I am finally done with my exams and project in this school. I am patiently waiting for my final grades and convocation in September. I hope and pray I got what I laboured for 🙏
This is a cry for help🤲
My neighbor got a masters scholarship in Mathematics at the university of Calabria, Italy
The scholarship covers her tuition, accommodation, meal and stipends
But she needs money for flight tickets, visa application, initial settlement cost and miscellaneous which is a total of €3,122 (4.9 million naira)
I’ve seen her toil, sacrifice so much to get here and we can’t afford to lose this opportunity 🥺
Gofundme- https://t.co/zDXg4v6faG
Dynaraise- https://t.co/1n6O0fXrEJ
Account number- 3126731920,First bank Adisa Blessing Fikayo
(You can support us through any of these accounts)
Pls help this dream come true🥺
Your RT will go a long way🤲
Please, RT
I don’t even know how this is going to come off, but as a woman, especially a Nigerian woman, there’s something we need to really unpack about the way we are conditioned.
A lot of women are raised to be extremely agreeable, docile, soft-spoken, and constantly aware that “someone is above you.” Whether it is your father, husband, uncle, older brother, boss, or just men generally. That conditioning does something to your brain over time.
Because if you think about it, correction is something society naturally associates with children. A child is the one that gets disciplined. A child is the one that gets scolded, controlled, or physically corrected.
So it is deeply disturbing that grown women are still being treated that way. A grown woman is being beaten, slapped, controlled through fear, humiliated, violated, and somehow society still expects her to remain calm, respectful, submissive, understanding, and morally upright through all of it. Eww.
And many women have not fully mentally separated themselves from that “child position” society placed them in. So even in the face of violence, they still respond from submission instead of self-preservation.
And I’m not saying violence is the solution to violence, but when people say things like “hit back” or “fight back,” what they are really saying is: stop seeing yourself as powerless. Stop seeing yourself as somebody people can violate without consequence.
The reason women freeze, tolerate abuse, or keep enduring violence is not because they enjoy pain. It is because somewhere deep down, society has conditioned them to believe authority over them is normal.
So when somebody raises their hand to hit you and you still stay there trying to preserve morality, preserve respectability, preserve peace, preserve “good woman” behavior, it says a lot about how deeply obedience has been wired into women.
There is no reason in hell a grown adult should be putting their hands on another grown adult and walking away like it is normal. I don’t care if it is your father, husband, boyfriend, or anybody else. Violence should never be normalized as “discipline” once you are a grown woman.
At some point, women have to mentally free themselves from the belief that they are still children people can control physically. You’re not a freaking child, fight back and exit the situation!
Every woman must build a solid self esteem because the world is designed to call you ugly and expect you to crumble at the mere pronunciation of that word. They place your value firmly on your beauty. You must demolish it.
I need someone so intense and interesting to come into my life and fascinate the fuck out of me. I want to be so super intrigued. I need someone to excite me.
Timi Dakolo posted first.
In May 2019, he wrote on Instagram about Nigerian clergy leaving a trail of broken women. He didn't name anyone. He was protecting people who had come to him privately.
Then the anonymous accounts started attacking Busola.
Claiming she had been promiscuous as a teenager.
Questioning the paternity of her children.
They were trying to silence her before she could speak.
She decided to speak.
On June 28, 2019, Busola Dakolo, celebrity photographer, mother of three, wife of the singer, gave an interview to YNaija.
She described in specific detail how COZA founder Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo had allegedly visited her parents' home when she was below 18, found her alone, and raped her.
She described his exact words to her afterward: "You should be happy that a man of God did this to you."
Fatoyinbo denied everything. He threatened to sue. He called the allegations "fallacious."
The church continued operating.
But Nigeria had heard Busola.
Think about what that interview cost.
A woman with children. A woman with a career. A woman married to a public figure.
Going on camera to describe the most violating experience of her life, knowing that Fatoyinbo had 40,000+ congregation members, legal resources, and years of influence.
She spoke anyway.
And her husband stood exactly where he said he would.
That was one of the most significant acts of marital solidarity in Nigerian celebrity history.
The issue is, people want low effort friendships to be rewarded so badly. People are allowed to have high standards and expectations for their friends, I would even say more than their romantic relationships. Your friends set the standard. Your friends are the family you choose
Your votes actually count.
Parts of it gets rigged, but it counts. If it doesn't, politicians won't invest hundreds of millions in vote buying. Rigging is mathematically limited, and if the gap is huge enough, you can't close it.
Get your PVC.
I wish we can all turn away from money worshipping as a society. Nobody should be aspiring to be a billionaire. No billionaire has ethical wealth. The politicians who are also billionaires are the reasons why you are very poor. They don’t have your interest at heart.