Happy New Year! {$name}. 🌞

The holidays are over, and we’re returning to our paymasters between this week and next week. It’s all right, though; it’s time to get this party (re)started. Wishing you a great year, {$name}.

I’m sure money, in all its functions — making, spending, keeping and growing — is one of your core focuses this year. Yeah, me too. It’s a great thing, then, that #MoneybyZikoko will land in your inbox every Monday at 8 a.m. Be there, and bring a friend (or 50) along.

For this year’s first #NairaLife, the theme is “spending money”, and the freelancer Tife talked to wasn’t very good at it for many years. She once sold personal items to afford food in uni because she’d blown through her allowance. This problem persisted even when she started making a decent income, and it almost felt like she would never beat it. But she did. What changed?

Let’s get into it!

In this letter:

• #NairaLife:The Fear of Retrogression Cured Her Spending Problem
• Money Meanings: “Next of Kin”
• Game: #HowMuchLast
• Where The Money At?!

The 25-year-old in this #NairaLife was broke almost all her life due to a severe spending problem that continued even after she began making a decent income in 2022.

That has changed now, and a small but transformative event in 2023 did the trick.

Let’s get into it!

#HowMuchLast is a game where we show you an item and you tell us (and the world) the highest amount you’d pay for it.

Some weeks will be Okin biscuit, some others will be SUVs.

This week, let’s test how much you’re willing to pay for an optimal cinema expereince. You know, the one where you get to decide the number of people you want in the room with you. So, #HowMuchLast for a private cinema?

What’s the most you’d pay? Tweet at us here.

We can’t say we’re about the money and not actually help you find the money.

So we’ve compiled a list of job opportunities for you. Make sure you share this with anyone who might need it because in this community, we look out for each other.

Again, don’t mention. We gatchu.

• Senior POS Support Associate – Nomba
• Deputy Manager, Sustainability – Dangote
• Copywriter – Kuda
• Banking Product Manager – Polaris Bank
• Sales Executive – Glovo
• Junior Accounting Associate – Chowdeck

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Till next year…

Yours cashly,

Toheeb,

Zikoko’s’OG’ Mr. Money

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Good morning, {$name}!

I don’t know about you, but the holiday has started on this side, and I’m writing this to you excited about watching Netflix the entire day.

Don’t get me wrong, I would like to go outside and socialise, but the price of fuel has doubled, and I strongly believe that there’s a way I can arrange my house to make it look like a bar. So maybe I’ll do that.

This week we have a recap of the most-read stories of 2022 and a fantastic Love Currency story from an older couple doing business and relying on pension payments that only show up sometimes.

In this letter:

• #NairaLife: Most-Read stories of 2022
• #LoveCurrency: Family Life in Warri, Delta State, on a ₦51k Fixed Pension
• Money Meanings: “YOLO”
• Where The Money At?!

It’s been a long year of exciting Naira Life stories. There was one story that dropped on salary day. You could hear us collectively hissing at our salaries that day.

So we decided to compile all the stories you loved this year and give you a chance to reread them and, of course, share them with people who may have missed them.

Read The Stories Here

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One thing I always wonder about is how old people navigate life when they’ve been told to legally retire. I used to think that their pension payments were a given (if it wasn’t coming directly from the government). I was wrong.

In this edition of Love Currency, we speak to a 63-year-old man about his relationship with money and how he and his wife cater for themselves.

When he is asked about his ‘financial future’, he says: “Future? At 63 it’s hard to have plans for the future.“

This story was brought to you by Fluid Finance

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We can’t say we’re about the money and not actually help you find the money.

So we’ve compiled a list of job opportunities for you. Make sure you share this with anyone who might need it because in this community, we look out for each other.

Again, don’t mention. We gatchu.

• Money Writer – Zikoko
• Inside Life Writer – Zikoko
• HER Writer – Zikoko
• Copy Editor – Zikoko
• SEO Content Specialist – Binance
• Full Stack Developer – Fooji Inc

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All good things must come to an end. But not this good thing. We’ll be back next week.

In the
meantime, keep reading Zikoko’s articles and be sure to share the love.

Till next week…

Yours cashly,

Dwin,

Mr Money With The Vibe (Sometimes)

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