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Alex Iwobi at 27 has made 74 appearances for Nigeria. There were Super Eagles that select matches they want to come for. He makes himself available for even the most inconsequential friendly.
And he has 10 goals for Nigeria as a midfielder.
He deserves some respect.
Not in this generation though. If you don’t see you child in 1 hour, you are panicking already.
Unlike in our time.
We come back from school at 2pm, fling the school bag, eat the eba waiting in the cooler, jump outside to play till 7pm.
Sometimes you get injured from…
I’m not an entertainment industry minder, but from what I see from distance, of all Nigerian tier 1 artistes, Davido is most accessible by socially lower or upcoming folks.
His background alone could have made him inaccessible, not to talk of personal career height.
Fun facts
- Michael and I finished from same primary school in 1994. He topped the set in common entrance. I came 3rd.
- Michael and I finished from same secondary school in 2000. He topped the set in WAEC. I came 2nd. He scored the highest in UME for the set, I scored the 2nd…
After a rewarding 12-year journey, I am leaving the corporate world to embark on a new path as a social entrepreneur. My professional life and personal life are now united by the same purpose: I aim to make people more prosperous while ensuring that their prosperity doesn't harm…
1. If boys too dey bill you for junction, pretend you’re making call and use hand gesture to greet. Kill the hailing before it starts
2. Don’t say “I’m fine” to some “How are you” messages, use “we dey push”
3. If you have a driver, sit at the back and wind up in your tinted…
This CGPA matter again
Pls try and make a good CGPA, especially if you're from a poor home
Pls I take God beg you. Please don't let anybody deceive you.
It is one of the easiest (and most guaranteed) routes to a decent post-school life
Have seen this transform so many lives
Education has taken many people to where they never dreamed
Got a friend that struggled to pay N17k school fees in our final year in 2005/2006, but a very brilliant guy
10 yrs later, by 2015/16, he was opening a N60m house
What happened in those 10 years? Good grade = good job
To God be the glory, the Ebonyi first class math genius finally lands in the US. Thanks to Dr Michael Taiwo
@MTforChange
who discovered him & practically adopted him & paid exam fees through his MT Scholarship.
Like the night we interviewed him, got tears in my eyes again today
1. Crude oil (oil from the ground) is processed and converted to petroleum products.
2. The conversion process is called refining
3. The products are many (diesel, jet fuel, kerosene, petrol etc), but the most relevant one here is petrol
4. Nigeria has abundant crude oil
Whoever tweeted that “flight upgrade at the airport” tip I saw few weeks ago just saved me N1.5m
Couldn’t find the tweet again but thanks to the person.
Why Muslim Festivals Don't Have a Fixed Date in Jan-Dec Calendar
(Explainer for Non-Muslims)
1. As you all know, Muslims are guided by Islamic rules and laws.
2. So Muslim calendar is different. It is based on Islamic tradition
3. Convergence: Muslims also have 12 months
House is in Offa. Should be at least 50 years old.
Owned by the late Alhaji Sanni Balogun aka Sanni Aba. The area is known as Sanni Aba because of this.
He was a business merchant that traded in many goods. Aba added to his aka because, we understand, he used to source goods…
Suspended CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele's villa in Agbor. The other one belongs to his cousin. This is just in his village, what are we going to uncover when they start looking into his properties in other parts of Nigeria and abroad?
I like my life sha
Sharing table with oil company CEO in a London lounge on a Friday evening and playing street football on sands under rain with area boys and mechanics somewhere in Ajah on Sunday afternoon.
I don’t see this stopping soon - or ever stopping😃
That defined…
Posted my new house on Whatsapp in September.
An ex-colleague saw it, liked it.
Asked whether another unit was available. Connected him with developer.
Guy paid N115m and picked his unit.
