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LRT All this salaye just because you want us to sell Akara. Why didn't your kid stay back in Naija to continue her education? All of you that'll be defending this administration, radarada
My Daughter learnt hair dressing in Nigeria age 10- 12 when they were with my Mum. Today by Gods grace and sheer Hardwork, she's only 20 years , Her Braid and hair making business earns Her more than a lot of working class people in the UK even as an undergraduate in the University. She's just completed Year 2 and I am confident She will most likely become a home owner very soon Insha Allah. They should all continue to delude themselves.
My 16 year old sells used teddy bears and batch cook for People
Even with my Nursing career most people on Facebook know me with my Herbs and spices business, some call me Iya Alagbo. Many people are actually not in touch with reality at all and that's why they will continue to suffer.
They are living in an alternate world and deceiving themselves.
😅 It's always funny to me too
Naija TikTok is a unique place.
Someone will scam you of ₦10m because you wanted to buy gold or foodstuff from him. Instead of the police, you’ll report him to a popular TikTok person who will now invite both of you on TikTok Live… and the scammer will actually show up 🤣🤣
My wife's book club is meeting at our house tomorrow night.
She asked me to "make sure the wifi is working really well because Sarah always complains."
Our wifi works fine, I know that because it works fine for me and my wife and everybody else.
Sarah uses an iPhone XR from like 2019 and she refuses to update it.
But I can't tell my wife that because then I'm "making excuses" and "not being supportive."
So I said I'd "optimize the network" for tomorrow. What I'm actually going to do: nothing. The wifi is fine.
But tomorrow morning I'll restart the router, which takes 90 seconds and does basically nothing.
Then when Sarah inevitably complains about connectivity, I can say "I optimized the system this morning.
It might be a device compatibility issue on your end."
My wife will think I tried. Sarah will blame her phone instead of our wifi. I'll have done essentially nothing but everyone will be satisfied.
Technical support at home is just like technical support at work lol.
The way Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust have treated Jennifer Melle is even worse than we knew.
First, they offered her absolutely no support for having been the victim of racial ab*se by a gigantic convicted p*edophile who tried to headbutt her, instead launching straight into attacking her for "misgendering" him.
Then they moved her & isolated her, not allowing her to mix with the other nurses in the staff room, forcing her to often eat lunch alone on a grassy area outside.
All of this understandably took a toll, & Jennifer was signed off sick. When she returned to work, they had put someone else in her role & told her she would need to reapply, resulting in Jennifer having to take a job at a lower nursing grade just to keep working.
'“I felt like I was going through torture,” she said.'
I am not surprised, what they did to her despicable.
I don't care that it is public money, I hope the Trust have to compensate Jennifer very handsomely, & that they learn that they can NEVER treat another nurse like this again.
Kola Adewale is the man who captures your wallet at 1 PM and at 1 AM.
Kola Adewale was a smart guy (a First Class Accountant who worked at KPMG).
He left the corporate world to start a food business.
He launched "Papas Pizza."
He thought he would be the "Domino's" of Nigeria.
But there was a problem: Nigerians didn't want Pizza every day. The business was struggling.
Most entrepreneurs would have kept pushing the Pizza idea until they went broke.
Kola Adewale didn't. He listened to the market.
He used a strategy called The Hybrid Pivot.
Here is how he built the most popular food and lifestyle chain in Lagos:
He realized that while Pizza is "sexy," Rice is "essential."
He swallowed his pride, scrapped the "Pizza-only" model, and introduced the now-famous "The Place" menu (Asun, Jollof, Spaghetti).
He didn't try to be "Fancy" like a 5-star hotel. He tried to be "Tasty and Fast."
He re-engineered his kitchen to serve massive volume.
He teaches us that you must sell what people eat, not what you want to cook..
This is his genius.
A normal restaurant makes money for maybe 8 hours a day (Lunch and Dinner). The building sits empty at night.
Kola Adewale asked: "Why should I pay 24 hours rent for 8 hours of business?"
He turned his locations into Nightclubs after dark.
The same building that sells N2,000 rice in the afternoon sells N500,000 Hennessy at night.
He maximizes the Revenue per Square Meter.
He teaches us that Efficiency is making your Rent work for you while you sleep.
Unlike other founders who are always on social media making noise, Kola Adewale is invisible.
To get this picture (that I attached) of him was a difficult job.
You rarely see him grant interviews.
