To take control of your finances, first discover your place of genius by identifying activities where time disappears and people naturally seek your help, then ask 'why' questions to transform frustrations into opportunities, refuse to postpone action to tomorrow, take personal ownership of your situation, and maintain integrity while building wealth through strategic partnerships and delayed gratification.
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Brother Timothy, you're welcome.
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All right, media, please can we have the lyrics of the hymn on the screen?
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All right. Um while we'll wait for the hymn and to to be projected on the screen, we would again like to welcome everyone to tonight's um session.
This is a live conference and a live conference is hosted by the Alive mentorship school, the alumni community and the faculty of Alive mentorship school. A live mentorship school is a divine initiative that um is been coordinated from >> um Nigeria. Okay. From Nigeria in um on those states um under the leadership of pastor David Abuaka.
A live mentorship school is a platform that God has um put together to develop believers across denominational across denominational lines to develop believers in the aspects of family, faith, finance, uh marriage um and even in ministry.
And so far by the grace of God we have had >> two >> so since >> we have had two sessions. Um the first started in 2024 March of 2024 we had the first set of um yeah live mentorship school the first cohort rather um and um the first cohort in 2024 rounded off with a conference in September of 2024.
The second cohort also began March 2025 and it was concluded with a conference and a convocation as well in September of 2025.
this meeting edition of their live conference is of course it's a virtual conference and um because uh what we are trying to do is to build a community uh community where we can continue to integrate and share fellowship regardless of the distance and whatever limitations exist. uh to strengthen one another to make sure that uh on the family line we are strong um at work we are strong in the faith we are strong and that the experience doesn't just end at the mentorship school I'll pause here uh and alive mentorship school will be properly introduced to us much later uh but for now let us take the hymn to be led by brother Timothy as we continue in the conference for tonight. God bless you and welcome again.
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God of you the next we are taking God will take care of you be not this may whatever [singing] be God will take care of you beneath his wings of love by God will take care of you.
God will take care of you through every day for all the way.
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God will take care of you.
When dangers fear your part, God will take care of you.
God will take care of you through every day over all the way.
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Stand the train.
All you may need, he will go by.
God will take care of you.
Not in your eyes. You will be denied.
God will take care of you.
God, he take care of you through everything over all the way.
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care of you through every day for all the way.
He will take care of you.
God will Hallelujah.
All right. Thank you so much, brother Timothy.
Um, just in case, um, okay, so because I didn't do an introduction, Brother Timothy joins us from Russia.
Um and um Pastor Kelvin joins us from the United Kingdom. Uh we have um friends and family joining us from different parts of the world across different time zones. And so um I would like us to show some grace and extend some grace um if um there is any network lag or if there's any uh interference just to say thank you so much brother Timothy for the hymn come down come thou found of every blessing and God will take care of you. God will take care of us. And so very quickly just to say warm welcome to everyone. Can you just do me a favor? Type in the chat where you're joining us from where just type your city and your country. My name is Fei.
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Wow. I mean, it's a full house tonight and we are so so so expectant.
God has prepared his vessel um who will be speaking to us tonight on wealth creation on finance. I mean finance is a hot topic across the nation even across the world and among the community of believers. Finance is not something that should be pushed I mean to to the back. All right. It's it's a very burning topic and it's something that we need to learn about and we need to be instructed and empowered to provide for our homes and to provide for the vulnerable among us. All right.
So not to take any more of our time, I would like to call sister Al Lima Abubaka to read the biography of um our facilitator for tonight, Sister Hale Lima Bubaka.
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>> Okay. Good evening everyone. It's um it's so beautiful and wonderful to be here again to be here at a live um con a live conference. Um it's been a wonderful journey being joining um you know in a live mentorship school and and it's a privilege for me to read the biography of Dr. Rome Kubot tonight. Dr. Aruba is a distinguished project management and cost estimating professional. He's a kingdom leader and mentor with decades of experience spanning academia, oil and gas project controls and executive leadership across Nigeria and the international energy industry. Dr. Akuba's professional journey reflects a consistent commitment to excellence, precision, integrity, and transformational leadership. From serving as an assistant lecturer at Federal University of Technology Mina to rising into executive leadership within the global energy industry, he has distinguished himself as a seasoned expert with deep technical competence and international experience.
He's a strong believer in continuous learning and professional development.
Dr. So Akuba earned the bachelor's bachelor of technology in quantity surveying from Abakar Tafa Belawa University and also obtained a master of technology in quantity surveying as well. He also earned a master of science in construction management Ali Becket University United Kingdom and completed a doctor of philosophy in project management as well. Beyond his corporate accomplishments, Dr. Harl Akubo is deeply respected as a man of faith, a pastor, a mentor, and a family oriented leader whose life reflects integrity, humility, and service. He's passionate about raising people, building structures and systems and influencing lives through both ministry and professional excellence as well.
Beyond his corporate accomplishments, Dr. Dharma is sorry excuse me he's a he's he is an extremely graced man of God he's a finance and project management expert he's deeply traveled and experienced he's a devoted man of God and pastor he's a loving father and he's a loving husband and father a successful and blessed man through and through Dr. Parame resides both in Nigeria and the United Kingdom with his wife Dickinness Dr. Peace Akuba and their three wonderful children. Ladies and gentlemen, join me to welcome Dr. Akuba to Alive mentorship school to our live conference. Thank you.
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>> I was >> okay. Thank you very much. when I was being introduced and also earlier speaking with my wife when uh I saw uh the bio on the invite, I was wondering is it a small that is hustling that has been described this way and I took majity of it as a prophecy on my life and I ask you to help me say amen to that. Praise the Lord.
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Yeah. Why about starting this?
Well, as me in the I live both in Nigeria and in the UK. Currently, I'm in Nigeria. [clears throat] And while we were preparing for this a few minutes ago, the power of and just came on, [laughter] right?
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>> Okay. Again, thank you everyone for the privilege to speak to you this night.
I shall be talking on Okay, let me put on my video.
All right.
So I shall be speaking on the topic which have Christian taking control of your finances in Nigeria and beyond.
Six principles one action plan.
A bit of disclaimer here.
The first one is I do not claim ownership of all the intellectual content that I will be sharing.
I do believe in them and that is the reason I'm sharing them.
Major credit to Dr. Tukumbaella Duruto.
He's a man I respect. As a man, I listen to his teaching and I've attended some of his workshop both in the workplace and in my private capacity.
My intent this evening is to simply inform you, perhaps spark something that helps you begin or improve on what you are currently doing so that you can continue your own journey.
and also to state clearly that our journey in life is unfolded by the grace of God.
Whatever I share today about my personal experience is offered in that spirit and hoping that it might encourage someone or ignite something meaningful in your own path.
I am no better or richer or more knowledgeable than anyone.
I have just been privileged to speak to you tonight.
Someone will speak in another conference and I recognize that this conference brings together professionals from all walks of life. So feel free to contribute wherever it is appropriate to do so as this session is designed to be interactive.
So what are the six key principles we'll be looking at this evening?
The first one will be finding your place.
Whenever you find your place, that is where energy is released to you and energy is not demanded of you.
The second principle will be to ask the why question.
From there we will look at what good questions look like.
Speak more on the principle of refusing to shifting things to tomorrow but doing it at the right time the now season then taking personal ownership and rounding up with ambition belief and courage.
As mentioned before, I will be giving my own personal experience in life and hopefully you will be able to contribute and also share your own your own experiences as we progress.
So what is it about finding your place?
Nobody teaches a fish how to swim.
And also you will discover that monkey is designed for the tree. And that is why all the things that the monkey can do, if you remove it from its natural environment, you will realize that the monkey is not that skillful.
If you remove the fish from its natural environment, which is the water, the fish is unable to function.
looking at Exodus chapter 35:E35.
If you have your Bible, you can open with me, but it's there on the screen.
The Bible says God has filled them with skill to do all manner of work of the engraver and the designer and of the tape maker in blue, purple, scallet, fine linen, of the weaver, those who do every work and those who design artistic work.
So every one of us in this call has something that has been deposited in him by God.
There is a place that things come to you naturally. There is something you can do for free. So the question is where is your place in life?
And relative to the topic that we are looking at today when we say where is your place is where is that place that is good for you that is convenient for you that you can make money from.
I'm not talking about the purpose which God has created you to function spiritually, but I'm talking about the gifts that God has deposited in you that you can leverage on to make life easier for you. Again I said nobody teaches the fish to swim and everything about the monkey is designed for the three.
Where is that place where inspiration comes to you effortlessly that you don't need to force it. It flows naturally.
Energy is released to you and not demanded.
A lot of us the places that we walk today whenever we wake up to go to work in the morning, right?
Or sometimes when the sun filters through your window and you realize that it's 700 a.m. sometimes your BP spikes up.
You don't feel good about going to work today again.
Why is that so?
Or am I the only one that felt like that previously? Are there anyone that can recognize this fact wherever you are working today or previously?
Or is there a place that you find yourself doing something even for free you enjoy it? So the question is where is your place of genius?
In Proverbs chapter 18:16 it teaches that a person's gift whether talent, skills or thoughtful offering can open doors and create opportunities bringing them before influential people.
So the question this evening is how do we discover our place of genius?
And that lead me to the next slide.
Many of us on this call would know the guy called Tundua.
He's a tennis ball player in Korodu, Lagos, Nigeria. His story I will read.
Tundday grew up in a Lagos slum inu. His family couldn't afford the secondary school fees. His mother became a school cleaner so he could attend. They first encountered chess at a barber shop in the neighborhood. Most kids walk past it. He sat down. Chess wasn't a hobby.
