Pope Uche

Things men slowly learn as they grow older: - No woman loves you for who you are, she only loves for what you can do for her -Nobody is coming to save you -Discipline beats motivation -Money solves many problems -Silence is better than arguing - Nobody cares until you are rich or dead. -Respect is earned, not begged for - No woman is ever yours - You can do everything right and still lose. - Your colleagues are not your friends - Your father is the only man who wants you to be better than him

There’s an unfair advantage to become crazily successful that many people simply neglect. Think about this: Herbert Wigwe & Aig founded Access Bank. Before that they were directors at GTB. Before Moniepoint became a unicorn, the founders had worked at another unicorn called Interswitch. Before Steve Jobs started apple, he had interned at HP. Coincidence? No. Exposure is an unfair advantage. Do everything you can in this life to get into rooms where your dreams are the norm for the people there. See what is possible. Get into those circles by any legal means necessary. You’ll never be the same. Something will rob off on you.

Things to understand in a corporate... 1. HR is not your friend. They are there to protect both the employee and the company. 2. Document EVERYTHING. 3.Train and develop yourself to be relevant in that place of work 4. Everyone is replaceable. 5. Your family and mental health is more important than any job. 6. Some of your coworkers secretly hate you. 7. Never stay at one job longer than 4 years unless the pay increase is substantial. 8. Don’t let them promote you in title but not in compensation. 9. Keep your personal life private. Do not overshare.

Nobody in corporate will tell you this... but it decides your future 1. Visibility beats hard work. If no one knows what you're doing, it doesn't count. 2. Your manager's opinion > HR policies. People promote who they trust, not just who performs. 3. Networking inside > skills outside. Opportunities come from people, not platforms. 4. Pick projects that make you visible, not just busy. Workload doesn't equal growth 5. Your personal brand is built in your first 2 years, Protect it early - it defines your path. 6. Learning stops when curiosity does. Ask questions. Stay curious. Keep improving. 7. Quiet quitting feels safe but kills growth silently. Comfort zones are career traps.

This isn't true. You need an incredible amount of shamelessness before you witness growth that compounds. I started teaching in 2010. I would teach Chemistry in the morning, ride okada in the evening, teach tutorials on weekend. The students I was teaching, some my age mates, some older than myself - I would carry on my bike in the evening, then go back to organize early morning tutorials the next day. No shame. The money I made from Okada, I split my earnings - one part to my siblings, one part to my academics. Thats how I was able to pay my first tuition. In school, I was also riding Okada while working for farmers on weekend - that's how I was able to stay in school. I was also top of the class. To prosper, you need an incredible amount of shamelessness.

If you earn more than ₦800,000/year or plan to grow your income beyond ₦25M turnover, register a Limited Liability Company (LLC) before 2026.

I’ve said this before and I hate to gild the lily, but it’s worth threading this for the sake of younger folks. What makes someone exceptional in thought is not necessarily intelligence. It’s resistance. To think well, you must first refuse to think lazily.

I learnt this the hard way. When I moved to the UK, last meetings on Fridays or first meeting during the week, people had a lot to say about plans for the weekend or what they got doing. I usually have nothing to say. It was then I started picking up actual stuff to do and I have a lot to speak about from cycling, to swimming, to charity, travelling etc. Even if the plan is to do a road trip to a family, I add the sprinkle of why the location is an amazing place to go to in the UK etc. This skill is very important aside from its use for networking, it helps to diffuse the tension in the atmosphere in other instances like interview etc. I have become so good at it and what I do mostly is to usually pick a topic I know will interest the other party or say something interesting I have been up to without over sharing of course 😊.

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@mason_usdt @realkelvin07 Only people with means. Borrow in USD, invest in Nigeria USD bond.

The rebasing of Nigeria’s GDP from $188bn to $253bn has seen debt to GDP ratio drop from 52% to 39.1%, I’m however not impressed with the 9.75% coupon Nigerian government is paying on the domestic dollar debt it raised, I will really like to find out how the book-runners arrived at that price, and this is especially because the government has scheduled to raise another $2bn in the rolling debt stock for medium term expenditure framework.

100% of a man's problems stems from his inability to sit alone, in silence, in his room. For the modern man, silence is unbearable. He open 18 tabs, scroll feed 3 socials at the same time, check 7 apps - just to avoid a single quiet moment with himself. Let me talk to you. 🧵

On GMOs. Firstly, permit me to throw data to the wind. Only time. 90% of people arguing about GMOs, reading this thread - have never handled genetic materials, edited genes. Probably never will. I eat CRISPR-CAS9 for lunch. I write this thread, as a subject authority.

