Between January And March This Year, 11 Nigerian Banks Generated ₦209 Billion From Account Maintenance Charges Alone. Not From Transfers. Not From SMS Alerts. Just For Keeping Customers Accounts Open. Add Every Other Bank Charge, And The Total Comes Close To ₦1 Trillion In Just 3 Months. Your Money Quietly Leaving Your Account, Little By Little.👀
BREAKING NEWS:
"I asked them to build a seaport in Igboland, but they refused. Instead, they allegedly offered to pay my family ₦300 million every month.
They are not really after me, Nnamdi Kanu. They are after the ordinary Igbo people, I simply happen to be standing in their way.
I also requested an international airport and a seaport for Igboland. They allegedly told me that if those projects were approved, the region would develop beyond Lagos. Rather than grant those requests, they reportedly offered me an additional ₦5 billion to remain silent.
I asked for equal rights and fair treatment for the Igbo people within Nigeria. Their response, they said, was that they would 'try their best.' Trying your best to treat my people as equal citizens of one Nigeria is unacceptable.
I then said, 'If that is the case, let my people have a referendum so they can decide whether to remain in Nigeria or leave.' Their answer, according to me, was that prison was the best place for me.
I am prepared to die for the Igbo people if Biafra is not achieved. The freedom of my people is the purpose for which I was born."
~Nnamdi Kanu had said from Sokoto prison
Have you noticed a troubling pattern in Nigeria?
Whenever a billionaire or self made millionaire shares wisdom, the first response is often: "But did he come from a rich/poor family?"
The average Nigerian prefers learning from someone who started poor because relatability feels safer than results. We romanticize struggle and distrust success that seems too distant.
This mindset is self limiting and unhelpful. Greatness is not a democracy. You do not have to come from poverty to teach excellence. Many of the best lessons come from those who mastered strategy, capital, networks, and execution at the highest levels regardless of their starting point.
Dismissing proven winners because they were not born poor is foolishness. It is a coping mechanism disguised as authenticity. True growth requires studying outcomes, not origins. Stop filtering success through envy. Study those who have won and adapt what works.
The game is hard enough. Do not reject knowledge that actually moves the needle.
BREAKING: Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Prof. Chukwunonye Moses Ojinnaka, has passed away.
During the Biafran War, he served as a Red Cross volunteer, helping to evacuate wounded Biafrans and soldiers and providing first aid and emergency care along war fronts stretching from Garkem to Abakaliki.
We have friends we no longer see because everyone is in rat race of casing what he/she would never get. We would all finally end up as food for the maggots..🤔