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.
I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
You live in Ikorodu and work in VI.
You leave home at 4am. to beat traffic and get to work at 6am.
You don't get home till 10 pm, eat sleep and repeat.
Then you use Saturday to run errands
Sunday, you spend half the day in church.
By the time you get home, eat, and rest, you are getting ready for work on Monday.
This is one of the reasons most people wake up every morning angry at their job.
But they still use the income from that job to fund the same lifestyle that keeps them stuck.
A 9-5 is not meant to be your forever plan.
It’s meant to be your capital source.
It gives you:
• predictable income
• access to credit (if used wisely)
• stability while you build skills
• room to make mistakes without starving
The mistake is spending 100% of your salary as if this job is guaranteed forever.
Smart people do something different.
They use their 9-5 to:
• pay their bills without panic
• fund a side skill or business quietly
• build an emergency buffer
• invest consistently, even if small
• buy time to think long term
Your exit doesn’t start the day you resign.
It starts the day your salary stops controlling your choices.
Use your job to buy freedom, not comfort.
Let the salary fund:
• learning
• experiments
• small investments
• a cushion for risk
When your side income can carry your basic life, the job loses its power over you.
That’s what an exit really is.
Not quitting in anger.
But walking away in control.
If you’re still employed, you’re not late.
You’re funded.
The question is simple:
Is your 9-5 financing your future, or just maintaining your present?
If you’re a young Nigerian and you feel like you didn’t make progress this year, please read this slowly.
Progress is not always money.
Progress is not always relocation.
Progress is not always a new car, title, or house.
In Nigeria, staying sane is progress.
Choosing not to be bitter is progress.
Learning a skill while the system frustrates you is progress.
Refusing crime when crime looks like the fastest way out is progress.
Progress is waking up every day in a country that keeps moving the goalpost and still choosing hope.
Some of you:
•Supported your family on a small income
•Paid school fees with stress and dignity
•Didn’t give up when your plans collapsed
•Survived inflation, fear, uncertainty, and silence
That is not failure.
That is resilience under extreme pressure.
The world measures success in years.
Nigeria measures it in endurance.
If you’re still standing, still dreaming, still learning, still trying you are not late. You are being forged.
History does not remember those who had it easy.
It remembers those who survived impossible systems and still built greatness.
One day, the same world ignoring you today will call your story “inspiring.”
Keep going.
There were times in Nigeria when the President would present a budget to the national Assembly and they would seriously debate it.
I recall that during Bukola Saraki’s era, the Senate spent four good days debating the 2016 budget at first reading. It was rigorous, thorough, and engaging.
The senators at the time were not exceptional nor were they corruption-free. However, they showed a bit of serious effort in the discharge of their legislative duties. Nigerians could see genuine opposition!
Now, all we have are a bunch of stomach-infrastructure hustlers, who think and act solely according to the dictates of their groaning stomachs.
This explains why Tinubu presented a budget to them yesterday and all they could do was sing “On Your Mandate” and bow to the Emperor.
They would spend the next few days padding the so-called budget with fictitious figures. No issues outlining, meticulous study, or exhaustive debate!✍️
Here are some of the prominent names that helped send @MBuhari to Aso Rock:
1. Dr. Oby Ezekwesili
2. Fela Durotoye
3. Atiku Abubakar
4. Omoyele Sowore
5. Donald Duke
6. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
7. Professor Charles Soludo
8. Pastor Tunde Bakare
9. Pastor Sunday Adelaja
10. Father Ejike Mbaka
11. Professor Pastor Yemi Osibanjo
12. Professor Tam David West
13. Professor Wole Soyinka
14. Rev. Chris Okotie
15. Professor Pat Utomi
16. Nasir El-Rufai
17. Dino Melaye
18. Lai Mohammed
19. Rochas Okorocha
20. Rotimi Amaechi
21. Adams Oshiomhole
22. Dr. Bukola Saraki
23. Aminu Tambuwal
24. Bola Ahmed Tinubu
25. Raji Fashola
26. Dr. Chris Ngige
27. Rabiu Kwankwaso
28. Ibikunle Amosun
29. Rauf Aregbesola
30. Fayemi
Others are:
1. Sanusi Lamido
2. Deacon Femi Adesina
3. Pastor E.A Adeboye
4. Pastor Kumuyi
5. Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu
6. Kenny Ogunmbe
7. Dato Adeneye
8. Magnus Abbey
9. Dakuku Peterside
10. 9ice
11. Kenny St. Ogungbe Brown
12. Tunde Disu
13. John Momoh
14. Maupe Ogun
15. Chamberlain O.
16. Suleiman Aleide
17. Monday Onyekachi Ubani
18. Iffy Ubani
19. Labourous Osuoma
20. Citizen Useni Jones (Radio continental 102.3FM).
21. Joe Igbokwe
These people and the entire RCCG actually believed that Buhari had what it takes to lead Nigeria into a first world.
These people went to school. Many are professors. Some claimed to have direct access to God.
Some are gifted with "prophesies".
They read history. They understood international relations. They understood how societies work or so we thought.
They were more than 20 years old in 1983 when Buhari shot himself to power.
They saw Buhari murder innocent Nigerians in 1983.
They saw Buhari destroy the economy in 1983.
They saw the role Buhari played in Abacha's government.
They read all the threats of violence by Buhari against the nation.
They saw Buhari harass Lam Adesina the Oyo State Governor due to Fulani herdsmen conflicts with locals in Oyo State.
They saw Buhari lead the sharia protest that claimed the lives of innocent Nigerians in 2001.
They saw Buhari and his minions open the gate of hell on innocent Nigerians when he lost the presidential election in 2011.
If Buhari was not speaking and defending his Fulani heritage he would be fighting to defend his religious heritage.
Never for once did he defend Nigeria or gave interview on how to rebuild the economy, education, power, health, etc.
They saw everything this man did. They knew him too well to miss the little details of his violent life.
But they were united in hatred.
Hatred for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. One among the few Nigeria leaders that actually wanted Nigeria to work.
Hatred became a unifying force to push forward a false narrative.
They exploited his humility.
They exploited his kindness.
They exploited his humanity
They danced and made merry in Ojota. They ate, drank and danced away the destiny of a nation.
Saints Tinubu, Amaechi, Fashola etc led the chorus against ‘corrupt’ Goodluck Jonathan.
Tinubu a private jet owner and owner of Lagos, Amaechi a private jet owner and funder of Buhari campaign, Atiku a University owner paid with his civil service allowance etc wanted ‘corrupt’ Goodluck Jonathan out.
But the people did not see the moral paradox because you see - hate is a unifying factor.
They mobilised thugs to stone a sitting President.
They harassed his family wherever they went.
Because they are from the hated minority who must NOT be king.
For Kings must come from the Fulani lineage. Jonathan is Ijaw. Ijaws should not be Kings.
Jonathan must not loot also.
For looters must come from enablers of evil.
These are intellectuals.
Amongst whom are Pastors and Prophets.
Wisdom failed.
Prophesies failed.
WAEC issued a fake WAEC attestation to Buhari.
It is possible many Nigerian "intellectuals" are working with fake certificates.
A nation without conscience is a curse to its people.
We all are standing on the podium of history.
Surely our children will read the roles we played in the salvation or annihilation of humanity.