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Two lessons I picked from photographing a market stall in Lagos. open.substack.com/pub/olajideaye…

@Arsenal I'm so glad I support The Arsenal! ❤️😊

This thing that binds us ❤️

This is lovely to watch. She was giving out free cupcakes to everyone wearing an Arsenal jersey in the area to celebrate their league win.

I feel sick rn but this is mad. The biggest club in London debate needs to stop. Arsenal are and always have been the biggest in London.

For a boring side nobody watches, you sure are emotionally invested. Stay safe, touch grass. Enjoy life.

me holding my opinion after realizing I cannot fix this person's entire educational history in just one conversation.

Kids are precious at this age. They are either little tyrants or little angels 😂Either way, never a dull moment.

This was said back in 1988. Must Listen!

I really dislike corporate speak! _strcnd_

God sends small children into the world to expose men. you think you are holy until a three year old throws a bowl of cereal at the wall for the third time. you think you are patient until you have not slept for five nights straight, and the baby is still screaming. every half man, is found out by his own offspring. children are judges, sent in miniature to read your verdict out loud. God could have judged us from the throne. instead, he sent us toddlers. more effective

@asemota Thank you for sharing this. Learnt new things and got reminded of valuable old lessons. I had known or read about Sam Ovraiti the artist, but not the businessman. Valuable lessons on life and finances as an artist!

An old article I will always keep sharing. The Great Sam Ovraiti taught me a great lesson. Meeting Uncle Sam medium.com/p/republished-…

“Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight.”

Stylistic Fence with sculpted grooves. #fence #wallfence #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #architecturephotographer #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinogunstate

@Olamide_yeni 😌

Young Micheal Carrick , The first English Manager to win the EPL 😌

Esther Perel is so fascinating in the way she communicates her ideas!

@vangeorgh ✋🏿 Hello

I need a drone photographer to capture ‘in-process’ shots of a renovation project I’m working on. You don’t even have to be a professional; I just need fairly good aerial shots. If this is you, kindly reply to this, I’ll DM you.

So..., this was how I be am the most dangerous person... 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🙄🙄😫😩🙄😤

@NaijaFlyingDr @tesh_ola The more things change, the more things remain the same.

@tesh_ola I predicted that as well. 😫😭 Oops

You either die a fintech or live long enough to become a bank. This comes over a decade after we invested in Paystack,I wrote in my IM that the payment rails would be a route into banking.

Nigeria generally struggles to excel at anything involving systems. We love to award contracts, buy things, cut ribbons on stuff. But the systems we need the most (like emergency response) cannot be awarded, purchased or commissioned. You can buy ambulances and cut ribbons, and build mega hospitals and cut ribbons, but ambulances and hospital buildings by themselves do not constitute an emergency response system. Same way buying ‘ultra-modern’ waste disposal trucks and bins and uniforms does not automatically translate into a functioning waste management system. You need to coordinate these and more into an efficient whole: fuel and maintain ambulances, operate an emergency call center with no downtime, train, pay and motivate personnel, crack down on fraud, nonchalance and abuse—and repeat these steps millions of times. No slacking. A system is a combination of many small things, coming together to create a complex whole, that must be carefully and consistently tended and tweaked and maintained. We struggle with this. Always much easier to award contracts to buy and build stuff. And pretend that this is the same as building a system. If it’s X bad at federal level, it 10X worse at subnational level.

Rare yoruba names for a girl child 1. Digiola -reflection of wealth 2. Adaratan -the perfect one 3. Mofaramade -i choose royalty 4. Atirola -we have found wealth 5. Ifeya -love pays 6. Jolaade -one who enjoys the goodness of royalty 7. Agbeleade -She who lives in a royal court 8. Morayo -i have found joy 9. Adetoun -the crown is worth celebrating 10. Fiyisikemi -pamper me with honour 11. Dukiaoluwa the lord's property 12. Pipelayomi -complete is my joy 13. Eni-iyi -a person of honour Yoruba names are not just names, they carry meanings, significance, and stories that reflect the culture, values, and aspirations of the Yoruba people. Yoruba names convey messages, blessings, or attributes that parents hope their children will substantiate making them more than just identifiers..

Fatherhood is brutal. Don’t get me wrong. There is no better thing I enjoy doing with my time. It's mostly pure joy. But it’s also easily the hardest and most frustrating thing. My girls are pleasant but I still see the embers of future rebellion in them. For now it’s my son Obi (12) with whom I struggle. I know he’s talented, but his natural lack of effort is beyond frustrating. He complains about everything. Literally everything. We’ve been testing time trials for a week. Yesterday morning I had to take my Kaego (10) to the dentist, so I couldn’t train him. I left my instructions, and they called me that he was complaining the entire time. Throughout the day everything I asked him to do was met with complaints and dragging feet. Without the micromanagement, nothing was really completed. Last week, I noticed his comprehensive writing skills were more terrible than normal. So I’ve focused on the improvement of his writing skills (5-10 pages a day until he’s back in school).