Nigerians are made/taught to memorise & draw the Nigerian map, as it sits in West Africa.
I haven't met a Nigerian who would look at this map & say, "That is Nigeria."
You either have a poorly drawn tattoo, or you've been meeting Skrulls & if it's the latter, you better find Carol Danvers.
Multiplicity of life
I have a friend who is burying his parent today. Today is another friend’s CFA Level 1 exam. Someone is celebrating a birthday. And today, another friend got a new job.
I’ve texted, “How is the wake keep?” “How was the exam?” “How is your birthday going?” And “Congratulations on the offer”
Then I just paused to think about how wildly different these experiences are, all happening at the same time.
One friend is grieving. Another is anxious. Another is simply existing in the middle of a birthday. And the friend with the new job is over the moon.
Different people, different realities, different emotions, yet all of it is happening on the same day.
This life.
✭ Man, Call of My Life is truly a beautiful film.
Seeing the reaction it received at the BlackStar Film Festival yesterday meant everything. Watching people from different races, cultures, and backgrounds laughing, cheering, and genuinely enjoying the film made me so happy.
Proud to have been a part of this. 🤍
Someone actually ran the experiment behind the "remote work is fraud" claim. A Stanford economist took 1,612 office workers and split them at random: one group worked from home two days a week, the other came in all five. Six months later, their performance reviews came out the same.
The groups were split by birthday so nobody could rig it, and these weren't call center scripts. They were software engineers, marketers, and finance staff at Trip dot com, one of the biggest travel companies on earth. The work-from-home group was just as likely to get promoted, and quitting dropped by a third. It ran as a controlled trial, the same method drug companies use to test a new pill, and it was published in the journal Nature in 2024.
The same company tried an earlier, rougher version ten years before, and the fear they set out to test was literally called "shirking from home." Call center staff worked four days a week from home for nine months. Output went up 13 percent with no drop in call quality. Most of that came from more minutes worked per shift, fewer breaks and sick days, plus a bit from the quieter room. Quitting got cut in half. The clearest cost showed up in promotions, where the at-home staff lost out, probably because the boss never saw them.
One thing both setups had that the tweet leaves out: a place to work. The earlier study only took people who had a private room at home. Neither one tested getting any work done with a three-year-old and a five-year-old in the house. Trying to write code or do the accounting while solo-parenting two small kids is a fantasy, and nobody is pretending otherwise. The hold-up there is childcare. The studies measured something narrower, whether the same person gets less done from home, and the answer kept coming back no. Bloom's wider data fits this: going fully remote with no office at all gives messy results, while the clear win is the mix, some days home and some in the office.
When 137 of the largest US companies later ordered staff back to the office, a University of Pittsburgh team checked the numbers. Stock value and profits did not improve. Job satisfaction dropped. The mandates tended to arrive right after a bad stretch for the share price.
The fear has a name in the data. Every time someone ran the controlled test, the shirking never showed up in the output.
Our governors and legislators are APC members.
Also, to ensure no one raised this argument, I ensured 8/11 items listed are within the purview of the Federal Government.
As an aside, your reps and senators are solely for law-making.
I hope this helps. ❤️
God!! God!!!
Do you understand how much happened to those ladies! It was more than the assault, it was the mob!!!!
They were mobbed like criminals!!!
Pure beastial vigor unleashed on them, in droves!
Can you even picture the horror???
A hand reaches for your breast. You try to swat it away, but two more are already there. You realize you can’t fight them all, so you stop attacking and go into a desperate, frantic defense. You cross your arms tightly over your chest, trying to shield your own body from a drive of invaders. You are a fortress under siege.
But that does nothing.
Five more pairs of hands reach to rip your top. Three more are tugging at your bra, the straps digging into your shoulders. They are prying at your locked arms, trying to force your chest open, while the rest of the mob is pushing and pulling you in a dozen different directions.
You are fighting to keep your bra on, for your dignity.
Your flight response is screaming. Your legs are making a run for it even before your brain can process the path - this is pure survival now. Dignity has taken a back seat. You leap, trying to break free, but they pull. You feel your top give way, the fabric shredding, and suddenly your breasts are feeling the cool evening breeze... exposed to the eyes of these rabid drove.
You are using every ounce of feminine strength, against all these pure masculine energy fueled by the frenzy of a mob and lust… just to keep your arms wrapped around yourself. You’re trying to keep your balance things are happening faster than you can process. You realize you’re losing, so you drop. You collapse into a fetal position on the ground, trying to become as physically small as possible. To disappear.
