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God, family and country......#energy #agriculture #entrepreneur

[Samuel A @s_anikoh]

@Arsenal I’m unable to watch the game as both the website and the app are down. I paid for the preseason match passes way ahead of time….not impressed!

[Prof. Akin Abayomi @ProfAkinAbayomi]

Lagos is the melting pot for research because every ethnic group in Nigeria represented.

Medicines developed in the West don't adequately represent the genetics of Nigerians.

[Prof. Akin Abayomi @ProfAkinAbayomi]

There is no such thing as free healthcare. Someone has to pay. Whether it is at the point of use or before. A good tax-to-GDP ratio ensures a robust system. The more the public pays tax, the more amenities you can provide.

[Defense News Nigeria @DefenseNigeria]

BabaSky Technologies unveils the UNIKAM-FO1, an indigenous fiber-optic kamikaze drone built for the Nigerian military. The loitering munition was successfully tested at the Nigerian Defence testing range in Jaji, Kaduna State.

[Tolu Ogunlesi @toluogunlesi]

Nigeria has a Hydrological Services Agency @nihsa_ng, that publishes extensive data about rainfall and flooding across the country.

I think there's a huge opportunity for the agency to be more active on social media.

I just found these on their website. See River Niger...

[𝕊𝕚𝕣 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕦 @sirlablu]

The Ebi ń pawás brigade would rather stop road construction and demand instant food palliatives. Destructive Mentality!

Nation-building is not a magic show. Is a no pain - no gain affairs.

Check Frankie Ikemefuna on FB. This guy is serving wisdom. 👇🏾

[Samuel A @s_anikoh]

Explosive speech! Reversing this trend of seeing the world through the lens of the oppressed and the oppressor is a task not only for the West, but the world.

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

One of the most thought provoking speeches I've seen in a while.

@Miss_Snuffy on how raising a generation to see the world through oppressors and the oppressed is changing the West.

If you don't have time, bookmark it. It's worth every second.

WATCH:

[De Christian Life @DeChristianLife]

A practical christian life

[Premier League @premierleague]

Guiding Arsenal to their first Premier League title in 22 years 🔝

Mikel Arteta is your @barclaysfooty Manager of the Season 👏

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

In all its glory 🏆

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you @FranceInNigeria, you are far too kind.

J'aurais écrit ceci en français, mais mon français n'est pas assez fort pour ce que je ressens à ce sujet. S'il vous plait. Merci.

My passport has been returned by @FranceInNigeria. Eight (8) weeks they held it. In their characteristic generosity toward Africans, they have issued me a visa for six (6) weeks.

Let me be clear about what this means in context. This is the shortest Schengen visa I have ever received from the French Embassy. My first, over a decade ago, was six months. The one before this lasted a year. The one before that, a year. There is a four-year Schengen visa somewhere in my records. On the very passport now graced with this extraordinary six-week stamp sit multiple-year visas from the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Canada.

Six weeks. For eight weeks of custody. The mathematics of French generosity toward Africa is its own genre. Thank you @EmmanuelMacron.

I know people who got their passports back after my first tweet on this matter. One had hers held for five weeks (5). It came back without a visa. No stamp. Just a passport returned having contributed nothing to her life but five weeks of immobility. Thankfully, they did not minute on it; a small mercy in an otherwise graceless process. Graceful, I meant to write.

This is not new territory for me. My very first engagement with the French Embassy over a decade ago ended in a visa rejection that came with written text stamped directly onto my passport. I wrote them a four-page letter demanding they never deface a Nigerian passport that way again; mine or anyone else's. I want to acknowledge that they have honoured that. Some things, at least, can be changed by speaking clearly.

Some bad faith readers will conclude this six-week visa is punishment for calling them out publicly. I reject that interpretation entirely. I prefer to see it as consistent with France's broader approach to the continent — an approach the France-Africa Summit in Nairobi will no doubt reaffirm with great warmth, generous speeches, and many photographs.

A pattern, not an anomaly.

I will be writing a full article next week to express my appreciation to @FranceInAfrica in the spirit this moment deserves.

I write this ready to bear whatever consequences follow. But I will write. After all, it's a love letter. Merci beaucoup.

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@NigeriaMFA
@BTOofficial
@Ojukwu_Bianca
@France24
@abikedabiri
@francediplo_EN
@GermanyInAfrica
@officialABAT
@WilliamsRuto
@CNNAfrica
@BBC
@FRANCE24
@ARISEtv
@DW_GMF
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[all arsenal news @Alarsenalnews_]

The mentality of Arsenal fans needs fixing.
One goal down at the Emirates and the whole place goes silent- like everyone is waiting for history to repeat itself. That fear spreads fast, and suddenly Bournemouth start looking like the home team because they believe more.

Football doesn’t work like that. Teams come back from 2, even 3 goals down. But belief has to come from somewhere - and right now, it’s not coming from the stands.
Rice is out there carrying responsibility and emotion, Zubimendi is a passenger, White looks exposed, Martinelli can’t beat his man… but the biggest issue isn’t even on the pitch.
It’s the energy.
You can’t demand mentality monsters and then freeze the moment things go wrong. The fans have to carry this team now, especially with most games at home.

