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[Dad and Buried @DadandBuried]

Once you've figured out how to parent your first kid, it's already too late; the only way to put that knowledge into practice is to have another kid.

Unfortunately, the second kid is so different from the first that none of the stuff you learned applies.

It's a flawed system.

[Oreoluwa Bukola, CFA. @BukkyOA]

Nigerian Employers:

13th Month
Bag of rice
Vegetable oil

UK Employers:

[𝚃𝚄𝙱𝙾𝚈✯ @TU3OY]

@tosinolaseinde YES

[Oku @oku_yungx]

Exactly. Okafor no be anybody mate. People like to pretend it’s just vibes, but the truth is simple: When two people have shared deep emotional bonds, memories and serious connection over the years, that tie doesn’t magically disappear.

You can’t downplay that kind of history with phrases like “we’re just friends.” That’s how people deceive themselves.

If you stay connected to an ex still chatting, still checking in, still keeping that door slightly open then you’re not just preserving a memory, you’re feeding a bond. And every small connection builds familiarity, comfort and attachment all over again.

But when you truly choose to move on, set boundaries and create distance, something changes. Over time, the person becomes like an old chapter…important, but no longer part of your story. You stop responding the same way, you stop feeling the same pull and you stop giving them emotional access.

At the end of the day, peace comes from closed doors, not half-open ones.

[No Titanium No Party @whoistitanium]

The best way to use Twitter will forever be as an observer.

[sirhighbreed @sirhighbreed]

What difference does it make?

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

I am ranting because I am not doing well.

Forget all the saturated pictures and collaged videos from £87 trips but all of my family is in Nigeria.

They don't have the same travel access, same illusion of comfort, freedom to buy whatever they want without mental gymnastics - and this is the fucking truth.

Whatever policy they're affected with, affects me.
Whatever injustice they're robbed off with, robs on me.

Geographically, I might not be on Nigerian soil but mentally, I never left.
Financially, I never left.
Emotionally, I never left.

I am aware that I am not doing well.

Wherever you are in the diaspora, if you current situation isn't mirrored across all of your current family members, I'm sorry to burst your bubble - you're not doing well. You've not escaped.

So if awakening citizen consciousness is my own contribution to the possibility of a better Nigeria, I will play my part.

This is why we speak up.

I can't peel off my skin, erase my Oduduwa factor, dump my green passport so in an out, I'm still a Nigerian - I'll always be. From a distance, that's all anyone will ever see even if I get a second citizenship, so again, something has to give.

I won't be silent. I won't cower. My voice will not be compromised because of proximity to access.

These conversations are like lints and sparks - I can only but hope it eventually sparks a fire that makes us hit the streets.

Finally,
Nigeria works. If a system is designed to fail and it fails, that system has succeeded.

The problems of Nigeria are artificially manufactured, so a new government comes in reverses one floor of a mountain of problems they created - they can praise it as progress.

The poverty levels we're in, is a deliberate design - it is a tool and it's weaponization is the only way the cankerworms in charge can reign supreme.

If you keep a people hungry enough, you can flash them hope with AC chilling, WiFi blazing and jollof steaming.

If you systematically strip people of their dreams and aspirations, keep them at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs - you can easily convert them to willing slaves.

Nigeria works - but the question is, who is it working for?

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Americans don't know much about the rest of the world generally, and Africa specifically for the same reason that the English don't bother learning any other language: They don't have to.

It is the center of the world technologically, militarily, and culturally. It is humanity's main attraction hence its citizens know little about events or geographical locations beyond their country/continent in the same way the superstar on a stage doesn't know much about members of his audience.

From the Superstar's perspective, there is very little about the audience, individually and collectively, that is worth knowing. So nothing is known. But members of the audience know a lot about the superstar. He is literally, the star of the show.

The African who thinks he knows much about America did not put any conscious effort into gaining that knowledge. He did not walk into a library and pick up a book titled 'Things to Know about Uncle Sam' out of sheer curiosity or epistemic exploration. It was simply a side effect of America's cultural and technological hegemony.

They watched American movies all their lives, follow American celebrities, were brainwashed since they were kids by American news, use mostly American software and Hardware, listened mostly to American music, and fantasised about studying, working, vacationing, or simply visiting America.

Most Africans have an 'American Dream'

So of course they will know much more about America than Americans will know about them and rightly so.

If Africans provided similar value to them and African culture or technology was part and parcel of their daily lives, on account of that value add, they would know much more about Africa than they currently do. But they don't because there is nothing functionally remarkable about the continent or any of the countries that comprise it.

Most people are not savants who consciously acquire knowledge for its sake. The average person gains knowledge either because he hopes it will benefit him in some material way or as a byproduct of pursuing some other objective.

