I’m sure a lot would relate to this..
Growing up when you’d have a sibling that isn’t feeling fine, they start collecting drip.. Then your parents start showing them extra care, asking what they want to eat, they stop doing chores at home and all..
Now you’re there wishing you’re the one that is sick just coz you crave that extra care from your parents
Sometimes you even start hating like.. “Mummy don’t mind him o.. He’s just pretending, he’s now feeling fine” 🤣
When my grandma was dealing with a kidney diseases, the Doc advised that if my uncles could afford it,they should fly her to india. my uncle told the Doc he would think about it. as my uncle was leaving the hospital, another Doc went behind the Doc...
I don’t really mind if you can afford sending people money any time they ask, I mean it’s your money, and your prerogative to spend it however you want, but I’m always amazed at how people are comfortable incessantly requesting money from others.
Spouse or not, I feel sorry for people who are okay in a position they have to constantly ask others for money. As a man or woman, I don’t think this is a good place for anyone. It gets to a point where the provider starts seeing you as a “thing” - not human.
If you understand finances, nobody really likes a liability. They can put up with it for a while, but not forever.
If you want to become a better communicator, here are two free resources worth checking out.
Communication is one of those skills that will open doors for you, regardless of your profession.
Start with these:
1. How to Speak – MIT OpenCourseWare by Patrick Winston.
2. Think Fast, Talk Smart – Stanford Graduate School of Business by Matt Abrahams.
To understand why poor societies end up creating expensive customs (e.g ostentatious and expensive wedding parties), you may have to think about these words of Oscar Wilde: "The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy."
Patriarchy existed to STOP OTHER MEN.
You really think men invented patriarchy to hold YOU down? You are too weak, too fragile, too irrelevant for men to waste invention on you.
Men invented patriarchy to protect their lands, food, money, resources, women and children FROM MEN.
500 years ago women didn't know what patriarchy was because it was SURVIVAL.
No police. No 911. No guns. No cell phones. If a rival tribe wanted you, they killed your men, raped you, took your land, took your food, and married you off to their sons or kept you as maids, servants, and sex slaves. That was history.
Patriarchy said: TOUCH HER AND YOU DIE. She belongs to this man, this family, this tribe. That was not oppression. That was a DEATH THREAT to other men to keep you safe.
Pregnancy = 9 months useless. Breastfeeding mother can't run, can't fight, baby cries and brings wolves.
Who hunted? MEN.
Who fought bears? MEN.
Who fought other men? MEN.
Who built houses in snow? MEN.
Who died in wars? 90% MEN.
If men left women alone to be "independent" in 1500, you would have gone EXTINCT in one winter. No food. No fire. No protection.
You are alive today because of patriarchy.
Modern luxury - AC, Uber Eats, iPhone, birth control, police made yall RETARDED and ungrateful. You think world was always safe.
You think animals don't hunt humans for food?
Who stopped all these? Patriarchy. Men who built walls, laws, armies, civilization so you can sit on TikTok with fake eyelashes and say "patriachy oppress me."
You are not oppressed. You are PROTECTED and too dumb to know it.
Without patriarchy, you wouldn't be CEOs. You'd be extinct or a sex slave to the strongest man in your own village that’s been conquered by the enemy.
Patriarchy is not why you are suffering. Patriarchy is why you are ALIVE to complain.
They invited her to Berlin thinking she would praise them. Instead, she exposed their blood-soaked history.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie didn't hold back. She exposed the ultimate Western lie. They teach their kids to "help the poor Africans," but completely erase the fact that Belgium’s King Leopold turned the Congo into a personal slaughterhouse. Millions murdered. Hands chopped off for rubber.
They don't teach the truth because the truth is a debt they can never repay.
Watch this. Bookmark it. Teach your children who the real savages were.
Read more books. Read to escape reality. Read to understand reality. Read to challenge what you believe. Read to think better. Read to write better. Read to argue better. Read to know yourself. Read to build something. A single book can completely rewire your brain.
Stop frying your brain with endless Tiktoks and short form content.
Read long articles and books.
