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To reading at least one book every month for the rest of the year.
This January, I started with The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives.
Here's what I thought about the book by Lola Shoneyin: taliusdike.medium.com/i-uncoā¦
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This morning in public transport, driver is bragging about how much he made from couple trips to the stadium and back when Tinubu was in town last weekend. APC nigga in the bus then goes āNa why you suppose vote am be thisā. Driver say make he come down from the bus immediately.
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People are really living like animals in this country.
Inside this El-Nino, the least anyone can really ask for is stable electricity. In 2026!!!
Yet, na 15mins dem dey give us light here daily - for the past week, and God help you if you are dependent on this grid or you donāt have 100k to be spending on fuel weekly. Still, there is ongoing campaign for reelection!
From top to bottom, Presidency to Councilor, a pathologically useless lot - and the sad part is that most Nigerians genuinely donāt even know they deserve better.
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Nigerians often donāt care how much of an inconvenience their actions are to others, as long as they benefit from them.
Basic human decency should tell you to keep your church or event centreās speakers at a reasonable volume, especially when you operate in a residential area. But apparently, once youāre making money or your members are being spiritually fed, everyone elseās comfort becomes irrelevant.
And this is one of our biggest problems: a lack of consideration for others.
Be decent by default. Be considerate. The fact that something doesnāt inconvenience you doesnāt mean it isnāt a problem for someone else.
People who donāt understand what they claim to preach. Things like this blow my mind everytime.
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There are things I will never understand, no matter how hard I try.
Take airport regulations, for example.
Airport officials frown at passengers travelling with perfumes. If they find certain quantities in your luggage during security checks, they often confiscate them.
But the moment you pass through security and enter the departure lounge, you will find shops selling those same perfumes.
You can walk into one of those shops, buy an entire bag of perfumes, and proceed to board your flight with them.
So, essentially, you are telling passengers that certain perfumes cannot pass through airport security, but allowing those same products to be sold at the door of the plane. Does that make sense?
How about Airplane Mode and the insistence by some flight attendants that every mobile device must be completely switched off during takeoff and landing?
On my last flight from Lagos, a flight attendant approached me and asked me to switch off my phone.
I politely explained that my phone was already on Airplane Mode.
She insisted that I switch it off completely.
So, I asked her whether she understood the reason behind the instruction she was so determined to enforce.
From her response, I was heartbroken. She had no understanding of the theory behind the rule she was enforcing.
One of the reasons airlines restrict the use of electronic devices during certain phases of flight is to minimise potential interference from radio transmissions.
And what exactly is Airplane Mode designed to do?
Disable the phoneās cellular radio transmissions.
The rule to switch off mobile phones were made when phones had no Airplane Mode features. The Airplane Mode features were introduced to mobile devices to help passengers use their phones while flying. Even the name alone explains this.
On some flights, the announcement is straightforward: switch off your electronic devices or put them on Airplane Mode.
On many local flights in Nigeria, however, some flight attendants insist on complete shutdowns without being able to explain why Airplane Mode is supposedly insufficient.
And this is where my problem lies.
Not necessarily with the rules, but with our relationship with rules.
We have become so accustomed to receiving instructions, memorising them, repeating them and enforcing them that we sometimes forget the most important question:
WHY?
A person can spend ten years enforcing a rule without ever understanding the problem that rule was created to solve.
And when you ask questions, they interpret your curiosity as disobedience.
Perhaps one of our biggest problems as a society is that we have trained too many people to obey instructions and too few to understand them.
We have perfected the art of following procedures without questioning their purpose.
Sometimes, the people enforcing the rules are even more confused than the people being forced to obey them.
Another very useless practice is the checking of car trunks at hotels and some other public places. What are they always looking for? Just open and close to fulfill all righteousness. There are places in a car that dangerous weapons can be hidden.
-KAA
#kaa_truths
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Rebecca Ferguson finally explains why she left Mission Impossible
āI want to work. I donāt want to sit in a trailer for a year.ā
āI love her beyond words. I think sheās the most awesome, fantastic character.ā
āWhen the fourth film was going to be written, there was that much to be done with Elsa. She was becoming a team player.ā
āUnless youāre going to have a lot of screen time, thatās a lot of time sitting around waiting to film a huge movie that could take over a year.ā
āBy now, Iāve shot two seasons of Silo and two Dune movies.ā
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Every year we gather to have countless conversations about Nollywood and its challenges. One forum to another. Seminars, keynotes, investor sessions. The list goes on.
