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That's the only meal with 80% Protein. Its gotten under fallen leaves and its a very good export commodity. Too bad Chinese Restaurants know the worth than we do. Those dudes charge bucks on a plate of our own maggots. Onila thumbs up, nice thread there.

otoidea: Service charge?

No service charge Sir. 1.5m covers every charge. One year offer.

otoidea: Service charge?

No service charge Sir. 1.5m covers every charge. One year offers.

Chino_anyi: 12000 litre

Chino Anyi kindly call Mr. Segun Babs on 08107024162

This is just ridiculous. Immediate former Uganda's representative to Big Brother - The Chase, Charles Mwiyeretsi better known as Denzel was in for a rude awakening when his landlady told him that rent for his apartment had been increased by UGX200,000
Unbelievable! Ugandan Denzel’s Landlady Hikes His Rent after Seeing Him on Big Brother!"After just two weeks out of my house. I come back and inform her I will be moving back in and she wanted to increase my house rent by a stunning 200K!," revealed the 30 year old radio and TV show host. And when Denzel demanded to know why all of a sudden rent had increased the lady told him in his face, "Oh, I know you have money, I saw you on TV in South Africa."
This is when Denzel woke up and realised that he was not in the Big Brother house anymore where the only thing to do was to relax in the jacuzzi, sleep, drink, dance and massage.
It's not clear whether Denzel's eviction to her meant that the Ugandan housemate had won but at least she is sure it was Denzel she saw on TV who must be loaded by virtue of the way he was playing the game.
His close pals advised him to just apply the 'avatar' or better still do the massage moves that he pulled on Huddah Monroe while still in the Big Brother House.
Following that advise, Denzel just laughed it off. "Haha, thanks guys. Always good to be back home. Fuh real! Once you get used to the dust...you cant live without it! haha"

Source: http://housesoflife..com/2013/06/unbelievable-ugandan-denzels-landlady.html

Is your salary a seed or a fruit?

Your mindset towards your salary income determines what you do with it when it comes into your hands. If you think it is a seed, you will save and invest it for increased returns. If you think it is the fruit of your labor, you will consume it without sparing a thought for tomorrow. There is no right or wrong mindset, as no one has the right to tell you what you should want or aim for, or what you should do with your life. Your life is yours to live and you only get one shot at it.


The essence of financial education is to open your mind to see your options and to better understand the consequences of your current actions. If you have no idea that your current financial stagnation is caused by your current actions, you may keep doing the same thing and keep praying for a better day. Farmers do more than hope and pray – he or she works hard to put all the acreage under cultivation and maintains the farm to ensure the plants does not struggle with weeds for nutrients. While praying for rain, the farmer makes plans for irrigation. Faith without work is dead.

If you see your salary as seed, you are looking for increase, and as you work towards it, increase will manifest in your life. Increase becomes your reality, as you develop multiple streams of income. You will not despise your seed or days of small beginnings. You will joyfully start from humble beginnings and watch your asset grow. You become richer each season of harvest – be it interest income, profit or return on investment. If you have a poor harvest, or experience a loss, you shrug it off and keep going. Every farmer knows that sometimes, the harvest is not as expected. If he has enough seed for the next planting season, life goes on.
If you see your salary as the fruit of your labor, you will simply spend it. Your idea of increase becomes increased pay, bigger bonuses, better job. That is why you see most employees pin their financial hopes on pay hikes, promotions, bonuses and getting a better job. This is one of the key reasons we have labor unions – to negotiate for higher pay for the same amount of work, sometimes less. It France, the work week was cut from 40 hours to 35 hours. One paradox is that the salary is never enough. The more your salary is increased, the more your expenses rise to catch up and sometimes exceed your income. Enough becomes a target on wheels – the more you move closer, the farther it moves away from you.

Again, there is nothing wrong with this mindset. The only challenge is, if you desire to attain financial independence, this road will not take you there. You will have an illusion of being rich and affluent, if you do well pay wise, but the moment you lose that job or retire, your life takes a different turn. If you are moving along this path, your financial life revolves round your job. The moment there is a delay in payment of your salaries, you will have to explain to your spouse why this month will be a bit different. For many, losing your job means losing your house, car, no more holidays and going down the standard of living ladder.




Again, as in most things in life, there is no right and wrong answers. The right answer for you is what you say is right for you, until you change your mind. What is right for one may not be right for another. We have different capacities to pay the price or keep our commitments. There is nothing like an unrealistic goal. What is unrealistic is your commitment to pay the required price upfront. If you do not have the requisite commitment that goes with attaining that goal, then you are the one who is unrealistic, not the goal. The goal is neutral, and available for any takers. Success does not go on sale. There is no flexible payment plan. You cannot buy now, pay next year. Credit cards are not accepted either. You have to pay the full price upfront before delivery. There are no short cuts. It comes back to your mindset. Is your salary a seed or the fruit?

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younglawya: I think it will not profit us to copy and paste useless information that is almost totally inapplicable to our nigerian circumstances. Utter bollocks if you ask me.

