A lot has changed over the years and here are some of the things I share with my nieces & nephews who are now done with schooling;
1. Get married when U’re really ready (Don’t pressure yourself with a target age)
2. Plan for a retirement filled with loads of memories (not 💴)
3. Live a life of influence and visible impact, entrepreneurship never works without building meaningful relationships.
4. Never lust after eye candies or fall in love when you can be in love with the inner beauty that needs no make up.
5. Nothing makes our parents proud like our happiness while living a life of dignity and integrity, it is not necessarily about how much we earn.
6. Make REAL Friends. (It doesn’t have to be a village of people or popularity contest).
7. Do what you love and love what you do and are best at. There is no one as authentic as you in being you. Find happiness in the ordinary, your authenticity makes it luxurious.
8. Soon U’ll attract someone whom you can’t live without & one who won’t be able to live without U.
There’s no hurry. Don’t let anyone pressure you unduly. There is no tape to breast. Life is a continuous intrinsic journey and there’s no point comparing yourself to anyone. There’s no arrival. You are the only model of you God made. #YouAreEnough ⛱
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It just might be that you need more study in international relations, diplomacy & deeper understanding about individual country’s foreign policy. Nigeria is yet to define her own as divided by the age-long North Vs South politics of distrust.
Thus, the country distracts itself with playing big brother in Africa and gets nothing in return but betrayals & zero appreciation. We have served as a lesson to many on the “Charity begins at home” Doctrine. You can’t conquer the world without conquering yourself first.
There is nothing wrong with tagging foreign nations on matters that borders on treaties signed by our country with the international community. It is instructive especially when dealing with geriatrics who would rather look good outside than do good in their own country.
I’ve been meaning to address the issue with @adamugarba’s Crowwe App and several insinuations over the latest development with #TwitterBanInNigeria. I did my usual digging & was going to engage him at @akintollgate’s clubhouse session yesterday but he never returned as promised.
Adamu Garba may be known to most as a politician who ran for President in 2019 and later stepped down to support the #NextLevelAgenda of Mr President, but outside that he is also a young entrepreneur in the Tech industry with his firm (IPI Solutions).
Adamu like most political supporters of the Change agenda in his category benefitted from the admin even before 2019. If the @officialEFCC contract award notification to IPI Solutions on the 17th of April 2017 (EFCC/PROC/131/V.I) is anything you go by, the dots can be connected.
It is obvious the Admin has always been their own enemy. Being paranoid with their obsession with power and total control in order to secure their Regime at the expense of National security. The fear that Twitter may be weapon against them is only projected as a trauma response.
The same platform they heavily invested in to oust another admin is now being perceived as a threat against their misgovernance & maladministration. Human beings have the capacity to do good & evil and so does any Technology. John Wick even used a book to kill in combat.
Do we go about killing people because of our perceived notion of the evil they may be capable of doing? Do we ban anything & everything adopted by majority for the fear of abuse? This is paranoia. Twitter must never be driven underground because of the ego trip of the listless.
There’s no foreign partnership that can solve our internal security imbroglio fueled by the subjugation of the rule of law, nepotism & inequality. The self genocidal trend wasn’t an accident but deliberately curated by ethnic brigades with the blessing of the powers that be. 🚔
The same clannish sentiment that engineered the allusion that the war on Boko Haram is a war on the North. The same mentality that justified terrorist sympathizers in public office & security appointment to be skewed to the North. Murderous bandits are yet to be proscribed…
…and northern religious/political leaders are openly making a case for the Bandits’ murders, while others are issuing threats against our national sovereignty without consequences. 🇳🇬 is not a conquest of any Jihad & I wonder what the US/UK are coming to reinforce.
A terrible mess I must say at this point. I hope those complicit will ever return from the wilderness of their shame even while grandstanding. The truth remains the greatest weapon. #EndStupidity ⛱
As stated across platforms, demonizing people as a strategy will most times haunt those who depend on such methods of agitating for change. It is true for APC as it is for those being publicly humiliated over their lack of tact in engaging the public on matters of accountability.
If you are altruistically intervening on behalf of the public as an individual or organization using your personal resources, you accountability is basically the result of your activities as reported by you (organization) or as corroborated by beneficiaries of your activities.
“Practical elegance is something that is available to all of us. If we choose, it can become the cornerstone of our work. Some of us make a thing & many of us make a system.”
The harmony & singularity of purpose void of discordance constitute systemic efficiency. #Significance
“What makes something practically elegant is that it’s better, smoother, cleaner, more understandable, kinder, more efficient, friendlier or more approachable than it needs to be.”
I guess this is the difference between a Mercedes Benz & Toyota, Niche & Mass market etc
“When we create something with practical elegance, we are investing time and energy in a user experience that satisfies the user more than it helps the bottom line of the company that made it.”
It’s harder than it looks & years of practice and discipline in obscurity pays.