I love to tell this story, not because I made this money few months after graduating from University, but because it’s a tale on hidden opportunities.

You see, some months back, long before the dough landed on my Domiciliary account, I was sobbing in my boyfriend’s kitchen in Dabai Katsina. It was barely months after I wrote my last paper, one tough course on Psycho linguistics.

I was listless, grim, the future looked bleak. I felt all this even though one could say I was doing well for a fresh graduate — I was earning forty thousand naira as a content writer. It was the year 2019, when forty thousand naira had so much value, more like this year’s eighty thousand naira.

So I’d weep silently in my boyfriend’s kitchen. Wrought with so much emotion.

There were expectations from me, I — the first graduate in my family. There were things I needed to do. Responsibilities like fixing our home, clearing myself from Uni, and of course helping my siblings pull through.

So one thing led to another, and we were at the onset of a pandemic.

The world was shutting down, people were dying, hopes were lost, but I — the poor girl from a village in Ọlụ, was making cool money.

I was selling disposable nose masks, Lysol disinfectant, wipes, and gbogbotigbo to people in far away America, United Kingdom, and Canada.

How did this happen?

I had — and still have — a website that made me a middle man between long line of frustrated humans and Amazon sellers. What I simply did was apply for the Amazon Associate program, then became an affiliate partner.

Cool right? I wish it was all that easy.

Anyways, I don’t want to go into intricacies. But after a month, my Payoneer account had a couple of dollars, which grew and grew as the months went by.

So while businesses were shutting down and loans were piling up all over the world, I was making soft money. Anyways, not until Jeff Bezos woke up one day and ruined the commission rates.

I’m sharing this story today because I know lots of people are afraid to grab opportunity by the balls.

See, opportunity might not come dressed in beautiful cloak, might not be an online job, might look beyond your standards, but one good thing about it is that it pays off. It’ll only take patience and consistency.

I know someone who started by selling petty provisions in his hostel in Imo state University. Today he has two shops in two different hostels, and doing well by all means. I see him opening a chain of super markets in the future.

I once read of a young man who makes a million naira from selling soft drinks in traffic. Or is it the young girl in my street who started by hawking cup cakes in the environs of Imo State University. Today she has a shop, and a handful of apprentices. All these changes took place below three years.

So dear reader — including me of course — which opportunity are you overlooking?

(c) Chinwendu Okafọ

OptimmusPrimme:
I just knew it had to be these cursed people from the land of the drowning sun.

These cocaine-trafficking, incestuous & cannibalistic bastards are responsible for 98% of all the atrocities committed in the Southwest and all the abominable vices you can think of.

They hate the Hausa/Fulanis

They hate the Yorubas

They hate the Niger Deltans

They hate the Benue People

They hate the Kogi People

They hate the South Afrikans

They hate the Ghanaians

They hate the Indians

They hate the Chinese

They hate the Cambodians

Sincerely speaking, they are the most useless and confused ethnicity in the Cosmos.

They said they’re marginalized and therefore, want Biafra. Ok, take your Biafra and relocate back to your erosion-ravaged enclaves in East.

The Coalition of Northern Groups even came out and urged the National Assembly to grant these drug-dealing bastards their utopian Country, but what did we see?

These bastards sent their representative (Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu) to curse the Coalition of Northern Groups and then declared that any evil plot to expel the Igbos from Nigeria with the aim of dispossessing them of their properties scattered across the Country will be resisted.

But this bastard representative has seen how his fellow bastards have been shouting “BIAFLA OR DEATH, NO LEFULENDUM, NO ERECTION” all over Nigeria and he kept quiet & simply held his peace.

Another Bastard from Nairaland said they will only accept to exit Nigeria if the old Eastern region is included in their BIAFRAN Country.

They are simply planning to steal the Niger Delta Oil-Producing Communities and lump them inside their Biafra, in spite of the Niger Deltan tribes & communities saying they are not part of - and will never join Biafra.

These are the same bastards painting & portraying the Hausa/Fulanis as bullies & land grabbers, but they themselves are culpable of the same crimes they accuse the Hausa/Fulanis of.

