Romance › Re: I Asked Her, Can't Your Parent Provide Basic Needs? Are My Wrong? by nams77: 9:51am On Dec 05, 2021 |
KiNg0G: Oh lord , any sîmp in my bloodline like this op that will cause me future grievance, let it miscarriage. Loool I almost fell from my chair. It marvel me how young men spend money on girls. I can't even imagine doing these things not to talk of actually doing it. I will share a story and i hope mods push it to fp |
Politics › Re: COVID-19 Affected My Fight Against Corruption, Insecurity – Buhari by nams77: 9:07pm On Dec 04, 2021 |
olafum1: This man and his handlers really took Nigerians for a fool.
These insults are too much.
My simple advice, stop voting northerners to power, remember Abacha that looted the country dry, till date those moneys are not fully recovered.
Southerners use the presidency to achieve economic gains, but these northerners come to always reverse the wind of time, see how this one has took us really back. All economic gains and advances of the Obasanjo and Jonathan regime are already reversed.
How long should we continue like this.. I am also of the notion that the country divide and everyone goes its ways. I am very sure Buhari won't have really last long as president had it been he is only governing northern Nigeria. But you can see already that hypocrisy runs in the gene of all northerners. Best, make everyone go it ways. No truer words have ever been said! |
Politics › Re: Did Tinubu Call Buhari “Agent Of Destabilization”? Yes! - Farooq Kperogi by nams77: 8:59pm On Dec 04, 2021 |
Akathriel: Tinubu will never become President in Nigeria and I’ll tell you why.
PART 1: October 2018
Louis XIV was King of France for 72 years and 110 days and became the most powerful French monarch who consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule that endured until the French Revolution. At the peak of his maniac, he said: “L’Etat c’est moi” (I am the state).
I am not aware Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is given to so much reading to have come across Louis’ declaration but I once heard him making the same declaration as he got up from his seat and said “Eko fe lo sun”(Lagos wants to sleep). The embodiment of the current pathetic Lagos by the man who rode to power in 1999 largely on account of his association with NADECO abroad is an interesting study for some of us who are eyewitnesses to recent history.
Talking of the love Papa Adesanya had for Tinubu, I would just give one instance. Months into Tinubu’s tenure, a scandal broke out around him that he did not attend any of the schools he listed in his resume: from St John’s Primary School, Aroloya in Lagos through Government College, Ibadan and University of Chicago.
The scandal broke out shortly after then Speaker of House of Representatives, Salisu Buhari had perjured by submitting a fake certificate from University of Toronto in Canada and was forced to step down. The media was celebrating the scandal and just a sentence from Afenifere against Tinubu then would have done him in.
I recall vividly being in the office of Senator Adesanya with the late Rev. Tunji Adebiyi when an old man with all grey hair and beards dressed in immaculate white dress with white shoes walked into his office and we had to excuse them.
When he left, we went back to meet the Leader and he was in a pensive mood. He told us what the old man told him:
”Abraham, you have to disown this boy (Tinubu) now”
And that he said to the oldie that: “a person who builds a wall does not pull it down.”
He said the man got up to leave and said:
”You will regret not doing so”.
The scene played in my mind in the last inactive days of Senator Adesanya as the last major outing he had before he went down was over Tinubu ~ Yinka Odumakin.
Nigerians, listen to me, I am a confirmed full-blooded Yoruba man from Ijebu-Ode. Some bastards said it is better to have Tinubu as President than for the Southwest to lose the Presidency. I said Sango & Ogun will obliterate all of them including their bastard children.
What have I ever benefited from Tinubu’s government?
Obasanjo became President for eight years, what did I benefit from him as a Yoruba man?
In 2015, Tinubu exhumed the decaying copse of Buhari, packaged him as the Messiah and sold him to us at 50-50kobo. And we bought it without questioning the logic behind it.
When Buhari and Osinbajo were drinking their 40Naira-sachet Milo at Eko Hotel, we never knew that it was our collective destinies that were being devoured by satanic powers & principalities.
These same bastards whose hundreds of billions of Naira palliatives disbursement during their COVID-19 cash-out scam never got to me are now compelling me to go take their booster-shot vaccines. It is non other than Sango that will obliterate & annihilate all your family members one after the other.
