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Dr Pepple
Dr Pepple@drpepple_·
Nigerian doctors practicing in Nigeria, stop offering services for free on Social media. Anyone who needs your services should pay consultation fee and you attend to them privately except you don’t know what you’re doing. Don’t jump in here and be making diagnoses and treatment on public social media. It’s not only unethical, it’s demeaning of your profession. Have some dignity. Have some pride. Don’t appear cheap. The public don’t rate you like that.
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Trad West
Trad West@trad_west_·
>Be Henry Cavill >Raised Catholic >Enjoyed singing in Church choir >Becomes a global superstar >Cast as Geralt in The Witcher >Writers try to "modernize" and ruin the lore >Leaves the lead role of a massive franchise because of his principles >Loses millions >Moves to Warhammer 40k >Refuses to allow them to push modern agendas >Stands by his values, his hobbies, and his faith Unfathomably based
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Itebimien Peter
Itebimien Peter@PeterItebimien·
@PJaseja Isles of white in a sea of red" refers to a distinct, itchy, and often non-blanching rash that typically appears during the recovery phase (convalescence) of Dengue fever.
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Cynthia Martins 🔴
Cynthia Martins 🔴@MartinsCyn·
People always ask what made Alex Ferguson different at Manchester United. It wasn’t just tactics. It wasn’t just trophies. It was something deeper… something you felt in your chest. Let me tell you a story. The Scramble That Explained Everything Old Trafford. A tense night against Arsenal. The kind of game where one moment decides everything. The ball broke loose, and suddenly Olivier Giroud was through clean, composed, deadly. You could already feel the goal coming. The crowd held its breath. Behind him, Phil Jones chased… then slipped. He hit the ground hard. Out of the play. Finished. For most players, that’s where the moment ends. But not for him. There was no time to stand. No time to recover. Just a split second… and a decision. He refused to accept it. So instead of getting up, he did something that didn’t make sense something no coach teaches, something no textbook explains. He crawled. On all fours. Desperate. Relentless. Dragging himself across the grass like the game depended on it because to him, it did. Giroud pulled his leg back to strike. And there was Jones… face first, throwing his body his head into danger. Studs inches away. No hesitation. He didn’t think about how it would look. He didn’t think about the pain. Just one thought: “He cannot score.” And somehow… he got there. The ball was gone. Cleared. Safe. For a second, the stadium didn’t even know how to react. Then Old Trafford exploded. Not because it was pretty. Not because it was perfect. But because it was pure. That moment… that madness… that refusal to quit even when you’re face-down in the dirt That’s what Alex Ferguson built. A team where pride came second. Where ego didn’t matter. Where effort wasn’t negotiable. You didn’t have to be flawless. You just had to care… that much. People laughed at the memes. They always do. But the ones who understand football the ones who understand what it means to wear that badge They saw something else. They saw a player who loved the club so much, he was willing to lose his dignity to protect it. Because at Manchester United, it was never just about class. It was about grit. And sometimes… grit looks like crawling through the grass, with your face inches from danger, just to make sure the net never ripples. So the question isn’t about talent. It’s simple. When your moment comes when you’re on the ground, out of the fight Will you stay there… or will you crawl? 🔴🔥 #MUFC #ManchesterUnited #GGMU
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Dr. Lemma
Dr. Lemma@DoctorLemma·
On this day 35 years ago, over 1,500 people attended the funeral of an 18-year-old boy from Indiana, United States. His pallbearers included Elton John, one of the most famous musicians in the world, and Michael Jackson. The First Lady sat in the front row. The former president wrote a tribute that ran in the national papers. His name was Ryan White. At 13, he contracted HIV through a blood transfusion to treat his haemophilia, a blood disorder that prevents clotting. Doctors gave him six months. When he tried to go back to school, parents and teachers fought to ban him. Restaurants threw away his dishes. Church members refused to shake his hand. He didn’t fight back. He educated. He went on national television and calmly explained how the virus actually worked. He changed more minds about the disease than any campaign or government programme at the time. He lived five years longer than anyone expected. He passed away one month before his high school graduation. Four months after his funeral, the United States Congress passed the Ryan White CARE Act. It became the largest federally funded programme for people living with HIV in the country’s history, and it still operates today, providing care to over 500,000 people every year.
