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Sports / Re: Nigeria Vs Libya: Africa Cup Of Nations Qualifier - 4 - 0 (Full Time) by ekwemzy2014(m): 5:40pm On Oct 13, 2018
please how do i watch the match online
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Vs West Ham (3 - 1) On 25th August 2018 by ekwemzy2014(m): 3:05pm On Aug 25, 2018
please how do i watch this match online...
Business / Re: Please Bankers I Need Your Assistance Here. by ekwemzy2014(m): 10:54pm On Jan 03, 2018
Thanks very much..I appreciate.
It worked
Business / Please Bankers I Need Your Assistance Here. by ekwemzy2014(m): 10:20pm On Jan 03, 2018
Goodday all and happy New year..
I pledged some money in my church in the village and I requested for their account number to transfer the money when I get back to my base. On reaching home I just noticed I didn't ask for the bank name. Without that I can't transfer..this is the account number 1943743015.
Pls which bank uses this number because I can't reach the priest due to network in the village. Thanks
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: DPR Recruitment Aptitude Test: Check List Of Those Invited by ekwemzy2014(m): 10:27pm On Jul 14, 2017
My number, 07039485106
kennedon4ever@yahoo.com
Thanks
Religion / Re: Adeboye & Oyedepo At Pentecostal Fellowship Of Nigeria (pics) by ekwemzy2014(m): 11:26am On Feb 10, 2017
my topic has never been taken to front page why? and i know very well they are useful
Politics / Insight On The Present Situation Of Nigeria by ekwemzy2014(m): 10:19pm On Feb 07, 2017
Ok i know i hate long episodes of write ups but you have to read this.What John Zibiri said about Nigeria:
I worked and lived in Abuja for 18 years. I ran my own private company from 2001 until 2014.
Two million of the likes of Buhari cannot change Nigeria.
Everything is wrong with Nigeria. The Director won't give you contract except you pay up front .
The banks won't give you loan except you concede a certain percentage. .
The man supervising the contract won't pass the job except you play ball. The clerk won't pass your file for payment except you rob his palm.
The accounts department won't raise your payment voucher or cheque unless you see them. I can go on and on.
The worst thing is that it has become a norm that nobody sees anything wrong with. If you think otherwise, they begin to think you are sick and not normal. If you try to stand in there way, you put your life at risk. If you get killed there is no justice system in place to seek redress and bring the perpetrators to book.
The police is corrupt , the Judiciary is the same. Even the religious circle is not spared. Everything in Nigeria revolves around corruption. Nobody cares about anybody. No law and order. I looked from my left to right, everybody is only desperate about one thing "money".
They will kill anybody and anything that stand between them and money. I am an electrical engineer with MNSE and COREN.
The system don't care about my qualifications. Distribution and transmission jobs are given to alhajis, pastors, friends and relatives without any basic skills. I started asking myself, how do I convince my kids that education and hard work is rewarding? When fools, agberos and touts are running the country from the local govt to the Presidency.
Is this what my four sons will also go through? In 2014 I decided I have had enough. I decided I was leaving. I migrated to Australia with my family. Don't put yourself in harms way for any reason. The problem of Nigeria is in the hands of Nigerians living in Nigeria.
Try starting a gate house in your village, everybody wants to profiteer from it. The bricklayer, the carpenter, the mason and even your brother who claim to be supervising on your behalf.
They are corrupt, morally bankrupt and selfish. Everybody there thinks about himself and nobody is thinking about Nigeria .
You don't have to be the one to go there to change anything. Let those under the hammer start the revolution. I beg make you hear word.
This post is gonna anger a lot of my followers. I'm still gonna post it anyway.
Analogy of OPPRESSORS & FOOLISH CITIZENS. (A case study of Nigeria citizens & their elected oppressors).
During the Soviet dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. He was a brutal dictator with mind of his own. On one fateful day, Stalin came to Politburo meeting with a live chicken. Standing in front of audience, He started to pluck the feathers of the live chicken off one by one.
The chicken trembled in pain, blood tricking out of its pores. It gave out grievous cries, but Stalin being a cruel dictator continued without remorse plucking the feathers out until the chicken was completely naked.
After which, he threw the chicken on the ground. The naked chicken was staggering in pain. Stalin goes into his pocket and from his pockets, he took out some chicken food and started to throw it at the poor & hapless creature.
The poor chicken in pain started eating and Stalin started walking towards his seat. As he walked away, he kept dropping some feeds on the floor & the chicken followed him and sat feeding from his feet.
Joseph Stalin then turned to members of his political party leadership. He said, "This chicken represents the people".
"You must disempower them, brutalise them, beat them up, starve them and then leave them".
"If you do this, go into your pocket & give them peanuts when they are in that helpless and desperate situation, they will blindly follow you for the rest of their life, worshiping you".
"They will think you are a hero forever. They will forget that, you're responsible for their sorrowful situation in the first place."
Breath taking, isn't it ?
Now! Take a look at all the people some Nigerians are busy defending on social media.
Take a look at those they call their heroes. They are the same people who plunged Nigeria into the situation she is. They are the same people who are responsible for their predicaments.
Did you see the numbers of people that throng to Saraki's house during this Christmas period to go collect peanuts? Your guess is as good as mine.
Nigerians kill those they should defend and defend those they should kill!
let your govt know we know. # Copied

