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['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

‘God Save Me’.

That was the graffiti (pictured below) imprinted on a car by an unknown African migrant held hostage at a trafficking house in Ghut Shaal, Janzur, in north-western Libya.

In truth, only God can save any migrant who gets stuck in Libya after abandonment by heartless Libyan traffickers and kidnappers or arrest and detention by the police. But the mortal that I only am, I am determined to save as many migrants as possible from asking God to save them after embarking on an ill-advised trip to Libya.

Therefore, starting tomorrow and for the next 20 days, I’ll be on a campaign of short videos enlightening the public on why they should steer clear of Libya. These videos will be on all social media platforms, but my primary targets are Tiktok and Facebook, where traffickers often hoodwink unsuspecting youth with fake promises of a better life.

For the first 10 days, my messages will be released in English (morning) and Pidgin (evening).

The final 10 days will be made in Hausa (morning), Igbo (afternoon) and Yoruba (evening), consequently eliminating language barriers among subliterates and illiterates, who constitute the prime target groups of traffickers.

I know some will only learn by experience and will proceed to Libya regardless of advisories to the contrary, but I also know many would stay put in Nigeria if they had access to credible information.

Migrants like ‘Para’ and Samuel who told me “I wouldn’t have come if I knew I would suffer this much”, those are my targets. So help me God!

[Ini Oluwa @ini_oluwa_]

Details of my African adaptation of Michelangelo’s “Pietà”. I did it with ink and acrylic on Strathmore paper.

[Muslimah. @ms_mahnum]

On this whole bibliophile matter, I think we first need to agree on what a bibliophile actually is because that’s where half the argument is getting lost.

A bibliophile is someone who loves books and reading.

It is not a title awarded based on how technical, serious or intellectually impressive your reading list looks.

And I don’t understand this need to rank readers because who exactly is the marker?
Put us in a room and start asking questions about things that happen in America, Tokyo, Algeria, Kenya, different cultures, office hierarchies, insider trading, family structures, traditions, random laws or places, and there are things I will know specifically because I read fiction.
In that room, I might look like the smartest person there.
Put us somewhere else and start asking technical questions from the books someone else reads, and they’ll know more than me.
So who won?😭

Even books like 48 Laws of Power explicitly tell you, “this is the principle, this is how it works.”
In fiction, you can literally watch some of those same human behaviours play out.
Nobody even stops the story to announce the lesson and say, “Here exactly is where the fourth law of power comes to play.”
You’d watch a character manipulate someone, misunderstand someone, navigate power at work, make a terrible decision or suffer the consequences of one, and you draw your own conclusions as you read.
That’s still your brain working. It’s simply a different kind of reading.

There is no universal scoreboard for this.
You can love Nigerian literature, romance, fantasy, biographies, autobiographies, history, technical books, literary fiction, newspapers, essays or even Substack articles.
Read widely, read narrowly, read serious things, read silly things.
Learn something or occasionally learn absolutely nothing and just have fun.

You love reading? Beautiful. Please enjoy your books.😭

This need to establish that your choice of reading makes you intellectually superior to another reader is precisely the superiority complex people are talking about.

[Pejuola 🗣️ @Pejuola_a]

Done and dusted

[Cotton Candy 🥀🍭🌷🎀 @Rainedroid]

Papa Ajasco was right, cause Ojigbijigbijigbi fr omo 😭

[LegoLass💜 @RavenDQuill_]

@Athena2ndprince @iamnifemiii True 😂. She was cute

[LegoLass💜 @RavenDQuill_]

@Lyrical__Julo LOTR is where it's at.
You can watch the movies and still discuss at length with someone who read the books. Harry Potter movies had too much left out from the books. There's always a gap

[LegoLass💜 @RavenDQuill_]

@mikirahdo23 Cho Chang? 🌝

[LegoLass💜 @RavenDQuill_]

A magpie

House: Slytherin

Wand: Alder Wood with a Dragón Core 13" and slightly springy flexibility

[LegoLass💜 @RavenDQuill_]

@JN_Chukwudi This is a very popular opinión

[LegoLass💜 @RavenDQuill_]

@elishaNTelijah Congratulations. Definitely better than sitting at home

[LegoLass💜 @RavenDQuill_]

@UnkleAyo Even English language can only be properly taught and understood when the students are well grounded in thier mother tongue.

[LegoLass💜 @RavenDQuill_]

@GlobalEllah Interested

[Rufybaba @Rufyb]

I am afraid, this does not fly, in my opinion.

If you deliberately establish a “first-name” culture, it should apply broadly, including to senior leadership, unless the policy explicitly carves out the board (by the way, imagine setting a culture and it is not starting from the top).

Yes, non-executive directors occupy a different governance position from employees and executive management, but their unique position within the company does not inherently exempt them from the first-name policy.

If a company says “we operate a first-name culture. Irrespective of seniority, employees address one another by their first names”, then having an unwritten exception “but obviously you don’t call a director or person xyz by their first name” undermines the philosophy behind the policy.

After all, the purpose of a first-name culture is usually to reduce unnecessary status signaling, make senior people more approachable and create a less hierarchical working environment.

If management wants the convention to be “first names for everybody below the board, formal titles for directors”, then say so.

It is highly problematic when the written or communicated policy says one thing while an invisible hierarchy says something else.

What is all these talk about “wisdom”, “culture”, etc.? If those things indeed were a big deal, why the performative stunt of “first-names policy”?

Or why is no one directing the “wisdom” yarn to TOE that the young lady is still very young, maybe inexperienced, and does not understand yet how things ideally work, and so you do not come off as conflicting what the laid-down principle is publicly?

If the irritation comes from “I am way older and way above you in status”, was that not considered before setting a policy? You all didn’t know that?

You import the form of an institution without accepting the behavioural implications that give the institution meaning. The company gets to present itself as having a flat, progressive culture without senior people actually surrendering any of the status markers associated with the old culture.

This is how we bastardise concepts and principles.

If the organisation is not comfortable with the consequences of that philosophy, there is much cleaner solution… “Simply don’t adopt the policy”.

Be hierarchical. Be formal. Require whatever title or whatever conventions you consider appropriate.

I wouldn’t call TOE by his first name too, but that’s me. But saying “we are on a first-name basis here” and then humiliating someone doing that is an inconsistency that is worse.

At the heart of it, this really speaks to a broader problem of weak institutional culture and “big-manism ” in the corporate world, where formal policies supposedly apply to everyone until they clash with status and hierarchy.

“Can you call Aliko or Femi Otedola by their first name?” Let them not implement first-name policy if it would be an issue or if the “cultural context” is that very strong (and that would be perfectly fine).

Institutions should be stronger than personalities. Let’s quit all that performative nonsense.

[LegoLass💜 @RavenDQuill_]

Nigerians just love to slap the words 'disrespect' and 'woke' on any issue that doesn't align with them

[marshmallow @chikauzoahu]

How can it be rude or impolite to call you by your name? Is your name a slur?

[brudda Ope @opexvi]

Our psyche as young Nigerians is so badly damaged that the person people think is badly behaved is the young lady.

Only God can save us from ourselves.

[LegoLass💜 @RavenDQuill_]

Read the room, read the room....

Thats why some of you stay stuck at work after closing hours even when you're not doing anything ...

Just Stop Piling on the Lady, fgs!!

[Eze @PappyGrande_]

Maybe it's because I work in a industry that values process, but I think it's lunacy to attack someone for following their training instead of "applying common sense".