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@Geoffre92604427 @ruffydfire I just appreciate the way he brings the culture into everything, and even on live TV. Nothing beats that feeling... like watching a @TomCruise movie and @David_oyelowoo1 keeps injecting his Yoruba wit.
Great stuff

[Mighty Valor @Nmawundiro]

Black South Africans are suffering from what is called the Stockholm syndrome.
They love their tormentors who are white, that’s why it is not even xenophobia it is afrophobia.
It is Africans that they do not want.

~ prof Lumumba ~

[AyoSinmi @QueenAyosinmi]

Mural painting of Arsenal in Lagos, Nigeria. @Arsenal

[i_icicles @adedara_]

@Arch_Dokun77 @diaryofa9jagirl Not quite, na Selica or Celica 😅

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@Drweloveu @harrydaniyan My first thought was, "this must be an angel in human form." But by the time I was done reading, the message is quite loud and clear. Pass it on

[Dr Love Haroun❤️🩺 @Drweloveu]

Last Thursday night I ran out of fuel on Third Mainland Bridge.
11pm.
Phone at 2%.
No powerbank.
I want to tell you what happened next.

I pushed the hazard lights on and sat in the car.
Trying to think.
Cars were flying past me.
Nobody slowed down.
Not one person.
Lagos at night on that bridge is a different kind of alone.After about 15 minutes I saw headlights slow down behind me.
A danfo bus.
Old. Battered. One headlight slightly dim.
The driver came down.
Big man. Rough looking. Dirty shirt. Chewing something.
My first thought was fear.
My second thought was I had no choice.He looked at my car.
Looked at me.
Said "fuel?"
I nodded.
He didn't say anything else.
Just went back to his bus.
I thought he was leaving.
He wasn't.He came back with a small gallon.
Maybe two liters.
Old plastic container with a rubber pipe attached.
Like he kept it specifically for situations like this.
He poured it into my tank without being asked.
Without negotiating.
Without even looking at me for approval.I started the car.
It came on.
I came down immediately and opened my wallet.
I had ₦15,000 on me.
I held it out to him.
He looked at the money.
Then looked at me.
And shook his head.I thought he wanted more.
I told him it was all I had.
He said "keep am."
Just like that.
Keep am.
I stood there confused.
This man just helped a stranger on a bridge at 11pm and didn't want anything.I asked him why.
He leaned against his bus.
Took a long breath.
And said something I have not stopped thinking about since.He said in 1998 he broke down on that same bridge.
Night time.
Pregnant wife in the passenger seat.
No phone. No money. No fuel.
He said he sat there for almost an hour crying and praying.Then a man in a big car stopped.
Suit and tie.
Looked like someone who had no business stopping for a danfo driver.
But he stopped.
Bought fuel from somewhere.
Came back.
Filled his tank.
Refused every kobo he offered.
Said only one thing before he drove off."Pass am forward."
That was it.
Pass am forward.
The man in the suit drove away and he never saw him again.
25 years he carried those three words.
Third Mainland Bridge.
Waiting for his own turn to use them.I stood on that bridge and didn't know what to say.
This man had been holding onto someone else's kindness for 25 years.
And he chose me to give it to.
A stranger in a car he had never seen before.He got back into his danfo.
Gave me one nod.
And drove off into the night.
I stood there watching his one dim headlight disappear.
Holding ₦15,000 I couldn't give away.I sat back in my car for a long time before I drove off.
Thinking about the man in the suit in 1998.
Who had no idea what he started.
A chain of kindness that crossed 25 years and found me on the same bridge.I don't know who that danfo driver is.
I don't know his name.
But somewhere in Lagos tonight he is driving that old bus.
With one dim headlight.
And a heart that has been quietly changing lives since 1998.
Pass am forward.

*What are you passing forward today*?

Karma!!!!!

You will definitely reap something some day.
Depends on what you have been sowing!!!!

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@asherrkiinee 25 69

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@mslaggert @asakegrnfp 5

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@azakegrn With a million naira, I am going to get a fairly-used outboard motor engine for my speedboat that got burnt recently and be back in business.
#DeepWaterNG

[Verydarkman @Verydakman_]

🚨BREAKING: The Senate has rejected Senator Adams Oshiomhole’s call to probe military spending on insecurity. Lawmakers instead urged the government and security agencies to strengthen intelligence, deploy modern technology, and intensify efforts against insurgency, banditry, and terrorism.

[Aqib Butt @iamaqib14]

@afc_lennon https://t.co/lLAVZ6dHz3

[Tyler S @Tyler_SS11]

Good Monday Morning!

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."
-Ralph Marston

Putting in real effort today makes every day after it easier. The work stacks, the momentum builds, and suddenly success isn’t a gamble, it’s the natural outcome.

#MondayMotivation #MondayMorning #MondayVibes #MondayMood

[Poppy Mathobela @PopMathobela]

Help people, even when you know they can't help you back.

#MondayMotivation

[Roy T. Bennett @InspiringThinkn]

"Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don't give up."
#MondayMotivation

[realSunilSharma @realSunilSharma]

Things will work out when you keep trying, keep learning, and keep trusting God with your life.
#MondayMotivation #MondayVibes #MondayMood

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@gtbank when are you going to refund me. Your team has kept stalling and several months have passed. I decry this injustice. Reverse the transaction and refund my account.
#WizkidxMawazinefestival #t5m3 #AmiParis #HugsAgainstDrugsxPROXIE #Nigeria

[i_icicles @adedara_]

@gtbank when are you going to refund me. Your team has kept stalling and several months have passed. I decry this injustice. Reverse the transaction and refund my account.

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@gtbank when are you going to refund me. Your team has kept stalling and several months have passed. I decry this injustice. Reverse the transaction and refund my account.
#WizkidxMawazinefestival #t5m3 #AmiParis #HugsAgainstDrugsxPROXIE #Nigeria

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@gtbank when are you going to refund me. Your team has kept stalling and several months have passed. I decry this injustice. Reverse the transaction and refund my account.

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@flyairpeace We decry your unjust refund and demand urgent revisal. This is totally unacceptable. It is injustice to surcharge us for your flight cancellation (Lagos to Yola 24th March, 2025). Pay the full amount of our refund and stop cheating us!!#DemocracyDay #June12 Oshiomole