Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰

Changing the narrative.
Muslim. Software Engineer. Global Volunteer.
People-first, always.

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

@Agent_DodoKunle @Yemihazan @soyecaterings @Kitchenatease @Tinu_Wealth01 @Boladeismyname @lara_peperenpe @Aaura_fragrance @LUmeigbo Is this place still available? When can it be seen?

[Aubrey Strobel @aubreystrobel]

there’s a lot of modern snake oil salesmen who sell masculinity to young men.

but this is the most masculine, honest, real conversation i have seen between two men.

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

@btaylor I used to use em dashes all the time—even in the shortest descriptions—but now I hesitate every time because I know someone will think AI wrote it. The irony isn’t lost on me.

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

@zam_end @Morris_Monye And what exactly tells you that the phone is hers? Out of everything that could have happened before, during, or after this photo, the one thing you’ve chosen to focus on is someone holding a mobile phone?

[Adéníke Àjoké 🎀 @ashantewa1]

With the comments some of you are making, it’s almost like you’re not happy those children got released. Y’all are evil!

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

Oh wow! Wow!

[Congenital nomaly @http_theelizz]

I feel like I’m going crazy but those children don’t look like they were in captive for 52 days

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

People who leave their families behind and risk their lives to rescue complete strangers deserve better than having their actions immediately picked apart for political points. hostages were rescued. That should not be lost in the noise.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Imagine a fable 5 quality model that’s 3-4x less expensive in less than 6 months. And an Opus 4.8 grade model that can run on a local device in less than 12 months. Greater than 50% chance that these events will happen. Worth keeping in mind when you make predictions about the future.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

Reading this, I kept thinking about how much of the Lagos sanitation conversation focuses on government while quietly ignoring the role individuals and businesses play.

Blocked drains don’t appear overnight. Wastewater doesn’t find its way into public drains on its own. Someone made those decisions.

The city has responsibilities, no doubt. But so do the millions of people and businesses that use it every day.

It’s easy to complain about flooding, waste management, and environmental conditions. It’s harder to acknowledge how often we contribute to the very conditions we’re frustrated by.

[Tokunbo Wahab @tokunbo_wahab]

The Lagos State Wastewater Management Office (LSWMO) on Tuesday 23rd June, 2026, sealed-off I-Fitness Gym, Jakande Round-about, Lekki Peninsula, Eti-Osa, Lagos, over indiscriminate discharge of raw sewage into public drains via pipe, thereby causing public nuisance and environmental pollution as well as endangering human health.

Lagos State government reiterates the need for the public to adhere strictly to proper wastewater management practices, noting that any individual or organisation found contravening environmental regulations will be meted with appropriate sanctions and possible prosecution in accordance with the enabling laws.

#CleanerLagos

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

Got interested in the Airline conversation as I got curious after seeing people argue about airline profits and decided to do some rough math on a Lagos–Abuja flight.

Wakanow had an @flyairpeace ticket for June 23 at ₦118,041.

Let’s assume a 150-seat aircraft and an 85% load factor. That’s about 128 passengers.

128 × ₦118,041 = roughly ₦15.1m in revenue.

At first glance, ₦15m for a one-hour flight sounds like serious money.

Then I started looking at the costs.

Jet A1 is currently around ₦1,800–₦2,000 per litre. Depending on the aircraft and fuel planning requirements, a Lagos–Abuja flight could easily consume several thousand litres. That’s somewhere in the region of ₦6m–₦10m in fuel alone.

Then there are charges that come straight off the top. FAAN collects passenger service charges. NCAA takes 5% of ticket sales.

Before we’ve talked about pilots, cabin crew, maintenance, insurance, aircraft leases, ground handling, landing fees, navigation charges, or head office overhead, we’re already down to something like ₦4m–₦8m.

And all those other costs still need to come out of that.

