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basty:
Idiot, come and go him, OSU Igbo, Lagos na yah papa land?

Lalasticlala, this guy just called me the I word.

Bros, ya make lots'a sense.

But, OP, seriously, how about if u r like me:

Rich, handsome, tall, intellectual, fit, talented, well-equipped sexually and a highly developed sexual performer, HOW DO I FIND A GIRL THAT WANTS ME FOR ME AND NOT FOR ANY OF THOSE THINGS??!!! That's my problem.

kingchris30:
money is good

emmycoA:
money is good

Ten Millionires Who Committed Suicide 

Is money really the answer to everything as we Nigerians tend to believe? - "Get rich or die trying"

The following men were all successful businessmen who committed suicide. The millions in their bank accounts did nothing to ease their suffering…

So, how do we explain that?

Ten Millionires Who Committed Suicide

by Julian Crowley

We live in a society filled with dreams and aspirations of wealth, a society that likes to believe that money will bring with it happiness and success. 
The following men were all successful businessmen who committed suicide. The millions in their bank accounts did nothing to ease their suffering…

10. Jonathan Wraith

Thirty-five-year-old Jonathan Wraith — a young British millionaire by virtue of selling his and his father’s portable cabin business for £30 million ($46 million) — was by all accounts a happy and well-adjusted young man. However, in 2009 he picked up his shotgun and shot himself, leaving no suicide note. No clear reason could be found for Wraith’s action, but there has been some speculation that he was extremely worried about his father David’s recent stroke. It seems that this may have proven too much for the young man to take.

9. Eli M. Black

Eli M. Black, whose death was immortalized on screen in the Coen Brothers comedy The Hudsucker Proxy, was a Jewish-American businessman and millionaire controller of the United Brands Company. An astute and forward thinking capitalist, Black’s career included stints with Lehman Brothers and then the American Seal-Kap Company, which he renamed AMK. The early ’70s saw AMK merge with United Fruit Company. With that, Black’s fate was sealed. His downfall was rooted in the discovery of his $2.5 million bribe offered to the President of Honduras, to reduce export taxes on bananas. Taking matters into his own hands before the scandal broke, Black climbed the 44 floors of his office building and leapt out onto crowded Park Avenue to the horror of onlookers below.

8. Huibert Boumeester

At 49, father-of-two Huibert Boumeester took his own life after becoming seriously depressed in the fallout of the £50 billion ($77 billion) takeover of ABN Amro by the Royal Bank of Scotland. The Dutch millionaire banker’s body was discovered in a woodland area several miles away from his home in London. A suicide note to his wife Frederique that was found on his body read that he could not “go on.” The coroner confirmed that Mr. Boumeester had ended his life while depressed, explaining: “He drove to a very isolated location in woodland, sat down and used the shotgun to end his own life.”

7. Christopher Foster

In August 2008, Christopher Foster, a 50-year-old British businessman, murdered his wife and daughter before burning down his house and killing himself. The businessman shot his wife Jillian and daughter Kirstie, prior to succumbing to smoke inhalation. Foster, wealthy by virtue of his company’s work creating oil rig insulation technology, was nevertheless beset by financial concerns. Despite being a millionaire residing in a five-bedroom country mansion, he was living beyond his means, with debts of £4 million ($6.2 million). It seems that, tragically, these financial worries may well have pushed him over the edge.

6. John Lawrenson

John Lawrenson was a successful businessman who lived in a £1.2 million ($1.8 million) mansion (the Old Rectory, above). He was healthy and seemingly happy, and had earned the right to enjoy the profits from a lucrative life in the publishing world. This all would have been fine, except for one thing: his beloved wife Caroline was dying of cancer. The devoted couple, married for 47 years, poisoned themselves with a substance bought via mail order from Mexico. A suicide note found near their bodies confirms the truth: Mr. Lawrenson could not bear the thought of living alone and decided to take the matter into his own hands.

5. Wayne Pai

Wayne Pai was a successful Taiwanese businessman, and founder and chairman of the securities broker the Polaris Group. In the wake of rumors of insider trading, the nevertheless well respected Pai was found dead in July 2008. His wife and members of Polaris’ staff flew to the outlying island of Penghu to assist police with their inquiries. Pai’s suicide came at a time when allegations were being made that a former president of National Chiao Tung University had been receiving regular payments from Polaris. Pai’s body was found floating in waters surrounding the outlying island.

