Our star boy, Egejurum Onyedikachi, just came out of the International STEM Olympiad finale.
Listen to his experience.
We are rooting for him to win gold.
🚨 Lamine Yamal: “Do I regret what I said before the Clasico last year? No, this is football, and that's beautiful”.
“In the end, what happened happened, they celebrated that win and then lost in our stadium”
“Carvajal provoked me, yes, but in the end, you come back to the Camp Nou afterward and the challenge returns, and that's football”, told Cope.
Private equity is when wealthy individuals or investment firms buy companies that are not publicly traded on the stock market, improve them, and later sell them for a profit.
Here's a simple example:
Imagine a bakery is worth ₦10 million, but it is poorly managed.
A private equity firm buys the bakery.
They hire better managers, expand to more locations, reduce unnecessary costs, and increase profits.
Five years later, the bakery is worth ₦50 million.
The firm sells it and makes a profit.
Think of it like this:
Private equity is like buying an old house, renovating it to make it more valuable, and then selling it at a higher price.
The difference is that instead of houses, private equity firms buy and improve businesses.
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🧵
For the longest time, I doubted my craft and constantly sold myself short. But at some point, I made a decision that changed everything — I would rather lose clients than undervalue myself.
In 2024, I quoted 1.5M to three different clients for the first time. One ghosted me. One replied with a condescending message. And one simply asked, “When can we start?”
That moment taught me something powerful: the right people will never make you feel guilty for knowing your worth. Sometimes growth begins the moment you stop shrinking yourself to fit other people’s budgets and expectations.
this campaign of calumny against Tunde O is lazy at best.
not everyone has the luxury of alignment. some people do work that cuts across divides - work that may collapse the moment it’s seen as partisan. in that position, neutrality is not cowardice; it’s a requirement for the work to survive and achieve its objectives.
“but he has taken a side”.
meanwhile, it’s a picture with the president of his country. an honorary ambassadorship from his state. opportunity to speak with young people (his primary target) at an event - organized by the president’s son.
guess who else has a picture with the president. guess who else is a sports ambassador for Ogun state. guess who else was invited to speak at that event (Tunde didn’t even attend) that people are not dragging.
what are we doing?
if you’re doing impactful work, people across political divides will court you. people across the world will court you. you will be in rooms with people you like and those you loathe. and for the sake of the work, you will chest it.
because the work is bigger than your personal politics.
and the idea that he needs Nigeria to stay bad so he can have more slum kids is … laughable. his work isn’t about preserving slums. it’s about developing people - through chess - discipline, how they think, opportunity, etc. that doesn’t disappear if things improve. and no matter who the president is, Nigeria will never run out of underserved communities. infact, the world will never run out of it.
you’re forcing politics on something that isn’t built for it. and judging a constraint you don’t carry.
if you think you’d do it differently, oya do it. build something impactful, take your stance, and sustain it.
until then, it’s just noise. lazy noise. 🙂↔️