Mukhtar Abdulkarim

Discoveries are often made by not following instruction, by going off the road, by trying the untried. - Frank Tiger

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Today, we concluded another partnership with Sterling Bank to launch the Sterling Bank National Mathematics Quiz. A nationwide competition designed to discover, reward, and celebrate Nigeria’s brightest young minds.

Starting Saturday, June 20, 2026, students from Primary 1 to SS3 across Nigeria will compete online every two weeks for the prizes.

1st Prize – ₦500,000

2nd Prize – ₦300,000

3rd Prize – ₦200,000

That’s ₦1,000,000 every two weeks and ₦24,000,000 every year dedicated solely to rewarding academic excellence among Nigerian children.

But this is not just about winning money.

It is about building a culture where intelligence is celebrated.

It is about giving every child, whether in Lagos, Enugu, Kano, Bayelsa, Maiduguri, Aba, or a remote village, an opportunity to compete on a national stage.

Competition Schedule

• Every two weeks

• Saturdays

• 6:00 PM – 6:20 PM

• Online nationwide

The top performers will then advance to a live championship session streamed online next day same time, where Nigerians can watch some of the country’s brightest students solve challenging mathematical problems in real time.

To ensure fairness and give more students the opportunity to benefit, every student can only win once.

And here’s what makes it even better:

Every participant will be able to review their questions after the competition, identify their weaknesses, learn from their mistakes, and prepare for the next challenge.

This means that even students who don’t win become better mathematicians.

Parents, teachers, school owners, and students should begin preparing immediately.

The questions will be tough and the competition will be fierce.

Registration is now open:

https://t.co/5dGxuzgLU1

Please share this with every child, parent, teacher, school owner, principal, and education stakeholder you know.

Let’s make academic excellence prestigious again.

[Gimba Kakanda @gimbakakanda]

The rush to own a house in Nigeria has never been driven strictly by investment logic. Historically, it has been driven by uncertainty, by the fear that once the breadwinner’s income dips, or once he dies, his dependants may be left exposed. That is the context in which Nigerians rush to own property. Those who can afford more even go as far as building houses for rent, because even when it is not the most profitable economic venture, it is the only form of hedging most Nigerians know or trust.

At the heart of this mindset is also the awareness that there is no welfare system strong enough to protect one’s dependants. So breadwinners do what they feel they must do.

This same instinct plays out across the country, even in public service. Officeholders rush to divert public resources entrusted to them in order to acquire property for themselves, aware that the “opportunity” may not return, and that there is no reliable welfare system to cushion them when the income stops. In fact, their families and friends are often the first to remind them of this. In the end, personal financial security is prioritised over public welfare, and this is partly why we are where we are: a country with one of the widest inequality gaps on the planet.

Those who argue against the wisdom of spending one’s savings to build a house are often speaking from a different reality. Some have lived abroad, where the desperation of the struggling class to own property is not always considered a smart move. Others are financially informed enough to know there are better investment options than dumping all one’s money into property while denying oneself a decent life. But Nigeria is a breadwinner’s nightmare. Every day, you live with the fear that your dependants may not be able to afford the next rent if your income, or your existence, stops.

Where I draw the line is in building a mansion that nobody in your family can maintain after you are gone. I have seen this happen in Abuja, where families had to sell a large family house just to buy a smaller, more manageable one to live in.

So, perhaps both sides of the argument can agree on where to draw the line. Owning a house in Nigeria is not a black-and-white matter. It is not always the smartest investment, but it is often the most emotionally and socially understandable one.

[SKARRA 🇪🇺🇳🇬 ⚽ @Tomisin_Alasiri]

From the June international friendlies list, you’ll see the Nigeria , Portugal friendly has been shifted to June 11 (tentatively) from June 10.

This morning, I was alerted that there’s a scam website currently selling fake tickets. 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

That’s because the tickets are not not out for sale yet and these scam guys are trying to make money from the sales before the original tickets starts selling.