4. Paul Castle

Paul Castle — a self-styled businessman and property tycoon who had met the Queen of England and played polo with Prince Charles — killed himself in 2010. The 54-year-old threw himself in front of a London Underground train, leaving no chance of survival. The businessman, described as a “workaholic,” had seen several property deals go awry over the last year of his life and had also lost capital in a gas and oil surveying company. Castle, who suffered from chronic heart problems and tumors, had been married three times and was due to be wedded for a fourth time, to his girlfriend Natalie Theo.

3. Peter Smedley

Peter Smedley was an enormously successful millionaire hotelier and businessman with a tinned food empire that provided him with a sizable income. He and his wife Christine — who had been married for 33 years — enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle befitting of their riches. However, Mr. Smedley was also an extremely ill man, suffering from motor neurone disease. He ended his life by his own volition, at an assisted dying organization, the Dignitas clinic, in Switzerland. In a further twist to the story, Mr. Smedley’s death was filmed by the BBC, with segments televised as part of documentary about assisted suicides.

2. Howard Worthington

In an alarming case of destructive emotion, self-proclaimed “lord of the manor” millionaire Howard Worthington shot himself with one of his prized shotguns just moments after shooting his lover Julie Rees. The 52-year-old English former businessman, who made his fortune in the steel industry, had been ordered to stay away from his £1.3 million ($2 million) country home after threatening her with a gun a few weeks prior. While Rees recovered, Worthington did not. Verdict: suicide.

1. ReiJane Huai

Long Island resident and computer software high flyer ReiJane Huai killed himself with a single shot in September 2011. The former president and CEO of FalconStor, a data storage company, had resigned suddenly in 2010 following a lawsuit filed against him. The millionaire committed suicide on the front lawn of the $2.5 million home he shared with his wife, ShuWen. The Taiwanese-born Huai — who had traveled to the USA to study in 1984 — had several adult children living in the US and was described as a “visionary and leader” by a FalconStor spokesman

BONUS:

German tycoon Adolf Merckle commits suicide

Merckle, who was the world’s 94th-richest person in 2008 according to Forbes magazine, spent his life building a business conglomerate with about 100,000 employees.

The empire was poised to come crashing down after his family made wrong-way bets on skyrocketing Volkswagen shares.

The family has been under pressure to sell some assets or seek bridging loans and has been in talks with banks for weeks.

“The desperate situation of his companies caused by the financial crisis, the uncertainties of the last few weeks and his powerlessness to act, have broken the passionate family entrepreneur and he took his own life,” a family statement said.

The 74-year-old industrialist died when a train struck him late on Monday, said prosecutors in the southern German town of Ulm, near Merckle’s home.
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Luxury is an addictive drug

The frugal blogger Mr. Money Mustache tells us that luxury is weakness. Luxury is an addictive drug. Until we understand this, it has the power to ruin our lives.

I remember driving my brand new luxury sports car and noticing that my identity was becoming tied up with the car. I realized that this super-expensive car would wear out and then I would need to buy another one. To keep my identity, I would need to keep generating a lot of money. It was like having a drug habit. The car didn't make me feel that good, but the idea of not having the car felt lame. So I realized that I would need to keep having that fix to feel normal.

This process of getting the drug to get back to normal is a common experience for drug addicts. Also, tolerance to the drug increases with abuse over time. An amount of the drug that was once satisfying starts to not have the desired effect. We find that we need more and more of the substance or experience to get back to normal.

The problem is that, as the U2 lyric goes, "You can never get enough of what you don't really need." Once you have the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, you start wishing for a Bentley Bentayga. The more luxury you have, the more luxury you need, but luxury never really satisfies the itch that it promises to scratch.

Luxury makes us feel successful, that we are winning at the game of life, that we are not only surviving, but thriving. Like an opioid in our brains, luxury locks into our survival receptors. The irony is that purchasing luxury, and being dependent on it for our sense of self and wellbeing, leads to us depleting the very resources that we actually need for survival.

It turns out that having the discipline to live frugally, to invest rather than spend, to mend and make do, and to be able to live for longer and longer periods of time without having to work, are true measures of wealth. Deeply enjoying whatever it is you're experiencing right now is the ultimate wealth.

The people who are on the nine-to-five treadmill, working to pay for luxury cars to drive for two hours per day to and from work, are really on a luxury treadmill. These people are addicted to luxury.
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Being wealthy is a full-time job

There's a foolish impression that once you have a lot of money, you can kick back and relax. To some degree this is true. You can have more choice, and you can buffer situations in your life to some degree. However, once you have assets you have to manage them, protect them, and maintain them. You need to worry about being sued, so you need insurance. You need to hire people to do stuff for you, and you need to manage them. Delegation is really hard.

