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BBC Yoruba interviewed Iya Ibeji Oni MoiMoi who built a house, bought a car and trained her children up to university level from the proceeds of her moimoi business which she started with 500 naira.

Through my moin-moin business here in Ilorin, I have been able to build a house, buy a car, pay my employees, and sponsor all my children through university. — Iya Ibeji Oni Moinmoin, speaking during an interview with BBC Yoruba. pic.twitter.com/ViYsJb8zFO

— Inside Ilorin NG 🇳🇬 (@InsideIlorin_NG) June 28, 2026

thinkmoney:
My brother, will the oil, utensils and frying pan be stolen?

And it hasn't been stolen since the 1970s?? I made this post yesterday.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET ME MAKE YOU LAUGH VERY WELL.

I grew up in South-West Ikoyi in the 1970s, '80s and early 1990s. What is South-West Ikoyi known for?

Barracks!

You had Falomo Police Barracks on Bourdillon Road, you had Giwa Barracks on Kingsway Road, you had Prison Barracks on Awolowo Road and Ribadu Road, you had Police Mounted Troop Barracks on Ribadu Road, you had Police Dog Section Barracks on Keffi Street, you had Mopol 2 and Dodan Barracks also on Keffi Street and you had Women's Police Barracks and Obalende Police Barracks both on St Gregory's College Road.

What is the significance of these barracks?


Almost all the wives of the personnel that lived in these barracks sold akara, dodo and yam.

Furthermore, I have told you many times about the road that does not sleep. There is a road that cuts through Obalende and that road is the headquarters of street food in Lagos. It has been that way for generations.

That road is the headquarters of suya, akara, dodo and yam in Lagos. You can buy akara, dodo and yam at 3pm in the afternoon on that street and you can buy suya, akara, dodo and yam at 3am on that street.

I was addicted to akara, dodo and yam in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. It was my tea-time food. My mum often reminded me of a night when I insisted that I must eat akara, dodo and yam, but something happened and there was none around and they sent people all over to look for it and by the time they found it (far away on Greg's Road) and brought it back, I had slept off.

I knew virtually all the women that sold akara, dodo and yam across South-West Ikoyi, from the ones at Falomo Roundabout, to the ones on Awolowo Road (outside Prison), to the ones on Keffi Street, the ones on the road that never sleeps and in fact, I have gone as far as Ijeh Barracks in search of akara, dodo and yam.

Then some people on Nairaland are trying to tell me that cooking gas is a requirement for selling akara, dodo and yam.

CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT NONSENSE?

What's needed to sell akara, dodo and yam are:

A bowl

A large frying pan

A tray

Firewood

Kerosene

(The bowl is for the ground beans mixture).

Why hasn't this woman's moi moi been stolen?

She built a house, bought a car and sent her children to university from the proceeds of her moi moi business which she started with 500 naira.

Through my moin-moin business here in Ilorin, I have been able to build a house, buy a car, pay my employees, and sponsor all my children through university. — Iya Ibeji Oni Moinmoin, speaking during an interview with BBC Yoruba. pic.twitter.com/ViYsJb8zFO

— Inside Ilorin NG 🇳🇬 (@InsideIlorin_NG) June 28, 2026

DIVINEEVIDENCE



neonly


Willie2015

ntyce

Learn! Learn! Learn!

Don't let the politicians that are using you as thugs lead you astray.

This is practical experience.

She started with 500 naira and used the moi moi business to send her children to university.

Through my moin-moin business here in Ilorin, I have been able to build a house, buy a car, pay my employees, and sponsor all my children through university. — Iya Ibeji Oni Moinmoin, speaking during an interview with BBC Yoruba. pic.twitter.com/ViYsJb8zFO

— Inside Ilorin NG 🇳🇬 (@InsideIlorin_NG) June 28, 2026

Learn! Learn! Learn!

Don't let the politicians that are using you as online thugs lead you astray.

This is practical experience.

She started with 500 naira and used the moi moi business to send her children to university.

Through my moin-moin business here in Ilorin, I have been able to build a house, buy a car, pay my employees, and sponsor all my children through university. — Iya Ibeji Oni Moinmoin, speaking during an interview with BBC Yoruba. pic.twitter.com/ViYsJb8zFO

— Inside Ilorin NG 🇳🇬 (@InsideIlorin_NG) June 28, 2026

Learn! Learn! Learn!

Don't let the politicians that are using you as thugs lead you astray.

This is practical experience.

She started with 500 naira and used the moi moi business to send her children to university.

Through my moin-moin business here in Ilorin, I have been able to build a house, buy a car, pay my employees, and sponsor all my children through university. — Iya Ibeji Oni Moinmoin, speaking during an interview with BBC Yoruba. pic.twitter.com/ViYsJb8zFO

— Inside Ilorin NG 🇳🇬 (@InsideIlorin_NG) June 28, 2026

9jatriot:
This your list here is why many Nigerian graduates cannot successfully run a business.

You give them money to start a business, they go and rent an expensive office, furnish it, and waste money on frivolities without as much as one customer or purchase order. Then they start shouting that they did not get government support.

Before you start any business, try and meet those who already do the business. Tell me, except you are in an upscale of town, where have you seen akara sellers using gas cylinders?

May God bless you forever and ever.