It was a place. It gave me an identity.
Later, he said, that's quoting him directly. It made me believe that I could also be a thinker.
He went on to become one of Nigeria's top 13 ranked players. In 2018, he found chess in slum Africa. In April 2025 at Times Square, he and Shan set a Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon, 64 hours unbroken.
Now, I will tell you my own story here.
How did I find my own place of genius?
Sometime in the early 90s studying in secondary school, I can vividly remember my economics teacher was teaching us about different professionals.
He talked about architects, talked about pilots, talked about engineers, and he talked about quantity surveillance.
But something stood out for me while he was describing quantity surveyors. He said, "A quantity surveyor is a professional who can stand and look at a stadium and tell you how many quantities of concrete is contained in there. How many tonnage of iron steel is contained in there?
That he will look at a tower and tell you how many number of blocks that is contained in that tower.
I began to fancy who is this guy that the economics teacher is talking about.
Well, that lesson stayed with me. I never knew it was an area that I have been called to, but I was impressed by the man or by the profession called quantity surveying.
Fast forwarded that to sometime in in the late 90s after finishing my my my secondary school. My father was a local contractor with um a local government somewhere in Kogi state to be precise in Kogi state. So he normally build um primary school for for for the local government.
So often time I will be the one to be on site to to supervise the work.
So every time I move from one site to another I began to develop interest in construction.
Then there was this guy because anytime you do work there's something they call interim valuation valuing the work you have done so that the government can pay you the uh milestone that you have completed.
So there is this all powerful man that will come from the ministry of works and ministry of education. The quantities of it he will come to site value the work on site the materials on site and everything that we have procured on site and he will write his valuation whatever he valued the work that we had done is what the government will pay us at time.
So for us as contractors and for me a very young boy probably at 16 years waiting for admission to the university.
This guy is the most powerful person in the world because without him my parents will not be paid and the right value for the work that we had done will not be put on the payment certificate.
So remembering what my teacher taught me in secondary school about quantity surveyors and what I was seeing with myself at the construction site, everything came together and I realized that this is the profession that I was called to before. Now I had written my first jump because my father wanted me to study medicine. And I believe that majority of you on this call who are within my age grade and who studied science in school probably you had the same story. Your father would have wanted you to study medicine if you actually grew up in Nigeria.
Right? So for me I was going to study medicine.
>> Right? And when this conviction, yeah, I'm hearing an echo there. When this conviction came, I now realize that is a place to go. And that is how I found myself, the place of my own genius. I entered the university and everything that was being taught are things that I had already learned on site such that it became seamless for me and I can authoritatively tell you that at 300 or 400 level I stopped reading.
What do I mean by that? I had achieved the CGP that I wanted and was just floating just to graduate because I found a place of genius for myself not for any other person.
Studying wasn't for unlike other student it wasn't stressing for me. It was something that I already knew. It was something that I love. It was something that I was seeing in my inner eyes. So the question to you today is where is your place of genius?
Again another disclaimer after this class I expect that you will pick some of the principles if applicable to you that will be helpful.
Of course, there's nothing here that will suggest a one solution for everyone. But if you see anything or any principle that wake something in you, then the purpose would have been achieved.
So where is your place of genius? That is the first question you need to ask yourself.
So how do you spot your place of genius?
Is there something that you do it effortlessly but it is hard for others?
That's a signal.
Not a disqualification.
Sometimes you hear I have passion for this. I have passion to do photography.
I have passion for tech.
Passion is good. But the test of passion is sustenance.
Anyone can be excited for a week. But the genius in you will last much more.
And that is why you find yourself today you will discover that what you want to do in life is to open a restaurant. Then next tomorrow you are talking about opening an ICT center.
But the question is the genius in you is sustained over time. It doesn't change.
And also beware of the prestige tab.
That's what I mentioned earlier where many people go to study a course that they hate but they study it for status.
Then I was going to study medicine if I was given the first admission. If I hadn't if I had met the cutoff mark, I would have been given medicine and probably because my father wanted me to study it and not what I really wanted.
So what is the assignment from here? If you have your pen and paper and if you are bold enough, I'll give you a space to talk about it right now and right here. So let's do something simple. Can we all list three things people ask you for help with?
If you have your pen and paper, please do write it down. Three things. What are those three things that people normally ask you for help?
Also out of those three things or at least as many as you can note when 2 hours feels like 20 minutes you spend a lot of time on that thing but it doesn't look like something that you are spend time on.
And by the way I'm not talking about looking at your phone here or reading stuff on the internet.
Then later in the week, these things that you have written down, you are going to ask three honest friends.
What am I naturally good at?
Then pick one area of the test this month. Don't wait for certainty. So at this point I would like to open the mic and if there's anyone that would like to share one or two or three things that you feel that people always ask you for help.
Anyone bold enough to talk about it?
Pastor FYI you help me coordinate that.
I'm not seeing people's hand please.
and let me know if there's no response.
>> Okay, I see a hand here but there is no name. I see a Xiaomi 2409 something. Um just before you speak uh okay that's okay please can you help us remain but you can go ahead uh and speak to us.
Thank you.
>> Okay. All right. Thank you very much for the opportunity. I think I'll just pick one at the moment. I know uh a lot of times I I do a lot of because of my M's program, I do a lot of research program.
So people tend to ask me if I can take them a session or a class on public speaking. So people ask me a lot about that that which public speaking session did I attend. But actually I didn't attend any public speaking school or session. uh is basically as a result of just growing up in church and anchoring a lot of program in church. So it comes naturally to me. I get a lot of questions around that. And then maybe when people have an event and they need someone to help them coordinate. I also get a lot of uh requests from people asking me how I can be of help at at several points or they ask me to come in and help them to coordinate the event.
So I would say public speaking and event management.
>> Wonderful.
Please write them down as we continue in this session. There will be other things we are coming to. Is there any other hand?
Thank you.
>> No other hand. No other hand for now.
>> Yes. Good evening sir. Thank you so much for the session.
>> Is there somebody on site in Aurora who wants to speak? Yes sir.
>> Okay.
>> Yes sir. Yeah. Good evening sir.
>> Daniel go ahead.
>> My name is Daniel. So um I found >> kindly unmute media. Please unmute so we can hear Daniel.
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Yeah, we have time. So, relax.
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Good evening, sir. Can you hear me?
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>> All right, sir. My name is Daniel. Thank you so much for this um session, sir. Um I found public speaking and writing very easy and people reach out to me concerning it. I don't have to stress so much when it comes to this particular set of skills. I it just comes naturally. People tend to ask how are you able to articulate words without actually thinking for long. I find myself being able to like construct sentences and speak to a set of people without having to like think about how to do it or when to do it. It just comes naturally. Also leadership because um I am always the type of person to always see things in a perfect way. So when I'm in a place I can't tend I can't help but see things in a very arranged manner.
I'm always the type of person to always have this administration and management kind of mindset. So it comes really easy and it's something I love to do and I don't need to actually be told. So thank you so much. That's something that I find doing well sir.
>> Yes please still hold the mic. Thank you very much for sharing. So the next question is what have you done about this? Have you considered making money from this >> or you been doing it?
>> Yes sir. Right now I actually run a particular program called the golden paradigm where I'm trying to use this particular things to influence um solutions. I started by writing trying to influence people's minds and it's going to stem up to more things by public speaking and bringing other people to this particular initiative. So I've been pushing it out on like Substack and Medium. I've been trying to get proper visibility on it and pushing it out on other platforms as announcer.
>> Okay. Thank you very much. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah. Also, I don't know uh I think Pastor Dave will talk about it uh much much later.
We are hoping that we'll be in a position as a ministry to support people who genuinely have yeah ideas or existing existing businesses or whatever to improve whatever they are doing at the moment. So we are giving people opportunity to talk about what they have and yeah pastor Dave will talk about it.
Thank you very much for sharing. So we go to the next session which talks about asking the why question our scripture.
>> Hello sir.
>> Yeah go ahead.
>> Okay. Um so I mean I don't know if you can take we have two hands and a comment.
>> Okay please.
>> Okay. So maybe in 1 minute uh we'll just take Hale Lima and Taiw.
>> Okay.
>> Um good evening once again everyone. Um so for me something that comes naturally to me is writing and it's something that over the years um I've had to um you know helped people write. I've published some books and um I've also you know done it and you know just made money here and there from that skill as well. And also when it comes to strategy I mean I get people come to me to help them strategize about their business about events networking events that they have to do and it's something I've been doing wherever I find myself wherever my feet step into it always comes out. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
>> The next speaker or while we are with Al Lima, I will ask the same question.
What have you done about taking it to the next level?
>> Okay. Um at the moment I um I have like I said I've published some books and I've you know shown that okay this thing that I've been doing over the years you know casually or you know just doing it for for passion and also helping people doing it for free that you know I really have this thing inside of me. So I have you know done it as a business but I am also in the process of of um of um putting everything together to um do it as a business um big time.
>> Thank you for sharing >> strategically.
>> Thank you.
We'll talk about persistence later in the in the story.
Yeah. Any other hand?
>> Yes, Mr. Tai.
Okay.
One minute please. Thank you.
>> Thank you sir.
