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Maybe Linda was misinformed.
Because I have a feeling she might have also donated her money to Save Mayowa.

Maybe Mayowa's family was misunderstood.
Because that $100,000 can still be used by them to set up a foundation to Save Other Mayowas.

Maybe we are all too quick to judge Mayowa and Linda.
Let's learn our lessons from all this.
Let's not harden our hearts to the sick and needy.
Let's focus on Saving Others.

Remember!
We saved Kanu Nwankwo.
He is Saving a Thousand Others.

My wife. She's my romantic mother and my children's mother too. Lol.

Ferraricash:
Hi, I have abt 4acres in Ibadan and I'm intending to plant watermelon, I will need some analysis, do u have ideas about watermelon ?

Watermelon! What I know about watermelon is that it's a very fragile plant. Na ajebutter e be. Lol.

Watermelon does not like direct sunshine. It's best to plant it beside a fence, under a tree or with other plants like corn. This is so that it'll enjoy shade. It also yields fruit within two months. And this rainy season is good for it.

Yet I wouldn't advice you to use the entire 4acres of land for watermelon alone. Or did you mean 4PLOTS of land? Because 4ACRES fit big pass 4 football fields o! Lol.

If it's really 4acres and you have a long-term agricultural vision, why not plant cocoa also while your vegetables are growing? Cocoa is an exportable cash crop. Cadbury, Nestle etc wey dey Nigeria need am. Even companies abroad need am. Lol. I'm still thinking of how to go into cocoa farming here in the South-East o!

In most cultures, a shaved head is generally considered a sign of humility or respect. That is why most people shave off their hair during mourning. So I think covering long hair is/was seen as a way of showing respect to God.

There's also the need to minimize distraction during worship. Women like amplify their beauty with their hairstyles and show it off afterwards. I believe sey hair covering dey reduce their shakara. Lol. I suspect men with long hair were also expected to cover their's too.

I also have this feeling that there must have been uniformity in dressing to check fashion competition amongst women during worship. The uniform dressing tradition has faded most likely due to Christianity's growth. Just the same way, hair covering is fading off gradually.

Looking at Christianity, women are more religious. But looking at Islam, men are more religious. I think the reason is that Christianity tends to protect women while Islam tends to suppress women.

That said, I think that, generally, women are more spiritually-minded than men. Why is this so? 1) Women are more in tune with nature, emotionally and intuitively.
2) Women are PHYSICALLY weaker than men and thus need the SPIRITUAL strength offered by religion. Whereas, a man tends to rely more on his physical strength to survive.

I think God's punishment clearly applies where you sin, disobey or rebel against Him.

The devil's doing could also be considered as God's punishment in some cases. For when we sin, disobey or rebel against God, we expose ourselves to attack from the devil.

Then, there's the middle where good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. Do we call good happening to bad people, God rewarding them for their evil deeds? Do we call bad things happening to good people, the devil punishing them for their good deeds?

That is why I believe there's an afterlife where everyone will be finally and fully rewarded or punished. This life is not enough. Is the suicide of Hitler or the poisoning of Abacha enough punishment for the evils they committed while they lived? I don't think so.

Very creative!

I'm sure many welders here in Nigeria can construct something like this. It's just that theirs will be only bungalow structures and won't be as strong as these cargo-container type.

There are some lessons I've learnt and I'm still learning on this my journey to wealth. Or do I call them principles I live by?

1) Listen to God's voice

Sometimes I call it 'intuition' or 'my spirit'. It will tell me to do this or do that. To go to Igbo land and start up something. To talk to so so so person about something. To share my story on Nairaland. Lol.

2) Be IGBOtic

There is something special about being Igbo. Other nationalities respect and envy us for our intelligence, ingenuity and industriousness. I no wan fall their hand. Lol. I must live up to the Igbo golden reputation.

3) Develop yourself

I'm not just talking about school education. I develop myself by reading. I read newspapers. I read books (Rich Dad Poor Dad, Think and Grow Rich, 48 Laws of Power etc). I read novels. I read blogs. I read how-to-dos. I read everyday. You people have been asking which school I graduated from. I don dey dodge the question since. Lol. I'm not yet a graduate. I actually dropped out from university some years ago due to financial constraints. My writing skill is perhaps as a result of a mix of talent and factors such as growing up in Lagos, reading the dictionary, novels etc. Honestly I don't believe that a lack of a university certificate can/should limit me. I'll keep developing myself the new-school way.

