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There is no name they have not call me in the bank. Jack of all trade is one of them.😄 Here is my warning: The day you resume a high-paying job, begin to plan your exit immediately. Not because the job is bad. Not because the salary isn’t sweet. But because comfort has a way of stealing your future quietly. Official car. Paid vacations. Medical insurance. Pensions. Promises. They all make you feel settled, until the day they are no longer there. Once or twice, I visited my Divisional head. He lived on the Island in a beautifully furnished apartment. Everything looked perfect. And each time I stood there, I was tempted to ask him a silent question: “Sir… are you the owner of the bank?”🤭🤭😁 He wasn’t. And worse, there was no other stream of income. When I left the bank, he came to see me at my head office. He looked around my business space and said words I will never forget: “Nduka, who gave you this sense to build this business? While we were busy buying new cars, you were building an empire. Look at you now…” That sentence still echoes. He had been relieved of his job. Since 2007, I have been shouting it in the bank, sometimes softly, sometimes loudly: Build multiple streams of income Invest in other businesses Learn new skills Start while you are still working Make your mistakes early, when your salary can absorb them Sadly, many didn’t listen. Today, some are retired, sacked or advised to resign. Living in their own houses. Yet battling hunger, and diseases. Assets with no income. Titles with no cash flow. At old age, dignity does not come from stories of where you worked. It comes from steady income. From businesses and investments that still make money while you sleep. So if you are earning well today, don’t relax. Prepare your freedom. Build something that will pay you when strength fades. A job can feed you for a season. Only what you build can feed you for life. My name is Nduka Omeife, you can call me Jack of all trade.🤭🤭🤭

One of the downsides of video on demand platforms like YouTube is the disservice they have done to mythmaking. Last night's performance by Calvin Bassey was so outrageous that, even though it does not need it, it deserves embellishment. I would like to be able to tell my children that Bassey stood as one man against a horde of red, tackling five men at once and striding forward with the ball while a further five hung off him, yelping, gliding on their bellies in his wake. That he hung in the air for minutes at a time, accurately predicting the trajectory of every delivery to the chagrin of a packed Moulay Abdellah, and laughing in their faces as his prognostications came true each time. That every time he hit a booming cross-field pass, the ball whizzed through the air, hot as the midday sun, searing the tops of Moroccan heads and leaving bald patches enroute to its targets.

@Gracey_Fcb Right?

Barcelona should sign Calvin Bassey in summer We shouldn’t sleep on this

@Farakay41 This guy coordinated our defence so well. Thank you, Calvin Bassey

Calvin Bassey must raise his head high. He gave his all. He gave everything.
He kept us in it till the very last minute. An absolute show of patriotism. Fighter. Warrior. Leader.

@OffiongBassi @Bassey_Ita_ @BenOkon11 Great. I see it just the way you have proposed 😂. I gave feedback because I know models like this rely on feedback for improvement. When I visited Côte d'Ivoire for the first time, I recall using a model like this for basic communication, and it was indeed helpful. Well done.

@manlistic @Bassey_Ita_ @BenOkon11 Ha 😮😮. @Bassey_Ita_ is this not proverb? Please the model was trained majorly on daily conversation and not even upto 500,000 parallel sentences. See it as a child of 5 years old 🙏🙏. Meanwhile, thanks for the feedback.

GOOD NEWS! We’ve been working on the first Efik Machine Translation system, and it is now publicly available. Trained on over 18,000 carefully curated & reviewed parallel sentence translations. Try it out here: efikai.ng & huggingface.co/offiongbassey/ efik-mt

@Bassey_Ita_ @OffiongBassi @BenOkon11 Well done 👏. I know that with time and much engagement by users, it will definitely improve 👍

@manlistic @OffiongBassi @BenOkon11 We’re still working on the model It’s 80% perfect with just 18,000 sentences Imagine its proficiency when fed with 30,000+ sentences As we speak, we’re currently building the speech to speech property, which will be available soon

@subong00 @Bassey_Ita_ @OffiongBassi @BenOkon11 Lol...because I am Efik 😆

@manlistic @Bassey_Ita_ @OffiongBassi @BenOkon11 How did u even think of this 😂😂😂

A legend !! Cc @Cristiano RESPECT FROM AFRICA 🌍‼️

@DrJoeAbah E reach to ask, Ezemuo 🤣 Funny set of people

Is it the building that he works from that is the issue or what he delivers in office?