Yeah, actually let me say three months ago I was trying to >> media please unmute the microphone so we can hear it. But I >> actually two months ago I was trying to do potato gary. So okay, I was trying to do potato gary and in the Gary factory there was a there was an issue there and the man said ah I can't go on with the potato gary that I want to do and if I let go of that potato gary what I'm expecting I may not get it and the man said ah if you cannot do it maybe you take it to somewhere else and time has gone and I begin to think that ah this thing will result to a mistake but another thing come to my sense that how can I turn my mistake to a product and I turn it to potato shallow I processing into flour and I package it within two days I sold everything since that Today I did not go go further to to get proton and processing it like a week ago now many people now begin to ask him that ah what about that your potato swallow I want to buy more I say ah I don't have potato now I say ah but that thing is good oh you know is it is good for diabetes patient when I get home I discuss with my wife I say ah Oh, and there's no potato. I say potato is caught at the market. He said I can go to market and buy it. I'm processing it is what I bought is what I buy is what I was I will say.
>> Absolutely. That one today I was I went out to to go and buy something and there was a man that is my customer and call me that t please where can I get good breed of pig. I said I have one customer and I took the man to the place. Along the way I received like almost seven call that some different people that be calling me now and this thing is happen to their tomatoes. The man now asked me Taiw which work are you doing? If you want to stay in one place stay in one place if you want to. I now told the man that sir you know the situation of the country that we need to diversify our energy to different so that we can earn more. I said it's not that I'm convincing you but you know if I stay in in this one now I don't know maybe the the money will be coming and there is responsibility the man just laugh later but this evening now it's like my eyes is >> is open to another thing entirely thank you sir >> thank you so much thank you thank you so much all right um I think we can go ahead sir >> okay thank the last speaker. It looks like in my mind as you were speaking, I'm seeing Taiw potatoes on the shelf both in the UK, the Americas, and in Nigeria. So, you may have found your place of genius, but you didn't recognize it. And that's the essence of this study this night. Like I said earlier on, there's nothing I'm going to offer you to say this is what you need to do to make wealth. But to remind you of something that is already happening around you or something that will happen around you so that with the right mindset you are able to pick them up. If you are a science student for instance, majorities of the laws that we have in science are things that are happening around us. Someone was the first to just put it in principle, right? Someone will say like the laws of motion, he will say action and reaction are equal and opposite for a system to be in equilibrium. like sitting down on a chair.
The weight on that chair and the ability of the chair to hold you balances each other out. If your weight is more than the chair, the chair will break up. That's natural. Everybody has been seeing it from time in memorial.
But someone had to put it as a law and provided the right equation which move forward. So what I'm saying this night is things are already happening around you. you are already involved in some of these things. So the idea is if one person amongst us or two is able to pick something from here and develop it then the job is done. So the next principle ask the why question.
Habacook chapter 2 verse 2-3 I'm going to read it. If you have your Bible you can mark it. It says write the vision make it plain upon tables that he may run that readed it. But the vision is yet is yet for an appointed time. But at the end it shall speak and not lie. Though it t for it because it will surely come.
It will not t.
What this passage is telling us in principle is your vision.
The things that bother you, you need to put them on paper.
You need to put them somewhere that you can continue to look at it. Even if you don't write it down because most of us are not trained to write things down, it is something that you should continue to ponder on. Then make it plain.
Clarity precede everything else. You need to know exactly what you are talking about. then that he may run only after the vision is clear that you will know the how question and what is the how question what do you need to do and it will surely come to pass that's the destination when when um sister gift was speaking she said it's something that she has been doing right and she has done some books on it and all that even if that book had not given her the kind of money she expects. If she continue on that path, continue to respond to the market and get further insight, it's just a matter of time before fulfillment come. So why is the beginning and how is the destination? What is the why? Write down what bothers you.
Sit with it until it appears.
Now you can change it. That is the how and action that will be clearer in this slide.
I'm going to give you some examples of what we have met in the Nigerian industry that are pretty standard now but they were never like that. True Nigerian frustration. Two of them are worth $2 billion as we speak.
If you are doing online booking like payment of uh flights online purchasing in Nigeria and all that you may have come across pay right the guys in finance know some of these things better than some of us.
Payak was started in 2015 by Schollah Akin Lad and Ezra Olubi. They had a simple question. Why is this so hard for Nigerian businesses to accept online payments?
Cards decline often time and customers gave up at the checkpoint.
I remember at the early time paying something online or going to a supermarket to buy something with your card is a 50/50 risk. What do I mean by that? there's a chance that it will be declined and you will be charged sometime ago in Nigeria. That's the in thing. There's no way you are going to make online purchases that it may go through and you will not suffer. And the worst thing about it is the vendor that you are buying from will tell you that you need to go back to your bank. If that's the last money in your account then unfortunately you are not able to purchase that thing and the money that you had will not be returned to you at least you need to go and fill form in the bank before is is processed.
The same way Flutter wave founded by Abiubena and others question at the continental scale why is moving money across African borders so painful.
I remember when we were in school, one of the key successes of UBA today was the ability of UBA to merge with Standard Trust Bank sometime in 200 2000 early mid 2000. What happened then?
While we were in school in the 2000 in the university as read before I schooled in far north um bouchi my parents normally send money in postal order or if someone is coming from our state you bring the money to you but there's this bank called standard trust bank the bank came with the solution that if money is paid into your account, it reflects immediately.
They are one of the pioneers of real time banking. When a deposit is made into your account, the other person sees it immediately. All the students in my school had an account with Standard Trust Bank. And I believe some of you that are within my age grade will um will recognize this fact. So people came up with idea to solve problem.
All of them are frustration that every Nigerian had felt but these two guys or these four guys accepted it silently.
They went and acquired paystak in 2020 for this amount and flutter wave reached a billion dollar evaluation as we speak and these companies are headquarters headquartered in Nigeria.
Yes, speaking about this money you will think these are big money. I'll give you my own personal example.
I had already mentioned to you that my own niche, my place of genius is quantity surveying which is construction work.
Put it in simple terms, building works.
I started my journey finally in building sometime in 2007.
Okay. And I will take a step back.
Sorry, I'm going to be but I'm going to be giving you practical example. Like I mentioned before, the essence of this is not anything else but to provide real life example from my own experience and hopefully it reflects or it stirs up something in you.
Sometime in 2007 as read in my biography I was a lecturer in Federal University of Technology Mina in the quantity surveying department.
While I was there lecturing by the way I spent only 18 months there as a lecturer.
I knew very well that lecturing is good.
But one day my professor the man who brought me there to study because he came to my school in Bai while we were in final year and somehow he felt impressed by me. Immediately I finished my service I got employed in Mina. So I had zero experience when I became a lecturer in now this man his vision for me was to become a professor like him. He was the first professor in quantity survey. His name is Professor Tissobu.
So one day he was giving me a lift from school back home after the the the day.
And this man was driving a Mercedes-Benz 200. That was in 2007.
Yeah. Driving a Mercedes-Benz 200. The whole back of the car is filled with papers.
uh student script books and everything.
So we branched to buy fuel and he brought out money.
He was telling them to put like maybe 10 liters, 20 liters but I saw the pain in his eyes right while paying for the foil.
I love lecturing.
However, I knew that if I work very hard, I will become a professor and this guy in front of me is my future in 20 years, in 30 years time.
Is this how I want to be? And to be honest with you, lecturing is an honorable profession. I believe that some of us on this call are lecturers. I respect lecturers. I was one before. But I knew that that is not how I want to be.
Right? What happened? And this brings me to my next to my next um point.
You also need to have the right group of friends.
When I came to Mina as a lecturer because I was very young and relatively out of school, some of my friends that we grew up from home were still in final year in the university. So I had to stay with them in their off-c campus accommodation until I got my own place.
So I was staying with them living like students and had to go to school to lecture. And these guys every time they come back from school what they do they go to the internet in those days it's not like ancient of days long ago I mean 2007 here we do not have internet on our phones as you have now you go to a cyber cafe as we call it then for you to check your internet uh check your mail and all that b basically mail no Instagram Nothing nothing nothing right these guys will go there to check vacancies in oil and gas industry my salary as I then was 37,000 and these guys will come back and say there's a vacancy about a graduate geologist that is paid 300k 350k and I was like who does that nobody is going to pay that kind of money when I was feeling cool that I'm a lecturer and I'm having this kind I'm already doing and some of my friends normally come to visit me when eventually I got got my place. So these guys every day because some of them stays with their friends their brothers in Potacord and all this and all those places. Some of us that grew up in Kogi state we had zero idea of what is happening in the down south.
So they would come every day go to the internet cafe and check vacancies and see jobs that has been placed for graduates that is paying so much amount of money. So we got talking. I never believed them at first but I started following them to look at what they are looking at and it picked up my interest.
I say if people can can make this kind of money then it fits into my vision for life.
Right? So the people that I associated with gave me that platform to open my eyes to see what possibilities are there because studying quantities of and all that my vision was to graduate and probably work on the site and doing my thing that I love. The essence was not to make money but I discovered along the way as I will share later that it is also possible to make money. So to cut the long story short because I was following them God had a way of making things happen to you what you desire in your heart. One of my friends from school, Schollah, my very good friend, called me one day and said he saw a vacancy with Shell looking for quantity surveyors to come and do cost engineering.
But because he had no he couldn't meet the requirement in terms of what he graduated with he forwarded it to me that I should go. I applied and after so many up and down and all that I found myself in that place. So what am I putting across here?
As you are asking the why question you also need to be in the right environment. You need to be with the right people, people that can improve you. You don't need to be a local champion.
You don't need to be the best among your contemporaries. You have to be where you are challenged where people are looking forward.
So these guys because of my association with them I got a job and moved down from I mean from Mina to Potacot.
on getting to potacot because I already have that training and had also found my niche.
The first man that I met, this is how God sets things for you and I'm sharing my testimony. This is more like a testimony. The first man I met, he was working in Shell. He was already a senior man. I stayed in his house. I rented his house.
What he told me is Arame, I like you as a person. I want you when you are leaving my house to move into your own house.
