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Vconnect

VConnect is primarily a local business search engine that provides information about various products, services and companies in Nigeria. VConnect claims to have spent over N150 million on business data gathering and optimization. Around 800,000 businesses are listed on its website. In addition to this however they like dealdey also offer deals. So if you are looking at doing a sales promotion at a discounted price Vconnect offers you a good platform to reach your intended customers as they are also one of the most visited websites in Nigeria.

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Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter. It is another very good and rapidly growing platform with which you can use to advertise or promote your business. Instagram currently has about 350 million users and probably to highest growth rate in the social media scenery. For now instagram as a media does not currently offer small to medium-sized businesses the opportunity to advertise on their platform through their app however there are still a few ways you can use their platform to promote your business as detailed below:

1. Host an Instagram Giveaway
Hosting a giveaway, whether it’s a partnered or solo-branded giveaway, is a popular option for businesses that want invest some money into creating awareness for their brand on Instagram.
Instagram, at least when compared to Facebook, does not have very many promotion rules.
In fact, the only rules businesses have to abide by are to, 1.) acknowledge (in the giveaway post’s caption copy) that the business’s promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram, and 2.) not inaccurately tag content or encourage users to inaccurately tag content.
This means businesses can get really creative with their Instagram giveaway concepts and rules.

Contests that tend to drive the most awareness are ones that require users to tag a friend in the post’s comment section to enter.
Contests that require entrants to post a photo or video on their personal Instagram profile that mentions and/or tags the business and/or their contest hashtag in their post’s caption copy usually get great exposure also.
If you need tips on how to host a photo contest on Instagram, look no further than Instagram’s blog. Here’s an article from them that shares some good tips. Social Media Examiner also has a good post on this topic.

2. Invite an Influencer to “Takeover” Your Brand’s Instagram Account
An Instagram account takeover is when a brand invites (and often compensates) a guest instagrammer to post on their account for a period of time, often for 1-3 days.
A guest instagrammer is usually someone who is popular, i.e. has a large Instagram following.
There are many benefits to having an Instagram takeover.
One of the most valuable benefits is having your business’s account introduced to a unique group of followers who likely have similar interests and tastes as the person you’ve invited to takeover your account. This often leads to an increase in followers, post likes and clicks on your bio’s URL.
When an Instagram takeover happens, the influencer will usually post on their own account letting their followers know that on they’re taking over a brand’s account.
Here’s an example post of when NYC-based fashion blogger Kat Tanita took over Amazon Fashion’s Instagram account a few months ago.


3. Pay Influencers to Post About Your Brand
In a post titled, “What Spending $57,000 on Instagram Taught Me,” Neil Patel describes how, in addition to hosting a series of big-prize giveaways, he paid models on Instagram to shoot themselves with his prizes and give away some of them on their profiles.
Neil discovered that every time a model posted about his Instagram account, roughly .2% of the model’s followers started following his account.
He liked this result so much that he started paying more models and lifestyle accounts to post about his account — this is how he got 143,000 plus followers.
Neil’s practice of paying influencers, i.e. accounts with massive followings, can work for your business too if you align yourself with the right type of accounts.
Meaning, if you have a health product, team up with fitness gurus on Instagram. Or if you’re a trendy agenda book company, team up with a female fashion and/or lifestyle blogger who shares your same aesthetic.

4. Include Instagram In Your Partnership Agreements
If your business is planning to partner with an influencer in either a small or large capacity — it could be to help you announce a new product or promote your giveaway — it’s advantageous to include posting stipulations in your contract with your partner(s).
For instance, both parties can agree on a number of brand-related Instagram posts within a specific period of time.
You can also specify in your contract that your influencer(s) must use specific calls to action and tag or mention your brand’s Instagram account in their posts’ caption copy.
In a FastCo.Design article, this topic of Instagram posting agreements is mentioned when explaining how Chiara Ferragni, a style blogger who now has more than 3 million Instagram followers, makes her money.
It’s stated that, “Brands will partner with Ferragni to host events, and pay her to post a certain number of Instagram photos promoting their goods.”
Conclusion
The beauty of Instagram is that it’s a creative platform. That said, if your business is looking to have an impact with its community, it’s important to follow the app’s lead and be creative. And not just with your posts, but in all respects of the platform, including advertising.

http://www.sociallystacked.com/2015/01/advertise-instagram-small-medium-sized-business/

Questions and queries are welcome

Wishing you guys a great week ahead.

