While growing up, we did two houses in Lagos and Benin City solely with Ghanaian tilers as we couldn't trust the Nigerians to do a good job. These houses were completed in 1994 and 1998 and the work remains immaculate.
I lived somewhere else in Lagos when I moved from home and it was the shoddiest work I had ever seen. Misaligned tilework and shoddy electrical fittings. This was in one if the best estates in Lagos.
Moving to Ghana made me experience excellent construction workmanship more. It is about the quality of apprenticeship and guidance. Many in Nigeria never learned properly and they kept passing on mediocrity.
A father left his son more than $10 million.
He left his two daughters nothing.
Now they’re asking their brother to pay off their $300,000 in student loans.
Caller: “My father left everything to me… his house, his investments, his business. He didn’t give anything to my sisters.”
George Kamel: “He purposefully didn’t leave any money to your sisters?”
Caller: “Yes.”
George Kamel: “And now they’re resentful because they feel like they deserve a portion of this money.”
Caller: “It seems like it.”
Jade Warshaw: “Why did he cut them off?”
Caller: “My mother had an affair. My sisters sided with my mother because they liked the affair partner more. I sided with my father.”
George Kamel: “I think you’re going to be resentful if you give this money. I’d rather them be resentful towards you than you be resentful towards them.”
“There’s no easy answer here.”
“They’re going to hate you.”
He is making valid point, but it is harder for Nigerians and I'll explain.
A Chinese neighbour told my Dad she needed N2billion naira loan and wanted to know how she could access it. My dad told her to go to the bank. She said the interest rate was too high that she would rather fly to China to get it at 2%. That is N40m on N2b
How do you compete with that? Most Nigerians don't have that leverage.
Why do people often forget Rijkaard era in Barcelona?
Pep may have perfected it, but Barca Tiki Taka predated him.
Cruyff started Tiki Taka, but let's even say that was too far and we didn't see that, many of us watched Rijkaard's Barca and it was very pleasing to watch.
Matter of fact, the key anchor of Pep's Tiki Taka (Xavi & Iniesta) had been Barca first choices far back 2003 (five years before Pep) and we had seen them move ball that way before Pep.
Granddad, First Class, University of Ibadan, 1975.
Dad, First Class, BGS. Currently a respected SAN and founder of one of the leading law firms in the Southwest.
Uncle, top of his med class. Thriving surgeon at Johns Hopkins, USA. Consultant at Walter Reed.
Mother, First Class, Professor of Mathematics.
Elder Brother, First Class. Currently a Mastercard Scholar at the University of Edinburgh.
Elder Sister, First Class, BGS, Department and Faculty.
None of them have time to be envious of or water down your first-class ambition. That is the baseline.
But you see that moment when you are from an environment where the best everyone else does is crawl, the prospect of you walking is a threat to them.
“Oh, you are showing off. Oh, you feel you are better than us. What is she feeling like? Walkers do not even make it in life (nevermind that they have never walked in their crawling lives or know what walkers look like).”
Nah, wait till you say you can run, fly, and even soar.
Poverty does not just tax you with the absence of money. It also taxes you with an environment that nudges and demands you to succumb to the average expectations that bind them together.
In such an environment, to dare to excel is to rebel. And I highly advocate it. There is no gain in continuing relationships sustained at the expense of your growth.
If they cannot walk with you, find those who walk. If they cannot run, fly, and soar with you, find those who do. And if you cannot find them,
Just soar. It might be lonely for a while, but that is okay because, soon, other eagles will find and join you in flight.
@kamanya_thinks
"The woman who tr@ffick£d me to Itåly for $£x w0rk, the moment I arrived, asked me to name the countries I had visited before. When I refused to answer, she started having issues with me. I was under 2⁰ at the time, despite taking an ⁰ath by eating r@w ch!ck£n liver that I would never dis0bey her once we arrived in Itåly. These people who tr@ffic others abroad are di@b0lical and often target childr£n."
-Izzy Ogbeide recounted her harrøw!ng experience.
