Story By Arungwa Anthony
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THE BOY, WHO BOUGHT ENUGU, NIGERIA
Updated at Sep 28, 2026, 06:46
Let me tell you a story that actually happened in Enugu. Not exactly like this, but close enough that if you ask the old men at Ogbete Main Market, they will nod and say "Ah, that boy."It's called *THE BOY WHO BOUGHT ENUGU.*---There was a boy named Ifeanyi. Everyone called him Ify.Ify was born in 2004 in Emene, Enugu. Not the nice part of Enugu with the fine duplexes at Independence Layout. The other part, where the airport noise shakes your zinc roof and NEPA takes light like it's collecting debt.His mother sold akara and okpa by the roadside at 4am. His father was a mechanic who fixed keke. Ify was the last of 5 children. By 16, his job was to push wheelbarrow at Ogbete Market after school. ₦500 per trip. If he did 10 trips, he had ₦5,000. That was big money in 2020.But Ify had one strange habit. While other wheelbarrow boys were resting under the mango tree, Ify would sit with a small Itel phone — the one with the cracked screen — and watch YouTube. Not comedy. Not music. He watched how to fix things.How to fix iPhone screens.How to build a website with no code.How to import power banks from China.One day in November 2020, a woman came to Ogbete to buy tomatoes. Her iPhone 7 fell inside a gutter full of black water. She screamed. Ify jumped inside the gutter, picked the phone, cleaned it with his singlet. The phone was dead.She said, "If you can fix this, I will pay you ₦20,000."Ify had never fixed an iPhone in his life. But he had watched 37 videos about it. He took the phone to his small kiosk behind their house. He dried it with his mother's hair dryer. He opened it with a razor blade and a screwdriver his father used for keke. He cleaned the board with methylated spirit. He left it in rice for two days.On the third day, it came on. Apple logo.The woman was a lecturer at ESUT. She paid him ₦20,000 and posted it on Facebook: "This Emene boy fixed my phone that Carlcare said is dead!"That post changed his life.Within one week, 11 people brought dead phones to his house. Ify didn't know how to fix all of them. But he would go to YouTube, watch at night with free midnight Glo data, and try. He broke two. He fixed nine. He used the money from the nine to pay for the two he broke.By December 2020, Ify had ₦180,000 in his account. For a 16-year-old wheelbarrow boy, that was like $1 million.His friends said, "Ify, let's flex. Let's buy sneakers. Let's go to Genesis."Ify said no. He did something stupid. He used all the ₦180,000 to order 50 pieces of tempered glass and phone pouches from a man on Jumia who was importing from Lagos.He sold all 50 in Ogbete in 4 days at double price. Now he had ₦360,000.He did it again. 100 pieces. Sold in one week.By March 2021, Ify was not pushing wheelbarrow anymore. He had a small table in Ogbete. "Ify Phones & Accessories." He was 17.But he was not satisfied. He was seeing something else. Everyone in Enugu had phones, but everyone complained about one thing: light. Power banks were fake. You buy 20,000mAh, it charges your phone once and dies.Ify found a supplier on Alibaba. Real 20,000mAh power banks, original cells. Cost: $8 per piece if you buy 100. That's about ₦3.2 million naira then. He didn't have it.He went to his mother. His mother had been saving in her Ajoo contribution for 8 years to roof their house. ₦1.5 million. She looked at her son. She saw madness in his eyes. The same madness her husband had when he wanted to open mechanic shop 20 years ago.She gave him the money. His father was angry for 3 months and didn't talk to him.Ify ordered 200 power banks. He waited 45 days. Customs at Lagos port seized it. They said he must pay ₦600,000 to clear it. He had only ₦80,000 left.He took a night bus to Lagos. He slept at the port. He begged the clearing agent. He cried. The agent was an Igbo man from Nsukka. He saw Ify's cracked Itel phone and his slippers held with nail. He said, "You be Igbo boy? You get mind." He cleared it for ₦150,000 on credit.Ify brought the power banks back to Enugu in a luxurious bus, sitting on top of the cartons because he could not afford to pay for full seat.He sold them in 19 days. All 200. He sold each for ₦12,000. Cost was ₦4,000 after shipping and clearing. Profit: ₦1.6 million.He paid back his mother with interest. He roofed their house himself. His father started talking to him again.Now he had capital. But he had also learned something that business school doesn't teach you: In Nigeria, the real profit is not in selling product. It is in controlling the channel.He noticed that all these Igbo boys importing from China were paying too much to middlemen in Lagos. He went to learn freight forwarding. For 6 months, he followed a clearing agent at Onne Port like an apprentice. No salary. He just carried files.In 2022, at 18, he registered his company: IFY GLOBAL LOGISTICS. His first customers were his fellow traders at Ogbete. "Bring your goods through me, I will clear chea
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HOW THE FOOTBALL CLUB/PREMIER LEAGUE, GET THEIR INCOME AND THE BIGGEST BETRAYAL IN FOOTBALL.....................................
