Canva just made something very interesting.
You can now take images generated with ChatGPT and turn them into fully editable Canva designs.
I made a quick tutorial showing exactly how it works 👇
When you delay a payment , you’re actually affecting people’s lives.
Especially for work already done. I need the big companies to understand this. It’s so unfair.
To all my friends.
Close ones and the ones who we drifted apart. (I miss you)
I pray God keeps you.
I pray you have the strength to fight the battles only you know about.
Most importantly, I pray that we spend eternity with the one who gave his life for us…
Dear Nigerians (who mean well),
Do not let them demonise those helping to build our systems. We cannot be seen to always antagonise enterprise and entrepreneurs.
The men and women building this country must always get the support they need. And when they share their opinions, you are free to disagree, but it must never be seen as an opportunity to take down or destroy. Don't let others use you to undermine yourself.
We need development to happen at scale. This is a tough climate to build. Let's not be blind to our challenges.
This @compoundinnaira ₦100m investment portfolio is why people should take their investment journey seriously, so you’re not struggling to feed yourself in old age. If you read the story carefully, he never had a million Naira to deposit in his brokerage account at a time, he added to his brokerage account in bits.
Let me share real-life examples, starting with myself.
Shortly after I got married, I had no fresh income for 9 months. Why? A lot of the contracts i was on expired about the same time. No new contracts. We practically survived that period on my investments and dividends. That experience made it clear I was never going to abandon investing.
In 2015, my wife sent me our child’s hospital bill from the U.S. I was in South Africa at the time, battling it out with NU Unlimited on a project. I had planned for the bill based on the cash I had. Suddenly, the dollar moved from ₦250 to ₦520 the following week. I sold my position in Mobil to cover the bill and other incidentals. Once again, my investments came through.
A friend of mine lost his dad and got admission into a U.S. university that same year for his master’s program. His late dad had bought 20,000 units of Nestlé shares at less than ₦40 several years ago. Those shares were sold to pay his fees. Today, he’s in the U.S. Marines.
Don’t be deceived, don’t wait until you earn big. Start with whatever you have and stay consistent. Keep adding to it.
My first investment was 2,000 units of a First Bank public offer at ₦33. That's ₦66k total. I knew nothing about stocks at the time. Staff were given targets so i bought the shares to help my friend working in the bank at the time. But I didn’t stop there. Every month, I wrote a cheque, ₦5k, ₦20k, ₦50k, ₦100k and took it to my broker in Ikoyi. Friends in banking and others earning well laughed and said it was a waste of time.
One of them ran into financial difficulty in 2024. I gave him half of my interim dividend that month and reminded him that the money came from the same “stock investment” he dismissed years ago. @gentlemanway007 this paragraph would have been my response to that your tweet.
This bank dey burst my head in a sector where some big banks are struggling! Crazy numbers!
See annualized EPS despite share outstanding dilution!
This company is out to create value for shareholders.
Read my previous thoughts on Wema to give you an idea of what this bank is doing!
If you want to have a fair sense of how companies generally performed in Q1 2026 (based on the ongoing earnings releases), go to the “Highlights” tab on my profile. I have posted about 25 companies so far.
@anthonyuzum This is not about the PR team. It is about being up to date on the recent developments with your shareholders.
And this is under corporate governance:
transparency 👌
UBA: 2025 Dividend Skip Is Temporary, ‘We’re Going After Defaulters’ for 2026 Return – Alawuba
UBA has a long history of dividend payments, with yields sometimes reaching double digits. We paid dividends consecutively from 2023 through the first half of 2025. However, the Central Bank of Nigeria gave banks a window to exit the forbearance regime, and UBA was one of the banks that did so. That required us to reclassify certain accounts in line with prudential guidelines. We made provisions of about ₦331 billion, which pushed our non-performing loan ratio above the threshold required for dividend payment.
Oliver Alawuba, GMD/CEO, United Bank for Africa
Please permit me to preach to you for a minute using brother @temiokomi as a reference point.
Temisan was such a giver.
In the Bible, the parables of Jesus often associated giving with access to Heaven. The parables are unambiguous on this. Giving is not incidental to Kingdom access, it is structural.
The Rich Young Ruler (Matthew 19:21)
Jesus tells a man who has kept every commandment: “Go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.”
The Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31)
A wealthy man feasts daily. A beggar named Lazarus starves at his gate. Both die. Lazarus goes to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man goes to torment. No dramatic sin is named. The indictment is the gate he ignored.
The Sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25:31–46)
The most explicit text on this subject. The righteous inherit the Kingdom because they fed the hungry, clothed the naked, welcomed the stranger, visited the sick and imprisoned. The condemned are turned away for the same reasons, inverted. The verdict in both cases: “Inasmuch as you did it, or did not do it, to one of the least of these.”
Brethren, if we go by these texts, giving is a requisite visa to access Heaven. Temisan was an embodiment of this ideal. He lived it. He was it. He gave and gave and just gave. He always found a reason to.
Let us pray: May brother Temisan inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. May his family thrive here despite his absence, because he will always be here, somehow. And may the rest of us learn to give, of ourselves and our resources. And may God’s blessings continue to abound for you as you channel them to the world.
If you are led to bless the preacher, please send it to this account Veronica Okomi
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Keystone Bank. That’s Temisan’s widow, everyone may hurt, she will hurt the most. Amidst that, she will now bear the burdens he left behind.
When people die, some go out of their way to make things inconvenient for their families. We must be the ones who help to ease their pains. We are God’s vessels for intervening on Earth. God bless and be with you. Amen.
Glory to God.