Right?
And this man said that he knows some people in the estate and when the next land comes that he's going to put me across. And true to his word, in six months, a land came up in the estate that was for 1.5 million. I still remember this in 2007. 1.5 million. Then my salary was around 300K in 200 moving from 37 to 300K, right? So this man, I told him, I mean, look at the money that that I'm getting monthly. It's not up to the 1.5 million. This man borrowed me 1.2 million to add it and bought that land. And that was the start of my property business.
Cut the whole story short, I started living like a lecturer that I was. I started living on the same salary that I was before coming to this 300k and that differential which was 250,000 I poured it into the development of my first property. I never moved up because my salary moved up.
I began to live the same life I was living but developing my business. And within one year I completed a building that contained three bedroomedroom flat up and down.
That's how we build it in worry. Then threebedroom up and down. Sorry I started from worry not threebedroom up and down. Then the front part you make it like a duplex where you will stay.
That's where I was going to stay until I got transferred to.
The intent was to rent out the building and hopefully all the loans that I collected from friends and relatives and bank uh as I'm collecting the rent I'll be paying back. But someone came and said he was interested in buying the house. And I was like I did the calculation. If I'm going to rent this house, it will take me 15 to 20 years to recover the money that I use in building it.
But if I sell it now, I think from if my memory serves me well, I built the house around 101 and the guy offered around 156 million. So I sold the house. All these things happened within the first two years of my working, built and sold it. So the money came back to me in bulk and I can confirm to you that that capital that capital has been multiplied over and over and over again at a point we had buildings in pot that were being rented but we were also staying in a rented apartment.
So when you know your why question, the frustration that people have around, then God has a way of bringing people across you to help you.
So what am I saying? In essence, anything that bother that is a problem for people is also a signal.
If it annoys you, it means it's annoying 1,000 other people.
So, is a painoint that becomes what you can turn into income.
So you are going to write down out of your head what are the things that are frustrating you every morning that you wake up.
Your why anchors you in the storm.
Business is very hard. I just gave you an o oversight of how how I have turned the initial income into several things.
But there were many many traps in between. There were many places I suffer some losses even currently. But because it's my place of genius because it's the place that I will even do it for free, I kept on going and by the grace of God it has been well with us. So again I'm going to ask write down five things.
Why does X annoy me?
question in your phone today. Write five. Why does X annoy me?
Pick the one that won't leave your mind after a week.
Then ask 10 Nigerians or wherever you are in the world. If the same thing questions them, then select one tiny solution. You could test for under 20K for some people under 100K or under 200K.
Does this make sense?
We'll open the mic again if anybody has anything to share or any question to ask how we have gone so far.
>> All right. You see a hand here? There isn't a unmute and speak to us. Thank you.
Isn't >> yes I'm here. Good evening.
>> Good evening. Please before you go on please tell us where you're joining from and then you can add it.
>> Okay. I reside in Aurondo states.
Yes. I'm a legal practitioner and I work in a law firm.
>> Okay.
>> Go ahead.
>> Yes. Okay. Um so for me growing up I am the first daughter out of four children.
Yes. And growing up I didn't have the best relationship with my parents with my mother especially. So okay you said we asking a question or making a contribution right?
>> Yes please.
>> Yeah. So this is more like me trying to share something I've been working on.
Yes sir.
>> Okay. So um growing up I didn't have like anyone to talk to basically because I didn't have the smoothest relationship with my parents. They were very strict.
So because of that as a teenager I made a whole lot of mistakes like I made mistakes cuz I didn't talk to anybody and nobody was there to actually cancel me and say this way you're going is not right. So I was able to hide some things from my parents and I made mistakes. So looking at that growing up I feel like rather than beat myself up for those mistakes I made I feel like it has shaped me to an extent and now I'm able to see that okay there are people that are also coming behind me there are young ones I have younger ones and other than the ones that my parents gave birth to there are young ones teenagers spread across Nigeria and beyond that may also be in the same situation that I found myself in when I was younger they don't have like an older one that they can comfortably talk to. You don't have that senior one. So looking at that, I love to write stories. Growing up, I wrote stories as a kid. I'm very good with storytelling. So I recently I've been working on a book which I titled To All the Niger Boys. And that book is inspired by my experiences growing up. I feel like is a book that when teenagers or young ones are able to read it, they wouldn't need someone to actually talk to them. Those things that their parents are either shy or uncomfortable talking to them about, they able to read that book and they're able to draw insight and get instruction that would actually guide them in the decisions they are making on their own as growing people.
So, um I've been able to write that book. I've done the editing and currently I'm still, you know, working on it because it's something that I hope that it gets out there and a lot of kids are able to read it. Something that should get into schools uh in the bookshop of different secondary schools so I can get across to as many teenagers as possible. I even hope that we can also do a transcription to different languages so that countries other than Nigeria can also access this book. That is on the one hand sir. Also on the other hand we also have like okay I have another thing that I'm working on other than this book. Now a lot of women after child birth and pregnancy they deal with something that affects their pelvic region. Now the pelvic um the pelvis is something in body that houses a lot of organs like the um the bladder, the uterus, it houses um the private part of a woman and even a man. So when the pelvis is not healthy or is damaged or is weak, it affects the way a person functions. Now a lot of people are going through several issues, health issues and they don't know that the root cause of those issues they are dealing with is because their pelvis is either damaged or is weak. So I've been I've been doing my research and so far I've come up with something that I feel like people can use to work on their pelvis especially women that had put to bed because giving birth carrying pregnancy the stretching of the uterus has a way of you know impacting the pelvis and leaving it either weak or damaged at the end of the 9 months of pregnancy. So most women after child birth they start dealing with urinary incontinents that they leaking urine or even fal incontinents they are leaking phases there are a lot of issues some of them have stomach that refuses to go back to shape there are a lot of issues that women have to put up with after child birth and delivery and they don't know that it is because of a weak pelvis. So we have this apparatus that we hope to introduce to the market that will help women from the comfort of their homes work on their pelvic get it back to shape and you know get their pelvic health back and also men is also going to help men address prostrate issues. We've been able to communicate with manufacturers in China and so far I've gotten a prototype.
Yes. So we are at the prototype stage right now and we've tested out the prototype and we we've been able to you know notice some things that we also need to work on like to better the apparatus and all that s. So these are the two things that I'm currently the two ideas or projects that I currently have at hand. Yes sir. And I'm looking to you know do what I can to bring them to life over time. Yes sir.
All right. Thank you. Thank you. Um, okay. Uh, just um to quickly acknowledge um that there are um people joining us um on YouTube and on Facebook just to say you're welcome. Thank you for joining us so far. Um this is a live conference and speaking with us tonight is Dr. Ameuba.
Dr. Aome um over to you sir Okay. Um, Dr. AR, your audio is not yet uh up.
I think you're speaking, but we can't hear you right now.
Okay. So, while we wait uh for Dr. Ames mic to come back on, does anyone else have any contribution? Okay. So, >> yeah, sorry. I think >> power source was restored and the the Wi-Fi needed to to reboot.
Apologies. Okay. Thank you.
Okay. So, let me reshare my screen or am I still sharing?
>> No, sir. You need to reshare.
Okay.
Confirm you can see my screen and hear me clearly.
Yes sir.
>> I can see your screen and hear you clearly.
>> Okay. Thanks. Uh the last speaker isn't if I if I remember. I mean absolutely probably what you need to to think about is is this and that's the essence of this great idea, great product, but you need to think about how to get your product to the people. I'm not a professional in that aspect.
But what I can ask you is if this is happening in your head or you have written it somewhere by the time you continue to sit with it as you were speaking talking about adolescent or teens who are not able to to speak to their parents and all that and you are trying to provide a solution to that. The question is these teenagers where are they found right in my head majority of them are in secondary school. So the question is how do you get to them? Is it the private school or the public school?
Is it that majority of them has in Instagram account and all that and all that? So you need to do to have a tactics. It's good to have a product, but you need also to have a tactics on how to get it to the desired market. The women stuff that you talked about, maternity home, hospitals, what are your plans in getting to them, collaborating with them and starting from there? So these are the kind of things we hope that um we are able to get you excited on.
How are we doing with time brother? How much do I still have so that I know how to manage myself?
>> Okay. So so Q&A session ends 9:30. So we have roughly 45 minutes to close.
>> Okay. All right.
>> To close the session. Yes. Yeah.
Okay. So, in asking the why questions, you need to ask the good questions. And I'll tell you shortly what good questions are. However, taking our cue from the Bible in Exodus 4:2, it says, "And the Lord said unto him, what is that in thy hand?" And he said, "A rod." This is God speaking to Moses.
Moses was trapped in bad questions. He was asking in Exodus 3:1, "Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh?
What shall I say when I get there?
What if they will not believe me?" In Exodus 4:1, all questions whose answer he didn't have. God didn't answer them.
He didn't answer any of them. Instead, he flipped the question to Moses. He said, "What is that in thy hand?" So, a good question, one Moses could answer immediately. A rod, something he already knew.
So, a good question is a question that you have an idea about what it is. For instance, it doesn't help you saying why is my father poor or why am I born into this family?
Why am I born eagerly?
Why was I not born in the US? Those are bad questions. It doesn't help anybody.
So what are bad question? It leads to I don't know. It trap you in confusion and stall every move that you try to make. On the other side, you have good questions that starts with this one thing I know. As we saw from the previous scripture, all the questions that Moses was asking, God did not even bother to answer him.
