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[Babájídé @Babajiide]

Fulfillment is about aligning with your core values. It’s a profound sense of satisfaction that arises from this alignment with your values and purpose. Your potential is being realized, and your meaningful goals are being met. However, the weight of this fulfillment cannot be solely attributed to your job. It must transcend your job and encompass every aspect of your life.

You can have a job that you are satisfied with, but your fulfillment might come from teaching others, volunteering, and giving back to the community. Those who are lucky are those who their job aligns with their purpose.

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

God will be angry with me if I say No.

[-valar morghulis- @eldivine]

Lmao I’ve been saying this for a long time now. Glad everybody is catching up.

You have to run to US to save money. Upside down situation.

[World Cup 2026 @WorldCupMedia]

World Cup starts tomorrow! 🏆

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

I really do not understand why you expect me to be angry when you call me broke.

I'm okay being called broke. Egbami ooo

[Lewis @lewiswalkden]

You sometimes forget how good professional footballers are in comparison to regular people. 🤣

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

On April 1, 1999, Mark Cuban sold a streaming company called Broadcast .com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion. He became a paper billionaire overnight.

Yahoo had paid him in stock, not cash.

He spent the next 6 months trying to figure out how to keep it.

Cuban owned about a third of Broadcast .com going in, which left him holding 14.6 million Yahoo shares worth roughly $1.4 billion at the time. By law, he couldn't touch any of it. The deal came with a standard 6-month lockup that prohibited him from selling or hedging a single share. He had to sit and watch.

What he watched was a tech market getting more disconnected from reality by the week. Companies like Pets .com and Webvan were burning through investor money with no path to profit and trading at valuations that didn't make sense to anyone who looked twice. Cuban looked twice. He decided the crash, when it came, was going to take everything down with it. Including Yahoo. Including him.

So he started planning.

The moment his 6-month lockup ended, Cuban put on a financial structure that's now famous in trading circles. A zero-cost collar.

A collar works like this. You sell call options on your stock, which gives someone else the right to buy your shares from you at a fixed higher price. That caps your upside. You use the cash from selling those calls to buy put options, which give you the right to sell your shares at a fixed lower price. That gives you a hard floor under the downside. The two trades balance each other out so the whole package costs almost nothing to put on, hence the name.

Effectively, Cuban locked in something close to his $1.4 billion. If Yahoo's stock went down, his puts paid out. If it went up, he'd hit the cap and be cashed out at the higher price.

Yahoo's stock kept rising at first. It hit his cap. He got cashed out, in cash, at the high level he'd set. Real dollars, not paper.

A few months later, in March 2000, the dot-com bubble burst.

Yahoo's stock fell from a peak of roughly $237 a share to about $13 over the next 2 years. Almost every other dot-com paper billionaire watched their fortune disintegrate. Many of them had not hedged because they didn't think the prices would fall, or because they thought hedging was a sign of weakness, or because they were emotionally attached to the company they'd just sold.

Cuban kept his $1.4 billion. He once called the trade "one of the top 10 trades of all time on Wall Street."

People remember the sale. They don't remember the collar.

The headline was the $5.7 billion sale to Yahoo. The thing that actually mattered, the move that decided whether Cuban kept his fortune or watched it disintegrate like everyone else's, was a piece of derivative paperwork most people couldn't even read.

Plenty of founders sell at the top. What separated Cuban is that he understood selling was only half the trade. What you do with the money in the moments right after the windfall matters more than the windfall itself.

Cuban put it more simply.

"The whole market cratered and I was protected."

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Exponential increase in revenue with excessive borrowing: Yet more hardship for Nigerians!

In celebrating three years of his administration, President Bola Tinubu included, among his achievements, an increase in revenue from N16.8 trillion in 2022 to N35 trillion in 2025. An increase of over 100%.

Shockingly, while Nigerians expected a reduction in borrowing with the exponential increase in revenue, the opposite is the case. In just three years, President Bola Tinubu’s government seems to be obsessed with excessive and imprudent borrowing, with our total debt currently about N200 trillion—a deeply disturbing increase of over N100 trillion.

