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@poster
Look around you and think.
The only way to gain financial freedom is sell something.
There are a lot of needs around you waiting for you to meet.

Hi,
Opening one is not difficult.
1. Create an account at blogger.com
2. Publish 3- 5 articles on the blog.
3. Visit adsense.google.com and apply for an adsense account.

Google sends to you account details within 2- 48 hrs

Hope this helps.

You can also get a black berry free.
How? Just reach me at infogenius33(at)yahoo.com

I have finally been able to crack the code.
If you want your verified paypal account today
you can reach me at infogenius33(at)yahoo.com

chase4:
It is not as easy lots of folks would want you to believe, avoid most of the useless stuff being put up for sale. It will take u time to get the hang of it(forget all those "make millions overnight" boasts) but when u do it will be worth your while. All the best.

It is easy if you are smart enough and have learnt the ropes. But it is not an overnight riches of a thing. It is just like the offline business that you have to know how business in general works.

If I picked up a guy on jeans in the street that has less than N1k to start a business, I will gladly introduce him to internet business and in less than 1 week he should have raised money to expand his internet business. It is a cool way of doing business if only you know how.

anonimi:
The Babangida years

By Tolu Ogunlesi
April 17, 2010 10:36PM   

In his first New Year Days speech as military president, months after deposing the Buhari-Idiagbon government in a bloodless coup enthusiastically welcomed by Nigerians, Ibrahim Babangida declared: I wish to reaffirm that this administration does not intend to stay in power a day longer than is required to lay the necessary institutional framework to bring about a better and more stable Nigeria. Babangidas bonhomie (its trademark an endearing gap-toothed smile) - in stark contrast to the stern, unsmiling façade of Muhammadu Buhari, his predecessor - made it easy for him to be believed.
The distinction between the two regimes in fact ran much deeper than personality quirks. Babangida, in action, proved to be the complete antithesis of his predecessor. He threw open prison doors, setting free hundreds of 3rd republic politicians convicted and jailed by Buhari. He repealed the obnoxious Decree No. 4 of 1984 with which the Buhari regime had shackled the media. He promised to run an open administration that is responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of all the people - a departure from the high-handedness of the Buhari/Idiagbon era.
One of his first actions as military president was to allow Nigerians to decide, through public debates, whether to accept the $2.5 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan the Buhari government had been negotiating for.
After the terror of the Buhari years, Nigerians appeared to have found a statesman in military uniform.

Tough times that lasted

By 1985, Nigerias foreign debt had ballooned to $18 billion, up from $3.4 billion in 1980 (it would rise beyond $30 billion by the end of the 80s), and external reserves had dwindled to less than $2 billion. Oil prices had been in freefall for 3 years running, and in January 1986 they finally fell to less than $20 per barrel, a record low since the start of the decade.
To his credit Babangida made all the right noises about revamping the economy. In his Independence Day 1985 speech, barely two months old in office, he declared a state of economic emergency for the next 15 months. That speech went on to lay down a comprehensive plan for economic reconstruction.
This plan included a moratorium on new foreign debt, promotion of agriculture and industrial development, restriction of importation to essential commodities, financial sector reform and privatisation.

Populist leanings

IBB was a master of the populist move - ambitious government programs targeted at tackling poverty, and empowering rural dwellers. His government churned out program after program, in a bid to actualize his promises to run an inclusive, people-facing government. In 1986, Babangida launched the Mass Mobilization for Self Reliance, Social Justice, and Economic Recovery (MAMSER).
In 1987, the Directorate of Food and Rural Infrastructure (DFFRI) was launched to promote agriculture and transform Nigerias rural landscape by providing modern infrastructure. Other Babangida creations include the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND), Peoples Bank of Nigeria (PBN), National Board for Community Banks (NBCB), Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), National Planning Commission (NPC), and the Urban Development Bank.
No other Nigerian government presided over such substantial expansion of government bureaucracy as the Babangida administration. In time, the fiscal prudence that Babangida espoused vanished: billions of naira were sunk into an endless transition programme, and in the early 90s, 12 billion dollars worth of windfall crude oil revenue (courtesy of the rise in the oil prices due to the Gulf War) could not be accounted for.
Mr. Babangida also came to perfect the art of dispensing patronage through political appointments (mostly targeted at leading members of the opposition) and a far-from-transparent allocation of lucrative oil blocks.