Whoever is doing this is so wicked. 🤦🏽‍♂️

This is the useless website:

https://t.co/b9vCqsR6b6

“.com” is fake. ❌

“.pt” is correct ✅

https://t.co/GkEfynPSpj and tickets are not out yet.

The public should be warned.

Kindly retweet for a larger audience.

[Mukhtar Abdulkarim @moski012]

@jemelehill @tosinolaseinde @MagicJohnson Someone that got his company that wanted to sign him fire the CEO and get someone just to accommodate him.
The new generation have no idea how powerful and famous Michael was.

[Mukhtar Abdulkarim @moski012]

@shavnyuy Oh I saw the building last week and I was amazed. I wonder why we do concrete everywhere when we can have this.

[Mukhtar Abdulkarim @moski012]

@Farmexecutive That was exactly my point yesterday. What was the reason for an international airport in Ogun State? A train is currently running close from Ikeja Airport to Abeokuta. and jt can be improved upon during making it optimal and attractive.
Critical thinking is a big problem..

[FinestDoveTruth @FinestDoveTruth]

Many men struggled with this when they first arrive in the uk.

I was talking to a couple and we were sharing our struggles as married people and we talked about how they navigate the first few months of arrival in the Uk.

Wife said, “I always offend my husband, any small thing, he would say…. Is it because you are the one feeding us now… bla bla bla….Until one day I stopped talking about money. I just put enough money in one ATM card and just drop it for him to use. I did blocked myself from seeing the alert from my email or sim, so that I don’t have to worry about how much is leaving the account.
Once I get paid, I already put direct debit for the major bills, so we just spend the remaining money. Our issues stopped completely”

Husband agreed that he was just unable to accept the fact that he can no longer foot bills like he would in Nigeria.

When a man cannot provide like he used to, there is no point sitting him down to teach him how to spend money…. because it’s your money.

Immediately a man loss his job, the next thing is have a quick discussion on what happens next. Be open with your finances, don’t lecture him on what to buy and what not to buy.

You should trust him enough in the first place about finances before marrying him. So don’t start with “what if”

If a man is earning 100k and wife is earning 1m, it is ok to accept that the family has 1m. It should not breed disrespect. If it happens, a man should be able to put his wife in her place.

As a man, one thing you must first establish in your house about finance is that “money is just money, and its use to sort bills for the family”

If you do this, your family will likely be able to withstand the ups and downs that comes with loss of income.

[Enigmas @Enigmas0x]

In a system where the officiating and VAR failed to provide a fair contest, the walk-off served as a manual override.

​By stopping the game for 17 minutes, Senegal broke the momentum of bias.

​It forced the world to look at the screen. It effectively iced the kicker.

Brahim Díaz’s subsequent missed Panenka is blamed on the delay, but a supporter would say the delay simply restored the natural pressure of the game that the referee’s bias had tried to remove.

​Banning Senegal from the World Cup for this would be the ultimate gaslighting by FIFA.

​Senegal was the team that had a goal wrongly disallowed. Senegal was the team that faced a dubious last-minute penalty.

​To ban the winners of the tournament because they dared to protest a systemic breakdown is essentially FIFA saying: You must sit there and let us take the game from you, or we will destroy your future.

​Critics call the walk-off shameful, but the team actually returned and won.

They didn't forfeit; they protested, regrouped under Sadio Mane's leadership, and proved they were the better team by winning in extra time.

A ban would punish a team for a 15-minute protest that they self-corrected, while the refereeing errors that caused the chaos would likely go unpunished.

​If FIFA bans Senegal, they aren't protecting integrity; they’re protecting incompetence.

Senegal didn't walk off because they were losing—they walked off because the officiating was an insult to the sport.

They came back, they faced the penalty, and they won on the pitch.

Banning a team for refusing to be robbed is just FIFA admitting they care more about optics than fair play.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Nobody "brought us infrastructural development" and I think this myth should have died already.

Colonialism was an economic project for the benefit of the imperial Metropole, not its colonies. Any "infrastructure" was built solely for the purpose of facilitating the transfer of wealth and resources from the colonies to the Metropole (in this case London/Liverpool/Southampton.