He focuses 100% on Operations.
He has opened over 20 outlets in strategic locations across Lagos and Kwara.
He proves that you don't need to be a "Celebrity CEO" to build a "Celebrity Brand."
He teaches us that Work does not need noise. Results make their own noise.
Why am I telling you this?
Many of you are holding onto a "Dead Idea."
You started selling "Luxury Bags," but nobody is buying.
You are afraid to switch to "Thrift Wears" because of shame.
Kola Adewale teaches us to Pivot without Shame.
If "Pizza" is not paying the bills, start selling "Rice."
The goal of business is not to be right; the goal is to be profitable.
Kola's detour in business choice & operations focused strategy(Consumer choice, Quality, service delivery, affordability and availability of choices) are his competitive advantage birthed from deep review of what wasn't working.
Your business may require a different strategy. Bottomline question to ask is "What is the outcome you want to achieve?". Question what is not working (problem statement) then begin to identify the probable causes and what needs to change to fix this. If it includes detour, then so be it. If it requires publicity, visibility and advert, by all means carry on.
I hope you learned something.
Credit: Mahmood Abdullahi Loke
Nestlé has recalled these baby products.
So before you mix that next bottle for your baby, read this thread carefully as it concerns their well being.
If you feed your baby NAN, SMA, or Alfamino, a toxic bacteria has been found in some batches. And you might have it in your house right now.
You see, Nestlé has issued a massive global recall for several baby formulas (products in the image above) because they found a toxin called Cereulide (from Bacillus cereus bacteria) in some batches.
This toxin causes severe nausea and vomiting in babies. And the scary part is that boiling water does NOT kill it. The toxin is heat-resistant. So even if you prepare the formula correctly, if the powder itself is contaminated, your baby is at risk.
Now, NAFDAC has not released a specific alert for Nigeria yet. BUT our markets are porous. And people import ‘UK SMA’ and ‘Imported NAN’ every single day. So if you buy your formula from supermarkets that stock imported goods, or you bought it abroad, you need to check the last stock to see if your tin look like any of those products.
If yes, go to Nestle’s UK Website (SMA & Alfamino) and Nestle’s MENA Website (NAN) to verify if your batch does not fall under the recalled ones.
If your batch code matches the ones on that list, please DO NOT USE IT.
And please, don't keep this information to yourself.
If you have a friend, sister, or neighbor who uses SMA, NAN, or Alfamino, retweet this or send this to them NOW.
You might be saving a baby from poisoning today.
Around 12 noon today, a couple rushed into Medicine Casualty holding their 3-year-old. The child had fallen off a table; his wrist was visibly deformed, likely a clean break. He was crying inconsolably, surrounded by 4 or 5 frantic relatives.
"Doctor, treat my child fast!" they shouted.
I immediately assessed the situation. As a Medicine resident, I am neither an orthopedician nor a pediatrician. I knew that I was not in a position to manage this situation.
I calmly told them: "This is Medicine Casualty. Please turn left, the Orthopedic Casualty is right there. Since you have many people with you, have one person take the child there immediately while another goes to the counter for a ticket so the doctors can order X-rays and meds."
That’s when the shouting started.
"You good-for-nothing doctors! Can’t you see this is an emergency? Why do we need a ticket?"
My junior rushed over to help, only to be met with threats: "Treat him immediately or things will get bad for you." Then, the phones came out. Cameras were shoved in our faces. "Look at these doctors refusing to treat a child!"
Here is the context a 30-second viral video would miss:
1. I was directing them to the correct specialist only 3 minutes away.
2. Without a hospital ID/ticket, the Ortho team can't even log an X-ray request into the system.
3. Staying in Medicine Casualty was actually delaying the child's care.
To de-escalate, I eventually had to leave my own post unattended to personally escort them to the Ortho wing and explain the situation to the doctors there.
Hours later, after the child was stabilized, the family returned to apologize. I appreciate the apology, but the damage of those "recorded" moments lingers. This is the daily reality for doctors: being vilified for following the very protocols that ensure a patient gets the right treatment from the right specialist.
Before you share a "doctor refusing treatment" video, ask yourself: Are they refusing, or are they trying to get the patient to the help they actually need?
A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside of work.
Damilola Balogun's family is facing unimaginable grief after losing her and struggling to care for her three young children. Your support can make a real difference during this difficult time. Please consider donating or sharing to help ease their burden. https://t.co/uUNxoIPTkm
Your husband is selfish. He's already living his dreams (Polygyny), he should let you live yours na.
