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Mafi Girman addu'a daga cikin Addu'o'i... Prof Mansur Isah Yelwa Hafizahullah🤲

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@MallamRaji Dhalika YukhawifuLLAHU*

The bad "mindset and morals" that Nigerians have is only a by-product of a bad system. They behave badly and in a corrupt manner because they know the system doesn't reward hard work, so they have no motivation to achieve through it anymore , and they know that cutting corners works, so they do it to get results. For change, we don't need any correction of mindset . What we need is a system that brutally and unfailingly punishes and generously rewards—the people need to understand the system works without failure. This is actually what the West has that we do not. It's not like they are more patriotic, better than us, or have less tendency for evil and corruption. They have a system that punishes and rewards. If we can get this, you will see that "mindset" disappears. The proof for this is Nigerians in diaspora. They integrate into functioning societies, and you don't find the typical Nigerian in them anymore. They infact are on top of the success chain in almost every industry and niche. This is not to say that there aren't bad examples of Nigerians abroad actually, there are. But they are not the majority—just as you'll still find criminals amongst natives of saner climes, they also aren't the majority. Fear and reward are the single most successful motivators for humans. They just need to believe it's real. If you go through history, you will see that these two are always the common factors. If you check the Qur'an. You'll see the same thing. Jannah and Jahannam have the same concept. Even Allah says in Zumar, "dhalika yukhawifullAHA bihi ibadah," as motivation for mankind to abandon evil ways. It's also very easy to theoretically outline a thousand reasons why something won't work, but when you just have a little audacity and try it out you'll see that you will achieve more than you ever imagined. I wish I could give you personal examples, but I can't because this is not the platform for it. I admit it will be difficult to implement, but there are many methods, and they have also historically worked. i.e., Necessary Evil. Etc.

Ofcourse. This is a lot of work. It's definitely easier said on paper. Just like things that produce excellent results.—there must be a lot of hardwork and sacrifice.

I don't see my mutual's tweets. I don't get notifications if someone quotes my tweets or replies. I literally see them when I check my own tweet. What have they done to X?

That dopamine spike you get from solving a difficult problem >>>

@MallamRaji from step 3 to the end. China has a very similar framework, it's where I got inspiration from—so it's an approach that has been proven to work. And while it will take time to achieve, I also outlined a bridge—A temporary solution before subject zero are ready to take over.

@nuuman_ And where to even start from?

Indeed, Shaykh Imrān. I recall that sometime last year, the unintended consequences were announced in advance. The President said something along the lines of, “I know it will be very hard, but Nigerians will get through it.” Many did not. One can only imagine the qualitative decline in governance. ʿUmar (R.A) once refused to take milk because the people of Madinah were struggling. Today, it's the opposite. Billions are spent renovating officials’ residences, and while they dine on meals prepared by private chefs, the common man is told to endure. Such a heavy demand—especially when, for many, endurance can mean death.

Consider the rigorous testing required to earn a driver’s license, a safeguard meant to prevent a single person from causing harm on the road. Now, compare that to the far weightier task of governance, where a leader’s decisions can steer millions toward prosperity or ruin. As Thomas Sowell illustrates in Economic Facts and Fallacies, disastrous policies often enjoy widespread political endorsement, only for their catastrophic failures to be dismissed later as 'unintended consequences' ignoring the pain they have caused, sometimes, not everyone is even able to trace them to their root cause. When we allow anyone to take the helm of a nation without regard for competence, we aren't just choosing a leader; we are inviting an avoidable catastrophe.

Literally saying: 'No testing' is here It's either you gain or I gain If you do not gain, I have surely gained It either works or doesn't. If it doesn't work, it surely does work If it doesn't work, as far as I'm concerned, it (the smart phone) is working well. We are not involving the police in this matter. No returning, no refunding No complaint of cheating I am the one to sell to you that you will be glad you patronized me and in the same vein, I'm the one to make you sad. NB: 1. No testing means that you do not get to test the smart phones before buying them. 2. Under the conventional law of contract, he is making an invitation to treat. If you make an offer to buy agreeing to the terms and conditions above, there is a valid contract. You cannot complain afterwards. Even though whether or not the smart phones are of merchantable quality is a different argument. 3. Under the Islamic law of contract, this kind of transaction is prohibited because it's a sale contract founded on uncertainty and it eliminates a fundamental principle of sale under the Islamic law of contract: satisfaction. The Islamic law protects the intellect from being used in a corrupt manner.

I previously held a deep-seated disdain for politics, fueled by the conduct of politicians themselves. However, my perspective shifted after engaging with the macroeconomic insights of Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Sowell, alongside the profound social philosophy of Ibn Ashur’s The Foundations of the Social Order and Ibn al-Jawzi’s Minhaj al-Qasidin. I began to see that politics is the invisible hand affecting every facet of existence. It is the engine that drives history and shapes the world. While my personal distaste remains, I have found a way to reconcile with its necessity. Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi captured this urgency perfectly when he argued that, in its capacity to safeguard the community, politics is even more critical than the five daily prayers.

