₦airaland Forum

Urheadmaster:
People are dying out of ignorance


To say bullet proof charm is working.

All the Nigerian police officers unknown gunmen have been killing in the east wouldn't've been happening in the first place

That's what I don't get. Don't they know Naija would have been the world's super power if such things worked!

deNet:
Jealousy is simply the sign of greed

It's a very powerful emotion my sister

Unrated900:
One millions two hundred and fifty thousand naira only

Oh, ok.
What you wrote is One thousand two hundred and fifty million naira

deNet:
What will i call this self

Call it "Soludo is a fool". He should have just talked through other people. But jealousy wouldn't let him

What is 1250M..

mystery22:
just the beginning

What are they chanting?

Salary?

6) There will shortly be mass "APC MUST GO!" protests sweeping the nation

ScamHunter:
Thank you Politeactivist. .

Change the title to "Things That Will Happen If APC Wins In 2023"

ScamHunter:
Please add your own...

Thank you Politeactivist. .

You rrrr welcome

Urheadmaster:
Terrorists and boko haram

Kidnappers and iswap groups

Skull miners

Unknown gunmen and mago mago government is a sure thing if APC mistakenly wins

You forgot to number yours

5) Tinubu will relocate permanently to nursing home abroad. Shettima will be in charge, aided by area boys

(You forgot to write "add your own")

4) Agberos and area Boys will take over Lagos and gradually take over the country

IbeOkehie:
Well that may be true but it doesn't tally with my experience OR observation of other Nigerians around me here. As for Americans in general, they don't save because they don't feel they need to. It's a CHOICE.

The essential truth about life in the USA is that success, prosperity and stability are easy to maintain if you care enough to make some obvious choices that are in line with such a desire. It's that simple. And yes I might become unemployed and homeless tomorrow, who knows...yet it doesn't negate the essential truth of the American reality.

I've posted a general outline of my experience in this country. I started out working in a fast food restaurant and within 3 years I had built a house for my family in Nigeria. Yes I worked ungodly long hours. I CHOSE to do that. I didn't steal or sell drugs. In my 7th year living in the USA I bought a used car for my family back home. I also saved up enough within that time to get into university and I paid my tuition CASH, out of my pocket with ZERO loans at graduation. I'm a naturally gifted writer but I CHOSE to study health related sciences because I was concerned about employment prospects.

CHOICES CHOICES CHOICES.

There are people doing the same today, I know at least 3 immigrants who got here in the last 5 to 10 years and have built houses for their families in Nigeria. In fact one of them started his life working in a grocery store, the other one worked ILLEGALLY in a hotel....he LIVED in the hotel and worked there too. The one working in the hotel I actually know him and his family from Nigeria.

Any Nigerian living here can testify to these.

If single, unmarried, illegal workers can save up the money to build houses in Nigeria, why can't USA born citizens save money?

I think it's a matter of CHOICE. The sheer amount of consumer goods available to enjoy in the USA is so overwhelming that it requires a STRONG WILL and mental focus to keep yourself from over spending.

Let me give some tidbits. Take smoking cigarettes. The average USA smoker spends over $4,000 per year.

Or restaurant eating. Most Americans eat out every day or at least several times a week. I rarely eat out, 95% of my food is brought from home, even when we buy Nigerian food it's still cheaper than restaurants because we buy in bulk. I bring my lunch to work but I supervise people at work who earn much less than I do and they buy their lunch EVERY DAY. That's a difference of at least $5 every day.

I can tell you that even after I started working as a University graduate, I RARELY ate in a restaurant for many years. I always knew I was making a healthier choice....I know that for a FACT. How?

When I came back from my disastrous move to Nigeria, I had to start life over in terms of buying pots and pans and plates and general property. I was working LOOONG HOURS making money to settle myself back into the USA. So I ate in restaurants EVERY DAY for about 6 months. I was already a pharmacist, earning good money and I ate at what I thought were the best and healthiest places. My waist size went from 36 to 42 inches. I became FAT, my breathing became labored, I got a pot belly. When they tell you 80% of Americans are overweight, well I got a first hand, practical and personal TASTE of the statistics. It's not funny at all.

Another thing that will cost you money in the USA is pets....dogs, cats, birds, turtles, snakes...Americans spend BILLIONS & BILLIONS on these things. At least half of USA householdsown pets. My kids are always begging me to buy a pet. I know Americans who come into a pharmacy and spend HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS for medicine for their dogs.....EVERY MONTH. I've had colleagues who buy clothes and handbags for their pets. I've NEVER owned a pet in the USA, not even once. And PROBABLY never will.

