Another perfect day to clear up some common misconceptions.
Listen:
1. You don't NEED antibiotics when you have a cold.
2. You CANNOT shift anybody's womb. You cannot even reach it. Don't be stupid.
3. Diabetes is NOT caused by adding too much sugar to your garri.
4. For the last time, Typhoid is NOT malaria and malaria is not Tyforce. Stop diagnosing yourself of typhoid everytime you are ill or have a fever or stomach upset.
5. Hypertension ISN'T caused just by too much thinking.
6. You CANNOT "flush" ur system of illness by "pissing all the sickness away". They LIED to you..6. Your body doesn't need daily supplements. Just eat normally and healthy.
7. You do not need a special kind of tea to flush your system. You are not a public toilet.
8. Putting spoon in a person's mouth during a convulsion will NOT stop ANY convulsion.
9. Taking "Hampicloss" after sexual intercourse will NOT protect you from sexually transmitted infections or pregnancy.
10. Stop the daily douching and stop washing your vaginas with antiseptics. You are only exposing yourself to infections.
Oh... and this one is very important:
Slimming tea CANNOT remove all that fat. It will only make you purge till you are dehydrated (if you are very religious with it) and land you in the accident and emergency of the nearest teaching hospital to you. Go to a Gym, work out and DIET!
Pass it on if you care.
Update on my Neighbor!!!
You guys remember when the man was begging her not to leave then, and I mentioned he said something I didn’t fully hear that made the wife change her mind?
Guys, it was their visa. Apparently, they were already processing to Japa before the whole cheating saga blew up.
The wife mentioned it she said, “Remove my name from anything traveling. Don’t use that one to hold me down again.” Omo 😭
Last night, after the man spoke with our landlady, he went straight to her sister’s place thinking she was there. He didn’t find her, so he ended up threatening the sister instead. The sister quickly called the wife and reported everything.
So that’s why the wife came with police to warn him. He wasn’t arrested though, because the police said it’s a family matter that should be resolved internally.
She still packed some things and left with the policemen.
Meanwhile, the pregnant lady didn’t even step outside throughout the whole heated drama 🤣😭
You think I'm happy living abroad?
I have a family I grew up with, whom I love with all of my heart - and the reality keeps dawning on me, on how many times I will see them before I one day turn 60.
People I saw daily, or once a month - I haven't seen in years, and would realistically only see once a year, going forward.
You think I'm happy?
That one day, I might end up having children and my siblings might not have the relationship with them - the relationship I had with my uncles, in my formative years? I remember clearly how they would take us to MrBiggs every Sunday - I am currently reliving the flavour from that meatpie.
How we would go to the family house in Ikeja, every year for Eid. The grandchildren uniforms, the snacks while watching your uncles slaughter rams.
You think I'm happy that I might one day lead a family of children who might not know their version of that?
WTF will I be doing in another man's land, if I did everything they asked me to do from childhood (face your studies, be exceptional, stay away from crime, be hardworking) and opportunities lined up for me to be the best I could, in my motherland? WTF will I be doing here?
Why will I condescend myself to living in a clime where I have to mentally switch from sun burning weather to teeth clenching winter - when I came from a land where I never needed gloves? You think I'm happy?
If I could do honest work, be on my way home and not have to bother about the risk of getting shot by the people meant to protect me, because I have some lines of tattoos on my body - you think I would leave?
If I could trust a justice system to defend me, ensure my rights even though I am a nobody - have trustworthy institutions banking on the highest standards, not have to worry about the bread I eat, the fake drinks from the club or streets, the fake drugs - you think I would leave?
Don't get me wrong. I am grateful for the opportunities this clime has given me, to test my limits - to be everything I thought I could be. But all of these, in replacement for the soul I grew up with?
You know the satisfaction that settled within me when I could wake up on a Saturday morning, stroll to the Iya wanke's place - relish an entire plate, or some ewa agonyin while watching children battle it out, in a 5 v 5 across the streets.
That communal living that relished my soul, is now replaced with silent streets and finely divided sealed terraces.
You walk through the city centres in the evenings - you see friends having an aperitif (they do so every evening), you see grandfathers meeting up with their children, you see entire families with extended families living across the streets, first cousins are even able to use the same gym and you remember what that looked like for you back home?
You think of all your friends scattered across continents, some you might never get to hug again.
For a lot of diasporans, you don't want Nigeria to work more than us. A lot of us want to come home, but what is home? Where is home? When will home feel like home?
I hope to continue living life without lack, in comfort, with accomplished dreams - but I want to do so, with soul. When I die one day, I want to do so - with soul.
