My toxic trait is building startups in my head, then doing the brand design. I've secured pre-seed funding in my imaginations sef.
So, here's it. Enhanse, an automobile monitoring software for households, rental companies, transport unions etc to monitor their vehicles & drivers
Tinubu has won the elections already, yet APC boys are still releasing doctored recordings of a call between Peter Obi and Oyedepo.
In a race, when the winner has been handed the trophy but doesn't stop running, there is something chasing him.
Your hardworking parents could only send you to OAU, UI, Unilag because the system's rigged against Nigerians.
An agbero found his way into politics & sent his children abroad.
Yet you're supporting him & his principal because he's Yoruba like you, he's Muslim like you.
Koinonia service, instruction was to sow seeds. First time I'd do that in my life.
I sent ALL the money I had apart from the Oyemaja Foundation's funds from donors. I'm not capping.
The next 2 days, I lost the two jobs I had. Nasty fight with bridges burnt.
A time will come when gospel artistes like Dunsin Oyekan and Nathaniel Bassey will receive the same level of international recognition and fame as artistes like Burna boy and Wizkid.
Fact: I've been broke-shamed many times. Clothes, shoes; told 'you can't afford her' when I used to ask for numbers.
Started earning, but realized how stupid it is to prove it with clothes/shoes. Today, people try to broke shame me & I just smile.
The first two months after learning graphic design, I landed a client and made $20,000. That's about 10 million naira.
I will share how I was able to secure this client, and hopefully it helps a designer and other creatives.
A thread 👇
One joined endsars protest, then dropped a song in honor of MC Oluomo and hung out with Seyi.
If they explain how Nigeria works to you and you understand it, they didn’t explain it well.
I've called people fools for doing the same.
But I think God taught me two lessons. First, by snatching both jobs from my hand right after doing transfer, he was saying it's not foolishness, it's love. Second, I learned first hand the meaning of faith and trust.
I tweeted a prayer jokingly that you need to be delivered from the spirit that makes you want to prove to people that you're doing well.
It's bondage. You're comfortable but your mind is still poor. It's a game of revenge for you.
More clients as the weeks and months passed by, and I was back on my feet in no time.
Looking back, I wasn't going to curse God if I'd remained broke.
I tweeted here yesterday that a principle I live by is "If it goes right, it's God. If it goes wrong, it's me."
@tanimolaolawal1
They raised me just fine. Do you consider it good upbringing from your parents if they invested in you only for you to support a senile drug lord?
Good thing you said “work”, not jobs in the sense that we know it.
A good number will get jobs in law firms. Some will join legal depts in companies. Some will be self employed. Some will go for their LLMs in or out of Nigeria. Some become academics. Some will abandon
Why was Nigeria so quiet when Tinubu won, and he was the one visiting people to congratulate him?
Person wey write Proverb deserve Nobel Laureate.
Proverbs 28:12
I embraced the frugal lifestyle so seriously that my parents buy stuff, bring it to Lagos and ask me to transfer the money back cos they know I won't get it myself.
I used to think 'I'll show them' once i start earning enough. But now, i don't even want people knowing anything.
It'd probably take me less than 2 weeks to deliver. My fees from those clients was almost double of what I was earning in both jobs combined.
Lol, see eh, I kid you not. I was going to send this as a testimony to koinonia but eventually forgot after postponing.
Hold on, Proverbs is not done with y'all. For those who support Tinubu, Sanwo Olu, Wike, and those cheering on Festus Keyamo, Femi Fani-Kayode, I have a special bible verse for you from Proverbs 28 still.
I'd have rationalized it by being in error of not understanding the principles of sowing and tithing.
It was a prayer of pain and fear. There's no way you'll tell anyone that you sent all your money to a church, and they won't call you a brainwashed fool.
About 2 years ago, my mom got this house help. Came recommended. Mom put her on salary; gives her food daily & some to take home to her kids from time to time.
My mom naturally got close to the woman because she's often home alone. They became buddies.
Beautiful women rejected you when you were broke. Now that you've got some change, you're going to sleep with as many as you can to restore the years that the cankerworm has eaten.
