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It is baffling how people can be extremely insensitive to certain issues at very critical moments.

Someone once said, “The Nigerian government is a reflection of the average Nigerian.” And honestly, that statement keeps making more sense by the day.

The average Nigerian lacks basic empathy. The average Nigerian can be busy bantering someone who is deeply wounded—or even dead. The average Nigerian can merchandise another's tragic moment and turn it into entertainment and content. The average Nigerian can deliberately stain your image and pollute your personality all in the name of “cruise.” The average Nigerian can ignore the actual person involved and start dragging innocent family members into conversations they have no connection with.

What is even more ironic is that the same people will still come online to complain about the wickedness of the government and how the country is not working.

But let us tell ourselves the simple truth:

A society cannot continuously produce people who lack emotional intelligence, empathy, self-control, and basic humanity, and still expect leadership to magically appear from another planet.

Government is not completely disconnected from the people. Leaders emerge from the same society, mindset, culture, and environment we all contribute to daily.

If many of us were handed the same power and influence we constantly criticise, some would likely become even more insensitive, vindictive, and destructive than the very system they are protesting against.

This is why national transformation is not only political; it is also personal and cultural.

Empathy matters. Emotional intelligence matters. Basic human decency matters.

Because a society that constantly laughs at pain will eventually become comfortable creating pain.

5 Great Lessons From Arsenal’s Title Story

1. Delay is not denial.
It doesn’t matter how long it takes to reach your destination; what matters most is that you keep putting in the required effort and making the necessary progress. Great things often take time to build. The journey may be longer than expected, but consistent growth and persistence will eventually produce results.

2. Ignore the noise and stay focused.
It doesn’t matter what people have said about you. Despite the hate, criticism, mockery, and doubt from others, you can still become everything you desire to be if you remain disciplined enough to focus on your goals instead of distractions. People may watch for your downfall, but your responsibility is to keep moving forward.

3. Your past should not imprison your future.
It doesn’t matter what mistakes you made in the past or how embarrassing those failures may seem. Regret should not become a permanent residence. Learn from your errors, forgive yourself, and keep pursuing your purpose. The fact that you failed before does not mean you are destined to fail forever.

4. Trust your own process.
It doesn’t matter what others have achieved or how quickly they achieved it. Comparison destroys confidence. Stay committed to your own journey, believe in your vision, and trust the process even when results are not immediately visible. Your story does not have to look like someone else’s before it becomes successful.

5. Never underestimate small progress.
It doesn’t matter how difficult the journey seems or how impossible the goal appears. Never give up. Those little steps you take every day may seem insignificant, but consistency compounds over time. Progress is still progress, whether slow or fast. What matters is refusing to stop.

In the end, Arsenal’s story is a reminder that persistence, patience, discipline, and belief can eventually turn years of disappointment into a moment of victory.

I want to ask an honest question, especially to the ladies: why should a man effortlessly spend his hard-earned money on you, particularly in this difficult time?

Is it just because you are beautiful?
Is it because you are naturally designed to be desired by men?
Is it because you possess physical features that are attractive to men?
Why? Why? Why?

Let's be clear on something, if you would care to listen.

Beauty and those physical features are natural endowment. If they are natural, it means you were created with them—you didn’t work for them. It wasn’t your effort. It was God that put them there.

So, besides the features God gave you that you didn’t work for, what else do you have?

This is where the issue is. The new generation ladies are living off these natural features to get what they want from men. And they have become too comfortable, too confident, and even entitled that they leverage on these features to satisfy their selfish craving. And we all know the answer is money.

And I ask this question again: Besides those features God has given to you that you didn't work for, what else can you offer that will legitimise your access or in-road into a man's pocket?

Now, let’s be real—what have you actually given to yourself?
What have you added to yourself?
If we remove beauty and physical attraction from the equation, what is left of you?

What value do you carry?
What have you built?
What do you offer beyond what was naturally given to you?

Now, even broke ladies don’t want broke men. But they won’t admit they are broke. They are still very confident in their standards and demands—simply because they have breasts and backside.

The confidence a broke lady has to call a guy broke is because of what she carries on her chest and at her back.

So you now see ladies who are lazy, unproductive, irresponsible, and uncultured, yet they want a man who will spoil them with money. They feel they have the right to make any kind of requests or demands simply because they are women, and because there is already that mindset that women should be loved and taken care of by men.

But let me burst your bubble.

Men are becoming wiser. If a man is going to truly invest, love, and spend on a woman, it will be based on value, substance, and what she brings to his life—not just physical attraction. The ones that possess the features, but are useless are only for feasting—no strings attached. It is only prostitutes that rely only on the features they possess to get what they want.

Attraction can only get temporal attention.
Lasting value is not in what you have—it is in who you are.

If you're still attracted and responding to social media posts from random people saying things like “send your account number so we can credit you with ₦10,000,” or “we are giving out ₦100,000, just tell us what you will use it for,” or “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is giving grants to all business owners, click the link below to register,” then you are exactly part of the audience those scammers had in mind when creating such lies.

They know people like you—people who can easily be fooled—will patronise them by engaging their posts, especially when money, giveaways, or controversy is involved. That is why they create these false narratives—to exploit greed, desperation, ignorance, or emotional impulsiveness as engagement.