I hate to break it to you guys, but Obi is not going to become president in 2027.
Oh, I would give anything for him to get there, but the sooner we get rid of that delusion, the sooner we can get to where we are headed.
Obi ran with Atiku in 2019 and got rigged out. He went to court and lost.
Obi ran again in 2023. He raised the biggest movement we have seen in a long time, had the support of the people, and guess what? He was rigged out again.
How do we keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result?
The “Independent” Electoral Commission, INEC, is appointed by Tinubu, so apparently, they are not that independent.
The courts too are in his pocket.
Do you guys think they will suddenly grow a conscience and just allow him to win?
They will rig the election, not even bothering to make it less obvious, and then tell Obi to go to court, because they run that system too.
People will probably riot, they will most likely shoot at people, lives will be lost, and absolutely nothing will happen.
When we are ready for Nigeria to change, when we finally reach our endurance limit, we will rise.
And when that time comes, we will not run or hide when they shoot.
Do not get me wrong, I am not advocating for anyone to go out today and lose their lives. Hell, we are not ready yet, and we do not quite have that in us.
But the sooner we let go of our delusions, the sooner we get to the point where we are ready to confront reality, and fully recognize that change always comes at a cost.
- I maintain the argument that you have more work to do with a Woman that wants you and genuinely wants the best for you, than you do with a Woman that doesn’t really want you.
I’ll explain…
When a Woman isn’t really into you, it’d be glaring that all she’s there for is for what she can get..
And that’s not so hard to tell and figure(especially if you have money as a Man).. You can easily see all she demands is financial attention.. And you already have it.. So that’s not so much work.. You’re just stupid to think you can build something genuine with that type of person.. But it’d be an easy ride ultimately for the guy.
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Now the Woman that indeed wants you and wants the best for you..
It’d require you to start doing better, living right, she’d desire your attention, she’d monitor your friendships, career choices, your decision making game has to be on-point, now you have to show up more beyond finances because she’d need your sense of judgement with so many things going on even in her own life.
So the question is..
Are you even mentally ready for a good woman that genuinely wants you ?
Are you a solid human being enough to navigate life with a super solid Woman ?
It’s simple!(and ironic too) coz it’s easier dealing with babes that are not really into you.
Why do you think simps with money almost always get to be with useless girls then get burnt later ?
The ‘loser’ in them is just trying to use money to cover up for what is required of them to be with a sensible woman that genuinely wants them.
@sukhdeep7896 Someone asked why do average employees become leaders while the brilliant ones dont.
The brilliant ones are busy developing, researching, etc, less visible but the average ones are more visible & play more office politics.
There’s a serious Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria right now where 146 people have been confirmed dead in 11 weeks and there have been 582 confirmed cases.
25 doctors have been infected, and 3 have lost their lives.
If you are reading this, please stay safe. This virus spreads through the urine or droppings of infected rats, or human-to-human contact.
It starts like an ordinary fever, but it can quickly move to bleeding, a swollen face, and shock.
ALWAYS:
1. Cover your food and pots tightly.
2. Block the holes where rats enter your house.
3. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap.
4. If you have a persistent fever, stop swallowing random drugs from the chemist. Go to the hospital immediately.
Our health workers are at risk, and proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is life-saving. We cannot afford to lose more people to a preventable disease.
Stay safe and retweet this to save a life today!
When I tell people I get up with my husband every morning at 4:30am to pack his lunch and make him a hot breakfast they asked me if his arms were broken so I don’t think they want to hear it.
When they move abroad as immigrants - they make friends based on visa categories. They don't even date below their visa categories. 😂
When they're on Twitter, the reiterate that stratification. small accounts vs big accounts. 💀
I reflect a lot on our ideological design, as a people. Nigerians are morally bankrupt, culturally deficient and rooted in faux elitism.
This is why some markets exist for us, because they can take advantage of that shameless insecurity - and I genuinely don't think the reason is poverty.
I've visited other poor countries. These countries do not see cars beyond what they are, a means a transportation. They don't see restaurants beyond what they are. They don't see dates beyond what they are.
Something fundamentally is wrong with us.
For us, it isn't even enough that we succeed - it is important that other fail, or don't succeed as much as we do. It is important for us to have an edge other others. It is such a sick attitude.
Person A has one house. Person B has two houses. It isn't enough that they both have roof over their heads - Person B innately subclasses Person A.
You should also to hear from a Nigerian gym goer that you're not "man enough" because you don't bench as much as he does. 💀
As segwayed as these analogies are, they are rooted in the same proportionality. It points to the same mental illness.
