Timeless Empyrean

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

Did you know that when Bowen University was founded, a huge number of muslim students were sponsored by one rich Iwo indigene to buy the University's Entrance Forms, and after they secured their admission, they began to agitate for a mosque on campus and hijab for female students, etc
When they were turned down, they began to hold prayers on the school field in defiance
When the school authority protested, they started a riot.
I have never seen Christians going into muslim schools or companies or institutions and demanding that rules must be changed for them
They knew it was a Baptist University, they knew it was a Christian institution, and yet they did all that.
The Inaugural Vice-Chancellor of Bowen University, Professor J. T. Okedara, had to retire early because of the trouble these students gave him
It took the intervention of the Nigeria Baptist Convention and a change of Vice-Chancellor for these students to be rusticated and for peace to be restored.

I was reading the news about International School, Ibadan, and I can see the same spirit of disruption and troublemaking at work.

I have never seen bandits wearing cassocks, carrying Bibles and shouting Hallelujah as they behead people

It is a paradox that people practising a religion can be fomenting trouble without provocation all over the world and still claim that they are a religion of peace.

Indeed, there is a spirit at work in every human being based on the faith they embrace.

[Timeless Empyrean @SageOrhis]

@DOlusegun Lmao!

[BLESSED 🥷 @Dee_9889]

SHOCKING: Yesterday in Kaboji, Mashegu LGA, Niger State, a fierce clash erupted between Dogo Gide’s bandits and Lakurawa fighters. Multiple gunmen were injured.
A military helicopter then landed in the community (near a school/cemetery) and evacuated the wounded bandits, sparking massive outrage and claims the Army is assisting terrorists.

[Cross˚ @Elkrosmediahub]

Throw it back to this masterpiece.

[Timeless Empyrean @SageOrhis]

@samson_samsen @yaygha 🤣😭

[Taiwo_junzi @taiwo_junzi]

The easiest way to get better results in the dating market is to simply adopt the same philosophies the average Nigerian woman adopts.

- Guard your resources seriously!
- View your penis like a goldmine!
- View everything she does as the barest minimum!
- Be rude to her if she’s poorer than you!

Simply mirror women’s behaviour back to them.

[Zikoko says it’s #TheNairaLifeConference season!! @Zikoko_Mag]

https://t.co/lxFaWaJrXW

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

Your citizenship really determines so much for you. As a Nigerian, your matter long ooo.

I had a Saudi classmate when I was fling my Masters. He explained to me that all Saudis in the UK were fully sponsored by the government. I asked what his plan was after school, he said he was going back home to take up a job. He didn't even like the UK. I don't blame him, he struggled with the language and culture.

I had Korean classmates (those ones are always rich and clean). No one was staying back or had plan to.

I saw Chinese classmate 2 years later. He had started a business with his babe. He told me the government encourages them to take loan to invest abroad. I thought we were just having a discussion. I didn't know he had his plan mapped out.

My Spanish friend (the only one I still talk to), I asked him when he was going to pick up his British passport since he was eligible for it having been in UK for many years, he said he didnt need it that his passport takes him where he needs to go. I spoke to him recently and he said he is looking to leave the UK soon. He wants to return home to Barcelona. That reminds me, he has been inviting me to Barcelona 🤦‍♂️

At the start of Covid, my Canadain flatmate packed his bag and left. He told me he would finish his program from there. I once asked how he was paying for his program (Law Undergraduate), he said he took a loan from the bank in Canada.

Then you look at Nigerians- we are always looking for how to stay back at all cost because home offers nothing. Conversation always centred around sponsorship jobs - even if it is care job. This is after working 12 hours shift through out your Masters to pay for your fees and cover for your living expenses. People are even so desperate, they are paying 10k to 12k for sponsorship job just to stay back.

[AGBO OBINNAYA @AgboObinnaya]

Nigeria has over 53,000 awaiting trial inmates. Around 65% of everyone in Nigerian prisons right now has not been convicted of anything.

They are just waiting. Some have been waiting for five years. Some for ten. Some were arrested for offences that carry a maximum sentence of two years but they have already served four in pretrial detention because they didn’t know how to apply for bail, couldn’t afford the informal payments the system demands, or simply had no lawyer and no one who knew what to do.

This is not a broken system. A broken system is one that stopped working. This one is working exactly as designed for people who have no legal knowledge and no access to legal help.

That is the gap @UseCaseRadar was built to close. We built it for every Nigerian. Sign up at https://t.co/oiXOD1bKFW or download the app. Legal access should not be a privilege reserved for a few people. It’s a right that everyone should have.

[Rinu Oduala 🔥🔫 @SavvyRinu]

First they came for the Nigerians, and I did not speak out, because I was not Nigerian.
Then they came for the Zimbabweans, and I did not speak out, because I was not Zimbabwean.
Then they came for the Ghanaians, and I did not speak out, because I was not Ghanaian.

Then they came for me, a true South African and there was no one left to speak for me.

[Timeless Empyrean @SageOrhis]

@kena_ewuru 20 million thereabout.

[Timeless Empyrean @SageOrhis]

@shakursman Only 1 Shakur!

[Timeless Empyrean @SageOrhis]

@omoalhajaabiola How? 🤣🤣 Who doesn't want more?

[Timeless Empyrean @SageOrhis]

@__dolani Thank you too, sir.

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Anytime I see her watching Tv and using her phone, she gets a "one screen at a time" rebuke from me.

Initially, she'd respond with "leave me jor" but I was consistent.

So these days, like a stubborn ill tempered child, she'll act like she didn't hear me for a couple of seconds, before dropping the phone.

Was watching football yesternight and scrolling X, when I heard a stern "one screen at a time!" rebuke from behind.

It was her, doing her best impression of me.

My instinct in such situations is typically to casually dismiss her:

"Go away, woman"

After all, I'm Baba yehgha; no one tells me what to do, least of all a mere woman

But I caught myself, and realised if I did that, I'd lose the moral authority to enforce that same rule with her.
Because for a lesson or principle to be truly persuasive, it has to first apply to its author before it can effectively apply to its audience.

So I dropped the phone.

Then came a smug, satisfactory look on her face.

Moral of the story is that when you're trying to get someone to do or stop doing something, the day they start calling you out for the same misbehaviour is the day you know the lesson is being accepted.

And perhaps most importantly, when you willingly hold yourself to the same standard you've set, you legitimise it in a way no argument or justification ever could.

One of the strongest indicators that you've successfully taught a principle to someone isn't that they obey you, but that they start applying it to you too

[NDULA Farançer @NdulaJajaPutaya]

Small talk @OfficialDSSNG will come carry you that you are trying to destabilize the Peace of the Nation.

where is the peace if, please tell me?

@OfficialDSSNG @DHQNigeria do you people even exist ?

you are just lucky we are unfortunately COWARDS which is fortunate enough for you

[Russian Embassy in Kenya/Посольство России в Кении @russembkenya]

Looks like someone in Washington just updated the travel schedule.

"America First" has a way of becoming "Nigeria Next."

Soon we'll probably start hearing urgent calls for "democratization," "protecting democratic values," and "supporting civil society".

[Timeless Empyrean @SageOrhis]

@Ssaasquatch 🤣🤣

[Dr Folaseye (ENT/Head &Neck Surgeon) @DrFolaseye]

I don’t know why people forget I am still a surgeon, since I got the NDC House of Representative ticket for Surulere 1. People call me Honorable and have removed the surgeon from my name, anyway Saturday I had endoscopic sinus surgery by 7am and by evening I became a politician