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Jobs/Vacancies / Ngc/acdc...job Invite. by ekwemzy2014(m): 5:15pm On Feb 02, 2017
kissOn recommendation, You are invited for a Job Screening 2mrw by 8:00am @ #48 Ikwerre Rd. (Rumuokwuta R/About) Opp. Bills Pharmacy, PH. CTM/770/OF 09056852982

please are they real or fraud? undecidedOn recommendation, You are invited for a Job Screening 2mrw by 8:00am @ #48 Ikwerre Rd. (Rumuokwuta R/About) Opp. Bills Pharmacy, PH. CTM/770/OF 09056852982

please are they real or fraud?
Sports / Re: Carlos Tevez Marries Venesa Mansilla (Photos) by ekwemzy2014(m): 11:20am On Dec 23, 2016
chiefolododo:
Money can get the ugliest man the most beautiful lady
so that man ugly for your eye ni undecided
Romance / Re: 8 Ways To Discard Stubborn Toasters by ekwemzy2014(m): 5:00am On Feb 18, 2016
And tomorrow they will say at 40 no husband
Phones / Re: MTN: People Trying To Register Their Sim Cards Even On Sunday - Photos by ekwemzy2014(m): 8:51pm On Jan 17, 2016
Mtn should please try to make things easier for their customers
Celebrities / Re: Korede Bello Is Police Youth Ambassador (Photo) by ekwemzy2014(m): 11:14pm On Dec 02, 2015
Give most of the titles to youths that are still upcoming not the ones that are buoyant already
Politics / Re: Must Read For The Youths Of This Generation by ekwemzy2014(m): 9:49pm On Oct 23, 2015
derez need for action
angry angry angry angry angry angry angry
Politics / Must Read For The Youths Of This Generation by ekwemzy2014(m): 9:48pm On Oct 23, 2015
we need to wake up