But the one that God knew, he had the answer. That's the one that he asked him. He say, "What is that in your hand?" And Moses replied, "So what are we saying? You need to build on what you already know." I knew the quantity surveills are made. I knew how buildings are constructed. That's my niche. It's a place people cannot cheat me. So I had to go into that path to create my own path.
It reveal the value of your existence when you ask the right question. So the story here again a trader in Balogu market sold imported fabric the sales were dropping. Her daily question was how do I make more money and this is not in line with the dropping of the sales. a question she had no clue how to answer. So she felt stuck.
A mentor flipped the question for her.
What do you actually know about your customer?
She knew this that most of them were a groups buying for weddings.
Those imported fabrics, they were buying it mainly for wedding.
Majority of them came stressed in a hurry. Of course, we know how ash works.
It's very close to the wedding time that people eventually will bring money that you need to go and all that. Then needing it exactly for 10 to 30 people.
Those are the things that she has the qu the answers to the question. So she stopped asking how do I get rich and started asking how do I make a group's life easier? the people that are coming to buy their should how is she going to make their life easier? She added precord bundles.
She made it possible that people could order it in WhatsApp.
Then also she started doing delivery and in 6 months she grew heavily her sales return. So the question is this in your estate you have people who are complaining that there's no security in the estate you two you are following them to complain why don't you create a WhatsApp group collect 22k from everybody then hire a security man for the estate and this brings me back to something that happened to me while I was still in the university.
So I stayed off campus towards my my final year in the university.
So there's this house I was staying the main the main man the the the main guy that rented the house was staying in the five bedroomedroom bungalow and had two room BQ. I rented one of the BQs. I was in 400 level then.
So towards the end of the year, the man that was staying in the main house got transferred and I realized that the nail guy that is going to come into the house will probably will not be disposed to keeping students in the BQ. So what did I do?
I went to meet the landlord and told him that I want to rent the entire building of five bedroomedroom and the two rooms that are in the uh BQ.
the person that wants to rent the five bedroomedroom myself as at that time the money that I even used to pay for my own room was a struggle but the idea is if I allow this house to go like that I'm going to lose my house I'll be homeless and begin to look for another place which probably will be more expensive so I had to go for the big ticket item and I needed I know that I don't need money to do that because I know many of my friends that normally come to visit me and some other guys are interested in that place. So I went to meet the landlord and told him that I want to rent the whole building.
What happened? He agreed.
And that same day I put up an advert in school that if you need a room in a flat in so so place, contact me. And by the end of the second day, I already had people who were going to pay for each of the room. I had over seven people asking to come and rent that flat. The price I gave them ensured that the room I was staying is is is paid for free.
So I became the semi landlord, right? I became the semi landlord without paying a dime for my own room going forward. And even when I graduated, I handed that to one of my family friends that was in that school.
He was in 300 level. And that business continued even when I entered NYC. I was still receiving income from that building because what I was charging the students legally was much more than what I was paying to the um to the to the to the owner of the house and he knew about it because I agreed a price with him and also agreed another set of price with the students. So what am I saying?
Instead of turning your adversity into a painoint, there may be an opportunity there for you to make it into profit.
So instead of joining people to complain, if you look at your estate, it's very difficult for people to walk from the estate from their individual houses to the gates before they can take public transport. Why don't you work with the estate people and provide a shuttle bus that can take each and everyone of the people who are yet to have car to the gate so that you too can begin to make money from there and to also mention to you all the property development and everything I mentioned to you that I have done up to this moment. I still have my 9 to4 job that I'm doing. It doesn't affect it.
Right? So the idea here is refrain from asking the bad questions.
Ask the good questions that when you solve them right is an opportunity for you to make money. What are the examples of um bad questions? Bad questions are too abstract. Why is Nigeria like this?
Can't be answered by you today. There's no way you are going to answer that or provide a solution. What can I fix on my street? Forget about the whole Nigeria.
Focus on your immediate environment.
What you can do about it? A good question start with I know. Anchor every question on something concrete that you have observed, that you have lived or that you have done.
Specify specify specificity unlocks action. How do I get a job is vague. Whose problem can I solve so well? They hire me. That gives you traction. So the action from here if I may is for you to take the bad question that is haunting you. Write it down. Rewrite it starting with what I know is then list the three next steps that flow from that that you know. Then pick the smallest of them and do it before you go to bed tonight.
I will ask the next question at the end of this. so that we can have some traction.
Another key principle is to refuse tomorrow. Waiting on tomorrow for for what you can solve today is the bane of many millions including myself.
There are many things I should have done yesterday but I've not done them today and I'm hoping to do them tomorrow. And when we are talking about tomorrow, it's not tomorrow as per tomorrow, but anything that you can do now, please do it.
James 4:3-14 says, "Go, go to now, ye that say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain, whereas ye not know what shall be on the tomorrow, that's on tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeared for a little time and then vanished away. Yes, this is talking about life generally.
But the principle of life is also like this.
What you can do, do it today. Don't defer it to tomorrow. Tomorrow is a promise that never comes. Waiting on tomorrow for what you can solve today is the bane of millions. Like I said, solve what is in front of you. Don't wait for permission, position, or someone else.
Leadership is not about age. It's not about gender. It's not about religion.
And it's not about location. You'll be amazed at what people are doing in their very young age. This is the man I talked about. This is one of the u the sisters as well.
Terra, I'm going to read this story.
Terra was a law student at Lagos State University. She had 15,000 less than the cost of a phone at the time. She didn't wait for the call to buy, didn't wait for capital, didn't wait for a shop. She started House of Tara from her room in 1998.
For some of our young ladies in here, I'm sure you know what House of Tara is.
It's a beauty uh congl conglomerate. It is found everywhere in Lagos, Acra, across Africa. There was no professional bridal makeup industry in Nigeria. Then imported products didn't match African skin. She trained at this university, did her cousin's wedding makeup, then a society wedding featured in Ovation magazine put her name on the map. By the time she handed handed the business over to a new MD in 2024, House of Tara had operated for 25 years with hundreds of products, dozens of stores, a makeup academy, and thousands of Tara beauty entrepreneurs across Africa.
The lesson here is she didn't have a degree yet. She didn't have an investor.
She didn't have a shop. She had only 15,000 a room and a refusal to wait.
Most of the opportunities don't look like opportunities. They look like Tuesday. That is if you are speaking on Monday, right? So what am I saying here?
There are many things you can start now with where you are.
By the grace of God, wherever I am today, I did not start it knowing that this is where I would be. I had an idea and I had a dream. I had a vision to be where I am today.
But whether what I was doing was going to bring that kind of life, I really did not know as at that time.
But if you have the right question, the right attitude and you continue to do what constitutes your place of genius, eventually you will be there even before you know it.
Why tomorrow steals more dream than than failure?
Tomorrow feels safe but it isn't.
Postponing creates the illusion of control that you are in control that you will do it tomorrow. Tomorrow will never get easier. If there's anything we have learned in Nigeria, it looks like things are becoming more difficult, right? as the day grew up. We always hear that even when we were growing up, our parents were saying Nigeria was better in the in the in the 70s or in the the 60s and all that. We we will say Nigeria is better when we were in secondary school in the in the 2000 in the 90s and all that. So it doesn't look like tomorrow is going to get better as a whole group, but you can make your tomorrow better by starting today.
Start before you feel ready. There's nothing like completely ready.
There's nothing like I don't have the capital.
Do you have the ideas? And this leads me to another of my stories in my journey of property develop development in Nigeria.
What I did in terms of raising funds, I mentioned to you that I was living my old life even after the fact that my income had increased up to 10 times.
That was not sufficient. At a point I had a new development and I had not sold the previous one that I put in the market. What I did was meeting my friends because I believe I had integrity with them.
Some I borrowed huge amount of money from them at interest rate because they knew what I was going to do with it.
Right? So I had to give them something, some outright interest. Others were shared. My wife knows about this. There was one property we had in ProTot, a very big property, but it was three of us that had it. And we wrote down the agreement because I didn't have the money to develop it um as a sole developer because I had something in the market that I had not sold to continue on this one. So what I did is to call my three other friends. We came together. I I sold the vision to them, right? This is what this property will cost, the land will cost, the development will cost and if we sell, this is what we are going to get. So we sat down and I asked them how much they were able to contribute and at the end of the day we arrived at a particular ratio probably 60 20 or 50 20 30 according to your own contribution. So we built it. We had an agreement. We wrote it down. We built the facility.
We maintained it for almost 10 years or thereabout collecting the rentals and sharing it according to our contribution.
Then we sold that property a few years ago and we divided the sold income according to our shares in the house.
So I could have sat down to say I don't have the the capital to do that. But I had a circle. Remember what I told you about the circle of friends. You don't need to be the best among your friends.
You need people who are also better than you. As we speak, there are many people within my circle and by the grace of God, God has helped us. The same guys that I told you about in in uh Mina, the same guys are everywhere in the world.
I can take a loan of 100 million from them.
Single person and they'll give me the same way at your level. We never got to this 100 million or whatever it is by just overnight. There was a time what we could do was 20,000. what we could do was 100,000. But we kept the principle going until God began to increase us.
But in doing this as well, you need to have integrity.
When people give you money, don't come back with stories. Give them back their money. Even if you don't have it, then go and borrow it from an that's one of my principles when I was raising funds to do development. I will borrow phone tell you that this is when I'm going to pay you with your interest. If by adventure as at that date and time the property has not sold and I don't have any other income to give you, I will go to another person and borrow money to pay you and your interest so that I can keep my integrity. And by the grace of God, there is no man on this earth by the grace of God I say that can say I have cheated him in business dealing. No, I would rather take the loss. There's one example my wife knows about this of a property we developed in the UK because of pressure. It was a high value property because of pressure we needed to sell it to recoup the money. I did a calculation on paper it was a loss but because of the exchange rate as at the time we funded that property the money actually came from Nigeria in Naira so if I sell it at this loss amount I'm still able to to to to see it as a gain if I had stored my money in naira because of the exchange rate so I sold it at a loss But that loss was born by me alone. Not the partner that I brought in. The partner I returned back his money to him. But I took the loss myself.
