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chai! see wat joblessness dey cause. now are u trying to be funny or foolish? u should hav taken ur tym to learn appropriately b4 pasting dis shait. get a life bro.

chai! see wat joblessness dey cause. now are u trying to be funny or foolish? u should hav taken ur tym to learn appropriately b4 pasting dis shit. get a life bro.

you are mis-informing us. there's nothing in your article that suggest that and besides if there's any it should be in quotes and from the nff. Am sure this is likely to affect d price of subsgarription...

I can't stop laughing! funny comments abound. please let d comments stream on, am a bit depressed as a result of wetin my ex did to me buh mbok no ask me o

PortHarcourtBoy: @Op: Na lie abeg, you no school for UK

Your grammar get too many K-legs

You sure say no be Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nnewi you school?

chai! no be small grammatical misconstruction.

Na today? in ikt okoro area of akwa ibm state u are charged N200 for any sim card registered. infact am thinking of getting one registration machine. it's hotcake business.

blink182: Front page please. I will be sending you a private mail, I have seen your desire to work and want to help out big time. I hope you have an internet enabled device. You will surely get there in Jesus name.

THANK YOU BUT I'VE CHECKED MY MAIL BUT NO MAIL FROM YOU. I WILL REALLY LIKE TO READ YOUR MESSAGE. MY AIM OF WRITING THIS STORY IS TO SHOW CORPS MEMBERS THAT THEY CAN HANDLE DIA FUTURE IN THEIR HANDS INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR JOBS THAT MAY NEVER ARRIVE.

the story continues shortly

modskiller: i currently run one but the prob i have is that of electricity and my staff cutting and slittering my throat.,

To avoid cheating, there's a major solution to that. What u do is to negotiate a fixed amount with d head of ur workers which he will pay u monthly depending on d average income. This way u are not bothered with cheating or damage to equipment.

bigtt76: Wished they could have bugged the sack of money with a GPS tracker and monitored as they move along with the bags and finally nabbed by the a crack team of security agents .....

thats d way it should have been and now kidnappers are always hungry for more. I won't be suprised if the husband is kidnapped 5months after this incidence. This time the ransom could be as much as N80mil. smh

T-smooth:
What is the topic of discussion sef?

sorry it came late but it's now been included.

My fear is this; is it until d poor guy completed his youth service that d investigation would be completed. By then the injured area might hav healed and the case swept under d carpet. It's still possible that he truly assaulted the LovePeddler or they assaulted each other. What's your take on this?

Gbenga Ariyibi Ado Ekiti
A National Youth Service
Corp (NYSC) member
serving in Ekiti State,
Anthony Ebuka
Onuagbara has lost one of his eyes to police
brutality, following an
injury he sustained when
he was allegedly beaten
by some police in Ado
Ekiti recently Anthony 26, who hails
from Ezeama-Amichi ,
Nnewi South Local
Government Area of
Anambra State, lost his
right eye to police brutality,after he was
beaten by the police for
an offence he did not
commit in August this
year The Corp member who is
currently serving at the
Bursar’s office in Ekiti
State University has
appealed to Ekiti State
police command to investigate the matter
with a view of identifying
the cop that caused
damage on his eye. Narrating the
circumstances that led to
his ordeal, Anthony
recounted that sometimes
in August that a
commercial sex worker had reported that one of
his neighbour had abused
her sexually. The complaint, according
to him, led a team of
policemen from the
Special Anti-robbery
Squad to his house at
Bode Ayeni area of Adebayo who beat the
occupant? According to the
Corpmember, his
colleague, Michael had
picked the lady at about
6pm on August 12, 2012
at Fajuyi Area of Ado Ekiti to spend the night with
him with the agreement
to pay her N3,000 the
second day He further recounted
that disagreement
ensued immediately
Michael took the lady
home at about 8pm on
that day because Michael confessed that he could
only offer the lady
N2,000 .He said Michael’s
action infuriated the lady
and this forced her to
the SARS Operatives and reported the case to
them by lying that he
was abused sexually, even
when no sex took place
between them. The ‘youth corper’
further explained that
shortly after the lady
left, some SARS
operatives bombarded the
premises at about 11pm, broke their doors and
unleashed beatings on
the occupants. Presently, Anthony is
fast losing his sight ,
having undergone Eye
surgery at the Ekiti State
Teaching Hospital, the bill
he personally sponsored without any help from the
police authority. When contacted, the
police image maker in the
state, Mr Victor Babayemi
told newsmen that the
affected youth corper
had actually wrote a petition to the state
police commissioner over
the incident. The PPRO said the matter
was under investigation,
assuring that the police
would swung into action
as soon as the
investigation is completed.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/corpmember-loses-eye-to-police-brutality/

aryzgreat: **********walks into the thread, reads comments, shakes head for Nigeria, mess for the thread and goes back to my pinging*********

hahahahahaha you go kill person wit laughter here. Abi you de ping jega make i follow u?