In truth, these bastards do not want Biafra because all of them know their Biafra will be worse than Congo, Somalia & Afghanistan combined.

What they want is POWER. Their “BIAFLA” is nothing more than a blackmailing tool to usurp Power.

Nobody heard the agitation for Biafra from these despicable animals when Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was the President because they benefited immensely from GEJ’s presidency and even had Azubuike Ihejirika as the COAS.

Nnamdi Kanu was nowhere to be found castigating the Government at the time because he was busy flying from one Country to the other in search of black, white, Indian & latina prostitutes courtesy of GEJ’s handouts.

Left to me, these cursed people should be treated in the only language they understand.

Anambra and Enugu would be annexed from the South-Eastern States and used as training grounds by the Nigerian Armed Forces, where all our newly imported ballistic missiles and long-range artillery weapon systems would be used in training our gallant men, and by extension to obliterate every cockroach & mosquitoes (young & old) moving in those two states while the training exercises are on going.

Please wait a minute! Before you accuse me of tribalism or inciting genocide, how many times have you cautioned your bastard, hare-brained people from inciting genocide on other tribes and the “Zoo”?

Look, in the spirit of fairness & justice, we must always endeavor to apply the theory of the “Goose and the Gander” in our everyday lives.

So, let us continue. Since your people think that they are smart and the rest of us from other tribes & ethnicity are stupid; a national referendum would be conducted at the behest of these “cursed bastards ingrained with the spirit of Nzeogu” from the East of the Niger.

There will be no neutrality. Either you’re on the side of Nigeria which your people call the Zoo or on the side of Biafra with your three state-Country (Imo, Abia & Ebonyi).

Of course, I did not forget. Shebi I have already told you mannerless recalcitrant bastards that Anambra & Enugu would have been converted into our proposed-training grounds for the Nigerian Armed Forces?

Therefore, they will be excluded from your Biafra since you thieving bastards too are planning to annex Kogi, Delta, Benue, Rivers & Edo into your stupid, infeasible & unachievable Biafra.

Then if your people refuse to either go with Nigeria or Biafra, they will all be rounded up and shot summarily for creating unrest and breach of the peace. But I trust the Ladipo, Onitsha and Alaba market boys, (vast majority of whom constitute the iPOB) to begin trumpeting their slogan - “BIAFLA OR DEATH”

Then, the Nigerian Civil-War Pro Max or version 2.0 will be declared & unleashed with immediate effect. Those who would want to remain in the “Zoo” in order sabotage our efforts; ayayayaaaa; well, I’ll come back to what will become of their doomed fate later.

All Biafrans will be given 72hours to exit Nigeria and relocate back to their cursed lands in the East.

Abi you expect to leave your MTN job for Innoson and still be earning salary from MTN?

Any Biafran that fails to comply with the directive will automatically become food, target practice & sex slaves for the security apparatus of the indigenous host communities of their abodes.

Yes, yes, I know. You’re already thinking what I’m thinking?

Predictably, they would engage and launch their propaganda & lying transmissions into gear 44 and resort to what they know how to do best by calling on the international communities to come to their aid.

But the international communities are not daft & stupid like the Igbos.

The international communities will then begin to collate & bring out all the statistics of their cocaine-related crimes, Human-trafficking, Armed-robbery, Cultism, Homicide, Wire Fraud, Stolen Equipments, Car Jacking, House Jacking, Human Jacking, Animal Jacking, Fake goods, Currency-counterfeiting and every crime you can imagine.

Russia, Turkey, India, Amerika, Canada, Hong Kong, China, UAE, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, North Korea, Japan, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, South Afrika and Britain - all these Countries will then conclude that since ALL THESE LISTED CRIMES ABOVE were perpetrated by the flat-headed & cursed Biafrans, It is therefore in their interests to fight on the side of Nigeria in order to eradicate these crimes & criminals from their Countries - once and for all.

Now, this is where it gets interesting.

You’re fighting to break free from the shackles of injustice and at the same time, taking the laws into your filthy hands.