What that ensures is tomorrow if I go to him, the guy is able to give me the money again. And I'm not talking about small money.
>> This guy gave me 350.
That's the amount he gave me. £350,000.
Return it to him intact. So integrity is key in the in your life journey. Don't cheat people as you grow.
Going to be rushing this then at the end of the day we'll take question. The fifth principle is take personal ownership.
Nehemiah chapter 1 3-4 and 2 and 5. And they said unto me, the remnants that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates therefore are burned with fire. And it came to pass when I heard these words that I sat down and wept and mourned certain days.
And I said unto the king, if it pleases the king that thou would send me unto Judah, unto the city of my father, Sepoka, that I may build it. He wept, fasted, and then said, "Send me that I may build it." He owned the problem.
That wasn't his fault.
It wasn't him that burned down Jerusalem.
So taking ownership is not an admittance of fault.
Ownership is not blame. Nehemiah didn't cause Jerusalem to be in ruins. But he took personal ownership to go and rebuild it. It is the starting line. The moment he said send me, the rebuilding began. So whatever journey in your business that you want to take right the time that you decided to take it and begin to put the plan on paper that is when your building I mean your business has begun and not necessarily when you see it physically until you own it you cannot solve it. God didn't move on Jerusalem walls until one man took it personal.
So this is just restating what we have said before. You need to be focused and be blind to everyone else. Once you look at me, there is no we. Once you start waiting for me, we are waiting for you.
So all of us will be waiting. Nobody will do anything.
So who are you waiting for? Complain.
Don't solve any problem. Stop waiting to be picked up. Don't say my uncle refused to help me. The truth of the matter is in life nobody owes you anything. You need to remove that victim mentality from your head. Nobody owes you anything. If you have a brother, you have a sister, you have an uncle that sends you 1,000 naira or 2,000 naira, he or she could have used that money to do something else for himself.
It's actually a sacrifice that he did to send you that amount irrespective of the kind of money that he has. For people who who have millions right their problem when they want to go into a new adventure they they actually required in millions as well right so your own complaint sometimes by the grace of God when people ask me for money for a certain amount even if I don't have it at hand sometimes I go extra mile to collect from somewhere or pick it up from one business account or whatever to give the person so that he can move on because what me I'm looking for is actually bigger than what he's looking for. So the essence of my emphasis here is nobody owes you anything in life. If anybody decides to help you, it is out of their magnanmity that they helping you and not because it is your entitlement. If you remove that from your mind, you know that you need to start doing something about your life. You need to trade your complaints for action. So the final story here is about we also have pastor here, but he's not the one we are talking about.
Could have complained like everyone else. Why doesn't government fix the code chain? Why do farmers keep losing food? Why is the rural economy broken?
Instead, he founded Code Hops, a solar powered walk-in cold room placed inside open air market and farm clusters. Small holder farmers, traders pay a small daily fee per crate to keep their tomatoes, vegetables, and food fresh. So this man like in my own village, the part of the gala that I come from, during uh mango season, there's mango everywhere. You see them the back of pickups at the back of trailer and most of them perishing right but this guy saw that kind of thing. So for me while we were growing up I saw it I didn't do anything about it but this guy set up cold rooms in farm clusters even in markets and put solar power on them where traders farmers and everybody can store their products at a fee. So all he did was to put that infrastructure connect it with solar power and even electric supply where possible. Then farmers who individually cannot set cold room for themselves began to bring something to stock and he was collecting money from them by owning a problem that was not officially his post service loss in the market. He extended shelf life from two days to about 21 days and now operate dozens of hubs across Nigerian states serving thousands of farmers and traders. The government didn't ask him.
The farmers didn't hire him. He just stopped waiting. So ownership starts the day you stop saying they should fix it.
Ask what I can do. And in the process of doing that, you begin to make money. And making money is not a day aair. You may start little today, right? You may start little today, but given time it can become something great.
So again, I would say owning a problem doesn't mean that you cost it. It means you accept responsib responsibility for solving your own part and that can bring you income. You can't fix what you blame.
Blame outsources the solution but ownership brings it home where you can act. Start with 5%. You don't have to solve the whole thing. Take the smallest piece you can actually control. So what is the action for this week for you?
Pick one thing you've been blaming someone else for.
Ask what is the smallest part of this I can control?
Take that piece this week. Even if it's only 5%.
Watch how 5% reveals the next 5% and the next 5% and the next 5%.
In closing, I need to bring to you to your attention. Yeah. Some of the things that I've seen on the internet recently or in the news.
We all know pastor Jerry is he is a very known h highly spiritual praying. He has strength for praying can pray for several hours and his ministry is actually founded on prayer.
But he's in the news currently trying to empower 100 Nigerians right with $3,000 each.
and that is going to be outsourced to um an organization to go through the criteria for selecting those people. And while I was reflecting on this, I was like, why does he need to do that when he has many born again Christian that speaks in tongue that prays in his church? Maybe the criteria I could have used is to take the first 100 people that are faithful in church or the first 100 people that are that are spiritually filled and all that. But money don't work that way.
Money works on principle and that is the principle he has developed. Right? If I read something that I wrote down, he said Pastor Jerry to empower 100 Nigerians with $3,000.
They will be screened by external consultants and the target is for agriculture, technology and manufacturing.
None of this includes the spirituality in quotes. So he knew that for him to empower people it has to be based on the principle of money.
Then recently uh the redeemed pastor, the general overseer, he mentioned in one of his seminars that the sisters in redeem should not just marry brothers that are just filled with speaking in tongues that are born again and all that, but they should go further to ask questions.
What are you doing? What is your plan and all that? What is that telling us?
It means that as we are born again, as we are spiritfilled, we also need to be example of successful people in the enlarged world. So that when people see us, they see the works of our hand, they see our integrity, the glory will go to our God.
In conclusion, I will say that a tree grows in two direction, both gravitationally down and photoropic up.
Any tree that you see, it grows in two directions, up and down.
As it's growing higher, the down one needs to go deeper for stability.
But you know why?
Before people saw what is at the top, the upper part of the tree, the part under the ground that is in darkness, that is in fields that has no light which is the root system must have developed properly before the upper part comes up. That is actually the principle of life. You needed to have gone through the work part, the not so comfortable time, the wet part, the dirty part and all that before you begin to enjoy the part that people see. For instance, myself, as far back as 15, 16 years ago, by the grace of God again, I could have bought a new car, a brand new car, but I never owned a brand new car. And as mentioned before, there was a time I had several properties, but I was still staying in a rented car, a rented accommodation.
Why? because I needed my root to go down before I begin to enjoy the upper part.
And by the grace of God, today I think I bought my first brand new car in 2025.
And that car actually can buy many cars because I felt the outer part is ready for what has happened to the root.
Praise the Lord.
Again, I would like to conclude that the last principle, you need to have ambition.
You need to have believe in the God that created us, the God that has given everything unto us. And you need to have courage.
A vision is big enough to pull you forward when things are hard. 1st Chronicles 4:9-10.
And Jabz was more honorable than his brethren. And his mother called his name Jabz, saying, "Because I bear him in so and Jabz called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh, that thou would bless me indeed and enlarge my coast, and thy hand might be with me, and thou would keep me from evil, and that may not grieve me." And God granted him that which he requested. Javez was born into pain. His very name means sorrow. They had every excuse to live small, but he refused. He prayed boldly enlarge my coast as an holy ambition. The scripture records that God granted him, right? A small boy from Anuba in Kogi state. But there was one day I was driving my car in central London at Buckingham Palace.
I was wondering God how did this happen?
These are things that we watch on the TV and all that. Right? So many stories which I could have if time had permitted I would have mentioned them how God has helped along the way. I'll close with this last story on how to set your sins.
Believe in God and God will take them.
And my wife, we got married sometime in 2013.
Yeah. Immediately we got married, she got scholarship to just about a year to to study in the UK. And the question before us was people that just got married, they have not even given birth and she needed to go to study in the UK, right? The question is do we separate for her to go and study?
And I asked myself if you are going to break from the circle of where you are now and all the things. Yeah. Majority of your brothers, your sisters, by the way, by the grace of God, they are doing very well in their own right or my community and all that. Every one of us, okay, you stay with your wife and all that and all that. At the end of the day, where are they in life?
So, we prayed about it and freed ourselves. She went to the UK.
And the question is me working in Nigeria and she's studying in the UK.
How are we going to keep the marriage?
And we devis a means that I'll be coming every two months.
But do you know what happened? It wasn't more than six months of her starting that program that an opportunity came up in my office for a job somewhere in Middle East. And you know what this job is all about? It's all about me working 28 days in that location in Middle East, Iraq to be precise.
then 28 days off the work and that 28 days my transport to location in Iraq and back home is born by the company. So me that was worrying how I'm going to keep my family for the next four years, God made a way such that I don't even have to pay the ticket. If I was going to buy the ticket, I would have been buying um economy and probably stay for a few weeks and go back. But God made it in such a way that I got this job. The company was paying business class for me and could fly me to anywhere in the world. So I changed my location from Nigeria to the UK. So I spent 28 days at the work site and 28 days back at home with my family.
