For the past few days, there have been unrest in Boki local government, cross river state, as two cult group, clansmen and baga are having clashes.
The two groups have had a long time misunderstanding and started killings when a point one baga member was shot dead on Saturday evening, the whole town was scattered and everyone ran helter skelter. after that, the killings continued.
police officers came to calm the situation but the d.p.o was shot on his head. ever since, police trooped in in masses to arrest young boys above 15years.
corpers in these region are however complaining but its falling on deaf ears. even the towns people are migrating.

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Lalasticala

‘‘Yahoo Yahoo’ and the Death of Young Nigerian Minds’
-By Sunday Eyitayo Michael
“My friend just bought a range rover”
“Wow, that’s great news. What does he do for a living?”
“Gee” (Gee is a slang name for internet fraud. Or ‘street’, ‘yahoo yahoo’)
“Uhm!”
“He’s into ‘Alibaba’, they are the ones that receive in ‘block’. The other one that bought a house in Lekki is into ‘apartment’. Let God bless my hustle, I know one day this ‘dating’ I’m doing will pay big. I just need the right set of clients”
“Do you feel fulfilled defrauding people? Why not do something more creative or consider hard work that will add value to people’s lives and give you success?”
“Brother, money is fulfillment. My father has been very hardworking for a very long time now and he’s still a poor man, frustrated because of lack of money and freedom”
“Someday, somehow, if he follows the right path, he will find success and die a happy man”
“I don’t want to live to that age and still be hoping that someday I will be successful. Come to Lagos or Benin, etc, you will see young boys of 16, 17, intimidating you with big rides, flaunting wealth and all they do is ‘gee’”
“But I heard the Nigerian police are seriously going around catching people involved”
“Haha! Story. They are just looking for ‘bread’. When you are caught, depending on your level, you pay. They know we make it big, so they charge us accordingly, sometimes N300,000, N100,000 or even N50,000 and you are free to go. But it’s nothing, we make far more”
“On an average, how much do you earn?”
“We earn what no government job can pay, not even oil. ‘Alibaba’, N100 million above, ‘apartment’, over N50million, ‘dating’, over N1million”
This was my conversation with a ‘yahoo’ boy, as they call it, and he’s in no way different from 60-70% of the youths in Nigeria. Internet fraud have become the rave among youth, a fast spreading disease eating deeply into the system, it’s now even the dreams of children. Fathers now support their children to partake and pastors do thanksgivings for them, knowing well, what they do and even organize prayer and fasting so that ‘clients’ pay. I know there is a lot wrong with Nigerian government policies, and the corruptions from above that frustrate so many down trying to work their way up, I know Nigeria has become a very sick cow that we can barely milk, but there are other ways out.
Nigeria now breeds a flock of lazy youths who have decided to kill their creative minds and settle for cheap routes like internet fraud. I don’t know the way out, I’m still searching. I don’t even know how it all started, but we can’t blame the founder of internet or the one so cheerful enough to introduce internet to Nigeria. But one thing I know is that its roots are already so deep that it would take so much effort to uproot it. I also know if we don’t uproot it, someday, somehow, it would ruin us all. But to begin, how do you convince someone who earns about N100 millions by just sitting behind his laptop to stand up, think, work hard and earn less than N100,000?

Learned helplessness is of all the worst attitude so far, and it is the most common in the world today. We act in this manner often without even realising it. it was first observed by psychologist Martin Selligman, who was deeply interested in studying depression. he conducted some controversial experiments involving two groups of dogs.

GROUP 1
Were placed in an enclosure and were exposed to random electric shocks which could only end after a lever was pressed. in time the dogs learned how to press the levee in order to stop the shocks. the same dogs were moved to a different enclosure, this time, there was no lever to stop the shocks. the escape procedure was different. this time they had to jump through a partition. in this new environment, the dogs first looked for the lever that was in the old environment, when they didn't find it they go creative in time and found the partition and got out.

GROUP 2
A different set of dogs were taken and placed In the first enclosure with the levee but in this case, the lever did not stop the shocks no matter how many times they pressed it. in time, they learned that the shocks could not be stopped so they just lay there and whimpered making no attempt to stop the shocks. they were later moved to the second enclosure (the one with the escape partition) this time the partition was truly a means of escape but unlike the other dogs, these dogs didn't explore the possibility, they just lay there and whimpered when the shocks came.

most of us are like the group 2 dogs, because life never gives us anything on a platter and we have tried before without seeing result, we just lay back and suffer in our poverty not knowing that the possibility we refused to explore might be our chance for success.