The average American will derive little to no usable benefit from learning that Nigeria is different from Angola. Neither does he use technology or consume media from any of these countries in his daily life.

Sure, he might stumble upon An African wearing baggy trousers and a green long-sleeve shirt dancing like a cl*wn to 'Gwo Gwo Ngwo' on TikTok and laugh at how ridiculous it looks, but that's about it. Just another African dancing on the internet. The nationality does not matter because it makes no difference.

The whole continent is a sh!thole so making any real geographical differentiations from an outsider's perspective is an unnecessary cognitive load.

They're mostly ignorant about us because we don't matter and hence their ignorance is justified. If roles were reversed, we would be ignorant about them too.

[UG🇫🇷 @UgwunnaEjikem]

This is a long read so please skip if you have the attention span of a 5 year old.

2 weeks ago I had a British couple pop up at my hospital in a Panamera, both under 25, very friendly & chatty.

They talked about their kids & how they plan to retire at 45 then live the rest of their lives traveling & seeing the world. They told me they both began working in Finance at AGE 20 & 22 respectively.

It hit me there & then; an average U25 year old in my country is still battling his project supervisor & looking for missing scripts so he doesn’t miss his NYSC batch. He dares not dream of owning a luxury car at 25 talk more retiring at 45.

A 20 year old in my country cannot turn on the generating set before 7pm if not his parents will deal with him, how are both realities so starkly different; galaxies apart but I knew the answer even though it was a bitter pill to swallow.

By virtue of place of birth my countrymen are already at a disadvantage, it’s so difficult to compete globally not because they’re not as smart or as hardworking but simply because of where they were born and the opportunities available to them. It’s actually sad lol

Two things dawned on me;
1) Just by birthing your kids in a certain environment, you instantly put them a step ahead of their peers globally.
2) As average Nigerian youths; our prodigies, our smarties, our hardworkers, our hustlers, will always be pegged back by our environment and it’s not even their fault.

In summary; it will never be well with all our leaders(past & present) that have put us in this position. I know that’s just a wish but fr God punish them lol

[Mr. Possible @Mrpossidez]

If you come from a really poor background where you were not exposed to too many things, making money is one of many battles you’ll fight. They’re very many.

There are deep patterns in your life that are a result of where you’re coming from. Poverty has ramifications.

[𝚃𝚄𝙱𝙾𝚈✯ @TU3OY]

@Iam_veekie @UnkuAlfred TF 🤣🤣

[𝚃𝚄𝙱𝙾𝚈✯ @TU3OY]

@Iam_veekie @UnkuAlfred Alaboo ara 😂

[𝚃𝚄𝙱𝙾𝚈✯ @TU3OY]

@Iam_veekie Because say I con greet you yesterday now… 🤦‍♂️
I’ll wait till next week before I ask.

[rae_timzy @omo_Akinbile]

When a Doctor has bad communication skills🥲💅

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

You have not answered us @Nigeria_NMC

1. Why do nurses need 2 years experience for your to verify their certificates? A certificate you issued to them.

2. Why do you need a minimum of 6 months to verify a certificate you issued. Are you claiming to be stupid?

3. Why does the CEO of Applicant's place of work and Training Institution have to write a letter of good standing to the Registrar/CEO of NMCM to verify certificate it issued prior. Are you daft?

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

This is absolutely ridiculous @Nigeria_NMC

There is no where on the world this is done. You're deliberately frustrating the nurses under your body. On what basis are you demanding 2 years work experience before they can verify their certificates?

Why is verification taking minimum of 6 months? SIX MONTH!!! What are you verifying?

The @NigeriaGov needs to intervene in this witchcraft.

[Mr. Possible @Mrpossidez]

Mine doesn’t fade away. I deprioritize my affections perfectly, but how I felt about them always stays true. And it’s not my gift to them; it is I who have been lucky. I’ve not loved a person who did not deserve a small space of permanence in my heart.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

Life is interesting. No matter how you exalt something, it is an everyday life for somebody.

You look forward to visiting the Eiffle Tower. Somebody walks past it everyday for the past 30 years. You can't wait to visit London, it is somebody's city. One day you'll enter Miami, it is somebody's hood. God should bless you so you'll wake up in Santorini, that is somebody's village. A baecation in Bali is the dream, someone wakes up there every day.

Your biggest desire is someone's daily life.

[veek @Iam_veekie]

Just dey watch o, weekend go finish in two minutes.

[𝚃𝚄𝙱𝙾𝚈✯ @TU3OY]

@Blvck_ee Whoreo😎
Happy Birthday young man.