Dealdey

Like Jumia and Konga, dealdey is also an online store but it has a little difference to it. As the name implies they are more into 'Deals' their main selling point being ridiculously low prices. If you are looking for a regular platform to make sales on for your business dealdey might not be ideal but if you just want to promote your business, create awareness for it and increase your customer base dealdey is were you want to me.

Their strategy is to offer products and services at ridiculously low prices for a limited time period(normally one week) and market it agressively through their established channels(e-mails, google adwords & facebook). According to dealdey insiders, they have over a million people on their mailing list so you can be rest assured that if dealdey agrees to promote you, you would definitely reach your target market if they have online presence.

Another thing that is worthy of note is that these popular online stores also spend a lot of money on internet marketing to sell the goods and services they offer on their platforms. In my opinion they are a case study on how to succeed in internet marketing because of their consistency, marketing budget, reliability, credibility and ease of doing business with them. A point to note is that building a good reputation for your self and credibility is very critical to success in internet marketing as most people are very careful as to who they deal with over the internet because of the high level of fraud in our society. So to succeed you must ensure you build a good reputation for your self.

Konga.com is a Nigerian electronic commerce company founded in 2012 with headquarters in Yaba, Lagos. It offers a third-party online marketplace, as well as first-party direct retail spanning various categories including consumer electronics, fashion, home appliances, books, children's items, and personal care products.


History
Konga was founded in July 2012 by Sim Shagaya, with 20 staff.[2] Shortly after launching in 2012, Konga raised a $3.5 million seed round from Investment AB Kinnevik.[3] The site initially functioned as a Lagos-only online retailer focused on merchandise in the Baby, Beauty, and Personal Care categories, but broadened its scope to all of Nigeria in December 2012 and gradually expanded merchandise categories through 2012 and 2013.[4]

In early 2013, Konga raised a $10 million Series A round from Investment AB Kinnevik and Naspers. In Q2 2013, Konga beta-tested 'Konga Mall,' opening up the Konga platform to third-party retailers and moving away from a pure first-party online retail model.[5] In late 2013, Konga finalized a $25 million Series B round from previous investors, Investment AB Kinnevik and Naspers, the largest single round raised by a single African startup at the time.[6] On November 29, 2013, Konga.com crashed and remained offline for 45 minutes as a result of unprecedented traffic stemming from its Black Friday promotion.[7][8][9] Konga sold more during the first six hours of the promotion than it did in the prior month.[10]

Konga officially launched its third-party retail platform in the first half of 2014, rebranding it as 'Marketplace' from 'Konga Mall'; by the end of 2014, Konga's Marketplace featured 8,000 merchants, beating internal targets of 1,000 merchants eight-fold.[11] Konga received USD $3.5 million worth of orders during its 2014 Black Friday promotion, compared to USD $300,000 during the promotion in the previous year.[10] Konga reportedly grew 2014 revenue 450% from 2013.[12] In late 2014, Konga finalized a $40 million Series C round from Investment AB Kinnevik and Naspers, the largest single round raised by a single African startup to date.[13] Despite reports that Naspers acquired 50% of Konga in 2013,[14][15] publicly-traded Naspers disclosed that its stake in Konga after the October 2014 Series C investment was 40.22%.[16] Konga was reportedly valued at approximately $200 million as of the Series C.[17]

In January 2015, Konga was ranked as the most visited Nigerian website by Alexa Internet.[18] According to CEO Sim Shagaya, Konga "leads the field in Nigeria today [early 2015] in Gross Merchandise Value," a metric measuring the total value of merchandise sold through a particular marketplace.[19]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konga.com

The marketing model of Konga is roughly the same as Jumia who happens to be their closest rivals, so kindly refer to to marketing procedure for Jumia above to learn how to take advantage of them to market your goods or services.

