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Snake(sultan) and him mama(islamic scholars/moslems) na de same, they both have poisonous venom

you are not following the teachings of prophet mohamed(AWB) by you statements above.

The great prophet asked us to kill the infidels and those that refuse allah

see my 1st aricle here https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-703247.0.html

NOT MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Sit down and work on your business and on your ideas until it announces you to the world as a person of value. Stop moving from place to place and chatting idly with people all over the places.

Mistake 2: Not minding your own business: While on a personal retreat outside Lagos, I called my pastor on phone around 11.30 p.m. (we had mutually agreed on the time) to discuss some issues. I started by apologising for not linking up with him for almost seven months even though I see him in the church most of the time on Sundays. His response got me thinking for a week: “The key thing is to spend time to sort out your life first. Leave other people out of it initially. God will not reward you for the time you spend in other people’s business when you should be on your desk working things out. When you fix things, get back and we would understand, and gladly, welcome you back as long as you are able to make it. The truth is that you will only remain in people’s reckoning when you are doing well and they perceive that you can add value to what they are doing. The moment they can’t see that value most people (including me) will have to look elsewhere.”

I almost abandoned the earlier discussion I came to have with him in order to ponder on his words. But I have found that to be the truth and I have thanked him for that candid advice. One of my advisers who has been able to build a company worth N0.8 billion from N80, 000 seed money in five years shared an experience with me that reinforced that truth. When he wanted to start his business, he had contacted one of his closest friends to help him with money. Before that time, they used to hold meetings in his friend’s private bedroom. That, however, changed when the issue of money surfaced. According to him, the next time he visited his friend, he asked him to fill a visitor’s form and that he should see his son first for clearance . Humiliated, my friend took time to meditate on the turn of events and he resolved to do everything possible to make it. He sold virtually everything in his house to raise the necessary money. In less than four years, he steered the company (an international IT franchise) into international reckoning. Guess what! His old friend has been on a hot chase asking them to partner! We were reflecting on that incident a couple of days ago and this is his conclusion: “Don’t ever boast that you know anybody until you have worked yourself into reckoning in their books.” I hope the message sinks. Sit down and work on your business and on your ideas until it announces you to the world as a person of value. Stop moving from place to place and chatting idly with people all over the places. It does not matter where your business is located once people can perceive value in what you are offering, they would search you out. Believe this also: your mentors and friends would pardon your being incommunicado if you are able to make it!

Mistake 2: Bringing partners too quickly into your business without seeing what you can do first to advance the business personally: One of my mentors told me that he had lost three businesses to what he calls youthful exuberance. He said: “When young people come to me these days and say that they want to go into partnership with this and that person, I usually tell them to soft-pedal. The real dimension of a business cannot be easily discovered at the initial stage. It takes some trial-and-error attempts and it is dangerous to bring in people in when you have not yet explored other options. My advice is that you should start your business small at first and grow it with as little financial outlay and personnel encumbrances as possible. When you are sure of the nature of the business, you can then, bring in joint venture partners who are not necessarily shareholders. These are people you can do business with and share profit. The arrangement can be disbanded once the transaction is over. It is a need-based partnership” It is a good piece of advice I suggest you meditate on.

Mistake 3: Abdicating accounting and marketing function as the CEO. If you are not on top of the financials of your company, you are not on top of anything. When you now combine that with lack of interest in how what you produce is sold, it is safe to say that you don’t have a company. My mentor shared his experience: “For more than five years after I started my business, it was struggle every inch of the way. I was busy spending money on production and money was not coming in. The agents did everything they liked. By the time I knew what was happening I was already sitting atop N21million in debts. I had to call in friends who are consultants to help me out. They came out with two recommendations: First, I had to learn everything about how to interpret financial information coming from my accountant; and second, I should spend less time in the office as money is made outside while you are networking and not when you are sitting down in your cosy office. It was tough initially but I had to learn those two aspects of the business and that saved the company from bankruptcy. You don’t have to be an accountant to know how to interpret financial information, you can learn it. You can also learn how to meet people and introduce the company. Today, our business is a huge success in the true sense of it.” I think that is a wise counsel you should absorb into your spirit and soul!


Mistake 4: Failure to qualify those who have access to you: The biggest mistake you can make is to allow unrestricted access to yourself. The truth is that everybody wants an aspect of you, and people would do anything to extract what they want, irrespective of your discomfort. It is your responsibility, however, to create mechanisms for qualifying access to you otherwise you would lose out in life. One of my mentors said this: “There is always a people’s pressure. You must, however, ensure that you fit people into your schedule, not the other way round. When people invite you for an occasion, you should be the one to determine if it fits your schedule or not. The antidote to this is to fix your schedule for at least a year ahead. Put the time you would spend with your spouse in the calendar and make those times irreversible. I remember when someone important invited me for a speaking engagement, I told him I was not free on the day he fixed, but when he checked my diary as we were looking at it together, and he saw that I filled time with family, and he said but I could fix it on that day. I refused flatly. You must protect your personal schedule from external invasion.” Store this in your soul; it would add more years to your productive lifespan.