“Assalamun Aleikun Wa Rahmatullah, please keep me anonymous Ma.
I am a medical doctor with 5years of active practice, i am also in a polygyny marriage, I’m the first wife of my husband, we’ve been married for 6years, blessed with 2 sons. Our marriage isn’t perfect, but Alhamdulillah.
I got an offer in UK to come and practice with the help of my younger brother who’s also a practicing nurse in UK, my younger brother has been practicing in UK for a while and he’s been helping me with my relocation for as far back as 2023, which is not hidden from my husband and he never say no about it.
My husband got married June 2024, and since then, our marriage has been through test but Alhamdulillah, I’ve been patience and trying to deal with sharing my husband.
Now this is the issue, I got offer November this year (2025) and my husband said I should not go, he knows how much I want this, how much I prayed for it, different exams, the visa stress and everything, he knows even how much my brother sacrificed for me for this to happen, now he’s saying I must not go, he said I’m going because he married another wife, he even go as far as saying I should choose the offer or our marriage, there is no name he hasn’t called me.
We had arguments about it yesterday and he verbally abused me in front of our children, he also mocked me with a mistake I made at the early year of our marriage, I cried so much, my co-wives also came to my apartment today to pick almost all my husband belonging that’s in my apartment on the instruction of our husband.
I told my younger brother and he’s so mad about it, he keep saying if I let his efforts waste, he will not help me in anything related to relocation again. My husband has blocked me on WhatsApp and he’s not visited my apartment today, even though I’m the next in turn with the sleeping routine and I doubt he’ll come, I’m lost, I don’t know what to do, I’m not ready to lose this opportunity, and God sees my heart that all of this is not because of second wife, I love my husband even in all of this I still do love him, but my career progression is as important and I’m not ready to let this go, I’m lost, I don’t want to talk to my immediate family, I know they’ll be bias with their opinions and advice and I’ve also beg my younger brother not to tell our family anything yet, please advice me.”
Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah. Thanks for the tag @SimisolaTomori
May Allah grant you clarity and protect your heart. What you are facing is heavy, and your confusion is understandable, I will try to be as real and as gentle. The human in me will automatically say pack your bag, Leave the Kids with your Mum for sometime, Go work as hard with Allah's mercies and set a clear timeline to move your kids with you. You already have an advantage that most new migrants don't, A Supportive Brother who is already settled, He will not abandon you
NOW But Let me look at other factors ,
In Islam, marriage is built on mercy, respect, and justice. Polygyny does not remove a woman’s dignity, nor does it cancel her right to growth, safety, or lawful ambition. Seeking knowledge, work, and provision through a halal path is not rebellion. It is honoured. The Prophet SAW praised women who were thoughtful, capable, hardworking and purposeful. We have numerous examples in the Hadith even amongst His wives, The Ustaz on the Tl can help me here
Your husband’s pain may be real, but pain does not justify verbal abuse, humiliation before children, threats, or emotional punishment, These actions cross Islamic boundaries. Disagreement must never become cruelty, He is already showing you example of impeding Shege ahead for you which includes sexual/intimacy punishment that has started so if you are bothered about that aspect whether you go or not thats already part of your reality as mentioned by you" He didn’t show up on your turn"
You must pause and separate emotion from decision, Do not decide under pressure, fear, or insults. Also, do not frame this as choosing career over marriage. Frame it as choosing wisdom over coercion. A marriage sustained by force will eventually wound everyone involved.
If possible, involve a trusted neutral mediator, I would have said a respected, trusted imam, elder, who understands polygyny, migration realities, and women’s rights but Hey we know how this things work in our land, Same Bias you are worried about is possible because of our patriarchal nature just as family members may inflame matters.
So I will say pray istikhara sincerely, then take steps that protect your long-term wellbeing, faith, and children’s stability. Allah does not open doors to mock His servants. Whatever you choose, choose it calmly, with dignity, and knowing that just as much as marriage may work, it may not not and a Hubby who was aware about your plans, prayers, exams and supported it then should not just wake up with punishments now the prayers are answered
In Your shoes, I am certain He will pack His bags and probably marry another woman in the same UK as mathna before considering relocating you, Oju ti ri
As for your co wives, you get the respect and love you you think you deserve! If you place value and respect on yourself She will too. If you think leaving means She Won your hubby in totality , think again.
