened indigenous crops and compromised soil health.
That is not a conspiracy theory because it is a documented academic concern.
Now that Nigeria spoke got destroyed by the GMO seedlings….what is not the result?
Nigeria was forced to import ginger from China to fill domestic demand. Chinese ginger has none of the pungency, oleoresin content, or quality that made Nigerian ginger a global premium product. And the ginger now sitting in Nigerian markets tastes like wood because it essentially is wood.
The two indigenous varieties that built Nigeria’s global ginger reputation, the Tafin Giwa and Yatsun Biri, had decades of soil relationship and quality built into them.
Once the soil was degraded and those seed varieties were displaced, the product that returned was a pale imitation. Nigeria did not just lose a market. It lost a seed. And without a National Ginger Seed Bank, which nobody has built, it may never fully get it back.
We have now sold 15 chess sets in less than an hour. If we make it to 30 in the next one hour. I will donate a million naira to support a struggling small business here on X.
It is possible to do great things from a small place❤️🇳🇬
Dear @Tunde_OD
We recently launched the Citizens Assembly here in Ibadan. It's an initiative focused on raising a new group of informed and active Nigerians who are fully involved in governance in their locality, from communities, wards, local government, and state level.
Our goal is to reduce voters' apathy to the barest minimum in the upcoming elections and increase the participation of eligible voters in local and state elections to drive positive change in our communities.
We will appreciate your donation to this cause, and you don't need to send the money directly to us, you can just send to the production studio and follow up with our activities to know if your donation is being used judiciously.
I have attached a brief document highlighting the purpose of the Citizens Assembly Initiative.
Thank you, sir!
There's so much we can do differently... If you reside in Ibadan and would love to be part of a movement that's solely focused on driving positive change and finding local solutions to our local problems, this space is for you.
We're starting this Sunday. Register now, and confirm your space.
God bless Nigeria! 🇳🇬
God bless Oyo State!💛
There's so much we can do differently... If you reside in Ibadan and would love to be part of a movement that's solely focused on driving positive change and finding local solutions to our local problems, this space is for you.
We're starting this Sunday. Register now, and confirm your space.
God bless Nigeria! 🇳🇬
God bless Oyo State!💛
Question for deliberation:
How will second coming of Jesus Christ look like?
Will he come in an all omnipresent form, like in the sky, that everyone will see him? Or will he come and live among us again to observe us and chose those that will ascend with him?
I was watching Asake's "Worship" cut from his Red Bull performance and an overwhelming sense of pride in him just came on me and I just wanted him to succeed in all his endeavours so bad!
We also discussed housing and the supported youth and sustainability initiatives by the Council, which our student community can benefit from.
Excited and looking forward to working together with the Youth Mayors on their youth employability initiatives going forward.
Yesterday, the College Presidents @RoehamptonUni and I, had the pleasure of meeting Jeremy Ambache, the mayor of Wandsworth Council @WandsworthMayor, his deputy and the Youth Mayors. We discussed transportation challenges faced by students and locals alike in Roehampton.
At the risk of being misunderstood, no matter how many slums the government renovates in Nigeria, most of them will eventually return to the same state. So it’s pointless.
People’s environment is a big reflection of their mindset, that’s why when you grow mentally, you begin to feel really uncomfortable about even your physical environment and appearance, you want to do anything within your ability to keep at least your own personal spaces neat, even though a neat slum.
And this is not a matter of rich or poor, you can be poor financially but rich in mindset, the riches in the mindset will automatically reflect in the slum environment.
Have you ever worn a cloth neatly for years and the moment you give it out to someone, it only a matter of few weeks before that beautiful cloth begin to turn brown and fade away. This one still happened to me last Christmas.
The first step to transformation is not changing from outside, it’s really changing from inside out!
Maintenance culture is more about the quality of the users mind and not so much about budgets.
Build the roads, but importantly build the people.