A very shy guy goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the bar.
After an hour of gathering up his courage he finally goes over to her and asks, tentatively, "Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?"
She responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, "No, I won't sleep with you tonight!" Everyone in the bar is now staring at them. Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he sinks back to his table. After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you. You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations." To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, "What do you mean $200!?!"
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
THE TURTLE BET
A guy comes walking into a bar with a turtle in his hand.
The turtle's one eye is black and blue, two of his legs are bandaged, and his whole shell is taped together with duct tape.
The bartender looks at the guy and asks, "What's wrong with your turtle"?
"Not a thing," the man responds, this beat up turtle is faster than your dog!"
"Not a chance!" replies the barkeep.
"Okay then, says the guy. You take your dog and let him stand at one end of the bar. Then go and stand at the other end of the room and call your dog. I'll bet you $500 that before your dog reaches you, my turtle will be there."
So, the bartender, thinking it's an easy $500, agrees. He goes to the other side of the bar, and on the count of three, calls his dog.
Suddenly the guy picks up his turtle and throws it across the room, narrowly missing the bartender, and smashing into the wall and says, "I win!"
The turtle's one eye is black and blue, two of his legs are bandaged, and his whole shell is taped together with duct tape.
The bartender looks at the guy and asks, "What's wrong with your turtle"?
"Not a thing," the man responds, this beat up turtle is faster than your dog!"
"Not a chance!" replies the barkeep.
"Okay then, says the guy. You take your dog and let him stand at one end of the bar. Then go and stand at the other end of the room and call your dog. I'll bet you $500 that before your dog reaches you, my turtle will be there."
So, the bartender, thinking it's an easy $500, agrees. He goes to the other side of the bar, and on the count of three, calls his dog.
Suddenly the guy picks up his turtle and throws it across the room, narrowly missing the bartender, and smashing into the wall and says, "I win!"
FIRE HER!
There were three female explorers who decided that they would go explore the African jungle together. One blonde, one brunnette and one redhead.
They were near the centre of the jungle when a rare African tribe surrounded them. The tribe said that the explorers had uncovered their secret location, so to stop them revealing it to the world, the tribe would destroy them. The tribe decided to shoot them with a bow and arrow one by one as a ritual.
First they chose the brunnette. She stepped up and they called 3-2-1, but before they could shoot she yelled "TORNADO", the tribe dropped to the floor covering their heads, when they realised nothing was happening, they looked up but the brunette had took her chance and was gone." However, the now angry tribe forced the redhead into the firing line, the tribe began, "3-2-1… " this time the redhead screamed, "FLOOD!!!"
The tribe jumped and all started climbing tree's to avoid being swept away, the redhead then too made her get away.
The tribe were furious at being outwit, they moved the blonde to the firing line.
"Hmmm" thought the blonde, "shouting out a natural disaster at the last minute seems to work, I think I'll give it a go".
Again the tribe started "3-2-1…" and then the blonde shouted "FIRE!!"
They were near the centre of the jungle when a rare African tribe surrounded them. The tribe said that the explorers had uncovered their secret location, so to stop them revealing it to the world, the tribe would destroy them. The tribe decided to shoot them with a bow and arrow one by one as a ritual.
First they chose the brunnette. She stepped up and they called 3-2-1, but before they could shoot she yelled "TORNADO", the tribe dropped to the floor covering their heads, when they realised nothing was happening, they looked up but the brunette had took her chance and was gone." However, the now angry tribe forced the redhead into the firing line, the tribe began, "3-2-1… " this time the redhead screamed, "FLOOD!!!"
The tribe jumped and all started climbing tree's to avoid being swept away, the redhead then too made her get away.
The tribe were furious at being outwit, they moved the blonde to the firing line.
"Hmmm" thought the blonde, "shouting out a natural disaster at the last minute seems to work, I think I'll give it a go".
Again the tribe started "3-2-1…" and then the blonde shouted "FIRE!!"
MENTAL RELEASE
A man who had been in a mental home for some years finally seemed to have improved to the point where it was thought he might be released.
The head of the institution, in a fit of commendable caution, decided, however, to interview him first.
"Tell me," said he, "if we release you, as we are considering doing, what do you intend to do with your life?'
The inmate said, "It would be wonderful to get back to real life and if I do, I will certainly refrain from making my former mistake. I was a nuclear physicist, you know, and it was the stress of my work in weapons research that helped put me here. If I am released, I shall confine myself to work in pure theory, where I trust the situation will be less difficult and stressful."
"Marvelous," said the head of the institution.
"Or else," ruminated the inmate. "I might teach. There is something to be said for spending one's life in bringing up a new generation of scientists."
"Absolutely," said the head.
"Then again, I might write. There is considerable need for books on science for the general public. Or I might even write a novel based on my experiences in this fine institution."
"An interesting possibility," said the head.
"And finally, if none of these things appeals to me, I can always continue to be a teakettle."
The head of the institution, in a fit of commendable caution, decided, however, to interview him first.
"Tell me," said he, "if we release you, as we are considering doing, what do you intend to do with your life?'
The inmate said, "It would be wonderful to get back to real life and if I do, I will certainly refrain from making my former mistake. I was a nuclear physicist, you know, and it was the stress of my work in weapons research that helped put me here. If I am released, I shall confine myself to work in pure theory, where I trust the situation will be less difficult and stressful."
"Marvelous," said the head of the institution.
"Or else," ruminated the inmate. "I might teach. There is something to be said for spending one's life in bringing up a new generation of scientists."
"Absolutely," said the head.
"Then again, I might write. There is considerable need for books on science for the general public. Or I might even write a novel based on my experiences in this fine institution."
"An interesting possibility," said the head.
"And finally, if none of these things appeals to me, I can always continue to be a teakettle."
POCKET LAUGHS, WEDDING VOWS
During the wedding rehearsal, the groom approached the pastor with an unusual offer.
