Take A Guess

❤️ & 💡 with a sprinkle of chaos

[Take A Guess @TMostBEE]

I’m still in disbelief that it’s been #OneYearWithMaria. I guess it’s funny how time flies when you are having fun in love. It’s been a rollercoaster of emotions, how sad I get when I sense you’re sad, how happy I get when I sense you’re happy, how I scream at you…
@MariaChike

[Revolutionary Youth! @torty_mercy]

If my homegirl needs 10 million to start a business and my husband needs 5 million to solve a pressing financial issue, and I have 10 million, I’ll give it to my homegirl.

My husband is a man and can sort himself but I won’t be able to forgive myself for not saving the financial life of my homegirl!

Bye everyone, let’s all meet at the psychia.

[Dr Scarface📍🩺 @king_pearxe]

There was one time in the children's emergency ward

I was trying to set a line for a baby so we could give him his IV DRUGS

I told the mother to help me hold the child tight so he wouldn't shake but the child wouldn't stay still

The father stood up and gave his wife a hot slap it sounded like a gunshot saying why can't the woman hold the baby firm

In my entire life I haven't witnessed such before, everyone present was also shocked

I just wonder how they do at home

[YOM🗣️ @ThaBoyYom]

I just confirmed today that..

Those that usually say “Your Wife is not your family member” actually do mean it when they say it.. it’s not just online yaps.. that’s how they see it

And yea.. Misogyny is truly a thing.. some of you indeed just HATE women.

All of you are mad fr!

[Rollings🥶 @RollingTwisting]

May God save my girls

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Before passing away to illness, his best friend recorded his best man speech to be apart of their big day

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

The parents of Ellen Greenberg, a Philadelphia teacher who died in 2011 with 20 stab wounds, have been granted permission by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to contest the ruling that her death was a su*cide.

On January 26, 2011, a blizzard struck Philadelphia, leading Ellen Greenberg to leave her job and head back to her apartment in Manayunk.

That evening at about 6:40 p.m., Ellen was found dead, having suffered twenty stab wounds, ten of which were to her back and neck.

Additionally, there were eleven bruises in various stages of healing on her right arm, abdomen, and right leg.

Despite the severity and nature of her injuries, the Philadelphia PD classified her death as a suicide.

However, the case was labeled "suspicious" by homicide investigators before it was ultimately closed as a su*cide.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I debated long and hard whether to do this publicly, but I think a message needs to be sent to a group of external interests working in tandem with the internal interests described in the quoted tweet to counteract the interests of half a billion West Africans. A message that at whatever level we exist, we take our destiny seriously and we are not to be trifled with.

Last week, I received an N800,000 offer from an international NGO called Dialogue Earth (formerly known as China Dialogue Trust) to write an article essentially saying that Dangote Refinery is terrible for the environment because something something "Environmental Concerns," something something "Climate Change," something something "Energy Transition Policy," something something "COP 28."

The (unstated but clearly implied) thrust of the brief was for a prominent local voice to put their name on an article that is an argument or a premise for the the Nigerian government to kill the refinery based on its "energy transition commitments" and "environmental policy." This conclusion wasn't immediately apparent when they reached out to me, but I suspected where it was heading, and I quickly accepted the offer so that I could see the brief and obtain hard evidence. I've attached screenshots from the brief below.

Basically, this London-based NGO is headed by Sam Geall, an Oxford professor and is funded by several American intelligence fronts such as Ford Foundation and ClimateWorks (which is blacklisted in India for funding organisations working against India's national interest). For whatever reason, it is now quietly mobilising a resistance campaign against what it describes as "Nigeria's first refinery." Apparently, the status quo of Africa's largest oil producer having no functioning oil refinery to beneficiate its own oil was not a problem for Dialogue Earth and the American CIA fronts who fund it.

The human poverty caused by exporting this raw material and importing refined fuel was not bad for the environment. Also, the fact of European refiners regularly blending West African fuel cargoes with toxic waste and sulphur content 200 times the European legal limit (leading to asthma, bronchitis and eye infections in West Africa) was also not bad for the environment. But Nigeria having a refinery that will wean West Africa off import dependency on those European refiners (and allow West Africa control the sulphur content of its own fuels) is where Dialogue Earth and its funders draw the line. That one is bad for the environment, and David Hundeyin should write an article calling for the refinery to be shut down or limited.