Clothing nko? Do you know T-shirts, one of the most common clothing articles here, are routinely used just a few times and thrown away? There's a shopping center down the street whith huge donation boxes where people throw those things away. A lot off it ends up in Nigeria. Personally, I wear every T-shirt until it has holes in it. I even have shirts I wear today that I bought 20 years ago.

And with all my wisdom, I also freely CHOSE to throw away over $200K cash savings by moving to Nigeria and investing the money there, into an economy with clearly long term and chronic recessionary indices and LOW PROBABILITIES of a successful business outcome.

CHOICES CHOICES CHOICES.

Anyway saving money in the USA is a CHOICE. That's not a random comment, I know that for a fact, from real life observation and experience. I just gave you 3 or 4 random, very common and fairly high cost DISCRETIONARY costs that can be incurred by CHOICE in the USA.

But at least it's a choice. In Nigeria the choices are very different for the 99.95% who earn less than ₦200K per month. I've been there.

This is my real name. And anyone choosing to banter around with me on this subject, how about the minimum courtesy of a real name, job and location? It would add at least a little bit of credibility.

Thanks.

Thanks for your erudite and quite informative submission.
Before I give my two cents, let me invite the jury, see if anybody has an input

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headboyprince:
Does God only show his grace to sinners And not to believers, most rich people don't believe in God

It seems so, doesn't it?
Then again you are equating being rich to being favored or blessed. Thousands of rich people have committed suicide

blackgold2018:
you are very wrong. Your destiny lies in your hands.

Haven’t you heard of that saying before??

Please how old are you to start with?

Question is how old are YOU??
THINK!! Try thinking for a change.
Tell me one major thing in your life that was not determined by where you were born, who you were born to, your environment, and the type of person you are!

einsteine:
Even the mere act of becoming an embryo is luck. Out of millions of sperm, one fused with the ovum. So everyone here already won a lottery.

So true. You mean quadrillions of sperm. See below

Brendaniel:
but that was I said in the beginning and for the rest It's not a must we must agree, but we can still be friends, I like your quote on your profile, Everything is energy and the frequency stuff, I've done some deep thinking in that direction too.

Thanks. Nice chatting witcha.
If you really think about it, unless we somehow participated in creating ourselves and in determining where and to whom we were born, as far as we human beings can see, everything originates with luck - including God's favor/grace!

Brendaniel:
I never said luck does not exist, I said for luck to function in its full capacity, it needs grace

Luck is deductive while grace is inclusive...

What you should say is that grace is DIVINE favor bestowed on an individual for a REASON only God knows.

It has nothing to do with luck. Luck is NOT based on reason.

As far as we human beings can see, everything originates with luck - even God's grace. Example; from birth, God hated Esau. Why? Only God knows, but as far as we humans can see: LUCK!

Brendaniel:
Grace is unmerited favour, I only gave an illustration to explain that grace operates on higher law than luck, that was why I said both of them worked hard but one was lucky while the other was graceful, grace is higher than luck, that's why we should pray for grace and not just luck.

Grace works with plenty while luck works with few and I will explain.

Think about this, in a lottery it is designed to pick only one person or a few persons, like out of 1 million people only maybe 10 might be the lucky winners, so what happens to the remaining over 9 million people.

Now imagine if human beings were to sleep and wake up by the same luck, let's say Nigeria 200 million people sleep everyday and luck was to select a few to wake up, how many will wake up, remember this happens everyday, now that is where grace comes in, grace gives unmerited Favour to everyone regardless of being lazy, wicked, ritualist and so on because it gives everyone equal opportunity, luck does not do that.

That is why Christ's salvation is given by grace to everyone whether good deeds or bad deeds, the opportunity for salvation was given to everyone, luck does not have that ability.

Because it will select only a few and leave the rest to their fate, if everybody where to play the lottery with grace almost everybody will win, that is what grace does, it works on a higher principle than luck...

In other words YOUR name for sustained luck is grace! It is no longer sustained luck!
As for numbers, let's go to the very beginning. See below. How about all the quadrillion sperms that didn't make it? Where's their grace? How does that tally with your thesis?

richie240:
Brah, don't let them deceive u biko, hear it loud and clear: THERE'S NOTHING LIKE 'LUCK'
Whoever gets ahead in ds life does so as a result of his/her access to LIGHT. That light can be gotten either thru d divine or thru d kingdom of darkness.

Even Jesus Christ (d Messiah) was approached by d king of this world to bow down in worship to him so dt he can access d riches, fame and power of this world.

