The Accidental Alárinká

I am an Eagle and refuse to have my wings clipped || Lead Experience Curator @TravelKOTRoom #Roadtrips #Travel #theaccidentalalárinká

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

Birmingham really gives beauty on some days

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

My dad has been in my house since Friday and the TV has only been between Channels, Arise and AIT Live. I have been forced to pay TV license since he is watching all the stations live online😭

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

@Tutunuu my dad has been with me since Friday, Channels, Arise and AIT live. I am tired

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

@Fels77 They are better off finding their own person, because the red flag is so obvious

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

we need more editors. we need editorial training for new editors. we need exceptional editors working with promising writers to create the best work.

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

@Tutunuu Abeg share link with me oh

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

@Echecrates Make everybody dey their dey oh

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

@Tutunuu I went inside Ayobo to make hair just 2 weeks ago, my first time in that axis. I think when it comes to hair, I can go anywhere as well

[Mayor of Luabi @mayorofluabi]

I’m honestly at the very edge of issuing a public memo announcing that we’re discontinuing visa processing services as a company.

I’d rather spend that energy advocating for better foreign policy and stronger mobility rights for Nigerians.

I normally speak on behalf of travelers, but today I’m also speaking on behalf of travel companies.

The average Nigerian traveler does not fully understand the reality of the Nigerian passport and how increasingly closed off many parts of the world are becoming to Nigerian applicants. Many embassies now assess applications through the lens of immigration risk, and every application is treated as a potential immigration case until proven otherwise.

Because of this misunderstanding, many travelers expect travel agents to perform miracles. No matter how many times you explain that the final decision rests solely with the consular officer, some people cannot comprehend it. When a refusal comes, the frustration is directed at the travel company that they expected to somehow work magic.

The truth is that there is no magic.

In aviation school, the business of visa processing is a flaw, there is also no secret visa-processing class where agents are taught how to influence embassies. The business side of visa assistance, where it exists, is simply helping clients prepare, organize, and submit their applications correctly. If you are an educated graduate with the time and patience to understand the process, you can often do it yourself.

What is becoming increasingly difficult is that approval rates for many high-demand destinations appear to be shrinking fast while the process becomes more expensive, more intrusive, and often more humiliating.

Embassies continue collecting application fees while issuing large numbers of refusals, often providing little meaningful guidance beyond generic refusal reasons. Applicants leave frustrated. Travel companies are caught up in the crossfire left to manage expectations they never had the power to control, and the repercussions of a broken system.

At some point, we need a more honest conversation about what the Nigerian traveler and his/her passport has become in the eyes of the world.

#LetAfricansFly #StrongerNaijaPassport #LetNigeriansFly

[CREATIVE WRITING NEWS @cwritingnews]

The Biyi Bándélé Award for Emerging Writers of the African Diaspora opens for applications.

Deadline: 28 August, 2026

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[Eche Emole 🅰️🌶 @Echecrates]

Emotional clarity has simplified my life.

Two things I’m not doing this year:

Going back and forth.
Going above and beyond.

When someone shows me they’re committed to misunderstanding, conflict, or bad faith, I simply remove myself from the conversation.

[Babájídé @Babajiide]

You don’t know your true self till you have options !

Your humility in lack is mostly a smoke screen till you make it

[Eche Emole 🅰️🌶 @Echecrates]

We are at the age where a lack of emotional regulation becomes expensive.

It costs relationships.
It costs friendships.
It costs business.

The bill always arrives.

[Aunty Teda @imoteda]

The culture around creative collaboration has really changed.

When I started out in makeup, a bunch of us would get together and do shoots for no reason other than to have things to show people. We’d get a photographer, someone who needed clothes, a model trying to be a model, a hair stylist if we could find one and whoever else.

You’d shoot in someone’s house and then go out and say “I did this shoot for this brand” but we know it’s just five broke creatives. Built up an amazing portfolio that way.

Lately, I’m watching conversations on here with young creatives and they all wanna be paid (often unreasonably high) for work they haven’t actually practiced even when it’s their fellow creative at the same stage of life asking.

It doesn’t help that with how APC has destroyed the economy, everyone is basically a gig worker.

Young creatives need to go back to artistic collaborations with their peers; without expecting immediate renumeration. A few established people might take a chance on you with no portfolio but most won't.

[City! @dolapocarter]

Another reason i’ve noticed is we Nigerians don’t rate ourselves at all, we don’t even think we deserve better

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

@tundebillions This has been the case for a long time. I rather book directly especially for the perks and points.

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

@Fels77 Check Temu, I am sure it is not a new product

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

@miss_she_du How about communicating your pay structure to employees, this should actually be part of your onboarding process. Full pay only when an employee starts on the first day of the month and is prorated based on the number of days worked during the month.

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

There are travelers and there is me who forgot my neck pillow inside my sister's car in Lagos and just forgot my powerbank inside the plane🥹

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

@UberNigeria please let's not move mad. Your driver dropped me off at the MMI airport and now I am seeing a charge to Surulere on my receipt. You people should refund my money oh

[The Accidental Alárinká @molarabrown]

@Echecrates FCMB and Globacom have been sponsoring the festival for as long as I can remember, headline sponsors if we can call them that and the display has always been everywhere. Guess people are beginning to pay attention.