Xcash Anthony is a Spoken Word Artist & Motivational Speaker with an interest in social issues who has touched the hearts, minds and souls of millions of people. By creating positive & inspirational content.
Abortion is the greatest genocide in the history of mankind. It is estimated at more than a billion! the total of aborted children in the world.
Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother.
If we can accept that a mother can kill her own child in her womb, Then where is LOVE ♥ ?
If you consider this video important to save the life of a baby that is already on the way, Do not hesitate to share this video.
OoshaRe: It's amazing to note that the Yoruba language has an equivalent name for anything in English language. The language is so vast and broad. Here's a little compilation of some animals and the Yoruba equivalent of their names.
Ps: I posted this on twitter so I'm a bit lazy to start typing again so I attached the pictures instead.
Nice compilation. By the way. Oya is grass cutter or cane rat. Not hedgehog.
When browsing on Nairaland there are some features that sucks. An example for me is the search function. When you need to search for a phrase it's so difficult. I wish Seun could improve on this.
BiafranBushBoy: A career in public speaking is one of the most lucrative in Nigeria today. Most public speakers, writers and musicians in Nigeria are smiling to the bank every day because they have discovered and used their talents to their own advantage. This is one of the lucrative work from home jobs you can do in Nigeria and all over the world.
Throughout the world, public speakers are earning big and some have acquired amazing wealth just by speaking the right words to the right audience at the right time and Nigerians are not left out. There are prominent public speakers in Nigeria who have carved space for themselves in the industry and are making money from just talking.
Popular among them is Fela Durotoye who has created a career for himself in public speaking, who has been able to go places, create wealth, and inspire people to do the same.
In Nigeria, a professional public speaker charges companies and organizations about N1 million per session to talk to and train their staff, while some charge per head and peg their fees at the rate of N20,000 per participant.
So, the amount of money you make depends on you. That is why you need to work on yourself as an aspiring public speaker.
How do you make a successful career in public speaking?
If you are reading this, this means you are considering starting your career as a public speaker, but don’t know how to start.
This article will guide you on how to start and be successful at making out a career in public speaking.
Tune Up Your Public Speaking Skill
You must have thought yourself to be a naturally good speaker, this may be the reason you are giving this a thought. However, you must know that a good speaker in a private place may turn out to be a poor speaker in a public setting.
Get yourself attached to an accomplished public speaker to learn how public speaking is done both in delivery and in a business sense.
As a gifted speaker, you may not need much training because it comes naturally most times.
Read Books
People who read books are naturally more intelligent than those who don’t. Don’t just read books on public speaking. Read other books too.
A good public speaker is one who is well read and experienced. It takes a lot of books to write one and public speaking is like writing a book.
Listen to Audios
You should listen to good public speakers and master how they speak and use words. Good grammar is a vital trait in public speaking. Listen to good audios to master proper pronunciation and the correct use of words.
Brand Yourself As Professional Public Speaker
You need to sell yourself as a public speaker.
Public speaking is a business, so you need to brand yourself perfectly if you hope to sell your services to your potential clients.
How do you brand yourself as a Public Speaker?
Use Social Media
Before you make a career in public speaking, you should be social media savvy. Create attractive and compelling Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. Take time to edit your pages and make them professional. Add pictures of previous events if you have. Let your photo albums sell you as a professional.
Use the best of your photos as a profile picture and page covers.
Take time to carefully tell your potential clients who you are and where you are coming from on your page.
Write with correct spellings. Do not follow the trends among some social network users, who use wrong and funny spellings. Write like a professional you are.
Tweet and update your status with inspirational quotes and motivational excerpts. Social media has more prospects than you can imagine, the people you meet online may turn out to become your clients or recommend you to clients.
Start Blogging
Blogging is the most powerful brand-building tool online. A blog has its own way of giving you credibility and multiple sources of income.
You can sell your speaking services online through your blog and still make money offline.
Steve Pavlina is a renowned public speaker and a blogger, who makes more money from his blog than his public speeches.
Go on Air
Negotiate regular slot on Radio and TV and speak to people. Let them hear your voice, let them hear you speak. The quality of your speech will be the connecting factor between you and your prospective clients and the general public.
If you would appear on TV, do not dress carelessly and go on air.
Dress tastefully and look well groomed. There is no quicker way to build and sell your brand than the radio and television. When your audience hears and sees you, they get connected with you.
Organize Seminars
When you have built your brand, you can proceed to organize seminars and charge people to attend.
You can organize seminars in schools, churches and organizations.
With these steps, you would gradually build a brand for yourself and start making money.
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Spain produces 850 000 mT of raw tomatoes yearly. That is 12% of total European production. That is a lot of tomatoes because the Europeans eat lots of tomatoes. Lots of Nigerians work in the tomato farms in Spain.
They have so much tomatoes in Spain that once a year the Spanish will come together and have a very big tomato fight on the street. They will come with truck loads of tomatoes and people can fight each other with it all day. It is tradition and nobody gets hurt. But when you go to Spain just make sure you stay away from the Bull Run. That one also happens every year but don’t mix them up.
