Chimobi Maxwell

Data Scientist || Banker || Writer

[Chimobi Maxwell @chimobi_maxwell]

Amidst the raging pandemic, asteroid moves and economic meltdown. I urge you to stay safe. It's a passing phase.

Don't worry
Be happy

#Akure
#StaySafeNigeria
#ImamOfPeace

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

Marriage is wonderful if you find the right person, but it's not something you should aspire to. Don't aspire to marriage, instead aspire to be a better version of yourself - Writer Chimamanda Adichie tells women.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The key identifier of an "elite" class is not merely their bank account balance but their ability and willingness to use their economic and political heft to shape the society around them.

That's why a hereditary landowner and member of the UK House of Lords is considered an elite, while your average Premier League footballer (who may have more money than the HoL member) is not. The difference is in the willingness and ability to wield that power meaningfully.

The reason I keep on saying 'Nigeria has no elites' is that I was born and raised among the subset of Nigerians who erroneously consider themselves to be elite, and I am very familiar with their thought process. It is the exact same thought process that you would get from a sugarcane seller in Mile 12 market if overnight he was given a house in Maitama, a Lexus SUV, a beautiful yarinya and N150m in the bank.

The nouveau-riche sugarcane seller would not be concerned with higher thoughts like how to use his newfound fortune to transform the economic reality of Mile 12 market while positioning to benefit from the transformation. Nope. He would only be concerned with ensuring that he keeps hold of what he has, so that he never has to sleep in a wheelbarrow on a side street off Ikosi Road again.

That's exactly what the privileged Nigerian is upstairs - a sugarcane seller who happens to live in Ikoyi. No matter how many decades they have spent in Ikoyi, their reality is still defined by the desperate quest to escape or avoid poverty. Every Nigerian millionaire or billionaire that you know feels financially insecure. Doesn't matter whether they are worth $1m or $25bn - they are all viscerally terrified of sinking into poverty, and the sum of their decision making is a series of short term deals and compromises to avoid poverty, without any kind of higher, long-term guiding principle.

I know this especially well because I was raised in a house where everybody who is somebody in Lagos stopped by once in a while to work on a real estate deal with my old man, and I would regularly overhear everybody from bank CEOs to retired military generals and air vice marshalls saying things "Our leaders are [insert whiny complaint]." And I would wonder - who are the "leaders" that these extremely privileged people sound so oppressed and intimidated by? Is it not their friends and coursemates from Jaji?

Later on it made sense when I realised that once you are in power in Nigeria, you become God, and even your family changes its rules for you. I've seen families override their olori-ebi because one 50 year-old uncle became somebody in Abuja. Conversely, as soon as you leave power in Nigeria, you sink into total irrelevance and people treat you like your body has a smell. The entire Nigerian sense of value and self-worth is welded to money and power. Once you don't have these 2 things, you might as well be wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak - even your family and contemporaries stop treating you with respect.

The effect this has on elite formation is that unlike in other societies where elites gravitate toward different ideas shared by different camps, and then fight for the right to imprint those ideas on their society (Democrat vs Republican; Maoist vs Dengist; Tory vs Labour etc), privileged Nigerians ONLY gravitate toward one thing - economic power. They have no elite sense of identity outside of money in the bank, a 4-wheeled status signaller on the road, and an overpriced house in a neighbourhood that has a constant bad odour and potholes.

That is also why Nigeria's political actors do this thing called "decamping" where they switch affiliation to whatever political party is in power. Their entire conception of the world is built around access to the levers of economic power so that they can avoid ending up in a wheelbarrow in Mile 12 market.

That's literally all there is to Nigeria.

200 million sugarcane sellers.

[Dele Olawanle @dolawanle]

One of my ‘sons’ in Nigeria said he attended the American Embassy in Abuja yesterday for an interview. He paid over N300,000, and he said it lasted less than one minute. The woman said, “You have never traveled before. Why don’t you go to South Africa?” He said the woman was just refusing everyone who appeared before her.