A man whose words mean nothing

Mr. Babangidas contradictions eventually overwhelmed his reputation so that when, in May 1993, the activist and lawyer Gani Fawehinmi described him as a man whose words mean nothing to him, evidence of this littered his eight years in power.
Only months after vowing to run a government by consultation with the people, Mr. Babangida in 1986 surreptitiously - and unilaterally - took Nigeria, an avowed secular state, into full membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), a body which describes itself as the collective voice of the Muslim world.
Mr. Babangida lamented the large role played by the public sector in economic activity with hardly any concrete results to justify such a role.Ironically, over the course of the next five years, he would go ahead to supervise an unprecedented expansion of government. And despite his deference to the wish of Nigerians to reject the IMF loan, Mr. Babangida went ahead to implement some of the Funds most drastic requirements - a devaluation of the naira, and removal of subsidies, chief of which were the petroleum subsidies.
Mr. Babangida promised Nigerians that the belt-tightening was sorely needed: the painful injection that would usher in vibrant economic health; the mandatory dark lining before a cloud of prosperity. Those reforms, which he christened Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), came into effect in 1986, with a far-from-pleasant impact on Nigerians. Purchasing powers dwindled, inflation rose, and the obliteration of the middle class began. In 1989, SAP riots rocked the country, as Nigerians had finally had enough of economic reforms which silver lining they waited in vain for.

Greatest failings

Mr. Babangidas greatest failings were however in two key areas: his human rights record, and his political transition programme. In December 1985, a group of soldiers, which included his close friend, Mamman Vatsa, were arrested on allegations of plotting to topple the 4-month old Babangida government. After Vatsa was convicted and sentenced to death, Mr. Babangida assured a delegation of distinguished writers (Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and J.P. Clark), which had come pleading for mercy, that he was determined to do everything in my power to save (Vatsa).
Hours later, Vatsa and the other alleged plotters were executed.
As opposition to Mr. Babangidas rule grew, so did his intolerance for dissent, so that he routinely shut down or proscribed media houses; and harassed journalists, civil society and labour groups using the instruments of state (the State Security Service, Directorate of Military Intelligence and the Police).
In 1986, five students of the Ahmadu Bello University were murdered when mobile policemen invaded the campus to quell anti-IMF protests. He also promulgated a series of draconian decrees targeted at quelling all opposition, and on occasion did not hesitate to deport foreign critics (University lecturer Patrick Wilmot and journalist William Keeling).
In October 1986, frontline journalist Dele Giwa was murdered by a letter bomb in Lagos. Preliminary police investigations stated that senior officers of Mr. Babangidas intelligence services, who had hounded Giwa in his final days, had questions to answer regarding Giwas death. The mystery of the Giwa assassination remains unsolved till date.

An interminable journey

A maddeningly convoluted transition programme, whose terminal date soon became a mirage - first 1990, then 1992, and then 1993 - is one of the most significant things Babangida will be remembered for.
Early on in his administration, Mr. Babangida inaugurated a Political Bureau to kick off, as it were, the national debate on a viable future political ethos and structure for our dear country.
The political bureau was soon followed by a Constituent Assembly, which in 1989 fashioned a new constitution for the country.
Also, in 1989, he created, by presidential fiat, two political parties, the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention. Then in 1991, he released[b] a controversial list of prominent politicians whom he said were banned[/b] from participating in the transition programme.
In October 1992, he cancelled the results of the parties presidential primaries, causing new primaries to be held in March 1993. And then in June 1993 he annulled the results of the presidential elections, presumed to have been won by billionaire businessman MKO Abiola.

This was the final straw
.
By this time, Nigerians had finally had enough of his shenanigans, and violent protests forced him to step aside on August 27, 1993,My colleagues and I are determined to change the course of history, Mr. Babangida told Nigerians in his maiden speech as Head of State, on August 27, 1985.
By the time he reluctantly relinquished power exactly eight years later, he had achieved that goal, far more successfully than he, or anyone else, could ever have imagined.

