Words on The Scale✍ ⚖️

Nigeria’s youth stand at a historic crossroads. Across the world, nations are moving forward innovating, building strong institutions, growing their economies, and beautifying their environments while we, the so-called “Giant of Africa,” continue to struggle with problems that should have been solved decades ago. The truth is painful but necessary: if we do not wake up now, the future will pass us by. Look around the African continent. Countries like Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, South Africa, and Rwanda are making visible progress. Their infrastructure is improving, their cities are cleaner, their economies are becoming more diversified, and their governments are increasingly driven by clear plans and measurable goals. These nations are not perfect, but they are moving forward with purpose. Meanwhile, Nigeria blessed with abundant natural resources, a large population, and some of the brightest minds on the continent continues to lag behind. The problem is not a lack of potentia...

The worst way to live is to pour love into everyone else while never learning how to receive it. I’ve been thinking about this a lot. From the moment we are born, love is not a luxury it is a need. Before we learn strength, independence, or pride, we learn longing. We grow into our bodies shaped by family, experiences, mistakes, survival, and circumstance, but one thing never changes: the desire to be loved, seen, and held emotionally. Somewhere along the way, many of us get hurt. Sometimes deeply. Sometimes repeatedly. We are betrayed by people we trusted, disappointed by those we expected to protect us, abandoned by those who promised to stay. Slowly, quietly, we learn to guard our hearts. We call it maturity. We call it strength. We convince ourselves we no longer need what once broke us. But trauma does not erase human needs. No matter how strong I become, no matter how mature I appear, the desire to be loved never disappears. It only hides. We bury it under achievements, dist...