When I was in the eighth grade my social studies teacher told me I was going to fail because I didn't have a notebook. He was unprepared for my response. I couldn't breathe. Everything around me disappeared.

There seems to be a gaping — and growing — chasm between "the" economy, and individual people's finances.

There was a time when I believed my circumstances would never change. Each day began with the same concerns: a lack of money, limited opportunities, and no clear path forward. While others seemed to progress,

Let's avoid at all cost the following wrong practices , wrong mentalities and wrong ways of living and thinking that will certainly cause big troubles, poverty and even death (as per the Living Word of

The month of May holds many interesting (and fond) memories for me!

source Where is Nigeria headed, the economics situation of the country is getting out of hand as it is so bad that people are directly facing poverty. In my country I don't think there is anything as the

Am I really going to post a public statement of my finances in order to find investors, as I promised in my previous post about calculated stable loans? Yes, I think this will be interesting for other

There's no reason to ever go there unless you are a Marine

The minimum wage in Nigeria is very low; it was recently increased from 30,000 Naira to 70,000 Naira per month, which is roughly equivalent to about 50 dollars. This sum is barely sufficient for someone

Whenever politicians bring up poverty, they usually make it sound like a math problem — all about income. You fall below a certain line? You’re poor. Above it? Apparently, you’re not. It’s tidy, sure,

Yesterday I took a journey from Bamenda to Njikwa, a subdivision in the Northwest Region of Cameroon .

In Mumbai sometimes when I am out on the road, there are these small children who are begging. Sometimes I help them and sometimes I do not. It's not that I do not wish to help them but giving them money

And so, while individual members of the AFP may not have any liking for the ruling elite (they may even hate these human leeches), at least they see to it that the gradually acquired vested interests in

Image Source Weeks later, as life became more complicated, something shifted within Emmy. He took an honest look at himself and his family and said to himself, “My school fees are unaffordable, so why

It's easy to scoff and say that small amounts of money are "not worth it" but these days every little bit matters!

In the remote, dusty corners of rural Yemen, a simple plastic bag containing basic medicine is worth more than gold. It signifies the difference between suffering and relief, and sometimes, between life

Source "There is no worse monster than the annihilation of childhood." I wish this phrase had occurred to me, but it belongs to one of my university professors. A woman who had a very hard childhood,

When your means are limited, you can't keep investing in "shiny new things!"