I got a call from my daughter’s high school principal today. He said she’d been caught operating an “unauthorized commercial enterprise” out of the girls’ locker room. My stomach DROPPED. I left work immediately, already imagining the worst: Drugs. Vapes. Stolen stuff. Some TikTok side hustle gone wrong. By the time I got to the school, I was preparing myself for lawyers, suspension, maybe even police involvement. I walk into the principal’s office….…and my daughter is sitting there quietly with a spiral notebook full of spreadsheets. Not cash. Not customer lists. Spreadsheets. Turns out, she’d noticed some girls at school were quietly struggling: • no money for feminine hygiene products • no winter jackets • wearing the same clothes every week after budget cuts hit families hard So she started her own underground support network. She collected donated jackets, hygiene products, gloves, and clothes from wealthier neighborhoods.
Then she cataloged everything by size and need in her notebook like a tiny operations manager. And from her gym locker, she distributed items discreetly to students who needed them — no embarrassment, no announcements, no attention. The principal wasn’t calling because she was in trouble. He called because the school found out… and wanted my permission to turn her “illegal locker room business” into an official school charity program.
I thought I was driving to the biggest parenting nightmare of my life. Instead, I walked into one of the proudest moments I’ve ever had as a parent.
A short video explaining why doing many small projects is more educational than doing one giant project.
Side Note: While many programmers draw on the screen, I'm the one who can actually draw...and paint.
Then you're not paying attention because as @WestAfricaWeek revealed since 2022, the Sheikh Eid Bin Mohammad Al Thani Charitable Association - the same Qatari terror financier indicted for incubating Daesh (ISIS) across the Middle East by the US Treasury Department (which of course took no further action) - had funnelled at least $12m into this place in Ibadan between 2007 and 2019.
The groundwork HAS ALREADY BEEN LAID and the extremists ALREADY walk among you. You just don't know it because as usual, you don't pay attention to what is happening around you. When almost inevitably, some of the Yoruba Muslims who have been isolated and brainwashed by Giras Albir Foundation and the other shadowy, foreign-funded extremist incubators currently littering Ibadan and Ilorin start picking up arms and blowing themselves up, you people will start asking that useless Nigerian question, "How did we get here?"
Because instead of getting your heads out of your malnourished arses and seeing the bigger geopolitical picture that both you and the northerners exist within, the only thing you want to do is tell yourselves that you are better than the northerners. Whether both you and them end up dying of an American racist's imperial scheme facilitated by his Saudi and Qatari proxies doesn't concern you - as long as you can deceive yourself that you are somehow fundamentally better than the other group of poor and sorry negroes from 800km up the road who look just like you.
"We better pass our neighbours."
You should marry your spec. I'm afraid of telling you to court someone you're not attracted to since you cannot bear it.
But I pray your spec will not be mere passing charm and temporary beauty.
I pray God will heal your heart so that what you're attracted to is the inward beauty of a godly heart and not merely the bells and whistles of certain skin complexions or specific adipose distribution, things that devalue with familiarity and end in a short time, things that cannot yield true love or give peace.
I pray your genuine spec and satisfaction will be someone in whom Christ is formed.
P.Sam
This video triggers me a lot. Every time I see it on my TL. I’m triggered and angry because I had the same experience in 2000. 25 years later, it’s still happening. I wrote my SSCE in 2000. Cleared all subjects, but then the English result was cancelled. In those days, nothing like social media to rant and hold WAEC accountable, so anything you saw, you took it like that. With English canceled, I looked forward to the GCE I had registered for, knowing I just needed to focus on that English. I prepped for it like my whole life depended on it. My Centre: Community Grammar School, Ayobo, Ipaja. I remember these things because, as a kid, that event took a toll on me.
The day we wrote English, the Essay was in the morning, while the objective was supposed to be in the afternoon. The morning papers went smoothly until it was time to write the objective in the afternoon, the WAEC rep didn’t show up until around 7 pm. They locked the gate so no one could go out. When he eventually came, we were told to go out and get candles before the exam could start. Come back in 10 mins!
17-year-old me was running around Ayobo to buy candles to write the SSCE in an area I didn’t know at almost 8 pm. I won’t talk about how the people selling candles hiked the prices immediately. Candidates were buying candles and cutting them in half. Some folks submitted the answer sheet with candle wax everywhere.
#nmgi
🚨 Favour Ofili 🇳🇬 has transferred allegiance to 🇹🇷 Turkey!
After hitting the 100m standard for Paris 2024, AFN & the Nigerian NOC failed to enter her name—the second time she's missed an Olympic event due to federation mishandling.
In 2021, she also missed the Tokyo Olympics 200m after AFN & NADC failed to get her tested in time, affecting 13 other athletes.
Per @kayraynor, Ofili expressed her frustration to the AIU—a move triggered by years of neglect.
She started the process on May 31st and the same AFN leadership was re-elected this June.
As the people contemplated over dinner, they must have slowly started making peace with the fact that the weird ‘God-man’ was finally gone.
“Do we go back to our regular lives?”
“But he asked me to stop fishing, what do I do now?”
“Did I waste 3 years of my life with him?”
There's an African country where a few months ago, the president awarded a road contract for $9.8bn to a construction company that has the president's son on the board.
The citizens of that country are currently on Twitter crying because Trump just withheld $500m worth of medical aid that they were expecting to receive in 2025.
Amazingly, the same citizens cannot see the contradiction between paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 of this tweet. Those are just 2 standalone issues to them. 🙂
You’re not just a random mix of atoms. You have a purpose. Don’t let the noise of the world drown out your inner voice.
Good morning to you and have a blessed day 🙂
If I die today, I die for the betterment of human existence.
Hunger and poverty is worse than taking a bullet for the right course. Let's rise up with full force and take control
#EndBadGovernaceProtest
This is the current Chief of Staff to the president protesting and forcefully gaining entrance into a government facility few years back... fast forward today same people are calling for dialogue 🤣🤣🤣 abi jumping fence na peaceful protest???
#EndBadGovernaceProtest