Bradford beating Arsenal in the
League Cup was a huge shock
– but they might have taken
the 'magic of the cup' literally
with the biggest magical football
fan in the world behind them. Magician Dynamo has been
astonishing audiences and stars
around the world with his magic
tricks. But he could've pulled off the
biggest one of career willing his
hometown club Bradford to a
win against Arsenal. Dynamo took time
out from his stage show
to support his team on tuesday. His real name is Steven Frayne He was born in Bradford on
December 17, 1982 He first learnt to perform
illusions from his grandfather
and developed the skill during
trips to New Orleans. . In June, 2011, Dynamo was
photographed apparently
walking on water, crossing the
River Thames on foot in front
of the Palace of Westminster. He has performed with the likes
of Rio Ferdinand, Gary Neville
and David Haye. Later that year, he announced
that he had joined the
magicians' society the Magic
Circle. The 29-year-old had a claret
and amber bedroom growing up
from as early as he can
remember – two walls claret,
two amber, Bradford wallpaper
and bedspread. And he said: 'I definitely like to
think I had a little in-put. My
main focus last night was the
match even though I was on
stage doing the biggest show of
my career. I wanted to get off stage to see Bradford. It was
all I could think about, I was
willing my team to win. 'I'd like to think Thomas
Vermaelen missing that penalty
could've been something to do
with me. I'm going to give
Bradford the credit they
deserve but I was thinking about them.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2246969/Dynamo--Bradford-fan--beating-Arsenal.html

After the champions leage final, i decided that it was necessary for me to travel back to lagos perhaps i could get some reinforcement.

But euro 2012 was in the corner and thought to myself that it would not be good if i don't expose them to this competition. So i drafted the fixtures, groups and the squad of each participating country. I even drew possible formation and squad members. I pasted them at very strategic points. So atleast before d competition they knew what to expect.

When d competition started, we watched the opening ceremony and i offered the first match for free. Poland v Greece. They enjoyed the match.

Subsequently, they were happy to pay and watch the remaining games. Honestly, d turn out was poor and they only got interested at the quarterfinal stage. I just got peanuts money but my major aim was to expose them and i'd achieved that. The highest i got for the final was 3,500 at the rate of N50 per head.

It was unfortunate that at the end of the football season i was not able to save because i use the chunk of the money to improve d business. Plus i paid rent and constructed benches. I was only left with about 6k. I travelled home after one year in business.

I was somehow ashamed that at the end of the season, no money on me except that i had improved. I got a word of encouragement from a corps member who said a 14 inch tv was used to show matches and only single view in his village. He in fact commended me for the quality of service.

Three days after euro final, i went home. My dad owned a supermarket so i helped out a bit and told him my plans. So he supported me wit some cash(making it 3 separate occassions).

Many factors were responsible for lack of savings. Among them is fuel price. At times, i buy one litre of fuel for 180naira. Again things are expensive in akwa ibm; one plate of food sells for N150 with one yeye meat. Because i was the only working on my own, i had no time to cook and made sure the shop was opened at all times.

There was no electricity mid this year. So it meant that i would run my business on fuel and would lead to generator maintenance which cost money.

Subscription fee made it difficult especially now that dstv had decided to charge 11k for premium subscription.

There were several electrical faults with the tv and other equipments that had to be taken care of. This money is in thousands.

Cost of transportation has been a hinderance to progress. Whenever i want to pay subscription fee, it cost #800 from my place to uyo. To and fro.

There's this problem of LNB. At times, the lnb would not respond and i had to provide almost 2k to get another one on several occasions.

When i started i accumulated alot of debt which should have took me out of business. But as God would have it, i was able to pay back the ones i owed d indigenes . This effect affected my growth significantly. I had spent months servicing debts incured running the business.

The ones i didn't pay back were the ones from my parents and some of his friends since i knew they were not in a hurry to get it. And then the debt i owe friends. Among the ones that bothers me so much is a 20k I borrowed from friends to buy two pieces of ps2 game but couldn't make money from it. Boron 10's is also there but i find it hard to pay back but i have d hope of paying them soon and with interest. I must mention d one provided by umar jankola cuz he lost his dad not long and he's facing the challenge of taking care of his siblings. It came to a time i couldn't pick his call cuz he needed d money and i couldn't provide it. It hurts me everyday and night and purposely I wrote it so he would know how much i would love to pay him.

