₦airaland Forum

Lombrozo:
the new tariff plan is for real, I just migrated now.
I think this plan is better because no access fee apply

i hope you won't come back to lament that you don't know when you subscribed to those services that cut your credit

Health tips, EPL rubbish. Una don fail. I will not migrate

Maga don fall. But this girl, like every other yahoo boys/girls, get mind pass me.

Cn it go fr 30k?

Pressure from oil marketters will push the dollar price up to N500. This will further push up fuel price and general inflation.

I don't think deregulation will yield any advantage even in a year time

Ok

Hmmm! One woman is already a big task; how much more six. I'm still wondering how solomon managed 1000 women.

Our politicians steal billions of naira while theirs steal bilions of $. Money must be made. #dasukiisaLearner

An avenue for aggrived persons to pour out their rage on them. Dem go hear am o. But it's better anyway

Is this the whole "facts" about Aba?

Buhari's fight agains corruption is a wild goose chase. waiting for excuse to discontinue the one of saraki

What's with all these "ignore my typos" in all recent posts? Is it hard to reread b4 posting or...

Big brother things

Mcayofficial:
Please help me fellow nairalanders
I'm in a confused state of mind as I type this,I and my fiancee are planning to get married soon this year God willing,I'm presently out of the country,while my wife to be is in Nigeria,we really don't wanna exceed 200invitees in attendance on our wedding day,but here are some limitations to this:

1. My wife to be is a worker in a big church,where she's an active one
2. Her family members might not support this,as they tend to love parties from their end
3. I'm planning on taking her along with me to the country where I'm based presently,so as to settle down there,all these will gulp cash,and we are trying to be very conservative with our spendings as well



Please we need your matured advice as on how to go about this,our plans include church wedding,introduction,engagement and reception in a day...Thank you

simple! Is she resides in Lagos host d wedding at Zamfara. If she stays lagos wed at enugu.

Now mtn is using option 2 (business politics). It is delay tactics

This a joke. His Arochukwu mansion has five duplexies well arranged and stretches down to a river. It's a beauty to behold

No matter how we see it, it's a true assertion. Even schools with low tuition have other means of recouping their money. But my problem is that we are short changed because we are not given the true value for the money we spend. Sub standard and half-baked graduates are produced by our sub standard money hungry lecturers

I bought fuel N130/L yesterday which is N5 less than the normal price. I was happy but i never knew i will buy N350/L this morning. Is it the same in your area?

Dammytrager:
Wow!!!...if this story is actually real then, I'd advice you change your environment

that is true. But you must have savings before you can do that. When problems makes savings impossible then...

TheBatman:
wow...i dont think i can survive this much ill luck..bro you dey try sha..respect...*patiently waiting for the continuation*

Wasn't easy though, but I have learnt over time that the best way to manage circumstances around you is, first of all, manage your disposition. If your mind and spirit is always calm; then happiness will always locate you and you will hardly give up.

I hardly allow circumstances beyond my control to weigh me down; but this time around I seemed hopeless and my spirit was shattered. Few months ago when I was doing my project research I discovered that History has been completely removed from secondary school curriculum, so what are my career chances as a historian and educationist? Did I tell you I did NCE in Economics/Political Science? (I was a motorcyclist during that period but bought an old desktop during my NCE3 even without any form of computer training.)

My discovery about my course and all these disasters that faced me made me become emotionally down for the first time in a very long while. Thanks to my sweet, understanding girl friend.

Now I have decided to say goodbye to everything called electronic gadgets; I decided to find a new source of income. I was able to mop up 120k and bought a used keke (tricycle) around 23rd of December, 2015 (a good way of ending the year). However, the worst has just happened (a bad way of starting a new year).

To be continued…

I now decided to go for tablets. So I got Innjoo F2 for 22k and the pouch for 2k making it 24k. After that second flood I learnt to keep everything up. So that fateful night on November 2015, I went to bed around 12:00 a.m. and power was restored few minutes later so I managed to get up and plugged the tablet; placed it on top of a speaker and went back to bed without closing the window and putting off the light. I woke up in the morning to discover that somebody has torn my net with razor and collected the tablet; I realized for the first time how close the speaker was to the window. But the worst was yet to happen.

Within the same week I borrowed a laptop from a friend. I was outside that beautiful Saturday morning and girl (a neighbor) asked to take sachet water from my room, I granted the request only to hear her scream few seconds later. She stepped on the laptop and the screen shattered. Hmm!!! But the worst was yet to happen.

First semester year 3 started on October 2013, school vacated for December break on the 20th of December, but strike started on 24th and was to last indefinitely. Knowing the situation of Nigeria I quickly enrolled as an apprentice in computer repair shop by January 2014. Thanks to God, the strike was called off June ending and school resumed early July.

