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Eazee-e:
D writter of dis article is not in anyway saying Boko is Haram but simply saying d bitter truth about d educational system in d con3 which has no single relationship with productivity & d reality of d african setting. Imagine d over N87 billion demanded by ASUU in d name of salaries n allowances instead of compelling d govt 2 make education more practical n in line with our peculiar society. Y is everybody so much concern about d foreign religions n not d reality on ground? Y are we deceiving ourselves with a system that is not working?

hahahahaha.
Thanks for your insight!

The ASUU strike is for nothing else other than "handouts" from the government.
Do you know what? Without the salaries, most of the lecturers cannot survive.
Now, these lecturers end up reproducing their type! Like begets like! Ninety something percent of our graduates are looking for "handouts"! We are not trained to be "problem solvers", rather we are trained to be "salary earners". Unfortunately, the only viable "industry" we have in Africa is politics! This is why the Nigerian National Assembly is "Multi Billion Industry"! This was why OBJ wanted to create "3rd term", this why African Presidents wants to rule forever!

Our Engineers, Lawyers, Doctors, Lecturers and all other professionals are all fighting over "juicy" appoints!
It is terrible!

prof.femi:
@OP, you sound like someone who has a lot of passion, but I think your energies are being wasted on what appears to be some quixotic sentiments. You said: "Africa must stop food importation!"

Can I ask you this: HOW? Specifically how?

Thank you.

We should grow our food.
We can produce our rice, our fish, our goat, our milk, our fruit juice, our wine, our etc,

The more we import, we poorer we become. The buy will always have less while the seller will always have poor.
Poverty in Africa is fueled by the massive importations!
If we must must cars and electronics, why must we import rice?

PAGAN 9JA:
^yes true but if you are school, you better continue studies for now.

later on, you can help bring about a change.

we are not living in an idealistic world. the world is in a bad shape today.

This effort is to initiate some change, if our people can open their mind to receive the message.
We should look into our peculiar problems and fashion out the type of education that will help to solve them.

PAGAN 9JA:
OP I SALUTE YOU! YOU HAVE RAISED A VERY CONTROVERSIAL AND GOOD TOPIC.

ADDED TO THAT , YOU HAVE THE DEEP INSIGHT.

my friends in Nairaland, don't misjudge the OP. Its not education that is faulty, but todays "branded education" , which has put all non-white nations today, at the whim of western universities.

We must break free from this monopoly. today its very difficult for an average Nigerian to get a really well-paid job according to internation standards, without having a foreign degree.

It is this MONOPOLY that is certainly holding not just Africa, but also Asian and other countries by the throat.

Thanks comrade!
We must as a matter of fact, start "educating" and motivating our people to break away from mental slavery.
the purpose of school is to improve our socio-economic value and not to deplete it.
Our education today is more of paper work than problem solving.

there is hunger in Africa, how has education helped us out?
our education is more paper and more papers!
There is no relationship between our schools and our real life.
Graduates come out with high hopes only to come out and meet a "strange" world!

We need to tell ourselves the truth. this system is not working at all

Lordlexy: What is the importance of education when you are unproductive or lack the ability to translate what you learned into productive output. Education in this part of the world makes ppl lazy, proud, boastful and unproductive. A road side mechanic never been to school, yet we depend on them to fix our cars even the so called engr need a mechanic to change his oil, what about the food we eat? Where does it come from? From a suppose 'illiterate' peasant farmer. So, who is fooling who. I appreciate critical thinking than this bsc, phd etc full of grammer with no substance. Isn't it a mearage that we have over 30million professors with almost nothing to show for. Our education presently is to speak big grammer and wait for a white collar job and if it doesn't come, all the qualification becomes tittle. More attention should be given to the peasant farmers and mechanics we have around us, they are the future. We can trust them to bring the much needed transformation we yearn for. Little exposure, and we would be there.

I am humbled by your passion!
th elites (the educated) might not be aware of it, but the ugly truth is that the peasant farmers, the mechanics, the painters, etc are the ones fanning our dying economy. Yet, it is not late, our call is for a mental shift.

It is time for Africa to rise and shine. We can start by having the will to grow our won food.

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Osgilliat: Africa problem is that we did not combine the education we derived from them with our basic practice instead we neglected the agriculture and embrace the education which is not wrong but the combination will have been superior.