The run-in isn’t just about tactics. It’s about belief.
Time to wake up.

[all arsenal news @Alarsenalnews_]

I have been so right about Arsenal over the years and I'm tired of it ,man. I want to be wrong. So many Arsenal fans hate me because I don't mince words-I say what needs to be said,not what they want to hear.

The emotional volatility of the fans reflects the team itself. When things are good, everyone believes. When there’s a setback, fear creeps in fast. That’s not title-winning mentality,neither on the pitch nor in the stands.

The game against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday is a potential title decider. That fixture has been the psychological barrier for Arteta's https://t.co/2PhaZ0LRc6’s not just about points, it’s about belief. A draw keeps things alive but still leaves Arsenal chasing. A loss? Yeah… history suggests the title slips right there.

On the Champions League , I'm sure we'll get past Sporting. Against a team like Atlético Madrid? Arsenal’s control-based style can get suffocated. That’s a tactical war. But FC Barcelona? That’s a different level of technical security and experience. If Arsenal don’t evolve in-game-especially in transitions-they can get exposed badly.
We stand no real chance against Bayern or PsG in the final.

Yes,I want to be wrong-but my predictions are built on patterns that haven’t yet been broken.
So,until:
-Arsenal normalizes winning ugly under pressure,
-the Emirates becomes hostile instead of anxious,
and Mikel Arteta proves he can outmaneuver elite managers in decisive moments, I'll continue appearing like an elite football analyst to many of you for just pointing out the basics- and you'll continue feeling I enjoy being right than seeing my team win trophies.

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

The treble/quadruple Arsenal talk started in January if not before

That's setting an impossible bar that's been reached almost never in football history.

If they win the Premier League, that IS a massive success. Reaching the CL quarter-finals, on the back of the semis last year, IS success. They are growing.

Comparing them to the greatest sides in history and then criticise them every time they fall short, more than holding them to high standards, is IMO just a way to deny them credit for what they're actually achieving.

Having said that, today is certainly a disappointment.

Both statements are true.

[AI @nonewthing]

You must resist the anti-tradition and anti-institutional culture of today.

Everything is transmitted by traditions and institutions. Order is divine. Chaos is evil incarnate.

Love your family, love your friends, love your community, love your church, love your country and, above all else, love your God.

[dele osunmakinde @deleosunmakinde]

The moment you settle it in your spirit that you will never be anything more than the new man in Christ as a result of any spiritual activities, praxis or encounters, and that you will never be anything less than the new man in Christ as a result of challenges, needs or struggle for as long as you are in Christ, you have just secured your spiritual stability at its root.

This is not motivational language.
This is doctrinal settlement.
Not settling this doctrinally is why many oscillate.

When they fast more, they feel like something more.
When they pray longer, they feel elevated.

When they sense power or have encounters, they subtly upgrade themselves internally.

Then when challenges arise, they feel reduced.
When needs persist, they feel smaller.
When struggle stretches on, they feel like something is missing.

Up today. Down tomorrow.
Inflated by activity. Deflated by adversity.

That instability is not depth.
It is identity that has not been anchored in what is written.

This is the basis of the first temptation.

After forty days of fasting and prayer, Jesus was hungry. Not confused. Not backslidden. Hungry.

Now the question was simple but piercing.
Would He answer as a man of fasting and prayer?

Or would He absolutely rely on what is written?

After all that consecration, after all that intensity, after all that spiritual investment, would He now speak from experience or from doctrine?

And after you have quoted what is written and you are still hungry, would you turn stones to bread?

Are you still the Son of God with or without bread?

Are you the Son because you can produce bread?

Or are you the Son because it is written?

This is the war.

Feeling versus written.
Doctrine versus experience.
Identity rooted in sensation or identity rooted in Scripture.

The enemy did not say, Become the Son.
He said, If You are the Son.
He was probing whether sonship was anchored in manifestation or in revelation.

If hunger could move Him, identity was unstable.

If bread could validate Him, sonship was negotiable.

And this is where many fail today.

They feel powerful after fasting and conclude they are something more.

They feel weak in the midst of pressure and conclude they are something less.

But you are not more because you fasted.

You are not less because you are hungry.

You are the new man in Christ because it is written.

Always remember this.

It is in the same space you are led by the Spirit that you are also tempted by Satan.

The wilderness was Spirit led.
The temptation was satanic.
Both coexisted in the same environment.

So do not interpret wilderness as failure.

Do not interpret hunger as demotion.
Do not interpret testing as absence of God.

If you settle this, you just passed the first temptation.

You will fast and remain stable.
You will feast and remain stable.
You will pray and remain stable.
You will face need and remain stable.
You will not manufacture bread to prove sonship.
You will not downgrade yourself because stones remain stones.

But if you do not settle this, you will create an unintended wilderness.
You will go round in circles of insecurity.