The Curious Case of The Young Generation By Femi Pedro

Sometime in 1988, I received a call from a good friend about an interesting investment
opportunity with a few colleagues. After a series of meetings, it became very clear to me that we
were about to embark on an audacious but incredibly special journey, and I was excited about the
prospect of being a part of such a project. For almost 2 years, I worked alongside the likes of
Akin Akintoye, Fola Adeola, Tayo Aderinokun (of blessed memory), Gbolly Osibodu, Bode
Agusto and a few others on this investment project. As of 1988 when we began the journey, Fola
was 34, Tayo was 33, Gbolly was 33, Bode was 33, Akin was 35 and I was 33. The objective: To
own a BANK.
It was a bold objective considering our respective ages at the time, but certainly not an
impossible task in our eyes. So we began to hold countless meetings at Fola’s residence in 1988,
until we eventually shifted base to Tayo’s First Marina Trust office in Victoria Island. By late
1989, we were ready to put in our bank application at CBN, along with the required minimum
capital. This effort was spearheaded by Fola and Tayo (the two brains behind the entire
operation), and supported by about 40 persons (including myself), most of whom were in their
early 30s and working for different organizations at the time.
The end product? We formed arguably one of the finest financial institutions Nigeria has ever
seen- Guaranty Trust Bank (known as GT Bank today). The bank was licensed on the 1st of
August,1990 and we commenced banking operations later that year. A group of young boys in
their early/mid 30s OWNED a bank! We simply dreamt big, and turned this dream into reality.
I am taking the liberty to reflect on this chapter of my personal history against the backdrop of
some of the criticism about the ages of some of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial
nominees. The argument being brandished about is that by nominating the likes of Chief Audu
Ogbeh and Alhaji Ibrahim

Usman Jubril as ministers, our President is somehow blocking the destinies of younger Nigerians
by preventing them from occupying such positions. People are quick to reference Yakubu Gowon
and Murtala Mohammed as being relatively young when they ascended to power, and they argue
that the same opportunities that young people had in the past are no longer available today. They
also argue that around the same time we were forming GT Bank in the late eighties, there were
also a number successful young entrepreneurs who distinguished themselves as well – Bola
Tinubu (Treasurer at Mobil Oil), Gbade Ojora (ED Mobil Oil), Jim Ovia (Zenith Bank), Erastus
Akingbola (Intercontinental), Dele Momodu (Publishing), Tony Elumelu (Standard Trust), Liyel
Imoke (Politics), O’tega Emerhor (Standard Alliance Insurance), Aig Imoukhuede and Herbert
Wigwe (Access) and Atedo Peterside (IBTC) are some of the noteworthy youngsters who made
an impact in various fields in Nigeria at the time.
Perhaps, at play is the venting of some on-going frustrations by the younger generation today,
but it is important to put things into proper perspective. Since pre-independence, the Nigerian
youth have played a pivotal role in nation-building and economic development. The vast
majority of the founding fathers that led the struggle for our independence were relatively young.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo was 37, Akintola was 36, Ahmadu Bello was 36, Balewa was 34 and
Enahoro was 27 when they led the struggle for independence after the death of Sir Herbert
Macaulay.
Only Nnamdi Azikiwe was over 40 (he was about 42 at the time). Indeed, even the post-
independence military hierarchy was fueled by the active participation of young persons in
nation-building at critical periods of our nation’s history. The first coup in 1966 was led by a 29
year-old Nzeogwu and countered by the likes of T.Y. Danjuma, Shehu Musa Yar’adua and a few
others, all in their 20s.
The subsequent coup brought a 32 year-old Yakubu Gowon into power. Many of the military
administrators who governed the states under successive military governments (including our
current president, Muhammadu Buhari) were in their 30s. Similarly, the major beneficiaries of
Nigerian indigenization policies in the early 70s were young private sector entrepreneurs. The
likes of Subomi Balogun, Oladele Olasore, Sam Asabia blazed the trails in banking at relatively
young ages, while super civil servants such as Allison Ayida,
Phillips Asiodu, Ahmed Joda, Ime Ebong, Ibrahim Damcida etc held forth in public
administration in their early 30s. This trend of young people playing active roles in nation
building and economic activities continued well into my own generation in the 1980s and 90s, so
it is not difficult to understand how we were able to muster the courage and determination to
forming a bank at the time.
I have spent a lot of time mentoring, observing and interacting with young Nigerians. Today’s
youth are no different from those of my generation about 30 years ago. They are faced with the
same pressures, frustrations, uncertainties and life vicissitudes that we faced in our late twenties
and early thirties. However, the marked difference is how young Nigerians apply themselves
today.Most of us who made an impact in our early thirties came from modest means. We were
not rich, and we did not have any noteworthy inheritance.