Cultivate the ability to think deeply. To focus for long periods. Stare into space and enjoy boredom.
Do tasks without any media playing in the background.
Resist the urge to reach for your phone every time you feel uncomfortable.
Get used to being with uncomfortable emotions instead.
Wonder and think about the questions you have instead of asking AI.
Become deeply present with everyone around you.
Your ability to focus, pay attention, to think deeply, is one of your most valuable assets.
Don't lose it to the internet and AI.
Today, illiteracy is no longer defined as the inability to read or write; it is the inability to use cognitive skills to think critically, question assumptions, analyse information, challenge popular beliefs, and make informed decisions.
As usual, I will be very blunt!!
Education in Nigeria has not lost its point. We are the ones who have lost the plot. We were told: "Go to school, get certificate, get job, pay rent and live fine". Our parents believed it because in 1985, it was true. The assured way to make it. In 2026, that equation has expired and nobody told us in school.
Schools are still awarding certificates, but the market is paying for skills. For instance, you spent 4 years learning Adult Education while a 19-year-old guy on YouTube learned how to run Facebook ads and close deals in two weeks and is making your 2 year salary in one month. A graduate spent 4 years studying Computer Science by drawing parts of a computer on the board, but can't build a simple website. The lecturers are teaching us with 1992 notes they photocopied in 2005. That curriculum was designed for a civil service economy that no longer exists.
What happens after convocation? You throw cap and your parents cook food, then reality slaps you. Most entry roles ask for 3 years experience, Excel, Canva, sales, and "ability to work under pressure"; none of which you were taught. Invariably, most graduates will then have go back to square one to go and learn tailoring, barbing, makeup, coding, plumbing, baking etc. That thing your mother told you was for "people who didn't go to school." 😆 Reality ya werey gaan!!
Moreover, we have all mistaken schooling for education. Most Nigerians didn't get educated, we just went to school. We learned how to read, cram, copy, and pass. We never learned how to think. Real education is not the certificate. It's the ability to think clearly, argue intelligently, communicate excellently, solve problems, and learn something new in few days. If you can do that, you are educated, even if you stopped at ND. If you can't do that, you are not educated, even with a first class certificate from the best University.
If you look around, you will see the skilled guy without education can make money, but he can't structure it. He makes # 3 million monthly but can't keep records, can't hire properly, can't scale, and his business dies with him. The educated guy without skill can write fine English and analyse the economy, but he is broke. He is intelligent and hungry. In this Nigeria, you need both. Certificate alone is premium hunger whilst skill alone is hustle without structure. You need to be educated AND skilled.
In addition, the system is struggling with overpopulation. Nigeria produces roughly 600,000 to 700,000 graduates every year. How many decent formal jobs are being created? Maybe 10,000 if we are being generous. Where are the other applicants supposed to go? Of course, they will have to learn a skill. It's not that education is useless, it's that a BSc is no longer scarce. When everyone has it, it stops being special. Degrees na like water!! Everyone has it, so nobody pays premium for it.
To cut the long writing short,
Primary and secondary school are very compulsory. Don't debate it. That's your foundation for life.
University?. It still has value, but only if you are smart about it. Go for three things: to learn how to think, to build a network that will feed you after school and to gain access. If your course is useless, or you hate it, you are just wasting 4 years to answer "I am a graduate". Either choose a course with market value, or use your 4 years in school to aggressively learn one high-income skill on the side. The smartest students in UNILAG and ABU right now are not just reading their books, they are running businesses from their hostel.
Learning a skill is not optional anymore. This will cater for rent and daily meals. That is what will save you when your certificate is sitting in a file doing nothing. Your certificate is your long-term passport, it can open a big door in 5 years. Your skill is your short-term visa, it puts food on your table daily. In this country, if you have only one, you will suffer.
Rahma cares ✍️
Will you agree with me when I say modern illiteracy is not the inability to read and write; it is the inability to think critically, question what one is taught, and distinguish truth from manipulation?
I am a rational human being with a sense of will. I don’t need Bill Gate sponsored bill to tell me what to eat and what not to eat.
Throw the bill away 🇳🇬 🔥✊🏾