So by this time tomorrow Neymar will get his first alert of
248 million naira and every Thursday, like drug money it
will be dropping like that! Chaiii, that one is too much oh,
but what is the guy playing self?
Well, it is no longer news that last week Thursday, August
3rd, 2017 the biggest contract ever in the history of world
football was signed. Neymar Da Silva Santos Junior
officially signed for Paris Saint Germain from Spanish giant
Barcelona after they met his buyout clause of €222M.
Hours later the news of his weekly earnings of about
€515,000 or 248 million naira broke the internet.
I will be the last person to dispute if Neymar is worth all
that money because I have watched the guy and I can tell
that he is good. He is talented, his dribbling skill, finishing,
ease of taking defenders one-on-one and the shooting
accuracy with both feet are all admirable, but above all
these Neymar is simply a very strong and saleable brand.
By Sunday, when PSG line up against Guingamp FC
Neymar will get the first chance to show the watching
world (will you watch the match?) why PSG is paying that
much for his signature. The ideal scenario will be for
Neymar to open his account with a hat trick in that match
and win the man of the match - and that is exactly what I
wish him.


But most amazing, most confusing and perhaps now
annoying about that contract is what Nigerians have made
out of it here at home. Most of us have misrepresented not
just the worth but the significance and implications of that
deal. Most social media users (including professionals)
have made serious attempts to demean 'education' by
comparing the monetary rewards that it offers to what
football offers. I heard that A is no longer for Apple and B
is no longer for Book. I understand that the new way of
teaching children ABCD (in Nigeria) is to let them
understand that A is for Attack, B is for Back pass, C is
Control the Ball, D is for Defence and indeed every single
footballing terminology is now used in learning the English
Alphabet, and at the end of the day the lesson to the child
is simple - you must play football whether you like it or
not. But I think that is dangerous, we can't promote this
ideology as a nation otherwise I am afraid of what the
future holds. We will not be doing our generation any good
if we encourage them to ignore education for the pursuit of
money. Of course, you should know that I am a key
promoter of the fact that going to university is completely
useless if it is all about the degree, but for God's sake how
can someone who is actually a graduate want to make it
look as if it is all about the degree? In the first place why is
the emphasis not on "what Neymar can do" but on the fact
that he doesn't have WAEC result? Is PSG paying him that
money because he didn't go to school or because he has
proved himself competent enough in his chosen career? I
think the emphasis should rather be on what someone
can do rather than his academic qualifications otherwise
all those without a secondary education will easily be
earning like Neymar already.


Don't be deceived.
248 million naira per week is massive, in fact it is out of
this world and you only get a better understanding of how
big it is worth when you compare it with the average salary
of a first class graduate here in Nigeria. You know you will
need to earn 1 million naira average salary for 20 years
and 8 months to hit that figure(bro when will you retire?),
but guys, let's still not blow it out of proportion because
there is another comparison.
Now, if Neymar without a WAEC result (according to those
who claim to know) earns 248 million per week, how
much does Bill Gates (who actually went as far as
Harvard) earn? Mind you, Bill Gates went to school as far
as Harvard, the whole talk of him dropping out is widely
misrepresented. He didn't drop out because he was not
good enough, he didn't drop out because he was
irresponsible, in fact he had a meeting with the school
authority when it became obvious that he needed more
time to work on the Microsoft idea and in his exact words
he told the school that he was going on a 'leave of
absence' and should return if the idea failed to work as
planned. He didn't leave the school empty, he left with the
knowledge he had acquired, he left having made friends
and built a network of like minds, he left having access to
mentors from the school (for me, these are some of the
most important reasons of going to university in the first
place, and not just for that paper called certificate). With
that knowledge and skill acquired directly or indirectly by
going to school, Bill Gates was able to build Microsoft and
in 2013 he earned 11.5 billion dollars in a single year. That
figure would give you 1.38 million dollars per hour. What it
means is that the 248 million naira Neymar earns in a
week is what Bill Gates earns in 30 minutes.


Don't be deceived.
Why would I rather be a Bill Gates than a Neymar? Why
would I rather point my kids to Bill Gates than to Neymar?
It is simple. If you go by the figures, you have already
seen it above. If you want to look at the future, then you
will know that Neymar is 25 today, but will he still be
playing football at this level at 35? What if in an unfortunate
situation where he breaks his leg tomorrow (no one prays
for that, but it does happen), that will be the end of
everything, football doesn't even provide for pension or
gratuity. But Gates can sleep for the rest of his life and the
billions will keep flowing because alert has been set on
auto run, he has 'programmed' his business directly into
his bank account - with his knowledge (you need
education to set up that kind of system). What if you are
looking at relevance and significance, how many
millionaires have Neymar made or will he ever make in his
lifetime? Bill Gates has made 3 billionaires and over
12,000 millionaires.
I asked someone what Neymar will do with this money,
and he said Neymar already has a private jet, now is the
time to get a yacht and start paying for the penthouse of
all the 5-star hotels in the world. Do you think someone
who is well schooled will choose to spend the money that
way?
Don't be deceived.
Education is still the key, education is still superior,
education has birthed technology and technology is where
the money is and not football. The most valuable club in
the world according to Forbes 2017 rating is Manchester
United and they are worth a whopping 3.69 billion dollars
to edge both Barcelona and Real Madrid. But how
whopping is that compared with the worth of Apple,
Google, or Microsoft? In fact the total worth of the top 20
football clubs in the world (including Real Madrid,
Barcelona, Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern Munich,
PSG, Arsenal, Manchester City, Juventus, Liverpool) is
29.6 billion dollars. Mark Zuckerberg can simply pull out a
cheque from his back pocket and buy those 20 clubs
without even discussing with the board of Facebook (that
sounds like an insult but that is the fact). That is how
powerful ideas are, that is how powerful knowledge can
be, that is how powerful education can be. What would
you rather choose for your child?
Don't be deceived.
The standard of education in Nigeria has dropped so badly
that it is beginning to lose its relevance, but rather than
turn our backs on it completely, rather than encourage our
children not to go to school, rather than insult it the more,
we should champion a course on how to make it what it
ought to be and more attractive. We should teach our
children the real importance of education and not just to
come out and get a good job.
Trends are changing, the world has evolved and our
educational system must evolve and not allowed to
dissolve.
Don't be deceived. Send your children to good school if
you can afford it, and after that allow him or her the
freedom of choice and if he or she chooses to play football
he will be buying football clubs and earning 10x what
Neymar earns today.
I choose to go to school, learn how to build and buy
existing businesses. I choose to go to school, learn how
to employ the grace God has given me to serve humanity.
I choose to go to school and learn how best my ideas can
be a solution to the problems of the society.
What do you choose, for yourself and for your kids?
Don't be deceived.


Written by
©Kachi Ogbonna
Founder, HTS Business School.
Cofounder, Myunihostels.
Founder, Youth Initiative for National Transformation.
Author, How They Started.
Source- https://mobile.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1942210622734980&id=1762065250749519&lul&ref_component=mbasic_photo_permalink_actionbar&_rdr

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Why do you copy posts like a f00l. Did bill gates g to school?

Bill gates dropped out of school to focus on microsoft. You comparison just showed how dumb you are. Both you and the original writer

Powerful write up.Op you are very right. Down here in Nigeria our minds have been wired on money and nothing else. That's why our political leaders have continued to embezzle with impunity,they neither care for the masses or the responsibility they need to deliver to the country and it's citizens. Education is the key because we need advancement in health, technology etc and that can only be through education, don't mind Nigeria's delipidated educational system, football or soccer is just for entertainment and can do little or nothing for humanity. One of the main reasons we have yahoo boys and people engaging in one infamous business or the other is because of avarice.Thumbs up to the writer. The lady above me, I don't know the kind of expired drug you took. Wish to share this post.

fasternews:
Why do you copy posts like a f00l. Did bill gates g to school?

Bill gates dropped out of school to focus on microsoft. You comparison just showed how dumb you are. Both you and the original writer

Illiteracy is a disease. And you are a chronic sufferer. pity!