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The Holy Book says "my people perish for lack of knowledge".
Will you allow 150m of us (Nigerians) perish or[b] will you ALSO forward this article[/b] on the (mis) deeds of our self-proclaimed "evil genius" to all Nigerians that you know
Will you help confirm "maradona" IBB's claim (in Germany in the 90s during one of his radiculopathy treatment trips) that we, his fellow citizens are "docile" (MUGUs) by not sharing this mail
Find a way to get involved at all levels- local, state and federal- this election period for a better Nigeria!!!

I love this article. Many youth today do not know all these. As far I am concerned new blood should be injected into governance of Nigeria.

Erhagbe:
Hallo, my good friend. Do you that you can get free credit card from Zenith bank to do your online purchases? You can apply for the card online by logging on to www.zenithbank.com

Zenith will never give you anything free. You pay $20 for their card not
to mention the money they cut when you make a purchase online.

tEsLim:
Maybe get a real Platinum card from intercontinental i use that online. ITs a dollar debit card

Have you tried using it at clickbank? Clickbank does not want to consciously have anything to do with 9ja.
I am meant to believe unless you have a foreingn card,foreign I.P .Clickbank will not sell.

snthesis:
the policemen need to investigate dis further, mayb d guy's kids don tire to wait 4 will

I no fit laugh especially if his kids are already dying and the ones alive can no longer wait.
My guy u make sense.

drrobert:
hi,
please can you lead me?

You get a free e-book worth N10K that will show
how you can earn your first dollar today.
It is no joke.
Just click on my signature link.
It is free no strings attached.

You can also reach me at expertkolawole@ymail.com
if you have any questions. I'd love to help.

Cheers.

Sportsfanatic:
Please is there anyone who can teach me how to make money online for free. I have tried forex but It didn't work.

Making money online demands focus and determination and maybe that is why forex did not work for you. It is just like the offline businesses. Anyway you can get started by picking up a free e-book at my site. You will be glad you did.
I used the technique written in the book to generate a nice slice from just a story during the sallah period.

You can do the same at no cost.
You also have access to reach me anytime you want to and get answers to any question(s) you have.

igbunuoghe:
Simple! Get a manager to be working on good commission. That way, your profit will rise again. This is because since the manager or supervisor knows that the more money the tipper makes the more commission he gets.

To add to what you have said, just as other posters have adviced,get another driver. My reason is this, the driver may corrupt the manager.Fresh hands fresh results.

All the best.

seyi08:
Hi Please how do I advertise my business on facebook

Very easy but I will be very brief.
1. Create a facebook fan page for your business.
2. Set up the fan page to suit your kind of business.Upload pictures if need be.
and include relevant links such as your website (if you have one).
You get more credibility if you have one.
3. Send a fan page request to your facebook friends.
4. Make sure you update the fan page with short infos that relates to your business
regularly.
That is just the brief.Listen guy,
if your facebook friends like it and accepts.You get further expoosure as their
friends get to read your update on their walls.
If you get it right you will not spend money but little time and make good cash.

Try it out. It is fun.

helpee2:
expert101,

You seem to know what you're talking about. I have very limited money but determined to start all over with the internet. I need the last item you mentioned very badly: a mentor and coach. Someone to ask questions and get answers from time to time. You recommended Akin Alabi in my own thread but I have a feeling you're close to him. Can you send me his mail box or get in touch with me at info@selfdiscoveryconcepts.com. I'm very sure that you'd be proud to have me as a student and protege. I believe I am success waiting to happen. I just need a detonator. My past failures have prepared me for this. Pls reach me

I believe you are a success to happen. Go ahead and get sound education and a specialized knowledge that will distinguish you. Your limited money can not stop you but re-enegize you for a breakthrough. My candid advice is just carry instructions and stick to it in a unique style with creativity. I will really be proud of you.

All the best.

stuffs4:
There are a lot of ways to market online, and it can be hard to figure out what's going to work and what won't work. One of the biggest questions people have is whether or not email list marketing really works. What do you think?