Now I have someone who understands!
Thanks a million for understanding.

Ingenuity = Productivity.

Ingenuity + Education = Increased and Improved productivity.

What we have is "education" alone, ingenuity is thrown to the gutter.

This is the bane of our backwardness!

soul_glo: Some education is needed whether we like it or not. No one forced anyone to drop their hoes and cutlasses. I think it is time Africans stopped blaming other people for all their problems.

We are not blaming the Whiteman for our predicament.
We are saying that we as Africans should accept our responsibility because we missed it.
There is nothing wrong with education, education is needed, but the purpose should have been to enhance our productivity.

rash47: Fixed,needn't say more. China,malaysia,singapore were colonised what is essential to african now is a complete overhaul of our superstructure;from culture,to law,basic education,bussineses(inoavtion),socio/politics,science,ethics and rule of law.

Incidentally, that is the heart of the matter.
Those who see the article as condemning education only had a problem reading between the lines.
Our educational system should be overhauled. Education must be to help us to improve our socio-economic values and not to be moving around flaunting papers called certificates with the hopes of getting hand outs from whosoever!

With education, we must produce enough food, it is time we start making ou won cars, electronics, etc.
China is doing it, what is stopping us?

ebamma: maybe the op is based abroad, my garri is cultivated, produced and harvested in ijebu, my rice is produced in zamfara, my beans in sokoto, my yam in benue,apart from frozen fish, there is no food we don't produce in this country

OP is Nigeria!
The Ijebu garri, the Zamfara rice, the sokoto beans and the benue yam are produced by the older generation who are illiterates. The educated folks are all in ties and suits.

We are saying that education should have helped us to improve in the production of these foods, both in quality and in quantity.

When this old generation passes on, then we shall have the hunger.

lomprico: then ur article should be about the poor state of the nigerian educational system and not condeming Education as a whole.

The article never condemned education!
the article is simply asking why do we abandon our ingenuity simply because we are "educated"

Ingenuity = Productivity
Education = Improvement on Ingenuity = Improvement on our productivity.

Now, education - productivity = stupidity.

It is not the "poor state of Nigerian educational system", it is rather the "poor state of the average African Mentality" who thinks that his ability to read and write is all that is needed to make him great!

omenka: In summary, you just told us Boko is Haram!

No sir!
In summary, I am telling us that, we need to redefine the goal of education!
Is it to get a certificate or to become productive?
The knowledge we acquire in school, is it enough to make us to become a productive force?
Are we trained to become creative and open minded?
Most of our graduates are short circuited in thoughts and we need to change the trend.

Boko is not haram, but when boko makes one to become stupid, then we must look at such boko again.

deor03: This was how Boko haram started o. @OP Abeg, We need education.

The same White guys that came to Africa, went to Asia and south America. They are doing fine today.

We're always looking for whom to blame for our inadequacies

If all you have understood so far is that i am saying that we dont need education, apologies are mine.
Yet, please note clearly that the heart of the matter is this:

Education should help us to improve and not to retrogress. We need to review to our approach to education.
Our education today is focused on certificates and not productivity.
We learn definitions upon definitions without the ability to design and produce.
It is time to rise up.

Kay-Dee:
You make it sound like education brings a negative effect when the problem is people not using it properly.
Education doesn't keep you from being open minded. In some places, college professors encourage you to challenge them and when you teach them your ideas, they listen attentively . That's open-mindedness, thinking outside the box and coming up with new ideas. It's up to you to apply your education in a way that it puts bread on your table using what you learnt in the classroom.
The only thing the technician TV repairer has over you is his 'priceless' experience but if you have equal practical experience to go with your MS and BS degrees, you won't be on the same level.

Your logic is sound and great, except.....

The realities are contrary. Technology is too far, let us focus on Agriculture.
Why can't we grow our won foods?

Anyway, we are not saying that "Education" brings negative effects, we are saying that we should review the African approach to education.

We should redefine the goal of education.
Is it to have certificates or is it to become productive?
Our education today is clearly has nothing to do with productivity. It is as simple as getting certificates.
We must do something now.

tpia@:
Google dear.

I should google the food we export or the why there is so much hunger here?
State your facts.

tpia@:
Very simplistic.