What a wonderful write up!

justirich:
So by this time tomorrow Neymar will get his first alert of
248 million naira and every Thursday, like drug money it
will be dropping like that! Chaiii, that one is too much oh,
but what is the guy playing self?
Well, it is no longer news that last week Thursday, August
3rd, 2017 the biggest contract ever in the history of world
football was signed. Neymar Da Silva Santos Junior
officially signed for Paris Saint Germain from Spanish giant
Barcelona after they met his buyout clause of €222M.
Hours later the news of his weekly earnings of about
€515,000 or 248 million naira broke the internet.
I will be the last person to dispute if Neymar is worth all
that money because I have watched the guy and I can tell
that he is good. He is talented, his dribbling skill, finishing,
ease of taking defenders one-on-one and the shooting
accuracy with both feet are all admirable, but above all
these Neymar is simply a very strong and saleable brand.
By Sunday, when PSG line up against Guingamp FC
Neymar will get the first chance to show the watching
world (will you watch the match?) why PSG is paying that
much for his signature. The ideal scenario will be for
Neymar to open his account with a hat trick in that match
and win the man of the match - and that is exactly what I
wish him.


But most amazing, most confusing and perhaps now
annoying about that contract is what Nigerians have made
out of it here at home. Most of us have misrepresented not
just the worth but the significance and implications of that
deal. Most social media users (including professionals)
have made serious attempts to demean 'education' by
comparing the monetary rewards that it offers to what
football offers. I heard that A is no longer for Apple and B
is no longer for Book. I understand that the new way of
teaching children ABCD (in Nigeria) is to let them
understand that A is for Attack, B is for Back pass, C is
Control the Ball, D is for Defence and indeed every single
footballing terminology is now used in learning the English
Alphabet, and at the end of the day the lesson to the child
is simple - you must play football whether you like it or
not. But I think that is dangerous, we can't promote this
ideology as a nation otherwise I am afraid of what the
future holds. We will not be doing our generation any good
if we encourage them to ignore education for the pursuit of
money. Of course, you should know that I am a key
promoter of the fact that going to university is completely
useless if it is all about the degree, but for God's sake how
can someone who is actually a graduate want to make it
look as if it is all about the degree? In the first place why is
the emphasis not on "what Neymar can do" but on the fact
that he doesn't have WAEC result? Is PSG paying him that
money because he didn't go to school or because he has
proved himself competent enough in his chosen career? I
think the emphasis should rather be on what someone
can do rather than his academic qualifications otherwise
all those without a secondary education will easily be
earning like Neymar already.


Don't be deceived.
248 million naira per week is massive, in fact it is out of
this world and you only get a better understanding of how
big it is worth when you compare it with the average salary
of a first class graduate here in Nigeria. You know you will
need to earn 1 million naira average salary for 20 years
and 8 months to hit that figure(bro when will you retire?),
but guys, let's still not blow it out of proportion because
there is another comparison.
Now, if Neymar without a WAEC result (according to those
who claim to know) earns 248 million per week, how
much does Bill Gates (who actually went as far as
Harvard) earn? Mind you, Bill Gates went to school as far
as Harvard, the whole talk of him dropping out is widely
misrepresented. He didn't drop out because he was not
good enough, he didn't drop out because he was
irresponsible, in fact he had a meeting with the school
authority when it became obvious that he needed more
time to work on the Microsoft idea and in his exact words
he told the school that he was going on a 'leave of
absence' and should return if the idea failed to work as
planned. He didn't leave the school empty, he left with the
knowledge he had acquired, he left having made friends
and built a network of like minds, he left having access to
mentors from the school (for me, these are some of the
most important reasons of going to university in the first
place, and not just for that paper called certificate). With
that knowledge and skill acquired directly or indirectly by
going to school, Bill Gates was able to build Microsoft and
in 2013 he earned 11.5 billion dollars in a single year. That
figure would give you 1.38 million dollars per hour. What it
means is that the 248 million naira Neymar earns in a
week is what Bill Gates earns in 30 minutes.


