"Christian music is boring...." 🥱
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✝ High Energy Christian! (Playlist) ⬇️
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For fresh graduates and job seekers out there, try as much as possible to join EY, one of the Big 4.
They mostly go to the office just once a week, and you mainly work from home. Some don’t even go to the office at all.
Their GT application will soon be out. Make sure you apply and do everything possible to get in, so as to save yourself from this.
If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the education job is already done. That's my honest assessment after working in education for over thirty years. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology.
Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.
Some days ago I saw a video on X of a woman who bought a box of milk half of which was fake. Week in week out we read stories of fake drugs, fake drinks and fake products from Nigerians warning other Nigerians.
This is good, but we need to do more than warn others. We need to report it to the authorities. A fake product is most likely bought from an outlet who likely got it from a vendor who likely got it from a distributor who got it from the manufacturer. If you report that outlet to the authorities, they are likely to be able to trace it to the vendor who can lead them to the distributor who can then lead them to the manufacturer.
For those who ask how do we do this? It's simple. There are channels already set up by NAFDAC for this.
1. You can call their Toll-free line or email them on - 0800-1-NAFDAC (0800-1-623322)
Direct complaint numbers:
+234 (0) 909-763-0506
+234 (0) 909-763-0507
Email:
[email protected][email protected].
2. Or you can just Walk-into the nearest NAFDAC office with a sample of the items and lodge your complaints.
3. SMS Reporting via PRASCOR.
NAFDAC has an SMS-based rapid alert system called PRASCOR (Pharmacovigilance Rapid Alert System for Consumer Reporting)
Send an SMS for free to: 20543 (on MTN, Glo, Airtel, or 9mobile)
Message should include the Product name, what happened and why you think it’s fake.
If and when you suspect a fake product,
- take photos or scans of the item and packaging
- Write down where you bought the item and when it was bought
- Note the Batch number or NAFDAC registration number (if visible)
- Evidence of harm (like a health issue after use, if applicable).
This will go a long way makes it easier for the authorities to investigate and stop the flow of the fake products in the market.
At 15, my father sent me to a stranger's house at night.
It changed the trajectory of my life.
I was struggling with Maths.
In Mushin, there was one tutor everyone whispered about.
He was so good he taught the children of the wealthy privately.
Bode Omotowoju Bankole.
My father went to see him.
We couldn't afford his prices.
After much persuasion, the compromise was harder to swallow.
He would charge 100 Naira per hour
but the condition was that I had to spend the night at his place.
He needed every naira he could earn to survive as a UNILAG student.
My mother said no.
My father looked at me
and said nothing.
He hustled for the money.
And he took the risk.
Poverty does not give you perfect conditions.
At night, Bode would wake me:
"Wale, what time is it?"
"3am."
Then we did Maths for two hours.
Night after night.
For weeks.
When I returned to school, something had shifted.
I wasn't catching up.
I was flying.
In the end:
WAEC - A1 (Maths)
NECO - A1 (Maths)
Those foundations stayed with me.
They are part of why I chose Civil Engineering years later when I returned to university as an undergraduate at age 30.
This is why I struggle when I see young people refuse to engage.
This generation faces fewer barriers to knowledge than any in history.
You have:
Khan Academy
ChatGPT (Take a free prompt engineering course to know how to use it well)
World-class professors on YouTube, from India to the US
Entire calculus courses - free
What you are fighting is not scarcity.
It is DISTRACTION.
For the poor African child, the journey has always been hard by design, not by accident.
"The future you is silently depending on the current you to stay disciplined"
If this reframed something for you,
Please share it with someone you love.
And follow for more.
We will rise together.
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When Custom Officer seize anything from you or your loved ones.
The officers are mandated to provide Notice of Seizure, we call it Seizure Receipt
If you don't collect your Seizure Receipt, what it means is this
The custom officer did not document it and may fail to report it in their office, which will give them the grace to sell it or enrich themselves with what they seize from you
The officer must provide a written document stating what was seized and why (the specific legal grounds or offense).
You have 30 days from the date on the Notice of Seizure to file a formal "Notice of Claim" to contest the seizure.
If you contest the seizure, Customs generally cannot dispose of the goods without a court order of condemnation.
Know your right
Instead of begging those Customs officers, collect your Seizure receipt and contest it within 30 days
You may want ask, Atanda how do i contest it within the 30 days
Submit a formal Notice of Claim to the Customs Area Controller (CAC) at the Area Command where the goods were seized. This letter should detail why the seizure was unlawful
Or
If the administrative claim is rejected in step one, you can file a lawsuit in the Federal High Court.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse
Reference,
Nigeria Customs Service Act 2023,
The deeper you go in math and science the more blurred the lines are between those subjects and philosophy. Easy to see why the early scientists were philosophers and vice versa. The humanities and the natural sciences are not as far apart as we like to think. We should give people solid foundational education in both so that we are all rounded and grounded.
Pay attention to what repeats.
The people you often meet. The battles you keep encountering. The assessments people give you about yourself.
Even the invitations you get. Compliments, too.
Patterns are teachers.
You would have less problems in a relationship if you could anticipate stressful situations that you are likely to face and prepare for them before they happen. Quite often, we only stop to think about what the root cause of the argument could be AFTER things have gone wrong in the relationship.
Things that stress a relationship include being broke, weddings, pregnancy, childbirth, moving house, losing a job or a business opportunity, monthly hormonal changes, menopause, andropause, bereavement and illness.
If possible, think: “My partner is or will soon be going through xyz. I will make an effort to be as supportive as possible. They may lash out out of frustration but I will do everything I can to be patient and supportive” or “I am or will soon be going through xyz and may lash out out of frustration. I will try not to do that and not make my partner suffer for something that is not their fault.”
If you could do that in advance, you are more likely to avoid problems in your relationship.
I am Ezemmuo. I know things.
If your solar production starts to dip at this point in the year where it feels like it's very sunny, a few things to know:
- the sun moves southwards & much lower btwn Sept & Dec so there's less direct sunlight.
- Heat (less cloud cover) derates your equipment
- dust