₦airaland Forum

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

Chibuzoc:

A faction of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State loyal to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said despite alleged manipulation of Saturday’s governorship primary, its members will remain in the party.

Governor Adegboyega Oyetola was declared the winner of the primary election having polled 222,169 votes against the 12,921 of his closest challenger, Moshood Adeoti, a former Secretary to the State Government, who was supported by Aregbesola, while a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Lasun Yusuf, scored 460 votes to place third.

Speaking exclusively with our correspondent on Sunday, the state Secretary of the faction, Lani Baderinwa, said the group had predicted all what played out during the primary.

Baderinwa recalled that the faction had expressed concern over the non-availability of the party register that was used for the congress a few hours to the primary.

He said, “I can tell you with all authority that we don’t have to get to the point of leaving the party. For now, we are studying the situation.

“We will review the situation and come up with a decision, but we are not in a hurry. We had predicted what happened yesterday (Saturday).

“We knew that was going to happen. But the good thing is that we were able to stand up and be counted despite the fact that we saw a lot of underhand things done to undermine our coming to voting centres.

“With the voters’ register not available, we definitely knew that something was amiss. So many names were missing on the list. We are still going to review a lot of things and make a decision. Definitely, we are not going to leave the APC. We are the real progressives. We will remain in the party and right the wrongs.”

Reacting to the faction’s decision to stay in the party, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Political Affairs, Sunday Akere, welcomed it, saying Oyetola had already called on aggrieved members to bury their grievances and unite in the interest of the party.

Akere told our correspondent, “The governor, as the leader of the party and father of all, has extended olive branches to other aspirants and aggrieved members of the party. He told them to join hands with him to strengthen the party towards the election.

“A winner has emerged and we expect the losers to embrace him. Their supporters are also expected to join hands with the party to have a more united front. We welcome the idea of them remaining in the party.”

Oyetola had earlier called on the two aspirants that contested with him for the governorship ticket of the APC to join him to move the state forward.

In his acceptance speech, Oyetola said the victory was made possible by members of the APC, who gave him another opportunity to face the people of Osun State to seek re-election.

He urged them to close ranks and eschew bitterness in whatever form and called on aggrieved members to have a rethink and join hands with him to further strengthen the party and deliver outstanding results at the forthcoming gubernatorial poll.

The governor stated, “Today’s victory is made possible by members of our great party, who gave us another opportunity to face the people of Osun to seek re-election. The outcome of this primary election is a victory for our party and members, who have spoken loudly through their votes.

“It is a victory for our people who trooped out in large numbers during our strategic tour of the state to inform them of our intention to seek a second term. It is a restatement of their confidence in our development agenda, which hope delivered in 2018 and performance sealed in 2022. It is evidence of their belief in sustainable development, which we brought into governance and preached every inch of the way.

“I thank you all our party members for your constant support, and especially for speaking eloquently with your massive votes in favour of our administration’s restoration and consolidation agenda.

“With this primary election now concluded, I invite us all to rededicate ourselves and the party to delivering an overwhelming victory at the gubernatorial polls to be held on Saturday, July 16, 2022. For me, we are all winners. I, therefore, extend my hand of fellowship to the other two aspirants to join me as we prepare for the July election. We are all brothers. Let’s join hands to build the state of our dream.

“Let us close ranks and eschew bitterness in whatever form. Therefore, may I use this opportunity to also ask all our aggrieved members to have a rethink and join hands with us to further strengthen our party and deliver outstanding results at the gubernatorial poll.”

He also commended the Chairman of the Osun Governorship Primary Election Committee, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq of Kwara State, and other members of the committee for conducting a hitch-free exercise.

jesusjnr2020:
17-year-old Pakistani Boy Leads His Entire Tribe To Jesus



Source: https://www.mnnonline.org/news/17-year-old-pakistani-boy-leads-entire-tribe-to-jesus/

Tobedated:
i'm planning on studying computer science in unilorin but it seems the public consensus is that computer science taught in nigeria university is outdated so is it worth the money and time to still study it.
I love computer science but i'm mainly doing it for the money and i'm currently learning python so is it worth going to study it in the university to get the certificate or being self-taught is better

donbachi:
Childhood.
U dare not change the owner of the ball
U kick am anyhow,him go vex carry ball go
Play ends wen him done tire.
Mind him legs unless una no wan play tomorrow.

Hisbah21:
another Kyari counterparts..lols maybe they are linked,lets investigate..our drug lord know better

Baawaa:
So Aregbesola is weightless the margin is too much fah!
Tinubu won the first leg, but the second leg will be tough

Mamayam:
Abeg which country paypal be this?

Aminat508:
Source: https://amiloadednews.com/2022/02/breaking-oyetola-wins-osun-apc-guber-primary-see-official-results.html

mayor2013:
Would do 535usd. Can you give me your digit.

Arimann:
scammer don't say anything about the PayPal

omgvoices:
A beautiful love relationship is about to hit the rocks after the lady found out her guy copied the message he sent to her on Valentine’s from the internet.

Screenshots of a conversation between him and his lover have surfaced online and reveal that the girl decided to call it quits with him because of the Val’s Day message he sent to her.

What the lady couldn’t fathom was the fact he even copied the first message there for her. As usual social media users had their say and these were some of the comments that followed;

@OhmsKwabena replying to the post shared by @nutifafabekoe commented: By the time he go realise na he die finish

@KermworldMerm also teased with the words: That’s how much I love you baby LMAO



https://twitter.com/nutifafabekoe/status/1493557814345846787?t=H4HOKMoQrT2smZWeP-iDrA&s=19[/quote]Another fake story

mayor2013:
Am based in Lagos and what’s your rate

AkProsper:
Greetings all.

3 Children in my house are missing today Fri 18.2.2022.

How it happened:
An exiting tenant of about 2 month handedover the room to another person (Two women: they should be in their 30's).
According to them (the women) they said they are student and came to Lagos to write an exam at ikeja so they just need a place to stay for 3weeks to 1 month.
They moved in without any load. (Just new bucket and broom)
They came very friendly and nice especially to the children.
On Friday evening they bought biscuits et el for the children. This was around 5:30-6pm.

Shortly after that they left with the 3 children. According to neighbor, the women said they want to go to bus stop to change a trouser they bought as it's not their size. That was when they left with the 3 children and didn't return till now.
Also on Thursday when they moved in with all the friendliness, promised some of the children that she'll take them to ShopRite tomorrow (Friday)
All effort to reach them have prove abortive as there's little or no information about the women.

Name of the children (3-5 yrs): 1 boy, 2 girls
1. Peter. 3yrs
2. Chiamaka
3. Miracle

A brief description of the women: one is chubby and the other is tall but not slim. They speak pidgin fluently and igbo. One of them claim to be from delta. They are both fair.

If you see or have any info about them please report to the nearest police station. (It has also been reported to the nearest police station (Ajuwon, Ogun State).

My number: 09046518823

I've added a picture of one of the children. I'll add others as soon as i get them.

Lalastilala
Seun

Koleb:
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How do you want me to contact you.

mayor2013:
No contact info to reach you on

Bloomsvilledgit:
Contact me through my signature

seanwilliam:
I can buy it. You can reach me on WhatsApp

csckid:
come WhatsApp