You may have a point sha..

HugeMac: DON'T BE BLINDED BY THE THINGS OF THE WORLD.

Okay..

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1. Dress for fun
Wear something frivolous – every day if appropriate. It doesn’t have to be visible: ‘naughty’ underwear, silly socks, etc. The fact that you have this on will remind you not to take yourself so seriously.
Make this philosophy visible by having a ‘Dress for Fun Friday’ – just like a Casual Friday, except staff have to add something specifically for fun – silly earrings, bad ties, fun hats, etc.

2. Fun Decor
Encourage staff to introduce fun into their own work-space. Toys, stickers, photos, whatever will lighten up their day. Don’t let ‘office neatness’ rules get in the way – anything less that a safety hazard should be allowed. The
boss sets the example with a hat rack full of silly hats and a Goofy soft toy sitting atop the computer screen. Follow the same rule in areas where clients go. Who wants to deal with people who don’t have a sense of humor?

3. Visit the toy store
Introduce fun into the workplace with childish things. Look around your local toy store for anything that could introduce fun to your meetings, staff interactions (like lunch time) or just to make people smile.

4. Make meetings fun…at the start
Make humour a KPI of your meetings. Boring meetings are the enemy of effective, creative communication – ban them! Put ‘Opening humour’ down as the first agenda item. Appoint a different person each meeting to start with a joke, funny story, game – whatever they can to lighten the mood. Give them a time limit, but that’s all! They need the permission of management to be as creative, silly and irreverent as possible.

5. Make meetings fun…during proceedings
Make fun part of the proceedings. Hand out noisemakers (hooters, whistles, clickers, etc) to all present with the rule that you have to use your noisemaker before you speak. Take votes with: "All those in favour, make your noise." Have something silly that participants need to hold or place in front of them before they make their contribution. (This is also a great way to ensure that only one person speaks at a time.)

6. Make meetings fun…at the end
Appoint a person to end the meeting with some humour. One way is to have them nominate certain meeting members for frivolous ‘awards’ based on what happened during the meeting. Some examples: Silliest Statement, Wittiest Comment, Best Excuse, Most Imaginative Statement, Best/Worst Jargon. Finish your meetings with a touch of humour and this is what people remember as they leave – so they’ll be more willing to attend the next meeting.

7. Have a fun library
Have a section next to the reference books full of joke books, cartoon books (Dilbert, Calvin & Hobbes, etc) and any other fun literature. Encourage staff to borrow them for lunchtime reading, etc (Don’t let them leave the office – or you’ll never see them again. Regularly add to it. The discount tables at bookstores have loads of cheap material.

8. Have fun with logos and signs
Have a contest to design a fun logo for each department; and, if appropriate, put it up. Enlarge relevant cartoons and place them next to the instructional and safety signs – and have people notice signs that, in the past, they ignored.

9. Reward funny staff
The best co-worker is one who doesn’t take themselves too seriously and is prepared to laugh at (and learn from) their mistakes. Instigate a monthly award for the silliest mistake made by staff – with a cash prize. The rules: staff can only nominate themselves and have to stand up and tell other staff what they did and how they will spend the money. The prize is awarded to the staff member who (a) made the biggest mistake (b) is most honest about their mistake or (c) nominates the most creative way they will spend the money to help them avoid the same mistake again or compensate any aggrieved party. Examples: A salesperson makes an impossible promise about delivery dates to a leading client and will spend the prize money to ‘shout’ the despatch department; a staff member forgets his 1st wedding anniversary and will use the money to take his wife to dinner.

10. Let staff get to know each other
Have a regular (monthly) function where staff get to know each other as people, not just in their work roles. When you understand more about a person, there are more opportunities for humour in your interactions with that person. Simply giving the staff off-work time together will create these opportunities; although you could introduce some fun ‘contests’ like those described below. It could be a Friday after-work barbecue, or just a few drinks. Do not be tempted to use the occasion for business announcements – this will defeat the purpose.

11. Fun Contests
As part of these regular functions, or, as a stand-alone event there are a lot of non-threatening fun contests that can build rapport, camaraderie and teamwork. They will provide material for staff-generated humour for a long time after the contest. The prize for the winner does not have to be significant – a two thousand Naira trophy will do the job.

12. ‘Musical’ Fun
Hold a karaoke contest. Entrants could be individuals or groups. If karaoke is too expensive or difficult to organise, make it a mime or air guitar contest. All you’ll need is a portable CD player and, perhaps, some pretend microphones.

13. Flying Fun Hold a paper plane contest, the winner being the person to have their plane fly the furthest.

14. Encourage staff to show appreciation
Have slips of paper (or a page in the intranet) entitled "Staff Appreciation Award – Nomination". Encourage staff to nominate other staff if they do something good: going out of their way for a customer or other staff member, etc. You could have a monthly award chosen from all the nominees; or simply give everyone nominated a small reward. For example, book a mobile masseur (one of the ones who does 15 minute backrubs at the desk) and give them all a massage.