The more of these you attend, the more you notice a few things. One, a lot of people are winging it. Two, many investors don't understand our business model, because frankly it doesn't make sense to them. Three, some of us aren't sure if we really want change or just want to cash out so we can pay school fees.
We say distribution is our biggest problem. We have been saying it for years. So why haven't we fixed it?
It's one thing to name a problem. It's another thing to understand it and actually have solutions.
If the streaming era and this economy taught us anything, it's that a huge number of Nigerians can't afford to stream. Many can't afford the data. And most importantly, the audience that matters can't always relate to what's on the platform.
Nigeria makes up about 10.5% of Netflix viewers in Africa. South Africa makes up 73%.
But don't be fooled. Nigerians are watching. They're watching on Telegram, where it feels free and the files are small enough to download. The demand is there. What's missing is a price and a format that works for them.
Now look at cinema. Around 350 screens for over 200 million people. That's roughly one screen for every 600,000 Nigerians. Tickets average close to 6k and run up to 10k in Lagos. Last year we recorded 2.8 million admissions. That's about 1% of our population, and since many of those are repeat visits, the real number of people is even smaller.
Then there's the cost of making films. I've said it before: a staggering number of cinema releases don't break even. Only the greats do.
And then there's the hunger for the Western gaze. It's not a bad thing in itself. But we push so hard on "taking our stories global" and "see me, I can speak your language" that we forget to sell our stories to ourselves first. It's the Afrobeats conversation all over again.
A few things are glaring. Access to content is expensive. The alternatives are expensive too. So buying content is a challenge for most people.
We all know this. It's not rocket science.
It's been a terrible year for a lot of people in this industry. I'm not knocking the festivals. But we'll all go, party, network, then go home and drink garri. Then send that DM to our egbon producer saying we haven't worked in seven months. Or we took a loan to make a film, did a big premiere, and made 4 million in seven weeks.
We have to rework the entire model.
Access. Stop building only multiplexes. Invest in smaller units and put more screens in front of more people.
Price. Bring ticket prices down to what ordinary Nigerians can pay.
Content. Back smaller producers and bring down the cost of production.
Localise. Make films for specific regions, in the languages and stories people there live with.
Tiers. Group films by budget and audience, so small films build the cinema-going habit and the big films ride on those screens.
Long term. Give filmmakers incentives to build careers, not just one-off releases.
This is India's playbook. Cheap tickets, local-language films, screens where the culture already lives. It's why India sells hundreds of millions of tickets a year.
These are the conversations we should be having, and investors and stakeholders should be acting on them. If we truly value this industry
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Our bus stops are there for a reason, but drivers stop wherever they like and commuters board or alight anywhere. The result? Traffic, danger and total disorder. LASTMA and FRSC must do more than issue fines and target private cars. Educate drivers and commuters, enforce proper busstop use, and keep roads moving. And whatās the essence of NURTW sef? Just collect money from members and litter the roads? They canāt give their members proper orientation?
Give us light and stop majoring on the minor! TF?!
TCN REJECTS IKEDCāS ATTRIBUTION OF BAND A OUTAGES TO āGRID INSTABILITYā, REFERS PUBLIC TO NISOāS CLARIFICATION
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has noted the Public Notice published by Ikeja Electric (IKEDC) on 5th November 2026, in which several Band A feeder outages recorded on 3rd and 4th November 2026 were attributed to āgrid instabilityā and assigned to TCN as the responsible party.
TCN wishes to state clearly that this attribution is inaccurate and misleading, for the following reasons.
1. Root-cause determination is not the mandate of a DisCo.
By virtue of Section 67 of the Electricity Act 2023, the determination of the root cause of disturbances, shortfalls and interruptions on the national grid falls exclusively within the defined functions of the Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO). IKEDC, like every other market participant, has no authority to make such determinations, and NISO has made none attributing the outages in IKEDCās notice to TCN.
