Ola Wale

Engineering Economist, PMP®, Polage Infravest

[Ola Wale @mccoywal]

"The people who are trying to make this world worse, are not taking a day off. How can I ? Light up the darkness "
-Bob Marley

[Joe Kerr⚡ @Boomstick44]

My dad hung himself when I was 18.

One of my sisters got high on heroine, smashed her car into a tree and became a paraplegic before dying when I was 24.

Another sister got high on heroine and hung herself in a jail cell.

One of my Marines became my best friend but we lost touch right before he was killed in Afghanistan.

For 20 years I’ve struggled with anxiety, depression, & alcoholism.

My wife and I have been going to church off and on since we met.

I got sober when we conceived a child. When my wife had a miscarriage, I put a loaded .45 to my head and told God to pull the trigger.

We’ve had 4 kids since then and I had always just said empty prayers to give them something to believe in.

2 months ago we decided to try again but we finally went to the tiny church down the road instead of another ‘mega church.’

2 weeks ago, I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord & Savior and I’ll be Baptized in a few weeks.

I have never felt the peace, strength, love and confidence that I have now.

A relationship with Jesus is the real ‘Generational Wealth’ that all fathers should be dedicating their lives to achieving for their descendants.

First step, just talk to him.
Really talk to him.
He’ll tell you what to do from there. 🫡

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

African Vs US debts

Every African should see this👇🏾

[Olaudah Equiano® @RealOlaudah]

Good morning and Happy Sunday, my fellow Nigerians. Listen to this very wise lady's advice on how to relate and deal with the evil APC government and the rest of the ruling political elite. Memorize her speech and start putting it into practice if you want to survive them. 🙏🏾

[Ola Wale @mccoywal]

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[funsodoherty @funsodoherty]

Attached is a letter I have written to the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road contract.

[funsodoherty @funsodoherty]

I wrote to the National Assembly on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road. It’s a moment of truth and whether they will rise in defense of the public interest in this matter, remains to be seen.

[David Perell @david_perell]

I went from thinking the Bible was the most boring book ever to seeing the magic in it.

Years ago, I realized that the Bible is the foundational book of Western civilization. If I was going to be an educated person, I needed to know what it said. Though I was motivated to learn about it, I didn't have the patience to read it or the knowledge to understand it.

Generally, I try to follow my 4th-grade English teacher's advice to read things first-hand. But the Bible seemed too hard, too boring, and too confusing to read on my own. It was a snooze fest. The stories felt outdated in a world of smartphones and fast Internet. Living in the modern world, shouldn’t I be rooting my life in modern books, modern studies, and modern authors?

At the time, I was living in New York when a friend introduced me to the work of Tim Keller. I reluctantly found time to put down the self-help and picked up two of his books instead: The Reason for God and Making Sense of God. It was around that time when I discovered Keller's Questioning Christianity lecture series.

Instead of focusing on the Bible directly, Keller focused on Christianity's relationship with culture and the modern world. He spoke to career-driven Gordon Gekkos who were driven by the glories of the material world, but sensed the emptiness at the heart of such a single-minded pursuit. Instead of referencing scripture directly, he spoke about big-picture themes like identity and purpose, morality and meaning.

This was back when I thought all Christians had the intelligence of sidewalk pigeons. I would scoff at church-goers because I didn’t understand why anyone would worship a sky fairy or follow rules from thousands of years ago. Keller was the guide I needed.

For the first few years, I looked at faith through a cultural lens instead of reading the Bible directly. I literally knew nothing about Jesus or Christianity — and I came to realize how little I knew about my own atheism too. In school, while studying the Declaration of Independence, I’d learned that it’s “self-evident” that “all men are created equal.” Turns out, this defining American ideal is only self-evident if you assume that every person has inherent worth because they’re made in the image of God. I was stumped. Where did my moral compass come from? Do people have inherent value? And if so, is it because every human is a child of God?

In addition to advocating for the life of Jesus and the truth of his message, Keller revealed the many assumptions underlying my own atheistic worldview. He taught me that every worldview requires a leap of faith. Sure, Christianity couldn’t perfectly explain everything in the universe, but then again, neither can any worldview. Astrophysicists say that much of the universe is made up of “dark matter,” which is a scientific-sounding way to talk about a leap of faith

Though I did some Bible studies, I never enjoyed them. They felt more like reading tedious academic papers than drinking directly from the fountain of God’s wisdom. Instead of reading Scripture directly, I joined a small Christian reading group where I was the only non-believer. By showing me coherent ways to interpret reality besides my science-based materialism, books like The Story of Reality and I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist loosened the screws on my atheism.