Who did this to us?
@MrMekzy_ Anything that gives you that warm fuzzy feeling is malaria
Makes you feel weak in the knees? That's Guillain Barre syndrome
Makes your head spin? That's a concussion
Makes you speechless? You don get stroke be that
Anything that takes your breath away is called asthma.
Anything that sweeps you off your feet is epilepsy.
Butterflies in your tummy are gastric ulcers. having
Chills is the flu.
Being head over heels is an emergency craniotomy.
When your heart skips a beat, that's a heart attack.
None of these are love, you're not in love.
you're welcome.
This lady sent me an email last year. She had graduated in 2018 with a pass and was looking for guidance.
“Come into freelancing, and I’ll be glad to support you,” I told her.
She joined the @skill_afrika_ Automation Bootcamp, showed up consistently for every class, and stayed committed throughout. I also supported her with an n8n license to help her get started. After the bootcamp, she enrolled in my cold emailing course and began putting herself out there.
Less than five months after messaging me, she signed her first client today. $1,250 per month, working remotely.
It might seem small to some, but it means everything, a whole lot, to someone who felt stuck and uncertain just a year ago.
Stories like this energise me. They remind me why we do what we do and motivate me to keep building, keep teaching, and keep opening doors for others through @skill_afrika_ . Allah owns all praises and adorations
Whenever I see Africans having all of the takes over countries like Eritrea, I just want to cover my face and go somewhere to have a lie down. Because the way some of you talk is a confirmation of every malicious racial stereotype that was ever created about African people.
You have no original thoughts or independent opinions inside your head. Everything that comes out of your mouth is Garbage-In-Garbage-Out programmed nonsense that was dictated directly directly into your head by the BBC news anchor who talks like they have plums in their mouth. Kinikan "Eritrea is a dictatorship," "They don't have freedom," "Police state that citizens need permission to leave."
First of all, let's be clear on something - no African country is fundamentally better off than Eritrea. You might not be under the same sanctions as they are, so you might have access to the cheapest cast-off consumer items from global trade that China gracefully lets you have, which creates the illusion of wealth and comfort, but the minute your weak and compromised governments ever try to exert actual sovereignty and independence, is the minute you will discover that global trade is a mafia operation controlled by US sanctions, and we are ALL at the same level as Eritrea.
Just because you have cheap consumer items from Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and you have MTN or Safaricom 4G internet that you use to play Nairabet and watch porn does not make you better off than an Eritrean who doesn't have those things. Because the price your country is paying for having those things can be measured in all kinds of horrible ways, like how IMF structural adjustment has devalued your Nigerian currency 99.7% since 1986, or how British soldiers at their base in Kenya regularly rape and murder local women without being legally answerable to Kenyan law. That is the price Eritrea refused to pay, so think about that before you sneer at people who to a certain extent are actually better off than you.
Second and more importantly, "freedom" is a concept that you should define for yourself as an adult human being with a fully functioning brain. If a group of white people and their NGO/media/civil society servants in Abuja and Nairobi have told you all your life that "freedom" means "multiparty universal suffrage elections", "free trade", "free press" and "individual liberty", that is fine and I love it for you. But as a grown-ass adult in a world that is clearly bigger than you, perhaps you also need to ask yourself what "freedom" means to Agnes Wanjiru, the Kenyan nursing mother in Nanyuki who was gang raped by British soldiers, stabbed in her lungs (so she drowned in her own blood), and dumped (alive) into a septic tank where her body was discovered 3 years later.
What does "freedom" mean to the 3 million people who died in Nigeria's civil war, which was externally instigated by Charles de Gaulle, who wanted to punish Nigeria and set it up for long term instability because Nigeria dared to publicly oppose France's nuclear bomb tests in Algeria? What does "freedom" mean to the local Tuaregs in Algeria around those nuclear test sites whose descendants still suffer extremely high rates of cancer, birth defects, and genetic mutations 60 years later?
What does "freedom" mean to 40 million black South Africans who were born into an economy whose structure has NOT changed since 1994, and who are statistically condemned through no fault of their own, to live tiny lives surviving off small government handouts, all because someone crossed the Atlantic, came to their country, stole all the means of production, and codified their theft into law? All these people I have mentioned have elections and smartphones and Google and porn and mobile money and some measure of gay rights, and whatever other thing that these NGO people have told you constitutes "freedom."
What use are these things to them?
