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Remember that girl who borrowed ₦2,000 to learn graphic design? Yesssss. Graphic design just got her a 2 bedroom apartment. 🔥

A useful way to think about migration is to consider what kind of societies the migrants have built in their home countries and to what extent you would like those conditions replicated here.

VIDEO: Boko Haram terrorists reaffirm that their actions are fully rooted in the teachings of Prophet Mohammed on jihad, urging people to convert to Islam now or they will never stop facing attacks. These are the animals the Nigerian got calls “brothers”.

The shift in the crypto fundraising landscape the past 6 months has been insane. Crypto VCs used to have to constantly be networking/writing/podcasting/going on spaces/promoting your thesis/getting on 10 deal flow calls a week, to get into good deals...now it's literally enough to just have capital to write checks. Deals are being pushed rather than dug out. Inbound if people know you have money is at an all-time high. Most firms are either 1) Out of money 2) Moved to Series A and beyond or 3) Fundraising (with no success). Deals that used to close in 2-3 weeks now close in 2-3 months. Firms with questionable business models or copy pasta of the latest trend are getting zero primary or follow-on funding (Good news!). There are now realistically <20 firms writing checks in pre-seed/seed. VCs basically have the pick of any deal they want, with more time to do DD. IMHO 25/26 are going to be historic vintages for those who stick around.

If someone told me in January that I will be getting an apartment before the end of Q1, I’d have doubted that person. But look at me sitting here by 6:23 AM and thinking about how possible anything and everything is if we just let God take the wheel while doing the best we can. It’s not like I didn’t have where to stay but renting a house where once you’re inside the house you become unreachable due to terrible network was a nightmare. Or should I talk about how we only saw light once a month and when it comes, it blows things in the house. I stayed in that house for just a month before leaving to go squat with a friend and the owner of the house refused to refund us. When I left there, I left with nothing but my cloths. I didn’t even have transport because my friend and I used everything we had to rent that house with the mind of starting fresh and building our lives. I didn’t even have any client then because of the bad network and light wahala. But 7 months down the line, I have gotten my own space and I am slowly bring my Pinterest inspired home to live not because I have money but because I am curating a space where I can heal from a whole lot of things. I may not be able to furnish it to my taste right now but I am grateful that I have a roof over my head. I am not squatting with anyone anymore or begging for a refund.🥹 The amazing thing is that I didn’t even have the complete amount for the total package of my new space and my friend(who wants to remain anonymous) gave me a whopping amount to add up without me even asking. Or should I talk about my boss here on X whom I have never met who also sent me money to support me. I am still shocked at the kind of support I have gotten throughout this house journey. All I want to say is that whatever you want in life, go after it even if it seems impossible to achieve. View the pictures below, can you see the vision I have for this space?🤭 I am sharing this to encourage someone today. I may not know what you’re going through but trust me when I say it gets better. Cry if you must but dust yourself and keep going. I am rooting for you!💪 See you on the greener side of the grass.

What's one money mistake you made in your 20s that you wish someone had warned you about?

software engineering is the only career where interview is harder than the job.