A Man from Ado

until it happens to you, you will think you are very careful, very responsible, very smart, very religious, very mature, very private, very etc.

@seanmatsudaa @DiscussingFilm This is what i wanted to say

@DiscussingFilm seeing so many well known actors like this is really breaking the immersion personally

The new trailer for Christopher Nolan's ‘THE ODYSSEY’ has been released. In theaters on July 17.

Growing up as a young (fine) man, people offered me money a lot. Sometimes as gifts, for friendship, or relationships. Sometimes for sex or just to have access to me. But I learned early that free things are rarely free. When people give you something, even when they don’t say it, there is usually an invisible debt attached. You start owing them time, attention, friendship, companionship, loyalty, or access you may not even want to give. I hated that position because I like to choose my friends and relationships on my own terms. There’s a line in David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years that stayed with me: “By gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs.” It explains how both can be forms of control. One is just quieter. Even as a young man, I understood that the giver and the receiver are on two completely different trajectories. The giver is forced to earn, produce, and create value. The habitual receiver learns to wait, depend, and slowly become whatever keeps the giver interested. At some point, you have to release yourself from the take mentality because the longer you live only to receive, the more you train yourself to wait instead of build. The moment I started earning more, I gave more. I did giveaways here. I paid hospital bills. I even handed my shoe business over to my sales girl. And each time I gave, I earned more. Refusing free money, rejecting transactional intimacy, and choosing the harder road of becoming the person who could give is the mindset shift that changed my life.

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Fellow Nigerians, good morning. I woke up this morning after my church service with a deeply reflective heart, and despite every constraint, I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you. Many people do not truly understand the silent pains some of us carry daily—the private struggles, emotional burdens, and quiet battles we face while trying to survive and serve sincerely in difficult circumstances. We now live in an environment that has become increasingly toxic, where the very system that should protect and create opportunities for decent living often works against the people—a society where intimidation, insecurity, endless scrutiny, and discouragement have become normal. More painful is when some of those you associate with, believing you would find understanding and solidarity among them, become part of the pressure you face. Some who publicly identify with you privately distance themselves or join in unfair criticism. We live in a society where humility is mistaken for weakness, respect is seen as a lack of courage, and compassion is treated as foolishness—a system where treating people equally is questioned simply because you refuse to worship status, tribe, class, or power. Personally, I have never looked down on anyone except to uplift them. I have never used privilege, position, or resources to oppress others, intimidate the weak, or make people feel small. To me, leadership has always been about service, sacrifice, and helping others rise. Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them. However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building. Even within spaces where one labours sincerely, one is sometimes treated like an outsider in one’s own home. You and your team become easy targets for every failure, frustration, or misunderstanding, as though honest contribution has become a favour being tolerated rather than appreciated. And when you choose to leave so that those you are leaving can have peace, and you step out into the cold, you are still maligned and your character is questioned. Despite all your efforts to continue working for a better Nigeria and engaging people with sincerity and goodwill, those who do not wish you well continue to attack your character and question your intentions. There are moments I ask God in prayer: Why is doing the right thing often misconstrued as wrongdoing in our country? Why is integrity not valued? Why is the prudent management of resources, especially when invested in critical areas like education and healthcare, wrongly labelled as stinginess? Why are humility and obedience to the rule of law often taken to be weakness rather than discipline? Let me assure all that I am not desperate to be President, Vice President, or Senate President. I am desperate to see a society that can console a mother whose child has been kidnapped or killed while going to school or work. I am desperate to see a Nigeria where people will not live in IDP camps but in their homes. I am desperate for a country where Nigerian citizens do not go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from. Yet, despite everything, I remain resolute. I firmly believe that Nigeria can still become a country with competent leadership based on justice, compassion, and equal opportunity for all. A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

It is very important that you insist on excellence even in the smallest things. Enforce excellence.

@iamjamesudom @afilmhead Not sure some people really know the difference between a billion and a million. Especially when we are talking dollars .

@afilmhead Dude we don’t even have upto 5 $billionaires. Ofcourse the millionaires we have can still fix a bulk of sectors you’re talking about.

Nigeria has at least 200 billionaires in dollars. these billionaires have the capacity to fix at least 200 sectors in Nigeria.

Absolutely!!!

Nigerians are being poisoned and NAFDAC is watching. Since 2017 after the court ruling, Coca Cola successfully lobbied against the introduction of health warning labels on Fanta and Sprite. Read this slowly and keep sharing.

Let me say this clearly, especially to those still living in Nigeria: If this government retains power until 2031, they will unleash the harshest and most brutal regime in our history. Whether you supported them or not, nobody will be spared. Many of their loud online supporters will lose their jobs after the election and become irrelevant once their usefulness is over. Most opposition leaders will be jailed, youth activists who worked against them will be locked up, suicide rates will rise, frustration will explode, and the economy will become far worse than it is today. The only way to avoid this coming crisis is simple: make sure this administration does not return to power in 2027. Vote them out. Make it a personal choice, as if your life depends on it. We can do it. You can do it. If they were not scared of losing, they wouldn’t be intimidating the opposition so desperately. Take this warning seriously, especially if you live in Nigeria. Those who live in Nigeria will feel the pain. Those abroad have nothing to fear except for a few of their siblings or parents. Retweet for those who need to hear this truth ✊

Everything in Nigeria is designed to kill you. And the government is complicit.

i hate this man with every fiber of my soul

Be watchful of the intolerant minority, if they are crazy, break them , dont let them win. Unfortunately APC supporters are the intolerant minority who have zero belief in Nigeria getting better. But we have let them continue to shine.

@bandit_prime @kaaeto8 It will be "Disaster grade" please, lets be well guided.

@kaaeto8 Nepa as a special grade curse gon be crazyy

If a society like Japan can produce individuals like Gojo and Yuta, I don’t even want to imagine what the average Nigerian city would be capable of producing

@Midatlblog Lol, this must be ragebait

Check out this “studio” apartment available for rent at ₦3 million per annum.🤣 📍Yaba, Lagos 🇳🇬

Cowardice and procrastination are the worst sin against yourself

@SadaSurfer @bearded_blerdd1 Guyyy

I have nothing appropriate to say

@asemota @bearded_blerdd1 @TewX_Rated Loll

@bearded_blerdd1 @TewX_Rated

@Ayoelesho Damn 1300 would have you tilting the jerry can to get more in ,back in the day, 10x increment in just a few years, what then does the future hold, because making 10k now is probably harder now than a few years ago whrn prives were tolerable. We are cooked.

10k fuel at 1300 Naira per litre. This country is gone.