"Look, I'll give you $100 if you'll change the wedding vows. When you get to me and the part where I'm to promise to 'love, honor and obey' and 'forsaking all others, be faithful to her forever,' I'D appreciate it if you'D just leave that part out." He passed the minister a $100 bill and walked away satisfied.
It is now the day of the wedding, and the bride and groom have moved to that part of the ceremony where the vows are exchanged. When it comes time for the groom's vows, the pastor looks the young man in the eye and says:
"Will you promise to prostrate yourself before her, obey her every command and wish, serve her breakfast in bed every morning of your life and swear eternally before God and your lovely wife that you will not ever even look at another woman, as long as you both shall live?"
The groom gulped and looked around, and said in a tiny voice, "Yes."
The groom leaned toward the pastor and hissed, "I thought we had a deal."
The pastor put the $100 bill into his hand and whispered back, "She made me a much better offer."
"Look, I'll give you $100 if you'll change the wedding vows. When you get to me and the part where I'm to promise to 'love, honor and obey' and 'forsaking all others, be faithful to her forever,' I'D appreciate it if you'D just leave that part out." He passed the minister a $100 bill and walked away satisfied.
It is now the day of the wedding, and the bride and groom have moved to that part of the ceremony where the vows are exchanged. When it comes time for the groom's vows, the pastor looks the young man in the eye and says:
"Will you promise to prostrate yourself before her, obey her every command and wish, serve her breakfast in bed every morning of your life and swear eternally before God and your lovely wife that you will not ever even look at another woman, as long as you both shall live?"
The groom gulped and looked around, and said in a tiny voice, "Yes."
The groom leaned toward the pastor and hissed, "I thought we had a deal."
The pastor put the $100 bill into his hand and whispered back, "She made me a much better offer."
Monday, 15 September 2008
JUJU, POISON OR PURE IGNORANCE?
There is something bothering my mind for sometime now. I know this issue will be controversial in nature and will require serious scrutiny, but I want others to provide the much needed answers to this burning issue that has wrecked havoc in many a family and some serious relationships.
I am very much aware of the caliber of people that browse this site. As such I look forward to a critical analysis of this thorny issue.
Sometimes when people get sick and report to the hospital for treatment, they sometimes get fed up with the type of treatments given by qualified medical practitioners. They tend to prefer going to the native doctors and getting the type of cure that is given there.
I don’t have anything against native doctors or people that take treatments from them, but the nature and manner they practice their brand of medicine baffles me. I will tell you a story to buttress this story.
One lady got sick and went to a real hospital to get treated. She was diagnosed to have typhoid fever. Drugs were procured for her and she continued to take her drugs. Ten days later her condition was not getting any better. So her close friends suggested she must have another problem and needs to see a pastor. The ‘prayer warrior’ pastor, after a prayer session, informed the family that the girl was poisoned.
A nearby native doctor was contacted to flush the poison and he gave some serious concoctions to the lady to drink to flush this ‘poison.’ After the lady drank the said drugs, she got sicker, she can’t stool or urinate again as her stomach started swelling up. She was in this condition for four days!
The girl, sorry lady was removed from the prayer house and taken away on a 7 hour drive back to her home town. The aged mother, (around 70, illiterate) upon hearing that her daughter was poisoned quickly suggested where to take the now unconscious lady to yet another native doctor to do the double flush. The next day the lady was transported to yet another town for a proper flush. They told her an enemy has planted poison inside her.
This is when my friend got to know about this for the first time, they demanded to use his car to transport the lady to the village where she will receive treatment. He asked them to visit a hospital a stone throw away but the family refused, insisting that this is a case of poison and should only be cured by traditional means.
At the centre, the native doctor took a look at the lady and demanded to have one drug, he requested the family to get a white bucket and watch what the lady will vomit out. First, he demanded the sum of N360, 000.00 as the money the family should get together before treatment will commence! At that point I couldn’t listen again; I stood up and left his house.
Now consider these;
What is this native doctor treating, drug complications or poison?
Why didn’t this native doctor run other tests on this lady?
Supposing more complications arise from this new drugs?
Are we even sure its poison that was given to this lady?
What was the name of the drug that was given to the lady at first and what are its contra indications?
Or is it that, I dont know what I am talking about?
I am very much aware of the caliber of people that browse this site. As such I look forward to a critical analysis of this thorny issue.
Sometimes when people get sick and report to the hospital for treatment, they sometimes get fed up with the type of treatments given by qualified medical practitioners. They tend to prefer going to the native doctors and getting the type of cure that is given there.
I don’t have anything against native doctors or people that take treatments from them, but the nature and manner they practice their brand of medicine baffles me. I will tell you a story to buttress this story.
One lady got sick and went to a real hospital to get treated. She was diagnosed to have typhoid fever. Drugs were procured for her and she continued to take her drugs. Ten days later her condition was not getting any better. So her close friends suggested she must have another problem and needs to see a pastor. The ‘prayer warrior’ pastor, after a prayer session, informed the family that the girl was poisoned.
A nearby native doctor was contacted to flush the poison and he gave some serious concoctions to the lady to drink to flush this ‘poison.’ After the lady drank the said drugs, she got sicker, she can’t stool or urinate again as her stomach started swelling up. She was in this condition for four days!
The girl, sorry lady was removed from the prayer house and taken away on a 7 hour drive back to her home town. The aged mother, (around 70, illiterate) upon hearing that her daughter was poisoned quickly suggested where to take the now unconscious lady to yet another native doctor to do the double flush. The next day the lady was transported to yet another town for a proper flush. They told her an enemy has planted poison inside her.
This is when my friend got to know about this for the first time, they demanded to use his car to transport the lady to the village where she will receive treatment. He asked them to visit a hospital a stone throw away but the family refused, insisting that this is a case of poison and should only be cured by traditional means.
