Creators Should Think Beyond Followers

A large following is useful, but it isn't the only measure of a creator.

Build trust.

Build an active community.

Create useful content.

Give people reasons to come back.

An engaged audience can create opportunities.

I don't need 10. These 2 are okay for me. Quality over quantity. We just keep exchanging value 👍🏼🙏🏼.

If you are a young guy trying to build his life and you have a girl that's always asking you for 2k everyday, saying she has not eaten, run ooo, run for your life.

Me that ran I don't have sense abi? No worry, you go cry!! 🤔

Because we are not really independent! Oh you ask why?

Until we build the best hospitals we travel abroad for in this country, we are not independent.

Until we become a producing, or a manufacturing country, we are not independent.

Until we reduce importation of generators and Solar devices and stabilize electricity, we are not independent.

Until we stop taking loans from foreign countries here and there like a hopeless and confused fellow, we are not independent. With these few points of mine, I hope I have been able to convince you, not to confuse you that Mr Dickson should be called in full🤣😃 if you call am halfway na something else 😀🤣 you gerit?😃 if you don't gerit, forgerit.

A New Orleans music producer was arrested on a count of intentional exposure to HIV after he allegedly infected a bounce artist whose albums he had produced.

According to NOLA, Mykel “MykelOnTheBeat” Cook, 33, was booked into Orleans Justice Center on Sept. 18, court records show. Initially, he was held without bond pending a Gwen’s Law hearing. Magistrate Commissioner Joyce Sallah set Cook’s bond at $250,000 and issued a domestic protective order for the victim.

Cook has since been released on bond. He also has domestic violence convictions dating back to 2021 and 2023 in St. Charles and Jefferson parishes, respectively.

The artist, Jayvonda Bazile, 38, who performs as BOG Vonnie, asked NOLA.com to identify her publicly. She told the outlet that she decided to speak because she wants people in the music community to take HIV testing seriously and believes others could potentially have been exposed.

According to the arrest affidavit, Cook allegedly met Bazile in 2018 and “agreed to assist her in pursuing a music career and later assumed the role of her music producer.”

Their professional relationship eventually became personal, Bazile said.

“We became friends, and we weren’t in a relationship, but we were casually hooking up, or hanging out, doing music. Doing work to get us in a better spot in life,” Bazile told the outlet.

Today is a good day to celebrate the people, ideas and communities that keep moving Nigeria forward.

From every creator to every small business, student and everyday user — your voice matters.

May we keep building with courage, honesty and better opportunities for one another.

What does a better Nigeria look like to you?

#NigeriaAt66 #IndependenceDay #DigitalCommunity

It's only during school holidays that I rested. Even at that, thinking about how you will eat and money was still stressful 🤧💔. Thinking how money will last till the end of the month.

Anytime money finishes I will be waiting for month end so that they'll pay allowee. The month will become so slow, chi 🥲💔. One month will feel like eternity 🤣🤣🤣.

And to worsen matters government will not pay on time, they'll delay again. Before the money is paid my eye don red 🤣🤣. And the money will finish quick again 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

But when I came back home last month time flew so fast. There is food, I don't worry too much about money again. Most times I don't even know what day it is. Yes, everyday feels like Saturday.

So when you're having a good time, time flies so fast, but when you're suffering time moves so slowly 🥲. But sha the suffering always ends.

Play me Holiday by Rema 🤔.

President Tinubu has likened the state of Nigeria in 2023 to a cancer patient facing difficult but life-saving treatment.

While delivering his speech to mark Nigeria’s 66th Independence Day today October 1, the president said

‘’For too long, the promise of Nigeria was undermined by choices that postponed difficult decisions and allowed deep economic distortions to grow.

By 2023, poverty was rising, and hope was nearly gone. The country’s situation was darker than ever. We had no choice but to act.

Nigeria was like a sick patient who receives the terrible news that he has cancer. His doctor explains that the treatment will be difficult and painful, but that it offers a strong prospect of recovery. The patient has a choice. He can begin treatment, endure its discomfort and fight the disease. Or he can ask only for morphine, dull the pain and leave the cancer to spread.

For too long, Nigeria’s leaders chose morphine while praying for a miracle that never came.

They focused on symptoms while allowing the disease to take hold deep within the fabric of our society. We spent enormous sums sustaining inefficient arrangements that were never intended to last. We hid from difficult truths and passed the consequences from one generation to the next.

When this Administration assumed office, we resolved to do things differently. We chose to excise the cancer. The reforms that followed were difficult. The side effects were real. Yet, we must never confuse the medicine with the disease.

Our reforms did not create the weaknesses in our economy. They confronted them. Now, as certain influential but regressive voices would have us abandon the treatment and return ourselves to the abuse of addictive subsidies, we must resist their siren song. We must remember why we began this journey and how far we have already come.

The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, has reportedly approved a petition by the family of late singer, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, seeking a fresh and comprehensive investigation into the circumstances surrounding his de@th.

The family disclosed this through its lawyer, Oladayo Ogungbe, in a statement dated September 29, 2026, clarifying that the police re-investigation was ongoing despite the Federal High Court, Abuja, recently dismissing a suit.

According to Ogungbe, the Aloba family submitted the petition to the IGP on April 14, 2026, and it was received at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, on May 7.

The petition, he said, raised concerns over inconsistencies in the previous investigative process and called for a comprehensive forensic reconstruction of the circumstances surrounding Mohbad’s de@th.

The lawyer said the petition was subsequently approved by the IGP and forwarded to the Lagos State Police Command for immediate action.

He added that the family was later informed that the petition had been assigned to officers of the Special Enquiry Bureau for further investigation.

“The family’s representative has since been invited and has engaged with the new team of investigators assigned to the matter. The family has continued to follow up with the investigators and remained engaged with the new investigative process,” Ogungbe stated

The clarification followed the dismissal, on September 25, 2026, of Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/363/2026 by the Federal High Court, Abuja.

Ogungbe stressed that the suit was separate from the family’s petition to the police and was neither instituted by the Aloba family nor with its authority or consent.

“The Aloba Family therefore does not wish the public to conflate the dismissal of that suit with the separate investigative process already commenced pursuant to the Family’s petition to the Inspector-General of Police,” the statement noted.

The family urged the police to conduct the investigation with diligence, independence and professionalism while examining all relevant persons and circumstances.