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I'll tell you a story.
It was the year 2018 and the time of Ramadan, in Minna. I was volunteering with a community group called SISTERS CLOSET, run by Barr. Zahida and a host of other wonderful females.
We were called about a missing girl somewhere around Bosso.
Clean as you cook, wash plates after every meal, have no dirty plates in the sink. "If you can't pick up food from your kitchen floors, you should not be cooking food for people in that kitchen"
Mum ran her kitchen like she had sanitary inspectors coming in daily. I do same now.
I have some people I hope to collaborate with in future.
Have a half- finished manuscript titled Equivalent Exchange that I ws writing with a friend in Uni. We lost contact. I still have the chapters.
Would really love to collaborate honestly.
Have authors ever tried to collaborate? I know academic writers do that for textbooks and papers but have fiction writers ever collaborated to write a novel?
If you're my friend and you haven't read my debut book, what kind of friend are you? Currently sold out at the publisher, but copies are still available at @SpineandLabel in Abuja, @Ouida_Lagos in Ikeja, and @adamspagesabuja in Abuja too.
One thing Fatima Bala does remarkably well? Foreshadowing. You’ll read something on page 307 and trace it back to a random tidbit she wrote on page 95. And if you think deeply enough, you realise that it was actually suggested on page 3.
We invited a candidate to an interview and sent him our meeting link.
The candidate rejected it and sent us his own meeting link that we should join him instead 😂😂😭😭
Delighted, fam🎉
I was accepted into the Château d'Orquevaux Artists & Writers Residency in France, and offered the Denis Diderot Grant, to be applied to the Residency cost.
Here's to a further affirmation that my works continue to resonate with global audience.
Cheers 🥂
I don't like people who, in meetings, start to raise points that were already answered in the documents/resources sent to them before the meeting.
Except you need clarification on a point, read the materials you're sent, and stop stressing people!
This is the son of a politician explaining how his family had to flee Zamfara after kidnappers attacked their neighbourhood and threatened to return.
They had total of 7 armed vehicles to protect them!
4 army van, two police and one Civil defence vehicles that could have protected an entire community was at at beck and call of one family.
What about the ordinary families in Zamfara who don't have armed escorts, police backup, or the resources to relocate overnight?
These guys don’t care about you and I
When you delay a payment , you’re actually affecting people’s lives.
Especially for work already done. I need the big companies to understand this. It’s so unfair.
Yes, and…
The issue is what the religion delineates. Not what an individual feels/ does
And what we’re witnessing in real time is MM literally changing the dictates of the religion in 4k
The financial obligation for the family is on the man. QED
I don’t subscribe to the-
Not a thread of people kidnapped.
Not a thread about the looming food insecurity.
Not a thread about even sane things like movies, flowers, or books.
Your thread is about sexual harrasment in 2026. Allah ya shirye ka.
After all the sallah celebration is over. We will do a bwest card thread 🧵 I've saved every single one 😂😂 these girls need to learn the hard way make them no do am next year. 😂