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Food, Art & Cinematography Enthusiast. Lover of all things Aesthetically Pleasing.🥙😍 || Currently being Refined & Moulded by My Ever-FaithfulPotter & King 👑!

[ℳọ́' @Ms_Craig]

Bíbíre kò ṣeé fi owó rà. /A good pedigree cant be acquired with money. Top this by becoming joint heirs with Christ & have a Godly Heritage.

[SuperSanusi @supersanusi]

@Kitchnbutterfly would make a fantastic MasterChef Judge.

[Achalugo @duchesskiki]

Today I’m grateful for the life of my mum. So much of the ease I experience is because she is here. Even now I find that I still need her almost as much as I did as a child & she meets that need with the same unwavering love. What a blessing! Thank you God. #DailyGratitudePost

[ℳọ́' @Ms_Craig]

Art Lovers in Lagos, here is something for you. It’s happening Today & Tomorrow
#LHGalleryXCanvas
April 5&6th

[ℳọ́' @Ms_Craig]

Art Lovers in Lagos, here is something for you. It’s happening Today!!!

#LHGalleryXCanvas

[City Church Lagos @citychurchlagos]

“He is not here; He has risen…”
- Matthew 28:6

Tomorrow morning, we gather to celebrate the victory of Jesus’ resurrection. We will also be having water baptisms!

📍 The Jewel Aeida, 105 Hakeem Dickson Link Road, Elf Bus Stop, Lekki, Lagos
⏰9:00AM

[ℳọ́' @Ms_Craig]

@aninoritse Happy 40th Birthday Anino!
Wishing you God’s best now & always!
Enjoy your day 🎈.

[Geekay @gkbalogs]

In the last 15+ years, I’ve had more than 50 staff try to copy our business, join competitors, or take customers directly from under us, all in the name of “I can do it” or “na we dey do all the work… is it not just juice, parfaits and salads?” Unsurprisingly, most of them fizzled out before they started.

Not because they couldn’t replicate the product, some even used the same suppliers, and had the techincal know-how, but because they didn’t understand the business of building a business. They saw the surface, not the structure behind it.

People often ask me, “How do I protect my recipe?”
My response is usually: you mean watermelon and pineapple juice? There’s a lot more to building a business than the product. Yes, product matters, but it’s only one piece. In many cases, nailing consistency beats having “superior” quality. The ability to deliver the same experience, every single time, across locations, teams, and over time, is where the real work is.

And that’s why, for me, one of the most unserious things you can say as a business owner is: “I don’t want people to steal my idea.” Because ideas are a small part of your success. Anyone can come up with an idea, not everyone can execute.

Another common myth is that you must have a protectable IP or some special “secret sauce” to win., (i don't know why cake people liek to think they have one secrest recipe... 😂😂). It rarely works that way in reality. Yes, where there are clear grounds for protection, take it seriously. Protect what’s worth protecting. But don’t get stuck thinking you need IP to make it big. You don’t.

What you need is the ability to build, and keep building, long after the “idea” phase is over.

Instead ask yourself these serious questions:

- How do I distribute this product at scale?
- How do I systemise operations, so the business runs well?
- How do I build a high performance culture where people take ownership and standards don’t drop?
- How do I keep my brand top of mind in a crowded market?
- How do I acquire customers predictably and keep them coming back?
- How do I manage my finances properly, so I don’t run out of money?

This my friend is where the real work is.

These are what separates a good idea from a sustainable business.

[ℳọ́' @Ms_Craig]

@yewiedewie Happy Birthday Yewie 🎈,
wishing you God’s best for you. Have an amazing year 💃🏽!

[ℳọ́' @Ms_Craig]

@gbenro Hello Pst Gbénró 👋🏽
Hope you are doing well.
I’d like to have a chat with you when you are free. Thank you.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this. A Nobel Prize-winning immunologist noticed in 1907 that Bulgarian peasants were living past 100 at unusually high rates. His explanation: they ate yogurt every day. His name was Élie Metchnikoff, and he ran the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

His lecture made front-page news. Parisians lined up to buy Bulgarian curdled milk. Drugstores across Europe and the US started selling Lactobacilline tablets, basically the world’s first probiotics. But his original theory was partially wrong. The specific bacteria in yogurt (Lactobacillus bulgaricus) don’t actually survive in the human gut. A Yale researcher proved that in 1921.

Should’ve been case closed. It wasn’t.

In 2021, Stanford ran a clinical trial published in Cell with 36 healthy adults over 10 weeks. One group ate about 6 daily servings of fermented foods (yogurt, kefir, kimchi, kombucha). The other ate high-fiber foods. The fermented food group saw their gut bacterial diversity increase, which is one of the strongest predictors of overall health, and 19 inflammatory proteins in their blood dropped. Including interleukin-6, a protein tied to Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic stress. The high-fiber group? Zero of those 19 proteins decreased.

That same year, a Keio University and Broad Institute team studied 160 Japanese centenarians (average age: 107) and published in Nature. These centenarians had gut bacteria producing a bile acid called isoallolithocholic acid, basically a natural antibiotic so new to science it had never been described. It kills drug-resistant bacteria, including C. difficile, a gut infection that hits roughly 500,000 Americans a year.

A 2023 Nature Aging study of 1,575 people in China, 297 of them centenarians, found the oldest participants had gut microbiomes that looked younger than people decades below them. More bacterial diversity, more beneficial species, fewer harmful ones.

The yogurt meta-analysis data across 12 cohort studies: each additional daily serving is linked to 7% lower all-cause mortality and 14% lower risk of dying from heart disease.

