Sir Collins, MAAT.

MAAT-qualified finance pro | Pursuing ACCA | Ajegunle roots | Poverty reduction & equity advocate | Geopolitics enthusiast | Manchester United |

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

Sexual Market Value, Divorce, and the Nigerian Couple: A Market Analysis

The SMV Framework
Sir Dickson's thesis on Sexual Market Value (SMV) posits that human sexuality operates like any other commodity market, labour, capital, or goods, where exchange occurs based on perceived value, and that perceived value is heavily indexed to age. Specifically, a woman's sexual desirability peaks in youth and declines with age, while a man's desirability peaks later, rising in proportion to his financial and social status. This asymmetry in the timing of peak value between the sexes is the engine that drives the market's dysfunction.
This is not mere theory, the evidence is visible in the growing population of unmarried Nigerian women aged 30 - 40, both in Nigeria and in the UK diaspora, a demographic reality that signals a structural breakdown in how matches are being made and sustained.

The Market's Two Transactions: Lease vs. Purchase
I expound on Sir Dickson's framework to distinguish two modes of participation in this market:
A. Leasing: short-term arrangements (flings, situationships, casual relationships) where value is exchanged temporarily, with no expectation of permanence.

B. Outright Purchase: marriage, where a man makes a permanent, legally binding acquisition, historically formalised through bride price and the biblical injunction that "a man shall leave his father's house" to seek a wife.
The critical insight, and the one that connects directly to divorce, is that these two transactions are governed by entirely different motivations, yet, they draw from the same pool of participants, and crucially, they do not happen simultaneously for men and women.

The Timing Mismatch: The Root of Divorce
Consider the archetypical case: a 33-year-old Nigerian man marrying a 32-year-old Nigerian woman.

Her journey through the market:
In her early-to-mid twenties, she was at peak SMV. Older, financially established men - "sugar daddies" and "big bros" - leased her commodity. These men, having already climbed the economic ladder, concealed the struggle behind gifts: phones, chocolates, trips, and attention. To her young mind, this generosity was maturity. She had no reference point for the years of grinding that produced it. What she absorbed instead was a standard - a baseline expectation of what men do, what men provide, and how men treat women. By 32, she carries multiple body counts, a finely tuned sense of entitlement, and a definition of male maturity that was written by men who were 15–20 years ahead of where her future husband currently stands.

His journey through the market:
Culture and biology conspired against his early participation. He was socialised to understand that access to the market is conditional on financial capacity, that is, without money, he would receive, at best, reluctant and loveless engagement (pity fuck). So he delayed, focused on building, and by 33, he is stable enough to participate meaningfully. But rather than leasing, which would have been the rational market entry point, he goes directly to purchase. He marries.

The collision:
Inside the marriage, she unconsciously benchmarks him against the men of her leasing years. He is found wanting, not because he is inadequate in absolute terms, but because he is being compared to men who were decades ahead of him when she knew them. She reads his stage of development as immaturity. He reads her expectations as unreasonable. When he raises the question of shared financial responsibility in the home, she meets it with contempt, because the men in her formative years never asked her to split anything.
She married to exit the market, He married believing he had finally entered it. Both are disappointed, and the divorce follows.

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[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

This is why a curse on anyone living in Canada, US, UK etc and be supporting another 4 years of the failure in Aso Rock, especially in the name of "He is a Yoruba Man"....

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

Germany-based Nigerian man breaks down in tears upon arriving in Nigeria after seeing the level of suffering many Nigerians are going through.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

I need you to understand how grossly wicked a person is, if they have experienced life abroad in any capacity (lived abroad, are living abroad or have visited abroad) and still support a terrible government back home.

They are the very spawn of Satan. You can't be enjoying good governance and dont want same for others.

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

A mother, despite paying over 30 million for her son's health bill in Lagos, Nigeria, unfortunately lost him, but somehow "governance does not matter...

APC is the Devil's curse on Nigeria

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

Go and use your brain to buy fish, if this is how you think.

[olamide @Abdulra65811279]

@CollinsofYork Stop being clever by half, they couldn't maintain the rooms today because student aren't paying what they ought to pay. (Thats one big part of the reason. Up to 65%)

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

Oba of Lagos that a governor can command to keep quiet?

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Two immutable things:

1. Peter Obi will win Lagos
2. One day our dear son-in-law Seyi Tinubu will be Governor.

Lagos is for everybody! Igbos contributed to the building of Lagos and as such own a stake in Lagos.

See your mouth like migrant.

[Àníkẹ́ @aniky_bee]

Goan become Ọba of Lagos now 😂

A migrant allowed to stay for too long.

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

@_amaraxxhi_ I am friends with millionaires in Nigeria and I know all of them to be introverts...

You were saying?

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

This brain of yours though...

Billionaires who are introverts:

Warren Buffet
Larry Page
Elon Musk
Bill Gates

Infact 98% of the world richest people are introverts.

A lot of millionaires even in Nigeria are introverts.

[Amarachi @_amaraxxhi_]

unpopular opinion.....
you're not an introvert ,you're just poor .

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

Nigerians sha..

A bottle of Hennessy is at most £40, and a pack of cranberry juice or a bottle of coca cola is probably £3...

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[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

"Fuck good governance, we don't need it"

[KT @Kahytie]

Lagos people why are you guys not crashing out yet?????

Do all of you have solar inverters or what alternative have you guys been using?

It’s been days of no light and the tl is not yet flooded.

[Mesoade @Horiawlar]

I’m proudly “Yoruba but”.

Yoruba Women and children have been kidnapped/killed in Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo, Kogin and even Kwara, all while a “Yoruba” president is ruling the country.

