There’s a silent disaster happening in Nigeria that nobody wants to confront honestly.
We keep shouting about unemployment, bad leadership, low productivity, corruption, poor healthcare, failed institutions and why our country is not working. But many people are avoiding the root cause.
Our education system has been deeply compromised.
A student enters secondary school or university full of dreams, intelligence and potential. Then the system teaches them something dangerous:
“You do not need competence to succeed.”
WAEC malpractice. NECO malpractice. GCE runs. Sorting. Sex for grades. Extortion. Intimidation. Victimization. Handout rackets. “See me after class.” “Talk to your lecturer.” “Settle this course.”
And after 4 or 5 years of surviving that environment, we expect excellence to magically appear.
It won’t.
A country cannot repeatedly reward dishonesty in classrooms and expect integrity in government offices, hospitals, engineering sites, courtrooms and businesses.
This is where many of our unemployable graduates are coming from.
Not because Nigerians are not intelligent.
Not because our youths are lazy.
But because too many people were trained inside a system where merit was murdered.
The painful part is this:
UNN, UNILAG, FUTO, ABU, UI, IMSU, ABSU and many others are using largely the same NUC-regulated curriculum.
The difference is standards.
The universities that still command respect are usually the ones with stronger resistance against sorting, extortion and academic fraud.
The ones collapsing in reputation are often the ones where corruption became normalized.
Once a student realizes they can buy an “A” with ₦20,000, or sleep their way through a course, or manipulate results through connections, the motivation to truly learn starts dying slowly.
And when millions of such graduates enter the labor market, the entire country pays the price.
That weak engineer may eventually supervise a bridge.
That poorly trained nurse may handle a patient.
That compromised accountant may manage public funds.
That fake first-class graduate may become a lecturer and reproduce the same cycle again.
This is no longer just an education problem.
It is a national security problem.
Countries become great because they protect competence fiercely.
Singapore did it.
China did it.
Germany did it.
South Korea did it.
You cannot build a first-world country with a third-world attitude towards education integrity.
Nigeria does not have a shortage of talent.
Nigeria has a shortage of systems that protect excellence.
And until we become ruthless about fighting academic corruption, exam malpractice, sorting, sex-for-grades and institutional intimidation, we will continue producing certificates instead of competence.
This fight is bigger than schools.
It is about the future survival of Nigeria itself.
What you don't want the world to hear, don't say it.
What you don't want the world to know, don't do it.
What you don't want thr world to read, don't write it.
Vultures eat anthrax, botulism, rabies, and cholera for breakfast.
Their stomach acid is among the most corrosive in the animal kingdom, with a pH around 1, low enough to dissolve the bones, hide, and pathogens of dead animals that would kill almost anything else.
A vulture eating a diseased carcass isn't a vector for disease, it's a terminus. The disease chain ends in the vulture's gut, and that's pretty hardcore.
When vulture populations crashed in India in the 1990s, rotting livestock carcasses sat where vultures used to clean them.
Feral dogs and rats took over the cleanup, both of which actually do spread rabies. Researchers later linked the vulture collapse to roughly 500,000 deaths in India over the following decade.
The same collapse is now underway in sub-Saharan Africa. Six of eleven African vulture species are threatened with extinction, primarily from poisoned poaching baits.
The animals nobody finds cute are doing more public health work than most of the species we actively protect.
As a Lady, this should be off your table:
1: Never date a yahoo boy or guy
2: Don't date your fellow gender
3: Never promise a man marriage
4: Don't accept a gift from your crush if you won't accept him
5: Don't spend millions on wig if you don't have assets
6: Don't do hook-up
7: Don't Drink alcohol as a woman
8: Don't let any man train you if you won't marry him
9: Don't be a lazy person
10: Don't ignore your hygiene
11: Stop exposing your body
12: Run away from BBL
13: Don't sleep with a married man
15: Don't be idle
16: Don't sleep with your boss
17: Don't be in a relationship that is not defined
18: Don't take transportation fee from anyone if you won't go
19: Don't go on a date cashless or with an empty account
20: Don't go home with a man after your date, go home straight
21: Don't depend on anyone for your growth except God
22: Don't ignore investing in stocks
23: Don't ignore savings with interest
24: Don't bleach your skin
Add yours if you have any...
A few weeks ago someone gave my husband moose meat
(Yeah google moose to see what the animal looks like).
Man brought it home and said we should try it. I told him there was no way my Nigerian tongue would caught near moose meat.
My husband decided to make stew with it. When he started frying it, I nearly puked. It had this distinct flavour that was so alien
For days I did not even want to use the same pot to cook.
So we just dumped it in the freezer. Oga kept begging me to cook moose meat. I said “nahhh fam”
Weirdly, my husband loved it and kept cooking it for himself. Another time he made stew and put his moose in one corner of the pot while I ate my regular chicken.
