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They’re destroying your lives and you’re still thinking it’s a game. Smh

When will Africans finally outgrow this embarrassing and childish tourist syndrome? An African flies to a European country, sees a shiny building or a fancy train, whips out their phone, and immediately runs to social media to cry, "When will our country have this?!" SPOILER ALERT : those train rides are not free. They are directly subsidized by the missing wealth and uncollected taxes of the developing world. Truth is that, while the rest of Europe was tripping over themselves to aggressively extract African resources by sending gunboats, missionaries, and colonial administrators to do their dirty work, Luxembourg was playing 3D chess. They did not need to get their hands bloody or dirty. Instead, they quietly positioned themselves as the ultimate offshore tollbooth for the wealth being plundered from the Global South. Here is how their white-collar criminal network operates: A massive multinational conglomerate digs up copper in Zambia, pumps crude in Nigeria, or mines cobalt in the DRC Congo. By any standard of fairness, the immense wealth generated from those resources should be taxed locally to build the exact same roads, schools, and train networks we keep drooling over. But the global financial system is rigged. Instead of paying their fair share, that corporation sets up a shell company and often literally just a dusty P.O. Box in Luxembourg. And then through the dark arts of corporate accounting known as "profit shifting" and "transfer pricing," the company manipulates its books. The African subsidiary, the one doing the actual extraction, magically records zero profit. Meanwhile, the Luxembourg P.O. Box records billions. Africa gets the environmental degradation, the exploited labor, and a depleted national treasury. Luxembourg gets the capital. Now, Luxembourg taxes these phantom P.O. boxes just enough to make it look legitimate, pulling in about 5% of their GDP. But that’s just the cover charge. When you factor in the massive ecosystem built to service this racket,the armies of corporate lawyers, wealth managers, auditors, and bankers designing these tax-dodging schemes, it accounts for a staggering 30% of Luxembourg’s entire GDP. Put the math together, and you realize that nearly 40% of their national wealth is a monument to laundered money. It is the most flawlessly executed heist in modern history. They managed to siphon the wealth of a continent without firing a single bullet or toppling a single regime.

Imagine you went into coma in June 2014 and woke up now and person come dey give you gist of wetin don happen since then.

Jsyk, you are allowed to be excited about little things. you are allowed to be goofy. you are allowed to take ice cream if it makes your day better. you are allowed to do any of the things that makes life more bearable. okay ?

guys please, politics is not a game. It’s your life. don’t be nonchalant about it. 4 years is a lot of time to give to someone who’s only plan is to waste it. 8 years means you have no value for yourself. everything is falling apart mahn we can’t continue this way

most importantly, ensure you have an excellent work ethic. they may say you are difficult, but nobody will ever deny that you are the one who will get the job done

When you store Nigerian phone numbers without normalizing them first, your OTP system will break and you will spend 3 days debugging what is not actually a bug. Nigerian numbers arrive in your system like this: • 08012345678 • 8012345678 • +2348012345678 • 2348012345678 • 080 1234 5678 They are all the same number. If you store them as-is, your lookup will fail every time the format doesn't match what's in your DB. The fix: Strip everything that isn't a digit. Normalize to 11-digit local format or E.164 (+234...) before storing. Do it at input. Not at query time. This sounds basic. I've seen production apps with 10,000+ users lose OTP delivery because nobody touched the phone field.

Excessive consumption of RICE can lead to weight gain, constipation & exposure to arsenic, a toxic heavy metal found in higher amounts in RICE! Good morning my authentic X family..🙏🏽

You elect a leader to serve you, and somehow you're asked to "pray for God to touch his heart to do the right thing." This is how our people somehow excuse these people from doing their job. Why should I "pray" for you to do a job you're paid to do? Will you pray for God to touch my heart to do your job for you if you paid me to do the job? It's just like paying DSTV for a subscription and praying that God will touch their heart to provide the service. I would rather use that time and effort to pray for the fast recovery of an antelope that survived a hyena attack. Let's be wise please. INALEGWU.

Can Peace Reign in the land? What have we done wrong that has brought us this level of insecurity? When can peace reign in Plateau, Benue, Niger, Sokoto, Kwara, Kogi and all the other troubled states of our nation, or should we just accept now that security in some parts of Nigeria has become a norm and impossible to handle? Should we just give up and accept defeat and surrender to fear while our people continue to die and our communities are ravaged and destroyed? We cannot let this become the new normal. The violence is not inevitable, and peace is not impossible, it is the failure of leadership that has made it feel otherwise. We must demand action and refuse to accept a Nigeria where some states are abandoned to chaos. Silence is not an option. We must secure our nation before more lives are lost. A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

Opportunities don’t always announce themselves. Many exist long before they reach your timeline. That’s why I use Google Alerts to systematically track what matters to me and receive it early. What looks like “being ahead” is rarely luck; it is often just better systems working behind the scenes.

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my parents trained my siblings and I on things they didn’t know how to do. their mantra, “our children will do way more than we ever got to do in our entire lifetime” that’s all it took for them to make us. and I’m so proud of us. I wish more people had that.

I can't describe how much I love that my schedule is constructed just around me & my clients. Like going to do my hair on Tuesday afternoon, get an eye examination for new glasses in the morning or going to see a movie on Thursday night.

If you’re asking someone to be your mentor, you’re doing it wrong. Mentorship is not a favor you ask for. It’s a relationship that develops when you demonstrate that you are a cannon worth pointing at a big problem.

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A lot of this comes down to poorer kids just not knowing what to do. I didn't know that I had to apply for an internship in the WINTER of my sophomore year to get a sophomore summer internship to leverage into a junior summer internship to get a full-time offer senior year.

Nigerians are in the comments complaining about how poor their salaries are, and rightfully so. But when it’s time to get involved in the decisions that shape those outcomes, tribe and religion suddenly take over. It’s strange how people can be united by hardship, yet divided by identity, even when those divisions don’t actually change anything about their reality.