You miss a lot of opportunities to make money when you don’t have money

Lock in. Life is full of surprises, you could be here next year.

BREAKING: Brighton announce signing of winger Zadok Yohanna from AIK Stockholm on a five-year contract 🚨

Another advantage of being in tech is being able to see a problem and think of multiple solutions instead of just complaining. When the Nigerian government launched the list of PVC ( CVR) centres, it was a minimal interface that required you to do alot of manual work. When I saw it, I decided to build two things with @Salus_Cloud ASAP. 1. An interface that allows you search your address or location, and it'll show you the closest PVC center from your location. 2. Get daily email reminder with the locations that'll encourage you to go and get your PVC, and these emails will only stop once you tell the system that you've gotten your PVC. Do your part as a Nigerian today, Join 500 people and go to pvc.salus.sh and find the location close to you. Before VS after

The most important part of your story that people forget is God’s role.

You can’t call yourself a Developer if you didn’t go thru Hello World ✨

Every software developer happiness started from here right??

I told hubby to download the wrkman app to get guys for our Ac work, dstv and kitchen cabinet. He's been shouting "Debbie the influencerrr"🤣 The Dstv guy did a fantastic job The AC guy is here now. I'll book a hairstylist for my braids too. Safe to say I'm an influencer😌

I’m excited to announce the @beyondafrica__ conference, this will be the largest gathering of African professionals in the US. We’d focus on topic that’d shape the next decade, visit beyondafrica.org for more.

From Ibadan to breaking the Guinness World Record for the smallest tracking GPS ever built at MIT. Meet Tobiloba #innovation

🔴⚪️🏆 Arteta: “This final clearly is the opportunity to own the moment and the opportunity to write a new chapter in the history of this football club”. “In order to do that, we have to play with clarity, a lot of courage & a relentless desire to win”.

This doesn’t just apply to relationships. It applies to friends, family, even your parents. Start giving your parents a monthly allowance and stop later because you’re broke, they’ll resent you. That gateman you give money to every day, the moment you stop, he’ll resent you too. A gift is not supposed to be steady or predictable. Once it becomes expected, it stops being a gift and becomes an obligation. Don’t start what you can’t sustain. Even good intentions become harmful in excess.

Got my O-1 visa approved ⚡️ I’m officially an “alien of extraordinary ability” and I’ve moved to the US 🇺🇸 There’s still so much to build. In the coming weeks, I’m heading to San Francisco to keep building zeist.io New country. Bigger dreams. Same work ethic. LFG! 👨🏾‍🍳

We all deserve this ❤️

A coronation at the Palace 👑

Platforms to invest in companies before IPO.

I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Nigerian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all. The Nigerian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Nigerian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr N250k/month Union Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all. At. All. The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that N1bn townhouse in Parkview Estate. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you. So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable. Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen. That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the N300m house in Lekki that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing. If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7. Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place on Banana Island, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to Burna Boy. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist. Them no really send any part of your papa at all.

If you are relocating to Canada 🇨🇦 from Nigeria 🇳🇬 and don’t know which city to pick, let me save you the research. 🇨🇦 Toronto = 🇳🇬 Lagos. Same hustle. Same traffic on Don Valley Parkway. You didn’t relocate, you just changed currency. 🇨🇦 Ottawa = 🇳🇬 Abuja. Government jobs. Quiet life. People leave work at 5pm. Still can’t believe that’s legal. 🇨🇦 Vancouver = 🇳🇬 Port Harcourt. Beautiful. By the water. Everything is expensive and nobody is sorry about it. 🇨🇦 Calgary = 🇳🇬 Warri. Oil and gas. Tough people. No time for packaging. What you see is what you get. 🇨🇦 Brampton = 🇳🇬 Festac/Surulere. Every Nigerian knows someone there. The jollof, the churches, the hair salons. You will think you never left. 🇨🇦 Winnipeg = 🇳🇬 Kaduna. Overlooked. Affordable. Getting better quietly. Nobody talks about it enough. 🇨🇦 Montreal = 🇳🇬 Ibadan. Old soul. Rich culture. Speaks a different language and is very proud of that. You will adapt or struggle. 🇨🇦 Edmonton = 🇳🇬 Enugu. Solid. Underestimated. People work hard and say nothing about it. Which one did I get right and which one did I miss? 👇

When you remember that Tony Elumelu is the African man who proudly came here to announce that he received the 'Order of Leopold' from the Belgian government, you don't waste emotional energy getting pissed off at the dumb shit he says. He really is just that stupid. That tends to be the case when you became a "billionaire" courtesy of a US puppet head of state whose favourite taxi driver and wife's tailor also received oil mining licenses and became "billionaires." When Babangida finally dies, a lot of "rich" people in that country who have been fronting and warehousing the $12bn Gulf War oil windfall for that old thief will finally be free to talk. Until then, they should continue feeding stupid soundbites to AFP.

Last week, I attended the 3iAfrica summit in Accra, Ghana, and I was impressed by the quality of the event. It's one of the well-organized conferences I have attended on the continent. The speakers, conversations, and after-party were perfectly curated. Big respect to the host and organizers, and special thanks to @matteorizzi and the team for pulling this off.