And throughout the four years of that job, it was the company that was paying for the transportation and everything because I saw the vision. I went into it. I didn't have the full picture. I wasn't fully ready. But I believe that along the way, God will help and God actually stepped in and everything worked and made it perfect. So on this note, I'm going I'm not going to read this story again. I'll share everything here.
Um don't read this and do nothing.
So starting from Monday, find your place. Write down three things you do where time disappear as in things you will do and you have no idea that time have passed. Ask the why question.
List five things that bother you. Pick one.
Reframe it. Turn one bad question into what I know question. Don't post postpone it on Thursday. finish one task you have been delaying for 30 days plus.
Take ownership. Stop blaming someone.
Stop blaming your uncle, your friends that has refused to help you. Then make one bold step. Send that email. Make that call. Post the offer. Then reflect and repeat.
And you will discover your place of genius.
So on this note I would like to stop here and take comments and question.
Thank you very much and God bless you for listening.
Thank you.
Wow. Thank you sir.
Thank you so so much. Please can we put in our comments uh say thank you Dr. Aome Akuba.
Thank you so so much. Such clarity.
Such clarity. Thank you so much, sir.
>> Thank you. You're welcome.
>> Yeah. All right. So, um it's time for us to take >> it's time for us to take questions and um contributions.
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Please let's pass the microphone to All right.
>> All right.
>> Welcome, Pastor D.
>> Yes. Thank you so much Fei and thank you so much Dr. Akuba for this wonderful eye opening and this inspired word tonight. This is so amazing. Right.
Please we in the can we just put your hands together? We have been clapping here since [applause] we have been clapping here since and uh thank you so much for for the this is so so transforming. So many ideas were just coming and coming. I'm sure a lot of people here they have noted and the clarity I saw in the chat box the clarity of the delivery. In fact, you say something that uh well, I just want you to repeat it again that uh when he was a student.
In fact, this is the mind.
When you were a student, they where did you get that mind from? They put a house at for rent. You know, you just stay inside one big queue. You just hide there, right? And they say they want to sell the house. You see when you don't have the money you want to meet the owner that you want to buy it please can you just tell us the story again there are some things that there's so much power in hearing things again that touched him so much among so many other things I picked tonight please doctor please can you go over that again please You are muted. We can't uh >> You're muted, sir.
>> You are muted, doctor.
>> Okay. The host needed to mute me.
>> Okay. Okay, sir.
>> Yeah. Okay. So what I said is this >> because that story look like it look like something from African magic. Looks like something from the >> Yeah, I I I'll even call names, right?
Um my wife is here. She went to the same school though I didn't we didn't toast each other there. That's not where we Yeah. So I was staying off campus in Yua. That place is called Ywa. across the school behind uh one teachers college like that.
Um if you know about you very well it is one of these very good houses yeah I mean houses that you find in J in those days that has this crit door it's not a regular house it's like a government quarter so we were two students that stays in the BQ the current tenant then was the one that rented it for us so at a time the man was transferred to another place and the house was going to be uh rented to another tenant. So we got a hint of it and I thought in my mind where am I going to get this kind of accommodation again or where is it I'm going to get money for another accommodation.
So what I did is by instinct I said what's there I'm going to take the whole house and as I mentioned paying for the house that I was staying already was already a challenge for the one room but the main house has five rooms including these two making it seven rooms. So what I did was I went to meet the landlord, agreed on the price for the house, right? The total flat that if this man moves out, I'm taking it. We wrote down the agreement. Then I went to school, put a notice and also tell some of my friends that had admired where I was staying and told them that I'm taking the whole house. I'm going to sublet each of the rooms to whoever is interested and also mention the amount each of them will pay because the house is fine. Everybody agreed to that and the amount that I put was such that I didn't need to pay for the room that I was staying. So instead of turning that adversity to a pain point, it actually became a blessing to me. Remember I told you I was in 400 level. So I stayed there free in 500 level. Then when I was going for service, I had a cousin, not a cousin, a family friend. His name is Moses Ata. My wife knows knows knows it. I handed over that property to him. He was also staying free in my own room. And while I was in youth service, I was also collecting the money and remitting it to the um to [clears throat] the uh to the owner and the differential was also an income for me in youth service.
So not only that I didn't uh lose the house, I stayed in the house free and it became source of money. You know what what what 1,000 is in those days.
My my my allowing was 75 and I think at the end of the day maybe I was getting extra 2,000 or something. But the point I want to make here is turning your adversity to an opportunity.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you so much, sir.
Pastor David, do you want to um maybe chime in there and speak a word? Just speak a word to uh encourage and to to push somebody to do something. Yes, >> let me just take feedback. There are some people that have raised their hands. Let's just continue so that >> Okay, I see just two hands.
Um, okay. Brother Lola, I see you're in the room.
Okay.
>> Yes. Um, good evening. Good evening everyone. Um, thank you doctor for a wonderful time tonight. Um, actually personally I'm blessed and so many things has come to mind. I've written a lot down. Yeah. Yeah, I want to ask this question because uh I'm someone who is a researcher and um in the next 2 3 months time I'll be back in my PhD. So there are lots of things in my mind like so many things that I want to do but I want to ask a question when you have lots of things on your mind how do you pick the one to start from like which one should you go into like what should be the first step because you can't just jump on everything that you have in mind so you have to start from somewhere and then begin to spread out so that's question I want to ask when you lots of ideas, lots of things that you want to execute.
Where do you start from exactly?
>> Okay, thank you. I will answer this with um with a very quick small example. I didn't mention this one while I was uh talking when I was a lecturer in Mina for that 18 months.
I'm somebody who is passionate about watching football. I have my favorite thing and my wife once comment that the passion I put into watching watching football if I put it into prayers I'll be making healings and all that. That's by by the way. Yeah.
So then I I normally go to watch football with students and if you if if if you are from I will say this again if you are from our generation then you would there's this view viewing houses where a lot of people are in there very hot and uh yeah it's not a pleasant place where people where you can really sit because it's very hot it doesn't have ventilation and all that. So while I was a lecturer what I did because it's my passion one of my passion one of the many things I want to do as I then remember I've told you I've found my niche which is construction but I didn't have the funds to go into it I told you that my salary then was 37k I knew where I was going to I knew I wasn't going to be a lecturer for long and all that but I was waiting for my next opportunity which eventually came but while watching book I discovered that I can actually provide a better opportunity in terms of watching football. So my first real business while working was to open a match viewing center right a very coinc um for the rent of the of the shop that we were using to do match viewing center. So what am I saying to you?
It is one of my passion among many, right? I was able to watch the match free. I owned a place and it was giving me additional income but that was the one I could afford at that time. I couldn't afford the other passion that I have. So for you, if you have different things that are going on in your plans, you need to write them down and look at the one that you can solve with the current means that you have. Remember again, don't blame anybody. Don't say it's my uncle that didn't give me money to start or this person refused to borrow me money. I will personally not borrow you money to start a business that you have not proved yourself. What if my money disappear? How are you going to pay me?
So start something that is within your means and something that you also enjoy.
The fact that I'm a football fan and I like watching my district, it means that any trouble that come from that um viewing center as I'm lecturing and a phone call come I'll need to to to quickly round up and go and sort it out because I also need to watch a match in the night and in the process also getting money right but that's the business I could start or I could afford to start at that time. So my answer to you directly is you have several of them. It's not all of them you can afford right now. So start the one you can. After the lecturing and I went to this thing h viewing whatever wasn't going to give me any money compared to what I'm earning again. So naturally that one fell off and I move on to the next one. I hope I've been able to answer your question.
All right. Thank you so much Dr. Ako.
There is another hand here. See and Becky, please um let us know where you're joining us from and you can proceed to ask your question and if you can hear me, you have the floor now and you can ask your question.
can unmute your microphone now.
>> I think sometimes the the organizers needs to unmute them.
>> Yes, we've asked to unmute.
So okay I mean while we wait there is another hand babatund Moses Moses can speak to us now.
>> Can you hear me?
>> Yes.
>> Okay. While we wait for Aoba to come up, I must confess that um tonight is a phenomenal night. In fact, something is sparking our mind. I saw doctor taking water and I was just thinking how do I supply that water to him now?
The the the the business the business capacity in me is awake and I see opportunity in everything everything that goes around me now. So I must say thank you so much for the insightful um teaching. You didn't just teach, you taught from your heart and so many profound things were said. You said something about taking root before the show. That's how I wrote it on my book.
Take root before the show. You know that you didn't buy new vehic um brand new vehicle for a long time because you wanted to take root. You know, in my generation, we prefer the showcasing without roots. Uh looking rich without being rich. Yeah. So, I I'm so so blessed tonight to hear you talk. You said we should refuse tomorrow. I like that. Procrastination.
Procrastination had made so many of us to be at a spot. So, thank you so much for making this conference, you know, worthwhile. I know so many people that came from all over the world. They have been blessed, you know. Thank you so much for now. That is what I will say for now. God bless you. I think Moses wants to talk. Moses. Okay.
>> Thank you, sir. God bless you, too.
>> Hallelujah.
All right. Thank you so much, doctor, for that profound talk. All right. So while doctor was speaking when he was in school uh I just quickly remember what happened recently.
Um there's this particular um suit that I I used to wear. They call the suit safari suits. Recently I saw a minister wearing the suit. So I snap and you know um send it to my tailor if he can actually you know so that kind of suit and he said yes he can. So he actually did and the thing went well.
