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[Blaze🔥 @thefieryblaze]

Meet your company's incoming Head of Growth. Don't need a suit-jacket/blazers but I'll suit you just right, and help you blaze a trail. A pleasure to know you. 🤝🏾

©Blaze🔥

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

TotalEnergies Gas Deal and the Impending Cooking Gas Price Hike In Nigeria

Nigeria has some of the world's largest gas reserves, but Nigerian consumers pay some of the world's highest average prices per kilogram of cooking gas, despite having well-developed gas extraction infrastructure and the ability to deliver cheap gas to every Nigerian gas user.

These prices are set to rise even higher, following a recent announcement from the governmentbody that oversees consumer price regulation for petroleum products in the country. What is the reason behind this disconnect between resource wealth and resource accessibility in what is per capita one of the world's poorest countries, and what needs to happen to fix this situation?

@Big_Mck explores the story behind the story for @Spearhead_Af

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

Back-to-school season is here and starting today, eligible college students can get a full year of Gemini on us:
- US students: 1 year of Google AI Pro at no cost
- 140+ countries: 1 year of Google AI Plus at no cost

Here’s what’s new for students �Back-to-school season is here and starting today, eligible college students can get a full year of Gemini on us:
- US students: 1 year of Google AI Pro at no cost
- 140+ countries: 1 year of Google AI Plus at no cost

Here’s what’s new for students �Back-to-school season is here and starting today, eligible college students can get a full year of Gemini on us:
- US students: 1 year of Google AI Pro at no cost
- 140+ countries: 1 year of Google AI Plus at no cost

Here’s what’s new for students �Back-to-school season is here and starting today, eligible college students can get a full year of Gemini on us:
- US students: 1 year of Google AI Pro at no cost
- 140+ countries: 1 year of Google AI Plus at no cost

Here’s what’s new for students �Back-to-school season is here and starting today, eligible college students can get a full year of Gemini on us:
- US students: 1 year of Google AI Pro at no cost
- 140+ countries: 1 year of Google AI Plus at no cost

Here’s what’s new for students �Back-to-school season is here and starting today, eligible college students can get a full year of Gemini on us:
- US students: 1 year of Google AI Pro at no cost
- 140+ countries: 1 year of Google AI Plus at no cost

Here’s what’s new for students 👇

[Geekay @gkbalogs]

Storytelling on steroids......... so, was the F human overreacting?

[Eureka @eureka_seamless]

I built a game where you drive a danfo through Lagos 🚌
Load passengers, dodge okadas, beat the traffic. Plays in your browser, no download.

https://t.co/XE3xm87QXH

#LagosRun #Lagos #IndieGame

[T.U.E @TheUpperEnt]

Andrew Garfield credits Fela Kuti’s music as an influence on his Spider-Man performance. 🇳🇬

[BarçaTimes @BarcaTimes]

🚨🎙️| Anthony Gordon: “In England, people respected me because I was fast and I pressed but they never actually respected the quality and IQ that I play with. Now that I'm at Barcelona, I think people are starting to see I'm not just 'quick".” #fcblive

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

I noticed something

[THE STATE NEWS @THESTATENEWSS]

Throwback to when Dr. Nicolas Grimaldi taught the world how to hold a newborn baby to prevent him from crying.

[MRR ADDY  @vibewithmraddy]

A lot of Stickers from this movie 😂😂

[MRR ADDY  @vibewithmraddy]

who ever wrote this script must be arrested immediately 😭😭😭😂😂

[αη¢єѕтσя @SonofOdu]

This is how they keep you in chains. This is how they ensure you never truly become free. And this is how they constantly keep you unproductive. Absolutely disgraceful!

[Blaze🔥 @thefieryblaze]

Word!!! 🔥✍🏾

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Very, very true. I clocked this at age 7. People never put effort into things that will really make them great; they get distracted by things that won't. At 7, I read a lot about great men and what set them apart. It was three things:

1. Organization - Most great people I know have very organized and focused minds, leaving little room for distractions.

2. Consistency - You really become the greatest by constantly improving on your best. Most great people don't do one thing, get applause, and then go back to mediocrity. They consistently improve. Wahab Sarumi proved this in university. He saved me.

3. Discipline - Most great people need discipline to achieve the two things above. Sometimes what we call “hard work” is just discipline in action. Disciplined people always work hard, but hardworking people are not always disciplined.

Lack of discipline and a lack of delayed gratification are what typically lead to most failures. I have seen people who work hard and still do not improve because, in one area of their life, they try to overcompensate for that effort with overindulgence.

It could be liquor, leisure, or leverage, according to Charlie Munger. The three deadly sins are subtly being advertised to us daily by people who have made fortunes by capitalizing on human weakness.

Very few fortunes are made from “selling human discipline.” People buy things like gym memberships and never follow through. Most fortunes are made by people who sell to “human weakness” and they are also never high on their own supply. The biggest tech billionaires try to get their kids to largely avoid the tech they sell because they know the dangers of their product.

Discipline is all conquering, and the greatest battlefield is the mind. Our temptations change over time. Once, I was a slave to my hormones, but I was making enough money to support the habit.

