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Imagine earning ₦500,000 every month…
and still struggling to pay rent.
Your annual rent is ₦1.5m.
That’s just 25% of your income.
On paper, you’re doing well.
You pay one year's rent upfront,
breathe out, and move on with life.
And that’s where the trap starts.
You tell yourself:
“I have 12 months before this problem comes again.”
So you coast.
Life happens:
• school fees
• family emergencies
• daily expenses
• random ‘urgent’ bills
Then suddenly…
you’re 3 months to rent renewal.
Panic.
You can’t dedicate your full salary for 3 months to rent:
• you still have to eat
• you still need transport
• school fees somehow land at the same time
You manage to raise ₦900k.
For the remaining ₦600k, you take a fintech loan at 40 - 60% interest.
Just like that, you’ve turned rent into debt.
Not because you’re broke.
But because you didn’t plan.
You just traded 25% of your income for financial stress.
Here’s how this cycle is avoided:
If you saved ₦125k monthly (25% of income),
you’d hit ₦1.5m by the next rent cycle, stress free.
Better still:
Put it in a high yield savings account,
or invest in T-bills earning 15–20%.
Now rent comes due, and you have ~₦1.7m.
That's an extra ₦200k.
No loans.
No panic.
No enslaving your future self.
High income is not immunity from bad habits.
If you can’t manage ₦100k,
₦1m will only expose you faster.
We don’t rise to the level of our income.
We fall to the level of our habits.
Plan your life.
Not just your salary.
My 79 year old dad called me today after he went to the clinic. Ever since my mum died 4 years ago. We usually always talk everyday.
There are days he calls to tell me about what he cooked and ate, there are days he tells me about the latest neigbourhood gossips, there are days he calls just to tell me about his day and there are he calls just to check up on me and ask how I’m doing.
I know how much it means to him that I just listen and keep him company. Theres nothing I won’t do to make that man happy and satisfied.
I detest parents’ slanderers.
My wife, my wife, she has done a lot, but let me say this particular one.😄
I lost my job almost 5 years ago & after paying rent & spending on some other projects, I went flat broke.
My wife placed me on monthly allowance, was buying the food & sorting the bills at home.
She would send money to the joint account, my own account and when she wanted to buy things even with her own personal funds, she still gave me the unwavering respect; telling me before she spends on such.
She never disrespected me for once bacause I wasn’t able to provide financial covering, she never subtly passed a message of contempt, instead she covered me in my presence and absence and was still utterly submissive.
We would go out, she will give me the money or her ATM to pay as if the money came from me.
She gave me her laptop to start a program then and paid for what I needed pay for during the course.
She prayed, fasted and blessed me, she understood that we are partners, a unit and that when her king was down, she as the queen had to keep things running, she understood the assignment of a true queen in words and indeed.
There’s nothing I can’t do for her, except I don’t have it and even when I don’t have it, as soon as I get it, I do it, I will do more and will continue to do more for my Heaven’s Gem as the Lord bless me.💎❤️
97.6% of Nigerians earn less than 200k naira/month. Let me shock you more:
85% of Nigerians earn less than 100k naira per month.
Yes you read that right.
Almost 98% of Nigerians barely earn 140 dollars a month.
We are very loud, so classist, too arrogant and unbelievably poor.
A teacher once gathered young men in a village and said, “You say you want to work. You say you want to grow. You say you want to feed your families.”
The people nodded.
Then the teacher gave them sandals and said, “With these, you can move faster.”
But he did not give them books.
He did not teach them a skill.
He did not give them land to farm or tools to build.
So the people rejoiced and celebrated over the sandals. They wore them proudly. They defended the teacher anytime someone asked questions.
After a few years, their sandals were worn out. Nothing had changed. They were still begging at the same junctions, just arriving faster.
Meanwhile, the teacher sent his own children to distant lands to learn how the world works. When they returned, they did not wear sandals. They rode horses and sat in high places, ruling over the same people who once celebrated footwear.
And the teacher said to the people, “Show gratitude always. Now is the time to support my children as they sit on the throne. Did I not give you sandals?”
INALEGWU.
The most expensive thing in Nigeria is being poor.
People think poverty is just not having money.
But the real problem is what it forces you to do. Don't be confused. I'll explain.
When you don’t have money, you can’t plan ahead.
You buy things in bits.
Half a bag of sachet water, half a paint rubber of beans, small gas, a few cubes of maggi, etc.
Somehow, you end up spending more than the person who bought in bulk, paid once, and moved on.
If you have money, you buy something of high quality, and you’re done. If you don’t, you keep managing the same bad one, or you replace it with another low-quality one. Car owners can relate to this very well.
Fix today, fix next month, and the fixing continues.
The repairer knows you too well. Lol.
Tell me why a person should buy used tyres. After a few months, they go bad, and you're already trying to replace them. Whereas the person who bought a brand new tyre isn't thinking of replacing it. You end up spending more than he spent.
Health is worse.
When you’re broke and you feel sick, you don’t rush to the hospital. You wait. You try to manage it at home. Not because you want to, but because you’re hoping it will pass.
Sometimes it does.
Sometimes it doesn’t.