You can reach out for pro bono one on one insha Allah. I sincerely Pray common sense prevail and Allah guide you to choose well for you and your long term peace, fulfilment and self actualisation
I stop here
Alhamdulillah
My second born, scan showed 4.2kg at my hospital,the doctor was like perhaps their machine there is faulty, he directed to a diagnostic center to go and redo the scan, their own scan showed 4.5kg. my doctor was surprised,he said since I've already passed my EDD, we're going for C-section. I started crying that day, many things were going on in my mind but I summoned the courage. When my baby was born, she was 5kg. I looked at her n asked myself where will this baby come out from if not for C-section.
Thank God for the blessing of C-section cos someone like me with big babies, how I go do am?
It’s exactly four days to my induction.
Physiotherapist in a bit!🥳
Every day around midnight, I'm shocked to find out it's only 6pm
Three days to my call to bar, I was already in Abuja, done with my clearance, but had no wig and gown. Ahhhh!!. I called my dad but that man was obviously fed up with the consistent billing law school had on him. There was no money for it. I know my father well, if he had gotten the money, he would have sent it. I was seeing my mates going for pre call to bar photo shoot and that triggered me more. I called my eldest sister who just relocated to Lagos but she told me she was financially handicapped. Her husband who had lost his job managed to send me the sum of #20,000 and one of my junior colleagues in the University sent me #10,000. Anytime I called home expressing my anxiety, I would be welcomed with that silence on the phone; my dad practically told me he was done. Most people close to me whom I called gave me excuses of being broke at that time.
Two days to call to bar, I woke up to pray Tajajjud and cried in Sujood saying: "Ya Allah, you are the only One who can help me at this point. I need a call to bar wig and gown. I don't know how but you brought me to this stage. You didn't support me to pass bar finals but not get called".
In the morning, I messaged one of our law school mentors named Micheal Senkoya Esq who posted my predicament on his group.
I was restless at that point and was just praying for a breakthrough at that moment. One lady on the group commented: "I have ordered for a suit,wig and gown from Daraz which have been delivered to me but my uncle also sent me a brand new wig and gown from the UK for me through DHL. I just got it now. If you don't mind, meet me at Bwari law school entrance by 4pm with the #30,000 with you to get this suit from UK".
I immediately contacted this lady and we met at Bwari. She was from Akwa Ibom and I could remember her first name was Grace. She told me she would collect the #30,000 because she needed more money to secure her flight ticket back to the east and told me how she wasn't interested in practicing law in Nigeria, hence, she didn't need two wigs. That was how I got a brand new "imported" wig and gown from the UK with the sum of #30,000.
I bowed in appreciation of Allah's Benevolence. At that point, it was just Him. Anytime I remember this incident, I develop the conviction that Allah didn't make me join the legal profession to fail. It is in His Plan for me and He is the Best of Planners. May that day never come when I will cease to believe in the Mercy of my Lord on me. In which of Allah's favors shall we deny?. None!!
Stop increasing the speed of your I.V drip when nurses leave the room, some drugs are not meant to move very fast…you’ll kill yourself one day.
I’ve lost at least ten physiotherapists to japa over the three years of my treatment.
Now that the owner of my therapy center himself has japa I know that I need to go back home myself to get serious about my therapy.
Nigeria is shedding medical professionals at an alarming rate 😢
On September 21, 2025, at approximately 11:00 AM, two bulldozers from the FCT Development Control arrived at a property in Gaduwa with the intent to demolish a structure. The land was legally acquired by Vice Admiral A.Z. Gambo in 2020 with all requisite documentation. The conflict began earlier in September when development commenced on the site. The Development Control council conducted an inspection and was presented with all necessary documents and building approvals. However, they returned two days later to announce that the land's title had been revoked by the current FCT Minister, who provided no conditions or valid justification for this decision.
All subsequent efforts to contact the Minister for clarification were unsuccessful. After these attempts failed, officials returned to halt construction. The situation escalated significantly when the Minister visited the site that Saturday, issuing direct threats that he would return to demolish the building. When the bulldozers were refused entry yesterday, the Minister arrived in person. He was blocked at the entrance and denied access to the property, which prompted him to escalate the matter by calling the Chief of Defence Staff. The CDS has since communicated that they are now overseeing the situation.
Primary 1 in 2011.
God, I continue to ask for strength not to argue with people on Twitter 🙏
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