MY SHOCK ENCOUNTER WITH AN IGBO MAN IN ONE OF MY DARKEST DAYS
It was the second semester of my final year at Obafemi Awolowo University & I was the National President of National Association of Students of English and Literary Studies (NASELS).
My parents were looking
NEVER TRUST YOU-KNOW-WHO
When I was coming to the UK, the first warning my younger sister who had been here a few years prior gave me was, “Boda mi (bro), no one is your friend at work. Draw the line between colleagues and friendship. You make friends outside work. Be careful
A CARE ASSISTANT'S DATE WITH DESTINY - THE STORY OF MY FRIEND
Yesterday, I had promised to share the unbelievable but very true story of a healthcare assistant that I know. Here we go:
We were on a group call to encourage one another last week when he shared this good news. He
God helping me, tomorrow, I will write the breakthrough story of a person I know who works as a healthcare assistant. It is a story you will love to read. Quite unbelievable but awesomely true 😊.
ONE OF US IS IN TROUBLE & NEEDS HELP 😢🥹
This morning, a very dear friend who is a member of this community reached out to me.
She got married to her husband shortly before he came to the UK in 2022 and joined him 6 months after as his dependant.
THREAD.
LANDMARK, UMAHI & THE CHIEF ROGU£ - A THURSDAY RANT
You came up with a fraudulent plan for a coastal highway not included in the budget. You forced it down the throat of everyone because you own the government.
About 1 trillion Naira was hurriedly disbursed to your lifetime
I still haven’t gotten back to the rota as I speak. Dem don release shifts for the week and Hezekiah Akinrinde is still missing. Dem still dey roast my mouth for fire.
God dey.
Anyways, I hope you learn from me.
1. Don’t speak to anyone about your job or manager. Let them
@realFFK
Congratulations, Aragorn. May you be FAR BETTER than your father and be THE MAN HE NEVER CAN BE. May honor and dignity be your shield and consistency define your path. Go, champ!
FAROOQ OREAGBA, TIME, CHANCE & FAME - LESSONS FROM A CLOSED GRAVE
We may not recover from the class and glamour that the just concluded Ojude Oba (the King’s forecourt) signposts for a very long time. The event, a masterpiece of brilliant splash of colours, pomp, pageantry and
MY TAKE ON THE NAIJA BRAND TRADE FAIR
Having lived in the UK for a bit (.. 🤣) and as a business owner, I can summarise from the rants on social media and say this:
1. Your first ever event is not guaranteed to go 100 % as planned. I organise event and there are a lot of things
She left him a note written in February 2023, the same day the will was written, and it read- "Thank you for being more than a worker. Your love extended my days a bit more".
I hope this challenges someone's mind to pursue excellence and be faithful in their chosen path.
According to him, I’d be making like £650 after tax, every month. Easy peezy. I was to purchase a black suit, white shirt and black tie. It required a very smart appearance. He even helped me run the math- “invest under £100 in your appearance to make £650 every month and that’s
I had recently started with these guys and was getting a good measure of shifts over the weekends. I was lucky to be posted to a place just less than 5mins drive from my house. I’d get an average of 12hrs between Friday and Saturday and the job was relatively stressless.
Then,
He told me that would be his last night because “this isn’t my kind of place to work. It is depressing and rubbish”. Seeing a partner in anguish, I moaned about how I detested the place too. I no know say na me be nanamu 😀.
We both vowed not to return, starting the following
I’d let myself and my guard down. I don’t confide in a leaky mouth that parroted me to decision makers.
I picked up my wet wings and approached the two of them immediately. I did not confirm or deny the story they told my sponsor but told them, “I own my sh!t. I’m sorry I let
@doyinokupe
You’re right, sir. As a crumb hustler and droppings picker with pedigree, it is only fair that you live up to your reputation. At least, you are a man at that. Can’t say you’re a man when it comes to honor and dignity, but on this, I give it to you. Up Okupe!
That shift was horrible. The manager gave me the 10 commandments.
No leaning.
No sitting.
No squatting.
No phones.
No pocketing.
You buy anything, you pay (it wasn’t so at my previous location). Break is just 10mins. And the radio I had had everyone on it. It was like
Then, the devil whispered to me to express my concern to my shift partner. He is a part of the you-know-who and I thought I had a friend. I forgot my sister’s warning. He said that was his second shift there too and hated it.