There's no country in the world which doesnt import food.

Which and which food does Nigeria export to which and which country?

Emm, please, why is there poverty and hunger in Nigeria and indeed Africa?

Kay-Dee:
The white man practices the same education and is putting it to good use. Even with all the oil in Texas, they have very large farms and are producing food, same cannot be said of our dear Nigeria. Did the so called white man teach us to use education in a different way ?

We are told to work hard at school, graduate with a good grade so we can get a good job!
Everybody wants a good job: a job without "stress" and it must be the so called white collar job. so, our Professors in Agriculture cannot produce corn or rice. They work for government, they get salary and then they go to the market to buy imported rice.

We are not necessarily blaming the whiteman, we should take our own responsibility. We threw away our critical reasonings and traded them for certificates and nothing else. Education should have helped us to improve on what we are doing, but we abandoned whatever it was we were doing and hold unto "education" alone.

Name 5 cash crops is not the same as selling crops to get cash. Emphasis should be on producing and selling the cash crops and not on just "naming" them!

Horus: The African school education system is completely warped. In Africa today in the school education system they teach children that mankind is about two million years old. Yet in that same African continent bones where found of Africans 28 Million years old. They continue to follow the European school system, which is continually warping their universal consciousness. They know more about Christopher Columbus and Christianity than their own African cultures

My problem is not even the traditions and the cultures, it is that schooling make us to become so narrow minded, that we are not productive.

The teaming of unemployed graduates is a pointer to the fact that something is wrong with our educational system.
Education supposed to make to become productive and not opposite.

thoth: So we were living in caves and covered our body with leaves cus we can't make beautiful clothes before the white man came ? is that what you want us to believe ?

It is the historic lies they forced down on us, that we were living in caves.
Our people had houses, they were mud houses but still houses anyway.
No body is denying the fact that they were not more advanced than us, but then no body should tell us that we were empty because we were not.

baby-boy:
Look Civilisation started in Egypt, (Acts 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians) but am sorry Civilisation was taken towards the east into old Europe.

Tell me how can a white man give an African King a mirror in exchange for diamonds?

They do not mention such anymore in the history of Africans, if we did it before, we can do it again.

Onyegecha: My dear, you are very right. We WERE DUPED BY THE COLONIALISTS. We need to be saved from this brand of education that has made us unproductive and totally dependent on others for everything we need. You are one of the deep thinkers on this site. Bravo!

That is the spirit. That is our mission.
Education should make us to become productive and not to become lazy!
Our brand of education has made us to become mentally lazy and unproductive.

and even if we must import car and cell phone, why must we import food?
It is a shame!

Uyi Iredia: Very true. I study Comp. Eng and I know little of how to repair or design laptops or even circuits. I ain't the only one. And I'm confident there are a lot more people who aren't as educated (or articulate) who know much better than some half-baked graduates.

Thanks my brother for accepting the truth!
It is not even the issue of being half baked, the point is that there is no place in Africa as at now, where you can practice your profession. As a computer Engineer, you should be in a factory where computers are designed and produced. You should be researching and developing new algorithms for the next computing devices. But what do we have? As a computer Engineer in Africa, the best job you can get is to maintain computers in some firms that use computers. Now, systems maintenance is a different skill altogether compared to the equations you were solving in the classroom.

These skills of maintenance can be acquired by any hot head who stopped schooling at JSS3, so what is the difference?

We are talking about a mental revolution that will lead to industrial revolution!
We are convinced that we make computers in Africa. We can produce our own cars and anybody with a contrary opinion is an enemy of Africa! After the physical slavery, we are now mentally slaved. Our mission is to break away from the slavery. Africans, yes we can!

Yet, we are starting our call with the focus on food production!
we must take the decision to produce our own food. Gradually, we can spread it to other things.

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baby-boy:
Look University is not going to teach you everything and we are talking about university world wide! If you want to build your own radio, the desire has come from within! you look for the book of those who have in the past and study, I cant remember £billionaire Richard Branson the Virgin Atlantic owner had more educate but he learnt everything he knew by himself.

I never said University should teach me everything.
I am only saying that things we learn at school are almost in parallel with our daily lives.
Read between the lines! The post is not condemning education, because education ought to enhance our lives.

