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What is investing?
The Man Who Kept His Money in a Wardrobe Ebeano, was fifty-nine years old man, and has a clothing shop inside onitsha main-market. He owned three large wardrobes, and trusted none of them equally. The first contained clothes he wore. The second contained clothes he hoped to wear again when his stomach finally agreed to…
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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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How to get your first client
The Boy Nobody Passed the Ball To The first time Emeka scored in front of two hundred people, nobody cheered. Not because the goal wasn’t good. They were simply too busy arguing about whether he was actually supposed to be on the pitch. It was a Saturday afternoon at the community football field, and the…
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Students loan explained
The Scholarship That Never Came When Adaeze received admission to study Pharmacy, her father spread all the admission papers across the dining table. He brought out a calculator. School fees. Accommodation. Laboratory charges. Books. By the time he finished adding everything, he quietly removed his glasses. “We can pay the first semester,” he said. Her…