Guys a Colleague of mine finished her Shift and was brutally murdered on her way home.
Help me to call out the @PoliceNG to fish out her killers.
May her Soul Rest in peace.
May Nigeria not happen to us!
I really want to reply all my chats immediately as they come in but some are billings while some others just type "hi" and "howfar". How do I flow with these "hi" conversations? 😢
My father fled Iran during the revolution.
He landed as a young man in Paris and decided to become a doctor.
But…he failed his first year of medical school. Because he didn’t speak French.
Then, he retook the first year again…and failed for a second time (because he still barely spoke french and was taking organic chemistry in a language with a different alphabet).
He decided to move to Brussels to give it a third try and start over.
And on his third try, he’d learned enough French to pass. He went on and graduated top of his class.
Then, he met my mother and she convinced him to come to the U.S.
He came here with $1000, a suitcase, and, yet again, didn’t speak the native language (now English).
They wouldn’t recognize his foreign MD and no one would give him a residency because he was a foreigner.
So he spent 2 years as a technician working barely above minimum wage.
Then finally, he was finally given a
residency in the U.S.
After residency, he joined my grandfathers practice (moms dad).
Just as he began to develop a reputation, he found himself locked out of his own office. The locks changed on him overnight.
My mother decided to get a divorce.
He had to start over, again, this time on his own.
But he didn’t have the money.
And - to build a surgery center was $250,000 (in 1995 dollars).
He didn’t have that kind of money.
So looked up the legal requirements and he built his own. The entire thing. Himself. To code. Actually. Out of sheer will. And built it for under $30,000 (all the money he had at the time).
Finally, he was on his own.
This time, he kept growing and growing his practice until he became the top eyelid surgeon in Maryland. And eventually, in the U.S.
He’s done more than 16,000 cases meaning somewhere upwards of 50,000+ eyelids.
And every year he (on his own) does more eyelid cases than all of John’s Hopkins eye department combined.
My father taught me many lessons. Most of them through example, not preaching. He’s not a man of many words.
But the few things he did say, he’d say with his actions over and over again:
Failures are just detours.
Don’t let anyone tell you you aren’t good enough for what you want.
Whatever you do, be the best.
God gave you the power to ignore, use it.
It’s better to be envied than pitied.
You won’t even remember their name in 20 years.
You’re only stressed because you’re underprepared.
There’s nothing anyone can put you through that you haven’t already put yourself through that was worse.
And finally…
You only get one name, tell the world what you want it to mean by what you do with it.
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Whenever I go through hard times I like to remember what he went through to make my life possible.
And somehow, everything always falls into focus.
PS - I get a lot credit for what I’ve done. But I often think what he accomplished was far harder than what I have. And - I don’t want his sacrifice to be in vain.
PPS - Whats the best piece of advice your father (or father figure) gave you?
I’m trying to sell out the 29 bottles of yoghurts I made by 1am today. I’m hoping yoghurt lovers will find this tweet.
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These Nigerians spent Christmas and began the new year in captivity: the wife and daughter of the Anglican priest, Rev Edwin Achi, Fr Paschal Bobbo of Kaduna Diocese, Fr Emmanuel Ezema of Zaria Diocese, and many others.
We continue to call for their release.
Please hire Disabled people in 2026
Especially wheelchair users
We arw considered too risky because you can see the disability
But we are more than our wheelchairs
And we are dying of hunger. Literally
Please hire us
2025 Lessons
1. Nobody is coming to save you.
2. Not everything that slows you down is holding you back.
3. The loudest people will get the applause, the position, the opportunities - whether or not they’re competent. If you do good work, talk about it.
4. If you decide to…
When I say that Nigeria is unbelievably backward, some people would start to argue. Some would think it is a political statement.
I pray that we’ll see the light one day and have the collective will to demand a change. Till then, pray Nigeria doesn't happen to you.
Steve Onyeka Omatu is still under the rubble after six days. Three siblings from Ihiala in Anambra state are trapped and Lagos State government have been docile to rescue them. @atiku@PeterObi please we need your voice.
Help us save three siblings trapped.
This is a horrific voice note from traders trapped in the Great Nigeria House fire on Christmas Eve in Lagos.
These people are desperately pleading for help as the building collapsed on them.
@jidesanwoolu
FOR 6DAYS NOW,
THEY HAVE NOT BEEN RESCUED!!!