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First published: https://citizensquare.substack.com/p/transfer-season-may-the-highest-bidder

Eyo Charles of Daily Trust may have asked the most important question in Nigerian politics. A question so powerful that can see a public servant descend to put up an infantile show of shame. That question, paraphrased, is oga, who is bankrolling you?

Eyo would not believe his ears when he posed this question to Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK), Nigeria’s former aviation minister. FFK needs no introduction as a fierce and virulent critic of this administration. On many occasions, he has made bold declarations that he would rather die than join forces with the All-Progressives Congress which he termed as a “filthy, rat-infested sinking ship”.

Today, FFK joins the long list of high-profile political reshuffling between the leading political parties, the All-Progressive Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). FFK claims his change of heart came as a result of a supernatural conviction from God. Towing the same religious reference, Reuben Abati likens FFK to Saul — a persecutor of Christians who received a supernatural encounter from God in Damascus leading to his conversion. He became a key figure in the Church and wrote almost two-thirds of the New Testament. We expect that the mouth that has so vilified Buhari and the “rat-infested” APC would begin to declare “their good news” to the ends of the earth.

Nigerians are not strangers to induced Damascus moments among the political class. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo once offered a glowing recommendation to the political job market: “Femi Fani-Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He’s a smart boy”. FFK would assent to this sentiment as he chorused that proximity to power mattered more than principles in an interview

There you go, FFK is a lousy portrait of Nigeria’s political scene. Nigerian politics is void of ideology and mainly guided by personal interests. The belly (personal interests), not the brain (ideological persuasions), is the trafficator of their political actions. It decides what song they sing per time – as Obasanjo illustrated. Recent political moves have also uncovered a political truth that the name of the incumbent party is a strong tower, looters run into it, and they become saints.

Nigerians are swayed by sweet-sounding empty rhetoric like “change”, “transformation”, “progress”, “federalism” that holds nothing for the citizenry but privately benefits these political messengers. Thank you Eyo Charles for suggesting via that “deeply insulting question” that no one is above bankrolling in Nigerian politics.

If Charles Newton could make an observation on Nigerian politics, his first law of motion would come in handy “a body at rest stays at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an external force.” For every unusual motion or lack of motion by Nigerian politicians, Eyo Charles teaches us to probe what external forces are at play. Fixing this messy scene would require that Nigerians replace the blind adulations of “Twale baba oo” offered to political entrepreneurs to “Sòrò sókè, who is bankrolling you?”

Please read this piece on FFK and the current political transfer season: https://citizensquare.substack.com/p/transfer-season-may-the-highest-bidder

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Hi House,

I hope we had a cool trading week.

I am on the look out for stockbroking, stock analysis & portfolio investing courses in Nigeria. I would very grateful if I can be pointed in any direction. I have attempted Google search but it is bearish

Thanks alot

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Mass Communication in CU is not beans at all.

It is blood and sweat. They travel around the nation for assignments and projects

And for the information of all, the average CU graduate has 1-5 professional certifications. Are you trying to tell me that they also bought this?

Accounting students as at 200L are done with ATS and by the time of graduation have ICAN some ACAA

Talk of NIPR or APCON certifications for Mass communication students

Other engineering certifications like COREN and stuffs.

All 100L students are made to undertake professional exams in a zero-unit course, CIT (MOS, SAP, CCNA, etc) These children reasoning at a dangerous frequency. You need to hold an intellectual conversation with the right CU student.

Tell me how you want to rival with CU graduates in the job market.

And all CU students have a working knowledge of startups and have been part of 1 or 2 during their studentship.

Should we talk of their Core values.

hustla:
This is POVERTY MENTALITY
Nigerians love and think you have to suffer head before you get anything in life

I went to this same CU and there has been only 1 first class graduate from the Department of Mass Communication till date (I'm not sure that has changed)

How can u easily have a first class in public universities when

-Cultists will chase you up and down
-No conducive environment, hostels look like where they rear Pigs
-Classes are meh, 200 students in a hall that's supposed to accommodate 90 students
-Lecturers are interested in sleeping with students or selling textbooks. Some don't even Come to class
- You can not walk up to your HOD /VC to have a discussion
- Lecturers see themselves as God
- Lecturers use the same outdated material year in year out

If you have ever left Naija, you'll see how real education is supposed to look like and you'll see how far Covenant University has Come.

During My IT while I was in 200 Level, I was assigned to Hnd Polytechnic students to help in correcting their English before it goes on air (news articles).. Those students made me thank my stars for the school I went to.

