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This is "criminal"! How can you play this good at 3?

At least, the police handled it professionally (especially considering he's a colored kid).

The organizers are petty short-sighted people. Instead of them to bump the boy up to a higher level or find ways to nurture his talent (that might eventually pay off for them), they are calling police on a 3-year-old. Pathetic!

While Russia vowed to stop recruiting Ghanaians, the practice has continued

Why is anyone surprised? As long as you have some power (militarily and economically), you can very much do what you want.

“If Western governments announce projects and fail to deliver, Ghana should scrutinize them. If China signs infrastructure agreements that stall, Ghana should ask why,” Acheampong wrote. “Russia should receive precisely the same treatment. … That is not hostility toward Russia. It is normal statecraft.”

As novel as that sounds, are African leaders skilled and resourceful enough to navigate these discussions?

If Ghana (and Africa at large) wants to show that they are serious, they should:
- work on the economy so their young citizens are not lured,
- mount a national campaign through every channel to counter Russian tactics.

A well-deserved award for the English talisman, Harry Kane! The results speak for themselves.

The bias of the voting bloc for this award is really loud.

I think Kane should win this award.

No job is guaranteed. The days of job stability are gradually coming to an end. The key thing is what value can you offer and how you can massively sell your skill set.

It's his congregation I pity. In these end times, it's better to open your eyes wide as the Bible admonishes us.

Any other POTUS would not get away with that comment. But the bar is no longer existent with DJT.

To wrap up her short speech, Minaj addressed Trump: "President Trump, it is an honor to stand with you every single time, and I will continue to support you forever and ever. If you run again, I will support you again."

These are the issues. That's clearly illegal and she knows but since there is no bar, she's going to get away with it and everyone would move on.

The pathetic thing is the Christian evangelicals that continue to stand behind him, without a care in the world that he's literally the father of lies.

It's a very tough market to scale in Nigeria without the necessary financial backbone and compliance systems. Too many moving parts across different parties, and then regulators.

The idea of a Western passport is alluring, but the hurdles are not small either. Many have fallen on the journey. Others are thriving in an amazing way - and legitimately so. Others are giving an appearance of "All is well" but they know it's not. While some have resorted to unscrupulous activities.

The most important advice: look before you leap. Do your research (plenty stories all over social media - hear what's said and what's not). Let no one sell you some fantasy. Understand the worst-case scenario. Prepare for your success the best way you can.

Before it becomes passive income, there must be active work. Let's not get it twisted. And for most on that list, the active work continues. I wrote extensively about this on a thread here (in my signature).

I think we need to reduce selling pipe dreams to people. Nothing is wrong with hard work; at least, hard smart work.

Saturnalia:
I don’t subscribe to any of these conventional ways because I’m royalty and I cannot work for anybody.

The money should be entering into my akant just like that simply because my own case is different.

Your Royal Highness!

"The APC National Youth Leader says these vehicles were donated by First Lady Oluremi Tinubu. Nigerians deserve to know where the money came from to buy and distribute so many 2026 model SUVs, each worth more than ₦150 million, for political mobilisation.

"The First Lady holds no elected or executive office. She is only a domestic appendage of the office of President. Were these vehicles bought with her personal funds, donations or public resources? Who paid for them? What was the total cost? The Presidency must provide a clear account. Nigerians cannot be expected to accept a fleet of extraordinarily expensive vehicles for party loyalists without knowing who financed them.

This has always been my issue with the ridiculous display of excesses of the ruling party (PDP did same too during their time). During elections, the free flow of money is always excessive. It's obscene for a country that battles with increasing poverty, despite impressive macro-economic conditions.

And let's not pretend Atiku won't do the same if he was President.

Maybe Trump will level new tariffs against Brazil because "they dared" to elect someone he doesn't support.

smallsmall:
I would say you should try and read the History of that area properly, instead of picking and choosing what soothes your narrative!
Go an dlearn about the Ethnic Composition of Russia, then learn about the Ethnic composition of Ukraine and finally, learn about the Ethnic Composition of Crimea and Donbass.