I'm putting this out there publicly so that nobody will henceforth use the term "conspiracy theory" when it is pointed out for the umpteenth time, that there are American and European state and private interests that are heavily invested in keeping Africa exactly as poor as it is, and that they regularly push levers most of us do not even know exist, to make sure that this status quo is protected. These people believe that Africans should not exist or have nice things in this world. Apparently, the sole purpose of our existence is to enhance their experience of the planet and all that it has to offer.

It is because of them that I have to make a public spectacle out of this, even though I know that doing this is probably going to cost someone their job. The message needs to be passed that as poor as we are, you cannot convince us to campaign for the elongation of our own poverty by commissioning $500 hack jobs in the hope that we will be greedy enough to only see the money and ignore the bigger picture of what we can clearly see you trying to do.

I will reiterate something I have said multiple times - I am not a believer in the religious faith called Climate Change/Saving The Environment. I care exactly as much about the environment as do the rich white men who destroyed it to begin with. I firmly believe that if what it takes for Africa to industrialise is for it to burn so much fossil fuel that snow stops falling in Wisconsin and it starts raining concentrated sulphuric acid in Doncaster, it is not too big a price for Europe and North America to pay - it is certainly not bigger than the price Africa had to pay for Europe and North America to develop.

It is and will continue to be 100% OUR prerogative to determine what to do with our hydrocarbons. It is not the rich white men hiding behind these "Climate Advocacy NGOs" who will tell us what to do with our energy reserves, and by what means we are allowed to escape the poverty that they engineered for us.

I might not be a fan of Aliko Dangote or his monopolistic business practices - as is well known - but I'm also smart enough to know when rich white men in DC, Houston, Rotterdam and London and trying to use me as a marionette in their 400 year-old coloniser games. If you are reading this and you are one of the rich white men whose economic interests are threatened by Nigeria refining its own oil, you should come out and fight Aliko Dangote by yourself.

Or at least go find a much stupider African to do your dirty job - there's plenty of those.

It will never be me.

[FIBA Basketball @FIBA]

D'Tigress 🇳🇬 onto the Quarter-Finals mission 🐅

#Paris2024 x #Basketball

[FIBA Basketball @FIBA]

HISTORY MAKERS. ✍️

#Paris2024 x #Basketball

https://t.co/sPgdiYdE0G

[FIBA Basketball @FIBA]

First ever African team (Men or Women) to play in #Olympics Quarter-Finals:

It's Nigeria! 🇳🇬

#Paris2024 x #Basketball

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

On September 25, 2000, 19-year-old Kevin Hines attempted to end his own life by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Plunging over 220 feet at a speed of 75 miles per hour, he hit the water below, shattering three of his vertebrae and narrowly missing severing his spine by two millimeters. Despite the odds, he miraculously survived the impact.

Upon realizing he was still alive, an intense will to live surged within him. Yet, the weight of his clothes continuously pulled him beneath the surface of San Francisco Bay. For what seemed like an eternity, he struggled to resurface briefly, gasping for air, just enough to hold on to life.

Suddenly, he felt an unusual force from below lifting him above the water's surface, where he remained until the Coast Guard arrived. It was only later that he discovered the mysterious presence keeping him afloat: a sea lion had been supporting his body until the rescue boat arrived, as eyewitnesses had observed.

His story gained major media coverage and he has since become a motivational speaker and advocate for suicide prevention.

[Amaka Ezepue @JackieLoby]

For context- filling the pool takes 12 hours. The intern asked to stay back was going to finish bailing the pool, wash it and then stay an extra 12 hours waiting for it to get filled up.

[HomeEssentia_EmpireNg/PBD/0053 @HEssentia]

This broke my heart I wish she could get help 😭honestly

[Ayo of Ibadan @theayoadams]

Igbo Ora, a popular place in Oyo State, is the twin capital of the world because of the high rate of twin births recorded in the city.

Last Saturday, I was at the Igbo Ora Twins Festival

[GIDI @Gidi_Traffic]

So We Have Forgotten Mohbad Already? Life 💔

[batman’s PrEP time @ronniessance]

I’ve seen the comments comparing and contrasting her to Blue Ivy… my only take away is that y’all are too damn old to be having dissertations about two black girls having fun on stage with their moms.

[♥️Rocky♠️Mutant @Rockybabs]

This. OBJ was the inspiration. Graduation day in Lyon for my MSc

[Parle @Bolajiparle]

I swear it’s Nonso Amadi and Maleek Berry.

[Erimus @HeDontMakeNoise]

Wow! I’m hearing this story for the first time. Nigerian is a crime scene!!! 😪

[babygirl @hoemie_]

“baby look at me this isn’t you🥺”