Jumia

JUMIA is a Nigerian online shopping site for a wide range of electronics, fashion, home appliances and kid’s items. The business was founded in 2012 by a team that included Jeremy Hodara, Sacha Poignonnec, Tunde Kehinde, Raphael Afaedor, and Leonard Stiegeler,[1][2][3] with funding from Rocket Internet. As of 2015, Jumia has warehouses in eight other countries, including: Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire, Uganda, Ghana, Cameroon and the United Kingdom.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumia

Jumia is reputed to be Nigeria's largest online shopping mall although this position is hotly being contested by Konga. To take advantage of Jumia's vibrant platform to market your products or services, you must first register as a vendor. If they find your product or service acceptable to sell on their platform, they then negotiate the pricing with you. One thing to note is that price is a major determining factor to sell onlie because there are so many competing deals available and as such you may be left with little or no margin as Jumia would still take a commission off the low price you are offering. However if what you are after is visibility or large turnover and not necessarily immediate profits then jumia would be a nice pale to show case your business.

semitunde:
This argument is one that has gone on for some time. What produces positive change in society?

Some feel its the changing of the mind, way of thinking of the inhabitants in a society; while others are sure that the provision of deterrents and their enforcement, makes for such changes.

I believe its both. The provision and enforcenent of detterents serves for the short, immediate term; while the change of thinking ( through education, propaganda, entertainment etc) is usually a medium to long term approach.

I know that a lot of Africans overseas don't get to learn the positive side of their history, this already unconsciously gives them an inferiority complex compared the Caucasian who is told his history is rich and powerful. The Caucasian will be more likely to want to continue this great tradition, while the African is just grateful for the opportunity of being part of this new society. The USA do this even in their films ( propaganda viz: world police, American cars being the best etc).

We need to start with enforcement of laws without prejudice first. That's the very basic. Then we can use all the avenues we have to change the thinking of the average Nigerian. This might even require changing some part of history and replacing with another.

This long term approach is not really for our generation ( if you are a parent) - too late for that; its for the indomie generation. Those just getting into secondary schools and below. Their minds are still more open to information and amenable to change.

Interesting perspective, yes i agree with you that the thinking of the average Nigerian needs to chane before we can make meaningful progress in this country. In this regard i believe the National Orientation Agency has a lot of work to do in re orientating Nigerians to change the way we think positively. If i were Buhari i would staff and empower this agency with the right tools so they can effectively carry out their duties of orientating the populace in a positive way that would benefit the country. I believe if the attitude of Nigerians can be changed, 90% of our problems in this country would be solved.

Good evening my people.

Good morning guys

In summary this article tries to suggest that we need to change our mind set and the way we do things collectively as Nigerians if we are to move this country forward.

seun lalasticlala kindly consider for front page.

A few days ago , we all watched with excitement as the 6th democratic government in Nigeria was sworn in at an elaborate inauguration ceremony. We watched with emotions as the two leaders of that government swore to uphold their end of what many believe in their subconscious was election promises but in reality what it was is called a Social Contract. Yes. What we watched on that day was the initiation of a social contract between an incoming government and its people and what we actually saw was the swearing of oaths of commitment to uphold their end of the bargain. But what about us? - The other party in the contract.

I believe in the Buhari government and I have no issues actually trusting them to keep their ends of the bargain even though Nigerians are not taking chances in holding them accountable to their promises. I am sure many may have observed as I have, a new wave of vigilance , howbeit sometimes erring such as in the matter of the declaration of assets. But even then, I think I’d rather we erred on the side of being vigilant than err on the side of being not vigilant. After-all, as they say, eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.Having said this, my concern in this note is not so much the government as it is Us, the people- The other party in the contract.

As I listened and later read the speech of the new president, I observed that he touched on all the right matters that are in urgent need of attention; matters that are also the features of any stable developed democracy. He talked about security of lives, fiscal discipline, anticorruption, physical infrastructure, unity, religious tolerance and the rule of law. And indeed all these are key but there is something that was missing- The Low Hanging Fruit. And it may not be missing or let me put it this way- I am now writing this note to ensure that it is not missing. If you are of the opinion that it is not missing, kindly consider my writing about it to be a type of vigilance, to ensure that we get it right this time.

