During my school days in Media City, Greater Manchester,i lived next door to a Nigerian Christian couple and their infant son.Treated them as family, respected them deeply. As d boy grew and began to find his voice,d boy innocently called me uncle aboki in front of his parents.
An army is an army, but an American army is much more than that. Once, a friend of mine brought along a friend from abroad—a Nigerian who had enlisted in the US Air Force and returned home for Christmas to visit his parents. We set out for Yankari Game Reserve. At the time, Boko Haram was still a problem in the northeastern states. On the way, we reached a checkpoint and were asked to get out for checks. We opened the boot and, after finding nothing, the soldiers began challenging us. We thought that, as Nigerians, we could handle them—las las, na money dey want. The soldiers demanded 20k, but we refused. I told my friend we wouldn’t pay a dime because we had done nothing wrong. So they decided to keep us there. When our visitor saw what was happening, he got out and introduced himself, but the soldiers brushed him off. In fact, they told him he was an army officer in another country, not Nigeria. Our visitor got angry, got back into the car, and made a call. Before we knew it, a captain got out of a car and started insulting the soldiers. He was furious with them. He came over and asked who the American soldier was. Our visitor identified himself, and the captain pleaded with him sincerely.
As we continued our journey, a call came in, and he assured the caller that everything was okay.
After hearing this, my friend asked him whom he had called. He said he had called the US embassy in Nigeria. Omo, we were surprised. The biggest surprise was how swiftly they responded.
The US is exceptional. They look after their own.
If you are an American citizen, count yourself lucky.
I used virgin package for this babe. Told her I've never had sex before, that anytime i get to that point, i get scared. Babe said she will go easy on me. Ya Allah 😂
Five years later, I'm happy to announce that I've started my MSc in Mathematics at the University of Calabria, Italy, on a fully funded scholarship.
Grateful to everyone who has been part of this journey.
AlhamduLlahi, always 🥹❤️
Iran cloned a sheep, launched its own satellites, mastered uranium enrichment, built most of its missile and drone arsenal domestically, manufactured 95% of its medicines domestically, and climbed into the world’s top 20 in scientific output, all under decades of brutal sanctions.
Yet people feel compelled to post videos of skimpily dressed Iranian women doing yoga and Pilates to convince the West that Iranians deserve dignity and shouldn’t be bombed.
Then around 2AM, he will painstakingly set up his modern hi-tech intelligence and surveillance devices, securely connect to Langley, has his debrief, upload his report on the Bénin people, their tribes, tribal leaders & his analysis of historical divisions, then he cleans up.
Women don't create life. You incubate life. That's why surrogates exist.
Only men can create life.
Our sperm replenishes after every orgasm. We make it fresh, for life. You are born with all your eggs, and they die every month when life doesn't enter them.
Our sperm is alive. It swims. It moves. It fights to get there. It chooses the gender. It carries both male and female.
You only carry what we put in you. You incubate life. Men carry the life.
That's why the sperm bank is filled with sperm and it's cheap and available to the public, because we create new life every day.
Eggs are more expensive because they're fragile and they don't last. They die, that's it.
A woman is the oven. A man is the seed. An oven without a seed bakes nothing.
When they finished this place nobody even made a fuse, infrastructure wan choke kano people they don’t even mind again.
There own na to do business and drive honda on smooth roads.
When the Kiru Centre was opened (his dad’s second tenure), Mustapha was not even doing business in the country. I believe that as humans, there are belts that are too below, and this is one.
Politics or not, we should aim to be decent and retrospective.
In 1808, Gobir's King, Yunfa, was killed by the forces of the Sokoto Fulani Jihad led by Usman dan Fodio during the fall of Alkalawa.
More than 200 years later, in August 2024, another Sarkin Gobir, Isa Muhammad Bawa, was abducted and murdered by Fulani bandits. His brother identified notorious bandits Kachalla Buzu (Halilu Sububu) among those responsible.
Over two centuries apart, two Gobir kings killed. A painful chapter in Hausa history.
This is why they tell you to ‘enter street’ when building a business. If you stay with desk research alone, your business will be dead on arrival. Street intell is unrivalled.