Hit me with one harsh truth you've accepted so far as a man.

True story - one that introduced me to one of the nuances of corporate politics! Post-NYSC, I interned with this edutech & was in a science team of 3 interns, all first class grads. We all studied "unrelated" first° disciplines & like with all internships, it was probationary.

About two weeks later, they reached out via phone call and promised to act soon. Just last night, July 18, they came to clear the dump. Here's to encourage you to lead the change you want to see in your community. Thank you for your service, @eswama1. Let's keep Enugu clean.

The key identifier of an "elite" class is not merely their bank account balance but their ability and willingness to use their economic and political heft to shape the society around them. That's why a hereditary landowner and member of the UK House of Lords is considered an elite, while your average Premier League footballer (who may have more money than the HoL member) is not. The difference is in the willingness and ability to wield that power meaningfully. The reason I keep on saying 'Nigeria has no elites' is that I was born and raised among the subset of Nigerians who erroneously consider themselves to be elite, and I am very familiar with their thought process. It is the exact same thought process that you would get from a sugarcane seller in Mile 12 market if overnight he was given a house in Maitama, a Lexus SUV, a beautiful yarinya and N150m in the bank. The nouveau-riche sugarcane seller would not be concerned with higher thoughts like how to use his newfound fortune to transform the economic reality of Mile 12 market while positioning to benefit from the transformation. Nope. He would only be concerned with ensuring that he keeps hold of what he has, so that he never has to sleep in a wheelbarrow on a side street off Ikosi Road again. That's exactly what the privileged Nigerian is upstairs - a sugarcane seller who happens to live in Ikoyi. No matter how many decades they have spent in Ikoyi, their reality is still defined by the desperate quest to escape or avoid poverty. Every Nigerian millionaire or billionaire that you know feels financially insecure. Doesn't matter whether they are worth $1m or $25bn - they are all viscerally terrified of sinking into poverty, and the sum of their decision making is a series of short term deals and compromises to avoid poverty, without any kind of higher, long-term guiding principle. I know this especially well because I was raised in a house where everybody who is somebody in Lagos stopped by once in a while to work on a real estate deal with my old man, and I would regularly overhear everybody from bank CEOs to retired military generals and air vice marshalls saying things "Our leaders are [insert whiny complaint]." And I would wonder - who are the "leaders" that these extremely privileged people sound so oppressed and intimidated by? Is it not their friends and coursemates from Jaji? Later on it made sense when I realised that once you are in power in Nigeria, you become God, and even your family changes its rules for you. I've seen families override their olori-ebi because one 50 year-old uncle became somebody in Abuja. Conversely, as soon as you leave power in Nigeria, you sink into total irrelevance and people treat you like your body has a smell. The entire Nigerian sense of value and self-worth is welded to money and power. Once you don't have these 2 things, you might as well be wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak - even your family and contemporaries stop treating you with respect. The effect this has on elite formation is that unlike in other societies where elites gravitate toward different ideas shared by different camps, and then fight for the right to imprint those ideas on their society (Democrat vs Republican; Maoist vs Dengist; Tory vs Labour etc), privileged Nigerians ONLY gravitate toward one thing - economic power. They have no elite sense of identity outside of money in the bank, a 4-wheeled status signaller on the road, and an overpriced house in a neighbourhood that has a constant bad odour and potholes. That is also why Nigeria's political actors do this thing called "decamping" where they switch affiliation to whatever political party is in power. Their entire conception of the world is built around access to the levers of economic power so that they can avoid ending up in a wheelbarrow in Mile 12 market. That's literally all there is to Nigeria. 200 million sugarcane sellers.

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@KingSuleiman27 RIP Exboy Oguntoye

I had a friend, an incredibly smart, calm, and intelligent guy. He was in his final year at the University of Jos, studying Medicine (A distinction student), when he got admitted into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA). He made the tough decision to leave UniJos and abandon everything related to Medicine, starting all over again from 100 level at NDA, even though he had just few months left to be graduate.

6/ "Don't overpay." This is the worst thing to do in bad markets as it shrinks your margin of safety. Peter Lynch believes that a fairly valued company has a PE ratio equal to its annual earnings growth rate. Avoid stocks that trade above a PEG ratio of 1.

Peter Lynch once said: "If you spend 14 minutes a year thinking about economics, you have just wasted 12 minutes." Here are his 10 investing principles to navigate uncertainty: 🧵