A short answer for you, is that Ukraine was created artificially, by Russian Empress, Catherine the Great.
It was A GIFT to one of her Supporters in War. What then happened is that you have Ethnic Russians being "gifted", as Original Ukraine.
Then that 'gifted part' broke away from USSR in 1990/91.

The problem is that there is a group of Ukrainians who are NOT of Ethnic Russian Origin, who are Racist-Nazis and Supremacists.
When Ukraine broke away from USSR, these Ukrainians said they were the "superior" Ukrainians and that the ethnic Russians in Ukraine are inferior Humans, some of them even went further to say they are not Humans but Cockroaches (reminds one of what happened in Rwanda!).
They said thy wanted to 'CLEANSE' Ukraine of these Cockroaches and started a systematic Ethnic Cleansing of Ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
These Ukrainian Supremacist Killer Squads were led by a man called Stephen Bandera. he led a Group called the Banderites.

Ethnic Russians who were in the Eastern parts of Ukraine were being slaughtered and wiped-off by the Nazi Banderites and they cried to Mother Russia.
They conducted a Referendum and voted overwhelmingly that they wanted to go back to Russia and be Russians, since they speak Russian Language and are Ethnic Russians.
Instead of allowing them to leave peacefully, the Ukrainian Government led by these Banderites, unleashed war on them.

Then in 2012-2013 or so, Ukraine had an Election and the man who won was an Ethnic Russian man named Victor Yanukovitch.
He was willing was willing to give a limited autonomy to the Ethnic Russians in Donbass Region (Luhansk and Donetsk).

The Nazi Banderites will have non of this, they set fire to the local Municipal Building where the Ethnic Russian-Ukrainians were having a meeting and BURNED the people inside ALIVE (Google it and you will still find the account).

They then sought to kill the President, Yanukovitch and he was swiftly evacuated out of Ukraine by Russian Forces, back to Russia. (I am certain this man will be the next President of Donbass and liberated territories, once the Russia-Ukraine war is over.)

Then the Banderites started going from House-to-House, hunting and killing the Ethnic Russians in the Easter and Southern parts of Ukraine.
The Ethnic Russians again begged "Mother Russia" to come to their aid and Russian forces invaded Crimea, drove away the Banderites and "gave effect" to the Crimean Referendum where these Ethnic Russians in Crimea, voted to be part of Russia.

The above is a detailed summary of why Russia invaded and seized Crimea in 2014.

Same thing repeated itself in 2021, when Ukraine, led by Zelensly, despite Two Agreements to grant autonomy to the Ethnic Russian in Donbass, which Ukraine agreed was a a gimmick to arm themselves properly, ...Ukrainian Banderites in their Military started using weapons of War (Tanks, Rockets, Missiles, Grenades, etc) to shell "its own People" who were Ethnic Russians in Donbass.
Their Langugae was banned, their Churches were seized and plundered, they were being shelled and killed like Rats

The People resisted but then, Ukrainian Military was too powerful for them.
They cried out once again to 'Mother' Russia for liberation.
Russia then started writing letters to everyone that could prevail on Ukraine to stop its act of Genocide.
But Biden called it trash, and said what can Russia do? EU told Russia to shut up. United Nations just turned a deaf ear and pretended it did not et any Letter.

Then Russia launched its Special Military Operation (SMO), initially to just "jolt Ukrainian President Zelensky" into responding positively to Russia's concerns, including the potential integration of Ukraine into NATO.

Russia was a few kilometer from rolling into Kiev but they then went to Istanbul and had a meeting which produced a ceasefire Agreement, with one of the conditions being that Russia should, as a show of goodwill, withdraw it's forces back from Kiev.

Russia agreed, signed and withdrew it forces back. (Istanbul 2022 agreement)
Boris Johnsonn flew to Ukraine and asked Zelensky not to sign the Agreement, asked him to "keep fighting" and promised him weapons.

