Listen to random podcasts and read blogs on topics completely outside your everyday life and work. This is one of many ways to have more to say and learn from people when you are trying to make new friends as an adult.

Nobody is talking about how primary and secondary school teachers are drowning in poverty in this country 😣😣 I never even mention the nurses self

Why is “rage bait” becoming the default response to opinions people disagree with? Is it really that difficult to imagine that someone arrived at a different conclusion from you?

Concluding what a book says based on its paratext is incredibly naive. Read the book. Then judge it.

Long before The Yahoo Boys (which I'm about to get and read), Adaobi Nwaubani wrote what I regard as the best 419 novel ever written: I Do Not Come To You By Chance (2009). It's since been made into an award-winning 2023 Nollywood film (produced by Genevieve Nnaji) that premiered at @TIFF_NET. I do not recall anyone accusing Adaobi or the filmmakers of stereotyping Nigeria - the book was brilliant, revealing, funny, and sobering all at once. x.com/toluogunlesi/status/20… If the unspoken point is that @CarlosBarraganT cannot write about 419 because he's not Nigerian, the very fact that the book emerges out of his mother's narrow escape from Yahoo Boys -- see here x.com/CarlosBarraganT/status… -- totally undercuts that argument. Victims and targets - wherever in the world they might be - have every right to write. The more the merrier, let's read from all angles -- fiction, non-fiction, poetry, from home and abroad -- about this terrible thing that has wormed its way into our DNA as a country and a people. Let's discuss it, let's debate it, let's feel the collective and weighty shame of it in full force. Especially at a time when so many forces seem keen on normalising it. The way to fight the 'stereotype' is not to shun the books being written about the crime, or to cast the writers as enemies. The way to do it is to fight the crime itself with everything we've got, in homes and schools and religious houses across the country.

We made it to Moncton, New Brunswick 😁😁😁 - Montreal ✅ - Quebec City ✅ - Fredericton ✅ - Moncton ✅

This is true or false depending on context.

Yes Yes. Make it a less desirable endeavour for aspiring terrorists and bandits.

I believe one day we will have a conversation on the complicit roles our banks are playing in the kidnapping for ransom industry

People who have access to you have no idea how unreachable you are to everyone else, until they become everyone else.

A cultural shock that many Africans in the diaspora experience when they first move to an English speaking country.

Imagine a professional conference where the participants are the agenda. People come not just to listen but to share what they’ve always wanted to talk about and learn more about.

Sometimes supportive boyfriend duties call. But you know who I’m rooting for to take the Cup 🇨🇦

Yeah. July 4th is Independence Day in the states.

Charles convinced me to buy Xerjoff perfume and I think he’s right. It smells heavenly

These days, I intentionally ask people questions about things I could easily Google. It’s my small way of preserving the social side of our civilization that technology is slowly replacing. Conversations used to matter more than just getting answers.

Listening to this podcast about the difference between fortune and luck. It’s really interesting.

Negotiating less with comfort reduces a lot of avoidable suffering.

Cool story. But nope.

The constitution of any country should be so sacred that amending it requires the consent of its citizens. No single person should be able to change it based on gut feeling or personal preference. It is a social contract that defines the rules for everyone.

In 1976, Nigeria pulled out of the Olympics in Canada in protest against New Zealand, whose rugby team had toured apartheid South Africa despite an international sporting boycott of the racist regime. When the IOC refused African demands to ban New Zealand from the Games, Nigeria joined 28 other African nations in walking away, even though many of their athletes had already arrived in Canada. Source: New Nigerian