At the centre, the native doctor took a look at the lady and demanded to have one drug, he requested the family to get a white bucket and watch what the lady will vomit out. First, he demanded the sum of N360, 000.00 as the money the family should get together before treatment will commence! At that point I couldn’t listen again; I stood up and left his house.
Now consider these;
What is this native doctor treating, drug complications or poison?
Why didn’t this native doctor run other tests on this lady?
Supposing more complications arise from this new drugs?
Are we even sure its poison that was given to this lady?
What was the name of the drug that was given to the lady at first and what are its contra indications?
Or is it that, I dont know what I am talking about?
Sunday, 24 August 2008
ARE NIGERIAN BANKS AS HEALTHY AS THEY CLAIM?
Nigeria
Are the banks as shiny as they look?
Aug 21st 2008 | LAGOS
From The Economist print edition
Doubts persist about Nigeria’s banks
THE bright logos of Nigeria’s financial institutions adorn the tallest and poshest office blocks in central Lagos, the country’s commercial capital, testimony to years of impressive growth in banking. But now, after a rocky year, there are worries that some of the optimism may have been overblown.
The reform of Nigeria’s creaking, corrupt banking system was one of the big achievements of President Olusegun Obasanjo in his second term in office (2003-07). As part of a policy to squeeze weak or failing banks out of business, in 2005 the Central Bank of Nigeria raised banks’ capital requirements. In a hectic round of consolidation, the number of banks dropped from 89 to 24. Those that remained have had a very good few years, with massive local expansion and sometimes triple-digit growth in their share prices. And with less than a fifth of Nigerians keeping their money in banks and with fast growth led by private companies, there still seems to be plenty of potential for more business. Banks surveyed by a Lagos-based stockbroker, Afrinvest, showed that median before-tax earnings had risen by 141% year-on-year by June.
Yet share prices have been dropping throughout 2008, suggesting a lack of confidence. Would-be investors have started to eye Nigeria’s banks, in particular their regulatory practices, more warily. Some wonder whether the apparent gains of the past few years are all they seem. “The foundation is not there, it’s weak,” says an analyst, Osaruyi Orobosa-Ogbeide, of a Lagos-based firm, Financial Derivatives.
Though banking standards have certainly risen a lot in recent years, they still lag behind those of America and the European Union, particularly in terms of transparency. In April, United Bank for Africa, one of the country’s biggest, fell foul of American regulators who served the bank with a $15m fine for ignoring anti-money-laundering regulations despite several warnings. “There’s no resemblance at all between operating in Britain or America and operating in Nigeria,” says Fola Fagbule, a research analyst with Afrinvest. “It’s light years apart, and it’s an issue [the banks] need to address”.
The top seven Nigerian banks, with a combined market value of almost $40 billion, are overvalued by as much as 56%, according to a report published in May by JPMorgan, an American financial-services company. Part of the problem is that banks have used their own money to push up their stock prices by engaging in risky lending to corporations and individuals who invest in the banks’ own shares.
Those in charge of imposing some order on the sector have also been found wanting. After share prices began to fall earlier this year, the central bank set a floor on trading in a bid to buoy the market. Investors were left with no choice but to hold on to stocks; that unnerved many of them. Bismarck Rewane of Financial Derivatives described the action as “a disorderly intervention in a chaotic market.”
Lamido Sanusi, a risk-control officer who will take over next January as the head of Nigeria’s oldest bank, First Bank, is disappointed that regulators are not tougher in insisting on transparency and disclosure of information. Foreign investors demand open banking procedures, he says, yet banks are not now obliged to open their books to scrutiny. “Are these banks being properly managed? Are these assets being properly deployed?” asks Mr Sanusi. “We don’t know the reality.”
Nigeria is sub-Saharan Africa’s second-biggest economy after South Africa’s and the world’s eighth-largest oil exporter, yet the continent’s most populous country (with 140m-plus citizens) has yet to fulfil its economic potential. A robust banking sector that everyone can have confidence in is essential; the country’s reformers and regulators cannot rest on their laurels.
Are the banks as shiny as they look?
Aug 21st 2008 | LAGOS
From The Economist print edition
Doubts persist about Nigeria’s banks
THE bright logos of Nigeria’s financial institutions adorn the tallest and poshest office blocks in central Lagos, the country’s commercial capital, testimony to years of impressive growth in banking. But now, after a rocky year, there are worries that some of the optimism may have been overblown.
The reform of Nigeria’s creaking, corrupt banking system was one of the big achievements of President Olusegun Obasanjo in his second term in office (2003-07). As part of a policy to squeeze weak or failing banks out of business, in 2005 the Central Bank of Nigeria raised banks’ capital requirements. In a hectic round of consolidation, the number of banks dropped from 89 to 24. Those that remained have had a very good few years, with massive local expansion and sometimes triple-digit growth in their share prices. And with less than a fifth of Nigerians keeping their money in banks and with fast growth led by private companies, there still seems to be plenty of potential for more business. Banks surveyed by a Lagos-based stockbroker, Afrinvest, showed that median before-tax earnings had risen by 141% year-on-year by June.
Yet share prices have been dropping throughout 2008, suggesting a lack of confidence. Would-be investors have started to eye Nigeria’s banks, in particular their regulatory practices, more warily. Some wonder whether the apparent gains of the past few years are all they seem. “The foundation is not there, it’s weak,” says an analyst, Osaruyi Orobosa-Ogbeide, of a Lagos-based firm, Financial Derivatives.
Though banking standards have certainly risen a lot in recent years, they still lag behind those of America and the European Union, particularly in terms of transparency. In April, United Bank for Africa, one of the country’s biggest, fell foul of American regulators who served the bank with a $15m fine for ignoring anti-money-laundering regulations despite several warnings. “There’s no resemblance at all between operating in Britain or America and operating in Nigeria,” says Fola Fagbule, a research analyst with Afrinvest. “It’s light years apart, and it’s an issue [the banks] need to address”.