We both laughed and talked all night long about how
I called the other manager who gave me shifts closer home and cancelled for that day and the next. Tell me about the silly fetcher who threw out the water saved in the pot because he heard the rumblings of lightning and believed it would rain again.
I was about to learn some
Voom, I drove 40mins to this new location, looking like a low budget Jason Staham (forget my one pack 😀). The manager who received me was impressed (she fine for my eyes too). She said to me, “you look very smart. I like that.” I looked around and make we no lie, na me dress
I got a call one Friday evening. The person at the other head is one of the managers of the company and he was asking me if I’d love to work in a neighbouring town, at one of their facilities. The plan was to make me check it out that day and if I liked it, I could continue to
After their chat, my sponsor walked up me, speaking in Yoruba, he said, “Baba, those guys caught you the other day. They knew you just gave an excuse not to return to that location. They told me everything you said verbatim (he knew it was true because I told him by myself too
HOW I TRANSITIONED TO A BA ROLE & HOW YOU ALSO CAN
On a thread I tweeted here yesterday about how you could become an EVRI courier, drawing from my experience, I briefly mentioned in my opening remarks that I am a Business Analyst and trainer of aspiring Business Analysts. But
HOW I GOT MY DREAM JOB IN 2022, LOST IT IN DECEMBER 2023 AND BOUNCED BACK TO A FAR BIGGER ONE
By now, some of you should be used to reading my stories. I love telling personal stories of trials and triumphs, and defeats and victories. I think it allows my readers relate with
Omo! My eye cleared. This you-know-who guy had gone to snitch. Like, there were words the managers mentioned to my sponsor which were absolutely correct and there was no way they could have known except someone I told had told them. And I did not mention those words to even my
@UnkleAyo
“Telling lies about others is as harmful as hitting them with an ax, wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp arrow” (25:18 NLT).
All lying tongues shall be judged by the LORD.
I have a friend who referred me to the company and it was by his influence I got the favourable shifts initially. I did not tell him about this new posting. I thought the manager that called me was doing me a favor. (Never be a mumu like me because I was going to pay for this).
@Hauwauthman
Dear Sawyer, sorry, lawyer
The problem is a Muslim GIRL being married to old men with wandering phalluses at ages 8-17. That is what we have a problem with.
Don’t give us reasons to believe what they say about how degrees are awarded in the North is true.
You should not be
Landmark and other businesses were terribly impacted, throwing already-suffering thousands of Nigerians out of job.
Your reprehensibly nauseating Minister of Works bulli£d and harass€d Layla Johnson who asked the most telling question- “do you have an Environmental Impact
To rub the salt in, in a megalomaniac fit, he said the EIA will no longer be made public because the FOI allows the government to keep some information. And you wonder what is confidential about an EIA.
Isn’t this what happens when you have pigs in tbe parlour? I’m curious to
I only observed that the following week, I got no shifts. Then the next was zero too.
Last weekend, I was given a lone shift at a festival held in my town and I saw my sponsor discussing with the two managers. I paid no attention as it could be anything.
The butterfly with the arrogance of an eagle claimed to have it and promised to have it published later on; all so he could shut the mouth of this journalist that troubled his glass-laced ego. Shame!
Yesterday, he has now announced that the realignment will no longer continue
How anyone ever volunteers to speak for them at any turn beats me. Have we no shame?
Congratulations to those who supported this man to power. Teanoobu is like the grave that is never tired of taking. What he did in Lagos will be replicated across Nigeria with Federal might.
He had been left two vintage cars, the 5-bedroom detached house she lived in till her death, and a mutual fund of £320,000 (read that again). She also left him her golden retriever (a dog). The only condition she gave was that he must never sell the dog but "love it like you
They know what they are doing. They know what and whom they targeted and for what reason. That mission is accomplished and they can now return to the original plan if they ever had plans to build anything.
That said, I hope eye don dey open now.
This is a pathetic unthinking
I appeal to the community to arise for one of us and not let this one sink. I am very worried about her mental health and general well being.
Please volunteer any help that you can render at this critical time of her need. She will be reading on the thread too.
Thank you very
When Nigerians are tired and ready, they will repeat January 2012 and prove to these Orwell’s Napoleons that power indeed resides in and with the people.
