quit porn
and replace your worn out boxers
get a haircut every 2 weeks
shower twice daily
own a few quality polos and button down shirts
have at least 5 pairs of footwear for different occasions
own at least 2 good perfumes, if you can afford it, invest in 1 quality designer fragrance
use a roll-on deodorant (not antiperspirant)
drink a glass of water first thing in the morning and do a few push-ups
brush your teeth twice a day and clean your tongue before retiring for the day
use the restroom before leaving the house
dress well no matter where you’re going
above all, love God
save, bookmark and share with your brothers
buena suerte as you walk with me. 🫱🏼🫲🏾
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We just got off a call with someone close to Mateus Fernandes, and let us tell you, it was something else.
Michael Carrick spent two hours on @MicrosoftTeams, diving deep into tactical analysis. The way Carrick laid out the game plan and explained Mateus's role was nothing short of impressive.
We could feel the excitement in Mateus's voice; he was genuinely taken aback by the clarity and detail.
Now, he’s just waiting for Manchester United's bid to be accepted.
This could be a game-changer for both him and the club. The anticipation is building, and it’s clear that Carrick has a vision for how Mateus fits into the team.
On a Monday morning in March 2023, Amara Nwosu woke up to discover she had bought a house.
She had not bought a house.
She had never signed any document.
She had never met the seller.
But somewhere in the Lagos land registry, her BVN, her NIN, her signature — perfect, precise, indistinguishable from the one she had used her entire adult life — had authorised the purchase of a property worth ₦47 million.
And the loan taken to buy it was in her name.
Amara was 34.
A data analyst at a telecoms firm in Victoria Island.
She was the kind of person who used different passwords for different accounts, who read privacy policies, who had set up two-factor authentication on everything she owned before most Nigerians knew what two-factor authentication meant.
She was, professionally and personally, a woman who understood how data worked.
Which is why, when she saw the loan alert on her phone at 6:47am, her blood went cold in a specific way.
Not panic.
Recognition.
Someone had been inside her life.
Looking at the beginning of my life, the odds were not just stacked against me, they were arranged deliberately, like a wall someone built and walked away from. The neighbourhood, the resources, the circumstances, none of it was designed with my survival in mind. If not for the gift of intelligence, I am not even supposed to make it this far. And I mean that literally, not as a figure of speech.
That is why I keep looking back. Not because I miss the past, not because the past was kind to me, but because forgetting where you came from is the first step toward being dragged back there. The forces that were stacked against me from birth did not retire when I started making progress. They are patient. They recalibrate. They wait.
I think about this in terms of matter. I am like a molecule working against cohesive force, the kind of invisible pressure that keeps everything in its original state, in its original place. To move from solid to liquid requires energy. To move from liquid to gas requires more. And plasma, that fourth state that most people never even think about, that requires conditions so extreme that the average environment cannot sustain it.
Each level of transformation demands that you generate enough activation energy to break what is holding you. There is no shortcut. The physics does not negotiate.
This is why I cannot rest in the way people mean when they tell you to rest. I can pause. I can breathe. But I cannot stop generating heat, because the moment the energy drops below the threshold, the system reverts. That is not pessimism. That is thermodynamics.
Poverty is still in my rearview mirror. I can see his head clearly, not far enough to dismiss, close enough to remind me. Some people are lucky enough to outrun it so completely that they forget what it looks like. I have not been given that luxury, and I have made peace with the fact that maybe I never will be. But there is something clarifying about a chase. It tells you exactly how fast you need to move.
I am not running in fear. I am running with memory, and that is a different thing entirely.
This is how we check World Cup fixtures when there was no access to internet, gone are those days at Ojota, like it’s was so interesting, they will sell to us then unfolded in other to make it easy to access, we will fold it and begin to write score after each match.
Childhood 🙌🏼
My son is a proper savage and he loves to come for me at any opportunity.
He was given an assignment to sort words ending in "s" into two groups: those where the "s" sounds like /s/ and those where it sounds like /z/.
I explained the rule to him that "s" takes a /z/ sound when it follows a vowel sound. With that, he was able to sort every word on the list except one: GIRLS. We both couldn't figure it out. So I googled the transcription right there in front of him. The dictionary confirmed that the "s" in "girls" is indeed a /z/. Assignment done.
Later, after he had gone, I went back to figure out why. Turns out the rule is broader than I knew. The "s" sounds like /z/ not just after vowel sounds, but after any voiced consonant sound. That is why "girls" qualifies. The /l/ before the "s" is a voiced consonant.
Fast forward to two days ago. He was asking me a string of questions and I was answering them one by one, no hesitation. Then he paused and asked, "Why do you know all the answers to these questions?"
I told him the truth: I am Arojinle. I know everything.
He looked at me and said, "You know everything, but you didn't know that the s in girls sounds /z/."
This boy has no respect.