Nobody did us any favours, and the older generation did not give us a pass or a nudge in the right
direction. In fact, the military administrations at the time made it extremely difficult for us to
participate optimally in business, governance and politics. We did not have social media, and
there was no technology to aide our goals. We were simply big dreamers determined to make a
difference. We were highly enlightened and career-oriented, so we were able to force our way
through the door by working extremely hard.
What some of the proponents of the argument against the older ministerial nominees, (and
perhaps the older generation currently dominating the political and economic landscape) also fail
to realize or remember is that even in my early thirties, we also had very established and older
industrialists like MKO Abiola, Sam Asabia, Gamaliel Onosode etc, who all operated during our
time. We respected them, but neither felt overwhelmed by their success, nor daunted by the
prospects of climbing up the ladder. We simply forged ahead with our plans and damned the
consequences. The point is nobody cleared the way for us back then, so young Nigerians today
should not expect that anyone would clear the way for them either.
So what exactly needs to change amongst young Nigerians today? First, young Nigerians have to
humble themselves. You have to be willing to learn the ropes and hone your craft. Around the
age of 27, I left the relative comfort of a steady career at CBN to learn under the tutelage of
Otunba Subomi Balogun, the visionary and pioneer behind FCMB. Working as Otunba Subomi
Balogun’s executive assistant was an experience of a lifetime. He was (and still is) a well-
organized and thorough individual. He strongly promoted excellence and perfection, and did not
condone indolence, laziness or poor quality work.
He was also an impeccable dresser, always elegantly attired in all-white traditional wear or
perfectly tailored quality suits. I picked up these virtues and adopted his style of leadership and
management in my future endeavors. I was opportune to travel with him to attend corporate and
other board meetings. I gained valuable and practical experiences in corporate board
management and boardroom politics, which became useful tools later in my career.
Secondly, you must know your worth. Do not settle for less, and do not allow yourselves to be
used by selfish political interests. Challenge the status-quo. Challenge the establishment. The
youth make up a sizeable portion of the Nigerian populace. By extension, they have the loudest
voices and the biggest potential. Alan Moore, a prominent British author opined that “People
shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people”. This is
especially true with regards to young Nigerians. You are more powerful than you give yourselves
credit for. Our current president was victorious in large part due to the votes cast by young
Nigerians, and you must continue to remind yourselves of this fact, because 2019 is already fast
approaching.
Thirdly, and crucially, young Nigerians have to eliminate distractions. Do not get carried away
by the allure of good living, bling, fame and fortune. Stay on the straight-and-narrow path.
Distractions are the proverbial pot-holes; they slow you down from reaching your destination
and damage your wheels in the process. By all accounts, social media is obviously the biggest
distraction. It is a powerful tool, but can also derail you from focusing on the bigger picture. The
most discerning amongst you will know how to navigate social media without hindering your ability to make significant inroads in the economic and political fabric of Nigeria. I have been
impressed with what the likes of Linda Ikeji, Bellanaija, Don Jazzy, TY Bello, Jimi Mohammed,
Banke Meshida-Lawal and other young Nigerians have been able to accomplish at such a young
age, and it should serve as an inspiration toother young Nigerians in various fields as well.
Finally, take advantage of opportunities, no matter how small or inconsequential they may be at
the time. Expect no helping hands. And when these opportunities present themselves, grab what
you can. During our cabinet meetings, my boss and mentor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu always
quipped that “Power is never served a-la-carte”. This is indeed true in the context of where
young Nigerians currently are, and where they need to be.
Our nation is at a critical crossroads. The age bracket between 18-35 years constitutes the
majority of our working population group, and naturally, they should be the most productive and
active segment of our country’s economic activity and nation-building efforts. Unfortunately, the
youth of today are indolent, unemployed and generally incapacitated. Some are unable to make
ends meet, and have not shown any sustained interest in holding leadership position. They
abstain from holding governance positions at the local, state and national levels. Ironically and
confusingly, they allow themselves to be used as street (and very recently, internet/online) thugs,
miscreants and protesters to pursue the selfish agendas of older politicians.
Despite all of this, I have a lot of faith in the youth of today, but young Nigerians need to start
having faith in themselves as well. You need to wake up from your slumber, and pilot the much-
needed change process urgently. You must be willing to side-step all the pit-fall distractions and
refocus your collective mindsets. You have to be guided by a desire to excel, and you must
continue to push yourselves to grow in a tough, competitive and cut-throat environment that still
exists today. Who knows? With a bit of conviction, commitment and guile, you may be able to
produce a young, vibrant and dynamic Nigerian as our President much sooner than you think!
Otunba Femi Pedro is a Banker and an Economist. He is a former Deputy Governor of Lagos
State, and the former Managing Director of First Atlantic Bank (FinBank) Plc. He can be reached
via the Twitter Handle: @femipedro
Politics / Re: Nigeria Now Generate 5000MW Electricity by ekwemzy2014(m): 10:47pm On Aug 20, 2015
Owerri is doomed. ....no light here...
Politics / Re: Photos:2yrs Sorry State Of Ogbuosisi,umuguma OWERRI...ROCHAS WE KNOW.. by ekwemzy2014(m): 3:51pm On Aug 18, 2015
We swim to work and our business