My problem is this:
if we study agriculture, it is expected that our study should make a big impact on our food production!

We have more graduates of agricultural based courses today than fifty years ago. but we produced more food fifty years ago than today. The more graduates we produce in Agriculture, the less food we produce.

No sir! Something is wrong somewhere. More graduates should have meant more food production.

Now, it is not only in Agriculture, it is like that in every other field.
Our Electrical Engineers are bankers, our lab scientists are secretaries and receptionists, etc.

Yet, on a general note! Our major concern now is that African is being ravaged by poverty and hunger!
One of the things we must do now is to put our house in order and develop the will to grow our food.
Or please tell me, why are we importing food?

lomprico: Why not go and live in a cave without civilisation. Big Full!
@OP how old r u? I guess u just finished or about to finish secondary school.

My brother, i have a B.Eng in electrical/electronics engineering. with focus on electronics by my training, i should be designing electronics devices. All i learnt was equations! many of us here cannot repair ordinary transistor radios let alone designing and producing. when my tv have a problem, i take it to the "illitrate technician". the little repairs i did, i learnt from the road side repairers.

What then was my purpose of the education?
my brother, i have also have a masters degree, in computing, but our computer scientists end up as computer operators.

As for my age, i left the universtity in 1996. my words are words from an experienced and a matured man.

[quote author=lomprico]If u were not educated u wouln't be in this forum talkless of writing this article. So what's ur point? Numbskull![/quote

it is obvious that you did not understand the heart of this post. we are not education, we are rather against this form of education that made us to become stupid. just give me one reason why we must import food.

The question here is this: what is the purpose of education? Education ought to make us to improve on the way we do things and turn lazy because we are. "educated".

our agrictural engineers ought to have mechanised our agriculture, education should have boosted our food production! Yet in our own case, the more we have educated men, the more unproductive we become.

i am bold about this: if we cannot produce our food because we are "educated", then something is wrong with the education.

What is Education?
Why do we go to school?
What do we achieve as educated people?

This is the story of Africa!

The colonialists came, they met us farming.
They asked us to drop our farming implements.
They promised us education!

We dropped our cutlasses and our hoes.
We followed them to school.
They thought us their languages.

Then they asked us to bring our books and pens!
They they asked us:

1. What is Agriculture? (As if we did not know)
2. What is farming? (That was what were doing before they came)
3. Mention 2 farming implements (As if we never knew: The difference was the names we called them)
4. Draw hoe (But our fathers gave us hoes and showed us how to use it)
5. Name 5 cash crops (but our fathers gave us those crops to go and sell and bring back cash)
6. What soil is good for farming? (As if we were farming on gravels before they came)
7. on and on and on, it went.

They asked us things we already knew before they came, the only difference was the language!

Then we answered there questions "correctly"!
They clapped for us and gave us papers called "Certificates".

Then we came home with our papers but the damage has been done!

We have lost interest in farming! We have stopped growing our food.
We are "educated" and not "illiterates": so we can't do "dirty" jobs like farming.

We are wearing suits and ties, speaking English but we can't produce food anymore.
Today Africa is suffering. We are hungry!
The little food we have are produced by the "old dirty illiterates".
The rest of the food we must import from the 1st world countries.

Why are Africans so dumb?
It is time to wise up and rise up.

Africa must stop food importation!


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Poverty, Prosperity and Definition of Money! (Part II).
(The first law of Money)

Another question we usually ask in our Wealth Creation Seminars (WCS) is:
Mention one major difference between the rich and the poor, to which the average answer is, “money”.
Many people boldly tell us that the rich have money while the poor don’t.
Well, we will like to boldly disagree! The major difference between the rich and the poor is not in the money they have. Of course, we agree that the poor does not have money, but also we make bold to say that the rich also do not have money!

The rich have “something” else other than money! Recall once more, what is money?
(https://www.nairaland.com/1142526/poverty-prosperity-definition-money)

“Money is a medium of exchange”. So if I have plenty of “things” (it may just be ideas) to exchange, I will have plenty of money. If I have little things to exchange, I will have little money and if I have nothing to exchange, I will have no money.
The amount of money I can have is directly proportional to the amount of exchangeable “things” that I have. So, the rich are not rich because they have money, but because they are exchanging “things”.


