You think I'm happy living abroad?
I have a family I grew up with, whom I love with all of my heart - and the reality keeps dawning on me, on how many times I will see them before I one day turn 60.
People I saw daily, or once a month - I haven't seen in years, and would realistically only see once a year, going forward.
You think I'm happy?
That one day, I might end up having children and my siblings might not have the relationship with them - the relationship I had with my uncles, in my formative years? I remember clearly how they would take us to MrBiggs every Sunday - I am currently reliving the flavour from that meatpie.
How we would go to the family house in Ikeja, every year for Eid. The grandchildren uniforms, the snacks while watching your uncles slaughter rams.
You think I'm happy that I might one day lead a family of children who might not know their version of that?
WTF will I be doing in another man's land, if I did everything they asked me to do from childhood (face your studies, be exceptional, stay away from crime, be hardworking) and opportunities lined up for me to be the best I could, in my motherland? WTF will I be doing here?
Why will I condescend myself to living in a clime where I have to mentally switch from sun burning weather to teeth clenching winter - when I came from a land where I never needed gloves? You think I'm happy?
If I could do honest work, be on my way home and not have to bother about the risk of getting shot by the people meant to protect me, because I have some lines of tattoos on my body - you think I would leave?
If I could trust a justice system to defend me, ensure my rights even though I am a nobody - have trustworthy institutions banking on the highest standards, not have to worry about the bread I eat, the fake drinks from the club or streets, the fake drugs - you think I would leave?
Don't get me wrong. I am grateful for the opportunities this clime has given me, to test my limits - to be everything I thought I could be. But all of these, in replacement for the soul I grew up with?
You know the satisfaction that settled within me when I could wake up on a Saturday morning, stroll to the Iya wanke's place - relish an entire plate, or some ewa agonyin while watching children battle it out, in a 5 v 5 across the streets.
That communal living that relished my soul, is now replaced with silent streets and finely divided sealed terraces.
You walk through the city centres in the evenings - you see friends having an aperitif (they do so every evening), you see grandfathers meeting up with their children, you see entire families with extended families living across the streets, first cousins are even able to use the same gym and you remember what that looked like for you back home?
You think of all your friends scattered across continents, some you might never get to hug again.
For a lot of diasporans, you don't want Nigeria to work more than us. A lot of us want to come home, but what is home? Where is home? When will home feel like home?
I hope to continue living life without lack, in comfort, with accomplished dreams - but I want to do so, with soul. When I die one day, I want to do so - with soul.
As a mobile videographer/creative... I work with my feelings. And that feelings can be influenced by 3 things; How much the gig pays, how the client communicates and how I'm treated at the event. These factors will determine how eager I'll be to give you the very best.
PART TWO!
Ugandan Lady: The truth is we are disciplined and well-trained. It is not like that with Nigerian women. That's why your men leave you and come to us.
Hear the response of the Nigerian lady.✍️
One of the most foolish things about women is a lack of long-term thinking and awareness of consequences. You are actually placing the power of relationships, marriages and reproduction into the hands of men.
Women have menopause, but men do not. Men will now be able to continue taking birth control until they are ready to have children, while women will be forced to rely on men’s decisions and approval in order to conceive.
Men can continue taking it until they die or whenever they are ready to have children, and we all know men often prefer to wait until their late 30 after making it.
Men would gladly welcome it, as it could reduce paternity fraud, baby trapping, and being pressured into marriage.
It would allow them to make reproductive decisions on their own terms, and they would have greater control over reproduction.
Dumb idiots.
“I never touched your phone.”
The first post showed how phones can reconstruct a meeting someone tried to hide.
This time someone insists they never touched your device.
“I never opened your messages.”
At first glance nothing looks wrong.
No new messages sent.
No settings changed.
Nothing obvious.
But phones quietly record small system events that tell a different story.
At 1:18 AM the device wakes.
No notification. No call. No alarm.
At 1:19 AM Face ID fails twice.
One second later the correct passcode is entered. The phone unlocks.
At 1:20 AM the Messages app opens.
No messages are sent but the logs show multiple conversations being opened.
At 1:22 AM the Photos app opens.
The user scrolls through the gallery for nearly three minutes. During that time the system generates image cache files and thumbnail previews.
At 1:25 AM the search bar inside the photo gallery is used.
Keyword entered: Alex.
At 1:27 AM the phone locks again.
No messages sent.
No photos deleted.
Nothing visibly changed.
But the device still recorded everything.
Failed biometric attempts.
Passcode entry.
App launches.
Conversation access.
Photo searches.
Now read the statement again.
“I never touched your phone.”
Digital forensics rarely relies on a single artifact. It reconstructs behavior from dozens of tiny traces a device records without the user realizing it.
Your phone is not just storing data.
It is quietly documenting how it is used.
#digitalforensics #DFI #CyberSecurity #Ghanaat69
I just finished watching this and I have one thing to say.
How the hell someone even compete with this man? He's always pushing the limits, first it was editing and now its storytelling.
What a brilliant way to review a phone, covering each and every aspect in such detail without making it about the spec sheet.
For me this is now the benchmark of how a smartphone should be reviewed.
@Mrwhosetheboss 🐐
This is one way to go about it.
But the people who get the best jobs barely do all these.
They use LinkedIn differently, and I’ll teach you EXACTLY how in three steps.
If you have a LinkedIn account, turn on these settings, then sit back and watch the magic:
Okay so I wasn't going to say anything but... I can't keep this to myself 😭.
Anthropic (yes, the company behind Claude AI) quietly dropped a bunch of completely free AI mastery courses, and they are handing out official certificates at the end.
For $0.00. Zero naira. Nothing. Free.
I stumbled across it on Sunday Abegunde's page yesterday and honestly I almost scrolled past it because it sounded too good to be true. But I went and checked it myself and it is real.
The courses are actually solid, not those shallow "intro to AI" types that just tell you ChatGPT exists.
These ones go deep.
The link is https://t.co/4l6yE1alXw, go check it out, grab a course, grab the cert.
We are literally in the era where the people building the AI are giving away education on how to use it for free. Please don't sleep on this. Your future self will thank you. 🙏
There are people who look slim or have a generally lean physique but still carry a lot of fat around their abdomen. You’ve definitely seen one or two.
They have a normal body weight but stubborn fat deposition around the belly. The best way to describe this body type is “skinny fat.”
It simply means normal weight but high body-fat percentage, especially visceral fat (the fat around internal organs).
If you look at the thread below, the writer mentioned poor eating habits and high sugar intake. Here’s what happens:
When you regularly consume excess sugar and refined carbs, your body is forced to constantly clear high glucose from the bloodstream. The easiest place to store that excess energy is the abdomen. So even if the rest of your body stays slim, the stomach ends up taking the heat 😂
Other contributing factors include:
1. High stress levels-increased cortisol, which promotes belly fat storage
2. Low muscle mass-fewer calories burned and more fat stored
3. Low protein intake-poor muscle maintenance and easier fat gain
4. Gut bloating-can make the stomach appear bigger even without much fat
5. Sedentary lifestyle (“forming chairman”) literally as you have long sitting hours which encourages abdominal fat storage
6. Genetics- influences fat distribution, but lifestyle is still the major driver
This explains why someone can look fit or appear healthy yet still have a protruding belly.
My head is full and my heart is heavy. My composure and emotions is all over the place. I know this too shall pass, but in the meantime I'll enjoy the despair till I feel it no more.