Nigeria's Ambassador-designate to Mexico, Reno Omokri, has said prayer can never be a slayer of poverty, thereby encouraging people to focus on hard work.

In a Facebook post, Omokri revealed that with just a smartphone, one can engage in businesses that can earn good money to escape poverty.

He wrote, "Prayer can never be a slayer of poverty. So, how then do we make money? You are either selling your time for money, which is what we call a job, or using your money to make more money, which is what we call investing. Those are the only two ways to make money constantly. Every other way of making money is just a variation of these two paths. However, the first way destroys your health, while the second way restores it. Therefore, if you want to thrive in this lifetime, don't see your salary as spending money. No matter how small your wages are, see them as capital. Use your capital to invest your way out of poverty, because it is almost impossible to work your way out of penury.

"And everyone can get capital in this day and age. Please fact-check me: In the last four years, YouTube has paid creators $100 billion. X has paid tweeps $45 billion in the same four-year time span. In that same time, Meta has coughed up $10 billion to users of their app. TikTok's payout in that intervening period has been $7.5 billion. If you have a phone and access to the Internet, you have no business complaining about lack, joblessness or penury, no matter what country you are a citizen of, provided these apps are legal there. Monetise your life by uploading your creativity, and you will no longer be downloading poverty. Stop trolling so you can start pay-rolling!"

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