Politics / Re: Photos:2yrs Sorry State Of Ogbuosisi,umuguma OWERRI...ROCHAS WE KNOW.. by ekwemzy2014(m): 3:47pm On Aug 18, 2015
More pics....APC

Family / Re: I Have A Word For Many Young And Mature Girls This Morning With This Pic. by ekwemzy2014(m): 1:55pm On Jul 26, 2015
Beautiful...I will marry one of them someday grin cool
Romance / Re: ‘ladies, Beware Of This Kind Of Man’ by ekwemzy2014(m): 2:18pm On Jul 19, 2015
Well..bad for her...but come to think of it....he did not want to sleep with anoda woman......he loves u....but he bleeped up....solve d puzzle grin
Nairaland / General / Re: A Thread For Night Crawlers. (late Sleepers) by ekwemzy2014(m): 12:32am On Jul 04, 2015
Confused af....no job
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: When You Get An Interview Invite For A Position You Know Nothing About by ekwemzy2014(m): 7:47pm On Jun 14, 2015
get d job nd learn it....u can never tell if its what u want.......
Romance / Re: He Saw A Positive Pregnancy Result In Her Room. by ekwemzy2014(m): 10:46pm On May 29, 2015
Let her conceive 2 be sure she's fine.....cos of d abortion since u love her
Education / Re: If U Think Your Good, Answer This by ekwemzy2014(m): 10:42am On May 13, 2015
Still waiting. not correct.. grin need more answers b4 I give mind.,,.it a lil trickish
Education / Re: If U Think Your Good, Answer This by ekwemzy2014(m): 10:39am On May 13, 2015
Ok
Education / If U Think Your Good, Answer This by ekwemzy2014(m): 8:56am On May 13, 2015

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Politics / Re: Card Reader Fails To Recognise Governor Of Adamawa, Ngillari’s Biometrics by ekwemzy2014(m): 4:04pm On Mar 28, 2015
Yes....jump nd pass ni
Jokes Etc / Re: Funny Pictures To Spice Up Your Day by ekwemzy2014(m): 11:12pm On Jan 20, 2015
Lol

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Nairaland / General / Re: Our New Currency(N100) by ekwemzy2014(m): 12:11am On Dec 22, 2014
Our leaders needs prayers
Nairaland / General / Our New Currency(N100) by ekwemzy2014(m): 12:09am On Dec 22, 2014
Isthis our problem in this Country angry
people are dieing cry
Boko haram angry
Lack of electricity?
No water Etc

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