You will keep trying to validate what has already been written.
You will label emotional instability as spiritual warfare.

Many today are not fighting devils.
They are fighting identity confusion.

Settle it.

You will never be more than the new man in Christ because of activity.
You will never be less than the new man in Christ because of adversity.

You are what is written.

And once that is settled, the wilderness loses its power to redefine you.

[JovanHuttonPulitzer™ ללחום נגד מלחמת פסיכולוגית שמ @JovanHPulitzer]

We are in BIG TROUBLE

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

In medical school, we are taught a golden rule: "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." It is a reminder to look for the common explanation before the exotic one. But after decades in cardiology, I’ve learned that if a patient is still suffering after the "horses" have been ruled out, a doctor must have the courage—and the curiosity—to go hunting for the zebra.

Sarah was a thirty-four-year-old marathon runner and a devoted mother who came to me after six months of being told she was "fine." She had been bounced from one specialist to another, each one pointing to her normal EKG and standard blood tests as proof that her crushing fatigue and racing heart were simply the result of "new mom stress." By the time she reached my office, she didn't just look tired; she looked invisible, as if the medical system had stopped seeing the woman and only saw the data.

Instead of re-reading the normal test results that had already failed her, I asked Sarah to walk me through her life. We talked about her training and her family, eventually landing on a backpacking trip she took to the Mendoza province of rural Argentina. She described staying in a charming, rustic cottage made of sun-dried mud bricks. She mentioned waking up one morning with a strangely swollen, purple eyelid that she assumed was a simple spider bite.

As she spoke, a memory surfaced from a biography I had read years ago about Charles Darwin. Most people know Darwin for his theories on evolution, but medical historians have long puzzled over the mysterious, debilitating illness that plagued him for decades after he returned from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. Darwin had written in his journals about being bitten by the "great black bug of the Pampas" while sleeping in mud-walled huts in South America. He spent the rest of his life suffering from heart palpitations and exhaustion that the Victorian doctors of his time could never explain.

I realized then that Sarah wasn't suffering from stress; she was likely hosting the same "silent killer" that may have haunted Darwin: Chagas Disease.

The "Kissing Bug" lives in the cracks of those mud-brick walls. It bites its victims—often near the eyes or mouth—while they sleep, passing a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi into the blood. The danger of Chagas is that the initial symptoms disappear quickly, but the parasite can hide in the body for years, slowly weaving itself into the muscle and electrical "wiring" of the heart.

To confirm this, I moved beyond the standard tests. I ordered a specialized "Strain Rate" ultrasound, which doesn't just look at whether the heart is pumping, but at how the individual muscle fibers are stretching. We saw that while her heart looked strong to the naked eye, the fibers were "stuttering," a sign of early parasite-induced scarring. A specific blood test for the parasite's antibodies confirmed the diagnosis.

Treatment required a difficult, sixty-day course of anti-parasitic medication to stop the infection, paired with a protective heart regimen to keep her electrical system stable while the inflammation settled. Because we caught it before her heart was physically damaged or enlarged, the recovery was a success.

Months later, Sarah returned to my office, her vibrant energy restored. She brought me a leather-bound copy of The Voyage of the Beagle with a note tucked inside. She wrote that while other doctors had looked at her charts, I had looked at her. This case remains a vital reminder for my memoir: in a world of high-tech scans and AI, the most sophisticated diagnostic tool we possess is still the human story. When we truly listen, we don't just find the disease—we find the patient.

Good morning.

[Jonathan Shuttlesworth @JDShuttlesworth]

I can’t overstate how important it is in life to be content with who God made you to be, where God has placed you, and what God has gifted you to do.
The moment you reach beyond those boundaries and start grasping for what doesn’t belong to you, you step onto dangerous ground.

That’s how Lucifer lost his place in heaven—through discontent. He wasn’t satisfied to be the anointed worship leader; he wanted to be the center.
That’s how he worked Eve; by getting her obsessed with the one tree she wasn’t given, instead of grateful for the entire garden she already had.

And that’s how he still ruins lives today: not by taking blessings away, but by convincing people to despise the blessings they already have.

Discontent will always make God’s provision feel insufficient even when you’re standing in a perfect garden.

May God give you grace to be content with what He’s gifted you in, what He’s gifted you with, and where He’s placed you.

May you remain ever thankful for all you have in Christ.

“But godliness with contentment is great gain.”
- 1 Timothy 6:6 (KJV)

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Rosaria Butterfield on why Charlie Kirk was assassinated and why as a Christian you should not take your marching orders from Phil Vischer:

"Charlie Kirk died...because of two reasons: Number one, he said things people didn't like, and number two, he championed Christian conservatism and he highlighted the moral bankruptcy of leftist progressivism.

If you tell me, like Phil Vischer of VeggieTales, that the problem is political polarization, the solution is coming to the middle...The problem is not political polarization, but that Christians are accommodating lies...

The progressive left and true Christianity are not morally equivalent. We don't bring the light to the darkness by meeting in the middle. We defy lies, and we tell the truth."