Visited my elder brother Hon. @B_ELRUFAI at the National Assembly.
Shared news of my ADC flag bearer emergence for Chanchaga - his second home. He congratulated me, offered counsel & support.
We prayed for Mallam's health & vindication.
--Dr Moh'
@DrMooh_ won seven out of nine wards in the ADC primaries for the Chanchanga House of Representatives ticket. Two wards were cancelled. Congratulations, bro. This ticket is home.
The millions some of you are wasting on the purchase of nomination forms, knowing full well that you have not built the political presence required to aspire to such offices, could have gone a long way in your personal development.
There are less expensive ways to advertise yourself, because, for some people, that is primarily what these ambitions amount to. Invest instead in meaningful self-improvement: acquire relevant skills, earn professional certifications, deepen your knowledge, build competence, and reinvent yourself for greater employability in a changing world.
For those who are not from Babban Gida, the only way to bridge that gap is to build the skill-set that cannot be inherited by blood. Build yourself to the point where you become inevitable, and where, when you finally arrive at the table, you have either earned enough intellectual or material capital to compete with them or possess something they need. Those are the things those millions can achieve. They are also the things you can fall back on when your political adventure fails.
What a compelling and visionary delivery by Dr. Bala Wunti! Bauchi is fortunate to have him, and even more promising days lie ahead should he be entrusted with the mandate to serve as Governor, Insha Allah.
A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.
It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.
Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.
Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.
The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.
It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.
The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.
When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.
Aliko Dangote once had multiple homes in several countries, a nightlife of fancy parties, a Rolls-Royce and a Ferrari. Then he got serious about industrialization. “Some of us need to rescue the country,” he said. https://t.co/ZEZJ7bhk7W
Tolu Ogunlesi @toluogunlesi was born on March 3, 1982, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Nigerian parents and grew up largely in Nigeria. He attended the International School Ibadan and later earned a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Ibadan in 2004. Following his passion for writing, he went on to obtain a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in the UK in 2011.
Ogunlesi’s career began in journalism and creative writing. He is a poet, fiction writer, blogger, photographer, and columnist whose works have appeared in prestigious publications locally and internationally. He’s won notable awards, including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and multiple CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards, and has participated in various fellowships highlighting his creative excellence.
In 2016, he was appointed Special Assistant on Digital and New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, a role in which he coordinated the government’s digital communication strategies, amplified official messaging across platforms, and helped modernize how the presidency engages with citizens online. This position placed him at the forefront of digital governance and public communication in Nigeria.
He also served as Head of the Presidency Office of Digital Engagement, establishing frameworks that shaped government outreach in the digital age.
Tolu Ogunlesi’s impact goes beyond public office, He helped build structures that strengthened how Nigerian governance interacts online, bridging communication between government and people in a digital-first era.
Through his writing, he has enriched Nigerian literature and journalism, offering narratives that reflect societal complexities and cultural identity.
His selection as a fellow at institutions like Harvard University’s Weatherhead Scholars Program reflects his global influence in media and digital communication.
In 2023, he was conferred the national honour of Member of the Order of the Niger, one of Nigeria’s top civilian awards, acknowledging his service to the nation.
Tolu Ogunlesi exemplifies a modern kind of hero, one who uses words, digital platforms, creativity, and communication to shape discourse, strengthen democratic engagement, and represent Nigeria on global stages. His work underscores the power of media and digital governance in steering national conversation and empowering citizens with information. 🇳🇬✨
Physics graduate (2nd Class Upper).
I teach physics, speak Spanish and Arabic, and I’m always learning.
Interested in education, research, and continuous growth in STEM.
Which of the favours of Allah will I deny? None!
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MARYAM ADEDOLAPO OSO, Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), First Class (Hons)
Best Graduating Student, Faculty of Law
University of Lagos, Akoka.
I need strong recommendations for credible tutors with core strength in Financial Modeling & Valuation in the industry, and offer classroom trainings in Abuja, Lagos and PH.
Mr. Umeagbalasi, who is Catholic, founded the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, or Intersociety, in 2008. He runs the organization out of his home. His wife, Blessing, an evangelical Christian, is a board member.
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I often hear people talk about positioning yourself in the right places so you can meet the right people. Sometimes, yes, it works. But it’s exhausting. And the little time these CEOs give you is rarely worth what you put in.
Stop spending money you don’t have chasing CEOs. Living in places you can’t afford or joining clubs just to fit in is a losing game.
There’s a better way. Find good minds at your own level and build with them. Grow together. That’s how you naturally get the attention of the people you’re chasing. When they see you have something solid going on, they come to you.
You can’t chase a monkey in the jungle, it will exhaust you. Grow bananas and dig a pond, and the monkey will come on its own.
No, sir.. Third Class remains shitty. We must stop enabling & normalising mediocrity. Forgery is criminality & entirely a different issue. The comparison is flawed, they aren’t like terms.
We are training children, not managing excuses.
In my space, it is excellence or nothing.