Sunday feels better when nothing needs to be rushed.
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Imagine being a defender and seeing Ronaldo waiting in the box. You can defend the cross, watch the run, track the header… and somehow he still finds the ball first. That aerial ability was ridiculous.
₦1,000,000 sitting untouched since 2012.
Here's what actually happened to it.
In 2012, that ₦1,000,000 was worth about $6,452.
Today, at the current official rate, it's worth roughly $755.
The naira number never moved.
The naira itself lost close to 90% of its dollar value.
You didn't spend a kobo of it.
It still quietly lost almost everything.
Here's the flip side.
$100 in dollar assets back in 2012 is still worth $100 of purchasing power today, no matter what the naira did in between.
Bamboo, Trove, and Risevest now let you start from $1 to $10.
You don't need to be wealthy to stop being fully exposed to this.
This isn't a call to abandon naira assets.
Top performing naira funds are still paying strong double digit returns right now.
The point is simpler than that.
Naira only exposure means every gain you make is racing against a currency that has lost ground for over a decade straight.
Holding both isn't fear.
It's just refusing to bet everything on one currency's future.
Which surprises you more, how much that million lost, or how little it takes today to protect the next one?
Not financial advice. Past FX movement doesn't guarantee future movement.
Any stat or criteria some player needed to win this year's Ballon d'Or ended at last season's club football and the world cup.
Anything you're doing now it's ahead of the next one, so y'all should stop this unnecessary debates after every game a player plays.