Alo Ray

UPDATE on my father’s story. Life of a contract staff in Nigeria Pt 2. So many of you asked us to keep pushing. We did. I wish I had better news. We finally got access to his RSA pin and logged into his pension portal. ₦3.1 million. 28 years of work. ₦3.1 million in pension 😢 We stared at the screen for a long time without speaking. But that wasn’t even the worst part. The contribution history showed his employer only started remitting pension 10 years ago. Before that? Nothing. 18 years of blank entries. 18 years my father assumed someone was keeping his future safe. Nobody was. We went to the pension fund administrator’s office in Victoria Island. Sat in their waiting room for hours. The customer service officer was polite. Professional but completely unbothered. She explained that he cannot access the full ₦3.1 million. He gets 25% now as a lump sum, which is a little over 750k. The rest will be paid monthly. She quoted figures. Something around ₦18,000 to ₦22,000 per month depending on final calculations. My father is 56 years old. ₦18,000 a month in this present economy?! He didn’t say anything in the office. Just nodded slowly the way men of his generation do when they are dying quietly inside. I felt terrible. On the way out he asked me if we could stop to get something to munch as we were famished. We sat in the hot car and ate the rice we bought from mama put and didn’t talk about any of it, me wondering what’s going through his mind and him taking deep breaths every minute. Then we started making calls about the NHF, his office helpline rang out the first four times. On the fifth attempt someone picked, asked for his NHF number; which we couldn’t provide, put us on hold for 11 minutes and the call dropped. We went in person to his former office, which he was reluctant to go but I persuaded him. They searched the system. His name appeared but his contributions showed zero remittance. The officer suggested his primary employer may have deducted the NHF from his salary without remitting it. As if this is a minor clerical possibility and not theft. NSITF was the same story. The office confirmed his employer was registered but contributions under his name were inconsistent and incomplete. They gave us a form to fill. So this is where we are. 18 years of pension contributions stolen or ignored. NHF deducted from his salary, destination unknown. NSITF contributions, missing. The company that took 28 years of his life and the MD is probably still in Dubai. And my father is filling forms. He worked every single day so that this moment, this difficult moment, would be cushioned. That was the deal. That was the promise of showing up. They collected his loyalty and left him with paperwork and ₦18,000 a month. If this happened to your parent, your uncle, your family member, please check their RSA portal today. Check their NHF number. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Because the system is not going to tell you it failed you. You have to find out yourself. Make this too loud to ignore.

Death isn't the most terrifying thing; dying without knowing Christ Jesus is.

If I don't win the election, I'll go back to my village. Nigeria is not my father's estate!!! -- President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. Tinubu would rather destroy constitution and institutions fraudulently.

The entirety of the Bible is literally made to answer this question

When they move abroad as immigrants - they make friends based on visa categories. They don't even date below their visa categories. 😂 When they're on Twitter, the reiterate that stratification. small accounts vs big accounts. 💀 I reflect a lot on our ideological design, as a people. Nigerians are morally bankrupt, culturally deficient and rooted in faux elitism. This is why some markets exist for us, because they can take advantage of that shameless insecurity - and I genuinely don't think the reason is poverty. I've visited other poor countries. These countries do not see cars beyond what they are, a means a transportation. They don't see restaurants beyond what they are. They don't see dates beyond what they are. Something fundamentally is wrong with us. For us, it isn't even enough that we succeed - it is important that other fail, or don't succeed as much as we do. It is important for us to have an edge other others. It is such a sick attitude. Person A has one house. Person B has two houses. It isn't enough that they both have roof over their heads - Person B innately subclasses Person A. You should also to hear from a Nigerian gym goer that you're not "man enough" because you don't bench as much as he does. 💀 As segwayed as these analogies are, they are rooted in the same proportionality. It points to the same mental illness. Who did this to us?

Premier league is the toughest league in the world. Reason you have only one player on this list. Incredible that guy is top of this list.

“You’re absolutely right. I meant left”

🇯🇵 I often see endless third world resentment toward the West and feel only pity. Hiroshima & Nagasaki were destroyed by atomic bombs. We lost everything. We didn't scream about trauma or demand endless reparations. We rebuilt. Today these cities are beautiful. So, drop the victimhood. Stop blaming history. Change and build something or otherwise get used to being disliked.

But Mary was chosen to carry Jesus and we call her blessed. One of the women who saw the resurrected Christ was a woman , Christ protected women. Christianity is not anti woman

The agenda against Christianity is becoming even more ridiculous and apparent. There's no better time to be firm in the faith and resolute in your profession of Christ than now, dear saints!

it takes one wealthy person with balls to build low cost housing and crash these prices. just one person and the ripple effect will be insane.