The top seven Nigerian banks, with a combined market value of almost $40 billion, are overvalued by as much as 56%, according to a report published in May by JPMorgan, an American financial-services company. Part of the problem is that banks have used their own money to push up their stock prices by engaging in risky lending to corporations and individuals who invest in the banks’ own shares.
Those in charge of imposing some order on the sector have also been found wanting. After share prices began to fall earlier this year, the central bank set a floor on trading in a bid to buoy the market. Investors were left with no choice but to hold on to stocks; that unnerved many of them. Bismarck Rewane of Financial Derivatives described the action as “a disorderly intervention in a chaotic market.”
Lamido Sanusi, a risk-control officer who will take over next January as the head of Nigeria’s oldest bank, First Bank, is disappointed that regulators are not tougher in insisting on transparency and disclosure of information. Foreign investors demand open banking procedures, he says, yet banks are not now obliged to open their books to scrutiny. “Are these banks being properly managed? Are these assets being properly deployed?” asks Mr Sanusi. “We don’t know the reality.”
Nigeria is sub-Saharan Africa’s second-biggest economy after South Africa’s and the world’s eighth-largest oil exporter, yet the continent’s most populous country (with 140m-plus citizens) has yet to fulfil its economic potential. A robust banking sector that everyone can have confidence in is essential; the country’s reformers and regulators cannot rest on their laurels.
HOW TO SURVIVE THE NSE CRASH
Truth is the stock market has its ups and downs and we are in the "downs" at the moment. I've seen optimistic forecasts that this downturn or bear market will not last, that it will soon be over. I choose to disagree. I believe you will have some ups like we are seeing for petroleum stocks at the moment but I doubt if you will see the bandwagon jumping up of stock prices (bull market) that we have experienced over the past three years or so. This bear market may go on for the next two years. Advise you go back to the drawing board and appraise your portfolio. It is a good time however to ACCUMULATE solid companies. BUY large chunks but be prepared to wait 2-4 years to reap big time.
PREACHING AGAINST ALCHOHOL AND WORKING IN BREWERIES
Someone I know is seriously born again and after staying 3 years at home post NYSC with a degree in mechanical engineering, he later got a job with Nigerian breweries (makers of maltina, star etc). He even gave testimony on how he scored the highly coveted job and explained to fellow praying believers that he will not be working in the alcohol department and that he'll be into something else besides making the beer or tasting it in any way.
Is it proper for a born again Christian who is against drinking alcohol to work for a company making the alcohol? Should he quit that job and believe God for another job? Should Christians work for other companies that make alcohol, condoms, cigarettes even if they don't use those things?
Is it proper for a born again Christian who is against drinking alcohol to work for a company making the alcohol? Should he quit that job and believe God for another job? Should Christians work for other companies that make alcohol, condoms, cigarettes even if they don't use those things?
SHARING CONDOMS IN CHURCHES?
There's have been a big controversy whether condoms should be distributed in the church or church should just stick to its abstinence message.
In my own opinion,I think condoms should be allowed and should be preached by pastors along side with abstinence. It should be a two way thing. Since we all know that abstinence is what majority of the world can't practice and the number of people living with H.I.V/A.I.D.S is growing everyday peculiarly in Africa.
Since the sole responsibility of the pastor is to save souls and people die everyday of H.I.V/A.I.D.S because they can't abstain, don't you think condoms should be infix so that in lieu of people dying of H.I.V/A.I.D.S,they wont, they would use condoms because abstinence is the thing of the spirit and live longer at the same time reduce the numbers of people with H.I.V/A.I.D.S.?
Please express your views.
In my own opinion,I think condoms should be allowed and should be preached by pastors along side with abstinence. It should be a two way thing. Since we all know that abstinence is what majority of the world can't practice and the number of people living with H.I.V/A.I.D.S is growing everyday peculiarly in Africa.
Since the sole responsibility of the pastor is to save souls and people die everyday of H.I.V/A.I.D.S because they can't abstain, don't you think condoms should be infix so that in lieu of people dying of H.I.V/A.I.D.S,they wont, they would use condoms because abstinence is the thing of the spirit and live longer at the same time reduce the numbers of people with H.I.V/A.I.D.S.?
Please express your views.
FORMER PRESIDENT HASSLES.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The dismantling of Obasanjo
Written by Tony Momh
Sunday, 24 August 2008
THE meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party at Abuja on Tuesday, August 5 marks the beginning of the losses that await former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the next few months.
Some key figures who may have been there may have decided to keep our former head of state, life leader of the PDP and maker of modern Nigeria, company outside the venue.
They were mainly governors of the southwest whose grudging support for Obasanjo has never been hidden; Senate President David Mark who has been a faithful ally was not there; so also House Speaker Dimeji Bankole whose presence Obasanjo would, in any case, have detested and discountenanced. He once had him walked out of a caucus meeting.
Ogun State Governor Gbenga Daniel did not have to be there to prove that he was no longer in the good books of Obasanjo. His presence would have been pushing salt and pepper into a gaping and bleeding political wound.
Not even just political, but also economic and social. But loyal Andy Uba was there, and so also was Bode George that many did not know EFCC had been stalking.
But the important thing to note was that the four-star general who is the only military leader in the history of Nigeria that accessed political office at the highest level and was there for eight years knew what awaited him at the National Executive Committee meeting of the party he seized control of in December, 2005.
And at the height of his power, he transformed into the Leader of the Party, the Founder of Modern Nigeria, the Sole Dispenser of favours… His image loomed larger than the country that gave him a pedestal to stand on, to speak from. And he spoke as if no one sent him!