Who will be foolish & stupid enough to come to your aid?

You want to break free from Nigeria but 98% of all the crimes perpetrated within & outside Nigeria are from your region and by your people.

That is exactly why the doctrine of the “clean hands and equity is very vital; Hence the maxim: “He that comes to equity must come with clean hands.”

An “AMBUSH” mechanized regiment would be deployed to every exit points in the Southwest to frisk and lookout for anything that remotely looks like our flat-headed enemies. All the males & children are to be fumigated with “Zyklon-B” & extinguished at a make-shift Auschwitz abattoir while all the virile & fertile females from age 12 to 17 are to be brought to me at the Supreme HQ (Yes, That is my office). The rest are to be shared as spoils of war amongst our gallant officers.

That is when reality will begin to dawn on these uncouth, loud-mouthed, empty-brained & belligerent bastards from the East of the Niger, and immediately begin to sue to peace & dialogue, but it would have been too late by then, since half of their population that reside outside the South East would have fallen as target-practice & sex slaves to the brunt of the hostile indigenous host communities where they are domiciled, and have been insulting all their lives.

At least 14million recalcitrant cockroaches would have fallen, because by Sango, I have vowed to break the records of my father.

Now, In order to re-admit them back into Nigeria after making sure that 14 - 30million of them have been utterly decimated, an executive order will be decreed proscribing the mention of the name “Biafra or BIAFLA” since it died in 1967 along with those poor & empty good-for-nothing souls who perished at the altar of ignorance, hypocrisy & covetousness, triggered by a greedy, self-serving traitor.

A 1000-Naira policy will then be imposed on them as a punitive measure as against the 20-pounds policy imposed on their fathers & mothers in the 1970s.

All their bank accounts will be frozen and their monies transferred to the Federal Government purse while leaving them with just 1000 Naira to kick-start the second round of their “much vaunted” industrious nature & business acumen like we did to their fathers & ancestors at the end of the civil war.

Look, nobody is praying for war but WE (The Oduduwa Children) will rise to the occasion should any bastard pushes his luck too far.

If you do not want this ugly fate to befall you and your generations, then you better be of good cheer; and replace the fermented akpu with ofe nsala soup inside your rotten skulls with the spirit of Patriotism.

Be a law-abiding citizen like the rest of us. Stop letting your emotions & inferiority complex take the better part of you.

Replace the shouts of “marginalization” with “yes, we can do it together”.

If you want power, present your candidates and rally round for supports from other ethnicities.

Unfortunately, who will even want to vote for an Igbo candidate, seeing how they curse and taunt us daily with derogatory remarks at every given opportunity? Sango forbid bad thing!

An Igbo man as the President of Nigeria? The announcement of Gideon Orkar in the 1990 coup-d’etat in still fresh in our memory.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/04/flashback-speech-presented-by-major-gideon-orkar-on-april-22-1990/amp/

How the bastard decided to excise & cut off Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from the Federal Republic of Nigeria when there were also military officers from these states who participated in that same coup d’etat.

That is why I keep saying that the I.Q of an average Biafran is “minus 20” (-20). Think first before you act, but the reverse is the case with these meth-ingesting bastards from the East of the Niger.

I remember vividly when Seun Osewa created the thread: “NAIRALAND SAYS NO TO SECESSIONISTS”

https://www.nairaland.com/2792995/nairaland-says-no-secessionists

There was no insults & curses these wayward children of Satan did not hurl at Seun. They even threatened to abandon NAIRALAND to go create their own BIAFRALAND but here we are today. As it is with every barren land, nothing good can come out of it.

That is why I am convinced that you incestuous, cannibalistic, power-hungry, money-hungry, domineering & cocaine-trafficking animals from Alaigbo will continue to be 4th-Class citizens in Nigeria as long as the Sun rises from the East and sets in the West.

In conclusion, I wish all my well wishers and enemies whatever you wish me in multiple folds.

I come in peace!

Lol.

So much hate.

Send your Aza let an Igbo woman love you right.

