Babajide

i'm cool,calm and collected.

[Babajide @AyodeleBabajide]

The TRUTH shall prevail at the end!

[Olumide || LanternPay @ThisIsOlu_]

FYI

[Tolu Ogunlesi @toluogunlesi]

Still on Nigerian generosity to Southern Africa over the years. This is from an interview by H.E. Lilian Onoh, Nigeria's former High Commissioner to Namibia:

"Namibia’s Founding Father, President Sam Nujoma, often repeats that when Namibia got Independence and he became President, he met literally empty government coffers and didn’t even have functional office and he faced calamity. But then President Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) gave him USD 1 million in cash in those days to start off with. Without this gift, he says, he could not have done anything and the subsequent history of Namibia would not have been the same. IBB’s gift enabled him to buy basic office furniture, pay his staff and just begin the process of governing before revenue started coming in months later."

[Tolu Ogunlesi @toluogunlesi]

Malcolm Gladwell: "The same grandfather who says he walked 7 miles to school every morning barefoot drives his grandchild in the SUV two blocks to school cos its raining."

[Mohammed Jammal @whitenigerian]

Tag your State Governor to give me contract to build and operate Monoliza for them in their various states. 🙏

[Taiwo Oyedele @taiwoyedele]

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐠𝐨? 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬?

[Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè @AyoBankole]

Obi Ezeude built a multibillion naira business - Beloxxi by selling only one type of crackers biscuit. Till today, they're still not diversified and still make only crackers - though now in variants. As at 2016, they raised about $80m capital for a minority stake. Going by that, they're likely a unicorn by now. Another makes multibillions from kulikuli distribution.

Yes you can build a unicorn styled successful business out of nigeria by selling one product. The problem is that we benchmark our success metrics with the USA market standard, when we are not selling to the same market and the same dynamics or purchasing power. Another factor is the opacity around company performance and numbers, except for those who are publicly listed. Most companies operate in secrecy and seldom disclose their numbers, valuation or indices even after fund raises. So it's tough to properly value them and assess their impact.

Our market creates its own unicorns. It's just that we keep assessing our businesses from the same lense as those that operate in America. I think it's time for us to also develop parameters to value our own companies and maybe create an African Unicorn category - or a new name for it.

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

The work of grace through Christ was to reconcile us back unto God in paying the full penalty for sin and then giving God the grounds to justify humanity and recreate man in Christ Jesus positionally sitted with him.

The work of grace through the Holy Spirit in you today is to produce the life of God in your mortal flesh today. To make the Christian the exact visible representation of Christ today not just legally but also a tangible reality being daily worked from within.

Grace was the might of God at work in Christ to live sinless and thereby be an acceptable sacrifice for the disobedience of Adam.

The same grace is now at work in us, it is the might of God producing in you the living reality of all that you are in Christ.

Grace and sin have never mixed neither has it ever entertained sin to be acceptable. Where a man sins and falls short of God's standard it shows an absence of grace.

That person needs to come up to the throne of grace and recieve grace to help rather than rely on his or her will combined with human effort but rather the will combined with the work of the Spirit of grace within.

[African Academy of Sciences @AASciences]

AAS announces its 2026–2029 Governing Council 📢

Led by Prof. Okonofua (President), the team includes the Secretary General, Treasurer, and regional Vice Presidents. Their leadership will drive scientific excellence & progress for Africa.
Learn more 👉 https://t.co/zdS2eiNGID

[Alli-Balogun H.Lekan @allibaloo]

One critical reform I would like President Tinubu to champion is in the area of budget appropriation.

The Executive and the Legislature should agree on a clear cap for constituency projects, perhaps 1–2% of the annual appropriation and create a dedicated budget line, such as a National Assembly Constituency Development Fund (or a similar name), under which all constituency projects are consolidated.

Every project should be listed in one schedule, with the sponsoring legislator, project description, location, and cost clearly disclosed for public scrutiny.

Implementation, however, should remain decentralised and be carried out by the appropriate ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs), depending on the nature of each project.

This would be far more transparent and orderly than the current practice of scattering constituency projects across the budgets of agencies, many of which have little or no direct relationship to the projects being inserted.

Nigeria can borrow a lesson from the United States’ earmark system: not necessarily by copying it wholesale, but by adopting its emphasis on transparency, clear disclosure, and defined limits. Such a reform would make constituency projects easier to track, strengthen accountability, and improve the credibility of the federal budget.

[Babajide @AyodeleBabajide]

@Terry04094723 Thank you & well done!

[David Decosimo @DavidDecosimo]

University of Chicago Law School had decided to ban *not just AI* but laptops from the first year law classroom. This is the way!

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

The situation is so much more desperate than you probably realize.

University professors are saying they're now unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. Their students are simply incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything. This is civilizational.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history. We must continue to form new minds in this same model if we're going to keep it.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

40 out of 86 Brown students scored a perfect 100 on their midterm. Then the professor moved the final in person, and 22 of those perfect scorers never showed up again.

He'd suspected AI cheating from the start. The take-home midterm was deliberately harder than usual, yet the class averaged 96 when the historical range is 65 to 80. Some answers contained odd phrasing that matched what ChatGPT produced when he ran the questions through it himself.

Roberto Serrano has taught economics at Brown for 34 years. He filed no accusations. He announced the final would be in person, count for half the grade, and that if the two distributions didn't match, the final alone would determine grades.

Then the exodus. 27 students never showed up. 22 of them had perfect midterms. Of the 59 who did show, 19 failed. Several signed the exam and turned it in blank. The average fell from 96 to 48, the lowest in the course's history.