To be clear, I’m not saying airlines aren’t making money. Some routes are probably quite profitable, especially when flights are full and a lot of passengers paid more than the cheapest fare.

What surprised me was how quickly the numbers shrink once you stop looking at the ticket price and start looking at the actual cost of getting an aircraft from Lagos to Abuja.

A ₦118k ticket isn’t the same thing as ₦118k profit.

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

My first thought watching this was New York.

Millions of apartments there already have regulated rent increases, so the idea itself isn’t particularly unusual.

What makes the comparison interesting is that some of the conversations that led to those policies sound increasingly familiar. Rising rents, affordability concerns, and people feeling priced out of where they live have become recurring themes in Lagos too.

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

One thing that stands out to me is how often EVs get discussed as if the ownership experience is the same everywhere.

Someone in Norway, California, and Lagos can be looking at the exact same EV and evaluating it through completely different realities. Charging infrastructure, electricity costs, driving patterns, and even expectations are different.

That’s why some of these arguments carry a lot of weight in one place and almost none in another.

[Mark Essien @markessien]

Why do people buy electric cars? It's not cheaper to fuel, it has worse resale value, and you cannot take it on long road trips. It also takes long to refill, and is more liable to explode. What's the appeal?

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

@belly112 @Mochievous Right! Reliability gives you peace of mind. The dream car gives you a reason to smile. Most people are just trying to find something that does both.

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ì���ọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

I think people sometimes overestimate how much of a car purchase is purely rational.

Yes, reliability matters. Nobody wants to be stranded on the side of the road or constantly paying for repairs. But a car is also something you see, sit in, and drive almost every day.

Toyota has earned its reputation for reliability, but reliability alone doesn’t make people fall in love with a car. A vehicle can be dependable and still do absolutely nothing for you emotionally.

Most people aren’t spending tens of thousands of dollars just to get from Point A to Point B. If that was the only goal, we’d all end up buying the same car. The interior, the driving experience, the styling, the attention to detail, and even how you feel when you walk up to it in a parking lot all matter.

Reliability is important. It’s just not the only thing people are buying.

[Moe @Mochievous]

I’ll address this separately because this is my philosophy to most things btw.

Having a very reliable car is important. But owning a car you actually like, enjoy driving and smile every time you enter it is an important point as well.

There’s no emotional lever a Toyota pulls in my mind.

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

Honestly, this is the kind of problem a simple tracking system can help expose.

Every PSP truck should be trackable in real time. Route assigned, route started, route completed, missed pickup flagged.

That way the government knows whether the issue is collection failure, illegal dumping, or both.

I can actually build something like this.

[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

I think both things can be true.

People shouldn’t be dumping refuse illegally overnight, but if Lagos wants to make a visible dent in this problem, I’d focus on three things:

Real-time tracking of waste trucks so missed routes are identified immediately, not after complaints pile up.
Large-scale processing of market and food waste. A huge portion of Lagos waste is organic. Every major market cluster should have composting or biodigester capacity.
Cameras and aggressive enforcement at known blackspots. The same locations shouldn’t be cleared in the morning and turn into dumpsites again by night.

The best cities don’t necessarily produce less waste than Lagos. They just spend far less time letting waste sit where people can see it.

[Tokunbo Wahab @tokunbo_wahab]

Dear Gbadebo @GRVlagos

A lot of people are genuinely concerned about the waste situation in parts of Lagos, and that concern is understandable. Waste is not something you can talk around. If refuse is sitting on your street, beside your market, close to your bus stop, or inside the drainage near your house, the only thing that matters to you is that it should be removed. And that is fair.

But it may also help to explain the scale of what is being managed, and what is actually being done.

Lagos generates about 13,000 tonnes of waste every day. Not weekly. Every day. In May alone, LAWMA and PSP operators evacuated about 418,500 tonnes of waste across the state, which comes to an average of about 13,200 tonnes daily. That is not a small operation. It involves hundreds of PSP operators, public waste teams, transfer and disposal operations, street sweepers, enforcement teams, customer service staff, drivers, loaders, supervisors and monitoring officers working across a very large and difficult city.