In Nigeria, many brilliant people thought the problem of tomatoes shortage was there wasn’t enough processing power to process the tomatoes produced, and were left to rot. Mr. Aliko Dangote got that information too, so he thought why not build a mega tomato factory to process all that tomatoes?
But he thought lets have a plan B. Lets recruit more farmers to produce tomatoes in case the present capacity was not enough.
As it happened, when the factory was completed the tomatoes available in Nigeria could only run the factory for few weeks and there wasn’t enough tomatoes. The country produce too little. Where are all the tomatoes the Minister said were spoiling in Nigeria due to lack of processing power? Stories.
Now Mr. Dangote is stuck with his tomato processing factory and has called in the Italians to come and build and run a very big tomatoes farm in Nigeria so he can run the processing factory.
This is the problem when people believe in fables and live in a fictional reality.
Hmm. could it have been a spiritual attack on Dangote?
Been a while I visited Radar. It's gradually becoming a ghost town. But I don't think you need an invite to join. At least, I did not. But I'd also advice you join slack channels like Laravel Nigeria, forloop Africa and this facebook group https://www./DevCLagos/. Between those places, I'm sure something would pop up for you.
Thanks I'll check up those channels. I'll be glad if you could help with radar also. Thanks alot.
If you can truly do what you have written, then jobs should be sewrching for you (no offense). Go to Twitter and tweet your abilities. While at it, mention people like @colab, @markessien @neoighodaro @unicodeveloper.
If you really want to go all out, visit radar.techcabal.com, register and create a topic. You'd definitely get responses. Thank me later
I've been trying to create account on radar.techcabal.com but no luck. I heard I need an invite. Is there any other way?
hpaje: It's so annoying that most people don't even know their rights since NEPA/PHCN became a private owned entity. People are still of the mindset that when the transformer spoils, they should contribute and fix it; but that mindset should be washed away. If the Private company want to make money, let them fix it themselves. Apart from the MD (Maximum Demand) customers who have been mandated by NERC(Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission) not to pay their bills until they are metered, Do you know you can CONTEST AN ESTIMATED BILL with your DISCO? [flash=200,000] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYOB6PkF7gk[/flash]
In case you don't know your rights, here they are.
1. All new electricity connections must be done strictly based on metering before connection. That is, no new customer should be connected by a DisCo without a meter first being installed at the premises. 2. All customers have a right to electricity supply in a safe and reliable manner. 3. All customers have a right to a properly installed and functional meter. 4. All customers have a right to properly informed and educated on the electricity service. 5. All customers have a right to transparent electricity billing. 6. All Un-metered customers should be issued with electricity bills strictly based on NERC’s estimated billing methodology. 7. It is the customer’s right to be notified in writing ahead of disconnection of electricity service by the DisCo serving the customer in line with NERC’s guidelines. 8. All customers have a right to refund when over billed. 9. All customers have a right to file complaints and to the prompt investigation of complaints. 10. All complaints on electricity supply and other billing issues are to be sent to the nearest business unit of the DisCo serving the customer. 11. If a complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, customers have a right to escalate the issue to the NERC Forum Office within the coverage area of the DisCo. 12. Customers have the right to appeal the decision of the NERC Forum Office by writing a petition to the Commission. 13. It is the customer’s right to contest any electricity bill. 14. Any un-metered customer who is disputing his or her estimated bill has the right not to pay the disputed bill, but pay only the last undisputed bill as the contested bill go through the dispute resolution process of NERC. 15. It is not the responsibility of electricity customer or community to buy, replace or repair electricity transformers, poles and related equipment used in the supply of electricity.
Please do not allow people rob you of your hard earned money!!
Jabioro: That is lovely Op..at my area,around 2011 the fools gave me a monthly bill 16k to 23k,l have accumulated 270k plus,as God would save me from ikj menace the prepaid meter was install in August free of charged,today are l spent btw 3.5 to 4k ..
Do you have power 247? Why you paying so much for electricity? I pay about half of that per month currently.
Adieza: 1. The Netherlands is 22 times smaller than Nigeria. 2. They have 17 million people living there. 3. There are 6 states in Nigeria bigger than the Netherlands and Niger state is almost double in size. That small the country is.
4. They feed themselves, and last year exported over $90 billion worth of food. 5. That is about 3 times Nigeria oil revenue. Funny enough, black people used to think agriculture was their thing since they didn't produce any technology.
Many people don't realize how sorry our situation is. Before, there was no money. But today there is so much money out there that we cannot even use the money available in the world to develop Nigeria. You don't really need government money these days to develop a country. The government just need to make life easy for people with money to come and use their money to develop the country. This is a very difficult notion for African leaders to understand.
Today, African governments are the biggest enemies of their own people.
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Are you not thinking or taking her back? She has not reached out to you for the past three months?
