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RomanceRe: All I Did Was Introduce Her To My Man”– Lady Shares How Friend Engaged Her Man by slateman(m): 11:25am On Jan 10, 2024
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LiteratureRe: Authors On Okadabooks Drop Your Book Info Here by slateman(m): 8:07am On Apr 12, 2018
Title: Baba Sati:The Brown-Moustached Palm Wine Loving Certificate Huzzler

Author - Ajayi Oluwatosin

Category - Humour

Description -Baba sati is a certificate forger who calls himself certificate merchant to hide the impact of the illegality.

He got nickname for all things. He calls money ‘bar’. He calls students ‘scudents’, politicians ‘poli-theivians’. He named his male and female workers “huzzlers”. People wonder how he coin names for people, action or things.
His got a favourite quote. “As long as it is money, it’s a huzzle”. He tells people “leave legality of huzzle to God.”

The other time, he said; “Noun is 3-fold (name of person, place or thing) while Baba Sati is 4-fold (name of person, place, thing and action), therefore he is more than a NOUN because he gives name to people, place, thing and action.

His brain is so sharp competing with core i-3 Laptop RAM such that if you argue with him without facts, he downloads facts like water and confounds people’s fact-less claims.

Don’t wear a black tie like a gentleman without facts and engage with intellectualistic Baba sati, he floors people and confirm to you them they are products of half-baked educational system in Nigeria.

Baba Sati follows the news religiously. Get to his living room and see a 50 inch TV which – a result of his huzzles – hanging beside a terraced wall.

With the TV and cable subscription, he familiarizes himself with contemporary issues like certificate saga playing out politically whether in the executive or legi-sharing chambers.

Enjoy Baba Sati's trips, twists, turns, and tirades and painful penitence

To buy, click here: https://www.okadabooks.com/book/about/baba_sati__brownmoustached_palm_wine_loving_certificate_huzzler/18153

LiteratureRe: Authors On Okadabooks Drop Your Book Info Here by slateman(m): 8:04am On Apr 12, 2018
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LiteratureRe: Baba Sati, The Brown-moustached Palmwine Loving Certificate Huzzler by slateman(op): 5:26pm On Jun 02, 2017
TarOrfeek:
You can do better!
@Tarofeek, thanks. Il try harder to improve.....
LiteratureRe: Baba Sati, The Brown-moustached Palmwine Loving Certificate Huzzler by slateman(op): 4:38pm On Jun 02, 2017
bjerry1:
Baba Sati, this story is fantastic, i am checking link immediately..... i want the rest ogf Baba sati... keep it up SlateMan
@bjerry1, thanks for the encouragement. i wont disappoint you guys. You can check the link HERE
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LiteratureBaba Sati, The Brown-moustached Palmwine Loving Certificate Huzzler by slateman(op):
Title:Baba Sati, The Brown-Moustached PalmWine Loving Certificate Huzzler
Author: Slateman
contact:slateofthenation@gmail.com
Genre : Fiction
Status : Published

legal notice : All rights reserved: no part of this story or publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into any means ( electronic,mechanical, photocopying, screen grabbing, recording or otherwise) in part or whole without the express permission of the author. Contact me at slateofthenation@gmail.com

Again this is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are product of author’s creative imagination. Any resemblance or reference to actual persons living or dead, events past or present is purely coincidental.

With The Permission of the author, you can enjoy the 1st chapter without stress.

Intro

Baba sati fictional character, a certificate forger, but calls himself certificate merchant to hide the impact of the illegality when people ask, what do you do? If its bar, it’s a huzzle. He calls money “bar”. He got nickname for all things. He calls students” scudents”, politicians “poli-theivians”. He calls his male or female workers “Huzzlers”. People wonder how he coin names for people, action or things.


The other time, he said “Noun is 3-fold ( name of person, place or thing) while Baba Sati is 4-fold ( name of person, place, thing and action), therefore he is more than a NOUN because he gives name to people, place, thing and action while a noun is just a name of anyone , place or thing”. The huzzlers burst into laughter after hearing Baba Sati define himself.