Now, they’re plotting to remove the (non existent) subsidies on Petroleum Products by June next year.
Look, let me paint you a picture of what will happen in case you don’t know.
The 200Naira transport fare that takes from Ojodu-Berger to Ikeja will become 500Naira.
The bag of Pure Water that sells averagely at 180Naira will become 400Naira.
The carton of Indomie Noodles (Hungry Man) that sells for 4,500Naira will become 9,000Naira.
You have not even seen the preview of what is coming yet.
You’re still complaining of armed robbery, banditry, kidnapping, cultism. All these are child’s play in comparison to what will engulf & kill of all you should these brainless bastards in government tamper with the subsidy.
Six fvcking years, you couldn’t build any refinery. They still have the audacity to allocate $1.5Billion for the turnaround maintenance of a moribund refinery in Portharcourt.
Look, the only thing can solve Nigeria’s problem is if three planet-sized asteroids collide with the planet Earth simultaneously so that everybody can go to blazes.
These bastards say they will pay 5,000Naira to 40Million poor Nigerians to cushion the effects.
What will 5,000Naira do compared to this calamity that is coming?
How did they even arrive at that figure that 40Million Nigerians are poor? Well, that figure could be correct during the Ebele Jonathan’s administration, but I tell you now without mincing words, no less than 160Millions Nigerians have been plunged into the valley of poverty - courtesy of Buhari’s trial & error economic policies.
If you’re one of the dunderheads still clamoring for Tinubu or APC, remember that none of their useless campaign promises of 2015 have been delivered.
Also remember that It is Tinubu, Buhari & Sanwo-Olu that sanctioned the bloody massacre at the Lekki Toll Gate.
Lastly, if you’re one of the assholes clamoring for Yemi Osinbajo to become the next President, then you need to hit your coconut head against the wall if you think that satanic, hypocritical, short man-devil will do any better than his master - Buhari. Spot on. Just wondering if you are correct about osibanjo. He has a different mindset but I worry if he will be his own man and operate out of the shadows of the fulani overlords |
Family › Re: Could He Have Ulterior Motives By Disagreeing To This? Should I Opt Out? by nams77: 5:49pm On Dec 04, 2021 |
Mercychen: A slight twist you call it but I've heard of so many women who later had issues with family planning they did.
It's easier for the men because their system is not so complex like that of women.
We already discussed about all the other methods especially condom and he said, for how long is he going to be using condom on his life time wife. He already kicked against the idea.
Woh, I'm tired. Remove your womb or tie your oviducts. Simple and not a big deal |
Politics › Re: Abdulsalami Hails Liman Ibrahim As IBB Hosts Him, Commends His Dedication (Pics) by nams77: 5:35pm On Dec 04, 2021 |
Zandena: Is this CG fire service not galvanizing support for 2023 governorship ambition? Time will tell most especially that he is from Bida zone that is expected to produce the next governor of Niger state Your head get oil.  |
Education › Re: Thread For PHD Students by nams77: 4:57pm On Dec 04, 2021 |
wip7: Recent Publication From our Lab: Low-cost flower dye-based solar cells with 7.18% Sunlight conversion efficiency
Solar photovoltaic energy is now widely regarded as one of the most promising, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly renewable energy sources. This research used dye derived from flowers to create dye-sensitized solar cells with high sunlight conversion efficiency.
Do you want to learn more about low-cost dye-sensitized solar cells or are you working on this? Prof. How you guys get this topics is amazing and mind-boggling! I keep drawing a blank on research interest. Any help sir? |
Travel › Re: Skeleton Of Man Trapped In Lava During Mount Vesuvius Eruption In 79 A.D.(Pics) by nams77: 6:59pm On Dec 03, 2021 |
Aaronsrod: Just imagine burning to death in this volcanic fire only to perish and find oneself in the pit of Hell with Satan and his demons for all eternity.
This people were not Christians. They knew not Jesus. They died unsaved. Men women and children. To think they have been tortured in Hellfire for 1942 years and this is not even the beginning of the start of their suffering.