@InibeheEffiong When you see the green tree canopy, just know it's Calabar 😊

Can you guess the city? Morning walk is so healthy, I recommend.

@bee__vs Adiagha edighe iba

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Sheikh Gumi protests President Trump's Christmas military strikes against the bestial Islamist terrorists Calling the terrorists conducting the genocide against Christians 'our warriors' Gumi must be arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity Tinubu must publicly condemn Gumi or else he is declaring his complicity in his crimes .@ZariyiYusufu @General_Somto @Ugo_KelechiPhD @BRGIEinfoMinist @IMC_BRGIE @RealQueenBee__ @Sean_ADFIntl @ParallelFacts @DailyPostNGR

🇳🇬 Dear Nigerians! This may be a long read, but if you can, please read to the end and learn. Yesterday, we reported that the Nigerian Senate formally acknowledged discrepancies in the 2025 tax reform laws and directed the Clerk of the National Assembly to re-gazette the affected Acts and issue Certified True Copies of what was actually passed by lawmakers. That instruction is not a routine correction. It is an admission that Nigerian law was altered after due process had ended. Once an Act has been debated, amended, voted on, transmitted, and assented to, it is no longer a working document. Any post-assent insertion or alteration of substantive provisions is unlawful. When such an altered document is published and treated as binding law, the issue moves from politics into criminality. You will all remember that this matter came into the open on December 17, when Hon. Abdussamad Dasuki disclosed on the floor of the House that the Official Gazette did not align with the Votes and Proceedings. That discrepancy is not cosmetic. It is the legal fault line where forgery begins. We have discussed those altered provisions exhaustively. Follow the thread to see our comments on them. Such changes are not clerical errors. Under the Criminal Code, making or altering a document to pass as genuine law constitutes forgery. Publishing or acting on that altered document is uttering. Where multiple officials participate in or enable the process, conspiracy arises. Where public officers abuse entrusted authority, misconduct in public office applies. The constitutional breach is equally clear. Section 4 of the 1999 Constitution vests legislative power solely in the National Assembly. Any post-assent tampering usurps that authority, violates the separation of powers, and creates parallel and conflicting legal regimes. Enforcement under such conditions lacks legitimacy. Some Nigerians have called this treason. Legally, it is not. Treason requires intent to overthrow the state or wage war. What we are dealing with here is something different but no less dangerous: deliberate institutional subversion of the lawmaking process. Re-gazetting may repair the record, but it does not resolve liability. The central questions remain unanswered: who authorised the insertions, who executed them, and why implementation is still being pushed while the breach is under investigation. If this passes without consequences, it establishes a precedent that any statute can be quietly rewritten after lawmakers have voted and the President has assented. That is incompatible with constitutional democracy. In fact, if you call it constitutional treason, you are right on point.. This is not about inhumane tax policy. It is about whether Nigeria still recognises the rule of law as binding on those in power. Please join this important conversation and continue to demand accountability. Those responsible for altering our laws must face consequences for abusing our laws and attempting to undermine years of democratic progress through greed. This cannot be excused or normalised under any gimmick, guise, or legislative smokescreen. #SuspendTaxReformLaw

The National Assembly has finally confirmed that the new Tax Laws are indeed forged! Taiwo Oyedele lied to Nigerians, FACT! Let me be clear & unequivocal: NASS has no power to order a "regazetting" of an already gazetted document. It’s criminal & unlawfulness. An illegality cannot suddenly become legal. The debilitating effects is far-reaching. It dampens morale & erodes trust. There are only two ways to fix this mess: 1. Repeal the gazetted laws, & replace it with the one duly passed, & transmit for gazetting 2. Let the court strike down the forged provisions in the Gazette, then have it replaced. But before any of these steps can be taken to remedy the mess, those who forged the laws should MUST be identified & punished! Taiwo Oyedele must tender an apology, & recommit himself to the truth & honesty. How did one man forge his school certificate, his identity, & your tax laws? This is treason: a forger is always a forger, & heads must roll.

Till this day, the spot where the little stream that houses this deity still exists in Akansoko.

Hey @grok how did 'clock it' came about on social media space?