Samson Kayode Adegoke

24 days ago

Many of us became parents without anyone ever teaching us how to be one. We grew into it through trial and error, carrying forward whatever our own parents modelled (or failed to model), often without understanding the “why” behind the things we do. I try not to leave my son to figure these things out the same way. At 7, I already explain to him how and why I do certain things as a father and as a husband, and what he should do when he faces similar situations later. He asks questions. I answer them as honestly as I can. Some of it is intentional, some of it is just life happening in front of him. For instance, when he complained about me travelling again for work, I told him, “I am crawling now so that you can fly later.” He didn’t fully get it then, but the point was still made. I’ve also allowed him to disagree with me, apologised to him when I was wrong, and taken corrections from him, where he is clearly in the right. Those small things have built his confidence and communication. We talked about contentment; that some people will have more than him, and he will also have more than some people, so he doesn’t grow up measuring his life against other children’s parents’ spending. These and more are valuable things to pass on to the next generation when he comes a parent or father. These are small, deliberate conversations and actions that many of us never got to have with our parents. They are simply me trying to show him, in real time, what responsible fatherhood and husbandhood look like, instead of hoping he somehow figures it out when he has his own family, like we did. Parenting is a skill, not pure instinct. Most people are clueless about it because nobody prepared them. If we do not deliberately teach our children how to parent while they are still children, by explaining our choices, modelling responsibility, answering their questions, and showing them both the duties and the boundaries of family life, many of them will enter parenthood the same way most of us did: unprepared, reactive, and repeating avoidable mistakes. The work of raising the next generation of parents starts now, not when they have children of their own.

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🇳🇬 Being Myself I’m the one your mom warned you about! Ìran Yorùbá Ọmọ Odùduwà Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-Oòjíire Ìṣẹ̀ṣe ♊️

24 days ago

If I have a reason to vote in 2027, I will not be voting for President Tinubu for one reason and that is because of the kid-glove approach towards fighting fake products in Nigeria. It is no longer a fight that NAFDAC must be left alone to fight. Clearly, NAFDAC has proven to be overwhelmed and cannot fight the fight. NAFDAC is limited in resources, manpower and even by legislation. By now, I expected the President to have declared a national state of emergency on fake products. Fake products manufacturers and sellers are targeting the people of Nigeria in their millions to kill them one by one, while still profiting from it in billions. If the President cannot declare a national emergency on them, he should proscribe them as terrorists and treat them as one, because that is who they are. Economic terrorists and human terrorists. People spending their hard earned money to buy these products, will still have to spend to seek medical care and the unlucky ones die for no good reasons. Is it until these people eliminate all of us that he will act on it? Refusing to be aggressive and treat these criminals as who they are is really vexing me so bad. How about people’s businesses that they are also destroying? #endfakeproducts #nationalemergency

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23 days ago

Fake products are a silent national killer, and government must treat them as the emergency they are. The manufacture, importation, packaging, and open-market sale of fake drugs, adulterated drinks, substandard cosmetics, fake toothpaste, contaminated water, and other counterfeits is a documented, large-scale problem. NAFDAC has repeatedly raided major open markets (Idumota in Lagos, Onitsha, Ariaria in Aba and others), seizing and destroying goods valued at well over ₦1.5 trillion in coordinated operations, with more than 137 truckloads in one major 2025 exercise alone. The human cost is staggering. UNODC and related estimates indicate that falsified and substandard medicines contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths annually across sub-Saharan Africa, including roughly 267,000 linked to fake or poor-quality antimalarials and up to around 169,000 children dying from severe pneumonia treated with substandard antibiotics. Nigeria ranks among the worst affected countries for counterfeit trade. These products do not discriminate: they harm the children of the very communities producing or selling them, as well as everyone else. Legitimate manufacturers lose markets, government loses revenue, and the health system absorbs avoidable deaths and antimicrobial resistance. Yet when enforcement hits markets or networks with strong ethnic concentrations, the reaction from some quarters is often defensive tribalism rather than outrage at the crime. The same voices that demanded nuance on terrorism labeling suddenly treat scrutiny of counterfeiting as an attack on “our people.” This is the hypocrisy. An average Nigerian remains more loyal to ethnicity and religion than to the shared national interest. Crimes that can be framed as external or “the other” draw fierce condemnation; crimes that implicate one’s own group are minimized, explained away, or ignored even when the victims include one’s own children. President Bola Tinubu and the Federal Government should declare a formal national emergency on fake, counterfeit, falsified, and substandard products. This is not ordinary regulatory work; it is a public-health, economic, and security crisis. No group should be exempt. Innocent traders and manufacturers of every ethnicity must be protected while those deliberately flooding markets with dangerous goods face the full weight of the state. Citizens, for their part, should stop rushing to ethnic defense whenever enforcement arrives and instead demand results that save Nigerian lives. The standard must be consistent: name the crime, pursue the perpetrators, and put the nation first. Anything less is just another form of the double standard that has held Nigeria back. The selective sensitivity and tribal double standards must end.

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Pamilerin Adegoke

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