But before you even hit the ground, hands grab the waistband of your jeans. The fabric is trapped between their grip and your skin. They pull. You feel the denim and the lace of your underwear fold into a brutal, agonizing wedgie between the lips of your vagina - the searing burn of the friction as they tug.
And you’re confused because you didn’t steal, you did kill… you were just a woman, commuting.
I didn’t censor my words because I want it to read as uncomfortable as possible.
Because there is not a single place on earth, in all of human history, where a man has faced this type of coordinated, ritualized horror from a mob of women.
Women get raped for “culture”, they get raped as a “punishment”, they get raped for revenge, they get raped for “duty”, they get raped for “rituals”, they get raped for looking too good, for dressing too scanty, “asking for it”, for being a tease, for getting in a room with a man, for being a toddler, for being an old woman in her 70s, for daring to commute in a BRT, for daring to breathe…
God!!!!
On my way to work, I decided to enter BRT this morning.
All of us queued properly, swiped our tickets, entered the bus and sat down waiting for the driver to come start the vehicle so we could move. Everybody was already calculating time in their head because Lagos and lateness are cousins.
Next thing, the driver got into a scuffle with someone outside. From the argument, it turned into a full-blown fight.
We were inside begging him, “Oga leave am, come and drive us na, we’re getting late for work.”
Man no gree. He continued the fight like WWE audition.
That was when something unbelievable happened.
One guy from inside the bus just entered the driver’s area, started the BRT and began driving us out of the park. As in… confidently.
When the real driver noticed that his source of livelihood was literally driving away without him, he abandoned the fight and started chasing the bus.
You won’t believe some passengers were shouting, “Don’t stop ooo! Drive go!” 🤣🤣
Pure chaos.
Eventually, they stopped for him. He entered, took over the steering, and didn’t say a single word. No apology. No explanation. He just drove as if nothing had happened.
And that’s how we all got to our destinations that day, as if we didn’t almost commute with a substitute driver.
People are trapped inside the Great Nigeria House building in Lagos
People are trapped inside the Great Nigeria House building in Lagos
People trapped inside the Great Nigeria House building in Lagos
The Government has failed to rescue them in 6 days. LET THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW!
It's also telling that they never have this flak for Tyson Fury when he flies the Irish flag. Fury who has said repeatedly that he identifies as British and Irish at the same time.
He uses Irish songs for his ring walk, wears the Irish-tricolor, and openly identifies as Irish first, before British.
In the end this “trans women are women” conversation is still proof of one thing;
men’s entitlement to women’s spaces.
Transmen and the men’s community never have these conversations.
can’t wait for everyone’s eyes to clear off this mess.
Chidera Godswill Okeke, (11), has been missing for almost a week now.
He was last seen at Agbara, Ogun state.
Pease, every and any information would really be appreciated. His mother has been devastated. Please call the number if you see, hear or know anything.
In 2016 on Christmas day, I will never forget it.
Fulani herdsmen attacked my village, killed my cousins and other family members, burnt down my grandparents house, my uncles houses and people's houses. We spent our Christmas running for our lives.
Since then, anytime farmers go to the farm they don't always come back alive.
In 2021 my grandmother and my aunties went to the farm, they all were butchered, cut to pieces by herdsmen except for one who survived but lost her hand because they thought she was de@d.
On the 12 of December, the same village, some people were in the farm harvesting beans as usual, Fulani herdsmen came with their cows and started eating the beans, the women spoke to the Fulani herdsmen to remove their cows and they started attacking them, all of them ran for their lives except for one who fell down and Fulani herdsmen were able to amputate her hand and cut her shoulders. But thank God she was able to escape.
Yesterday @instablog9ja and @SaharaReporters posted it and told people she was attacked because her family rejected a marriage proposal by Fulani herdsmen. They changed the narrative and made everyone believe she was attacked because of a marriage proposal. This is the same village that has always been under attack by Fulani herdsmen since 2016.
I may not have a big voice here or a lot of followers but I'll not keep quiet and allow you to lie to everyone about this.
Salt is not losing its taste, you’re losing your ability to taste salt.
Let’s talk about why it’s absolutely not okay to cook 1 spaghetti with ‘4 seasoning cubes, a teaspoon of salt and soy sauce’.
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