Yakuba NYI

27/11/2024

From a sharp sand seller to a small business owner: my life journey.

I grew up eating and wearing whatever my parents could afford. In a family of five. I'm the fourth born of the family. There's a small area side river close to my father's house that we will always go to and gather sharp sand for engineers and tipper owners for building construction.

I remember how I successfully paid for my WAEC and NECO registration with my hard-earned money, not because my parents were incapacitated to pay at that time but because I was able to raise the money as a young, hard-working guy.

I grew from selling sharp to selling kerosene; during this time, kerosene was sold at 1,500 for 5 litres, not until everything faded and became tough.

I used 1,500 to make 700. At the end of every successful selling of everything, I normally get 700 as my interest. That's how I continued, and I was saving 500 until I got admission to study public personnel administration at Taraba State Polytechnic, and then I stopped selling kerosene. I realised over 25,500 from my savings.

Two years later, after my diploma graduation, I furthered my education to study mass communication at Kwararafa University, Wukari, where I became an "Okirika" (Gunjo) seller. As a student, I never gave in to doubt or allowed my academy to weigh me down; I was studying and doing my business, saving small money from my interests.

That was how I continued; I graduated as a mass communication major but an entrepreneur by practice. I realised a large sum of money my Okirika. Then I decided to establish a small shop where I do POS, noodles, gins, and petroleum!

Note: Having a degree certificate is of paramount importance, but using your sense instead of the certificate is more paramount. As I write, I pay my bills from my little earnings. 👈

A real life story

I'm Yakuba Nyi

Time is a factor 👈

24/10/2024

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard! Daniel Tanko, Patience Useni Ajoko

27/05/2024

HAPPY CHILDREN'S DAY!

Being a child is a great privilege in anyone's life. Childhood was when one had no idea what to eat or where to sleep. It was when one would sleep in the sitting room and wake up in the bedroom.

The joy of childhood is that everything is done out of ignorance. Children don't have a choice; their parents make choices for them as teens.

Being a child comes once in every human's life.

Oh, childhood days,
The best moment of one's life is when one doesn't have to worry about anything. A single cry can earn one heaven and one earth. When one's major priority is to eat, sleep, and play

When one enjoys the sofa of the parents, one will never be worried about clothing.

when one never had to worry about heartbreak.

When one can just decide to cry in the middle of the night and when one's happiness is what his parents are after.

Happy Children's Day!

I'm Yakuba Nyi;✍️

Time is a factor!

29/04/2024

Don't give me fish; teach me how to catch fish most of the time.

Do you know that if you make that your loyal boy something, his loyalty to you will not die but can only increase and grow beyond cogent skepticism?

Instead of always giving him money, why not pave the way for him to have his own access to money? If you invest in someone's life, even if the person doesn't identify with you again, history will have it that you made him what he is.

What if you didn't teach him how to catch fish and something happened to your business or position? Who will help who?

The reason why it is necessary but not mandatory to help invest in someone's life is because when you are tired, that person you might have helped or sponsored will become your pension and gratuity. Before you help someone, don't take it to heart that the person must help you in return!

Investing in someone's life is a sacrifice. You are planting a seed, and you don't know if it will germinate or not.

It's worrisome and pathetic nowadays that people are pioneers in someone's downfall. Instead of being part of his success, people now believe in castigating and belittling people for not being appointed or given a position.

Sir, madam, if you are the only one catching the fish, it will not be a surplus that can feed almost everybody. Teach people close to you how to also catch fish.

Success without a successor is failure, and leadership without an emulator leaks. If you are successful, let the people around you be successful too. Make them successful; make them leaders.

As a good leader, your good tendencies should be a testimony to many people.

You are not winning until you are making others win along.

Time is a factor!

I'm Yakuba Nyi ✍️

26/04/2024

Success is always a combination of two things: your efforts and God's help. You must first prove to God through your efforts that you want to be successful in seeking his help.

You can't ask God verbatim or through prayers without iota efforts, and he will answer you. Your efforts come before prayer. Prove a point. Show God how ready you are to be successful, and you will have his abundant help and blessings.

It's better to try and fail than never.

Pray and work...

I'm Yakuba Nyi ✍️

Time is a factor!

25/04/2024

I gained 14 followers, created 2 posts and received 35 reactions in the past 90 days! Thank you all for your continued support. I could not have done it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

25/04/2024

I got 15 reactions and 4 replies on my recent top post! Thank you all for your continued support. I could not have done it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

I was the dullest in class during my secondary school days. Though I have never carried the class on my head, even at that,.

I remembered how even spelling my name was an issue for me. It was believed that I was a student. But one with a block head. I remembered when I was asked by Mr. Lacon to spell "mango" but was unable to spell common mango. That day, I was ashamed of myself.

The next morning, while making my way to school, I asked myself this question: do those who know how to read and write have two heads? I was cajoled, and immediately I asked myself that question.

After that day, I decided to study myself to see why an SS2 student like myself can't read and write.

I discovered I have little time for the academy and that I didn't make it my priority. After all these discoveries, I was sure I could make it work for me too.

Fast forward, and I became serious academically. I became persistent and dogged in everything that concerned the academy.

Today, as I write, those who knew how to read and write before us will never come near us academically.

My brothers and sisters, persistence, perseverance, loyalty, and doggedness pay.

I'm Yakuba Nyi ✍️

05/04/2024

I was the dullest in class during my secondary school days. Though I have never carried the class on my head, even at that,.

