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YellowMayor:
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You can see, she charges $10, $25, $60. And as you can see, people are loving it and I'm not surprised.

issylarry:
Can u drop your number please.need to ask u something

Motivational Part (Skip this if you think you don't need to be motivated).

I always feel pain anytime I read about people being broke and going through hardship. In this digital era, no one is supposed to be broke. You just need to think outside the box. Just think of whatever service you can provide online in order to make fast money. Then you can invest in yourself to learn highly paid and sought after digital skills. That's just it. I remember when I first started too. I seriously wanted to make money online. But I lacked any skill that I could offer in order to make any money online. Actually I knew I needed skills to make money with, but there was no money (and even patience) to invest in myself. Coz I needed fast money in order to survive. I hardly eat 3 times daily. Landlord nearly threw out my stuffs. My wife and my kids were dying of hunger. Demands from family were also there on me (Not easy to be first born o). So I had many things to cater for offline not to talk of paying for any digital skills. So what I did then was to browse through fiverr everyday, searching for what other sellers were offering that doesn't require much skill and that I could quickly mimic and make money with. I browsed day and night for weeks. I saw many easy offers.

Then I stumbled upon one selling tutorial ebook. In my mind, I knew I could also do this. I checked through some of the free tutorial ebooks I had downloaded in the past. I saw one that taught people how to drive free traffic from different sources. It was a premium book and the reviews from the majority of buyers were positive. So I decided to read the book myself. And after reading the book to understanding, I rewrote it from scratch in my own words in order to make it unique. Then I started selling at $5. After some days, I received an alert from fiverr that I've got a sale. As small as the money was, it was one of the best days for me. And thank God, the buyer loved the content and dropped a great review. Lo and behold, as if other people were waiting for the first review before they decide. The sales started pouring in, almost everyday. And as you know, no any hard work again. I just upload it to the buyer and that's it. Then after I got many reviews, I started increasing the price. From $5-$10-$15-$20. Until l was selling at $25. I later changed the delivery to 3 days so that anyone who cannot wait for 3 days wouldn't have a choice but to pay me an extra $5. And some of them were even giving me tips. $5, $10. Sometimes up to $20 tip.

And that was the turning point for me.

Within 4 months, I made about 750k (worth about #2.5 million naira now based on the exchange rate then, compared to now) before fiverr took off that gig and later disabled my account. Well that was the starting point for me. Because I was able to do many things. Eat good food, moved to a bigger apartment, paid for digital skills training and a lot of other things (But I didn't buy a car o, lol). Though fiverr is now stricter than it used to be. That kind of gig might not survive these days. But nevertheless, I can still see very easy Services that people are offering on fiverr nowadays. And that's what I'm about to share with you here. So without wasting more of your time, let me quickly drop them here one after the other.

Needadvice200:
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Rollsnjaguar:
Go and protect them from Russia missiles na.


Even Ukrainians are leaving their country. Your Nigerian government is telling their citizens to protect themselves instead of evacuating them.

Rollsnjaguar:
To protect themselves with what?

The Nigerian Embassy in Ukraine has urged citizens in the country to remain calm and be responsible for their own personal security.

It advised those who want to relocate to a safe place to ensure that they validate all their resident documents for ease of return to Ukraine when they desire.

This was contained in a statement on Thursday following the declaration of State of Emergency and Martial Law by the Ukrainian government over the invasion by Russia.

The statement read, “The attention of the Embassy has been drawn to a declaration of State of Emergency, and Martial Law on the entire territory of Ukraine, except the Donestk and Luhansk regions by the government of Ukraine, effective from mid-night of February 23, 2022, for a period of 30 days as well as the latest development on the Ukraine-Russia crisis.

“With this, regional (OBLAST) Commissions are to decide on the necessary security measures to adopt in strengthening the protection of public order and facilities for the safety of the citizenry and the running of the economy in their domain. It can be restriction of movement, an additional inspection and verification of certain documents of individuals among others. These are preventing measures aimed at ensuring that the country remains calm and the economy continues to function uninterrupted while it lasted.

“In view of the development, the Embassy urges Nigerian nationals resident in Ukraine to remain calm but be very vigilant and responsible for their personal security and safety.

"The Embassy wishes to add that should any Nigerian national consider the situation as emotionally disturbing, such national may wish to relocate to anywhere considered safe by private arrangements. They should, however, ensure that they do all the needful to validate all their resident documents for ease of return to the country when desired.

"In addition, in case of students seeking such temporary relocation, they are enjoined to seek proper clearance and guarantee from their respective institutions, authorities/agents on the way forward in respect to their studies during the period and/or thereafter.

“For those who still consider it appropriate to remain in the country, be assured that the Embassy remains open for its consular duties and responsibilities at all times. It will always avail you updates when necessary.”

HedwigesMaduro:
You mean MISSiles? The ones designed to always miss their target?

Over the weekend, alleged political activists in Alimosho, Lagos staged a mock funeral for Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola. To display the coffin of a man still alive is a poignant symbolism, one instinctually understood by witnesses embedded in the local culture as a severance of his connection to the society of the living. For a politician especially, a mock funeral ritual de-affirms their mandate. Politicians typically derive their legitimacy from popular support as much as from formal articles of power, and a mock funeral qualifies them as a persona non grata. Staging a mock funeral for a leader rescinds whatever moral authority previously ceded to them and which granted them the privilege to act on behalf of the collective.

Unfortunately, such civic actions should have been taken years ago when Aregbesola’s government was depleting the coffers of Osun State on frivolous projects and not just because he engaged in a contest of wills with a self-serving godfather. For these supposed activists and other commentators spilling gallons of ink to chide Aregbesola for “betraying” his lord and master, one wonders why a clash between two politicians (each of whom would have sold the other if the price was right) yield any more useful moral lessons than worthwhile issues of governance. What does it matter if one side wins this battle or not when their tension is not based on principles and the outcome of their contest will not improve the quality of anybody’s existence? The only betrayal worth noting here is the one that happened between Aregbesola and the people of Osun State who once gave him their mandate.

