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Jarus vs Tpia

wonlasewonimi: He moved on to twitter where everything happens.

Yeah! You are right, he should be the most active on twitter.

Although I joined in 2009, but to be candid, Tkb's posts (as well as others') really made me join nairaland. What a guy!

Forex? My very close friend in school lost a whopping $10,000, with that he never did desist, he went ahead with other people's money and burnt another $8,000, might it interest you that the last time we did see, he was telling me how he would recover all his cash back, and that he will go borrow more cash in order to trade with/burn it again. Nawa o, abeg, that forex get super glue for body nii , wey be say once you are into it, you won't want to leave it even if it takes selling person papa house.

Meanwhile, I am planning to go into it self

Mr Denee, a nice one you asked here, but to be frank with you, it is needed, especially for those that know their worth (smart and equal to the task), if it is outside Nigeria, maybe like in the US and UK, no need, but here, employers will take advantage of your 'not being aware' of their salary range. You know what, these recruiters will just push the question to you so that you will probably state an amount that is below what they pay at that level, and then they will happily and 'without' conscience under-pay you.

Normally, in multi-nationals and trans-nationals, there is a standard, they will never cheat you, but our dear 'nigerian entrepreneurs' will be very happy to do that.

Basically, I think what graduates should always do is to know the range, and tell those employers when asked, meanwhile, gullibility is not encouraged, so they should try and desist from that. A case where a freshie having known the salary range of company A to be 150-200k, and when asked to state the amount he would want to earn, then with his stinking and gullible mouth will say 350-600k, such is bad! Aside that, no dealo in trying to get information as per the pay of the position he is interviewing for in a company.

Peace.

Chai! see bad belle people, nawa oh, most of them sef na face me, i slap you house them dey stay o, them wor-wor pass gorrilla, and them no even get a wheel barrow .

Oga jarus! You are not in their league in all aspects, let me help you to tell them that the super eagles don't play against the falcons. So leave them joor and take down the pictures. You don show them enough, we know who you are and what you worth, they do not.

AjanleKoko: Well, it's not a 'strategy' at all. Just a way out for brothers who 'lost out' when they were in Uni.

Like you rightly pointed out, girls like to date upwards. So Mr Corper should take advantage, and go after uni or poly girls who live in his town of primary assignment. So he can quickly 'upskill' himself where women are concerned.

That way, when he is unleashed unto the wider world, he can be better equipped to handle man-woman interaction. Just imagine a guy who had no babe all through uni, and also roasted during his NYSC, now getting a job in a nice bank in VI, where lots of nice bubbly chicks abound. It would be more like a fish drowning in water

Minimal effort can be expended to get qualitative results. And there is enough room for trial and error

Gat no choice than to agree with you. Very well said!

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AjanleKoko: So, Mr Corper had better be 'investing' in this particular relationship so as to broaden his horizon, especially if he didn't have much experience prior to NYSC. I stand corrected, but the majority of guys roast during their school years. Some gals as well, but mostly guys. So it is in Mr Corper's best interest to date during his service year, so he can start to 'train' for the 'Big Event'.

Haa! Investment in all aspects or what? Don't you think investing in, with another's jewel by the corper is quite a waste of resources?

Lol at 'big event'.

[quote author=tpia@]Topic

The govt has to get involved at some point, at both the local and national level.

Bring in husbands for the women.

I think they (govt) know what to do.

Dont just leave these things to babalawos and crime lords only [/quote]
Like that of Kano state government?

Mind you, are you trying to be on or off point? Maybe you need to go back to the first page (100level).

Cheers.

esere826: (Post # 8 )

Case Study Conclusions and Lessons Learned

1) When a girl is in her younger years in Uni, it might make sense to date corper level guys

-At this stage, she is still receiving support from dad and mum. Corper can share some of his allowee. By the time she is getting out of school, there is a greater probability that the guy is financially and mentally ready for marriage.

-Ladies, you will still be insulted by guys in uni for dating upwards. But no worry na so life be

I quite agree with you on this, but wait! 'if' ex-corper doesn't get to the girl's anticipated level, especially when she's in her 'ember' levels in the university, that can trigger something else, or what do you think?

The outcome invariably would be disastrous on our ex-corper's path, especially when it dawns on him that he just had a zero return on a 'short' term investment.

esere826: To avoid angry and unproductive outbursts
let us quickly move to finding solutions to the malady afflicting our societal marital/mating structure
and clear the backlog of unattached females in our society

The preceeding narratives should be useful to both guys and gals

I'll be using Pastor Paul Adefarasin as a case study and weighing his relationship against my model developed in Post #3

Man! You are too good, imagine!