Just to mention, during the 2026 Hajj, Saudi Sanitation Authorities announced that a total of over 472 tons of waste were generated from Mina and Muzdalifah. This is total waste generated by pilgrims all over the world in 5 days.

Still, nobody is pretending that everything is fine everywhere. Some communities have had delays. Some PSP operators have not performed well. Some routes have grown beyond the capacity that was originally assigned to them. In some areas, road access is poor. During the rains, movement into disposal sites can become slower. Trucks break down. Diesel and spare parts are expensive. Payment compliance is also weak in many places, and when people do not pay for waste service, the operators struggle to maintain trucks, pay crews and keep to schedule. These are not excuses but the harsh realities that have to be fixed.

That is why LAWMA has been reviewing weak routes, replacing and sanctioning underperforming operators, increasing monitoring, and deploying evacuation teams to pressure points. As of last month (May), 442 PSP operators were active across Lagos while 27 routes were under review for service improvement. LAWMA also received 474 complaints and service requests that month, which are now part of how the agency is identifying weak spots and following up on operator performance.

There is also a daily blackspot operation that many people do not see unless it is happening near them. LAWMA clears 3,000 black spots every day across 57 routes. These are the road medians, market edges, illegal dumping points, bus stops, setbacks and open spaces where people keep dropping waste outside the normal collection system. Some are cleared in the morning and abused again by night. That is one of the hardest parts of the job.

This is why enforcement has become more serious. In 2025, LAWMA recorded 1,023 incidents of illegal dumping and other waste violations across the state. Out of these, 447 cases were referred for prosecution. The surveillance teams also identified 431 scavengers and reconciled 145 properties with their assigned PSP operators. The data showed that much of the illegal dumping happens between midnight and early morning, and the waste is not only household refuse. It includes construction debris and even hazardous waste in some cases.

So when people say “just clear it,” we agree. It must be cleared. But we also have to stop the same locations from being turned back into dumpsites again and again.

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[Ìṣọlá ọmọ Ìṣọlá 林峰 @OladeindeAA]

Also, we should stop pretending this is just outsourcing. Outsourcing is one party performing work under a disclosed business arrangement. That’s very different from using someone else’s identity, account, credentials, tax profile, residency status, or eligibility to access opportunities on your behalf. The more an arrangement depends on concealing who is actually performing the work, the more legitimate the concerns about misrepresentation, compliance, and liability become.

[Johnmark Obiefuna @jayhemz]

"Look at the absolute foolishness in the quotes."

All because of opening Outlier account.

The single biggest issue for someone based in the diaspora (U.S or U.K) is TAX. More specifically, reporting income tax. In other words, not disclosing monies in your name could be tantamount to fraud. But platforms like Outlier already issues tax forms which makes disclosures easy.

Any other issue is civil not illegal. No one is arresting you because Outlier said so, highest your account will be banned on Outlier if they detect any anomalies. Osim "clearance getting flagged."

Meanwhile, you're not giving anyone your personal details. You're opening the account by yourself and someone else operates by proxy, which in certain jurisdictions is a civil matter for the platform but only fraud if you don't disclose income.

But that wasn't even the focus of the initial post. The focus is that asking for something like this from someone in the diaspora is met with ghosting, other excuses or even accusations of fraud without knowing WHAT Outlier or other data labelling services do.

A simple, "tell me more about this" or "I'm not comfortable opening this account for you" is clear and straightforward.

Indians create outsourcing Agencies because of this and repatriate funds to their home countries through hundreds of similar agencies. Only the black man thinks up individual success as the pinnacle of his achievements and scream FRAUD or SECURITY CLEARANCE if he doesn't understand stuff.

Ask questions, nobody will kee you, onye mpiawa azu.