Updated at Sep 28, 2026, 06:24
LET'S START WITH THE CLUBS IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE 1. THROUGH BROADCASTING: Every tv station and radio station across UK, in Africa, in Asia, in Europe, in Australia and America, pay huge amount of money in order to have the right to broadcast any matches played by the club. That one alone brings the income of £50-80 million. 2. THROUGH THE SEAT SOLD ON MATCH DAYS (HOME):Let's take Manchester City as an example. every seat cost £50-80,after every seat is occupied, its brings the total to £30,000-800,000.(then the VIP seat),each VIP set cost around £800-1000,bringing the total to around £40million-60million. Only seat cost the total of £40.30million-60.80million 3. THE FOODS/DRINKS SOLD THAT DAY: The foods/drinks sold on that day makes the total of £500,000-800,0004. T-SHIRT/JERSEY SOLD: The t-shirt/Jersey sold, brings the total of £2million-4million. 5. MONEY GIVEN TO THEM BY THE PREMIER LEAGUE: Every club in the Premier league, get shares from the league,like £100million-150million. 6. THE PLAYERS SOLD: Every player sold in the Premier league is from £20million+,bringing to £1billion+. THE PREMIER LEAGUE INCOME The Premier league is the richest and biggest league in the world, these are the ways in which the Premier league get their massive income. Let's dive into it right now 1. THROUGH BROADCASTING: Many TV channels and radio stations in the UK, Germany, Scotland, France Spain, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Wales, USA, Canada, Mexico, Poland Sweden and many other countries across Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and America, pay huge amount of money in order to gain the right to broadcast the matches played in the Premier. The total money may result to £200-500million. THROUGH SPONSORS: Many sponsors pay massive costs in order to become shareholders in the Premier league. The total money may come to £500-800million. What a massive income. 3. THROUGH PUNISHMENT/FINES FROM THE PREMIER LEAGUE TO THE CLUBS: The red cards and yellow cards,do not go into the income of the clubs, it goes to the league. The punishment given to the club for disobeying the rules in the Premier league, goes to the income of the league. The money collected can be up to £100-400million. These are the major ways in which the Premier league makes there money From all the money collected by the league, do not belong to them, it belongs to the same clubs that is in the Premier league. 70% of the income received by the Premier league are shares to the clubs. As far a club is in the Premier league, it received massive income from the league for just being in the league. The remaining 30% of the income are used to pay the staffs, the manager and all the people working in the Premier league. The Premier league received massive income and shares almost everything, leaving the league with little or no money. What a mischievous and ridiculous pattern. THE BIGGEST BETRAYAL IN FOOTBALL The biggest betrayal in football is not a single event. It is a wound that has been reopened many times, in many cities, with the same anatomy: a player who was loved like family, who kissed the badge, who promised loyalty, and then walked across the divide to the enemy. But if you ask historians, ultras, journalists and the players themselves to name ONE — the one that still hurts, still starts fights in bars 25 years later — there is a consensus. *Luis Figo: Barcelona to Real Madrid, 2000. The betrayal that almost started a war.* And to understand why it was so big, you have to understand why the others — as painful as they were — were not as big. Let me take you through the anatomy of betrayal in football. 1. What makes a transfer a BETRAYAL and not just a transfer? Every summer, 2,000 players move clubs. 99% of them are not betrayals. A betrayal in football has 4 ingredients: *a) Identity:* The player is not just good, he IS the club. He is captain, idol, academy product, or symbol of an era. *b) Rivalry:* He moves directly to the most hated rival. Not to another league, but to the team your fans hate most in the world. *c) Deception:* He lies. He says "I will never go" days before he goes. *d) Context:* The timing makes it political. It is not just sport, it is about power, money, pride, and region. When all four are present, a transfer stops being business and becomes treason. 2. The Gold Standard: Luis Figo — 23 July 2000 In 1995, Luis Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo arrived at Barcelona from Sporting CP.....THAT IS W ABOUT THE AUTHOR Arungwa Anthony chiememeze ( RALLY GOLD)is from umubo, ubonukam,onicha, ezinihitte mbaise, imo state, Nigeria in West Africa. He was born into the family of Mr and Mrs Arungwa Anthony Chigozie. He is a 200 level human anatomy in imo state university, East Nigeria. He loves football so much that he make this story his first book .His favourite football club is Manchester City. This is his first story and he is willing to put more effort THANK YOU
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VIRUSES
Updated at Sep 27, 2026, 08:21
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