Men are so private online. A guy could be moving to another country or having his first child, and he’d still only post a random football score on his story.
I’m currently on my way back home and I spent 21,100 in total.
500 per camisole(10)
750 per lounge pant(10)
500 per oversized top(10)
300 per top bras(2)
Transport to and fro:3k
I saved 48,900.
I got a call from the Chief Security Officer of my former office
He said he needed a loan of ten million Naira
I asked him what he needed the loan for
He said his wife had recently clocked 50 and she had never had a child, so he wanted to use the money to pay for IVF so that she could become a mother
I knew he had children because while we were working together, he would often complain to other staff members who had children about school fees, the conduct of one of his daughters, and so on.
So I said, "Papa T, I know you have three children, so your request is a bit confusing."
He said after ten years of marriage without children, he got another lady pregnant and married her as his second wife.
This lady was the one who bore him his three children.
He said he eventually told his first wife about it, and she accepted the younger wife and children, but she still wanted to have children of her own.
I asked him if they had been to the doctor and if the doctor had recommended IVF treatment for his wife.
He said the doctor gave them options, including surrogacy, IVF, and some others
He was earning a hundred thousand Naira a month at the church where he was working as CSO
While he was working with an oil company, when he was younger, he had built a modest house at Alakuko in Lagos
It was this house that he wanted to use as collateral to get the loan he needed for the IVF treatment.
I applauded him for his steadfast support towards his first wife, but I told him getting a loan to do IVF when you don't have a means to repay the loan is a bad idea.
I have sponsored the IVF of many people, and I can categorically say that IVF is not an exact science. I have seen it fail more times than it succeeded.
I know those who did it nineteen times, only for the last one to produce children.
I know those who did it fourteen times, ten times, five times, etc
I counselled him to encourage his first wife to accept the children of the second wife as her own or to adopt a child either officially or from a relative to raise as her own.
I am a parent, and I was once a child.
The irony of being desperate to have children has always stayed with me.
A couple starts life together, they have children who take everything from them without giving anything tangible in return most times. The children grow up and leave the house. The couple goes back to being without children in a sense. That is the cycle of life.
When I see wives who are desperate to have children to the point of falling into depression, becoming suicidal, and languishing in deep sorrow for their inability to conceive, I consider such women to be very dangerous and selfish.
To define yourself by something so fleeting and consider your life a waste without having it is not only ridiculous, it is a wanton display of foolishness.
It proves you are not in the marriage to love and be loved by your husband. To you, he is only a means to an end. The end being your child or children.
After such women become mothers, their marriages suffer a lot. They also overcompensate towards the children and do not raise them very well. At the end of the day, they play a significant role in their children's lives until they die. Often blackmailing the children emotionally and ruining their other love attachments, especially relationships and marriages.
The husband they were supposed to bond with and grow old with, they would have bashed and treated with scorn, only to latch on to the children as their support system in their old age.
I told Mr. CSO and His wife all this when I had the opportunity to counsel them. I believe in Miracle Babies, either through IVF or by Supernatural conception or natural conception, all children are the same, and they are a blessing of the Lord in my sight.
I celebrate all the miracle babies born in GSWMI daily, and I thank the Lord Jesus for them.
I will not, however, counsel any couple to sell their properties or take huge financial loans in order to fund an IVF treatment.
They thanked me and left with the wife promising to stop nagging her husband and wait on the Lord.
This morning at 2:35 AM, my phone started buzzing persistently. I ignored it. I picked up the phone at 4:30 AM and saw videos, voice notes, and chat messages from Mr. CSO.
He said he needed help urgently
He collected a loan of 20 million Naira from a company three years ago to fund the IVF treatment of his wife.
They had done six sessions and exhausted the fund without any result.
He took the loan at 30% interest rate per month and now owes them 236,000,000 Naira.
He had been taken to court, and his properties had been forfeited to the loan company. The company came to enforce the court order last Friday, and he and his family had been scattered to the wind.
The second wife and the last child had gone back to her parents' house at Ijegun. The first two children are in the University. The first wife had also gone to stay with her younger sister's family somewhere in Ibadan.
He is currently sleeping in the security house at the pastor's house while still working as the CSO of the pastor's church.
He said the value of his house was about 45 million, and as things stand, he is still owing the company almost two hundred million.
He had been declared wanted by the police after he escaped being charged in court for a deficiency balance on the loan.
He said he believes he must either leave Nigeria or end up in jail.
He had sold his car, the grinding machine of his wife, and other things that they could sell. He said he is in danger of losing his job because he couldn't go to the office so as not to get arrested, but he is currently on leave while he sorts out his affairs.
He said he needed whatever help I could give him.
I asked him if he had gotten any help or support from either of his wives or their family members.
He said his second wife hates him at the moment, and her children have refused to take his calls.
He said his first wife has two plots of land in her name somewhere in Ikorodu. He said he begged her to sell the land and send him the money so he could leave Nigeria with it, even if it would only take him as far as Ghana.
He said she told him that was everything she had to show for all the years of sacrifices she spent with him, and refused to entertain the thought.
The wise thing for me to do would be to say "I told you so". But it wouldn't have been the humane thing to do.
I assured him of my love and support in this trying time. We prayed together, and I ended the call.
PS: When men forget that their value to those in their lives is intrinsically linked to the benefit they offer in terms of shelter, food, clothing, and finances. They gamble with it and discover that they are nothing to their loved ones when the gamble fails.
-GSW-
Nigeria lost N52.26 BILLION to fraud in 2024.
Fraud cases jumped 65% in a single quarter.
I built a machine learning fraud detection system for African mobile money, and here are some interesting findings.
Most fraud models are trained on clean data with obvious patterns.
