As it happened, at the beginning of the year, I was looking for N10, 000. I had already made up my mind to save it up. There’s no harm in that. I looked at how easy or hard it’d be but since in the long run, it would be beneficial to me, why not go ahead. So, I started saving. Unfortunately for me, while scrolling through Instagram on the 2nd of January, I came across this sponsored post. I must tell you that the ad looked vivid and quite captivating. It was a financial ad. It was caption for students and stay at home mothers who wanted to make extra earnings. I clicked on the link and behold, I joined a group on WhatsApp. After joining the group, we, first-timers were welcomed on board by the admin/manager. She then began to explain the whole process to us. You pay N2,…

Back then in the days, the desire to increase one’s earnings or income was well desired. Till today, we all would like to have more than we have. We’d all have interest in earning quite more. Money they say ‘makes the world go round’. It is also the love of money that is evil not actually having it. A popular saying goes that “God made man; man made money, money made man mad”. If I want more money, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. But, how do I get this more money. Do I work for it? Or do I enjoy freebies? Do magically make it happen? Do I invest? How exactly do I make it happen? In some years before now, presumably, what our parents experienced, there was the presence of money-doublers. What do they do? They travel from village to village, town to town, city to city. Then,…