As an African adult in 2026 with a functioning, non-colonised mind that can take in and process information independently - and not just mindlessly parrot whatever you have been told - you should be able to define what "freedom" means in your own personal, communal, national and civilisational context. Because the ability to trade memecoins, use Uber, make an online purchase with your Mastercard, subscribe to somebody's OnlyFans, express dissatisfaction with your government openly, be part of political opposition, or attend a Pride parade are definitely important freedoms to some people.
But freedom from white people and their IMF, World Bank, CIA, MI6, Mossad, DGSE, International Bank of Settlements, New York Federal Reserve, foreign military bases, NGO industrial network, sponsored terrorism, contrived colour revolutions, and Epstein safari trips to hunt and eat your kids are even more important freedoms to other people. And since in the world that existed between 1945 and 2023, it was basically impossible to have both sets of freedoms at the same time, Eritrea chose the second set of freedoms over the first set, as is their sovereign right to.
So if you come from a country that allowed Epstein islanders to hunt and eat your babies and drown your women in septic tanks in exchange for having Mastercard, Sportpesa and Pornhub, maybe focus on managing the faustian bargain your government made and quit rubbernecking at Eritrea.
You actually have bigger problems than they do.
I had a friends like this in school, they’d always call me “Pepsi long throat” bottle, other times they told me I looked like a boy, sometimes they’ll tell me toothpick was fatter than me, or that I was meant to come as a boy.
It messed with my body image then because I considered these people to be my best friends.
I broke it off the friendship after she said “who would date someone like you”, “what would he touch?”,
When I added weight, she couldn’t believe it, we met at a mutual friend’s place, I had no idea she was going to be there, She kept glancing at me till I left.
It was 8 PM on a Friday, and my partner was dead asleep on the living room sofa, still in his work clothes.
I was on FaceTime with a friend who was getting ready for a massive night out. She asked what my weekend plans were, and I flipped the camera to show him resting.
She sighed, doing her makeup. “Girl, doesn't it bother you? You’re young, it's Friday, and you're just watching a man sleep. You deserve the princess treatment. If he really wanted to take you out and show you off, he would.”
I looked at him. I looked at the dark circles under his eyes and the laptop still open on the coffee table.
What my friend didn’t see was that earlier that week, he had quietly taken over two of my biggest bills so I could afford to take a lower-paying job that I actually loved. He had been pulling 14-hour days for months, absorbing all the financial pressure so I could finally breathe.
I didn’t argue with her. I just calmly said,
“He is giving me the soft life. The soft life is me waking up without panic because he goes to war every single day. I’m not going to punish him for returning from that war exhausted.”
The line got quiet. I told her to have fun, hung up, and draped a blanket over him.
The internet has completely warped our idea of what love looks like. It has convinced women that "princess treatment" means endless aesthetic dates, constant entertainment, and a partner who operates with infinite energy.
But a man cannot simultaneously be in the trenches securing your absolute safety, and have the carefree energy of a guy with zero responsibilities.
I realized that night: The ultimate luxury isn't a man who takes you out to be seen. It’s a man who makes your life so incredibly secure that fiercely protecting his rest becomes your biggest priority.
“When an Igbo man sends his daughter to private school and his son to public school, no patriachy.
When a man allows his daughters stay home, and his sons go to his store to do heavy lifting, no lgbo patriachy.
When a house is in trouble and everyone ignores the woman while putting all the blame on the man, calling him incompetent, no Igbo patriachy.
When a man is implicitly forced to take on the financial burden of his family and that of his in-laws; he builds his family house, builds his parents a house, builds his wife's parents a house, trains relatives in school, etc. no patriarchy.
they will sell stories of girls made to cook, conveniently, forgetting boys are made to wash cars, wash tanks and handle other riskier tasks.
"Wife was made to cook by 4am", but the man leaving home by 4am to go face a chaotic business environment is doing it coz he will meet Davido and Wizkid there right?”
said it before, this whole patriarchy talks is by wretched twitter bitter misandrists disguising as feminists.
same you guys pushing this beer parlor narrative are same people that’d unapologetically reduce yourself to nothing by doing more than intended for men, making them see you as desperate and when they decide they can’t settle for less, you turn misandrist.
then all of a sudden, all men are evil because one man decided not to settle for a wretched girl without value and purpose.
In Africa, the church wedding isn’t necessary. The day you get married traditionally, the bond gets sealed.
Asking a grown ass man to cut his beards before you can officiate his wedding is stupid and uncalled for.
The doctrines in churches shouldn’t make the leaders foolish.
As for his wife, i hope he can get back his bride price cos clearly this isn’t a team.