As usual my dad rendered assistance as he always does. So i got some money to buy phones and some electrical gadgets. I only got about 70k. This amount was small but i was able to use it to buy few products.

I came back to akwa ibom around july 20 in time to show pre-season friendlies.

I came wit one of my old time friend thats passionate about business and somehow was not enjoying his work. So we both came down to akwa ibm. I took this step so as to increase my mobility and would be able to preview more opportunities than if i were to be d only one.

So at the moment, abbey had been managing the viewing centre while i move around searching for more opportunities.

The viewing centre is now fully matured and we record about 36k monthly. Although that money is small considering that i would part wit 6k for him, pay subscription fee now 12,800 plus fuel. But i had made it known to him that when i settle wit other businesses we were going to negotiate how much he was going to pay me monthly. I'm thinking of 12k monthly. He will take care of every expenses. It is only in that way it will pay me. While it will pay him during competitions like nations cup, world cup, u20, u17, olympics etc. At this time he might get 50k for that month and i will be contented with the agreed amount.

Ofcourse it will not work now cuz i use d business for survival and also looking to save money to raise funds for other businesses.

I will return to talk about the opportunities i observed while moving around. They are so numerous and i hope corps members wil take note of them. Be right back.

boron10: Nas, this your story is very interesting and inspiring. But not appealing to the eyes.

Would advise you to paragraph it like this so people would have interest reading it on opening the thread.

Guy i tried it but it did not show d paragraphs

inwangobio: waooooh,i admire your dogged and resolute spirit. Come to think of it, many of your mates may still be roaming the streets of major cities in nigeria looking for 'white colar jobs', but here you are, trying to make something out of your life. I sincerely salute your courage. Next time i visit my state i will try and come there. Pls keep it up my friend. It may not be rosy but you will definitely get over it.

Thank you very much. Maybe God is leading me to an unknown place but i will be patient to get there. My place is not hard to locate. Just ask anybody in ikot okoro copa's shop. They will show u d place. Serve well.

boron10: Nas, this your story is very interesting and inspiring. But not appealing to the eyes.

Would advise you to paragraph it like this so people would have interest reading it on opening the thread.

Okay, I will do just that.

The knockout stage of the champions league commanded triple d population I used to have and it became a bit difficult for me to manage the crowd. They enjoyed the matches and the fans just kept on increasing. At the time, it would just take me 5days to recover the subscription fee for the following month.

The first place I was using was a room and parlour but at a very strategic place in d village. The landlord rented it for me twenty thousand naira per year. I made close to 5k on the afcon final between Zambia and ivory coast. It was a bonus anyway it's not everyday that u have nations cup taking place. On this day, the ceilings of the centre were destroyed as a result of jubilation and celebration. There was no ventilation cuz many people were left not having seat to seat. I made sure i collected my money to the brim. Even those standing at d window paid.

The following day, i started looking for a spacious centre. Luckily i got it so fast cuz everyone wanted it to be close to his house. So i was left wit alot of options. I stumbled upon an abandoned warehouse which was used by someone to show just d FIFA 2010 world cup. After this period he abandoned the business and went to town. There was wiring there. Two iron protector where the tvs would stand were already there as well.