2. NISO has already stated the true position.
In its public clarification of 5 November 2026, NISO attributed the current decline in power generation to constraints in gas supply to thermal power stations and reduced output from hydroelectric stations due to lower reservoir inflows. NISO explained that this reduced available generation, which in turn reduced the energy allocated to DisCos and led to fewer hours of supply and increased load shedding across distribution networks. The impact on each DisCo varies with available generation and its allocation.
3. The facts are inconsistent with the āgrid instabilityā claim.
The shortfall in supply to IKEDCās customers is a consequence of reduced generation and the resulting allocation, not of any failure of TCNās transmission network. TCN can only transmit the energy made available to it and cannot transmit energy that is not generated.
4. The records for all feeders supplying IKEDC confirm the national picture NISO described. Of the interruptions recorded on 1 and 2 November, 68% were frequency-control load-shedding arising from low generation. A further 26% were due to IKEDCās non-compliance with load allocation by the National Control Centre (NCC) of NISO, or to faults and works on IKEDCās own network. The remaining 6% were TCN planned maintenance, switching or a line limitation. None of the recorded interruptions was a TCN equipment fault or trip.
The feeders named in IKEDCās notice do not support the claim either. Of the 46 interruptions recorded on the 33kV feeders named in the notice, 29 were frequency-control load-shedding arising from low generation, and 14 were recorded against IKEDC: 9 for non-compliance with load allocation and 5 for faults or trips on its own network. The other 3 were scheduled TCN maintenance on the OgbaāAlimosho line on 1 November. On 2 November, for example, the Rack Centre feeder was interrupted by a cable fault on IKEDCās network, which its own crew repaired. IKEDCās notice itself assigns several of these feeders, including MTN, Iju Water Works and Rack Centre, to IKEDC (āIEā) for 33kV faults.
IKEDCās position is therefore out of step with the true state of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry. Attributing shortfalls caused by generation constraints to TCN misinforms customers, undermines public confidence and obscures the real challenges that all stakeholders must work together to resolve.
TCN therefore urges IKEDC and all other DisCos to desist forthwith from making unfounded claims about the causes of supply shortfalls to their customers. DisCos should communicate based on verified information from NISO, the body responsible for the operation of the grid.
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Well first of all J. K. Rowling is rich. She went from struggling to get by on welfare to being richer than the queen (by some accounts). She could retire to an island in the tropics and live the rest of her life on a beach if she wanted. Sheās not that rich. Sheās beyond that rich.
Second of all she actually did continue to write. Not wanting to be bogged down by her existing fame, she wrote a number of books under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. By all accounts they were OK. But they werenāt Harry Potter books, fantasy books, or even young adult books. She wanted to try something completely new.
As to why she didnāt continue writing more books set in the Harry Potter universe? She grew sick of them.
Harry Potter was 7 books. 8 films. At least 2 supplemental books. And a play. And with the exception of the play, Rowling was involved in every part of that. They took up an entire decade of her life. And thatās a large commitment even before you get into dealing with all the fans. And Rowling had fans.
So she wrote the books. She told her story. And aside from the occasional Lucasian tweet that we all ignore, sheās done. And really, what more is there to tell?
The world of Harry Potter isnāt Middle Earth. Itās a mile wide and an inch deep. What world building exists is only there to serve the story. A lot of it is very shallow, because she only created as much world as Harry needed to interact with.
The wizarding world only exists to tell the story of Harry Potter growing up. It exists to tell the story of Harryās journey from an abused young boy living in his uncleās cupboard, to a confident young man with a successful career, loving wife, and son he dotes on. With a bit of magic to spice it up.
But that storyās done. And thereās really not much else you can do with that world.
You know what Iāve been dying to know? Whatever happened to that guy who wrote the textbook Harry didnāt read? What was his story?
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The man that built Lagos said if he fail to give you stable electricity you shouldn't vote him again.
Nigerians you have just two month to respond to that statement.
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A few months ago, my grammar was not particularly great, especially here on X.
Then, one beautiful morning, I received a call from Dr. Oby Ezekwesili ( @obyezeks ) that changed that aspect of my life forever.