4) Choose your friends wisely

I met the friend who lent me money to do business during our days at Unizik. I met another of my closest friends till date at King's College Lagos. I'm a very friendly guy but I have few persons I consider my friends. Getting into my Facebook friends list is easy. Getting into my real friends list hard well well. Lol. I've realised that friendship is one of the most important things in life. I always try to make good friends and be a good friend.

5) Sacrifice

I try to sacrifice some pleasures to reach my destination. The Igbo say that "ejighi akpata etufuo abu ogaranya" (let me translate it in pidgin: "them no dey use get throway become rich" If I need to eat using the ONE-ZERO-ONE formula, so be it. Lol. If I need to be girlfriendless, so be it. Lol. One day one day, when I get to where I'm going, I'll be able to afford TEN-square meals and 300 concubines like King Solomon if I like. Lol.

6) Life's hard

LG say "Life's Good". Na lie! Life no easy. Lol. Making money is not easy. Becoming a millionaire is easier said than done.

7) Be patient and persevere

The bottom line is I can never give up. I will keep knocking on the door of wealth and success until it opens. If e no gree open, I no go look for Apian way or try to break am down like a criminal. Lol. I'll ask God for the key. Then I'll seek until I find it.

Semi-Good news:
I bought this third-hand Carter motorcycle this morning from my neighbour at Agbani who repairs motorcycles beside my own shop.

I call it semi-good news because I've only paid N10,000 out of the N25,000 he agreed to sell it for. The okada itself cost N20,000 while the N5,000 is what it'll cost me to change the piston, chain-cover etc plus pay for his workmanship.

Well, it's still good news sha. I heard a new Carter motorcycle costs about N200,000 (two hundred thousand naira) now. That means a second-hand Carter should cost from about N80,000 to N100,000. Nawa o!

Make una no congratulate me until una see the picture abeg. Lol. I'll upload it later when I recharge and get free mb as usual.

Bad news:
I almost lost my diabetic little cousin last Friday. What happened was he developed a swelling on his neck about two weeks ago. His mother took him to an elderly woman (I don't know if I can call her a traditional healer) to carry out the MGBAPIA procedure on him. I heard the procedure involves the healer inserting her finger into the person's throat and bursting the swelling with her fingernail.

After the procedure, my little cousin's condition got worse. The swelling didn't go down as expected and he was still in pains. This time around they took him for ISI YARA AGBA. Another traditional procedure. There was still no improvement.

By Friday morning, he was unconscious. We had to rush him to the hospital UNTH Utuku-Ozalla. The doctors and nurses responded as quickly as they could. Drips and an oxygen tank were attached to his body. Thank God he's responding to treatment now.

Unfortunately, I can't share the picture with you all. I'm sharing the story because we almost lost my little cousin to ignorance.

One of the doctors on duty took time to warn us never to handle a diabetic patient so ignorantly. She told us that TONSILITIS (known as MGBAPIA in Igbo), which he was suffering from, is more of a symptom of sickness and not a sickness itself. That there was no need to burst it. All we needed to do was to give him antibiotics or bring him to the hospital for proper treatment. That by bursting a diabetic patient's tonsil, we had unknowingly worsened his already fragile health condition. She even scolded us for trying to save money by treating him traditionally instead of bringing him to the hospital.

Biko, unu nyere m aka reduce o the ignorance and aka-gum in rural Igbo land. Lol. Warn your friends and relations in the villages not to treat any neck-swelling (be it tonsilitis, goitre or sore-throat) with cheap crude traditional methods. Tell them to first take antibiotics and if symptoms persist after three days, to please visit and enrich the doctor abeg. Lol. It sounds funny but it's not. I'm laughing because my little cousin is still alive thanks to God and the doctors and nurses at UNTH Utuku-Ozalla.

Does your master sell phones or phone/computer accessories?

I hope he is not the type of master that will accuse his umu-boyi of stealing from him so as not to settle them after the seven long years of serving him.

Chai! I think SEVEN years is too long. I'd have preferred the option of you learning something like how to cut hair at a barbing salon near you. It should take you about three months to learn it. Afterwards, you can start working for that barber or work at another salon. Or you could look for work as a computer operator, salesboy, waiter etc and save up money little by little from your salary.

