🇬🇭🌍Akuki Azu

[Katy  @Maroup_]

So my 14 year-old daughter got into an argument with her high school principal yesterday after a fight.

An older boy walked up to her and asked her out.

She politely said no and tried to walk away,

but he grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back.

My daughter's response? She punched him square in the face and broke his nose

Their principal steps in and told her…….

[Drum mu JetLi @osakpa1]

Trust God!!!

[🇬🇭🌍Akuki Azu @LaceyAzu]

Now this is beautiful 😍

[Dapsy𓃵 @symplyDAPO]

Still yet to see a wedding proposal that beats this😍😍😍

[KOFI 💫 @KofiKoomson_]

KNUST, you've had numerous male SRC Presidents over the years. All failed to deliver, mismanaged resources, or were allegedly heavily influenced by the university administration, yet no one concluded that men shouldn't lead again...

1/3

[Dr. Alhassan Iddrisu @daiddrisu]

Ghana's informal cross-border trade is worth GH₵31 billion, 6% of our total trade, counted for the first time.

Behind that number are traders, families, and markets across ten regions.

The 6 quote cards below tell the story: what we trade, who moves it, and why it matters for food security, jobs, and planning.

I thank the Government of Ghana, the World Bank, our partner institutions, our field officers, the hardworking staff of GSS, and every trader who shared their trust.

What we measure, we can strengthen. Read the full report at https://t.co/yhT3Fj6PPC.

#ICBTGhana #GSSData #LeavingNoTradeUnrecorded.

[🇬🇭🌍Akuki Azu @LaceyAzu]

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[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

This seems pretty crazy: Just handing over a U.S. Senate seat to a completely unqualified SISTER of the senator who just died? Shouldn't voters have a say in this? Or are we back to "royal bloodlines" now?

[🇬🇭🌍Akuki Azu @LaceyAzu]

Our vuvuzelas were louder than that horn😝

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

Crown Prince Haakon of Norway leading the people of Norway and the players as they row together at the palace. This is beautiful. 🇳🇴👏

[🇬🇭🌍Akuki Azu @LaceyAzu]

My thoughts exactly. Recent happenings just showing we are all people sha.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

If this happened in some other country, we would laugh at their backwardness. Some in Washington would argue they must be bombed...

[JDMindset MBA @josedavidmillan]

@JordiCarrerasRa Totalmente de acuerdo

[🇬🇭🌍Akuki Azu @LaceyAzu]

This echoes a conversation I had with my husband recently. I had a group of interns and whiles chatting I realized that had been socialized so differently with influences that didn't inspire them at all. Very spot on and a very valid fear for all parents.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I have friends who are older and very fit because of their lifestyle. They don't drink or smoke and exercise daily. They also have the most unfit kids who don't follow their example. This has always worried me as I am raising young children. I have also seen families with hard-working and wealthy parents who raise the laziest and most entitled children.

We always want our children to do better than us, but when and where does this go wrong for most people? I think it comes from the time and attention we personally give our kids and the lapses we allow.

My wife and I are early risers. I have a particular sleep problem I am still trying to solve, but my kids can sleep all day on vacation if you let them. A friend with an older son who had just graduated and was back home, jobless, used to tell me how alarmed he was that the son would go out all night, come back early in the morning, and sleep all day.

I told him then that if he didn't force him to change that habit, he would remain jobless and stay with his parents longer. They eventually forced him to change, and he moved out. He has a job now and struggles a lot. His parents are concerned that he isn't thriving. He is now almost 30, and I think about this all the time. At 25, I was a beast and had started many businesses.

While we want our kids and young adults to experience life on their own terms in a world vastly different from the one we grew up in, we can't help but notice that others whose children were more disciplined are thriving better. One indicator I have seen that correlates with success in younger people is fitness.

A friend’s son started going to the gym regularly, and he even inspired his cousins to do so. I checked on LinkedIn recently, and he is doing exceptionally well as a lawyer and investment banker without any family connections or assistance. His younger cousins, who are looking up to him, are following in his footsteps. I decided to get my kids to spend more time with him.

The role models our children need may be closer to their age than ours. It is why we need to amplify the lifestyles of young, disciplined, and successful people more. Not every person will make it through creative pursuits. I stress this to my kids all the time. There are billions of YouTube channels, but there is only one MrBeast or IShowSpeed.

Social media is highlighting more unrealistic role models than the most useful ones. My daughter is likely one of the most intelligent young children that I know, but because she doesn't want to be seen as a nerd, she is adapting to popular culture to blend in, in a way that scares me. This sometimes affects the way she learns. While I don't want to restrict her now from experiencing the world, I have realized that she needs different role models.

My son’s role models are nerds, and he nerds out in ways that surprise me and it is also worrying. We can be watching a movie, and he goes online to research it and summarise the plot so he can leave to code. He is not experiencing life enough outside the internet.

They will either eventually be ok in a world very different from ours or struggle in a world that becomes worse than ours, without the skills to build personal resilience and strong social skills.

I recently had a personal experience that made me realize I was fortunate to have left home early and to have different role models from my parents. Having a broken home led to different outcomes for my siblings and me, but the fact that I had strong personalities like my mother’s uncle and the uncles I grew up around helped me learn a lot more about life and priorities.

The world is a very complex place, and life is not a bed of roses. While we want the best outcomes for our kids, we have to finally admit that they will learn far more from others than they will ever learn from us. The best thing we can do for them is expose them to the right kind of people early enough, then hope and pray that we didn't misread those people.

[fluffy💕 @fluffyakaraa]

Nigerians in a nutshell

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[🇬🇭🌍Akuki Azu @LaceyAzu]

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[Itamar Golan 🤓 @ItakGol]

If you come from the future you can apply

[M.anifest @manifestive]

This!!! Wonderful! A solution worth spreading. I’m downloading the app.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

The Waterloo Effect: students share their progress from year 1 to year 5 in engineering school

[Anambra 1st son @UchePOkoye]

Here are some of degrees they added, according to China’s Ministry of Education;

Area and Country Studies
Carbon Neutrality Science and Engineering
Marine Science and Technology
Health and Healthcare Security
Intelligent Molecular Engineering
Medical Device Engineering
Medical Devices and Equipment Engineering
Spatiotemporal Information Engineering
AI Education
Intelligent Audio-Visual Engineering
Digital Drama
Low-Altitude Technology and Engineering
Embodied Intelligence (at multiple universities)
Intelligent Visual Engineering
Intelligent Marine Equipment
Biological Breeding Technology
High-Power Semiconductor Science and Engineering
Electronic Information Materials
Football
Sports and Health Preservation
International Cruise Management
Air Sports / Aviation Sports

Etc.

[Joe @jakuuire]

I would definitely write headlines like this 😅

[Udeme Akpan | SOCIAL MEDIA & ADS MANAGER @udemeAkpan01]

This morning I watched a YouTube video and Bishop Oyedepo said something that stopped me mid-scroll.

He talked about a land his church needed. They found the perfect one, went to negotiate, but the money wasn't complete.

He asked the seller if 30% could work with the rest paid in installments.

The seller said no.

[🇬🇭🌍Akuki Azu @LaceyAzu]

@asemota Lol I saw this earlier and really laughed. Not sure if u should be offended or scared. Dark arts paa!