The sacrifice men make to serve God as Catholic priests. This is Livinus Nnamani, a young seminarian from Enugu undergoing formation in Rome to become a priest. Along the way, he was diagnosed with liver cancer, which took a heavy toll on him as his health deteriorated. In 2021, he petitioned Pope Francis to be ordained a priest before his death. On April 1, 2021, the Pope granted his request and approved a bishop to ordain him. The bishop who ordained him encouraged him to unite his priestly suffering with Christ, the Great High Priest, for the sake of the suffering of people around the world. In his final days, just three weeks after his ordination, he was still offering blessings to hospital staff, and shortly after, he passed away. The significance of this touching story is that such cases are rare, though provided for by Church canon law. It highlights the Church’s recognition of a genuine vocation, even when a terminal illness prevents the completion of standard formation.

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From Pharisee to Tax Collector: Rethinking Tinubu’s Kenyan Comparison In a recent remark in Yenagoa, Bola Ahmed Tinubu suggested that Nigerians should find solace in being “better off than Kenya and other African countries.” While this may have been intended to soften the impact of economic hardship and rising fuel prices, the comment risks downplaying the severity of the current crisis. It echoes the biblical parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector in the Gospel of Luke (18:9–14). A similar warning is found in the Qur’an (53:32), which cautions against self-righteousness. Like the Pharisee who boasted of his superiority over others to mask his own spiritual void, such downward comparisons serve more as a refuge than a remedy. This validated an earlier dismissive remark by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu during electioneering: “Na statistics we go shop?” Yet statistics remain indispensable - they are the language through which nations understand their condition and chart progress. No country can develop in isolation from measurable realities or without comparing itself with peers. Comparisons, when properly grounded, are not instruments of escapism but tools of accountability. What is objectionable is not comparison itself, but comparison stripped of credible, verifiable data—mere tax collector comparisons that soothe rather than solve. On key development indicators such as security, the Human Development Index, life expectancy, GDP per capita, literacy levels, and electricity access, Kenya consistently outperforms Nigeria. Nigeria is the fourth most terrorised nation in the world, while Kenya is not among the ten worst. Kenya’s HDI ranking is 143 out of 180 countries, with a coefficient of about 0.630, compared to Nigeria’s ranking of 164 out of 180, with a coefficient of about 0.530. Its GDP per capita is roughly $2,200–$2,300, compared to Nigeria’s $807–$835. Kenya’s poverty rate is about 43% of the population (approximately 23 million people), while Nigeria’s is about 63% (around 150 million people), over six times that of Kenya. Kenya’s life expectancy is about 67 years, while Nigeria’s is about 54 years. The literacy rate in Kenya is approximately 81–85%, compared to Nigeria’s 62–65%. Kenya’s electricity access is higher, while Nigeria has one of the lowest levels of electricity access in the world. Kenya has about 3.5 million out-of-school children, while Nigeria has about 20 million. Kenya’s inflation rate has been about 4.5% or lower over the past three years, while Nigeria’s has remained above 15% within the same period. Kenya’s exchange rate has been around USD 1 to KES 130 over the past three years, whereas Nigeria’s exchange rate rose from below ₦500/$1 to above ₦1,250/$1 within the same period. Even with developments in the Middle East and rising oil prices, Kenyans have not experienced the sharp increases in petroleum product prices seen in Nigeria. Across other key indicators, Kenya also performs better. In the end, these indices clearly show that Kenya ranks higher than Nigeria on several development metrics. The standard of living of Kenyans is better than that of Nigerians. If the President considers Kenyans to be suffering despite these stronger figures, then Nigerians are in a far more difficult situation. He should therefore refrain from self-consolation and, in honest reflection, take responsibility for the situation and make a determined effort to drive improvement. This requires a posture of humility, accountability, and commitment to addressing the factors that have slowed Nigeria’s development. A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

announcing a mini solana dev weekend competition, $1,500 prize and bragging rights challenge: lowest latency algorithm for computing SOL PnL at runtime with no indexing and only RPC context: with existing solana RPC methods, you have getSignaturesForAddress and getTransaction the problem is gSFA only lets you traverse from recent -> old in one direction, so you are inherently capped on choice of algorithm with the new getTransactionsForAddress method however, you can start from start, end, middle, or any range you want and parallelize these calls to get 10x lower latencies the core challenge becomes "how do you search the set of transactions for an address the most efficiently given you do not know how sparse they are for a given wallet?" leave your submission as a DM or reply to this tweet as a gist or code sample and at the end of 2 days, I will run all the algorithms against each other for a set of addresses ranging from busy, sparse, and periodic. winner will be based on lowest avg latency

Morning flights are my favourite, and rows 1-3 are a must for me. So two weeks ago, I am on a flight to Lagos from Abuja, I am arranging my bags with my headphones on when I start hearing people go "your excellency sir", I turn around and it's my president sitting next to me!!!

My Yorùbá ancestors knew this and passed it down to us....they taught us the name of trees and shrubs and roots....they taught us how to speak to them and ask for their help when lost in the forest or when sick ....all of this is embedded in IFÁ...it's not new.

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