Adekunle Agbetiloye

@Mochievous Wuthering Heights Jane Eyre

Saw a tweet about re reading classics from school, so now I want to do same. If you schooled in Nigeria, what were the recommended texts you remember from your literature class? Please send me all even the ones you hated. I’ll comply the top 20 as a reading list. Thank you!

The girlies have internalised white beauty standards to the point where they are anti black towards black hair 😭😭😭🙂‍↔️ seeing black women wear their hair without manipulation is stressing them out.

@Real_jaeflex @Momoreoluwaa "Any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king."

What are some of the coldest lines/statements from Game of thrones?

@blisstechhub Hi Israel, You can reach out on Adekunle.agbetiloye@pulse.ng

Hi @DAVIDIC_03 I found your x profile from your MR profile, I am looking to publish an article on the Africa version of business insider is there a way we can get in touch quickly? Email or phone? It seems I can't message you here in X

I want to share a story. I have probably only told one or two people before. It was 2019. I was building Nord, I owned 100% at this time, and I had to go to China because some of our important suppliers needed to see me and discuss the way forward. I had spent months selling my dream to them, yet there was still no significant order. I had to fly to China to buy more time. However, I did not have enough money. I was very low on cash. Yet I knew that if I did not go on that trip, the suppliers would see me as unserious and the company would slowly just collapse. I have a good friend who has always been inspired by what I do and my accomplishments. He expressed interest in investing in Nord and I suggested that we visit the suppliers in China together. My plan was simple. I would pay for my flight and we would share a room where he would cover most of the room cost, while I showed him what we could do with our supply chain. He lives in London and I live in Nigeria. We were supposed to fly and land almost at the same time, although he was scheduled to arrive a few hours before me. A few hours before his flight, he called me to say he could not make it because of a logistical mix up. He told me last year, in 2025, that he actually had a serious medical emergency and might have died if he had not been in the UK where he was comfortable and had access to care. At the time, I did not know this. He did not tell me it was that serious. I simply felt he had abandoned me once the scale of the investment became obvious to him. Still, I was kind on the phone and told him it was okay. He remembered that. My already difficult but important trip suddenly became much more difficult, but I knew I still had to go. I flew to China and landed alone. We had initially planned to stay in a $100 per night room which we would share. Of course, I could not stay in a $100 per night room with my budget anymore, so I told my Chinese partner and friend to find me a really cheap hotel that was still close to town. He took me to one hotel that had a horrible smell. It was going for $25 per night. I was going to take it until I saw that the toilet was a pit toilet. I said, “No, e never bad like this.” I asked him to find me a hotel with a normal toilet. He took me to another one. The smell was ok, it looked neat, and it had a normal WC. It was $40 per night. I took it. I stayed a few days in Guangzhou, then took trains to other cities where my suppliers were located, staying in hotels that cost about $35 to $40 per night. A few days before my return, I had to visit an important supplier in a city that required a flight. I had to call Nigeria and asked that they send me some change I put somewhere. I think about $150 was sent through Western U. I used it to buy the flight ticket, attended the meeting, and then returned to Guangzhou for the last two days. When I landed back in Guangzhou, I had almost no money left. I probably had the equivalent of about $5. It could not buy anything meaningful, but I kept it just to convince myself mentally that I was not completely at zero. Psychologically, I was very low. The hotel had complimentary breakfast. That was what I would eat in the morning, and then I would go the entire day without eating. I would drink water all day and go for my meetings while my Chinese friend drove me around. He did not know I was that low on cash. Some days we would get complimentary lunch from the suppliers we visited. On other days, we did not. I just maintained an outward positive attitude even though I was tired and hungry, honestly I was just waiting for the day of my flight so I could finally return to Nigeria. On the day of the flight, my friend found a way to get me to the airport (that is a story for another day, as that was the day he suspected I was really low on cash). As usual, I had eaten only breakfast, and the flight was at 00:50 am. I was hungry and tired, I could not buy anything while we waited to board.

