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ENERGY🚀🚀🚀
This is a very inspiring video!!!
Fire!!🔥
Wo, @inecnigeria you will not ruin this for us. You work for us, you cannot keep working against us.
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One thing I would like to see more of is women being vocal about their contributions to the family. Not in a condescending or disrespectful way, but simply making sure their contributions are acknowledged. When you contribute to building a family, you or your husband should make it known.
This culture of protecting a husband’s dignity by keeping a wife’s contributions quiet is part of why people come online and act as though women contribute absolutely nothing to their families.
While he was putting most of his income into building a house, you were paying the children’s school fees, sending money to his family or yours, and keeping the household running. While he was saving up to buy a car, you were making sure the house was stocked with food. You were both building that family, just in different ways.
But because people only see the husband’s visible investments, they conveniently ignore the wife’s sacrifices. And when something happens to him, suddenly, everything is described as the product of his sweat, as though his wife was merely a spectator in the life they built together.
This is how society reduces women’s value to childbearing while overlooking their financial and non-financial contributions. It is also why widows and widowers are often treated so differently.
Women need to stop allowing their contributions to become invisible in the name of protecting their husbands’ image. A family is built by a team, and both people’s sacrifices deserve to be acknowledged
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I love the fact that female doctors are finally coming out to talk about the things we’ve been saying for years, things that some doctors have consistently dismissed.
Before I started having children, I suffered from dysmenorrhea. I remember complaining about the pain, and I was simply told to take Buscopan and that it would go away.
My dear, it didn’t go away.
I would faint whenever I had my period. There were times I couldn’t function at work, and I lost several jobs because of how severely my periods affected me.
Sometimes, when you explain these experiences to a male doctor, you feel like you’re not being taken seriously. Your pain is minimised, and you’re made to feel like it’s just normal menstrual discomfort.
That’s why I appreciate what these female doctors are doing on this timeline. They are educating people, validating women’s experiences and amplifying conversations that have been ignored for far too long.
Thank you for speaking up. Thank you for amplifying our voices. Women deserve to be heard, believed and properly attended to.
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A NEW RESPONSIBILITY, A NEW NIGERIA
I want to thank all of you, my very dear friends and family, for your warm support and congratulatory messages on my appointment as the Director, New Media, NDC National Campaign Council, and my subsequent inauguration yesterday.
For me, this appointment is a call to greater responsibility to the long-suffering Nigerians who are, this time, committed to changing our nation. It is also a call to intensify the ongoing battle against misinformation, disinformation and fake news being peddled by the lackeys of the colourless Tinubu-led administration against HE, Mr Peter Obi, and the Obi-Kwankwaso (OK) ticket.
I sincerely thank my friends across party lines who sent tons of messages, made numerous calls, and shared literally thousands of social media posts and messages across my various channels.
Let me assure you that my inability to respond to everyone individually is simply because it is practically impossible to do so, given the sheer volume of messages. Please be assured that I hold you all in the highest esteem and deeply appreciate your kindness, encouragement and support.
I dedicate this appointment to the pursuit of our collective aspiration: the election of His Excellency, Mr Peter Gregory Obi, CON, as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
I also use this opportunity to invite my dear friends across party lines to join me on this journey as we work vigorously towards building the Nigeria we all desire, a New Nigeria that is POssible.
With Obi and Kwankwaso, NIGERIA WILL BE OK!
Thank you all, and God bless you.
Idris Zekeri Junior
27 October 2026
Lokoja, Nigeria
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Also, being a healthcare provider doesn’t automatically make you the best person to understand a condition, na.
Knowing what a person is going through medically is not the same as knowing what it feels like to go through it.
You may know all the theory, but knowing the theory isn’t the same as understanding the experience. That’s where your knowledge is still limited.
For example, you may know that pregnancy can cause fatigue, but do you really understand what that fatigue feels like if you’ve never been pregnant? I’m not talking about the kind of tiredness you feel after running, shopping, or having a busy day. I’m talking about waking up tired even after sleeping, feeling completely drained by the simplest tasks, and sometimes struggling to do things that used to come so easily. It’s a different kind of exhaustion, one that can affect your body and mind in ways you may never fully grasp from reading a textbook or studying its symptoms.
You can explain the hormonal changes responsible for it, describe its symptoms, and even recommend ways to manage it. But until you experience it yourself, you can’t claim to know exactly how it feels. You understand the condition medically, but you don’t necessarily understand the lived experience.