Nwanne m, jisi ike. Life is not easy. E go better. God is with you.

Considering the fact that you're still a student, go into women's wears. You can visit some markets in Lagos to buy cheap first-grade okirika ladies' clothes like tops, leggings, bum shorts, trousers, gowns and even ladies' slippers. All these shouldn't cost you more than N50,000.

Then buy a big backpack you'll use to carry it to your lecture hall, female hostels and their homes.

They should be able to reach you via whatsapp too. In case you need to send them pictures of the wears or slippers.

This business won't distract from your studies. You can contact me on whatsapp 09095000603 if you have questions.

Will the new Inspector General of police reverse the order of his predecessor? Who knows.

Econet Vmobile Vodacom Celtel Zain Airtel
Yet 0802 remains my first number.

I think Fidelity Bank and GTBank are the best banks. I bank with both. Intercontinental Bank also had a high interest rate for savings account back then but now that they're Access Bank, I no just understand. Lol.

Nevertheless, the best way for us to find out is for someone to open a savings account FOR ME at all the banks in Nigeria, deposit N100,000 (one hundred thousand naira) into each of them and let me monitor their monthly interest rates and charges for one year.

I'm not a greedy Igbo man. I promise to return your initial deposit afterwards. Though WITHOUT THE INTEREST sha. Lol.

prevail23:
my inlaw, thumbs up..
God bless ur hustle

Wow! So you're on Nairaland? Hope you guys are safe there in Yola o! God has blessed and will keep blessing our hustle. Thanks.

1st picture: Under the staircase where he started raising the chicks

2nd picture: The backyard where he has transfered the six weeks old broilers to.

3rd picture: The boy with his broilers.

4th picture: Me taking lectures from him. Lol.

The boy told his parents about the small cash I gave him and my landlord and landlady both thanked me yesterday. It made me feel uncomfortable. Lol. I wish he could've kept it away from them but I understand that he can't at his age. It further proves that he's a good boy.

I wish somebody like Obasanjo could host this boy for about two weeks at Ota Farms during this his long vacation. Things like that will definitely motivate boys like him to keep dreaming big agricultural dreams.

Happy new month to everyone. Welcome to the second half of the year. I see you're all tired of watching John nwa Nkanu Part 7. Lol.

In this episode, I'd like to introduce a boy (about 14years old) who finished his junior-WAEC and decided to start a poultry. He's my Agbani landlord's son. I knew when he started rearing the chicks under the staircase behind my container. I was surprised to see how fast the broilers were growing.

Yesterday, I noticed that the birds were no longer under the staircase. So today,

Me: What happened to your fowls? Have you sold them?
Boy: We moved them to the backyard. We'll buy more chicks and put here very soon.
Me: Can you show me?
Boy: Yes. Come and see.

I went. I saw and was impressed with his effort so far. I called him to my shop and gave him a little cash to encourage him. He was so surprised and thanked me. The money was also a kind of bribe for him to give me more information sha. Lol. Although he'd have given me the information for free.

Me: I want to start something like this in my village. How much have you spent so far on this your poultry?
Boy: Hmmm... Nineteen-thousand-something now.
Me: How many birds did you start with?
Boy: 25
Me: How many have died?
Boy: Only two
Me: How old are your broilers now?
Boy: Six weeks and three days.
Me: Wow! What inspired you to start all this?
Boy: They taught us in school.

I didn't even bother to ask him where he got his capital. I'm sure his father must have supported him with funds. Nevertheless, I'm really impressed by this boy. He's already displaying the Igbo entrepreneural spirit at such a young age. At an age when most of his agemates are still playing PS or looking for girls on 2GO. Lol.

I wish you all could come and see things with your own korokoro eyes. Lol. I'll upload the pictures of him, his poultry and me taking lectures from him as soon as I can.

I finally collected the business permit receipt few minutes ago. It seems Mondays are the only days these government workers are sure to be on seat. If you go on other days, na mostly ghost workers you go meet. Lol.

Check out my ugu. I took the picture yesterday. It's already growing pods. Thank God.

Or even better still, you could break the video into smaller clips of not more than 10mb and upload it to DataFileHost.com then share the link with us so that we can download from there.

