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I just stumbled on my marriage note where I wrote down all my expenses while I prepared for my marriage and decided to share. This topic is to guide those planning for their wedding on how much on the average they should budget for their marriage. Although the amount you will spend depends on what you want and the tribe/family you are marrying into. I actually budgeted N1,200,000 (1.2 million) but ended up spending close to 2million.

I got married November 2018 to my beautiful esan girlfriend of 4 years. Here is the breakdown:

Pre-wedding
1. Lab test for HIV, Genotype and pregnancy (as instructed by the church) - N5000
2. Transportation to take her to see my parents - N10,000
3. Ring 18 karat gold (engagement, and wedding rings) - N75,000 (from aboki)
4. Wedding certificate - N4000
5. Wedding seminar organized by my church - N4000

Federal Registry:
1. Affidavit for spinsterhood and bachelorhood-N2000
2. Main fee - N34,000

Traditional marriage
1. Drinks - N140,000
2. Yams - N40,000
3. Salt - N4,000
4. Bride price - N10,000
5. Make up - N20,000
6. Food - N200,000
7. Transportation - N20,000
8. Photograph - N6000
9. Canopy - N6000
10. Palmwine - N2000
11. Palm oil - N12,000
12. Native kola - N3000
13. Introduction - N12,000 (did introduction same day as traditional marriage)
I love esan marriage, they don't put hole in one's pocket

White Wedding
1. Drinks and food - N300,000
2. Reception hall - N105,000 (a Catholic church event hall)
3. Decoration - N50,000
4. DJ plus MC - N35,000
5. Guest house accommodation for my parents - N15,000
6. Souvenir 100 unit (Jotter, bag and notebooks) - N93,000
7. Photographer - N20,000 (soft copies)
8. Video coverage - (Hmmmm! Money no reach)
9. My wife's wedding gown - N35,000 (rent)
10. Me and my bestman's shirt and suit - N36,000
11. My wife's makeup and accessories - N50,000
12. Hotel room for after wedding panpangolo - N18,000 for 2 nites
13. My shoe - N2,000 (it's a long story)
14. Cake (4 steps) - N15,000 (my wife baked it if not e for pass that amount)
15. Transportation for my parents back home - N10,000

This are the little I could remember, I will update as soon as I get them. It was supposed to be a budget marriage but I spent close to N2,000,000 despite cutting off as much expenses as permitted. What was ur marriage budget? Did you stick to your budget or did some unforseen expenses prop up? Please share for the benefit of those planning theirs.

yeah! i do train, but your determination to work hard will determine if i will continue to train you or not. If i am to train you, you will have to sacrifice your nights. It is important you do that to attain success. Note: I don't do fictions, non-fictions only.

hawwal84:
Hello obamartins,

Goodday to you. I wish to make inquiries on KDP, do you still offer training tutorials on it?

If yes, kindly reply this notification. Or you can please reply with your email address so that I can conclude my inquiry.

Thanks.

Grupo:
Hi,

Good to meet you here. I have a kdp account I created since 2015. I have published about 5 books. Last month, I made only $14. This month, I have only made about $8.

Could you help me with ideas on how to get my books to start selling?

Also, I learned that writing on good niches is the key. Are you kind enough to share niche ideas with me?

Thanks.

There are tonnes of materials on youtube that will help you, just take your time. But a simple tip I will give you is this, don't write fiction, go for non fictions. Secondly look for books that are doing well in the non fiction niche and map your books using their table of content in the "look in" to write yours. Finally, avoid plagiarism by all means to avoid termination of account. Tools that will help you scale are (1) Kdprocket - this will help you in your research for titles that are converting (2) copyscape or plagiarismchecker - this will help you avoid plagiarism and (3) Grammarly - this will help you avoid grammatical and punctuation errors.

Then watch all videos on keywords.

With this, you will scale faster as a self publisher. It is great not depending on Nigeria's economy for your income.

Already publishing my books on Amazon and my audiobooks on audible and itune. Adding an author's blog to get those email list rolling. That should raise my sales to minimum $2,500 per month. What else can I say. I have control of my time and making good money from the comfort of my home. Will be investing up to N70,000 on an author's blog to keep my readers/fans.

Finally, I will diversify by the second quarter of 2019 by pushing at least one million naira into treasury bills.