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一 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Pa Isaac Omolehin 🗣: You are going to patiently listen to me because some of the things I want to say you will not be comfortable with it, out of 10 richest pastors in the world 5 of them are Nigerians but out of 10 richest churches in the world none of them is Nigerian.."
People keep saying that "batteries are bad" because:
"batteries don't create energy. batteries consume energy."
Nothing. Creates. Energy.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed.
"Energy production" and "energy consumption" are economic terms — not physics terms.
We don't actually produce or consume energy.
We direct energy.
The function of a battery is not upstream energy harvesting, but that's also not the function of a thermal generator.
The energy doesn't come from the generator.
The energy comes from the fuel.
We have to extract, refine, and transport that fuel. The generator is there to dispatch that chemical potential energy as electricity when it's needed.
That's what batteries do too, because:
Batteries ARE generators.
Batteries aren't electromechanical generators, but neither are photovoltaics or fuel cells.
Like chemical-fueled thermal generators, batteries convert chemical potential energy into electrical energy. The difference with batteries is that the process has fewer steps and is easily reversible.
Batteries provide a buffer, matching up supply and demand in time. They act as a cache, providing higher peak power at lower latency than a thermal generator of comparable mass or cost.
Batteries are an extremely useful tool for directing the flow of energy.
Batteries don't "create energy" — that's true.
Nothing. Creates. Energy.
First off, you’re not as fly as me, can’t sing or make music like me,u can’t dress, u don’t make more money than me, u don’t even got hoes like me. U don’t know yourself. U’re cheap , u pull up for less than we do! Now fuck off u spoilt Rich child ! That’s all u are ! Fuck u and your dad’s money we got ours! Every nigga around u broke! U dumb ass lawyer flies with you everywhere dressed like basket mouth lol , our lawyers are too busy for dat shit! U kids!
Hand don touch everybody😂 all my male friends don sabi cook😭
Any small thing, “chill please I’m in the kitchen trying to fix something to eat”😭 you no go fix ke🤣🤣🤣
My dear brother Paul,
Just like I have told you several times, I am not in any competition with you or anybody else. However, seeing you grant countless interviews where you constantly discredit my efforts in the group that we both created and built together really speaks volumes. In your recent interviews, you claimed that you wrote and sang 99% of all P-SQUARE songs and discredited me by saying that our song with TI "EjeaJo," which I wrote, was a failure. You went as far as using the YouTube views to discredit me once again.
You never acknowledged the other songs like "Get-Squared," "Bizzy Body," "Personally," "Roll It," "Temptation," "Alingo," "More than a Friend," "Shekini," "Say Your Love," "Gimme Dat," "Senorita," "IGBEdu," and a few others. Were these songs also considered failures as well?
Every time I have spoken in interviews about P-SQUARE, I have always used "we" and "us" because I saw us as a team. But whenever you speak, it’s always "I" and "me," even when I’m standing right beside you. It’s as if I never existed.
My brother, neither of us is the most talented artist in the world, but you fail to understand that God gave us this talent and even granted us another chance to excel after our last breakup. Instead, you chose to turn the most awarded and decorated music group in Africa into a laughingstock again.
One thing you need to understand clearly is that the fans didn’t fall in love with P-SQUARE because of who sang or danced the most. What made us special was the magic that came from our combined effort - us two! P-SQUARE was a force, and the fans fell in love with P-SQUARE because of our uniqueness and unity. We both have talent, no doubt, and I have often praised you in our interviews for your songwriting ability. I have also praised anyone who has ever written a song for us or even for me as Mr. P. But instead of showing gratitude for my kind words, you seem to find satisfaction in rubbing it in my face, forgetting that it is by God’s grace that we have come this far.
Rather than joining forces with me to reclaim our number 1 spot in the music industry, you chose to team up with Jude to claim the number 1 spot in the P-SQUARE group, always looking for opportunities to marginalize and humiliate me.
You are always claiming to be P-SQUARE’s songwriter, composer, producer, singer, backup vocalist, in fact you are everything including P-SQUARE’s video director, band, promoter, manager, even the choreographer. You are the Author and Finisher of P-SQUARE! In fact, I dash you 100% of everything instead of the 99% you claim.
I blame myself for not responding to your tweet claims in April 2015 that you wrote and sang all of P-SQUARE’s songs. I didn’t respond to these false claims for the sake of peace, as advised by family and friends, and now I am paying dearly for it.
So, my brother, let me ask you: Is Rudeboy or Mr P bigger and more successful than P-SQUARE today? Are we individually selling out arenas and stadiums like P-SQUARE used to? Are we topping world music charts with our songs as solo artistes?
Do we command crowds and entertain massive audiences like P-SQUARE?
I often find myself wondering, what do you truly gain by constantly disrespecting and belittling me all the time. You have disrespected my wife, disrespected my family, disrespected my talent, disrespected my ideas, and even sided with Jude when he was clearly trying to oppress me. Now, it feels like you have taken it even further by trying so hard to turn the fans against me by making them believe I’m jealous of you.
You have been doing everything for the fans to hate me, but guess what? They will never hate me; instead, they will hate us both because we have disappointed and failed them.
I hope you are happy now. I genuinely wish you nothing but the best, bro! As for those who believe these lies and false narratives and come to my page to drop negative comments, I understand because you have been fed the wrong narrative for a long time.
The bottom line is:
Love gives. Love gives. And Love keeps giving until it can give no more.
Love can receive but the priority and focus of love is always to give.
Once the motivation, focus and priority is always to receive, to take and to collect- that is not “love”. That is exploitation rebranded as “love language”.
But many of you don’t know because ole lo poju larin yin.