And instead of standing on that pedestal and immortalizing his name for him to be regarded as the leader among our heroes past, by restructuring a country that needed to be better and more properly managed, he wanted to strengthen the centre to continue to rule.
Greed replaced service and the bodies he set up to defend the weak were turned into instruments to weaken the strong.
He had his hand in every pie, did what he liked with the budget, obeyed what laws he wanted to obey, used security agencies to do his bidding, ran his government as if there were no ministers, aside of the fact that he held the key ministries in the energy sector to his chest for the period he was in office…
His leaving office was the first step he took on the way downstairs. What that PDP meeting did showed clearly that Obasanjo’s time is up as leader of the party, as chairman of the Board of Trustees, as the sole determinant of who in the party gets what.
I am frightened for Obasanjo in spite of the fact that he is a cat with nine lives. Can’t you see that if you put a number to the lives of cats, you have cause to worry because as the end draws nearer the closer you are to the number nine?
As the outcome of a war is determined by who the gladiators are, what is happening shows clearly that the military cannot cope with politicians outside recourse to the sheer force of material weaponry. That fact is not only true with Nigeria; it is true world-wide because the word “politician” is the description of one whose armoury contains weapons for scheming.
Even those who have been part of coup-making in Nigeria have confessed that they were prodded by politicians, most of whom have never seen more than dane guns in their life. Look at Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan.
Maximum effect
He is the most recent victim of the deadliness of political panzar onslaught that only politicians can organize and execute.
Their weapons are words, and they specialize in using them to maximum effect. It was an American politician who told his colleagues in congress when he was being taken on for misconduct that, like every other of his colleagues, he was exercising his prerogative as a politician to tell lies.
Yes, telling lies is the motto of the politician, but there is no end to his seeking to put power behind the words he utters. Only last week, we were reading the deadly impact hypnosis can have on those who have handed themselves over to prayer warriors and native doctors.
Former NDDC chairman Sam Edem is now in court charged with handing over N800 million of the commission’s money to a 34-year-old native doctor who claimed that his religion is paganism and that he is spiritual consultants to many of our top leaders.
But who knows if some of the weapons fashioned against Edem who had been Nigeria’s high commissioner to Canada and our ambassador to Senegal, was not the potent weapon of obedience without question buried in the tongue! We were told when we were growing up that powerful men powered their utterances with invocations and incantations.
Every politician seeks this weapon of control and uses it to advantage. Someone stole my walking stick when I attended a political meeting at Abuja.
Someone said the thief must have thought it was there my power lay! I wished he had also taken away the pain in my knee the stick was meant to be a support for!
Imagine how helpless and subdued Musharraf was when he opted to resign as president of Pakistan instead of facing impeachment proceedings that opposition groups had packaged. He was a maximum ruler for the better part of nine years.
He was associated with killing, maiming, assassinations, blackmail, and ruthlessness in dealing with challenges to his authority. So effective was he that even the United States of America found use for him in their definition of democracy.
But when the politicians had put their acts together, Musharraf discovered a gaping hole in his upbringing. His dependence on force had robbed him of the opportunity to learn the ways of those who depend on the tricks of foxes.
He knew not how to play political chess. Did you watch him deliver that boring parting speech when he said he was leaving his future “in the hands of the people”? Those were the same people he had ruled with an iron fist, the people whose protests he broke up when they told him about the irreducible minimum demands for taking part in democratic elections.
He said he had consulted his lawyers and advisers before he decided to throw in the towel, yet he had, in his days of glory, dismissed senior judges of the judiciary who had opposed his decision to remain in office as military head of state and presidential candidate.
In answer to mass protests of the people, he had declared a state of emergency in his country and set rules for electioneering! And this is the man looking straight into television cameras and saying he was leaving his future in the hands of the people! How are the mighty fallen!
What is happening to our Baba Iyabo is not different. Someone who said the way he is being treated by his party would never have been contemplated by the Opposition has a point. But many things seem to be so wrong in the boldness with which Obasanjo demonised this country that even his son would have risen against him.
That he did was for another reason! But killing his political children one by one is a more painful way to destroy our mother hen. Look at the demolition arrangement - Nuhu Ribadu and his sudden need to be trained at Kuru, El Rufai and all those lands that were allocated to Obasanjo at a time when those allocated to former heads of state were revoked; the arrival of Etteh as Speaker of the House of Representatives and the decision of the House to remove her even after Baba himself had intervened; the replacement of Etteh with a candidate Baba was directly and still opposed to; the cornering Iyabo, his daughter in the Senate for an offence I still believe is a non-issue;
the different national assembly probes that are showing up rot unprecedented in the history of governance anywhere in the world; the arrest and temporary incarceration of two of his political sons he assigned to the aviation ministry and empowered to help sanitise the sector; decision from the blues to demote Ribadu and 139 others for reasons that had been there all the while; the reversal of most of the economic decisions he had taken, many of which, understandably, were meant to create image problems for his hand-picked president and vice president. And so on and so forth.
The latest as I packaged this piece is the removal of the last Obasanjo man standing in the presidency, Dr. Gbolade Osinowo whose position as the acting chief of staff has been scrapped. The Punch of June 11 had published that President Yar’Adua was under pressure to scrap the Chief of Staff post. Who pressurized him? Why are you asking me?
The fact is that if our president has achieved nothing for you to see since he took office in May 2007, he has through a policy to have a country that is not ruled by one man, given us one that is ruled by a group. The composition of that group, and how spread they are to reflect what the constitution demands is an area the servant leader must find time to reflect on.
As is, it will be difficult for the centre to hold.
No, I am not wicked telling of what fate awaits our man who came, saw and goofed in every department of his tenure.
What I am doing is part of the progress report you are entitled to. Some people were angry with me because of my claim in my March 16, 2008 piece entitled Fixing Mr. Fix It that Chief Tony Anenih’s days had not been numbered because of what was happening to him then in the struggle to control the PDP in Edo State.