StPete:
It's just sex and it's his own addiction. Either help him to fight it or just let him be. As long as he does his bit in his family. You see, to men like that, it's just sex. No feelings attached.

I know many people would reverse the case if it was the woman but women don't just have random sex, it comes with emotions. Even prostitutes catch feelings with their clients. So just let him be. Insist he use a condom with them and just free your mind about how he bleeps around. In his own time, he will stop

Lol. You think?

Stop believing that.

A lot of women have random sex. A lot.

KillIgbohoN0W:
When you were prostituting with him you didn't alert us. Now that he has dumped you for fresher prostitutes, you are complaining.

A man like that definitely married you because of all the porn styles you gave him which you no longer give in marriage.

This is why one must be true to him/herself. If you hoe around while single and attract a man that's about that life then better continue being his hoe in marriage. Any attempt to reset and become "normal" will result in this type of issue.


Be yourself at all times so that even in marriage there'll be no difference with who you attracted.

You're stupid sir. Very stupid.

SankaraSo:
MEN!


When you go to buy cars, you test drive before buying.

You prove your self wise beyong manipulation when you test a woman's fertility before commiting.

If you commit and marry someone that used her womb to sow seed at a quack clinic.

You're OYO

We'd go for fertility test before marriage. God help you if you've low sperm count or any erectile dysfunction. It's the guts that you think infertility is a women's issue.

Many men suffer from infertility, but of course they don't know. Keep wanking. Keep placing laptop on your thighs. Keep taking sugary drinks. In the end blame that poor girl.

Elporo:
Sorry, can't relate. I have long accepted gay people as humans. If we have to live with Feminists - that want to destroy men, why not the rainbow people.

As for your 2 years; Men have given far more to women and got nothing back.

Like you said you still attract boys. Hopefully, you won't be heading to Shiloh anytime soon.

And just so other people know. Nigerian women are fatter than Nigerian men, in or out of marriage.

Feminists do not want to destroy men. I don't know where you get the idea from. You really do need to read up on feminism, it'll do you lots of good.

KiNg0G:


Exactly why i nor believe the storyline.

Even madman can't go to atm withdraw 5k and set it on fire.
For this country situation when we dey.
..

It's bulous



I tire bros, the story make sense but the 70k the op sat him brother burn turn nonsense (nor be say na Small pickin, 24 year old boy.. when be graduates..lol)


Even yahoo boys self, if control come....they cheat you...

You go come vex withdraw the money born am?

70k for that matter.


Even let's assume he's a drug addict...he head nor correct.


You know how many parcel of crack cocaine or crystal that 70k go give am?


Even if he's gambler, like bet9ja addict....he go burn a whole 70k?.



This na person when dey beg you 10k as a elder sister, go gather mind go bank or pos withdraw 70k

Burn am for your present.





All this people and their fake stories dey tire me.

For real.


Burn 70k for this December?
Where harmattan make everywhere extra dry.




The funny thing


SOME MUMU GO BELIEVE THE STORY... BECAUSE NA EVERYTHING THEM DEY BELIEVE

Lol.

I can actually burn 70k if provoked. You don't know what anger can push someone to. You think everybody get sense like you?

OvertheTop:



Your SON will be Washing Pant when he his Married and will Tell You (Mother) to her him Spread it on the Line Outside....

Then You will Understand what we are talking About.

Is that all you could come up with it? Shush shush

Kuriosmynd:
Simping in marriage will take u no where.
Those bullshit marriage councilors tell you, to do more, sweep more, fetch more water, cook more, clean more, watch plate more and all those bullshit will not a change a demonic wife. And if she's lost sexual attraction for you, to burst ur bubble, doing those houseboy work especially when u dont normally do it will only make her pvssy dry the more.

Most of u all never saw ur father do those bullshit, yet he commanded respect from your mother, but u want to become house boy to ur wife and think u will get her respect...shiior.

This is Africa..no matter the advancement, doing those bullshit will only bring premium tears and disrespect....except out of volition on rare occasion, not out of duty, or her expectations.