The rest is where we are today. Ukraine is bleeding, Zelensky is crying that Elon Musk is not supporting him with Starlinks, that Trump i not giving him weapons or slowing down Starshield for his use!

Should you not have your own Weapons, if you want to fight or is he that stewpid not to realize that he should not have allowed himself to be pushed to the "edge of a Cliff"...... and he must now jump alone?

It is not easy but l have gone to this extent, to explain what is really going on to you because some of you like to take things from the middle and then run with it.
You can read all these things but just dont read only Western Media outlets, read others from other Non-aligned Countries and then make up your own mind.

Thank you for taking us through a complicated history but here’s the central problem with your comment: it mixes genuine historical facts with major chronological errors and claims that are not supported by the evidence.

Again, I'll focus on the key point: The focus is on sovereignty, not to pretend either country has an uncomplicated history.

Now, let's fact-check the key claims:
- “Catherine the Great created Ukraine.” — False. She expanded the Russian Empire into Ukrainian-inhabited territories in the 18th century, but Ukrainian political and cultural identity developed over centuries. Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and received overwhelming public support in a nationwide referendum.

- “Banderites led an ethnic cleansing campaign against ethnic Russians after 1991.” — Unsupported. Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist leader who died in 1959. 1959! C'mon now. His movement's history includes collaboration with Nazi Germany and involvement in atrocities, but that does not establish a post-1991 campaign of ethnic cleansing against Russian speakers.

- “The 2014 Crimea referendum legitimized joining Russia.” — Misleading. The referendum took place AFTER Russian forces took control of Crimea. The UN General Assembly declared it invalid and reaffirmed Ukraine's territorial integrity. Ethnic composition does not automatically confer sovereignty over territory.

- “Ukrainian forces committed genocide in Donbas.” — Not established. The UN documented civilian deaths and abuses during the conflict, including casualties from shelling. But documented suffering is not proof of genocide. In March 2022, the International Court of Justice ordered Russia to suspend its military operations; it did not accept Russia's genocide allegation as an established justification for the invasion.

- “Yanukovych was elected in 2012–13.” — False. He won the presidential election in 2010 and fled Ukraine in February 2014 after mass protests.

- “Boris Johnson killed an agreed Istanbul peace deal.” — Unproven. Negotiations occurred, but no completed agreement was ready for signature. Major disputes remained over territory, security guarantees and Ukraine's future military posture.

Ukraine's sovereignty does not disappear because many residents of a region speak Russian or identify ethnically as Russian. Equally, Ukraine has obligations to protect Russian-speaking citizens and minorities. Russia's security concerns can be debated, but they do not automatically grant it the right to invade, annex territory or decide Ukraine's alliances.

The same principle applies to every country: a powerful neighbour does not acquire ownership of a smaller neighbour because it dislikes its politics or claims historical entitlement. If not, what kind of world would we be living in?

Your comment is treating ethnicity as a property deed, a disputed referendum as a universal permission slip in a secondary school, and an unfinished negotiation as a signed peace treaty. No, context matters. And facts matter.

History can explain why a conflict exists; it CANNOT magically legalize conquest.

If sovereignty counts only when it favours Moscow, that isn't a principle of international law. It's imperialism wearing a history textbook as a disguise. And the world is smarter than that. If not, why did the world stand against Hitler?

VALID QUESTION: "WHAT IF I HAVE NO RESULTS TO SHOW YET?"

This is the most common fear and it is completely manageable.

Offer one month at a reduced rate — or even free — to one small business you know personally, in exchange for a detailed written testimonial and permission to use the results in your portfolio.

This is not desperation. It is strategy.

After one month of properly managed social media for a small business, you will almost certainly have visible results: improved post consistency, better-looking content, some follower growth, increased engagement. Screenshot everything. Document the before and after.

That one month of work becomes the foundation of your entire business. Every future client conversation starts with: "Here is a business I managed for a month and here is what changed."

You cannot buy that credibility. You can only earn it — and one free or reduced-rate month is the fastest and most honest way to do it.

ACTION POINT FOR TODAY:

Three things. Do all of them before this week is over.

