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Codedboy95:
A typical dev job on upwork always have an average of 20 proposals, if you don't have a strong profile ( not top rated or don't have many reviews) and you are applying to job that already has 5-10 proposal ( i won't advice to apply to job with more than 10 proposals if you are just starting up) your proposal will be kicked down by upwork algorithm, meaning your proposal might not be the first 5 the client will see when he checks proposals for his job posting if your are lucky the clients scrolls down and see your proposal, One thing i always do is try to capture the client's attraction in the first sentence of my proposal, upwork will only show the first say 15 words from your proposal so you want to make sure that your first 15 words of your proposal is spot on, don't go beating about the bush listing your experience, sure you can do that but save it for the next paragraph, Your first sentence should show that you actually read the client's job description, to me i think that's what most client looks for first, someone that actually read the job description and not someone that is sending template.

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Codedboy95:
Getting first job on upwork is not always easy.

These might be some of the Reason, you don't make it to interview.

1) You are probably applying to big jobs: as a new freelancer on upwork start by applying to smaller, quick jobs ( $5 ,$10, $15 ). The reason because nobody will trust a new freelancer with little or no review on a big job over freelancers who have a lot of reviews, feedbacks. So start with small jobs, reduce your hourly rates as time goes on you can gradually increase your hourly rate and also apply to bigger Jobs

2) You haven't added portfolio, relevant skills or your bio isn't well written: you should take hints from other freelancers in your niche to make your profile, add relevant skills and also take upwork readiness test ( to get a rising talent badge which will increase your chances of getting a job)

3) You are probably applying to jobs which have a lot of applicants: I always advice new freelancers starting up on upwork to only apply to jobs which have less 10 applicants. It's a complete waste of time applying to a job with 20 or more applicants, chances of getting the job will be very low. Free tip always be the first 5 to apply to jobs and for me most of the jobs I have gotten is when the indians are asleep (midnight )

4) Client is already interviewing someone on the job you applied to: This is another tip don't apply to jobs that shows that the client is already interviewing someone, in my experience with upwork I will say that there is a 70% chance that a client will hire someone s/he is already interviewing. So applying to such jobs is a complete waste of time.

5) Applying to jobs which the client has a low hire rate: this is another thing to look out for on upwork, some clients there just post jobs without having motive of hiring anybody. Some of them just think of an idea and create a job posting but they never come back to that job. So my advice is to always check clients hire rate before applying. For me, I apply to jobs which shows that the client has an hire rate of 40% above.

6) Applying to job that have clients with unverified payment method: Okay you can take this advice if you want to, in my years working with upwork I have never gotten a job from a client with unverified payment method, to me most of them are not serious, if they were, they will have added a payment method, don't get be wrong I didn't say it's a waste of time lol, I actually know a friend that got a job from a client who didn't add a payment method, so I am not saying it's useless applying to such jobs but for me it's useless :|

7) Your niche is too competitive or not favourable for your Nigerian Flag: example of niche which new freelancers may have difficult time succeeding at is anything that deals with writing, most clients on upwork believe Africans can't be good writers, my advice for people on this niche is get jobs offline, ask your offline client to hire and give you a good review on upwork, by the time you have 3-4 reviews your chances of getting jobs with be higher. This also applies to people on other niche, if you are having a hard time getting job do what I said above, that was how I got my first job on upwork.



I hope I will be able to help someone with this, sorry about the typos it's been long I typed this long on my phone

Great tips. Thank you very much.

Raph82:
Smiles, don't worry, I've never been to the farm before, but I did not study Agriculture on paper, we are all in this together, to really prove your point, you can plant in a sac and plant on the ground, give the same plants equal treatment, make sure you plant on the same type of soil, top soil. Then compare the result at the end of the day. You waiting for the OP's result may not cut it, and it won't be fair to conclude before starting an experiment. There are many factors that can cause stunted tubers at harvest, if all conditions are perfectly met, you'll be amazed with the result. Mind you, with the roots, yam has a wonderful root system that finds its way into the soil, senses where the nutrient is and moves to the direction. We've seen roots finding its way amidst rocky soil, that's root for you.

Good reply. Added to that, in my own opinion, the sacks represent/replace the heaps/ridges usually make on the farmland required to make the plants (especially root crops) do better.

chinedu234:
Started this little experiment in 2017. We have followed up thereafter. See our current planting and some of last year harvest.

Nice one!

Raph82:
If he plants on the ground, the land will be tilled, and the number of stands that little space will contain will not be worth the energy and time put into this. Sack farming has its advantages.
- No competition among plants for soil nutrients, water, light etc. Each plant has its own space to thrive.
- It is easier to control weed and carry out other management practices such as mulching, manure or fertilizer application and so on in sack farming than planting on bare ground
- There's no limitation to farming with this method, as it is possible to farm even in urban centers, on concrete floor space and so on. You can't till the concrete floor of your compound to plant yam, but with sack farming, you are good to go.
- With sack farming within your neighbourhood, there's no fear of attack either by herdsmen or bandits, at this time that everyone is scared to go out into the bush to farm, this is your best bet.