That's why rail lines were only built from inland mining/plantation areas to the port. That's why at independence, after more than a century under British rule, almost nowhere in Nigeria outside of the areas the colonial officers lived and worked in had tarred roads or electricity or pipe borne water.

Under British rule, despite having over 50 million people, Nigeria had only ONE university, which wasn't even classed as a standalone university but an external college of the University of London - because again, its purpose was not to educate Nigerians and facilitate proper elite formation, but to train a tiny pseudo-elite to assist the colonial government in its mission of wealth and skills transfer from the Nigerian colony to the British Metropole.

I remember having a chat with @BOGbadams 4 years ago when he told me about the history of Ikorodu road in Lagos. Apparently until after the 2nd world war, there was no road between Lagos and Ikorodu, so people had to go exclusively by boat/ferry, which led to multiple disasters and avoidable loss of life. When the citizens of Ikorodu protested to the colonial governor Lagos and asked for a road, he told them "My job is to serve the queen, not to build roads for you."

The people had to do a collection and fund construction of the first Ikorodu road by themselves, while practically all the wealth, resources and taxes extracted from them were being used by the British to fight Hitler. That was the actual reality of colonisation and people need to stop unintentionally romanticising the worst period of their own history.

If I break into your house to steal your belongings and I point a gun at your children and make them build a bridge from my front door to your back window (using materials from your house) to facilitate my theft, that bridge is not "infrastructure" and I haven't done you a favour.

Please stop "appreciating" nonsense.

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

The system hands women a loaded gun. the power to destroy a reputation instantly. and tells men to just hope she never pulls the trigger.
Because if she does, it doesn't matter if you are innocent. The bullet still kills you.

This is the story of how Daniel lost his entire life because one woman decided to lie, and the system decided to believe her without asking a single question.
It happened on a Tuesday, in the breakroom at work.
​Daniel was pouring coffee when his phone started vibrating. Not a text. A flood.
Twitter mentions. Facebook tags.
He opened the first notification.
​It was his face. A photo taken from his LinkedIn profile.
Above it, a caption in bold, red letters:
"THIS MAN IS A PREDATOR."
​The air left the room.
The post was from a woman he went on two dates with six months ago. Dates that ended with a hug. Dates he thought were boring, but polite.
​Her post said otherwise. It detailed a violent assault. It used words that made his stomach turn inside out.
It had 4,000 retweets in two hours.
​Daniel looked up. His boss was standing in the doorway. He was holding a phone. He had seen it.
"Daniel," his boss said. His voice was cold. "You need to leave. Now."
​"It’s a lie," Daniel stammered. "I swear to God, it’s a lie. Check the texts. I was home by 10."

​"We can't have this attached to the company," the boss said. "Go."
​By the time Daniel got to his car, he was trending locally.
By the time the sun went down, he wasn't Daniel Hayes, the architect. He was Daniel Hayes, the Rapist.
​He didn't sleep. He sat in the dark, watching his life dissolve in real-time.
Strangers were finding his mother’s Facebook page and harassing her.
People he had known for twenty years were posting: "I always knew something was off about him."
​The police investigation took four months.
Four months of hell.
Four months of not leaving his house because the grocery store clerk stared at him like he was a monster.
Four months of spending his life savings on a lawyer to prove that he didn't do something that never happened.
​Finally, the evidence came through.
Uber receipts. GPS data. CCTV footage from his apartment lobby.
It proved, undeniably, that he was nowhere near her when she claimed it happened.

​The detective called him on a Thursday.
"We’re closing the file, Mr. Hayes. No charges will be filed. You’re in the clear."
​Daniel waited for the apology. It never came.
"What about her?" Daniel asked. "She destroyed my life."
"It's a civil matter," the detective said. Click.
​Daniel was innocent. The law said so. The evidence said so.
​He went online to clear his name. He posted the police report. He posted the GPS data.
But nobody cared.
The accusation tweet had 50,000 shares.
His "I'm Innocent" tweet had 12 likes.
​He went back to his old job.
"We can't re-hire you,"
​Daniel realized then that the truth didn't matter.