His brain is so sharp competing with core i-3 LAPTOP RAM such that if you argue with him without facts, he downloads facts like water and confounds your fact-less claims.


Don’t wear a black tie like a gentleman without facts and engage with intellectualistic Baba sati, he will floor you with facts and confirm to you that you are a product of half-baked educational system in Nigeria.


Baba Sati follows the news too. Get to his living room and you will see a 50 inch TV, a proceed of Baba Sati huzzles. “As long as it is money, it’s a huzzle”. He will tell you “leave legality of huzzle to God”. With the TV and cable subscription, He familiarizes himself with contemporary issues like certificate saga playing out politically whether in the executive or legi-sharing chambers.


Enjoy Baba sati trips, twists, turns, and tirades and painful penitence






[center]Acronyms And Definition[/center]

DA – Discreet Assistant
Banker client – client type that pays over 70% of agreed services cost
Bar-Men – Client that can pay in full for Baba Sati Services
Flexi – Banker-Client
Jaga - Banker Client
huzzlers – Baba Sati's staff
Huzzle – What you do to earn
Bar – Money
Kampe – Baba Sati's potential client
Enforce – Baba Sati’s nickname for policemen
Coronation – Induction of palmie drinkers when they achieve certain milestone



Chapter 1

Weird CV Of Baba Sati

Brown- mustached Baba sati is a huzzle commander. He nicknamed his staff and workers huzzlers. “As far as it is money, it is a huzzle”. He adds, “Whatever your hands findeth to do, do it well”.


Sometimes his workers pass Baba Sati for a theologian using discreet scriptures verses to twist and support illegality. When confronted, he answers “leave the legality of our huzzle to God”.


Baba Sati is a certificate merchant. “You don’t have to be in Toronto to get a certified Toronto certificate”, he jokingly told one of his clients. My huzzles made me a self-made man making other people”. There was a time he boasted that, he can send people to NYSC Camp without ever attending 4 walls of Nigerian “broken” universities.


How did Baba Sati become a merchant of local and international certificate? How did he become syndicated certified huzzler? Some of his client gets emotional when he relays his cock and bull self-made stories. But not all of them buy-in his emotional storylines. Some even suggests that he engages bullshit story to capture emotion to charge more so that clients won’t cut price for his services.


When you agree to pay him his bar (money,) he transmits those emotional stories about his life. He tells you, “I am not a bank or GSM; I don’t advance credits or encourage debts”. Flexy asked him, “what is the meaning of encourage debt? Debts are good if you use it to purchase an asset and not liability;


Baba Sati relaxed his high-held head and responded “ Flexy, so you are brilliant economist but still visit my wonder palace to acquire foreign certificate?. You are crazy oh!! And stop questioning my lexical terminology here. They are business terms coined by Baba Sati. I am product of self-survival system, not your broken educational system”. Flexy held his peace immediately before Baba Sati dispatches him. There’s even a badge resting on his table that reads “Debtors will kill Baba Sati’s Biz, Find Your Way or Go to School”.


He told Jaga (an indirect huzzler) that he is a product of broken university systems. “Jaga, the systems are broken, only God can fix broken naija systems. I went to a public university where the lecturers got no respect for poor students that he was”.


Jaga listening to Baba Sati’s emotional roller coaster stories, nodding his head like a yellow agama lizard. He wondered whether to believe the stories or pretend false attention so that he can get a great deal from Baba Sati for subsequent biz partnerships.


“It was the system, handouts and lecturers that sent me packing, they turned me to half-baked graduate” Baba Sati told Jaga. He rhetorically asked Jaga “can a lion give birth to a snake?” No, Jaga Replied. “Can your black-blood African wife give birth to a white American twin when she is under your custody here in Nigeria?”, Jaga replied” No” . “So also, half-baked system, schools, lecturer cannot produce full-baked graduate.” Both of them laughed hysterically so loud that other direct huzzlers working in the room adjacent to Baba Sati’s office heard the loud laughter.


Finally, Baba Sati dropped out of the university because he couldn’t afford the cost associated with the system. “As a serial entrepreneur” I tried all half-baked businesses but didn’t succeed”. Jaga was surprised; he retorted “which one is half-bake business again? What is the difference between half-bake business and bakery business?”