@poster

It is not hard figuring which one works and the one that does not work. E-mail marketing works anyday anytime provided it is set up properly with targeted subscribers.
E-marketing provides a medium to make money for life as long as you are meeting a genuine need. And the fun is that the more your subscribers the more money you make.
Any internet marketer that is not using e-mail marketing is simply throwing away a lot of money.
From my own experience if I were to advice a beginner, I will advice e-mail marketing as it ensures the flow.

Acidosis:
Tell it to your wife in details as it is written in your post. . the next time she (ex) calls, simply give the phone to your wife to speak.
Try this before your wife 'catch' you, Sir!

This is a very clear cut and powerful advice.
You will need your wife to help you tackle this problem
before you call her in to lick your wounds later on.

Go ahead and tell her everything and immediately you
do that you will feel a sigh of relief and feel much better.

Once she(ex) calls again and your wife talks to her
and she calls again and your wife talks to her she will
not call you again.

Great info here on this topic.
My brother,just learn and learn if possible
visit poultry farms maybe of a friend or someone
you know for at least a month. Spend sometime there
and see what goes on.
Observe and ask questions.

This will save you from some unnecessary confusion
when you get started.

Wish you tons of good luck.

@hdwada,

I love your second sentence.
@ poster.
It is just dedication and focus.Learn a business model and run with till you get something out of it before you venture into other models.
Or else you will just waste valuable time and money.
But as an advice do not start with data entry,paid to read e-mails and surveys.
Cheers.

consultmartins:
Dear infogenius, it's quite some time now. I just want to know if you have found an online business that suits you or do you need more ideas.

Well I never told you I was looking for one.I my doing my ideal kind of online business.
You can share the ideas you have with us in the forum.
Thanks.

Hi Bloggers,
I am surprised that a post like this have not been made.
Last month Google's blogger introduced new templates for their users.

It is very lovely I must confess and very flexible coming up with two,three and even four
columns and I know that means more money for adsense earners.

Let me cut the long story short ;just click here and see for yourself.
http://bloggerindraft..com/2010/03/blogger-template-designer.html
Cheers.

demoly:
Can somebody in the house give or assist me in getting a loan of N400,000 which i promise to be repaying on monthly basis. I have a well laid feasibility study for my project.

From your post you are on course just go to www.hostpulseng.com/loanswc.htm and discover how you can obtain loans even without collateral in Nigeria

zulky:
I don't know if i am posting my need in a wrong place maybe i can be directed to the right place if not here is my need.
I need a loan for my business and if anyone here can help in linking me up with any lender that will be great as the person will have his or her own commission or if you can do it yourself all the same . Please i don't need bank loan because i wont be able to meet up their demand, peer to peer loan will be preferred. The amount needed will be N600,000 and i am willing to pay 100% interest which is N600,000, i intend to take the loan for period of 6 months and the payment will be on monthly basis of N200,000 till i complete the whole payment. If you know you can handle this please include your email address so that we can discuss over it to know the condition attach to it maybe i can take the loan or not.

I have links but I am surprised that you do not want to collect loans from banks.
I must tell you that there are banks and even microfinance outfits that can loan
you and will not remove your head in terms of interests and collateral.

Except you must have a bird in your hands.

But why not seek patnership deals.

blackcypha:
pls am new to all these online money making schemes, I have attended two seminars where I PAID to get info for
starting online bz, but to my dismay the facilitators just bamboozled us with alot of internet jargon and later
said it is something we cant learn in a day so we have to buy their manual,cds and register with thier company for 5000 bucks
this was after paying 10k for the seminar.
i dont have a job and no source of income how can i get out of this financial conundrum, SOS
any body with step by step info on the best online businesses shud plz respond ,
blackcypha99@yahoo.com thanks,

Well that was harsh. Frankly I will tell you that there are various forms of internet business.But I can suggest the one you can start with.
And that is selling information online.
This is what you should do.

1. Look out for what people needs information for.Example could be how get a job you want. It could be anything.
2. Get information to meet that need.You could get information from experts.It does not mean that you know about what you want to write about.
3. Open a unique e-mail address for that product.
4. Advertise in dailies that are targeted and also in this forum.
5. Answer questions that people are asking from mails and your phone.
6.Offer them your product and make money.

This is the easiest,because you see your money immediately in your bank account.
From there you can move into other online biz.

Cheers.