Cancer can take everything before you even realise.
The news of Alex Ekubo’s passing is sad and heavy. It reminds us that cancer is something we should constantly talk about.
That also includes talking about the risks:
Smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, a diet packed with heavily processed foods, obesity, family history/genetics, all these things increase the risk.
And as silent as cancer is, it still leaves signs: Unexplained weight loss, extreme fatigue, lumps you can't explain, or seeing blood in your urine or stool.
When your body gives you these warning signs, please see a doctor. Not later, not tomorrow, not when I have time. Regular medical checkups and cancer screenings are also very important because you may not notice the signs early.
Catching it early before it spreads is the best weapon we have. Schedule that screening today.
Rest in peace, Alex Ekubo. Thank you for the years of joy you gave us on screen.
In a Saint Petersburg subway, a quiet man stands among commuters with uncombed hair, a tangled beard, and worn shoes. To anyone passing by, he looks ordinary just another tired passenger heading home. Few would guess that he solved one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics, a puzzle that had resisted the world’s greatest minds for nearly a century.
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman proved the Poincaré Conjecture, a deep question about the fundamental shape of space. The problem was so important that it was listed among the seven Millennium Prize Problems, each carrying a one-million-dollar reward from the Clay Mathematics Institute. Perelman solved it, confirmed the proof, and then refused the money. He had already declined the Fields Medal, mathematics’ highest honor. For him, recognition was unnecessary if the work spoke for itself.
Instead of stepping into fame, Perelman stepped away from academia. He stopped attending conferences, cut ties with research institutions, and withdrew from public scientific life. He returned to a simple, quiet existence in Saint Petersburg, far from universities, ceremonies, and professional politics.
Those who knew him say he was uncomfortable with competition and disputes over credit. He believed science should be about truth, not status. Awards, he felt, distorted what research was supposed to be. In a world where prestige often defines success, he chose to live without it.
Among young people in Russia, Perelman became an unexpected symbol. His face appeared on T-shirts with the words, “You can’t buy everything.” Not brilliance. Not integrity. Not the freedom to live by your own values.
Perelman achieved what almost no one ever will a breakthrough that reshaped modern geometry and then walked away from the spotlight. His story is a reminder that greatness does not always crave attention, that genius does not always seek applause, and that some of the most extraordinary minds move through the world unnoticed, carrying entire universes of thought while riding the subway home.
People make the mistake of using money and value interchangeably in their mental frameworks. This is a horrible mistake.
You can create money out of value but it is almost impossible to backward integrate into value from money. When you have money but have no value to back it up, your biology primes you to seek more money because the hard work required to create value will no longer be appealing. Because you made the money through the easy route, you will only double down and in time you will have none: no money, no value. It may be during your lifetime or immediately after your death. But it’s bound to happen.
When you are building from ground zero, you have no problem in building value since you have nothing anyway. In creating value, money flows to you. After a while, you cherish your value more than you cherish money because you can easily break off some value to create money. Value is scarce, money is abundant.
Nigeria has built a society in which money is used as a reference point for value, yet everything is broken. That’s why you keep hearing the empty cries of “there is money in Nigeria,” a society that has no value for value, and the cries seem hollow. It is a cry for “just get the money,” and thus fraudsters are rewarded and you see girls happily dancing to the tune of finding fraudsters desirable and 9-5ers undesirable.
A fractured society, a society without value that worships money. And you wonder why young men are bitter and young women are demanding for net worths before giving out their number.
This is not trending, but an innocent young man has been killed brutally in lokoja, he was lured in by a neighbor to assist lift something, the neighbor went ahead to kill him, removed his organs and drove out.
Ayo is a young man who is struggling to make ends meet 💔
@LotaBillz@LaLiga@10Ronaldinho Ronaldinho is my greatest player ever. Even though Messi is the G. O. A. T. without any doubt. I just personally like Ronaldinho's style of play. I learnt most of my football skills from him. He was magical to watch. Messi changed my perspective of football and it's amazing
@LotaBillz@LaLiga@10Ronaldinho Me too bro. He made me join this club in 2007. Best decision ever and I will never change that . I had a friend then who chose Man United. Anyway let's just say he regrets it now daily 😂