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All of una no get work sha

But I think we should all go back to being nu.de. No matter the race or culture, especially the ladies.
Men would then be judged not by their loud mouths, but by the breadth of their actions.

Nudit.y would ensure that the fashion industry is wiped out
Less environmental pollution

mmmmhhhh'
Some people recite quaran, some others call Jesus, while some others just relax.. at the end it goes away.

So since some belive that this is demonic, we can conclude that the devil is afraid of both Allah, Jehova and man. And yet he stupidly sneaks in to pull a fast one.

This particular demon apparently has one common goal then: to make imams, pastors and doctors very rich as they charge consultancy fees to the op-'pressed'

C1) I'll deviate from the contrast thing here and share my views on corruption and national balance of trade (sorry I'm a little bit rusty on my economics terminologies)

I'm not a fan of yahooing, because I think it is ethically wrong. However, I am an avid student of business, politics and strategy. I am therefore approaching this topic from a purely economic perspective. I have noticed that many developed countries with all their moral uprightness always show their not-so-clean hands when it comes to issues on money and national interest. For example, I read somewhere that before Ibori's loot is returned back to Nigeria, the british goverment will first take out the the cost to its system.

I have noticed the relish with which the EFCC is going after yahoo boys, and then seeking to repatriate the monies back to the original countries. Well, this saddens me vis-a-vis my earlier stated observation.

I mean, politicians are stealing our money and investing them in other countries. When they are caught, the government of the host countries are quite reluctant to repatriate the funds. If they do return the funds after many years of it yielding interests for their economy, its sometimes with charges. EFCC has also proven itself weak in preventing such grand scale corruption by top politicians and bureacrats.

Yet EFFC appears to be only going after the local yahoo-ers who bring funds into the country. When they are caught, EFCC makes serious attempts to repatriate the funds. I think EFCC should re-evaluate their model. When these funds are seized from the yahoo boys, the cost of the operation should be subtracted, and the money held for a while in Nigeria before being sent back. In fact, since GEJ is talking about KPI's, I think that EFCC's KPI's should be balancing the the value of funds stolen from abroad to those stolen for abroad

B3)Imagine this contrast-attractiveness if in the midst of towering modern structures, you find a beautifully laid out hut, with nice gardens etc.

I suggest that as we slowly but thirstily develop our skylines in Nigeria, especially in Lagos and Abuja, we try to incorporate such layout contrasts into ur designs. This would definetly captivate tourists and they would come asking for more.

Imagine the benin moat, being conserved and integrated side by side with 'modern' brick and mortar develoment

B2) But why the sudden shift in perception?
Well, this has a lot to do with contrast and its effects on the human mind. I hope you're getting it.

Such attraction caused by contrast can be found when you put a light skinned girl in the midst of dark skinned girls, or when you put a dark skinned girl amidst light skinned girls. In fact, this is the story behind Alek Wek's success in the global modelling industry. Her facial and skin contrast makes her massively attractive within that context.

In art, a white or black framed canvas without any painting would easilly evoke a lot of emotions when displayed against a massive range of colured paintings.

B1) If you're a frequent traveler outside the confine of your shores, you would have noticed something about cars

In Nigeria, you seem to hold more swagger and confidence if you're driving one of these new modern cars; especially the 4 wheel drives. If you've lived in the UK for some time you might soon loose your interest for such big cars, and prefer those glossy mini cars. You might see yourself also falling for those dated cars that look more like chariots. Bring those mini cars and 'chariots' to nigeria, and the value is almost instantly lost. In fact, they might price it for kobos if you're not careful.

A3) The Bakasi inhabitants on each of the islands we visited kept on talking about how they needed government aid to counter the ocean surge from wiping out their islands; how they needed modern block buildings e.t.c

Back then when I heard their requests that government should work at reclaiming their shore lines, I wasn't pleased with this suggestion. I privately reasoned that with so many 'islands' scatterd around the pennisula, this would be a waste of money. Besides, I didn't feel that this was sustainable.

I reasoned that what the inhabitants could do with the aid of the government was to turn their beautiful 'islands' into a tourist destination complete with the bamboo homsteads. The temporary nature of thesee bamboo buildings would ensure that they could more easilly relocate their houses if the need arises.