Very correct analysis. We also have a garden of veggies, okro and ewedu (the leaf used to make the Yoruba signature soup), pepper (different types) and one or more plants in our paved compound. We have been enjoying these things. Our neighbours also did the same (even planted yam, potatoes, water melon, cucumber and pawpaw) in both sack bags and car tires filled with soil and manure.

EmptyGarden:
The age is of no consequence now, whether 13 or 10... The fact is, that child is rotten to the core and her parents should take absolute blame.

Exactly. They are still responsible over her and they failed already. They didn't watch over her at all (or enough).

That man was just lucky. In Nigeria today, one of the most dangerous things to do is to separate people engaged in physical combats. Others have done such and either met their untimely death or regretted.

How true? How many days does it take for a corpse to start stinking in the first place?

akingonline:
It is Ramon Abbas he bears. Even that name puzzles. Some reports anglicise his first name as Raymond. But it is Hushpuppi we know, poetic, lyrical and even symbolic. Hush implies silent, furtive, conspiratorial, shadowy. Puppy, in this regard, means playful like a week-old dog. That makes him a sly dog.
But then it has other origin stories. Some others date it back to the founding of New Orleans that gives the world Mahdi Gras, an unhinged carnival for pilgrims of pleasure. An immigrant woman invented a snack of a ball out of cornmeal and the city called it hushpuppy. Their own incarnation of akara. Even then, Abbas’ nickname is spelt ending with an i instead of a y.
The one picture that has trended of late features him in a shirt sporting a familiar brand Fendi. But another brand had been stalking him like a forest cat, slinking, longsuffering and calculating. It was a brand as counterforce: FBI. Nabbed in Dubai but caught in the United States, the sojourn of a colorful conman comes to an end. Behind bars, he will wear neither Gucci nor LV, but an orange top that will, at best, say INMATE.
Now he is no more Hushpuppi. He is now Abbas. He buried his real name in a casket of lies and deceit. He was reborn a glamour icon, one-named, abandoned home, and became a global Smart Alec. He was a man of means with no means of livelihood. He conquered cyberspace, dispossessed the gullible, stashed his global bank account, strutted the world, amassed dream cars, snored in palaces, dressed like a fop, preened like a peacock, seduced the young and befuddled the old.

He became a role model to a lazy generation that lapped luxury without labour. When he was caught, the FBI buried Hushpuppi and rebirthed Abbas. But where is the real Abbas though? Can he recognise Ramon again? He cannot. Like Sophocles’ Antigone, he “neither dwells among men nor ghosts.” He is in a dazed world, a wraith. He died twice; he is born again a jailbird, his third life. He was reckless. Now he is a wreck.

But Abbas is a tale for the moment, if in reverse. He was caught trying to denude a group of people in millions of dollars in palliatives in a time of pandemic. Abbas is a picture of avarice at a time of sacrifice. He was flaunting his shoes, cars, mansion, parties at a time when many hid behind homes, suffered in hospitals, coughed in misery, mourned or were mourned. He represented a heartless species when we were supposed to be our neighbours’ keepers, when many were suddenly whisked out of work.
When his fellow country folks lost their jobs, and men of means contributed their millions and billions to the poor, Abbas was a show-off. The thing with Abbas was no lockdown could stop his party. His extravagance was online. The world was his audience. He flourished and frolicked in real time and space, but his fans joined him virtually. His was a Viewer’s paradise. The young gawped and gawked, followed him, and commented. When they cursed, they did it out of smouldering admiration. He had come to represent a generation of Nigerians who did not trust their parents or their bosses or their leaders. They followed their greed. They followed Hushpuppi. He was a priest of a new goddess: money.


Abbas for them was a sort of escape. He had become the man who gamed the system and scored. All the stadia in the world applauded. They are like the character of the English novel Billy Liar, a young man who lived in his imagination where he had attained power, wealth and glory, although he had nothing other than living from paycheck to paycheck. Abbas embodied that escape for them. They lived in Hushpuppi. They wore his Fendi, lived in his palace, flew in his jet, caroused his women, or were his women, they sat in the driver’s seat of his Ferrari and Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce.

Here fellow Nigerians had no chance to host Owambes. Weddings and birthdays and funerals have been pruned to parlors and backyards. It is a time for humility, and it was only proper that the man who countered it be caught and put away.

These days no one has anywhere to go with Gucci shoes. No first class tickets to buy to London and take pictures for online vanity. No one has a chance to pile pockets with dollars and pounds to spray a celebrant. Those with big cars cannot drive them to anywhere for displays. No extravagances for the Mephistophelean or the harmless show man. The worst we can do is dress up at home, and flaunt it to our child or wife or husband, like Miss Havisham in Dickens’ Great Expectation who dressed every day for years in her wedding clothes and died in it without leaving her home.

Those with special cars only warm their engines and drive around the neighbourhood. These times are revealing our material constipation. Abbas, the man of constipation, has now left the building, his bowels rumbling with faecal waste.

