Imam al-Ghazali in his great book Ihya’ Ulum al-Din described six types of women we MUST not marry as men if we want to live a good married life. This Gen-Z wife matches two out of the six: Al-Ananatu and Al-Baraqatu.
This Gen-Z wife is the perfect example of Ananatu. A woman who finds the natural responsibilities of marriage to be an undue burden and constantly voices her reluctance to fulfill them.
On the other end, she mirrors Al-Baraqatu. A woman who spends all her time grooming herself to an obsessive degree. Also, the one who shows anger and act superior over her husband. He has to wash my clothes yen yen yen 😂😂
May we not make mistake of marrying them in our lives 🙏🙏😩
I also don’t want anyone to forget how at the end of last season all the people who talk on TV and on the net put the pressure on Arteta saying “he has to win the league this year” such a wild thing to say but he’s shut everyone up with the mentality he’s built there, especially when they would have all got the flamethrowers out if he didn’t do it this year, don’t let anyone pretend they wouldn’t love him as there manager
this set of players have shown some big hearts and quality! The day Arsenal went and got Declan Rice was the day they were going to compete yearly for the title! Gabriel and Saliba been the best partnership for a few years and Saka has been the starboy we all know he is! What a day what a moment….I was still wearing Wallabees in school kicking ball last time I got to celebrate 😂🏆 #Arsenal 👏🏿
I can’t describe my feelings right now… Football always gives back to those who keep believing.. To the fans who kept believing, you deserve this… Arsenal; the club that will stay in my heart forever, you deserve this… The players and everyone at the club who made it happen, you deserve this… Congratulations to the best club in the world ❤️ @Arsenal
I just realised I was a very strong stakeholder in Arsenal FC due to my relationship with elder, Arsène Wenger. #Smile
Arsenal fans should come and pay their respects.
Congrats to all Arsenal fans, after 22 years of waiting. #Joke@whitenigerian@DrJoeAbah@Abunaah@Arsenal
Predictably, everyone is mad at me for saying this but here is a very simple thought experiment to prove that I am right. Picture each person in your Nigerian life that "loves" you and imagine a button is placed in front of them with the sole instruction that if they push it, they receive $1M (N1.3bn) cash immediately, no questions asked, but you die instantly. Will they push the button?
If you hesistated for even a microsecond before answering "no" for each person you pictured, that means you yourself have acknowledged that whatever relationship exists there is at best cordial, but cannot be described as "love". Because someone who loves you can never place a monetary amount on the value you bring to their life by existing.
The fact that as you're reading this, you KNOW that the majority of people who know you would push that button is what disturbs you, because it sounds like a moral indictment on Nigerian people. Meanwhile I couldn't care less about the individual morality of Nigerians, because that's not the point I'm making at all.
The point I'm making is that Nigeria by design CANNOT incubate "love" because it is still running entirely on an extractive operating system. Once upon a time when our ancestors still owned their own minds and had sovereignty over their own decisions, it was possible for them to love each other because they were the ones who built their society to fit their own aspirations as a group. Love requires the stability and safety offered by a society that controls its own direction. Love cannot exist under colonial logic.
Under colonial logic, nothing is sacred. Everything exists to be harvested, consumed, extracted and fucked. The land is no longer the place where you and your ancestors have lived for thousands of years. It is now a mine with a quota for vomiting out shiny rocks for a man with a gun who says he "owns" it. Your wife and daughter are now the sex slaves of the man with the gun along with a hundred other people's wives and daughters, and the resulting destruction of social order is none of his business.
Your religion and way of connecting with the divine which have served your people for thousands of years are now suddenly outlawed, and you are now to worship a god that doesn't look like you. Your farm is no longer the thing that feeds your family. It is now a plantation for things you can't eat which the man with a gun forces you to remit to him as tax in exchange for not being locked up or rendered landless. Your entire society is in total chaos and the only way to rise above the chaos is to somehow fight to become the Warrant Chief of the man with the gun, or his armed askari warrior.
