Ruggedfitness:


Let me tell you the truth, the problem with the nation is those small-scale entrepreneurs that are waiting for the government to help them. Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur today and all they dream about is getting rich. But look at America every business is opened not just because you want to get rich but because you want to affect the economy, that is why you see America progressing, it is not simply because the government is great it is because businesses like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Oracle affect the economy and uplift it. But look at Nigeria everyone is working for their pocket, including Dangote, and that is why when the economy fell Dangote's $12bn network dropped to $10 in days.. While Jeff Bezos counted $1bn in hours... You see the difference in the economy, most small-scale entrepreneurs are focusing on just getting rich, if they are focused on improving the economy, then there would be unity among entrepreneurs and they would protest to the government. Look at the way Google is affecting the world, even facebook changed the US elections. Google, Apple, and Samsung have once come together to build a product. All these improve the economy and when that happens people will get richer, but most Nigerians don't give a damn about the economy, they open businesses and call it side jobs or they simply open it so that they can survive and it impacts that economy in no want. look at the women selling in shops, the men selling shoes and clothes, or the so-called tech entrepreneurs and fashion designers. More businesses are being opened in Nigerian daily and yet the economy falls.

GavelSlam:


I am not bragging.

I simply use my own life as an example to underline a fact.

There are no excuses for going the way of crime. None.

I repeat that there are so many young people who use the computer for good and their lives have been uplifted myself included.

Ruggedfitness:


If someone believes that the young boy is telling the bitter TRUTH then Nigeria is doomed, what could have happened if people like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates went into scamming. There could have been no iPhone, no facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, no Microsoft or windows.

Things were also hard for Steve Jobs and in that hardship he excelled, so there is no excuse

GavelSlam:


But you know there are many Nigerians in USA, Canada, UK all countries with uninterrupted power who are still neck deep in cyber crime.

The thing don enter body.

GavelSlam:


I am not bragging.

I simply use my own life as an example to underline a fact.

There are no excuses for going the way of crime. None.

I repeat that there are so many young people who use the computer for good and their lives have been uplifted myself included.

dadaic:


I totally agree with you here, Visafone was a pure example, Jim Ovia stole the idea completely, and now, MTN bought for a billion dollar. The real criminals are writing books, giving inspirational speeches, going to TEDx to give talks, yet, the real criminals are the ones we simply adore.

Ruggedfitness:


Martin Luther King didn't start in one day... And he had people who were ready to believe and not people who are ready to claim its not easy.

amunkita:
Hope we can see why they clamor to end SARS

Is Yahoo Yahoo a legit way of Life..

God help Nigeria.....

sokera:
your illustration is not thesame with what is happening in Nigeria .... according to your illustration whites folks were intimidating blacks in America right ? But in Nigeria's case the politicians are ruling wrongly , its affecting every common man , no matter your skin color , your gender, your age , your religion, your education , we are all feeling the tension and the level of poverty and illiteracy is increasing... do you understand your illustration of Lurther King fought for blacks in America is not the same ?

Ruggedfitness:


Sir, America once terrorized the blacks and killed them with impunity, A man named Martin Luther King stood up against that, there was odds against him, the whites hated them, but he stood, the whites wanted to kill them, but he stood, his life was in danger but he stood. Martin Luther King paid with his life but today every Black American can walk on the street with his head up high because of his sacrifice. Now imagine there was no Martin Luther King, imagine he kept saying but the Americans hate us and are threatening to blow me up like a watermelon if I keep saying my I have a dream speech (I hope you remember that speech). No, he did not complain, he took what he had (which was his courage) and against all odds, gave Black Americans the lives they had today. Did you know that because of his sacrifice America had a black president for 8 years. So don't tell me anything about the country being messed up. Because if you have read books like Black boy you would have understand how black boys were been killed daily for looking at American girls the way she did not like.

Ruggedfitness:


If someone believes that the young boy is telling the bitter TRUTH then Nigeria is doomed, what could have happened if people like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates went into scamming. There could have been no iPhone, no facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, no Microsoft or windows.

Things were also hard for Steve Jobs and in that hardship he excelled, so there is no excuse

ollah1:




What happenend to those that stood against the Nigerian government?


Fela kuti
Ken Saro wiwa
Etc

Ruggedfitness:


If someone believes that the young boy is telling the bitter TRUTH then Nigeria is doomed, what could have happened if people like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates went into scamming. There could have been no iPhone, no facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, no Microsoft or windows.

Things were also hard for Steve Jobs and in that hardship he excelled, so there is no excuse

Ruggedfitness:


If someone believes that the young boy is telling the bitter TRUTH then Nigeria is doomed, what could have happened if people like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates went into scamming. There could have been no iPhone, no facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, no Microsoft or windows.

Things were also hard for Steve Jobs and in that hardship he excelled, so there is no excuse

Ruggedfitness:


Martin Luther King didn't start in one day... And he had people who were ready to believe and not people who are ready to claim its not easy.

sorom4:
Na SARS dey cause make people dey clamour for their end. The should do their work perfectly well without generalizing that everybody is a yahoo yahoo guy.
They are after all these yahoo guys and innocent youths to collect money from them and not to curb crime. #I SupportTheReformationOfNPF

sokera:
from all you have said I'm suspecting you don't live in Nigeria ... I have been to different countries in Asia and I'm a grassroot person in Nigeria, I visit Nigeria regularly and I relate with every common people on the street and I know what people are facing ... when you don't eat well you can never think well , you can never be creative to your expected efficiency... people are hungry, hungry man is a weak man , weak man can't fight , weak man can't protest for a very long time to achieve what he desired... you need to humble yourself to the grassroots so you can feel some of what people feel ... let me tell you a story of what happened to me just yesterday... I board on airpeace from Abuja to Lag yesterday and I decide to take commercial bus to my home at Abeokuta, I book cab to iyana ipaja from airport then join commercial bus going to Abeokuta from iyana ipaja, it's just 500 naira.. the bus left park 7:30pm it was a lively trip, we the passengers were sharing different kind of stories , experience about life , families,politics and sport then from what people were saying I get to understand the level of sufferness in the country , the frustration in peoples heart, the stress of life and the lost of hope ... mehn if you are able to go through what some people are going through just for one day then you will understand the struggle is real and the environment , Nigeria atmosphere is not helping peoples hustles ... if you are not living in Nigeria then don't just judge ...

Ruggedfitness:


First of all, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates used what they had to become great, it's that simple, use what you have and what you see around you. There is no excuse, you want to tell me that Bill Gates and Mark Zuck did not face challenges in their time. Or have you forgotten when Mark wanted to sell facebook so many times. or was it when Google want to be sold because its owners wanted to give up but stayed back. Or is for years when Twitter made no profit and there were big problems between the four founders.

America didn't become a great country in a day, America didn't become a great country because there were some people who kept comparing themselves to others better then them and kept saying. Oooh if I had light I could have done this... Oooh if the economy was good I could have done this. No .... Leaders like Abraham Lincoln, Kennedy and Martin Luther King took the bull by the horns and they paid with their lives and through their hardwork and sacrifice America is a World Power

Ruggedfitness:


Abraham Lincoln once stood in the 1800s, Kennedy stood in teh 1900 and so did Martin Luther King... Today there are many still standing. it is like training a child, no matter how old he gets, he will still need advice and training. So Fela Kuti, Ken Saro Wiwa have done their part, its time to us to continue

phlame:


What have U invented?

phlame:


What have U invented?

GavelSlam:
The boy dey para.

He made some points but I still believe the same laptop could be used positively.

There are a million learning aids online - from how to build shoes to cars to nuclear science.

One could learn to program, be a caligrapher, even write music notes.


Oga free dat talk.. wetin pass to make money with laptop which positive pass u no how many mouths him de feed with m like dis politicians de chop our money sara we de hail dem chairman

We can do better than cyber crime.

sokera:
was there anytime in America history that her citizen were unable to eat 1 meal a day ? Or the people had to go on the street to beg for food ? All those people fought for freedom , what to eat was never there problems , but in Nigeria what is eat is peoples problem... food is a big deal in Nigeria... brother wake up

Ruggedfitness:


Sir, I believe before you started using airplanes to make your trip, you treked or mostly used keke napep or Okada, now you are using airplanes that most Nigerians have never been in. What happened? how come? you simply worked hard and it payed off. Or did you sit at home complaining that twhen will I enter an airplane like Desmond Elliot and then one day you saw yourself in an airplane?? You simply worked hard

Jackson042:


Yes.. They used what they had to become great.. but did you ask how they used it?

Mark stole the access to his school's server & used it in hosting Facebook... After making money off it, he then paid for a hosting space & moved the site to the new host...

My question now is, wasn't it still thesame illegal means he used to become great? If he could have asked the school's permission before hosting on their server, do you think they would have agreed? Do you think he would have gotten the money to pay for his own hosting space? Do you think there will be anything ljke facebook today?

There is a saying.. the end justifies the means..

I'm not in support of yahoo... all I'm saying, is that the Mark, Bill & Steve still had shady means they used to achive their dreams...

In late 2003, Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg asked a Harvard student named Eduardo Saverin, a junior, to deposit $15,000 in a bank account that would be accessible to both of them. The money, Mark promised, would go toward the servers needed to host a site that Mark wanted to develop.

Ruggedfitness:


If someone believes that the young boy is telling the bitter TRUTH then Nigeria is doomed, what could have happened if people like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates went into scamming. There could have been no iPhone, no facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, no Microsoft or windows.

Things were also hard for Steve Jobs and in that hardship he excelled, so there is no excuse

sokera:
yes I still working hard , exactly what some of this cyber criminals are doing , some of them are very very talented , some of them started with crimes and now they are Business owners , some with creative investment ... you need to make your research about this boys yahoo yahoo boys , some of them turn around poverty in their family, some use what they get to educate themselves ... still i am not in support of cyber crime but the truth is that Nigeria is deep in corruption.. banks are corrupt, schools are corrupt, churches are corrupt, politicians are corrupt, hospitals , the judiciary system is corrupt and it almost like we are all making our big or little earn in a shady way in this country ... cyber criminals are attracting attention because of their lifestyle and how big they earn from the shady act ... but one way or the other we are all earning in a shady way in this country ... only few are innocent