Dear Dr. Bosun Tijani, @bosuntijani
I hope this message finds you well.
My name is Maryam Shuaibu Aliyu, a cybersecurity awareness advocate, @3MTTNigeria cohort 1 fellow and author of CYBERTEENZ.
We met during your visit to Kano State last year for the commissioning of the Digital Innovation Park.
During our conversation, I shared my vision for a cybersecurity awareness tour focused on educating young people, schools, and communities on digital safety and responsible online behavior.
I recall your encouraging words and your indication that you would be willing to support the initiative.
I am reaching out to respectfully reconnect and explore whether there may be an opportunity to discuss that support as the project continues to grow.
The need for cybersecurity awareness among young Nigerians remains significant, and I believe this initiative aligns strongly with our shared goal of building a digitally safe and inclusive society.
I would be grateful for any opportunity to speak further or share an update on the impact and future plans of the tour.
Thank you for your time and for your continued leadership in advancing Nigeria's digital economy.
Warm regards,
Maryam Shuaibu Aliyu
Author, CYBERTEENZ
Cybersecurity Awareness Advocate
During my secondary school years:
Dad: I’m not saying you MUST carry 1st position. Just make sure you don’t carry LAST.
Me: Okay, sir.
MOM: If they born your father well, come back to this house with even 2nd position. Wa rimi wo bi iran (In Yoruba).
The first time I took 3rd position, I slept in my Stepmother’s room for one week, while they were helping me to beg my Mom.
Thank God for POLYGAMY. My LIFE for END that period. 😂😂😂
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For 8 straight months, everyone in my compound believed our landlord's 24 year old daughter, Simi, was a high class runs girl 👀
Every single night at exactly 9:45 PM, she'd leave the house, enter a Bolt, and never return until around 6 AM.
What we discovered last week left all of us in tears 😭 😭
Our landlord, Baba Segun, a retired civil servant, was one of the kindest men I've ever met. Despite inflation, he hadn't increased our rent in four years.
He’d always say, "Country hard, make we no suffocate each other." We all loved and respected him.
But his daughter, Simi, was the compound topic.
During the day, she was always sleeping, looking exhausted and withdrawn.
But by night? She would dress up, spray nice perfume, and a ride would come pick her up. By morning, she’d return, looking completely drained.
You know how compound life is in Nigeria. The gossip started by the water pumping machine.
"Look at her eyes, she no dey sleep," Iya Favour would whisper.
"Baba is forming strict, but his daughter is doing night hustle," another neighbor would add.
Slowly, we all began to judge her. We even started giving her attitude when she came out to the compound.
She’d just smile weakly, say "Good morning ma," and quickly go back inside.
Fast forward to last Thursday. One of our neighbors, Bro Chuks, who drives Bolt at night to make extra cash, got a ride request from an industrial estate in Ikeja. It was a massive 24/7 plastics manufacturing factory.
When he parked, he watched the factory workers coming out from their night shift. They were covered in dust, wearing heavy boots, and looking physically broken. And right there, dragging her tired feet towards his car, was Simi.
Bro Chuks was shocked. Simi? What are you doing here?
She froze.
When she realized it was him, she broke down in tears right there in the parking lot and begged him not to tell anyone, especially her dad.
Simi confessed that her dad’s glaucoma had gotten terribly worse. He needed urgent eye surgery that cost ₦2.5 million.
His government pension hadn't been paid in over two years.
Extended family had advised him to double our rent to raise the money, but Baba Segun bluntly refused, saying it was wicked to punish his tenants for his health problems.
To save her father from going entirely blind without forcing him to compromise his values, Simi quietly took a grueling night shift job at the factory.
The makeup and perfume she wore when leaving the compound? It was just a cover up so her nearly blind father wouldn't suspect she was going out to do hard labor.
When Bro Chuks shared this on our compound WhatsApp group the next morning, the silence was deafening.
Iya Favour, who started most of the gossip, actually came out to the corridor, sat on the floor, and started crying.
We were all enjoying cheap rent, saved by the kindness of a man whose daughter was secretly breaking her back in a factory just to keep him healthy.
And how did we repay her? With wicked gossip and judgment.
That weekend, all the tenants called a meeting. We voluntarily agreed to a 30% rent increase and raised ₦800k on the spot to support Baba Segun's surgery.
Baba cried. Simi cried. We cried.
It taught me a brutal, unforgettable lesson: Never judge someone when you don’t know the battles they are fighting in secret.
The person you’re pointing fingers at might just be carrying a burden you couldn't even lift.
Has there ever been a time you completely misjudged someone, only to discover you were completely wrong?
I'd genuinely love to hear your story. Share it in the replies. Someone else might learn from it too.
Eder scored the solitary goal to win Portugal Euro 2016, we all know who got the praise for that victory. It’s a two edged sword. Once you are comfortable with the praise, deserved or not, you must live with the criticism too. That’s how it works.
Higuain kill3d Argentina in 2014, guess who got all the knocks? The one who dragged them to that final. And several more knocks for dragging them to other finals they lost.
This is the nature of the game. It’s too late to cry or complain about it.
@Wizarab10 Sir Dic you don’t know anything about football rule.
Go check out FIFA rules and see for yourself.
What happened was not even a yellow card.
You all are just pained.
But we love it.
Israel is shooting babies and carrying out pogroms in the occupied West Bank, bombing Lebanon and Gaza, and that’s just one day.
A rogue, genocidal state is on a killing spree and the only people being punished are the ones asking why their tax dollars are being used to fund it.
Muhannad Farwana never got to wear his wedding suit, Israel killed him in an air strike on his family home in Khan Younis hours before his wedding.
His family says a day meant for celebrating the 26-year-old has turned into mourning him as Israel keeps attacking Gaza.
ISRAELI FORCES SHOT AND KILLED A BABY IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK.
A baby.
Is there going to be wall-to-wall coverage and condemnations or will it be largely overlooked because the baby is Palestinian?
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NEW: $45 million worth of cocaine seized after an underground tunnel between Mexico and San Diego, CA was discovered under a Buy 4 Less store.
Investigators say they surveilled the store for months after noticing how little customer foot traffic it had.
Authorities found a nearly 2000-foot-long tunnel that was 55 feet deep and 4.5 feet high with electricity and ventilation.
2270 pounds of coke was seized from the store, and four people were arrested.
Gregorio Epifanio Hernandez Lopez, 29, Jose Jimenez, 32, Antonio Cortez, 18, and Brandon Escalante Sandoval, 26, were arrested.
They all face a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $10 million fine.
"They thought they saw the light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, what they saw were our lights and sirens," said U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon.