Laura Ikeji stirs debate after saying girls’s magnificence now pays greater than exhausting work
Common influencer and trend entrepreneur Laura Ikeji-Kanu has stirred huge reactions on-line after lamenting that many non-working women now stay higher and earn greater than hardworking girls in Nigeria.
In a video shared on her Instagram web page, Laura expressed concern about how society appears to reward magnificence over real exhausting work.
She famous that in as we speak’s financial system, women who don’t work usually get extra {financial} rewards and a focus than these who put in actual effort to construct a profession or enterprise.
In keeping with her:
“We’re in a rustic the place women who don’t work earn greater than women who work exhausting, all as a result of they’re lovely. Women who’re effective make a lot cash. Please, when you see any hardworking women, at all times attempt to help them, it doesn’t matter what.”
Her assertion shortly went viral, sparking blended reactions amongst followers and social media customers.
Whereas many praised Laura for “talking the reality,” others argued that magnificence and affect have merely grow to be new types of work within the digital age.
Laura’s remark has reignited conversations in regards to the worth of exhausting work, magnificence, and success in Nigeria’s ever-changing social media financial system.
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“We’re in a rustic the place women who don’t work earn greater than women who work exhausting, all as a result of they’re lovely. Women who’re effective make a lot cash. Please, when you see any hardworking women, at all times attempt to help them, it doesn’t matter what.”
-Laura Ikeji pic.twitter.com/YkdiV2L5dy
— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) October 11, 2025