Nawa ooooooooooooo! No one is in hell fire now until the great judgment |
TV/Movies › Re: Which Movie(s) Comes To Your Mind When You See This? by nams77: 11:23am On Dec 03, 2021 |
T-force |
Crime › Re: Nigerian Caught With 90gm MDMA In Bengaluru by nams77: 1:40pm On Dec 01, 2021*. Modified: 2:55pm On Dec 01, 2021 |
I'm getting sick with this |
Romance › Re: Dear Men, by nams77: 9:08am On Dec 01, 2021 |
advanceDNA: Read your comment again... first you said there are no bad women... is this fact or fiction, or you are high on cheap crack.??
even women know that many of them are bad, morally corrupt, sexually corrupt, zero virtues, only driven by money. There are women that no matter how well you treat them, they are just bad, they will cheat on you and even do worse....same for men...
How can U claim that women are saints and men should blame themselves for the outcome of their relationship....
If you are woman.. it’s okay to support your gender..but it’s also okay to say the truth...
If you are man..I don’t know if you are stup!d, naive, or just deliberately trying to be an asslicker to women Enough said. U just summed it up. The op never see some women. How somebody go just wake up this morning begin yarn opata! The guy is definitely high on some cheap stuff. There are bad men and bad women, EOD! |
Travel › Re: Intimacy gadget Found In A Passenger's Luggage While Search Was Going On. by nams77: 5:11am On Dec 01, 2021 |
Na wa. |
Romance › Re: Dear Men, by nams77: 5:07am On Dec 01, 2021 |
Are you married? |
Crime › Re: Lawyer Narrates How He Saved Man Who Was Wrongly Imprisoned After 3 Years (Pics) by nams77: 8:10pm On Nov 30, 2021 |
Administration1: And there we have it, folks. Someone shared with us a cool, inspiring story intended to uplift and inspire — something greatly needed during a time when we are plagued by so much negativity, injustice and division- and we just turn around and spit on it!
Rather than reflect on the positivity and beauty embodied by the kind and compassionate gesture exhibited through the Lawyer's actions, or even take some joy in reveling in the idea that perhaps humanity is not completely doomed, we instead politicize the story and engage in a full fledged battle between libs and tards or apc and pdps or whatever the cutesy clever little terms of endearment are these days. It's ridiculous. It's stupid and childish and completely inappropriate and I am fuc*ing sick of it!
For those of you who wish to keep the embers glowing in this pointless neverending schoolyard tiff between APC and PDP, I urge you to please go take your squabble back behind the schoolhouse and neither of you comes back until both sides have either reached a mutual consensus or have killed each other off completely! The rest of the nation is done with you and neither political party wants either of your members back. We have moved on and so we encourage you to do the same. You are truly deluded You lots are a sorry bunch. We already know your type. Did the person you quote mention apc or pdp? You imbecilic imp |
Programming › Re: What's The Easiest Path For Beginners? by nams77: 3:44pm On Nov 30, 2021 |
Rocice: Product design You can get started with UI UX Take a course on udemy for $10 or so Abeg can you throw more light on product design. What product are dey designing. No vex. Na learn we dey |
Programming › Re: What's The Easiest Path For Beginners? by nams77: 3:42pm On Nov 30, 2021 |
tensazangetsu20: There's nothing easy. Chairman! Abeg what skills can I develop to get a remote job. It may not Really be core I.T |
Nairaland General › Re: The Big Puff Adder I Killed In My Dog's Kennel (Pictures) by nams77: 11:23am On Nov 30, 2021 |
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Romance › Re: Lady's Wig Flies Off Her Head As She Jumps In Excitement At Boyfriend's Proposal by nams77: 12:14pm On Nov 27, 2021 |
MALIGNANTGuest: Tomorrow they claim MEN are dogs. Tomorrow they run their mouths like they would be able to stay alone if allowed. See the way she's screaming like she won a lottery. Ordinary proposal. What will now happen when he eventually marries you? I tire my brother. Even 20. Milli no go make me jump like this. I will just be grinning from ear to ear like a Cheshire cat. It shows that marriage is the ultimate destination for women |
Politics › Re: Goodluck Jonathan Reconnects With Former UNIPORT School Mates 40 Years Later by nams77: 12:01pm On Nov 27, 2021 |
Laggafin: I don laugh so Tay i nearly choke Aswear |
Politics › Re: Goodluck Jonathan Reconnects With Former UNIPORT School Mates 40 Years Later by nams77: 11:59am On Nov 27, 2021 |
BlackfireX: Corrupt and incompetent ex president
That was why we in the North and South west booted you out.