Developer wired 2% (N2.3m) to me as agent. Without doing anything other than…
From Ebonyi farm (now headed) to Texas for PhD Math (Msc skipped for him) fully funded by the school
All within 4 mths of discovering this raw gold
We pray this will be the beginning of economic turnaround of his family.
Thanks to Dr
@MTforChange
for discovering this talent
Stopped over at a 3rd party site in Jan and saw the work of a young man handling their staircase and balcony railings. Liked it and collected his number.
When we got to same stage in one of our projects, Whitestreet, two weeks ago, asked him to submit quote with others. He did…
Top 5 Misinformation on PIA
1. NNPC is being privatized
No, NNPC is not privatized. NNPC is only becoming a limited liability company subject to CAMA, to be named NNPC Ltd (C will also now mean Company, not corporation). The share is still 100% government owned.
If it will inspire the younger ones (or anyone at all), retelling the story of Taiwo Oyedele’s career
1. Born in a village in Ondo State in mid 1970s
2. Almost denied admission into primary school at 5 because he was small and his left hand could not touch the right ear
1. 2008: Came to Lagos with only a bag (+ a CV)
2. 2015: First small baby in Lagos (9-5)
3: 2020: Second baby in Lagos (9-5)
4: 2023: Third baby in Lagos (post 9-5)
Then a thought: Since you enjoy building/buying houses, why not start doing it for people? Decided to quit…
Next football match
Jarus FC vs KPMG NG Football Team
Union Bank field, Surulere, Lagos
Saturday, 18 May 2024
Victor Modo will also livestream for viewers
Understanding the Oil & Gas Industry I (Sunday Knowledge Share)
The oil & gas industry is broadly classified into 2
1. Upstream
2. Downstream
There is a 3rd class called Midstream, which sometimes gets classified as part of downstream in the broadest sense.
Will explain
The Nigerian billionaires wars of 2006-2008 was mad sha
The open, fierce, dirty ones
- Otedola vs Dangote over Texaco
- Jimoh Ibrahim vs Otedola & Dangote (refineries acquisition)
- Jimoh Ibrahim vs Otedola (over AP acquisition)
Spend less than 15 days in a year in my Kwara home but every single time I go home, there is some sort of fulfilment that comes with it. Really looking forward to finally leaving city and fully retiring home to be taking pap and moin moin every morning and settling quarrels 😊
I like the distribution of rich men in my community. Good case study for youths.
The two men believed by many people to be the richest have these profiles:
Alhaji A
- 1st class in Accounting (Unilag)
- FCA (chartered accountant)
- PhD
- MBA
- Did 9-5 for many years rising to…
Career case study: Eugene Okpere
Highest ranking Nigerian in Shell globally (I think)
- currently Executive VP, Shell HQ, UK
- former country chair, Shell Trinidad & Tobago
- finished from Uniben (Geology) in 1990 and joined Mobil in 1991 before moving to Shell 1992
- Rose…
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Subscribe to their website and receive regular updates.
Highly underrated website with genuine job advert publications.
Since the day I landed in Aberdeen in 2020 and posted a picture here and IG and one boy from 10 TLs away zoomed the pic and said “with this shoe, how did Border Control allow you to enter the UK”, I dey crop shoes out of pics 😀
I don see shege for this app
I don’t think Ajo is a bad financial decision if you have reliable partners (eg colleagues).
If you pack early, it’s interest-free loan to you.
If you pack late, it’s saving for you.
Not many people have the discipline to keep money in bank and not touch it.
Finance Tip,
“Ajo” is a total waste of time and no interests.
There are accounts where you can contribute money monthly and get interest in a safe manner.
They won’t also run with your money and switch off phone.
Understanding the New NNPC
PIA, passed in Aug 2021, requires the Minister of Petroleum (in consultation with Finance Minister) to incorporate a new company, to be called Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd), to take over most of the assets & liab of NNPC
1/n
Osaze na proper baller. He doesn’t get discussed enough in Nigerian football.