We are pencils in the hands of the Creator (Wale Adenuga) but in the hands of these guys, Nigerians are just another play
As things stand, she desperately needs:
1. Counsel on what to do to save herself and not lose her right to stay in the UK. She may not have more than 3 weeks at this rate as the guy already has everything well planned.
2. Help with getting a COS that helps her stay on as a
8 THINGS THAT I LEARNT FROM THE SPACE WITH DAVID
1. Emotions don’t win when you are debating ultra prejudiced minds. FACTS DO. So, when you go to engage them, be armed with facts. NIUK folks, exemplified in Toyeeb’s and Khadeejat’s submissions, went to the podium prepared and
Two weeks ago, due to suspicions that arose from some inconsistent details he shared about an imminent trip to Nigeria, she went through his phone and found something heartbreaking.
Her supposed husband is actively planning to return to Nigeria later this month to Mary a new
@Blue_Footy
Cucu looks a different beast in the last three games. Pochetinno left this brilliant tactical tweak too late in the season. It is the more reason he has to go.
She reached out to an immigration lawyer with whom she had a paid consultation. The lawyer told her even if she reported to the Home Office, there was nothing they could do as the husband brought her in on the grounds of marriage and can decide he does not want her anymore.
It
@Blue_Footy
Nah! He’s got to go. Thanks for the late surge and tactical tweak (which I believe is a gamble) but you gotta go, mate. We deserve a winner who feels the pain of every loss and takes it as a dent on his personal honor. Not one who laughs it off as “another bad day in the office”.
@Sports_Doctor2
Pesin wey no know if im go see tomorrow wey dey make promises for the next three years. Eranko lasan lasan.
Abians, keep your eyes open! They will steal your state from you and they are not hiding it.
He was assigned a domiciliary shift at a nonagenarian's. She had some serious health difficulties and required extreme care and handling. My friend was put right there because of his empathy and interpersonal skills. He was barely 4 months into the new job at this time. It was a
Back in Nigeria, he worked with one of the leading telecommunications companies and was doing very well in his own right. It only made sense that he should continue that trajectory when he arrived here. But he had other plans. Perhaps, it was God's hands orchestrating events for
It still did not make sense. Yet, he kept at it. His default reply to everyone was, "I love doing this. It makes me happy seeing the users smile at the end of a shift". As time wore on, this user who had practically become his major client (the woman consumed 90% of his shift
By early 2024, the doctors informed the woman's family she had not much longer to live. Fast forward to March, the "good old lady", as he referred to her, had gone to rest. And my friend simply moved on after attending the funeral and giving her extended family his best wishes.
4. On the group visas and logistics, from what I heard, Nelly didn't target Nigerian based vendors, but UK based vendors.
(a) What she didn't know so much about the market in the UK is that some of these entrepreneurs are selling from home and trying to cut down costs of "brick
The first agency he worked for was a fairly hostile one. Shifts were not regular and the managers were just sadists. Despite him getting rave reviews from users and their families, they kept dealing him the short hand time and again. He had to leave once another opportunity came
Mid-May, he got a letter from an attorney requesting a meeting with him. He was worried and got himself the company of a lawyer-friend pro bono. At the meeting, it was revealed that the deceased user, the "good old lady" had named him in her will.
@realFFK
A clown and transgenerational coward blowing hot, empty air 😀😀😀
Guy is making a play for what to eat.
@realFFK
never does anything out of convictions. There has to be food involved 😀
Six years ago, today, the devil tried to take me in my prime on Ibadan-Ile Ife expressway, just around Alasepe junction.
My car reportedly tumbled 6 times but I came out with just a scratch on my head. I was alone in the car.
This picture is a proof that God delivers His own.
@jrnaib2
They don’t need to say anything. All they need are:
1. INEC
2. One bowl of rice and 1,000 to be shared to voters
That’s all. They know what to do and how to do it.
@TheoAbuAgada
@rioferdy5
@RisingBallers_
Are you joking or you just don’t know? The pictures are arranged in the order that the penalties were taken!!!
And Palmer is black (mixed race). His dad is black!
Hey y’all!
I resumed at my new Lead Business Analyst role today and I love it here. It is a challenging one clearly but I’m made for the tough days. Champions are forged differently.
You also can be like me and I can help you navigate the pathway to building a career as a BA.