If you're not careful, you will make your life more complex, with more things, and more activities. Perhaps you will use spending money and buying things as a cheap way of avoiding self-awareness. Perhaps you will become obsessed with hoarding your money and maximizing its growth.

Some people become very suspicious of other people, not trusting that they really have friends, thinking that others are trying to get at their wealth. Even with the best intentions, others will seek funding and support from you. They want you to invest in their businesses and projects. They want to borrow money. All of this is a massive strain on your ability to be aware of your boundaries, and avoid being co-dependent or enabling.

It's really challenging being wealthy. Approach with caution.
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Follow the path of least resustance

I remember spending all day sitting next to one of the founders of the company. He was a grey-haired, old-timer of Sun Microsystems, yet a trail-blazer in the new realm of synthesizing computer logic in chips. He was the VP of Engineering at this little start-up. He’s now a mega-millionaire, perhaps even a billionaire.

We worked effortlessly, seemingly endlessly, late into the night. I showed him test-cases that my random 3D triangle generator had produced, which broke his graphics engine, making it behave differently from our model. He fixed the bugs, while I watched him code. I learned so much from him about being a principled engineer, about how to create quality code. I was so excited about what we were doing that I couldn’t stop working.

I won’t go into the details here, but I continued to follow this flow of excitement and enthusiasm, and it led me to becoming an employee of that start-up, making a ton of money, and gaining masses of experience.

I didn’t apply this principle in all areas of my life back then, so I only experienced the benefits of it in a small domain: my career. Later on, I also become fearful of losing what I had, and started to make choices that were not in alignment with the path of least resistance. These choices led to much less beneficial outcomes.

I have been learning more each day how to notice when I am experiencing resistance, where the path of least resistance is, and then flowing with that. I am learning to keep on pivoting, no matter how much success I have achieved, into the next path of least resistance.

Some people say, “follow your bliss.” I always found this statement irritating. A statement that resonates much more strongly for me is, “trust your good feelings.” Trust your excitement, your enthusiasm, your happiness, your playfulness, and your curiosity. All of these feelings are associated with flow, with the flow of your energy. When you engage with them, everything in your life will flow more easily.

When you perseverate on the thoughts that lead to unpleasant feelings, and you take actions in an attempt to stop those unpleasant feelings, it generally leads to less adaptive outcomes. Unpleasant feelings include fear, anger, loneliness, and jealousy. Bring yourself back to asking “what would I like?” and then notice where your pleasant, flowing feelings lead you. Trust those feelings.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Don't work for money ... you will never be happy'

Apple CEO Tim Cook has some advice for college students obsessed only with pursuing a career for the paycheck: Think different.

"My advice to all of you is, don't work for money — it will wear out fast, or you'll never make enough and you will never be happy, one or the other," Cook says.

"You have to find the intersection of doing something you're passionate about and at the same time something that is in the service of other people," he says.

"I would argue that, if you don't find that intersection, you're not going to be very happy in life."
Buhariself, kapelvej

bionixs:
you close the means of livelihood of a man, starve his family,scuttle the chances of having his children educated and your own children is abroad or in the best international schools. You eat rice with goat meat pepper soup under air-conditioned apartment,sending police to do this whack job. Let God teach you a bitter lesson and destroy all your efforts

Ami o!

I bet u what the FOOL Ambode is thinking is that there are no okadas in US, and no hawkers.

#AMBODE MUST GO!!!
He and his little, arrogant, priest-sacking wife.

Remember his wife had an Anglican priest sacked because she had to stand in line to give offering like everybody else.

Little arrogant people.

AMBODE stop copy copy govt.
Nigeria is not America!!!

Antichristus:
AFRICAN CHURCH NOT ANGLICAN CHURCH. THE FORMER BROKE AWAY FROM THE LATTER OVER A CENTURY AGO.

Broke away or not, they are still called Anglican church all over the world. Sometimes called Anglican church, Nigerian communion. Any church in Africa is African church. It is meaningless.


#AMBODE MUST GO!!!
He and his little, arrogant, priest-sacking wife.

Remember his wife had an Anglican priest sacked because she had to stand in line to give offering like everybody else.

Little arrogant people.

AMBODE stop copy copy govt.
Nigeria is not America!!!

IgbosAreOsus:
Shut up

OSU ALUSI

Oh, maybe u r Igbo. Which would make sense since your moniker is not much of an insult to Igbos.

castrol180:
vote for them again and see the worst...

#AMBODE MUST GO!!!
He and his little, arrogant, priest-sacking wife.

Remember his wife had an Anglican priest sacked because she had to stand in line to give offering like everybody else.

Little arrogant people.

AMBODE stop copy copy govt.
Nigeria is not America!!!

solutionist:
I was there too. I witnessed it. Yes. The police shot severally into the air to scare off the Okada riders whose okadas were seized. Nobody can ascertain the actual number of police. But they were in very huge numbers.

Yes. The population of Okada is much around there. But what do you expect when there are no motorable roads from Berger to places like Akute/Ajuwon. With the terrible state of the Berger/Alagbole/Akute road, how are commuters suppose to commute to and from work?

With the absence of motorable road or a more decent alternative, this is just a case of government playing to the gallery.

#AMBODE MUST GO!!!
He and his little, arrogant, priest-sacking wife.

Remember his wife had an Anglican priest sacked because she had to stand in line to give offering like everybody else.

Little arrogant people.

AMBODE stop copy copy govt.
Nigeria is not America!!!

junkiesneverdie:
Tomorrow una go say thieves plenty for Lagos when you take away people's source of livelihood and you dont provide an
alternative what do you expect them to do??

AMBODE MUST GO!!!
He and his little, arrogant, priest-sacking wife.

Remember his wife had an Anglican priest sacked because she had to stand in line to give offering like everybody else.

Little arrogant people.

AMBODE stop copy copy govt.
Nigeria is not America!!!

Sagay212:
LOL UNA NEVER SEE ANYTHING. BY THE TIME THEY FRUSTRATE AND KILL ALL OF YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, THE ONES WHO ARE LUCKY TO BE ALIVE WILL LEARN TO USE THEIR BRAIN. CONTINUE TO CHANT 'ITESIWAJU EKO AND AMBODE FOR SECOND TERM' THIS ONE YOU ARE SEEING IS TESTING TESTING. UNA GO SUFFER LIKE SAY NA HELL FIRE UNA DEY.

AMBODE MUST GO!!!
He and his little, arrogant, priest-sacking wife.

Remember his wife had an Anglican priest sacked because she had to stand in line to give offering like everybody else.

AMBODE stop copy copy govt.
Nigeria is not America!!!

mandate12:
After typing, u should proof-read before posting. Now u started by saying 'Ambode must go'.. Then u went ahead to talk about his wife and an Anglican priest.. U got bereaved of words and found urself again saying 'Ambode stop ...

That said, now rate your sanity

Have u lost your mind?
The Ambode guy is mindlessly copying America.
I wrote: "Ambode stop copy copy. Nigeria is not America". Are u ok?

#AMBODE MUST GO!!!
He and his little, arrogant, priest-sacking wife.

Remember his wife had an Anglican priest sacked because she had to stand in line to give offering like everybody else.

AMBODE STOP COPY, COPY
Nigeria is not America!!!

IgbosAreOsus:
Foolishness


Every fool knows what a white man means

I'd advise u change this your monkey simply because u don't know what "osu" means (if you did you'd realise your moniker makes no sense)
Define osu. What do Igbos mean by osu

Ok, what should we fry? (Please don't say okpa).

Actually it's a very inspiring story.

But how about people who ate okpa for ten years and are still poor and still eating it today??

IgbosAreOsus:
Number five shows that you're still a kid.

What is the meaning of white man?

Does any human beings have white skin color?

Stupidity. Everybody knows what we mean by white man, black man, empty cup (no cup is actually empty - it's full of air), etc.

We thought OP's would know basic English grammar.

Makes sense.

I dedicate this FTC to all those working diligently and patiently behind the scenes to TOSS AMBODE OUT OF OFFICE.

AMBODE stop copy copy govt.
Nigeria is not America!!!

#AMBODE MUST GO!!!
He and his little, arrogant, priest-sacking wife.

Remember his wife had an Anglican priest sacked because she had to stand in line to give offering like everybody else.

Little arrogant people.

#AMBODE MUST GO!!!

AntiWailer:
8 of his children has PHD ?

Waoo

Google:

Showing results for:  how many children does obasanjo have?