Highly dedicated. Turned up for almost every match, even inconsequential friendlies. Even Olympics. Arguably our best player in Beijing 2008.
One of our cleanest dribblers ever. Good on the wing,…
One day in Dec 2006, in his room in his sister’s house in Badore Ajah, Michael and I sat down and were discussing future, while reminiscing our past.
We had just graduated from Ife, he from chemical engineering, I from economics, both with 1st class, 2 months earlier (we had…
Go for your PhD.
That tech career is good but it’s a distraction. If you can earn what you are earning now with a Bachelors, living in Nigeria, imagine how much more valuable you would be after a PhD from eg the US?
You want to future proof your career, especially in tech…
All my children were born in top private hospitals.
I never paid ten kobo hospital bill.
I can’t remember ever buying any medicine or paying any hospital for my and my family’s hospital visits for 15 years.
I walked into hospital witthout thinking of cost.
Health insurance.…
Happy to announce that Brila FM, Nigeria’s first sports-only station, have contacted us as Media Partner for the
#JarusFCvsTwitterFC
football match.
We are honoured to bring on board Nigeria’s biggest sports broadcasting station.
Jibola has scammed some of the smartest people you can think of.
Ask about him in Vetiva.
I’m not surprised that girl forked out £20k for him.
And despite the fact that they sacked him in Vetiva, he still got job in another firm in Lagos.
Despite the fact that his scamming…
He can’t keep a job cos they keep sacking him. Got a job as an investment banker and got sacked in 3 months cos he scammed his boss. When I tell you the boy is cursed
Incorrect
1. Arab did not tell any Muslim to drop Abeti Aja. And Islam definitely does not tell us that. There is nothing wrong in a Muslim wearing Abeti Aja or any cultural cap.
2. Yes, Muslims that can afford it (health & financial wise) have obligation to travel for hajj…
Arabs told you to drop your Abeti Aja traditional Yoruba cap and tie 20 yards of cloth around your head in hot humid weather, a cloth they use to protect their eyes from sandstorm, to go to Mecca and spend $$ to boost their economy instead of Ile - Ife. What a confused man.
I no dey do pass myself.
At the beginning, colleagues dey live for 500k per annum rented house, I dey live for where I dey pay N250k rent. Later, when colleagues were paying 1.5m rent, was paying N500k (last rent).
No designer shoe or shirt, na for Balogun market (got 2-3 TM…
This girl shot a DM yesterday morning and within one hour, she had been interviewed by myself and my Head of Corporate Services, and hired.
How did it happen?
1. She was straightforward and concise in her 5 line message. Listed her skills, not “I never chop, pls give me job”…
A Zenith Bank CEO
Before becoming CEO
- would have worked and earned good money (salaries, bonuses etc) from his banking career for at least 25 years prior to becoming CEO (would have been senior banker AGM-DGM-GM-ED for like 10 years prior). This runs into billions of naira,…
1. Be good at what you do
2. Be versatile - know a lot of things, don't be narrow-skilled
3. Build a strong network
4. Be visible in your company, field, profession and industry (sometimes, it’s about the most visible, not the best)
A young lady walked up to me and said
“Mr Jarus, good evening sir. I attended your NNPC interview coaching in Abuja in 2019. My money was not complete but you admitted me into the center like that. You toldmme after the mock interview session that if I repeated the exact…
GTB
- Fola Adeola
- Tayo Aderinokun
friends, colleagues from CMB, first business they did together was to open a barbers shop in Ikoyi, before later co-founding GTB. They also attempted jointly owning a gym in Kano as staff of CMB.
Access
- Aig-Imoukhuede
- Herbert Wigwe…
Always been scared of these private schools given incidents I read in the media these days.
