@General_Oluchi If every body in the generation decides to give their children their first name as surname, by the 5th generation the Surname would be John-Michael...
This is a cry for help🤲
My neighbor got a masters scholarship in Mathematics at the university of Calabria, Italy
The scholarship covers her tuition, accommodation, meal and stipends
But she needs money for flight tickets, visa application, initial settlement cost and miscellaneous which is a total of €3,122 (4.9 million naira)
I’ve seen her toil, sacrifice so much to get here and we can’t afford to lose this opportunity 🥺
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Pls help this dream come true🥺
Your RT will go a long way🤲
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I took a long breath before engaging with this.
Over the years, due to the nature of my work, I have come to realise that many of those who live abroad and in urban cities in Africa don't really understand what development and advancement mean to the people in rural communities.
When they write of poverty, they largely do not understand what it means, and some of them do not engage with the poor; therefore, they do not understand the layers of poverty and the power of a poverty mindset.
I travel widely, and you can see me on a yacht in Monaco today and also on a farm in Ughelli tomorrow. I traverse all the layers of society.
From the world of the old money, the upper class, the nouveau riche, the working class, the middle class, the lower class, and the very poor.
Sometimes those in the lower class see themselves as poor, and sometimes those in the middle class see themselves as poor; many in the working class see themselves as poor.
This is why they responded to the Akara and Kulikuli statement of Nigeria's first lady with bile
A friend of mine is the head of the legal department of a financial institution in Lagos.
Her older brothers, all three of them, are thriving in their careers.
Their father recently clocked seventy, and they decided they would upgrade his house at Fiditi Village and buy him a new Toyota Prado while they buy their mum a new Toyota Highlander to upgrade their lives.
Their mum had a local roadside bukateria built with planks, which she had been running for years, while their dad was a retired principal.
They decided to build a proper Lagos-level eatery for their mother and to start a consulting service company for their father, where he could work with teachers in AFIJIO local government who are struggling with their professional careers for a token.
Their parents had struggled to send all four of them to school, and they had made it in life; they felt it was time to repay the kindness.
When they shared the idea with their mother, she hushed them and said they must be crazy. "Where will I get the customers to come and eat in an air-conditioned eatery in Fiditi? Do you want people to say that I am using their destinies to make money? Don't you understand how the folks in this environment think?
That you are now big in the city does not mean you should all be foolish; kill that idea immediately!"
Their father was more gentle; he told them they would ostracise him from his friends if they bought him a big car and changed his small house into a mansion.
He said, "My friends whose children are still struggling will see this as an affront; they will think I am showing off, and many of them will not feel comfortable sitting and eating or drinking with me anymore.
They will call me proud, and they may even decide to do something diabolical to your children so that you will not use your blessings to spite them anymore.
Your ideas are well-intentioned, but they will disrupt my life and lead me to an early grave.
Please come to church and do thanksgiving party with me, let us take pictures and allow my friends the honour of being comfortable to attend the birthday celebration with me. God bless you."
When my friend was sharing this with me, she said she had forgotten that the paradigm of measuring development and achievement in cities is very different from the one used to measure the same in rural areas.
Apart from those who are just being disruptive for political reasons, the idea that empowering people at the very last rung of the economic ladder with money to boost their trade and acquire a skill is being frowned upon is shocking to me.
I have run a widows ministry since 2019, where we give the widows from all over Nigeria who registered with us 5000 naira stipend a month (it was later increased to 7,500 Naira.)
I toyed with the idea of shutting down this ministry a while ago because I felt the money was too little, and despite trying very hard, I couldn't increase the funding as I had hoped.
One of the widows living in Ota, Ogun State, called me and said, "Sir, I had a dream that you stopped sending me money. In that dream, I was crying to God that he had cut off my oesophagus, and I could no longer swallow spit" (She said it in the Yoruba language.)
I assured her that we would not stop sending out the stipends and stuck to it.
When those who live in New York, London, Paris, Monaco, Dubai and so on read news of people surviving on 50,000 Naira a month in the cities in Nigeria, they look at how much they earn per hour and curse Nigeria.