Olusegun Obasanjo/Children/Count

6

Children: Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, Adeboye Obasanjo, Gbenga Obasanjo, Dare Obasanjo, more

Eagba:
i'm a progressive nigerian

Hence your "foreign student" sermon

Eagba:
educational tourism is a big business and its capable of sustaining any economy. Think well

Eagba:
foreign students

Must be a really despirate foreign student who ends up in Imo state.

biobio111:
I hate Rocha's, but in this case. I will score him 100% he don't say that the State government will build 20 university needed in IMO State but he recommended lord chosen university and also open a door for other investors to invest in it State to meet his goals. Enugu State have more than 20 tertiary institution in State. If church like Catholic, Anglican, Assemble of God, Grace of God, Chris Embassy, Dominion City and so on. Other firm like Orange Drug School of Pharmacy, Neul school of pharmacy and so on. Zinox Institute of computer, play boy university owerri, IMO must hammer university owerri (internet fraud) and Rocha's okorocha university of 419 and so on

@bolded u r a funny guy. No, they got too many basic problems, like paying workers. Let them solve those first

Eagba:
it still can be done. First pull the med surg department out and make it a world class school. Invariably making it a university of its own. Thereby, making foreign students to shoulder most of the cost.

Must be a really despirate foreign student who ends up in Imo state.

Eagba:
imo state have more than 4m people. And educational tourism is a good business

Source: google

Imo state has approximately 3.9 million people

Imo state has a population ofapproximately 3.9 million people, according to the 2006 census. The population is predominantly Igbo (98%). The capital city of Owerri is the largest in the state. Imo is made up of 27 Local Government Areas (LGAs).Aug 16, 2015

BiafraIShere:
Lol, are you kidding me? California actually generates more than the whole country combined On topic, Rochas is right. Imo state university seekers is higher than ten states combined in the North and has been leading the country for donkey years now! So if any state in Nigeria needs universities it is certainly Imo state. FYI, he is referring to other churches and private individuals to come and build universities in Imo state instead of churches like Winners chapel using our tithe and offering to build university in Ghana and other places when Igbos constitute a majority of his membership base.

Thats an understatement.
State of California's GDP: 58,687
The whole of Nigeria's GDP: 2,714

What they do have in Imo state u can't really call universities internationally. I can honestly say Imo state has no universities.

Quoran:
If you had done your research, you won't even compare California with Imo state. California as a state has many institutions.
Have you asked yourself why it Is so? The resources of California can cater for that.

For your information, you don't establish universities because you simply want to cater for the growing number of applicants. It must serve a purpose. IMSU is in shambles. Rochas stated building two universities. What's the progress update on it?

California's GDP: 58,687
Nigeria's GDP: 2,714

Navalsadiq:
oga they should increase their capacity on the already existing universities and not more universities as proposed they should fist manage the high rate of cultism and prostitutio amongst the teaming students. Don't compare IMO to owerri because they have a concrete structure on ground to combat all excesis.

I have to admit u r right. 
I was only looking strictly at the numbers.

What they do have in Imo state u can't really call universities internationally. I can honestly say Imo state has no universities.

eTECTIVe:
How can U? How many of d universities in d state can compete with others nationally talk more of internationally.. Whats d use of having 20 more wen d few u have are not up to standard?

I have to admit u r right. 
I was only looking strictly at the numbers.

What they do have in Imo state u can't really call universities internationaly. I can honestly say Imo state has no universities.

Abagworo:
This is the real news

Whose 10m did he give them? From whose pocket?
THIEF!

eTECTIVe:
Think Before U type...

Source: Google

California doesn't wait on Washington DC for revenue and generates far more than many States in Nigeria combined...

Why are some of U always quick to compare Nigeria and America? How are we d same ?

Forget all that. You worry too much.
Only look at the numbers and ask yourself, if California can have 300 why can't we have 20?

AFONJAPIG:
bros we must count 1 before we count 10 ... how many of these schools in IMO are up to standard can u compare any of them with smallest university in South Africa ,Ghana even Kenya of yesterday, we shud first put the one we have in order before creating another one's

I have to admit u r right.
I was only looking strictly at the numbers

oluwaahmed:
This man needs to go for a drug test.

Rochas is right. Research b4 u talk.

Source: Google

California has 264 Four Year Colleges and Universities and 745 Community Colleges, and Trade Schools. California is home to many great cities in the US and similarly many universities.

ROCHAS IS ONLY TALKING ABOUT 20

Quoran:
If you had done your research, you won't even compare California with Imo state. California as a state has many institutions.
Have you asked yourself why it Is so? The resources of California can cater for that.

For your information, you don't establish universities because you simply want to cater for the growing number of applicants. It must serve a purpose. IMSU is in shambles. Rochas stated building two universities. What's the progress update on it?

Well I did more research.
California has 40m people, Imo state has 4m.
All things being equal, how many Universities should Imo state have?