Oluwashantel

I am who God says I am

[aether @bluewdrift]

You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

“The way you show love doesn’t please me, that’s not what I want” Lobatan! We’re not fighting, we just don’t agree on how love should be shown or what it should mean.

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

Exactly! It’s magic in itself 🫶🏽

[Demii @shiftenter19]

You guys don’t understand how insane fantasy is 😭

Someone really sat down and created an entire world from their imagination. Whole continents. Histories. Languages. Magic.

I love fantasy so much.

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

@muheediva01 Anger! Just a short ball of anger walking everywhere 😂

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

Why do houses cost so much in Lagos, dammit! Can’t pay rent, can’t buy house 😩I’m starting to consider those container houses tbh 🥹

[Douglas Kendyson @KendysonD]

Hi @jidesanwoolu, @hanneymusawa

I'm deeply disappointed in your @lirs_govng team hounding Selar in the name of claiming creator royalty taxes. I turn 30 in Oct and I've spent the last 10 years building Selar, so this is what the youth mean by policies being created to crush growing businesses. We are the pioneering and largest creator company in Nigeria (Africa actually), and instead of being supported by the government, the LIRS team is keen on trying to scapegoat us to set a precident.

Beyond the huge numbers seen in the headlines, we are still a young company just trying to make our mark for the creator economy in a country where we've never been supported once, we're literally a bootstrapped company. In 2025 alone, we've fulfilled our tax obligation in almost 9 figures and we've never missed out on any of our tax obligation over the years. You can check the records.

We are a software company, we make our ecommerce software available to our thousands of creators in not just Nigeria but 13 other African countries and for that, we earn a small commission of 4%, most of which goes to our payment provider. This is the same business as shopify, teachable, e.t.c There is no reason LIRS is hounding us for a backdated 5% royalty fee on all sales when we've clearly explained our line of business to them and shared everything to prove we are not a royalty based business.

What they're asking us to do is raise our pricing to extort these funds from our creators which is odd considering our creators still pay taxes on their income. No creator company in the world charges as high as even 5%.

Also, less payment gateway charges we get 1-3% max, so where do we pay backdated 5% fees from?

The government would have to decide if it wants the Nigerian creative economy to grow or not.

This conversation is important to me because we pioneered this industry of monetizing digital products online in Nigeria and today we host over 400k creators selling using our platform.

This is an opportunity for the government to show it's committment to making Nigeria work for young Nigerians especially in the creator economy.

Time and money we should be spending investing into our business and it's growth for the GDP of this nation is being spent in long back and forth.

We can't catch up with the west if this is what we're facing at home. Above everything else, disputes like this are distracting from the real work.

If anything, for all our CSR contributions to the education system in the country with our Smart Hustle Anti fraud initiative and our other efforts, we should be getting tax rebates, but we're not even asking for anything but to be left alone to build our business.

Thank you.

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

I canceled my Claude subscription and went back to chat. Chat just gets my business conversations and flow better and there have been so many improvements since I left it few months ago.

[ADEWUYI Roseline Adebimpe @AdewuyiRoseline]

In my first semester in the United States, something happened in a classroom that has stayed with me ever since.

The professor asked a question. I knew the answer, but I stayed quiet. Part of it was my personality. I have always been an introvert and wasn't the type to speak up often in class. Another part of it was how I had been trained academically. Back home in Nigeria, I had learned that it was often better to be absolutely certain before speaking. Accuracy mattered, and you didn't want to say something incorrect in front of the class.

After what felt like a long silence, the professor smiled and said, "There isn't necessarily one right answer. I just want to hear how you're thinking." That sentence stayed with me for a long time.

My education in Nigeria gave me an incredible foundation, discipline, and the ability to work through challenging material. I realized that I had become so focused on finding the right answer that I sometimes hesitated to explore possible answers.

Over the years, I came to appreciate that when it comes to learning, you do not need to have the right answer. You ask thoughtful questions, test ideas, listen to different perspectives, and be willing to grow.

That experience reshaped the way I approach both learning and teaching. Today, I value classrooms where students feel comfortable contributing. They need not know everything; they simply need to be encouraged to think, engage, and learn together.

Looking back, I don't see my Nigerian and American educational experiences as competing with one another. I see them as complementary. One gave me a strong academic foundation; the other encouraged me to find and trust my own voice.

For me, that has been one of the greatest lessons of studying in two different educational systems.

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

Social media: I’m beginning to feel negative about it.

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

Me every one hour : Du bist gut genugggggggggg 🎶🎤😅

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

I added to cart and didn’t checkout even though I really wanted it and could afford it. Glory!!!! I overcame 🥹😭

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

These allegations against Woo sik is crazy because my fave kdrama addict, Itunu gave Chang Wook Oppa a handmade gift and he took it and smiled at her days ago. Anyways, I won’t judge from one incident, let me see a pattern first.

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

@Pejuola_a That’s why I’m doing everything, one go later clear 🤣

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

@metronaija Who is talking? 😂😂😂 omg let me continue minding my business abeg.

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

My experience opening a business account with moniepoint has been terrible. Delete the account then, you say no. 🙄

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

Okay, I’ll start. What’s the worst that could happen? I’d sell off the machines and recoup 60% of my investments. 🥹 but I’ll be optimistic so I will do it with glee! 🤓

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

I think you should be ridiculously optimistic about life however it sways. Do it with glee, do it with a deep sense of wonder.

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

@_Thurba Beeni but I still Dey for you 🫶🏽

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

One day, I woke up and didn’t care anymore whether people engaged my business posts. As long as I see clients in the DM/website. I’m good

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

@_Thurba My love

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

@Deethevan What I hate is the fact that sorting out yourself is illegal. 😏 you won’t do it but I shouldn’t do it. But the estimated bills keep rolling in whether you show up or not! I had to get a sign log because they started lying about their frequency. Irresponsibility with wings. Tueh

[Oluwashantel @RealMotunrayo]

@Deethevan Must we always call their attention before what is necessary is done? Very annoying. I’m billed 20k per month for lawma, I pay religiously, they’ve only been to my estate once this year in February to pick the thrash but they’ve brought the bill twice (4 months) miraculously. 🙄