Governance | Sustainability | Education
England, United Kingdom
Joined March 2013
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Before you play the game, study the winners. If you don’t want their life, don’t play their game.
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This is for the Uk Nigerian women who
thinks that shading Nigerian men on the internet provides gratification while they battle loneliness. Even international men no rate Una again😂😂😂; he ate with the insult.
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The opposition wants a shouting match. That is why a World Cup trophy has become a political brouhaha.
They are using disinformation to pull attention away from the things that decide whether this country works.
Nigerians, whatever our politics, should keep the conversation where it belongs. On productivity. On revenue. On Nigeria's advancement toward economic and structural transformation.
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Yesterday GRV said he’s going to abandon the 4th mainland bridge idea and replace them with 3 proposed parallel bridges.
Unfortunately his proposal is worse than what the Lagos state government currently has in place.
I don’t know if he did that ignorantly (which is an embarrassment to his MIT architectural degree) or he intentionally twisted the facts to deceive the gullible public who don’t have access to the plans of the state.
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Taraji P. Henson asked for $500,000 to play Brad Pitt's mother. She got $150,000 and says about $30,000 of it was left. The movie made $335 million.
In the video below, Gayle King asks if she's quitting acting. Taraji covers her face and cries before she can say a word. Then she does the math out loud.
In 2008 she was third on the call sheet for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, behind Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Her 2016 memoir says she'd been promised "somewhere in the mid six figures." At a 2023 SAG-AFTRA event she said she asked for $500,000 and was first offered $100,000.
It came up to $150,000 with a condition. She had to cover three months of New Orleans hotel bills herself. "Insult, meet injury," she wrote.
On The Real she did the sum. Half the $150,000 went to taxes. Her team took 30% of the full fee, $45,000. That left $30,000, and her son's school tuition that year was $30,000. "Literally, for five months, that's what I made."
The memoir puts her pay at less than 2% of what the studio paid the top name on that call sheet, Pitt.
She got an Oscar nomination for the role. Fifteen years later she said she almost walked away from The Color Purple over pay. That same month she told Gayle King: "Every time I do something and I break another glass ceiling, when it's time to renegotiate, I'm at the bottom again."
The case for the studio: Pitt sold the tickets, and she doesn't dispute his money. "They deserve to earn what they get," she said of Pitt and Blanchett.
Her side: "I too worked my ass off, and at the time I couldn't say no. I didn't have any power."
$335 million at the box office. An Oscar nomination. One year of school fees.
Every day, one star's real paycheck.
Was that Hollywood paying for box office power, or paying a Black woman less because it could?
Wonderful!
President Trump says his administration’s deportation policy was “too tough.” cbsn.ws/4k5CJfU
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"Tinubu have a wonderful vision more than Awolowo. I don't believe in people talking about Awolowo all the time. The Igbos are finding it difficult to get somebody to replace Zik. But I think the Yorubas should be fortunate and grateful that we have a great man like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu"
- Danjuma Maigari, KAI Marshal General
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A beautiful Remi Tinubu when she was younger. Featuring then President Obasanjo and Governor Tinubu.
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Their upbringing should be questioned .
Yoruba land is an epitome of tolerance.
I can’t even lie, it feels like an inbuilt feature. If you’re a Yoruba person and you’re fanatic about any religion, I’d question how you were raised.
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⚡️ LIGHTS, POWER & THE BIG QUESTIONS! 🔥
Why is electricity still a major struggle, and what really needs to change in Nigeria’s power sector? 🤔
@oluoduntan1 joined us on the Morayo Show to break down the realities of the electricity sector, the challenges and what the future of power in Nigeria could look like! ⚡️🇳🇬
This is one conversation you don't want to miss! 🧡
Watch the full episode on YouTube: Morayo Afolabi Brown.
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Nigeria claim the #U17WWC title. 🇳🇬🏆
There are different variations of these kind of messages in our everyday lives
For the doubters, here's the DM from our politically confused friend. 😂 If showcasing Nigeria's beauty is campaigning, then I plead guilty! I love this country, and I won't stop showing the world what we have and it doesn't matter who's the GCFR. 🇳🇬
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I feel so bad for Elsa Majimbo, I think some of the people who’d taken her in at the start of her shine have all turned their back. Whether or not the drug allegations are true, she genuinely needs to spend sometime paying attention to her mental health whether as an in or out patient.
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The audacity to hate on someone for trying to make life more comfortable and encouraging others to prioritise their productivity and comfort.
All while choosing to study abroad. At least be consistent. The Nigerian education system was here when you made that choice. How many people hated you for doing something that just made sense..Or does that mean you sold out on bad state of education in Nigeria?
I live and work in Nigeria. I contribute to the economy, from STEM education to financial technology, I pay my taxes, and have actively advocated and protested for a better Nigeria. I am here, doing my part to make this country better.
This is particularly disappointing coming from you, Rinu. I genuinely thought you were above the performative outrage merchants who ride waves of public discontent to build personal relevance.
Nigeria doesn't even rank among the world's top 50 solar energy users. Yet, many of the countries dominating that list have some of the most stable electricity grids in the world. People there still choose energy independence for convenience, resilience and productivity. Do you hate them too?
Perhaps the problem isn't really about concern for Nigerians. Perhaps outrage has simply become another tool for performing concern and harvesting public anger for personal relevance.
I have been consistent about this since 2016. I know how many people I have helped transition to solar, how many businesses I have advised at absolutely no cost, the number of free installations I have facilitated, and the countless hours of free consultations I have given.
Hate me all you want. I will continue to advocate for renewable energy as a practical alternative to an unreliable grid, while equally pushing for and supporting efforts towards a better national electricity grid. – at Ikeja, Nigeria
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🚨 NEW: The Government's "Black Sky" contingency plans for a national water or power blackout
- Around 100 BBC staff would be deployed to run an emergency RM radio studio stocked with enough food, water and fuel to keep it running for 3 days
- The BBC would broadcast pre-written Government scripts through the studio, including how to ration water, what to do if toilets stop working and which food to eat first (see scripts below)
- Radio masts would switch to diesel generators to keep broadcasts going for up to 72 hours without electricity
- BBC teams would use satellite phones to stay in contact, with agreed meeting points and backup arrangements if those phones stop working
- They would also report from emergency centres across the UK using satellite-equipped BBC vehicles to help keep information flowing to the public
- Emergency services would have alternative ways to communicate if mobile phone networks stopped working
- The Government is putting £70m towards aircraft that could restore mobile phone and internet coverage across the UK for over a week