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Colombia has 200 wild hippos right now. They all came from 4 that Pablo Escobar smuggled in for his private zoo in 1981. Three females, one male. After he was killed in 1993, officials left the hippos behind. They escaped into the river. That was 45 years ago. 16 hippos by 2007. 40 by 2014. 120 by 2019. Around 200 today. Colombia is the only country outside Africa with wild hippos. And these hippos hit breeding age earlier than African ones, so they multiply faster. Each one eats 110 lbs of plants a night. They also dump 13 lbs of waste a day, almost all of it into the water. The waste feeds tiny organisms that suck the oxygen out and kill fish. It's pushing out 3 native species running out of space: the West Indian manatee, the Dahl's toad-headed turtle, and the Magdalena River turtle. Colombia spent 12 years across 3 governments trying to sterilize the hippos. It didn't work. Sterilizing one hippo needs a crane. The surgery is dangerous for the vets. A 2023 study said it would cost $1 to $2 million just to slow the breeding, and even then hippos would still be around for another 50 to 100 years. The government asked 7 countries and 2 international zoo groups to take some. Zero said yes. Then Anant Ambani made his offer. He runs Vantara, a 3,500-acre wildlife center in Gujarat that holds 47,000+ animals (200+ elephants, 160 tigers, 200 lions, 900 crocodiles). His proposal: take the 80 hippos Colombia plans to cull, fly them to India, cover their care for life. But the math has a catch. The cull was for 80 of the estimated 200. If Vantara takes those 80 alive instead of dead, it's a humane trade. The other 120 stay in the river. They breed faster than African hippos. The original 4 became 200 in 45 years.

Your jaw has the parts to grow a third set of teeth. They never finished forming. A protein in your body kept them locked away since before you were born. Japan's new drug blocks that protein. The lock comes off. Those buried tooth parts wake up and grow into real teeth. In 2018, this worked on mice. It worked again on ferrets. The team picked ferrets because, like humans, ferrets grow two sets of teeth in their lifetime. Rats and mice don't. Human trials started at Kyoto University in late 2024. Thirty men, aged 30 to 64, each with at least one missing molar, are receiving injections. This first round only tests safety. Whether it grows teeth in real people is still unknown. That data is years away. The first patients to be treated will be young children, ages 2 to 7, born missing 6 or more permanent teeth. This is a rare birth defect affecting about 1 in 1,000 people. Trials in those kids run through 2027. The next round through 2029. Earliest public sale: 2030. For adults losing teeth to cavities, accidents, or old age, the wait is longer. Toregem itself admits dentures and implants will stay the standard answer for years. A single implant in America costs $3,000 to $6,000, and the global implant market was worth $5.5 billion in 2025. So the headline oversells things. Nobody is replacing implants this decade. But the Japanese dentist behind the drug spent nearly 30 years working on this. He found an ancient genetic switch our bodies stopped flipping long ago, and built a way to flip it back on.

You open ChatGPT. You type the question. A clean, structured answer comes back in three seconds. You read it, it makes sense, you move on. You feel like you learned something. Forty-five days later, a professor walks in and hands you a test you weren't expecting. You don't remember most of it. André Barcaui at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ran the experiment to find out if the feeling was accurate. 120 undergraduate business students, ages 18 to 24. All told to spend two weeks researching AI concepts, ethics, societal impacts, technical foundations, and prepare a 10-minute presentation. Sixty used ChatGPT freely. Sixty used textbooks, library databases, articles, and standard web search. Then, 45 days later, with no warning, a retention test. The ChatGPT group scored 57.5%. The traditional group scored 68.5%. Cohen's d was 0.68, a medium-to-large effect. In most grading systems, that's the difference between passing and failing. This is called cognitive offloading. When your brain delegates thinking to an external tool, it reduces the mental effort required during encoding. Effort is what makes memories durable. Struggling to find, synthesize, and connect information is not an inefficiency in the learning process. It is the learning process. ChatGPT removes the struggle and takes the encoding with it. Barcaui calls what the AI group experienced "borrowed competence." The answer was structured, the vocabulary was right, the reasoning felt sound. It just wasn't theirs. And 45 days later, it was gone. The AI group's forgetting curve was steeper and didn't stabilize the way the traditional group's did. The memories weren't just smaller. They were more fragile from the start. You didn't learn it. You borrowed it.