I said then that people were looking at the crescent of the moon, not the full moon because I saw clearly the war games that were being played country-wide and I knew that Anenih belonged in the group that would castrate Obasanjo.
With all the decisions announced after the August 5 meeting, decisions reflected in a communiqué that may well have been written before the NEC meeting, who is in doubt about where the wind is blowing? If you still doubt that the nine lives of the cat infer limitless tenure, then let’s keep up with the waiting game.
Time speaks at the end and we will all be there, hopefully, when the trumpet of explosive changes in the PDP sounds.
The dismantling of Obasanjo
Written by Tony Momh
Sunday, 24 August 2008
THE meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party at Abuja on Tuesday, August 5 marks the beginning of the losses that await former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the next few months.
Some key figures who may have been there may have decided to keep our former head of state, life leader of the PDP and maker of modern Nigeria, company outside the venue.
They were mainly governors of the southwest whose grudging support for Obasanjo has never been hidden; Senate President David Mark who has been a faithful ally was not there; so also House Speaker Dimeji Bankole whose presence Obasanjo would, in any case, have detested and discountenanced. He once had him walked out of a caucus meeting.
Ogun State Governor Gbenga Daniel did not have to be there to prove that he was no longer in the good books of Obasanjo. His presence would have been pushing salt and pepper into a gaping and bleeding political wound.
Not even just political, but also economic and social. But loyal Andy Uba was there, and so also was Bode George that many did not know EFCC had been stalking.
But the important thing to note was that the four-star general who is the only military leader in the history of Nigeria that accessed political office at the highest level and was there for eight years knew what awaited him at the National Executive Committee meeting of the party he seized control of in December, 2005.
And at the height of his power, he transformed into the Leader of the Party, the Founder of Modern Nigeria, the Sole Dispenser of favours… His image loomed larger than the country that gave him a pedestal to stand on, to speak from. And he spoke as if no one sent him!
And instead of standing on that pedestal and immortalizing his name for him to be regarded as the leader among our heroes past, by restructuring a country that needed to be better and more properly managed, he wanted to strengthen the centre to continue to rule.
Greed replaced service and the bodies he set up to defend the weak were turned into instruments to weaken the strong.
He had his hand in every pie, did what he liked with the budget, obeyed what laws he wanted to obey, used security agencies to do his bidding, ran his government as if there were no ministers, aside of the fact that he held the key ministries in the energy sector to his chest for the period he was in office…
His leaving office was the first step he took on the way downstairs. What that PDP meeting did showed clearly that Obasanjo’s time is up as leader of the party, as chairman of the Board of Trustees, as the sole determinant of who in the party gets what.
I am frightened for Obasanjo in spite of the fact that he is a cat with nine lives. Can’t you see that if you put a number to the lives of cats, you have cause to worry because as the end draws nearer the closer you are to the number nine?
As the outcome of a war is determined by who the gladiators are, what is happening shows clearly that the military cannot cope with politicians outside recourse to the sheer force of material weaponry. That fact is not only true with Nigeria; it is true world-wide because the word “politician” is the description of one whose armoury contains weapons for scheming.
Even those who have been part of coup-making in Nigeria have confessed that they were prodded by politicians, most of whom have never seen more than dane guns in their life. Look at Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan.
Maximum effect
He is the most recent victim of the deadliness of political panzar onslaught that only politicians can organize and execute.
Their weapons are words, and they specialize in using them to maximum effect. It was an American politician who told his colleagues in congress when he was being taken on for misconduct that, like every other of his colleagues, he was exercising his prerogative as a politician to tell lies.
Yes, telling lies is the motto of the politician, but there is no end to his seeking to put power behind the words he utters. Only last week, we were reading the deadly impact hypnosis can have on those who have handed themselves over to prayer warriors and native doctors.
Former NDDC chairman Sam Edem is now in court charged with handing over N800 million of the commission’s money to a 34-year-old native doctor who claimed that his religion is paganism and that he is spiritual consultants to many of our top leaders.
But who knows if some of the weapons fashioned against Edem who had been Nigeria’s high commissioner to Canada and our ambassador to Senegal, was not the potent weapon of obedience without question buried in the tongue! We were told when we were growing up that powerful men powered their utterances with invocations and incantations.
Every politician seeks this weapon of control and uses it to advantage. Someone stole my walking stick when I attended a political meeting at Abuja.
Someone said the thief must have thought it was there my power lay! I wished he had also taken away the pain in my knee the stick was meant to be a support for!
Imagine how helpless and subdued Musharraf was when he opted to resign as president of Pakistan instead of facing impeachment proceedings that opposition groups had packaged. He was a maximum ruler for the better part of nine years.
He was associated with killing, maiming, assassinations, blackmail, and ruthlessness in dealing with challenges to his authority. So effective was he that even the United States of America found use for him in their definition of democracy.
But when the politicians had put their acts together, Musharraf discovered a gaping hole in his upbringing. His dependence on force had robbed him of the opportunity to learn the ways of those who depend on the tricks of foxes.
He knew not how to play political chess. Did you watch him deliver that boring parting speech when he said he was leaving his future “in the hands of the people”? Those were the same people he had ruled with an iron fist, the people whose protests he broke up when they told him about the irreducible minimum demands for taking part in democratic elections.
He said he had consulted his lawyers and advisers before he decided to throw in the towel, yet he had, in his days of glory, dismissed senior judges of the judiciary who had opposed his decision to remain in office as military head of state and presidential candidate.
In answer to mass protests of the people, he had declared a state of emergency in his country and set rules for electioneering! And this is the man looking straight into television cameras and saying he was leaving his future in the hands of the people! How are the mighty fallen!
