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Some nursing homes struggle to attract visitors. One in the Netherlands chose to invite roommates instead. In the Dutch city of Deventer, a retirement home called Humanitas introduced an idea that would eventually gain attention around the world. Rather than accepting loneliness as a normal part of aging, they approached it as something that could actually be solved. For over ten years, Humanitas has allowed university students to live inside the nursing home rent free. In return, the students spend about thirty hours each month connecting with residents. Sometimes that means sharing meals, having conversations, helping with technology, joining activities, or simply keeping someone company during a quiet afternoon. They are not nurses or employees. They are simply part of the community. At first, the idea sounded like a smart response to expensive student housing. But the real impact appeared in the lives of the residents. Reports from outlets such as PBS NewsHour and AARP described seniors becoming more social, more active, and less isolated once younger people became part of everyday life. What makes the story even more meaningful is that many students chose to spend far more time there than the agreement required. Some even stayed connected after graduating. Over time, casual interactions turned into genuine friendships. Humanitas didn’t really create something new. It brought back something many societies once had naturally: different generations living side by side instead of separately. Maybe the issue was never aging itself. Maybe it was the distance we created between generations. Sometimes the most powerful ideas are simply old human connections rediscovered.

@frmarcellinus I was today years old when I realised both Ghana and Nigeria have an NDC

If NDC plans well, Kano and Kaduna will give them 20 million votes.

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If you are really good in English, start a sentence with “On”

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good morning, listen to my album when you are less occupied today. 🙈

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i enter trotro this morning heading to Tema. i just tell the mate i go drop for Tema Comm Bruno Fernandes. wey the mate just smile and say i got you🫡

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Nigerian government weaponise hunger every election season because it works. Give a hungry man ₦5,000 today and he forgets the ₦50,000 he lost yesterday. As long as food remains luxury in Nigeria, democracy stays hostage. But you will argue.

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African Queen from Ghana🇬🇭

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Yes, I do render a variety of great higher-level services regarding study abroad but for Christ sake, you do not need to pay to consult me or anyone to assist you with booking a flight. How can you go to school all these years and cannot figure out a simple flight booking by yourself? Google Flights, SkyScanner, Priceline, Trips, Expedia and so on. Many options at your disposal right there on your phone. Use them! We can advise on discounts, membership perks and insurances to explore but that does not make it a bespoke service in itself which you should pay for. Do not shut off your brain. come on. There are wayyyyyy more critical tasks we consultants do in limited time and under a heavy pile (from research, portfolio build-ups, essays and so on). Unless you live somewhere with no internet or devices, or you have no formal education at all, please do not come and waste our time with things like flight bookings. I beg you. Some other hungry/greedy "consultants" would take advantage of that and milk you, but personally, I say book your own flight so we both save time. Do not turn these petty things into services. Do it yourself. You have brains. You have gone to school for years.

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The U.S. Embassy will be closed on Monday May 25, in commemoration of Memorial Day - a U.S. federal holiday. We will reopen on Tuesday May 26, 2026.

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This is the reason

@sarkodie I see you’re in your feelings this evening. In that headspace I look at my throwbacks too

Give up and see

🚨: A biologist has developed a bag made from cassava that decomposes in water and serves as food for fish.

@mayorofluabi I raise you YouTube 😫

Meta, and Instagram are incredibly inefficient at resolving issues related to suspended accounts. You can lose decades of work in a single day. It’s incredibly frustrating and there’s nowhere to turn. It doesn’t make sense that one has to pay people to sort this out.

@BaniasLaw @grok some context?

Friendly reminder that #H1B workers with approved immigrant visas can extend their “temporary” #H1Bs beyond 6-years thanks to “AC21,” a law that was passed by a Republican House and a Republican Senate in 2000. #SaveAOS

@DHSgov Immigration lawyers in the US must be exhausted

An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.

