who i am now is nothing, a mere seed of potential, compared to who i’m going to be. Please pray for me when I'm gone🙏 #Ardentreader.#Bookswormslife#Teaaddict.
In the 70s, 80s and early 90s, you would see men in their 30s already married with at least three kids, a home and a car, living a decent middle-class life. They could afford so many things without much difficulty.
Today, you’ll see young people in their 30s—and even 40s—struggling as single men, unable to afford even the simplest things. Many can’t even afford to get married and start a family.
What is really happening?
While this is Dr. Joe speaking from experience as a private-sector technocrat who later joined governance, the reality is that many people cannot actually build or own homes in Nigeria at this age today. In fact, many are still struggling to find their footing even at 40. Even if one earns ₦500,000 monthly, it would take serious effort, sacrifices, and discipline to build or own a home.
In Nigeria, we have directors, professors, doctors, and other professionals who are part of the middle class retiring without owning a home. The situation is so heartrending that people can work for decades and still retire without a home of their own. In the past, people somehow managed to own at least a house.
Wallahi if you have the means to help someone get a good job, please do it. I know someone whose beneficiaries later raised over 100m for his medical bills when he had lost hope. Today, they are among the reasons he is alive. Help people you never know when it will come back to U
Not all broke people are lazy. Respect the hustler no matter their state.
Most times it’s just not yet their time. Also they can be wealthy in other areas too...
If they had won, you would have used a photograph of the captain, Harry Souttar. There is absolutely no well-intentioned reason for choosing this guy’s picture other than to make the Black player in a predominantly white team the face of the defeat and subject him to cyberbullying.
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai’s advice to young people
“I will advise every young person to relate with people with the long term in mind, what I find out is that these days people are too transactional, too short term in their thinking”
"When you come around me, know this: I'm not in competition with you or anyone else. I'm only focused on me, myself, and I—how to become the very best version of myself."
You can't develop people like software or machines—Real development is an inside job. People develop themselves through their own choices, effort, discipline, curiosity, and willingness to face discomfort.
@woye1 If the ruling party is confident about its performance over the past three years, why is it so afraid of the opposition? We all know what we’re doing.