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A windfall is not automatically wealth. It only becomes wealth when it starts protecting you, paying you, and improving your ability to earn.
If you somehow find yourself with ₦20M, ₦100M, ₦1.4B or any amount of money you've never received as a lump sum before, your job is simple:
Make sure no one in your bloodline ever has to ask this question again.
Do not just spend it. Convert it into a system.
Here's how to think about it🧵
You see that “East Is Not Safe” agenda? It will die a natural death.
See how over 4k people gathered to watch Onyedikachi, Bruno, and Boniface who are millionaires in dollars play football, yet no one harassed them, no one disrupted the match, and no one extorted money from them. Even during the game, random people voluntarily helped direct movement so everyone could be comfortable.
That shows you how Ndi Igbo behaves “Na who love us we go love.”
That clout-chasing APC fat ass nigga will come back home with 11 police escorts, and if you ask him why, he’ll tell you, “The East is not safe.”😤
Still can’t believe my wife made us pay our rent way ahead of time and stocked up the house with food, prepaid meter unlimited, just before we started wedding expenses 😂 😂
Married for more than a decade now.
I have never thought of that question before.
Have we quarreled? Yes. But how we manage the quarrel was a different thing. I am using the word "was" here because we rarely do nowadays.
Having conflict resolution skills is very important in marriage.
The first few years were used to be totally truthful and transparent. It is the only way we know how to grow.
One thing for sure is, I have enjoyed this marriage with my wife.
But for the young guys out there, getting here is not luck.
You have to be smart about who you pick.
Anybody can fake it for the first few months.
The oldest trick is just acting exactly how you want them to act, just to pull you in.
They will hide the crazy until they think you are locked in.
So take your time. Tell her "no" and see what happens.
Watch her when she is mad or stressed out.
That is when you see who she really is.
Watch what happens when she makes a mistake.
If you point it out and she starts crying, flips it around, or blames you, walk away.
If she can't just say "I was wrong," she will make your life a nightmare. She will make miserable look like child's play.
Look at how she handles money. Is she trying to live like she's rich and expecting you to pay for it? Don't let her spend all your cash just to show off.
Listen to how she talks about her past. If every ex or old friend she has is "toxic" and she was always the victim, guess what? She is the problem. Soon enough, you'll be the next bad guy in her story.
Ohhh, and watch how she is with family. Watch how she acts when things go wrong, and how she treats them when she is angry.
Because sooner or later, if you marry her, you will be her family.
The signs are always there... people just let emotions cloud their judgment.
Looks don't mean much if she has a bad character.
Keep your eyes open, take things slow, and don't ignore the warning signs just because she is pretty.
There was a time in Nigeria when the man carrying a sewing machine on his shoulder was called Obioma.
Because almost all the artisanal tailors were Easterners of Igbo descent.
After the Civil War, many Easterners emerged from one of the most devastating chapters in Nigerian history with almost nothing but skill, mobility, discipline, and a survival instinct.
Some carried sewing machines from street to street, patching clothes, repairing trousers, adjusting school uniforms, and moving from compound to compound looking for work.
That image became so common that the name stuck.
Obioma.
A man with a sewing machine on his shoulder, moving under the sun and doing work many people looked down on.
But the same people who were once reduced in the public imagination to street tailoring slowly began to move.
From roadside tailoring to shops.
From shops to markets.
From markets to importation.
From importation to manufacturing.
From apprenticeship to industrial clusters.
From survival to ownership.
Go to Nnewi.
Go to Aba.
Go to Onitsha.
Go to Alaba.
Go to Ladipo.
Go to Ariaria.
You will still see poverty, struggle, disorder, bad roads, poor power supply, and all the normal Nigerian problems. Nobody is pretending the Southeast has become Singapore.
But you will also see something powerful.
You will see a people who took humiliation, displacement, and economic ruin and built a survival machine around trade, apprenticeship, mobility, and family capital.
And this is what makes my heart sink as a Northerner.
Today, the mai guard, mai ruwa, mai shayi, mai kaya, shoe repairer, the man pushing a wheelbarrow, carrying loads, shining shoes, patching clothes, riding okada, clearing construction sites, packing refuse, digging soakaway pits, hawking small goods, or sleeping beside a kiosk in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Onitsha, and other cities is often called "Aboki."