What more can I say? 2018 was beautiful, 2019 is already making sense with so much prospects.

SEUJ:
How did get a working paypal account bro.
That has been my challenge with online business.

You don't need a paypal account for this. Payoneer is the answer. Please take time to research.

Men! this life is funny until God opens your eyes to see the billions of dollars on the internet. I have done several crazy jobs and received peanuts called salary until I asked God for direction and He came to my rescue. I worked in a place where the owner of the company treated everyone like shit. I took the bold step to walk away in 2017 despite having nothing to fall back on. A couple of months ago he called as was Like "Can you please come back, I will increase your salary and pay you guys regularly. I asked him a simple question. Sir, can you pay me up to N500,000 a month? He was proposing N80,000 a month from 60k which he was paying but not regular. I told him, sir, you can't pay me.

Today, I earn over N300,000 a month from the comfort of my home. I am not cut out for 8am - 5pm jobs God forbid. Folks no need to search for jobs, you can make it on the internet without defrauding anyone. All I do is write books and publish on Amazon. All the materials you need to write on any topic is on Youtube, stop the laziness and get your butts down to work. Serve no master. The problem with our so-called graduates is lack of research and laziness. They don't have the energy to research on what will put food on their table. I will never search for a job any day any time. Targeting N1,000,000 a month from book sales before June 2019. Will be spreading my tentacles to Amazon FBA very soon. By The end of 2019, i should average N5,000,000 per month by God's Grace. The millions is in your laptop connected to the internet.


PS: Nobody should PM for any tutorial or guide. I won't respond. All you need is on youtube and the internet, Take your time say one month to research and you will be glad you did. Convert Youtube Videos into books and sell on Amazon.

Final comment: Any computer scientist looking for a job in this era of ICT is a fool.

Attached is my sales report for last month.

Meanwhile, TOFA and NRC own naa.

Tofa is the answer, Tofa

Tofa is the answer, Tofa.

Yawns, very boring, no wonder he lost the election.


#Nostalgia

It is clear to the blind, audible to the deaf. But unfortunately, Buhari is going no where. He would rather plunge the country into chaos than leave without a fight. The signs are there. The guy has never pretended to be either gentleman or a Democrat.

Garlic Indians, that got me

Romeo3:
as of today, i have done 2000 trips and my average rating is 4.64.

Uber belongs to girls. they use it most.... i am sorry i have to say this but it is the truth. Girls are terrible.

Unilag girls are

Zombies will think otherwise

#Gist

Just checked for a friend who was not preselected in the previous site and had not gotten sms, just been congratulated. Use BVN and not phone number to check.

Why did they remove it in the first place if not to hide the injustices that sustains a section of the country. I still have a feeling the curriculum will be watered-down with lies and half-truths to divert discuss on the real issues abt the history of this country and the mistake of 1914. The day of reckoning is coming for this country Nigeria. It is either we restructure this present aberrations or the whole system will collapse.

nalizzzy:
pls wat do mean by series many sha.

Google mathematical series.

[quote author=joshuaarmani2 post=58790747][/quote]The venue is along Port Harcourt Aba Road, at Oyinbo. Just tell them to drop u at Tap Junction. ACE Center. then u either trek in or take a bike to the premises. Me I trek am o, e no far, though the road is rough. For ur Personal effects, there are people at the Gate that u pay N100 to take care of your personal effects ranging from umbrellas, bags, phones etc. Then try to come early, forget that 9.30 time o, we started by 8.30am. Finally, always click on save after u choose an option. This will then take u to the next question. It's abt speed and accuracy. They will provide u with plane sheet of paper for ur rough work.

motivationspika:
Did you go with the page of the Slip that is Showing your Batch CATEGORY AND VENUE OR you went only with the first page that is showing your PASSPORT with the bottom written " Please come to the examination hall with this slip"

The one with the passport that showed Approved. and your ID Card. It can be coloured or black and white as long as the passport is clear.

bizguru000:
Thanks for the much needed info bro...Did you use a calculator?

Yes.

bizguru000:
Yes it will submit for you dont worry..Are you experienced or graduate trainee

i can't remember if i applied for experience or graduate trainee o. The thing don tay. But it System Analyst i applied for.

When u go into the computer room, you sit in front of any of the PCs. Your Username is your email address (the email u used to apply for the job) then your password is your phone number (the phone number you used in applying for the job). Goodluck to those who will be writing on a later date. No jack break your head, naa IQ questions.