I remembered how even spelling my name was an issue for me. It was believed that I was a student. But one with a block head. I remembered when I was asked by Mr. Lacon to spell "mango" but was unable to spell common mango. That day, I was ashamed of myself.

The next morning, while making my way to school, I asked myself this question: do those who know how to read and write have two heads? I was cajoled, and immediately I asked myself that question.

After that day, I decided to study myself to see why an SS2 student like myself can't read and write.

I discovered I have little time for the academy and that I didn't make it my priority. After all these discoveries, I was sure I could make it work for me too.

Fast forward, and I became serious academically. I became persistent and dogged in everything that concerned the academy.

Today, as I write, those who knew how to read and write before us will never come near us academically.

My brothers and sisters, persistence, perseverance, loyalty, and doggedness pay.

I'm Yakuba Nyi ✍️

04/03/2024

When you fail to empower the youth around you while they are young, a time will come when you will need them, but they won't be capable of standing up for you. Just because there are structures you didn't build.

What you failed to do yesterday will become your today's weakness and your tomorrow's regrets.

Because if change is constant, they will definitely learn to grow through their experiences and leave you.
And sometimes, it might just be when you need them most!

Change is one of the most important factors in life. Either the change is imposed on us or we have created it ourselves.

I'm Yakuba Nyi ✍️

20/01/2024

Before you think of material things, prepare for a bright future.

If you scrutinize well, your fingers are not equal. Don't see what somebody is doing and say you will do it. Always make sure you are cutting your cut according to your size.

As our faces are different, so are our problems, opportunities, favors, and blessings. Because you see a friend always wearing or putting on an update, you too must wear it. No, something is not worth emulating.

Don't misuse the little you suffocate to get every day in your hard struggles and hustles to buy material things. Improvise something that could earn you money at least every week.

Be careless about the enjoyments that come and go today. Think of what may last for years.

Do you think if Dangote followed the ideology of wearing an update, he would have been the richest man in Africa?

Do you also think if Elon Musk had less concern about his future, he would have made it to be the world's richest man?

My brother, change your mindset today and plan your future!

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I'm Yakuba Nyi ✍️

19/01/2024

My brother I say self-employment is lifetime employment. It has neither a warranty nor a retirement. Do you know that if you own a shop, business, or something that brings you money, it's far better than being employed in, perhaps, a government office?

Now let me illustrate it for you to understand it more clearly.

If you are employed and your employment comes with, let's assume, N30,000 per month, and someone who has a small shop that sells at least N5,000 a day, Get it straight: don't forget that the person who owns a shop or a small business will feed freely from the little money realized every day in the shop and can put N1000 into his daily contribution account, but a salary earner will survive steadily on his monthly salary.

I am not saying white collar jobs are not good, but self-employment has better chances than white collar jobs.

What skills do you have? What can you do with your hands? While you are waiting for a white-collar job, why not put that into practice?

Recall that Bill Gates was the world's richest man. He is not a government official but an investor. He improvised numerous things with his hands that brought him money. Presently, Elon Musk is ranked as the richest person in the world.

Brother, sister, you can only help yourself before someone else will. Learn a trade even as a student so that, after school, that trade will help bring food to the table.

I'm Yakuba Nyi ✍️

08/01/2024

Reno Omokri wrote:

I will suggest that every Christian pupil should compulsorily study Islamic Religious Knowledge in school and vice versa.

No Muslim will kill you if you say Yeshua, whom you erroneously call Jesus, is the way to God. They believe that He is a Prophet. They believe that He is the Messiah. The Quran calls Yeshua al-Masih eleven times, including in Quran 4.157 and 4.171. Al-Quran also uses the terms Ruhullah and Kalimat to describe Him, meaning that He is a Word from God, and was infused with the Spirit.

The only major difference between the pure following of Yeshua and Islam is that they believe He is a Prophet and not a Son of God, and that He was not killed and resurrected, but instead was rescued by God. They even believe in the second coming of Yeshua, like you.

They believe that Yeshua was sent to only the children of Israel, which actually agrees with Matthew 15:24, where Yeshua said, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”

Those of us who follow Yeshua believe that His mission was expanded to include all humanity. They do not. But we can agree to disagree with our Muslim brothers. But they will never kill you on account of that difference. Only extremists will, and we have them in every Abrahamic faith.

The only reason for which a true Muslim will kill you is if you blaspheme the Name of Allah (SWT), or prophet Muhammad, Salla Allahu Alayhi Wasalaam, or engage in homosexuality, murder, etc.

Muslim Ottomans ruled Jerusalem for 400 years, between 1517 and 1917. Ask yourself how many Christians they killed. Zero. During their rule, they allowed the building of churches in Jerusalem, they ensured peaceful religious coexistence, and when Catholic Europe expelled all Jews, the Ottomans and the Moors gave the Jews asylum in Istanbul and Morocco.

The Ottomans also ruled modern day Greece and much of Balkan Europe. How many of them did they forcefully convert to Islam? Compare their behaviour to the Catholics who defeated Muslims in Spain and almost wiped all traces of them from Europe.

And since Christian Europeans took over Jerusalem and Palestine in 1917, has there been peace? Are Muslims safe there? Is there peaceful coexistence?

Research and investigate. Don't just swallow everything Oyibo tells you!

Thanks again, and may God bless you.