Secondly, the rich know that no matter the amount of money he has, if he stops exchanging things, his money will surely dwindle. So, he gets money divides it into two major parts.
1. To be used to exchanged for things he needs.
2. To be converted into things that can be exchanged later with profit. (We are talking about investment here).
The poor on the other hand, gets money only to keep buying things till the money is exhausted. If the money does not finish, he won’t stop. He may not even see the need for tomorrow and so might finish the money in a swoop of buying spree. And who is he buying from? The Rich! Some people have got some money enough just enough to buy a car, they used all of it and bought the car, only to discover that they can’t maintain it.
In part 1, we took a look at the definition of money: a medium of exchange of “things” rather than what we use to buy “things”.

In our Wealth Creation Seminars (WCS), we usually emphasise this understanding of what money is and what it is not. We also state clearly that poverty is not necessary “lack of money”.
The average African thinks that the summary of his problems is “lack of money”. He believes that once he has more money he will live a better or even an abundant live. Even our definition of what constitutes “better life” is flawed. Some mansions, designer wears, latest models of cars, etc.
Well, lest we give the impression that these things are not good, it is noteworthy to state clearly that these things are all okay. It is good to live in a good house, to be clothed richly, to what we like and whenever we want them, yet we must realise that having a great life is not in the abundance of things we possess. Let us leave that for another day!

The point here is this: what is the point of buying a car, when you cannot maintain it. Why would someone use all his income to buy a home theatre and then suffer hunger for sometime because he has no food?
There is a very big difference between needs and wants. Financial intelligence starts from drawing the line between the two and then understanding the need for control. This will bring us to the first law of money!

1. Thou shall not consume all your income.

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Poverty, Prosperity and Definition of Money! (Part II).
(The first law of Money)

Another question we usually ask in our Wealth Creation Seminars (WCS) is:
Mention one major difference between the rich and the poor, to which the average answer is, “money”.
Many people boldly tell us that the rich have money while the poor don’t.
Well, we will like to boldly disagree! The major difference between the rich and the poor is not in the money they have. Of course, we agree that the poor does not have money, but also we make bold to say that the rich also do not have money!

The rich have “something” else other than money! Recall once more, what is money?
(https://www.nairaland.com/1142526/poverty-prosperity-definition-money)

“Money is a medium of exchange”. So if I have plenty of “things” (it may just be ideas) to exchange, I will have plenty of money. If I have little things to exchange, I will have little money and if I have nothing to exchange, I will have no money.
The amount of money I can have is directly proportional to the amount of exchangeable “things” that I have. So, the rich are not rich because they have money, but because they are exchanging “things”.


Secondly, the rich know that no matter the amount of money he has, if he stops exchanging things, his money will surely dwindle. So, he gets money divides it into two major parts.
1. To be used to exchanged for things he needs.
2. To be converted into things that can be exchanged later with profit. (We are talking about investment here).
The poor on the other hand, gets money only to keep buying things till the money is exhausted. If the money does not finish, he won’t stop. He may not even see the need for tomorrow and so might finish the money in a swoop of buying spree. And who is he buying from? The Rich! Some people have got some money enough just enough to buy a car, they used all of it and bought the car, only to discover that they can’t maintain it.
In part 1, we took a look at the definition of money: a medium of exchange of “things” rather than what we use to buy “things”.

In our Wealth Creation Seminars (WCS), we usually emphasise this understanding of what money is and what it is not. We also state clearly that poverty is not necessary “lack of money”.
The average African thinks that the summary of his problems is “lack of money”. He believes that once he has more money he will live a better or even an abundant live. Even our definition of what constitutes “better life” is flawed. Some mansions, designer wears, latest models of cars, etc.
Well, lest we give the impression that these things are not good, it is noteworthy to state clearly that these things are all okay. It is good to live in a good house, to be clothed richly, to what we like and whenever we want them, yet we must realise that having a great life is not in the abundance of things we possess. Let us leave that for another day!

The point here is this: what is the point of buying a car, when you cannot maintain it. Why would someone use all his income to buy a home theatre and then suffer hunger for sometime because he has no food?
There is a very big difference between needs and wants. Financial intelligence starts from drawing the line between the two and then understanding the need for control. This will bring us to the first law of money!