Now more scared with an incident my wife told me about today
My 8 y/o boy was nominated for Sports Prefect but lost the election. New term, the pupil that won misbehaved and was
Welcome to the Association of Victims of Ajibola Odusanya 😀
There is actually a Whatsapp group of his victims, I just didn’t join
Boy used mentee kinikan to enter me and I took him under my arms here - from brilliant comments on TL, to my DM to phone talk. He used “egbon” to…
Again
Old money: Ikoyi, VI, Ikeja
I don’t think any tier 1 wealthy person in Lagos lives in Lekki (if we define tier 1 as minimum of $500m net worth). Na Ikoyi and VI dem dey live. Those on Mainland live in Ikeja.
Bruh, billionaire business men in Lagos don’t live in Lekki, the only wealthy set of people who live in Lekki are entertainers.
These billionaires live more in Ikoyi and ikeja, i saw things in Ogudu GRA. Lol
Had a meeting with an egbon today on his post 9-5 plans and laughed again at people that said 9-5 cannot make people (Naira) billionaire.
7 properties in Lagos, including VI, 1 in Canada and 1 in the UK.
27 years work experience.
In fact, virtually every senior 9-5 people I…
One of my closest friends picked up a unit of Fortrose Court this week (what will be his 2nd house in Lagos) and it evokes memories & lessons in friends supporting each other in course of life.
In May 2008, fresh after NYSC, I resumed at a coy in VI as an accounting officer 1/
From winning Jarus FC player of the year 2022 to undergoing Manchester City football course in 2023
Used to be our main attacker/winger but now being used as central midfielder in the practical games for the City coursemates
Rooting for Lekan to break into Man City junior team
This looks unreal but it is true.
Osun State has at least 6 towns that qualify as urban area by all standards
1. Osogbo
2. Ilesha
3. Ile Ife
4. Ede
5. Iwo
6. Ikirun
No other state in the SW, except Lagos, has such concentration:
Ogun - Abeokuta, Ijebu Ode, Sagamu, Otta and…
How do I react to this without sounding like I’m demarketing a fellow business person who has not done anything wrong?
But one ton of iron is currently 485k. For the foundation, the pillars and the small suspension floor I’m seeing here, you will need minimum of 5 tons. That’s…
Zach (current FIRS chair, a year my senior in Ife, although he was in accounting, I, economics) used to be called “Prof” among his classmates. The guy sabi accounting die. Unique with visible face marks and Ibadan English, he was well respected among his classmates.
Razaq (now…
Met a lot of them at the stadium.
They cannot speak English. They speak Yoruba and French. My Yoruba saved me.
Many said they were born in Cote D’Ivoire.
Naija hometowns of the ones I met: Ejigbo, Iwo, Iragberi, Ede (all in Osun State)
Met an Ivorian-born Nigerian fan after the Super Eagles match yesterday, the option was to speak either French or Yoruba, guess which one I spoke to get Aisha Adeleke to do this interview?
I'm coming for you
@OloriSports
When I moved to my newly built house in 2020, I felt a huge happiness - first own duplex.
Although knew that won’t be my final destination, but I didn’t know it would take only three years to move.
Moved to another, bigger one, in a decently rated estate mid this year. Felt…
Bismillahi
Groundbreaking for Jarus Homes’ next project, Inverness Terraces (Ajah, Lagos), started today.
We promised to start in Jan 2023, but starting before schedule.
Delivery in 15 months
To key in: 07036442913
Brands that have signed up to the Jarus Plumbers vs Twitter Match
- PADE HCM: official jersey sponsor of Twitter team
- Black Stallion Energy Drinks: supply of free energy drinks to spectators
- Jarus Homes, official jersey sponsor of Jarus FC (aka Jarus Plumbers)…
Lol. Joke!
Is NLNG an American company?
Entry level there goes home with close to 2m
NLNG is even far. I can name 10 other companies
Of course these are entry level. For mid to senior positions, there are Nigerian companies that pay up to 5m per month!
I know a…
Irony of life.
When cement was N2k per bag, some people saw it as prohibitively expensive and they cannot afford to build a house.