[quote author=Table Leg ]If everything was set in place (labour laws, employment tribunal etc...) for you to challenge the dismissal, there is no way you wont win!
And you don't need the job back, all you need is a compensation for the unfair dismissal and assurances that they wont be giving you bad references or recommendations ... Simples!
They wont even dare try you if the laws and a tribunal system is in place in the first place ..... They risk the reputational damage, financial loss and any other associated negativity for something trivial ....
You end up on the winning side ........ regardless![/quote]Oh yes! It is easy to say than to do in Nigeria, when you think of all that will be channelled to the case and what have we, costs, energy, time and others, one can only whine about it, and no action is taken. Wanted to add that one should add the rigours to go through, especially with the incessant adjournment of cases and the corrupt judges........ but when I saw the bolded (particularly the word 'if') then I sensed it that you really did catch the drift.

Quite pathetic! One thing that I know is that we will surely get there someday.

[quote author=Table Leg ]In theory, this sort of treatment is meted out predominantly to local employees right?[/quote]Yes, and it is mainly because of the reason stated by sir AJ

AjanleKoko: Maybe. They are local entrepreneurs. And remember the labour laws in Nigeria don't exactly protect the employee from a lot.

Meanwhile, most or maybe some employees' attitude is actually making the matter worst.

Okay, the needed laws are enacted and the interests of the employees are protected, what happens to that of the local employers? The employee can easily rip off the struggling employer, and go away with it, especially since the system (judicial) is at its lowest level in terms of quality services being discharged.

AjanleKoko: Yep.
It's not really a story. A friend of mine was affected by the mass sack. Happened more than a decade ago.

A lot of these so-called 'business idols' are in reality insecure megalomaniacs.

Very true sir! And no one dare question their actions. Anyway, one can't blame them sha because that is needed at times so the business can progress. And perhaps the positive effects are quite more than the negative effects.

When employees (especially local ones) are caressed and controlled with levity hands, we all now the definite consequences on the business and the economy at large.

But his own is too much 'jare'.

^^^ whaoh! What a success story. Congrats.

In life, closed doors open new and better opportunities, and it should be a lesson for all, whatever and however the case may be,we should take it as God's purpose and will for us. Life is beautiful!

God willing, I will come share mine 'very' soon.

PEACE

@T-cann, first of all, God bless you for opening this wonderful thread. Really helped a lot of guys.

Meanwhile, that fisherman and the big boys' story (quite a funny one), indirectly tells how funny this life is. What are we working for sef? At times, I sit down and reflect on some things, and what concludes everything is 'what a crazy world!' But wetin conman go do?

^^ I think it is relevant, since PE 2 has Strategic Financial Management, which one has got to study extensively before passing it, then ICAN should be. Also a little of Management Accounting will help in the IB world too.

Might it interest you that one of the 'big four' requires ICAN qualification or CFA level 2 for their T&R(Transaction and restructuring)unit-which is part of what IB firms in Nigeria do.

Seriously, one cannot dispute the fact that a Masters in finance or/and CFA is/are the best for career progression in that field, but ICAN qualification will still help starters in the IB world.

Seun: Tonto Dikeh

I smell impersonation here o

Chai! If it is what am thinking, then we are in 'soup'in this country.

possibilita: true talk sir but this talk is too much pls will somebody summerize this for me i really need to reread it.:-)

You are one of those Nigerian graduates that needs 'real' polishing, especially with those you 'jinxed' up there. Bomboclat!

Meanwhile, an advice to all is that, we should always endeavour to read to details, in between lines of 'stuffs' like this are hidden treasures to be digested, or is it that the statement 'if you want to keep something from a black man, write it down/put it into writing' is real, especially with our attitude to rich and useful writings like this?

@mcjarus, well done!

Don't mind the man, dem don come threaten am, like this, 'we need you to say this to Nigerians else, you and those around you will be our next target'.

Wetin coni-man wan do?

If you believe much of the media, you hire a Financial Advisor to try to outperform the stock market. Never mind that this can have very little bearing on whether you can live or retire as you would like. Never mind that research has shown that even the hottest hedge fund managers struggle to outperform the markets. (Ok, they don’t struggle to; they don’t.)

The better reasons to hire one are to:

1.Press you to answer questions you don’t want asked, like how you plan to take care of your aging parents if you need to, whether your will is up to date, how you are going to send your kids to college, what you will do if you lose your job. These are the types of questions that make most of too uncomfortable to ask ourselves.