I call it The Low Hanging Fruit because it is easy to fix but many times aspiring developing nations ignore it and to their detriment. But they are not the only culprits, it is usually left out too in development studies and you seldom hear those development agencies like the World Bank or even the African Development Bank or the Mighty IMF talk about it. Yet in the course of my relatively short life and in my long travels, (I am a type of Ajala with Eyes Wide Open, I have been lucky to have lived in about 5 continents now for varying periods) I have noticed that the countries that have emerged successfully as developed nations all have this one thing in common- their governments have successfully been able to extract a social contract out of its people- The other party in the contract.

I’ll tell you a quick story before I go on; it is a true story. A friend of my mentor had gone to pursue his postgraduate studies somewhere in Scandinavia a few years ago and one day as he was driving, he sped towards a round-about (Circular intersection or junction). Instead of slowing down and giving the right of way to the car at the intersection, as is appropriate by traffic rules, he cut in right in front of the car and continued unto the direction in which he wanted to go. That car followed after him and kept flashing him from behind. He eventually had to stop as the person in the car was quite persistent in flashing him down. When he stopped, a caucasian gentleman walked up to him and said to him in a calm but firm voice- “Please do not destroy what we have spent our lives building” and walked back to his car, turned it around and headed in the opposite direction. My mentor’s friend said that, initially, an indignation borne out of racial pride came over him but then there was something in that man’s voice that appealed more to rational thinking than the emotions. There was genuine concern and honesty in that gentleman's voice that got him thinking ........and then he eventually got It.

That story has never left me.

This note is about It. It is the Low Hanging Fruit that matters. Societies are built on It and you may not have noticed even though you may be reading this note from ‘abroad’. You see, every institution has a gateway; a point of entrance into that institution where intending participants learn the rules and regulations of that institution so as to conform. Many times there are induction ceremonies to further engage and educate intending participants about their new environment. The way it works with Society is not much different.

Every developed society has a gateway (and I do not mean airports or sea ports) through which individuals must pass and learn the rudiments of participation in that developed society. In almost all developed countries the most basic and often the most important gateway is the Driver Licensing and Traffic Regulations System or Driver Licensing Sytem (for the sake of this note lets call it DLS.) DLS is It.

DLS is the Low Hanging Fruit.
DLS is so important that many times, the acquisition of a drivers license is celebrated as a milestone in a young adult’s life. It is seen as a type of rite of passage into society and which is rightly what it is. It is so important that there are celebration cards for it.
What most people miss even after living in these developed societies is the fact that the DLS is also a means to an end (which is far bigger than just moving a car). It is a means of extracting a social contract of neighborly participation from the intending participant -the driver, the citizen.

If you sit down and think about it, The Road actually is the most important real estate in any nation. It is where the highest number of interactions take place between the members of society. You can actually judge how developed a society is by the interaction that goes on there.
(Going by these standards, Nigeria is seriously underdeveloped if I consider the interaction that takes place at the Lekki round-about that leads to my home and interestingly also leads to my church on the other side. The interaction is so chaotic that all the glam of that roundabout disappears into an abyss of confusion once you get there. It becomes obvious, that we are like rodents in a rat race and the rule is the survival of the fittest, often times making sure that the fittest are the ones that get to church first.... Ouch! ..just joking)

No wonder meticulous care is taken in developed nations in the design of this major gateway. If Nigeria wants to stand up and be counted as a developed nation, it needs to pay attention to this low hanging fruit because no matter how much we fix all those things that the president mentioned in the speech if we fail to fix the DLS, we will end up not being a developed nation. Many times, it is the rules of societal engagement that differentiate a developed nation from a developing nation and not the physical infrastructure. In most developed nations, the DLS and its requisite tests have embedded within it the basic principles of society
Neighborliness or perhaps coexistence
Accountability
Responsibility
Transparency
Consequence (very important because the consciousness of Rule of Law is based on this; there is absolutely no use mouthing ‘Rule of Law’ if a country would not fix its traffic laws)
The challenge with the Low Hanging Fruit is that whilst it is obvious to see, many times, we despise it in favor of other bigger or higher things. For example, people attend the Redemption Camp, Mountain of Fire Camp, Deeper Life Camp and even NASFAT Camp in search of 'Heavenly' Fruits and then get back on the road and make a real HELL out of the road. What happened?? .. Answer: They ignored the Low Hanging Fruit.

