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Louisiana’s new homeless enslavement bill reminded me of Malcolm Alexander. 38 years in Angola for a rape he didn’t commit, picking cotton for 2¢ an hour. When he was exonerated through DNA, a judge denied him any payout for the four decades they wasted. Once he finally…(1/2)

A major problem with AfrobeatS is that we are not building. We are creating “YES” but not building “Sustainability”. Our catalogs are being “Sold” not “Owned”. The monies coming in are going into creating an unsustainable lifestyle rather than building “Institutions” that will uphold the culture

This story is nuts. This guy, Igor Komarov, the son of a Ukrainian crime boss, was kidnapped in Bali 2 weeks ago by some people who said his dad stole a ton of money from them. They broke his legs, cut off his fingers, and tortured the hell out of him and made him film a bunch of hostage videos disclosing how his family’s business scams people. Anywho, he’s dead now. Dad didn’t pay the ransom. Crazy stuff.

The demolition of Makoko is long overdue. Have you ever stopped to think about where all their waste actually goes? Leftover food, chicken bones, meat scraps, human urine, feces, everything. Over 100,000 people living directly on and above the water, with no proper sanitation, every single drop of wastewater, every urination, every defecation, ends up straight in the Lagos Lagoon. The lagoon has become an open sewer, and this situation is unsustainable and dangerous for the residents and for the entire city that shares the same lagoon system.

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I rushed my daughter to hospital at past 2am this morning. Needing to pay for lab tests and medication, I approached the cashier. This lady was sleeping comfortably, as though she was at home. I called her attention. She woke up briefly, mumbled a few words, and returned to sleep. It was hard. At some point, I decided to just stand and wait. She relaxed into her chair, dragged her duvet, and returned to what must have been blissful sleep. I stood there for 10 minutes weighing my options. Should I be angry and rant? Should I show empathy by understanding her situation? Eventually, the doctor was passing by and I reported to him. He approached her and she mustered the effort, albeit painfully, to finally attend to me. The doctor had been kind enough to proceed with emergency care for my child while I was sorting out the bills. Otherwise, we would have lost 15 minutes of valuable time to save a life, depending on what the ailment was. My daughter has been stabilised. We are still here. Hopefully, she will be fine. But, in between attending to my child and responding to passenger complaints on the time line and in my DM, I thought about that cashier and the attitude of night shift staff in a lot of businesses in our country. Something is not right. A night shift staff is expected to have taken care of sleep during the day. Take the hotels abroad, for example. The front desk staff are mostly not even allowed to sit. They stand all night behind their counters, attending to customers. And this practice cuts across a lot of other sectors outside hospitality. I can understand it if a doctor or nurse was catching a nap. Even they are expected to be alert, despite the tough nature of their jobs. But a cashier? I remember the number of times I have stayed in hotels here, where the 'receptionist' would bark at guests for disrupting their sleep because they needed something. "Why are you sleeping on duty in the first place?" "Oga, am I not a human being? Is this not night? Are you not supposed to be asleep yourself?" This is the most common retort I have heard. Then comes the gaslighting when you report to management. "You lack empathy, oga. Do you not feel for him/her? You can sleep, but you don't want another person to sleep?" I detest this. It is called SHIFT for a reason. That is your duty time. That is when you are supposed to do your job. An Egyptian front desk officer at the Pullman in Dubai, told me in 2018 when I asked why they had no chairs, that they are only allowed to walk around the lobby when they felt sleepy. But seats are not provided so that they don't get too comfortable on duty. That way, customers are guaranteed prompt attention when they need it. We must build a system of monitoring our on-duty personnel. At the NCAA, we are in the final stages of automating that process in my department. I do not want a situation where passengers are stranded at night, and our CPOs who are meant to be on duty would be answering my calls from home while claiming to be at the terminal. With automation, I can see where they are, real time. We must embrace a work culture that places the highest possible standards on night-shift staff. Those are crucial hours where time should not be lost. Customers/patients are most vulnerable at night, and should be guaranteed efficient and speedy attention. There is no emotional perspective to this. Work, if you must do it, must be done well. Happy New Year.

