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This is why tracking your sales and expenses is very important. Here are a few reasons: 1. You know your real profit - sales is not the same as profit; after removing expenses like stock, transportation, salaries, rent, delivery and other costs, you need to know what you actually made.

2. You can control unnecessary spending - recording your expenses lets you identify where money is leaking and cut costs that are not helping the business. 3. You make better business decisions - your records show which products sell the most, which ones don't move, and where your business is spending too much.

4. You avoid mixing business money with personal money - a common problem for many small businesses; proper records help you separate them.

5. You can plan for the future - want to increase stock, employ someone, open another branch, buy equipment? Your records show whether the business can afford it.

6. It makes your business more organized - even a small shop, online business, restaurant, fashion brand or service business benefits from keeping proper records. At the end of the day, you cannot properly manage what you don't measure.

Start tracking every sale and every business expense - even the small ones; they add up. If you want to learn more about simple ways to track your business sales, expenses and finances, check my profile for more details. Your business deserves more than just making sales. Know your numbers.

The skit was widely praised as an illustration of Igbo commercial acumen - using capital and strategy rather than confrontation to control a market. That scenario is now playing out in reality. Chinese traders have entered certain markets selling goods more cheaply than their Igbo counterparts, effectively living out the very scenario the skit once poked fun at - only this time, the roles are reversed.

The response from affected traders has largely taken the form of protest and public demonstration against Chinese competition. A more strategically consistent response - one more in keeping with the ingenuity the skit celebrated - might have been for Igbo trade unions to pool their resources and buy out the Chinese traders' stock, rather than organize against their presence. @seun @myndd44 @dominique @lalasticlala

What's the one part of selling online that gives you the most headache?

For example: getting customers to actually pay after making enquiries; keeping track of orders and payments; delivery/riders; customers changing their minds; refunds/exchanges/complaints; knowing how to follow up with customers; something completely different. If you've actually lost money, time or a customer because of one of these problems, I'd especially love to hear what happened.

No textbook answers please - I want the messy, everyday reality of running an online business in Nigeria. Thanks!

The Dangote Refinery shares are being offered at N525 each, but Dangote expressed optimism that the price could rise to between N5,000 and N10,000, depending on market conditions. 'if you invest something like maybe N100,000, you know, within one year, two years or so, you are talking about becoming a millionaire.'

Dangote urged investors to hold on to their shares rather than sell prematurely, saying they could benefit from dividends over time, and said investors who receive dividends in dollars could be better protected against the effects of naira depreciation.

The comments came after investors flooded the Nigerian Exchange on Monday as the IPO attracted billions of naira in subscriptions shortly after opening.

The N2.15 trillion IPO comprises 4.1 billion ordinary shares offered at N525 per share; minimum subscription is 10 shares (N5,250); the offer opened September 14, 2026 and closes October 13, 2026. The refinery generated approximately N19.47 trillion in revenue in H1 2026, with profit after tax of N2.55 trillion; at the offer price the refinery is expected to have an implied market capitalisation of about N65.22 trillion.

Bloomberg said Dangote's net worth could rise to as much as $58.2 billion following the IPO. The Ooni of Ife, NGX chairman Umaru Kwairanga, Lagos governor Sanwo-Olu and Refinery CEO David Bird all spoke at the launch of the 'People's IPO'.

Then I realized something strange. Because I couldn't easily touch the money, I stopped spending it.

I kept putting money there. Eventually, I reached the amount I needed, sorted out the account issue and got the phone. And the feeling when I finally got that phone was different - I genuinely felt like something had saved me from myself.

That's when I started thinking: maybe sometimes the problem with saving isn't that people don't know how to save - maybe it's that their money is too accessible.

We have savings apps. We have locked savings. We have reminders. But what if there was something even stricter? Imagine you're saving N500,000 for rent.

You commit the money to a system and say: 'This money is for my rent.' You cannot withdraw it halfway. When you finally reach N500,000, the system pays your landlord directly. Same thing for school fees, business equipment, a phone, professional tools, etc. Would you use something like this?

And be honest: would you willingly give up access to your own money if it meant you were far more likely to actually achieve the goal? That is much stronger validation.

In 2005 to 2008, the banks were pushing IPOs, many of those investments have gone the way of MMM.

At a time, I had close to N12m with FSDH, luckily I took out some to invest in real estate, the balance is now less than N200k in value from well over N5m in 2010.

My 5 cent, get into time tested stock like Nestlé all these hype will evaporate in 3 years.

An ongoing IPO priced at N525.00 per ordinary share offers a primary float of 4.1 billion shares (3.41% public equity stake before green shoe options), set to expand NGX equities market capitalization by N63.07 trillion ($48.89 billion), the largest single-stock weighting on the exchange. 10 Major benefits as analysed by MoneyCentral: (1) Net Exporter of Petroleum Products - refined products (PMS, AGO, jet fuel) entered Nigeria's top five exports (NBS data), supplying Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, Europe and East Africa; national fuel output surpassed domestic demand; (2) Pension assets - Pension AUM N30.699 trillion as

at June 2026, 11.36 million RSA members, equities exposure N5.97trn (19.4%); the IPO provides a major asset class for Pension Funds; (3) Naira strength - petroleum imports declined from 28.6bn litres (2022) to 15.3bn litres (2025), import bill N9.0trn; gross external reserves past $54bn by early Sep 2026; naira traded

as high as N1,322.50/$1, gaining 8% YTD; (4) Industrial tech transfer - licenses from Honeywell UOP, DuPont/Elessent, Air Liquide, INEOS, Haldor Topsoe, Snamprogetti; (5) Local economy protection from global turmoil (Iran war, Hormuz) - no fuel queues; (6) Domestic plastics industry - polypropylene capacity 830,000 tons per annum covering all

Nigeria's plastic raw materials needs; (7) New retail investors/Sharia compliant investment - demand overwhelmed Nigerian investing apps after share sales started. Source: MoneyCentral