CRISTIANO RONALDO 7
Thank you for teaching a generation that talent is only the beginning. Hard work, discipline, and self-belief change everything.
Thank you for making me fall in love with the game. ❤️
“Don’t let anybody gaslight you, insecurity isn’t everywhere. In Ontario, Canada, when a 5-year-old goes missing, an Amber Alert hits every phone, TV, and radio instantly. I’ve never seen one where they didn’t catch the suspect within two hours.”
— Nigerian man living in Canada
Let me put you on to something (update) that can genuinely change your financial life for good.
Go to the App Store or Google Play Store and download any of these language learning apps: Duolingo, Babbel, or Busuu.
Pick one language and commit to it. French, German, Spanish, or Portuguese. Study consistently for 6 to 12 months, then sit the official certification exam for your chosen language.
- For French, that is the DELF/DALF exam.
- For German, it is the Goethe-Zertifikat.
- For Spanish, it is the DELE.
- For Portuguese, it is the CELPE-Bras.
These certificates are internationally recognized and that is what employers actually want to see.
Once you are certified, start applying. Here is where to look:
The United Nations Careers Portal (https://t.co/yhE1JecxDm) hires Translators, Interpreters, Language Editors, and Verbatim Reporters. These are mostly onsite roles in New York, Geneva, Vienna, or Nairobi. Entry-level salary starts around $60,000 to $80,000 per year.
The French, German, or Spanish Embassies in your country regularly hire Local Staff Interpreters, Cultural Program Officers, and Administrative Officers who are bilingual. These are onsite roles paying roughly $30,000 to $60,000 per year depending on country.
The European Union Careers Portal (https://t.co/nRbtXcVLUL) recruits Linguists, Translators, and Conference Interpreters. Mostly onsite in Brussels or Luxembourg. Starting salary ranges from €4,000 to €8,000 per month.
Platforms like ProZ, Upwork, and TransPerfect hire freelance Translators and Remote Interpreters. These are fully remote. Rates run between $25 and $60 per hour depending on your language pair and experience.
The African Development Bank, World Bank, and IMF also regularly post roles for Language Officers and Regional Interpreters, especially for French and Portuguese speakers across Africa.
One language. 6 to 12 months. A globally recognized certificate. That is all it takes to unlock doors that most people do not even know exist.
The information is free. The choice is yours.
Above all, love God.
This is not mine. This is yours. This is ours.
From all the players, staff and everyone involved in the club, to you guys who supported us every single day of the season.
Grateful for your love and support ❤️
I'll give you just 3 financial updates. Take them seriously.
1. Forget about building a house for now. That should be the least of your worries. That 50 to 100 million naira you want to waste on building can set you up for life. Even if you are not good at business or investing, simply put the money in Money Market Funds (MMF). You can do this through your bank or fintech apps like Opay, PalmPay, Cowrywise, and PiggyVest, where you can earn up to 20% annually. If you invest 100 million, you will earn 20 million naira every year while still keeping full access to your capital.
2. Save 30% of your income every single month and invest it consistently. Even If you earn as low as 100k naira monthly and save 30k, that is 360k in the first year. Put it in MMF or government securities and keep adding every month. Repeat this discipline for 10 years. With current double-digit returns, you will not have less than 8 million naira and you can easily cross 10 million if rates stay strong.
3. If you can afford a small car, buy one, maintain it properly, and use it for mobility and business. Stop attending important meetings and presenting proposals on bike or keke. A car puts you two steps ahead immediately.
Bonus tip: Instead of buying one land for 10 million and spending 100 million to build a house on it, buy 11 pieces of land. Do proper due diligence, surveillance, and documentation, then leave them for 5 to 10 years to appreciate. You could easily make nothing less than 500 million from that move.
Above all, love God.
I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Nigerian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all.
The Nigerian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Nigerian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr N250k/month Union Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all.
At. All.
The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that N1bn townhouse in Parkview Estate. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you.
So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable.
Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen.
That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the N300m house in Lekki that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing.
If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7.
Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place on Banana Island, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to Burna Boy. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist.
Them no really send any part of your papa at all.
@Drwhales_ On this debate, I will only listen to someone that has worked in both bank Gt and Access, he is the only person that can make the right judgement.
Samething goes to pple who do argue abt d best apps btw Opay and Moniepoint, I wil always listen to someone dat has used both apps