HOW I GOT MY DREAM JOB IN 2022, LOST IT IN DECEMBER 2023 AND BOUNCED BACK TO A FAR BIGGER ONE
By now, some of you should be used to reading my stories. I love telling personal stories of trials and triumphs, and defeats and victories. I think it allows my readers relate with
Lesson 1- Keep showing up at your post. Do not bother whether you are seen or not. Just do what you got to do and do it with all of your heart. Do not actively seek recognition or fame. Fame mostly eludes those who set themselves up for it.
Show up when you need to show up. You
DESPISE NOT THE DAY OF LITTLE BEGINNINGS: THE STORY OF MY JOURNEY FROM A DOORMAN TO VICE PRESIDENT
Inspired by a post by Femi Akinwumi about his friend being ashamed of his job as a driver, I felt compelled to share my own story.
It begins in 2002, after two long years of
@DaveAtherton20
Are you all this vile and merciless? Here is a dying mother and wife whose full story you do not even know, yet, you would show no pity, grace nor humanity in your comments. It’s a shame!
Farooq was a top executive, a C-suite manager, at the Nigeria Stock Exchange. According to him, the moment he left, his (for the purpose of illustration) 5million friends dropped to 1million. He lost the hangers-on and those whom he probably thought were “friends for life”.
This is what you do when you get in a project that hadn’t had a Business Analyst for THREE YEARS as the Lead BA and you succeed in delivering the most complex and detailed process flowchart which includes business and technical specifications the team had seen in record time (in
@instablog9ja
Aunty, contact a very good musical band in your neighborhood. Give them a date to come around. Pick your best cloth for the day. Let that day be the day you pack out of the house and do it with a dance. You have just been delivered from the devil. Congratulations!
Farooq Oreagba was diagnosed with bone cancer (multiple myeloma) in 2014. In August of the same year, he had to undergo bone marrow transplant to give him a chance of fighting the ailment and live. He did chemotherapy for 21 days a month over the next 8 years and had been in
@_nonconformist1
Besides sounding hollow even as a paid voyeur, I’m more riled at her poor comportment (she kept moving the chair around 😀😀) and poor English. Habatically! Is this one of Tinubu’s propaganda machinery’s best? If you must do rubbish, at least budget good money for quality heads.
A thread for FIRST BORN sons. Gather here, warriors. We are leaders and we bear our beautiful burdens with pride. Post your picture as a first born son ❣️❤️
@dr_adetountanni
I enjoyed reading this, sis. This is so beautiful. The lady deserves some hug and commendation. She should drop her account details make we freaky am small for data.
Stanley, your eye don peel. Lazy smello 😡🥵🤬
Lesson 2 - Chance is a critical part of destiny. It has to align with time to make things happen. You do not have to plan for it because you cannot control it. Keep putting in your best. It comes when it comes. It happened for Farooq, the photographed and it so happened for the
@Waspapping_
Some of you guys are clowns. I agree that intellectual contemplation can be really difficult for limited minds but have you considered how much of the North’s potentials can be unleashed in regionalism?
More so, if the North is “enduring more hardship”, whose fault is it? Is
I am not sure you followed 😀😀😀😅😅😅😅
You think those ballot papers are ordinary? They are heavily securitised documents with barcodes unique to every voter 😀😀😀
You can’t steal them or rig the figures.
And results are transmitted electronically and in REAL TIME.
Else,
@Omojuwa
95% of reactions to this tweet show that a lot of us read with established prejudices. This is NOT about Buhari. This is an incident happened in TANZANIA at the moment. Nigerians, especially young folks, should do better. This is embarrassing
This thing called marriage.
It will stress some and make them lose their mind.
It will be the launchpad for some to achieve their wildest dreams and be all they can.
For many of us, it will merely be a convenient baggage that must be a part of their journey to bear for many
8. David heard everything but learnt nothing. An alagbako (look for the meaning) no dey change him ways. As it was in the beginning, so will it be till eternity. Remember he told Toyed, “good luck with that”.
So, next time you see the anti-immigration irritants and nationalism
@CFCBlues_com
I’m blank. Give me Mou for just two years. Let him come do a restorer’s job and mentor JT for those two years. That the way to go for me. We don’t have excellent hands out there so we work what we can get. Amorim could be another AVB. I have my fears