Abstract Thinker

Just a guy trying to make sense of life. Product Manager! Creative Writer! Avid Reader & Travel Enthusiast. I love the good life.

[Abstract Thinker @OgbajeAlex]

So early this year I set a goal to read 200 books before the year runs out and so far I'm impressed with the level of progress I've made. 173 & counting. Meanwhile feel free to drop your mail if you would love me to share E-copies of some of the books I've read so far with you.

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

For fun, I tried to calculate the monetary value of this convoy

I got to N1Ob and stopped

[Elvis Tunde @Tunnykvng]

“The conference league is for small clubs, that’s why you’re there.”

The club world cup that’s for big clubs, are you there?

[Noah Football 🇦🇲 @Noah_Yerevan]

🚨 | Congratulations to Chelsea FC for winning the UEFA Conference League. 👏🏼

However, you won a much more important trophy this season, the friends you made along the way, especially the ones in Armenia. 😉

🇦🇲🤍🖤 🤝🏼 💙💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Real Betis Balompié 🌴💚 @RealBetis]

A great champion ended our dream tonight.

Congratulations for the title, @ChelseaFC.

[BASITO @itzbasito]

“Wizkid’s Morayo album is the best thing I’ve heard in my life, the replay value is so good”

[/\/\|)ee🦁 @Mr_Md33_]

The process of how Wizkid made Troubled Mind off Morayo with P2J 📹 🎶🔥�

[Clinton @HilaryGray789]

@UTDTrey Hey.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

@Gochenko Which "meaningful conversation" are you having with a foreign diplomat? As who? In what capacity? Whether Russia, US, China or whoever, what puts you in a position to have "meaningful conversation" with a foreign intelligence agent?

You people have this overinflated self image.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I don't have any problem with anybody, but I just want to mention that this thing where Africans meet U.S. diplomats in their embassy and come out talking about how they had "meaningful conversations" - I think you people don't realise that every single American you met inside that embassy is a trained CIA operative? From the Second Secretary to the Cultural Attache to the Ambassador - they're all CIA.

It's their JOB to engage you in warm conversation so that you feel important and your mouth will start to run like a tap, which is what they're after - intelligence gathering. Not like I have anything against Tunde Onakoya, but I've seen several variants of this statement from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa and it always amuses me.

That conversation you people had with the oyibo diplomat was not "meaningful" kan kan, and they're not your friend - you're being cultivated! These "meaningful conversations" are just them putting water and fertiliser on your head, until you eventually sprout into yet another African extension of U.S. foreign policy. But you people always think you are special 😭

Na wa for obibini o. After 500 years manchi never still wise.

[Elvis Tunde @Tunnykvng]

Ordinary NYSC wey Sancho come do for Chelsea, we dash am European trophy

[Anambra State New Media @AnambraNewMedia]

The Soludo administration has successfully reclaimed the 16.4 KM Ajali - Akpu - Ufuma - Nawfija - Ogbunka road, which had been threatened by flooding and erosion, effectively connecting these communities to the capital city, Awka.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending, on invitation, the National Political Consultative Northern Group Meeting, where I spoke passionately about the North, its resilience, untapped potential, and the urgent need for inclusive development and trust.

I echoed how we have underutilised our resources, especially in the North. One of our greatest physical assets in Nigeria is our underutilized land mass in the Northern region, and I firmly believe that we can generate more revenue from agriculture than we currently make from oil.

I tried to cite some examples to show that it's doable; Nigeria today produces about 10% of Bangladesh’s rice production, which is about 5-6 million tonnes of rice annually.
Bangladesh, with a land area of about 148,600 square kilometres, is nearly the same size as just two northern Nigerian states: Niger State, which has about 76,300 sq km and Borno State, which has about 70,800 sq km, only these 2 states have a combined 147,100 sq km and so almost equal entire Bangladesh. Despite its relatively small land size, Bangladesh, with a population of about 170 million people, is a global 3rd global rice producer of 50-60 million tonnes. Meanwhile, these two states (Niger and Borno) have a combined population of just about 10 million people (Niger with around 4 million and Borno with about 6.2 million), which means Niger and Borno have more land space for cultivation than Bangladesh, yet both states cannot produce 5% of that. And sadly, this is the same situation across the vast land of Northern Nigeria.

Taraba State, with a land area of 54,400 square kilometres, has the potential to produce significant quantities of tea and coffee for the world.

For comparison, Sri Lanka, which makes between $1.5 to $2 billion annually from tea exports, has a land area of just 65,610 square kilometres, which is barely larger than Taraba State. Because there are 22 million people in Sri Lanka and Taraba has just about 4 million people, Taraba has more space for agriculture and cultivation than the whole of Sri Lanka, but the land in Taraba is underutilised.

The North holds immense potential to transform Nigeria through agriculture.

Ukraine has become a world grain powerhouse and, despite being at war, is donating grain to help Nigeria fight hunger, when northern Nigeria, with over 720,000 sqm, is 20% larger than Ukraine’s 600,000, and we are accepting grains from Ukraine without shame.

On the issue of education, it’s almost the same story. The majority of the over 20 million out-of-school children in Nigeria are in the North.

Just this year alone, I have travelled by road from Abuja to Kafanchan, Abuja to Kaduna, Abuja to Kano, Abuja to Nasarawa and Jos, Abuja to Dutse, and many other parts of North. In some of these places, I spent time with the children in Almajiri schools, and I can tell you, these children are eager to learn. If children can memorize the Qur’an, then in those same spaces, they can also be taught English, Mathematics, and Science. If they can’t access formal schools, then let’s take the schools to them, just like it’s already being done successfully in parts of Kaduna.