Stayed tuned same time next week for more BIY series

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Our attitude is a major key to opening doors to a successful life. What you say is just 5% of what people actually listen to, the rest of what they listen to is your attitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said 'what you do thunders so loudly in my ears, I can't heat what you say'. haven't you noticed that when someone appears calm, focused, bold, we tend to listen to them more than the ones that distract us with all their aggressiveness?
Thomas J Stanley PhD and William D Danko, after about twenty years of studying millionaires across a wide spectrum of industries concluded that, 'the character of the business owner is more important in predicting his level of success than the classification of business'.
Four key attitudes you should develop to be successful are;

1) BE OPTIMISTIC
Martin Seligman did a research and discovered that optimistic people are more successful than similarly talented people with pessimistic attitude. he got to that conclusion after doing some research at a major life insurance company and found that the salespersons who expected to succeed sold 37 percent more than those who didn't.

2) BE HAPPY
Albert Schweitzer said 'success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.' The happy man succeed where the sad man fails.

3) BE COURAGEOUS
Successful people understand that being courageous always assisted the to the told, cowards almost never get anywhere. Daniel Herzner said, 'when you have a can-do attitude you are giving yourself power and energy to accomplish anything.'

4) BE ACTION ORIENTED
Study after study have shown that the prominent character among people that are promoted faster and get paid more is that they are action oriented. Always be a man of action. Henry Bergson said, 'think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.

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Self belief is a very fragile part of man's psychology and it is usually the first target of success 'predators'. To be successful you have to guard this part of your psychology from;

1) PEOPLE
Keith Harrell the author of attitude is everything said that 'most times people tell is what we can't do because they don't see themselves doing it'. which is true. haven't you noticed that the people that try more to discourage you are the ones that have not done anything for themselves? and we allow what they say hypnotise us and we begin to follow their words blindly without checking our own lives. it was discovered that if a good hypnotic subject is told that he is in the north pole, he will not only shiver and appear to be cold, his body will react as if he were cold and goose pimple will develop. that's what most of us have become, the words of people concerning our abilities have totally hypnotised us.

2) COMPARISON
Maxwell Maltz author of the super informative book, psycho cybernetic said 'this feeling of inferiority comes about for just one reason: we judge and measure ourselves not by our own norm and par but by some other individual norm. when we do this, we always without exception, come out second best, we feel miserable and conclude there is something wrong with us. we are all special in a way and different in so many ways so the moment we begin to compare our lives with others we become miserable. a fish cannot judge itself by its ability to walk on land so instead it will focus on swimming, the moment it chooses to try to imitate the chicken it becomes miserable.

3) SELF DOUBT
William James said ' there's but one cause if human failure and that is lack of faith in his true self' doubt breeds fear and most often you won't do what fear. self doubt freezes your thinking mind and when your acts are not based thoughts, you will definitely fail. to kill self doubt, be bold.



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All these motivational speakers and books will tell us to belief in ourselves before we can become successful in life.
Are these mere words or they actually are true?
if they are true, then how can one belief in self?
How does self belief makes one successful?
How have self belief personally made you successful?

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Hi Nairalanders,
I've been researching on what hinders or permits success for my new book. I've read a lot of books on attitude and how it directly affects our success in life and relationships. I know attitude is a very important aspect of our lives so I want nairalanders to help out with stories of instances where your attitude have pushed you to be successful above any other of your attributes for my book.

Thank you.

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urvillagepeoplee:
he hasn't paid his dues.

lol

onward4life:

Nice one
Milo
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Milo

maybe he should run the next Milo advert

Saw this on Facebook and tried to think of what he was thinking.
Nigerians eh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOQn34z3hN0&itct=CKYBEKQwIhMIlsrQqI3D1AIVUKdVCh387goBMgljNC1mZWVkLXVaGFVDckIwZVFDcW5GcUhtZlpKR2xIanE3QQ%3D%3D&hl=en&gl=NG&client=mv-google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AX-sLpNpwc&itct=CBQQpDAYASITCPKD5aL2o9MCFcWdVQodJgYN3FIIbGFjZW1vc2U%3D&hl=en&gl=NG&client=mv-google
lalastica

wow nice analysis. lalastica are you seeing this?

I don't see why everyone is surprised actually.
We are in a new world,
A world that gives Bob Dylan Nobel, PMB president, will definitely put Trump as president.