She advised me to go back to Primary 3 and rebuild my foundation in English.
She said something profound: Once you fix the foundation, everything else begins to fall into place.
I took her advice wholeheartedly. I went back to study Primary 3 Grammar and Comprehension, and that simple decision transformed my command of English.
I remain deeply grateful to @obyezeks for that invaluable piece of advice. Its impact on my life has been remarkable.
But this experience taught me something much bigger about education.
Many of us are struggling today, not because we lack intelligence, but because we are building on weak educational foundations.
We keep trying to fix problems at the top when the real problems are at the bottom.
Sometimes, the greatest form of progress is having the humility to go back to the basics and rebuild properly.
You cannot build excellence on a foundation you have refused to repair.
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In Nigeria, a 26 year old woman, Mary Habila was found naked and dead on the floor of the Minister of works @DaveUmahi house.
No investigations happened and he said the President told him to ācarry on.ā
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One of the things I genuinely hate about living in Nigeria is how it appears that you must be somebody or be capable of visiting consequences on people before they behave themselves.
I used to judge people who flaunted their positions of advantage in people's faces. I mean lawyers who have their bibs hanging on their rear-view mirrors or doctors who hang their stethoscopes there. Now, I don't judge them anymore. If that's what they need to keep off nuisance, oppression and get a pass from needless bullshit, so be it.
If you're a sucker for doing things right, you will almost always be mad about how things are done in Nigeria.
A few weeks back, I had to rescue a poor rider from the fangs of predatory policemen at a traffic junction.
There was a faulty traffic light. It would turn green, then yellow, then red. It was very confusing. I had not been to that axis in a while, so I paused for a few seconds to observe it.
A rider, probably acting on the green light, crossed, & before I could say jack, about three policemen jumped out from a corner where they had been hiding. Apparently, they knew about the fault & were banking on it.
When I crossed, I had to park. Two of them were already dragging the man's bike, with him still on it, & he kept pleading that the traffic light had given him the go-ahead. I approached them:
"Why are you people operating like devil? You should maintain law & order. You cannot establish a career out of the chaos you're creating here."
It was one of those days when I had gone to court. "Wetin be your own? Because you be lawyer, you think say you fit harass us?" I made sure that he was released.
The traffic light was faulty. They were not out to control traffic and guide people. They were out to extort people who would be misled by the confusion created by the faulty machine.
Sometime last year, a family friend who lives abroad reached out to me. She had ordered a particular dress from a vendor and paid for it. Someone was supposed to pick it up on her behalf two days later, but the person could not get to the vendor until four days later.
When the person got there, the dress had been sold. A dress that should ordinarily not be for sale anymore because it had already been paid for.
My family friend called, but her calls were rudely taken. "You have to wait until we restock. If you want a refund, it will take 14 days."
The lady's attitude was so irritating that my ordinarily gentle aunty called me. "The dress is ā¦65,000. I will spend millions to take this matter to any level allowed by law."
I asked her to take things easy. I took the lady's number and called her.
I was polite when I called. I didn't talk about the law or being a lawyer. In fact, I pleaded with her to make the refund and let sleeping dogs lie.
"We don't do refund before 14 days, & if she thinks she can do anything to me, she will know that I am the daughter of XYZ, a police boss in Ondo."
My friends know that I don't like such comments. They arouse my interest to no mean degree & make me want to see exactly how much you and your father can take & give.
I asked a colleague to prepare a formal letter of demand. It was sent to her via WhatsApp.
The following morning, my phone was being blasted with calls as early as 7 a.m.
When I picked up, it was a soft-spoken man. He introduced himself as the father of the belligerent lady. Oh! Apples do fall far from the tree when such trees are domiciled on a mountain.
The man was reasonable. Indeed, he was a high-ranking police officer, but he acknowledged that the lady was wrong.
"That trait isn't from me. She picked it from her mother," he said.
He added that he would instruct her to make a refund and apologise.
The refund was made. She called me and asked me to extend her apologies to my client, who insisted that anything she wanted to say should be directed to her lawyers.
"I like you. Can you be my lawyer?"
I bounced the call.
I no do lawyer to mental people o.
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