If you were really pro-Yoruba, you would care about these lives and explore any other avenue of solutions that would halt the senseless killings of our people, even if it means supporting another tribe.

Lastly, GRV is a Yoruba man with a Yoruba dad. He understands Yoruba even though he cannot speak it fluently. He is MIT-trained. Again MIT. He didn’t denigrate the Yoruba language, just that at this point, there are far more pressing issues.

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

Infact, it is greener than greener pastures compared to that jungle called Nigeria..

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3 jobs ok - but 3 jobs done in peace without kidnapping, 3 jobs done while driving a Mercedes Benz on good roads, 3 jobs done and coming home to electricity, hot water and ability to watch football on TV.
3 jobs done and I can afford a holiday in Paris, Maldives, Macedonia, Albania, Edinburgh etc.
3 jobs done, and I can secure the future of my children. 3 jobs done and I have access to quality healthcare, free birth for my children, 30 hours of free nursery when they clocked 3 and many more.
3 jobs done, but I can vote and my vote will count, even call out my MP if he or she is not performing.

To hell with your one job in Nigeria. 🤣

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

Infact, it is greener than greener pastures compared to that jungle called Nigeria..

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.

3 jobs ok - but 3 jobs done in peace without kidnapping, 3 jobs done while driving a Mercedes Benz on good roads, 3 jobs done and coming home to electricity, hot water and ability to watch football on TV.
3 jobs done and I can afford a holiday in Paris, Maldives, Macedonia, Albania, Edinburgh etc.
3 jobs done, and I can secure the future of my children. 3 jobs done and I have access to quality healthcare, free birth for my children, 30 hours of free nursery when they clocked 3 and many more.
3 jobs done, but I can vote and my vote will count, even call out my MP if he or she is not performing.

To hell with your one job in Nigeria. 🤣

[🍀 @MikeoIST]

Relocating abroad is overrated. Some of you are doing 3 jobs in the UK and calling it "greener pastures."

[Daddy Zs @TheSeunOreks]

On my way to my 4th job.

There's uninterrupted power supply in my house, my family won't have to sleep in the dark or deal with generator noise.

Popo won't stop my car asking me ridiculous questions.

Yes, it's "purple pastures" as you might want to call it, you bozo.

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

You are trying too hard, you are still irrelevant.

Lagos is for Everybody!...

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[Àníkẹ́ @aniky_bee]

Dear
Sir Ẹpọ́n,
Ajá Ìgboro
Children of Permanently Retarded People

We have 36 states in this country, but Lagos is always your problem. Let me remind you,

Lagos is Yorùbáland and it will not be the ground zero of ONE NIGERIA. Lagos is some people's homeland.

Focus on your states and region if you don't want to get disgraced.

You're welcome ✌️

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

Yet they will not have the sense to ask the agent why him/her don't also have a Kuwaiti visa and do the work to get 300 million in 2 years..

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[Harmless @HarmlessHQ]

Just sell your family land and raise N7 million. Give me N5 million and I'll hand you Kuwait visa in a month.

Kuwait has the highest currency in the world. In fact, 1 Kuwaiti dinar is equivalent to N5,000.

If you work 12 hours a day at 8 Kuwait dinar per hour. You'll make 96 Kuwait Dinar in a day, which is equivalent to N480,000 a day.

In a month, you're already making N12 million.

Close eye and work for just one year and you're counting N150 million.
Make it 2 years and increase the money to N300 million.

Use N100 million to build your mansion in Nigeria and relocate to Finland and enjoy life.

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This is exactly how Naija agents ruined the lives of our youths with their fake japa stories.

[Harmless @HarmlessHQ]

Just sell your family land and raise N7 million. Give me N5 million and I'll hand you Kuwait visa in a month.

Kuwait has the highest currency in the world. In fact, 1 Kuwaiti dinar is equivalent to N5,000.

If you work 12 hours a day at 8 Kuwait dinar per hour. You'll make 96 Kuwait Dinar in a day, which is equivalent to N480,000 a day.

In a month, you're already making N12 million.

Close eye and work for just one year and you're counting N150 million.
Make it 2 years and increase the money to N300 million.

Use N100 million to build your mansion in Nigeria and relocate to Finland and enjoy life.

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This is exactly how Naija agents ruined the lives of our youths with their fake japa stories.

[Ola 🇨🇦🍁 @saint_ola]

Listen: A man pulled a lawyer’s number from a random group and asked her to notarize his divorce for free. “Sister from Nigeria. I go bring you deals.”

You did not leave Nigeria, pay Canadian fees, and insure your licence so a stranger can invoice you in guilt.
Brother is not a retainer. Sister is not a discount code. “I go bring deals” is not Interac.

Parapo does not clear rent in Alberta. The rate is the rate.

The ones who work free in year one are still explaining themselves in the group in year three. Same promises. Same empty inbox.

Charge. Or say no. Both are allowed. Free is how you stay broke in a country that bills you for breathing.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

I like how you people are triggered and up in arms.

Forget origin and residence, you that don't live in Lagos and is not voting in Lagos, wants to have a say in Lagos over someone that lives and works there and is a registered voter.

You dey craze

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

In the end, it will end in praise.

But rather than cash, you probably could have paid with a credit card, and then invest cash in index fund.

This way, while you pay off the card, say £1,000 every month, yes there would be interest payment but you get to keep your cash growing in an index fund to, maybe, buy a house too.

[Bammy @bammybae_]

£12,000+ gone in ONE day because of one UK visa application. 😭

I am pained. It took us a long time to save that money, and we spent it in a single day just to keep our status in the UK.

No wonder people love the care visa route. One UK visa renewal can wipe out your savings.