This is the same logic that Nigerian society is still operating on 200 years later. Everyone is still fighting to become the economic or political Warrant Chief with enough power to lord it over their neighbour or to emigrate. Or they are the cult, agbero, or police askari warrior whose ability to wield violence gives them an edge in the same mad scramble to survive a hostile, extractive, unpredictable environment. Why on earth would "love" blossom and thrive in such an environment? That would be like slaves on a plantation claiming to "love" each other.
What slaves on a plantation share is not "love." It is the strong bond of shared trauma. It is mutual affinity. It is sexual desire. It can even be affection. But it's not "love". "Love" is a societal condition that can only become a thing after the slaves revolt, kill the slavemaster and his family, take over the plantation, and turn it into a farming community built on the logic of mutual beneficience instead of extraction. Until then, they're just carrots inside a massive blender who, instead of figuring out how to destroy the blades and render the blender inoperable, are busy having lots of pointless carrot sex, making meaningless little carrot babies that will only become the next generation of carrot juice to be extracted from the blender.
Anyway I don't know why I'm arsed to sit and write stuff like this for the benefit of an audience that is as intellectual as I'm Chinese. I'd be better off talking earnestly to the billboards at Spintex roundabout.
You all know about Arsenal’s deal to sign Eberechi Eze from Crystal Palace which includes performance-related add-ons, reportedly worth up to £10m, that are triggered if Arsenal win the league.
Crystal Palace have two decisions to make inorder to receive the money. They can decide to receive it as early as Tomorrow when they play Man City by beating Man City such that Arsenal wins the league on Monday with a win Vs Burnley that's if they want the money urgently to motivate their players earlier enough for the conference league finals.
The other option is if they are not in need of the money right now they can decide to wait till the final day of the league to receive their cheque by playing the under 18s Vs Arsenal. It's upon Crystal Palace to choose the option which favours the club.
Which option do you think will be the best for them 🤔
All Real Madrid’s top performances have been without Mbappe.
It reminds me of the season before he arrived when Vini was tipped to win the BDOR.
The games against City, we saw old Vini rise again without Mbappe, other players like Valverde stepped up, we saw Vini against Atletico yesterday also.
Mbappe wasn’t needed in the Real Madrid setup, he came to disrupt it. He doesn’t elevate Real Madrid. He won’t bring out the best in you as a team mate, he wants to be number one and nobody else should be close.
The only Banks Nigeria law gave the license to give loans without interest are ISLAMIC BANKS
There are currently four islamic banks in Nigeria
1. Lotus bank
2. Taj bank
3. Jaiz bank
4. The alternative bank
Many people think the bank are made for Muslims only.
But the banks is for everyone and they give you loan regardless of the religion you practice
Ignorance is no excuse, take action today
𝗜𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 ₦𝟬.𝟬𝟬 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗺 𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗵
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
"You see the believers in their mercy, love, and compassion for one another like a single body. When one part of the body suffers, the whole body responds with sleeplessness and fever."
As Eid-ul-Fitr approaches, many of us are concerned about our Eid clothes being ready, filling our fridges with food, and buying gifts for our children so they can celebrate with happiness. Yet, many indigent Muslims are worried about something far more basic���what they will eat on the day of Eid.
Our brothers and sisters who are in dire need are part of this Ummah, and their hardship should move our hearts to act. This is why Zakat-ul-Fitri was prescribed—so the poor and vulnerable can share in the joy and dignity of Eid.
Your Zakat-ul-Fitri can be a lifesaver for families who have nothing to prepare for the blessed day. We humbly seek your support to ensure that as many indigent Muslims as possible have food on their tables and a reason to smile on Eid day.
Kindly entrust us with your Zakat and Zakat-ul-Fitri, and we will ensure it reaches the most vulnerable members of the Ummah.
May Allah (SWT) accept our fast, dua, supplications, our charity, purify our wealth, watch over us, grant us the best, and reward us all abundantly for bringing relief to those in dire need. [Ameen] 🤲🌙✨
Please if you’re in Saudi for Umrah, apart from Benz, mansion, beautiful spouse, fulus and everything else people usually ask for, remember to also put Nigeria in your du’a.