So i continue using the place at least so that i can take d time to let them know that we would be changing venue on May 16 ahead of the champions league final match between chelsea and bayern munich. So i had taken time to paste it around the centre and also announce at half time break. Sorry to say, the illiteracy over here is much. I found out that many do not understand english and so i cushion this by attempting to communicate wit them using the local language. We would turn it to joke and laughs everywhere but at the end of the day it was understood that from may 16, 2012 i would not be there again- place we were ial s etc I concentrated on the one i wanted to teach plus integrated science. In the case of integrated science JS3 they were 400 scattered in 4 classes. I entered each of those classes and introduced myself telling them what i would be teaching them. I delivered a ten minute speech to them using their local language. They were so impressed and told me that no corper previously posted there could speak complex sentences like i did. I told them my name before i could realize anything it went round the school that there was a corps member that could speak d local anang language. Many of the students were eager to meet me. There was one nickname they gave me, "utoyen ekpo" which means typhoid fever. I caused it because when i discover one or two students sleeping in d classroom, i accuse them of having typhoid fever. Some weeks after i had started teaching,one of the permanent teachers, duff, introduced an int science workbook to me. He said i would sell them at #100 each but 40 for me and #60 for him.So i told them in the local language because some of them do not understand english (smh) that we would be using a workbook for our continuous assessment test. I told them the price and told them we would start using them the following week. In less than two weeks i had sold 300 copies of the books which meant i made a profit of 12k out of nothing at a time that our allowance was 9800 Whatever i tell them they do because i developed interest in them. I knew most of their names. The dull ones and the brilliant ones. At times i meet them here and there and they introduce me to their parents. When i go to the market they are there, so i ended up becoming very popular because i see one or two people that would greet me anywhere i go. For the senior secondary section, teaching them chemistry was not easy because their background was poor. I tried as much as i could to impart on them. It was only two of us that were teaching the subject in d school. Me and their permanent teacher. It got round that i could teach better and know the concept more than their permanent teacher so i started having very serious SS3 students coming in to join my class. They told me that they had problem in the subject so i decided to fix extramural classes for me to teach them free of charge. Their population increased and along the way i also discovered they had problem in mathematics and physics. So i met one copa longe who came in to teach them physics and biology. I was taking them chemistry and mathematics. At the end of the day, we agreed that quality education is not free that i went through a private school and paid a whole lot to be in this position. So the students agreed to pay 50 naira per head. At the time, we had about 50 students. We ended up wit pocket money everyday. The news spread to the school principal and he became jealous that we should teach them but for free. My copa friend could not do it and thats how we stopped it. My good relationship wit the people of the community started in the school and whenever i travel to lag i do buy one or two things from lag to sell. In d process something told me that i could be successful if I ventured into business. There was a time i decided to change my phone and buy nokia C3 and one express music 5230. I bought the latter from a fellow copa at two thousand after he bought one speaker mp3 i bought from alaba. I bought 10 of those at the rate of 1900 naira. Corpers were buying because d environment was quiet and boring. So i got referals from those that bought and i found myself supplying it to various people. I just would get a call and i would take it over to the person that needed it. The CLO bought one from me and since the guy was a music lover and a friend of mine, others started developing interest and i kept on selling. There was a time i sold 15 copies in one month equivalent to over 30k profit. At this time, i started thinking of business after service. I sold to teachers, corpers, students, indigenes and so on. There was a time one of the corps members accused me of overcharging him for the stuff cuz he found out a place they told him to bring 2.8k instead of d 4k i charged. I asked him to take me to the place in a bid to save face. We went there and it was true. During this moment i had ran out of goods. So i stopped for a while. It wasn't long i got request to bring in another. So i went to meet the guy d corper showed me. We talked extensively and he gave me at the rate of 2300 naira. I bought 5 copies and paid him cash. I supplied to my numerous customers and later came to buy 6 but i paid for 3. He agreed and later i came to balance him. From then on, he's been a friend of mine and we are doing similar transaction. Close to our passout day, we were lectured about self employment instead of going for white collar job. I was inspired from those talks and felt that i would do business in my PPA but i needed something that could guarantee a regular income and an avenue that i can use to market my products. That was how i decided to open a viewing centre. At that time, i was mocked by fellow corps members that i had decided to live a wasted life by choosing to stay back and do business here. It wasn't easy cuz all my mates were gone only me remaining in the jungle but i was determined to make the most use of the opportunity. As it stands now i had inspired several corps members brought to d community as one currently owns a viewing centre in his village in taraba state. He frequently call me seeking for advice and so on. Many corps members posted to the community just kept on asking about my experiences of which it was hard to relate. So i put it upon myself to post it on nairaland so that whenever i'm asked again, i would just provide the link to my page and they can read it as far as they want.

By May 17 the new location for the viewing centre was ready. I got it at a very affordable price of only 10k every year. This place in lagos, goes for over 60k. So it would have been difficult to do business on a shoestring budget. I called an installer to re-install the two dish(something i will like to learn) .He charged me 5k. I started constructing more bench. We transfered everything to the new place, see hardwork cuz i was actively involved and also paid people to help me.

May 19 came and i went to the shop by 5pm playing PS2 game. By 6pm there are already 70 fans seated and thank God i had made provision for plastic chairs at N10 each. Fifteen minutes to the kickoff, I had already 130 fans seated and over 100 fans outside. Where they came from i could not tell. Three corps members helped me that day and having charged 70 naira per head i was able to go home wit 8,500 naira
The story continues later....

You have no case. It was assumed that d money paid to you was complete before u left d counter. Going back to d bank again confirmed u were indeed silly. At least now you have learnt d hard way and thats d best way to learn

Emzybrown: Just 2 weeks ago i noticed a painless soft tiny growth around my groin areas inguial region just a few distance from my scrotum,thou since two weeks now,i feel pain from tiny growth with dry nodules,thou sometimes exudes pus cells,what could this be? Which doctor should i visit? Am a student and a transplant patient currently on tacrolimus immunosupresive drug,wysolone,mofilet,pls i need urgent medical advice.thank you

Really sorry to hear this, but in my opinion, it could be from the drug treatment u were receiving. Google those drugs and see.

