Chika

I am an easygoing, self motivated,individual with an eye for very great things.I'd rather not see the present and ask why,but see the future and ask why NOT?

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I have friends who are older and very fit because of their lifestyle. They don't drink or smoke and exercise daily. They also have the most unfit kids who don't follow their example. This has always worried me as I am raising young children. I have also seen families with hard-working and wealthy parents who raise the laziest and most entitled children.

We always want our children to do better than us, but when and where does this go wrong for most people? I think it comes from the time and attention we personally give our kids and the lapses we allow.

My wife and I are early risers. I have a particular sleep problem I am still trying to solve, but my kids can sleep all day on vacation if you let them. A friend with an older son who had just graduated and was back home, jobless, used to tell me how alarmed he was that the son would go out all night, come back early in the morning, and sleep all day.

I told him then that if he didn't force him to change that habit, he would remain jobless and stay with his parents longer. They eventually forced him to change, and he moved out. He has a job now and struggles a lot. His parents are concerned that he isn't thriving. He is now almost 30, and I think about this all the time. At 25, I was a beast and had started many businesses.

While we want our kids and young adults to experience life on their own terms in a world vastly different from the one we grew up in, we can't help but notice that others whose children were more disciplined are thriving better. One indicator I have seen that correlates with success in younger people is fitness.

A friend’s son started going to the gym regularly, and he even inspired his cousins to do so. I checked on LinkedIn recently, and he is doing exceptionally well as a lawyer and investment banker without any family connections or assistance. His younger cousins, who are looking up to him, are following in his footsteps. I decided to get my kids to spend more time with him.

The role models our children need may be closer to their age than ours. It is why we need to amplify the lifestyles of young, disciplined, and successful people more. Not every person will make it through creative pursuits. I stress this to my kids all the time. There are billions of YouTube channels, but there is only one MrBeast or IShowSpeed.

Social media is highlighting more unrealistic role models than the most useful ones. My daughter is likely one of the most intelligent young children that I know, but because she doesn't want to be seen as a nerd, she is adapting to popular culture to blend in, in a way that scares me. This sometimes affects the way she learns. While I don't want to restrict her now from experiencing the world, I have realized that she needs different role models.

My son’s role models are nerds, and he nerds out in ways that surprise me and it is also worrying. We can be watching a movie, and he goes online to research it and summarise the plot so he can leave to code. He is not experiencing life enough outside the internet.

They will either eventually be ok in a world very different from ours or struggle in a world that becomes worse than ours, without the skills to build personal resilience and strong social skills.

I recently had a personal experience that made me realize I was fortunate to have left home early and to have different role models from my parents. Having a broken home led to different outcomes for my siblings and me, but the fact that I had strong personalities like my mother’s uncle and the uncles I grew up around helped me learn a lot more about life and priorities.

The world is a very complex place, and life is not a bed of roses. While we want the best outcomes for our kids, we have to finally admit that they will learn far more from others than they will ever learn from us. The best thing we can do for them is expose them to the right kind of people early enough, then hope and pray that we didn't misread those people.

[World Cup 2026 @ofootball__]

Thank You VOZINHA 🫡

[Enitan Bello @enitandev]

ADEYEMI IS NOT SPECIAL. HE IS A TEMPLATE. AND ABUJA IS FULL OF THEM.

There is an entire class of operators in Nigeria's capital whose full-time job is proximity. They do not have products. They do not have services. They have access. And access in Abuja is the most valuable currency in circulation.

Here is how the template works.

It starts with a photograph. One picture with a governor. One picture with a minister. One picture with a legislator. It does not matter how it was taken. It does not matter if the official remembers them. The picture exists and the picture does the work. It goes on a website. It goes on a letterhead. It becomes the first slide in every presentation to the next target.

Then comes the compounding. They show up at events. Not invited but not stopped, because security at most government functions in Nigeria operates on familiarity, not verification. If you look like you belong and you have been there before, you get waved through. They do this consistently until their face is known. Until the aide at the door nods at them. Until the protocol officer assumes someone else cleared them.

Then they start bringing people. They arrive with delegations. Foreign looking faces. Men in suits carrying folders. Nobody at the gate is checking the credentials of a man who arrived with five people who look important. The optics are the clearance.

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

The presidency is telling you the man in this video created a fake agency that got mentioned in the national budget, got budget allocation from our national funds, a budget signed by the president;

Same man had an office at the government’s owned federal secretariat, had meetings with heads of the National Assembly, held strategic sessions with ambassadors of other countries,

Yet the govt says the agency is ‘fake’ and non existent, that they know nothing about it.

It takes an A-grade level of mentally incapacitating insanity to see all of this and continue to support the APC and defend these lying animals in Aso Rock.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

Your citizenship really determines so much for you. As a Nigerian, your matter long ooo.

I had a Saudi classmate when I was fling my Masters. He explained to me that all Saudis in the UK were fully sponsored by the government. I asked what his plan was after school, he said he was going back home to take up a job. He didn't even like the UK. I don't blame him, he struggled with the language and culture.

I had Korean classmates (those ones are always rich and clean). No one was staying back or had plan to.

I saw Chinese classmate 2 years later. He had started a business with his babe. He told me the government encourages them to take loan to invest abroad. I thought we were just having a discussion. I didn't know he had his plan mapped out.

My Spanish friend (the only one I still talk to), I asked him when he was going to pick up his British passport since he was eligible for it having been in UK for many years, he said he didnt need it that his passport takes him where he needs to go. I spoke to him recently and he said he is looking to leave the UK soon. He wants to return home to Barcelona. That reminds me, he has been inviting me to Barcelona 🤦‍♂️

At the start of Covid, my Canadain flatmate packed his bag and left. He told me he would finish his program from there. I once asked how he was paying for his program (Law Undergraduate), he said he took a loan from the bank in Canada.

Then you look at Nigerians- we are always looking for how to stay back at all cost because home offers nothing. Conversation always centred around sponsorship jobs - even if it is care job. This is after working 12 hours shift through out your Masters to pay for your fees and cover for your living expenses. People are even so desperate, they are paying 10k to 12k for sponsorship job just to stay back.

[Jaafar Jaafar @JaafarSJaafar]

This man (Prince Adeniyi Matthew) created a fake government agency called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, appointed himself as DG, secured office space at the Federal Secretariat, opened a CBN account in its name, got N1,302,978,784 allocation in 2026 budget, summoned ambassadors to meetings, held strategic sessions with ministers, and even represented Nigeria at international conferences.

The audacity is almost unbelievable. Nigeria never runs short of ‘yan iska.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

In Ghana, any child who qualifies to represent the country in the International Maths Olympiad gets an automatic scholarship to MIT.

Interestingly, the head of their local Olympiad unit is a Nigerian. He left Nigeria the moment the Nigerian government stopped sponsoring our students for the program.

MIT students regularly travel to Ghana to prepare their students for the Olympiad.

It is also a huge talent pipeline for a company called Jane Street. They are the major sponsor for Ghana Maths Olympiad. Their starting salary is between $300k - $600k annually.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I got a call from JAMB this morning with the wonderful news that Okeke Chinedu Christian has been awarded the ₦5 million Star Prize by Rite Foods as the overall best candidate in the 2025 JAMB examination.

You remember how we fought for this young man. Today, victory is finally his.

Education is gradually getting the recognition and rewards it deserves.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Corrections:

1. She is not a billionaire and didn't claim to be one.

2. Her entire fund is $80m so far, and that is not what she makes in a year. Management fees on that are minimal. Exits have not happened yet.

3. With the state of Nigeria today, anyone who is managing a substantial amount of money needs to be very well protected; hence the police escort. When I was part of a fund, they didn't let me travel to Nigeria or to places they considered high-risk without guarantees of protection.

As for other comments about what she said, she decided to do this on her own, using her own brain, in a very tough industry. She has been successful so far, and we are very proud of her. Yes, we are related.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I saw all of a friend's kid's academic, professional, and entrepreneurial achievements and was quite impressed. I was wondering why very few Nigerians perform at such high levels of excellence, while the vast majority wallow in mediocrity. Then it occurred to me that excellence is a family thing.

My friend's great-grandfather was highly educated and accomplished. The same tradition continued in their family. Someone like @GRVlagos, for instance, with a pedigree of excellence, will not wallow in mediocrity and filth.

When you don't have such traditions and accomplishments, it is easy to think that money is everything and that getting it at all costs is the greatest achievement. It is actually easier to get money than to get excellent professional qualifications and build an admirable career. Money and excelence are also not mutually exclusive.

[Chika @chika365]

@BlehisBack We are not inherently a kind people..99% of us are selfish. That's why our leadership and society is the way it is. It's why our systems continue to thrive in dysfunction. And will never be fixed cos nobody cares about how his actions affect him or his neighbor beyond today.

[Dearest B 🦋 @BlehisBack]

Nigeria actually needs to do better.

There were issues with the CFA portal a few days before the May exam that prevented some candidates from accessing their study materials.

Guess what they did? They announced that anyone who fails the May diet can rewrite the exam for free. At no cost.

Bruh. That's about $1,490 (roughly ₦2 million) per candidate. And around 61% of candidates failed. They're willing to absorb that cost and let affected candidates retake the exam in any future diet.

Mind you, the issue happened just a few days before the exam, when most people were already done reading. Yet they're still taking responsibility and offering a concession.
Can never be Nigeria.

In Nigeria, if you faint during an exam, sorry o. Next year. Whether the problem was caused by them or by you, the answer is still, "See you next year."

It's crazy how institutions abroad are often willing to offer concessions or rescheduling at the slightest disruption, while here, candidates are usually left to bear the entire cost regardless of who was at fault.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Nigeria has now been delisted from the International Maths Olympiad, whose finals are happening in Shanghai, China, this July.

It is one of the most prestigious academic competitions in the world.

Nigeria can now only participate as an observer nation, while other countries can participate fully.

This was because of the Ministry of Education’s inability to fund students for 4 consecutive years through National Mathematical Center.

It’s a big shame for Nigeria.

[Kelvin Novo @KelOnovo]

My wife had once used 400 naira back then in 2019 to cook Ogbono soup, which was our last card.

This same woman has followed me shamelessly when I was driving Keke. Both of us were graduates.

She chested almost all the insults her friends gave her. How can she with so much potential settle for a Keke rider, who is a graduate too?

I don’t want to talk about what is happening today in our lives, but when I look back, I am glad I chose this girl.

They no born any person to tell me why I dey spend on her.

[Oby Ezekwesili @obyezeks]

Democracy was never designed for Spectators.

One of the greatest penalties for refusing to participate in politics is ending up governed by your inferiors~Plato

Therein lies the monumental tragedy Africa has experienced with the practice of Democracy. It must end.

Policy by Default: When thoughtful voices are silent, decisions regarding public resources, societal values, and community welfare are left entirely to those with specific agendas.

Vacuum of Leadership: Retreating from public life does not make power disappear; it simply changes hands, often to those who care less about the common good.

This is extremely important for GenX, Millennials and GenZ.

Don’t retreat.

Plato made wise observations. Heed.

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[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

The first and only time I ever bet on football was in 1990, when I bet that Cameroon would beat Argentina in the World Cup. The odds were 20-1. I bet £1 (that was all I could afford then) and won £20! Madam and I were living in one room in Seven Sisters, London, then. We were finally able to order egg fried rice and beef in oyster sauce from the local Chinese restaurant. Before then, it was just egg fried rice with chilli sauce and no protein.

I don’t suffer before for this my life o. And this woman suffered with me. Some days, we could only afford one meal and she would lie that she had eaten and give me the meal to eat when I came back from work. I grew up with many relatives living with us. So, by upbringing, I was raised not to finish everything on my plate. It was by watching how she wolfed down everything left on my plate that I finally realised that this woman had not eaten and had sacrificed herself to make sure I ate.

So, now, when anybody says “She’s the one eating all his money, I ask: “Before nko? Were you there when we were eating egg fried rice with no protein from Red Square Chinese Restaurant in 1990?” 😂

[Giovanni Ifedi-Williams @TheGiovannis]

These Police Officers just parked me at Bolade, Oshodi, pointed guns at me, and forced me to transfer N100,000 them. When my bank app showed "exceeded transfer limit", they dragged me to a nearby POS to do it with my card.

They initially demanded 150k each.
They were 4 in number.

These are the names I could copy:
Francis Adekunle
2087495551
Kuda

Friday Ikpe
9136237110
Okay

This is the phone number of the notorious Officer Friday Ikpe 09136237110. I got it from his opay

@PoliceNG @BenHundeyin @Princemoye1

Please my mutuals, if you see this on your TL, help repost or tag other relevant authorities until these criminals are apprehended.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

If I weren't there at the very start of a Nigerian telco, I would believe the trope people always put out that things "were guaranteed." Nothing could be further from that.

Let's start with the licensing. You first had to put up a $20m deposit before you could bid. If you bid and won but were unable to pay for your license, you forfeited $20m. Mike Adenuga lost that amount then, and it was a lot of money. It is still a lot of money.

For Econet Wireless, to get that amount the first time, Oceanic Bank had to put it up, backed by guarantees from Delta State, which managed all their federal allocation payments. Getting that first $20m was one of the hardest things I have seen.

Oboden Ibru didn't trust the Zimbabweans; he believed they didn't have any money to invest, and his bank would have to commit more to save the $20m, and he was eventually right.

Even forming the consortium and selecting partners was a difficult and heartwrenching process. There were meetings that lasted long into the night. I still can't forget a trip I took to Delta and Akwa Ibom to present documents to the state governments, inviting them to invest. Another competing party tried to beat me to Uyo by chartering a private jet as I drove like a maniac and got there by road.

After the bid was won, raising the $285m was the most beautiful financial engineering process I had ever witnessed. The late Osaze Osifo was a genius and one of the smartest people I had ever met. I learned so much from what he and his HSBC Capital team did. Other investment bankers, like the late Laolu Mudashiru of Vetiva, watched and learned, too.

After paying for the license, we now had to raise money for working capital. I personally raised 7 million Naira from New Nigeria Bank to pay for the office rent. Got furniture from Chair Center and another company on credit. My guy, Elias Igbinakenzua, was then an Executive Director at Zenith Bank, and we managed to negotiate a 500m Naira overdraft facility to start the business.

Everyone was broke and stretched. We took a loan from New Nigeria Bank to cover our share of the equity, and the interest on the loan was accruing at 1.8 million Naira per day. We eventually sold half of the shares at a profit to cover the cost. Before then, we were juggling CPs and BAs to cover the initial $20m and dodging Oboden Ibru, who was at wits end.

To add to that, we had a technical partner who lied about bringing in 40% of the capital. They, too, could not raise money, so the pressure was on the existing shareholders, who eventually kicked him out but still left him with 5% for the brand thanks to the intervention of Delta State, represented on the board by David Edevbie.

Today, that company is now Airtel Nigeria, and someone will tell me that "Demand was guaranteed. " Idiots.

Rolling out the service was another story. Educating the market and competing with MTN, who had smarter people and deeper pockets, was brutal. Dem Eleso, their CTO at the time, was a telco savant. Funny thing was that we were offered his services first, but rh Zimbabweans rejected him. MTN snatched him. He became our nightmare.

[Manjul Vic🦅 @VictorManjul]

I Bought my first car in 2024
I Bought a plot of land in Jos
I Bought another in Port Harcourt
I Started Saving as an adult in 2024
I built my pig farm, & established in 2025

A single emergency: My Mom’s illness in 2026, made me sold & cleared everything, including my Savings‼️⚠️

This is LIFE in Nigeria.

You can struggle to build your life as a young person, without government support, but a single emergency can have everything crash, right before your eyes.

You will start life all over again, without support!

All because we don't have a Government‼️

When you see me put in extra efforts to sensitize people on voter registration & participation,

I am simply pushing for the installation of a people-oriented leader, who would establish a functional system/country that benefits and supports all Nigerians.

I am a VICTIM of NIGERIA⚠️

As an only son, who lost his father & 7 other family members to insecurity,

Family members who would have been a support system

Imagine pushing through life alone to attain a certain milestone, only to crash back to square one!😪

Nigeria has happened to me in ways you can't imagine, so I'm making efforts to see that it doesn't happen to others

PETER OBI will build a NIGERIA that supports you, not one that impoverishes you & feeds you bread crumbs.

Our only chance at having a decent FUTURE as Nigerian youths, is a PETER OBI presidency!

#NigeriaWillBeOK

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

You know the way you have to wait about one hour for grilled fish in Abuja gardens? I have always wondered why they don’t grill some ready knowing the average number of orders they get in a day.

Well, if you go to Kado roundabout, several grilled fish sellers there grill plenty of fish to some 90% readiness. You only have to wait less than 10 minutes for your croaker to be ready. Not rocket science, really.

Na Kado roundabout I dey go now. Order 5 croaker fish for a soirée at home and it will be ready in 10 minutes. Cheaper than Abuja gardens too. Serious people!👏🏽