That is the story we don't want to face.
One people moved from grass to grace.
Another moved from grace to grass.
This is not to take anything away from the Igbo people. I have nothing but admiration for them.
And it is not an insult to the Hausa people or to menial jobs. I am a proud son of Arewa, and in Arewa we do not look down on any vocation earned through halal means.
This is a history lesson.
Now look at us in the North.
We did not begin from the bottom.
Long before colonial Nigeria existed, Kano was already one of the great commercial cities of West Africa. Merchants from Tripoli, Fez, Agadez, Timbuktu, and Bornu passed through its markets. Caravans crossed the Sahara carrying leather goods, textiles, kola nuts, salt, and livestock. The city walls of Kano were not built around a village. They were built around a thriving urban economy that connected West Africa to North Africa.
We had cities that were centres of commerce when many parts of modern Nigeria were still organized around smaller local economies.
We had emirates that provided administration, taxation, courts, and political order across vast territories.
We had centres of Islamic scholarship that attracted students from across the region. In places like Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, and Borno, generations of scholars produced manuscripts and taught jurisprudence, theology, grammar, astronomy, and history. The reputation of northern scholarship travelled far beyond Nigeria's borders.
We had trade routes that linked us to the wider world. For centuries, merchants moved goods across the Sahara and across the savannah belt. Northern markets were not isolated local markets. They were part of international commercial networks.
We had cattle wealth on a scale few regions could match. Fulani pastoralists moved millions of cattle across grazing routes stretching from Senegal to Cameroon. Livestock was not merely food. It was wealth, trade, transport, status, and economic security.
We had one of the most respected leather industries in Africa. Kano leather was famous across the continent. Tanned hides from northern Nigeria found their way into trans-Saharan commerce and international markets. The famous red goatskin known as Morocco leather often originated from skins processed through West African leather networks in which Kano played a major role.
We had textile industries that employed thousands long before modern factories arrived. Hand-spun cotton was woven into cloth across northern towns. Entire communities depended on spinning, weaving, dyeing, trading, and transporting textiles.
We had the famous dye pits of Kano.
Not one or two pits.
Dozens of them.
For centuries, the Kofar Mata dye pits transformed locally woven cloth into richly coloured fabrics using indigo. Traders came from different parts of West Africa to buy these textiles. The dye pits became one of the oldest continuously operating industrial sites on the continent. They supported craftsmen, traders, transporters, farmers growing indigo, and entire commercial networks built around textile production.
We had the groundnut economy.
There was a time when the groundnut pyramids of Kano were not merely tourist attractions on postcards.
They were symbols of enormous agricultural wealth.
Thousands of farmers cultivated groundnuts across the North. Rail lines carried produce southward for export. Groundnut exports generated foreign exchange, supported industries, created jobs, and helped finance government revenues. The pyramids themselves represented mountains of produce waiting to enter global markets.
And if we move into the colonial and post-colonial era, the advantages become even harder to ignore.
We had numbers.
The North occupies roughly three-quarters of Nigeria's landmass. Depending on how one defines the region, the nineteen northern states account for well over half of Nigeria's population. Kano State alone has a population larger than many African countries.
We had manpower.
For decades, millions of young people entered the labour force every year. We were not a small minority struggling to find relevance. We were one of the largest demographic blocs in Africa.
We had land.
Hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of territory stretching across the Sudan and Sahel savannahs.
Land suitable for millet, sorghum, maize, rice, cotton, groundnuts, and livestock.
Land crossed by major river systems such as the Niger and Benue, and supported by irrigation projects in several states.
We had agricultural potential that many countries would envy.
We had political influence.
From independence onward, northern politicians, military officers, civil servants, traditional rulers, and power brokers occupied some of the most influential positions in the Nigerian state for long periods.
Prime ministers.
Heads of state.
Presidents.
Military rulers.
Senior ministers.
Powerful bureaucrats.
Influential legislators.
Whether one likes that fact or not, the North was never politically invisible.
We had religious authority.
The Sultanate of Sokoto remains one of the most influential Islamic institutions in Africa.
