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Musings of an unScripted Life Documentor | 4Christ4Real ✝️ Writer on Medium & Substack. Read | Write | Learn | Grow | Thrive 📚 https://linktr.ee/akinlade. ✒️ Excellence, shared & applied = miracles of better humans. 🌻
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Like any empire in its dotage, the US suffers from overconfidence, arrogance, strategic blindness and overboarding greed. Waging power without wisdom is deadly dangerous ©Chris Snow medium.com/@snowythefir... #UkraineWar

After Trump and Vance embarrassed America live on Television yesterday, I can say the real grownup and hero was President Zelensky. Sadly, the world had to witness how America is failing under this racist, corrupt, incompetent and money hungry Administration. I still stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

By the time Putin became president, he was well acquainted with the double standards of Western democracies, which preached liberal values at home but were very happy to help build illiberal regimes everywhere else. ©Anne Applebaum #readinglist

... while every nation certainly has some part to play in the global energy story, it is (in some instances) apparent that not all players can or should be accused of equal culpability. www.linkedin.com/pulse/energy... #goinggreen

Extroversion and introversion are not set in stone. The challenge lies in being true to oneself. Only then can you present your best to the world without compromising your authenticity. #BooksInsights open.substack.com/pub/muse2mus...

Farotimi’s ordeal exposed the weaponisation of the legal system against dissent. www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/20... #Nigeria #DeleFarotimi

This cycle of ethnic favoritism must end if Nigeria is to realize its full potential as a nation. To grow and thrive, we need leaders who can transcend the narrow confines of ethnocracy. www.farooqkperogi.com/2024/12/tinu... #Nigeria #tribalism

x.com/Optimistkit/... #DeleFarotimi #Nigeria

You don't have to be tough, and you don't have to be proud, but you do have to know when to stand up. ~ Johnny Cash ( paraphrased). Thank you Dele Farotimi #DeleFarotimi #Nigeria

#nigeriasky for the #nigeria communities. Please repost so others can see and follow each other 🇳🇬

@coakin.bsky.social The Economics Behind Nigeria's Midwife Exodus

Enticing in its appeal as the idea of a “lone-ranger genius” may be, the world wasn’t built by geniuses. medium.com/change-becom... #management #leadership #collaboration

According to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, the first step any group of oppressed people must take towards breaking free from their oppressors’ yoke is to start living by truth. There can be no deliverance for a people who celebrate the lies of their oppressors. #Nigeria medium.com/be-nigerian/...

#6. Cultivate the ability to detect and act on warning signs. medium.com/muse-2-muse/... #Lifelessons #Quiet #Growth #MediumWriters #bookreviews #Quiet

medium.com/muse-2-muse/... #nigeria #toughlove

I will never forget the day my granny hurt me to save me. medium.com/muse-2-muse/in…

I have witnessed several past governments contribute to the overall upliftment of the state. However, this is the first time I’ve seen the government’s quick intervention — touching people’s (me too) lives up close and personal. medium.com/muse-2-muse/... #nigeria #goodgovernance #civicengagement

Ours is a gamified system in which most of the actors get away with high handedness and brazen impunity. Not until we change and embrace truth and accountability, our nation will devolve into extinction. open.substack.com/pub/muse2mus... #nigeria #goodgovernance

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,906,919!

medium.com/muse-2-muse/... #Serenity

@coakin.bsky.social Nigerian Pastor Sells Miracle ATM Card, Stone, Fish, Soap & More!!

If we follow the mindsets some of our people have and nurture, #Nigerians will all land at the jungle of the stone ages. That's why you must have the courage to shine the light and speak the unblemished irrefutable truth they love to run away from.

Many hyper-religious Nigerians, cloak their bigotry and tribalism with religiosity. They herded themselves and their followers into silence, refraining from protesting against bad governance. Can a society filled with such individuals ever find redemption? medium.com/muse-2-muse/... #Nigeria

There are times when walking away from what you desperately need is the surest way of getting it. Learn when to apply the slingshot principle. This could be the solution you've been looking for. Now. akinlade.medium.com/4e5841ad1e26... #Nigeria #LifeHacks

Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. "What is soft is strong" ~ ©Albert Einstein

When a slave starts to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slaveowner is complete. ~ Mahatma Gandhi #Nigeria

Yes, my story was boringly mundane. But when I shared it (first) with my friend, her upbeat compliments encouraged me to share its lesson to the larger world. Read it here 👉 medium.com/midform/on-k... #LifeLessons #MediumWriters #Nigeria

The just man frowns, but never sneers. We can understand anger, but not malevolence. ~©Victor Hugo

Great news from Medium. This story may just be what you need to spur your online writing forward. medium.com/muse-2-muse/... #nigeria

In life, stand for nothing and fall for anything and if you don't have principles, then it's just a question of finding out what your price is. ©Unknown #principles

When a candle burns out, it burns out. Who cares? Still wanna keep your candle burning? #light

Helping those in adversities is kindness. Helping others despite your adversities? That's pure love.

Still daring to stand out? #unique

Tje road to hell is paved with exaggeration. ~ ©Mary Karr

If we are to find help in our struggles, we must help other strugglers despite our own struggles.

In life, stand for nothing and fall for anything and if you don’t have principles, then it’s just a question of finding out what your price is. ©Unknown #chatacter

: "A rat trap catches both the guilty and the innocent”. -- Igbo Proverb

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice, because while “one may protest against evil; it can be exposed and prevented by the use of force, against stupidity we are defenceless. medium.com/muse-2-muse/... #nigeria #DietricchBonhoeffer #civicsociety #leadership