Metchnikoff called it 119 years ago. Fermented foods reshape your entire gut ecosystem, increasing the diversity of bacteria living in your intestines, lowering chronic inflammation, and building a biochemical environment where your body fights off disease on its own.

[Subomi @subomiplumptre]

Sometimes God disrupts your journey.
He sends someone to introduce you to your destiny.
It's somewhat random, weird and even corny.
But it interrupts the normal course of your life. Your predetermined schedule.
Take a chance and respond. For why should your life to flow unimpeded in the river of normal?

[Subomi @subomiplumptre]

I'm 47. In that wisp of a moment, I've learnt a few things.

I've seen wealth and known lack. Had times when I never needed to look at the price of a menu or hotel room. But I've also had days when I didn't know how to pay rent or buy groceries.

I've experienced years of great health but also months of going from doctor to doctor to find a diagnosis so I could be well. Yes, I've spent a small fortune on healthcare.

I've known wonderful friendships. And I've been intimate with great loneliness. I have been betrayed and also betrayed others.

I've done meaningful work that will outlive me and also felt the despair of being stuck doing what I dislike.

I've been a leader and a follower. Lived on different continents and met people from many cultures.

I've had vices and invented a few of my own.

In all of this, I have discovered the only thing that matters is God (and the people he so thoughtfully created). His will, his mind and his grace.

God has always been with me, ever kind and true. Jesus is my greatest discovery and the Holy Ghost is my grandest attainment.

Nothing else matters. In him I live and move and have my being. He brings reason and logic to everything. He is both the container and the content. The beginning, ending and everything in between. He reveals great purpose and meaning.

When he comes into the room, the only sensible responses are:

"Welcome, Lord. How may I serve and what should I give?"

"Who am I that you would notice me and come to me. Here, now and for all time?"

"What am I that you would reveal your thoughts and uncover your mind? Where was I created that the Holy One would choose to discuss his wishes?"

What an absolute wonder.

[Geekay @gkbalogs]

2 years after I started business, we were struggling badly. Even though we kept pushing, we were this close to shutting down. Then we went for an event at a secondary school in Lekki to sell during one of their programs. We paid through our nose to get a space, so we decided to mark up our prices compared to what we sold in our store at Ogba, just to justify the investment. Instead of selling a cup of juice for ₦350 and ₦550, we did ₦700 and ₦1,000.

When the event started, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The participants were excited that something like this existed in Lagos, freshly made juices & smoothies on demand, with exotic combinations. They kept coming back for more of the ₦1,000 cups. They were just happy we were there.

This was a complete contrast to our store in Ogba, where we fought with customers daily over price. Then they started asking for our location, and the moment we said Ogba, the disappointment on their faces said it all.

Right there that day, I decided we were relocating to the island.

A year later, in 2013, we moved to Ikoyi (where we are still located today), and that was the beginning of the business transformation and everything you see today called So Fresh. In less than three months, we quadrupled our sales. It felt like they had been waiting for us all along.

Sometimes, as entrepreneurs or even in life generally, you just have to keep moving. Go for that event. Attend that trade show. Try something new. Show up for that mixer or networking session (even though I hate them). A spark, a conversation, a connection, a fleeting though can be the start of a big change. Just don't stop!!

[Oreoluwa Bukola, CFA. @BukkyOA]

Before you hand over any piece of work, ask yourself one question: If this stopped on my desk and nobody else reviewed it, am I comfortable with the quality?

Because that is exactly how you should be working.

Think like the most senior person on your team. Think like the work ends with you. No one else is going to catch your mistakes. No one else is going to clean it up.

When you start working like that, you stop letting things slide. You stop submitting things you are not proud of. You start caring about the details from the beginning; not after someone points them out.

That is how you get fewer review notes. That is how people start trusting your work.

This week, produce the work that the most senior person on your team would produce.

[Qcoga Parent Body @QcogaParentBody]

🖋️ World Poetry Day | March 21

Poetry gives voice to emotion, preserves culture, and connects humanity across borders. On World Poetry Day, QCOGA celebrates the power of words to inspire, heal, and bring people together.

[Femi Osunnuyi @femionzion]

'Theology is an ongoing conversation about how best to speak the gospel. It is, therefore, a perpetual debate until the Lord’s return. The problem is not disagreement. The problem is Christian critics and advocates talking past each other.'
https://t.co/M4eORhTySQ

[Molara Wood @molarawood]

Preserve the images of your family line, your grandparents etc. Keep documents, heirlooms etc, pay attention to the past, listen to the stories of your people. Otherwise, one day you will be left bereft, with no anchor to hold on to, to say: This is who I am, from whence I came.

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

“Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs Gowon, laughing together at Victoria Station, London, on the arrival of General Gowon for a four-day state visit to Britain.”

Source: Woman’s World, 1973

[Babájídé @Babajiide]

Dear working class man with working class partners

A two income household is a powerful one that allows the unit to own more, they usually go further if they both have their head screwed on right. I get all these negativity you see on twitter, some are valid and some are laughable.

You should want your partner to earn more and contribute to the running of the unit, its only natural. whether its 50:50, 80:20, 70:30, its left you as the unit to decide.

[Oyeronke Oyebanji @OyeRonke_]

Feels surreal to say that I’ve completed my Doctor of Public Health degree @LSHTM, analysing Nigeria’s vaccine manufacturing ambition

Ten years after my BSc & while building a career I love

I wish there were more stories like this when I was starting. Hopefully it inspires❤️

[ℳọ́' @Ms_Craig]

@shalamsee E ku Iranti 🫂, ehin won a tunbo da ra si.