He never needed a plagiarism detector. The cheaters identified themselves by walking away. A grade distribution became a confession.

Here's the part nobody's sitting with. Serrano proved it. He sent the distributions to Brown's dean and provost. The provost never responded. The academic committee's reply amounted to calling it "a wake-up call." The students who bailed before the final walked away clean.

Every university in America is now grading two populations, students and students plus ChatGPT, on one curve. The honest kids in Serrano's class watched a 96 average get set by machines, then sat a real final against it. The cheaters lost nothing. That's the incentive structure now, and it grades itself.

[Presidency Nigeria @NGRPresident]

One week ago, applications opened for the Presidential Metering Initiative (PMI) Smart Meter Installer Programme, a Federation-led initiative to build the skilled workforce that will power the nationwide rollout of smart meters and support Nigeria's journey towards a more transparent, reliable, and efficient electricity sector.

The response has been encouraging, with applications received from across the country.

As interest in the programme continues to grow, we've put together answers to some of the most frequently asked questions to help prospective applicants better understand the opportunity, the training, and what to expect after certification.

Read through the PMI Fact Check series for key information, and rely only on updates shared through the official channels of the Presidential Metering Initiative.

Together, we are building the skilled workforce that will help transform Nigeria's power sector.

Apply now at https://t.co/zpNDyDV649

@fmydNG | @NaptinNigeria | @nemsa_ng | @PMISGDL

#PresidentialMeteringInitiative #PMI #PMIFactCheck #PowerSectorReform #SmartMetering #RenewedHope #Nigeria

[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

Claims the World Cup has been “fixed” in favour of Lionel Messi’s Argentina reached fever pitch following their controversial win over Egypt

❌ Messi escapes red card
🟨 Second-fewest bookings
🇦�� All-Argentine officials for France game
🎲 Lopsided World Cup draw
🗣️ Infantino: I suffered with Argentina
...and more

Telegraph Sport looks at some of the claims that Argentina’s name is already on the trophy ⤵️
https://t.co/rAt1Bl5UsA

[Judah Olorunmaiye @JudahMaiye]

Satan often gives saints a motivation to sin.

It may be the way he spoke to Eve.....
"You will not surely die,"
"There will be no consequences."

It may be the way he spoke to Jesus....
"It is written, He will keep his angels charge over you,"
"You are already covered in Christ, go ahead and abuse the privilege"

However, Satan motivates you today, please dont buy His lies.
He has nothing good for you.

Just deception, destruction, and death.

[فهد الأحمدي 🆇 @fhd8866h]

الفيديو حُذف من الفيفا الجبان ‼️

ولكن والله لو حذفوا حسابي، سأفتح غيره في نفس اليوم.

وسأعيد نشر هذا الفيديو، لأن ما يراه الناس لا تمحوه ضغطة زر بالحذف ..

ليبقى شاهدًا في ذاكرة الجماهير العربية على الظلم الذي تعرّض له منتخب مصر 🦅🇪🇬

[Forbes @Forbes]

Ticket Prices Collapse Nearly 60% For World Cup Quarterfinal Match After USA, Portugal Eliminated
https://t.co/uSBqkeF8Ae

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

There is no conclusive proof. But the circumstantial evidence that there is pro-Argentina bias in FIFA affecting the World Cup:

1) In the group stage opener against Algeria, Messi caught Aïssa Mandi with a studs-up challenge on the Achilles and escaped any card. FIFA later admitted the VAR officials got it wrong and sanctioned them.

2) The inconsistency became undeniable when the United States' Folarin Balogun was sent off in the Round of 32 for a near-identical foot-on-ankle challenge on Bosnia's Tarik Muharemović. Pundits directly compared the red card to Messi's uncarded foul on Mandi.

3) In the 2026 Round of 32 against Cape Verde, referee Drew Fischer did not enforce the tournament's new rule requiring an injured player to remain off the pitch after treatment. He waited for Argentina's Nicolás Tagliafico to return before allowing a Cape Verde corner. Several uncalled fouls in that game also went Argentina's way.

4) Today against Egypt, with Egypt leading 1-0, Mostafa Ziko finished off a long breakaway to make it 2-0. VAR sent Letexier to the monitor and the goal was disallowed for a Marwan Attia shirt-pull on Lisandro Martínez that occurred roughly 20 seconds earlier and nearly the full length of the pitch from goal.

5) Neutral officiating experts, not just Egyptian fans, called the decision wrong. Former FIFA referee Mark Clattenburg said he did not believe it was a foul and did not believe VAR should have intervened at all, adding that the call was inconsistent with the physical contact referees had allowed all tournament.

6) The winning sequence produced a second grievance. In the buildup to Enzo Fernández's stoppage-time winner, Egypt appealed for a penalty on a Salah challenge and for an Alexis Mac Allister shirt-pull, and VAR checked neither. Hassan cited the unreviewed Mac Allister pull directly in his post-match remarks.

7) The 2026 grievances land on top of a 2022 record In Qatar, Argentina were awarded five penalties, the most ever by a team in a single World Cup edition, with Messi taking all five. That same tournament, Messi handled the ball against the Netherlands in the quarterfinal and escaped a yellow card.

8) FIFA has appointed an all-Argentine crew, led by Facundo Tello, for Thursday's France–Morocco quarterfinal, the tournament's first all-same-country panel.

9) Comments attributed to Infantino after an Argentina match were widely discussed as suggesting bias toward Argentina before he later clarified them, and a deep Messi run drives far more global viewership and revenue than one without him. This establishes incentive.

FIFA cannot be trusted. Egypt was robbed. Argentina are coasting to another title under FIFA protection.