Baba Sati mocked Jaga and answered him “had it been, you attended even half-baked university, you will know the difference. Jaga, You don’t have to finish university to become half-baked graduate, if you drop out in 100 or 200 levels, you are half-baked. Half- bakeness itself got grade. Your half-bakeness is critical”


He continued “That’s how I found myself in this loyal certificate huzzle”. The rags to huzzles story ended when Baba Sati received an alert that, another bar-man is around. Bar-man according to Baba Sati, are clients willing and eager to pay full cash for certificate services, not part-payment. He quickly discharged Jaga “see you next time” and Jaga left.


That's The End Of Chapter 1. I hope you enjoyed it. More of Hilarious abound in rest of the chapters
To get the remaining chapters, click HERE or send me an email on slateofthenation@gmail.com with a header ( I WANT MORE OF BABA SATI)
Career4 Tips That Will Differentiate You From The Rest In Your Office by slateman(op): 4:14pm On Apr 18, 2017
Communicate Your Ideas Well

If your ideas are not well patched, you will stammer like “seyi law” if you pitch the idea before intelligent bosses. Digest your ideas well; assimilate the pros and cons of the idea. If you got a billion dollar idea, bad presentation can ruin it like project fame auditions shows. Some of those guys got great dreams, but simple pitching fall them like the law of gravity. Understand your ideas, pitch them well so that it can be approved by your clients or bosses as the case might be.


Advance the company Goals

Except you are an activist within a government parastatal, let company goals override your personal goals where you work. Don’t be “Aluta Headache” within your organization. Some private organizations won’t even allow the spirit of aluta or activisim to thrive in their constituencies because it might hamper their goals. I have a friend who has been thriving with activism spirit where he works but he works well anyway. He delivers well such that there is nothing to hold him for in terms of job delivery. Sync yourself with the company goals, aspirations and future projections. Remember, if the company is fine financially, your salary payment won’t have comma.


Be visible in critical projects

Since you are not an under-cover agent in your organization, try and be visible when projects are going on. If you wanna thrive where you work, show commitment and visibility during project periods. Don’t stay aloof waiting to be briefed all the time. When you are visible and active, and committed to the project success, so many folks will take note. If the project turns out successful, you will be commended and even recommended for greater opportunities.


Add ginger to your self esteem

A punctured self-esteem is worse than a punctured contraceptive balloons. How you see yourself affects how you work and even walk. Self-esteemed folks look down on themselves too much. They need external gratifications like bribe to function well. That’s not good. Believe in yourself, believe in your capability. Ginger your self esteem by going against all side talks and achieve what you want to achieve. Use peoples side talks and caustic comment as stepping stones to greater achievement.



If you communicate your ideas well, advance company goals, are visible in critical projects and add ginger to your self esteem, you will differentiate yourself from the rest and make you so valuable in your organization.


Meanwhile, You can also check The 20 Secrets ordinary workers like you know and do in and out of recession, that turned them to superstar wherever they work, and you can replicate the secrets for even greater success in your workplace. Check www.slateofthenation.com/boardroom-darling for more information
Car TalkRe: Whats Is The Most Useless Part Of Your Car? by slateman(op): 3:32pm On Apr 11, 2017
noxide:
my brakes angry
Brakes can never be useless oh. Thats highway to hell. please fix the brakes ohh
Car TalkRe: Whats Is The Most Useless Part Of Your Car? by slateman(op): 10:27am On Apr 11, 2017
SmartchoicesNG:
You must be driving a right hand oriented Benz
not at all bro...
Car TalkWhats Is The Most Useless Part Of Your Car? by slateman(op): 7:56am On Apr 11, 2017
These days, while driving i discovered that some parts of my car are useless.

The most useless part of my Benz car is the Driver's Side Mirror. No matter how i adjust the mirror, or adjust my seat
for comfort, i would only see the window screen of driver-side back seat. So i don't even know if the mirror is too small or what.

So, i use the center mirror and the passenger-side mirror more often .