The emirates commanded legitimacy that extended beyond politics.
Mosques, Islamic schools, scholars, judges, and religious networks shaped social life across millions of households.
We had institutions.
Not perfect institutions.
But institutions nonetheless.
Emirate councils.
Traditional courts.
Islamic learning centres.
Agricultural boards.
Marketing boards.
Regional administrations.
Cooperative systems.
Educational establishments.
Commercial associations.
Structures that survived for generations.
We had a head start.
That is what makes the present situation so painful.
Because today, when millions of young Hausa and northern boys enter any big city, what work are many of them known for?
These boys are not lazy.
A lazy man does not leave Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, Jigawa, Bauchi, Kebbi, or Borno and sleep under a bridge in Lagos just to survive.
A lazy man does not push water from street to street.
A lazy man does not carry cement until his back bends.
A lazy man does not guard another man's house all night and still open a kiosk by morning.
The problem is not laziness.
The problem is that too many of our people enter the modern economy from the lowest possible point.
No certificate.
No skill that scales.
No capital.
No protection.
No formal training.
No strong educational foundation.
No industrial ladder waiting for them.
So they sell their bodies first.
Their backs.
Their hands.
Their legs.
Their sleep.
Their youth.
That is the real tragedy.
The Igbo Obioma story became a ladder because it was connected to apprenticeship, trade discipline, family networks, and commercial ambition.
The Hausa Aboki story too often becomes a trap because it is connected to poverty, broken schooling, rural collapse, insecurity, and survival migration.
One system turns a boy into a trader.
The other turns a boy into cheap labour or, worse, a recruitment ground for terrorism.
This is the painful contrast.
The Southeast came out of war and produced commercial networks.
The North came out of power and produced surplus labour.
That sentence is harsh, but look around before you reject it.
Who is carrying the load?
Who is guarding the gate?
Who is pushing the cart?
Who is fetching the water?
Who is sleeping in the market?
Who is leaving the village because bandits have made farming impossible?
Who is entering the city with nothing but strength?
If the answer to all the questions above is Arewa youth, then you must not be offended by the diagnosis. Instead, start asking your leaders the harder questions.
Because what is happening to Arewa is a failure of social organization. We shield our leaders too much and outsource criticism of them.
Our fathers inherited a civilization.
Too many of our boys inherited migration.
Our fathers inherited functioning economic systems.
Too many of our boys inherited survival.
Our fathers participated in trade networks stretching across continents.
Too many of our boys participate only in daily labour markets.
Our fathers built industries around leather, textiles, livestock, agriculture, and commerce.
Too many of our boys now rent out their muscles by the day.
And the painful thing is that the word Aboki, which originally means "friend," now, in the mouth of the Nigerian city, often becomes a class marker.
It becomes a way of saying: the northern poor man who does the work nobody respects but everybody needs.
That should break our hearts.
Not because the work is shameful.
No honest work is shameful.
What is shameful is that a whole region with history, population, religious authority, political influence, institutions, agricultural potential, and vast territory keeps producing young people whose first contact with the economy is desperation.
This is why history matters.
The question is not whether the Igbo are better than the Hausa.
That is a childish argument.
The real question is: what system turns hardship into enterprise, and what system turns heritage into dependency?
Because poverty alone does not explain everything.
War did not stop the Igbo from building trade networks.
Lack of oil did not stop Nnewi from producing industrialists.
Bad Nigerian roads did not stop Aba from becoming a manufacturing symbol.
Weak government did not stop apprenticeship from creating business owners.
So what stopped us?
What happened to the North that inherited thriving cities, trans-Saharan commerce, respected scholarship, textile industries, leather industries, livestock wealth, agricultural exports, demographic strength, political influence, and enormous land resources?
How did a people with so much historical structure produce so many young men with so little modern preparation?
That is the conversation we need.
Not insults.
Not denial.
Not ethnic pride.
Not hiding behind "our culture."
Not pretending every criticism is hatred.
The Obioma story should humble us.
Because it shows that a people can begin with a sewing machine on the shoulder and still build a commercial ladder.
The Aboki story should disturb us.
