Obi Agu

Obsession is where the magic happens.

@anishmoonka I may be wrong, but I think that social media generations need to learn how to commit. The patience to see things through in a world that seeks instant gratification may make it harder to achieve feats like this in the future. In all, great read, Anish. Thank you.

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

The whole idea of solo date is a marketing stunt to rebrand thesame activities you’ve been doing before and make it sound more intentional. I really think there’s nothing like a solo date. If you’re going out by yourself, it’s not a date. You’re going to eat. Eat your food and have fun. People have always bene going out to eat, going out to enjoy nature, and going out to do activities. Just because you went to a fancy restaurant to eat alone doesn’t make it ceremonial.

"I was angry" 🤡 "Didn't you see what they said/did to me?" 🤡 A moment of restraint or a lifetime of restraint. Free will.

Entrepreneurship opportunity!!! A lot of cleaning companies are targeting the same number of urban homes, ignoring these goldmines.

@olumidecapital Indeed Imagination births Knowledge nurtures

Imagination is higher than knowledge. Creativity is a higher form of risk. Always proud to be a Steve Jobs disciple

1 Kings 3 : 16 - 28 The Bible is complete. We only read amiss

@MubarakBalogun Lmao.. I'm seeing this, and I think many of us missed the point with this guy . We should actually just enjoy his content and move on 😂

People angry about your post have probably not even seen this one 😂

I follow at least 10 accounts on IG that teach/talk about luxury - font, color, presentation angles... and if you must speak; tone, openers, close. A $20k pair of shoes deserves some attention to presentation detail. Luxury does not convince.

@Ssaasquatch There's no other way to say it. Really, no other way. The luck many of the "successful" ones have is govt patronage. Nothing bad with it but every person won't be that lucky. Well, everyone has their true goal, no matter how it is packaged. I wish him, and others, well

You see, this is my issue with some of these Naija fashion brands. A lot of these guys reach out to me saying they’d love to make something for me, but their pricing ends up discouraging me from supporting them. Maybe I’m not rich enough to be in their target market, and that’s fine but I think the bigger issue in the so-called Naija luxury space is the attempt to skip the hard process it takes to truly belong there. You can’t price like the top 0.1% of global luxury while bypassing the years of craftsmanship, brand building, attention to detail, and cultural weight that justify it. Those are the things that come to mind when I’m forking out £1,500 at Harrods for a Louboutin or Ferragamo. Luxury is earned over time through consistency, obsessive quality, and a story people genuinely want to buy into not this sleazy attempt to signal exclusivity. Anyways, I wish this guy all the best.

Nigerians: "Rich people should stop using the police to intimidate anyone who offends them. Just charge them to court like normal people." *VDM sues Blord for copyright infringement* Blord refused police invitation twice, resulting in the judge remanding him after the first hearing. The same Nigerians: "VDM is using his political connections to bully Blord." See eh, this is why I’m convinced Nigeria isn’t ready for a functional system. A lot of you are simply not well.

@notokiki 😂

no be knife again?😂

engineering is the highest form of art

@JaneotN "The old magic will not be discussed with the children of new" 😂

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@BrianRoemmele Lmao.. water pressure?

@YarKafanchan A country of a million excuses.

We really need to try to adopt a spirit of excellence in this country. This is embarrassing.

Na you dey find avocado. Wetin do ugu?

people underestimate the power of working on something for an agonizingly long period of time