Some of you think it’s a compliment when people say, “Ah! Na only you fit do am.”
Let me tell you the truth: that is not always praise.
Sometimes it is an indictment.
Because if you’re leading a team and you are the only competent one, you’re not leading a team.
You are leading spectators.
And if you’re building a system where everything collapses when you’re not present, you haven’t built excellence, you’ve built dependence.
It’s like NEPA: One transformer fails and the whole street is in darkness.
No built-in redundancy.
No backup.
That’s not mastery.
That’s fragility dressed as competence.
Nah, this ticketing topic dey vex me.
The reason they manipulate tithe, offerings and seeds out of you is because you have not been trained to have a sense of duty and responsibility. You as a believer should be a willing donor. See tickets as your own avenue to support because that exactly is what it is!
Everything you enjoy for free in church is being paid for by willing donors. God Instituted tithing so that there will be FOOD in the house for the ministers and for other people in need.
You should have that sense of support for Christian Artists too. Ask for their account numbers, bless them randomly. You cannot be complaining about ticketing Christian events when you have not chosen to sponsor.
The ONLY right attitude towards a ticketed event is to buy and give others. Not you saying they should be free. You are to make them free by buying for others. It reeks of entitlement and plain wickedness.
The hill I'm building my mansion on is that the person who needs discipline is the adult whose only parenting tools are cruelty & violence. The self restraint we expect of children, do we even have it?
The beatings worked like mad:
- we cannot challenge authority
- we keep electing leaders that rob us and rub it in our faces
- we maintain a culture of silence that enables the cycle of abuse
- we dissociate and can only process difficult emotions through the lens of religion
My hot take is that people are actually marrying too late.
All things being equal, you should be married by 22/23.
Na economics dey make all these things take long.
And I have a few reasons.
1. If you are supposed to remain a virgin till marriage (for both sexes), then it is very unrealistic to expect someone who started puberty at 14-16, to wait another 15 years.
2. You are supposed to learn your spouse together in marriage. All your firsts, are supposed to be with your spouse. But when you have had too many relationships, it becomes really really hard to unlearn and relearn with your spouse. You become a collection of patterns and habits formed with different people, and your spouse bears the brunt of all those experiences
3. If you plan to have children, the earlier the better. But in terms of health, and in terms of longetvity. Having your first kid at 35, means that you will be attending their uni graduation at 50+, and if you have multiple kids, you might retire before you are done training the. Meanwhile, if you have your last kid at 35, you're esseentially done training your kids by 50+
So yes, marry early if possible
There is nothing you want to do outside marriage that you cannot do inside it.
My own is I strongly believe that the instruction to guard our minds should apply across every form of content (music, films, books, etc).
No doubts, entertainment in a generic sense is part of common grace. However, we must make sure we don’t get entertained at the expense…
I know a number of people who didn’t marry their “spec” but are in the healthiest marriages I know. Their spec was typically whatever was culturally deemed to be at the apex of the attractiveness pyramid when they were growing up. For a lot of guys in my generation, it was the music video “vixens” from the late 90s/early 2000s Hip & R&B music videos with ‘coke bottle figures’ and or light skinned eurocentric features. When it’s time to find a partner for the very serious endeavor of sharing a life with, that “spec” is simply inadequate as a measure of compatibility and that’s understandable. The foolishness though is communicating it as though their partner somehow didn’t measure up to their “spec” instead of simply admitting that the idea of their spec was stupid all along and a young boy’s lack of wisdom of what makes a good life partner.
Communicating publicly or even privately to your partner that they weren’t your spec to begin with may seem harmless, after-all you’re just being honest. But subconsciously, it’s an ego trip for you who “settled” and for your the partner, it’s a chip they will always carry on their shoulder that to you, they aren’t quite enough. They’re missing something you had always longed for, so much so that you still consider it to be your “spec”. It’s an unnecessary mind fuck and a cruel thing to say about somebody who is sharing a life with you. No matter how flowery you are with the compliments that come after. You’ve already knocked them down several pegs.
If the point is to say your spec changed then talk about the stupidity of having a spec to begin with. Because I’ve never heard anyone in these situations talk about character attributes being their spec, it’s always superficial stuff. Or speak about how meeting your partner opened your eyes to what true beauty is. Speak in ways that elevate and affirm your partner.
Keep throwing nylon and plastic into the gutter.
Then when the rain comes and your street floods, you’ll say, Nigeria happened.
Some of the things happening to us, na us dey do ourselves.
We seriously need a revival of shame, first for the church and then hopefully for society.
There is no virtue in being confident in the face of true accusations and valid criticisms.
We need more Christians who can say, "I am sorry, I am wrong."
We need more Christians who can weep for their sins.
A reminder that the president is YOUR elected official. His job description under Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria explicitly states:
"The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government."
The constitution does not say the primary purpose of government is to issue orders regarding security; it says the primary purpose is to secure the people.
When orders fall short, the immediate next step is:
An administrative overhaul under Section 218(2) of the 1999 Constitution.
Prosecution of confirmed terrorists and funders.
Instead...
The terrorists have been reintegrated into society, and funders are shielded by political bureaucracy and left walking the streets completely free.
Meanwhile, his Attorney General (Lateef Fagbemi, SAN) and the EFCC Chairman (Ola Olukoyede) are still securely in office, protected by low-level conviction statistics.
and that's one thing he is good at. you cannot eat from his hand and hide, you must dance in the market with the food for everyone to know that he fed you.
Preachers should be the most careful speakers.
Everything they say is perceived as God's opinion.
Even their silence is often perceived as God's disposition about a matter.
The judgment that comes with misrepresenting God is a heavy one.
We shouldn't be so eager to be called men of God.
We will receive the stricter judgments.
STREET ADDRESSES & THEIR MEANING
1. Court: Dead end street.
2. Crescent: Curved road with both ends connecting to the same street.
3. Boulevard: Wide street with greenery in the center and along the sides.
4. Avenue: Straight street that runs north-south or east-west.
5. Drive: A road that follows a natural feature (park, ocean, hills, or lake).
6. Alley: Narrow street between, behind, or within buildings.
7. Place: A short street.
You can't be clamoring for a better country while throwing gala wrappers and Pepsi bottles on the expressway because “there are no public bins”. You’re part of the problem
When you hurt someone and maintain a relationship with that person, they may bring it up again. They may need more clarity. Even if you have apologized, they may bring it up. And when that happens, it is on YOU to be patient and have a discussion about it. If you hurt that person, it's not up to you to tell them when and how to heal. If you are truly sorry and care about them, you gotta deal with those uncomfortable feelings about how they're still hurting over something. These are the consequences of your actions.
I worked with a CCI member this past week.
Been working with her for months, but this time we had a complex project.
She has the best work ethic I've seen in the entire 2026. I speak as someone who manages over 20 executives in different capacities.
She's just 19. @pst_iren