May Almighty Allah destroy every bandit, terrorist, their sponsors and sympathizers. May He expose and disgrace those within and outside the government who are enabling this evil. We may not know who they are, but You know them Ya Allah. We may not have the power to fight them, but You are the Most Powerful Ya Allah. They may plan, but You are the best of planners Ya Allah.
Expose them, disgrace them and destroy every single one of them.
This is the only country we have. Ya Allah protect our nation and restore peace to our land. Ameen. 🙏
BREAKING: While the world debates oil prices and war strategy, the actual crisis is unfolding in silence.
The molecules that produce half the planet’s food are physically trapped behind a war zone. And the biological window to apply them closes in weeks. Not months. Weeks.
This is not a drill.
Roughly one-third of all seaborne fertilizer trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz according to UNCTAD. Nearly 49% of globally traded urea is tied to conflict-exposed exporters. Nearly half of global sulfur trade, the chemical without which phosphate fertilizer cannot be processed anywhere on Earth, is Gulf-dependent. Transit has collapsed 97%. There is no alternative route. There is no strategic fertilizer reserve anywhere on Earth. There is no Plan B.
Right now, as you read this:
Bangladesh has shut five of six urea factories. Boro rice season, which produces over half the country’s grain, is underway with no domestic nitrogen supply. India is operating fertilizer plants at 60% capacity and has formally asked China for emergency urea. China said nothing and banned its own phosphate exports through August. Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, faces $28 billion in debt repayments while the bread subsidy feeding 69 million people hemorrhages money at prices it never budgeted for. Sudan, already in confirmed famine, sources 54% of its fertilizer from the Gulf. WFP shipping now takes 25 extra days rerouting around the war zone. Australia imports virtually all its urea, two-thirds from the Gulf, and its entire heavy trucking fleet runs on AdBlue made from the same urea that is not arriving. No urea, no AdBlue, no freight, no groceries on shelves in Sydney.
318 million people were at crisis-level hunger BEFORE February 28.
The number that should haunt every policymaker on Earth: the yield response to nitrogen is not linear. It is quadratic. In wealthy countries that over-apply fertilizer, a 15% reduction costs maybe 3% of yield. In the Global South where farmers already apply one-seventh the global average, the same reduction pushes crops off a biophysical cliff where production does not decline. It collapses. Sri Lanka proved this in 2021. One season without synthetic fertilizer. Rice output collapsed 40%. Government fell. Now multiply Sri Lanka across thirty countries simultaneously.
During a potential El Nino that Skymet says carries a 60% chance of below-normal Indian monsoon. While 51% of US corn-growing areas are already in drought. While Australia’s root-zone soil moisture sits in the lowest 10% since 1911. While corn farmers are abandoning nitrogen-intensive planting because they cannot afford $900-per-ton ammonia against $4.50 corn. While the Fed is trapped at 3% core PCE with no room to cut and food inflation about to surge through every grocery aisle in America six months from now.
Nobody is talking about this.
CNBC leads with oil. Bloomberg leads with equities. The Pentagon leads with strike counts. But the actual weapon of mass destruction in this conflict is not a missile. It is a calendar. The Corn Belt needs nitrogen by mid-April. India needs to prep Kharif by May. Australia needs urea by June. Miss those windows and no subsequent intervention reverses the yield loss. The food is not decided by diplomats in six months. It is decided by soil chemistry in the next six weeks. The prices hit your table by Christmas.
Both sides rejected ceasefire talks this week.
The world spent fifty years preparing for an oil shock. It spent zero years preparing for a fertilizer shock. Half of humanity eats because of a single industrial process that runs on natural gas from the Persian Gulf, exits through 21 miles of water that are currently mined, uninsured, and unescorted.
The planting window does not care about your geopolitics.
It is closing.
Full analysis: https://t.co/iFmUcarGdV
BREAKING: The world spent fifty years and hundreds of billions of dollars building Strategic Petroleum Reserves so that no geopolitical shock could starve civilization of energy.
Nobody built the equivalent for fertilizer.