My palate was beginning to change. Like a fine wine, the same flavors that were once repulsive to me started to appeal to my intellectual taste buds. I surrounded myself with wise Christians who were orthodox about scripture and eager to answer my hardest questions about faith. I asked them to dinner and invited myself to Church with them.

This marked a new era. Once again, I found some guides: books, Internet sources, and an in-person leader to show me the way. On the Internet, I'd turn to The Bible Project to answer my big-picture thematic questions. I picked up the ESV Study Bible, which I still read every day on the white boucle couch in my living room (if you like reading on the computer, I recommend The Bible Study App by Olive Tree).

For years, I’d stiff-armed the Bible. Now, I was skipping to a 7am Bible Study led by a devout believer who'd been reading God's word every day for almost a quarter-century, and wasn’t afraid to rebuke my theology.

What surprised me most was how carefully we read. I admired the integrity of our study. We live in a culture of binge-reading where people boast about how many books they can complete in a given year. We did the opposite. We never read more than ~20 verses in a single session and dissected every word, every verse, and every story. (I once spent two hours studying John 1:1-4 — just four verses at a strip mall Schlotzsky's in the Texas Hill Country.)

Never in my life had I read so deliberately. I spent months in the books of Ephesians, Romans, John, and 2 Corinthians, and there's no way I would've known how to read the Bible so diligently on my own. I learned to look beyond English translations, and I use the BibleHub to look up the original Greek and Hebrew whenever possible.

For a translation, I recommend the English Standard Version (ESV) (no, you don’t need to read the King James Version). And If you're going to pick two books, I recommend the Gospel of John and the Book of Romans. Either find a guide to read them carefully with you or follow along with The Bible Project and The ESV Study Bible. Whatever you do, read slowly.

I used to be a serial consumer who’d brag about how many books I read every year. I’d pick up anything and everything. The more, the merry. But the more I study the Bible, the more careful I’ve become about who I read and listen to. Gone are my days as a serial consumer. Frauds, charlatans, and false teachers abound, so be skeptical and vet your sources. In all this time, I’ve had no more than ten serious teachers. Fortunately, that’s all you need.

I became a believer on March 20th of this year, four years after attending my first Tim Keller lecture, and the Bible is alive for me now like no book I've ever read.

These days, I read the Bible and basically nothing else.

Opening it up is the best part of my daily routine. The words twinkle. The stories are supernatural. It's a living, breathing document, and I wholeheartedly believe it's the Word of God, which makes every other book feel dim by comparison.

[Dr Ayo @OluAyoola7D]

I recommend that you watch the video first before reading.

I will try my best to get you to believe that this is a life or death situation. Because it really is.

Also I would like to remove any misconceptions and confusion. It does no one any good if my point is missed. Not me, not you.

It is the thing I love most about prayer.

So first of all, prayer is not an excuse to do nothing, hence my biggest issues when our respected men of God tell us just to pray.

Look, when you pray for God’s protection in the morning, you don’t get out on the mainroad and jump in front of a moving car.

No, you’d have to get to work by driving carefully. That is how you get the complete answer to your prayer.

Second of all, I am not your typical anything, when you feel you have figured me out, reserve a little space in your mind for surprises (they are usually not bad ones).

However you can always bank on that I will stand for Righteousness, Justice, Truth, Equity and Fairness

So here goes, legislation that’s what I love about prayer. An exercise where precedences can be birth.

There are different types of changes such as the swapping between two already existent things/experiences.

However the biggest type of change is the one where the seen or usual or existent gives room for the never-seen-before or unusual or non-existent.

This is what it means to set precedence. The making of Firsts.

People who are spiritually deep know that, for something to achieve “being” then it didn’t exist before.

And if “it” didn’t exist before, it meant there are existing protocols/workings/laws/principles ensuring “It” never be (comes into existence).

So if “It” must be, then you may have to legislate a new Law/Act to make “It” be (come into existence) first in the spiritual and then watch out for its manifestation in the physical.

The movie is an account of events that actually happened. This is a true life story. Not fiction, this is what makes the wisdom therein even more intense.

This is why I speak in tongues, how else am I going to have access to the secret archives of spiritual information for which to build my case on.

This is why Paul says the conversation is not with man but with God “howbeit he speaketh mysteries” 1Cor14:2.

This is why God encourages you to present your strong reasons. “...let us plead and argue together. Set forth your case that you may be justified (proved right)".

Why should you enact a new protocol?

Why should a new Act be raised for you?

Why should you have a one-in-town kind of favour/grace/unction/reach/influence/help/vision/sight/run/strength?

Whatever the new thing you want is, what if it is a matter of life and death.

This is what I meant at the beginning of this post. What if you want to start generational wealth for your progeny.

FIRSTS a.k.a NEW THINGS usually either have to be birthed or be legislated. I will/may speak on birthing in another post.