I'm going to keep bringing up this issue in the days, months and years to come. The trolls will try to run away from it, but I'll make sure that they don't succeed.

Anyone that writes gas cooker and gas cylinder as part of requirements for selling akara will never be taken seriously by sensible people.

No amount of propaganda can change that.

The trolls don't get it.

Every sensible person can understand what was said. You'll keep losing as long as you keep trying to push a sensless lie.

It can never work.

The best thing for you is to abandon the lie.

People just lose their minds and can't reason properly, just because of politics.

Here's a role call of people that need serious help. These people have never seen poverty before and do not want anyone to do anything to assist anyone in poverty.

All of them ran away from this thread were the issues are being discussed.

All of them quoted me and all they had to contribute were:



1) insults.

2) attempts to derail the thread.

3) Weird accusations

4) Attempts to bully.

Do you honestly believe that such nonsense can work with me?

They all ran away from this thread were the issues were discussed, in fact, I don't think they have the brain power to understand it.

Oluremi Tinubu And Akara: Details Of The Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI)
https://www.nairaland.com/8699909/oluremi-tinubu-akara-details-renewed



DIVINEEVIDENCE



neonly


Willie2015

ntyce


I dare all of you to use your brains and make sensible contributions.

Time to open the block list again.

Teeroyzimma:
oya show us evidence where she mention ICT and business training 🙄

You are one of the people that ran away from the other thread.

Oya, I challenge you, go to this thread, read the contents and try and use your brain to reply.

Oluremi Tinubu And Akara: Details Of The Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI)
https://www.nairaland.com/8699909/oluremi-tinubu-akara-details-renewed

As usual all they had was:

1) insults.

2) attempts to derail the thread.

3) Weird accusations

4) Attempts to bully.

Nowhere did they engage with the topic of the thread, in fact I am very sure that they did not even read it.

Time for me to block all those that attempted to derail the thread.

I have always wondered whether it is mental illness. Some people who don't know you from Adam will just appear and accuse you of this or that.

Oya, use your brain, tell me the exact words of GEJ that I twisted.

I dare you.

hegelian:
The same way una twisted what gej meant when he said stealing is not corruption which we all understood but una use jargons and propaganda change everything.. At least gej said his with empathy and compassion, Remi said hers with contempt, condescension and bile for the weak..

Una go explain tire.. Those single speeches of his has made them lost a lot from the few supporters they had before

oroje1:
U chop belle full.so u fit talk freely.after all we live in a free world

You people never say anything that makes sense. You ignore the topic and resort to some emotional nonsense that nobody cares about.

ImoleNaija:
Lol

What law now makes it mandatory for the govt to provide the exact #63.7k as a grant?

You can balance up with #13.7k nah.

Please help me ask them o!

Like I said, all they can do is attempt to derail and deflect. It's very obvious that that one didn't even read the posts.

Hahahahahaha

This is why I decided not to block some people on Saturday.

Come and see the entertainment!

On Saturday one person told me that he did not read the article neither did he watch the video, but he wanted to argue with me. On what basis?

They will deflect, derail, try to pick fights, but they will not comment on the issue. Their brains can't handle it. It would require that they think and they just can't think.

joseph1832

This school of hard knockz guy that interviewed Dangote tried to interview this billionaire woman and her police escort dey move like say na bandits dem see😭😂

The woman makes 80 million dollars a year🤯 🥶 pic.twitter.com/Pgp77mcDyL

— Oyindamola🙄 (@dammiedammie35) June 28, 2026

They don't have the brain power to make sensible contributions, so they try to derail threads with fights.

That's my last response to him because I know that he wants to derail the thread with fights.



Blocked

Again, more nonsense.

Which useless routing out. If I want to support Tinubu, I will do it with my full chest and there ain't a damn thing that you can do about it.

Who cares about your worth less opinion??

The fact is that you cannot make a sensible post about the topic. You simply lack the capacity to do so.

franchasng:
Bra I am routing for you and you know it, you and other diehard supporters of the glaring failed Tinubu regime here deserve some recognition and appointment like Rhino O-mockery, na where person de work him de chop because you guys can't be working your asses off while some baboons on Twitter like O-mockery, Bwala and co keep reaping alone, its unfair to even we your nairaland political friendnemies

Oluremi Tinubu And Akara: Details Of The Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI)
https://www.nairaland.com/8699909/oluremi-tinubu-akara-details-renewed

Previous thread:

Akara: Mrs Tinubu Was Talking To People She Gave ₦50,000, Not You (By Naptu2)
https://www.nairaland.com/8699330/akara-mrs-tinubu-talking-people

When I was a kid there were people that were known as political thugs. They cannot engage in any sensible political discussions. Theirs is just to fight and to try and bully people.

It seems like the same thing exists today, but it has gone digital.

Most of these people are completely unable to make a sensible contribution to anything.

Here's another one. No intelligent contribution to the thread, just some weird nonsense about his appointment.

franchasng:
Mr. Naptu, Tinubu suppose don remember you like Reno O-mockery with an appointment. I don't know why he doesnt recognize you his staunch supporters on nairaland, from yarimo to madridguy to helinues to Ngeneukwenu and co, you guys have done more than Rhino O-mockery na and deserve a national appointment from Tinubu and his family enterprise for being one of their strongest supporters despite their glaring failures



Anyway, its not too late until it is late, so keep pushing bro, I am sure yours is on the way