Baruch Hashem Adonai will be out by 12 Midnight! Video premieres tomorrow Friday on youtubeby 6pm(Wat) Let’s gather around the family altar tonight and prepare to receive this prophetic sound that heralds the Lord’s coming. When He enters, joy invades. Kindly tell everyone

@GbemiOO Orchid. You can add Jakande as well.

You work in vi, you were living in ikoyi but you have to move in a month Options available - 2 bedroom in ikoyi - 20M 2 bedroom in lekki 1- 13M 2 bedroom at Orchid- 5M 2 bedroom at Ajah- 3.5M

Many African countries may be poor, but they are not mad. That’s why scenes like these exist. As for Nigeria, we used to be rich and this hid our madness. Now, we are both poor and mad.

Nigeria’s unemployment data.

@bizzleosikoya Maybe the whole estate 🧐

Ours increased from 8.5 to 25m

This is so funny. He is acting as if this was a small technical glitch at a bank which was fixed. You are admitting that the Nigerian police is engaged in theft, fraud, extortion and kidnapping. You can’t just tweet out DPO has been sanctioned and money refunded as if this was a normal thing. Why is this part of police culture? Why is that DPO not facing charges in a court? You can’t just return his money and want him and Nigerians to move on. This is not a PR issue. It is a criminal matter. The whole world is reading this. You cannot present yourselves as normalising criminal behaviour and expect anyone to take Nigeria seriously.

The ease with which violence comes to Nigerians still shocks me, even as someone who grew up in Nigeria, surrounded by acts of extreme violence so routine they barely registered as extraordinary. When you grow up watching people stopped, stripped naked, beaten, sometimes killed in public, you can become numb to it. You can learn to rationalise it. I understand how that happens. I refuse to accept it. It is not normal to live in a country where a mob can drag you out of your house or off the street, in the name of culture or religion, and beat you, strip you naked, or lynch you. At least he knows why he is being tortured and abused. For many others, there is no reason at all. They are simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong religion, ethnicity, or sexuality.

Nothing still beats steady electricity from PHCN. Nothing thumps that. If you like, fill your entire house with Lithium batteries. When rainy season comes, you will turn to a real life mathematician. Your solar/inverter can’t be used 24/7 carrying every load in the house nonstop if there isn’t sunlight for like a week and no PHCN light too. You will bend. 😂😂😂.

Maybe, STOP cutting down trees and it won’t be so damn hot and the air will be better!

@OmolewaAbraham Nigerians generally

Nobody hates greenery pass Lagosians. Dem get beef with nature. Dem fit concrete ocean if possible.

@ade_adeayo @BayoAdelabu Broooo. So annoying.

Power supply cannot be this disastrous during the Yuletide season and you will seat your hands and act like you’re not aware. @BayoAdelabu do your bloody job. You’re embarrassing.

Yesterday I watched a podcast where Paul Onwuanibe (owner of Landmark Beach) shared a touching story. During the period Landmark was being demolished, he stopped by to see a friend and spent about 15 minutes talking about his own struggles with the demolition. When he finished, his friend told him he had just lost his wife that morning and had called Paul to ask whether he should tell his children in Canada over the phone or travel to tell them in person. 💔 Life has a way of putting things in perspective. Sometimes your problem is the smallest in the room pick yourself up and keep moving.

Taiwo Oyedele is everywhere, doing a lot of work explaining the tax laws. The danger of this is that it suggests he's the only one on his team who understands the totality of the laws. Not too late for more faces.

Nigeria’s opposition is not timid because it lacks facts; it is timid because it shares bloodlines of power with the people it pretends to fight. They quarrel over offices, not over the architecture of injustice itself. So their criticism is always polite at the point it should be ruthless, procedural at the point it should be moral, cautious where it should be revolutionary. What they call “opposition” is often just the elite arguing over whose turn it is to sit at the table — not whether the table itself should be overturned.