2. Put together a financial plan. Very few people ever, ever do this on their own. And most drag their feet on doing it with their Financial Advisor, too. It takes time and it can hurt. But it matters.

3. Identify risks in your portfolio that you might look right past, like being overweight the US (which is most of us in the US) or being mostly invested in tech stocks, when you’re in the tech industry.

4.Talk you through market volatility. Most of us energetically claim we don’t need this. It’s hard to project forward an image of ourselves being nervous or scared, and our recollection of past pain has been shown to fade over time. (Just ask any woman who has been through childbirth more than once!) But another voice besides your own during tough markets can be invaluable.

5. Identify your biases. This is a biggie. Many of us think we don’t really have any….which is exactly the point. One big one: women tend to be more risk-averse than men. That is neither good nor bad of itself, but it is something that should be tested and pushed at a bit, given that women as a group also earn less and live longer than men. As a result, they could perhaps tolerate a bit more risk.

Yes, Financial Advisors cost. But if they are able to provide the services above -- and particularly if they can do it earlier in one’s investing life -- their value can be meaningful.

Source: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130326054847-174077701-the-5-real-reasons-to-hire-a-financial-advisor?trk=eml-mktg-condig-0108-p1

^^^
Oga mi sir! I did shoot you some mails in the early hours of today.

Thanks.

An Internet sales tax is inching its way closer to being the law of the land: The U.S. Senate supported a non-binding vote of approval, 75-to-24, for a law that would allow states to collect taxes from Internet retailers. If enacted as is, it would allow states to levy taxes on some online retail purchases from businesses with over $1 million in gross receipts.
Internet retailers can thank their mostly tax-free existence to a 1992 Supreme Court Case, Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, which declared that companies without a “substantial nexus” in a state didn’t have to pay sales tax. “Quill became a seminal case for online retailers: It meant, in essence, that they didn’t have to pay state and local sales taxes,” writes the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein.” That’s allowed them to undercut traditional brick-and-mortar stores on price. It’s also meant that state and local governments, which rely heavily on sales taxes, have lost enormous amounts of revenue as more and more commerce has moved online.”
There are some exceptions: Amazon currently charges California residents sales tax, and will soon charge residents of Massachusetts and Connecticut, after new offices and acquisitions gave it a significant presence in those states.
A score of Internet lobbies, such as Netchoice, representing Facebook, Yahoo, and (TechCrunch’s parent company) Aol, argue that the senate’s bill “does nothing to address what the Supreme Court says was an unreasonable burden on interstate commerce,” explains Steve Delbianco of Netchoice.
An equally self-interested set of lobbies, such as the National Retail Federation, representing the big box likes of OfficeMax, Macy’s, And Saks, argue that an Internet sales tax ban gives online retailers an unfair advantage and deprives states of billions in revenue.
The current law will give readers a flavor for the sausage factory that is the U.S.

Source: http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/03/23/u-s-senate-approves-proposed-internet-sales-tax/

An Internet sales tax is inching its way closer to being the law of the land: The U.S. Senate supported a non-binding vote of approval, 75-to-24, for a law that would allow states to collect taxes from Internet retailers. If enacted as is, it would allow states to levy taxes on some online retail purchases from businesses with over $1 million in gross receipts.
Internet retailers can thank their mostly tax-free existence to a 1992 Supreme Court Case, Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, which declared that companies without a “substantial nexus” in a state didn’t have to pay sales tax. “Quill became a seminal case for online retailers: It meant, in essence, that they didn’t have to pay state and local sales taxes,” writes the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein.” That’s allowed them to undercut traditional brick-and-mortar stores on price. It’s also meant that state and local governments, which rely heavily on sales taxes, have lost enormous amounts of revenue as more and more commerce has moved online.”
There are some exceptions: Amazon currently charges California residents sales tax, and will soon charge residents of Massachusetts and Connecticut, after new offices and acquisitions gave it a significant presence in those states.
A score of Internet lobbies, such as Netchoice, representing Facebook, Yahoo, and (TechCrunch’s parent company) Aol, argue that the senate’s bill “does nothing to address what the Supreme Court says was an unreasonable burden on interstate commerce,” explains Steve Delbianco of Netchoice.
An equally self-interested set of lobbies, such as the National Retail Federation, representing the big box likes of OfficeMax, Macy’s, And Saks, argue that an Internet sales tax ban gives online retailers an unfair advantage and deprives states of billions in revenue.
The current law will give readers a flavor for the sausage factory that is the U.S.

Source: http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/03/23/u-s-senate-approves-proposed-internet-sales-tax/

gen2briz: I know that our oga patapata at the top will be proud of you people.....because if he's proud of you people,that all.

