My big brother brought his gf home last year. She was an immediate hit. Said little, laughed much. A Master's degree student & banker. She would join my mom & her sisters in the kitchen. My old man would call us (me & my brother). This is what he had to say:
The truth is , the government can decide not to give the citizens electricity for the rest of the year and nothing will happen.
3 months of no power supply and weโd still find a way to blame it on Peter Obi
People are really living like animals in this country.
Inside this El-Nino, the least anyone can really ask for is stable electricity. In 2026!!!
Yet, na 15mins dem dey give us light here daily - for the past week, and God help you if you are dependent on this grid or you donโt have 100k to be spending on fuel weekly. Still, there is ongoing campaign for reelection!
From top to bottom, Presidency to Councilor, a pathologically useless lot - and the sad part is that most Nigerians genuinely donโt even know they deserve better.
When I got laid off from Microsoft, I got into a company in Lagos that felt paying 600k naira a month was doing me a favour. I had to take the offer to keep body and soul together.
Was there for 6 months until I fell out with the MD and started looking out. That was when I started my training outfit but couldn't quite get traction.
Anyway, after leaving this NGO, I spent another 5 months in the wilderness, literally. Ate rejections almost every other day. Was living on the goodwill of friends and relations. Basically wondering what to get out of life.
An Antler rep came knocking at the time and was in the process of fast tracking my application to the Antler cohort at Kenya. Guess what? My passport had expired. Ran to go fast track my passport, after a few days emailed the partner but was told it was too late.
I remember laying in my room laughing hysterically, mulling to myself, "who I offend?"
Thankfully at that time, I applied to Andela and the process started for another 2 months. I got into Andela and my monthly salary was my previous annual salary. This trend continued in a subsequent company. Use am run one or two that year.
But the point is, while I was enjoying this new reality, I asked myself, "why did you worry all those times?" In hindsight, there was no reason to. I should have just chilled for 5 months, enjoyed myself.
But we are human and can only understand life in hindsight. As long as you believe this it will work out for you: EVERYTHING will turn out better than you expected, just stop worrying.
I'm a cardiologist.
Back against the kitchen wall, knees bent, two minutes. Rest. Four times.
In a 100-person randomized trial, doing that 3 days a week for 4 weeks lowered systolic pressure about 9 points more than in people who didn't.
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Nigeria and the Seven Social Sins - my first article in almost a year, please read and respond. I need your encouragement to write more frequently, many ideas in my head. https://t.co/TGjbvKFkXw
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