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Elliot
Elliot@elliot_solution·
South Africa had a secret government program called Project Coast. Its job was to KILL Black people. Not with bullets. With science. A cardiologist named Wouter Basson ran it. His nickname was Dr. Death. His team built umbrellas that fired poison pellets. Screwdrivers with hidden syringes. Beer cans laced with anthrax. Envelopes that killed when you opened them. They drugged SWAPO prisoners. Then pushed them out of planes over the ocean. They tried to develop a bacteria that would only kill Black people. Their own surgeon-general called it "the most important project for the country." They hung a baboon fetus outside Desmond Tutu's house. As a warning. They produced tons of ecstasy and mandrax. Then sold it into Black communities to fund the operation. Israel helped build it. The US and UK knew. When apartheid ended Basson was charged with 67 crimes including 229 murders. He was acquitted on every charge. He went back to practicing medicine. As of 2021 he was still working at a hospital in the Western Cape. 💀🇿🇦
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Elliot
Elliot@elliot_solution·
Nigerian soldiers were sexually exploiting women and children in government run camps. These were women who had survived Boko Haram attacks, walked for days to reach safety, and handed themselves over to the Nigerian government for protection. The government put them in camps. Then the soldiers started making demands. Inside Giwa Barracks, 10 soldiers including five who worked in the health clinic were documented coercing at least 15 female detainees into sex. The price was food. Soap. Basic necessities. And the promise of freedom. Across more than 14 government run IDP camps around Maiduguri, soldiers, police, camp officials and civilian vigilante groups were all documented forcing women and girls to provide sex in exchange for food and services. Some soldiers promised women jobs outside the camps then transported them directly to military barracks for sexual exploitation. A survey of 400 displaced people across three states found that 66 percent said camp officials sexually abused women and girls. Children as young as five were being held in the same facilities. The US State Department documented all of this every single year for five consecutive years. Every year Nigeria promised accountability. Every year zero military officials were convicted. Not one. Nobody was charged. Nobody was tried. Nobody went to prison. The Nigerian military's response to every report was the same. Denial. 💀🇳🇬
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Elliot
Elliot@elliot_solution·
A Nigerian government official stole 20,000 American identities and scammed the American government out of $2.4 million. When Hurricane Harvey tore through Texas and left thousands of Americans homeless, he was sitting in Nigeria filing fake disaster relief claims in their names. When Irma hit Florida weeks later he did the same thing. He had been doing this quietly for years and nobody had caught him. Then COVID hit and everything shut down overnight. Millions of Americans lost their jobs and started filing for unemployment benefits just to feed their families. He already had over 20,000 stolen American identities. Real names. Real social security numbers. Real people who were now desperate and filing for help. He filed their claims before they could and collected their money across 17 different states. With the stolen funds he bought a Mercedes SUV and shipped it back to Nigeria. He posed for magazine photos with it and got a government appointment. He came back to America on a business class ticket. When investigators caught up with him he was at JFK Airport about to board his flight home, wearing a $10,000 watch and a $35,000 gold chain. They arrested him at the gate. From jail he was recorded on the phone trying to move money around. He got 5 years in a US federal prison. The US Department of Justice press release identified him specifically as the Special Assistant to the Governor of Nigeria's Ogun State. The governor said nothing. Not a statement. Not a condemnation. Nothing. His name was Abidemi Rufai. His boss is Dapo Abiodun. 💀🇳🇬🇺🇸
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Bitto Keren K Esq.
Bitto Keren K Esq.@KerenKBitto·
One day we’ll discuss the effectiveness of being soft spoken as a woman first, and a lawyer secondly. I am constantly having to travel via road for work trips and I cannot count the number of times I have had to “intervene” when road safety, police, vio or other enforcement agency personnel stop my chauffeur/driver and start their usual routine after checking car papers, license etc. Things that man to man dem go dey shout, I simply first calmly greet whoever the superior officer is at the post and then introduce myself as “Barrister…”. Firstly being polite and courteous always makes them drop their defenses/reduce anger, then bringing in the lawyer card, they know they can’t fabricate road laws anymore to extort. It doesn’t take up to 5 minutes of discussion with oga and a few sprinkles of compliments on how he is doing a good job with his boys and keeping our roads safe and my car papers get released and we don’t pay. Everyone goes home happy. Always works like a charm 🤭 Politeness + Legal Toga + Humane interaction = solving problems.
