Three days later:
“No layoffs. But $1,000 salary cut for everyone.”
Employees are upset...
but relieved they still have jobs.
Next day, the CEO gathers everyone:
“You are not employees. You are family.
I took a personal loan to support the company.
The salary cut will be only $500, not $1,000.”
The same people who were angry yesterday...
Started thanking him & became loyal to company.
Lesson:
People don't judge outcomes.
They judge outcomes against expectations.
HR : Your interview is scheduled on Monday 9.00AM . Keep time
Candidate: I'm sorry, but I won't be attending the interview.
HR: May I ask why?
Candidate: I have another interview on the same day with Amazon
HR: Then you should definitely attend.
Candidate: You're not upset?
HR: Why would I be? That's a huge opportunity for a young grad like you.
Candidate: Most recruiters would probably remove me from consideration.
HR: If Amazon sees something special in you, I'm not going to stand in your way.
Candidate: Thank you for understanding.
Three days later...
Maybe the most embarrassing thing about Iran building one of the biggest cancer treatment facilities in the Middle East is not that Iran built it.
It is that Nigeria has far fewer excuses than Iran.
This is the part people will not like.
For decades, we have been told to see Iran as a backward, isolated, repressive Islamic “regime.” That is the image many people have in their heads. A country trapped under clerics. A country cut off from the modern world. A country under permanent pressure from America and its allies.
Yet that same country has just opened a major cancer treatment facility in Tehran, with 37 specialized departments, 11 imaging and radiation therapy machines, and 96 chemotherapy beds.
Now understand this, Iran has been under a crippling sanction by the west for over 47 years now.
And sanctions are not ordinary economic inconvenience. They mean your banks can not move money. Your hospitals can not buy machines. Your companies would struggle to pay suppliers. Spare parts become harder to get. Foreign investors avoid you. Even medical suppliers can run away from perfectly legal transactions because nobody wants to risk trouble with the American financial system.
So when a sanctioned country builds something this advanced, it tells you something.
It means some part of the state had to think long-term. Some engineers had to be trained. Some doctors had to be retained. Some supply chains had to be created or bypassed. Some equipment had to be sourced, maintained, and protected from becoming useless decoration after commissioning day.
That is not a small achievement.
And this is where the matter becomes painful for us.
Because Nigeria is not Iran.
We are not under Iran-level sanctions. We are not cut off from the global banking system in the same way. We are not blocked from most Western markets in the same way. We are not trying to build modern medicine while carrying the same level of official economic hostility.
In fact, Nigeria and Africa have advantages Iran does not have at the same scale.
We have oil. We have gas. We have lithium, gold, uranium, iron ore, bitumen, limestone, and other minerals sitting under our soil. We have farmland, rivers, ports, coastline, sunlight, and one of the youngest populations on earth. We have doctors keeping hospitals alive in Britain, America, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. We have engineers, pharmacists, scientists, nurses, builders, software people, and entrepreneurs scattered across the world.
So why do we still speak about basic medical infrastructure like it is a miracle?
Why should a working cancer center feel like national charity?
Why should a Nigerian family still have to sell land, borrow money, open GoFundMe, or travel abroad because serious treatment at home is either unavailable, unaffordable, or unreliable?
This is the contrast that should disturb us.
Iran can say: we were sanctioned.
What do we say?
We had resources.
We had access.
We had population.
We had talent.
We had decades of oil money.
We had a diaspora sending money and knowledge back home.
And yet, in too many African countries, the hospital still looks like the last place power remembers after it has finished building government houses, buying SUVs, funding pilgrimages, and preparing for the next election.
This is not about praising Iran as paradise. Before you come at me saying "but Iran this, but Iran that."
Iran has problems. Serious ones.
But serious people learn from reality, not from propaganda. A country can be politically controversial and still teach you something about state capacity. A country can be sanctioned and still force itself to build. A country can be under pressure and still decide that medicine, science, industry, and technical knowledge are matters of survival.
That is the real lesson.
Some states treat development as survival.
We treat it as campaign material.
Some states build because they know nobody is coming to save them.
We still behave as if someone, somewhere, will eventually come and rescue Africa from the consequences of unserious leadership.
And maybe that is the deeper wound.
Why is it always us?
When the world needed slaves, it was the black body that paid.
When empire needed colonies, it was Africa that was carved up.
When apartheid needed cheap labour, it was black people who carried the burden.
When global extraction needed raw materials, it was our soil that was opened and our people left poor.
Now, even in an age of independence, when we should finally be building power with our own hands, we still find ourselves at the bottom of the same world we helped build with our blood, land, labour, and resources.
At some point, the question stops being only political and becomes personal.
Will there ever be a time when the black man is not the one enduring history?
Will there ever be a time when Africa is not the example of wasted potential?
