In 2023, I was stranded in Oshodi while coming back from an interview. No cash, no money in the account. Phone at 4%. Rain was beating me black and blue with no hideout.
I posted: “Please, is anybody around Oshodi? My phone is about to go off and I’m stuck at Arena Junction. I need 2k for transport to get back home. I’ll pay back tomorrow. No jokes please.”
I tagged three of my closest friends, people that called me “sister” on birthdays.
First reply was laughing emojis. “LMAO, you don finally cast.”
Second reply: “Omo, trek am, exercise.”
Third person saw it and posted a meme two minutes later.
My phone died. I sat on a bench laid across the walkway, soaked, watching Lagos run past me, thinking this is how it ends for two thousand naira.
After a few minutes, a car parked close to where I was. The car windows rolled down and a voice asked, “Are you Ireoluwa?” I nodded. “One guy say make I carry you go Abule Egba. E don pay.”
I got in without thinking twice.
Halfway, my phone buzzed on the driver’s power bank. A DM from a stranger I never followed:
“Hey there, I saw your post. I really don’t know you but I know that feeling. Bolt is paid to your street. Get home safe. No need to pay back. Just help someone else one day when you can.”
I got home and checked his page. He’d been job hunting for three months and was probably broke. But he sent me a ride and some money. Now we are good friends even though we have still never met.
My friends with jobs posted me for cruise.
A stranger with nothing posted me for life.
That night I learned friendship doesn’t define family. Sometimes your lifeline is the person you’ve never met.
Lagos will humble you, no jokes.
I was jobless for 4 months.
Rent was close.
Account balance was just there… like ₦200k.
Then I saw a job asking for 2–3 years experience
in something I barely knew.
I said… we move.
Crammed small things online,
entered the interview with full confidence.
Next thing… I got the job
Now it’s 3 weeks in…
Every day na survival mode.
Google, YouTube, ChatGPT… na my real colleagues.
The funny part?
My boss is praising me 😂
At this point…
I don’t even know if I’m faking it…
or I’m actually getting good.
Question:
If all African countries decided that entering each other's countries would be visa-free for all Africans, which African country do you think would be the most visited?
Give your reasons for your answer 👇
@jon_d_doe South Africa of cause, and that is African Union's Agenda 2063 and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). As of early 2026, nations like Rwanda, Seychelles, Benin, The Gambia, Kenya, and Ghana are leading this integration.
How old will you be by 2063 😂😂😂
@Timmyofdelta@peter_olayinka1 I'm a huge fan!! He played in Slavia Prague, I hope he made it to UCL one day. My prayer for him.
I also use this medium to congratulate him on welcoming a bouncing baby boy (future world best player) round December last year.
I hope he see this.
@HEPHZIBAHr6 Puting your gas cylinder inside water while cooking helps cool it down and reduce pressure buildup inside, making it safer. This is a common practice when the cylinder gets too hot during use.
RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM KILLS.
RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM KILLS.
RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM KILLS.
The story of Aunty Esther and her very avoidable death is really saddening, really painful and really tragic.
Some of us raised an alarm.
Many of us screamed and shouted.
This young woman had breast cancer which was suspected early but quite ignorantly decided to turn down the scientifically proven treatment options that will have saved her life- due to a twisted teaching from a religious gang.
We kept saying to those closest to her to please appeal to het to ensure she gets professional medical care including blood transfusion.
First she turned down hospitals and was drinking some dirty roadside herbs in the name of “traditional care” for too long. This made the breast cancer go untreated and get worse to the point where it started to spread into her armpit and other body parts/organs.
Then when she eventually agreed to go to the hospital, she was found to have too low blood levels needing a blood transfusion and she also turned it down due to indoctrinated religious beliefs.
We raised an alarm here about refusing the very needed blood transfusion, but may loud ignorant uninformed idiots here downplayed it and said she could have “alternatives” even when it was clear her situation was so dire and a “blood alternative” would not have done the job to replace the low blood levels as quickly as needed to optimise her for the other life-saving treatments she needed.
Her cancer had spread so far and so fast that she didn’t have the luxury of time for the nonsense of “blood alternatives” which her religious cult recommended. And the report was that she was threatened with excommunication if she ever recieved the blood transfusion that will have significantly helped to save her life. The willingness to ostracise a dying woman if she received blood transfusion is exactly how you know a death cult for what it is.
This young lady was diagnosed with breast cancer. If diagnosed early, as it was for her, it can be treated, it could have been treated and the person doesn’t have to die.
Aunty Esther didn’t need to die.
Aunty Esther didn’t have to die.
Extremist ignorant religious indoctrination caused her to turn down professional medical care and this led to her avoidable untimely unnecessary death.
And I hope we can all learn a vital lesson here: Religious extremist beliefs kill.
Currently happening in Abuja!
Wike and the Fmr Chief of Naval Staff on this one. For once, let it be the rich and powerful against the rich and powerful!!