I went to Gombe, and I met with a Master's degree holder who said she had just been sacked from her job. I asked her how much she was earning, and she said twenty thousand Naira a month.
I cringed.
She saw the look on my face and said, "I use it to meet my needs, sir. I really need this job"
I found her another job that started paying her 50,000 Naira a month. She said the money was too much, but it would help her increase her savings.
In development communication, one does not isolate an issue without considering the dynamics at a local level.
If you build a big mall in Akinmoorin or Aawe, where would you get the customers to rent the shops and stock goods there or the people who would patronise them?
Empowerment programs aimed at helping the non-literate, unskilled, the poor and rural dwellers to feel the impact of government and get economically engaged should be lauded and encouraged.
I recently wrote about the large number of beggars in Oyo Town, strong young men who should be farming or engaged in other positive activities are hanging out in front of Ace Supermarket, Chicken Republic, Owode Area in general, Ajiwunmi canteen and other places, constituting a nuisance to car owners.
If they can be empowered and incentivised to work, it will be of great benefit to society, but no right-thinking person will give them millions to squander.
They must learn how to earn money by contributing their quota of value to society.
I recently told a dear sister that when we are talking about poverty, she should sit it out. I said this because whenever she talked about the poor, the picture I get is of an average family at the beginning of their rise in life.
Two graduates cannot be poor unless they choose to be.
The poor have no formal education, have no formal skills, wake up not knowing where the day's meal will come from, are not located in an environment brimming with opportunities, are limited by time and space, and cannot create wealth by themselves.
The people in this category are the ones that we must encourage to benefit from any welfare and empowerment scheme the government, corporate entities or individuals may offer.
We must not attack the government for helping such people for political reasons or just because we need a talking point.
We may not be able to relate to them or identify with them, but that does not mean they don't exist or need all the help they can get.
-GSW-
I have created a new device that can track anything anywhere in the world…
The name of the device is Smart AI Tracking System, it uses GPS, SIM, and AI technology
It is placed in children’s bags, cars, or animals so they can be tracked at any time
But that is not where its strength lies….
The AI inside it learns the usual routes, observes distance, and detects any unusual changes
If a child is kidnapped and taken somewhere unfamiliar…
it will activate an alarm
send the location instantly and give a warning that a child has been kidnapped
The same applies to animals like cows
It can detect them in real time if they are stolen or lost
Share it so it can reach everywhere in order to have the opportunity to improve it into a smaller size because its size is large due to the many sensors and modules inside it
@channelstv Adire Is uniquely Yoruba, not representative of Nigeria’s incredible diversity. How does favoring one culture bring unity to a multi-tribal nation?
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School of Hard Knocks interviewed another Nigerian billionaire who says he makes over $60 million every year from real estate.
He says he came from a very poor family and his breakthrough started with a 50 million naira bank loan. 🤯
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@Nostaindehozula@LongLyf2 Who hurt you man, First of all God has given man something called "FREE WILL" and so when we choose to mess up our CLIMATE with different activities this is the result, WE CAUSED IT TO HAPPEN
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Marriage can wear you out. It can make you look like you are 46 years old when in reality you are 36 years old.
Marriage can turn a model into an unhappy ogre
Marriage can take away the joy in a healthy soul and turn the soul into a bitter and sour one
I sat across a friend here in Accra for about three hours yeasterday
She has held on to her husband for thirteen years, which had very brief periods of happiness
She wanted to leave him two years ago, but he brought out his service pistol and was going to kill himself when she told him she was leaving
Everybody weighed in, we begged her to stay, and we begged him to change
She stayed, but he didn't change
He was in the army, rose quickly through the ranks, but he had a weakness for certain kinds of ladies
It was as if he were determined to die young and of some terrible disease
In the last five years, his wife, who is a pediatrist, has suffered from several kinds of infections that only God knows how she is still alive
She sent me pictures of some gory green discharges once.
