@baymalshopp, @wizkidgallery | Politics
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Update: Joe Goes Back to School
Thought to give update on the young man
1. He was told by the school he can reactivate his admission
2. He has begun the process and has started classes this morning
3. He will be joining 300L class (his set resumed 400L this month)
4. A total of N1,124,000 was sent to him from here (& from my friends outside of here)
5. My pledge to cover his school fees not included here
6. He said he is currently squatting with a friend and sought permission to use part of the funds he was sent from here to rent own space so he can focus on studying (rent: N200k - N250k per year)
7. He said the okada he is riding was got on hire purchase. N1.2m to pay N1.9m. He has been paying N30k weekly and this is the 6th week. Need you guys' input on this: (a) should he continue the okada as a side to pay off the hire purchase? (b) should he pay off the okada from the donations here? (c) or he should just forget about Okada and return it to hirer?
8. A friend from here asked him to enrol for his ICAN scholarship program and if he is successful, he will pay his ICAN exam fee as long as he passes each stage at first attempt
9. Another friend from here offered to pay him N50k stipend monthly for the rest of his studies (300L & N400L)
I stopped at a canteen to have some amala in Offa few days ago and a guy approached me.
I'm used to being approached everywhere and most times I even interject with "From social media abi?" once a stranger walks towards me in such manner.
"Sir, I know you? I was a student of the University of Offa and, last year, you came to our school to talk to us on career and encouraged us", the young man started.
He was wearing what appeared to be commercial okada rider jacket.
A few seconds of confusion. Do I have Twitter followers riding okada? This guy looks too polished to be an okada rider.
"I brought someone here", he added.
This looks like someone I need to have deeper discussion with so I gave him my Whatsapp number as I felt he was at the mercy of the passenger he brought.
Not in a hurry as I had thought as I still saw him after I settled at my table, so I asked him to grab a chair and let us talk the talk immediately rather than on Whatsapp later.
His story goes: He was an accounting student, and was encouraged by the career talk I had given last year and he had enrolled for ICAN ATS, passed stage 1 and expecting result of stage 2 he wrote recently. ICAN has 5-6 stages for ATS route (non-graduate route).
"So what happened? Were you rusticated?", I quipped, with each morsel of amala becoming heavier in my hand.
Then series of bombshells: He had lost both parents. He had been fending for himself almost all his life. He is in his mid 20s. He came to Offa from a nearby village five years ago, for NCE. He got admission into UniOffa as DE to 200L. He spent nights working at a poultry and days a student.
More bombshells: He dropped out in 300L when he could not afford school fees. He could not raise the school fees when he resumed 300L. The poultry work was stressful too. So he started doing okada.
More: His CGPA at the end of 200L was 4.0/5.0. A solid CGPA.
UniOffa school fee is less than N400k, one of the cheapest private universities in Nigeria.
ICAN is cheaper (less than N100k per diet?) but I told him immediately that that ICAN will be useless without a degree. He has to go back to school and complete the degree. Serious employer looks at your degree before your professional cert.
I'm on the Governing Council of the school (he didn't know - a surprise - and he probably thought I was just brought as an external speaker at that career event. And I didn't tell him.) I asked him to go back to the school and enquire whether he can resume the 300L that just started (his set are in 400L now but that shouldn't matter).
I have seen people struggle in life. Not the worst experience, but my mind kept flashing back. Someone is dropping out of school, from a brilliant 4-pointer accounting student to an okada rider because, all his life, he couldn't raise sub N400k. An amount some guys spend on a random night at a tier 3 club.
Touching.
Joe will finish that degree. In shaa Allah.
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Y’all need to make peace with the fact Wizkid might not like attending Award ceremonies.
Wizkid has not attended any Award ceremony since his appearance at The Headies Awards in 2021 and even that event, Headies Organizers had to send a Private Jet to pick him up in Ghana.
He has won 6 MOBO Awards and he has never received the award in person on stage, he wasn’t present the night he was the most prestigious music award “Grammy”, he wasn’t present when he won VMA, AMA, SoulTrain, NAACP Awards.
Made In Lagos and Essence won over 20 Awards and he was never present to receive any of these Awards in person.
It’s not gimmick, that’s who he is or who he has become, make peace with it and leave him alone.
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LAMINE YAMAL IS THE 2026 MEN YOUNG TALENT OF THE YEAR!
✅ 2024
✅ 2025
✅ 2026
The Spanish wonderboy is unstoppable.
#ballondor with @adidasUK
Never knew I’d still go back to taking bikes, Maruwa & danfo for good 3 months!
I embraced this hard times and I realize life is nothing. Despite everything Walahi I was still pressing money to people around me who doesn’t even know I’m going through my own shit
