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Inaugural Cohort of the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme joins Microsoft ADC West Africa in a quest to empower Nigerian Youth. Learn more 👇🏾 https://t.co/AFOrjQYxwU
For those that call me a bitter soul because I want the best for others in Nigeria, Remember I have a life that you can only dream of and I am fulfilled and happy.I am current tweeting from doing my exercises, yesterday,I empowered people with tech skills, I speak in conferences around the world, I impact lives, before the end of the year i will be supporting a lot of secondary school students.I have been doing this for many years, I have built people and I keep building them, So you better indicate if you need a job.
Is it that we Nigerians have a wicked streak in us? Look at how much joy, glee, and almost drunken relish people are taking at the rumoured split between DJ Cuppy and her fiancé!
First of all, I don't think the news is true. I choose to be optimistic and think good thoughts about myself and others. Outside of politics, my expectations are that goodness and mercy will follow me and every believer all the days of our lives, as Scripture says.
But even if it were true, must we celebrate? Must we be ecstatic? Must we act triumphantly as if we have won a prize for ourselves?
I read Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone with the Wind' as a teenager. And there was something Scarlet O'Hara said in the book, which I took offence at. She said Black people love bad news and relished being the bearers of such information.
As a teenager, and now almost fifty, I am naturally a fun and upbeat person, and selfishly using myself as a model, I rejected the fictional Miss O'Hara's classification of Black people as racist. Now, at almost fifty, I begin to question my initial dismissal of her take on my race.
Please get a life and leave the young girl to get in with hers. At thirty, she has multiple degrees and has succeeded at multiple careers. What have you achieved with yours? Perhaps if you were not so fixated on expecting evil for others, more good would have come to you.
Marriage is not an achievement. If it comes, good. If it does not, also good. Life without a husband or wife, children, and grandchildren is still life. Yeshua (Christ) and Paul never married, but they are some of the most successful People that ever lived.
As long as you are content and fulfilled and live purposefully, you have NOTHING to regret or be ashamed of.
DJ Cuppy, may it be well with you in Yeshua's Name!
As small as this JAMB controversy involving 19 year old Mmesoma Ejikeme looks, it could have triggered in Nigeria the type of ethnic and religious violence now raging in France if the genuine highest scorer was not also an Igbo from Anambra.
The way and manner prominent people like Oby Ezekwesili and others made it about ethnicity when it was really about criminality could have set our beloved country on fire.
The more I think about it, the more I wonder whether that was the real plan all along. Because this unnecessary storm in a teacup happened a day after a prominent celebrity asked Nigerian youths to rise and bring down the system, just as 9% of France is currently doing.
And before that, there had been several gaslights to trigger ethnic violence, from the false allegation regarding demolitions targeted at Igbos in Lagos to the claim that the new Chief of Naval Staff is a non-Igbo speaking Enugu to Oby Ezekwesili falsely accusing Lagosians of "ethnic baiting" against Igbos.
Is someone trying to trigger something because they are not happy about the outcome of the #NigerianElections2023?
Imagine if the real highest scorer was from the North or Southwest. It could have triggered ethnic unrest that would have made #EndSARS look like child's play. I call on the DSS to thoroughly investigate those behind the forged results and bring them to book as a warning to others who would want to gaslight Nigerians using ethnicity and religion.
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I must doff my hat to the JAMB spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin. Offering ₦1 million to anyone who can substantiate the allegation that JAMB's UTME platform suffered a glitch. What confidence. If only INEC's spokesman could be this confident.
Maybe we should allow JAMB to conduct future elections in Nigeria. They are obviously way more efficient than INEC!
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In accordance with Section 29(3) of the Electoral Act 2022, the Commission today published the personal particulars of candidates and their running mates, nominated by 17 political parties for the Imo State Governorship election, in our State headquarters, Owerri.
I think we can all agree that there was another coronation in Italy where our son, Victor Osimhen, claimed the crown as the new King of Serie A! The real deal, or idán gangan as younger folks may describe him; Victor has continued the fine tradition of Nigeria’s footballing excellence on the global stage. We are all proud of him and wish him well in what is already a remarkable career.