As undergraduates with no business acumen, my friends and I joined competitions not only for prestige, but for survival. The prize money, many times, was our lifeline.
Almost a decade ago, we were invited by UNILAG to participate in the Taiwo Afolabi Maritime Blueprint Debate. @ifeakinteye, then President of the Maritime Club, asked @OJayansola and me to represent OAU. But there was a problem: we had no transport fare to Lagos.
We checked the prizes for 1st–3rd place and told ourselves there was no way we wouldn’t make the top three. We borrowed money for the trip, confident that even third place would cover our transport back, repay our loan, support the Association, and keep us afloat.
We arrived at UNILAG determined. We prepared like our lives depended on it, because, in a way, they did. After the first round, however, we were announced as eliminated. I buried my head in my hands and said to @OJayansola, “Ah, ti wa ti ta, a ma rin lo si Ife loni” which can be translated to mean “We’re ruined; we’ll have to trek back to Ife today.”
Then, a few minutes later, the organizers discovered a mix-up: we had actually topped that round. I screamed, not just out of joy, but relief. We went on to the finals and eventually came second, right after UNILAG.
The reward was Prize money, new mobile phones, and a special dinner with Dr. Taiwo Afolabi himself, who even sponsored @OJayansola to New York for another conference.
That experience wasn’t unique; it was our reality back in OAU. When others saw us as overprepared or intense, they didn’t realize that winning was our only ticket home.
This is the lesson for me: you don’t need two or three or four things to make a living. Sometimes, you only need one. But you must pursue that one thing as if your life depends on it.
@Mayorjohnson1@DailyPostNGR Dear @JAMBHQ ,
I'm writing to express my deep concern and frustration about the 6:30 am exam timing. This schedule has brought immense stress and hardship to my family and me. I still recall the trauma I experienced when I missed an exam due to the early start time. Now, my
@Mayorjohnson1@DailyPostNGR Can jamb just be written in schools around like WAEC, all these having to go as far as another town to write exam is archaic @JAMBHQ
Vasectomy is not the end of masculinity and the facts prove it!
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You can be many things today, I'll implore you to please #bekind. Everyone is going through their own battle, even the "annoying colleague". Behind the stand ups, framework, deadlines, we are all human.
Check up on your colleagues.
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@DavidEboh5@whitenigerian You've still not answered the question.
Why will you remain in a 30k monthly employment with 4 dependants?
If you bring more value you earn more exchange. It's as simple as that .
@wenkyguy@DavidEboh5@whitenigerian I sense rhetorics in your question but just in case you’re interested; the answers to these questions are quite apparent if you stay in Nigeria
You’ll have “business” in a paid employment of 30k, if there are no other options that will compensate your skill set for what you…
@wenkyguy@DavidEboh5@whitenigerian … can do
Also, over here, there’s a huge mismatch between the value you exchange and the compensation get for it. The compensation is not compensating anything cos inflation has even killed it on arrival which I think @DavidEboh5 tweet was insinuating