We must stop seeing these children as a problem. They are our greatest human assets. With the right investment in teachers and basic educational tools, there would be transformation not just for the children, but for the entire communities. This is how we change the North. This is how we lift people out of poverty.

Imagine channeling the over ₦7 trillion uncovered in the padded budget into these critical areas, of insecurity, education, healthcare, and agriculture. The impact on the safety of our communities, farms, improvement in our education, healthcare, agricultural production will be immeasurable.

Our leaders must have compassion and start investing in humanity and the people.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The man who killed 12 million Africans in DR Congo has a statue in the middle of Brussels.

The people who built it are telling you that Julius Malema chanting Kill The Boer is "inciting genocide."

Maybe they can trick you, but in this life, obroni cannot trick me.

Miss me.

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

See you soon, @ChampionsLeague. ⭐️⭐️

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

Men, I need you people to genuinely love your women and treat them right. I'm not talking about money because I know when you hear "treat a woman right," it is always about money.

I'm talking sincere kindness. Being a safe place. Being the reason she looks forward to coming home. Giving her wings to fly. Love that does not silence her for fear of violence. You can be firm without being unreasonable. Masculinity is not a pretext for evil and not an opportunity to exert power abusively over the family you head. Relationship and marriage, is a covenant. A covenant to love and to cherish.

Thankful for healthy relationships and marriages out there. For the toxic ones, the circle of abuse has to end with us - us in this generation.
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Having said this, it would be trite to state that, if you're with a woman that is not equally invested in this covenant to love and to cherish you, to respect you as the head of the relationship and respect the relationship you share, please walk away and don't look back.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💣 Liverpool first official bid for Florian Wirtz in excess of €100m package with add-ons has been received by Bayer Leverkusen.

Club to club negotiations underway, restarting today to get the deal done very soon.

Wirtz already told Bayer that he only wants Liverpool.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Today, it was, as usual, a crowded weekend schedule for me but spiritually very rewarding. I was in Imo State, alongside former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and other distinguished Nigerians, at Assemblies of God Ogbor Uvuru, Mbaise District, for the dedication of Noah’s Ark Church. I pray that God helps the community through the Church to understand their role in how to contribute more for a better, just and united society.

After the dedication, I journeyed to Umuahia, Abia State, to join my dear brother, His Excellency Dr Alex Otti @alexottiofr, the Governor of Abia State, in one of his second-anniversary church services at the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Aguiyi-Ironsi Layout, Umuahia. I pray that the Almighty God continues to endow him with profound wisdom and unwavering strength to continue to serve the people of Abia with excellence and compassion.

From Umuahia, I travelled to Lagos to honour the wedding celebration of the young Mr. and Mrs. Nwapa. May their union be richly blessed with love and peace and may God Almighty grant them the grace to contribute to the growth of our society. -PO

[Jeremiroquai @Jerematic79]

My oncologist tried to stop my chemotherapy* treatment last week because of a one-page synopsis he had read regarding my recent MRI, which mentioned that one of my brain tumors had progressed.

It turns out he had never actually looked at the MRI itself; and the specialist who wrote the synopsis had not actually compared the new images to my previous MRI from 2024.

I was skeptical, as my symptoms had not progressed; so I asked my oncologist to show me a comparison of the two most recent MRIs, to demonstrate the growth. So, he brought them up on his screen and showed me a clear difference between image on the left and one on the right.

"But the one on the left is the 2017 MRI," I said. "We both know the tumor has grown since then."

The doctor was surprised, and said, "You're right. I'm not sure why the 2024 MRI isn't showing up."

Anyway, we had to go to a different room and use a different computer to find last year's images. When my oncologist finally brought them up, he realized there was a clear REDUCTION in the size of my tumor, as well as a loss of contrast, indicating that the tumor was dying. So, the chemotherapy was working after all!

Had I taken my doctor at his word, and stopped my chemotherapy, I would have soon needed an extremely risky brain surgery that would have changed my life forever.

We are living through a crisis of competence in America — or is it in the world as a whole? It is absolutely essential that we remain vigilant and look out for our own health, because we apparently can no longer trust our doctors to do it for us. Remember to ask questions, get second opinions and, above all, don't just assume that your doctor is infallible. Now more than ever, your life is in your own hands.

[Olaudah Equiano® @RealOlaudah]

This is a private initiative in Aba, Abia State of Nigeria. This is not the People's Republic of China. It is a garment making modern factory in Aba. The beautiful T-shirts they're all wearing was made by them!
If the Tinubu administration were prudent, this is where to channel SME loans to and the financial assistance of the Bank of industry, but NO!

Imagine having five of these in every LGA across Nigeria?

That would be 5 factories X 774 LGA
= 3,870 factories
Imagine that 300 employees X 3,870= 1,161,000 citizens will be gainfully employed by this initiative.

Imagine if we repeat this process every 4 years of governmental tenure with another type of factory for production and employment? Just imagine the massive economic growth we will generate. When Mr. Peter Obi talks of his plans for increasing productivity. This is what he means. The current government as frivolous as they have been aren't concerned about initiatives like this. Instead, they are already planning strategies for the year 2027 elections. For the "Master Strategist" of politics, it is all politics and no effective administration!
Haba!
This government has failed us, and that is an understatement!