Even the Inspector General of Police is not immune from this. In this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoSFJJrNVus , you’ll see the former Inspector General diminish the work of a Traffic Officer or the position of a Traffic officer whilst promoting the superiority of other policemen by claiming that they do more ‘dangerous' work like chasing kidnappers and terrorists’. However, what the IG of Police is obviously missing is that criminals are often times non-conformists and so are likely to have come to the notice of the Police for violating a traffic regulation much earlier before moving on to bigger crimes. There is a good chance that a potential Boko Haramist would have been fined or even had a mugshot or finger prints taken whilst running a red light long before he turned to Shekau.

Even better,if there was a DLS, there is a good chance that a potential Boko Haramist who already had been arrested or fined for a traffic offence at the gateway of entering society would begin immediately to learn the subliminal lessons of Consequence and so would be deterred from committing bigger crimes because subconsciously, it would have been registered in his mind that there is indeed proportionate consequence to wrong behavior. However, if he is allowed to get away by government not paying attention to this Low Hanging Fruit then the IG and his policemen would definitely not be spared the job of chasing terrorists up and down the River Niger or Benue.

(Let me bring the message home further, perhaps if we fixed the DLS- The first people that would benefit from its lessons are, in fact, the Nigeria Police themselves who have a culture of impunity and violate more traffic rules than everyone else. Perhaps if they also learnt the lessons that the DLS can be designed to teach, they would behave more appropriately in discharging their duties and perhaps we would not have had a Boko haram insurgency at all. I am glad the President picked up on the role that the culture of impunity of the Police has significantly played in the growth of the Boko Haram Insurgency in his speech. For the past 7 years, the PDP government has swept this truth under the carpet hoping it would go away. Buhari is indeed a breath of fresh air ; that is how to fix a system- You start with the truth. Thumbs up to Mr President!

But even beyond the Police being the catalyst for the Boko Haram insurgency, let us look at seemingly mundane things that have dire consequences, which the Nigerian Police has inadvertently destroyed and the DLS reform could fix. Just a few days ago, I was driving into Victoria island through Marina and an ambulance had to use a microphone to announce that people should please clear off the road for it to pass saying- "This is a life threatening emergency ; please we are begging you to move for us to pass" ; and this was despite the fact that it had its sirens on!!. I felt ashamed for Nigeria as people grudgingly moved off the road. But having lived abroad and passed through a DLS gateway, I knew as I had been taught through the DLS, that I had to move over to the left if an ambulance was approaching with its sirens on. It is part of the rules of a developed society. Here is an example of an explicit 'Moveover Law' and almost all developing countries have them and teach them through a DLS. https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/rules/emergency-vehicles/index.html . Unfortunately in Nigeria, sirens have been so abused by security agencies and the Police in particular, that when people hear the sound of an ambulance they despise it and will deliberately not move in rebellion to previous violation of their rights by unscrupulous security agents. However, they will move for the Police because the Police vehicle usually has gun-totting touts dressed as law officers. The DLS can change all these and save a life in an ambulance and guess what? - that life may just be your relative's or even yours. We need the DLS; we need the low hanging fruit.

Nota Bene: By the way did you know that the Nigeria Police sells their uniforms officially? Ok I'll digress a bit- There is a scheme in the Nigeria police that allows rich people to send their drivers for a course after which they can be entitled to wear a police uniform. It is the worst thing I have ever heard of. I just have a feeling that the new President may not be aware of these things, Please do yourself and myself a favour and share this note after reading it, so that Buhari can read and fix these things. The Nigeria Police and the DLS are broken and they need to be fixed for us to have palpable CHANGE. Yes... That CHANGE that we campaigned for. Yes. It must be from the top and also from the bottom)