So u the first time I wear it uh about two people from my status uh commented and said they need that kind of suit. So the same um the same amount the the the man the guy sold the suit for me that's the same amount I told these people and um you know and they get they get it and they really love it. As a matter of fact there are some of my DM now that they really want more but while doctor was speaking you know there's a lot of things going through my mind and I think I found a new business actually. So I will connect to it and you know get my money also. I was actually thinking you know when when they were asking for the price and all of that you know if you stay under pastor David Abubaka's teaching very well you will learn integrity by force. So you know I was thinking if I add money to it definitely maybe my integrity has been tampered with and but while doctor was speaking I think I got a new idea and you know found a new business. Thank you so much doctor.
>> Yeah just to add just agree with them that this is the price I will supply to you. If you have that agreement you are not deceiving anybody. You will supply to them. that is the price they have agreed then you can begin to source and and give them at that price you can even negotiate with the person you are buying from I bought it from you as price when I was buying one quantity now that I'm doing two three quantity why don't you reduce the price from me so you increase your margin I see a comment here. Pastor Fei, can you share the story how you discovered your genius again? Is there any other hand?
So, other than um Chuku Buka's hand and uh I'm looking through Facebook now and YouTube.
No questions from YouTube yet. Uh no questions from Facebook yet but um let's take the question about discovering genius sir and we can come back to the hands in in the zoom platform.
>> Okay. So again what I said was my the discovery of myself my genius wasn't a one-off thing.
First of all, I mentioned to you in my secondary school about my economics teacher talking about professionals was describing people, architects, civil engineers and several other professionals. But one that made impression on me was what he said about quantity surveillance. Now these guys will stand in front of a stadium and they'll tell you the total concrete that is required for the stadium, the total tonnage of the steel reinforcement and all that. I said this guy must be a genius to know that that slid away. Right. Then when I finished secondary school, I said my father was a local government contractor. He built schools for local government. Local government, state primary education board. That's what is called then. SPE, state primary education board. Then I was the one on site supervising the work.
So in that process I got to know how building construction are done. Then this guy again called a quantity surveyor will come from SPE and ministry of work to come and value the quantity of work. I mean the monetary value of the work that we have done for interim certificate. The way it works is there are different milestones when you are given that contract they give you mobilization when you build maybe to roofing time they value it and pay you and like that like that. So this guy will come and do the valuation and whatever he writes on the payment valuation is what my father will be paid. So for me in my own eye that guy is the most powerful person in the world because whatever he says is what my father will be right and that same guy is the quantities of the same one that was described to me in my SS1 the same guy is coming to do influence on my father's business which I'm supervising and all that then I said whoever this That is what I want to do. And that is how when I had written the the job I mean the profession that my father wanted me to study nursing and surgery and my jam was not up to be cut off now.
I stayed at home.
The next one I wrote went to and it was during that time I realized my calling is then I for the grace of God I got the admission and that's where the story began. So the essence is this your calling is already there is for you to discover it. Thank you.
Thank you so much sir.
>> All right, brother.
Are you able to unmute your microphone and speak to us?
>> All right.
>> Right. Good evening everyone. Please confirm you can hear me, sir.
>> Yes, we can hear you.
>> Right. Thank you, Pastor F. Thank you very much, sir. Dr. Thank you so much.
Good evening everyone again. I've learned a whole lot. I even lie. But um I have a question and it borders on what uh the the last speaker from Aura just said now and then it borders on uh integrity and then making profit so to say. So what I do right you okay I work in international airport right and then you get to meet people who at some point would need help with one thing or the other and then you try to render help and in my head I don't want to I I don't want to offer you help or rather I don't want to render any help and then do it with the mindset of oh I must get profit from this I do it from the point of let me just do it. I'm just rendering you know help to nature somehow some is going to come back to me. So now I want to ask based on this teaching. So what do I do even at that point where I have to say oh don't worry don't give me anything just I'm just doing it for free and then trying to do it as something as a side kick maybe just make money cuz I have so many examples of people that would even expect you to ask but I will end up not asking. So I don't know if this is a downside for me if it's something I should be worried about or what is your advice about that. And then just on the passing note I just want to mention al one of the things I've came tonight is uh this phrase my wife knows about this. I know the focus tonight is not is not marital but is is key is one of my key take home that mean you are carrying your wife along in everything that you do and then it gives you this confidence to go ahead and it's something that I've taken uh to heart also I just wanted to mention that thank you sir >> okay thank you very much yes like you said integrity is key if I understood your question well. You are in a position where people ask you for help and you go on errands for them.
If your agreement for them is helping them get something. For instance, if I send a friend who is going out to buy something and he comes back to tell me a different price and I later find out that the price is different, most likely I will not deal with that person again.
But when the intention is you agreeing a price with the person as I mentioned before that you are able to supply this thing to him right then that becomes a business proposition but separate that from when you are being asked to do an error.
two different things, right? In my own case, the examples that I gave, those are things that I took as business and I negotiated with these people first. They are aware of the price before I went to negotiate the other side. So we need to separate between helping people which also is a profit though is not is not something that is tangible at that time but is something you can convert to money at a later time. I give you an example.
My wife gave birth to our first two children somewhere in the US and she had to stay there while I go back to work in the first instance for 2 months.
Right?
my integrity that I have built with my friends over the years and it's by the grace of God to be honest with you.
The first one it was a struggle on who to stay with not where to stay.
The second one, we didn't go to the first person that we stayed with because we needed to go to the second person, right? Because I have many people that we grew up together and we kept in close contact because of integrity.
I had I left my family. In fact, in the second case, my wife and my first daughter had to stay in my friend's house. In fact, that friend actually vacated his master bedroom for me and my wife. I came to drop them, went back to work, came back several days or weeks later until she gave birth, stayed there for a few before we travel back. All that is integrity that has been built over time.
Right? There's no place in Nigeria as it were or any major cities in the world that I go that I do not have someone that I can rely on. And the same way people can come to my own place this same friend. So there are some things that are not tangible. It's not necessarily money at that time but it can be worth millions later in life.
Yeah. So that's what I will say. I hope that answers your question. So we need to separate business from normal integrity and erive.
>> Thank you sir.
>> All right. Okay. Thank you so so much.
Um we we are nearing the end of the first session and um I mean if I would if I would just summarize what I have gained in the few words or I would say number one um clarity clarity um I need to gain clarity on a personal level >> uh about my area of strength and my area of genius. Number two, I need a strong community and I need to I need to do my own part in keeping that community close.
Number three, I need discipline.
Uh I need discipline.
And number four, I need to um to to demonstrate delayed gratification.
delayed gratification. I see a lot of that in um some of those personal stories that you shared with us and you know throughout the the tone of the session to me. Uh I think that's how I'm going to just summarize. I need clarity.
I need a community. I need to be disciplined and I need to delay gratification for the greater good. I need to take roots downward so that I can shoot upward and I need to focus on depth and um the height will come as a matter of consequence. Thank you so much um Dr. Akuba. I would hand over now to pastor Ma. There are no comments in on the Zoom platform, no comments on YouTube right now and um and um no comments on Facebook as well.
Pastor, I'll hand over to >> Okay, thank you so much, Pastor Fei. It has been an awesome night. It has been so insightful. Thank you once again, our beloved Dr. AR. Thank you so much for blessing God's people in tonight's conference. Yes, it is um a remarkable conference and this conference continues tomorrow. So as a means of announcement I want to invite every one of us to the second day of the conference on ego's wing. We've just started today by tomorrow we go deeper deeper into different aspects. Tomorrow we talk about family we talk about intimacy you know with God. So I want to welcome every one of us to live mentorship school. I want to recognize our leader, our pastor. Please, can you join your virtual hand to recognize Pastor David Abuaka is a a man of a man, a man of great wisdom and insight, a visionary leader. We celebrate you today and always thank you for everything you do. Thank you for your labor. Thank you for your prayers.
Prayers have gone ahead of us to bring us to this moment. So I want to say big thank you to all our invited guests all over the world. The Lord bless you in Jesus name. So tomorrow again we start by 7 and it promises to be awesome.
Thank you everyone.
Okay. Okay. We request a final word from Dr. AR and you can also pray for us from there.
Thank you.
Okay. So again, thank you everyone and uh thank you for the privilege to speak to you. As I mentioned earlier on the idea is to kickstart something in you.
I'm by no means better than any person.
Just sharing my personal experience and hopefully you are able to take one or two things from here. Remember what we said, today is the day. Today is the day that you have control. Tomorrow is a promise that may never come. So pick that thing today and begin to work on it. Not having a capital is not an excuse. The one out of your many many options, the one that you can begin to solve today after many many years, right? It will become something else.
Thank you. Let's pray. Father, we thank you. We give you the glory. We worship you because there's no one like you. We thank you for the gift of life. We thank you for the privilege of association. We thank you for the privilege of being in your presence. We return all the glory to you, Father. As we gather unto you tomorrow, we ask that you will teach us in another dimension that we do not know yet. In the name of Jesus, we commit each and everyone of us here into your mighty hand. That as we go back to our various homes, go back to our various corners that your spirit will continue to be with us. That your spirit will continue to lead us and right. And even as we go to bed, we ask that your spirit will continue to abide with us and we wake up stronger tomorrow in the name of Jesus. We commit the founder of this ministry into your mighty hands and everyone that is supporting this ministry and this conference. We ask oh Lord that we will be the first beneficiary in the name of Jesus. Father we thank you. We give you all the glory for in Jesus precious name we pray.
Amen.
God bless you. Amen. Thank you, sir.
>> Shalom. See you tomorrow.
>> God bless you. Good night. The Lord bless you in Jesus name. Amen. Shalom.
>> Amen.
>> Bye.
>> Thank you.
What you father to spit by your word and with your bread of life that's how I come That's how I join [music] my world.
Just brea your name upon me.
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