Alexander

| Cybersecurity | Penetration Tester enthusiast | Hack The Box CPTS Certified | Red Team | Active Directory Red Team | Believer Of God

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

You become what you think, your daily thoughts your reality.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Phew. I will ruffle feathers with this one but fuck it.

If you're dating a man who is (by all standards comfortable) & 1 year plus he's not the one constantly driving the conversation of marriage -

He doesn't see you as his wife.

A man that knows, needs less than 3 months.

[Talk2veee @talk2veee]

Marriage rules of engagement & relationships cannot be the same at all.
I saw where they said it’s for both genders,when we know it’s men that were being addressed

Giving the sole power of pleasure to one person,you’ll only get it when they feel like,that’s weaponization

[Ben X @Benn_X1]

Hmmm. We really don’t want this.

Niger and Chad also count as diaspora.
The rigging and manipulation will be unheard of.

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

The move of all moves

Imagine they can bring their game in and earn from it

Game creator economy.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

One of the greatest tragedies of Nigerian society is how we have managed to turn honest labour into a source of shame.

In London, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada and other developed societies I have visited recently, a cleaner is not automatically considered inferior. A carpenter is a professional. A plumber is a skilled worker. A construction labourer is a productive member of society.

People earning minimum wage are not automatically stripped of their dignity.

You can meet a cleaner driving a beautiful car, living in a decent home and raising children with confidence. Not because every cleaner abroad is wealthy, but because society has built systems that give ordinary workers a better chance at a decent life.

Now come to Nigeria.

A cleaner is often treated as someone who has failed in life. A security guard can be insulted by someone whose only achievement is having more money. A carpenter is looked down upon until his services are urgently needed. Domestic workers are sometimes treated as though poverty has cancelled their humanity.

We have created a society where the dignity of a human being is increasingly measured by the size of their bank account, the car they drive, their job title and the people they know.

And this is destroying us.

The same Nigerian who respectfully greets a cleaner in London may return to Lagos or Abuja and humiliate someone doing exactly the same job.

What changed? The occupation or our mentality?

There is something fundamentally troubling about a society where the people who clean our hospitals, construct our homes, maintain our roads, protect our buildings and repair our infrastructure can work tirelessly and still struggle to afford the most basic necessities of life.

Meanwhile, we celebrate unexplained wealth and sometimes give more social recognition to people who produce absolutely nothing of value.

This is one of the contradictions we must confront if we genuinely want to build a civilized nation.

Civilization is not measured by the number of billionaires a country produces. It is also measured by how ordinary people are treated, how fairly productive work is rewarded and whether someone can earn an honest living without surrendering their dignity.

A country cannot develop sustainably when young people would rather appear wealthy than become productive because society respects the appearance of success more than the value of work.

The cleaner is not inferior to the banker. The carpenter is not inferior to the engineer. The labourer is not less human than the politician.

Their responsibilities, skills and earnings may differ, but their human dignity must never differ.

Nigeria must become a country where honest work pays enough to sustain a decent life, where vocational skills command respect and where no child grows up believing that becoming a cleaner, mechanic, farmer or artisan makes them a lesser human being.

The real disgrace is not earning a living by cleaning toilets. The real disgrace is building a society where someone who cleans toilets honestly cannot live with dignity, while someone who steals public money is celebrated.

Until we correct this mentality, we will continue producing a generation that worships wealth instead of productivity.

Is our biggest problem poverty, or have we also developed a culture that disrespects the very people whose labour keeps society functioning?

[‘Wale Adejimi @Ifwal95]

I didn’t fully understand the concept of mortgages vs Rent until I invited a financial advisor to my home while living in the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

Growing up in Nigeria 🇳🇬, all I knew was that my parents would take loans year after year to gradually build their house. That was my understanding of homeownership. I wasn’t really educated on how mortgages worked or how buying a home could compare financially with renting.

So one day, I invited a Dutch financial advisor to our home.

My wife and I welcomed him into our living room, and we started discussing our financial situation.

He asked several questions about our income, expenses, savings, and even requested some supporting documents.

Then he proceeded to educate us on how we could build wealth through homeownership.