By the time it became 5k per bag, that’s when they can afford it.
I have a friend that was running helter-skelter in 2016 trying to raise N36m…
Even though we’ve known each other from Nairaland days more than 15 years ago, and have met a couple of times at social events, happy to be hosted by Honourable
@akinalabi
in his Lagos office today.
18 - completed secondary school
19- resumed university
24-graduated
25- NYSC
26- started working
27- started house 1
28- married
30- child 1
31- completed house 1
32- child 2
33- house 2
34- hajj
35 - child 3
36 - house 3
37 - promoted manager(11 yrs after working)
38-houses 4&5
Anytime I see this pic, I remember the first time I posted it on Twitter and one small boy from 5 TLs away came to comment, “How did Border Control clear you to enter the UK with this your shoes?”
I just return am to IG jeje where they show love
Just met an Ivorian man that said Nigerian Mike Adenuga made him what he is.
He worked in Glo for 15 years (Lagos, Abuja, Calabar) and returned to Ivory Coast few years ago.
He said he doesn’t joke with Nigerians, that he even gives Nigerians preference in his Ivorian…
They know I dont do birthdays but these kids + mum hav spent 100k to "surprise" me on my birthday - from Arsenal jersey gifts to pizza/ice cream for themselves
The only issue is, I'll see that figure in the expense reimbursement list at monthend
Using Abu money to entertain Abu
I don’t buy this idea of primary schools closing 3pm.
Na 1pm we dey close for Adeola (my primary school).
No even extra lesson.
And we still dey smash exams.
I really pity these children of these days.
How staff of top organizations (esp oil & gas) make the most of their 9-5 income
- most got those jobs in their 20s and early 30s (low key, disciplined, they won’t impress you with flashy cars and other arguably less productive spends)
- banks are always chasing them for…
The streaming was contracted to
@modovictorekene
He did an excellent job. Clear visual and nice commentary.
I recommend him for streaming of your events.
1. Best student in my secondary school set: now Head of Hydrogen Operations, Shell North America
2. Best student in my university class: now Country Head of Commercial, Shell Albania, Europe
Happy for you guys’ life. May we not be example of tweets like this
School ne be scam!
People underrate 9-5 here.
I wonder why they have not met all those senior 9-5 people that own houses in NICON, Chevyview, Carlton Gate, Pinnock, Royal Gardens City etc, some in their early 40s at best.
Houses worth over N300m. Some have 2-3.
You think if car was their…
Ottlek
@Ottlek1
has played against my team four times in the past three years and he registered a goal in all.
A first class graduate (sorry Book Twitter is my primary constituency). UNILORIN.
Personally rooting for him in life.
Keep your head high, aburo.
PS: Onitolo…
If Instablog see this picture, na this go be their caption
“Offa People Jubilate as Offa Man Meets Peter Obi for the 4th time”
PS: Pls don’t insult me. I’m an elder and a deadly striker.
The rule is simple
1. Form a team from Twitter
2. Play my team
3. If you beat my team, take the money as prize
4. If you can’t beat my team, money gets returned to me
5. If you see draw, go with N1m prize. N4m gets returned to me.
Players must be my followers or those who…
As I round up my 15 years in 9-5, here are some LIGHT things I will miss
1. Guaranteed alert on 25th (only once in the 15 years did salary get delayed till 28th)
2. HMO (never spent a dime on hospital bills, including CS delivery of 3 children and all the many hospital visits)
For those who mock my football videos and say my players are carpenters and electricians, I have a challenge.
1. Form a team from Twitter (all players must be my followers or commented on my football video in the past - no go import mercenaries wey no dey Twitter before)
2.…
It took Aig 14 years from attaining Law degree in UNIBEN to become an ED in GTB.
Minus Law School & NYSC years, that's 12 years from entry level to ED. That's even if he didn't do full time masters before starting career.
Aig and Herbert rose to become an ED in a bank - GTB…