Don't be deceived.
Why would I rather be a Bill Gates than a Neymar? Why
would I rather point my kids to Bill Gates than to Neymar?
It is simple. If you go by the figures, you have already
seen it above. If you want to look at the future, then you
will know that Neymar is 25 today, but will he still be
playing football at this level at 35? What if in an unfortunate
situation where he breaks his leg tomorrow (no one prays
for that, but it does happen), that will be the end of
everything, football doesn't even provide for pension or
gratuity. But Gates can sleep for the rest of his life and the
billions will keep flowing because alert has been set on
auto run, he has 'programmed' his business directly into
his bank account - with his knowledge (you need
education to set up that kind of system). What if you are
looking at relevance and significance, how many
millionaires have Neymar made or will he ever make in his
lifetime? Bill Gates has made 3 billionaires and over
12,000 millionaires.
I asked someone what Neymar will do with this money,
and he said Neymar already has a private jet, now is the
time to get a yacht and start paying for the penthouse of
all the 5-star hotels in the world. Do you think someone
who is well schooled will choose to spend the money that
way?
Don't be deceived.
Education is still the key, education is still superior,
education has birthed technology and technology is where
the money is and not football. The most valuable club in
the world according to Forbes 2017 rating is Manchester
United and they are worth a whopping 3.69 billion dollars
to edge both Barcelona and Real Madrid. But how
whopping is that compared with the worth of Apple,
Google, or Microsoft? In fact the total worth of the top 20
football clubs in the world (including Real Madrid,
Barcelona, Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern Munich,
PSG, Arsenal, Manchester City, Juventus, Liverpool) is
29.6 billion dollars. Mark Zuckerberg can simply pull out a
cheque from his back pocket and buy those 20 clubs
without even discussing with the board of Facebook (that
sounds like an insult but that is the fact). That is how
powerful ideas are, that is how powerful knowledge can
be, that is how powerful education can be. What would
you rather choose for your child?
Don't be deceived.
The standard of education in Nigeria has dropped so badly
that it is beginning to lose its relevance, but rather than
turn our backs on it completely, rather than encourage our
children not to go to school, rather than insult it the more,
we should champion a course on how to make it what it
ought to be and more attractive. We should teach our
children the real importance of education and not just to
come out and get a good job.
Trends are changing, the world has evolved and our
educational system must evolve and not allowed to
dissolve.
Don't be deceived. Send your children to good school if
you can afford it, and after that allow him or her the
freedom of choice and if he or she chooses to play football
he will be buying football clubs and earning 10x what
Neymar earns today.
I choose to go to school, learn how to build and buy
existing businesses. I choose to go to school, learn how
to employ the grace God has given me to serve humanity.
I choose to go to school and learn how best my ideas can
be a solution to the problems of the society.
What do you choose, for yourself and for your kids?
Don't be deceived.


Written by
©Kachi Ogbonna
Founder, HTS Business School.
Cofounder, Myunihostels.
Founder, Youth Initiative for National Transformation.
Author, How They Started.
Source- https://mobile.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1942210622734980&id=1762065250749519&lul&ref_component=mbasic_photo_permalink_actionbar&_rdr

cc lalasticlala

Wow... Impressive . God bless this writer with more wisdom and the last commenter that bring this thread back on the main page. Such a powerful and inspiring content.

Can’t believe I wasted my time reading this rubbish.. that part they say I’m not allowed to choose for them that they should choose and follow what they want is gibberish because I’m d one paying if I say it is football football it is. Arsenal football academy also teaches arithmetic and science

Being a billionaire is not what u learn somewhere or anywhere it is what u do or has been done,actions makes billions not taking some notes and that is why a 3 year old painting could go up for $145 mil. how could a 3 year old learn how to paint that fast? Realizing what u good at and using it will give u millions like Neymar but for u to be a billionaire u may not need any talent at all only to be able to attract people with talents and make them work for u. Bill gates makes $6 million everytime he sleeps ther are people staying up to make it that way