We the youths are solidly behind our darling president baba buhari..
Click like for Jonathan
Click share for president buhari Now that you have seen the score card, are you satisfied? Hate , greed and ignorance will not allow you see the truth. No one is perfect but gej is miles apart from buhari Choke on the fact |
Celebrities › Re: Anita Joseph Kneels For Her Husband To Prove That She Doesn't Control Him (Pix) by nams77: 9:31am On Nov 27, 2021 |
donbachi: Fotoshot.
If it was captured without them knowing.e for make sense.no be to control the youngman reach foto studio.
From his face in the pics.u go know sey,na she dey run am. Your head get oil. The man's expression shows it all. |
Politics › Re: Goodluck Jonathan Reconnects With Former UNIPORT School Mates 40 Years Later by nams77: 9:19am On Nov 27, 2021 |
Mysticwebb: Buhari will soon show his classmates. The NEPA bill holders. Una no get chills here aswear  |
Crime › Re: Gunmen Abduct Principal, Vice, Three Teachers In Ondo by nams77: 7:44am On Nov 26, 2021 |
All day, everyday.... This country is burnt |
Politics › Re: Methamphetamine Drug Belongs To Almajiris In North – IPOB by nams77: 7:07am On Nov 25, 2021 |
AnanseK: Read your own hateful message again. What I shared above is my opinion and a reminder to you. I know that the drug is imported, the name doesn’t matter, and we know who the illicit drug importers are into Nigeria. Everybody knows. That is my point, deal with it. Just ran through your page and discovered you have been having sleepless nights on igbo people matter  Have a nice day!  End of discussion. |
Politics › Re: Methamphetamine Drug Belongs To Almajiris In North – IPOB by nams77: 6:40am On Nov 25, 2021 |
AnanseK: Keep on deceiving your selves. We all know and the whole world including India, China , Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Latin America . They all know that Igbos an anti social anti people criminal tribe in Africa are responsible for the distribution of illicit drugs world wide . Go to the prisons in these countries and you will know. Read the recent history Of drug trafficking in Nigeria. You will know who the merchants are. The fact that with MMPUMMIRI Igbo drug runners have found a market at home in the East doesn’t change these facts. If you had taken the time to follow the trail of the conversation, you would have understood the drift of the conversation. I don't want to resort to insult this morning so let me be civil. The person I quoted said because the drug is called mkpuru miri, it must have originated from the East. That is the crux of our discussion. Meth did not originate from Nigeria. It has been consumed for long in other climes. Try and understand before you allow your hate choke you. All tribes have their devils. Good day |
Career › Re: The Nairalife Of A Struggling Creative Who Is Racing Against Time by nams77: 3:34pm On Nov 24, 2021 |
BigCabal: Every week, Zikoko seeks to understand how people move the Naira in and out of their lives. Some stories will be struggle-ish, others will be bougie. All the time, it’ll be revealing.
Inside this #NairaLife is a 30-year-old actress and screenwriter whose biggest struggle is income stability. Does her line of work have something to do with this? Yes, but it runs a little deeper than that.
Let’s start with your earliest memory of money.
It was watching my mum carry most of the financial weight of the family. My dad is a full-time pastor and my mum is a civil servant. Although her civil service salary wasn’t much, it was better than what my dad earned at the church. I was 10 years old when I became aware of this. But that wasn’t the most important realisation.
What was it?
I found out we were living on faith. For every major project my parents wanted to do and couldn’t afford, they prayed for the money. Somehow, the money always showed up. It could be a loan from my mum’s place of work or a gift to my dad. This wasn’t very healthy. My parents — my dad especially — started making decisions because he hoped that we would find the money, not necessarily because we could afford it.
Tell me about a time this happened.