You used to trek from Lekki to Jakande. Now, even to buy coke on the next street, you will drive with full AC on, and asake on repeat. They must know you've made it.
I was interviewed by
@TheNationNews
on my journey to graduating with a 1st Class at the University of Ibadan, a 2.1 in Law School and how I was able to run The Oyemaja Foundation
@oyemajaedu
whilst preparing for the bar exams
That was it. I finished my exams, packed a bag and went back home to my parents. I'd tried my best.
Eje, the following month, clients who had backed out on the design gigs months ago, sent me messages. In about a week, I think 3 clients reached out. 3 or 4, can't remember
@SaharaReporters
The great Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. She served under Obasanjo and under Goodluck Jonathan as finance minister. Compare Nigeria's economy under Okonjo Iweala to Zainab Ahmed, Buhari's finance minister. Let's check something.
It's how Tinubu supporters are really trying hard to make a strong case despite the obvious.
But thanks for maintaining a little peace. We no too insult each other bad bad. Just once in a while oraimo cord wiping.
You people have refused to tune into koinonia now. Weeks from now, one banger boy looking for cheap retweets will cut a 15-second clip and call Apostle Joshua Selman a false prophet.
But I pin for here. AJS no send me message o, but on his behalf, you go collect.
That night at about 1am. No jokes. I was crying.
How would I explain that I sent my life savings to a church and lost my jobs and had to beg my dad for money. Loooool
I simply prayed that if going jobless was no fault of mine, I had to be compensated.
Had exams the following week. I became dirt broke and devastated; called my dad that day for money.
He was confused because he knew I couldn't be broke with what I was earning. Only told him I lost both jobs. He consoled me & sent enough to me to live through the exams.
How do we trace this shit. Tinubu had the most ridiculous opening. Cassava Garri Ewa. Recruit 50 million youths into the army. The US military size is < 2m. David Hundeyin bared his ass for drug trafficking. Took a muslim VP, hired fake bishops & rode a gym bike as proof of life.
If Sanwo Olu walks into any church, everyone should stand up and walk out, including the workers.
You're not dishonoring God. Sanwo Olu is, and you're sending a message to him that the house of God will not be used for laundering the image of corrupt politicians.
If you can show me one tweet, or one video, audio, interview, speech, anything at all of Peter Obi being divisive or making ethnophobic statements, from the beginning of his life till today, i will delete my account and uninstall Twitter.
Just one. Please.
@DavidHundeyin
Tinubu supporters cheered him for signing the student loan bill; and went quiet when they saw the news of increase in tuition.
We warned them, they did not listen. But you see, listening is inevitable. You only have a choice to listen before the elections or after.
This is the time Southwest governors need to invest heavily in amotekun. Ogun, Lagos, Oyo, Ondo etc.
Recruit & train them in thousands. Arm them to the teeth, parading round the clock. 24/7 literally. Any sign of violence and yo in the van.
We need to stop these bastards.
And for the same reasons. Even I, as good as i believe my heart is, am not above the temptation of abusing the relationship I have with my superiors
And you burn bridges faster with friends than acquaintances if things go sour. It's gets bitter when there's closeness.
On this Baba Ijesha's issue, I'll adopt my former lecturer's words - Dr Obutte
Does a rapist deserve forgiveness from God? Yes. But it's our job as humans to quickly send him to God for that forgiveness by methods such as Death Sentence
All hail Iyabo Ojo. Yomi Fabiyi, well...
@GazetteNGR
Although Makinde shenked Labour Party during the presidential elections, he is still probably the best thing that has happened to Oyo State in a very long time. You can hate him, but you cannot deny that fact.
@asemota
The myth that garri affects your eyes is disproven when you start paying your own electricity bills. Now, I see more clearly in the dark than with the lights on.
Tinubu paid your school fees. If you're feeling so grateful, transfer the money back to him (if your bank app works).
What kind of lopsided logic is making an incompetent administrator president over me for a 250k favour he did for you? I'm a third party to that transaction.
