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.

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

"We don't need good governance"...

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

This is scandalous.

Yes, NNPC is a federation asset, and the education budget is federal only. But still, it is a betrayal of the youth of this great nation to allocate four times the education budget to pipeline security.

Remember, this same government, by its own records, received resources of N20t from subsidy removal and debt, and allocated only 1.1% to education.

You can't grow a nation without education.

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

Trump would be the first to raise a fist in joy should Mr Sanchez lose..

🤣🤣

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

A defeat for Pedro Sánchez in Spain’s snap election risks destabilizing the EU by putting the Socialists and Democrats on the back foot in Brussels and pushing them into a more confrontational stance.

🔗 https://t.co/RfQS8e4yLH

[Andrew @Andrewnkem]

The SDP Presidential Candidate Prince Adebayo Adewole continues to shred APC Presidential candidate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC during meeting in Oyo State.

“Bola Ahmed Tinubu, let me you just something that will make you understand. Tinubu doesn’t want to be your president, he doesn’t care. He doesn’t like the job of a president. Tinubu doesn’t want to stay in Aso Rock and sign papers, he doesn’t want to talk you. He doesn’t want to supervise the ministers. Tinubu’s is only around because he wants to pack money, that is why he is not struggling for anything. He doesn’t even like the job of a president, and he doesn’t like to talk like a president or behave like a president. He is only there because he wants to pack money. Tinubu’s business plan before was - I will be sponsoring people to office and make profit out of it. After a while he realized, look, this people am sponsoring, there is not enough money is coming back, let me go do things by myself. But to listen to you, give you education and healthcare, if you die, Tinubu doesn’t care. He will make money from your funeral. Tinubu himself will tell you he is not good. What we need to do is to ask ourselves - if you the one president and he is thief, you have the second president and he is a thief and you have the third president and he is a thief, then something is wrong with you. why are you always choosing a thieves? This time around, we are in danger. I want you to understand that Tinubu is not a mistake, Tinubu is punishment for the kind of politics we have decided to do. I am saying that any country that allow that kind of character to climb, climb, climb and reach the top, something is wrong with that country and we must end it now”.

Adebayo Adewole
SDP Presidential Candidate.

[nduka omeife @ndukaomeife]

The resources you have today may not be enough to complete the journey.

But they may be enough to START it.

[Fred Munyao @fredmumu2]

Lucky Dube's ghost shifting his grave to Zimbabwe after realising how stupid South Africans have become.

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

Nigerian police will first ask you to drop 500k to open file....

[Ola 🇨🇦🍁 @saint_ola]

Yesterday every phone in Alberta stopped for one child.

Valleyview RCMP sent an Amber Alert for 7-year-old Aspen Wilson, taken from her home. Her name, height, hair, and eyes went out with the suspect, the van, and the plate. The order was simple: do not approach. Call 911.

About 90 minutes later the alert was cancelled. She was found safe. The man was in custody.

That is the lesson. Not that Canada has no danger. The alert exists because danger showed up. The lesson is speed. One child became a province-wide problem before lunch.

In Nigeria the same morning would have looked like this: a family running the street, a WhatsApp status, a pastor’s prayer point, and a police station that may or may not open a file. No plate on every phone. No order that freezes the day. Sometimes no record at all. By evening the story is already old.

Nigeria did not lose the capacity to search for one child by accident. It spent years teaching the public that mass disappearance is background noise.
Schoolgirls taken in dozens. Villagers emptied overnight. Travelers lifted off highways. A hundred people can be missing for months and markets open, churches fill, and timelines move on. The outrage is reserved for fuel prices and football.

The Amber Alert exists because the Canadian state decided a child’s clock matters more than everyone’s convenience. Nigeria’s version of that decision has been the opposite: inconvenience is intolerable, missing people are manageable. Security budgets disappear. Checkpoints multiply. Results do not. Families become the search party because the institutions that should have been the search party learned they could survive without finding anyone.

Safety is not a slogan about values. It is a description, a plate number, and a government that still panics over one child. Alberta panicked. Nigeria has practiced not panicking until not panicking became the national posture.

Which way, indeed. The wrong turn was not mysterious. It was the point at which one missing child stopped being enough to stop the country.

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

Who talk help, "we don't need good governance"...

[Olaudah Equiano® @RealOlaudah]

Please listen to Symfoni YouTube Channel's Olawale Oluwade's View Point. This is a message to all Nigerians especially our Yoruba brothers and sisters and more especially those of them who fanatically support Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his government. 👇🏾

[Olaudah Equiano® @RealOlaudah]

Please listen to Symfoni YouTube Channel's Olawale Oluwade's View Point. This is a message to all Nigerians especially our Yoruba brothers and sisters and more especially those of them who fanatically support Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his government. 👇🏾

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

This #LagosLife you people are enjoying, e sure me say no be APC dey in power for there.