Because it shows that a people can begin with history on their side and still end up supplying cheap labour to other people's cities.
That is the mirror.
Igbo moved from Obioma to enterprise.
Hausa must not remain trapped inside Aboki survival.
The North needs a ladder.
Banks turned $1,000 into $600,000 in just one year.
Let me explain what actually happened and how you can position yourself to do the same thing.
First, you need to understand what an ICO is.
ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering. Think of it like a company selling shares before it goes public on the stock market, except instead of shares, they are selling tokens.
When a crypto project wants to raise money to build their product, they sell their token early at a low price. The people who buy in early get in cheap and if the project does well and the token goes up in value, those early investors make a lot of money. That is the basic idea.
The problem for years was that only VCs and wealthy insiders got access to these early deals. By the time regular people heard about a project, the price had already gone up and the insiders were already in profit. Platforms like Echo and Legion exist to fix that.
Now let me show you what is possible when you get access.
LAB Terminal that returned over 600x for @Mrbankstips was on Legion. Another one called Sonar's XPL token sale hit a 33.78x return at its all-time high.
To put that in simple terms, someone who put in $1,000 on the ICO walked away with over $600,000. That is what early access looks like in practice.
Here are some of the platforms where you can get early access to rounds
1) @echodotxyz
Echo works like a group investment club. A lead investor who has done their research says I found a good deal and opens a pool. You follow them, put in your money alongside theirs, and everyone gets into the deal at the same early price.
2) @legiondotcc
Legion works differently. Instead of following someone into a deal, you build your own reputation on the platform and that reputation determines how much access you get.
The platform looks at how active you are in the crypto space, your on-chain history, your participation in the ecosystem, and gives you a score. The better your score, the better your allocation.
Both platforms are doing the same thing. Giving regular people access to deals that used to belong only to insiders.
How to spot good projects on these platforms:
• Look at who is leading the investment. If credible and experienced people are putting their money in, that means something
• Research the team. Have they built anything before? Do they have real experience?
• Check the valuation at launch. If the fully diluted value is very high compared to what is actually circulating, be careful
• See who else is investing alongside you. Serious names in a round change the risk profile
• Check how long the team's tokens are locked up. If they can sell immediately after launch, that is a red flag
• Look for proof that people are already using the product before the token exists
• Do not rely on one source of information. Always dig deeper
The opportunity is real. But getting access without knowing what you are doing is just an expensive way to learn a lesson.
Learn first. Then move.
As you were. ❤️🦅
Last year in December, I made a phone call to the NHS because I believed I had something meaningful to contribute.
A few months later, I was invited to a meeting.
After completing the necessary checks with @valerian247 and the onboarding process, I had the opportunity to present an idea focused on the early detection of patient deterioration… an early-warning system designed to identify risks before they become emergencies.
After I finished speaking, there was a brief silence.
In those few seconds, I could tell they were seeing the same big picture I was seeing.
“We would love to work with you on this.”
Since then, it has been a journey of putting together the right team, building the structure, and turning an idea into something that can make a real difference.
Almost 3AM, I am still awake at this hour brainstorming, knowing fully well that I have meetings lined up today from 11am to 4pm.
Some opportunities come with applause…Others come with responsibility.
This one came with both… But the game is the game, we gonna deliver.
There are some very powerful people pulling the strings behind the scenes on this legal issue over airtime lending in Nigeria, trying to stick their straw into a market worth an estimated N400b annually. These people are close to the president, and are wielding tremendous power and distorting the entire economy in ways that would have embarrassed a post-Soviet Russian oligarch in 1994.
I’ve been actively aware of this matter for over two years now and the time may have come to tell the full story of how Idris Saliu Alubankudi, and his brother Shamsudeen Saliu 'Shamz' Alubankudi - both very close to Bola Tinubu and his family - have built one of the biggest and most powerful state corruption enterprises
in the entire history of Nigeria.
These men are attempting to capture the systemically important foundations of the entire Nigerian economy - specifically telecoms and ICT - and turn their 3 year-old corruption enterprise into a sort of Nigerian chaebol. You have never seen anything like it before.