1. Thou shall not consume all your income.

See you next time.

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Happy New Year! The Rituals, The Roll Overs And The Realities.

Every night that brings the first of the January of each new year, many would be awake, keeping vigil and waiting for the “New Year”! And as soon as it was 12.00am, January 1st, many places would wear the dress of pump and pageantry. Fireworks, gun shots, music and noise of all types would abound to usher in the New Year. The triumphant shouts of “Happy New Year” would almost persuade one to believe that we now have a “New World”.

Many would be happy to see the New Year. Every New Year appears to offer some certain hope for no other reason other than it is “new”. Year in and year out, we perform the same Rituals of “Happy New Year”. We even make the so called “New Year” resolutions all in the hope of becoming “new” with the “new year” as if it is the change in date that will bring the change in our lives. Yet, no sooner have we gone into the New Year, do we discover that everything in the New Year is like that of the old with exception of the date. Most times, we discover that “Roll-Overs” from the previous year have followed us to the “new year”. Soon, it becomes clear that the “new year” is no different from the “old” except for the fact that we got older. The reality of having the same old experience right in the New Year is quite a phenomenon to many, but it is not far-fetched.

Apart from the dates, can someone please tell me what the difference is between the 31st of December and the 1st of January? Is not the same sun that rises and falls? So what really is the difference between an old year and a new year? Think about it, the difference between the old year and New Year, is not as much a difference between a new month and its predecessor. The same applies to a new week and the old a week, a new day and the previous day.
The fact is that time is made for man. If a new day does not count, neither will a new week. If a new month does not count, neither will a new year. If the 31st of December does not count, then the 1st of January might not also count. The responsibility of making things “new” depends on the man and not the “New Year”. We behave as if “new” things depend on the “new year”. No! The newness of our lives does not depend on a new day, week, month and year.
Often, we think the same way, live the same way and yet expect all things to become “new”. Someone defined insanity as “doing the same things all over and yet expecting a different result”.
While we thank God for the New Year, however, this is just to make it abundantly clear that the potentials of the New Year can only be released if only we embrace some new and positive way of thinking.

Your potentials does not depend on the New Year, rather, the potentials of the New Year depends on you.
Happy New Year.

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Poverty, Prosperity and Definition of Money!
Posted on December 26, 2012


What is poverty?
Did you say “lack of money” or something similar?
Well, above is the average answer we have got so far, each time we ask this question at our Wealth Creation Seminars (WCS).

This particular answer usually compels us to ask this next question,
“What is money?”.
I can remember clearly, the day I asked my kids (the oldest was 7 years old as at then) this same question, and they innocently informed me that “money is what we use to buy things!”.

Unfortunately, so many adults also have this very wrong notion about money. Hear me and hear me well, money is not used to “buy” things, rather money is a medium of exchange for “things” (things here could mean goods and/or services).

Having money does not mean that one is rich! If I have $100, and you have $1,000,000, and both of us have need of yam to eat, but there is no single tuber of yam in the market, then our monies are of no value. We cannot chew the dollar notes. As far as yam is not available for us to buy, your $1,000,000 dollars is as valueless as my $100.

On the other hand, if both of us have no cash at the moment, but I have 100 cows, while you have just 1 goat, I am far richer than you. Far back in the days of trade by Barter, there were rich men as well as poor men, rich nations as well as poor nations.

It‘s all in the definition of money. The poor see money as what they will use to buy goods/services, so they pursue money, the rich see money as a tool for exchange of goods/services, so they don’t “bother” about money. The rich rather seek to always have services to render to humanity and in doing so, money always pursue them.

The million dollar question about money is this: what do you have that you can exchange with people around you? Whenever you have something to exchange, people will pay for it.
I have been paid for delivering motivational lectures!
I have been paid for bridging the gap between a producer of certain goods and some consumers of such goods.
I can remember that I was paid for making our kind of local baskets as a teenager in the days I was growing up.

Monies are exchanging hands daily. They leave the hands of those who need one service/product or the other and enter into the hands of those who provide such services/products.

