"Nigerian society is no longer celebrating academic excellence. It’s not even Yahøø culture anymore; now we have a 'Peller culture.' This 'Olodo' uprising we are witnessing is terrible. It feels like we are trying so hard to accommodate ignorance so people won’t feel bad, and now they seem to be the majority. The massive att@ck on Nigeria’s educational system is alarming, aside from kidn@ppings and Bøko Haram att@cks."
—Ycee
Investing in people still remains the best investment
Yes some will betray you but overall, it’s the best investment.
Infact I will be specific. Invest in men.
Always go to the funeral. Always go to the hospital. You don't need to know what to say.
In times of profound crisis, people don't remember your words, they only remember whether you showed up for them at their lowest moment.
“I’m a strict dad because the world is harsh. When parents say they don’t want their kids to struggle like they did, they forget that those struggles helped shape them into hardworking and critical thinkers.”
Pharrell Williams.
The only advice i would give a son is the world hates you until you become useful. then it pretends it never hated you, and you must remember that it did, or you will start believing the love is real. and that is how they tame you
I was watching a podcast by a Nigerian billionaire and it got me thinking.
Say what you want about the stereotypes, but Nigerians are very intentional about generational wealth. Very deliberate. Very strategic.
This man is in his 60s and has done almost every major accounting certification there is. He’s a chartered accountant in the UK, the US, and Nigeria. That level of discipline tells you everything.
He said all his children hold positions in his companies. Even though they are employed elsewhere, they attend every board meeting.
Every year, the family goes for an annual business retreat. Not vacation, business retreat. And every child has signed an agreement that they will pass financial knowledge to their own children.
That is design.
You see the same pattern with Aliko Dangote. His daughters hold senior leadership roles within the business structure. That’s intentional succession planning.
Now look at John D. Rockefeller. His wealth did not survive for over a century by accident. The Rockefellers created trusts. They built governance systems. They held structured family meetings. They trained their children about money, responsibility, and stewardship from a young age.
They didn’t just transfer money; they transferred knowledge and systems. And that is why the name still carries weight 100 years later. Wealth respects structure. Generational wealth is never an accident. It is engineered.
The Greeks and Romans once sat at the feet of the ancient African kings of Kemet, now known as Egypt. Admiration turned to jealousy, then to contempt and invasion. How soon we forget.
The Greeks came to Egypt (Kemet) as students to learn what Africans already knew, only to return later to invade, destroy the great libraries, scatter the people, and then the Arabs invaded again.
Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years.
Pythagoras studied philosophy, geometry, and medicine in Egypt for 22 years.
Thales, the first Greek philosopher, studied in Egypt for 7 years.
Hippocrates, called the father of medicine, recognized the Egyptian multigenius Imhotep as the true father of medicine.
The "Pythagorean Theorem" was used to build the pyramids in Egypt 1,000 years before Pythagoras was born.
Plato said Egyptian education makes students more alert and humane.
He told his students to go to Egypt if they wanted to deepen their understanding of great philosophers.
Herodotus, the Greek historian, described ancient Egypt as the cradle of civilization.
Never forget.
Life is so unserious. One minute you’re praying for certain things, years later you have them and don’t even notice. You just keep wishing for more. Desire never really stops — that’s why gratitude matters.