Quote me if I have lied anywhere in my Reply

Hello House,

Is Notore chemicals getting your BUY approval?

What application do you use to trade Nigeria stocks?

Good day all,

Please I am a year old in the stock market (I guess I am a toddler)

Please I notice how you guys buy and sell stocks at almost the speed of light. Please I find it hard because I use a broker and The process is always flawed.

Please may I know which application/program you use to trade?

Please I would like suggestions to help me. I am in need of this badly.

To the Greatness of all,
Thanks

Cc: onegentleguy

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I admire the work of Jideams and YerYer on this thread. I am forced to read this thread from beginning to the end. Really insightful!

Sir just a few questions, I will like to trade US Stocks but I have little . Which platform can I use to get started like a reliable online broker with little commission?

What Penny Stocks can I start with?

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Tuesday Chapel Service for students from 300 level to 500 level students took an unexpected twist today as almost a thousand male students had to part with their hair.


The inspection exercise headed by the Dean of Student Affairs, Dr Timothy Anake was described as largely insensitive and not well thought as many of the affected students had final year project defense today.

Some people made humor of this encounter describing Covenant University students as reverse avatars. Some even claimed that the red sea Moses parted now lies on the head of CU student. Some even made a parody of the university vision calling it Vision Bald 2022

This happened as a result of the chancellor’s annoyance at the just concluded Easter youth alive camp where students were not in possession of hard copy bibles — meanwhile digital bibles were allowed.

Source: http://thecircuit.ng/2018/04/03/covenant-university-forcefully-scraps-students-hair/

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Geofavor:
Whether it was spelt in lower case, upper case, or middle case, you wouldn't get a mention notification. It's so because of the amount of people being mentioned concurrently.

Thanks for the enlightenment

Sir Richiez

I'm grateful for making the shortlist. I didn't get a mention because my username was spelt in lowercase. The correct form is (10. AdoptedSon)

Thanks in anticipation

Miss Chinaemerem Peculiar Ubani, a 400 level Marketing student of Covenant University, has been awarded best marketing student in Nigeria in a competition jointly organized by National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) and Unilever Nigeria PLC.

Finish Reading: http://thecircuit.ng/2018/01/21/covenant-university-student-wins-top-prize-in-marketing-competition/

Institution: Covenant University

level: 200L

Course: Mass Communication

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I joined Fiverr on September 2015 and have generated over 6 million naira from it.

Prior to joining, I used to get angry with my friend who was a freelancer on Fiverr.

We were running an offline joint-venture business back then. Every minute he could steal from time, he will quickly log in to Fiverr to do what I didn’t know.

Back then, I always saw Fiverr as a $5 marketplace and I couldn’t imagine how he would always dedicate more time to his Fiverr account instead of our offline business which was making us good money…..(so I thought).

I didn’t miss any opportunity to make joke of him for slaving away on Fiverr and he wasn’t deterred at all by it……possibly he’d be laughing at me in his mind.

It was not until my fiancé finished school and was looking for what could keep her busy that the veil covering my eyes was removed.

I told my friend to teach her Fiverr so she could keep herself busy with it.

Her first month on Fiverr, she made $450.
That was huge compared to the time she spent on it.

It was then that I knew that there was something big happening in Fiverr and that was possibly why my friend gave good attention to it.

This was in 2014.

Fast-forward to 2015, our joint venture business started going down and I needed another supplementary income lest I go hungry.
My friend told me to come over to Fiverr and I lazily agreed.

My first month on Fiverr, I made $950……double of my income in the offline business I was running.

What really drew me in wasn’t really the money, but the fact that I wasn’t bothered about overhead, paying staff, going on marketing, etc. I just stayed back in the office, worked few hours per day and that was all.

I became really obsessed with Fiverr that I had to close down my offline business to focus on Fiverr…..that was very silly to many people, but it wasn’t to me.

Fast forward to 2017, I have earned as high as $3,000 in some months, with my lowest month being $850.

I want to share five important lessons I learnt from Fiverr. I believe if you learn it from me and apply it, you can earn a full time income, bigger than what many WORKING CLASS people earn.

Here are the five lessons:

1. More money is made in the upsell:

If you are in the internet marketing space, you will understand the importance of upsell.

Let me use a practical example to explain what an upsell is.

When you order a product from Amazon or Ebay, you would see something like: “those who bought this product also bought this”.

The try to show you other products you might possibly need based on your current purchase. They know you are still in the mood of buying and so may possibly buy more.

With this, they make more money from you while they can.

