This 33-year-old freelance social media manager has two superpowers: finding business opportunities and saving aggressively. In 2021, he managed to save ₦100k/month while working ₦40k/month job. How? Extra gigs and financial discipline. Now, he’s on his way to hitting ₦1m in savings by January 2024.

In 2016, this 23-year-old was forced to leave home to fend for himself, thanks to absent parents. At his lowest, he almost turned to a life of crime. But that’s in the past now, and for the first time in forever, he has a sense of stability. What made the difference? Starting a POS business.

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This 20-year-old content creator struggled with impulse purchases for the first six months after she started making money from influencing. Now the phase has passed, she’s trying to live on ₦1k per day and saving aggressively while at it.

There’s one interesting thing to note about the 25-year-old bank relationship manager in this #NairaLife: She grew up with a reliable safety net in her parents. But even without much financial responsibility, her income was barely enough for years. That is, until now.

The 24-year-old social media manager in this #NairaLife is living well above her means, thanks to "pretty privilege". She talks about receiving gifts driven by her looks from childhood, wanting a stronger safety net, and how, even though she’s sure of extra money most of the time, she’s always broke now.

The 25-year-old product designer in this #NairaLife has done almost every job in tech: website design, digital marketing, social media management, etc. He has also freelanced, been unemployed and even co-founded a startup before finally landing a stable product design job. But he’s just there for as long as it's profitable. According to him, he’ll do anything legal to make money.

Old money folks can rock designers from three seasons ago like Mopelola Holloway in “Bling Lagosians”, and like Obianuju Onwuka of “The Wedding Party”, they despise new money folks.

For the 32-year-old partnership manager in this #Nairalife, the key to financial growth isn’t saving but making oneself a channel through which money flows. He’s grown his earnings by almost 3000% in a decade, and now, he wants $5m/month.

This 33-year-old started his career in transportation as a wheel barrow pusher in 2001. Since then, he’s gone from okada rider to personal driver and more. In 2019, he joined the e-hailing market, making up to ₦60k/week until the recent fuel subsidy removal that’s put him in debt.