I spent 47 days as one of several thousand African migrants seeking to enter Europe through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea.
Story on @fijnigeria tomorrow, Thursday and on Friday.
JUST IN: Thirty-three state governments spent at least N512.10bn on Government Houses, Governors’ Offices and travel and transport in the first six months of 2026, an amount about 4,713 times higher than the combined six-month salary of Nigeria’s 36 governors, an analysis of state budget implementation reports has shown on Monday
Friday, August 30, 1985.
Major General Ibrahim Babangida addresses foreign diplomats and High Commissioners soon after taking power in a coup which deposed the previous Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari(now late President Buhari)
41 years ago. Then and Now...
Ibrahim Babangida, former military President of Nigeria, on what led to the construction of Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos.
IBB watched a TV show and saw an American broadcaster mock Nigeria. The white man went to the Bridge when it wasn't completed. And also said that we never finish projects because they're elephant projects.
IBB was annoyed and decided to proof him wrong. It was a thing of National pride to him.
When he became President, the third mainland Bridge was his number one priority.
@_hafsat_paki@Jamo_Danbattaa This will help next time, delaying menstruation for special events, managing heavy or painful periods, treating endometriosis, and regulating irregular cycles or dysfunctional uterine bleeding
@easy_ayoola@dammiedammie35 By the time you hit one of those cow, that fight will be between you and a serving General in the Nigerian Army and not the Fulani man, you think Wike did not see them and leave them for a reason.
In his book, Colonel Bello-Fadile (Rtd) mentioned a “jinxed house” in Ikoyi, at the junction of Bourdillon and MacPherson.
4 military occupants of the house (at different times) all ended up being arrested for coup-plotting. Including Dimka.
3 ended up being executed, Fadile was the only one who escaped execution.
A standard Rolex has about 200 moving parts. The Patek Philippe on Jay-Z's wrist at the Met Gala has 1,580. Patek spent 8 years designing it. Then over 100,000 hours building the first one. About 11 straight years of someone working 24 hours a day, no breaks.
It's called the Grandmaster Chime, the most complicated wristwatch Patek has ever made. The inner mechanism alone has 1,366 parts. It fits in a circle smaller than an Oreo cookie. The outer case adds another 214 parts, and the case alone took four years to design.
In watchmaking, a "complication" is just any function beyond telling you the time. Most watches in the "grand complication" category have 5 to 7. This one has 20. When it launched, no wristwatch in history had combined that many. It tracks the phase of the moon, accurate to one day's drift over 122 years. It also has five different ways to chime: one that automatically rings the hours and quarters, one that rings only the quarters, one you press a button to hear the current time, one that rings whatever alarm time you set, and one that chimes today's date on demand. The last two had never existed in any watch before. Both were invented by Patek's own president, Thierry Stern, a trained watchmaker himself.
The chiming makes this watch nearly impossible to copy. Inside each one are tiny coiled steel wires called gongs. A single watchmaker shapes and tunes each gong by hand, testing every note with their own ears. Just putting one chime mechanism together takes 200 to 300 hours. Then the watch goes into a soundproof chamber where the chime gets recorded and compared against decades of past Patek chimes. Only then is it brought to Thierry Stern. He listens. If he doesn't like the sound, the watch goes back. Sometimes more than once. A rejected watch can take 500 hours of rebuilding before he approves it.
This watch holds four power springs in total. One is dedicated to the chimes alone, separate from the spring driving the time. Inside the mechanism is a ball bearing 7.2mm wide. It holds seven steel balls, each 0.3mm across, smaller than grains of fine sand. They handle 1,700 gram-millimetres of twisting force from the chime springs without slipping. The case has 11 holes drilled through it for buttons and pushers, and somehow none of them ruin the chamber that lets the chimes ring out clearly. The case itself flips around to show either of its two different dials.
Fewer than five workshops on the planet can build something at this level. Patek Philippe is the one all the others measure themselves against.
Jay-Z's version lists at $6.5 million. The unique steel version sold for $31 million at Christie's in 2019. It still holds the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction.
@PhysDad Download find hub from Google, login with any of their email it will show the phone registered with that email on the app, click on show direction
You see this level of fame, power and influence? No one is touching it ever again
This was real not based on TV viewers or internet, he was like a magnet
Princess Diana asked Michael Jackson if he was going to perform “Dirty Diana” during a concert. Michael said he had taken it out of the setlist out of respect for her. But he didn’t know it was one of her favourite songs. 😳
My brother’s iPhone battery started draining faster than ever.
He was ready to buy a new phone.
I changed 7 settings instead.
Now his battery lasts all day.
Her's how you can FIX bad battery life in 7 steps:
The Notes app on your iPhone is one of the most powerful tools available.
But 99% of people don’t know its true potential.
Here are 15 amazing features you must know: