Mama'm si mu

[DaSuKi @chukaobi]

Thank you for bringing this up.

During his tenure, the Federal Ministry of Sports and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) promised that Awka had been selected as one of six locations in Nigeria earmarked for a fully funded FIFA-standard stadium. Obi's administration immediately allocated the land for it.

Believing the federal/FIFA project would cover the state's need for a mega-stadium, Obi intentionally redirected state resources away from a single grand arena and focused instead on scattering multiple mini-stadiums and upgrading local facilities across Anambra, focusing heavily on grassroots sports development across the state. So he cleared out existing structures to build new sports arenas and provided financial intervention to upgrade private and community-owned facilities.

Stadiums Built or Initiated by Peter Obi:

Justice Chuba Ikpeazu Stadium—
PO demolished the old Onitsha North Local Government Secretariat that sat on sporting grounds to build this brand-new mini-stadium. It was commissioned in July 2009.

Godwin Achebe Stadium/Onitsha South Stadium—
Obi relocated the Onitsha South Local Government Secretariat to construct this new mini-stadium, naming it after the famous Enugu Rangers & Nigerian national team captain.

Awka Mini-Stadium—
He initiated and laid the structural foundations for the Awka Stadium to ensure the state capital had dedicated public sporting facilities.

Financial Support for Other Sports Facilities:

- Rojenny Sports Complex (Oba):
Obi’s administration intervened heavily in this iconic but abandoned private facility, injecting about ₦100 million (N1 billion today) to rebuild it so it could host state-wide and regional competitions.

- Ikpeazu Redoubtables Stadium:
He provided ₦30 million (N300 million today) to the private proprietors of the club to develop their stadium grounds.

Note: The promised FIFA stadium project was ultimately never executed by the sports federation, as the money was misappropriated by them.

I hope you learned a thing or two.

[Yehgha @yaygha]

- Stay unmarried and enjoy a different variety of woman every week

Nigerians: "You will not find a wife and settle down? Your mates are married"

- Acquire a wife while enjoying a different flavour of woman every week

Nigerians: "If you were not ready to stick with one woman, why did you get married?"

Damned if you do. Damned if you don't

[Mama'm si mu @Chukwusom4]

@winexviv Take your flowers 💐 boss

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The wait is over.

We have 2 golds: Chimdiebube Onwubiko and Don Anele Munachimso.

We are the best in the world!

Egejurum Onyedikachi’s name was omitted. He should have a gold.

[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.

[IGBO History & Facts @IgboHistoFacts]

GIG Group was founded in 1998 by Mr. Edwin Ajaere, who hailed from Isu LGA, Imo State, as God Is Good Motors, with a vision to provide premium transport services across Nigerian cities.

In 2009, Edwin Ajaere was kidnapped and killed. His son, Chidi Ajaere, who was just 21 years old at the time, returned from the United States and took over the affairs of the company.

Since then, the company has transformed into a leading technology-driven logistics conglomerate, with interests spanning multiple sectors of the Nigerian economy.

They raised a great son. Chidi Ajaere is doing wonders and transforming logistics across Nigeria.

The GIG we see all over Nigeria today is largely the handiwork of the brilliant Chidi Ajaere. His parents would undoubtedly be proud of him.

With aspirations of becoming one of Nigeria's top-ranked conglomerates, the company aims to be a propeller of progress in every facet of life.

Chidiebere Ajaere has successfully expanded the horizons of GIG Group, leading to the birth of several subsidiaries, including:

• GIG Logistics (deliveries to the US, UK, China and West Africa)
• GIG Motors
• Ziuss Energy (Oil & Gas)
• Stellas Banking & Finance
• RichmondHill Real Estate & Property
• GIG Aviation, the latest subsidiary, following the acquisition of two ATR72 cargo aircraft for logistics services.

Today, GIG Group is a conglomerate with over 5,000 employees.

A remarkable Igbo success story.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

To everyone weighing whether to bring the family along on the japa journey:

Bring them.

I know a family who moved on a student visa and a dependent visa, the wife legally unable to work at first. She cooked, braided hair, then trained as a nurse and eventually carried the whole family to a green card.

They did not have it all figured out when they landed. They just refused to be separated.

Come together. Figure it out together. Family first, leave no one behind.

[Mama'm si mu @Chukwusom4]

@Wizarab10 If he pays that 300k, they will come for more.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

I interviewed people at Shell for years, and here is the quiet thing almost no one tells you.

You are not rated on results alone. You are rated on the how, not just the what.

Two engineers run two projects. Both fail to hit target. One gets sidelined. The other gets promoted. Same outcome, different fate.

The difference was never the result. It was behaviour. The one who won gave daily updates, pulled his bosses into the problem early, and ran a lessons-learned session when it was over.

He turned a failed project into proof that he was safe to bet on.

Deliver, yes. But learn to be seen delivering. In most rooms, that is the actual skill.

[Kristal 水晶 🌕 @YomiKristal]

The beeping sound can sometimes be annoying, but you can actually turn it off. Here is how.

First, you have to know the maker of your meter box; then you can know the code to use.

Common brands in Nigeria can be muted using these codes:

MOJEC: Enter 045, then press the Enter button (usually red).
CONLOG: Press and hold the # (hash) button or the backspace/arrow key for 3 seconds.
HEXIN / ACTARIS: Enter 812 and press Enter, or long-press the Enter button.

LONGI: Enter 612 or continuously press the Enter button until the sound stops.

Other brands (Inhemeter, Shenzhen, etc.): Try entering 1037, then press Enter three times.

If you tell me the brand/model of your prepaid meter (or send a photo of it), I can tell you the exact method that applies to your meter.

[Izu G @izuchukwu10]

We got massive love for Akwa-Cross, but one thing my Generation of ndi Igbo has definitely agreed with on our journey so far as Nigerians is Chinua Achebe‘s quote: “Nigerians will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo.”

Hence why we wouldn’t want a hard dependency on anyone ever again. We can always have mutually beneficial relations on less critical dependencies. We don’t want our children to be crying foul like we did, we don’t want their future to be tied to anyones opinion of us.
And you can’t blame us, our reality and story in Nigeria has been completely different. Never again should we put our future in the hands of others to dictate.

That said we have always had massive love for Akwa-Cross and we will continue to do so.

[#TheSportsIlluminator @RayToluAyo]

I always love your write up

Always precise and dope, and your knowledge is vast

However,, there are "four statements" that are fallacies in the media space

• Cristiano Ronaldo is arrogant but Lionel Messi is humble
• Ronaldo chase records, Messi doesn't
• Ronaldo cares about the rivalry, Messi doesn't
• Ronaldo is hard work, Messi is talent

All these four, they are lies!!

Everything you said about Messi is good but it kinda paints Ronaldo as a selfish and a bad person

First, I don't believe all these Portugal players don't regard Ronaldo

I have followed football to a stage where I don't follow media noise

There is competition amongst team mates. You played football and you know this

An average European footballer has this perceived arrogant personality

Ask Zinedine Zidane, ask Thierry Henry, ask Arjen Robben, ask Eden Hazard, ask some of the great European players, etc

Second, before I judge someone, I sometimes check where they are from which are foundations to a lot of things

In 2007, Ronaldo was asked who the best player in the history of football is

He said;

"Cristiano Ronaldo"

He was 21 years and he hasn't even achieved anything

In 2012, when Ronaldo was asked about the Ballon d'Or

He said;

"in Portugal, we don't act like we don't want something. We say it out the way we feel it. I want to win the Ballon d'Or"

You have heard how Jose Mourinho speaks......

I think Nani once said he is as good as Ronaldo but Ronaldo was way more consistent. I can't remember how he put it again

These are the Portuguese ways of speaking and actions. They don't hide it and it doesn't make them arrogant

The Joao Neves interview, I didn't condemn him because of two things;

First, he is young and might not have meant it the way the media portrayed it

Second, it's the Portuguese way of speaking

All these Ronaldo is chasing records, he reacts or doesn't talk to anyone if he doesn't score doesn't make him arrogant or selfish

That's a personality trait and a way of dealing with disappointment

Yes, maybe sometimes;

He overdoes it or he should have done better, but then, is there anyone 100% perfect in character

And it's not every game that he doesn't score that he won't talk to his teammates after the game

He has played over 1000 games

Dring the BBC/MSN era.

The MSN said they use to share glasses of wine together

Ronaldo said;

He keeps a professional friendship with the BBC. They don't share wine, they come to work and go to their houses

Does that make the BBC group worse than the MSN?

Messi doesn't chase records....

Was it not the same Messi that messaged Pep Guardiola when Zlatan Ibrahimovic was making the headlines ahead of him in Barcelona

And it led to Zlatan being marginalized from the team!

Was it not the same Messi that said he was hurt when Ronaldo tied his Ballon d'Or awards?

Was it not the same Messi that told Guillerm Ballague that he wants to outdo Cristiano

So, you still think he doesn't chase records?

Let me tell you today, Messi has eyes on 1000 career goals. If anyone tells you otherwise, it's a lie

The Argentina team

You see the Argentine team that became successful

It's just because we don't give him his flowers. Lionel Scaloni was the reason why that team succeeded

Before now, Argentina was individualistic but when Scaloni came, the first thing he did was break that individualism structure

That was what the birth of whatever you see in the Argentina national team today

Scaloni fostered unity, trust, friendliness, and loyalty among the Argentine players and that was the beginning of their greatness

Once again, great write up but sometimes what the media paints are far from the truth

Well done

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

Gentlemen, when someone misbehaves, do not react so angrily that your response overshadows the initial misbehaviour and now becomes the issue.

Don’t end up being the one needing to apologise when you were initially the victim of bad behaviour.

Be clear that you will not accept or tolerate the misbehaviour, but be measured in how you express your disapproval. This is especially important when you are in a position of authority over the other person. It is also especially important in your relationship with your woman.

I am Ezemmuo. I know things.

[Cross˚ @Elkrosmediahub]

H.E sir @iamHSDickson, apologies for the rather lengthy read, but I implore your patience 🙏🏽

I watched your interview last night, and had to allow football sweep a little bit of the emotions (read negative energy) that was already all over the place here.

I like to think that referring to Obidients as ‘so called’ was rather out of pocket, and I believe in your wealth of experience, you realized that, hence the pause afterwards.

H.E sir, also I find it underwhelming and unnecessary that you said the presidential flag bearer of your party, H.E Peter Obi, wasn’t doing you or your party any favor by running. To be honest, that’s like placing a loaded AR in the hands of the leading party before election campaign proper. Totally avoidable sir.

I didn’t even know there was a protest at your residence by 2am over primary election results. Very unfair to you and your family I must admit.

H.E sir, please remember the goal is saving Nigeria. Please remember millions of Nigerians sees you as the vehicle that will drive one (with his very able running mate) who we truly believe will rescue the dwindling nation. Do not allow emotions ruin this even before we start building sir.

Reconciliation is not far fetched when pride isn’t hindering my dear sir. Please, put the house back in order, let’s do this fight together and not against each other.

God bless you sir.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria🙏🏽

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

The important thing to note here is that it is more about friction and function than expenditure. There is a level of comfort you need to be much more functional, and sometimes (not always) that comfort usually requires spending more or moving to a more expensive place that removes friction.

Yesterday, as I was driving between Ghana and Togo, I realized how important NOT being afraid of the police or criminals appearing suddenly was to my ability to think and be functional. I could also plan my time better with stable infrastructure.

Sometimes you don't need to spend more; you simply have to remove yourself from the source of friction that's preventing the function. That move could even be lateral.

I have told many friends to move away from London to other parts of England after seeing them struggle and achieve limited results. When they did, not only did they save money, but their productivity quadrupled.

In Accra, I moved around a bit. From East Legon, to Ridge, now in the mountains where I found peace and quiet. This place is cheaper than the other places I had lived, but makes me more functional.

I figured the UK and most countries out early enough. When I was in Lagos, I was away from Lagos most weekends and it kept me sane out of the rat race. I saw Late Otunba Balogun doing it every weekend and finally understood why he did and why he lived the way he did for people famously known to be frugal. He was a very functional person.

Many people think hustling and living under hard conditions are virtues in themselves, but they are not. Effort without exponential reward is stupidity. If you pay more and can get more, it is a better way to be on the path to getting even more.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

For my first five years in corporate America I had no promotion.

Then in my next five, I had three.

Same me. Same company. Different results.

What changed? 👇

[Oloye. @Ol0ye]

Mrs. Alamu Folawe – Principal

Mr. Ojo Jonathan – Vice Principal

Mr. Olatunde Zacchaeus – Teacher

Mr. John Olaleye – Teacher

Mr. Michael Oyedokun – Teacher RIP

Mrs. Oladeji – Teacher

Mary Akanbi – Teacher

Mr Adesiyan Adegboye - RIP

@officialABAT #BringBackOurTeachers

[❗️ @Drealad0nis]

Three weeks ago, my 23-year-old neighbor was kidnapped on her way to Kontagora in Niger State.
While in captivity, the bandits repeatedly raped her taking turns sleeping with her night after night. Still, they kept bargaining with her father over the phone, demanding ransom even as they violated her.

Her father fought with everything he had. He hustled day and night, borrowed from everyone, took loans, sold whatever he could determined to bring his daughter home.
When he finally gathered the full amount, he called the bandits and begged them, ‘Please, give the phone to my daughter. Let me speak to her. I want her to know I’m coming for her.’
They gave her the phone.
In a broken, traumatized voice, she told her father: ‘Dad, do not suffer yourself looking for the money. They have been sleeping with me. I’m traumatized. I can’t forgive myself. Even if I’m released, I’ll kill myself. Don’t bother paying the ransom.’
Those were the last words she ever spoke to him.
While her father was still holding the phone, he heard the gunshot. He heard his daughter being killed. Moments later, the bandits sent pictures of her remains to him, a final act of cruelty.
A 23-year-old girl. My neighbor. Someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s friend gone in the most horrific way possible.
This is not just one story. This is the nightmare too many families are living in Niger State and across Nigeria. Young women snatched on the roads, violated, used as bargaining chips, and discarded like nothing.
Living in Nigeria has become truly scary. You wake up, you step out, and you don’t know if you or your loved ones will return home. The fear is constant. The pain is constant. And too often, justice never comes.

Rest in peace to my neighbor.

[Ola Adams @AlfaAdam001]

To save ₦10M, you need to set aside ₦200k monthly for 50 months.

But if you invest that same ₦200k monthly in a money market fund yielding 17% p.a., you could reach ₦10M in about 38 months.

That’s 12 months saved and roughly ₦2.4M less out of your pocket.

The difference between saving and investing isn’t just returns—it’s time.

Money sitting in a bank account works for the bank.
Money invested works for you.

[Alex Otti @alexottiofr]

It is my pleasure to announce that we have officially commissioned the landmark Nnenna Oti Bus Terminal in Umuahia, and it is now ready for public use. The project is a multimodal transport hub designed to accommodate more than 340 buses at once, powered by sustainable infrastructure and connected to our growing network of electric buses.

The facility is named in honour of Prof. Nnenna Nnennaya��Oti, the courageous INEC Returning Officer in the 2023 governorship election, whose integrity and patriotism remind us that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results by simply standing for the truth.

Her name on this terminal is not just about one person, but a tribute to all electoral officials, security operatives, party agents, and citizens who resisted intimidation and defended democracy.

With 20 electric buses already in operation and more on the way in the coming weeks, the project signals our bold vision for a modern, safe, and sustainable transport system in Abia. The facility is also supported with independent power and water systems to ensure uninterrupted operations.

In my address titled “Raising the Bar”, I stated unequivocally that we have moved beyond the era of small ambitions. We refuse to be boxed into margins that underestimate our strength. This principle underpins all our undertakings.

I extend special commendation to the contractors, Planet Projects Limited, for a job well done in delivering this landmark facility. I also appreciate the dedication of the Commissioner for Transport, Dr. Chimezie Ukaegbu, the SSA Transport, Dr. Obioma Nwaogbe, and their team for the critical role they played in bringing this vision to reality.

I call on all residents and members of the host community to take ownership of this facility, to maintain a clean environment, and to guard against vandalism. This terminal belongs to you, and its success depends on your care. I also urge all Abians to pay their taxes regularly. Development cannot be sustained without collective responsibility, and every naira contributed helps us deliver the future our people deserve.