Right, I am currently at the Manchester intervention exercise centre with my family. I am surprised by how coordinated the process is so far compared to what many people experienced yesterday. They called in people with 9am appointments and already began the process as at 9am. It’s going smoothly and swiftly.
Things to note 👇:
*They won’t let you in without an appointment for the intervention exercise.
* You only need a £70 postal order. If you already have a £20 postal order, you only need an additional £50. Cheers.
#NIUK
Passport Intervention Centre in Manchester: Nigerians Deserve Better Service.
It is now 11:30 a.m., and people who arrived as early as 9:00 a.m. are still waiting, with nothing happening. This is not the way to treat Nigerians who have taken time off work, travelled long distances, and paid for passport services.
Please, we cannot continue doing things this way. We need proper planning, better organisation, clear communication, and an efficient system that respects people’s time and dignity.
We must move away from the same old ways of doing things and organise these interventions properly. Nigerians in the UK deserve better.
@nigimmigration@BTOofficial@Nigerialondon
For families who have attended @nigimmigration passport renewal appointment together, did you require only one £20 postal order and one C4 Special Delivery envelope for the family, or one £20 postal order and one envelope per applicant? Thanks @NIUKCommunity
I think a lot of you on this app are fucked in the head and you just want everyone to be as fucked up as you are. What is wrong in chatting with people? what did he say wrong? society is pretty messed up fr
The most challenging thing to do is stay patient during the "identity gap" on your journey. The uncomfortable between phase. You've outgrown who you were, but you're not yet who you want to become. It's lonely. Confusing. Maddening at times. Those feelings are natural. The old version fighting for survival. Just stay the course. Stay in it. It's supposed to feel uncomfortable. The discomfort is proof of change.
Whatever happens, find your unfair advantage. That’s what makes people remember you, what makes you somewhat irreplaceable.
Maybe you're the funniest, with your ability to lighten up the mood in any room. Or you're the best presenter, with your powerful way with words. Or the best writer. Or the most liked employee in the department. Find your unfair advantage and own it. It may just be your superpower
And after the outcome succeeds, human beings perform an enormous act of retrospective causal editing.
Success becomes evidence of wisdom.
Failure becomes evidence of mistakes.
Even when chance played a huge role in both.
The happiest people I know are all above a certain level of wealth, because it's hard to enjoy life when you have to commute for two hours every day just to go to work and survive, or when you can never afford to spend any high-quality time with your spouse, and kids, and parents, and friends, just because you are too busy with a job you don't even truly like, or because you never get to do any of the things that feels like play and that you truly enjoy because you never had the time to self-reflect on how you actually wanted to live your life.
The world is full of hypocrites, and you're gonna have a tough ride if you can't differentiate the truths from the comfortable lies that sound true.
You want to know the value of money, the value of freedom, the value of a loving family, the value of being the healthiest version of yourself, the value of living in a high-trust society, the value of being part of a meaningful community, you're gonna have to get there yourself first, and stop listening to all the people who actually don't know what they are talking about, and who invented in their own mind a whole deceitful narrative to feel better about themselves.
The first lesson you learn from earning a life-changing amount of money is how most of your "chronic" physical and mental health issues were just the direct consequence of living your whole life until now under constant financial stress.
Bro to bro- do not try entrepreneurship if you don't have a high tolerance for uncertainty. For long periods of time, you genuinely won’t know if you’re early, wrong, unlucky, or just stupid. You need to be cheap before you can afford not to be. Because raising money and burning it is easy. Building something people are willing to pay for is hard. You need high self esteem and a low ego and you've to be comfortable being wrong, looking stupid and changing your mind. Most importantly, learn how to lose without becoming a loser. Because you’re going to lose a lot- money, people, deals & time. Just don’t lose your ability to think clearly. And btw, don’t go looking for motivation. It is useless after a while. What you really need is stamina. Both physical & mental.
Wives ARE status symbols.
I’m sorry that so many of you can’t handle that truth, but it’s just the way it is.
Men with wives are automatically seen as more trustworthy and stable.
Men with hot, well cared for wives are automatically seen as more affluent and powerful.
A wife is the most powerful status symbol there is because anyone can make payments.
But you succeed in making a woman thrive? You provide what she needs not only physically, but mentally and emotionally too? And it shows because she loves you back and is willing to express that physically?
You’ve won.
A wife is an outward representation, she reflects what few other things can, her husband’s character.
In this life, sha, don’t let anybody rush you.
At 33, with a first-class degree, I was still sleeping on my parents’ couch in Ebute Metta, trying to figure life out.
I didn’t get my dream job until I was 36. I got married at 35 and started married life in a room and parlour tiny rooms in Mushin.
I started a business at 38 and failed woefully.
I tried again in my 40s. Failed again.
At 46, I opened an art gallery at Adeniran Ogunsanya, Lagos. It failed too.
At 47, I returned to the yoghurt business. Failed again.
At 48, we started again.
Then, at almost 50, I was compulsorily retired from my job.
Instead of seeing it as the end, I went fully into the yoghurt business.
I relocated to the UK at almost 52.
By 54, we had recorded over ₦2 billion in sales.
So please, be inspired by other people’s success, but never allow their success to put you under pressure.
Some people bloom at 25.
Some at 35.
Some at 50.
Some even later.
Your timeline is different.
Keep learning.
Keep trying.
Keep failing forward.
Keep moving.
You are not late. You are still writing your story.
Good evening.😊