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How to Build Generational Wealth in Nigeria (So Your Children Don’t Start From Zero) - Henlus - 08-22-2025
Nobody told me this. I had to learn it the hard way.
But let me tell you now, clearly:
If you don’t change something, your children will struggle the same way you and your father struggled.
Generational wealth doesn’t just appear. You build it — with focus, sweat, and a plan.
Here’s how the wealthy families do it while the rest of us argue politics and chase clout:
1: Build Assets, Not Just Income
Your salary? Your hustle money? That’s just survival.
What lasts are assets — land, properties, businesses.
Buy land on the outskirts today, it becomes gold tomorrow.
Build rentals, own shops, plant trees that pay your family every month.
2: Stop Eating Tomorrow’s Wealth Today
That flashy car you can’t maintain?
That loud party to impress people who don’t care?
Every kobo wasted today is food stolen from your children’s future.
3: Put Structures in Place, Not Stories
“Be responsible” is not enough.
Write a will.
Set up trusts.
Make sure your wealth doesn’t vanish in family fights and court battles.
4: Teach Your Children the Game
Wealth dies fast when the next generation doesn’t know what to do with it.
Show them how you save, invest, and grow money.
If you don’t, they’ll waste everything before your grave settles.
5: Think Beyond Your Lifetime
Stop thinking in weeks or months.
Start thinking in decades.
The real legacy isn’t how much you made — it’s how much you left standing.
The truth is this: the system in Nigeria isn’t built to make you rich.
But you can beat the system if you start today.
? Build assets.
? Think long-term.
? Prepare your children.
Because if you don’t… they’ll start from zero again.
And that’s not legacy. That’s tragedy.