DAN BAPPAH👷‍♂️

Structural Engineer

[Dakta BZ 🐺 @Lonnewulff]

How much can you change your destiny with hustling and building connections?

I have a short story about destiny and why I believe there is no amount of hustling that will change your life.

Zafin nema baya kawo samu 🙂

[𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐚, 𝐏𝐡.𝐃. @Realoilsheikh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

Imam Shafi'i said:

“The greatest wrongdoer against himself is the one who humbles himself before someone who does not honour him; seeks the affection of someone who can bring him no benefit; & takes pleasure in the praise of someone who does not truly know him.”

The wisdom is profound:

Do not lower yourself seeking respect from those who have no respect for you. Do not exhaust your heart pursuing the affection of those who bring no good into your life. And do not allow praise from people who barely know you to determine your worth.

True dignity is knowing where your humility belongs, where your affection is deserved, and whose praise is actually worth receiving.

[Sarki. @Waspapping_]

Every week, there’s a politician’s son somewhere in Nigeria graduating from Nottingham, or some other prestigious university in the UK, US or Switzerland.

Meanwhile, the children of poor Nigerians are left celebrating NELFUND as though access to basic education is some extraordinary privilege.

The inequality is at absolutely CRAZY levels.

[DAN BAPPAH👷‍♂️ @_IbrahimBappah]

@Waspapping_ The one wey get :
Material Science
Engineering Drawing
Thermodynamics
Soil Mechanics
Engineering Mathematics
Structural Analysis
Structural Design

[Gimba Kakanda @gimbakakanda]

These hot takes about this deceased TikToker trending in Arewa discussion circles would make you think she shared outrageously immodest content to warrant all these cautionary tales. If that is all it takes to trigger such unfavourable verdicts, I wonder how the critics function in one of the most morally troubled societies in modern civilization, one where our own members partake in terrorism, banditry, drug abuse, and the everyday cruelties that threaten our existence and moral clarity.

This period was actually my first encounter with her images and videos, and it made me check out her page. All I saw was a young woman basking in her good looks. The only thing that piqued my curiosity was her identifying as Nupe in one video. She did what most girls her age do in our time: dress well and engage with their peers online. She was not even indecent in the sense being exaggerated by the judging hypocrites in any video.

Islam teaches us to be charitable to the dead, so perhaps the most decent response is to pray for her, leave whatever shortcomings you perceive to her Maker, and channel that moral energy into improving yourself. Because measured against the actual moral crises of our society, she comes out, to the embarrassment of her critics, looking like a model person.

[servant of Allah @alouibrahim92]

It is never too late to learn to manage your expectations about everything and everyone. Know this and know peace.

[Ziyad Yakubu @Ziyad_yakubu]

We need to stop this nonsense that Arewa is not telling itself the truth.

This lady made a video saying a lot of things and that we are angry because it is true: angry, illiterate, poor, the poorest, poverty capital of the world, poorest people in the world. Even that claim is not true. But I am not interested in playing poverty Olympics. I am not interested in pointing fingers.

I am tired.

Everyone has problems. Anybody still saying nobody is telling Arewa the truth is gaslighting at this point. Arewa is one of the most overdiagnosed regions in the whole world. Everybody, every dick and Harry knows the problems of Arewa. Every single day, people talk about it.

In fact, most of these big social-media channels in Nigeria made their names criticising Arewa. They make their names by hating on Arewa, pointing to the defects of Arewa, punching down on Arewa. With all due respect to VeryDarkMan, Tunde Ednut, Solomon Buchi, Instablog Naija, Naija PR, Davido, and all these commentators: we do not need more of your criticism. You can shut the fuck up.

Because this notion that Arewa needs to “tell itself the truth” is becoming lazy. Most of the people saying it are just ranting to feel good about themselves. There is this mentality: the more I criticise them, the more I call them out, the more I distance myself from them. The more I call out Arewa, the more I am not part of the problem. The more I show disgust, the more I get to feel like one of the enlightened people.

But criticism is not foreign aid. Ranting is not development.

People project criticism as if it is what Arewa needs to grow. No. That is not what we need.

Nobody cares about Almajirai more than those of us who actually feel the pain of seeing children on the street begging. Nobody sees the women with face masks in Abuja, lying that they came out and do not have transport, and does not feel anger. Most of them are housewives. Nobody sees people chasing cars just for takeaway food and does not feel ashamed. I hate those things with passion.

But coming online to rant about it, then putting down your phone and feeling good about yourself, is not what we need. A southerner saying, “At least we are doing better than the North,” to feel good about themselves, is not what we need.

What do we need?

Sensitisation. Organisation. Action. People going into villages to talk about education. People forming groups. People protesting agaisnt insecurity. People building systems. People confronting the stigma around education. People refusing to let backwardness become permanently entrenched in our culture.

Because it was not always like this.

Before colonialism, Arewa people were proud people. We had our culture. We had systems of government. We had our way of writing. We had everything. We were not born to be a people permanently associated with begging, illiteracy, poverty and low-status labour.

Frantz Fanon understood what colonialism does to a people. It leaves deep inferiority complexes behind. Even after colonialism leaves, it remains in the mind. Our standard of what is professional, smart, intelligent, civilised and successful is still deeply shaped by colonialism.

And it is not fair for Arewa to come out of that colonial wound only to be thrown into another one: constant demonisation, constant ridicule, constant scapegoating.

We are being overdiagnosed and over-scapegoated to the point that it is mentally touching our heads.