Please stop this 'oga at the top' thing jare, I am even feeling for the man and his family, if we all think it is his fault, we are wrong, it is the system that is faulty, please tell me what will happen if the foundation/system isn't good. Please stop it.

Sperm has become one of the hottest commodities being sold in Ghana and many parts of the world. The target market for this new booming venture are couples suffering from male infertility, lesbian couples, and single women who pay huge amounts of money to access it.

“Selling of sperm is gradually becoming the new business frontier booming in Ghana because it has many uses in today’s society: making babies, sperm banks, and putting volume in limp hair in order to make it long,” a medical student at the University of Ghana Medical School, who sold sperm five times to a Fertility Centre in Accra for GH¢10, 000, told Economic Tribune (ET).

The medical student, who gave his name only as Mensah, said even though selling of sperm was a risky business, it was also rewarding as well.

“I use the proceeds from this business to pay my fees and also support my close pals. Who knows how long I will continue? But whatever happens, I know I can look back on many happy families that I have helped to create,” he stated.

Mrs Naomi Suame, a shop owner at East Legon and many parts of Accra, has been married for 15 years and has two children, none of whom biologically belongs to her husband.

“I discovered my husband was infertile when we got married after two years. But I wanted to experience motherhood. I decided to have artificial insemination. I have never cheated on him. I just got sperm from a willing seller and got two healthy babies. Is that not wonderful?” she asked. In the case of Naomi, she got a young man from the University of Cape Coast, paid him GH¢12,000 and took his sperm, which she used twice to get the babies.

“Sperm is one of the scared commodities for many of us. There is a high demand for it and many young men are going into this venture selling their sperm to help others, who needs it for one reason or the other,” Naomi explained.

Investigations conducted by ET revealed that due to the huge capital outlay of the process, women have now devised a way of beating the system by getting donors (sperm sellers) whom they take to the Fertility Centres for harvesting at a cheaper cost and then having the sperm induced in their uteruses.

Outside Ghana

Sperm selling is booming in many parts of the world as well. Recently, a San Francisco man has been named by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for selling his sperm over the internet after helping 14 women become pregnant. The 36-year-old man claims he’s simply providing a free service to women who want to become mothers without going through typical sperm donation process but authorities say he’s a public health hazard. According to media report, Mr Trent Arsenault generously donates his sperm to women he meets on his website, which features multiple pictures of the slender man acting genetically valuable.

The FDA claims that Arsenault is running a business that’s in violation of regulations that require sperm banks to have their donors tested for STIs within seven days of donating sperm. Some fertility experts warn that a man who anonymously fathers 14 or more children could be putting those kids at risk for genetic defects as well as one day meeting and having super gross accidental sibling sex with each other.

In a related development, two men from Reading in UK have been sentenced to nine months imprisonment for illegally selling sperm over the internet. Ricky Gage, 49, and Nigel Woodforth, 43, pocketed £250,000 between October 2007 and November 2008 through their unlicensed website, known as Fertility 1st.

Southwark Crown Court jurors said the culprits were able to charge clients £380 for each sample from anonymous donors. The pair, who ran their website from the basement of Woodforth’s Reading home, promised to ‘fulfill the dreams’ of childless couples, charging them an initial £380 to provide contact details from a list of men on their database. These included descriptions of their ‘height, eye colour, ethnic origin, hobbies and education.’

After selecting a would-be father, the woman would then pay £150 for sperm to be collected and delivered by an independent courier firm. From this payment, the anonymous donor would receive £50. Hundreds of women seeking to conceive used the service in a year-long period between late 2007 and 2008, with police finding a list of 792 sperm deliveries.

Source: http://dadycandoit.com/sperm-selling-business-booming-in-ghana/?goback=.gde_129219_member_221496189

As simple as it is, I will just say,'I have forgotten, I will tell you when I remember'. Cest' fini!

Btw, the matter most likely is forgotten as the programme ends.

NB: This #oga at the top# case just showed us the clear difference between a smart secondary school boy and a dull/clueless oga that has another oga at the top.

babyosisi: The governor is shameless
What exactly has he said differently from what was already said
Thieves!

Exactly!

No difference at all, it is quite a pathetic case! definitely, the state 'pocket' will bear all that foolish costs. In a state where most of the people live on less than two dollars a day, and we have a scumbag sponsoring 20 relatives of one tuface's babymama.....sorry, 'wife to be' to dubai, abeg, na akwa ibom say make them choose dubai for wedding things ni? Nawa o!!