I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.
Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.
You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp
Today, we will be doubling down on eliminating all forms of corruption in universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in the South East.
We have launched https://t.co/oTbEuYeDq4
Every student's data will be highly protected and will never be shared without express authorization from them.
We want students to freely and safely report any form of admission racketeering, sorting, extortion, victimization, sex for grades, threats etc without any form of fear.
We will engage all the necessary authorities to ensure that every legitimate complaint is duly handled and justice served.
We want to sanitize our tertiary institutions and restore full integrity, to ensure that within 2 years we will start producing top quality graduates across board.
We will be the greatest workforce in Africa within 10 years and we are very serious about it.
Resilience isn’t talent — it’s repetition.
Life will bury you in doubt, failure, and exhaustion. But every time you rise again, you become harder to break.
The goal isn’t to avoid falling. It’s to become someone who refuses to stay fallen.
The thing most people will never tell you about wealth is that most wealthy people hardly form attachments to most of their property. Everything is transient. It is that mindset that helps compounding.
A car is meant to be used and sold or kept for sale in the future if it is a supercar that appreciates. Houses are meant to be bought and sold or used as collateral for more leverage. Every asset serves a purpose and if they are not appreciating, they are disposed of.
After I sold a car last year, I noted how much it was in dollars and looked at how much it could have appreciated if I put that money in the US stock market, and I now want to sell every car or every asset that I am not utilizing fully.
An apartment I was offered for £85k in 2007 is now £450 today in Salford. It was a rent-to-buy deal but the problem I had then was moving money across borders. So, I put the money back into the business and lost everything. Rich people don't get too attached to one business as well. It is why they invest and move assets around.
Wealth management is a game of information and access. Keeping liquidity is not because of flexing or enjoyment but for the purposes of multiplication. This is why I cringe when I hear that stupid Nigerian term “Money na Water.” It shows that some people are devoid of ideas.
“Money no be water, money na bullet.” Load your weapon and aim wisely.
Zoho is built for Nigerian businesses with local pricing that makes sense.
No dollar stress. No conversion chaos. Just tools for 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐇𝐑, 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭—all in one place.
Stumbled on a phenomenal Ghanaian entrepreneur last week and spent time to understand her business and her motivations. She is serving small shop owners in the area around where she lives and has 700 of them as customers already. She has a degree in Actuarial Science and a Masters in Computer Science. Almost about to start a PhD.
I convinced her not to raise anything yet. This is a business that is already profitable and can expand through partnerships. Helping her with those partnerships and giving her more support in the process.
What fascinated me the most is that she is running this startup from her living room and her car. She showed me her dashboard with all the small shops she is serving and pictures of products piled up in her living room. I even went outside and saw products inside her car.
Other people are struggling with ideas but she is doing it. This is the thing I found out about Ghanaian women from my early days here. They have more self motivation than most Africans I know. They just get shit done.
She reminds me of my wife’s aunt who runs the largest trading operation I have ever seen in my life here in Accra. That is the person I want to introduce her to next, as they have so much in common.
All she did was walk up to me and introduce herself at a conference. Now, I am introducing her to family members who can help. All thanks to #3iSummit