May 19, 2026
This is an archive entry: the video and its transcript, published so the words can be read, searched and quoted. It is not a written piece.
This is an archive entry: the video and its transcript, published so the words can be read, searched and quoted. It is not a written piece.
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0:00You said you bought your land for 10,000 Naira then. I bought it, that land, I said we are doing contribution of 10,000 in the working place. Then after some while, they come to my own town to give me my own share.
0:22Every month we give somebody, and that month we give the other person, we are eating number that time. Okay, okay, so everybody takes all the money they want and start all the money? 10,000 into 8, you know what it is? Yeah, about this time. So they gave me my own, I used it and bought, look for land and buy. That land that I bought that time was 35,000. Wow, wow. I’m writing right now, but you cannot give us the money. At all. So I bought it at 35,000 and I said, okay, God will thank you. So a land of that, the land of that type, how much should it be cost to N’Rai, like now it should be cost to N’Rai
1:02That year, that year I bought this land, eh? It was 2010, I ran into this bush
1:17Before I came into this bush, with my children, I had a building at the end As I was in Pakistan, I started building blocks with that son And then the building where I bought, that time, I bought the first place, I bought it here, I think, about 6,000 To all these places, right now, what should the value be, about what range? That time, I’m telling you what, you know, that time I bought it 6,000 You see, 1,000 euro is not being created before
1:57Not like 1,000 Naira in Nigeria. Our highest money when I came to Abuja here was 20 Naira. And that 20 Naira is not easy to get.
2:11Oh my God, dude. Oh, you see, to suffer, to see 20 Naira, you’ll be happy. This means that you and your children will eat throughout the week. Wow. Food is enough. The bag is we have a basket of yarn, taking house to house to buy. Then when I buy the yarn, just like this, heat, then I will go and buy oil for the children, buy sandin, buy whatever gets yarn, onions, so that they use it to be eaten.
2:50He’s outside that chapter you ve berr Tell you that time
3:14There’s a road, see that river? You know where? This area is called Kuba. That Kuba, before you get there, the people are with yam like this on the shoulder, going to Kuba. When they got there, they were looking for big men to buy. And once they sold, they would be happy coming back to carry another one, either tomorrow or who sold earlier will go for a second point.
3:42All this area, you see where the build house is, are full of farm that time. It was farm. Even here, we are seeing farm, all these things are farm, so there’s no, they don’t, they don’t have any job, they’re farming, so we have enough food that time, but how can you get this money, how can you get this money, no way, then if you pack sand, and what, the first of all, what lead me to that sand work, eh, I thought I needed easier work. So after looking for printing, I couldn’t acquire. So what I did, I just go and buy shovels and seeking for how to be loading tipa.
4:38On the process of loading tipa is where I got the knowledge of packing sand. Because I saw how after loading the tipa, packing those people’s sand, I see how they are paying those people that are, that owns the sand. I said, ah, these people are getting money, you know, see someone just blow just now, see a man giving to this guy, or this woman, I said, okay, excuse brother, I call one of them, how can somebody have a way to start packing sand with these people, they said, eh, you want to pack sand, I said yes, you got to feed, I said yes, that one has much in the corner if you want to pack,
5:22I will come tomorrow and say yes. So I enter with them and mingle with them and start packing stuff. That very, very, very day I started. I packed half tipa. The boy that asked me to join them also got half tipa. He wanted to sell, he sold my own with his own, to make one tipa. Then we got 4,000 Naira, poidh,iva Then we took 2,000, I said 2,000 I said gold So by this time, 12 o’clock I got 12,000, 2,000 I became great You know what I did? I just put more effort, and then they fall In the river They told me what happened, they told me, I got one trip, say God, Yahuqin.
6:27The following morning, I said, I got 4,000 cash, not half a game.
6:33The food I’m eating in canteen, at times I eat without meat. So I said, give me food. The person get me food. I said, go and get me a plate of pepper soup. I put, bring one bottle of stout.
6:51Life continues, life started. You see? Then, as I am drinking that stuff, something came into my mind. How can I start saving now? Oh, okay. And quickly, I go to somewhere, where that woman that I am living, my lord is in the country. Yeah So, okay, madam, I will be giving you this money to save it for me. I gave you 1,000 there. I faxed her again, I gave you 1,000. So, I did it, did it, did it. I hired a house for me. This big, big room. Only that their window used to be very small like this. This is the size of their window. So, what I did, I hired the house. How much did I hire the house?
7:46How much? A thousand For how long was that? For a year For a year? Wow