“It’s not my priority to have a male child” — Billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote.
He added, “You might pray for a son, and that son will be the one to bring the family down. God controls everything, and if God doesn’t give you something, don’t push it. And I don’t think a son would have done better than the three daughters I have.”
Ezemmuo said it plainly. I want to add the number most people never calculate before they dismiss this advice.
Rent in Nigeria rises roughly 10% a year in most cities, faster in Lagos and Abuja. If you are paying N600,000 a year in rent at 30, and you keep renting with no property to your name until you retire, you will have paid well over N40,000,000 across those years, and at the end of it, you own nothing. Not a single one room or even wall to your name. Just three decades of receipts and a landlord who owns the story of where you lived your whole working life.
A one-room property, or a small self-contained unit, does not need to be your dream house. It needs to be your anchor. The moment you own even one room somewhere on this earth, something shifts. You are no longer 100% dependent on a landlord's mood, a sudden rent increase, or a "the owner wants the house back" phone call that can rearrange your entire life in a month's notice.
Old age without a rent-free roof is one of the most financially dangerous positions a person can be in. Your income naturally slows down as you age. Rent does not slow down with you. A paid-off room, however small, removes one of your biggest expenses right at the exact stage of life when your ability to keep earning is weakest.
You do not need N50,000,000 to start this. You need a fixed monthly amount, redirected consistently, into land, a cooperative housing scheme, or the FMBN National Housing Fund at 6% interest instead of a commercial mortgage at 28%. Small, boring, consistent contributions, started in your 20s or early 30s, are how ordinary income becomes an owned room by 40.
Rent while you build if you have to. Rent out your own place while you live somewhere else if that works better for your income right now. But make sure that somewhere on this earth, your name is on a document that says you own a piece of it.
A man with one room he owns sleeps differently than a man with ten rooms he's still paying for.
Guys, whatever they say, try and own your own house by the time you turn 40. Even if it is one room, let it be one room somewhere on this earth that you own. You can choose to rent it out and be a tenant elsewhere, but have a house to your name.
I am Ezemmuo. I know things.
Nigerians should all be informed the day Peter Obi is coming back into the country so we all can troop out to the airport to give him a resounding welcome, and also protect him from the clutches of those evil APC government agents.
Festus Keyamo, Obi will not apologize, and nothing will happen.
Retweet.
Dear @mehdirhasan
This lying double-mouthed dishonest aide called Daniel Bwala that you publicly exposed his hypocrisy to the world a few months ago, now claims Al Jazeera “apologised” to him over your interview with him.
Please is this claim true?
And if true, what exactly did Al Jazeera apologise to him for?
Dear Nigerians,
Pls retweet until @mehdirhasan sees this and publicly responds to clear the air.
‘The Arabs in old times used to say. Four things separate brothers: wealth, women, jealousy, and death. Four things make you lose your value among people: talking too much, laughing too much, lying and gossiping. Four things by which a wife ruins her home: stubbornness, anger, suspicion, and raising her voice. Four things by which a man ruins his home: distance, neglect, harshness, and stinginess.’
This man (Prince Adeniyi Matthew) created a fake government agency called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, appointed himself as DG, secured office space at the Federal Secretariat, opened a CBN account in its name, got N1,302,978,784 allocation in 2026 budget, summoned ambassadors to meetings, held strategic sessions with ministers, and even represented Nigeria at international conferences.
The audacity is almost unbelievable. Nigeria never runs short of ‘yan iska.
This youngster, Don Anele Munachimso Marvelous, was the best Chemistry student in Nigeria in IGCSE. He won the ₦5 million star prize as the best in the 2026 South East Maths Olympiad. He also took first position in the country at the National Mathematics competition in Abuja.
He also won a $100k scholarship in Canada.
He will compete with students from 154 other countries in Rome, Italy, this Saturday.
He is a genius, and the world will know him.
The people who clapped for and cheered this interview are telling you that Obi's interview is a reason why should Nigerians shouldn't vote for Peter Obi.
And you people are finding a way to convince them? You better jazz up
In 1987, Baba Adeleke bought land in Ibeju-Lekki.
It cost him ₦12,000.
He was a primary school teacher. It took him three years to save that money.
He built nothing on it. Just held it. Told his four children it was their future.
He died in 2019 believing he had given them something.
He had no idea what he had actually given them.
🧵 A thread.