Things are upside down. Those who see churches and mosques as avenues for amassing wealth are crowing that they want people together but they are tempting the Lord. It is possible that Abbas had some of these men of God praying for him, and he may be taking from this stolen money to feather the house of God. It is an irony we have people like this thriving when we hear men of God preaching. The point though is that this is an age where the Word of the Lord is trading places with the wealth of the Word. Quite a few churches give precedence to material splendor. It is a different kind of hypocrisy from a war-time play Mother Courage where Brecht says, “Whenever there’s a load of special virtues around, it means something stinks.”

Abbas epitomises the Yahoo Boys, and his fall is their fall. It is a comeuppance for a tribe of desperadoes who have demonised technological genius. The new frontier of progress is also their front for fraud.

It is not for nothing that he has been associated with some of our big-name politicians, even if they had nothing in common. He has had photo-ops with a few of them. If he were not Hushpuppi but merely Ramon Abbas, we might not have seen such pictures.

But our politicians have one quality in common with him: impunity. Where leaders promise and turn back on their word, it is as bad a lie as a Hushpuppi popping up on a person’s email and asking for one piece of information and turning the email into an opportunity to stalk and destroy. They are the monitoring spirits of the internet. They get the person’s account and they empty it.

We also see our politicians take away our money when others have nothing. Fraud is now familiar terrain of politicians. To be a politician is to seek avenue for self-service, not service to all. But the arrest of Abbas is hope, but not enough. It shows even the new frontier can be stalked and the crime encircled and ended. Our people are not doing well enough to catch those who are well-off by wrong means. A few have been caught. We want more.

Abbas is caught today, and no one is hailing him. His audience is now jeering. He is like Jay Gatsby in Scot Fitzgerald’s novel. He acquires his fable of wealth to get back a woman, and buys a big mansion just like Hushpuppi. Every neighbour comes to his frequent parties but not the woman he craves. He eventually dies alone and poor. Everybody comes to his parties but no one goes to his funeral. Abbas is alone now. So is Hushpuppi. Abbas looks on as no one comes to Hushpuppi’s funeral. Hushpuppi’s frozen eyes look without seeing as Abbas goes behind bars.

By Sam Omatseye

https://thenationonlineng.net/hushpuppis-death/

It's unfortunate. He used his genius for evil. His temporary "heroism" could have been permanent had he used his genius positively (perhaps to invent something to benefit other lives or to raise a business innovatively as a tech savvy he was). Alas, he chose the downward part and foolishly partied on the precipice.

This is not supposed to be a shocker. It's what happens in politics time and again. Only the ignorant would be shocked.

Well, I agree that our leaders need to show moderation in many things so as to reduce the cost of running government offices due to the country's deplorable economic state.

However, as regards the American presidential car, that's arguably the most sophisticated in the world.

I hate snakes and the sight of them.

This reveals how insecure this man feels already. He has exposed himself more, as usual. Mr Garba...

That was a good decision. It would serve as a deterrent against uncultured behaviours next time.

Wow! Thank God for you. Lesson learnt.

This was insightful. Thanks so much!


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sunkoye:
don't mind them.... Trying to water down demonic entities presence. Of course..their are principalities, powers, dominion, rulers, princes that rules other dimensions and realities. But they will go down at their time.

Of course. They're trying to unravel supernatural phenomena scientifically. They'll be at it till Jesus returns.

jakD:
It is no news that every Nigerian hates Nigerian Police, I don't like them either. But I prefer to befriend a Nigerian police than a PHCN official. Those guys are evil, even Police are still learning.

Someone once told me the same and I wondered. Well, I can begin to relate now. I remember once I went to pay for postpaid electricity. The cashier said there wasn't network (or something like that) to print out the receipt from the POS machine. So she asked me to come back.

Next thing, their men came to drop another bill and the previous payment didn't reflect. I was forced to go back to their office. Guess what? The woman claimed she couldn't find it. Ha! I didn't leave till I ensured it was resolved. She probably intended to siphon it.

Those were really pretty views of the city. Thanks to the OP.
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Gosh! What a thing! I am just wondering if the place was previously abandoned for it to have become a home for multiple snakes. I mean, it couldn't have been an all-of-a-sudden thing for crying out loud!

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Adabar:
It is called the daylight saving time. The origin of this practice is not really known but it became prominent during the world War. It was first nationally accepted by Germany to increase productivity. However, the idea is made more popular because of the weather : During winter, it is usually dark by 5p.m and before you know it, everyone is more interested in going home to rest physically or in their mindset. The govt, in their wisdom, decide to substract 1 hour during the winter and add 1hour during the summer.

Statutory timing condition. That's incredulous. Boy!
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Wow! What a wonderful creature of God! K.A.N.G.A.R.O.O
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This is really sad!

Good of him. Certainly it wouldn't have been appropriate the other way round, anyway.
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Congratulations to Baba. 80 really looks good on you. It's worth the celebration.
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Congratulations to the Otedola Matriarch!
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Big congratulations to him. It's not something to be taken for granted.
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