Hey! What is your value? What are you offering to humanity? Those who have services/products to offer to humanity are rich; those who seek for money just to purchase goods/services are poor!
This why Africa is poor!. We use our money to buy from the rich nations, while the rich nations are paying serious attention to the quality and relevance of goods they produce and that of the services they render.

The rich takes the responsibility of providing goods/and services to humanity, the poor takes in pride in shouting to whoever cares to listen that all he needs is money. Yet, as soon as money enters into his hands, he runs to the rich to get one service or the other, and he is back to “lack of money”.

Poverty or prosperity is choice! It starts from the way we think! Its starts from the way we understand money. It does not bother me if I have don’t have money, but I should be bothered if I have no services to render to humanity. Service to humanity will surely bring money, but poverty awaits any man who has nothing to offer to humanity even if he has money today.

Here is the irony, the rich pursue humanity with their goods/services, so money pursues the rich. The poor on the other hand pursue money in other hand to buy goods/services so even the little money that enters into his hands quickly leaps out of his hands into the awaiting pockets of the rich.

This is why the rich will always continue to get richer while the poor will always continue to get poorer. It is a law.

Arise Africa, it is time for revolution, we need a mental revolution!
This is what we stand for in ARM: African Revolutionary Movement.

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Poverty, Prosperity and Definition of Money!
Posted on December 26, 2012


What is poverty?
Did you say “lack of money” or something similar?
Well, above is the average answer we have got so far, each time we ask this question at our Wealth Creation Seminars (WCS).

This particular answer usually compels us to ask this next question,
“What is money?”.
I can remember clearly, the day I asked my kids (the oldest was 7 years old as at then) this same question, and they innocently informed me that “money is what we use to buy things!”.

Unfortunately, so many adults also have this very wrong notion about money. Hear me and hear me well, money is not used to “buy” things, rather money is a medium of exchange for “things” (things here could mean goods and/or services).

Having money does not mean that one is rich! If I have $100, and you have $1,000,000, and both of us have need of yam to eat, but there is no single tuber of yam in the market, then our monies are of no value. We cannot chew the dollar notes. As far as yam is not available for us to buy, your $1,000,000 dollars is as valueless as my $100.

On the other hand, if both of us have no cash at the moment, but I have 100 cows, while you have just 1 goat, I am far richer than you. Far back in the days of trade by Barter, there were rich men as well as poor men, rich nations as well as poor nations.

It‘s all in the definition of money. The poor see money as what they will use to buy goods/services, so they pursue money, the rich see money as a tool for exchange of goods/services, so they don’t “bother” about money. The rich rather seek to always have services to render to humanity and in doing so, money always pursue them.

The million dollar question about money is this: what do you have that you can exchange with people around you? Whenever you have something to exchange, people will pay for it.
I have been paid for delivering motivational lectures!
I have been paid for bridging the gap between a producer of certain goods and some consumers of such goods.
I can remember that I was paid for making our kind of local baskets as a teenager in the days I was growing up.

Monies are exchanging hands daily. They leave the hands of those who need one service/product or the other and enter into the hands of those who provide such services/products.

Hey! What is your value? What are you offering to humanity? Those who have services/products to offer to humanity are rich; those who seek for money just to purchase goods/services are poor!
This why Africa is poor!. We use our money to buy from the rich nations, while the rich nations are paying serious attention to the quality and relevance of goods they produce and that of the services they render.

The rich takes the responsibility of providing goods/and services to humanity, the poor takes in pride in shouting to whoever cares to listen that all he needs is money. Yet, as soon as money enters into his hands, he runs to the rich to get one service or the other, and he is back to “lack of money”.

Poverty or prosperity is choice! It starts from the way we think! Its starts from the way we understand money. It does not bother me if I have don’t have money, but I should be bothered if I have no services to render to humanity. Service to humanity will surely bring money, but poverty awaits any man who has nothing to offer to humanity even if he has money today.

Here is the irony, the rich pursue humanity with their goods/services, so money pursues the rich. The poor on the other hand pursue money in other hand to buy goods/services so even the little money that enters into his hands quickly leaps out of his hands into the awaiting pockets of the rich.

This is why the rich will always continue to get richer while the poor will always continue to get poorer. It is a law.

Arise Africa, it is time for revolution, we need a mental revolution!
This is what we stand for in ARM: African Revolutionary Movement.

Please follow us:
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