15. Have a baby pictures contest
Get a baby picture of a number of staff and award a prize for whoever can correctly name all of the babies. The contest could run over some time (two weeks) generating humour along the way.

16. Have a childhood secrets contest.
Have staff write down one thing from their childhood that would not be known to others. Have a contest similar to the one above. Again, over the time of the contest, much humour will be generated as staff try to guess who was the one who painted the cat pink, or who won the religious studies prize in grade 6.

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slimyem: I know cell regenaration can be different for different people but how long is this really supposed to take?

About a decade or two

As human beings, we always tend towards the easy way out. Rather than go through process, we want to take the short cut. Rather than learn how to fish, we prefer to be given fish daily, and we take it to the next level – we want cooked fish, so that all we get to do is to bring out our cutlery and descend on the fish rather than become self sufficient by going through the whole process.

Another principle we often forget is that we need to be strong first, before we attempt to bail out others in a sustainable basis. During airline pre-flight safety briefings, passengers are advised when the cabin pressure drops to put on their oxygen masks first before attempting to help others. Have you ever wondered why? You may end up endangering both lives, because you will be panting for oxygen while attempting to save another. If you put on your mask first, you can help many others, because you are okay yourself. If you are not a very good swimmer, you are advised not to attempt rescuing a drowning person. The person will lock you in a death grip and both of you will go down. The best you can do is to call for help. If you are not strong financially and you try to help another struggling person, both of you may go down.

The reason the person is struggling is because the person made poor financial choices, and is about to make another. Giving the person more money will not help the person. It will only make you feel better for a season while your finances get depleted in another of a series of misadventures. More money does not solve our financial problems. Financial literacy does. When you know what to do, how to do it comes easy. Most people are fixated on ‘how to do’ when the’ what’ has not been sorted out. A fool and his money soon kiss each other goodbye.

We are not banks or ATM machines. We do not yet have the capability to analyze business risks, but Banks do. We do not have a stash of money sitting pretty on idle mode, ATMs do. Women are said to have sharper instincts than men and can smell trouble easily, both financial and otherwise. That is largely true in my experience. Most of the times I played bank and ATM machine, and the money goes without yielding any fruits, only for the person to come back for more, I had been warned. However, female instincts are not enough. There are still a lot of women who are financial illiterates. I will give it to the women that they seem to be much better in this department than men. They seem to manage money better than men. They are the reason most homes have not gone belly up financially.

It is very crucial that you have clear financial goals backed by the commitment to achieve it (if you have had enough of being perpetually broke, living from hand to mouth and depending on your job to survive). When you know where you are going financially, you will channel your money accordingly and you will not have idle funds to play bank and ATM with.

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Dear Entreprenuer, Has anyone laughed at your ambition? Perhaps, at a uniquely bright but somewhat complex idea that can't be interpreted by the poorly visioned majority?

This season, we'll be inspiring ourselves with the success stories of these Nigerian Role Models and Successful Entrepreneurs in different walks of life.

Ben Murray-Bruce – Silverbird Group
Adenike Ogunlesi – Ruff N Tumble
Ahmed Barma – ABS Merchandising
Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede – Access Bank
Alaba Olukayode – Dr Kay
Aliko Dangote – Dangote Group
Atuyota Akporobomeriere a.k.a. Ali Baba
Ausbeth Ajagu – Betcy Group of Companies
Biodun Shobanjo – Troyka Holdings
Chidi Anyaegbu – Chisco Group
Cosmas Maduka – Coscharis Group of Companies
Emeka Henry – Generation Next
Fayemi – Pyramid Spices
Femi Otedola – Zenon Petroleum
Folu & Bose Ayeni – Tantalizers
Frank Nneji – ABC Transport
Innocent Ujah Idibia – TuFace
Isaac Durojaiye – DMT Mobile Toilets
Jim Ovia – Ex CEO Zenith Bank
Jimoh Ibrahim – Global Fleet, NICON
Kehinde Kamson – Sweet Sensation
Kenny Ogungbe & Dayo Adeneye – Prime Time Entertainment
Larry Izamoje – Brila Sports
Leke Alder – Brand Consultant
Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox Computers
Lucky Uduikhue – Data-Point Microsystems
Mike Adenuga – Globacom
Nduka Obaigbena – ThisDay
Nsikak Johny – Nisk Motors
Pat Utomi – Entreprenuer & Social Activist
Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communications, AIT
Razak Okoya – Eleganza Group
Sam Ohuabunwa – Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals
Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group
Seye Kehinde – City People
Stella Okoli – Emzor Pharmaceuticals
Stella Ogiemwonyi – Sea Petroleum & Gas
Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase – Success Digest
Taiwo Oluwadare – Banker Turned Consultant
Tony Elumelu – Ex CEO UBA Group
Wale Babalakin – Bi-Courtney
Wale Tinubu – Oando Group

ENJOY...

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