While I made a right decision to enroll in the training, I was shortchanged. As big as the name of our office was, we hardly got jobs, which means we hardly had chance to practice. In the end I succeeded in learning hardware/software maintenance alone without other things like
programming, networking etc.

In the course of that training I bought another laptop. I so much cherished my machine because it was reliable. Now the strike has been called off, we were going to do two sessions from July 2014 to august 2015. But I had no fear because with my laptop and new modem I was sure of my regular income from writing term papers, seminar papers, projects and other online registrations. I was also sure of reading finest materials online.

Fast forward to 2015, another worst was yet to happen. A girl wanted to buy a brand new laptop so I took her to market and made sure she got the best value for her money. Some months later she gave me the laptop to do some installations for her. That was around June 2015.that night I was awake till 1:00 a.m. before I married my foam and kissed my pillow. Less than 1 hour I was woken up by noise. Behold, my room has been submerged in water again. This time around the walls of the gutter collapsed. I quickly reached out for those two laptops-mine and hers. (If I’m doing computer work I normally lie on the bed so the laptops were on the floor). So I left everything and took those laptops to a safe place and dismantled them.

In the morning I did clean up till evening that day. The following day I went to town where I used rework station to try to revive those motherboards but they were both dead and gone forever, thus bringing it to five lost laptops within three years. However, the worst was yet to occur.

Thanks to a female friend that gave me her old Dell laptop with which I started managing life again. I borrowed a modem from a friend too. Around June 2013, I traveled home. One night a neighbor called me and told me that a fence collapsed so our compound has been covered by flood. Meanwhile almost all my belongings were on the floor including that Dell laptop, TV, radio set etc. first thing in the following morning I traveled down only to discover that the only thing I’m left with are the clothes in the hanger; every other things were gone. I did clean up and went back home the following day.

But the worst was yet to happen.

Four years ago (2011) I got admission to study edu/political science in a school here in Owerri. I was the second person to get matric number in the whole school of social science because my name appeared on the first (merit) list which had only 18 names (Direct Entry). That was in November 2011; by December I had bought all the textbooks for all the courses and have done all the assignments before traveling for December break.

On January 1 I left home for PH in order to prepare for exams that were scheduled to hold on that January. After some days in PH I returned to school. Around the middle of January my first shocker came; I saw my name on a notice board requesting that I see the admission officer. Without hesitation I went straight to his office only to be told that I had a “pass” in maths in my O’level; that the new policy entails that I can no longer do political science with that result. After considering all the options before me I had to change to History/Int’l studies to spend four years against the three years I should have spent on pol. Sci. that was less than two weeks to the exams. Thank God I did well except for a course I had just 40 (E), at least it wasn’t a carry over.

I was living in the school hostel but certain events made it imperative that I go off camp. After the semester I got a job as assistant sales rep in Punch Newspaper mega station in Owerri. The job required that I leave school very early in the morning and come back very late in the night. In fact throughout that semester I attended no single lecture and knew no single lecturer in the department. All I did was to plant mercenaries that wrote attendants for me. My result that semester was very ok as well because I knew the best way to study.
I did that job till December 2012 then I resigned. During that period I saved money and bought a cupboard and other cooking utensils. I went home and brought a lot of food stuffs and bought the remaining in the market. That January (2013) I went to school, on returning I met another shocker: the cupboard as a whole has been stolen; the only thing I found was the padlock and one small plastic basin; that was all. But the worst was yet to happen.

What actually chased me out of school hostel was when I discovered that 4 out of 6 of us in the room, and extra 2 that were squatting were all cultists. During that period police raided the hostel and everybody in my room was arrested. Thank God I was not around. That first semester ended by March and I went home.

School resumed the following month (April) for second semester but I came back towards the end of June whereas second semester exams was on July. I was at home hustling for money because I knew I was not going back to that hostel again. I was able to pay for accommodation, buy a fairly used laptop and a modem.

Because the semester has been far spent already, I worked and read all nights. Less than two weeks I came back, the worst was to happen. By this time nobody knew I was staying here, even my next door neighbor didn’t know my name.

So that morning I got up from bed by 7:00 a.m. and went straight to the bathroom because I had an important lecture by 8. As usual, I spent less than 3 minutes brushing and bathing. When I came back to the room, behold my laptop, another laptop a student gave me to install some software for him, my two phones, all their chargers, my modem, my wallet and a pair of shoes have disappeared to thin air. I came out and looked around everywhere was calm. I saw only one small boy and I queried him he said he saw a “brother” that came to my house. Asked whether he has seen him before or knew him he said no. How does he look like? He described a figure that doesn’t look like anything resides around here.