“I have seen, read and managed many pregnancy cases” is not equal to experiencing one. Not every time chochocho from MBBS XY.
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Unpopular opinion: Re "Chronic MOs" -
While I personally advocate for japa and residency training While waiting for japa, I think we can be less condescending about those who choose a different path.
And as someone who was an MO for nearly 4years before residency, medical officers fill a very important community role in the current setup of the Nigerian health care system.
As long as one is updating knowledge, attending continuing medical education programmes, certifications and recertification of basic and advanced skills and reading cases and journals for new treatment regimens, they'd be fine in their roles.
Not everyone will/can deal with residency and it's idiosyncrasies and poor pay and they shouldn't be vilified for that.
Tone down on your personal biases and condescension please 🙏
Are we really going to keep quiet and let this become the norm? @nationalnma
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I get the intentionality behind wanting to build and maintain certain standards, but this is a genuinely shitty take, especially when you’re looking down on someone who is out here working with their hands and earning an honest living.
The fact that you have Esquire attached to your name doesn’t make someone else’s hustle beneath you. And some of you wouldn’t tolerate half the nonsense you spew on this app if the same energy were directed at you.
You’re entitled to choose your friends based on compatibility, shared interests, values, and even professional alignment. Nobody is obligated to be friends with anybody. But reducing someone’s worth as a potential friend to their profession, where they live, and how much financial value they can bring to your life is not having standards. It’s elitism dressed up as intentionality.
What exactly makes you think a woman who does nails, lashes, or makeup has nothing meaningful to contribute to a conversation? Is her life experience automatically less interesting because she doesn’t practise law or medicine? Does working from her parents’ house mean she has nothing going for her?
And the irony of calling someone a potential liability simply because of her occupation, before even getting to know her, is quite something. You’ve already decided she’s a financial burden based on absolutely nothing she has done to you.
You say friendship should be symbiotic, and I agree. But reciprocity is not the same as professional usefulness. Some friends will refer clients to you, some will exchange services with you, and some will simply be there to listen, laugh with you, challenge your thinking, or make life a little less lonely. Their value as human beings and friends is not determined by how conveniently they fit into your professional network.
Also, the assumption that a woman who does nails or lashes has nothing to gist about beyond difficult customers is honestly embarrassing. You can have a law degree and still be the most intellectually shallow person in the room. Education, profession, and income do not automatically translate to depth, character, or good company.
And let’s be honest: if your friendships are primarily about what people can do for you professionally, then what you’re describing sounds less like friendship and more like networking with the emotional benefits stripped away.
By all means, choose your circle intentionally. But please stop confusing having preferences with having superior human worth. You can decide someone isn’t your kind of person without turning their honest livelihood into a punchline.
There’s a difference between knowing your worth and believing other people are beneath you because they don’t have what you have. This take misses that difference entirely.
Yesterday a guy told me his sister wants to be friends with me, so I asked him what’s her profession and where she lives and he said she’s a beautician who works from their family house (ie) nail tech, lash tech and makeup artist who works from home.
I told him no, I can’t be friends with her and he asked why and I told him the simple truth; I don’t make friends with people who are more likely to become liabilities in my life, than be helpful to me.
What am I supposed to do with a lash tech who lives in her parents house? Before you know it she will start billing me for everything as a friend because “you be big lawyer nau”.
My friends are people who can be productive and we can both mutually benefit from each other.
Eg my doctor friends and I exchange legal and medical services for each other and recommendations.
My lawyer friends, I don’t even need to say it. We share briefs, share clients, help each other with cases etc.
My friends in different forces (NPF, Army, Airforce, Navy etc), we help each other professionally.
Heck even my chef friends, I don ever run free legal services and she paid by cooking a weeks worth of food for me to store in my fridge.
Friendship is meant to be symbiotic and unfortunately being friends with some girls in certain hustles is an invitation to parasitism not friendship.
Tf am I supposed to even do with her or gist with her?
At least my other friends we can gist hours together about work experiences, but what do we have to gist about? How a customer didn’t want red nails? Or how a customer under charged her for fixing lashes?🥲😭🤣🤦🏽♀️
Even if I need a beautician, I already have a bevy of trusted makeup artists, I don’t fix nails and my lashes are long naturally so all I need is mascara.
So what exactly do I need her for as a friend? Company? When I prefer being alone with my dogs than with people?
Sha her brother said I am mean but him sef none of his male friends are into such petty hustles but na me suppose befriend financial burden say na friend. LMAOOOO!
