I got stranded one weekend and needed to make an urgent transfer, but Zenith Bank decided to misbehave. I called my girlfriend and asked if she could lend me the money, promising to send it back the moment my transaction went through.
She said, “I don’t think I can.”
I asked why, thinking maybe she had a genuine reason. She replied, “You know I don’t like taking money out of my savings.”
I asked again just to be sure I heard her correctly. She repeated the exact same thing.
I simply said, “Okay,” and ended the call. A few days later, I ended the relationship too.
It wasn’t even about the money. It was realizing I couldn’t count on the person I was planning a future with when I genuinely needed help.
Imagine trying to change your life, looking for an opportunity, and people already decide you’re a criminal. This video might be forgotten by many, but the damage to his name could last forever. Let’s learn to understand before we judge. 💔
You just made your first $1M. Your brain immediately jumps to the bigger house, the nicer car, that business idea you’ve been itching to execute.
Resist all of it, that instinct is exactly why most people who come into money are broke again within a few years.
The move nobody teaches you: do nothing.
Let it sit. Don’t deploy it, don’t try to flip it, don’t show it off. Park it somewhere safe that pays you while you think. Lock it into a 2–3 month yield-bearing instrument e.g T-bills, low-risk positions, safe and battle-tested protocols.
You’re not trying to get rich off it; you’re already there. You’re buying yourself time to think clearly and getting paid to do it.
Run the numbers. $1M at just 5% APR:
→ $50,000 a year → $4,167 a month → $137 a day
Every day you wake up, $137 landed in your account. You didn’t touch your principal. You didn’t lift a finger, and if that 5% compounds daily, you’re closer to $51,200 a year, the money starts making money on the money.
So before you spend a single dollar or naira, ask yourself one question: can this purchase pay for itself from the interest alone? If yes, you’ve earned it. If no, you’re eating your seed.
Anyone can GET money. Keeping it is a different skill entirely and it starts with the discipline to sit still while everyone expects you to splurge.
Sometimes parking it and letting it pay you is the best play ever. This is from experience, don’t joke with your once-in-a-lifetime SEED when it comes your way.
I no dey any group, clique or cabal for this X. Na God just dey push me through. For you wey no get any clique wey dey try make am. God go come through for you.
Bought 4 liters for 7k
12.5kg gas for 27.5k
And 44 units of nepa for 10k
@officialABAT, may your suffering be a thousand folds for what you're making us go through. Wallahi 1kobo i no forgive.
When the PDP was destroying Nigeria, fuel was N87, gas was 150, rice 8k/bag, dollars N190.
Today that Tinubu is fixing Nigeria, fuel is N1400, gas 2k, rice 65k, dollars N1400.
A man who lives in Taraba State was kidnapped.
The kidnappers demanded ₦50 million as ransom. After his family sold his properties and car, they were only able to raise ₦30 million.
They pleaded with the kidnappers, who later agreed to accept the ₦30 million. They instructed that the money should be delivered to a local government area called Karim Lamido. They also demanded that only one person should bring the money, warning that any slight mistake would cost the man his life.
When it was time to take the money, every family member said they could not afford to take such a risk.
The man's son was willing to take the money, but he was still a small boy and not yet 20 years old.
After a few days without hearing from the family, the kidnappers threatened to kill the man.
His mechanic, who had recently worked on his car and lived in the same area, heard about the situation. He visited the family and was informed about what was happening.
The mechanic accepted to deliver the ransom to the kidnappers.
Early the next morning, he left for Karim Lamido. When he got there, no commercial motorcycle rider was willing to take him to the location described by the kidnappers, so he had to trek for almost two hours.
Throughout the journey, the kidnappers stayed on the phone, directing him at every turn. The route was mainly cattle paths rather than roads people normally used.
When he reached the second forest, he saw two men waiting on a motorcycle. They called him over and told him to follow them.
According to him, one of the men was carrying an AK-47 rifle. He sat between them on the motorcycle, and at that moment, he said his final prayer.
The journey took another two hours before they arrived at another location, where four more men were waiting. They confirmed the money.
He did not see the kidnapped man there, but the kidnappers assured him that the man was alive and would be released immediately after the money was confirmed.
