This lady was born in 1909. She was 5 when World War I started; 30 when World War II started; 38 when the Cold War started; 51 when Nigeria gained independence; 67 when Apple was founded; 70 when Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister of her dear country; 80 when the Berlin Wall came down; 107 when her country voted to leave the European Union. This lady basically witnessed the collapse of the old world and the rise of a new one. She lived through two world wars, the Cold War, decolonisation, the end of the Soviet Union, the technological revolution and the reshaping of the modern world. And yet, somehow, she has never, ever seen Arsenal lift the Champions League.
Dear @Nsukka_okpa, I understand that you are a huge fan of Cristiano Ronaldo but do not let agenda make you biased. It's not true that Okocha scored 1 goal per year, that is unjust to his true tally. He scored a total of 14 in 13 years which means he averaged 1.07 goals per year.
Let me give African Christians a simple assignment.
Generate an AI picture of Christ, making sure that his skin color is black, and send it to your family WhatsApp group on Sunday saying:
"Happy Sunday all, Christ loves us"
You'll see what your family will tell you.
End.
From Ekiti to Abuja to Times Square, New York. 🇳🇬🇺🇸
A dream, a vision, and a lot of work behind this moment.
Seeing my brand on one of the biggest screens in the world is a feeling i can’t explain. 🗽🔥
More to come. This is only the beginning. 🚀
This is late Dr K.O Mbadiwe's car garage in his mansion in Arondizuogu imo state….Omoh this life na vanity for real o, see all those vintage cars 🥹🧎🏻♂️➡️
Look at the drone our stars are making. They applied calculus to keep the drone stable, manage forces and rotation, navigate autonomous flights, and process sensor information.
For the first time, they are using maths in real life, aside from counting money.
The future is looking exciting.
Just imagine when we have over a million highly skilled young stars in the region.
73% of women on the titanic survived.
Only 19% of men did.
Read that again.
Even the richest men alive, class, power, status, all useless when the ship started sinking.
Hierarchy collapsed.
Gender didn’t.
“Women and children first”
Not a suggestion.
A rule men didn’t break.
Men stood there.
No panic
No begging.
Just accepted it.
They didn’t ask:
“Do I know her?”
“Is she worth it?”
“Will she remember me?”
No one asked if it was fair.
No camera.
No applause.
No second chances.
Zero return.
Full cost.
Understand this:
When survival gets limited, a man’s life becomes negotiable.
Men like that built the world.
And today?
Masculinity gets mocked.
Call it whatever you want.
But when everything collapsed, men paid first.
This isn’t opinion.
This is history.
That person with a good “corporate job” of N500k per month is struggling because there’s probably no avenue to steal money (corruption) in their line of work. Corruption is what sustains white collar workers and makes them look down on their blue collar counterparts.
I have explained this countless times.
Nobody in the corporate space in Nigeria, including federal employees, who earns N500,000 and below can afford a 1-bedroom-apartment in Lugbe, Abuja. Bear in mind that people who earn up to N500,000/m in the corporate space are not up 0.5%, yet they somehow manage to afford Abuja & Lagos rents, and run households of 3 or more, including those who officially earn way less.
Corruption is powering all of that. It’s called “racket” - and it exists in every corporate environment in Nigeria.
When you go to the Ministry of Education to verify your credentials, and you are asked to pay bribe if you desire a speedy service, understand that the system that invented that slow service in the first place made it so in order to leave room for staff, whose official salary is peanuts, to be able to make money through unofficial means by offering a speedy service that should have been a norm as special service.
Without corruption, a.k.a racket, in the corporate world, a roadside mechanic earns more in a month than a mid to senior level worker with a fancy title in an aesthetically pleasing office space.
And it’s not very hard to understand. Blue collar workers actually offer more value to the Nigerian economy in its current stage of development than their white collar counterparts, who are in most cases overcompensated for doing very little.
This is also why I push back when pretend middle-class Nigerians try to assume moral authority over those they consider lower class – “oh poor Nigerians are wicked, they are so greedy, and are all thieves” – when in fact, they themselves are the real thieves. Some of them say this while jumping from office to office seeking inflated contracts. Some of them who work in marketing will give client budget, collect money, pocket more than half and use only a fraction of it to actually run client’s campaign. But they don’t see all these as stealing or corruption, because they are done wearing suit and tie.
There’s so many things Nigerians still need to unlearn, learn, and relearn.
@Earthbreaker_SD@Guccistarbol Northern Nigeria teaches Arabic in school,the Naira you hold and spent carries an Arabic signage..so what are you on about?
@Dlord22728@lexzi_li@Guccistarbol Have been to Maiduguri several times,I spent most of my time In Taraba and Sokoto,as a cross Riverian ...trust me , you have no idea what you are enjoying in southern Nigeria.. some villages in the north have been under siege since PDP era ..