Recently, I worked on a civil forensic case, investigating a case of Corporate Data Exfiltration.
A spreadsheet containing the names, position, and Social security numbers of the employees in the organization was found online on their competitor's website.
I learnt beadmaking during my NYSC days in Lafia, Nasarawa State.
So when I got back home after my service year, I started making bead bags, flower pots and matted bags for sale alongside applying for jobs.
For context, at the time, I was already a chartered accountant with a first-class degree in accounting.
My mum would tell her friends and colleagues about my little business, and they would place orders, and I would stay up all night making those pieces for them.
Then one day, something happened.
My mum got back from work, and she said, ‘Ore, one of my friends placed an order for a bead purse; please help me make it for her’
My dad, who was also there, got instantly furious, and he said: ‘This is not my vision for her life, stop bringing her these orders, I want her to focus on getting good job opportunities’.
That was a reset moment for my mum and me. We just quietly dispersed, and it was the last order my mum ever brought me 🤣
I then refocused my time and energy on the aptitude tests I kept failing, began passing them, and landed a bank role and later a PwC role to kick-start my career.
Today is D-day.
Our boys are now at the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma for the Grand Finale of the International STEM Olympiad in Rome, Italy.
I’m optimistic about their victory.
Spec is a spectrum. And It is VALID!
There is a reason you’re attracted to who and what you are attracted to. While that can change over time, it’s still valid. Spec is NOT only physical o.
Don’t demonise people for having preferences. Spec is NOT lust.
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You know what shook me when I was Muslim?
The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.
She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.
And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.
To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.
I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?
Then I realized I was the wife.
I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.
And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”
He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”
That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.
He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.
Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.
Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.
The cross was Him naming the price.
Praise the Lord.
World news: A couple climbed the Empire State Building’s in USA 1,454-foot spire after proposing and unfurled a banner reading, “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.”
Police are working to bring them down safely.
“We were drunk and asleep in the car when they opened fire on us.
Thank God we were lying down.
The next bullet hit our driver in the eye. His head fell onto my lap while his foot was still on the accelerator 😳”
Falz and his team recount their terrifying encounter with bandits on the Abuja–Lokoja Expressway.
This flooding situation going on in Lagos is not normal o...Aghhh💔
People are performing breast strokes inside yama yama water to go to work and take their kids to school!!!
Asper there's no government in Lagos?