You will see thousands of people shamelessly dropping their account numbers under random posts, genuinely expecting some stranger online to credit them financially, without questioning the logic behind it, and applying basic reasoning as to why an unknown person would suddenly decide to distribute money online.

They fail to ask: Why would a random person suddenly decide to distribute huge sums of money online to strangers? What is the motive? What is the hidden agenda? Is it genuine generosity, or simply a desperate strategy for engagement, data theft, fraud, or manipulation?

They fail to understand that many of these people are simply chasing engagement, building traffic, gathering personal data, or pushing deception for selfish gain.

The same gullible people will click suspicious grant links from random pages, carefully fill out fake registration forms, and still expect money to somehow appear.

The same gullible people jump on every social media controversies, staged celebrity gossip, false political propaganda, and manipulative online trends. They rush to comment, insult, fight, and spread misinformation without proper verification.

If you consistently fall for these traps, then the issue is no longer simple ignorance—it becomes a deeper problem of poor discernment.

One mistake can be accidental. Two mistakes may be carelessness. But being repeatedly deceived or manipulated reveals a dangerous lack of wisdom, critical thinking, and digital awareness.

At that point, it is no longer a simple mistake—it becomes foolishness.

You need re-schooling. You need re-education. Because if, at this point, you still do not understand the level of deception and manipulation that exists on social media, then your sense of discernment is critically low.

Imagine someone asking for your BVN, OTP, or confidential banking details online, and you still foolishly provide them. Then when your account is hacked and emptied, you begin raining curses on the scammer. Meanwhile, your lack of wisdom made you an easy victim.

Social media is full of traps. Not every post is genuine. Not every giveaway is real. Not every viral opportunity is legitimate. Not every viral post deserves your engagement. Not every link should be clicked. Not everyone online means well.

This 2026, use your brain.

Think critically. Reason properly. Verify information. Control greed. Control desperation. Stop allowing cheap deception to expose your foolishness publicly.

Because in this digital age, foolishness is expensive.

Being deceived once may be unfortunate, but being consistently deceived is a sign that serious personal re-education is needed.

I know people can be vulnerable, but don’t make yourself an easy target.

I know some people are already foolish, but don’t make it too obvious.

God bless you.

I came across a video on Facebook about apprenticeship. The creator was supporting a post made by a young lady who argued that apprenticeship should strictly be about learning the skill one paid for. She sounded quite agitated that an apprentice—after paying—would still be asked to show up early to clean-up the shop or office before work begins. She concluded by saying that the person you paid is just your teacher, and not your “madam.” By madam, she meant that your trainer shouldn't give you any extra assignment beyond the skill you came to learn.

The creator, agreeing with her, took it further. He gave an illustration that if a child pays school fees, the child shouldn’t be made to sweep the classroom, because sweeping wasn't why the child paid school fees. According to him, teachers should be the ones doing the sweeping. He added that students shouldn’t be seen cutting grass or any form of manual labour, since that’s not why they paid school fees.

At first glance, this sounds reasonable. And truthfully, many people agree with this line of thinking—especially those who tend to accept ideas at face value without considering the full picture of how life actually works.

But here’s the deeper reality:

Apprenticeship is not just about acquiring a skill; it is about building the attitude that powers and sustains that skill.

Skill without attitude will die soon. It may give you visibility, but it won’t give you longevity. It’s like being gifted or even anointed but lacking character—you may shine for a while, but you won’t go far. Life is not just about what you have; it is about how far what you have can carry you or better still, how far you can go with what you have.

Those “extra” things like coming early, sweeping, running errands, paying attention beyond the core task—are not punishments. They are part of your formation. They build discipline, humility, responsibility, and structure. These are the very qualities that will determine whether your skill opens doors for you or closes them.

If you cannot humble yourself in the process, you may struggle with accessing certain opportunities in the future. If you believe paying to acquire a skill gives you the right to ignore structure, you are already losing the discipline required to sustain success. If you cannot submit to timing, routine, and order, your skill may never reach its full potential.

There is a difference between exploitation and training—but not everything that feels uncomfortable is exploitation. Some of it is refinement.

As one under apprenticeship or training, don’t just chase skill, also embrace the attitude that can carry it.

In a world where the media has become a powerful tool to easily express antagonistic tendencies or traits from a distance, people often don’t care whether what is said about you is true or not.

In some spaces, especially in the football world, they call it “banter.”

But one of the most troubling realities—particularly among those who claim to be learned—is how easily people fall into the trap of believing everything they see and hear in the media, and reacting instantly, without doing a proper verification. As long as the person involved is already in their “hate list,” due process is thrown out the window.

Hearsay is trusted so much so that careful examination or investigation of certain issues are discarded. And even when some attempt to verify, they often read their bias into everything, interpreting facts to suit their already-formed conclusions.

For the one they love, they defend, excuse, and protect—even in obvious errors.

For the one they dislike, they are eager to attack, magnify every flaw, and pounce on any single controversy around them whether it is true or false.

We know this game too well, and this is not discernment; it is prejudice dressed as intelligence.

This 2026, be guided. Verify before you react. Be fair in judgment. Don’t let bias replace truth. Let your conclusions be shaped by facts—not emotions, loyalty, or hatred.