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Business Owner Cries Out Over Poor Electricity Supply and Rising Cost of Petrol! She expressed her frustration over the unreliable power supply, saying it has become increasingly difficult to run a business in Nigeria without electricity. We pay for electricity but still have to spend heavily on petrol to power our generator. Petrol now costs ₦1,360 per litre, making it difficult to keep business running.

🚨𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Top European clubs are set to file a petition to UEFA regarding PSG, the club rest their best players in league matches and uses them in champions league to give them double advantage, top clubs in Europe sees it as cheating. Man City, Madrid, Arsenal Barcelona, Manchester united, Napoli and Bayern Munich are amongst the club that support this motion.

Adulthood is actually a scam because nobody prepared me for this part. 😭😂 You wake up in the morning with big dreams, plenty plans, and the determination to make something out of your life. You tell yourself, “This week, I’m going to focus. I’m going to work hard, save money, mind my business, and stop stressing myself over unnecessary things.” Then you check your account balance. 😭 Suddenly, the only plan you have is to survive until the next alert. You start calculating everything. If I buy this today, can I still afford that tomorrow? If I order food, what will I eat later? If I go out this weekend, will I regret it on Monday? Even enjoyment now requires a full financial analysis. 😂 And the funniest part is that you can be genuinely trying your best and still feel like you’re not doing enough. You see people your age doing amazing things, starting businesses, travelling, buying cars, getting their dream jobs, and you’re happy for them, but somewhere inside you’re also wondering when your own life will start looking the way you imagined it. Nobody really talks about how exhausting it is to keep encouraging yourself. To keep telling yourself that things will get better when you don’t even have all the answers yet. To smile, make jokes, post on social media, and act normal while you’re quietly trying to figure out your next move. But honestly, I think we need to give ourselves more credit. Some of us are trying to build a better life with very little support, limited resources, and a mind that never stops thinking. We are learning as we go, making mistakes, starting again, and hoping that one day all these little efforts will finally make sense. I just want to get to a point where I can buy what I need without checking my account five times, help the people I love without putting myself in trouble, enjoy my life without feeling guilty, and sleep peacefully without worrying about what tomorrow will bring. Is that too much to ask? 😭😂 Because at this point, I don’t even need to be the richest person in the world. I just want to be comfortable, happy, financially stable, and able to breathe without life reminding me every five minutes that I have responsibilities. Please, tell me I’m not the only one trying to figure life out one day at a time. 😭❤️

i wish twitter did not show read receipts on mobile. did you guys know that Twitter shows receipts on mobile now? inside dms with some cool people i see “read” under my msg and it makes me shrivel up a little from embarrassment just so u guys know LMAO😭😭

Sunday timelines are full of wishes for peace and rest. By evening, plenty of us are already mentally at work.

Social media has made some people feel like an ordinary, peaceful life is a sign that they’re falling behind. If you’re not travelling, buying expensive things, attending events, or constantly upgrading your lifestyle, you start feeling unsuccessful. Meanwhile, somebody with a quiet routine, manageable expenses, and no debt might be living better than half the people they’re envying.

There's always a guy in every friend group who always had a financial emergency. Well I have one too, ₦5k for transport, ₦10k to settle something urgent, ₦15k because his salary hadn't entered. Everybody helped because they believed he was genuinely struggling. Then one Saturday, we went out for a friend's birthday, and the same guy arrived wearing new designer sneakers and carrying the latest iPhone 17. Someone jokingly asked, "Guy, I thought you were broke?" He laughed and said, "Nobody is really broke, you people just don't know how to manage money." The table went quiet... And one of us said he was living a fake life. He opened his account, ₦3.5m was sitting pretty inside his bank app. To make it worse, he said he is travelling abroad soon.

Something I continue to struggle with on social media is the amount of people who argue *to* argue or win (therefore change their stance midway/are unkind) rather than argue to understand and then counter/express their own views. Sincerity feels very lacking.

HE BORROWED YOUR MONEY, dodged your calls, and disappeared for weeks. When you finally asked for repayment, he called you greedy. Some people consider you generous when they receive your money and selfish when you expect it back.