You will be hearing the names 'Idris' and 'Shamz' a lot in the coming few days. Also don’t forget their family name 'Saliu Alubankudi.' It's an important part of the story.
safer option adjustments
• 3–5 goal bounds → switch to over 2.5 goals (early goals) if available.
• 2nd half home/away → change to 2nd half over 0.5 goals.
• team to win either half → change to team to score.
• draw no bet (dnb) → switch to win or draw (double chance) or opposite team to win to nil, no.
• over 1.5 goals → ensure the early goals feature is enabled where available.
• straight win selections → change to 1up. if 1up isn’t available, use dnb. if 2up is available, switch it to 1up.
• total goals over → reduce the goal line where possible.
• +1 handicap → increase to +2 handicap or remove the selection entirely.
I have worked on all. All
Fiverr is the easiest but upwork has the best enterprise clients (I’ve seen JP Morgan, Barclays, and the UN hiring on upwork)
Peopleperhour is suited for those in research, design and grant writing. Freelancer is a good platform for developers and data professionals
As a German enthusiast. I will tell you this for free. You do not need 29 million to go to Germany. Learn the language and have your B2 cert, apply for Ausbildung and you would be paid while studying. If not Ausbildung, Germany is tuition free, meaning you can go study without paying tuition. There are opportunities, but what we lack is information ❤️
Ginger won’t save you.
Garlic can’t fight for you.
Clove isn’t your saviour.
You can’t eat garbage all week
Then turn to herbs like they’re Jesus in a teacup.
Let me break your delusion:
As long as you eat sugar,
As long as you fry with toxic seed oils,
As long as you worship bread and processed carbs,
As long as you are FAT,
Those herbs are just swimming in filth.
Antioxidants don’t work in a toxic body.
They are not magic.
They are support not salvation.
I’ve seen people bloated, inflamed, obese.
Sitting in restaurants with their big stomachs and diabetes symptoms,
Ordering one big glass of “Dawa”
(Honey, ginger, garlic, lemon)
Like it will wash away decades of food abuse.
You cannot detox what you keep toxing.
So don’t waste your money.
Don’t waste your hope.
Don’t insult nature.
First fix your food.
Cut out every inflammatory trash.
— No sugar.
— No oils.
— No wheat.
Fast like your life depends on it because it does.
OMAD. One Meal A Day.
Real food.
Real healing.
Then and only then.
Let herbs rise as soldiers.
Not as slaves trying to clean up your mess.
Healing starts with what you stop putting in your mouth.
Not what you start drinking when it’s too late.
Don’t forget to reach out for a well-structured meal plan. Share and tag your friends.
I’ll never forget the day my guy randomly brought up period diapers in the middle of a conversation.
I burst out laughing. “Diapers? For adults? Abeg, what is this one again?” 😭
But he got serious and said, “Bro, you men really don’t know what some women go through on heavy flow days.”
That hit different because my girlfriend at the time was dealing with really heavy periods. I’d seen her struggling, but I didn’t fully get it until he explained.
The constant fear of leaking in public.
Waking up multiple times at night to check.
Sleeping in weird positions.
The cramps. The anxiety. The stress of wearing light clothes.
So I swallowed my pride and asked more questions.
Omo, the way my guy looked at me before relaxing when I told him what my girl was going through. His girlfriend immediately jumped in and explained how much those diapers actually help: the comfort, the freedom, no more constant worry.
That same day I went to the pharmacy, got a pack, and took it home. When I showed my girl, she was so teary-eyed. I told her let’s try it out, and the relief on her face was everything. She woke up the next morning without tapping me for help in the middle of the night. She said it was the first time in years she slept through without fear.
That moment humbled me.
As men, sometimes we joke about stuff because we don’t experience it. But when you actually listen, you realize how much women carry quietly. What I once thought was weird turned out to be something that gave someone I love real comfort and peace.
Apparently, it now costs almost 80k to fill tank. We spent another 140k buying foodstuff, diapers and whatnots. Then Oga insisted we stop at a phone accessory shop because life apparently cannot continue without a new pouch and power bank for his laptop.
Each time Oga wants to step out of the car to buy something, he will say I should keep the ac running because he doesn’t want heat to finish his kids. On top 80k fuel I just bought!!??? That one almost caused quarrel inside market.
