@gimbakakanda I know people that dropped out because of 10k reparation fee. I almost dropped out too. Thanks to good people around me then. I will forever be grateful to God.
On the worst flight of my life, I got up to use the lavatory only to discover the toilet clogged with an indecent mountain of tissue paper. To make matters worse, I had already spent several minutes absent-mindedly scrolling through my phone before actually getting down to business.
The sensible thing would have been to walk out and use another lavatory. But then it hit me: anyone waiting outside would naturally assume I was the one who had committed this crime against civilisation. So I stayed. My dignity, apparently, was worth more than my sanity. That is how I found myself spending nearly twenty minutes performing emergency toilet engineering at 35,000 feet.
When I finally emerged, I locked eyes with the man who had gone in before me. I gave him the hardest stare I could muster, hissed in his direction, and walked off in righteous indignation.
Looking back, I have no idea why I cared so much. But I had spent enough time inside that lavatory for everyone to conclude I had been the culprit. We still had almost ten hours together in that cabin, and I simply could not live under such a cloud of suspicion. There was also a second reason, and it was even pettier. I was the only Black passenger in that section of the cabin, and, in my head, I had somehow become the appointed ambassador for the hygiene of an entire race. I was not about to let history record that the Black guy clogged the aircraft toilet.
Then came the twist. Hours later, after we landed and were walking across the tarmac, the very man I had glared at caught up with me and apologised.
“I was too embarrassed to tell the flight attendants,” he confessed. “I thought the tissues would flush, but they wouldn’t. Then I assumed I just didn’t know how these toilets worked, and that someone else would.”
Someone else, it turned out, was me. We went our separate ways after that. Whether I forgave him remains uncertain. But I do know this. Somewhere over the oceans, I spent twenty minutes defending both my reputation and, for reasons known only to my overactive imagination, the honour of an entire race against an offence I hadn’t even committed.
I wake up every day grateful that this intellectual fanbase is no longer bombarding us with dissertations on Messi’s “deserved” ninth Ballon d’Or. These days, it’s one motivational paragraph after another. 😂
At least China have made it to the World Cup, even if they failed to score a single goal. 😂
As for India, I can’t recall seeing a player of Indian heritage in any top league until this World Cup. New Zealand’s Sarpreet Singh is the first and only Indian player I’d come across.
A video of our university students celebrating their monthly NELFUND upkeep allowance to the tune of Omo Ologo. And yet some people, from the comfort of their air-conditioned rooms, dismissed both the need for and the impact of NELFUND. Students have dropped out of school over what others consider a “paltry” ₦10,000, while many more have had to sacrifice their studies to survive through side hustles. The story of LAUTECH’s 2026 best graduating student, whose GPA had been slipping before the NELFUND intervention but turned into a run of straight As afterwards, speaks volumes. Not everyone experiences the world through the same privileges or circumstances. Stop looking at the world through your rose-coloured lenses.
Kaduna city is full of retirees, civil servants and a sizable number of people commuting to/from abuja. It is not economically viable in the truest form because purchasing power is low.
This is why businesses are shutting down.
Is ego always a bad thing?
Or can it serve a leader when kept in check?
Unchecked ego can limit growth, damage relationships, and blind us to feedback. But healthy confidence can give leaders the courage to make difficult decisions, take responsibility, and lead with conviction.
The real question is: Who is in control—you or your ego?
What's your perspective? Share your thoughts in the comments.
#Leadership #Ego #SelfAwareness #Growth #SamAdeyemi #LeadershipDevelopment
We thank God for His mercies. This should’ve been the Messi-est week of our life. Imagine these Nyanya Park motivational speakers and historians had beaten Mbappe to the Golden Boot, emerged as World Cup’s all-time greatest goalscorer, secured another Golden Ball and World Cup.😂
There is a 13minute video compilation on Argentina’s thuggery and attempt to rob Spain in yesterday’s World Cup finals.
No class. No sportsmanship.
Just nasty brutal senseless behaviour.
0 shots in 90mins.
The worst ever team in a World Cup final.
“He has completed football.” Then why are you still writing dissertations and throwing tantrums like a baby snatched off its mummy’s breast since Sunday? 😂
If you visited any bank ATM in Maitama last night and lost your wallet, please send me a DM. Someone left a wallet on top of my car. To verify ownership, please describe the wallet and state its contents. I’m just a DM away.