DevelopNaija:
I sent the picture below to my friend and she responded 'AMEN'. I had to remind her that this is not a prophecy but a goal that needs actions to become a reality.

#Poverty will drastically reduce if the following are done.

1. Change our mindset
2. Increase Minimum Wage.
3.Cut down public officers' salaries and allowances.
4. Gain 21st Century skills.
5. Provision of well paying jobs
6. Smart solutions for electricity and Water problem
7. Stop being greedy, selfish and self-centered.
8. Minding one's business

What other ways can we reduce poverty for ourselves and others? Any suggestions?

Thrash

Don't come here for advice. By the way I think it is an allergy

I thought it was something serious. Let them not fight Boko Haram and keep pursuing shadows

What is Ukwa Ethnic Nationality again? Oil balkanizing Igboland. Every hamlet in Igboland will soon become an ethnic nationality

Osagyefo98:
That you poor doesn't mean others are.

My dear, I'm not poor, neither do I consider myself wealthy at the moment. We are not talking about individuals but about a continent and countries within it.

I'm sorry, but you need to work on your ability to process and comprehend information.

XhosaNostra:
Don't leave out the selfish & greedy leaders.
When the rest of the world made donations to Mozambique recently, during the hurricane that rendered many people homeless, greedy politicians ceased the moment & stole that too. How are we supposed to progress when the people put in charge of our welfare are kleptomaniacs whose only agenda is to milk the coffers dry, so can go beg the West again for something else to steal? It's a vicious cycle & it's tiring. Africans are their own worst enemy.

Our best brains are leaving the continent, the remaining ones are overshadowed by mediocres. With mediocres at the helm of affairs, stealing will continue.

To understand why African countries are often poor, you need to first understand how European countries got rich, and where they got their wealth from.

You see, the Western countries benefited greatly not just from looting their former colonies to build their own countries, but also by establishing a favourable terms of trade for themselves, whereby their former colonies sell raw material and agricultural products at very cheap prices to them, only for them to modify it into technological products and turn around and sell at exorbitant prices to their former colonies.

Also most of the developed countries in the West did not just achieve high economic growth over the past 500 years simply because they are much more productive than the rest of the world.

Rather what these countries (many of which were very small in terms of population) has done over the years is that whenever they are reaching the limit of their economic growth capacity, they will reinvent a new scheme to keep economic growth going.

Remember European countries started out with the Age of discovery (1490–1522). The discovery of new trade routes led to a boost in trade, industry and employment in Europe, at a time when Europeans were just coming out of the dark ages.

Now when the economic boost they got from the Age of discovery was beginning to die down, and Europe was saddled with a lot of unemployed people, Europeans reinvigorated their economies by conquering new lands all over the world ( US, Canada, Australia, South America etc).

With new land, they set up plantations in the new world, and quickly realized that they needed cheap labor to work on the plantations, so they instituted the trans-Atlantic slave trade to bring in cheap labor that was needed.

Finally when plantation agriculture was going down due to the abolition of slavery, Europeans again reinvented themselves by taking advantage of their superior military technology and colonizing most of Africa and Asia, and siphoning resources from the colonies without paying for them.

When the two world wars devastated Europe and the Europeans realized that they can no longer hold on to their colonies, they were forced to grant independence to their colonies, but they quickly created a new system of immigration, taking advantage of all the land they acquired during the Age of discovery.

Having built world class economies and cities, they realized that they could easily attract the well to do and most educated people in their former colonies to immigrate to their countries and continue the centuries of economic growth.

Many Western countries established an immigration system based on either a point system or economic means. For over 80 years, most Western countries have used this system to poach the most talented and most well-to-do citizens of their former colonies into their countries to sustain high economic growth. Meanwhile this system has robbed the former colonies of their richest citizens and bright minds, causing brain drain to the former colonies, but supplying the Western countries with well qualified labor who got educated and trained by tax payers in their countries of origin.

I have reconstructed all this history to show that the Europeans have always taken advantage of other countries to sustain their economic growth.

So in conclusion, whereas the rest of the world ( former colonies) tried to grow their economies from within, and by their own efforts, the Western countries always depended on outsiders through schemes like slavery, colonization, and immigration to achieve high economic growth.

This is how Western countries got rich, and this is how they have sustained their riches.