You see it most profoundly among our so-called enlightened people and children with silver spoons. They are always trying to create a barrier between themselves and Arewa. They want to show that they are not really that Hausa, not really that Northern, not like those people.

The son of the Emir of Kano was mocked for saying he did not know “matasa,” which means youth in Hausa. I watched a video of Zara Buhari talking about how she cannot even speak Hausa very well.

These things do not happen in a vacuum. They are consequences of over-demonising Northerners. Our youth are internalising inferiority. They are distancing themselves from Arewa to feel accepted. They want people to know they are the cool Hausa people, the cool Northerners, not those Northerners.

And this is dangerous.

Today, “Aboki” has become a class marker. “Aboki” has become a word for the lowest of the lowest, for people doing jobs nobody else wants to do. This is bad. This is terrible.

Yes, something needs to be done. But that something is not more ranting. It is not more criticism. It is not more people using Arewa as a punching bag to build their social-media pages.

For anybody deceiving themselves that the North is the only thing dragging Nigeria, you can go fuck yourself.

Nobody should gaslight Arewa into believing we are not hearing the truth. We hear it. In fact, we hear it too much. We are beginning to internalise it. It is affecting the mentality of even the so-called civilised people and children of rich people.

We do not need more people diagnosing us.

We need people willing to help build the cure.

[servant of Allah @alouibrahim92]

“One of the darkest lessons in game theory is that bad situations can remain stable for a very long time. Not because they are good, but because neither side sees a safe first move that does not expose them to immediate loss, and that is how men remain trapped inside weak jobs, stale relationships, and cold alliances for years.”

[Dr Usman Isyaku @DrUsmanIsyaku]

The people from the south often talk about development as if they are living in some Eldorado that is entirely different from everywhere else. The SW people in particular are the loudest. I have been to many Nigerian states and I can confirm that Ekiti is the poorest. Lagos is a trillion Naira economy that doesn't even have good drainage systems. Nobody should bamboozle anybody in Nigeria. The rot and dysfunction is everywhere. The quality of life is abysmal for everyone except politicians and very high income earners.

[DAN BAPPAH👷‍♂️ @_IbrahimBappah]

Every trophy, we're one Nigeria. Every crisis, we remember tribe overnight. Achebe called it in : There Was A Country "Part of the way to respond to confusion in Nigeria is to blame those from the other ethnic group or the other side of the country."
Who’s solving anything?

[Mal. Imran U. Wakili (PULLO) 👑 #iSTANDWITHELRUFAI @IU_Wakilii]

If rarara is truly using the Islamic teachings he learnt he won’t be a beggar, he won’t a praise singer, and he will have conscience.

So yeah, THE BOY IS A STARK ILLITERATE, regardless of his Arabic education.

[Mal. Imran U. Wakili (PULLO) 👑 #iSTANDWITHELRUFAI @IU_Wakilii]

With all due respect sir,

We as sensible Northerners have accepted that Dauda Kahutu Rarara is a stark illiterate. He is not just illiterate, he sounds and looks like one in many of his public engagements. Why should we as Northerners defend him? If we do, then we are exactly what everybody says we are.

Rarara is literally telling us that we should stay quiet while bandits continue to kill our people. How on earth are we supposed to defend that somebody who chat this line of thought is not a stark illiterate, a core tankwali, dinqim, simply because he is a Northerner? And because a southern called him what he is?

This rhetoric of attempting to turn everything into a North vs South issue is dead on arrival. Not every criticism of a Northerner is an attack on the North, sometimes they are the visible reality.

[servant of Allah @alouibrahim92]

“𝙉𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥.”

[DAN BAPPAH👷‍♂️ @_IbrahimBappah]

"Birds are taken with pipes that imitate their own voices,and men with those sayings that are most agreeable to their own opinions"
Samuel Butler.

[servant of Allah @alouibrahim92]

“If you want to destroy a nation, destroy the thinking of its youth.”
— Vladimir Lenin

[Kapil @kapz30]

Top 5 Ironies of Human Civilization:

1. Gautam Buddha opposed idol worship, yet today one of the most worshipped and mass-produced statues in the world is that of Buddha.

2. Karl Marx wanted a classless society, yet communist states often created some of the most powerful political elites.

3. Jesus preached simplicity and humility, yet some of the world's richest institutions were built in his name.

4. Mahatma Gandhi advocated minimalism and self-reliance, yet his image appears on the very currency people spend chasing material wealth.

5. The Internet was created to democratize information, yet today a handful of platforms control what billions of people see, think, and discuss.

History's greatest lesson:

Ideas rarely remain the way their creators intended them to be.

Time changes everything.

[servant of Allah @alouibrahim92]

“The optimist and the pessimist both are necessary for society; the first invented the airplane, and the second the parachute.” 😊

[Uncle Fahad @fahad__yd]

If the election is conducted outside Gombe or online, then yes, Pantami may win with the support of non indigenes of Gombe. However, if the election is conducted in Gombe and decided by Gombe indigenes, Pantami will most likely not even finish second in the state. 👍

Allah Ya ba wa mai rabo sa’a.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Think of yourself as your own Zen Master. Such masters would beat their pupils and deliberately lead them to points of maximum doubt and inner tension, knowing such moments precede enlightenment.

[Abdulhameed U. Abubakar @ahameed02]

Kristocin #Gombe, kafin su tafi Kirsimati sai sun gama raba kayan Kirsimas dinsu.
One time when I did Christmas in Yola, before Christmas, they have all left the city to their villages karab! 😂
Mu ba haka mukeyi a Gombe ba 😂. Musulmanmu da Kiristocinmu, akwai kyauta.