There was a time I joined a bank and, on my very first day of onboarding, I received an offer from another bank I had been waiting to hear from.
By then, I was already on the process of onboarding, collected my staff ID card, and received the welcome pack for new hires.
After returning home, I thought it through, then made my decision. The next day, I sent a mail and also sent back the welcome package through dispatch and proceeded with the new opportunity.
This till date remains the most difficult career decisions I have had to make.
My husband has a wedding for today, so he told me he would be sleeping over with the guys yesterday. The kids and I had dinner and we went to sleep. My phone rang by 10:30pm and my husband said he was at the gate. I went to open the gate and the minute he entered, first thing he said was “your husband is hungry”
Husband man, no be one place you from dey come, una no chop? Then he said the guys only brought drinks and no foods at all, so he told them he wanted to take something inside his car and Bobo started running back home 🤣🤣
I told him he was going to starve because the plan was that he wasn’t coming home yesterday. He started begging me, only to check the dinning table and he saw the food I dished for him. Then he said “you don see me finish you this girl” 🤣🤣🤣
Apparently I knew he would return home, person wey I sabi say he no go fit sleep outside. I no go know my husband? 🤣🤣🤣
@tookmetorazarus@asemota To be Frank, I don't have an answer.
But when she finally chose you, she'll lay down her guards. Then you'll see her babish side in it's full glory and fall in love all over, again. Till then...
Africans don’t hate us South Africans as a whole. They hate xenophobia and South Africans who are xenophobic. Xenophobia is hate crime, you should hate it too.
A friend of mine elder sister was a receptionist at one of the biggest hotels in Ikeja, she met a guy who told her that after marriage she’s going to resign from her job, she told the owner of the hotel cos she’s one of the longest serving employee of the hotel but the boss told her to think about it well.
She later came back and said she’s quitting and the boss told her he can talk to her husband to be but dude refused, the boss even offered her 2m naira has wedding bonus for her to sty but her mind was already made up, few months into the marriage a lot start unraveling, she couldn’t get a new job, her husband was showing her lots of shit at home.
The bottleneck was her husband mocking her unemployment states and mocking her anytime she asked for upkeep for the home, she later went with her family to beg her boss but he refused but after Days and months of begging he finally agreed but she wouldn’t be working in the hotel at ikeja but the one in a suburb of Lagos state with an improved salary more than what she was receiving before, that’s how she ended the marriage.
Today she still works in that hotel and married with kids, she met the man in the new area where she was posted to, never leave your job because of a man or marriage.
Usually—outside Nigeria, at least—people don’t just hit big money. They grow into it. Along the way, they become part of communities, build relationships, and acquire forms of social capital that secure them in many respects.
This is why I don’t pay much attention to advice that says, “Here’s what to do with a million dollars.” I’m not going to wake up with a million dollars. I’m going to make a few thousand, then tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, and eventually a million.
And in the course of that process, I’ll encounter circumstances that sharpen my judgment and develop my ability to make informed decisions.
A few months ago, Don Anele Marvelous Munachimso from Diamond Special College, Owerri, emerged as the winner of the Senior Category of the 2026 South East Maths Olympiad.
Today, we’re celebrating even more incredible news.
Don scored 98 in IGCSE Chemistry which is the highest score in Nigeria. He also earned 6 A*s in the Cambridge IGCSE examinations and has secured a $100,000 university scholarship in Canada.
In just 12 days, we’ll be heading to Rome together to for International STEM Olympiad and compete for gold.
Watching young people like this grow and achieve great things reminds me why we started this journey in the first place.
Congratulations, Don. The future is bright, and we’re all rooting for you. ❤️
I cannot overemphasise this! It’s books. It’s not podcasts, not movies, but BOOKS!
You HAVE TO read! It engages your brain in a unique way. Your imagination comes alive, your curiosity is inspired, and your use of grammar is sharpened! You MUST read!!
Yesterday, I had an interesting conversation with a very successful friend who runs her own fund. She is a gorgeous Nigerian in her early 40s, and she told me that she had given up on marriage because she sees it as an oppressive institution. I decided to probe further to learn.