It would've bn better if Elumelu had told his audience dt he plucks dollars from d tree at back of his house than ds bull crap!

Pls, loudit biko!

Akaekpuchiowa:
Tony Elumelu, there is nothing like luck is either God is favouring you or you are been favoured by Satan

If you really THINK, you'd realize everything is luck.
You have to be lucky enough to be in a position to be exposed to that light and lucky enough to be born with a personality that would accept it.
IT IS ALL LUCK!

brandsoncharlie:
It is not luck, it is discipline.
If they give you 5 million naira right now, you will not know what to do with it, bam the thing Don finish, or you will not know how to multiply that money (the knowledge over time).

And what determined that you are born with a personality amenable to discipline as opposed to one that is not?? Can't you see that it all boils down to LUCK?

Daguga:
Your eye never clear

If you were born with Elon Musk's brains, upbringing, and background, you'd probably also be a billionaire and screaming to everybody that luck has nothing to do with it!

Brendaniel:
Point of correction,I was not born with a lazy spirit or into poverty and I have never seen an American better than I am, back to your argument.

Let me explain this:

A young man plays a lottery and wins 200 million dollars(Luck), he works very hard to grow the money but somehow problems keep coming up in various aspects of his life, He falls sick, he was duped, his family members squandered his money, all these are happening over a long period of time(ungraceful) because it is continuous he ends up becoming poor.

Another man did not win a lottery but somehow he also worked hard and he was able to save and things were going fine to him and over a long period of time he became rich(grace).

Both of them were rich at some point, grace sustains while luck needs grace to function in its full capacity, luck might get you something but grace is needed to sustain it...

I am alive today because of grace.

Akalia:
Your thoughts are inspired of divinity. Thanks for sharing, wise one.

Oh, when the outcome is good you call it grace!
Can't you see that it all basically boils down to luck and not due to anything you particularly did. Another person can do exactly same and get different results.
See below

Brendaniel:
No, God knows I will be coming here and planned it, based on events Luck can be placed under grace, like I said earlier grace is continuous while Luck happens at specific events

You are confusing yourself. Based on what events? What determined you being born into poverty in Naija with a lazy spirit, as opposed to being born wealthy in US with a hustling spirit?

Eriokanmi:
Sadly , he was so proud of himself by not acknowledging God. Read Ecclesiastes 9:11.

For me, God made the luck come my way, not hard work cos no be only me dey work hard oo.

Maybe he doesn't believe in God

Daguga:
Oga, it's not luck Abeg. Those who tweeted against 'luck' re very right

Another shallow thinker
Everything is luck. THINK about it

buygala:
Yeah.. He was lucky to have been born at all too

In fact, he was lucky to have been produced as sperm in his father's balls..

I am not sure I want to be smoking whatever it is you are smoking Sir

You are the one smoking something sir, arguing the obvious.
What part did you play in any of that?
Either you win the birth lottery (LUCK!) or you don't

Brendaniel:
God

And what part did you play in it.
Either you win the birth lottery (LUCK!) or you don't

Brendaniel:
Grace is divine, Luck is probabilty, that is why lottery games don't say graceful winner instead they say Lucky winner, out of randomness what is the probability of a winner, Grace is continuous, Luck is random selection.

What determined where you were born, who gave birth to you, and the kind of brain/spirit you have?

blackgold2018:
hahaha

Oga even dou someone is destined to be wealthy.
You wouldn’t still achieve it being lazy and foolish.

Ok look at hush puppy has example. That guy has been destined to be rich already. Plenty others that are involved In scamming isn’t as rich as hush puppy. Then was he lazy? Hell no!.

If you like don’t hustle and pray for Gods mercy. Stay there and depend on an old man’s prophecy about you being rich without doing or working to achieve it.

@bolded, see convoluted logic.
If destined to be wealthy you'd be born with the right spirit to achieve it

buygala:
He had parents who laid a solid foundation for him..he won the birth lottery.. The 2st and most important lottery any human can win.

So yes... He is lucky.... And he built on that luck.. Even though there are snippets of some of his alleged shadowy dealings.. But as I wasn't there when he was doing it, I will count it all his "luck"


Go read A. A. Rano's story.. That right there is full blown hustle devoid of any birth lottery

@ bolded, he was LUCKY to be born with hustle spirit. He could have been born lazy or with an imbecíle brain.
It all boils down to LUCK!

Brendaniel:
Someone said Luck is the currency of the weak.

I believe in grace

Define gace. Differentiate it from luck