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Ungugu, MD
Ungugu, MD@whales_medics·
Upcoming: Ireland to recognise PLAB 2 as equivalent to PRES 3. It is looking like June-July may be the game changer for GMC registered doctors. Finally!!! 🔥
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Elliot
Elliot@elliot_solution·
A Nigerian Governor dressed as a woman to escape money laundering charges in London. He was arrested at Heathrow Airport in 2005. Charged with money laundering. Released on bail with three conditions. Surrender your passport. Report to police every single day. Do not go within 3 miles of any airport or port. He dressed as a woman. Used forged documents. Took the Eurostar to Paris. Flew to Cameroon. Entered Nigeria by speedboat through the creeks of the Niger Delta. He held a press conference when he landed. Said God brought him home. Thousands lined the streets cheering. But why was he in London in the first place? His official salary as Governor was less than $1,000 a month. Police had raided his London home. They found £1 million in cash on the floor. Not in a safe rather on the floor. Then they found four properties in London worth £10 million. Then they found £1.8 million across his bank accounts. He was impeached after returning. Arrested in Nigeria. Pleaded guilty to six corruption charges in 2007. Sentenced to two years on each count. Walked out the same day. Time already served. In 2013 President Goodluck Jonathan gave him a full presidential pardon. The same Goodluck Jonathan who became Bayelsa Governor the day DSP was impeached. He pardoned his own predecessor. Nigeria never sent him back to the UK. He died free in 2015. His name is DSP Alamieyeseigha. 🇳🇬
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
The virus is called "covert mortality nodavirus" because it kills shrimp without any visible symptoms. The shrimp look fine. Then they're dead. It earned that name in aquaculture farms where entire populations would collapse overnight with zero external warning signs. Now it's doing something similar in human eyes. CMNV targets the anterior uveal tract, the middle layer of the eye. It triggers inflammation and sends intraocular pressure through the roof, mimicking glaucoma. Standard antivirals don't work because nobody was testing for an aquatic nodavirus in human eye tissue. Every patient in the study tested negative for herpes, shingles, and every other known ocular virus. Doctors were diagnosing it as idiopathic for years. The research team in China sequenced fluid directly from patients' eyes and found a 98.96% genetic match to the CMNV strains circulating in farmed shrimp. 70 out of 70 patients tested positive for CMNV antibodies. They infected mice with it and got the same eye symptoms. 71.4% of cases traced back to handling or eating raw seafood. But some cases had no clear seafood exposure at all, which raises the question nobody wants to ask about human-to-human transmission. The part that should concern everyone outside China: CMNV has been detected in 49 aquatic species across waters in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The virus is already global. The diagnosis isn't.
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BREAKING🚨: For the first time ever, a marine virus jumped to humans. And it’s causing vision loss.

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Ajoje⚽⚖️
Ajoje⚽⚖️@israel_ajoje·
Most footballers retire with nothing that continues to generate income once the football stops. Not nothing in the bank necessarily, but nothing working for them after their last contract expires. An estimated 40 percent of professional footballers go bankrupt within five years of retirement, according to Xpro, the organisation that helps players adapt to life after their playing career. That statistic should disturb every player reading this. It means four out of ten players who earned professional wages end up broke within half a decade of their last match. The career was the ceiling. That is the problem personal branding solves, when it is done correctly. This is not really a “How to Build a Brand’ thread. It’s simply a “something to consider” thread. Before a player can build a brand, they need to at least own one and properly manage it. One of the ways to do that is via Image rights. Image rights are the legal right to commercialise your own name, likeness, and identity separately from your playing contract. Most small players sign them away without thinking about it. Under the standard Premier League employment contract, the club's use of a player's image is limited to no greater usage than the average for all first team players. What this means in practice is that unless a player has negotiated a separate image rights agreement, the club cannot commercially exploit the player’s specific identity beyond what they do for every other player in the squad. For a player with a commercially viable brand, this is money left on the table every single season. The players who understand this set up an Image Rights Company early in their career. That company holds their commercial identity, licenses it to the club and to sponsors separately, and crucially attracts a more favourable tax rate than salary income. It is not a trick reserved for elite players. Any professional footballer with a profile worth commercialising should have this structure in place. Take it from me. I in fact wrote this for African players. This next part is for them. The average Premier League annual salary across all 511 players in the division is approximately £3.5 million. That sounds like generational wealth cos it definitely is. But a career lasting ten years at that average, after tax at 45 percent on earnings above £150,000, after agent fees, after the lifestyle that professional football demands, produces far less than most players assume when they sign their first contract. A player from Nigeria, Ghana, or Senegal who’s out loooking for commercial sponsorships enters this system with one additional disadvantage. Sponsors