Nura Ismail

Cool and calm.Fiercely ambitious.Unassuming and sometimes aloof.Sorta an enigma

[Nura Ismail @nooreldein]

https://t.co/3SAonWWhfa do I get money wrongly transferred to an Opay account that isn't active.The amount involved is 81k but I am told the court order process will cost me 50k Isn't there anyway to resolve this?
@OPaySupport

[Muhsin Ibrahim @muhsin234]

Whenever I went to Nigeria (until last year), I stayed in hotels. Every time, my good friend and Oga would graciously book the hotel for me. He is a respected academic and has both a car and a motorbike. He uses both, but especially the car, for its convenience and safety.

During one of those visits, he came to see me at a hotel, which he recommended and booked for me. The hotel security shouted at him, rudely ordering him to take his bike behind a generator room. He was shocked because just a day earlier, the same security personnel had gleefully greeted him and prayed for him when he arrived in a car.

Again, my younger brother has a small car. I have one too, but mine is a bit more expensive than his. As my driving licence had expired and I was in the process of renewing it, I felt I shouldn’t drive. My brother laughed at me, telling me that even if KAROTA, the police, or road safety officers stopped me, they would not care about my licence. Instead, they would beg for “na goro”, a token. And they proved him right!

I had these recollections after watching the last episode of the Kannywood drama, “Kaddara”, last night. Maimuna’s 4th husband is a spendthrift. He insists on driving an expensive, flashy car to match his new status as the MD of a big company. He argues that if he drove a cheap car, he would not be respected.

Unfortunately, we overvalue material possessions, especially cars, in Nigeria. In Europe, a flashy car does not signal wealth. None of my colleagues, including globally renowned professors, drive expensive cars. Most use bicycles. They usually use a car in winter or for special occasions.

We need to undergo an attitudinal change. We should learn to value people for their worth as human beings, not for wealth, position, or anything else. Allah (SWT) Himself says, “Indeed, We have dignified the children of Adam”.

May we be guided, amin.

Muhsin

[Nura Ismail @nooreldein]

@abbkar_ai Sanusi became Dan Maje while he was serving as CBN Governor.

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@MrCharlesky Interested

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it cost you nothing to repost. do it fisabilillah as sadaqa for me. please.🙏🏽

[Nura Ismail @nooreldein]

@MrCharlesky Interested

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@Mazitundeeednut I need money to start an agribusiness

[Nura Ismail @nooreldein]

@asherrkiinee 46

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@Mazitundeeednut 111.Need to start a side hustle

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@Shruti_0810 Guide

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@DrNadia72 AI

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@dawisu Great piece @dawisu

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@KwankwasoRM Jagora!

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@el_uthmaan @grok what did @el_uthmaan tweet to warrant the insults?

[Nura Ismail @nooreldein]

@SaharaReporters Does he look ill here?This was today!Liars.

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@SaharaReporters Liars

[Nura Ismail @nooreldein]

@aedcelectricity Please what is the issue with light in LifeCamp since yesterday?

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Book Launch: A journey in Service; An Autobiography of Ibrahim Babangida https://t.co/ctGHowD3dX

[Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai @elrufai]

IF - by: Rudyard Kipling always inspires and uplifts when situations seem hopeless, when leadership falters, and all else appears to be failing. Enjoy!!

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!