ONE — Go to Instagram right now and find three small businesses in a niche you like that clearly need social media help. Screenshot their pages. Study what is wrong. This is your prospect research.

TWO — Open Canva and create five sample posts for a fictional business in that niche. Write the caption for each one. Save them in a folder. You now have a portfolio.

THREE — Write your one-paragraph service description and save it somewhere you can find it easily. Who you help, what you do, what it costs. Done.

When those three things exist, you are no longer someone who wants to do social media management.

You are someone who does social media management and is looking for their first client.

That shift — from wanting to doing — is the whole game.

Remember, only action-takers see results.

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Questions? Drop them below. If you have already started doing social media for any business — paid or unpaid — share your experience.

This thread learns from everyone.

Rest in Peace Mama.

A celebrated life with definite impact.

The Ogwashi-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State is in mourning following the death of Professor Kamene Okonjo, mother of the kingdom’s traditional ruler, Obi (Dr) Ifechukwude Anishi Okonjo II, and Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

The renowned sociologist and matriarch of the Umu Obi Obahai Royal Family died on Friday, aged 96.

She was the wife of the late Obi (Professor) Chukwuka Okonjo, the immediate past traditional ruler of Ogwashi-Uku, with whom she shared 66 years of marriage.

An educated family is so sexy.

No drama. Just results.

Alake alleged that the opposition had used misleading narratives and manipulated reports to influence public opinion and portray the APC rally negatively.

Misleading narratives is what you're going with? You can do better.

B U R N. As per usual. The Orange dude will be unhappy and rant on his tiny social media account with his little phone.

Violence begets more violence. This should be condemned.

Hmmm. Russia is making lots of inroad in Africa, especially with their military assets. Hopefully African leaders understand that it's a function of interests and not benevolence, and act accordingly.

They want to take the glory and not the fault. Doesn't work that way.

"Mr President, blaming the opposition for hunger is either delusion or a staggering case of political amnesia. The APC governed Nigeria for eight years before you took office. You have added another three and a half years. Nigerians know who has been in power, and hardship did not begin when the opposition started talking about it. Stop insulting their intelligence and answer for your record"

Spot on. Press their neck.

If you hustle and succeed because of woman, she might lay claim to your success.

If you don't succed, she might leave.

If you succeed and she still leaves, at least your success is still there.

If you succeed and she stays, you have a good gain.

If you hustle for yourself, you keep going regardless of any partner.

Sometimes it makes you wonder if government is not actually complicit in these incidents.

You better pray so you don't become a prey.

That was a superb answer. Smart doctors know they are humans and they didn't create any human, so they pray to get it right.

God forbid anything bad happens, it's this same patient that will sue them.

Blue86:
What we have is :
1. A glorious church ( Ephesians 5:27 )
2 A Wise church ( Colossians 4:5 )
3 A ready church ( Matthew 25:10 )
4 A Holy Church ( Ephesians 5:27 )
5 A Church with the manifestations of the Holy Spirit ( 1 Corinthians 12:7 ).

Any person referring to themselves as a church baddie is just saying, I am a church goer who believes in Jesus but with the touch of nasty and crazy things in the world.

Such are not the glorious, wise, powerful, holy and ready bride to be presented to God finally.

Solid words.

Wise words.

Words to note.

“As a former governor, you cannot be stingy not to have employed a personal assistant who will carry your bag. You want to show you carry your bag. We don’t want such a stingy person as a president,” he said.

Who said Nigerians don't want that? Why can't you carry your own bag? Are you that old? Why can't PA do more strategic activities instead of carry bag? But what do I expect? It's Wike...

France feeling the heat. Now is the best time to adjust your policies and make it make sense for the young folks.

The double standard is real, and it's what's destroying the fabric of civil discourse. We all can do better.

So, how many people in Nigeria have actually sighted the airport before, talk less of going inside to travel?

Our politicians really need to learn to stop talking down on the citizens. But only if we hold them to account through our votes and consistent citizen action.