If she needs domestic helper, she should get a houseboy. simple. What does she do with her salary? She should pay for househelp paraventure a man doesnt have enough for that

.
Nonsense

You call doing domestic chores 'simping'. I wonder the kind of home you came from. Because of people like you I'm teaching my sons and daughters to ditch the idea of gender roles.

Hello House!

So I graduated in 2019, and since then I've been working as a Google publisher. I'm thinking of registering for NYSC this November batch but I've some pressing questions.

As a Google Publisher, I write and publish contents daily. This is not something I can do with my phone as it's pretty much complex. I tried employing someone few months ago, but the drive the person had was below my expectations, same with the results. So I've been wondering, can I go to NYSC camp with a laptop? I can't afford to stop working for three weeks.

Secondly, is it possible to abandon my service halfway? I don't see the possibility of completing it as my papers are being processed for living in overseas. At the most, six months time I wouldn't be in Nigeria.

Thirdly, I graduated with a first class degree. Though I don't think I'm going to continue in that academic route (I intend doing an MFA in creative writing) instead of what I studied (Linguistics), is the NYSC certificate important to me?

I don't see myself studying in Nigeria. Still, I don't know what the future holds.

If you're in my shoes what'd you do?

Thanks!

sugarlyn:


I know of an old woman (serrialoan) who stays in umuahia, Abia State.
She's very very good with herbs and have healed so many people facing amputation issue which non of their body parts was gone.
E.g : my friend got involved in a fight which 1 of her finger was almost bitten off. She went to gwagwalada specialist hospital and the only option was to amputate the finger because it has affected the veins. She cried and cried.
When she came to visit me, I couldn't bear awful odour coming out of the finger.
To cut the long story short, it was the herbs the serrialoanian woman applied on the finger that drained all the purses that was accumulating in that finger out.
Glory be to God! The finger is healed.
For the serrialoanian woman contact, whatsapp me on 09034228360

Shut up!

We're talking about life here and you're here with your sick trado recommendation.

Spark2:
Hello NL.
I'm going to keep this brief.

It started three weeks ago. my mum, who was walking normal with no problem suddenly could not walk. Her left leg began paining her severely that day. My mum was all in tears... She was rushed to the hospital where it was discovered that her sugar level was on the high side. The hospital gave drugs which stabilised it, at that point my mum was very weak, couldn't eat, each time she eat she throws up and also had some pain in the leg still. After a week in the hospital, we were then referred to a teaching hospital after a test showed that creatinine in her kidney was high.

The teaching hospital tried their best and I can say my mum is now okay. Except for the left leg. She can't still walk on it, the leg feels cold to touch with a little discolouration above the foot.

Doppler test showed that blood isn't really flowing through the leg. And they said they will need to amputate the leg to prevent the infection from growing to the other parts of the body.

Please I want to know if you know anyone who had similar condition and amputation was recommended but was later healed without need for amputation.

Please share your recommendations. I need my mum now more than before in my life. We are confused on whether to allow them to go on with the amputation or seek other alternatives.

Thank you very much.

Pls note that as at now, her sugar level, creatinine and other things are normal.

Please seek for expert opinion by going to a specialist hospital. The situation is dicey, and if nothing is done on time your mom might lose her life.

Last week we buried an uncle who died from Diabetic complications. Earlier on he was told to amputate his legs, but the family wanted to go traditional. In the end, it was damn late. What started as a small sore took his whole life.

You need to go on your knees and pray. God will change her heart, and make her repent. Remember; the Bible frowns on divorce.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
shebi u ladies always have 10 choices at ur disposal at every moment, oya drop him like he is hot.

Is that not what u want to hear from us?

The man is into u and likes u and wants u to take the relationship serious. U on the other don't want to settle down. Oya if u like select the one with the biggest features.

Hegoat.

Who asks a girl to visit them after few days of knowing?

Why not a public place.

Xoly:
No one is perfect, choose your man, and sort him out, that's life for you

Choose him even when he is violent?

STFU

Xoly:
Love is not all about understanding each other's love languages. Love is accepting his/her flaws....

Shut up.