And when it doesn’t, the bill is bigger than it would have been at the start.
Where you live matters too.
You stay far because the rent is cheaper. Then transport eats you every day. By the time you get to work, you’re already exhausted. Na vex you go use dey enter office.
Money would have saved you time.
But you didn’t have it.
If you don't have savings, you are limited to choices. And when you don’t have choices, people decide things for you. Your landlord, your boss, even the system.
That’s why poverty is not just a lack of money.
It’s pressure from all sides, every passing day.
In Nigeria, money saves you money.
Poverty does the opposite.
INALEGWU.
There’s this babe I served with during NYSC. She fell in love with a fellow corper, and instead of chasing the city life, she chose love. She stayed back in Ebonyi because he did. He became a pastor. They got married. Built a home. Had two beautiful children. A whole life rooted in faith, sacrifice, and commitment.
Today, I found out she lost her husband.
Just like that. The love of her life. The man she built a life with. The father of her children. Gone.
It’s the kind of news that makes your chest heavy and your thoughts quiet. Life really humbles you. One day you’re building forever, the next day you’re learning how to survive without the person you thought you’d grow old with.
Please, love deeply. Pray for people. Hold your people tight. Tomorrow is not promised, but love love is still worth choosing.
God said a sister is your wife, you're saying she doesn't have bumbum.
Ok. 5 months into marriage, and you will quickly find out life is way more than body parts, and God knew your future before recommending a lady to you.
Be wise
We understand the Frustration of Nigerians in the Power Sector.
This Renewed Hope administration promised to improve the power situation of the country; there is still over 1 year and six months left to fulfill this promise.
Before this administration , All-Time Peak Generation Ever Attained was 5,801.60 MW in 2021.
This administration achieved a new All-Time Peak Generation of 5801.84 MW on 4th March, 2025.
My wife had visited to 3 non-African countries before she eventually left Nigeria but I’d not even touched a plane before…
My wife attended Babcock with a tuition close to a million, I went to unilag with 14,500 as my tuition…
My wife(then GF) was in the UK for one year before I miraculously joined her, she was not only out earning me, but she was also more exposed and there was no guarantee I’d join her. Yet, even having met loads of men with doings who wanted her by all means she still chose not to leave me, why?
Any love premised on “doings” is an unhealthy love. It’s a blatantly transactional love that would fail if it’s fairly treated.
If my wife miraculously starts earning than me tomorrow, my headship would remain unthreatened. She don guide pass me before and nothing happened.
If other men chose to commit to money-sexual haws who view men as ATM, I didn’t.
That’s probably why I do not take most men who think they can provide their way into the commitment or true submission of a woman seriously.
If a man chooses to commit and marry a woman that doesn’t have family values that’s his fault and his business. He should not wrongly translate that experience into wisdom just because it’s spanned the test of time.
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I don’t think we all understand how unhealthy this doings as proof of headship and husband works.
If a man gets sacked tomorrow or his wife starts making more than he does, he will start running helter skelter because he doesn’t rate himself or view himself as deserving of respect without having more money. And this thinking is simply because he and his partner has a flawed view on marriage.
This is why Nigerian men lose their jobs and are scarred to let their wives know. It’s also why Nigerian marriages fail abroad.
NIGERIANS DO NOT HAVE FAMILY VALUES!!
When you get married, you take marital vows that you’d submit your all to your marriage to make it work whether rich or poor, whether sick or poor…
If any person took their marital vows seriously, they defintely won’t think their wife’s money does not belong in the family.
Marriage says two has become one, not doings has made my wife stay.
You cannot negotiate or provide your way into genuine desire and true submission.
You ladies trying to clown on this man want the privilege of patriarchy without the responsibilities.
So suddenly you want the patriarchal norm to be followed and she should be the one to move.
But if it is switched and said you shouldn't have a career and should simply breed and cook, you'd fight for your life. That is literally another part of the patriarchy.
Ideas have privileges, responsibilities and consequences boss.
You cannot be Schrodinger's feminists when dealing with the patriarchy.
Love is either who has more of a needed thing gives it---irrespective of gender--- i.e a joining of equals, or it is following set patriarchal standards to the fullest.
You cannot adopt the privileges of an idea, and try to dodge the responsibilities and consequences.
I must say, Kevin De Bruyne in this position would pull out a pass that would leave both the defender and the keeper for dead. Such was his quality.
We will never find another like him.
in this world we live in, has that intention already to be the provider. The Bible passage that we so much attribute to Husbands providing for their families, is in fact misconstrued and was addressed to every single person who has a widow in his household.
I’m back from church now. I’d like to address this.
Firstly, let me say, I get the message he is trying to pass. However, what has made me decide to address his teaching is the bible verse he quoted. 1 Tim 5:8 to be precise. Which says “But if anyone does not provide for his…
“No matter how supportive or godly your wife is, if she carries the financial burden of the house for too long, it will take its toll on the marriage. She’s not built for it” — Pastor Lawrence Onochie
about we look unto God, as we are admonished in Phillipians 4:19. To supply all our needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Paul never asked that so much pressure be put on the husband to provide for his household, trust me every responsible husband already..