Finally, we stopped to buy bread and my card declined. Insufficient funds, so we bought only two loaves and some other unnecessary items.
We got home and this man had the audacity to try and sleep after making noodles for everybody. He started complaining that he’s exhausted.
I told him I must eat homemade banga soup this evening and I don’t want to hear stories that touch. He said it’s inhumane to expect him to enter kitchen after market stress.
As I type this, he’s currently in the kitchen making stew and banga soup while watching Sisi Yemmie on YouTube. Baby is parked beside him in the stroller because he does not know how to use wrapper to back baby.
He asked me to help look after the baby but my PCV dropped sharply after spending all that money so I need to rest as per provider that I am. I reminded him that:
-the house has not been swept or mopped since morning
-bedsheets need changing
- there’s laundry to be done too
By the way, we’ve started potty training Eden, meaning no diaper at all. This sweet child pooped on the floor and Oga is gradually losing it. Ezer too is hungry and needs feeding. Oga don hiss like one thousand times.
My account balance may be flatlined, but at least somebody else is suffering with me.
I’m in my neighbour’s house doing aproko. I’m waiting for night to reach so I can ask for conjugal rights. 🫠
My husband and I had a big fight yesterday. We ended it with switching roles for an entire day to get perspective on each other’s life and routine.
We’re currently on our way to the market and my card is with Oga. We’ve branched a supermarket because Oga says he has cravings. He said he needs to fill his fuel tank too. Men too wicked 😭😭😭🙆🏾♀️
Thaddeus Attah, contested against Banky W for the Eti-Osa Federal constituency and won under the influence of Labour Party"TOP TO BOTTOM"
Few months after winning, he was among the first 8 law makers to boldly defect to APC.
Haven defected, he held the position of "the APC choir master" of ON YOUR MANDATE WE STAND.
Infact, he has different colors/ brands of the asiwaju cap and has flaunted it even in his constituency, hence telling the people who voted him to go hug a transformer.
With the current political wave, he has started following Peter Obi, singing praises and eulogies, just to ride on his popularity.
He has moved to ADC and now in NDC, and has promised Nigerians a change of heart as he intends to throw away all the "on your mandate caps in his closet" if the people vote for him again.
God forbid bat-ting
Let me put you on to something (update) that can genuinely change your financial life for good.
Go to the App Store or Google Play Store and download any of these language learning apps: Duolingo, Babbel, or Busuu.
Pick one language and commit to it. French, German, Spanish, or Portuguese. Study consistently for 6 to 12 months, then sit the official certification exam for your chosen language.
- For French, that is the DELF/DALF exam.
- For German, it is the Goethe-Zertifikat.
- For Spanish, it is the DELE.
- For Portuguese, it is the CELPE-Bras.
These certificates are internationally recognized and that is what employers actually want to see.
Once you are certified, start applying. Here is where to look:
The United Nations Careers Portal (https://t.co/yhE1JecxDm) hires Translators, Interpreters, Language Editors, and Verbatim Reporters. These are mostly onsite roles in New York, Geneva, Vienna, or Nairobi. Entry-level salary starts around $60,000 to $80,000 per year.
The French, German, or Spanish Embassies in your country regularly hire Local Staff Interpreters, Cultural Program Officers, and Administrative Officers who are bilingual. These are onsite roles paying roughly $30,000 to $60,000 per year depending on country.
The European Union Careers Portal (https://t.co/nRbtXcVLUL) recruits Linguists, Translators, and Conference Interpreters. Mostly onsite in Brussels or Luxembourg. Starting salary ranges from €4,000 to €8,000 per month.
Platforms like ProZ, Upwork, and TransPerfect hire freelance Translators and Remote Interpreters. These are fully remote. Rates run between $25 and $60 per hour depending on your language pair and experience.
The African Development Bank, World Bank, and IMF also regularly post roles for Language Officers and Regional Interpreters, especially for French and Portuguese speakers across Africa.
One language. 6 to 12 months. A globally recognized certificate. That is all it takes to unlock doors that most people do not even know exist.
The information is free. The choice is yours.
Above all, love God.