After confirming the ransom, the kidnappers released the victim in Gombe State. In fact, they put him inside a vehicle heading towards Taraba State, gave him his phone back, and allowed him to call his family to confirm that he had been released.
The kidnappers then instructed him to turn around and never look back. They gave him directions, and in less than ten minutes he was already back in Karim Lamido town.
It turned out that the kidnappers had deliberately given the mechanic a long and stressful route while bringing the money in order to confuse him. However, they later showed him the shortest route back to town, which took less than ten minutes.
The most remarkable part of the story was that the mechanic's wife was heavily pregnant and almost due to give birth during that period. Despite the risk, he chose to help a customer who had always brought his vehicles to his workshop.
fuel is no longer subsidized. even federal universities, which are supposed to be affordable, are now expensive. we're paying a fortune for gas. housing is out of reach for many people. security is non-existent.
so what exactly is the government doing for us?
Even if fuel gets to 5k per liter, I can still afford it.
But can I drive my car safely to anywhere in Nigeria?
That's why you should never gloat when very few of the citizens can survive a harsh economy.
If it's bad for you, it's bad for all.
That's why you're an idiot when you support the APC because you're benefiting from them.
You'd be the first victim from a failed government, because you have the money that the poor needs to survive.
No one gains anything when majority of the population live in abject poverty.
End.
Can I beg that after elections
All campaign buses be converted to Ambulances and donated across the country to save lives
Some can also be converted to school buses
A man spent 6 years in university studying Economics.
He cannot calculate his own tax returns.
His younger brother dropped out at SS2 to learn electrical installation.
He just finished wiring a N450 million hotel in Abuja cash.
We built a system designed to produce certificate holders, not solution providers. And we refuse to admit it is failing.
Think about what the Nigerian education conveyor belt actually produces.
3 years in secondary school learning about photosynthesis you will never use.
JAMB at 18, because your worth as a human being must be validated by a multiple choice test.
4 to 6 years in a university where ASUU strikes steal entire academic sessions.
Then 1 year of NYSC where you wear khaki and pretend the country has a future for you.
Then you enter the job market with a second class upper and discover that 500 other people applied for the same entry-level position that pays N80,000 a month.
That is not education. That is a processing system for producing docile, desperate labour.
Meanwhile the man who fixes your generator earns more than your bank job.
The woman who does your lashes earns more than your HND.
The plumber you waited 3 days to find charged you N35,000 for 2 hours of work.
The welder fabricating export-grade steel in Nnewi never sat for JAMB.
Nigeria has a youth unemployment rate above 40%.
Almost every unemployed young person in that statistic has a certificate.
Almost none of them have a trade.
We did not educate them. We certificated them. And there is a devastating difference between the two.
The world already moved.
Germany rebuilt its post-war economy on vocational training, not university enrollment rates.
South Korea’s technical colleges feed directly into its manufacturing export machine.
Dubai does not ask where you went to school. It asks what you can build.
Nigeria is still arguing about cut-off marks.
I am not saying university is useless.
I am saying a system that treats a plumber as inferior to a graduate accountant, while the plumber earns three times more and employs two apprentices, is a system lying to its own children.
Your child does not need a degree.
Your child needs a skill the market will pay for, the confidence to charge what they are worth, and a government that builds infrastructure around productive people instead of paper qualifications.
The classroom has a role but it is not the only room where a life gets built.
🚨 As a Kidnapping Survivor, I Can Tell You This: These Bandits Can Be Caught Easily
After confirming their location, the government can easily use night vision to track and attack them at night.
From my experience as a kidnapping survivor, these bandits are not as difficult to catch as people think. Most of them take hard drugs at night and sleep heavily until the next morning.
If not for the chains they used to lock us up, I would have escaped much earlier.
The government can deal with this problem if they truly want to. They know what they're doing, sha. 💔
At this point, na only God fit save person. 😭
You ppl should keep lying to yourself that religious leaders do not control their members.
A whole generation of Deeperlifers didn't watch TV for years because their G.O said so.
Witnesses are dying every other day because their doctrine do not allow blood transfusion. LOL