The point here is God is a Judge too, you can get him to rule in your favor, you just have to have done your research.

Especially when your matter requires dealing with your Antecedents.

(No matter how much she tried and wanted it your Mother couldn’t get pregnant until she was forty-five why should you have a child in your twenties? Because you simply want it?).

It’s just that you are not (re)searching physical things, sometimes you are searching on spiritual protocols that predates Adam.

That’s why Psalms40:7 says “Then said I, Behold, I come; in the volume of the book as it is written for me:

Yes, really, or why do you think the Bible says “…for the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden (and) beyond man’s scrutiny]” 1Cor2:10.

Praying in tongues is a multifaceted multidimensional exercise.

The Spirit of God is helping your spirit research, discern, articulate accurately and speak.

[roqzee @roqzivelli]

Dear Peter Obi, @PeterObi

I am compelled to write this for posterity. To capture my exact feelings in this moment.

You don’t know me and probably will never see this but if you ever feel like you are responsible for dashing the hopes of well meaning poor Nigerians who believed in your dream, the silence you hear is not disappointment in you but a realization of the amount of corruption you were standing up against by even daring to run. It is clear now why the political elites were shocked by your audacity and said you wouldn’t win a single local government. You went from two people tweeting in a room, to SIX MILLION votes. You galvanized the weak and the hungry and those who had given up on the Nigerian project.

As a dark cloud, heralded by the creeping out of nefarious characters like Asari and Oluomo, covers Nigeria and blocks out whatever sunlight was left, the same Nigerian system we grew up to despise has reminded us all why. Sometimes just adjusting and surviving makes you forget the amount of dirt you are sitting in. You brought the broom but those who use us as a dumpster for their personal gain have shown the strength of elitist collusion. They think they have secured the status quo for their entitled foreign based children.

I need you to however remember that the true measure of leadership is not in a title held, but in the sparks ignited just by your words, deeds and strength of character. That’s why Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King didn’t need titles or offices to evoke lasting change from the rotten status quo. They made people see what’s possible and determine to change it. Every child South of the Niger (and indeed the world) has heard you Peter, they have felt the inner stirring. Through your tenacity, you have exposed tribalism, nepotism and the orchestrated plan to deprive some from fulfilling their God given potential by reason of their heritage. You have forced the oppressors to show their true colours and validate what we thought was mere speculation: that we are indeed under barely concealed bondage, and must work daily through generations to break free. By that token, you have succeeded.

The spark you have ignited by seeing this through to it’s logical conclusion, will only grow until fulfilment. Like the actions of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King led directly to Barack Obama and Kamala Harris generations later, whether you eventually ascend to the rightful office of leadership or not, a child watching today has decided he will not stay where he has been put by the ruling tribes and will finish what you have started.

May you live to see the day.

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

I Thank God for Tinubu

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Whenever there is a direct comparison between 2 parties and one is clearly superior to the other, 2 propaganda tricks you must never fall for are the Strawman and the Red Herring.

Whole Soyinka's latest comments are a masterclass in how to use these tricks to kneecap a movement.

['Gbénga Ṣẹ̀san @gbengasesan]

Stole an election on Saturday. Increased salaries on Monday. Sent out tax reminders on Tuesday. Lagos is working.

[Sam Amadi @SamAmadi]

Lagos is a Nigerian city just like Aba, Abuja or Lokoja. Stay there. Love it. Pray for it. Fight for it. Even die there. That’s the privilege of citizenship. Lagos belongs to all Nigerians. Just like Owerri and Sokoto. Either we are a nation or we are not

[Ola Wale @mccoywal]

Biafra⚡

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

What the British Foreign Office, the EU Mission and the US State Department are going to learn the hard way is that backstopping plain evil because of short term "political stability" will in itself lead to the very outcome they are hoping to avoid.

It's just a matter of time.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

I have just finished addressing an international press conference. I urge Nigerians to remain resolute. We won this election and we will prove it to Nigerians. We shall reclaim our mandate via due process. Please do not despair! -PO

[Babatunde Gbadamosi @BOGbadams]

Africans in the UK, and Nigerians.especially, note this tweet congratulating election fraud. At the next election, you know what to do with the Tories. This is evidence that someone in Whitehall obviously thinks Britain's interest is best served in an unstable & backward Nigeria.

[Pat Utomi @UtomiPat]

Sad that people who call themselves Democrats should visit violence on other citizens so they can serve them. Nigeria should have no place for fascism

[Reformer_Oluseun @ReformerOluseun]

@GRVlagos

[Noble Igwe @Nobsdaslushhkid]

Someone who is not president is writing to a TV station to remove journalists and you guys don’t know what a 🚩 is ?
Okay ooo.
If they can do this without power, imagine what they’d do with absolute power.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.