Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:
"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."
BREAKING: Starlink just helped make medical history in Africa! 🇳🇬
Using a Starlink internet connection, a surgeon near Lagos remotely controlled a robot to remove a cancerous kidney from a patient in Abuja, around 500 km away, in West Africa’s first tele-robotic surgery.
I am first a Christian before I am a Doctor.
I wont jump to Condoms and Contraceptives when counselling the singles about STIs and unwanted pregnancies.
It's in this order.
Abstinence
Be Faithful
Condoms and Contraceptives
Then we go back to Abstinence which offers 100 % protection and prevention in comparison with others.
SEXUAL COMPATIBILITY IS NOT ALL THERE IS TO GETTING MARRIED!
Some of you have turned choosing a spouse into a checklist of physical attraction, sexual chemistry, height, money and “my spec.”
And then you wonder why you keep overlooking good people.
My husband wasn’t my spec oh. 😂
But over time, through friendship, I listened to him speak. I watched how he thought. I discovered how intelligent he was.
This man knew things!
And before I knew it, his mind became attractive to me.
That’s something this generation needs to remember: attraction can grow when there is substance to discover.
You don’t have to be sexually obsessed with someone on day one for the relationship to have potential.
Sometimes, you meet a good person and the attraction deepens as you discover their character, wisdom, values and how they see life.
Don’t reduce choosing a life partner to how badly you want to kiss them.
You’re choosing somebody to build a LIFE with, not just somebody you have chemistry with.
“We are not spoilt. Unlike when we meet our father’s friends’ kids, we stay quiet and don’t say who we are. Life was easier before people recognized us. Some are comfortable with social media, but we’re not. Our goal is to build our father’s company to $100 B.”
—Halima Dangote
Kindness in marriage is a discipline, not a mood.
You practice it on the days you do not feel it. Especially those days.
The people whose marriages last thirty years are not people who feel kind for thirty years. They are people who chose kindness on the ordinary Tuesday when the feeling had gone missing.
The feeling comes back. The habit is what holds while it is away.
Once you are married, the way you interact with the opposite sex, specifically friends of the opposite sex, has to change.
It's called marriage boundaries.
Two good people may not be good for each other.
It is called destiny mismatch.
Self discovery is the foundational factor in making a choice of who to marry.
If you don't know where you are going, you don't have a right to take anyone with you
A PERSONAL TRIBUTE
OLU JACOBS (1942 – 2026)
I first crossed paths with Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs—fondly known to many of us as Uncle Olu Jacobs—in 1978. A small collective of Nigerian classmates at the London Film School, including Adefolu, George, Femi Aloba, and yours truly, had banded together for our final graduation project. We set out to adapt Amadu Maddy’s novel No Past, No Present, No Future into our diploma film, Trying Times. We were young, ambitious, and eager to carry home tangible proof of our training in the art and technique of cinema from that historic institution.
At the time, Olu Jacobs was a vibrant presence at the nearby Africa Centre in Covent Garden. From that very first encounter, he left an indelible mark on me: a consummate, classically trained actor with a commanding presence, yet generous enough to lead our student production without asking for a fee—his only condition being that we provide him a meal across our three-day shoot. Thanks to his compelling performance, Trying Times earned a coveted spot in the Governors’ Screening, affirming that we were truly on the right path.
One of the most treasured milestones of my career arrived years later through M-Net’s New Directions initiative, an innovative scheme designed to stimulate African storytelling that ultimately helped lay the foundation for contemporary African cinema. I was privileged to serve as director of photography on Twins of the Rainforest, framing Uncle Olu alongside his equally gifted wife, Joke Silva. Their on-screen chemistry as husband and wife was electrifying. The camera never forgets; it remains an unforgettable blessing in my life that I had the opportunity to capture that rare intensity on 16mm celluloid film. The imagery from behind that viewfinder remains etched permanently in my memory. I will forever remember his warm, reassuring smile, that booming baritone voice, and his unwavering instinct to uplift everyone around him, cast and crew alike.
It took extraordinary courage and vision for Uncle Olu to walk away from a flourishing career abroad. He had already established an enviable reputation across British stage, television, and international cinema—working on productions like Pirates under Roman Polanski—yet he chose to return home. At a time when shooting on analogue video seemed absurd to conventional filmmakers, he embraced the nascent Nollywood movement. He weathered every infrastructural limitation, pouring his immense craft and discipline into laying the bedrock of an industry that would command global attention.
They simply do not make them like him anymore. A proud son of the rock, hailing from the rolling hills of Egbaland in Abeokuta, Uncle Olu was honored as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR) alongside countless lifetime achievement awards. Yet accolades alone cannot capture the magnitude of his legacy: Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs stands unequivocally as a founding patriarch of modern Nigerian screen performance.
Thank you, Uncle Olu, for gracing my lens in Trying Times and Twins of the Rainforest, and for showing us what it truly means to serve the craft.
Sun re o. Goodnight, Uncle.
Tunde Kelani (TK)
If only we will follow God's design, we will see how easy this thing is.
There are gender roles. Don't let the enemy and the media lie to you.
The lines are not blurry.
There are things the man ought to do and the things the woman ought to do and they are clear.
40 years ago this year, bankers Tayo Aderinokun and Fola Adeola opened 'Finishing Touches Barbing Salon' in Ikoyi, Lagos.
A side hustle, and also their first joint business, before @gtbank in 1990.
In my university days, I didn’t date anyone in school, didn’t sleep with anyone, didn’t bribe any security guy nor lecturers.
Read, sold palm oil on the side, passed all my exams, graduated.
Now I have my own apartment, I travel, live comfortably with a good steady income. Have assets and investments.
I know ladies who did the opposite and are not doing half as good as I’m doing now.
So yes, “Good girl Dey pay.”
You people should stop this propaganda and let women choose how to live. Good girl ohh, bad gorl, let them choose.
Stop trying to tell young girls that being “good girls” is not rewarding.