career growth
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Building a career plan
The Boy Who Had to Choose a Future At seventeen, Emeka had already learned not to ask his mother for money unless the request was urgent enough to survive the silence that usually followed. So when his school announced that final-year students needed to pay for their examination registration, he did what he had become…
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Negotiating salary
The Number She Was Afraid to Say “₦180,000.” Mira stared at the number on her phone as if it had personally insulted her. It was the salary figure the recruiter had just mentioned over the phone, and for three full seconds she forgot how to breathe. “Is that okay for you?” the recruiter asked. Mira…
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Choosing a high-income skill
The Girl Who Could Make a Mess Look Expensive At 11:43 p.m., Amara was sitting on the floor of her cousin’s living room, holding a glue gun in one hand and her phone in the other, staring at a birthday backdrop—or what my Nigerian people would probably call a very expensive-looking decorative wall—that had just…