Our leaders need to make our country better. These embassies are milking and humiliating our citizens.

[Chimobi Maxwell @chimobi_maxwell]

@Aliumogaji_jnr ...adjacent angles

[Apprentice Psychologist @tolustine]

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[Plateau Asian girl🌟 @CatiaKyen]

This is the longest soul piercing piece I've read in recent times😢

Written By An SS 3 Girl Named Uren, GSS Manguna, Bokkos, Plateau State. An eye witness account:

My name is Uren. I am from Hurti, a small village in Daffo, Bokkos LGA of Plateau State. I am in SS3 at GSS Manguna.

In Bokkos LGA, we farm potatoes, maize and whatever the land agrees to yield, because that is what we know best. That is how we survive. Occasionally, we trade. But it is the land that feeds us.

At the weekend, my people, the Ron and Kulere, held our yearly festival. People came from all over. Not because everything was all right, but because the festival gave us strength. It reminded us that we are still here. We are still alive. And even though we keep losing people, we cannot stop living. Besides, we know everyone will die someday.

On Wednesday morning, before the sun rose, my mother reminded me that we needed to head to the farm early, before the heat turned cruel and our energy, too drained to respond. There is always work to be done on the farm; come rain, come sun, dry or green. Life in our village follows that rhythm.

[Chimobi Maxwell @chimobi_maxwell]

@CatiaKyen 😢

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Travel and exposure is the antidote to a scarcity mindset.

[Naval @naval]

Nobody who’s actually good at making money needs to sell you a course on it.

[Sweet Dopamine | Autonomous Trading @web3superai]

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[Chimobi Maxwell @chimobi_maxwell]

@teneikaask_you I'm in. LFG!

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

When I see pitches from people who don't know me and are just trying their luck, I feel a pang of sadness, but I do what I have to do and tell them the truth. Try to make good friends, and those friends will be the people who help you to move forward. Strangers rarely help.

[boobae @love_oluebube]

Igbo men in business >>
Passing this guys shop and he holds my hands, Asa kee ife ochó,
Me: I don’t want anything
Him: I have it
Me:ehhh???
Him: I’ve it, the ‘I don’t want anything” enwe’m ya

We both started laughing 😂😂
Me: kee ya kam fu😂😂😂

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

If you are in SS2 or SS3 and wish to school abroad without paying any fees or paying very little fees. Here are very important things to do right now

- Start learning German. Universities in Germany are free if you can speak German with a minimum of B1 or B2. Also you will need block funds.

- Enroll on EtonX right now. This is an alternative to course rigor which gives you a significant advantage on your university applications. You can get the discounted full course license for Nigerians here https://t.co/aazdeJevE9

- Prepare and write your SAT. Ensure you obtain a very high score. This will give you great advantage for US universities.

- Pay serious attention to your studies and do very well in your WAEC or IGCSE exams. You can prep here https://t.co/dnjSLGbm07

- Research on Universities in Austria, Netherlands and Switzerland. You can pay really low fees is their federal universities. For instance, in Austria you can pay as low as £1500/year

Schooling abroad right now is almost unattainable for most Nigerian parents because of Fx challenges.

Use your internet wisely and do more research.

[Chimobi Maxwell @chimobi_maxwell]

@FinPlanKaluAja1 "If you want peace, prepare for war"

[That Guy. @Kennyabundance]

I indulge every African to be a Pan African, everyone should carry Africa's development on their heads.

The only way we will get the respect we deserve in the world, will be when we decisively choose our leaders according to their own credibility, integrity and not the American sponsored Africa media propaganda, the way it was done for Buhari and T-pain.

During Goodluck's time, many Africans, including me left europe after schooling because we saw that the future with him will be great.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

@OlusanyaIge This has to happen. It's as simple as that. There are 200 million of us and a few thousand US puppets eating our futures.

We will kill them, or they will kill us.

It is that simple.