My cousin has been in Canada for six years.
Every month, money lands in my aunt's account.
School fees, house rent, his younger ones' upkeep.
Everybody calls him the family's blessing.
He called last Christmas.
Laughing and asking about everyone.
He sounded fine.
I asked: "How are you doing over there?"
He said: "I'm managing. Canada is good o."
He visited two years ago. We killed a goat.
The whole family came out.
He was smiling in every photo.
Nobody noticed he had lost weight.
I noticed. But I didn't say anything.
I thought maybe it was the cold.
Last month, his friend called my aunt.
Said my cousin had not been eating well.
That some months he sends everything and keeps nothing.
That he cries sometimes. Alone at night.
That he had been doing this for years.
My aunt was quiet for a long time.
Then she said:
"But he never said anything."
...
Well, he never said anything.
Because nobody ever asked beyond "how is Canada?"
When he died eight days ago, his face was everywhere. Every platform carried his photo. Everyone had something to say. The timelines were heavy with grief. For two days, it felt as though the whole country paused.
But eight days later, the noise has faded. His name is no longer on people’s lips. His image has been swept aside like dust in harmattan wind. Life has continued, as it always does. Only his family still sits with the real weight of it. Only they feel the ache that does not trend and does not expire.
Are we meant to mourn forever? But there is something sobering about how quickly the world moves on when a person dies. It reminds you that applause is brief, attention is fleeting, and the crowd does not stay long.
So laugh while your lungs are strong enough to carry it. Cry when you must. Love deeply and allow yourself to be loved in return. Travel if you can. Eat good food. Sit with friends and merry. Forgive quickly. Carry no hatred in your chest; it is too heavy for such a short journey.
Do that thing you have been postponing. Stop telling yourself “one day.” Help someone. Share what you have. Give, even if it is small.
All we truly have is now. The present hour. Make every second, minute, and hour count. Live your best life.
The Plan is to Steal Our Mandate Nigerians, We Must Mobilize and Resist it❗️
MANDATORY REAL-TIME ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF RESULTS NO BUTS❗️
NIGERIANS WAKE UP AND INSIST 2027 = OUR VOTES MUST COUNT❗️
#ElectoralReform#transmittheresults
The Senate committed a COUP against our Democracy and the Nigerian people yesterday.
Let me again remind the Senators that it is not wise to play with fire.
It simply is not wise.
Transparency is always better.
My fellow Citizens, let nobody deceive or confuse you.
What all well-meaning Nigerians want passed by the National Assembly @nassnigeria - @SenateNGR and @HouseNGR as @inecnigeria Reform is a Bill which legally mandates electronic transmission of polling units results in real time and without any CONDITIONS attached.
What we want is what the members of the House of Representatives have already passed with this simple and HONEST text:
“Clause 60(3): “INEC shall electronically transmit election results from polling units to the INEC Result Viewing Portal in real time and such transmission shall be done simultaneously with the physical collation of results.”
Period!
No ifs, no buts, no whataboutism and no provisos.
The proviso below that the Senate added to Clause60(3) :
“If electronic transmission fails or becomes impossible to use, the signed Form EC8A shall be the primary source of election results”
IS A GRAVE DANGER TO OUR DEMOCRACY.
It will permanently damage the same Transparency that we as Citizens are demanding for in all our Election Results.
Your vote and mine CAN NEVER COUNT with such deceptive and ill-intended proviso by the Senate.
The Senators know what they are doing.
They simply don’t want TRANSPARENCY.
Transparency through electronic transmission of results in real time at each polling unit will END their opportunity to RIG our elections.
Fellow Nigerians, know this for real, @SenateNGR is determined to hijack Nigeria’s Democracy and continue with their Bad Governance that is perpetuating Poverty among Nigerians and killings across our Land.
We, the Citizens of Nigeria and not politicians are the REAL OWNERS of Democracy.
We must collectively stand to defend our rights to TRANSPARENCY.
Our Girls Guide motto when we were in Secondary School is:
Be Prepared. ✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾
Wiz and Fela.
“Who Big Pass?”
Small boys go write/talk like small boys.
Elders go make you think.
Wizkid dey sing for crowd,
stadium full, light dey flash,
money dey talk, awards dey stack,
world dey shout: Starboy!
Fela no need spotlight,
him own be fire for chest,
kalakuta be him stage,
truth be him microphone.
Wizkid dey make dem dance,
make pain small, make joy flow,
Fela dey make dem think,
make fear run, make mind wake.
One dey rule charts,
one rule conscience.
One dey give sweet escape,
one dey give hard reality.
So who big pass?
Na who you dey measure am by.
If na fame and cruise — Wizkid.
If na fight and freedom — Fela.
But hear me well, my people:
River and fire no dey compete.
One cool your body,
one burn your chain.
Different time, different battle,
different kind of greatness.
No be who big pass…
Na who touch your soul pass. 🎶🔥
Na him Fada wan Know jare.
Five years on, we can only remember to resist. It shouldn’t have been at the expense of your lives. Many deniers of your deaths are still in power. We failed you and Nigeria failed us all.
#EndSARS 🕊️
It is 5years today.
We will never forget.
We will always remember 20.10.20.
May those who died find rest.
May their families find consolation.
May their killers never know any peace.
Forever in our hearts. #EndSARS
"It's just entertainment and cruise. It's never that serious."
Then we get male skitmakers who put 6 year-old kids in bikinis and post sexual skits about them on Instagram, and they repeat the same thing back to us.
"It's just entertainment and cruise, it's not that deep."
Then we get 19 year-old men killing their 17 year-old girlfriends for "money rituals" because that is all they ever see and hear in the entertainment around them. Then we're like:
"But it was just entertainment and cruise. You weren't supposed to take it that serious!"
Let's keep entertaining and cruising away.
A society of clowns living in the circus, huffing toxic entertainment and cruising themselves to an unserious death.
FC Cruzeiro.
University of Ibadan is trending because Nigerians are crowdfunding for vulnerable UI students unable to pay the new fees, that was increased by over 500% from ₦30-60k to ₦230-412k with the deadline set for 20th, only three day away.
Despite the protest back in July, that forced management to shutdown the school in August.
NELFUND disbursed ₦201million in loans last month to cover the fees of 1,370 students who applied since May.
But hundreds of students who applied since May are yet to be approved.
And UI's Student Body have tried to reached NELFUND for a quick intervention before 20th, but they are not responding because the number of applicants is much. And with the fee moving to ₦412k, it will be harder to cover all the applicants.
This has forced UI student body to initiate an emergency fund raiser for atleast 500 vulnerable students who risk losing the educational year.
However, NELFUND is reportedly in discussions with UI's Managements, to permit students who applied for loans, pending their approvals, according to TheCable.
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From the Cross of Christ we learn love that overcomes hatred; compassion that overcomes indifference; forgiveness that overcomes vengeance. Jesus’ outstretched arms are the embrace of the tender love God offers us.