Toyyib 🧢

Creative Technologist | Graphic Design | Data | Software Dev. | Digital Artist | Peace 🕋 | Ailurophile 🐈‍| Polymath | Hoopster 🏀 | Ideas in motion, non-stop.

[DEE ❤ @Olami_deeEbony]

I remember when Etisalat Nigeria came to my school during SUG Week. They were selling raffle tickets for a chance to win a brand-new car.

You needed to see how everyone was buying tickets. Even me sef, I bought 5 tickets. Who no wan win free motor? 😂

But there was this particular guy who went all out and bought about 20 tickets.

On the day of the raffle draw, the organizers spun the tickets and picked a winner. The first winning ticket landed on this guy, but he was nowhere to be found.

They picked a second ticket. It landed on him again.

They picked a third ticket. Still him.

By this point, the crowd was already going crazy. People ran to his hostel looking for him, only to discover that he had travelled home for the weekend to see his parents.

After several attempts to reach him failed, the organizers had no choice but to draw another winner.

This time, the ticket belonged to a guy who had bought just one ticket.

He showed up, collected the car, and throughout my remaining years in school, I saw him driving that car everywhere.

Till today, I still wonder how the first guy must have felt each time he saw that car on campus, knowing it could have been his.

Life can change in a single moment. May we never be absent when our moment comes. 🙏

[Mudzunga @Dzungie007]

The saddest thing about youth unemployment is that many young people did exactly what society told them to do: study, qualify, work hard. Yet opportunities remain out of reach.

[🐬 @triplexdshott]

until it happens to you, you will think you are very careful, very responsible, very smart, very religious, very mature, very private, very etc.

[Toyyib 🧢 @toyyeeeb]

Javascript and Python

[Nicky💕 @jas_d_barbie]

TWO languages you wish you could speak fluently??

[Remi @Miss_Oluremi]

My dad is the one who buys foodstuffs in the house. He buys everything in large quantities. Everything! So we've never suffered for food. The only time he eats at home is dinner. Except for weekends. One day, he said he wanted yam because he bought it in large quantity the previous month. And we told him yam is finished. He asked, "All that yams?" We answered yes. His response was, " Oga oo, I didn't even eat from it." He just went out.
We felt bad when he came back carrying bag of yams, that day I realised that he doesn't even eat much from what he worked hard for. Yet he did not stop buying.

[PeePee🎀 @peegzy1]

you relax for 15 minutes after work and next thing you know it’s 10pm😭

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[cheyenne🆗️ @evilvillain1231]

Type of shit I would spend hours looking through as a kid before the smartphone destroyed my life

[Toyyib 🧢 @toyyeeeb]

@ceo_M4 Imagine farming for months, only to watch it destroyed overnight by someone else’s livestock.

The way herders are grazing for income, food and survival, is exactly the same way farmers plant their crops for survival and food. It's just pure wickedness.

[$ @jxtsummer]

you literally just have to get really good at continuing

[Toyyib 🧢 @toyyeeeb]

@sting_ganggang @ceo_M4 Remove Abacha from your avi maybe you go show 😂

[Femi @femiii___]

life has a way of punishing you for being a little too nice & forgiving.

[Toyyib 🧢 @toyyeeeb]

Renewed Hope ❌
Renewed Anger ✅

[Ibrahim M @ibrah_shuwa]

There’s this renewed anger you get when you buy fuel

[Toyyib 🧢 @toyyeeeb]

Set a reminder for my upcoming Space! https://t.co/egvMUGXqMb

[BIG HYCE @thehyce]

Until death removes you from this world, reset button is forever pressable.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.

[goma @soigomaa]

After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal.What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

those who shy away from addressing the elephant in the room are doomed to carry the weight of it.

[zainab @ZainabOfficial6]

If you'll be fasting tomorrow can you please help me tell Allah that I'm still unemployed and I need a source of income.
I'm tired fr and losing hope.

[RussiaNews 🇷🇺 @mog_russEN]

🚨At a wedding in Turkey, the couple asked guests to bring orphaned children instead of gifts; over 100 attended, and the gifts were given to them.