Even Illiterates know what to do, I always laugh at Nigerian Graduates who have placed all their lives on a paper called certificate.

A good number of these unemployed graduates and going about town with a BB that costs a fortune

well i started selling phone/laptop accessories with N15K in a show glass after my NYSC four years ago and today i have a phone shop worth N3m and i have 6 staff that i pay a total of N300K monthly.

SALARY IS SLAVERY

Look for what you can do with your skills and not your certificate

The greatest problem of graduates is that because they attended a Four-walled classrom within a four-walled premises, they limit their lives to the four-sided paper called certificate

Checklist Before You Said 'I Quit'- 10 Questions Before You Quit Your Job

This is for those earning very small salary or are not fulfilled in the job they are presently doing, especially those of us who believe that a J.O.B stands for Just Obeying Bosses
Probably you've walked boldly so many times into your boss's office to say "I Quit",but on reaching there your confidence seems to have eroded faster than the melting of ice at 1000 degrees centigrade and you ended up greeting him.

These ten crucial questions, answered honestly, will help you to think it through, evaluate your position and view the prospect with a steady gaze.

1. Why do you want to quit?
Be clear about why you want to leave so that you don't jump out of the frying pan and into the fire. Experience has showed the reason why people quit, the most common reasons are:

You need a better pay
You've been there too long and you're bored and stuck
You're no longer interested in the subject or the work
You're undervalued
Reorganisation and restructuring have changed your role
You're making no progress
You're too young to sit it out until you retire
You don't get on with your co-workers or your manager
A general need for change (some people need the stimulus of change in their lives more than others).
2. Do you really want to quit your job?

Think about whether it really is your job that you want to change. Be very specific about what you do and don't like about your current work - it may be your role, your boss, the working environment or your terms and conditions. Think about exactly what would make your working life more enjoyable. Make sure you explore all your options and don't rush the process. You may find that you can make a change in a less drastic way, for example:

Finding another job in the same sector (i.e. at another University or College if you are an academic)
Change sector (for example, move from the academic to the private sector/industrial research, the charity sector)
Modify your existing job (by going part-time and pursuing another interest, moving sideways, finding a secondment opportunity or getting involved in another project).
3. What kind of work do you want to do?
You may already have a good idea of what you want to do. Answering the first two questions may have helped clarify your needs. Now think about what your ideal job would entail on a day-to-day basis, for example:

less paperwork and admin
working with different kinds of people, fewer people or in a team rather than on your own
more or less direction, micro-management or support
more outdoor work, more or less travelling
working from home
working more flexibly
You may be able to negotiate these changes within your role at present. Your boss or manager may be able to help you with your problem, but you could make it easier for both of you if you already have some realistic and practical ideas. If you have an idea, write it down and approach your boss with it. Don't forget to include any benefits for your manager or the institution/organisation.

4. What are your skills and capabilities?

Think about your transferable skills and capabilities, aside from the specific subject or job area, for example:

organisational skills
teaching/lecturing
detailed research work
fundraising knowledge and ability
people skills
ideas and getting initiatives off the ground.

5. Do you want to use your existing skills and capabilities?
You may be thinking that you want a complete change, away from everything, but be sensible. Think about other roles or jobs where you can use the knowledge, skills and capabilities that you have built up. Talk to the people you work with to find out if there are opportunities associated with your work: suppliers, fellow project members or members of a professional association, if you belong to one, may give you ideas to explore. Sideways moves, consultancies and poacher-turned-gamekeeper jobs may be suitable.

6. What are you interested in?

When you're thinking about a new job, be sure that it is something you really are interested in. It may be that although your reasons for moving are financial, a fat salary may not be enough to keep you interested. The money may be right but remember that you will be doing this job day in day out. Does the remuneration offer enough of an incentive?

7. What are your values?
Even if you don't think that you have particularly hard-held values, you may be surprised - a disconnect between your everyday activity and what you believe in can be very uncomfortable. For instance, an academic who moves into a fast-paced commercial environment may find the bottom-line, profit-making approach and the way it affects every part of the work unacceptable. On the other hand, someone moving into academic life from the commercial sector may have difficulty with the gentler, less targeted approach of institutional life. Explore your values. Examples are:

doing good
making a difference
recognition for hard work and enterprise
status and importance (don't tell yourself it doesn't matter - it does! You may be able to deal admirably with working under a manager who is younger, and less experienced than you are. Even so, it's worth thinking about.)
being free to work without commercial constraints.

8. Are you prepared to retrain or start from the bottom again?

Of course, if you are already committed to a complete change, you will need to think of the implications for you and your family. You may have to start from square one again and live with all the consequences of that such as lack of status and lack of money!

9. How much money do you need to make?

Crucial! Are you prepared to drop your income level? Take a long hard look at you current finances and write it all down: outgoings, income, extra expenses. See where you can make cuts and get a very clear idea of exactly how much money you need to make over a year. Then do the same with any enterprise, new position or job.

10. Will you regret it if you don't?

The saying goes that you only regret what you didn't do. In two years time, five years time or 10 years time, will you regret not having made a change?