[Switch @prophetswitch]

The kind of wealth flowing through Delta and Bayelsa is enough to transform these states into another Dubai.

But too much of that wealth ends up in the hands of rogues and thieves instead of being invested in the people.

Delta State has absolutely no business being poor.

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

Lagos is for Everybody!....

You can hug a transformer if you like.

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

Even if you were born inside the Lagos lagoon, unless you are full blooded yoruba, you are not a Lagosian.

Birthplace is geography. Ancestry is identity.

Period.

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

But "Lagos is Yoruba Land, and Igbo can not rule Lagos"....

Rascals everywhere

[Taiwo_junzi @taiwo_junzi]

It has been six year since October 20 2020!!! Yet, Nigerian Youth are still chronically stupid!!!

I had thought certain experiences just leave an indelible mark on people’s psyche but I was wrong!!!

That is why from people who are allegedly schooled and exposed, you hear things like…

“I am Yoruba first before Nigerian”
“I am Igbo first before Nigerian”
“I am Hausa first before Nigerian”

Honestly, this kind of orientation is easily one of the most backward and brain-dead ways of thinking!!!

How can you put your tribe above your country and expect that mindset to build anything meaningful?!

At some point, we need to ask yourself whether our identity is helping us or holding us back!!!

And let’s be brutally honest, outside Nigeria, nobody cares whether you are Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa or Delta. You are Nigerian, that is the identity the rest of the world sees first!!!!

The same applies to the policies government (international and national) churn out for Nigerians!!!

When the police is harassing us and not doing their job…
When PHCN is doing their nonsense…
When flood is destroying our houses and cars…
When agbero is doing their nonsense…
When healthcare is inaccessible and inefficient…
When we are consuming fake medication, food, drinks etc…
When fuel price is making businesses shut down…
When insecurity and terrible roads are making travelling by road impossible…
When inflation is making feeding and housing almost impossible…

There is no pitying you based on tribe!!! The dysfunctional state of things do not care whether you rate Ala Igbo, Omoluabi or what not!!!

Yet, some Nigerians are so obsessed with tribal loyalty that they would rather defend a useless politician simply because he is “our own” than demand competence, accountability and progress!!!

Your tribe is not going to fix your roads…
Your tribesman in government is not going to magically fix the economy…
And protecting corrupt leaders because they are “our people” is not loyalty, it is being a special kind of mumu!!!

The country is falling apart, but instead of asking “how do we fix Nigeria?” you people are busy happy and priding in the fact that “it is your turn to steal!!!

If your loyalty to your tribe is stronger than your concern for the future of the country, then you are nothing but a piece of shit!!!

A dyed-in-the-wool bigot is what most of you are!!!

Nigerians too mumu!!!!

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

There is currently Lithium mining going on (under the guise of mining coal) at Obomkpa, Delta state. Nothing is going to the local people.

This is why I am so livid at not being in the House of Assembly.

They must account for it.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

Dey place. Who good governance help? We don’t need it

[Man like Ify @funanyachukwu]

I am in a coach traveling from Manchester to London and it’s currently 2:11am.

I have Zero fear about my safety. I don’t have to pray against kidnappers or blood tasting demons.

There are no pot holes or death traps because my taxes help pay for road maintenance. GBTK

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

In 2026, this still holds true....

Nigeria is a disgrace.

[T I M M I T O M 🤴 @timmosion]

"Look at Nigeria 45 million people, they don't enjoy our standard of living with vastttt natural resources...." Prime Minister of Singapore's speech still golden till today

[nduka omeife @ndukaomeife]

Your first attempt doesn't have to be brilliant.

It has to exist.

[Donna Mugoh @Eddie_Mugoh]

South Africans looking for black owned businesses in Johannesburg.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇷🇺 Increasingly TERRIFYING CLAIMS coming out about the PLAGUE SCARE in Siberia

and I think the internet is getting dangerously far ahead of what we actually know.

A 28-year-old researcher at Russia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died after developing a mysterious pneumonia.

Around 200 contacts were quarantined.

There are reports that she may have broken a test tube containing plague bacteria.

But here’s the important part:

We STILL DON'T EVEN KNOW that she died of plague.

Russian authorities say testing has found NO PLAGUE among her contacts, and WHO says Russia has reported no confirmed cases in Irkutsk...

Now to the BIOWEAPON claims, that are another leap entirely.

Russia inherited a Soviet program that developed ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT plague for BIOLOGICAL WARFARE. That history makes transparency about what this laboratory was working on extremely important.

But there is CURRENTLY NO EVIDENCE that the researcher was infected with an engineered or weaponized strain.

This story is potentially serious enough without inventing the scariest version of it.

Right now, the biggest problem is how much we still don’t know.

Source: CNN, Reuters, CBS, WHO / Writer: Oliver