Fixing our basic Driver Licensing System or DLS is the lower end approach that allows every other reform of government to work together hand in glove. It is like the the Nut to the Bolt; Buhari working from the top and the DLS working from the bottom. The DLS is so important that even President Obama would make time to upgrade his own . A simple test is to ask how many government officials or party officials carry a current drivers license and how many of them actually got them through the right channels. I can tell you for free that my maternal uncle who is a Septuagenarian doesn't carry a Driver's License and I do not think he has had one for the past ten years. Now, I do not mean to indict my dear uncle publicly but at his age, in a developed country, a proper licensing system would have him take an eye test and consider his medicals in the award of a license. Our current DLS is broken and we need to fix it fast.

The Federal Government needs to drive or lead a comprehensive Driver Licensing and Traffic Regulations Systems (DLS) reform that allows citizens to be educated about the basic rules of societal interactions and inducted into society through it. Please note the word “drive” or “lead”, this means that I am not necessarily asking the federal government to take it on as a direct Federal Duty. In fact, I think for the size of Nigeria , it can be delegated to the states. And I am definitely not asking that it delegates this to the Federal Road Safety Corp

(By the way, my opinion of FRSC is that it has been irresponsible and corrupt and it most certainly has lost the plot. Whenever I see them- I am reminded of missed opportunities. That agency has been in existence for almost 30yrs. If those guys knew what they were doing we would not be here talking about this 28 years after they have been collecting salaries. It should be transformed beyond being a recruitment centre for mostly ex confraternity members- That bias in recruitment may be responsible for its culture of extorting money from members of the public)

In driving this reform, what is most important is that it is comprehensive, it is educative and it is easily accessible and assessable. Whichever government decides to take it on, it must ensure that the right parameters are used for testing and the tests are objective and not punitive. For example, in the state of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia (See here http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/roads/licence/driver/tests/driver-knowledge-test.html , the Drivers Knowledge Test has no completion time limit because they are not testing how fast you can answer questions. No. What they are testing is requisite knowledge. So we should also take a cue and not start setting tests that are meant to differentiate those who went to university from those who did not. That is not the purpose of a Driver License Test.

(Honestly if you asked me, I think we should study how countries like Uruguay, Australia and New Zealand work more than we study the US and UK. These countries have lots of tangible and easily adaptable systems we could learn from)

Having mentioned the DLS as the gateway to society, we have to always keep that end in mind. You see, if we always start things with an end in mind, we will do just fine. If we have an end in mind and we lose our way, the end will act as a compass and we will find our way again. We will only have a problem when reform becomes reform for its sake and not for the sake of the end.

(For example if we asked the FRSC that has lost its plot, to carry out this reform, they would simply design a system that allows them extort money from the government and then the public because that is the end they keep in mind as you would have noticed with almost everything they have done in all these years. I wouldn't even ask those guys for ideas. They know nothing about road safety apart from collecting grotesque graphic pictures of accidents which they post and claim would be a deterrence to people committing accidents; yes, they think people commit accidents deliberately)

Back to the matter, the end we hope to achieve by a comprehensive reform of our licensing systems, traffic laws and regulations and the reasonable enforcement of those laws goes beyond just safe driving. The end is to extract a social contract of appropriate behavior and wiling participation in nation building from the intending participants- we the citizens of Nigeria. Obtaining a drivers license then becomes the basic swearing ceremony for intending participants that have been through a comprehensive education on values that engender community building and deemed to have passed in learning and in character to become partners in nation building with a government that is ready to uphold its own end of the contract.

Many years ago, the then Buhari Military Regime rightly recognized the need for a mental revolution in this nation as it pin-pointed two cardinals evils it needed to rid the nation of- Corruption and Indiscipline. It launched a War against Indiscipline popularly known as WAI and it is still undeniable that it achieved moderate success in that period. Many people who voted for Buhari voted for him on the back of the record of his campaign against those evils and his personal integrity. And whilst Buhari has not changed and the evils remain the same, the times have changed. If we were to run that campaign in these times, his government may have to contend with issues that would border on human rights and civil rights abuses. However, an investment in comprehensive reform of traffic regulation and drivers licensing systems may provide the opportunity to wage war against indiscipline and mental corruption and in a less physical yet more engaging way. We might not even need a BVN if we get our DLS right.

