Why Many People Are Poor
Nobody needs an iPhone 17. They may want it. But they don't need it. You don't even need a phone. Until you understand what a need is, you will always go broke because you are using your scarce resources to fulfil your wants. A need is something that is an absolute requirement.
You need food, water, shelter, clothing, love, education, security, respect and the opportunity to pursue your own happiness. Outside of these, almost everything else is a want.
And there are some needs, such as sexual intercourse, that you control, in that you do not start having them unless and until you open the door. Which is why people, like me, have taught sexual abstinence until you marry. Once you start, your body will find it difficult to stop, which is why the Creator designed it for the institution of marriage.
When you understand this discipline, you will have better clarity on how to manage people, time and money.
Sadly, most people in our society do not understand the difference between their needs and their wants. Which is why you see people with expensive wigs, iPhones, designer clothes, and who went to a club or lounge the previous night, begging for loans to pay their house rent, buy food or settle their children's school fees.
If you live by discipline, you will not need to pray to meet your necessities.
Many people living in multi-dimensional poverty are right now thinking of how to raise money, not to start a business, or to meet their needs, but to catch fun this Christmas.
Our desire for immediate pleasure is often why we do not have an eventual treasure.
Capital is not the problem with many of our people. We can always raise capital, even if it is small. The challenge is what we do with it.
For example, look at how many Nigerians were victims of loan apps before the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission intervened.
But here is the issue with that: All those people accessed the loan apps via their smartphones. That means they already had enough capital to start a small business in the first place.
How much did Mohammed Yunus, through his Grameen Bank, give as capital to help people in Bangladesh escape poverty? As little as $5!
Nature will provide you with enough to meet your need, but not your greed. But if you try to satisfy your wants before your needs, the same nature will humble you because you are not mature.
Look at it this way: If you cannot manage your need, why would God and man give you wealth and power?
You see that in society, where people breed and have children when they don't have an income and accuse their relatives of being wicked if they refuse to help them raise their family.
You do not need an immediate family if you have no income. You need a job or business. And it does not matter if time is going by and you are ageing. Let time go. Let age come. Those are not criteria for expansion. Growth in your family should ONLY come with a rise in your income.
If the Black Race can understand and implement this, we will end poverty in one generation. And with poverty gone, its evil twin, insecurity, will also go.
Focus on developing a strong sense of self-esteem and self-respect so that your purchase decisions are driven by your needs rather than societal pressure.
I go back to what I started with-an iPhone 17. You don't need it.
Recently, I spent time with Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the wealthiest Black person on Earth. He does not have an iPhone 17. Instead, he uses a regular Samsung Android phone.
A phone is a communication device, not a status symbol.
As we end the year, if the most expensive thing you bought was a phone, especially one that you do not need, your 2026, should God spare your life till then, should be devoted to acquiring the discipline of prioritising your needs over your wants.
Surely, some people will call you stingy. But guess what? Only a beggar is an expert at identifying stingy people!
frica, 2024.
@IshaqKirki@Sarki_sultan Gaka dai a fuska kamar me hankali, Amma tunanin ka na tumakai ne, jahilin Banza.
Sbd yana saka maka data dole ka kareshi, dayake Kai mutumin Banza ne tunanin ka inda yaje kenan.
AI duk mutun Mai mutunci yasan abunda yayi babban Abu ne Wanda ya kamata ma yaji kunyar mutane
NITDA TO ESTABLISH ICT CENTER IN INGAWA LG
Following my official request to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) few days ago, I am happy to share that the Management of NITDA has graciously approved the establishment of fully-equipped Digital Learning Center (DLC) for Ingawa Fellowship Forum in Ingawa Local Government Area, Katsina State, under the 2025 NITDA Intervention Projects.
This forms part of the Agency's mandate to empower Nigerian Citizens with digital skillsets towards improving digital economy and achieving the national target of 70% digital literacy penetration by 2025.
This also aligns perfectly with the vision of Ingawa Fellowship of building an inclusive and innovative ecosystem for youth development by providing platforms, tools, and mentorship packages that promote educaon, leadership, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement through suite of programs including digital literacy training.
While assuring our commitment to this noble mandate, we take the moment to register our profound appreciation to the DG, Mr Kashifu Inuwa and the entire management for finding us worthy of being partners in this very important journey to digitizing Nigeria.
Jumaโat Kareem.
Innalillahi Waโinna Ilaihi Rajiun
Death has occurred on Renowned Islamic Scholar, Shaikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi.
May Allah accept his soul and grant his family the strength to bear the loss.
It is with a heavy heart and complete submission to the will of Allah (SAW) that we receive the news of the passing of our revered leader, Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi, one of the leaders of the Tijjaniyya order in Nigeria. May Allah forgive his shortcomings, accept his noble deeds and grant him Jannatul Firdaus. Ameen.
@MSIngawa@Ingawafellows@ProfIsaPantami Dan Allah oga @MSIngawa akwai qauyukan da ke buqatar taimakon Ku a ingawa, tunda Allah yasa idan Kun fada za'a ji,
Akwai irin sun Jama'ar gurgawa and manomawa. ba asibiti ba makarantu, Shekaran jiya ina jema'a wlh ko wutar nepa basudashi, haba a 2025 muke fah, pls kuyi magana.
I want to see the Islamic Terrorists that Trump and America want to come and kill in Nigeria๐
Even we Muslims would want them completely wiped out because we are more victims than any group.
I hope they start with Turji and his cronies.