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I was going to build two websites for a multimillionaire. I am sure his business was making around 50 million a month.
I sent an invoice of 1.8 million, but his assistant reduced it to 800k, saying Oga wouldn’t pay.
When the invoice reached him, he called me personally and asked me to lower it to 600k, saying it was too high. I stood my ground, and we agreed on 400k for just one of the sites.
On the day we launched the site, I joined their team celebration dinner. It lasted less than two hours, and the restaurant bill was 420k.
He literally paid for a one-night dinner that cost more than what he paid me for three weeks of work
When we wanted to buy a domain, the one he liked was $80, he paid for two years upfront, that's over 200k
I realized he wasn’t concerned about the money; His goal was to keep me small.
David Hundeyin@DavidHundeyin
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.
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I was telling someone the other day about these billionaires 😅. I only appreciate them for one thing: LEVERAGE. At least we saw the Abiolas. Despite their father’s wealth, none of them have been able to sustain that billionaire legacy. So, kudos to Otedola and co, but I prefer to read books that resonate with my circumstances.
𝓫𝓸𝔂𝓡𝓲@Boyravee
First sentence of chapter 1, so na for London him start him life? Na once i close the book oh😭
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Sha no poor for this life, Nigerian politicians go use you and your mama gan
Oyo Matters@Oyo_Matters
🚨 An APC Aspirant, Honorable Bambo distributes four-week-old cockerels to widows in his Constituency.
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sudanese children are starving while the world turns a blind eye to them. i beg you all to use your platforms to advocate for sudan.
✞@yallsuck7
Children in Sudan are starving too; don't turn a blind eye. We must not be biased in our concern and compassion. All eyes on Sudan.
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Dear @WorldBankGroup,
For the second time, stop enabling our politicians to destroy our country. There is nothing beneficial to the citizens from the loan given to them. They only share it among themselves and use the rest to buy votes for re-election.
Stop giving President Tinubu loans. We Nigerians are pleading!
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Please she’s my best friend. Kindly help me, kindly help her
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Not being classist or anything
But just take a look at the caliber of people actively involved in politics in Nigeria , they are the local people , mostly uneducated, all of them card carrying members with their Voters card.
While most of the so called educated and intellectuals in Nigeria are on X and other social media platforms, writing threads and lamenting about Bad governance via tweets and not participating in any form or way in local politics.
All these uneducated folks know who their state House of Representatives are, they know who is representing them at the National level both at upper and lower house, many people on X don’t have an idea who their own representatives are.
There can be no change untill people realize and understand that the post of the Citizen is the most important one Ina democracy, you have a civic duty as citizens.
There has to be much more awareness on citizenship education.
Dejii™@_Dejii
If dem born your papa well, queue behind another person 🤣🤣🤣
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Funke akindele got community service when she violated covid lockdown rules in 2020
Brother please
dru. squatch@hurtch
Globalization is a beautiful thing because I am seeing Nigerians living in Nigeria suggest “community service” as a punishment for certain offenses. I need more people to touch grass and switch off the internet once in a while.
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“Luckily for me, we didn’t know what we were building, because if I’d known, we’d have chickened out.” Dangote
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This is a slippery slope.
The guy said some dumb stuff, yes. But jailing him for two years sets a very very dangerous precedent.
Tomorrow you that always wish death and pain upon politicians/their families can be picked up and sentenced.
Ignore the signs today. See wonders tomorrow.
Nigeria Stories@NigeriaStories
JUST IN: social media user Mr SAMUEL ADEBOYE ADEYEYE aka Swanky_concept has been sentenced to 2 years imprisonment after pleading guilty for spread long misinformation with malicious intent about Adekunle Gold and Simi’s daughter
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If you attend many of these big churches in Lagos, be very careful what you consume from the pulpit this period, because I genuinely think a memo has been sent to many of them.
The patterns are becoming too loud to ignore.
Most of the topics, sermons, statements, and even program themes I’ve been seeing from some of these big churches are psychologically constructed to make Nigerians emotionally withdraw from voting and accepting change as impossible.
Some weeks ago, it was Pastor Adeboye telling people that the next president has already been chosen by God.
Now it is Matthew Ashimolowo saying Peter Obi is the best candidate, but he won’t win.
Then another popular Lagos church is running with a program theme talking about “Jesus being the best political cover.”
And there are many more subtle messages like that flying around.
This is becoming too coordinated to be random.
The timing.
The location.
The pastors involved.
The exact emotional direction of the messaging.
This is psychological manipulation, and many Nigerians are not catching it.
Because APC knows something very important.
They know they no longer have anything tangible to sell Nigerians again.
Fuel is expensive.
Food is expensive.
Electricity is expensive.
School fees are expensive.
Businesses are collapsing.
The naira has been battered.
People are suffering visibly.
So what do you do when performance can no longer convince the people?
You start targeting their psychology.
You start targeting hope.
You start targeting morale.
You start making people feel like resistance is pointless.
That is the new strategy.
And religion is one of the easiest vehicles to use because many Nigerians trust pastors more than they trust facts.
Notice the pattern carefully.
These pastors will subtly admit that Peter Obi or the Obi/Kwankwaso movement represents competence or better leadership, but immediately after saying that, they will emotionally conclude with:
“But he cannot win.”
“God has already chosen.”
“Jesus is the answer.”
“Focus on heaven.”
Do you people not see the psychological game being played there?
It is not direct support for APC.
It is emotional demobilization.
It is convincing Nigerians not to bother participating.
It is making people subconsciously feel their votes do not matter.
Because once people lose hope psychologically, the battle is already halfway won politically.
And sadly, many of these pastors know exactly what they are doing because they understand how emotionally dependent many Nigerians are on religious authority.
They know many church members will never question anything coming from the altar.
That is why you must use your brain this period.
God is supreme.
Jesus is King.
Nobody is arguing that.
But God has also given human beings free will.
The same Bible is full of people making choices and living with the consequences of those choices.
Nigeria today is the result of choices.
Bad leadership is the result of choices.
Corruption is the result of choices.
Silence is the result of choices.
And better leadership will also come from choices.
God will not come down from heaven to thumbprint ballot papers.
Nigerians will.
So when someone tells you “the next president has already been chosen,” ask yourself:
Why then are politicians campaigning?
Why are billions being spent on elections?
Why are parties fighting desperately for power?
Why are propaganda machines working overtime?
Why are pastors suddenly sounding like political analysts?
Because they know votes matter.
And they know people matter.
That is why APC and its supporters are now focusing heavily on psychological warfare.
They know they cannot easily defend the suffering Nigerians are facing.
So the next best thing is to make Nigerians mentally surrender before 2027 even arrives.
That is why you must stay alert.
Pray, yes.
Trust God, yes.
But also think critically.
Because faith without wisdom is how manipulators control people.
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He’s a Nigerian na. You people think it’s baby level terrorism going on in that part of the country?
sc@sxdiqcarter_
ISIS number 2 was hiding in Nigeria?
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We will not stop until Nigerian Police stop brutalizing Nigerians.
Video showing police man crack gun and pointed at a man's face, and say his going to k!ll him. You must repost this video till IGP sees this video and these following men must be arrested.😭😭
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The fastest way to accelerate your career is to get in environments where your dream life is their average Thursday.
Dafenet@patdafenet
An advice for a young person ??
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