You can sell anything to Nigerians, just add a little bit of classism and tell them it’s not for poor people, then watch them buy to prove they are not “poor”.
Let it be on record that the 3 most intelligent mathematicians on earth under 15yrs old are Igbo kids from southeast Nigeria.
Again, when e reach the turn of your region, encourage youths to fry akara or sponsor mass weddings & pilgrimage.
The truth is Ronaldo fans are not scared.
Ronaldo won the Ballon D’or first
Ronaldo won a champions league first
Ronaldo won an international trophy first.
He’s got nothing to prove anymore.
I learnt beadmaking during my NYSC days in Lafia, Nasarawa State.
So when I got back home after my service year, I started making bead bags, flower pots and matted bags for sale alongside applying for jobs.
For context, at the time, I was already a chartered accountant with a first-class degree in accounting.
My mum would tell her friends and colleagues about my little business, and they would place orders, and I would stay up all night making those pieces for them.
Then one day, something happened.
My mum got back from work, and she said, ‘Ore, one of my friends placed an order for a bead purse; please help me make it for her’
My dad, who was also there, got instantly furious, and he said: ‘This is not my vision for her life, stop bringing her these orders, I want her to focus on getting good job opportunities’.
That was a reset moment for my mum and me. We just quietly dispersed, and it was the last order my mum ever brought me 🤣
I then refocused my time and energy on the aptitude tests I kept failing, began passing them, and landed a bank role and later a PwC role to kick-start my career.
Today is D-day.
Our boys are now at the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma for the Grand Finale of the International STEM Olympiad in Rome, Italy.
I’m optimistic about their victory.
Interestingly, one of the worst things about the Nigerian character - bloviating, buffoonish overconfidence - is also a superpower that sets Nigerians apart when it is intentionally harnessed and channelled correctly.
Whenever Nigerians (born and raised in Nigeria) learn how to combine their social confidence with actual intellectual substance and a good amount of self awareness, the world will have a serious problem on its hands.
I believe in my people🙏🏿
Personally, I think online political discourse in Nigeria is largely a distraction. Ignore the Akara and Kuli Kuli talk and focus on the main issue of judicial overreach and unfairness. That was how we focused on Agbado and 50 million Youth and ignored potential INEC malfeasance.
@JSvenger@asemota Yes the richest person I've ever known personally ( a multi billionaire) only had primary education, but he was so intelligent ,operated in an entirely different frequency, and yes esama of benin also , operates in a very different frequency also a billionaire