The same thing applies to Fiverr.

Each service you render on Fiverr will invariably have lots of interrelated service.
For example, I’m copywriter on Fiverr and I know that anyone who hires me to write the content of their sales page, will invariably need email copies and squeeze page copies.

So when you place the order for a sales page copy, I will quickly respond to you, thanking you for placing the order and recommending those other services to you. I won’t just recommend, I will tell you reasons why you need them if you want to maximize your sales and conversion.
Most times, the client agrees because they just bought and so I’ll make more money than I would have normally gotten from the client.
This has enabled me earn up to $700 from a single client in one order.

You can also apply this and see how your revenue will increase, even when your client base is not increasing.

Another method of using this is through gig extras.
Add all those upsells in your gig extra so the buyer can easily see it and make a choice.
If they don’t, then you communicate and convince the buyer yourself as I described above.

2. Don’t rely on Fiverr traffic

Fiverr sure has a lot of traffic that can help you get sales. But if you are serious about growing your sales and revenue, you don’t need to rely on Fiverr traffic.

The millions of traffic that Fiverr gets monthly is not for you alone. It is meant to be shared among the thousands of freelancers they have on their platform.

What is the probability that you will get a good chunk of that traffic to your gigs?

Of course, you can use some Fiverr SEO tactics to receive more visits to your gigs, but you should bear in mind that Fiverr algorithm for gig ranking keeps changing too and what you did today to get yourself ranked, might make you enter the second page by tomorrow.

Many top sellers on Fiverr have been hit by these algorithm changes, so you are not immune to it.

The best thing for you is to optimize your gig for Fiverr searches and in addition, get more traffic direct to your gig from outside Fiverr.

Use social media, forums and even paid ads to get more targeted traffic to your gigs.

Trust me that many business owners don’t even know about Fiverr. When you reach out to them through these platforms and let them know they can get a high quality service at a cheaper price on Fiverr, they will quickly move to it.

37% of my Fiverr revenue comes from clients who saw my gig from outside the Fiverr platform.

You can also use this tactics to make more sales and revenue even if Fiverr changes their algorithm every day.

3. Bidding early matters a lot…being 10th or down isn’t cool

On Fiverr, I’m not just a seller (freelancer), I also buy services there too. So I have had the opportunity of seeing things from both the buyer and the seller end.

When you visit the buyer request section, you will see over 20 sellers bidding on a single project.

For the buyer, they are usually overwhelmed with requests and so they end up interacting with the first 5-10 bidders. The buyer might even make a buying decision from the first or second bidder.

What this means is that if you want to increase your chances of getting the job, make sure you frequent the buyer request section and always bid on request as soon as possible so that you will be among the first five persons to bid.

That way, the buyer may see you and consider you among his options when making a buying decision.

Additionally, make sure your bidding proposal stands out with its content, else the buyer will just ignore your post and go for other bidders.

4. Your gig package is meant to hoodwink the seller to pay more

Fiverr introduced the gig packages last year and that to me is one of the best updates they have done since I joined them in 2015.

The three gig packages enable you to charge your clients higher amount for more services. It’s meant to make your buyer prefer to pay higher hoping to get more quality at lesser amount.

For example, if you offer article writing services, your basic package could be 100 word SEO article for $5. The next package would be 500 words for $15, while the third package would be 1000 words for $25.

This way, your client would think that 1000 words is the best since he will get more value (1000 words) for less ($25 instead of $50). So they will probably ignore the $5 and go for the $25.

This is how I package my gigs to make the buyer happily pay more.

Repurpose your gig packages so that your buyers see more value in paying you more.

5. You must see Fiverr as a real business

One of my most favorite business quotes is this: “if you want your business to give you full time income, then you must give it full time attention”.

If you want to make a sizeable income from Fiverr, then be ready to see and treat it like a real business.

By this, I mean that you should spend good enough time getting new customers both within and outside Fiverr platform. You should also endeavor to over-satisfy your clients by delivering quality service on time all the time.

Quality and on-time delivery will lead to your clients referring you to their friends offline….it has happened to me multiple times.

Even though, I now work less on Fiverr (I don’t drive external traffic to my gigs and I don’t even visit the buyer request section again) due to other internet businesses I’m trying to learn, I still get a considerable amount of sales and revenue from Fiverr.

Fiverr is not just a place for $5 jobs; you can make a full-time living from it if you will take time to learn more about it in addition to the lessons I just shared with you here.

If you want to learn how I did it, CLICK HERE

Good luck to you.

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