Phew!... Finally, of course, the reform of the DLS is not all there is to CHANGE, but it is the low hanging fruit and we can pluck it and be on our way. There should also be a consideration for formalizing existing informal social and labour systems but I’ll write another note on that later.

I’ll end this note with a quote from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar .

“There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat.
And we must take the current when it serves,
or lose our ventures.”

Dear President and Vice President, please take the opportunity and extract a social contract from me and other citizens through a comprehensive reform of the Driver Licensing and Traffic Regulations Systems. Pluck this Low Hanging Fruit.

Thank you.

source :https://www.facebook.com/notes/947767048577717/

Ahmed4002:
There are two Islams in the world today.

(1) There is the Islam of the Qur'an, which is one
of the great religions of the world. It is a
religion of peace (not of pacifism nor of
aggression) and of divine justice (not of
divine tyranny nor of divine intimacy).

(2) There is also the those who hide under the umbrella of Islam, who (terrorist )
are murderers and assassins, especially
murderers of their fellow Muslims as well as Christians. (The London bombings deliberately
target neighbours Muslim community)

Which of these two Islams (of the Qur'an or
of the terrorists) will prevail? God only
knows. But to whatever extent the first Islam
is from God, it will prevail because God will
prevail.

I do not see how a Christian can deny that
-there is much in Islam that is from God,
beginning with its essence, total surrender to
God's will.

Make a research about what the Quran tells not what what you see in the actions of some Muslim or not what you heard about Islam.

But these terrorists also use the Quran to justify their acts. They say they are fighting jihad as instructed in the Quran.

Happy Sunday guys

pattybf:
Thanks I find information here very useful

You are welcome

Good evening guys.

dav8id:
is nairaland also fall in social media category

Nairaland is a discussion forum were people can interact socially, so yes it falls under social media.

Linda Ikeji Blog

Linda Ikeji's blog is another very popular indigenous Nigerian website coming closely behind Nairaland in terms of popularity it stands as the third most popular indigenous website. It is basically a gossip blog but it pulls a lot of traffic and it is very popular amongst women. So if your target market is mostly women, linda ikeji's blog is were you want to place your advert. The advert procedure there is also quite simple, simply contact the admin via the website and you would be asked to submit your advert materials whilst you make payment to their bank account.

Nairaland Forum

Nairaland is Nigeria's most popular indigenous website with over 1.3 million registered users and a rich variety of compelling content and it's interactive nature, nairaland has the ability to keep it's visitors engaged and have them coming back on a regular basis thereby making it and advertiser's delight. The platform has in the past attracted adverts from international brands such as Nokia and Nestle and it did enjoy a lot of patronage in the last general elections as a testament to it's popularity in the Nigerian social media space.

Unlike most other social media platforms the advertising procedure on nairaland is not fully automated but none the less it's still quite simple. The process of advert placement with this media is as simple as sending a mail. Payment to Nairaland does not require a bank card
or dollar denominated account just walk into their bank and deposit funds and notify the Admin.

majaye:
How much to paint a nissan sunny 1990 salon car and if to be oven baked how much? Body work needed though.....

Thanx for the inquiry, it will cost you 50k.

Ganoderma:
What kind of paint job lasts for 15 years?

What with all the elementals.

How long a paint job lasts depends on several factors ranging from the quality of paint used to several environmental factors and how well the paint job is maintained.

Congratulations to all Nigerians on a successful transition. Wishing the new government luck in their quest to salvage Nigeria.

I endorse this thread, there is no way you can be a true christian and not care for the poor and needy around you. It was the most emphatic part of Jesus ministry.

OLAADEGBU:
God does not mind that we criticise Him as long as it is constructive and we are willing to learn from it.

Hmmmmmn smh.

Good morning guys

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OLAADEGBU:
Is it wrong for God to send a deluding influence on people so they will not be saved?

"And for this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false" (2 Thess. 2:11).

Why would God send a deluding influence on people so they would believe what is false? Isn't that morally wrong?

So it is God you want to start criticizing now