It's a glorious sunny day yet my mood is low and with every passing second dread rises bc Monday approaches. I'm anxious about @Keir_Starmer announcing his departure. If he does, I'll be cancelling my @UKLabour membership bc clearly the Party doesn't give a toss about me anyways
Any attempt to curb insecurity and kidnapping that does not focus on verification of Okada riders is bound to fail.
The Okada Riders association chairmen are just figureheads with zero care for public or drivers safety. What they care about is “ticket” and revenue.
A law has to bind commercial okadas to operate only at the LGA that they are registered.
The riders have to also go through rigorous verification before being issued a license.
Someone from the community must also stand as a guarantor for them before they are issued permit to use okada for commercial purposes.
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You think I'm happy living abroad?
I have a family I grew up with, whom I love with all of my heart - and the reality keeps dawning on me, on how many times I will see them before I one day turn 60.
People I saw daily, or once a month - I haven't seen in years, and would realistically only see once a year, going forward.
You think I'm happy?
That one day, I might end up having children and my siblings might not have the relationship with them - the relationship I had with my uncles, in my formative years? I remember clearly how they would take us to MrBiggs every Sunday - I am currently reliving the flavour from that meatpie.
How we would go to the family house in Ikeja, every year for Eid. The grandchildren uniforms, the snacks while watching your uncles slaughter rams.
You think I'm happy that I might one day lead a family of children who might not know their version of that?
WTF will I be doing in another man's land, if I did everything they asked me to do from childhood (face your studies, be exceptional, stay away from crime, be hardworking) and opportunities lined up for me to be the best I could, in my motherland? WTF will I be doing here?
Why will I condescend myself to living in a clime where I have to mentally switch from sun burning weather to teeth clenching winter - when I came from a land where I never needed gloves? You think I'm happy?
If I could do honest work, be on my way home and not have to bother about the risk of getting shot by the people meant to protect me, because I have some lines of tattoos on my body - you think I would leave?
If I could trust a justice system to defend me, ensure my rights even though I am a nobody - have trustworthy institutions banking on the highest standards, not have to worry about the bread I eat, the fake drinks from the club or streets, the fake drugs - you think I would leave?
Don't get me wrong. I am grateful for the opportunities this clime has given me, to test my limits - to be everything I thought I could be. But all of these, in replacement for the soul I grew up with?
You know the satisfaction that settled within me when I could wake up on a Saturday morning, stroll to the Iya wanke's place - relish an entire plate, or some ewa agonyin while watching children battle it out, in a 5 v 5 across the streets.
That communal living that relished my soul, is now replaced with silent streets and finely divided sealed terraces.
You walk through the city centres in the evenings - you see friends having an aperitif (they do so every evening), you see grandfathers meeting up with their children, you see entire families with extended families living across the streets, first cousins are even able to use the same gym and you remember what that looked like for you back home?
You think of all your friends scattered across continents, some you might never get to hug again.
For a lot of diasporans, you don't want Nigeria to work more than us. A lot of us want to come home, but what is home? Where is home? When will home feel like home?
I hope to continue living life without lack, in comfort, with accomplished dreams - but I want to do so, with soul. When I die one day, I want to do so - with soul.
This is cope. You can discourage people from yahoo without lying about reality. Yahoo is simply financial crime and the bulk of the world money is gotten from financial crime. London itself is the financial crime capital of Europe.
Many yahoo boys diversified their assets, cleansed their money and are living on investments. How you make money is irrelevant to the world system, it is what you do with the money you make that determines if you live in wealth or poverty. You can make money legally and still go broke.
When we say actions have consequences - even the right ones, it means that making good decisions and living your life right does not mean the universe will reward you with wealth. Most times, it means you won't make money, but you'll be able to sleep because your conscience is clear and you wake up holding the full measure of your integrity. To make money in this world, most times, you need to dead your conscience. It is a dog eat dog world.
The whole point of living right, is because it is right, not because it will fetch you money. Many times, it won't because you convince yourself that all money is not good money. That is the consequences of making the right action. The world system itself rewards ruthlessness. If you get caught and punished- that is consequences. If you never get caught, and you live large - that is consequences.
Actions have consequences- you just never know which one is yours.
An AMERICAN FRAUD SCHEME scamming its own citizens
To my fellow Nigerians, As you make money, Please invest in MEDIA.
We Need to change how we are perceived globally.
This so called fraud scheme has 4 Americans in it
🇺🇸 Aruan Drake, 37, Atlanta, Georgia
🇺🇸 Peter Reed, 35, Oak Forest, Illinois
🇺🇸 Shaquille I. Jackson, 33, Chicago,
Illinois
🇺🇸 Lon Goodman, Chicago area, owner of New Dolton Currency Exchange, laundered ~$50M
The rest are also American citizens with Nigerian parents.