Will there ever be a time when we are not asking why others could build under pressure while we failed with abundance?
That is why Iran’s cancer facility should bother us.
But because it has made our excuses smaller.
Oxygen already killed most of the life on Earth once. The first time it filled the air, around 2.4 billion years ago, it was so poisonous that nearly everything alive died. Scientists call it the Oxygen Catastrophe.
Back then the oceans were full of tiny microbes, and none of them used oxygen. Then one kind, an ancestor of the green scum you still see on ponds, started giving off oxygen as a waste gas, the same way you breathe out air you don’t need. Oxygen is a wrecker. It rips apart the delicate machinery inside a living cell, including the DNA, and as it built up in the water and then the sky, it triggered the first mass extinction this planet had ever seen.
A few survivors hid in the mud and deep underground where the gas couldn’t reach, and some of their descendants are still down there. But one tiny cell did something nobody else did. It ate a bacterium that had learned to use oxygen rather than die from it, and instead of digesting its meal, it kept it alive inside itself. That trapped bacterium became the mitochondria, the little engines that power your cells right now. Almost every cell you are made of carries hundreds or thousands of them, all descended from that one strange truce with a poison.
The trade was worth it because burning food with oxygen releases about 18 times more energy than burning it without. It is the reason anything can swim fast or think hard. Every big, fast-moving animal on Earth, you included, runs on the gas that almost ended life.
Oxygen changed the sky too. Some of it floated up high and turned into ozone, a thin layer that blocks most of the sun’s harshest rays. Before that shield existed, raw sunlight was strong enough to fry the DNA of anything out in the open, so life had to stay underwater, where a few feet of sea soaked up the danger. For almost two billion years, nothing lived on land at all. Only once the ozone grew thick enough, a few hundred million years ago, did the first plants and animals crawl out of the water.
And the old poison never really left. Every second, the oxygen your cells burn throws off tiny broken bits called free radicals, and they keep nicking your DNA and the proteins around it. The damage adds up, slowly, your whole life. Back in 1956 a scientist named Denham Harman suggested this slow rusting from the inside is a big reason we get old. People still argue about how much it matters, and no antioxidant pill has ever been shown to make anyone live longer, but the basic idea has held up. The gas keeping you alive right now is also quietly wearing you down, year by year. The joke just got the timing wrong. Oxygen really does kill slowly, and billions of years before we showed up, it already proved it can kill fast.
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Yesterday, Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria posted on Twitter that Nigerians can now export cow bones duty-free to China.
Under the comment sections, some Nigerians were asking the ambassador to tell them what they are using the cow bones for😁
Some were telling the ambassador to tell his people to come and setup the processing facility here in Nigeria, so they can create jobs.
Funny people. I laughed at our inability to do simple Google search.
As a livestock farmer and Agro commodities trader, I already know the uses of cow bones.
And about building a factory here in Nigeria? Nigerians are the ones to do it, but sadly everyone is building hotels😁
Let me tell you a few uses of cow bones.
Here are 4 major uses of cow bones you can mention in your content;
✍🏻Bone meal fertilizer: Cow bones are processed into bone meal, rich in phosphorus and calcium, used to improve soil fertility.
They prefer this to fertilize their soil not the chemical sold to our rural farmers.
✍🏻Animal feed supplement: Processed bone meal can be used as a mineral supplement in livestock feed, especially for calcium and phosphorus.
We use this for chicken feed, pig, and fish feed production.
Verify the price per kg and you’ll be shocked.
✍🏻Gelatin production: Cow bones can be processed to extract gelatin, used in food, pharmaceuticals, capsules, and cosmetics.
Just imagine the volume of cow bones wasting in your village?
Pharmaceuticals companies are paying billions of dollars to buy it from those processing it.
And I believe those Chinese companies will focus more on this.
It is big money wasting away in Africa because we don’t know anything about value addition.
✍🏻Activated carbon / bone char: Burnt bones can produce bone char, used in filtration, sugar refining, and water purification.
Pause here and think deeply with me. They use bone char for water purification in their country.
But they produce capsules and sell to us for water purification😳
Let’s not blame them. We take responsibility.
Now, let’s be honest. This is a golden opportunity for us. Let’s export the cow bones and cash out.
Also, let’s learn how to process the cow bones locally and export the finish product too.
If I tell you now that chicken feed producers in Nigeria import bone meal, you won’t believe. Research it yourself.
A ton of bone meal is around $200 - $750 currently.
Bro, just imagine earning over $200 from wastage thrown around our local markets in Africa.
Business opportunity for you. Do your research and see how you can position to serve this market
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كمثال، يُذكر مشروع HAARP ومثال تاريخي في فيتنام، حيث استخدمت تقنيات تعزيز الأمطار. وتاكيد ان الولايات المتحدة قد أحدثت جفافاً اصطناعياً في المنطقة،