What is happening to our Baba Iyabo is not different. Someone who said the way he is being treated by his party would never have been contemplated by the Opposition has a point. But many things seem to be so wrong in the boldness with which Obasanjo demonised this country that even his son would have risen against him.
That he did was for another reason! But killing his political children one by one is a more painful way to destroy our mother hen. Look at the demolition arrangement - Nuhu Ribadu and his sudden need to be trained at Kuru, El Rufai and all those lands that were allocated to Obasanjo at a time when those allocated to former heads of state were revoked; the arrival of Etteh as Speaker of the House of Representatives and the decision of the House to remove her even after Baba himself had intervened; the replacement of Etteh with a candidate Baba was directly and still opposed to; the cornering Iyabo, his daughter in the Senate for an offence I still believe is a non-issue;
the different national assembly probes that are showing up rot unprecedented in the history of governance anywhere in the world; the arrest and temporary incarceration of two of his political sons he assigned to the aviation ministry and empowered to help sanitise the sector; decision from the blues to demote Ribadu and 139 others for reasons that had been there all the while; the reversal of most of the economic decisions he had taken, many of which, understandably, were meant to create image problems for his hand-picked president and vice president. And so on and so forth.
The latest as I packaged this piece is the removal of the last Obasanjo man standing in the presidency, Dr. Gbolade Osinowo whose position as the acting chief of staff has been scrapped. The Punch of June 11 had published that President Yar’Adua was under pressure to scrap the Chief of Staff post. Who pressurized him? Why are you asking me?
The fact is that if our president has achieved nothing for you to see since he took office in May 2007, he has through a policy to have a country that is not ruled by one man, given us one that is ruled by a group. The composition of that group, and how spread they are to reflect what the constitution demands is an area the servant leader must find time to reflect on.
As is, it will be difficult for the centre to hold.
No, I am not wicked telling of what fate awaits our man who came, saw and goofed in every department of his tenure.
What I am doing is part of the progress report you are entitled to. Some people were angry with me because of my claim in my March 16, 2008 piece entitled Fixing Mr. Fix It that Chief Tony Anenih’s days had not been numbered because of what was happening to him then in the struggle to control the PDP in Edo State.
I said then that people were looking at the crescent of the moon, not the full moon because I saw clearly the war games that were being played country-wide and I knew that Anenih belonged in the group that would castrate Obasanjo.
With all the decisions announced after the August 5 meeting, decisions reflected in a communiqué that may well have been written before the NEC meeting, who is in doubt about where the wind is blowing? If you still doubt that the nine lives of the cat infer limitless tenure, then let’s keep up with the waiting game.
Time speaks at the end and we will all be there, hopefully, when the trumpet of explosive changes in the PDP sounds.
CAN PASTORS COMMIT SINS?
THIS STORY WAS SENT TO ME ONLINE, READ AND COMMENT.
i feel so depressed. i usually drop her off for fellowship at her pastors house with other memebers. this day i dropped her earlier dan usual and drove off. i den remembered that i left my house keys and atm card in her handbag. i tried calling but her phone was off. i became suspicious and decided to make a u- turn. getting back to the pastors compound, the gate was left open so i walked in. ungetting to the door, the door was ajar as well so i went in straight to the parlour. then i hed a female voice saying "please don't stop now" and a male voice groaning. i immediately sneeaked upstairs where the voices where coming from. i found the room and in one swift motion i flung the door open
only to see the pastor and my babe naked in a doggy position! i was so pieced and not knowing what to do at that time i just walked out of the premises
Now she is calling me an apologizing. Am so confused cus this is a girl i have come to love. someone who has virtually made me what i am. the painful thing is that we are to get married in september. and guess who was to preside at the white wedding. the same pastor!
i feel so depressed. i usually drop her off for fellowship at her pastors house with other memebers. this day i dropped her earlier dan usual and drove off. i den remembered that i left my house keys and atm card in her handbag. i tried calling but her phone was off. i became suspicious and decided to make a u- turn. getting back to the pastors compound, the gate was left open so i walked in. ungetting to the door, the door was ajar as well so i went in straight to the parlour. then i hed a female voice saying "please don't stop now" and a male voice groaning. i immediately sneeaked upstairs where the voices where coming from. i found the room and in one swift motion i flung the door open
only to see the pastor and my babe naked in a doggy position! i was so pieced and not knowing what to do at that time i just walked out of the premises
Now she is calling me an apologizing. Am so confused cus this is a girl i have come to love. someone who has virtually made me what i am. the painful thing is that we are to get married in september. and guess who was to preside at the white wedding. the same pastor!
DG, STOCK EXCHANGE IN TROUBLE.
Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, has been arrested by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, over her role in the controversial N100million fundraiser, which she and her group claimed was meant to support the candidacy of Barack Obama, US Democratic presidential hopeful.
Onyiuke was arrested in Abuja today, following a petition written to the EFCC by the authorities of the SEC. She is currently under the custody of the EFCC.
Femi Babafemi, EFCC spokesperson, confirmed arrest.
GUILTY AS CHARGED!
Onyiuke was arrested in Abuja today, following a petition written to the EFCC by the authorities of the SEC. She is currently under the custody of the EFCC.
Femi Babafemi, EFCC spokesperson, confirmed arrest.
GUILTY AS CHARGED!
JUJU; DOES IT STILL WORK?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nothing works in Nigeria any more. Electricity has dropped to less than 900mw, water no dey run, sanitation remains poor; now even our tried and tested juju has begun to fail us. What's happening?
We relied on our local technology or juju to fight the white man from colonizing us, used juju to find missing aircrafts.
Does anyone remember the good old days when men were men and you could walk on River Niger, walk through walls, and cause untold confusion among the army and police by making them speak totally different languages, thanks to our local juju technology?
Unfortunately, things have fallen apart and our potent juju has tended towards impotence.
If only these guys in Akwa Ibom who went to unleash their juju on the local police command had understood the weaning powers of their technology. Does anybody have any suggestion on how to increase the potency of our juju?