I cried yesterday. Like real tears. And honestly… my heart still feels heavy this morning 💔 I tried. I really tried. I tried everything I could think of. I applied strategies. I stayed consistent. I showed up every single day. But right now it still feels like everything was for nothing 😔 I have just 8 days left to hit 5M impressions on X and I’m currently at 4.4M. Where am I supposed to get 600k impressions from in 8 days? How else am I supposed to do this? And no, this is not a pity post. I just needed to speak. Maybe pouring my heart out will help me breathe a little. Back story… I finished NYSC last year and got a remote job in December as a Social Media Manager. Salary was ₦100k monthly. I worked in January, February, and March. I was only paid for January. No payment for February. No payment for March. No explanation. No apology. Nothing. My client acted like everything was normal and expected me to keep working. I stopped working in March and used my savings to start investing in myself and this platform. After being on X since 2021, I finally decided to take my account seriously. I subscribed to Premium every month hoping that if I stayed consistent, maybe within a few months I’d finally qualify for monetization and start earning here. At the same time, I became a CapCut template creator. I paid for CapCut Pro every month too. After weeks of consistency, my account got monetized. I made $28. Then due to inconsistency, I lost the monetization again. I also have a monetized Facebook account. I’m trying on TikTok too. I even abandoned my YouTube channels just to focus fully on X because I wanted this to work so badly. While doing all these, I still kept applying for remote jobs every single week. No response till today. I even bought an MTN router and kept subscribing every month just to stay active online and keep posting. Heaven knows I tried. Now look at me… No job. No money. No achievement. And now it looks like I might not even hit the 5M impressions after all this effort. I’m 27 and honestly… I feel tired. Before now, I also tried content creation on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. But my camera quality was poor and my content always looked cringe to me, so I stopped. At this point, I don’t even know anymore. Maybe I’m just one of those people that always gets close to success but never fully reaches it 💔 And once again… this is not a pity post. I just wanted someone to hear me out. If this post finds your timeline, honestly just send me a virtual hug 🫂 Maybe that alone will make me feel a little better today.

If you have genuinely been authorised to assist with enforcement, then for your own legal protection you should have that authority clearly documented in writing, with your role, limits, and responsibilities properly laid out. Otherwise, you risk personal liability if any confrontation, complaint, or allegation of intimidation arises. Easy case for someone if an incident occurs. Peace!

@replyallcc @nyavorx @ragnar2p2 @IngEli___ @bombo_yiee130 @ChristDeKing @coldsummers91 @MichaelKAllotey @honahmedibrahim @evithence @HaroldOhene Anyway, we have been asked to help enforce the laws and prevent people from doing the wrong things.

Since the MCEs and Regional Ministers have decided that they would not enforce the bylaws in the country to make people behave well and take responsibility of their own waste (bola) we will help them to enforce the laws, no matter what we will make Ghana clean and beautiful,

Citizen’s arrest does not apply here at all. A citizen’s arrest is generally limited to situations where a person witnesses a serious criminal offence and temporarily restrains the suspect so the police can take over. It is not a legal basis for civilians to patrol public spaces, enforce municipal bylaws, impose fines, or threaten penalties for sanitation or pedestrian offences. The bylaws you are talking about i.e. littering, selling on bridges, crossing roads improperly, sanitation offences, etc. are usually enforced by authorised state institutions such as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies, their task forces, city guards, or the police acting under statutory authority. Those officers operate within procedures set by law. Namely, identification, official penalties, receipts, due process, and accountability. That is why saying “we will enforce the bylaws” is problematic. Enforcement is not merely telling people to behave well. It means exercising legal authority over other citizens. Private individuals do not automatically acquire that authority because they are frustrated with poor enforcement

@replyallcc @nyavorx @ragnar2p2 @IngEli___ @bombo_yiee130 @ChristDeKing @coldsummers91 @MichaelKAllotey @honahmedibrahim @evithence @HaroldOhene Have you heard about citizen arrest before? Have you heard about citizen vigilante before? Allow us to help the Leaders to build the country we want ok

The word “enforce” has a specific meaning. To enforce a law means to compel compliance through legal authority, usually with powers such as stopping people, issuing lawful penalties, arrests, citations, or other sanctions recognised by law. That authority belongs to the state and authorised officers acting within the law, not private citizens acting on their own initiative. So if you say “we will enforce the bylaws,” people will naturally understand it to mean you intend to punish, fine, restrain, threaten, or otherwise compel compliance. That is completely different from saying: “We will educate people about the bylaws.” “We will campaign for cleanliness.” “We will pressure authorities to do their jobs.” “We will discourage littering.” Those are lawful civic activities. Enforcement is not just a word for “being serious”, it implies legal power and accountability. That is why the wording matters. Oh I'm female, so I'm your sister. I hope in my lifetime to see a better Ghana so consider this free legal advice for your project 🙂

@replyallcc @nyavorx @ragnar2p2 @IngEli___ @bombo_yiee130 @ChristDeKing @coldsummers91 @MichaelKAllotey @honahmedibrahim @evithence @HaroldOhene It's just English my brother. We will force the MCE doesn't mean we are going to take the money, it means we will put pressure on them to enforce the laws, because the laws are there but because we don't enforce the laws everyone is doing what they want