MTN and Airtel recently hiked up their data tariff and honestly speaking, most of us can't afford sub anylonger.
Day by day inflation keeps snatching our purchasing power as common men in Nigeria.
Savings are now useless because they yield very little that amounts to nothing.
We once had a First Lady who wore her emotions on her sleeve and publicly shared in the pain of Nigerians. Many laughed, mocked, and called her tears “crocodile tears.”
Today, we are the ones shedding tears, while those in power seem unmoved by our struggles.
Sometimes, we only appreciate compassion after it’s gone. 🇳🇬
C:kelvinblak
Why is this the first picture I saw on Threads early this Monday morning?
Father Lord, please let these children and their teachers be freed. May this new month of June be the month they are set free from their captors. Amen 🙏🏽
U.S. authorities seized more than 127,000 $BTC and other assets worth over $8B as part of Operation Blackout, calling it the largest crypto forfeiture in FBI history.
The crackdown targeted scam compounds across Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and the UAE, with nearly 300 suspects arrested and around 2,000 trafficked workers freed.
Starlink was also brought into the effort, disabling more than 7K terminals used by criminal groups to communicate and coordinate operations.
Amaka went to get pads. She wanted to get 3. Then she checked her purse, looked at the price tag, and did the math. She could only afford 1. Last month, she could afford 3 packs. Today, only a single pack.
People often say that the developing world is poor because the Western world colonized them and stole their resources.
The truth, however, is that over the past century, the developing world has, for the most part, shown that they are completely incapable of harnessing their own resources. They are not poor because we stole from them. They are poor because they do not know how to run and administer their own countries, resources be damned.
Take Venezuela. The world's largest oil reserves mean nothing if you have a corrupt communist as your leader. People will actually be starving and trying to eat zoo animals while you sit on trillions of dollars in resources!
Africa is another example. Europeans left behind farmland, trains, roads, and mines in Africa. What happened to it all?
It's not that all of a sudden, the Africans started running things like anti-colonialist activists had envisioned at the time. No, no.
All the infrastructure fell into disrepair and/or was stripped down and looted. They were literally handed fully functioning, completed supply chains for resource extraction, and basically unlimited wealth, but they couldn't manage the simple upkeep.
Now, the defense for Africa might be that "The Europeans didn't teach the Africans how to manage any of this! It's not the Africans' fault they couldn't run it independently! They were never trained!"
But my brother in Christ, the Europeans DID try to train locals for management! Obviously it would have been easier to have at least some locals in administration, rather than having to import an ENTIRE workforce, but efforts to find African talent were largely unsuccessful.
Don't believe me? Just look at the different outcomes in Hong Kong and Singapore when compared to Africa. In East Asia, Europeans often did work with locals in administrative and management capacities. When colonialism ended, Hong Kong and Singapore were able to manage themselves. Not the case with Africa.
Now, none of this is to say that colonialism is good. People have the right to self-rule and seld-determination. However, the idea that colonialism and resources extraction are responsible for the developing world's ongoing poverty? That is quite simply a crock of shit.
The safest way to travel is by plane. Do you know why?
Because they crash.
A few months ago, I learned a concept called Black Box Thinking which is a system that defines how entire industries respond to failure.
In aviation, when a plane crashes, they don't just look for who to blame.
They find a device called a Black Box, retrieve the data, and then ask what went wrong with the system.
And there is a reason for this.
To explain this, there is a famous story of a crash involving an Asian airline years ago.
When investigators listened to the recording from the black box, they found the engine didn't just fail on its own, the junior pilot actually noticed a mistake.
But because of a cultural hierarchy in Asia that demanded absolute respect for elders, he didn't question his senior pilot.
Instead, he hinted and spoke softly and the plane crashed.
That tragedy changed aviation safety forever.
It moved the focus from "Who made the mistake?" to "Why did the system allow this mistake?"
As we stand on the 29th of December, looking back at 2025, I want you to adopt this strategy of Black Box Thinking.
Most of us look at our failures this year and feel shame.
We hide the crash, and blame the economy, government, or something that does not exist.
But Black Box thinking demands a harder question: "How did I contribute to this problem?"
Did I stay silent when I should have spoken up?
Did I rely on motivation instead of a system?
Did I ignore the data because of my ego?
Don't bury your failures of 2025.
Open the box and analyze it.
Because that is the only way to fly safer in 2026.
If you celebrated Christmas 300 years ago, you could’ve been arrested.
No joke.
Here’s why 👇🏾
5 fact and 7 dark facts you didn't know about Christmas
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@pst_iren Happy birthday pastey!!
May God bless and keep your ministry. You're such a blessing to this generation, I hope you continue to touch more lives.
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