Now you can see that in the process of becoming rich, the Western countries used Africans and other regions to reach were they are. Now Africans are trying to develop by themselves without exploiting any other region, so do you think development will be that fast? Certainly not! The Africans do not have other continents to exploit for assist, and on top, they were the ones who were exploited, and are still being exploited, so they need to first “dig themselves out of the hole”, before they can even think of developing. So people who always want to know why African countries are poor, or why they are developing slowly, the above is the explanation.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-African-countries-often-poor

This should make front-page.

They just comment on headlines

Eedrisa:

Na dem... Lied and scam

My dear search Serrapeptase on Google or Amazon.com. Don't come post what you don't know. It's used as a medication in Europe and supplement in the US

Try Serrapeptase, there has been good testimonies about it. Check it on Amazon and read reviews. It's a wonder for fibroids, though it takes months to get rid of it.

Research it too on Google. It's a proteolytic enzyme that gets rid of dead cells including fibroids.

yinchar:
Nigerians never cease to amaze me.

The chances or odds of a plane crashing from turbulence is 1 in 11 million.

Yes! You read it correctly.

Next time when there is turbulence, just relax and sleep.

You're right friend

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/11271077.lewisham-police-reveal-most-wanted-faces-for-crimes-including-night-bus-sex-assault/

Link to UK tabloid original article about Naira Marley

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tactius:
Any financial institution promising returns on investment that are too wonderful is probably fake.

I hope EFCC deals with this guy. The sad thing is that someone will still go and recreate his format...to deceive people

Not probably, it is fake.

Price?

What this video failed to show is that you can't advertise Amazon links directly or you get banned.

JubrinElSudan:
These guys should stop adding this Mbaise nwere Mmadu. When Rochas won, he was celebrated and no time was Orlu(Ideato) mentioned. When Ohakim won too, we didn't hear Mbano nwere Mmadu, why must it be now? Emoney, yes you are married to an Mbaise woman but you shouldn't be posting as if it was only Mbaise(3 LGAs) votes made him winner

You're right. If they continue boasting, he may not even win a second tenure

Ok, was low on cash. Saw some stuff on nairaland and quora about transcription. Did some test, failed many. The only one I passed wasn't worth it - scribie. Lionbridge now invited me for a project Ghana / Nigeria English transcription. Within one week, I was made QA / Reviewer making $6/hr (not audio hour). $6 for every hour I'm logged in working, though there was minimum thoroughput which I always exceeded. Made close to $3K or more on that project before I got back to work in my field. No joking, you can get ideas from here and quora, especially on quora.

jpride:
I've been on nairaland for years but I can affirmatively say I've not for once seen something meaningful. I mean something that added 1kobo to my account. All I see is bunch of craps, scam posts. You see a thread assuring u 5k/day but the op has not even made a dine from it.
Please if u have made it financially through nairaland, u can share it here... Please don't post a site where u are yet to earn from or trying to build referrals. Businesses, job offers and investment opportunities are welcomed

You mean you can't find real world friends, relations, acquaintances that have current account that would sign your ref form? Meet shop owners you know that have current bank account. Referee means someone that knows you very well.

You guys should stop this scam

pryme:


The India you are talking about are the kings of admob, Nigerians are only good in copying scams.

So must you learn only bad ones? Almost, if not all scripts I have bought were coded in India. Even the Admob and other bots you use are mostly coded by them. What do we even reproduce, except being lazy and looking for quick money?

I have just been wondering,

1. Why are Nairaland admins not banning clearly fraudulent schemes peddled on Nairaland? Eg Self-clicking Admob, etc

2. Why are our youths hell-bent on fraudulent schemes?

India today is an IT hub. Why can't our youths at least take time to learn programming languages and other digital skills that will help them instead of this fraudulent stuff?

We need to re-think and stop.

These things shouldn't be so much celebrated. It shows how corrupt we've become as a people. It is our duty and moral obligation to be our brother's keeper. If you are reading this and always thinking of how to obtain people, you're doomed. For all of you involving yourselves in scams, 419, have a change of heart and become human.

naijanative:
You can't have staph in your blood and still have strength to type on nairaland

Staph aureus normally colonise human skin causing boils at times. Staph invading blood system is a very serious health condition.

You can't have staph in your blood and still have strength to type on nairaland

ogunjobiolaide:
Am in Lagos, if do jot mind workkng remotely. My price is pocket friendly.Whatsapp 08063718360

One of the gig involves working with a local school management system. That's why I want someone in PH.

You can also reply below as well.