I also reasoned that the communities together with the government and oil communities could identify some sizeable 'islands' and concentrate their efforts on expanding those islands and providing shore protection. As far as I was concerned, this strategy was more sustainable




...Next, I'll touch on architectural/aesthetic contrasts and tourism

A2) With time, I soon rationalised that the differing views we shared was as a result of our home backgrounds.
I wasn't brought up in the village, so village adventures always excited me. All my colleagues on that trip, where however 'village boys' (I'm not being condescending here).

My thinking is that they despised their 'village' past which they linked to poverty, whereas I had no frame of reference in which to measure and tie poverty to villages and bamboo houses.

Our conversation with some of the inhabitants of the Bakasi was also interesting. It still keeps me thinking even to this day

A1) During my youth service, I had the oppurtunity to travel to Bakasi penisula with my co-workers for the first time in my life.
As our boat sped through the swamps and oceans outlining the penisula, I was in awe at the beauty the met my eyes. The white shores and the beautiful bamboo buildings that sat atop them. The roadlike waterways in the swamp.

Wow!! Some of the mangrove plants hanging low, and we having to dock as our boats passed through these 'water streets'. The monkeys high up swinging from tree to tree, and the exotic birds I had never seen in my entire life. It was fun.

I was all smiles and excitement as I looked around me, that is until I looked at my co-travelers. I excitedely told them of how these swamp dwellers must be having a great time. Their eyes stared at me almost in hate, and I recoiled. As far as they were concerened, these swamp dwellers were living in poverty, and government negligence and needed help. how can someone be living in a bamboo accomodation they queried.

Well, I saw the beauty while they saw the beast.

At the end of that day, and many years after, I still reflect on that adventure and my perspective versus that of my co-travelers

Hi all.
Yipee, yeah!! Fareed Zakaria is back on CNN. I'm loving it.

Back to busines (and politics )
Aside, from ethnic wars on NL and insults on our past and present leaders, I would like us to spend some valuable time giving critical insights and suggestions on this thread on ways that Nigeria can become great. You never know, someone that reads through the thread could one day become a president of governor in Nigeria, and end up using some of these ideas. This should prevent our future leaders from suddenly dreaming up crazy ideas of going to study in Harvard when they are already in power

I'll draw our attention to some subtle ideas that we can use in recreating Nigera and our personal lives /environments. I'll start with a personal story that borders on economics and sociology

2)
I do not know how the Power industry would look like, but if I were interested in having a career there, I could probably do many things, ..so many things to get in.

-I would first seek to get all the names of the companies that are bidding in our power sector and write them down in my notepad
-I would then research all the companies using google
-I could then research other big companies delivering electricity around the world. Companies like EDF
-I could go further by researching power companies that operate in environments like ours ,ie developing countries
-I could the look at these companies job sections to get a feel of the kind of jobs that they offer. I could even research using linkedin to see the profile of their staff that matches closely to my profile

-If na me, I'm sure I'll try making contacts with these companies even now. I'll work at getting past the gate keepers or administrators. That is leave a lasting impression on their minds using personal telephone and email contacts to the 'right' people.
-If na me, I might save these email correspondence to attach to my job applications when the power companies come on stream in nigeria
-If na me, I might decide to try getting some little work experience in power companies presently available only outside Nigeria (this is a clincher)

-If na me I would try aligning my present degrees to the power sector and also try to be a cut above the future competition


So many ways to position yourself

4) Hanging out with the best

If you were previously not strong in academics, you would do well to hang out with students that made 1st class and 2.1's. When you do so, keep an eye out for their study and lifestyle habits. Try to mirror them as effectively as possible. I love jollofing a lot, so my own strategy was to hang out with those with very good grades that also liked jollofing.

It worked like magic. ....Praise the lord!!

18 ) Examples of leveraging your (or other peoples) money

There are some folks that their life ambition is to settle in jand. however a look at the visa conditions for UK will soon show you that it was designed to keep the poor out. At least, this is what Vera thought

As I sopke with Vera who had no money but yet had a burning passion to study and settle in Jand, her paradigm soon shifted. She soon began to see that UK only wanted to keep away people who had no access to money.

