Basit_AKINS

Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!

Can’t believe Jannik Sinner won that round!! Guy is so focussed

FOUR. Straight. Masters. 🏆🏆🏆🏆 @janniksin defeats Alcaraz 7-6 6-3 to claim his biggest clay‑court title and will return to World No.1 on Monday 🤯 #RolexMonteCarloMasters

This is exactly the kind of thing that doesn’t sound ridiculous until a man says it out loud.

@bibzyCarter Lol, she don open up for a guy wey no like am 🤣

My brothers and I are not mind readers. Open your mouth and tell us how you feel.

@bibzyCarter Some people dey use ChatGPT for relationship advice? 🥹

Stop using chatGPT to evaluate your love life. It will give you bad advice.

@bibzyCarter “You think I’m always the stupid one”

"You'll be doing like you know everything"

@bibzyCarter “You always think you’re right”

@bibzyCarter Lol, she thought she’s the main character 🤔

He learnt self-respect.

@slimvnsn @Wizarab10 This is beautiful to read! Most of the time, father’s love is pure and quiet. I don’t understand this until recently. God bless our fathers 🤲🏾

My father never came to a single thing I invited him to. Not my primary school graduation. Not my secondary school prize giving where I collected 3 awards and kept looking at the gate. Not my university matriculation. Not the ceremony when I got called to bar in 2012. I'd send him the date weeks in advance and he'd say I'll try and that was always the full sentence. I'll try. No follow up. No explanation after. My mother would sit in his place and clap loud enough for 2 people. I stopped inviting him after the bar call. Not from anger. Some people love you completely and still cannot show up and after a while you stop making them feel guilty about it. He was not a bad man. I want to be clear about that. He was a mechanic in Mushin for 35 years. Worked 6 days a week. Sent every one of us to school. Never raised his hand. Never left. The lights stayed on and the rent was paid and there was always food and he did all of it quietly without asking to be celebrated. He just could not sit in a plastic chair and watch something. I accepted that and moved on. Last year I bought my first property. A flat in Ojodu. Took 9 years of saving and 2 years of paperwork and a lawyer who nearly finished me. When the keys finally came I sat in the empty flat on the floor for an hour just breathing. I called my mother first. She screamed. My sister cried. I didn't call my father. 3 days later he called me. Said he heard about the flat from my mother. Said he wanted to come and see it. I didn't know what to do with that so I just said okay. Gave him the address. Figured he'd say I'll try and we'd never speak of it again. He showed up on Saturday at 9am. Stood at the door in his good agbada. The one he only wears for serious things. Holding a small nylon bag. I let him in and he walked through every room without speaking. Not quickly. Slowly. Like he was counting something. He checked the pipes under the kitchen sink. Knocked on the walls. Opened and closed the windows twice each. Looked at the ceiling in every room the way only a man who has fixed things his whole life looks at ceilings. Then he came and stood in the sitting room and looked at me. Said the pipework is good. Said the windows seal properly. Said whoever built this knew what they were doing. I nodded. Long silence. Then he opened the nylon bag. Inside was a small framed photo. Me at maybe 7 years old sitting on the bonnet of an old car in his workshop. Grinning. Both legs swinging. He's standing beside me with his hand on my shoulder looking at something outside the frame. I remember that day. I had gone to the workshop after school and he let me sit there while he worked and gave me a Fanta and put a Michael Jackson cassette on the small radio. I didn't know anyone had taken a photo. He said he kept it on his workshop table for 22 years. Said he wanted me to have something for the new place. I held that frame and stood very still. He said he knew he missed things. Said he was not good at the sitting and watching. That crowds made something in him go wrong in a way he never knew how to explain. Then he said the flat was good and he was proud and he asked if there was anything in the kitchen because he hadn't eaten. I laughed. Made him eggs and bread while he sat at my kitchen table in his good agbada like he owned the place. We ate and he told me about a car he was working on. I told him about a case that was giving me trouble. Normal conversation. The kind we should have been having for years. He left at 1pm. At the door he gripped my shoulder the same way he did in that photo. Didn't say anything. Didn't need to. The photo is on my sitting room wall now. First thing I hung in the whole flat. Some fathers cannot sit in the plastic chair. But mine drove to Ojodu in his good agbada on a Saturday morning with a 22 year old photograph in a nylon bag. That was his standing ovation. I just didn't know to look for it in that shape.

@Tallesty_ @bilionaire_dgb Bro, in as much as you take your time to explain everything logically, they still won’t understand you 🤷🏽‍♂️.