When I finished secondary school in 2007, my dad insisted that I go to a private university and study economics. We could barely afford a public university o. We settled on a university in the south-south, and when we found out how much it would cost, it became a prayer point. The tuition was about ₦230k.
The family started gathering the money little by little. A week before resumption, we needed ₦50k to complete the fees, and it didn’t seem like we would find the balance. Then on the night before I was supposed to leave, someone my dad knew showed up at our house with an envelope. There was ₦50k in it.
The exact amount you needed?
The exact amount. There were other cases like that when things came through at the last minute. In the long run, this made me complacent with my finances. The financial education I got from my parents was pretty much “pray for the money and it would come”.
How did uni go?
I switched to another private university in the southwest in my second year because my grandmother wanted me to be closer to her. My mother covered my tuition until I graduated, and she took a lot of loans for it. I didn’t have a steady allowance because tuition took most of our budget. On average, I was getting between ₦3k and ₦5k at a time, but I didn’t know when it would come.
I didn’t have a lot of needs. It didn’t matter that a lot of the people in my school drove cars and everyone I knew had a BlackBerry phone. As long as I had food, I was fine. I also had a thing for spending money on my friends when my parents sent money even though it meant I’d go back to being broke within a week. For someone who liked to give money away, I didn’t care about getting extra income. Until the time I graduated in 2011, I had never done anything for money. When did this change?
2012. I served in a state in the north central. Nothing much happened in my Place of Primary Assignment (PPA), which gave me time to get a front desk officer job at a hotel. The pay was ₦15k/month. Add this to the ₦19,800 I got from the federal government and my total monthly earning was ₦34,800. Most of the monthly running costs went into transportation and chipping in at home. The way my family worked, whatever one person earned is everyone’s money. I spent six months at the job.
Why did you leave?
I got bored. In the same month I quit, I got another job as a receptionist at a real estate company. ₦30k/month. However, I had to work at least 12 hours every day in unfavourable conditions. I had a bar stool for a chair, and I’d sit there from 8 a.m to 8 p.m, trying my best to smile at customers because that was what I was expected to do.
A month after I started the job, one of my aunts noticed how much weight I had lost and asked me to quit, promising to send me ₦30k every month until I finished my service year. I thought it was a good deal and quit.
Did she come through?
Haha. She did for a month, and that was it. I decided to live on my monthly stipend from the government until I finished NYSC. My service year ended in 2013.
Post-NYSC?
I had always wanted to do something creative for work, never mind that it’s a pivot from what I studied in university. I found a school in Lagos that offered a 3-month certificate course on screenwriting. The tuition was ₦165k. My mum gathered the money for me, and I moved to Lagos in February 2013.
Something else happened in the same month.
What was that?
My mum won a scholarship sponsored by the Australian government, and they said she could bring her husband and her children under 18 with her. Everyone in the family, except me, was eligible to travel with her, so I remained in Nigeria. I didn’t mind this because I had my screenwriting course.
How did it go?
Very well. As soon as I completed the programme, I got an offer to write scripts for a cable network. They paid $1k per script.
Baller. How did this work?
I pitched my ideas to them and wrote the ones they liked. I got paid a month or two after the script was approved. Between 2014 and 2015, I wrote four scripts. The exchange rate of dollar to naira at the time was $1 to ₦200, so I earned ₦800k from the job. The bulk of the payments went into settling debt.
Oh
I couldn’t turn to my family for help much because they were out of the country. And because they were living on the stipend my mum got from her scholarship, I thought they needed money more than I did. The next best thing was to turn to friends and ask for loans, so I was borrowing money from friends. I have to point out that I didn’t think I was living from hand to mouth. For some reason, I was in a bubble where I thought I only needed to have faith, persevere a little and everything good would come. That bubble burst in 2014.
What happened?
My younger brother won a football scholarship to study in the US. However, the scholarship only covered 60% of his tuition. As usual, the family believed that God would do it. I think my parents raised some of the balance and sent him on his way, hoping to find the rest. My brother started to struggle in the US and nobody could come through for him. My mum had only her stipend, my dad had no income, and I was in Nigeria living from hand to mouth. In the end, my brother failed to meet the multiple payment deadlines and extensions, and he lost the admission offer. It broke all of us.