I hope that you the reader can see the difference.

To cut a long story short, with this new thinking, she got someone who had some good cash to open a joint account with her. This dealt with the trust issue of the person having to leave his money in her account. Don't ask me about the technicalities of the process. Figure it out for yourself.

The important thing in this story is that she was able to acheive this only because she had a paradigm shift.

The person that opened this joint account with her also leveraged his money because he wanted someone that would be doing some running around in the UK for his business.

austinsmat: this is the best relevent post on nairaland in business pls if u find this post irrelevent pls kindly leave and is not must that u will makes a comment pls OP keep it up dont mind shortsighted peoples

Thanks my friend. No mind them.

I go soon write short simple book that satisfies people like them, without neccesarily dropping the important stuff. Then get them to pay hefty sums for it.

Or better still open a ministry where they will pay through their nostrils for glossy and religiously packaged information while they wait for manna to fall from heaven

Fidelcruiz: true talk

Coconut heads not allowed here. Please also refer to post 11 to know the category which you belong to. Thanks

Thankfully, it seems the era when some 'lower classed' suspects were paraded only in their panties while big shots had their agbada on is gradually coming to an end.

Thumbs up to the relevant authorites for this progress

[**smiles**]

I'll soon see someone mouthing something in the line of:
"Touch not my anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm"

That is ...until his or her dad or brothers falls victim to national or racial persecution or plain ol deportation. Then, maybe the new refrain would be
"The jews crucified Jesus, and so God has turned his back on them and handed them over to the gentile nations to despoil"

I'm not saying any group is wrong or right here. I'm just questioning our values and sometimes irrational approach to deep thinking in issues bothering on religion -both xtians and moslems

Hi all,

Through the conscious parts my life, I have observed trends that churned out the next wave of solid sustainable millionaires. Are you positioned for the next?

1) During the dying days of the military regime, with a toroughly demotivated, ethically r.aped and almost none existent middle class, young men took to internet scam. Big and silly money was made. Then we had the Fred Ajuduas and many more who today sit pretty in political positions

2) Following closely, came the banking deregulation in Nigeria. Young men invested in the banking sector (I'm not talking about the stock market here), we soon had the Tony Elumelus et al with their private jets as outputs. Others got employed in the banking sector and became the future ED's

3)Then there was the prosperity gospel churning out multi-rich and globally 'encore-d' pastors. Careers and contacts were built around these ministries

4)Nollywood came closely on its heels. We soon had the Stella Damascus, RMD etc

5) The democratization of the Nigerian 'nation' birthed new millionaires from no where. While many established names were weary of past promises and failures to keep to the democratization promises by the military. Some 'youths' with nothing to loose plunged into politics and became the new kids on the block

6)Then came telecommunications/technology. The 'egbon' benefeciaries in this wave were foreigners for example MTN. Nigerian youths however got oppurtunities to up their careers in such firms

7)As these industries were getting closed to new entrants, the Nigerian music industry was born. It has been a resounding success with the likes of Psquare and D'banj

7) The next wave is fast approaching: The power industry
How prepared are you for this?

-Yeah, you don't have money for investment. But I hope that you realise that they will need to employ people??
-Have you positioned yourself to become one of the big shots in the industry? Do I hear you asking me how?

barikay: The length of your post makes it irrelevent.

Thanks 4 ur feedback

Irrelevant to you -YES.

The post is a relevant and tested mind tool for me
...and I hope it would be relevant to any other person who desires to understand and control causal relationships affecting their economic well being

17 OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

I will now go beyond 'creating value from nothing' to how we can 'create better value from things around us'


Learn to spend other peoples money. When doing this, spend it wisely. What do I mean?

-It simply means that you put (or worm)yourself into a position where people can entrust you with their money. When such money is entrusted to you, maximixe its value further -Stretch it as much as u can to derive greater value
-When you read the auto biographies of the super rich, you'll soon notice that they used (and still use) other peoples money to build their wealth

This strategy is how banks make money. You entrust them with your money for safe keeping (many times not even expecting profit). The banks sometimes do not even charge you for keeping your money safe. They then leverage your money to rip profits.