For you, whats the most useless part of your car and why you don't use it?


Lets hear.

cheers
Career4 Things You Must Do To Become An Asset To Your Organization During Recession by slateman(op): 11:16am On Apr 10, 2017
There are some things that invaluable staff does day-to-day in their organization that turned them to a valuable asset. Best practices are not by default. Those practices are imbibed, developed and daily practiced and the practices work even in worst of economic times

1. Never Run Away From Additional Responsibilities

Don’t “Usain Bolt” additional responsibilities. In other words, don’t use gear 5 when responsibilities come your way in the office. The more responsibilities you take on, the more experience you gather. Those experiences from additional responsibilities will give you an edge at some point in the future. Responsibilities bring out the best in you if you are not lazy. Don’t be surprised if responsibilities thicken your skin against failure, lethargy and casualness. Embrace responsibilities even if its across unit so that you can become a valuable asset to your organization, not just a salary earner waiting for month to end to receive alerts.

2. Use Your Time Well

Don’t continue “BIG BRO NAIJA” Gossips in your office when you are supposed to work. Times flies more than you think. Sometimes irrelevancies choke up productivity time in the office. If you believe that time is money, use it well for your employer. Let your organization concerns concern you. Key into their goals effectively and engage more in official activities that will further the organization causes. If you use your time well, you are an asset already for your office

3. Don’t Africanize Your Time

I don’t even know the origin but I know about the concept of African time. People rationalized lateness to work and coined the concept of African time. Little things counts at times which might be a career decider later on. If you and the “African time” are Romeo and Juliet, don’t embarrass yourself later when you travel out of Africa. You will learn your lessons the hard way over there. There is no big deal getting to event or official assignments few minutes before time. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Get to work on time and do something worthwhile, then see your asset value increase as you work daily

4. Let Your Word Be Your Bond

Some office people can lie past the devil. They over-promise and under-deliver. Its better you moderate your promises and surpass them when you face clients. Don’t ruin your company reputation by sub-par commitment delivery. If you cannot deliver something, don’t promise it. Let your word be your bond. Let people be able to put money where your mouth is. Be a personal trusted brand by the way you present your company when you verbally interact with current and potential clients. If your word and promises can be trusted on an official level, you have invariably become an asset the company will cherish for a long time.


Meanwhile, You can also check The 20 Secrets ordinary workers like you know and do in and out of recession, that turned them to superstar wherever they work, and you can replicate the secrets for even greater success in your workplace. Check www.slateofthenation.com/boardroom-darling for more information

Career5D Tips That Will Supercharge Your Job Confidence During Economic Recession(2) by slateman(op): 6:10pm On Feb 28, 2017
Hello Folks,

If you miss my workplace supercharged D series, quickly check https://www.nairaland.com/3647726/5ds-job-tips-supercharge-job to see the 1st 5Ds. The next tips below are the other 5tips

6 - Detoxify Stagnating Work Mentalities

My biology teacher several years ago described toxins as harmful substance residing anywhere in the body, atmosphere, water e.t.c. Same way, there are mental toxins at work so disastrous to the overall health of your career

Some other mental toxins cause you to get back at your boss or the company when you are queried or reprimanded. Then you feel you dont need to give your best because you have been queried. Too bad

Some mental toxins are limiting beliefs generally accepted. One of the work- toxic notion is that, “Until after many years, you can’t be promoted”.

Gather all these negative toxins affecting your mentality at work and burn them. Sounds funny. I mean, push them out of your brain space. kick those limiting belief out. You cannot rise above your limiting work mentalities.


7- Determine Your Results Even If Its Estimated

One of my Profs argued passionately that examinations are not the best way to measure students’ performance. Unfortunately, for now, there is no better way to test students’ intelligence.

Arguably, for me, result is one of the best ways to measure efforts. This conclusion is debatable

Although some efforts produce average result while some produce excellent results. You need estimated result to plan calculated effort.

