I saw this and couldn’t stay quiet. A man in Germany pays 42% tax and gets: • Job loss? Govt pays 60% of salary • Baby? Up to 3 years paid leave with job guaranteed • Education? Free from primary to PhD • Children? €250 monthly per child till 18 • Transport? €56 monthly

The NGX is effectively the home of illiquidity. We have listed companies that struggle to exchange even 1 million units of volume in a whole week. I’ve broken them down into three categories of pain: 1. The Illiquid: Your regular bellwethers like Dangote Cement, Nestle, BUA

There are so many graduates in Nigeria but very few people that can be hired. Every single organisation i know is experiencing that challenge. The problem in most cases is really not about low salary, the quality of our graduates are very poor. We need to really fix education.

Last year, a major Chinese institution approached me with a proposal, and it was simple and tempting (included on click): 1. Research Funding: A yearly grant between $180,000 and $280,000 for 2–3 years. 2. Minimal Commitment: Just one hour a week to mentor students and provide

When last have you seen Saudi Arabia or UAE threatened with a 🇺🇸 visa ban. Africa should read the room, unfortunately, materialism and infighting have blinded the continent

My 2026 Personal Finance To Do List: Nigerian Edition 1. Register a business, especially if you make income on the side. incorporate that hobby 2. Learn about Trusts, then do one. Wills are dated 3. Invest in foreign assets that will pay you a $ coupon, rental, dividend or

Over 20 million children are out of school in Nigeria and we’ve somehow made peace with that number. We walk past them every day selling sachet water, carrying loads and begging to survive. Then we act shocked when insecurity grows. You cannot abandon children at scale and

This information age is built on platforms. Most people use these platforms to play, gossip and troll; a few use them to own a piece of the global economy

✑ Equities ✑ Gold ✑ Infrastructure ✑ Commodities

I’ve thought about this for a long time and I think we’re lying to ourselves. The real difference between first-world countries and countries like Nigeria is not intelligence, not resources, not even corruption. It’s order. In places that work, rules are boring because they’re

Financial literacy is largely absent from the primary and secondary school curriculum in 🇳🇬 despite being one of the most vital life skills to acquire

If your investment horizons is years, not days, today’s market fluctuations are just background noise

This is actually true. What he did was he renovated lots of schools, recruited 5300 teachers and made basic education compulsory and free in Abia State. He is still renovating and recruiting more though. He recruited marshals in Abia State that go around Abia State hunting for

A lot of students don’t understand what JAMB ranking really means yet. And that misunderstanding will cost people admission. Before now, people asked: “Did you score 280?” Now the real question is: “You scored 280… but what number are you in Nigeria?” That’s the shift.

If Gov Soludo finishes this second tenure and Onitsha Divisional Library is not yet fixed to global standard, it will be a shame to him. We had offered to fix it but Tony Nwora blocked it to score cheap political point. It’s sad that critical education infrastructure as

Quick one: it doesn’t matter whether a company does an all-time high. I get the angle, but it shouldn’t bother you. The question is, “are the profits also doing all-time highs?” If the direction of profit and cash flows are consistent with market value, it shouldn’t worry an

Whenever people ask why doctors are leaving the country in droves, show them this picture. You spend 10 years saving lives, missing sleep, only to be paid peanuts and ridiculed by the society you're trying to save. The disrespect for healthcare workers in this country is too

Imagine if the 5 South East governors stopped acting like separate states and started acting like ONE economic force. Interconnecting roads across Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia, and Ebonyi. Street lights across major corridors. One unified rail system moving people and goods