In my usual manner I was calm. Went inside, dressed up and left for school. I trekked because my last card; N1500 was in that wallet. The following days, weeks and months were characterized by unprecedented hardship. Thanks to a brother of mine that latter sent me 10k. I thought that was the worst that would happen to me, but I was wrong; the worst was still to happen.

My story will create mixed feelings in many people. I implore you all the readers to make out your conclusions by yourselves. No long story.

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Everybody below 70 years should be interested in this story.

Emysandy:
I hardly post on this forum but l have to come online to say this.... Join Toastmasters international, its for public speakers... l thought l could speak until l join Toastmasters and discovered that l have a lot to Learn... you wouldn't only meet with experience speakers but you can join in international competition to achieve your dreams and meet with world famous speakers. I don't know how the club function in Nigeria but some where here in da south its fun and educating....


Am on advance manual on speaking to inform... this is the best group to join.... looking forward to see a Nigerian in the next international competition, next year... remember to read and listen to other speakers its helps to improve your speech.

Thanks a lot, I will research on it

Artorius:
Great, I'll reply. One last thing, practice hard brother, I cannot emphasize this enough.
I use to be good at spontaneous speeches, but I realized that practice before hand is ok. I mean practice HARD!!!!
Bless you.

In case you don't receive it my e-mail is uncleck7@gmail.com

Artorius:
Hi, I love your ambition, I also plan to be a professional speaker at some point in my career. It's a good way to share ideas and stuff.
I suggest you get an area of specialty, where you are 100% qualified and knowledgeable to speak about anytime.
One way to kickstart a career in public speaking is to offer to speak for free. it's a bit hard even to do that, but there are opportunities around. Offer to speak at events, conferences, etc. all for free. Network appropriately in these events, and increase your network of people.
Follow accomplished public speakers like Brian Tracy, he is my personal favorite. Probably the most prolific public speaker of all time.
Ever thought of going into sales? You can be a technology evangelist
My startup might be needing people like you soon I just hope you won't be too expensive, at least from the beginning. you can send me a pm if you like, I'll like to add you to my people list
And oh, just a second thought. You ever heard of toastmasters? It is an international organization for public speakers, I don't know if they have active branches in Nigeria. I am currently on exchange studies in Korea, and I am a member of one of the branches in Seoul, and it is very cool. In fact, we have a meeting tomorrow and I am due to speak Try to see if they have such in Nigeria, preferably around you and make yourself an active member. It will give you a sound platform to practice your skills and to network.
I am quite good at speaking too, and I'm famous in my club here in Seoul.
I would also encourage you, public speaking is one of the most lucrative things around, and it is highly desirable even if you work for a corporation or something like that. Keep hustling, and God bless you. I added a few photos from my toastmaster club

I've sent you a PM

mentorandfriend:
Hello dear. Fine morning to you. I have few words for you.

The call to significance is at the root of our calling; all of us. We must get down to it.

First of all, talent for speaking, which I'll rather call eloquence is not enough. Your talent must be hooked up to a purpose. A purpose in the sense of WHAT SPECIFIC THING DO YOU WANT TO ADDRESS IN THE SOCIETY?

Yes, you're eloquent. You're a wordsmith, but how much of those words will connect to, and solve people's problems? This can only happen when you identify a specific problem in the society you wish to address.

An instance. I have no business talking about relationships, love, etc. I speak on leadership, character, purpose, etc. I am solving a problem. Sit down and build your brand on paper first. WHY ARE YOU SPEAKING?

Secondly, prepare yourself. Some speakers speak once in a week or twice in a week, and that translates to about just two to four times a month. This is not enough to hone your skills.

Hone your talent by volunteer-speaking. While some people speak four times in a month, I speak for about twenty times in a month by volunteering to speak for free in departments and faculties, secondary schools inclusive. Sometimes, I appear uninvited and plead for audience. Guess what, I end with a standing ovation, always always. Private victories precede public victories. This method of speaking at random, solicited and unsolicited will make you a better speaker than all these wannabees who are waiting for a big break.

Three, grow your visibility by connecting to other men and women of purpose. Whenever you come across someone doing what you want to do, never fail to exchange contacts, and call him/her same day. Keep in touch. People of like passion refuel you, and position you for profit. It just takes one invitation from any of them to come speak somewhere, and you will deliver and more doors will open.

Finally, this is your calling, and it is your gift. You determine who has access to your gifts; no trespassing. Seriously place a price on your gifts. People respect what costs them.

And then I will add this: STAY AWAY FROM RELATIONSHIP SCANDALS AND SEXUAL ESCAPEDES. KEEP YOUR HANDS CLEAN. Speaking has to do with selling your integrity to your listeners.

And sure, I hope you have a blog/website sir? Very neccessary. To your success sir.

Thanks a lot for your candid advice