Temitayo

Linguist||Freelancer||Graphics designer||Business registration expert||Entrepreneur||Motivator

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@Naija_PR Send me dm to help get your business registered with CAC

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@sijali_james @Mr_mustaphaaa @MLSokoro @SIR_BULLS And why do you think it's only the man that's doing "everything" in the house? Do you know if she's also working? You think doing house chores is a joke?! You think catering for a s!ck person is child's play?! Responsibility isn't about only bringing in money, it's way beyond.

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@MLSokoro No pressure. We cut our cloth according to our cloth. I'm definitely contributing at least a quarter of whatever expenses we'd be needing

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@Dammi_Esq It might look pathetic but it's still her decision.

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@MLSokoro Many don't know the kind of pain others are going through until they are in the same shoes. You might be thinking the wife's decision is irrational but you need to see from her own POV too. She's clearly just exhausted not heartless. Getting her a helping hand would solve this.

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@Mr_mustaphaaa @MLSokoro @SIR_BULLS Many don't know the kind of pain others are going through until they are in the same shoes. You might be thinking the wife's decision is irrational but you need to see from her own POV too. She's clearly just exhausted not heartless. Getting her a helping hand would solve this.

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@sijali_james @Mr_mustaphaaa @MLSokoro @SIR_BULLS Guess you've been seeing your wife as a maid all along😏😒. I'm sad for whoever woman is married to you or would get married to you with this your kind of mentality.

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@instablog9ja Is something wrong with Opay network? Because why is my account number showing invalid and I keep getting error messages "it's peak period".
I've been having issues running a smooth business all day 😣 @OPay_NG @OPaySupport

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@silverpenydr @grok Let me go with my lucky number 11

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@Viashimafide @cacnigeria1 You can resolve remita issue from your end. They've made that possible. Click on check payment status, click on check manually, input the rrr for confirmation. If the rrr is correct, it'd be verified.

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@thewinlos Because I've found my God-given life partner.

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

They are still kids. what you’re doing is inhumane and an absolute waste of everyone’s time, because you know very well that it doesn’t how many times you arrest or harass these children, they’ll be back on the streets in a few days.

This is a very complex and multi-layered problem that requires careful thinking, real empathy and deep concerted effort if we’re going to even stand a chance.

Of course I understand why there’s a lot of anger and complaint about these children and the many vices they have committed. but it’s the only way they can get our attention—A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

This will become an even bigger crisis with time and it’s happening insidiously. it’s the very genesis of why we have such proliferation of Area boys and thugs In every corner of the streets of Lagos. We forget that no one becomes an area boy as an adult, it’s the children neglected overtime that grow up to become the thugs and area boys we complain bitterly about.

I have given the last 8 years of my life to working with these children and I have learnt many painful lessons in this time that continue to keep me up at night.

There are thousands of homeless/street kids wandering the streets of Lagos. If you drive regularly along Lekki -Epe expressway, you must have encountered them several times. They come up to your cars, beg for money, wash your windows, sometimes they become violent and break your side mirrors. Then they go back to their crevices to sleep, then resume hustling the next day. For you it’s a simple commute, for them, it’s the only life they’ll ever know.

Before we can understand how we got to this point and what we can do differently, we need to go back in time.

There are 3 major reasons why this problem has festered:

The first reason is 70% of these kids are not from Lagos, they are mostly from the neighboring states (Ogun, Ibadan, Kwara etc) and in some cases, from Northern and eastern Nigeria. In trying to escape extreme poverty, they are falsely promised that Lagos is the land flowing with milk and honey. So the ones that are brave enough to seek greener pasture become rebellious, abandon their families and travel with friends to Lagos with high hopes of succeeding and someday return home with great wealth. For many of them, there’s no going back if this doesn’t happen. It’s the same reason many Africans try to cross the Sahara desert into Europe.

The second reason is a failure of the public education system (primary/secondary schools). Most of the kids drop out of school because they struggle academically and are dismissed as Olodos (good for nothing) by their overworked and underpaid teachers. Infact, the public secondary system is the biggest contributor to this problem.

The third and most Important reason is the failure of the family unit(Broken homes). 80 percent of the children child you see neglected and abandoned on the streets is a direct result of broken homes. (This is actual data by the way) Maybe stop one day have a conversation with any of them, and you’ll quickly realize that the stories are very similar. It’s a failure of the family system, underpinned by poverty.
Some of them are orphans, some with single parents, some abused sexually even by their own fathers. The stories are deeply painful.

Through the culmination of these three things, the kids end up on the streets of Lagos. For them it’s an escape from hell and there’s no going back home. Death is a kinder fate.

With time, it becomes clear that the promise of a better life in Lagos was a facade and the beginning of an even greater struggle. But this time without a roof over their heads…

The streets become their new home and a life of violent survival begins. There are a couple of hotspots where they begin to converge—Oshodi Underbridge, Jakande, Marwa Bustop, Osale Eko dumpsite, Mushin, Ajah roundabout, Agege, Surulere Underbridge etc.

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

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End of an era 💔😭

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@silverpenydr Hello

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@ABJ_psycho @cowrywise give him the job. He made it already.

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@Iamkrebkira Business men and women can't relate 💅😆

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

“If you are rich, you will enjoy Nigeria”.
This is one of the most fundamentally foolish things to ever say and believe in the history of foolish things in the world.

Today our very own world boxing champion Anthony Joshua had a ghastly motor crash that killed two people.

No ambulance.
No paramedics.
No first aid service.
No emergency response.
Just a confused crowd at an accident site.

Recently there was a fire outbreak in a building in Lagos with many people trapped in it.

For many hours,
No ambulance, no fire service,
No first aid service, no emergency response. Again, just another confused crowd outside the building while people burnt to death inside.

Terrible incidents like the terrible car accident that just happened to Anthony Joshua and the complete utter lack of a coordinated emergency response is another stark reminder of what a poor, backward and undeveloped country we are.

Two people died in that same car accident that Anthony Joshua was involved in. If AJ also needed emergency medical attention, he could have died. Quite simply so.

His money wouldn’t matter.
His fame wouldn’t matter.
His global renown wouldn’t matter.
He could have simply died today.

Today’s crash should be a cold brutal awakening to every one of us. Your money is absolutely meaningless in a failed country that has no working healthcare systems and no working institutions.

It does not matter if you are rich or poor. In many life threatening emergency medical situations, your money will end up being very useless. This is again a cold stark reminder to everyone who thinks that wealth is somehow always a sure shield against failed systems in a failed country.

AJ could have died today.
Just because he had an accident in a country that has zero first aid, zero emergency medical response, zero timely ambulance and zero paramedics when your life is hanging in the balance.

A country where human life has zero value.

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@instablog9ja I just credited you 😌

[Yemi of Lagos ♛® 🇳🇬 🇺🇸 @Yemi_of_Lagos]

Missing Person!!!

Please help retweet till we find Abdulrahman

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@InsideIlorin_NG That's 1k per 3 hours 😢
Anyways, someone with other menial jobs might find this okay.

[Temitayo @writernimSS]

@silverpenydr @seanpepisky @ezekiel_aleke I'm interested Doc.
What are the requirements for selection? 🙏