Nigeria is a reflection of the people in it. Someone shot his shot at Victor Osimhen for a jersey and even tagged a vendor. Osimhen saw it and said he’d personally send one. 
Then told the vendor to add 15 more jerseys for others. -That’s where it got interesting.- Immediately money entered, the story changed. The vendor suddenly said Osimhen told him to share it himself. 
He claimed he had already picked 15 people. —Then it got worse—
He called the same person who brought him the business a scam. From there, he tried to “negotiate”:
7 for the guy, 8 for himself. Greed, plain and simple. The guy refused and asked for all 15 jerseys as instructed. —Next thing— 
The vendor switched again.
Said the post was “stolen” and brought another person to justify it. —Now here’s the real problem— Instead of people calling out the wrong,
they started defending it. “Make una settle.”
“Na just jersey.”
“Let it go.” - Someone even offered to pay extra, 
rewarding bad behavior. And that’s when it becomes clear: We are not different from the people we complain about in power. —This is how it starts— 
small compromise, small dishonesty, small defense of wrong. Nigeria didn’t just become this way overnight. 
We built it, little by little, with everyday actions like this. Truth is, many people are only “good” because they’ve not had the opportunity to do worse. One day, we will have an honest conversation about the double standards on this TL. One day.

Peter Obi would have stayed back. That man would have visited bereaved families at home. He would not have stopped at the airport. He won’t have spent only 10 minutes. He would have gone to the hospitals to see the wounded. Obi would have toured the entire city of Jos. That man would have met the common masses of Plateau state on the streets. He would have marshaled resources to protect the people. Empathy is leadership. Showing up is empathy. That’s what he would have done differently!

Calvary Greetings in Jesus name. First of all, we don’t serve one God. There’s only ONE GOD, THE WAY not one of the ways, THE TRUTH not one of the truths and LIFE and that’s JESUS CHRIST. Saying ‘one God’ does not automatically mean it is the same understanding of who God is. In Christianity, God reveals Himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus is not just a prophet; He is God in the flesh and the Savior of the world. The Bible says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God” (John 1:1), and Jesus Himself said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30). In Islam, however, God is strictly one person, and He has no Son. Jesus is regarded as a prophet, not God. The Quran clearly states that God does not beget nor is He begotten. This directly contradicts the Christian belief about who Jesus is. Christianity is built on the belief that Jesus is God and the only way to the Father, while Islam rejects that completely. Both positions cannot be true at the same time. The Bible also makes it clear: “Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father” (1 John 2:23). So from a Christian standpoint, rejecting Jesus as God means rejecting the true revelation of God. In conclusion, We don’t serve one God. Selah!

@toyin_abraham1 We no dey serve one God. Jesus will never tell you to Kill a Muslim who doesn't want to repent. Christians who convert to Islam do their thing. When the reverse is the case, Everywhere go bloody! We don't serve the same God please! Thank you.

An imam ordered the killing of a preacher in Nigeria. Eunice Olawale was a deaconess at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Kubwa, Abuja. She was a mother of seven children. Every single morning at 5am, before her family woke up, she would walk out into the dark streets of Abuja with a megaphone and a Bible to preach. Nigerians call it "morning cry." Weeks before she died, she came home and told her husband that men from a nearby mosque were unhappy with her preaching. Her husband warned her to be careful. She went back out the next morning anyway. On July 9, 2016, she left the house at 5am as usual. By 5:30am, neighbours heard her voice fade mid-sentence. Then they heard her screaming "Blood of Jesus" repeatedly. When they found her, she was lying in a pool of blood on the street with stab wounds to her stomach and cuts to her neck. Her Bible was beside her. Her megaphone was beside her. Her phone was beside her. They took nothing. The only intention was to kill her. Her husband drove to the police station with two of his children and at the gate he saw a pickup van leaving with his wife's lifeless body in the back. Eight people were arrested. Six were released immediately. Five months later, police had not named a single suspect publicly. The local Imam admitted he sent young men to chase her away from the street but denied telling them to kill her. Nobody was ever charged. Nobody was ever tried. Nobody was ever convicted. Two years after her murder, her family was still publicly begging for answers. A woman killed in broad daylight with her Bible in her hand, and her killers are still free. 💔 🇳🇬

Bruno Fernandes is already a Premier League great, now on his way to cementing legend status. It is just another record for him to break, this is the pantheon in which he belongs in now. Aguero & Kane won it 7 times in 10 years. Salah 7 times in 11 years. Gerrard 6 times in 17 years. Cristiano 6 times in 8 years. Rooney 5 times in 15 years. van Persie 5 times in 11 years. Bruno Fernandes? 6 years, 6 times. That's the level we are talking about at this point. When you are surrounded by legends, it is no coincidence as to why you find yourself there.

GEJ was mocked for this The Nigerian Press has been Lagos-oriented for decades and ruthlessly devoted itself to the Buhari Campaign Time has brought Clarity I hope we are all happy with the outcomes

History is very very kind to GEJ. Everything he warned about has come to pass. Everything he built has been destroyed. Every standard he was held to has been forgotten. Things that were inconceivable under him are accepted as normal now. History is babanla kind to him