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[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I just learned this morning that Bryan Eze qualified for the International Economics Olympiad in China to represent Nigeria, but the Ministry of Education said that there is no money to sponsor him.

They approached the Ebonyi State Government for support and the government said that they are not interested. So he missed it.

I became curious after he won the Sterling Bank National Online Maths Quiz yesterday.

This is heartbreaking.

[POPE @Ifyoflagos]

Dream Killers.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I just learned this morning that Bryan Eze qualified for the International Economics Olympiad in China to represent Nigeria, but the Ministry of Education said that there is no money to sponsor him.

They approached the Ebonyi State Government for support and the government said that they are not interested. So he missed it.

I became curious after he won the Sterling Bank National Online Maths Quiz yesterday.

This is heartbreaking.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

This is Chima Emmanuel. He came from Onitsha to the training center in Enugu this morning.

He has been working on several DIY projects for the last 15 years, and he needs an opportunity to express himself and achieve his dreams.

He has built real flying drones and other amazing projects.

We will support his journey, and the world will know him.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I have been thinking about something lately, and the more I think about it, the more disturbing it becomes.

A lot of Nigerians became poor without doing anything wrong.

They didn’t stop working. They didn’t become lazy. They didn’t suddenly become irresponsible.

They simply woke up one day and realised that the money they had worked for could no longer buy the things it used to buy.

Think about someone earning ₦100,000 a month.

The person still wakes up early every morning, goes to work, puts in the same hours, probably works even harder, gets promoted occasionally and does everything society says a responsible person should do.

Yet every year, that person seems to be able to afford less.

At some point, ₦50,000 could buy a reasonable amount of food for the house. Today, you can enter the market with the same ₦50,000 and genuinely wonder where the money went.

Nothing happened to you.

The economy happened to you.

And I think this is something we don’t talk about enough.

Imagine working hard for years, only for circumstances completely outside your control to quietly reduce the value of everything you have worked for.

You didn’t lose your job.

You didn’t lose your salary.

But somehow, you lost your standard of living.

That is poverty too.

And this is why I struggle with the way we sometimes discuss palliatives.

Of course, when people are hungry, you must find ways to help them immediately. There is nothing wrong with providing temporary relief.

But surely, the bigger question should be:

Why did millions of working Nigerians suddenly need palliatives in the first place?

If a man could comfortably buy a bag of rice from his salary a few years ago and today he needs government assistance to buy that same bag of rice, giving him rice may solve today’s hunger.

But it has not solved the actual problem.

The real problem is that his labour has lost value.

And perhaps that is what we should be obsessed with fixing.

How do we make the Nigerian worker’s income valuable again?

How do we make ₦100,000 buy more next year, rather than less?

How do we make food cheaper by producing more?

How do we reduce the cost of energy and transportation?

How do we build an economy where salaries can actually keep up with the cost of living?

Because when I think deeply about it, perhaps one of the greatest things a government can do for its people is not to keep giving them money.

It is to build an economy where the money they earn has value.

There is dignity in being able to take care of yourself from the product of your own labour.

There is dignity in a teacher being able to feed a family from teaching.

There is dignity in a nurse being able to pay rent from nursing.

There is dignity in a young person working an honest job and gradually seeing life improve.

People should be able to look back after five years of hard work and say, “My life has become better.”

Not, “I earn more money today, but somehow I can afford less.”

That is the part that keeps bothering me.

Millions of Nigerians are not asking to become millionaires overnight.

They just want hard work to make sense again.

And maybe that should be one of the simplest ways we measure whether our economy is actually working:

Is the ordinary Nigerian who works hard becoming progressively better off, or progressively poorer?

Everything else is secondary.

[Abu The 𓃵 @Abu_The_Truth]

David, does your neighborhood in Atlanta look anything like this adugbo? Do you even feel shame telling your friends abroad that your family is the ruling class and your uncle is governor of this rusted-roof community?

[OLUCHI🫦 ( you have no funder) @Phatbabeluuu]

APC isn’t good for your uncle’s state but APC is good for Nigeria, lol a joker.

[GRIM @grimshub]

🚨🎥| 🔥💣 This video must not leave the Internet.❤️🤍

Preserve at all cost!!!

[MaHMuD Waziri @Mahmud_wazeeree]

No wonder she's balding already.😭😂

[iDAN 🦸🏽 @dangbanamanager]

There’s an agenda to keep the Nigeria populace poor and APC is mad in on it. You can be earning 250k monthly and you won’t be able to afford a new shirt and trousers in 6months.

[aether @bluewdrift]

A mistake that cost me 5 years: Thinking preparation was progress. Reading every book. Taking every course. Planning every detail. Meanwhile, someone dumber than me started badly and figured it out. Preparation feels productive but it's often just fear dressed up as strategy. You learn to swim by getting in
the water, not by studying water.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

A lot of love 🫶

[♡ @vflwilliamson]

Wdym you can get married at the Emirates? hello??? ME AND WHO

[Yehgha @yaygha]

When he routinely dances with death like this to put food on the table, he will still be a bad husband if he does not know his wife's medical history, or forgets her birthday.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Back to a full complement ❤️

[Crazy Kennar @crazy_kennar]

HOW DIFFERENT AFRICAN COUNTRIES RELATE TO THEIR PRESIDENTS😂😂😂😂😂

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Our newest Gunner.

Bruno ❤️

[Oluchi_react @Oluchi_Utd]

The next time Chelsea players will board a plane again is next season’s pre-season.

Today is their last international flight for the year, until June 2027. 😂😂

[Aporia @aporia9n]

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.

A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.

The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.

And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.

It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

A hero's welcome 🙏

Watch LIVE on our YouTube channel now, Gooners 📺

[Premier League @premierleague]

The Premier League trophy on display at the Emirates 😍🏆

🔴 @Arsenal