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Hello, Our country is not broken by a lack of critics. It is waiting for a surplus of builders. Our communities are not waiting for a savior. They are waiting for you, with your ready hands to fix the broken thing in front of you. Imagine a nation where the mechanic, the teacher, the farmer, the nurse, the civil servant, all decide to show up this way. With ready hands, hearts, and minds. Doing their part, not for show, but for the silent, superb excellence of the work itself. Corruption cannot thrive where such people stand. Poverty retreats before such energy. Despair cannot breathe in an atmosphere of such purposeful action. We do not need a miracle. We need a decision. A decision to be ready. So, today, choose your work. Master it. Pour your energy into purpose. Do it well. Do it with integrity. Do it for the person next to you. Become the man, the woman, of ready hands, heart, and brain. And watch, as you lift yourself, you will find you are also lifting your street, your village, your country. Success will come searching for a nation built by such people.

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Rookie move..don't become your landlord's neighbor. It almost never ends well

Women and girls in conflict and fragile settings face an extreme risk of violence and its consequences are devastating for their physical, sexual, reproductive, and mental health. This is not a warning. It is reality. In #Gaza, war has turned the region into an epicentre of women’s deaths in conflict, with two women or girls killed every hour. Most have been displaced multiple times, exposed to violence at every stage of their journey. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (#DRC), even before the latest escalation, three women died every hour from pregnancy and birth-related complications. Adolescent girls accounted for a third of reported violence cases. In #Sudan, conflict-driven sexual violence, including rape and abduction, is surging, alongside intimate partner violence, child marriage, and coercion into sex for survival. Survivors are left with severe physical and psychological scars. Safety is a human right, even in conflict. There is #NoExcuse for violence. It must stop, everywhere. #EndViolence #16Days

Violence against women & girls is a global scourge, amplified by the reach & speed of technology in our digital age. We cannot allow digital spaces to be yet another place where women & girls are unsafe. Together, let’s build a world free of fear for every woman & girl.

📢 #16Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence begins tomorrow. We’re exposing how the digital world has become a minefield of abuse. Join us to rally for a world where technology is a force for equality – not harm: unwo.men/cHLp50XwyrO #NoExcuse #ACTtoEndViolence

Governor Seyi Makinde presented the Oyo State 2026 Appropriation Bill to the Oyo State House of Assembly earlier today. Capital expenditure makes up 56.37% of the total budget, while recurrent expenditure is 43.63%.

BA'NUSO (CONCEAL YOUR PLANS) Everyone looks the same on the outside but it's difficult to determine which has a clear heart towards us Read it here: Medium:@RashyWrites1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@RashyWrites1/… Substack: @rashywrites/n" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@rashywrites/n… #rashywrites #PoeticReflections

Off to Yola for our first away game, and we’re going our first 3 points Pacesetter Queens have left Ibadan to face Adamawa Queens this Wednesday, Nov 26 at 4PM, Makwada Stadium. Drop your good luck messages #PacesetterQueens #NWFLPremiership26 #ArewaOyo #OyoState

It was an honor to be present to bid farewell to the Pacesetter Queens as they embark on their first away fixture of the NWFL Premiership 2025/26 season. The team has departed Ibadan to Yola to face Adamawa Queens at the Makwada Stadium on Wed, 26th Nov, at 4:00 PM.

Some leaders don’t need force; they only need the right sentence. One line and the crowd stops thinking. This is how gullibility is manufactured, and how manipulation thrives. Time to wake up. #leadership #atruthatatime

FEAR OF FEAR When every path leads back to fear, is the true prison outside us or the one we built in our mind? Read it here: Medium: @RashyWrites1/fear-of-fear-6d856e6c3446" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@RashyWrites1/… Substack: @rashywrites/note/p-179549552?r=6didpu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@rashywrites/n… #rashywrites #PoeticReflections

Gunmen Invade St. Mary’s Primary and Secondary School, Papiri, Niger State, Abduct Unspecified Number of Students