Damn. That must hurt so bad.
See, my mindset shifted immediately, and I started to realise that I may need to start looking for ways to get money and not trusting that it would just show up.
What came after this realisation?
I became interested in money and how to make it. Later in 2014, I got another job in the writing room of an indie TV show, and I got paid ₦20k per episode. From 2014 to 2016, I wrote 23 episodes of the show.
Were you still borrowing money from your friends?
Oh, I was. Small loans from multiple sources helped me survive the period. I would borrow money, return it when I get paid, and borrow from someone else. It was a never-ending cycle.
I spread my wings a little after 2014. I got my first acting job in 2015. It was a small role in a TV show, and I was paid ₦25k for it. I was written back into the show during the second season, and that brought in ₦40k. While I was shooting this show, a TV network reached out.
What did they want?
They wanted me to voice a character for a show they were translating into Yoruba. I got hired, and that gig paid me ₦250k.
That must have felt like a big break.
It would have felt like that if I got a couple more roles that paid that much. Now, I was a little more interested in money, and I decided to act on it.
What did you do?
I started a drama company of sorts and worked on my first stage play. I had always been active in the drama unit of my church, so people volunteered as cast and crew members. Someone even sponsored and dropped ₦250k. I got an additional ₦100k from individual contributors. In December 2015, we showed my first stage play.
Yay. How did it go?
A ticket to the show cost ₦1k and we had 250 people in the audience. But we made about ₦220k in ticket sales because not everyone bought a ticket. Regardless, everyone thought it was a success.
My mum came home from Australia to support me, and she pushed for me to take the show to Abuja. I put the money we made from the Lagos show and some extra money I got from my mum and showed the play to an Abuja audience in January 2016. Bruv, everything went down the drain.
What happened?
To be honest, we did the Lagos show based on vibes and spent nothing on marketing. I thought we could ride on the same wave in Abuja. Only 50 people came to see the show, and just about 15 people bought tickets. Most of them were even family and friends.
That’s rough. That taught me I wasn’t special, but I continued working on more shows. Nothing much happened until August 2017 when I got another job.
Where was this?
A children’s clothing store, and I was hired as an e-commerce officer. The pay was ₦45k/month. After three months, a new chief operations officer came in and moved me to the brand and marketing department. I quit four months later because there was hardly any space for expression and the owner thought they owned us because they paid us a salary. When I couldn’t deal with it anymore, I turned in my resignation letter. This was February 2018.
What came after?
My focus returned to writing and producing stage plays — all of them faith-based stories. By 2019, I had written six plays and done 15 productions in Lagos and Abuja. None of them was as successful as the first one I showed in 2015. Whatever little money I made from a show went into paying a vendor I was owing or planning the next one. I wasn’t even paying my cast or crew — they were there because they volunteered. But I had to care of all the logistics. I borrowed money to make it work. By December 2019, there was a problem — I was neck-deep in debt.
Omo. How much?
About ₦500k. My team understood when I told them I could no longer run the organisation, and most of them raised money for me to settle the debt — ₦500 here, ₦1000k there. With what they raised for me and some additional money my mum got, I cleared half of the debt.
With that settled, I knew I had to go back to full-time employment. It didn’t make sense to continue producing plays no one was coming to watch. I started looking for a job.
When did you find one?
February 2020. A bank had just started a creative unit to create ads, and they needed a screenwriter. Someone referred me, and I got the job. My salary was ₦230k.
Nice. This was the first time in a long time I got paid every month. My priority was clearing my debt, and I did that within the first few months. Then I figured it was time to start saving, but that just didn’t work.
Why not?
I returned to being an impulsive giver. 2020 was tough for a lot of people I know. I couldn’t see my people constantly in need without stepping in. Whenever people hit me up, I sent whatever I had, even if it was money I had intended to save. My partner at the time also had a major financial challenge, so my money was going out almost as quickly as it was coming in.
Things move fast when you have a little money to spend. Soon, it was January 2021, and it came with a feeling.
What was it?