Alleged N2b Nigeria Air Fraud: How Sirika Allegedly Used Ethiopian Airlines as Fake Nigeria Air-Witness
The 12th Prosecution Witness, PW12, Christopher Odofin, in the trial of the former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Abubakar Sirika, on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, told Justice S.C. Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court Abuja, how Sirika allegedly passed off an aircraft belonging to Ethiopian Airline as that of the promised Nigeria Air by the government of the late President Muhammadu Buhari.
The decoy aircraft, adorned with the livery of the promised Nigeria Air, found its way on the tarmac of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on May 27, 2023, being three days to the expiration of the tenure of the Buhari government and was flown back to Addis Ababa in the morning of May 29, 2023, being the handover date to the successor government.
Hadi Sirika is facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on amended six-count, bordering on alleged abuse of office and misappropriation of public funds to the tune of over N2 billion, alongside his daughter, Fatima Hadi Sirika, son-in-law, Hamma Jalal Sule, and Al Buraq Global Investment Limited.
The contract for the setting up of Nigeria Air was awarded to Tianaero Nigeria Limited, belonging to Gabriel Tilmann, a close associate and friend of the former minister.
Reading from a portion of contract agreement with Ethiopian Airline, the witness, an investigator with Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC said “The aircraft will depart from Addis Ababa (ADD) late evening of May 26, 2023 for it to be positioned early morning of May 27, 2023 at the Abuja (ABV) airport. The aircraft will stay in ABV airport for static display of Nigeria Air livery until May 28, 2023. The aircraft will leave ABV airport early morning on May, 29, 2023. The chartered flight will be operated by the Ethiopian Airline crew in Ethiopian Airline uniform. The Federal Government of Nigeria and Nigeria Air may put together local models who will be in Nigeria Air uniforms to pose for ceremonial pictures. The models may come to Addis Ababa so they may fly with the chartered flight to ABV.”
The witness told the court that the display of the aircraft in Abuja International Airport was deliberately planned to coincide with the end of the first defendant’s tenure as Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development on May 29, 2023 and to pass the aircraft off as the actualization of his promise of the return of Nigeria Air. After the less than 72 hours display of the aircraft, he stated that the Nigeria Air logo was removed from the aircraft and flown back to Ethiopian Airlines in Addis Ababa.
The witness further disclosed that the investigating team was also able to ascertain that Ethiopian Airlines entered into a charter arrangement for the static display of the Nigeria Air livery for a duration of just three days, beginning from May 27 to May 29, 2023 based on information and documents received from the airline following a letter from it, dated June 12, 2023, in response to the EFCC’s request for information regarding Nigeria Air. And that though the purpose of the contract was for the establishment of Nigeria Air, the charter agreement with Ethiopian Airlines was entered on May 24, 2023, five days to the expiration of the defendant’s tenure for just a static display of the Nigeria Air logo on an aircraft.
All the documents tendered in evidence by the prosecution were shown to have been duly signed, authorized, and accompanied by certificates of identification and were not objected to by any of the counsels to the four defendants.
Among the exhibits is a compact disk containing a voice note from the first defendant, Hadi Sirika, marked Exhibit 37, which the prosecution counsel applied to be played in the court at the next adjourned date.
do this for just 3 years and i promise you’ll already start feeling like a billionaire.
if you’re coming from a humble background and want to build wealth, whether you’re a small business owner or an employee earning a salary or business profits, one of the best places to start is with two types of assets: money market mutual funds and the capital market.
but listen carefully;
one of the most important things you need to work on is your mind. people who come from poor or humble backgrounds always develop what is called a scarcity mentality.
work on your mindset, per se. you must understand that delayed gratification is essential for building wealth. many people say they want to become wealthy but cos of their background, they struggle with delayed gratification. they invest, sell for quick returns, make a little profit and that’s it. they never allow wealth to compound.
let me tell you a profound truth; wealth building is hard but it is also simple if you follow sound wealth principles, it has to do with consistency.
when i say consistency, i mean that every month you should budget a specific amount to put into your mutual funds and another amount to invest in stocks. choose a few quality companies and keep adding to your positions. you shouldn’t be concerned about price. what you should be thinking about is ownership. focus on quantity not short term price movements. there is a difference between focusing on price and focusing on ownership.
every month, when your salary arrives or your business profits, take an amount, no matter how small and consistently add to your treasury bills, mutual funds, and stock holdings. don’t do it cos you want to feel among or cos you made more money that month. put a structure in place and follow it consistently.
learn this early and execute, your future self will thank you in 3-5 years 👍
Unless they see results, people won't believe you tried.
The world judges effort by its outcome. If you win, you worked hard. If you don't, maybe you didn't try hard enough. That is the verdict, fair or not.
But effort and results are not the same currency. A man can give everything and still come up empty. The ground does not always reward the farmer who worked it hardest.
This is what makes failure lonely in a way that success never is. The person who succeeds gets witnesses. The person who tried and failed stands alone with something nobody can verify and most people won't bother to believe.
Try anyway.