Purple Hibiscus

Serving Jesus Christ. Writer. Feminist. @chelseafc

Who am I to deny myself enjoyment?

[Kunle Kenny -The Joy Dispenser @kunle_kenny]

We are quick to exalt people with abilities, gifts and talents in Christian spaces.

It becomes a deadly combo when such people are charismatic but lack character. Maybe we don’t know that charisma and charm are major tools for mass manipulation.

We MUST have SERIOUS accountability structures! We must test character and be firm with discipline from top to bottom.

It is sad and painful when manipulators and wolves never get recompense and we expect those who have been hurt to “move on” and “forgive”. It is selfish and wicked. God will judge us!

[Pulse Nigeria @PulseNigeria247]

“Odumodublvck assaulted Blaqbonez at Landmark Beach. He forcefully stole his glasses and took pictures wearing them. Rap beefs are part of hip hop culture. [Physical violence is not].”

- Chocolate City issues statement accusing Odumodublvck of repeated violence and intimidation

[amanda ☭⚢ @bbonjourkitty]

what happened to #justiceforochanya? have we forgotten about her again?😕

[Lilyallly❤️🇬🇧 @lilyally98]

I beg you all in the Name of God, let’s not forget the 165 Children of St MARY Catholic School still in Captivity by Fulani Kidnappers

Please.

Please.

Lend your voices. Use your platforms. Keep demanding.

[✨️Oluchukwu✨️ @kaziyamungu_]

I beg you all in the Name of God, let’s not forget the 165 Children of St MARY Catholic School still in Captivity by Fulani Kidnappers

Please.

Please.

Lend your voices. Use your platforms. Keep demanding.👏🏾

[Purple Hibiscus @ahhbeegal]

@Tellemmmmm Happy birthday to my birthday mate. May he continually soar ❤️

[Purple Hibiscus @ahhbeegal]

My siblings are making me bawl🥹🥹. Sweetest humans

[Purple Hibiscus @ahhbeegal]

This year has been a lot

[Tshepi @TsitsiNotha]

You guys actually underestimate what the previous generation went through. You can’t even boycott Starbucks but you think you can fight against slavery

[Favour-Hafsa 💫 @deltanmuslimah]

Remember Nwusulor Dorathy Akuchi who was the first female president of the LAWSAN chapter at Ebonyi State University and was in NLS Lagos was prevented from writing the bar exam because of a petition that accused her of embezzling funds while she was President (it was found out to be false and was from quarters who held political grudges against her) and she had to make repeated trips to Lagos to respond to queries and clear her name.
In 2023, after she had been cleared, while travelling to Lagos to write the bar exam and finally close that chapter of her life, she died in a fatal accident.

[Esse @essevdm_]

Boy lost his dad during externship, got to school and was spiraling.
NLS gave him multiple queries as expected and he couldn't write the exam.

All he needed was emotional support in school and not "strict measures".
These are things that the Nigerian Law School should look into.

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

Watching this Diddy documentary on Netflix

I still stand by my word that poverty and the lack of stubbornness would make you fall for peer pressure more than anything

Lil Rod is an example

Stubbornness is such a good trait I keep telling people. Raise stubborn kids. I don't mean delinquent kids. Stubbornness is not smoking cigar and stealing phones.

Raise kids that will NOT bend unless they chose to bend.

Raise kids who do not please people. Raise kids that are fine with disappointing anybody. Kids that are cold NO sayers and blunt as hell.

And try to raise them above poverty level

Stubbornness is the only way they will avoid peer pressure and it's the only way they will stand up against monsters like Diddy in society.

I remember when I was in the midst of a VERY popular Nigerian musician in 2015 and he gave me weed to smoke.. I rejected it and he was shocked, and people were like, "guy just drag once". The way I change am for all those bastards that day ehn.

Why are you forcing me to take what I don't want to take?

One politician in the Senate today also had wanted me to give him a girl's number after I talked to her, I said NO. The man shock because people around him will lie on the floor.

I was not raised to see limitations. My dad will always say, there is never only one way to make it and life anywhere on earth is filled with more opportunities than limitations. Nobody should hold the key to your success.

Watching this documentary, I feel bad for all the victims man. I feel damn bad. Puffy was supposed to be locked up since.

Please, as you're having kids. Don't raise meek souls. The real world will shatter them. Raise cold, upright, moral and happy souls.

[𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 @AsakyGRN]

“Don’t try to be a soldier in Nigeria; choose farming if you want a longer life. My elder brother was accused of confronting his commander and got a d3@th sentence. After three years in an underground prison, he was freed only to later d!3 in a strange accident that the police covered up by embalming him without our family’s approval. He left two kids behind, and the military still isn’t caring for the wives of fallen soldiers.

— Lady shares.”

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Profound!!!

“The lesson here is not judgment. It is caution. Life does not always give second chances. Not every mistake is reversible. Not every reputation survives the storm it attracts. And not every illness allows a return.”

My mum always told me “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.”

We are all flawed but it is always very difficult for second chances to happen especially when we have been blessed with all the avenues to avoid what eventually becomes a problem.