He was an innocent man.
But he walked through the world with an invisible sign on his chest.
​The system says you are innocent until proven guilty.
But society operates on a different rule:
Guilty upon accusation. And the stain never washes out.

[Mukhtar Abdulkarim @moski012]

@TifeRMFC Easy. England player. Owen

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

This is true.

[DON “Tobechukwu” Ade 👑 @Row_Haastrup]

This tax matter again?

I didn’t expect anyone sensible to tweet like this sincerely, all cos they support a particular government.

But for your own good, I will school you @OgbeniAdugbo

I paid 250k as tax monthly in Nigeria but NEVER for once got any benefit for that tax, NOT ONCE SINGLE BENEFIT.
Infact the local government will always go to my wife’s pharmacy to harass her for taxes again.
Instead, I provided my water & light, rode on horrible roads that made me change shocks every year or there about, I queued to get fuel I would pay for every other month, etc.

However, My first job in the same Canada you highlighted, I paid almost $1,000 as tax monthly. But guess what…

— the government gives my 2 kids $1,100 monthly for just being kids (the more the kids, the more the money @ about $550 per child);

— I see the doctor for FREE each time & whenever I see the doctor

— my wife gets free antenatal care, scans and free hospital delivery when she gets pregnant

— the roads are so good, I may not have to change my tyres in 7 years, not the shocks or get damaged by roads

— if you lose your job, you get paid $2,500 monthly for being jobless pending you get another job

These are just a few among many others.

So never ever in your life compare the tax & the benefits of other good countries with that of Nigeria, Never.
This is a subject that should never even come up for discussion ever again.

And until Nigeria gets it right in leadership, taxes will continue to be paid by Nigerians & the corporations, & stolen by people in power.

Selah

[Mukhtar Abdulkarim @moski012]

@TifeRMFC Emmanuel Adebayor.

[Mukhtar Abdulkarim @moski012]

@realkelvin07 The coastal road financing is supported by loans which is not the case of most of the federal roads in Nigeria. (https://t.co/hEjgz6luVX).
Although it was proposed since Fashola to put all federal roads to be tolled but the plan never moved forward (https://t.co/9QGpqgy4fO)

[Mukhtar Abdulkarim @moski012]

@LegacySiu Morata

[𝐌𝐔𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐊🗽 @EmperorTwiTs]

When Mr Femi Otedola assumed leadership as Chairman of First Bank Nigeria Limited, he discovered that Nduka Obaigbena, owner of ThisDay Newspapers and Arise TV, had an outstanding debt of about $225.8 million.

The debt traced back to a $200 million loan facilitated by the Central Bank of Nigeria under the watch of former governor Godwin Emefiele. It was said that the CBN pressured AMCON to hand over oil assets previously owned by Atlantic Energy to General Hydrocarbon Limited (GHL), a company promoted by Obaigbena.

Rather than focus on business, Obaigbena allegedly channeled part of the funds into sponsoring a presidential candidate’s campaign (opposition) during the 2023 elections. We all know how that ended and how the funds can’t be recovered.

Earlier this year, a Federal High Court in Lagos ordered a freeze on all accounts and funds linked to Obaigbena and his companies. A few days ago, AMCON placed GHL under receivership for unpaid loans owed to First Bank.

Many now fear that GHL might not be enough to settle the debt, and First Bank could end up taking ownership of Arise TV, ThisDay Newspapers, and other related assets.

Personally, I think Mr Otedola might have shown some empathy if Obaigbena hadn’t tried to outsmart him through endless media propaganda and legal maneuvers to delay repayment .

[Mukhtar Abdulkarim @moski012]

@Adamthallith Funny how I know this story so well. Life

[Mukhtar Abdulkarim @moski012]

@FCYildiiz Morata.

[Mukhtar Abdulkarim @moski012]

@TrackaNG @seunonigbinde @GabsynGreat @BudgITng @KadunaMOH @KADPBC @openkd44 @cent1472 Kindly note that the project was co-financedwith Islamic Development Bank and was commissioned in June 2025. I don't know why it is yet to be used though.