Guys be living on bread and indomie as bachelors, then expect their wives to cook fresh food everyday.
I pray my wife can and helps cook, but I'm not unreasonable. Even cooking for myself alone is hell. Imagine doing that everyday for years for a family.
@asemota
Na Twitter dey make us to talk to people wey we no suppose get mind talk to sha. You drafted the energy policy while many of us were still in diapers.😂😂
People wonder why Microsoft is still the king of software companies. It’s Excel.
If Microsoft discloses how many companies, startups, even small businesses make use of the power 4 - word, excel, outlook and PowerPoint, the world will be shocked.
For close to two to three months, she kept reaching out. It was too late.
Picked up that lesson. I try not to establish extreme closeness with my employers. With colleagues, fine, but not with the person whom you take orders from.
Sanwo Olu still wan use Hilda do post-rigging photo ops campaign make him face show for Guinness World Record.
I need Hilda to cook 3 cups of basmati rice, sieve it and do the needful with the hot water.
Maybe this Flutterwave scandal is also a wake-up call for CEOs struggling to build and scale sha. Don't let the pressure get to you negatively. Not everyone's that's hitting it out there, is that clean.
Let's hustle with integrity😭
@FinPlanKaluAja1
Lecturers produce textbooks, handouts etc, make them compulsory for students (even attach 5-10 marks) & share profits to mitigate their shitty salaries.
When ASUU goes on strike, it's hard on students but sometimes I don't blame lecturers. I blame the government.
@lollypeezle
1) He never said it was a grace to grass story
2) This is the point of Influencer Marketing; companies contract celebrities like Davido to tap into their sphere of influence for validation & sales. His is his father, the church & Christians
We just always find faults in pastors
@Lrd__gold
@Aitey_
And 5 hours after other channels have reported, they'll come with this their bloody theme tune.
See as she talk "well well well", the lamba wan start.
@jayythedope
I'm not saying Jada is a bad person o. She's wonderful.
But I just want to prophesy to every hustler, entrepreneur, every honest working citizen; may you not encounter the jada of your destiny as you work towards success.
My father may not have understood the keys to gaining massive wealth and riches, but being unprivileged for the first 30 years of his life, he mastered how to NOT be poor. And one of the ways he taught us was the power of options.
Another worrying realization is that investors, VCs, may become wary of investing in Nigerian startups because of this Flutterwave scandal. Founders may have a tough time proving their own integrity, not just their products.
One man's actions can really affect an entire nation.
Many will be wealthy. Many will be comfortable. Many will be just “fine”.
But none will be poor…or should I say “ought not to be poor”, for therein lies the power of law. The knowledge and experience makes you indispensable to society.
You are needed everywhere, every time.
When God wants to expose enemies disguising as your friends, he gives those friends a little taste of power.
We wouldn't have known Kwankwaso had tribal sentiments until Peter Obi's victory seemed to be at his mercy; then, he revealed his true self.
May God expose your enemies.
This might be the mother's fault. There's a difference between "daddy can't be at your game today" & "daddy can't be at your game because he is working so hard so you can be the best".
Choose your wife carefully. Stop marrying ungrateful, immature, wicked & stupid people.
Ensure they're in abject poverty, then visit them once every 8 years and promise them borehole water and transformer. The APC structure. See them looking dirty and poor.
I dare you to visit any tech or design conference and go campaign to them with this message.
Nonsense.
Was heading to Lagos. Not sure if it was from ibadan or ijebu...anyways, somebody put a goat in the boot & my bags were there. I was sitting at the back & turned around to see the goat trying to eat my foodstuff. Told the driver one of us has to come down, either me or the goat.
@yabaleftonline
In my honest opinion, i think it's actually right to ask, including pension, gratuities, earned allowances, and December rice and groundnut oil.
@yabaleftonline
A korope driver once told me they pay a total of about 5k daily to agberos. It sounded funny, but then i started observing later. From ajah to lekki, a single trip, one driver drops about 1k. 300 naira here, 200 there, 400 there, etc. It didn't sound like a joke anymore.