Emzybrown: Nigeria is realy blessed with human resources,positive thinkers who gona make affluence tomorow

The human resource is everywhere in nigeria but climate is not favourable at all. One can't wait till infinity waiting for white collar job

boron10: wow! Never knew you went through all these. Apologies for my disturbance then

If I'm to include everything on this page, it will be worth a 500 pages book. Up till today, i'm still enduring a whole lot. Don't worry i will invite u one day to come see for yourself.

2sexy: Op, you are doing a great job. But could you make it really appealing to read by putting spaces where they belong?

Thank you. I will take note.

CHAPTER FOUR: My break through
The turning point for me was when i obtained a secondary decoder at 28k with installation and show double matches. This increased d rivalry among fans and i had fans coming from very far areas and whenever there are key matches like chelsea v Man u, i do get fans that could not get a space in uyo and abak. So it made me get as much as N5000 on such matches. January 2012, d nations cup was fast approaching but no one was talking about it. So i decided to list out d groups and write out fixtures and place them in strategic areas for people to see. Whenever they came to watch matches they do analyse the groups and talk about which match would be tough and which ones would be walkover. The first match of the nations cup was preceded by the opening ceremony and followed by the home side's match(Gabon). This particular match coincided with a 5pm kick off in d premier league as it was on a sunday. I showed d matches both. I discovered that at a point people stopped watching d league game and concentrated on the AFCON match. They enjoyed d match so much. The following day (monday), those that watched d opening game came to watch the group B match. I had only ten fans for the 5pm kick off and then almost twenty for 8pm kick off. That was how I continued to show d competition. I discovered that i had separate fans for the league and separate fans for AFCON with few watching both. On weekends, they all attend making d population double than it used to be. It was at that time i started making # 3800 per match. The interesting thing was that i was paying 10k for subscription before and went for extraview compact plus where d subscription fee reduced to 8.8k. I was showing d AFCON matches until it came to a time i made #2,900 on ivory coast because they liked didi drogba. Ghana earn me just over 2k. They so much enjoyed d dual view so much that i used d avenue to advertise other teams like napoli, bayern munich, madrid, barca and inter milan when they clash with normal premier league fixtures. They later got familiar with such teams and that later increased d spectatorship for d champions league especially when chelsea met napoli and later bayern munich. The atmosphere became rowdy that other people that are not into watching matches would just come in to watch because of d passion. Some fans would raise songs and start dancing "etighi" in mockering of their opponent. I remember this particular match when man u played Everton and every one thought the league had been lifted by man u once again. Man u fans were on attendance and d opposition fans too. When man u was leading their fans started making noise and singing all sort of songs. Close to d end of the match, d match was at 4-4 and it was the turn of the opposition fans to mock man u as they sought for d winner but to no avail. One of d fans particularly raised a song,"All powers belong to Jesus....."and others followed in unison and started dancing and rejoicing. At times, this kind of atmosphere made me forget about the challenges of life a great deal.
To be continued.......

The major challenge i'd ever faced was that other leagues aside d premier league do not have fans. So i took it upon myself to show bayern munich,PSG, real madrid, inter milan, AC milan matches free of charge. At d time, i had only two barca fans and no real madrid fans. So in a weekend of la liga matches, i would show real madrid for free and then charge N50 for barca. At times i collected N30 but at the end of d day, i knew i had two barca fans and if others join it's a bonus. They would pay for barca and watch madrid 4 free. The two regular fans spread information in their area that i show madrid free and charge only for barca. So that made other barca fans and madrid fans to patronize me from other areas. It now reached a point where more people liked madrid matches than barca. At this point, i started charging for madrid but i collected same from my two regular customers. As it is now, a 7pm kick of madrid match now gives up to #800 and barca brings in only #600. At many times when UEFA champions league is on they do complain that they want to watch chelsea, real madrid, arsenal etc and I was on a single view. Then i heard about dstv extraview and went for it. This was january 2012. What inspired d decision was that Africa cup of nations would have begun early january and Nigeria was knocked out prior to this. I was told if Nigeria qualified, the turnout would have been massive but guinea dispatched nigeria in d final leg of qualifiers. Honestly, this was d most disappointing time i had faced but nevertheless life goes on. Many fans said it won't be necessary watching the competition since nigeria was out.

ayobase: An Elect/Elect Engr graduate should be able to teach Further Maths efficiently!

I am being forced to question your age and intelligence!

Don't mind him. If it's him, then he's a fraud full stop.