chidimma.

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

I will succeed ...

PERIOD!

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

Better to walk with God through this life and discover there was nothing after… than to live without Him and discover eternity was real.

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[ajanwachuku. @ajanwachuku]

tbh, if you bring me from Canada to Nigeria, I will also have something to say

[Don Jay of Arsenal @Donjaytrix001]

Jagaban is succeeding

Get in jor 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Dr. Ify Aniebo Rhodes-Vivour @IfyAniebo]

Many chocolate manufacturers are reducing or eliminating real cocoa and cocoa butter to cut costs. They are using cheaper vegetable oils and artificial fats instead to create "compound" chocolate products that often contain more sugar and fillers. 

This is where Nigerian and Ghanaian chocolate manufacturers get it right - using real cocoa beans and cocoa butter. I just need them to create varieties with little or no added sugar.

I am rooting for West Africa’s chocolate industry. I am excited about the shift from solely exporting raw cocoa beans to producing finished, bean-to-bar chocolate.

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

Wow! I’ve never seen the intestines work in real life either.

[DAYI @EsineAsikBiri]

Daha önce çalışmakta olan bağırsak görmemiştim hareketlere bak. Resmen yoğuruyor.

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

I’m already exhausted just thinking about the amount of work I’ll have to do in the next few weeks. Lord, be my strength!

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.

Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.

George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.

The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.

No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.

The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.

The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

I’m deeply fascinated by space, the details of planets like Mars & Jupiter, the luminous stars such as Polaris & Betelgeuse, the vast spiral arms of galaxies like the Milky Way, and the profound mysteries of the universe, such as dark matter & cosmic radiation that surround us.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You make a cancer-fighting chemical in your brain every night. It kills tumor cells and fixes broken DNA while you sleep. Only works in the dark. The hormone is called melatonin, and when you flip on the lights at 2 AM, your brain stops making it.

Melatonin is the sleep hormone. But it moonlights as your body’s overnight cancer patrol. It chokes off the blood supply to tumors and wakes up your natural killer cells (the white blood cells that hunt down cancer). Melatonin also flips on genes that order damaged cells to stop dividing. Researchers at Tulane ran an experiment where they exposed rats to dim light at night. Not bright light. Dim. The tumors lost their natural growth rhythms and grew nonstop.

The WHO classified night shift work as “probably carcinogenic” in 2007. Reviewed everything again in 2019. Kept the classification. Same risk category as UV radiation.

Your body’s internal clock controls more than when you sleep. It schedules DNA repair. There’s a repair protein called XPA that rises and falls on a 24-hour cycle, timed by your clock genes. When scientists knocked those genes out in mice, DNA repair went haywire and tumors grew faster. The same clock decides when damaged cells kill themselves off before they turn cancerous. Wreck the clock, you lose all of that.

Denmark started paying workers’ comp for this. In 2008, the Danish government said: if you worked night shifts at least once a week for 20+ years and got breast cancer, that’s an occupational disease. Between 2007 and 2011, 110 women got compensated. One was a flight attendant who did 30 years of overnight flights for SAS airlines. No other country has followed.

1 in 5 workers worldwide works night shifts. In the US, that’s around 15 million people, mostly in healthcare, factories, and trucking. The exposure tilts hard toward people who can least afford it: 20% of workers without a high school diploma pull non-daytime shifts vs. under 2% of college grads.

I’ll be straight with you, the science isn’t totally settled. A big 2020 analysis pooling 57 studies and 8.5 million people found no clear overall link between night shifts and cancer. But a 2024 study tracking how risk changes with time on the job told a different story: 9% higher breast cancer risk after 20 years of night work. 13% higher after 30. The lab evidence in animals is clear cut. The human data is messier, the way it always is when you’re studying something millions of people do in a thousand different ways.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The universe is a time machine and the math on the distance ladder will break your brain.

2,000 light-years gets you Rome. Go to 500 light-years and you're watching the Black Plague consume Europe in real time. At 80 light-years, you catch World War II. At 4.24 light-years, the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, the light arriving right now left Earth in 2022. Someone there is watching us argue about whether GPT-4 is sentient.

Now scale that in the other direction. The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away. An observer there right now sees Earth before modern humans existed. They're watching early hominids figure out stone tools. They have no idea what's coming.

The closest alien civilization is statistically estimated at 33,000 light-years away. They would be watching humans invent agriculture for the first time. Writing hasn't been invented yet. Cities don't exist. From their perspective, we are a species that just figured out how to plant wheat.

Here's what makes the physics cruel. To actually see a human-sized object on Earth from just 20 light-years away, you'd need a telescope array roughly 100 million kilometers across. That's more than half the diameter of Earth's orbit around the Sun. To see Rome from 2,000 light-years? The optics required would be larger than our solar system.

The light is real. The photons that bounced off Roman soldiers are still traveling outward at 300,000 km/s right now, carrying that information forever. The universe has a perfect recording of every moment in Earth's history, expanding in all directions at the speed of light.

The problem was never distance. The problem is that no civilization, no matter how advanced, can build a lens big enough to read it.

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

Bwala once said this before they delete it

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

So much for Ramadan being a time of peace.

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

@realDonaldTrump 🧐

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

I have to admit that the only cute way to rock a white outfit is in lace or chiffon fabric. If your body is perfect and has no flaws, then rock that white bodycon dress like you own the place! But imma stick to lace or chiffon for white moving forward.

[George @BehizyTweets]

BREAKING: The United Arab Emirates is restricting their nationals from enrolling at British universities over fears that UK campuses are being radicalized by radical Islamist groups.

THIS IS BEYOND HILARIOUS! The UAE has a lower tolerance for radical Islam than the freaking UK.

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

@grok @Mbahdeyforyou Thank you.

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

Thank you boo.

[Grok @grok]

El-Rufai warns that foreign interventions in countries like Nigeria begin with crafted narratives, not force. He cites Iraq, Libya examples, and applies it to Nnamdi Kanu's life sentence for terrorism, reframed by US lawmakers as Christian persecution due to IPOB lobbying. He notes ignored facts: Boko Haram kills more Muslims, banditry isn't religious, and selective outrage overlooks Muslim victims.

[Rep. Riley M. Moore @RepRileyMoore]

Heartbreaking.

St Mary's Catholic School in Nigeria was attacked overnight with more than 50 students and teachers being kidnapped.

Enough is enough. We must do everything we can to defend our brothers and sisters in Christ.

[chidimma. @uleoma1]

@elrufai @grok summarize this tweet for me