Akeregun of Emure Ekiti. Pan African. Economics Enthusiast. Recycler . Real Estate & Fmr. Angel Investor. Music & Sports Business.
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I can’t find your Saudi tweet bur I was there haha @EkunweL
I don’t know if it’s doing damage or not but WTF this is wild haha
This ad is doing SERIOUS damage to Republicans.
Especially in Texas.
It’s our patriotic duty to share this everywhere. 🇺🇸
#MAGAInYourBathroom
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This whole 15 years ILR topic is a humiliation ritual, and it's actually sad to watch.
When all this is done, they will eventually start talking about denaturalisation. They event things like, "if you have ever gotten a parking ticket, you will be denaturalised"
Mayowa A. Balogun retweeted
The interesting thing about this app is that anyone can just post an obvious lie and it will fly. You will have people from thousands of miles away believing and retweeting this. Interesting times.
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This man did what people pay $100k+ to do in an MBA program, and what companies spend millions of $ on consultants for. He took his time to do case studies of countries with similar challenges that were on a path to a solution and showed us it was not peculiar or complex, but NO
Let's talk about Bangladesh and compare their GDP figures to Nigeria.
Bangladesh had a GDP of $195.1 billion in 2015, while Nigeria had a GDP of $493 billion in 2015.
Fast-forward to 2021, Bangladesh had grown its GDP by over 100% to $416 billion while Nigeria’s GDP had receded by close to 11% to $440 billion.
Peter Obi kept making an example of that country and some so-called educated people kept trivializing this example.
To be honest, if people who did such a thing are called complete idiots, is that description far-fetched?
Bangladesh is the perfect example for Nigeria, we have a similar population size and had similar economic growth potential some years ago.
To make it even worse, we were doing much better than them just 8 years ago, and look at them now, they have practically left us behind.
These are the issues.
128m views. He has not rested FOR ONE DAY since this tweet. Lost the election before it started, we’ll be back after said election
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Just for clarity and context, the NGN is still less valuable than it was when I made this tweet. The claim then was that the fair value was 650. I cant find the interview where Cardoso talked about the Naira fair value too
#Backlog #FairValue750 #FairValue650 #TenBillion #Incoming. #Dubai #Saudi #FDI #Pledges
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Compliments of the season. Eku 2024🚀
He understood all of this clearly then, so it was funny to see him come with that energy when he took the Saudi bag. PS: where is Callum Walsh?
Dana White talks boxing and Saudi Arabia.
Full Sportsnet Interview here:
sportsnet.ca/ufc/video/dana-…
Aha
Finding out Liquor was banned in Saudi because a drunk prince shot a brit is insane.
So what happened to Islamic rules before the 1950:
S?
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Where we are now is Russia sanctions have reduced, America wants its diesel. Zelensky has publicly stated he will accept a deal at the current line of contact
😭😭😭
This is the same Saudi that Trump told you people will invest $600b in the USA.
I really have to stop engaging in some conversations here. Many people don’t know what they’re talking about.