Three out of four animals in the deep sea make their own light. Sixteen species evolved skin that absorbs over 99.5% of any light hitting them. Sunlight ends at 1,000 meters. Water sits at refrigerator temperature. Almost no food drifts down. Below a thousand meters, more than half a mile straight down, the ocean goes completely black. Water stays around 4°C year round. Pressure runs 100 to 400 times what you feel up here. Only about 5% of the food made at the sunlit surface ever drifts down to feed everything below. That layer holds 70% of all the seawater on Earth, making it the largest habitat on the planet. The shark's eye does most of the work in a place like that. It's huge. Behind the back of the eye sits a built-in mirror that bounces light through a second time, doubling the chance of catching whatever tiny glow is out there. Most sharks have this. Deep-sea species grow the eye and pupil as large as possible to catch every bit of light they can. Some fish go further. The barreleye evolved tube-shaped eyes pointed straight up at the surface, like binoculars built into its skull, scanning for shadows above. The 76% figure comes from 17 years of footage by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, covering 350,000 individual animals. The dark fish in the second photo is a deep-sea anglerfish. It built its own light source: a glowing rod on its forehead, lit by bacteria the fish picks up from seawater and keeps for life. Those bacteria have been there so long they've lost about half their genes, including key ones for surviving on their own. Without the fish, they barely function. Without the bacteria, the fish can't make light. The skin handles a different problem. When everyone around you glows, even getting lit up by your own dinner exposes you to anything watching. So 16 species of deep-sea fish evolved skin packed with melanin, the same pigment that colors human skin, arranged so densely it absorbs over 99.5% of any light hitting it. That makes them more than six times harder for a predator to spot than a normal black fish. The mouth handles food scarcity. Some deep-sea predators burn energy at about 10% the rate of a shallow-water fish. Chasing prey costs calories you can't get back, so you sit still and wait. When something finally drifts close, you swing open a jaw that stretches wide enough to swallow prey twice your size, because you have no idea when you'll eat again. The shark's pushed-out jaw and the anglerfish's gaping mouth are the same answer to the same problem. Every visible feature is a direct response to four constraints: no sun, cold water, almost no food, and pressure that would crush anything with air inside it. The deep ocean is the largest environment on Earth, and nothing on the surface has to deal with any of it.

A single veterinary painkiller killed 500,000 people in India. The drug was for cows. It was harmless to humans, but it shut down the kidneys of any vulture that fed on a treated carcass. Over a few years it killed 99.5% of India's vultures. With the vultures gone, dead cattle piled up in fields where the birds used to clean a carcass down to bone in 40 minutes. Stray dogs took over the job and multiplied around the dumps. India loses more people to rabies than any other country in the world, and the dog population was suddenly booming around mountains of rotting cow. Two economists ran the numbers. Eyal Frank at the University of Chicago and Anant Sudarshan at the University of Warwick published a paper in 2024 in the American Economic Review. They compared death rates across more than 600 Indian districts, separating places that used to have lots of vultures from places that never did. In the vulture-rich districts, human death rates climbed 4.7% above normal between 2000 and 2005. That works out to about 100,000 extra deaths a year, half a million in total, and roughly $69 billion a year in economic damage. The drug behind it was diclofenac, a cheap anti-inflammatory you might recognize as the active ingredient in Voltaren. Indian cattle owners gave it to their animals for pain. Any vulture that ate the carcass of a recently treated cow died of kidney failure within days, and they ate a lot of treated carcasses. A team led by Lindsay Oaks at The Peregrine Fund pinned down the cause in 2003. India banned the veterinary version in 2006. Some populations are slowly coming back, but the three worst-hit species are still 91 to 98% below their 1990s numbers. Africa is running the same experiment with different chemicals. A January 2024 study in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution went through 42 species of African birds of prey and found 88% of them shrinking, with vultures and eagles falling fastest. The poison this time is carbofuran, a farm pesticide poachers smear on dead elephants and lions. The point is to kill the vultures that circle overhead, because circling vultures show rangers where the poaching happened. Three poisoned elephants killed 537 vultures in a single 2019 incident in Botswana. In May 2025, one poisoned elephant in Kruger National Park killed 123 more in a morning. A vulture's stomach acid is some of the strongest in the animal kingdom, strong enough to dissolve bones, hide, and the pathogens for anthrax, cholera, botulism, and rabies. When the vultures disappear, the pathogens that used to die inside them spread instead. They end up in the water, the soil, and the dogs that took the vultures' place.

It's nearly impossible to reach the Sun because you inherit the Earth's inertia when you leave Earth. This means you're going at least as fast as the Earth's orbital velocity, which is 67,000 miles per hour (108,000 kilometers per hour), so you need to slow down. In the frictionless vacuum of space, it takes just as much energy to decelerate as it does to accelerate, so it takes the same amount of fuel to go from 67,000 MPH to zero as it does to go from zero to 67,000. NASA managed to get the Parker Solar Probe to the Sun by using using gravity from Venus to "tug" it in the direction opposite of Earth's orbit to slow it down. It took seven passes by Venus to accomplish this, orbiting the Sun 24 times. The whole process took seven years. It still didn't really reach the Sun, but now has a highly irregular orbit in which it passes close (in astronomical terms), and the Sun's gravity accelerates it so much that it gets flung back out to the orbital distance of Venus by the slingshot effect before returning. During those close passes, it becomes the fastest man-made object ever made, reaching speeds of 430,000 MPH (692,000 KPH).