In addition to the exponential increases in both revenue and debt, it is also important to note that Nigeria has earned far more than the budget revenue targets due to global and regional geoeconomic and political tensions.

Alarmingly, even with the astronomical increase in both revenue and debt, almost all key socio-economic and governance indicators are worse than in 2023. Multi-dimensional poverty has increased from 87 million people in 2023 to over 140 million people in 2025. Rapidly increasing unemployment and a decline in GDP per capita from $1,597 in 2023 to $1,223 in 2025, and the list goes on.

Just more and more hardship for Nigerians! The question Nigerians and even the international community are asking is, “Where did all the money go?”

Nigerians deserve a detailed and transparent explanation of what happened to our economy and financial resources since 2023, and a stop to the imprudent, unaccountable, and opaque management of our common patrimony.

A new and productive Nigeria is POssible, and Nigeria will be OK! -PO

[Cross˚ @Elkrosmediahub]

Ask yourself what the goal is, then set your mind and eyes on it.

Every other thing becomes avoidable distractions.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Sad: Our Children Are Now Pawns in a Deadly Ransom Economy

It’s heartbreaking to report yet another bandit attack on a school, barely three weeks after over 40 schoolchildren and their teachers were abducted and are still languishing in the forest.

The security situation in Kogi State has taken another tragic turn with a brutal bandit attack on Government Secondary School, Iluke, in Kabba-Bunu LGA. Armed bandits disguised in military uniforms invaded the school during an ongoing WAEC examination, killed the Vice Principal, Mr. Gani Anifowose, and attempted a mass abduction of students.

Reports from the scene indicate that local security personnel and vigilantes actively resisted the attackers and frustrated their abduction attempt.

Making educational institutions soft targets is a direct assault on the nation’s future. It creates a psychological barrier to school enrolment and worsens Nigeria’s out-of-school children crisis, disproportionately forcing young girls out of formal education due to fear. There is nothing more heartbreaking for a nation than being unable to protect its children.

My heartfelt condolences go to the family of the Vice Principal, who lost his life while gallantly defending the children entrusted to his care. May God grant his soul eternal repose.-PO

[Tim @__Timothe]

@afalli This!

[Prof™ @OOlusore]

Nigerians are paying First-world Prices for Third-world Governance.

Tax us like Canada.
Give us Somalia and South Sudan Governance.

[Babájídé @Babajiide]

Your job isn’t your place of fulfillment. There are so many ways to find fulfillment that doesn’t have to be your job.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Ifeyinwa Okwudo has now been expelled from Ezzy College of Nursing, Enugu.

She was the woman who indefinitely suspended Joy Ezeugwu for exposing the dilapidated state of Uwani Health Center, Enugu.

She also recently slapped a 9-months pregnant student three times.

To those of you oppressing our students: it’s only a matter of time before we shine our light on you.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The NDDC spends $8 million annually on foreign scholarships for 200 of its people, though I feel it is excessive.

SEDC spends nothing on education.

Even ₦16.6 billion cannot be accounted for. No plans for railways, nothing for the region aside from conferences and photo ops. N159 million for annual office rent in Abuja. Kai!!

ISEE is so transparent that every kobo is accounted for publicly.

It breaks my heart to see people given the opportunity to make a lasting impact in our region, only for them to mess it up.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

To save your mental health, reduce how much Nigerian news you consume.

[Emmanuel @Emmanuel_extra]

I think the fact that most Nigerian politicians hate Peter Obi is enough reason for us to vote for him in 2027.

[Nairametrics @Nairametrics]

BREAKING: Seplat Energy appoints Tony Elumelu as Chairman, names Effiong Okon CEO https://t.co/r03i4irceP

[Danny Walter 🧸 @AjeboDanny]

If you avoid risk you also avoid the possibility of winning.

[ĸolαde @twitgameboy]

If I ask you to send me your acct details on Monday morning you go rush paste me but if boys ask you out on Monday morning na bad thing. Eni kureeeee 😒😡😡