I started learning furniture making at Ipaja furniture yard at 30, as the only female apprentice there. People would literally stop and stare at me as I worked, but I didn’t care😂
It was tough, my body complained, my complexion darkened but I adjusted. I’m glad I took that decision.
Meet the Eboh bunk bed, named after my bestie in the third frame.
Eboh means Peace in Idoma language.
Disclaimer: I didn’t make the ladder but the shelves and the metal ottoman was from my workshop.
There is this guy that nearly every other member of staff in my hotel hates. Because he gets all the tips. He served me once when I stayed at the hotel and it wasn't remarkable.
Yesterday I ordered lamb chops. When he came, he said he remembered from last time I started here TWO MONTHS ago that I don't like the mashed potato's so he called in a favour with the chef and got him to swap the mashed potatoes for vegetables as he knows I prefer healthy options. I had to tip. 🤣🤣🤣
Now I don't know how I am going to face the haters tomorrow. @MarriottIntl pls promote him.
🚨 Gary Neville has questioned Arsenal’s slow approach in the transfer market.
🗣️ “I’m not understanding Arsenal right now. They’re not acting like Premier League champions.
The window is moving fast, pre-season is almost here, yet they’re still taking too long to get deals done. It reminds me of the old Arsenal—identifying top targets only for rival clubs to swoop in.
Champions have to stay ahead. If Arsenal want to defend the title, they need to start turning interest into signings.”
Sir Alex Ferguson introduced wing play and game management.
Pep Guardiola introduced tiki-taka.
Jürgen Klopp introduced gegenpressing.
Jose Mourinho introduced the low block and counter attacking football.
Carlo Ancelotti introduced Flexible Tactical System
Antonio Conte revolutionized the 3-5-2 / 3-4-3 system.
What exactly did Arsene Wenger contribute to football? 😭
Spurs came, pointed to Saki and bought it…Barca came and saw round fish, bought it.
Arsenal now came and pointed at the agemawo from the same pot and you’re acting up. Madam, put that agemawo inside my plate quickly 🤣😂
Mark their faces and remember their names: Chimdiebube Onwubiko, Egejurum Onyedikachi Ethan, and Don Anele Munachimso. They will all be global superstars.
You wonder what’s next after the Olympiad? The show is about to begin.
You will follow their live journey to greatness.
We will be introducing an Education Hall of Fame, and they will be inducted. This team will travel to several countries for competitions, and we will all enjoy the journey.
New outstanding students will join them, while those who are going to university will become exco members.
Each and every one of them will get into an Ivy League university in the US or top universities in the UK or Europe.
This is the time for education to take its place in our society.
I like it when they talk politics in public transport even though I would never open my mouth
Someone was eating Agbado and this Man said Ishe Tinubu niyen, To ba wole leekan si Shuku Agbado le ma je😂😂😭
In our mosque earlier today, the imam said that we should pray for Nigeria, that only prayers can salvage this nation.
One person at the last row stood up & said “the Saudi that we go for hajj & enjoy basic amenities there, they didn’t achieve that by prayers. They achieve that by competent leadership.”
😊😊😊
Sustained wealth happens when you have a community thinking together. The key person who is visibly wealthy only achieves that wealth because others also have skin in the game and propel them for their benefit.
I am not engaging in "trillionaire worship" like others, but what was instructive about the SpaceX IPO was that the cafeteria workers and janitors at the same company also became wealthy. That is a bigger deal than anything else.
I hear so much talk about founders and investors in African entrepreneurship, but what nobody tells you is that the people who also became wealthy are the people who supported the entrepreneur and the enterprise with work.
Decades ago, I discovered that Dangote's depot operators, when he was selling commodities, were also Naira billionaires in their own right. They didn't need to cheat him to get wealthy, as most misguided people believe employees should do; they had an arrangement that made all of them wealthy.
Dangote took the financial risk while the depot chiefs took the operational risks. I see this same dynamic in many supply chains in Africa. My wife's aunt's 70th birthday in Accra last year was attended by all the key FMCG players and traders who worked together in an ecosystem that they all profited from.
Aliko became rich because his family learned about this model long before anyone else did. He benefited immensely from it, and he is passing this same ecosystem-building approach on to the next generation of his family.
This aspect of African entrepreneurship is rarely discussed. People want to hear grass-to-grace stories or miracles. True wealth in reality is built by communities and ecosystems that work in sync. I will be talking about it a lot more.
I survived surgery yesterday, and I am grateful for another chance to keep doing this.
This advice is for some of you Nigerians living in China 🇨🇳, and those of you who are still planning to visit. Y’all really need to do better. I’m just so happy he said everything in Igbo language. He’s a smart guy.