evaluate audience size, audience purchasing power and market penetration when selecting ambassadors. A player from Nigeria, Ghana, or Senegal does not automatically have access to the commercial infrastructure that a European player inherits simply by playing in a visible league. The brand has to be built deliberately, with a clear identity that exists independently of the club, independently of the league, and independently of performance on any given Saturday. Sadio Mané earns approximately $4 million annually from endorsements, with sponsors specifically citing his community investment and charitable work in Senegal as key factors in their partnerships with him. He built a brand around authenticity in a market where no European footballer had ever made themselves genuinely legible to African audiences and Western Union built an entire international campaign around real money transfer transactions between him and his uncle back home. That campaign was not built on goals. It was built on identity. And that identity travels with him regardless of which club employs him. That last sentence is the point. The endorsement deals that follow a player from club to club are always more valuable than deals tied to the badge on the shirt. If your commercial identity only exists because of where you play, you have not built a brand. You have borrowed one. Which brings us to what happens after the playing days end. Because this is where the planning either pays off or it does not. David Beckham paid $25 million for his Inter Miami stake in 2014, exercising an option negotiated into his 2007 LA Galaxy contract. By 2025 that stake was valued at approximately $1.1 billion, a 4,400 percent return in just over a decade. He now earns an estimated $30 to $50 million annually from sponsorships, licensing, and club revenue, more than a decade after his last professional match. Beckham is not an average case. He’s an outlier. But the principle behind his story is available to every player. A clause negotiated at the right moment. A brand identity built independently of any one club. A deliberate decision, made while still playing, to treat the football career as the platform and not the destination. The players who are comfortable at 50 are not always the ones who earned the most at 28. They are the ones who understood that the earning window is short, the spending pressure is enormous, and the only way to outlast both is to build something that generates income after the final whistle. Forty percent go bankrupt within five years. You do not have to be one of them. Please, be wise. My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.
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Jason Ryan
Jason Ryan@jasonryanmd·
If you keep your eyes open in medicine, you’ll notice lots of patients with symptoms we can’t explain through western medicine. Their tests are normal but they still have headaches, palpitations, chest pain, dizziness etc. It’s important not to dismiss these patients. Their symptoms are real, and blowing them off drives people away from medical care. It’s also important to remain humble. There is so much we don’t understand about the human body. I tell patients this and do not object if they want to explore options outside of western medicine. I’ve seen people improve with acupuncture, cupping, meditation, physical therapy, and even chiropractors in one case of chronic chest pain. I don’t recommend these as first line treatments, and they should be used cautiously because they can lack rigorous evidence. But when patients are suffering and I can’t help them, I support anything that improves their quality of life.
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Docti-ify
Docti-ify@fueki_lee·
I can remember the day I lost my temper with a HO(granted what she did was not right) but the way I spoke to her, ah, very wrong, within 5 minutes I went to beg her, I apologised and we made up immediately, she immediately apologised to for her error.... I refuse to be the kind of senior colleague that would raise their voice at their juniors and even if I do I will always try to immediately apologise and make things right....
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We ( read doctors ) are at risk of becoming the very thing we hate (toxic medical elders ) . Unlearning and re learning is a very active process and we must continue to do it to not scar or deter the younger generation

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Freyy
Freyy@Freyy_is·
there is something in these photos that nobody is talking about. the earth, seen from the moon’s surface, is a crescent. the same shape we see the moon from earth. which means from where these astronauts stood, our entire world, every human being alive, every city, every ocean, every mountain, was receiving light the same way the moon does. dependent. reflective. not a source but a receiver. and God placed both of them, earth and moon, in a gravitational relationship so precise that if either one shifted slightly, the conditions for life dissolve completely. He did not just create them. He positioned them. He calibrated the distance. He calculated the tilt. He set the orbital speed. and then He rested. what that tells me about God is something i am still processing. He is not a God who creates carelessly and steps back. He is a God who creates with intention so deep that billions of years later, the greatest scientific mission of our generation goes out there and finds everything exactly where He left it. the craters on that moon are not evidence of chaos. they are evidence of endurance. of something built to absorb impact and remain. God put that quality into the moon because it is His own quality. He absorbs everything this world throws at existence and remains. unchanged. unshaken. still in orbit. still faithful. still holding everything He made in the dark.
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Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

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