I later became addicted to crisis, thinking it was hard work. So-called workaholics also lack discipline. It takes a lot of effort to say no at both extremes. I eventually found the middle way, at great cost.

I am great to my family, and that is the most important thing in the world to me.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Very, very true. I clocked this at age 7. People never put effort into things that will really make them great; they get distracted by things that won't. At 7, I read a lot about great men and what set them apart. It was three things:

1. Organization - Most great people I know have very organized and focused minds, leaving little room for distractions.

2. Consistency - You really become the greatest by constantly improving on your best. Most great people don't do one thing, get applause, and then go back to mediocrity. They consistently improve. Wahab Sarumi proved this in university. He saved me.

3. Discipline - Most great people need discipline to achieve the two things above. Sometimes what we call “hard work” is just discipline in action. Disciplined people always work hard, but hardworking people are not always disciplined.

Lack of discipline and a lack of delayed gratification are what typically lead to most failures. I have seen people who work hard and still do not improve because, in one area of their life, they try to overcompensate for that effort with overindulgence.

It could be liquor, leisure, or leverage, according to Charlie Munger. The three deadly sins are subtly being advertised to us daily by people who have made fortunes by capitalizing on human weakness.

Very few fortunes are made from “selling human discipline.” People buy things like gym memberships and never follow through. Most fortunes are made by people who sell to “human weakness” and they are also never high on their own supply. The biggest tech billionaires try to get their kids to largely avoid the tech they sell because they know the dangers of their product.

Discipline is all conquering, and the greatest battlefield is the mind. Our temptations change over time. Once, I was a slave to my hormones, but I was making enough money to support the habit.

I later became addicted to crisis, thinking it was hard work. So-called workaholics also lack discipline. It takes a lot of effort to say no at both extremes. I eventually found the middle way, at great cost.

I am great to my family, and that is the most important thing in the world to me.

[fahmeedx @fahmeedx]

druski genuinely saying some real shit here

[Tod🔻 @idertod]

This goes a long way in explaining why revolution took hold in China and probably never will in europe-america.

[Alexander Ehanire @HrhKingAlex]

This tweet accidentally explains one of the deepest problems with Nigerian education.

We have confused early literacy with early intelligence.

A 5 year old kid reading and writing before everyone isn’t impressive. Childhood development is not a race to finish the ABC. Those early years should be about building curiosity, creativity, problem-solving, communication and independent thinking.

Let them build things. Draw nonsense. Play games. Solve puzzles. Ask annoying questions. Learn to disagree and explain why.

Then reading, writing and maths become tools for a mind that has already started learning how to THINK.

And Twitter is probably the funniest evidence of what happens when we get this backwards 😂

Every day you meet people here who can read and write beautifully. Big grammar sef.

But comprehension? Omo.

You write A. They read B. They argue passionately against C. Then 4,000 people retweet aggressively 😭

That is the tragedy.

Literacy is not the same thing as education. Being able to read is useless if you were never taught how to think.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

This girl is SERIOUS. The martial arts movements of a little Chinese girl from Zhejiang, East China, went viral around the world—with most people simply labelling it as “kung fu”.

But actual practitioners knew that she was showing a high level of skill.

“This is the 32 movement form of the Chanq Quan style. She's doing pretty well,” said Stevemaster392 on social media.

When a video like this spreads, it’s a good opportunity to spread some Chinese culture, so here are some pointers.

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DON’T SAY ‘KUNG FU’
This group of Chinese arts not really defined as “Kung fu”, a term which caught on in the west through dramas starring Bruce Lee and David Carridine in the 1970s. But it just means “achievements” or “mastery”.

The correct term for “combat arts” in China is “Wushu”.

Then we have the subdivisions. The word “Taolu” is used to describe forms in which the movements are made without an opponent (which is what this girl is doing). “Sanda” is fighting with physical adversaries.

So the girl is a student of Wushu Taolu (opponent-free combat arts) and has learned the basic 32 movements of the Chang Quan style.

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SHAOLIN ORIGINS
The traditional style of Wushu is often referred to as “Shaolin”. This word, which means “small forest”, comes from the ancient forest of Mount Shaoshi in Henan Province, China, where the famous Shaolin Monastery was built in 495 AD. It is seen as the cradle of Chinese combat arts.

Steve notes that some forms are classified as “Weijia”, which covers movements known as“external style” because they are fast and acrobatic. The opposite is "Neijia", which is “internal style”, which is more meditative and fluid.

If anyone would like to add other terms in the comments, go ahead.
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[Tayo Aina @tayoainafilms]

I Visited the Most Beautiful River in Nigeria 🇳🇬

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

'Expats' And The New Scramble for African Cities

A new scramble for African cities is happening. Driven by foreign salaries, strong currencies, and short-term rentals, desirable neighborhoods across the continent are pricing out the locals who live and work there.

Drawing parallels between historical colonial spatial segregation and present-day economic dynamics, we examine how parallel expat economies operate and highlight the need for housing policies that protect local communities.