Election is over, please let’s pray for Nigeria’s prosperity, and be optimistic. it’s not wise to be raining curses on ourselves, and be expecting the worse to happen because of who God has chosen to be our President.
Reports indicate that some criminal elements have already started vandalizing sections of the concrete Kano–Abuja expressway to steal the steel reinforcement rods used in its construction. This is an urgent call to the security agencies and all relevant authorities. If this criminal act is not stopped immediately, it could severely compromise the structures of the road, which could lead to catastrophic consequences, including the loss of innocent lives. Kindly Share!
Femi Falana stated that Ali Modu Sheriff, the former governor of Borno State, founded Boko Haram. He was arrested in Cameroon over his links to the group, but the Nigerian government stepped in and negotiated his release. Falana challenged Sheriff to sue him if the claims are untrue.
Nokia could have invented the iPhone. Three years before Apple did, a Nokia engineer walked into a meeting in Finland with a working prototype: a touchscreen phone with full internet access. Management killed it. The device looked too expensive and too risky to sell. The same year, Nokia also rejected a proposal for an online app store. Apple would launch the same idea four years later.
In 2007, Nokia controlled 40% of the world's mobile phone market and was worth more than $150 billion. By 2013, it had sold its phone business to Microsoft for $7.2 billion. The company that defined the cell phone became irrelevant in less time than it takes most kids to finish high school.
In 2016, two professors from INSEAD and Aalto University spent years interviewing 76 Nokia executives, engineers, and consultants for a research paper. Their conclusion: nobody at the company could have an uncomfortable conversation.
Senior leaders were described as "extremely temperamental." One consultant remembered then-CEO Jorma Ollila shouting at people "at the top of his lungs" in front of fifteen other vice presidents. Middle managers learned the rules fast. Bad news got you fired, so they stopped delivering it.
The engineers knew Nokia's operating system could not compete with what Apple was building for the iPhone. One design team submitted 500 separate proposals to fix it between 2001 and 2009. Not a single one got approved. When a middle manager once suggested that a colleague push back against a top executive, the colleague refused. He "didn't have the courage; he had a family and small children."
The top managers were also afraid, just of different things. They worried about looking weak to investors. So they publicly defended the old operating system while privately knowing it was dying. The middle managers heard the demand for optimism and supplied it. For four years, the people who knew the company was sinking could not get that message to the people who could do something about it.
Researchers call this shoot-the-messenger culture. It shows up in cockpit recordings before plane crashes, in hospital records before preventable deaths, and in the investigations of the 2008 financial crisis. The cost of avoiding a difficult conversation is always paid later, with interest.
Nokia's case is unusual because the math is so clean: the silence cost roughly $143 billion in market value and an entire company. The discomfort would have cost a few bad meetings.
Absolutely correct. Most people failed to realize that there is a direct connection between Kano and Gao. As recently as 20th century, traders from both sides exchanged goods and opportunities.
Gao is not far from Kano, which is not far from Abuja.
Nigeria have to be very proactive and strategic in our attention to the crisis in the Sahel.
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In what I view as a major escalation, the recent U.S.–Israeli airstrikes struck one of Iran’s most critical gas infrastructure sites in southern Fars. This was not a peripheral target; it was a direct hit on a commercial energy facility that underpins a significant share of Iran’s domestic electricity generation. By some estimates, gas from this region supports close to 70% of the country’s power supply.
Tehran has already issued a stark warning, promising a response of unprecedented scale against U.S. and Israeli energy assets. Given Iran’s track record of aligning rhetoric with action, this threat cannot be dismissed as mere posturing.
The facility targeted is part of the broader South Pars system—the largest natural gas field in the world. At the same time, Qatar’s largest LNG plant has been forced offline, adding further strain to an already fragile global energy landscape. The ripple effects are immediate: helium prices, tied closely to natural gas production and essential for semiconductor manufacturing, have surged by 100%.
Taken together, these developments signal a dangerous trajectory. If this conflict continues to expand into the energy domain, the world is on the brink of a level of energy insecurity it is simply not prepared to absorb. The interconnected nature of global supply chains means that disruptions in the Gulf will not remain regional—they will cascade into global markets, industrial production, and geopolitical stability.
The consequences of continued escalation will be severe, and the international system is not ready for what prolonged energy disruption in this region would entail.
Today, the night of 29th Ramadan happens to also be the Night of Khatma (Complete recitation of the Qur'an in prayer) in the Haram of Makkah. The prayer was led by His Excellency, Professor Abdurrahman Sudais. The day of the completion of the prayer is one of the nights expected to be the Night of Decree and Majesty (Laylatul Qadr), along with other odd nights. Let's continue to strive so as to defeat Satan at home and away.
O Allah, the Ever-Living and the Self-Sustainer, we ask You for forgiveness and well-being in this world and in the Hereafter. O Allah, we ask You for forgiveness and well-being in our spiritual and worldly affairs. O Allah, conceal our faults, calm our fears, and protect us from before us and behind us, from our right and our left, and from above us, and we seek refuge in You from being taken unaware from beneath us.
O Allah, the Ever-Living and the Self-Sustainer, be merciful to our departed parents, friends, children, and loved ones. O Allah, answer our prayers completely, forgive our limitations, and guide and guard us from all evils in both worlds.
O Allah, the Ever-Living and the Self-Sustainer, We beg You for peace, stability, prosperity, and unity in our communities and countries. O Allah, destroy all our enemies and the enemies of humanity. O Allah, subdue the bandits, terrorists, kidnappers, armed robbers, both with arms and with pens. O Allah, emancipate the oppressed and subdue the oppressor wherever they are in the world.
O Allah, bless our families, offspring, friends, brothers, and all those who love us and all those who stand by us.
O Allah, the Ever-Living and the Self-Sustainer register us among the companions of Jannatul Firdaus.
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Should a blasphemer be killed?
There is NO evidence for such in Islam, not in the Qur'ān and not in the Sunnah.
The Prophet Muhammad (ṣallāLlāhu 'alayhi wa sallam) chose forgiveness and mercy even when he had the power to take revenge. People didn't submit to him because of coercion. He was never a coercive person. They submitted to him willingly because of his mercy and his beautiful character.
Allah, the Creator describes him as a Prophet of Mercy for all humankind and jinn-kind (Rahmatan li al-'ālamīn).
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