I was going to lose my job. Since after the lockdown, they had been asking people what they were bringing to the table. They also let some people go in 2020, but I wasn’t touched because my department head was fighting to keep us. I knew she couldn’t do it for much longer, and I was right. From January to April, it was one issue or the other with HR. None of it was hardly my fault. The whole back and forth started to stress me. I figured it was time to leave in April.
Now that I think about it, I probably decided to leave because I had started another production company. I shot my short film in January, and it was released in April. I spent ₦450k on this — my mum dropped half of the money. Then I started to work on a series, which cost me ₦200k to produce.
Back to the job. I told them in April that I was going to leave. This happened in May. Like that, I didn’t have a monthly income anymore. Thankfully, I got an acting job, which paid me ₦220k in June. In the same month, I was hired to write a screenplay for a show, and I got ₦150k for that. One month later, I got another writing job that paid me ₦650k.
Man, you were on a streak. Haha. The payment was made in four instalments between July and September, so the money didn’t have as much impact as I imagine it would have if I had been paid everything at once. I worked on my second short film and released it in September. The production cost was about ₦120k.
I’ve been on a dry run since that time — I haven’t gotten another gig or worked on a project. I woke up one day in October and came to terms that I was back to being broke.
What steps did you take after this?
My parents had returned to the country in 2016, so I moved back in with them. That was the best decision I could make for myself at this point.
Fair enough. I’m still figuring out what next to do, but I need to continue earning in the meantime. In October, I registered on Bigo, a live streaming platform where I have been hosting a show. I made ₦50k from that at the end of the month. The show continues this month, and I’m hoping to surpass that number.
What’s a good number for you right now?
Oh my goodness, anything from ₦700k sounds great. I have a friend who makes about ₦800k/month from the same platform. Realistically, it will take a while before I hit that number on Bigo.
I also believe that I should be earning as much from paid employment. I know what I can do, but I haven’t explored the possibilities of a full-time job that much. Although paid employment will give me the income stability I don’t have at the moment, I don’t think it’s for me. I can’t deal with the whole routine that comes with it.
I see. How do you navigate life without a steady income?
It’s the same way I’ve navigated everything else: contentedness. I make do with what I earn when I earn it. As long as it covers my feeding and other basic needs, I’m fine. Some people might argue that I’m not ambitious. While I don’t think that’s true, I’ve always struggled with making long terms plans. I have to find a way to fix this now that I’m back to filmmaking.
What do your finances currently look like?
The only savings I have to my name is ₦28k locked in a Cowrywise plan. At the moment, most of my expenses go into data and food. I would say I spend about ₦50k every month, and a lot of it comes from money gifts from my mum and friends.
How have your experiences over the past years shaped your perspective about money?
Having faith is great, but it won’t automatically put you on a path to financial independence. Financial education will. I feel like if I had been interested in how to make money earlier, I would have done better. I wish my parents had actual conversations about money when I was younger and didn’t always go down the “let’s pray and the money will come” route.
My dad woke up one day in 2017 and realised that he didn’t have anything he could leave behind for his kids. The realisation and regret hit him deeply, and he struggled a lot with it. He talked about starting a couple of things but didn’t have the strength and knowledge to make it happen. More importantly, he had lost time. I’m 30 now, and while I feel like it’s not too late to turn it around, I also know I’m now in a race against time.
What parts of your finances do you think you could have been better at?
Impulsive giving. That was something I did consistently over the years even when I couldn’t afford it. I don’t think I’m very good at saving money either, but I didn’t give myself a chance to find out.
I have a feeling that there’s something you want right now but can’t afford?
There is. Film equipment — camera, light and sound. All of this should run into about ₦3.5m. I can do more with them, but I don’t have that much money laying around at the moment.
What about something you purchased recently that improved the quality of your life?
I bought a used iPhone XR in August for content creation, and it cost ₦185k. It’s the best investment I’ve made this year. The quality of my videos has greatly improved just because of that phone.
Lit. How would you rate your financial happiness on a scale of 1-10?
I’m at a 3 right now. I’m still super broke and nowhere close to where I could be. That said, I’m very grateful for the opportunities to tell stories, and I have told a couple. This — for me— means I’ve not lived very badly, and I’ll just focus on that.
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