Goodluck.

splitnaija:
Don't go mosques again. Stay at home, read your bible and pray in the privacy of your home until you are able to relocate to a locality where you can practice whatever you believe in.

Do people who go to mosques read bible? pls be coherent in your thoughts

Sweetnecta:
@OP; Islam will strive without you, even in the face of Ali [Persian boy] Sina. I have asked him in my correspondences time again to change his name from Ali to a persian or other as long as it is not based on Islam. The yeye boy refused. We asked if he will put his 50K USD in a mutual escrow with a canadian lawyer, so that we can match it, and the winner takes all, he refused.

I have asked David Wood question how God became man and die for a sin of God's creation, when the sin is so simple that an adequate punishment could be as easy as forbidding the sinner other fruits of equal value, instead of making us who didn't exist then inherit it and then kill a son for it, as {Himself?}?

Robert {Kardashian Tribe} Spencer of Turkey is angry against the Turks, so Islam will have to pay. Well, I have news for all of you, because White Americans in addition, Latin Americans are also entering Islam, not too far behind the rate of Black Americans.

You will live long on earth till your old age, if you are fortunate, you will see Islam becomes bigger, InshaAllah.

i know you are not a moslem, and your statement below is a big contradiction to what White,Latin and Black Americans believe about Islam, Especially after the Bin Laden/AL Qaeda attack of september 2001, Please be intelligent in your response

Dear Nigerians,

Islam,Mohamed and Allah stand for peace and co-existence, that is why there is peace in these countries,

1 Northern Nigeria

2 Afghanistan

3 Pakistan

4 Syria

5 Iraq(USA caused the war)

6 Yemen

7 Iraq

8 Algeria

9 Egypt

10 In Lagos Nigeria, we moslems are more in number that is why we dominate Goverment,political offices,Traditional Rulers and even More of the AREA boys and garage touts(agberos) are dominated by we moslems

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-832290.0.html

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-832443.0.html

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-832032.0.html

I was born in a very typical Sunni Muslim household, not very conservative like the Arabs, but nevertheless religious enough. I was born in Karachi, Pakistan to a very respectable Mohajjir family (mohajjirs are immigrants from India from the time of the partition in 1947). I moved to another Muslim country with my parents when I was just 10 years old and still live there.

I really wish there were a way I could freely live in a free society where I could follow the religion that I want without any compulsion. So far, I am not really sure what I am. I just know that I am not an atheist, because I do believe in a God, but that God cannot be the Allah of Mohammed. God is kind and merciful, not evil, cruel, mean and sadistic, as is Allah.

Have you ever read the Quran in English? I never did, I mean all my life I just recited the Quran in Arabic without understanding a single word until August of this year, when I purchased a copy of the English Quran and read the translation for the first time. Previously I had read some parts of it in English, but never the whole thing. But this year in August I read it from cover to cover, and then also read other references on the internet. Then I finally reached the conclusion that this book is the most evil thing on the face of this earth. It teaches nothing else except hatred and violence. I can no longer be a part of a cult which subjugates its followers, making them mere blind puppets with no mind of their own.

During the course of last four months, I have done nothing else but read, read and read. I spend hours a day reading Ali Sina and watching videos of David Wood and others who are trying their best to expose Islam to the world. I read 23 Years by Ali Dashti. The best among them all is Ali Sina's Understanding Muhammad and of course Robert Spencer’s The Truth About Muhammad. These kind of books are banned here, but I managed to find Robert’s book on Ibook, so I purchased it and just finished reading it yesterday.

I don't know how to go about it. I mean, I want to remain anonymous, but at the same time I need help. I don't want to be killed just because I am brave enough to tell the truth. I am really in a terrible jam. I do not want to lose my life just because I do not believe in that evil religion anymore.

Last Sunday I went to the church here and attended the mass. Then I went to see the priest and asked him for help. He said that his hands were tied and he really could not do anything to help me, because when they had first gotten permission to built a church in this country, they had to agree to a few terms and conditions with the government here. One of them was not to convert anyone from Islam. He said if anyone finds out, the church would be closed and he would probably end up in jail.

The priest said he could not help me personally, but that I was more than welcome to attend the mass and sit quietly at the back. He said, “Do not talk to anyone or reveal who you are.” It is a good idea, but frankly, I am not sure if I want to do that every week, because last Sunday I saw quite a few police cars circling the church premises, and I am really scared. What if someone checks my ID or something? They would probably close down the church and put me in jail, and maybe even execute me. My life will be in danger if anyone finds out that I have left Islam.

I have a friend, a pretty young girl from Morocco who also lives here and works with me. She too has given up Islam recently but she is also very afraid of her life. This is what Islam does to you. When you are in it, your life is nothing but living in the fear of hell, and once you leave it, it is not less than hell because you are constantly scared to lose your life.

Non-entities like you come up with this type of stories.

It is Only a tree-bearing fruits that receives stones and sticks, That is why xtians,Oyedepo,Adeboye,oyakhilome are being criticised always on this nairaland.

Your father and your generations are none-achievers, that is why you and all others and envious and jealous of the achievements of these xtians, Period