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After 27 years of barely getting by, this 34-year-old project manager’s finances started to turn around in 2017. The biggest game-changers so far, though, are her jobs. Between 2019 and 2021, she worked at a job that paid her in foreign currency. Now, her current job has given her a hack that’s allowed her to save more.

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The 29-year-old guy in this story placed his first bet over a decade ago as a university student. At first, it was for the thrill. It quickly became a coping mechanism. Then an addiction. He thought he was in control but his debt profile and troubled relationships proved something else: He was not.  What’s your […]

Let’s begin with a throwback. Do you remember your oldest memory of money? I’d say it was the house-to-house visits during Christmas. I always looked forward to that every year, even though the money I got from them wasn’t a lot — about ₦800 at the end of the day.  It was a big thing […]

The subject of this story first got published in 2004. A lot has happened since that time, and most of it is about employers and publishers not holding up to their end of the deal. Now he’s taking a crack at building his own publishing company. But how did he get here?  What’s your oldest […]