The male child has been sold a false idea of the inappropriateness of vulnerability.
As a result, you look around and you find a lot of them, across various age ranges, going through "stuff" but are unwilling to express their pain/feelings to avoid being seen as 'weak'.
Nigerian Americans are some of the most educated people in the US.
64% of US children born from Nigerian immigrants have at least a Bachelor's degree, roughly double the US average.
🚨RELAY UPDATE
The Nigerian women and men 4x100m relay advances to the final
The team of Oluebube Ezechukwu, Obi Jennifer Chukwuka, Olajide Olayinka and Prestina Ochonogor ran 43.93 seconds for 2nd place in their heat.
The quartet of Chidera Ezeakor, Kanyinsola Ajayi, Adekalu Fakorede and Favour Ashe won theirs in 38.48 seconds.
Final takes place later today
Not sure what Nigerians ate but we’re killing it in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Watched the Olympics & international sports competitions since I was a child, I don’t recall us competing in swimming, Javelin, Shot put and cycling (I might be wrong) but this now? Amazing!
Temitope Adeshina makes history for Nigeria 🇳🇬🥉
The 19-year-old becomes the first Nigerian woman ever to win a Commonwealth high jump medal, ending a 72-year wait ✨
Job interviews are always like, “What can you do?”
Sir, I’m a millennial born in the ‘90s. Just tell me what I need to know, and I’ll master it in three days.
As a Muslim, I have a question for my own community.
Why do we demand freedom to build mosques, preach Islam, and wear the hijab in non-Muslim countries...
Yet in some Muslim-majority countries, churches are restricted, Christian evangelism is criminalised, and converts live in fear.
If religious freedom is a right for us, it is a right for everyone.
Truth does not need censorship to survive.
Eleven years later, and I’m still discovering pieces of you I carry in me.
“Tough” is an understatement, Daddy…you really didn’t have to go.
I still have/wear your Ts, that and few other things comfort me.
I choose to remain comforted.
Keep resting, Daddy💚
Whoever said “Time heals” didn’t do their homework properly. Time does a lot of things but doesn’t heal this kind of wound.
Full circle moment. 11yrs ago today on a Monday morning and strangely, the weather feels just the same.
We all just hovered around like hungry chicks…
waiting on mother hen to return with food, we hoped you’ll join us back home.
Eleven years later, and every now and then, I still lose my breath when I’m reminded that I no longer have you… that we no longer have you.
I got an offer to study at Cambridge.
This girl from a middle class home in Nigeria is good enough for Cambridge.🥹
I might not be resuming because I lack the needed finance.
But I'm choosing to celebrate how far I've come.
Because a moving Dorcas will surely meet her luck.
You take a picture, it doesn’t look that great to you, so you say “let’s take try again.”
The way you casually gave a second chance to get a picture you like, is the same way you should give yourself second chances in life.
If you aren’t comfortable, try another pose.
We have been invited to Singapore for 2027. We will challenge their best students in Maths.
The winners of the 2027 South East Maths Olympiad will challenge the best in Singapore in 2027. 56 other countries will join too.
I like how the world is now taking an interest in our children.
I am benchmarking our education against that of Singapore, Finland, Shanghai, China, Canada, and the US.
This is how we can move from being a third-world country to a first-world country.
The future is looking exciting.