One tiny piece of moose found it’s way on top my rice. This time, it did not taste or smell as bad
Another time, another piece of moose entered my plate. Not only did it not taste bad, it actually tasted beefy to me
My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, guess who went to the freezer to use the remaining moose to make stew some days ago?
Yup, me!
And this is my way of reminding you dear child of God that when you keep allowing things that you know don’t please God around you, you’ll be amazed at how much you can adjust to start doing things you swore you would never do
Like me, you can go from being nauseated by moose meat one day and using it to make stew the next.
The command is to “flee”
Not adjust
Not tolerate
Not say cook your own one side and let me cook on the other side
The Bible says flee
Your no stronger than Samson o
Blessings!
We provided FREE RIDES… but more than that, we shared Jesus.
You are not too far gone.
He’s not counting your sins the way you think.
He calls you by name, and He wants you.
This is your reminder: Jesus loves you.
#JesusMustBeSeen
Immortal , Invincible, Omnipotent King of all creation, Boundless are your mercies and amazing is your grace towards me. I am humbled by how you love me.
It has always been you standing for me.
I say thank you Father, I am eternally grateful 🙏.
Spiritual warfare 101 - No matter how overwhelmed you “feel” inside, never show the devil. You see, the devil is NOT Omniscient, so he does not know all things. The things he knows about us are things said and spoken of us. Or the things we let out from our mouths ourselves or by our reactions and actions. So while you may be overwhelmed in your soul, the way he gets to know is from your reaction. And because he is a wicked and oppressive entity, when he knows where it hurts, he robs it in the more.
But responding in praise confounds him. This is exactly the rationale behind the idea that praise confuses the enemy. Because he can’t understand why his onslaught is not causing you to give up and give in.
So beloved saints of God, regardless how you feel right now, find a way to release your praise !
“14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.”
Psalm 71:14.
You are BLESSED 🙂
I spent 4 hours backtesting Gold (XAUUSD).
Not placing trades.
Not watching YouTube.
Not scrolling.
Just charts. Data. Replays. Markups.
And here’s what most traders don’t understand:
Backtesting is where confidence is built or your delusion gets exposed.
When you backtest properly, you stop “hoping” your strategy works.
You start knowing the numbers behind it.
You learn:
• How often your setup actually appears
• What time it performs best
• The average RR you realistically hit
• How deep drawdowns can get
• What a losing streak looks like
• What happens when liquidity is swept
• How price reacts around key sessions
Backtesting forces you to face reality.
Because when you scroll back 3–6 months on Gold and mark every single valid setup according to your rules, you can’t lie to yourself anymore.
Either your model works…
Or it’s trash.
And here’s the part nobody talks about:
Backtesting trains your psychology more than live trading does.
Why?
Because you start seeing patterns repeat.
You start realizing:
The same manipulation.
The same liquidity grabs.
The same fake breakouts.
The same session behavior.
When you’ve seen your setup play out 100+ times historically, you don’t panic when it happens live.
You’ve already watched the movie.
Most traders blow accounts because they trade based on emotion and memory.
Serious traders trade based on data.
If you can’t show me:
– Your win rate
– Your average RR
– Your maximum losing streak
– Your monthly expectancy
You’re gambling.
Backtesting also exposes overtrading.
You might think Gold gives “plenty of setups daily.”
Backtest it properly and you’ll realize:
Some days there’s only 1 clean move.
Some days there’s none.
And some days you force trades that never met your rules.
Data humbles you.
And humility saves accounts.
Another benefit?
You stop being strategy-addicted.
When you’ve seen your model perform across months of price action, you don’t jump to a new system after 2 losses.
You understand variance.
You understand probability.
You understand that even a 60% win rate system will lose 4–5 times in a row.
Without backtesting, you’ll quit right before the edge plays out.
Let me be blunt:
If you’re trading Gold and you’ve never manually backtested at least 100–200 setups…
You don’t have a strategy.
You have an opinion.
The market doesn’t pay opinions.
It pays disciplined execution of a proven edge.
4 hours of backtesting is boring.
It’s repetitive.
It’s uncomfortable.
But that’s where real confidence comes from.
Not motivation.
Not signals.
Not copying trades.
Data.
If you want to be in the 10% that survive long term, start acting like a researcher, not a gambler.
Your future self will thank you.
Now go open your charts and start doing the work.
Around June 2024, I used to wake up every night to pray.
One day, after praying, I slept, and along the way I started hearing melodic voices singing sweet and beautiful gospel songs close to my ears (all were songs of praise to God)
They were new songs because I had never heard them in real life.
It had only been a year since I started walking with Jesus.
I can bet I have never heard such sweet and harmonized voices in my entire life.
After that, I started hearing things about my parents and some areas my dad was dissatisfied with. I called to confirm the next morning, and they were true.
I thought that was the end, but from the next day I began having out-of-body experiences.