Geteggs4lunch:






You need a bigger brain
You seem to have problems reading and comprehending

If truly you read for and earned that “first class” you have no business commenting on what I wrote

It is clear you cheated spiritually

I said most of them not all of them( all the schools I attended from primary upwards I latter found out (praying and fasting )that the best students overall in class and school are high level sorcerers every last one of them

in my civil engineering class ( northern Nigeria) a Fulani guy was the first classers,God showed me much later on this Fulani guy is a sorcerer

Ok if truly you first classers are so smart why stagnant after school, all the Uk , Nigeria and USA first classers have not invented nothing, no ideas no nothing, at most only copy and paste

In the whole school only you got it right

Wait....wait, did you say 'Cheated spiritually?'

I give up! lmao.

We shouldn't be having this conversation dear. Maybe in years to come when you've realized your foolery. Not now.

Meanwhile, keep blaming people who don't even know you exist for your failure.

Keep at it.

Don't read. Don't study. Don't read books outside your course of study. Don't go for hang outs and conferences. Stay in that house of yours and blame your village people.

MrJavaS:



He wanted a first class but never had it. So he keeps hating first class graduates and downplays their accomplishments to feel better about himself.

First class students make some students with lower grades insecure about themselves. Envy makes them to keep finding grounds to criticize first class students

Gbam.

My problem though is that he refuses to acknowledge his failure as his fault. Mba, it is better he labels it village people, or in this case wizardry.

I hate it when Nigerians do this! Every problem is spiritual.

Geteggs4lunch:






You need a bigger brain
You seem to have problems reading and comprehending

If truly you read for and earned that “first class” you have no business commenting on what I wrote

It is clear you cheated spiritually

I said most of them not all of them( all the schools I attended from primary upwards I latter found out (praying and fasting )that the best students overall in class and school are high level sorcerers every last one of them

in my civil engineering class ( northern Nigeria) a Fulani guy was the first classers,God showed me much later on this Fulani guy is a sorcerer

Ok if truly you first classers are so smart why stagnant after school, all the Uk , Nigeria and USA first classers have not invented nothing, no ideas no nothing, at most only copy and paste

In the whole school only you got it right

Lmao.

Console yourself with that dear.

If e pain you too much, go back to school and graduate with first class.

First class yenyenyen.

Frankyboy1:
Tell me every shit! Cause if I find out maself, you outta ma heart for good, and would just be my sex object

Are you going to tell her all too.

Geteggs4lunch:


And who is feeding you lies too?
This is my experience and you are there calling it lies from hell, you are the liar from hell

It is either you are guilty of it or you are completely ignorant but I doubt if the latter is the case.

It’s okay to speak for yourself but when you start speaking for all first classers then there is a problem
I said most of them are occultic even from childhood and they steal spiritually from others
It’s a practice done everywhere but more prevalent in Nigeria and among Nigerians

Nwoke m, stop being superstitious.

Anyway, I don't blame you. The Nigerian man attributes every failure of his to spiritual problem. Because you were unable to hit the first class target, is not enough excuse to think that those or 'most of them' (as you claim) steal spiritually from others.

You need a brain reset.

falcon01:
did you make it in life? are you where you want to be or on the way to success? or you are contented with what you have?.

Lmao.

I graduated last year. See, aiming for a first class taught me one thing that I've imbibed in all spheres of my life. DISCIPLINE.

I've not gone for service yet, I didn't apply for a white collar job. I'm working from home, and earning in six figures.

dingbang:
Let God bless you both.

Every child needs a father.

STFU

Geteggs4lunch:


.yes jobless because they stole people's destiny to make that first class
A lot of evil go on spiritually
Most first class people stole from others to pass spiritually

Who's feeding you these lies from the pit of hell? Stop being superstitious and unnecessarily bitter.

And please, there are no jobless first class graduates. We get job offers, recommendation, but some of us are pushing for something different.

falcon01:
They have nothing better to do they put their whole life in education and only few become successful.

Well, you're wrong.

While in school I had other things doing. I was working as a full time blogger, going to dates and meetings, writing stories. It didn't stop me from graduating with first class.