What do you believe is the single most important factor driving up the cost of living in Nigeria?

He noted that while he grew up in the Ajegunle part of Lagos State, the distance between the community and Stuttgart in Germany, wasn’t much — asserting that it was easy for him to switch places within a little time without stress.

“I grew up in Ajegunle. I saw everywhere before I travelled from Nigeria. There is always a difference, you know, when you close your eyes. As I’m here now, in the evening, my friends might call me and I am in Ajegunle.

“Sometimes, I am coming back from America [sic], I drop my bag at home here, and I am in Ajegunle. That difference — you close your eyes and you are in Ajegunle. If you cannot learn from that, there is nothing that will be able to teach you.

“The problem when you have money, it pushes you to do a lot of things. If you don’t get control [over money], you will lose it, and when you lose it, it is a deep fall. That is why I am praying for these young ones that are playing now that they should be very wise,” he advised.

He recalled his playing days at Stuttgart where he and some colleagues would hire a private jet, say, “after a game,” and fly to different places outside Germany, like Spain.

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