I’m extremely disappointed in us as Nigerian youths. Extremely.
I woke up this morning to get ready for work without electricity and without water. The last time we had power in my area was Saturday morning. This is Abule Ijesha, Lagos.
I work a 9–5. I earn a substantial amount every month, and yet I’m still dealing with something as basic as the lack of electricity and water.
And meanwhile, young people on Twitter are still allowing tribal sentiments and religious affiliations to divide us in 2026.
Do you people not understand how limited you are compared to young people in developed countries? Do you not understand that if anything happens right now, the politicians who are the most privileged among us have the means to leave this country while the rest of us remain here to deal with the consequences?
Do you genuinely think the elites care about the tribal and religious divisions they use to keep us fighting each other?
Your Commissioner of Environment and Water Resources in Lagos can be online flaunting a Patek Philippe while young people are struggling with basic infrastructure. And this is just a Commissioner.
They know exactly what they’re doing. They know that as long as we’re distracted by tribe, religion, sex, politics and whatever other silly division they can exploit, we won’t look up and ask the people actually responsible for our living conditions the difficult questions.
This is disgusting.
And honestly, we should be ashamed of ourselves.
Not because we are powerless, but because we have failed woefully to recognize where our collective interests lie.
We keep fighting each other while the people benefiting from this dysfunction continue to live above the consequences of it.
We need to do better.
I just got to the office now and heard that my colleague that has been an HR assistant for 10 years Quit.😂
In those 10 years, 3 HR managers have come and gone. All outsiders and they were trained by her.
Last one resigned and for the first time, I thought maybe they’d finally see her.
Instead, they brought another outsider.
So instead of training him as usual, she did something different.
She got another job, tendered her resignation and took her one-month leave.😭
Now the office is struggling.
HR is a mess.
And people are just realizing, She was HR.
My husband loves to suggest we shower together.
Very romantic in theory.
In reality, I like my shower water hot enough to erase every stressful thing that happened that day. I step in there trying to reach emotional and spiritual healing.
So he asks to join me, and two minutes later he starts complaining.
“Why is it so hot?”
“Are you serious right now?”
“How do you stand this?”
Sir, you requested entry.
Nobody forced you in here. You saw the steam coming out of this bathroom and still made the decision to participate.
The other night he lasted about thirty seconds before announcing, “I didn’t ask to bathe with Satan.”
I laughed so hard I almost dropped my shampoo.
Then he.......
A Nigerian man was working as a cashier at a DIY (hardware) store in London.
He was caught letting his wife steal £200 worth of materials.
Both convicted.
One year later he was arrested again.
This time at Euston station with another man’s stolen credit card.
Convicted again.
He returned to Nigeria.
And he ran for governor of Delta State.
Nigerian law said you cannot run if you have a criminal conviction.
He forged his date of birth on his passport to hide his UK record.
Nobody checked.
He won. 😂😂😂
His official salary as governor was $25,000 a year.
He bought six properties in London. A mansion in Johannesburg. Properties in Washington and Houston. A private jet worth $20 million. A Bentley. A Maybach. A fleet of armoured Range Rovers.
His American Express bills showed he spent tens of thousands of dollars every single month on luxury hotels, clubs and shopping.
In 2007 Nigeria’s anti-corruption chief accused him of stealing $250 million from Delta State.
Ibori offered the EFCC chairman $15 million in cash to drop the case.
The chairman pretended to accept.
Then deposited the cash at the Central Bank.
Nigerian courts still acquitted him on all 170 charges.
He ran. Escaped to Dubai. A mob of his supporters fought off the police trying to arrest him.
Interpol caught him in Dubai.
The UK extradited him.
In 2012 he pleaded guilty in a London court.
The judge called the £50 million he admitted to stealing “ludicrously low.”
He was sentenced to 13 years.
Served half.
Returned to Nigeria in 2017.
A sitting senator was in the crowd that welcomed him home.
His name is James Ibori.
Nigeria never convicted him once.
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An American bank partnered with a Nigerian man to launder $308 million of Nigerian government money.
The money left Nigeria through American banks. It then sat quietly in a shell company for years while the man lived comfortably in Texas.
In 2003 American authorities arrested him. He spent six months in federal detention in the United States waiting to be tried.
Before the trial happened he offered to return $163 million.
America accepted. He flew back to Nigeria.
Nobody questioned him. Nobody charged him. Nobody prosecuted him.
He ran for Senate and won. He ran for Governor and won. He ran for Governor again and won.
America returned the $308 million his operation had laundered.
The new president then put him in cabinet.
America did not trust Nigeria with the $308 million.
They tied every dollar to three specific roads. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Abuja-Kano Road. Second Niger Bridge.
They even included a clawback clause. Misuse one dollar, pay it all back.
Why the conditions? Because previous loot returned to Nigeria had already disappeared.
Nigeria's own government told the court they had no record of how the earlier billions were spent.
A man who laundered billions is currently Nigeria's Minister of Budget and Economic Planning.
He decides how Nigeria spends its money.
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1. Men know exactly what they are doing. Always remember that.
2. It is not your responsibility to change a man. In fact, you cannot change a man, but you can change the man. Read that again.
3. Men will treat you based on how they feel about you and how you carry yourself. If he’s not treating you with care, he doesn’t like you. Don’t make excuses for him.
4. No man can go a day without talking to a woman he is in love with.
5. An inconsistent man doesn’t like you. Only showing up when it is convenient for him is a red flag 🚩
6. There is no such thing as a nonchalant man. That man doesn’t like you. He’s “chalanting” elsewhere.
7. If a man cheats on you and you find out, and instead of leaving the relationship you choose to stay, he will start seeing you as a foól.
8. Your self-respect must be greater than your feelings and libido. Do not ever beg a man to love you. Begging is disgusting.
9. Men are very thoughtful when they are in love. They make time, plan things, and put effort where their heart is. A low-effort man doesn’t like you.
10. The highest form of love is consideration. Any man who doesn’t consider you, how his actions make you feel, or how to make your life easier within his capacity doesn’t like you. Walk away.
11. Lastly, you accept the love you think you deserve. However a man treats you, if you stay, you are a willing participant, not a victim. If you think you deserve better, you know exactly what to do.
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A life without the chains of an addiction is one to be grateful for.
Don't ever underestimate the burden of that nagging sense to do something or feeling incomplete without a certain "something".