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No backup singers just 3 beautiful voices. What a performance 🔥

There's an island in the Pacific where nobody gets acne. A Swedish doctor named Staffan Lindeberg spent years there, examined 1,200 people, including 300 teenagers, and couldn't find a single pimple. In the US, 85% of teens have acne. The difference comes down to food. The islanders eat 70% carbs. Their carbs are yams, sweet potatoes, coconut, fish, so this had nothing to do with cutting carbs. Sugar and junk food: 0.2% of their diet. In the US and Europe, those same foods make up around 70%. When you eat sugar, your blood sugar jumps. Your body responds by flooding you with insulin. Insulin wakes up a growth hormone called IGF-1 (your body already makes a ton of it during puberty, which is why teenagers get hit the hardest). IGF-1 cranks up the oil in your skin, boosts testosterone, and makes skin cells grow so fast they pile up and clog your pores. Oil, hormones, clogged pores. Acne. A 2017 lab study showed this at work. Researchers put IGF-1 on human skin oil glands and watched oil production climb while the glands got inflamed. Researchers then tested this with real patients. A 12-week experiment published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition split people into two groups. Same calories, same carbs. One group swapped to low-sugar carbs like vegetables and whole grains. The other kept eating normal Western carbs. The low-sugar group lost nearly double the breakouts: 23 fewer pimples versus 12 in the other group. Just from changing what kind of carbs they ate. Sugar also ages your skin a second way. Sugar molecules floating in your blood grab onto the proteins that keep your skin firm and stretchy (collagen and elastin) and lock them together. Those proteins go stiff, your skin loses its bounce, and wrinkles show up faster than they should. Sunlight speeds it up. One study found that getting your blood sugar under control for just 4 months reduced this protein damage by 25%. The Inuit in Northern Canada had zero acne for 30 years of observation. Then Western food arrived: soda, chips, refined sugar. Acne showed up right behind it. Genetically similar groups in Papua New Guinea who switched to Western diets saw the same thing. I get the meme. Giving up sugar sounds awful. But over 1,300 people across two continents with zero acne on low-sugar diets, plus a controlled experiment showing near-double improvement in 12 weeks, makes this one of the few skincare tips backed by real science.

TINUBU MUST GO.

"Every deal you think you got i rejected them, you don't make money more than anyone, you pull up for less than we do" Wizkid 2024

Reminds me of a boy they brought to me to learn graphics and video editing one time from Oshogbo. When he arrived, he brought a brand new laptop so I told him to bring it out and power it on, he said “I don’t know how to power it on” in Yoruba, I was like “and you want to learn graphic design?”, that showed that he wasn’t familiar with a computer at all, I took it from him and power it, launched pre installed MSWord and told him to type, he said “I don’t know how to” 😂😂😂 I asked him if he typed on his phone, WhatsApp, social media etc, he said he doesn’t know how and he has no smartphone, Walai ori mi koko gbona wa 😂😂, where will I start from? I got really annoyed and just left him there, then called the person that brought him, he begged me that he would maybe ask him not to come the following day. For whatever reason, I looked at him and felt what he would do when he leaves, so I brought him closer, taught him how to power on the laptop, showed him few things on typing and introduction to few things on coreldraw. Guess what, this bot arrived the following morning with about 10 pages typed document on MSWord, few text and colours on coreldraw, I was completely blown away, it dawned me that the boy is brilliant but not just exposed to brilliant people to tutor him, he only needed a nudge from a brilliant mind. I didn’t only teach him Groahic design but video editing, cinematography and printing, there is little to what I can do that Sodiq can’t do today, I left projects in his care and he handled perfectly. He left @InvigorateVis about 5 years ago and went back to Oshogbo, he messaged me this year and I saw that he’s now a fashion designer, I queried him and he said that’s where his passion lies, he sews fantastic natives, yes he sent me one and I was wowed. People just need the right opportunity.

wizkid fc just like and rt don’t say anything.

Wizkid didn’t just build a career, he built a blueprint. That’s why he’s the undeniable #1 out of Africa. Hard work alone doesn’t get you to his level. He cracked the code: the Law of Attraction. No chasing. No forcing. Just vibrating at a frequency that draws everything to him. He can step away, let others have their moment, and when he returns? It’s like he never left. That’s not an artist. That’s a living legend. 👑

Greater Evil is using Gwagon to do Campaign while there are no Ambulances. Doctors are about to go on strike. But lesser Evil has been donating to nursing schools around the country. Let us all continue. I know what you are

Saying that the average Igbo person is voting for Peter Obi because he’s our own is a lie. You can’t be making bold assertions like this based on what you think. Replace Peter Obi with Orji Uzor Kalu and see if Igbo people with give a damn about him. If Peter Obi is the “lesser evil”, you people should point us to a better candidate let’s come together and vote for the person.🙏🏾

That's also how Tunde Onakoya sleazed out. All these perforated chants of "non partisan", "sitting on the fence", "apolitical", " no one is a Messiah". Meanwhile - all those times, he was on the payroll of Ogun State Govt as "Sports Amb". If you like, let them whine you.