[Her Fokken Majesty 🥰👑 @cremechic11]

A Treatise on Unforced Errors, Human Frailty, and the Weight of Our Choices

This morning we woke up to two pieces of news that saddens me. Ezra getting fired from Paystack for sexual misconduct and Aunty Esther showing signs of advanced breast cancer. Two different lives. Two different kinds of pain. Yet both reveal the fragile line between promise and devastation.

There are days when the world forces us to confront the quiet but devastating truth that life can shift on a hinge. A single decision, a moment of unchecked impulse, a refusal to seek help, or an ill advised association can alter the course of a life and ripple outward to everyone connected to it. Today is one of those days.

The stories of Ezra and Aunty Esther, though different, reveal the same thread that runs through human tragedy. Both were gifted, admired, and positioned for more. Both were presented with paths that offered safety or redemption. Yet both made choices that invited outcomes that did not have to be. These are unforced errors. Not fate, not random misfortune, but openings through which avoidable consequences entered.

For Ezra the cost is reputational ruin that overshadows brilliance. One entanglement with people and situations that should have been avoided, and suddenly the narrative of a remarkable innovator becomes clouded by failing. The ripple effect does not stop with him. The people he was involved with, caught in a situations they should never have been placed in. For some their only mercy is avoiding the public spectacle, but the private consequences, uncertainty, and professional instability are burden enough. Was it really worth it?

For Aunty Esther the cost is physical suffering and the frightening progression of an illness that might have been restrained. The tragedy is not simply cancer. It is the choice to turn away from proven interventions offered early and freely. It is the heartbreaking pattern where distrust, fear, or misplaced hope leads people from life saving care into herbal centres. To have support and options, yet still face indignities modern medicine could have prevented, is a sorrow that is difficult to hold.

What connects both stories is the truth that life demands circumspection. Talent is not enough. Respect is not enough. Love is not enough. We must guard our impulses, question our instincts, and remember that every action has a weight we may one day struggle to lift.

Unforced errors do more than break the individuals who commit them. They shatter the people who love them. They shake communities that believed in them. They create grief that did not have to exist. These moments remind us how thin the line is between promise and destruction, between health and decline, between admiration and disappointment.

The lesson here is not judgment. It is caution. Life does not always give second chances. Not every mistake is reversible. Not every reputation survives the storm it attracts. And not every illness allows a return.

To live carefully is to honour those who depend on us and the future we hope to build. To live circumspectly is to recognise that brilliance does not exempt anyone from consequence and that love does not shield anyone from reality.

May these stories teach us gentleness toward ourselves and vigilance in our choices. May they remind us that our lives are fragile tapestries woven from countless small decisions. And may we learn, before it is too late, that the cost of unforced errors is often far greater than the moment of weakness that created them.

[Hauwa 🌟🌬 @Hauwa_L]

Please continue to retweet #JusticeForOchanya

[Her Fokken Majesty 🥰👑 @cremechic11]

The biggest takeaway from the unfortunate events of the last few days is simple, many of you should not be taken seriously. You stand for nothing, and it would be okay if you didn’t try to bully people who disagree with you.

I’ve always known that “right” and “wrong” on this app depend entirely on who is speaking, but watching people flip-flop in real time, abandoning the same values they use to crucify others, has been unpleasant to witness.

It should make you rethink how you behave here, and the grace you so easily withhold from others simply because you don’t know them personally or dislike them.

Human beings are far too complex and layered to be reduced to a single label. This is why the refusal to apply nuance, and the eagerness to cast aspersions over one tweet you dislike, will always be seen as foolish to me.

You called women expressing their opinions “pick me,” only to be caught in 4K auditioning to be picked, and being treated as less than human by questionable men, all for the cheap price of validation and proximity, while loudly claiming to “decenter men.” Meanwhile, the women you brand as “pick me” or “patriarchy princesses” have never been seen stooping that low. It’s painful to imagine working so hard to be your own woman only to end up profiled as a groupie to a questionable man😪

Watching this spectacle, hasn’t just been entertainment for me. It’s also forced me to think about how easily we ascribe credibility to tweets that give us the dopamine hit we crave and how much we worship money and access. It would make sense if we were willing to work for it, but the allure of what seems easy is too hard to resist, especially in a country like Nigeria.

Look inward, all of you, men and women alike. You don’t need a humiliating spectacle to force a reset. What has happened in the last few days should be more than enough.

[Chukwuedozie Nwa Charlie @TheCharlesIsidi]

Your disposition as a Christian in the face of evil and it's consequences should be one of radical humility. If not for Jesus Christ, your fate would be the same.

Again, you have no right to boast or to be prideful, it is Jesus that saved you, not your works, not your goodness.

[Kunle Kenny -The Joy Dispenser @kunle_kenny]

E get where your open-mindedness go reach,you go open your life to demonic influence.There are always boundaries for God’s children.
Learn to enjoy life within the confines of what God approves.His wisdom is a preservative.When it seems God is preventing you,He’s preserving you.

[Kunle Kenny -The Joy Dispenser @kunle_kenny]

1Timothy 6:6. Godliness with contentment is GREAT gain. This is to you young fellow. You admire many of these people’s success and idolise them even when you know they are against God. Search your heart and check what’s truly important to you. Deepen your christian convictions o!