How anything like that could come out of a person, and the person did not pack her bags and run as far as her legs could carry her, is still a wonder to me.
I believe in marriage, but my "For better, for worse" vow ends at the point where my partner begins to tirelessly plot and work hard at ensuring that my death will do us part.
He has bought her a car, a house and sponsored her on four trips outside of the country with the children.
I consider him a friend and a brother.
He, however, does not understand what marriage is; he wants to sleep with "dirty infected ladies" who are way beneath his class because they treat him like a demigod.
He sees his wife as his equal, and he is not sexually attracted to someone on the same level as him.
Most of the time, he finds it difficult to sleep with her. When they finally have sex, after she has begged and threatened, she almost always ends up with an infection
He would promise to do better, but he seemed unable to do better.
She was way above his status when he asked her out and married her
She was the prized stallion, but he wanted to keep her as an artefact in his museum of great achievements while sleeping with ladies who were more at his level.
She turned 36 on April 23, 2026. A mother of two biological sons and one adopted daughter.
She still does his laundry, makes his food, waits on him as the love of her life
She said he moved out of their room two months ago because she saw genital warts all over him and cringed.
He is 45. A businessman who recently resigned from the Army and a lost soul who does not know how to find his way back into his wife's arms were as easy as making a decision to pay attention to her and the children for the next six months.
Stay at home when he is not working, cut off all ties with his other women, and care for her in a sincere way.
Rebuild the bond they once shared while taking deliberate actions to rid himself of the STD he picked up in the course of his misadventures
His wife has decided to give him six months' notice before leaving with the children. She has informed his father and his family of her need to separate from him, and his father had asked her to give him six months to work on his son.
She said she is sure he would never change. I asked her why. She said, "He lives for the validation of others and would sleep with someone who has HIV willingly if the person says, 'So you won't sleep with me because I am sick, are you not supposed to be loving and kind to me?"
She said she noticed his people-pleasing behaviour since the time they were courting. She said she would want to go somewhere, and the girlfriend of his friend would want to go to another place. He would prioritise his friend's girlfriend over her and leave her stranded while catering to his friend's girlfriend so that the friend and his girlfriend can call him a good, selfless man.
She said she felt he had a kind heart at the time because he put others before himself.
She said she and another friend of his had their children around the same period.
One day, she left him at home with their baby, and when she returned home, she found the baby being watched by a fourteen-year-old neighbour.
When her husband returned home, he told her that his friend couldn't get a babysitter, so he left his own child with another child to watch him while he went over to babysit for his friend.
She said that has always been the pattern.
She mentioned how the family would need something, and a friend would need something, and he would take the money meant to fix the family's need and give it out to his friend.
She said she took a loan of twenty thousand dollars from work and handed the money to him to pay off a debt they owed, but he gave the money to his uncle, who called him and asked for financial assistance to marry a third wife.
She made me see how dangerous it is to get married to a people pleaser.
A man who would give everything to impress an outsider while his own affairs are in tatters.
She said he does not want her to leave the marriage, but he does not know how to cut off his friends and girlfriends because he hates to displease people.
She said he would willingly hurt himself to please others, and now that she is married to him, hurting himself also translates to hurting her and the children.
It is obvious that she still loves him and is willing to work with him on the marriage if he would man up and do the needful to keep his home.
In my opinion, he is a very weak man. Weak men do cruel things.
If you see a man hurting little children and small animals. If you see a man who likes to hurt women and abuse teenagers. It is a serious indication of weakness.
Men who hurt things and people who can't fight back are weak.
What they are doing to things that can't fight back is called cruelty.
Jeffrey Epstein was a very weak man, and so were those who travelled to his island to torture young girls.
A man who would rather hurt himself and harm his family to please others is a weak man who thrives on public validation or affirmation.
My fingers are crossed on the issue.
I told her I would have left the marriage long ago if I were in her shoes. If only to destroy the facade of a good life her husband was projecting, and force him to rebuild with me or move on to someone else.
Love, however, affects those who feel it very differently from the way it affects those of us who are watching the drama from the outside.
-GSW-