I remembered how I joined my elder sister praying and hoping Agbani Darego would win Miss World 2001. She became the first Black African winner and made history that day. Our house erupted in shouts of joy that still live rent-free in my head. Nigeria was set to host Miss World 2002 as the winner’s country. It was meant to be our big moment to showcase our culture, tourism, and potential. But the religion that keeps giving “peace upon peace” happened. Conservative Muslim groups called the pageant immoral. Riots broke out, especially in Kaduna, with churches torched and over 200 lives lost. The “religion of peace” could not tolerate women in evening gowns and swimsuits. The organisers had no choice but to pack the girls and flee to London. The grand event that should have brought Nigeria global glory was forced out of the country. Till date, it still disappoints me deeply. The same group of people keeps spoiling any speck of goodness that finds its way here.👌🏾

#Wizkid joins #JustinBieber and #Tems on the Main stage of Coachella to perform the "Essence Remix”, named by many as the best Afrobeats song of All Time! 💪🦅🇳🇬👨‍🎤👩🏽‍🎤🎤1⃣🌍🎶✨💫🏟️🏜️👑👑👑❤️‍🔥 #Coachella @Justinbieber @wizkidayo @temsbaby

"I'm not convinced about Peter Obi" Alaye. FUCCCCCCCCCCK OFF! Just know that there's a long line of slaves waiting before "Special Assistantship" reaches you. Your ancestors like Nsogbu & unleavened baba suwe are still collecting 20K per month.

Those deflated fat cells don’t just sit there passively. They actively work against you. Shrunken fat cells send out hormonal distress signals that suppress leptin (the hormone that tells your brain when you’re full) and ramp up ghrelin (the hormone that tells your brain you’re starving). This is why people who have lost a significant amount of weight often feel hungrier than people who have never been overweight at the same body weight. It’s not that your body is broken. It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do: fighting to refill those cells. That’s why the first 20 lb and the last 20 lb feel so different. The deeper you get into a cut, the louder those cells scream. The part no one talks about is that fat cells can die. It takes years of sustained healthy body composition, but apoptosis, aka programmed cell death, does eventually reduce the number of fat cells in the body. The goal is not to lose weight. The real goal is to keep it off.

There’s something wrong with your country when it’s mostly foreigners and politicians who can experience a decent, stable lifestyle while citizens struggle.

Wizkid is already the greatest artist in Africa.

As you turn 30 this year, remember that APC came into power when you were 19. That's 11 solid years of your prime wasted. You must hate APC with passion.

These fence sitters have more vim for Peter Obi than for Tinubu that’s currently destroying their lives. “I’m not convinced about Obi”, but you can't name any other credible candidate.

Two psychologists at Yale once handed people a pencil and a sheet of graph paper. Plot these dots, they said. Some people plotted dots close together, others far apart. When they finished, the people who drew far-apart dots reported feeling less emotionally connected to their own families and hometowns. From drawing dots on paper. That 2008 study by Williams and Bargh stayed with me. The implication is heavy: the part of your brain that tracks physical space and the part that tracks emotional closeness are, at some level, the same system. A team at Dartmouth confirmed this in 2014 using brain imaging. They trained an algorithm to recognize “near vs. far” from brain activity when people looked at objects at different distances, then tested whether the same pattern showed up when people thought about close friends vs. distant acquaintances. Same region lit up. The right inferior parietal lobule, a small area near the back of your head that keeps track of where things are in space, also keeps track of where people sit in your life. Anthropologist Edward Hall figured out the behavioral side in 1966. He mapped four invisible bubbles around every person: intimate (under 18 inches, reserved for partners and kids), personal (18 inches to 4 feet, close friends), social (4 to 10 feet, coworkers), and public (beyond 10 feet, strangers). These zones are hardwired into your biology. A 2021 study in Scientific Reports measured how much people’s palms sweated as a stranger walked toward them at varying distances. Sweat response climbed with every step closer, and the spike matched each person’s own comfort boundary. I think about this every time a director places a physical barrier between two characters. That pillar between Gatsby and Daisy in Luhrmann’s 2013 film puts them in separate spatial zones while they stand a few feet apart. It works before you’ve caught a word of dialogue, because your brain reads the barrier the same way it reads emotional distance. Wes Anderson does something similar in The Royal Tenenbaums, where Margot always stands at the back of every group shot, off to one side. Coppola closes The Godfather with Kay watching Michael from the far end of a hallway before the door shuts between them. No one says the marriage is over. The blocking already told you. The Yale dot study sticks with me because it strips the whole mechanism down to nothing. There are no actors or music or sets involved, just two dots on a grid. And even that tiny shift in spatial distance changed how people felt about the humans they love most. Directors have been building their shots around this for decades, long before anyone put a person in a brain scanner to prove why it works.