Raging ever forward into the dimming light.
Ever living fiercely, that the pestilence of the years may find you unafraid.
That you may touch the heavens and wrestle with hell.
A breath of wind and a voice of fire.
A life worth living no, a death worth dying.
Bought this teenage girl sewing machine and other sewing accessories after her madam set her free two weeks ago.....Gave her advice to leave small small boys and focus on her career...
Guess what?
Her mama called me this morning to tell me that her daughter sold the machine and bought Samsung phone for content creating.
I feel so bad right now.....My day is ruined already...
😭😭😭😭
Charity can be toxic.
When you’re always the helper, people stop seeing your support as a gift and start seeing it as your role.
So when you actually need help, they don’t know how to respond because the relationship was built them receiving, not on mutual support.
This life is funny man. I’ve paid fees and rent for a lot of people but when they text me when I’m down a bit they just stop talking to me. As if I shouldn’t have any struggles but constantly be their cheerleader and helper. Hurts a bit but let’s eat
During my IT I went to stay with my Uncle and his family.
The wife was a Banker.
One night I heard him telling the wife that the Canada process is taking so much from him
Mentally and financially.
She said she got the house.
He should just focus on other stuff
After that night,we started eating good 😊
Not like we weren’t eating good,but she made sure he knew that she meant it when she said she got the house.
They are all in Canada now.
I’ll never understand the concept of not letting your wife work.
Makes no sense to me.
This brings me back to our argument about professional and unprofessional players.
I told you people that the difference between professionals and unprofessionals is fitness, not talent. People kept arguing that you can't be better than anybody in Europe. What you lack is opportunity. Who don sabi don sabi. Football is a gift.
Zadok had not played one minute of professional football in Nigeria. He was spotted by a scout and sent to Sweden to play with and against professionals. In a year, his impact in Sweden got him a big move to Brighton.
From grassroot to dominating Swedish top league to moving to Brighton. "The best player in Nigeria cannot be better than the lowest ranked player in division 3" una. Go pursue am na
Wisdom from my past days; fall for the first test always so they think you're an easy lick... they throw em selves afterwards expecting heaven, hell they will receive.
Play sucker to catch a sucker
We need to stop promoting these fatuous and simplistic “big bad West” narratives as a counterpoint to African development, which appeal to the visceral sentiment by repeating a “primordial fact of all history”- nations seek to dominate others for the benefit of their citizens.
1) The international market economy is NOT a branch of the International Red Cross
2) African nations are very much capable of directing their own resources and navigating the interminable course of their own destinies. To argue otherwise is to deny them of agency - 60 years after independence (where was China 40 years ago?)
3) You don’t hear that argument in Asia which shares a similar experience of colonialism.
4) Dangote and Kasapreko and Aba leather goods, etc are selling across Africa.
I said the narrative is simplistic. Let me tell you a story. I have spent the last 5 years and millions of my own money having invented a digital system for local currency Exchange (a retail component of the PAPSS currency exchange) that allows Africans (54 countries, 42 different currencies) to use their local currencies for cross-border trade (USD exchange depletes national reserves and attracts $5.3 billion in yearly costs).
The U.S. government through its Commercial Service and Embassies, has left no stone unturned to make this project successful.
And African Central Banks? Only very few have responded positively. Can you guess what it takes to secure a regulatory license in Africa? 3- 4 years of undiluted pain and a boatload of money. (The process takes about 3 months here in the U.S.)
Make of this fact what you will.
We’re not ready for prime time
Nigerians paid over ₦2.3 trillion to kidnappers in one year.
Our entire federal education budget was about ₦2.18 trillion.
Think about that.
We invested more in fear than in learning.
More money went to criminals than to educating our children.
No nation can develop when kidnapping becomes a bigger industry than education.