In the next post, I'll give example of how you can leverage your money and other peoples money

3) Referencing

Referencing is very important and without it you could easilly fail, no matter how 'good' your essay or report is. Lets give some examples here:

An essay without references

Since the beginining of this century, scientists have strived to understand the origin of mankind. However, they have been largely unsuccessful. Darwin's supposedly grounded theory of evolution has been consistently torn to shred with new findings churned out almost daily by modern day scientists

An essay with references

Birmin (2002) suggests that since the beginining of this century, scientists have strived to understand the origin of mankind. However, Emeka (2008) is of the view that they have been largely unsuccessful. Darwin's supposedly grounded theory of evolution has been consistently torn to shred with new findings churned out almost daily by modern day scientists (see Funke 20099; Sahara 2010)

Patent owned by foreigners? what am I not getting here?

Can some monetary (non governmental) expert please explain!!!

I am in a state of shock

Jarus: Politics apart, there is no thing wrong in taking time out of the country to rest. Even in private sector, many people holiday outside Nigeria. If she decides to go to Obudu, better; but I don't see anything wrong in going abroad to rest.

There is something very wrong in taking time out to rest in a foreign country by top members of the executive and their visible family relations. I'm very sure even Jothan and Abati are wise enough to know this (She can do all her resting in thousands of countries when her husband has left power). But my guess is that if she is not ill, she must have made a case to her husband of wanting to escape pressures from the many political jobbers that would have congregated around her if she had settled for Obodu.

lets hover on the surface of business/marketing strategy and econs here. You realise that BlackBerry was made extremely popular by President Obama's comments on his like for the device. One of the ways of creating value is by association to big names. Even a little hut that is visited by all heads of states will soon become a shrine. That was a wrong move for a regime that prides itself as a transformational one.

@OP

'Born again' was referred to only once in the bible. But I guess that our fear of the after life made christians adopt its usage so profiously. Please also remember that Nicodemus did not ask christ about going to heaven before christ explained the meaning of born again to him. this should tell us something really deep.

She hits me, i'll pull her nose really hard even in front of her mom (but not in front of her dad or brothers sha,.. i no wan end for hospital)

Ok.

Old fashioned cars and water machines I'll stick to. I don't intend going back to the future

PhysicsQED: Iran is not Arab and has never been Arab. They are a totally different people culturally and politically. The issue is probably not as simple as just religion.

This could be very correct. My friends from Iran always threaten to punch me when I call them Arabs. They say, "dude Iranians are persians. We are actually fought a war with the Arabs in order to retain our identity". Then they go on to explain how the US has the nasty habit of using blanket categorisation.

Also, they explain that the 'average' iranian doesn't really have a care for religion although they believe in God. They tend to be free thinkers (not neccasarily aethists). My understanding on this was that they were like Igbos with their chis. They also made me understand that for the political class, islam only serves as a political tool.


What these guys said might be generalization taken too far, however my observation of the nation seems to be congruent to their assertions.
Maybe that's why you don't hear about beheadings, terrorist attacks, amputations, stoning to death for blasphemy etc in Iran like you would in some 'islamic' jurisdictions (including the Nothern north Nigeria). Despite the warlike stance of the country.

adora4u1: Seal’s accusation that Heidi Klum cheated on him during their marriage is absolutely false ... at least that’s what Heidi is telling close friends.

TMZ posted a video this morning in which Seal said straight out said Heidi was screwing the bodyguard while they were together --- and that is why their marriage fell apart.

Heidi told one close friend today her relationship with the bodyguard was "strictly professional" while she was with Seal.

The friends tell us that since the split, Heidi says she has gotten "very close" to the bodyguard ... who has helped her through the difficulties of ending a marriage

As for the nature of their relationship now ... all the friend would say is it's "undefined." So that's what the kids are calling it these days.

Heidi's friend adds, "It’s sad but not surprising that he would resort to making excuses for their divorce[b] when the real reason is looking him in the mirror."[/b]

[**esere826 first chuckles**, then ** Straight face**]


Do I sense some sarcasm or pun here ?