Spectacular as those anti-Aregbesola demonstrations seemed, they do not have useful political or even spiritual import. They are just a parody of what truly constitutes people’s power. Until that day comes when youths in Alimosho—or anywhere else—look at themselves critically and question if Nigeria’s administrative structures that empower these leaders have ever worked for them at all, those mock funerals are merely silly. Until all those who participated in them learn to reject subservience to the political masters, who have serially duped and impoverished them, all those outings are just high-grade nonsense—blunt weapons in the hands of mere pawns.

It also did not help Aregbesola’s fortunes that his candidate in last Saturday’s APC gubernatorial primaries lost the election spectacularly. The margin of victory was so vast that the candidate, Moshood Adeoti, would have been better off going at it alone than appending himself to Aregbesola’s deadweight. No thanks to overestimating his relevance, Aregbesola is now a publicly certified loser, a label that will define whatever is left of his political career. But make no mistake though, he can just as easily be resurrected if he approaches his master on his humbled knees. Nobody should get excited about his beatdown. This is Nigeria; all things are possible.

If there was ever a time that Aregbesola deserved to be buried politically, it was during his tenure as governor when he was expending good money on white elephant projects. From his so-called educational reforms to the witless ideas of changing Osun State to “State of Osun,” to the curious change of the 6-3-3-4 school format to 4-5-3-4, it was a tyranny of visionlessness. Ironically, much of the vacuous propaganda that allowed him to get away with the house of lies he was building at the time was dispensed through the same hacks now breaking his back through acerbic criticisms. If Nigeria were a place where performance in office counted for something, Aregbesola should have been declared dead after his governorship. Instead, he was made a federal cabinet official.

Today, much of what he passed off as educational reforms and for which he disrupted the social and academic lives of poor children in Osun State are in shambles. His successor could not salvage some of his most useless policies; they just had to reverse them. Just like that, all the efforts that went into the school reclassification exercises, singularised school uniforms, changed school names, and the abolition of single-sex schools, went down. Why would it be otherwise when Aregbesola was, at best, solving a problem that never existed?

He expended a substantial amount of money on “opon imo,” computer tablets distributed to school children when the focus should have been on guaranteeing quality education for them in more efficient and innovative ways. As it always turns out, the shiny electronic tablets serve the politicians who awarded the scandalous contracts far more than the school children and would be unsustainable in the long run. Then he built mega schools, another gaudily coated set of jewels. Some of those buildings he bequeathed his poor state at princely sums cannot pass an integrity test. So invested was he in proving he was the political scion of the late Obafemi Awolowo that he copied the Free Education policies of Action Group. What he did not admit to himself was that he lacked the discipline or managerial acumen to see such lofty ideas through, so he prioritised shine over substance.

The shambolic reforms cost so much but they delivered little. None of his defenders has, for instance, pointed out how such massive investments significantly improved educational outcomes for Osun children. If we were a society that appropriately quantifies governance in statistical terms, we would see how much the man took away from the people because of his showy projects. Under his watch, the state’s debts ballooned. For a man who viciously attacked his predecessors for taking controversial loans, he did worse. While he at least admitted that they had racked up to about N175 billion by the time he was leaving office, it is also possible that was a merely conservative estimate. Worse, nothing endures to justify all that spending. Children not yet born will be sentenced to working off their share of the massive debts he accrued in their name. If the political activists of Alimosho were sincere, that was when they should have staged his mock funeral.

Anytime the issue of Osun State’s debt profile is raised, Aregbesola’s e-hounds and meta trolls are always quick to jump out and howl, just to shield him from accountability. They love to pass the buck to his successor (who was also his associate while in office) while making it clear he will never take responsibility for the imprudent choices he made as governor. Still, it is quite curious that the House of Representatives recently launched a corruption probe to know how one of the agencies under his watch, the Nigerian Correctional Service, expended the sum of N165bn. Though the lawmakers insist the timing merely coincides with Aregbesola’s fallout with their paymaster, they still bear some responsibility. Were they not the ones who supposedly vetted him after he had been nominated for a ministerial appointment? Why did they not diligently question him over his reckless fiscal choices?

The man always pursued spectacular projects even if their conception had no bearing with extant realities, all the while spuriously evading what would have had potential transformative impacts. Maybe if the lawmakers had grilled him over the N69bn aircraft maintenance hub project he boasted would be a money-spinning investment for Osun State, they would not have needed the present probe. If they had prodded him to tell how he and his associates sat down to propose— of all things that could benefit Osun State, an aircraft maintenance business—they would have saved us his drama. If they had asked him to give an account of the garment factory he set up or the helicopter he bought while in office, maybe we would not be dealing with his menace.

Meanwhile, some of his so-called welfarist ideas such as O’MEAL, OYES and Conditional Cash Transfer schemes were replicated at the federal level. They also failed at that level too, thus consistently proving the lack of reason behind the execution of these ideas. There is only so far cheap propaganda can take anyone before reality defeats them. By the time he left office, Osun State had become so crippled to the point Aregbesola could not even pay full salaries anymore. It is unfortunate that some people only think of him as a monumental failure just because he overestimated the worth of his scant weight in a political arena. He should have been declared “dead” long before his disastrous Saturday outing.

jaxxy:
Wetin Buni do una?



U are just deceiving urselves. Jagaban ambition wants to destroy everything he has built?? Ok oo

History555:
Tinubu must be referring to buhari because i don't see who else can intimidate him