I went to Evergreen School Enugu today to see the maths textbooks they use in school.
Like I said, their children have finished engineering Maths back to back.
They won top 3 positions in Junior Category for South East Maths Olympiad.
Saw this online
😂😂
“A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper of 20 years, Guido, has cheated him out of $10 million.
Guido is deaf which is why he got the job in the first place.
The Godfather assumed that since Guido could not hear anything, he could never testify in court.
When the Godfather goes to confront Guido about his missing $10 million,
he takes along his personal lawyer because he knows sign language.
The Godfather tells the lawyer, "Ask him where the money is!"
The lawyer, using sign language, asks Guido, "Where's the money?"
Guido signs back, "I don't know what you are talking about."
The lawyer tells the Godfather, "He says he doesn't know what you are talking about."
The Godfather pulls out a pistol, puts it to Guido's head and says, "Ask him again or I'll kill him!"
The lawyer signs to Guido, "He'll kill you if you don't tell him."
Guido trembles and signs back, "OK! You win! The money is in a brown briefcase, buried behind the shed at my cousin Bruno's house."
The Godfather asks the lawyer, "What did he say?"
The lawyer replies, "He says you don't have the balls to pull the trigger."
What he is saying is accurate because I experienced it in 2008 with a hospital in Victoria Island. They were desperate to do surgery when I came in with abdominal pain. My best man (a doctor) saved me after I called him and he told me to ask them to do a scan.
They had collected $800 from me already before I escaped and changed my mind to go to LUTH on my way to Benin. My father was alive then and he had asked me to come back home for any surgery.
It turned out to be kidney stones and hydronephrosis of the right kidney. I would have died if the fake appendicitis surgery had masked that. Nigeria is a weird place. This was 18 years ago.
*In 1951 a politician bought a horse for a race at £50,000. The seller agreed to deliver the horse the next day.*
In the morning of the next day, he drove up and said: "Sorry son, but I have some bad news. The horse is dead."
The politician replied: "Well, just give me my money back then."
The seller said: "Can’t do that. I’ve already spent it." The politician said: "OK, then, just bring me the dead horse."
The farmer asked: "What are you going to do with it?"
The politician said: "I’m going to raffle it off to the people as a speed horse that can win a race"
The seller responded: "You can’t raffle a dead horse."
Politician replied: "Sure, I can. Just watch me. You don't know the people, l will post wonderful pictures of a horse, I just won’t tell anybody it's dead. I will market it with propaganda and present it as capable of chasing criminals away"
A month later, the seller met up with the politician and asked: "What happened with that dead horse?"
Politician replied: "I raffled it off. I sold 1million tickets at £2 each and made a profit of £2m.
*The seller was dazed and asked: "Didn’t anyone complain?"*
*Politician said: "Just the guy who won. I told him the horse died on our way to deliver. So, I gave him back his £2 with apology. I told him l have refunded everyone. He consoled me and told me to keep it up that I am a good man.’ That, after all, I have suffered (a lot of loss). He prayed for me and called on God to bless me. Telling me that the country needs honest people like me to come and run for office".*
LESSON
*Dem don dey arrange demselves. The political raffle ticket will soon be back to sell to people another dead horse in 2027*
I trust say our mumu don beleful us.
Or else, sorry go be our name.
Mumu too much.
COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH
1. The job is Tasking ❌️
The Job is TAXING✅️
2. Be rest assured ❌️
Rest assured ✅️
3. I hope they Scale through ❌️
I hope they Sail through ✅️
4. In the main time❌️
In the Meantime ✅️
5. Stop horning ❌️
Stop honking✅️
6. I will dash you a phone ❌️
I will gift you a phone✅️
7. Let's round up the meeting ❌️
Let's round OFF the meeting✅️
8. See you next tomorrow ❌️
See the day after tomorrow ✅️
9. She layed a complain ❌️
She laid a complaint✅️
10. Running nose ❌️
Runny nose ✅️
11. You're adding salt to injury ❌️
You're adding INSULT to injury✅️
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