🇳🇬🇺🇸 Ayobami Osas Christopher, aka “Lovely Man”, 30, Lawrenceville, Georgia
🇳🇬🇺🇸 Ayorinde Emmanuel Adebayo, 35, Olympia Fields, Illinois
🇳🇬🇺🇸 Olabode Bankole, 37, Loganville, Georgia
🇳🇬🇺🇸 Chukwuemeka Evulukwu, 35, Atlanta, Georgia
🇳🇬🇺🇸 Kingsley Owusu, 37, Chicago, Illinois
🇳🇬🇺🇸 Oluwafemi Michael Awoyemi, 40, Romeoville, Illinois
11 on that list were not named probably because of their nationality and the backlash.
The only core Nigerians on that list are 4 people, Which I refuse to mention.
So technically. This is an AMERICAN FRAUD SCHEME targeting its own citizens
You see how they use the media to always push narratives.
Nigeria does not have the financial infrastructure to move 215 million dollar.
Don’t let anyone gaslight you.
THIS IS AN AMERICAN THING.
If you have a child under the age of 5years old, pls give them no phones, no tabs, no iPads, no laptops.
Basically no screens.
Scientists have found a relationship between screen exposure and brain damage in kids under 5years old.
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All of you GenZ’s and unlearned millennials that clown Nigeria asking mockingly “why are we even called Giant of Africa, self?” this is why!
In the 60s-90s, Nigeria was literally Africa’s sugar daddy, $20m here, $10m there, and so on and so forth to other African countries! we didn’t only talk about Pan-Africanism we put our money where our mouth was.
Also, at independence, many African countries didn’t have as many educated professionals as Nigeria. In a lot of African countries that gained independence after us from 1963 onwards, the first chief justice, auditor general, surgeon general, vice chancellors of universities were all Nigerians! The first black chief justice of Botswana was Akinola Aguda, the first black chief justice of Gambia was Emmanuel Ayoola, when the portuguese left Mozambique in the 70s Nigerian health care officers (doctors and nurses) were sent to shore up their healthcare system from collapse bcos they just didn’t have enough qualified doctors. after all said and done we sent over 10,000 professionals across africa and the carribeans to help them incubate their newly independent nations
should we even talk about the ECOMOG troops in the 90s that 70% majorly funded (spent over $3b+) and equipped by Nigeria with Nigerian soldiers forming 75% of the peacekeeping force? ECOMOG led by us was highly responsible for ending the Liberian and Sierra Leonean civil wars.
I won’t even go into details of what Nigeria contributed to the South African anti-apartheid efforts!
Nigeria gave and gave and forgot to pay attention to its own development and today we’ve become the pariah amongst nations!
Already knew the other guy wasn’t Nigerian even before he mentioned it.
No Nigerian in that class will even as much as properly respond to salutation from you (as a Nigerian), unless he knows you are in same income bracket as him.
I speak for many people when I say it’s very annoying when you wanna read comments and then you see 500 adverts from the poster.
It screams FARMING.
I’m not against posting ads, but this person has just posted 100 ads, I can’t even see one comment to read or engage.
In life, you will fall out with people you never thought you would.
Get betrayed by people you trusted with all your heart.
And get used by people you would do anything for.
But in all this, never let their ingratitude change who you are.
This is will be my last response on this issue.
If we’re talking about “dragging things into the light,” then let’s drag the whole truth, not the convenient parts.
Because this sudden outrage about foreign healthcare workers is nothing but politics.
When politicians can’t deliver on their promises, they give the public a new villain.
First it was “illegal boats.” Now it’s immigrant healthcare workers.
Anything to distract the public from their own failures.
So let me ask you?
Who accepted these workers?
Who issued the visas?
Who approved the NMC files?
Who oversaw the licensing?
Who signed off the English exams?
I will help you answer that.
It was not Nigeria.
Not the Philippines.
Not “foreign countries.”
It was your own British institutions.
So if there are lapses, then point the blame where it belongs. Point to the system that approved them, not the people who followed the process you created.
And about that CBT scandal, everyone keeps shouting “fraud,” but nobody is talking about the @PearsonVUE company that was responsible for regulating and monitoring the exam. Were they not in charge of accrediting these exam centres? Was that not a failure on their part?
How does fraud go on for five years under an international IT company , and the only time people get vocal is when it’s time to blame Nigerians?
If you create gaps or do not do your job, someone somewhere will exploit them regardless of nationality.
Fraud is not a “foreign” problem.
British professionals have been struck off for fraud, misconduct, and falsifying records too.
So let’s stop pretending like fraud is exclusive to immigrants.
If the government wants to fix the NHS, then fix it. Do your job.
Fix the workforce planning, the pay,the retention, and maybe the verification systems (if you are still not satisfied with that) or just stop employing foreign healthcare workers.
But blaming the very people holding the system together is just politics.
And everyone can see it.
Thank you.
🚨 VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Consultation for the proposed 5yrs to 10yrs 🇬🇧 settlement route has started 😟
The committee is being led by Dame Karen Bradley (Tahajjud and Hallelujah Challenge you know what to do) 🤲🙏
Link to submit evidence: https://t.co/EtpFIrsNm7