solid lessons you need to learn about finance early as a man:
1. assets without liquidity are a death trap in emergencies.
2. keep part of your capital liquid so you can take advantage of sudden, unforeseen opportunities.
3. projects that lock up all your money can cost you bigger opportunities.
4. start what you can finish; always keep emergency funds outside major projects.
NB: many uncompleted buildings you see today are a result of financial indiscipline so train and discipline your financial mindset before starting your first project.
for instance, if a contractor quotes you $100k for a building project, make sure you have x3-5 that amount liquid and sitting pretty elsewhere. many men rush into projects without proper orientation, strategic planning or financial guidance. that’s why you see so many abandoned buildings or completed ones that sit empty or even completed ones that look lifeless.
if you can’t afford to buy that house three times over, then you truly can’t afford it. this principle applies to every major asset or project not just real estate.
don’t be ignorant and pray for miracles. learn something 👍
The video clearly says “Igbo” and you in all of your ignorance go on to type Ibo.
It not only reeks of lack of respect but also dissonance.
Also…Everyone is a Nigerian…you all should stop fooling yourselves in the name of territories and host.
I’m from Edo State and as a Nigerian I can live, work, vote and contest elections anywhere in Nigeria.
We need to grow past these primitive ideas…after wards we will go back and shout South Africans are terrible people when we are doing the exact same thing here.
Watched this & my heart sank. Peep his face and see the fear, desperation slow but sure realization of the inevitable.
13 years. Gone down the drain.
Yes it’s fuck South Africans but even more so it’s fuck our useless leaders. Na dem cause all this disrespect & struggle chai
Withhold all NATO funding until we have Nuremberg style trials for all involved in the UK Grooming Gang Scandal.
America can and should flex its muscle on this. The rape of 250,000 innocent young White girls is more of a justification than any war in the last 100 years.
St. Catherine's Monastery Library in Egypt is the oldest library in the world that's been continuously running.
It was built back in the 500s under Emperor Justinian, right at the foot of Mount Sinai, a remote location that's really not easily accessible.
That isolation is exactly what saved it.
While wars, fires, and invasions wiped out pretty much every other big ancient library, this one survived.
The monks were just trying to keep their community going, so they copied books for daily prayers, for teaching the younger monks, and for keeping records.
Year after year, those practical copies piled up.
What started as everyday stuff slowly turned into this incredible collection: early Christian writings, ancient Greek texts, medical books, and languages almost nobody speaks anymore.
One of the craziest moments came in the 1970s when the monks were doing some repairs and found a hidden room stuffed with forgotten manuscripts. They call them the New Finds. A bunch of them were palimpsests, where someone had scraped off the original writing and reused the pages.
Thanks to modern imaging tech, we've been able to read what was underneath: lost texts in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, even some early Christian hymns nobody knew still existed.
It really felt like cracking open a time capsule inside another time capsule.
The place is also home to the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the oldest complete Bibles we have, from the 4th century. Not a copy. The real thing. Finding it basically changed how scholars understood early Christianity.
Think about it: this library has kept going through the rise and fall of empires, through Crusaders marching by, Ottoman rule, world wars, and modern politics.
Just a handful of monks stubbornly keeping the lights on for nearly 1,500 years.
That's why it's special.
(Photo of the Saint Catherine's Monastery, looking down from Mount Sinai by Berthold Werner - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://t.co/KnRxSzx6jD)
The man who saved Malta in 1565 had spent a year chained to the oar of a Turkish galley as a slave.
He came back and banned gambling, dueling and whoring among his knights.
Discipline, you'll learn from this story, is just suffering you choose before it chooses you.👇
🔹La Valette had run his Order for years the way a man does when he knows what a year in chains takes out of you. The gambling, the dueling and the whoring were gone. He drilled his knights hard and burned off the soft years, long before any Turkish sail showed.
🔹He came home, and somehow he wasn't broken but more determined. Valette decided to give the rest of his life to the Order, climbing it rank by rank for decades, until in 1557 the knights elected him Grand Master. The man who had once bent over an enemy oar now held command of them all.
🔹Suleyman, the Ottoman Sultan, decided he wanted the Hospitallers (now branded the Knights of Malta) wiped out and sent a fleet to scrape the island clean. It came into view off Malta on 19 May. Four to one against, at the very least. Spain had promised help and sent next to nothing. Europe watched, and Malta stood there alone.
🔹They went for Fort Saint Elmo first, the fort at the harbor mouth. La Valette knew it could not be held. He told the men inside to hold anyway, whatever it cost, and buy the island a few more days. He was spending their lives on purpose. That was what the discipline was for.
🔹And they did. The Turks had reckoned on three days. The fort held for a month. By the end not a man inside was unwounded, and two who could no longer stand had themselves carried up to the ramparts in chairs, to die facing the enemy.
🔹The walls held all summer. Mustafa threw everything at the Birgu and Senglea and nothing gave. His seaborne assault tore itself apart on stakes sunk into the harbor bed.
🔹By September the Order had lost five thousand men, 219 of them knights. Barely six hundred could still stand.
🔹Then, at dawn on 7 September, the relief slipped into Mellieha Bay. Sixteen thousand men, carried over from Sicily in the dark without a sound. And here is the strange part. It was the bigger army that cracked. The Ottomans turned and ran for their ships.
🔹Mustafa had the numbers and could not make his men hold. They came to deal out suffering and never learned to take it.
Valette had made his men strangers to comfort years before the war came. Discipline is suffering you choose before it chooses you.
It earned six hundred broken men their survival and Europe its survival.
I like women who like me, want to be with me, call me, text me, and take me out. All that nonchalant, broke, wicked, and ‘main character’ aesthetic doesn’t move me.
There’s a scene in Breaking Bad where Walter White’s wife realizes he’s made $7.5 million and says:
“There’s no way we can wash this money through a car wash. No car wash in the world makes that kind of money in a year.”
That line hit me. Because it exposes a truth most people ignore: How much you earn is capped by the kind of business you run.
You can work harder, stay longer, even get smarter - but you’ll never make more than what your business model is designed to carry.
In 1966, All African counties boycotted the World Cup to protest apartheid and how black South Africans were marginalized
In 2026, All African countries supported Mexico against South Africa in protest against their xenophobia
Live long enough