Category: Career, work, money

Testimony Time. Blessing Time.

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Last year, when I was literally drowning in debt, I told a few friends that I wanted to leave. I didn’t use the term “drowning”, but I explained that I could no longer afford to stay in my flat. I knew that even if I could hustle the rent for another year, I would be picking left-over pizza from Domino’s Pizza garbage for the rest of the year. Looking back now, I realize that I wasn’t really serious about leaving. If not I wouldn’t have told the people I knew would convince me to stay. “Opportunities are HERE in Lagos!…

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How much is paracetamol?

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Every time I brag about how I’m such a great cook, I burn something as simple as noodles or forget boiling eggs on fire till the eggs and pot turn black. As if the universe is telling me to not brag. Lately, I’ve been bragging about how I walk in divine health and I don’t fall sick, then yesterday I landed in the hospital with Malaria. It’s funny because I used to secretly judge malaria patients… like how did you allow mosquitoes chew you to the extent you got malaria? Are you a missionary worker sleeping in the jungle? Can’t…

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Happy Birthday Meeee!!!

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It’s not even 12:00pm and this is already the bestest birthday ever! If you can’t reach me, I’m sorry… I ran away. The past two and a half months, I’ve been in Warri. One morning I woke up, looked at my last packet of noodles and said to myself, “Surely, even the lowliest servant in my father’s house has much more to eat than this?” We don’t have servants and I live in my mother’s house, but you get my drift. I conceded defeat, packed a tiny box and left Lagos back to Warri. Since I lost my job, I…

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Orji, Ngozi (MSc PhD Dr MBBS Consultant))

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Good morning beautiful people… Last week, my uncle called me. We’re not related by blood, but we’ve been family friends for a long time. I hadn’t heard from him in almost a year so when I saw his name pop up on my phone, I had to wipe my screen to make sure I was seeing clearly. “Ngor! Hawayoo?” “I’m fine thank you sir.” He’s at a weird age where he’s not so much older than us kids that we should be calling him uncle, but he’s also not our mate so we can’t call him by his first name. However, because he’s richer…

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Happy New Year in February!!

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Happy New year people!!! Yeah, I decided to drop by and say hi. How are you guys doing? Please forgive me! As usual, I have allowed too much time go by and now I don’t know where to start from with all the gist. There have been two major life changes since the last time we spoke so I’ll start from there. The “majorest” one is that I lost my job. *waits for applause to die down* For some reason, I was really embarrassed about this and that’s why I didn’t tell you guys. It happened shortly after my last…

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