Great question.
Yes, blood will come out if you poke almost anywhere.
But for a blood test, we don’t just need blood—we need a clean, continuous sample.
Veins are:
✅ Closer to the skin
✅ Larger and easier to access
✅ Low-pressure vessels (safer)
✅ Less painful than hitting arteries
If we “chook” randomly, we may get:
❌ Very little blood
❌ Tissue fluid mixed with the sample
❌ Bruising and pain
❌ An inaccurate test result
Think of it this way:
A vein is like tapping directly into a water pipe.
Poking anywhere else is like digging randomly in wet soil and hoping to collect enough water.
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These conversations do not come as a shock to me. Precedence dictates expectation.
The SE, North, etc have historically maintained a heavily conservative approach regarding non-indigene participation in areas ranging from land ownership, residency to political power.
Yorubas conversely, in their instinctive bid for hospitality especially in the light of the then just ended Biafra War, have practiced a perhaps unhealthy ultra-liberal, restriction-free accommodation of non-indigenes, and as a result, you can’t expect a people to respect a boundary you never set in the first place.
That’s why for these discussions, Lagos will always be the focal case-study. Not with Northerners, where their fierce conservatism triggers an immediate, reactionary pushback to the slightest perceived incursion, nor with Igbos where as basic as Land ownership by non-indigenes is exceptional, but the place that has served as a historical epicenter of boundary-less accommodation.
Virtually all other regions established clear boundaries, it's only natural to see this pushback in the one region that didn’t. The current tension is simply the result of a region finally trying to establish boundaries where none previously existed.
P.S: I think if these guys say it’s Igbo not Ibo, the insistence on the latter becomes malicious and unnecessary.
what's the market size of chocolate and butter in Nigeria? Even in Africa as a whole? What's the chocolate consumption per capita here. The truth is that, there's simply no market for chocolate here. Economic nationalists always get it wrong.
Nothing scales a business faster than access to capital and strong execution.
Item7go now has 22 branches in Ibadan alone.
In Lagos, they’ve expanded into Ikeja, Festac, Surulere and VI all in just two years.
That kind of growth speaks for itself.
'Wage Bill Cripples Lagos Govt' on July 1, 1999. This is the Lagos Asiwaju inherited! Its cast in stone!
Where are the clowns quick to mention Former FCT? Where are the enviously bitter 'ignoramuses' throwing the name of Jakande around? Wasn't this same Lagos he governed? Awon Olote!
Truth is the only way!
Double Standards Exposed: New Ilorin Chief Imam Prostrates Before Emir, Same Muslims Who Dragged Lateef Adedimeji for Kneeling Before Ooni Stay Silent
Earlier today, the Grand Mufti of Ilorin led the newly appointed Chief Imam of Ilorin, the Mallami Ubandoma of Ilorin, alongside other prominent Islamic scholars, to the Emir's Palace to express gratitude to the Emir of Ilorin for the appointment. During the visit, the new Chief Imam prostrated before the Emir.
The incident has exposed a glaring double standard. The same Muslims who viciously dragged Nollywood actor Lateef Adedimeji for kneeling and prostrating before the Ooni of Ife are now completely silent. Their own Chief Imam prostrated before a traditional ruler, yet no condemnation, no outrage, no accusations of shirk.
If I were to advise someone who is considering buying stocks in the market right now, my recommended allocation would be:
MTN Nigeria: 30%
Seplat Energy: 25%
Custodian Investment: 20%
Wema Bank: 15%
The Initiates: 10%
The thinking is simple.
We want the bulk of the money in companies that are already proven. Coys with scale. Coys with cash flow. Coys that can survive difficult cycles and still keep producing earnings.
Then we want a smaller part of the portfolio in names that can grow faster, but where we must also respect the risks.
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Truth is...
Excluding Lagos...
All South West States are better than Kano in
- Adult Literacy
- Female Literacy
- Child Literacy
- School Enrollment
- School Attendance
- WAEC
- NECO
- JAMB
- Education in general
- Vocational education
- Income Earned
- Life Expectancy
- IGR
- IGR per Capita
- Formal Employment
- Manufacturing
- Services Industry
- Doctors per Capita
- Immunization coverage
- Maternal Mortality
- Access to primary healthcare
- FDI
- FPI
I can go on and on and on...
See its so bad that across all human development indices all South West State beat Kano hands down. ALL!
So if the focus is education, human development, literacy, poverty reduction and other quality of life indicators...
Kano cannot touch the helm of the non-Lagos South-West states.
The nose is far from the forehead, lets know what we are doing abeg.
📊 HOW DOES KANO COMPARE TO SOUTH WEST STATES (EXCLUDING LAGOS)?
💵 IGR PER CAPITA
Kano — ₦4,422 (22nd)
South West States
Ogun — ₦28,692 (3rd)
Ondo — ₦9,065 (11th)
Osun — ₦8,970 (12th)
Ekiti — ₦8,287 (14th)
Oyo — ₦6,344 (16th)
📉 MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX (2022)
Kano — 62% (21st)
South West States
Ondo — 27.2% (37th)
Ekiti — 36.0% (32nd)
Osun — 40.7% (31st)
Oyo — 48.7% (26th)
Ogun — 68.1% (20th)
👤 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX (HDI)
Kano — 0.482 (28th)
South West States
Ekiti — 0.612 (11th)
Ondo — 0.611 (12th)
Osun — 0.607 (14th)
Oyo — 0.603 (15th)
Ogun — 0.569 (21st)
📚 LITERACY RATE
Kano — 54.6% (25th)
South West States
Ogun — 85.7% (8th)
Ekiti — 84.9% (9th)
Osun — 84.5% (10th)
Oyo — 80.7% (13th)
Ondo — 75.6% (16th)
🤝 EASE OF DOING BUSINESS
Kano — 9th (Top tier)
South West States
Oyo — 3rd (Top tier)
Ogun — 5th (Top tier)
Ekiti — 8th (Top tier)
Ondo — Lower tier
Osun — Lower tier
Kano performs better than most South West states only in Ease of Doing Business rankings, while South West states generally lead in income per capita, human development, literacy, and poverty reduction indicators.
#StatiSense
(PEBEC, State of the States Report, NBS, BudgIT)
As a man, in your journey in life, someday somewhere, you are going to meet a woman, who is beautiful, charming, can hold a conversation, makes a very good company, very lovely to be around, very sound, very articulate, hot stature, gentle, ticks almost every boxes, looks like the ideal woman but she will be a prostitute, one thing inside you would want to get her out of it, “she seems ideal, she’s not supposed to be doing this”. Your hero complex would wake up, you would want to do more for her thinking she can be much more, please don’t, leave her to her fate.
This advice would be here for future generations to come, I hope you get it and just walk away, don’t learn the hard way.