First of all, coming first in an exam doesn't mean everyone else failed. There is 2nd, 3rd, down to 7th, and they all did okay. That's how benefits work too. I personally don't think marriage benefits one gender significantly more than the other, since we all marry for different reasons. But men saying women benefit more doesn't mean men benefit nothing. Everyone benefits from marriage. However, out of any two parties, one arrangement may favor one person more, but that should be based on the specific marriage, not gender broadly. So men rushing to remarry is not about who benefits more. It's about access. If a widow gets 10 genuine suitors within 6 months, she would marry one. The desire is there. The opportunity isn't always. Imagine rice wey spoon dey struggle to fetch is wetin fork dey ask why it's not being used for. When a man loses his wife, any woman considering him already knows she's walking into a situation where he will provide for his own kids and for whatever children they have together. But a woman bringing children into a new marriage means the new man must provide for kids that aren't his. That's a different calculation entirely. Add to that the sheer numbers out there for him, there are so many single and available women that a man can approach one, get rejected, and immediately move to the next. A widow has to wait for someone to come to her. It's not about who marriage benefits more. It's about who has more access.

Twitter men said marriage benefits women more than men, but when a woman divorce or lost her husband she hardly wants to try getting married again, but if it’s a man give him maximum of 6 months. He will rush back in to that thing they claim benefits women more.

@bibzyCarter Long life and Prosperity to her in good health 🤲🏾

Mum's birthday today.

@bibzyCarter Men’s chivalry is now perceived as weakness bro. We are cooked 🤣

Funny how you can treat a woman well and she still reads it as weakness.

@guzu_p This is so annoying to even watch. They were so adamant to vilify him, no one was listening to him. All in their feelings. When it comes to dating, you are allowed all your biases. You don’t have to date a single mother because you’re raised by one. It’s just preference.

They all came at him because he said he won't settle for a baby mama. Women have made it a habit to shame men for their standards while still maintaining their standards. It now seems like it's only women who are allowed to have preferences. In a society where women broke shame, short shame, and body shame men, and even mock their penis size, despite being damaged whores, they still set their standards but after a man hustle his way to the top 10% of men, women still want to tell men who to settle for? He was raised by a single mother so does it mean he has to settle for a single mother? Most women were raised by their broke father, so why don't they go for broke men? Why insist it's a rich man they want when their father is broke? If you like, allow women gaslight you over your standards.

@bibzyCarter @MichealFizzy Eta inu ni o…They are not happy that their fellow women are actually happy taking care of their husbands. They’re unmarried for some reasons 🤷🏽‍♂️

Why are many unmarried ladies angry when when wives say they take care of their husbands? What's the science behind it?

@EzeCyp @FabrizioRomano Yeah. Similar to @BSchweinsteiger. He loves ManUtd even though he didn’t play for much time. Pure Love!

Casemiro saying that hits more like a farewell than a press quote. He’s basically admitting he’s attached to the club, even if his time there is ending. The mention of fans asking him to stay and his wife getting emotional shows it’s not just professional—it’s personal. And saying he’ll remain a Manchester United supporter for life? That’s the kind of line players only use when a place actually meant something to them, not just another stop on the career ladder.

❤️‍🩹🇧🇷 Casemiro on leaving Man United: “I hope I don't cry on the last day… My wife already cried the other day when the fans asked me to stay one more year”. “I just want to enjoy all these moments, and I'll remain a United supporter for the rest of my LIFE”.

Sabalenka reminds me of Serena

@theadeabdulmuiz @boye4christ2006 I am good bro. And yea, I definitely think is myopic to think 90% of first class graduates are unintelligent. That claim is ridiculous. Majority of first class graduate that I’ve met (and I’ve met a lot), are both brilliant and intelligent in all ramifications of human life.

@Basit_Akinade @boye4christ2006 Brother Akin! Sometimes, I use to think I’m the only one that thinks this way. They treat academic excellence and making it in life like it’s mutually exclusive. If first class is an easy feat, the ‘intelligent’ one he’s referring to should bag it now 🤣🤣 Btw, how are you sir?

Nigerians are used to cram and pass in the university. The guy that was dismissed in UK last week was first graduate that finished in a Nigerian university. Obviously, he was brilliant but not intelligent. I can say it bold that 90% of first class graduates are NOT INTELLIGENT.

@hy_wemmy This would actually make sense if women are the ones asking men out. I can’t be the one asking you out and still offer myself like a trade item. Rejection after saying “can I be your boyfriend” would definitely make you feel worthless as a man. It screams low self esteem.

Personally I think men start asking “can I be your boyfriend” instead of “will you be my girlfriend”