Febechukwu

A professional listener

[Tech_baby @Tech_babby]

Proof that Nigerians are the most talented people in the world.👏🏾👏🏾

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

So if Alex Onyia didn’t decide to take these kids to Rome, you mean the world would not have seen us win gold?

Some other country would have won and we would have thought they were the brightest on earth?

Bad Governance is hiding the greatness of Nigerians.

I’ve said on previous tweets that Nigerians are the brightest and smartness people on earth. No enabling environment to showcase that brilliance.

[Febechukwu @febemusings]

@Favour_Ogazi Married people, that's how they behave

[Febechukwu @febemusings]

@dwoatawbmfj Please can you send it to me, thank you

[Febechukwu @febemusings]

@starthereader Please can I know

[Apostle Emmanuel Iren @pst_iren]

He that finds a wife...should stop looking for other girls

[Pelumi @Msliterarylover]

At some point, I thought Evelyn Hugo in “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” was real.
I wanted to Google her at some point. The writing of that book was too good!

[Jade Osiberu @jadeosiberu]

I know a number of people who didn’t marry their “spec” but are in the healthiest marriages I know. Their spec was typically whatever was culturally deemed to be at the apex of the attractiveness pyramid when they were growing up. For a lot of guys in my generation, it was the music video “vixens” from the late 90s/early 2000s Hip & R&B music videos with ‘coke bottle figures’ and or light skinned eurocentric features. When it’s time to find a partner for the very serious endeavor of sharing a life with, that “spec” is simply inadequate as a measure of compatibility and that’s understandable. The foolishness though is communicating it as though their partner somehow didn’t measure up to their “spec” instead of simply admitting that the idea of their spec was stupid all along and a young boy’s lack of wisdom of what makes a good life partner.

Communicating publicly or even privately to your partner that they weren’t your spec to begin with may seem harmless, after-all you’re just being honest. But subconsciously, it’s an ego trip for you who “settled” and for your the partner, it’s a chip they will always carry on their shoulder that to you, they aren’t quite enough. They’re missing something you had always longed for, so much so that you still consider it to be your “spec”. It’s an unnecessary mind fuck and a cruel thing to say about somebody who is sharing a life with you. No matter how flowery you are with the compliments that come after. You’ve already knocked them down several pegs.

If the point is to say your spec changed then talk about the stupidity of having a spec to begin with. Because I’ve never heard anyone in these situations talk about character attributes being their spec, it’s always superficial stuff. Or speak about how meeting your partner opened your eyes to what true beauty is. Speak in ways that elevate and affirm your partner.

[Febechukwu @febemusings]

@a__vanita I said it yesterday, she's successful

[Charms @The_amakaaa]

If you don't fulfill your own promises, you are sending a message to the world that you are not a person to be taken seriously. I cannot explain this logic but I believe wholeheartedly in it.

If you don't believe me, start doing everything you say you'll do and see how the world adjust around you!

[Febechukwu @febemusings]

@_oyeyiola @yetundebirisowo They spoilt it already

[Febechukwu @febemusings]

@KaiUzama 😂😂

[Favour Adeniyi 🤭 @afrotechbabe]

Please continue to name and shame the olodos. Enough is enough 🤲🏽

[Febechukwu @febemusings]

@toyosialliowe @sil_vee_yah Thank you

[Favour Y. @FavourYusuf1]

Fisayo Fosudo, Eric Guaga, Salem King, Adaora Lumina, Tosin Oladeinde, and a host of others like them exist.

Even if you want pure comedy, there's Dezny, Layi, and even Hauwa.

You are just not saying the quiet part out loud.

The people you are selling to are mostly olodos that don't have an attention span.

That's why Peller is an option for you to do influencer marketing.

There is a reason why Chinese TikTok is focused on maths and science. And why the US forced ByteDance to sell its US arm.

It's a sad thing when you have a nation where majority of the population wants money so they can just eat, shit and have copious amounts of sex, with a sprinkle of vanity items acquired along the way.

Olodo uprising indees

[Emmanuel Echeta @PenTitan]

"I won't vote"
"I don't have a PVC"
"My vote won't even count"

You follow for the Olodo Uprising

[Eche Emole 🅰️🌶 @Echecrates]

Olodo Uprising extends to reading comprehension as well. It's tough out here

[Toscamit @Toscamit]

Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead", in typical Ayn Rand fashion, fantastically dissects this dilemma. The masses will want what the masses will want. Some get rich by giving the masses what they want. Others shake their heads at the debauchery.

The leaders of societies that successfully reward excellence/meritocracy do so deliberately against the will of the masses, while a subset of exceptional people cater specifically to the minority who value and cherish excellence.

In Nigeria, the issue in this dynamic is brain drain, which isn't covered in Rand's book. When too many of the excellence-lovers remove themselves from both leadership and broader society, all you have left are the masses and leaders who endlessly pander to them. Without a critical mass of high achievers, society wallows in mediocrity indefinitely.

[Dearest B 🦋 @BlehisBack]

In anyways, i think stupidity selling is here to stay.

More people will see this pattern and start tearing their clothes on camera. People will find innovative way to be stupid, because there is enough case study to show that it truly sells.

Olodo has uprisen, is uprising and will continue to uprise.

[Dearest B 🦋 @BlehisBack]

There’s something we’re not being entirely honest about in this conversation, so I’ll say it.
It hurts to see someone who, in our eyes, put in less effort than we did, succeed.

- In academics, you spend an entire semester studying while someone who barely attended classes ends up with better grades. It hurts.
- You grind your way to a First Class, only to watch someone without one land an amazing job. It hurts.
- You spend years honing your craft, yet someone who seems to put in minimal effort gets the opportunities, the followers, the brand deals, and the bigger paychecks. It hurts.

You think, "I sabi pass this guy na." "I try pass this babe na."… Heck the money Lobistar makes here in two weeks is more than many brilliant people who have hustled relentlessly for years can even imagine.

Deep down, we believe rewards should be proportional to effort. More than that, we have a very specific idea of what effort is supposed to look like.

I also believe excellence and intellectual depth deserve to be rewarded more than mediocrity.
But if we're being honest, part of our frustration is that we don't think these people deserve the fame, wealth, or success they've amassed because they didn't painstakingly follow the path that, in our minds, should lead to those rewards.

Maybe we're right.
Or maybe we’re hurt by the gap between what we believe we deserve and how the world actually works.

Because the truth is, some people will excel simply because they're more beautiful, funnier, more charismatic or even entertainingly foolish. The world doesn't always reward talent or effort the way we'd like it to.

And painful as it is, we have to make peace with that.