Pipedreams: Send her back to her parents house. This is the exact character of my estranged wife. She told me she hates me 3rice. So wats the point staying in a dead marriage? Calling inlaws is rubbish they will all gang up against you. If she can't calm down and respect you as the head, throw her to the garbage van. Trust me there are lots of good women willing and able to take her position. You sound like a honest and hardworking guy. I was once the nice husband that took every shit thrown at me till I snapped! I sent her packing and changed my location. She has been chillin with her rich parents for 3 months now. I have my peace and I am very happy bro. Marriage to nigerian ladies suck. Also marriage no be by force. If you can't settle ur differencies then you should part ways before we hear story that will grace front page. I also do not believe in seeing a marriage counsellor.
A thread on why PREPAID METER being distributed TO ALL may never be achieved in Nigeria. After the Nigerian Police, Nigerian Electricity distribution companies are next on the list when it comes to corruption. This has been in existence from time immemorial, just like barracks, many government have come and gone but the deep rooted corruption in the system remains In April 2016, I moved in to my current apartment. The apartment was still connected to an old meter and there was an outstanding payment of about N385,000.00 to be paid.
This wasn't revealed to me before I made payment for the rent, as usual (that's how they all do) This became a worry and an absolute headache.
I asked the landlord why it was so and she made me understand that the apartment was not in use for 5years.
I asked how come it wasn't reported to NEPA so they'd stop the billing, she gave me a copy of the letter she wrote to them So I took the matter up, wrote several mails to Eko electricity company and the matter was on for 11months, note that in the space of this 11 months, I never got a monthly bill lesser than 24,000.00
You want to ask if I have a factory in my apartment? No I don't. So it extended from wanting the company to zerorize the ridiculous outstanding balance in the billing account to fighting and contesting the outrageous billing system which do not in any way represent my true electricity consumption and wanting a Prepaid Meter
The battle began. After several exchange of mails betweens myself and Eko Electric and no solution was forthcoming, I moved the matter to NERC, the regulatory body for all electricity distribution companies in Nigeria.
I filed a petition against Ekedp and the undertaking in charge of my area. Lo and behold, after three days from the petition submission to NERC, I got a call from the marketing manager for my area pleading for me to make myself available to allow them come to my house and take inventory of the electrical appliances I use.
NERC is working yeah? Right. A staff of the Ekedp came to take the inventory and at the end of the computations, we calculated and multiplied each appliance by the estimated units they consume per day and multiplied by 31days.
Recall I said I never got a bill less than 24k in a month? Then we arrived at a figure that even the Eko electric staff who came to take the inventory opened his mouth and couldn't close it.
What I should be billed based on having 24hour light per day(which is not even possible) in 31 days was 4,800.00
I almost ran mad. I took a copy of the report, scanned it and attached it to my next petition to NERC.
At this point, the marketing manager attached to my undertaking had started calling and begging me to stop the petitions.
That they could all get sacked if matters gets escalated further. Then in September 2017, after all the troubles and how I never got tired if pursuing the issue, I got a mail from Eko electricity to come with some required documents in order to fill a form for a PREPAID METER.
I went there and did as they requested
At Last. On 27 November 2017, I was on leave. I was at my gate then this Alfa looking guy was parading and trying to see house number on the fence. My instinct told me to ask if he was asking for Ayo, then he said yes
He was the prepaid meter installer, he was with my new prepaid meter I also recall that before the whole issue started, I was discouraged severally that I can never be given prepaid meter due to the outstanding balance on the billing account, I paid no mind to all the people that said that and went ahead with my case. I got the Prepaid meter for FREE. After a week, bill was brought and boom, outstanding balance has been cleared from 385,000.00 to zero balance.
How did I achieve this? I mean I didn't pay a dime to anyone and I never for once bribed my way in all my dealings. I achieved this simply because;
1. I knew my right. 2. I wouldn't settle for mediocrity 3. I never stopped pushing even after several months and it seemed unachievable 4. I was ready to take the matter up anywhere 5. I was informed. Now imagine how many people are out there who don't even know how to go about such tedious and draining process.
I learnt that a lot of people even paid as much as 40k to get the prepaid meter. Something that's supposed to be free. Since the prepaid meter was installed in November 27 2017, I have not exhausted the 303 units that came with it which is calculated to be 7,200.00
And I still have 140units left to use.
That's over four (4) months now Do you now see why these people will never allow dream of every homes having a prepaid meter become a reality?
Because such development will block all holes where the electricity distribution corrupt members of staff perpetrate their fraudulent activities and corruption from. They know that they will be forced to give light more in order to generate revenue and will not be able to charge people outrageously as they are currently doing and remitting the proceeds of their criminal act to their pockets.
Stand up and Fight for what is your right. Prepaid meter is your right, fight for it to the latter.
If you believe that your monthly electricity bill do not represent your consumption, make a case.
If you're in Lagos, Ikeja Electricity company and Eko electricity company are there for you.
If they fail, involve NERC. That will be all, for now. Due to popular demand, these are the email addresses you can forward your complaints to - Ikeja Electricity Distribution - customercare@ikejaelectric.com Eko Electricity Distribution - customercare@ekedp.com Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission - complaints@nerc.gov.ng
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