Don’t mind my mix-up of technical terms. You need to plan the result you want to achieve before weekend, month-end or even year-end as the case might be

This 7th D is about determining what you wanna achieve at the end of the day even if its estimated results. With the results in mind and on paper, you can plan and take steps that will help realize the results. Go and determine your results, then plan actions that will get those results within a determined time frame


8-Deliver Uncommon Result

I am sorry to admit to you that if your efforts or what you do, are easily duplicate-able, you can easily be done away with.

What is the value of a resource if the output is less than expected results? That’s why in some corporate environment, evaluation of employees is periodically done. It is not just a routine operations; it’s a way to weed out unproductive human resources

In your department, if you are 4 in number and you all deliver same result, then you are as good as redundant. If your result cannot dwarf your colleagues where you work, repent or you will find yourself at the mercy of circumstances.

My poser to you is,
1. How does your effort count in the overall achievement of departmental goals and organizational goals?
2. Does your output reverberate in the boardroom?
3. Is your dept always in the eyes of good storm in your workplace?
4. Do you perform self-evaluation to check if your efforts are easily duplicate-able

In summary, ensure that your result stands out from your colleagues at work


9 - Decide To Be The Best And Not A Pest

May the soul of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, rest in perfect peace. He observed life critically; he expounded the theory of being the best in whatever you do.

For him, there is no middle point in excellent results. If you wanna work, work well. Whatever kind of work, do it well. Don’t just do it, do it well. I remember my teachers constantly telling us that whatever is worth dong at all is worth doing well

Be the best, not once, twice or even thrice, every time. Being best at what you do set your results apart

I recall Jim Rohn’s definition of success to be ”doing ordinary things extraordinarily well”.

Hear me, you might have fallen for the common parlance in our environment which is “don’t die over-working yourself in a government workplace”. In other words, you don’t need to stress yourself working hard in a government office. And if you are not a govt. worker, that parlance might be active wherever you work.

If you want to distinguish yourself from the rest, not being a pest, start becoming the best at what you do.

If you want to stand tall among average performances, start being the best at what you do


10- Discern Your Passion, Hobbies, Skill, Strong Points, Then Careelize Them

Never mind that English word career-lize, there are some useful words that come out of observation and ingenuity.
One of the words out of my verbal stack is CAREER-LIZE. To career-lize your passion is to turn your passion to profit. In other words, it is to” mine your skills for a profit”. It may mean, you do what you enjoy and you make money from doing them

Have you ever imagined that your skills, hobbies, talents are what millions around the world is looking for? Have you ever sat down and take a critical audit of your experiences? Have you ever done a SWOT analysis of your personality? Have you done a comparative evaluation of your skills ?

Sometimes in life, your work might not give you desired satisfaction, it might be blue-collar, high-paying job, but you don’t feel fulfilled working there. And while you slave away in millions you won’t enjoy, some of your skills might be imprisoned in fear. This is one of the disasters of the 21st century.

Try and do a "SWOT" analysis of your personalities to dissect and isolate your strong points and opportunities. No sane human creature is useless. At creation, God deposited mines of gold in everyone. What is left is self discovery which will lead to self and wealth recovery.


Meanwhile, You can also check The 20 Secrets ordinary workers like you know and do in and out of recession that turned them to superstar wherever they work, and you can replicate the secrets for even greater success in your workplace. Check www.slateofthenation.com/boardroom-darling for more information
Career5ds Job Tips That Will Supercharge Your Job Confidence During Recession by slateman(op): 10:46am On Feb 24, 2017
Staff work around a constantly changing workplace dynamics that bleak the future if they don’t modify or adapt to the requirement of a typical 21st century workplace. Let me say here that, workplace threats has sucked-off productivity from many people. Unfortunately, the outcome of UN-productivity is best imagined than felt.

With that said, you don't need to leave your career future to fate. Your work life need not be subjected to complex decisions of ever-changing workplace dynamics. You can live above threats; you can conquer undue pressure on your job. You can enjoy your workdays with satisfaction and you can always feel confident about your abilities and achievement.

Just take your time, free your mind and engage your consciousness and sub consciousness to assimilate and MOST IMPORTANTLY put to practice the tips and recommendation you may come across in this post and subsequent posts.

