At the height of his fame and wealth, Goddy Anabor, the publisher of now-rested Hearts Magazine, was the toast of musicians and Lagos big babes because of his generosity of heart and his large pocket writes Chukwudi Iwuchukwu.
Goddy, who is now a taxi driver on the
streets of Lagos, allegedly made money from Yahoo, known as 419 at the time?
When asked about his fraud background and how
he made money
"Goddy waxed philosophically that Yahoo
is not a crime; rather, he collected from those who stole from his
ancestors."
What a defense!
He invested the money by starting different
businesses, including the
1) The Heart Magazine, a romance soft-sell
publication that gave the defunct Hints Magazine a big run for its money
My generation grew up reading both Hints and
Heart magazines, as it was our first exposure to sex and a platform that taught
us sex education and everything we needed to know about sex.
2) Goddy Anabor founded a color printing
business that printed for the This Day newspaper, the Punch newspaper, and many
other media publications.
3) He also had a security company and was
among the pioneers, even though security guard companies have not become
mainstream.
4) He was a big player in the real estate
business in Lagos with over 100 buildings to his name.
Just one man
But beyond all these companies, Goddy was
rich in every word of them. He once confessed that he had 3 billion naira at
Equity Bank in 1990, (3 billion naira of those in that era are equivalent to 70
billion today). That was how rich he was.
He was the only Nigerian socialite at that
era who had foreign ambassadors posted to Nigeria attending his wild parties.
Nigerian women, especially Lagos' big babies, who are today our mothers and
grandmothers, loved him. He takes care of his women and empowers them as well.
He had a retinue of babes as side chicks, as
it was said that he could camp a babe at the Sheraton hotel without seeing her
for 3 months because there were so many camped in different guest houses and
hotels in Lagos, and he was taking turns sleeping with them, one after the
other. So you need to be patient before it's your turn to enjoy his rich, royal
penis.
The Sheraton Hotel loved him as well; he was
their biggest individual customer and always had guests staying over at the
hotel. He once paid a bill of 86 million naira for his guests at that hotel.
He was so big that he had a permanent
room which incurs daily bills at
Sheraton in the 90’s . This was at a time when the dollar was 86 naira to one
dollar.
Owambe parties are not complete without him. He
was a spender and could spend 1 million naira in one swoop without looking
back. Shina Peter and Sunny Ade were his favorites. To his credit, he made a
lot of men by taking them out of poverty.
Car dealers also loved him. He drove luxury
cars and was always among the first to drive a new Rolls-Royce in Nigeria
whenever the manufacturer released it. He has up to 59 cars in his garage,
which include Bentleys, SUVs, and Rolls-Royces. He was the Odogwu of the 1990s
as he lived life.
Today, Goddy, who is 62, can only reminisce
of the good days, as all he has now are memories of the lavish life that he
once lived and the women he once slept with. He is now a shadow of himself as
he drives a taxi in Lagos to pay his bills.
All his hangers-on, sycophants, girlfriends,
side chicks, and even the men he raised from poverty have abandoned him to his
poverty except one, Mike Biggy, who lives somewhere in Akowonjo. He rented a
house for him and takes care of his bills.
This was a man who used to have properties in
GRA Ikeja and Allen Avenue; many of them were guest houses (there was no Lekk
at that time), but today he is living at the mercy of his benefactor.
All his properties have been sold off at a
given-away price because Goddy's friends knew he was broke and so leveraged
that to buy the properties at a ridiculously below-market price.
Also, he had a drug addiction problem, so he
was selling the properties at a ridiculous price to feed his addiction.
His wife, Anthonia, who was a party animal,
abandoned him too as she moved with the kids abroad.
Obviously, the attraction for her was the
man's money, and immediately he fell into hard times. She disappeared with the
kids to the UK, where they now live.
Goody also alleged that his wife was part of
his downfall, as she colluded with the managers of his business to steal him
dry before running away to the UK when the money ran out.
When I wrote last night that kind women are
rare as they don’t give birth to them again, Anithonia Aniabor is an example.
Goddy Aniabor's "Grace to Grass"
story is a lesson for my generation to ponder.
Stay away from Yahoo and fraud lifestyle.
Fraud does not pay.
It is a short-term solution and pleasure, and
all that money will end up going down the drain, just like it was made.
It was easy for Goddy to lose everything
because he did not work hard for it; rather, he made it through fraud, which is
the easy way.
The only way to be wealthy and stay wealthy
is to invest and be financially smart.
Building wealth is hard and a marathon, not a
sprint but when you succeed, it is rewarding and worth it.
Anything more than this is a fluke and not
sustainable.
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