Wrote mine today. No current affairs, no oil related questions. Just english and arithmetic. Series many sha. But my question is, I did not click on submit b4 the time elapsed, though I finished. I hope the system will auto submit for me or make I go back go tell them submit am? My Center is ACE Port Harcourt

The owners of Nigeria has spoken. Make I go dust my Hausa textbook. Sai Baba. Buhari till 2050.

Pls is the payoneer - payza - domiciliary account still working? IF yes, which dorm account should I open, Dollar or Euro? Thanks

Ewenla202:
Please MK82, Bro1234, Ancient times, Obamartins and others in the house recommend a tested graphic designer for me; I have some ecovers for both amazon and createspace to do. I am not too comfortable with paying Indians where Nigerians available. Thanks

Drop the title of the book and author, I will design cover for the ebook. For cratespace, someone else can help u out. Then drop ur email also.

This is a very wonderful policy if implemented. A Situation where DISCOS like BEDC would have the opportunity to buy enough power to satisfy states they service for 24hours but refuse to do so because of capitalism (they want to make excess profit), this is the kind of policy that will break that wickedness. TCN on several occasions have cried out that they have enough power for less industrialized states like Edo, Delta, Ondo etc that BEDC covers, but this company refused to buy why? Because they buy little power, give companies (e.g Guinness, hotels and some Chinese firms in Benin) on the 33kva line almost 24hours of power and share the insignificant reminder to households using massive load shedding arrangements which in turn kills small scale businesses which are the driving force of the economy today.

When asked why they carryout such ungodly arrangement, they start singing the hit single "energy theft". They complain that consumers are stealing energy hence this "punishment". The same BEDC rolled out prepaid meters that are mounted on power poles to prevent energy theft. Initially, the pace of the installation of these prepaid meters was fast, when they realized that due to lack of power, the sales of token was not commiserate with what they normally get during the fixed charge era and from estimate bills they give to households without the prepaid meter (those with analogue meters), they deliberately slowed down, the installation of the pole mounted prepaid meter.

Government need to break the monopoly further by giving license to small scale power vendors like what is obtainable in India to bring Nigeria out of this power crises that has being plaguing us for years. This is the 21st century for God sake. We need to think outside the box and stop this centralization of power, not all power generated must go through a centralized power grid. Individuals with the capacity can obtain license to generate and distribute power in selected areas, villages, towns etc.

When power was to be privatized, the selling message the government gave to use was the telecommunication sector with the introduction of GSM in Nigeria. They said power would be like that with many players coming into the sector hence driving competition, when it was finally privatized, the story changed, they said we cannot remove total monopoly in the distribution of power, because different companies cannot start mounting their poles on the same streets, so that consumers cannot have their choice of companies to buy power from. For me, that is not thinking outside the box, we could have different companies as DISCOS in a state, they will all run conduit cables and have points where consumers that want to buy from them can be connected to. If a consumer is not satisfied with the services of a particular disco, he changes to another one. That is the only way this Discos can sit up. If a disco refuses to buy more energy from transmission and the other buys more, a consumer has the choice to change his Disco. They don't have to mount electric poles all over the places to achieve this.

Thousands are out there with 1st class and 2.1 with no clear cut direction. My brother, it's not about grade, things and times have changed. Things that normally put food on the table in the 70s, 80s and even in the 90s have evolved. Gone are the days when you are told go to school, get a good grade and Pronto! You are out of poverty. It doesn't work anymore. The chances are getting slimmer by the day.

Artisans and technicians are doing very well while graduates who refused to think outside the box with their 1st class and 2.1 cannot even feed. Before you question what I graduated with, I will tell you. I graduated with a 2.1, computer science, my certificate is gathering dust because most of the things I know today, I learn on the street and these skills are paying my bills. So move out of that "go to school, get a good grade, that is the only way out of poverty" mentality, nothing is guaranteed anymore. A smart person that left school with a pass is more likely to succeed than someone with a 1st class or 2.1. Because he learns early not to depend on his certificate, while those with good grades will allow it "shack" them, but before they realize that the certificate is now a piece of tissue paper, the guy with the pass or third class has learn a skill and moved on with life.

