Abdulkarim

[Abdulkarim @wizkarim]

Timeless 📜

[Gimba Kakanda @gimbakakanda]

I sent one of my Iranian friends in the United States a news report about the Speaker of the Norwegian Parliament, Masud Gharahkhani. He occupies the highest elected office in Norway after the King in the country’s constitutional order. Born in Tehran, Iran, he arrived in Norway as a refugee with his family in 1987. What began as sharing an interesting story quickly became a conversation about civilisations, and one observation proved difficult to dismiss.

For all its conflicts, and for all its hypocrisies and prejudices, Western civilisation remains the most accommodating of outsiders. You may marshal elegant arguments or even write a thesis against that proposition, but it is difficult to identify another part of the world that has consistently entrusted so much political, economic and social power to immigrants and foreign-born citizens. The evidence is visible in parliaments, city halls, universities, boardrooms and courts across the Western world.

Meanwhile, some of us are still trapped in societies where even a fellow citizen can be denied opportunities in the very town he was born and has lived all his life simply because his parents came from another region, or because he belongs to the wrong ethnic group or professes the wrong faith. That remains the primitive rung on which many societies outside the West are still stranded.

The fact that two of the world’s most influential cities, New York and London, have elected Muslim mayors is telling. It becomes even more striking when one considers the growing number of immigrants and foreign-born citizens who occupy sensitive public offices across Europe and North America. My Iranian friend is himself an illustration of that openness. He moved to the United States for postgraduate studies and has since risen to a senior position in a leading organisation. Whenever we discuss America, his dominant sentiment, despite his disapproval of the politics of certain American leaders, is gratitude for the opportunities it afforded him.

This openness is also one reason liberal democracies in the West have proved incredibly resilient. Despite the rise of populists, authoritarians and the far right, their greatest opponents are often their own citizens. The culture of relentless self-criticism, the independence of institutions, a free press, competitive elections and courts willing to check executive power have enabled these societies to correct themselves repeatedly. That does not mean the West is free of racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, inequality, colonial legacies or political polarisation. It means that, despite these flaws, it has built institutions capable of challenging prejudice rather than permanently surrendering to it—and that’s a lesson for us. That capacity for self-correction may well be its greatest civilisational strength.

[Abdulkarim @wizkarim]

Capability precedes diplomacy.

[Abdulkarim @wizkarim]

@alouibrahim92 In addition to disarmament and demobilization, reintegration is just as important, if the goal is to achieve lasting peace.

[Abdulkarim @wizkarim]

Be like Man U coach need to knock seven Doors

[Akin Akinwale @mrlurvy]

Explain Tax Reform Bills to me like I’m a 5-year-old. Let no one claim they didn’t understand again.

ECFIRS Zacch A. Adedeji PhD | Taiwo Oyedele

[MTN Nigeria @MTNNG]

The Colors! The Beauty! The People! Our Naija! 🇳🇬

What festivals have you attended in your state? Rep your state in the comments!

#SeeNaijaWithMTN
#SeeNaija

[Abdulkarim @wizkarim]

Excuses Excuses Excuses !!!

[Abdulkarim @wizkarim]

Lol

[F A A R E E S 💫 🇵🇸 @MFaarees_]

I'm not afraid of even dividing this country talkless of regional government, but you see the situation Arewa found itself in? It's not a natural situation, it's man-made, and what we cannot accept is them leaving us alone after destroying our region.

[Abdulkarim @wizkarim]

@__yellows Capacitors?? No be proximity sensors be that

[6’2ft @kabiru_aminu]

My problem is, I want all of this in one woman 😭😭

[Habu Sadeik @HabuSadeik]

The Secret behind your electricity bill

Let's try to understand and learn how we consume electricity or how our prepaid meters are consuming 200, 300 units in a month without explanation😂

Okay, I promise there will be no technical jargons

Thread!!! Rt

[Abdulkarim @wizkarim]

The second Stanza of our National anthem already is a prayer and best suits for all purposes. This should be adopted.

[Woye @woye1]

Let us cancel opening prayers in our official functions.

2: Just National Anthem @SGFAkume @femigbaja @NGRPresident @officialSKSM

[EPL Bible @EPLBible]

Lol this is too good 😂👏

[Abdulhaleem Ishaq Ringim @Pragmatist_AIR]

On CBN departments, and FAAN and Lagos;

Dear fellow Northerner, I wrote a memo to you some weeks back.

Kindly read. Thank you

[David Offor @DavidsOffor]

Former VP, Yemi Osinbajo literally lifted the audience with laughter at the book launch of FP Muhammadu Buhari.

A good orator!!!

[… @farouq_au]

A beautiful Saturday to get married😁!!

[Zagazola @ZagazOlaMakama]

What is this?

[Hon. Mohammed Bello El-Rufai @B_ELRUFAI]

My humble contribution to the motion moved by elder brother, Hon. Suleiman Abubakar Gumi, representing Gumi/Bukkuyum Federal Constituency. The motion was on the need to ‘Ban Inappropriate Educational Materials In Nursery and Pre-Primary Schools In Nigeria.’ I’d like to thank Mr. Speaker and the leadership for giving me the opportunity to say my mind. Thank you.

[servant of Allah @alouibrahim92]

Precision Strikes everywhere. Nigeria will triumph and evil will be defeated. In Sha Allah. God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. God Bless all those working agains seemingly insurmountable odds to keep Nigeria one and Nigerians Safe and secure. May we succeed, Ameen.