1st D: De-Energize Distraction

Folks in the 70s and 80s grew up listening to the song “Time na money oh, time na money, use your time well, no wakawaka, ….”. As if the songwriter knew that I will tell you about time and the effects of distraction on goals. Do you know that focus and distraction are parallel when you want to achieve your goals? Distractions breeds regret but for some, it’s a cover for weak mental strength. Distraction as a matter of fact doesn’t kill time, it kills goals in the long run or at most, it kills the fire for achievement. Worst of all, if you replace goal attempts with fantasy, you get zero result.

If you curb distraction, and re-channel the energy on something lofty, you will achieve more on the job, earn more on the job and achieve the superstar worker status wherever you work.


2ND D: - Develop A Game Plan To The Top

The other time I observed that the era we live in is pathetic in the sense that majority of humanity believe in God to drop all blessings on their laps. We pray, we engage in all manners of spiritual exercise to force God to bless us on gold platter. Worst of all, humans are crazily expecting a rise without any price, crown without cross.

We live our lives by default doing same thing every day and expecting different result. We are like politicians without concrete developmental plan. All they do is to rehearse previous manifestos, the more reason why their impacts are never felt at all when they get to power.

Don’t be insane friend!! Develop a game plan to get to the top and match it with smart work. If you get such game plan, you can reduce every workplace threats to inconsequential because you will rise above them. You can safe-guard your job from imminent danger whatsoever if you can plan to move with your game plan.

3RD D - Do The Impossible

I recalled I participated in a gargantuan projects in the past. Due to the timeline and pressure to deliver, I nearly backed out of the project. The subtle threat to sanction all project participants if the project failed did not help matter. When you are under SUCH immense pressure to complete a project, mistakes are inevitable which may lead to the unavoidable.

To be brief, the project ended gracefully well planned and executed to the point. Why, because[b] I simplified the impossibility and magnify the simple solution steps[/b]. As a mathematician, my lecturers told me to simplify equations, same way; I assure you that you can simplify career impossibilities. You too, you can turn that gargantuan project to several small steps that will overcome all challenges on your job. Go ahead and simplify the impossibilities.


4TH D - Don’t Burn Out

Hi, imagine you are working your health to sickness burning out ferociously to ensure that your job tasks are well done and if it’s a project, well implemented. After you murdered rest and relaxation to ensure that the project turn out well, the reverse occurred. Have you ever wondered why some project you labored hard to see succeed actually did not? Have you noticed several mistakes on the job that you so much invested energy?

I am not a biologist but I noticed that, towards the evening whenever I get tired , I make mistakes on projects and tasks. Sometimes what takes 2 hours to achieve in the evening takes me 30 minutes in the morning.

At any stage of office tasks and assignment, project or whatever; when you are burning out, take out time to relax every day. If the project is consuming a great deal of mental energy, quickly create a stop gap to relax, make it a daily routine. Don’t look like a fool on the job with several mistakes against you in the project.


5TH D - Demote Fear

I remember the story of a particular man, JOB in the Bible who attracted his constant fears. You get what you wish for directly or indirectly. What you constantly fear will exert great pressure on your psyche which can actually lead you to taking steps to invite the worst. When you dwell on your fears too much, you will soon see what see the fears knocking your doorstep.


Be candid, what are your fears on the job? Clearly, at one time or the other, we feares the worse on our jobs. Apart from the fact that what you fear might not come to pass most of the times if you don’t dwell on the fear, the demobilizing effect of fear on your work progress is enormously destructive.


I am not saying that all fears are totally evil but in the context of excellent career achievement and promotional prospects, it’s evil.
This is where you should apply the law of physics. Candidly, just like i did, turn around the tables behind your fears by focusing your energy on daily, simple but measurable actions that can turn your status quo around on the job.

Learn to make immediate and even long career decisions not out of fear of the future, but based on conviction from inner strength within, coupled with simple and straightforward daily actions

You can also check The 20 Secrets ordinary workers like you know and do in and out of recession that turned them to superstar wherever they work, and you can replicate the secrets for even greater success in your workplace. [b]Check www.slateofthenation.com/boardroom-darling for more information[color=#000099][/color]

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