That said, I have a question please. More questions could follow o! Lol.

The bible in Genesis says that God created the world in SEVEN days while our Igbo culture operates on FOUR days of Eke, Orie, Afo and Nkwo. How come?

Hmmm... Reading this your thread has been very enlightening.

I've heard something similar albeit jokingly from one of my lecturers back then. A student asked him "Sir, did the Igbos descend from Israel?" He said, "The question you should be asking is Are the Israelites descendants of the Igbo?". Of course we all laughed. Then he added, "Yes! After all, hasn't science proven that humans descended from Africa? And Igbos are Africans." That answer was very thought-provoking for me.

I also love the way you've been responding to questions, criticisms and even outright insults with so much maturity and calm logic. Well done.

I'd like to encourage you to please keep writing and educating us instead of just posting links to YouTube videos. The truth is that most Igbos living in Nigeria do not have enough data to watch the videos online. I know I could download the video by using the SSyoutube.com/link method. Yet the download size would still be too large for me. Lol.

But if you must educate us via videos, another option would be for you yourself to burn the videos into video cds or dvd format and then offer the discs for sale (or free? Lol) to interested people. Thank you in advance.

Thank you.

I'm not trying to put sand-sand in your garri but this idea has a low possibility of succeeding in Nigeria.
1) Nigerians are already used to sending files via email.
2) Your idea only looks like an unnecessary middleman between the already common sender-email-receiver chain.

I came here only because of your excellently simple explanation of the CBN's naira float policy. Please consider going into perhaps financial-blogging i.e. making all these economic/financial jargons easier for the common man to understand. Thank you in advance for heeding my advice sir. Lol.

Ogaprime, it might be better for you to come up with another name that's close to the name you wanted. The process of transferring a domain name is not easy especially for Nigerian buyers.

Next time, make sure you buy the name before you start designing. I've noticed that domain names can be stolen from your mind if you don't register it as it breaks into your mind. Lol.

Webbet:
bro what about something like ********* dot com i want to use it for a personal development blog

Please don't make this kind of mistake again. Don't publicly mention an available domain name which you intend to use. Edit your post immediately and remove the name.

I score your ****** dot com 50%. It sounds too boring. I have suggestions for you but you'll have to drop your number so that I'll text them to you. If I dare mention them here, some people go kidnap am go register am before you. Lol.

tushbobo:
@ JohnNgene, can you score Nigerianhouseplans.com?

Hmmm... I usually prefer short and memorable .com domain names but in your case I can't seem find a way to shorten it. Except by going with HousePlans.com.ng or HousePlans.ng and I don't like .com.ng or .ng because 99% of Nigerians see and hear only .com in their subconscious.

Besides, your .com is still memorable even as lengthy as it is.

Therefore, I score NigerianHousePlans dot com 69% because the name is memorable, self-explanatory and as formal as your serious-minded clients would expect it to be.

Youngsage:
@JohnNgene, pls what site do you use to score domain names thanks

None. I'm the site. Lol. I'm a domain name enthusiast. I love creating easy and memorable domain names in my spare time. If you need domain name suggestions, whatsapp me.

By the way, you can visit GoDaddy.com to check if the domain name you wish to use is still available or already taken. Then you can use WhoIs.com to check the owner of any taken domain name if you're interested in negotiating with the owner.

rubochi:
These are just two from my portfolio of over 1000 gTLD in .com: Lagossians.com, propertygaga.com, etc

Your LAGOSsians dot com scores 70%. What an intelligent way to add another "s" and get at an already taken lagosians dot com name.

PropertyGaga dot com scores 65%. It means "crazy about property", right? You're obviously an intelligent person when it comes to choosing domain names.

Let me score your domain names.

I'll give BrainNewsNg dot com 60% just because you didn't use ".com.ng". Though something like BrainNews dot com or TheBrainNews dot com would've scored 75% and 70% respectively.

As for that your WhateverTechnologies dot com, I score it 20% because it's long and hard to remember.

If, if, if... So many IFs. Lol.
I'm enjoying the back and forth discussion between the two of you.
Sorry for my interruption. Lol. Please go on.

Boss13, Answerbank has tried to explain the new CBN policy to the layman. Don't just attack him. Why not go a step further to explain the whole "floating of the naira" in simple language to us? Thanks in advance.