So nobody should be carried away by 1st class or 2.1. Out there, it's a rat race and only the smart survives coupled with God's grace. You see them falling into depression every now and then because their expectation is a variance with the reality on ground.

fergusen:
I've seen many reasons adduced by several individuals why grades do not matter or are less important in determining future successes. I do think the influence of grades has been understated.

No doubt, grades can be a poor way to determine someone's success or better still, measure an individual's self-worth.

Your success in life or otherwise may not be determined by how excellent your grades are. It probably isn't going to make you successful or unsuccessful.

However, grades are an instant image of you at any point in time. Grades are the foremost tools schools use to measure it's students abilities. This means it will give a huge initial judgement about you, which transcends beyond the academic environment.
If you think grades don't matter, ask that friend who missed that fully paid scholarship by graduating with a third class.
Grades matter if you desire to get that competitive job where employers look at CGPA.
As a fresh graduate, grades will matter until you get something more compelling to sell yourself.
If you desire career progression in the academics, bad grades will ground you.

It is a fact that majority of people with low grades are usually defaulters when it comes to self-discipline, hard work, diligence, and planning skill, to mention but a few. All of these failings might act in limiting the success of these individuals (with poor grades) after graduation.

Good grades give you a head start, and an added advantage going forward. The world is moving at a fast pace, too busy in most cases to give you an opportunity to disprove your poor grades. Therefore they go by the numbers (grades) in assessing you. You probably won't get a chance to prove your competence.

And yes, Not everyone will be an entrepreneur or succeed as one. Not everyone will have giraffe legs (know somebody that knows somebody in that establishment). Not everyone will/can work in the Nigerian civil service (where anything goes).

Haven stated that, here are 5 things that happen when you graduate with a low grade:

1. You close important doors: some doors when closed can never be opened again. How sad! Whatever opportunities, big or small, there are outside that door eludes you forever.
If you settled for less and got low grades due to laziness and nonchalant attitude towards book work, you effectively closed all doors requiring higher grades!
A graduate with a pass or a third class automatically rules him/herself out of certain job opportunities! I need not mention these jobs, you know them.

2. Fewer choices: this is similar to the above. You end up with less choice if you graduate with a poor CGPA. why? Windows are smaller than doors!
Less career advancement options, less job option, and less pay. You'll have to settle for less.

3. Vices will appeal to you: I mean no disrespect to those with poor grades. However, social vices such as gambling, drunkenness, and others I choose not to mention will appeal to you. Anything just to dampen the disappointment of wasted years. However, it all ends in more disappointment for those not willing to get it right the right way.

4. Battered esteem: poor grades will batter your esteem. You will always avoid public discussions that will warrant a mention or display of your grade status either by you or others. Can you comfortably put your pass degree qualification on a CV? Never!
Deflated ego, inferiority, and other similar words will describe your situation.
Only a few (mentally strong) will refuse to be downcast and laid-back by letting grades get in their way to achieving success. The greater majority wallows in regret for years.

5. Delays in career progression: if you graduate with a third class, you'll need a PGD to move forward. If it's a pass, you're probably stuck/grounded. In the academics, grades are prioritised, and it'll remain so for a long time.

It is, therefore important that you begin to answer questions such as where you desire to be in the next five years, what steps to take to get there and what doors you need to go through. The earlier these questions are answered, the more doors you'll have access to, and go through.

To make it big, you either have to be the best at what you are doing (non academic activity) or follow the conventional easier path - good grades.

Choose the doors to open and don't let life choose for you because it might be a far cry from that which you desired.

Grades do matter a lot.

Copyright NAIJA CGPA

When them use slap overthrow am the first time naa civilian him be?

Authoreety:
Buhari na army na......




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that coup ain't possible

His cover is good enough, the message is clear, he must not use someone running. Besides, this days, most professional writers don't use images on their book covers to depict the content. In terms of aesthetics, the cover is above average. My opinion.

AncientTimes:
Your cover though attractive, is out of place? Your cover must always reflect the message that you are conveying or the product that you are selling. Loose weight with what? Exercise? Diet? Fruits? Or just losing weight in the air? If it is about a diet then something like foods or someone eating will make sense on the cover of your book. If it is an Exercise, then someone running will make a perfect sense. Let your cover preach what you are selling.

Nice one, this is more like it. But u still need brushing on choice of font style. Good cover, it will fly.

haywhy28:
Bro, kindly check critique this for me.