Popular Online blogger Linda Ikeji buys a Mansion at Banana Island Lagos Worth 600 million Naira.
After lots of struggle according to her this is a rise of glory and success.
The news of her newly purchased house as gone crazy online with a lot of views and opinion on it
Some think that it's a wasteful expense while others think it's simply accomplishment but I'll like to know your views on this Topic
See photos bellow:
In her words she said:
"Now to all the young girls looking at these photos,
please read below..
My name is Linda Ikeji. I'm a blogger. I'm 35 years
old and I have never...never ever in my life slept
with a man for money. Not only have I never done it,
I have never even considered it...and here I am with
a house that cost me over half a billion naira.
Listen, you are beautiful and you are stronger than
you know. There's absolutely nothing you can't
achieve if you set your mind to it, put your heart
and soul into it.
Up until five years ago, I was a struggling
entrepreneur. I can't tell you how many offices in
this Lagos I sat in for hours waiting to see people
who could support my business...but most times, I
never passed the reception area. But I never gave
up and I never stopped believing and here I am
today.
You too can be this..you can be better than this. No
dream is too big, no dream is too small, no
mountain is too high...it's all in your mind. It's all up
to you. If you believe in you, in your God who is
guiding you, then the sky is your starting point.
Please stop waiting around for a man to give to
you...to put food on your table and put clothes on
your back. I promise you, you can do it for yourself.
Start thinking big, believe in yourself, be creative
and start working. Realize that your dreams are
valid...and nobody will make your dreams come
true except you. Find what you are good at. Find
something that you are passionate about. Work
hard at it. Be consistent. Be patient. Start young.
Even if you're not young, it's never too late!
I have been hustling since I left secondary
school..started modeling before I entered university
in 1998. Was running a modeling agency even while
I was a student and made it a full time business
after I left university. I never doubted that I would
succeed one day, because I was determined. And
please do not think this happened over night. I've
been blogging since 2006...November this year will
make it exactly 9 years. God, consistency and hard
work brought me here today.
Unfortunately, a lot of our young girls aren't patient
and some are lazy, they want it quick and fast but it
doesn't work like that. Success takes time - takes
hard work - takes passion - takes consistency -
but more than anything else, it takes the Grace of
God.
I was a 30 year old broke woman and on my
birthday, a very sad and depressed me turned to
God and begged him. I told Him you promised me,
when will You fulfill Your promise? Am I not Your
child? Have I not lived according to Your teachings?
When will You bless me? Please God help me...and
with tears in my eyes, I begged Him. I cried and I
begged and I begged and I begged. A few months
later my life changed. Never underestimate God's
love for you and the power of prayer.
And never stop working. Listen, I make enough
money to hire so many people to work on this blog
while I go do other things and enjoy myself...but I
don't do that. I'm up while some of you are sleeping,
and already blogging before some of you wake up. I
don't take this for granted. I know to stay on top, I
have to constantly work and nobody will be as
dedicated as I am because this is not their own
thing. It's mine and I have to keep feeding it. So I'm
constantly here!
Young ladies, I promise you...you too can do this.
You don't need to spread your legs for any bladdy
man - because of how much? N200k? That's how
much my shoes cost - so why should you give up
your body for that? Your sacred body? God's
temple? N200k that you can make in a week or
even in a day if you pursue your dreams and still
have your dignity intact? You think people don't see
that you're messing around with all dem old married
men and talking about it? Think ladies, think! When
next a man propositions you...tell him to get lost,
that you will get yours yourself! Abi, aren't you a
woman? You know what they say about women? "A
woman is like a tea bag, you never know how
strong she is until she gets in hot water.". You are
so strong, you don't even know!
Also, if you want God to bless you, you have to
have a clean heart. All these backbiting, hating on
others, trying to bring people down with hateful
words/actions etc - God doesn't like ugly. He has
over 6 billion people to look after and you think he
will pay extra attention to you if your heart is ugly?
Wish people well, help people when you can. Be
good to others. But more than anything else be good
to yourself. Believe in yourself. It's very easy to
give in to feelings of self-doubt and back down
when things get tough, but you have to know that
God will not give you anything you can't handle.
I swear to you, you are underestimating yourself. If
you know the power that you have inside. If you
know the things that you are capable of. If you
know how far you can go...how high you can reach
but you are holding yourself back because you're
afraid of failing, because you don't think you have it
in you. If only you know that you're stronger than
you think. You are so powerful, you don't even
know it. I'm not more special than you are. I don't
have two heads. We serve the same God. Why can't
you succeed? Think ladies, think.
Like Barack Obama's sister said, poverty is not an
excuse! I used to sell/market beer at Sheraton
hotel, Lagos when I was in university for N1,000 a
day. I once lived on 'puff puff' and garri for weeks in
UNILAG and I was supposedly a top model but
nobody knew what I was going through.
Trust me, I knew poverty. Did you know I lived in
Idi-oro, Mushin for 15 years? Up until when I was
25? Did you live in Mushin? Eh, so what's your
excuse? I can't even say some things here for my
family's privacy but here I am today because I
never doubted myself and I never allowed all the
doubters to distract me. I was focused. I was
determined. I worked hard and I knew the God I
served won't let me down. The road was long,
sometimes very frustrating and painful but look at
me now. God did it because he saw that I was
willing!
"Because I am a woman, I must make
unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will
say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They
will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.”
Please believe in yourself and watch God use you
to set as an example for others.
May all your dreams come true!
Kisses.
Oh by the way (addressing the argument I read
online this weekend) I don't do anything else. I blog
from 4am till midnight, where do I have time to do
anything else? When God wants to bless you, He
will bless you...even if you're selling toothpick."
Cheers!
-Linda Ikeji
