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[TERRORIST SURVIVOR 💪🏽 @GbolahanOlanyi0]

As a survivor of kidnapping and banditry, I can tell you that these criminals believe that no matter how much they take from you, you will eventually work and earn it back after your release.

Let me use myself as an example. After my family paid the ₦15 million ransom they demanded, along with other items worth over ₦600,000, they still weren't satisfied. They continued demanding more money and eventually asked for ₦55 million. They even told my mother to sell her house and car to raise the money.

Because my family rented a vehicle to deliver the ransom and other requested items, the kidnappers assumed we owned the car and were wealthy. They kept insisting that we sell all our properties and hand over the proceeds to them.

Omo, it was a terrible ordeal. The fear, pressure, and emotional torture were overwhelming. Watching my family struggle to meet their endless demands was heartbreaking.

One painful reality is that they often target ordinary and struggling people like us because we are easier to capture than the elites, who usually have better security and protection.

This is why we cannot continue to stay silent. Kidnapping and banditry have destroyed countless lives, families, and dreams across Nigeria. We need to raise our voices, stand together as a nation, and demand urgent action against insecurity.

Today it may be someone else's family. Tomorrow it could be yours. Enough is enough. 💔🇳🇬🙏🏽

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

Mrs. Alamu Folawe – Principal
Mr. Ojo Jonathan – Vice Principal
Mr. Olatunde Zacchaeus – Teacher
Mr. John Olaleye – Teacher
Mr. Michael Oyedokun – Teacher RIP

Mrs. Oladeji – Teacher
Mary Akanbi – Teacher
Mr Adesiyan Adegboye - RIP

@officialABAT #BringBackOurTeachers

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[Ọládélé 🇳🇬👑 @Theoladeledada]

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[Kay @working_404]

This thread man 😭

[Tech Actually @techactually]

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[Kay @working_404]

@mercury_d_80th Got Ted lasso from your recommendations

Feed me sensei

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

I think about this image way too often

[𝓔𝓿𝓪𝓷 @Baltlol]

What type of parent names their kid Black Chicago student

[ajanwachuku. @ajanwachuku]

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

[SKB @seyikanbai]

“From the very first day I met Osita (Pawpaw), I felt instant chemistry. He’s a true introvert who shies away from people. Before we even met in 2001, students in my school had already been telling me about this guy who looked exactly like me.”

— Chinedu Ikedieze AKI

[Olumide Abiodun Oworu @OlumideOworu]

Let’s talk politics.

[Benson @BNXN]

New music on Monday. 👨🏽‍✈️

[Saskay @officialsaskay]

Tinubu por favorrrrrr!!

[Kay @working_404]

@thecinelost Am I the only one that doesn't enjoy this show?

[barrel rolls @barrel_rolls]

don’t be like that your honor

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your brain can’t tell the difference between reading about running and actually running. The same brain cells fire either way. Neuroscientists at Emory University proved this by scanning people’s brains for 19 days while they read a novel over 9 nights. Every single reading session changed the brain’s wiring. And those changes lasted five days after the book was finished.

A book physically changes you. Your brain treats the characters’ experiences like your own memories. The regions that light up when you feel someone else’s pain, when you process language, when you physically move your body, all fire while you’re sitting there turning pages.

A Yale study tracked 3,635 people for 12 years. Book readers had a 20% lower risk of dying during the study compared to people who didn’t read. Even 30 minutes a day was enough to show a survival advantage. And this held across every demographic. The researchers controlled for age, income, race, education, existing health conditions, and depression. The survival advantage came specifically from books. Magazines and articles didn’t produce the same result.

Charlie Munger helped turn Berkshire Hathaway into a 20,000-to-1 return over his career. He had a line that stuck with me: “I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up, and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.”

His kids said he was “a book with a couple of legs sticking out.” He read across science, psychology, physics, history, and economics, and built an entire investment system out of ideas he found in those books. He died at 99. Berkshire returned 2,000,000% under his and Buffett’s watch.

A bouquet of books might be the only gift that rewires someone’s brain, adds years to their life, and could contain an idea that changes the entire direction of how they see the world.

[JP @pathphamwarrior]

"All but one of the following are not true except"

[Elliot @elliot_solution]

A Nigerian man was working as a cashier at a DIY (hardware) store in London.

He was caught letting his wife steal £200 worth of materials.

Both convicted.

One year later he was arrested again.

This time at Euston station with another man’s stolen credit card.

Convicted again.

He returned to Nigeria.

And he ran for governor of Delta State.

Nigerian law said you cannot run if you have a criminal conviction.

He forged his date of birth on his passport to hide his UK record.

Nobody checked.

He won. 😂😂😂

His official salary as governor was $25,000 a year.

He bought six properties in London. A mansion in Johannesburg. Properties in Washington and Houston. A private jet worth $20 million. A Bentley. A Maybach. A fleet of armoured Range Rovers.

His American Express bills showed he spent tens of thousands of dollars every single month on luxury hotels, clubs and shopping.

In 2007 Nigeria’s anti-corruption chief accused him of stealing $250 million from Delta State.

Ibori offered the EFCC chairman $15 million in cash to drop the case.

The chairman pretended to accept.

Then deposited the cash at the Central Bank.

Nigerian courts still acquitted him on all 170 charges.

He ran. Escaped to Dubai. A mob of his supporters fought off the police trying to arrest him.

Interpol caught him in Dubai.

The UK extradited him.

In 2012 he pleaded guilty in a London court.

The judge called the £50 million he admitted to stealing “ludicrously low.”

He was sentenced to 13 years.

Served half.

Returned to Nigeria in 2017.

A sitting senator was in the crowd that welcomed him home.

His name is James Ibori.

Nigeria never convicted him once.

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