That is the most expensive oversight in the history of modern statecraft, and you are about to pay for it at the grocery store.
The Strait of Hormuz does not merely carry 20% of global oil. UNCTAD estimates roughly one-third of all seaborne fertilizer trade passes through it. The Fertilizer Institute estimates that conflict-exposed exporters account for nearly 49% of global urea exports and nearly half of global sulfur trade.
Since February 28, daily ship transits have collapsed by 97%.
Here is what almost nobody understands about why this is not "just another commodity spike."
It was not the missiles that closed the strait. It was the insurance. Multiple P&I clubs cancelled war-risk extensions for the Gulf after 26 months of Red Sea losses had already depleted their Solvency II capital buffers. War-risk premiums surged from 0.25% to as high as 5% of hull value per transit. A urea cargo cannot absorb that. The economics of fertilizer shipping through Hormuz became impossible before a single mine needed to detonate.
The Trump administration announced a $20 billion sovereign-backed reinsurance facility with Chubb as lead underwriter. There is no confirmed public evidence that a single fertilizer vessel has used it. Insurance pays for financial loss. It does not intercept anti-ship missiles. Physical security remains the binding constraint, and the US Navy confirmed on March 12 it is "not ready" for commercial escorts.
Now here is the part that should terrify every allocator on Earth.
Agriculture runs on biological deadlines. Corn Belt farmers need nitrogen applied by mid-April. Indian Kharif season prep starts in May. Australian winter crop needs urea by June. These are not financial deadlines that reprice. They are photosynthetic deadlines that, once missed, produce irreversible yield loss. A diplomatic breakthrough on April 15 does not help a farmer who needed fertilizer on April 1.
And the yield math is nonlinear. Wall Street models fertilizer-to-output as proportional. It is not. The response is quadratic. In developed systems that over-apply nitrogen, a 15% reduction costs 2-5% of yield. In the Global South where farmers already under-apply, the same reduction pushes crops off a biophysical cliff. Sri Lanka proved this in 2021 when a sudden fertilizer ban collapsed rice production 40% in a single season and brought down the government.
The market is pricing a 45-day disruption. The insurance architecture says 120 days minimum. Even after a hypothetical ceasefire, Solvency II capital rebuild, reinsurance treaty renegotiation, and vessel re-underwriting take months. The Red Sea precedent: 26 months after Houthi attacks began, war-risk premiums never returned to pre-crisis levels.
Both sides are rejecting negotiations. Trump rebuffed ceasefire mediation March 14. Iran's foreign minister on March 15: "We never asked for a ceasefire."
Meanwhile: 51% of US corn areas in drought. El Nino favored by June at 62% probability. Skymet assigns 60% chance of below-normal Indian monsoon. Bangladesh has shut five of six urea factories. India formally asked China for urea on March 12. Egypt faces $28 billion in debt repayments while importing 12.7 million tonnes of wheat. WFP identifies 318 million people already at crisis-level hunger.
The world stockpiled oil but forgot to stockpile the molecules that produce half its food.
The clock is the position.
Full analysis in the link!
https://t.co/q6ZKYp0MCr
At this point the only two countries willing to help America are Nigeria and Kenya.
The UK, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Australia, China have all rejected Trump’s call to help the United States and Israel forcefully reopen the Strait Of Hormuz.
The UK didn’t even entertain him.
China, no comment yet, but expected to ignore the proposal.
Japan says it does warrant them risking their military.
South Korea, reluctant
France: outright rejection
Australia: outright rejection.
Dear Muslim,
Now that we know that it pains Shaytan and the little Shayātin very badly when we speak of Islam, don't hold back on your Islam. Post it everyday like your breath depends on it. Affirm and reaffirm that it is the only true faith in the sight of God. Affirm and reaffirm the truth of Islam, spread its message and never shy to make it known that you are proud and grateful for being a Muslim.
Let the little Shayātin feel the pain and never get healed from it until they respect your faith as you've always respected theirs.
AlhamduliLlah for Islam. There will never be a blessing greater than being a Muslim. May we live and die ONLY as Muslims. Āmīn.