Toheeb Lanlehin

3 days ago | zikoko.com | Toheeb Lanlehin

Good morning ☀️Do you ever wonder how marriage shapes people’s ideas of submission and financial responsibility? This week’s Love Currency might give you something interesting to think about Among other things, the lady in the story hands over her entire salary to her husband. Why, and at what cost? This week’s #NairaLife is another kind of relationship story — one between a woman and her gambling addiction. Even after getting her desired job, she couldn’t stop betting.

1 week ago | zikoko.com | Toheeb Lanlehin

Good morning ☀️This week’s stories are for the tired hustlers, the silent savers, and everyone who’s ever thought, “Maybe money isn’t the problem, maybe I am.”As usual, we’re opening with NairaLife, and it’s one of those “how are you doing all this and still broke?” stories. Yet it’s real, and painfully familiar. This week’s Love Currency is about a couple with wildly different money habits. One’s a disciplined saver, the other just wants to enjoy life a little. The tension is palpable.

2 weeks ago | zikoko.com | Toheeb Lanlehin

Good morning ☀️What happens when your partner might be — for the lack better word — your financial opp? On this week’s Love Currency, you’ll find the frustrations of a woman batling her husband’s impulsive habit of giving away their money — mostly to the church. She’s stuck between navigating this and the real need to secure their future. How are they making it work? The subject of this week’s #NairaLife has a different kind of struggle.. Four years ago, she agreed to manager her father’s business.

3 weeks ago | zikoko.com | Toheeb Lanlehin

Good morning ☀️Isn’t it fun when the week kicks off with a public holiday? Sign me up every time. You get this dispatch, though, public holiday or not. The things we do for community, eh? I think it’s fascinating how money is deeply personal. It shapes our relationships, influences our decisions, and often holds up a mirror to where our headspace really is.

1 month ago | zikoko.com | Toheeb Lanlehin

Jenny* (32) and Mercy became friends in 2006 and quickly became almost inseparable. To outsiders, they were best friends forever. But things weren’t as they seemed — something always shifts when money enters a friendship with an uneven power dynamic. In this story, Jenny unpacks how money and power shaped their friendship — and how her late, rapid rise might have been what broke it.