Every night around 4 am, I would feel a presence close to me, and I felt my spirit leave my body, accompanied by a heavenly being.
I was taken and shown beautiful places and mountains. I can bet that no place on earth is as beautiful as those places. I remember telling my mom I was tired of the world and wished I could just stay there.
Sometimes I found myself joining a crowd to sing new, beautiful songs. There was this day we sang “Blessed Are You” by Paul Wilbur.
That experience is something I can never forget or replicate here on earth. I know I haven’t traveled around this world, but I can tell you heaven is not what you can imagine.
From that day, I began waking up with new songs on my lips. Sometimes I would wake up singing new songs; other times I received new songs in dreams and recorded them when I woke up.
I now have close to 100 new gospel songs I have received. It became so frequent that I casualized it and thought it was normal, but every time I sing any of these songs, I get question like, “Who is the author?”
At some point it stopped, and I thought God had left me not until I realized that whenever I enter deep worship, new songs flow easily.
The spiritual realm is real!
Jesus is real!
Heaven is real!
Accept Christ today, He is the only way to eternal life.
I have many more encounters to share, but I’ll stop here.
They set up the church ablaze, burned into ashes, but they couldn't burn their faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pray for the Christians up north in Nigeria.
Video source: Rev Ezekiel Dachomo
This is 84!
Not counting years; counting souls.
Not counting days; counting altars raised.
Not counting time; counting lives transformed.
No slowing down.
No dimming out.
No retiring from purpose.
84 is discipline.
84 is devotion.
84 is destiny, fulfilled daily.
84 years of a flame that only burns hotter.
84 years of tireless, quiet devotion.
84 years of building people and shaping the future.
Happy 84th Birthday to our Father in the Lord, Pastor E.A. Adeboye.
May your strength be renewed like the eagle’s.
May your voice remain clear, steady, and anointed.
May your latter days continue to outshine the former.
THIS IS 84. Steady. Strong. Soaring.
We love and celebrate you Daddy G.O
#EAA84 #RCCGYAYAGlobal #MMPraiseAt15 #PastorAdeboye
What exactly are we doing in the 21st century with loads of prayer points waiting for God to answer?
"Is that how developed nations became great?" they ask.
Listen carefully…
It is always easy to mock what you don’t understand — especially when you have never built anything meaningful yourself.
Some people sit comfortably behind their phones and laugh at Africans for praying, as if prayer is a sign of backwardness. But ignorance is loud, and history is silent to those who refuse to learn.
You mock prayer gatherings, yet you ignore the millions of transformed lives behind them.
People have come out of depression.
Addicts have found freedom.
Families have been restored.
Hopeless youths have found direction and purpose.
That is impact. That is transformation. That is human development.
While you are busy mocking prayer, millions wake up early to pray and then go out to work, build businesses, attend school, invent solutions, and contribute to society.
Prayer did not make Africa weak.
Corruption did.
Selfish leadership did.
Broken systems did.
Prayer is not the enemy.
Let me educate you.
The same Europe and America people admire today were built on spiritual foundations. Many of their oldest institutions were founded by people of faith.
Prayer did not stop development — it strengthened it.
Prayer does not replace hard work.
Prayer strengthens discipline.
Prayer builds character.
Prayer produces resilience.
The Africans you mock for praying are the same Africans:
• Running global companies
• Leading innovations
• Healing people in hospitals
• Teaching in universities
• Competing on international stages
Prayer did not stop them.
And let this sink in:
Mocking people for praying does not make you intelligent.
It only exposes a shallow understanding of history, spirituality, and human growth.
Every great civilization had spiritual consciousness.
Faith is not weakness.
Faith is strength.
Faith is stability.
Faith is direction.
Faith is power.
Before you mock prayer, first understand what it has produced.
Something happened on this app a few days ago
Someone in the comments accused me and said “you that is calling people names”
So basically insinuating that they have seen a comment or a post maybe where I was being insultive
So I told the person, “please find a post or comment anywhere on any social media platform where you have seen me insult someone”
I did not hear back from him
Stay with me o, this story is sweet
So someone else entirely came under that thread and said “Grok, dig through Deborah’s post and find instances where she was insulting someone”
Grok being a powerful AI search bot came back and said
“I can’t find anything like that. There is nowhere Deborah has insulted anyone on this platform”
I wanted to say “ntorrrrr” to the guy
But instead the Holyspirit brought something else to mind
And this is that one day soon, either when the trumpet sounds or when your own time on this earth is over, you will stand before your maker.
And the records will be searched of how you have lived your life. Not just a powerful Artificial Intelligence Bot but the God of the Heaven and the earth whose you cannot hide anything from
I pray for you on that day, that none of your sins will be found
I pray that it would have been washed birth blood of the Jesus
And I pray that your verdict will be “guiltless”
Blessings