He introduced me to a website called Funda, where we could search for properties within our budget.

I started searching for houses, and when we eventually found one we liked, he ran the numbers and calculated what our monthly mortgage payment would look like.

To our surprise, the monthly mortgage payment was LOWER than what we were paying in rent! 😭😂

I was like, wait ooo, so we could actually own a house and pay less monthly than what we’re paying someone else’s landlord? 😂😂

But there was one challenge!

We couldn’t find anything affordable in the city where we were renting.

However, we eventually found a perfect home about 30 minutes away.

That meant I would have to give up my daily bicycle rides to work and start commuting instead. 😂

Thankfully, my employer covered public transportation costs from anywhere in the Netherlands to the office.

So basically, I could commute to work for FREE! 😂

That solved the problem!

We proceeded with the mortgage application, got approved, and eventually moved into our own home! 🏡🇳🇱

And here’s the interesting part:

Throughout the time we owned that house, our monthly housing payments never reached what we had previously been paying in rent!

We even had MORE SPACE than we did in our rented apartment!

Of course, buying a home comes with other costs and responsibilities, and it isn’t automatically the better financial decision for everyone.

But in our own case, it turned out to be a very good decision.

Now, let me tell you the most interesting part of this story. 😭

When we eventually decided to relocate to the United States 🇺🇸, we realized that we had actually built up equity in our Dutch home!

Something we wouldn’t have accumulated through rent payments if we had continued renting.

We eventually sold the property, and the equity we had built became a major part of the down payment for our first home in America! 🇺🇸🏡

Imagine that! A house we bought in the Netherlands helped us become homeowners in the United States.

That’s when I truly appreciated what that Dutch financial advisor had taught us in our living room.

One lesson I learned is that sometimes, getting an affordable home means being willing to live a little farther from your workplace, especially when you’re working with a limited budget.

And sometimes, all you need is someone who understands the financial system to sit you down and explain the opportunities available to you.

Financial education is really important!

[Tofunmai @Tofunmaii]

@bigbrutha_ Yes I agree but there’s something Jay-Z said (can’t say it in the exact words) about, they don’t mean bad for you, they just don’t see what you see, so they are kind of scared for you which might limit you, so you need to be crazy enough to just do what they think shouldnt be don

[UG @UgwunnaEjikem]

The devil works hard but Shalom works harder👏👏👏

[Àgbà John Doe (back up) @jon_d_doee]

The US is a very funny country.

They don't want to be subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC and are sanctioning it.

If that be the case, all other persons that have been convicted and imprisoned by the ICC should be freed and all countries should cease to recognize it.

AJD.

[UGO @icparklins]

Hi Nate, How long are you in London for?

I’d love to host you for lunch this weekend and chat briefly on the future of women’s health, particularly how proprietary longitudinal datasets could unlock an entirely new frontier in clinical research + how MOmsi Health is driving it.

[Walid Ladeb @ladebw]

You just need 17 flips, what's in your minds folks!!

[Àgbà John Doe @jon_d_doe]

Because a woman is a woman.

And women punish weak men.

They don't have to comment.

Women don't expose themselves like men do.

But they're very calculative.

You snooze, you lose.

End.

[Greg Nwoko 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 @nwoko_greg62705]

@realFFK Thanking you for confirmatory post.
It wouldn’t have been allowed to happen in Tripoli.

[Julian Dumebi Duru @julian__duru]

as old as time

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

I shudder to imagine the kind of deals that Tinubu is cutting with Trump, Macron, et al. It is scary..🇳🇬😰

[Àgbà John Doe @jon_d_doe]

If you want to preserve your friendship or relationship with a family member, do not lend them money.

Especially family members.

If you do not have money to dash them, then do not lend them.

Most relatives deliberately come to you because they do not intend to pay back.

End.

[toniWoni🇯🇲 @heytoniwoni]

How did school teach us about the Amazon so much & never once mention the Congo Basin? It's the world's largest tropical carbon sink. The planet is literally breathing through it & nobody thought we should know 😳

[Akinwumi @Big_marvis]

You all should listen to the uncomfortable truth

[Alexander @ik_again]

@X0Ben7 @Bugcrowd Congratulations