Quote
Our juju failed us, kidnappers tell Okiro
By Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja
Published: Thursday, 3 Jul 2008
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, and other senior police officers watched in awe on Wednesday as suspected kidnappers narrated how they tried in vain to secure the release of one of their own from police station with the aid of juju.
The suspects, Idorenyin Akpan, Aniefiok Sunday and Aniefiok, told Okiro that they had gone to the Akwa Ibom State Police Headquarters in Uyo to plant charms against the commissioner of police in the state and the investigating officers in charge of the case of a Lebanese who was kidnapped.
They claimed that their friend was arrested at Ikot Akpan, Abia Village, Uyo, on June 28, adding that the essence of the charm was to cause confusion among policemen in the headquarters to release their colleagues and evade justice.
Akpan, who spoke on behalf of his colleagues, said, “We went there with our juju which was prepared for us by the man who we have paid for the job. We paid him N7,000.
“But we were surprised that instead of the juju working in our favour, it worked against us. That was how we were arrested.”
Seven other suspects were also paraded by the police boss for kidnapping while three others were accused of cultism and unlawful possession of firearm.
The first set of the suspects, Ubong Akpan, Bassey Akpabio, Uwen Akpan and John Effiong were accused of kidnapping three Chinese and were paid N18m before they were released.
According to Okiro, “These suspects kidnapped the three expatriate staff of AKC Alphast plant, at Akampa, Cross River State.
“They demanded and received ransom amounting to N18m. The group engaged a native doctor to assist them to escapee arrest.”
Nothing works in Nigeria any more. Electricity has dropped to less than 900mw, water no dey run, sanitation remains poor; now even our tried and tested juju has begun to fail us. What's happening?
We relied on our local technology or juju to fight the white man from colonizing us, used juju to find missing aircrafts.
Does anyone remember the good old days when men were men and you could walk on River Niger, walk through walls, and cause untold confusion among the army and police by making them speak totally different languages, thanks to our local juju technology?
Unfortunately, things have fallen apart and our potent juju has tended towards impotence.
If only these guys in Akwa Ibom who went to unleash their juju on the local police command had understood the weaning powers of their technology. Does anybody have any suggestion on how to increase the potency of our juju?
Quote
Our juju failed us, kidnappers tell Okiro
By Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja
Published: Thursday, 3 Jul 2008
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, and other senior police officers watched in awe on Wednesday as suspected kidnappers narrated how they tried in vain to secure the release of one of their own from police station with the aid of juju.
The suspects, Idorenyin Akpan, Aniefiok Sunday and Aniefiok, told Okiro that they had gone to the Akwa Ibom State Police Headquarters in Uyo to plant charms against the commissioner of police in the state and the investigating officers in charge of the case of a Lebanese who was kidnapped.
They claimed that their friend was arrested at Ikot Akpan, Abia Village, Uyo, on June 28, adding that the essence of the charm was to cause confusion among policemen in the headquarters to release their colleagues and evade justice.
Akpan, who spoke on behalf of his colleagues, said, “We went there with our juju which was prepared for us by the man who we have paid for the job. We paid him N7,000.
“But we were surprised that instead of the juju working in our favour, it worked against us. That was how we were arrested.”
Seven other suspects were also paraded by the police boss for kidnapping while three others were accused of cultism and unlawful possession of firearm.
The first set of the suspects, Ubong Akpan, Bassey Akpabio, Uwen Akpan and John Effiong were accused of kidnapping three Chinese and were paid N18m before they were released.
According to Okiro, “These suspects kidnapped the three expatriate staff of AKC Alphast plant, at Akampa, Cross River State.
“They demanded and received ransom amounting to N18m. The group engaged a native doctor to assist them to escapee arrest.”
BRITISH IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS EXPOSE NIGERIAN WOMEN NAKEDNESS!
British immigration officials are alleged to have subjected some Nigerian women to dehumanising treatment, stripping them in the guise of security screening.
The women, our correspondent learnt on Monday, were among passengers on Emirates flight EK 0015 to London on August 5, this year.
The flight left Lagos on August 5, made a stopover in Dubai and arrived Gatwick on August 6.
But after the passengers disembarked, some female immigration officials randomly picked some Nigerian women and ordered them into a room where they were reportedly stripped.
One of the affected passengers who narrated her ordeal to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity, for fear that she might be stigmatised, said she and her colleagues were compelled to take off their clothes and underwear while the officials used security gadgets to frisk them.
She said, “Immediately we were taken into the room, we were compelled to take off our clothes. We protested but they threatened to deport us if we failed to co-operate.
“But they were not even satisfied with that. They ordered us to also remove our undies and brassieres. They then started to frisk our private parts and breasts with security equipment.
“I wept profusely but the officials were unmoved. They said they wanted to be sure that we did not conceal hard drugs in our bodies.
“At a point, one of them knelt down, asked me to open my legs wide while she looked deep into my private part. It was dehumanising and I felt as if I was raped. I felt ashamed as I dressed up and left the room. I regretted the trip.”
The woman, who is her 30s and married with children, said she and the other women were later released after nothing incriminating was found on them.
When contacted on the matter on Monday, an official of the Public Affairs section of the British High Commission in Nigeria, Mr. Dele Oladokun, promised to reach the relevant officials and then get back to our correspondent.
Chei!
and more women will still rush abroad to spend looted funds, are we sure these immigration officials wont film their nakedness and sell?
The women, our correspondent learnt on Monday, were among passengers on Emirates flight EK 0015 to London on August 5, this year.
The flight left Lagos on August 5, made a stopover in Dubai and arrived Gatwick on August 6.
But after the passengers disembarked, some female immigration officials randomly picked some Nigerian women and ordered them into a room where they were reportedly stripped.
One of the affected passengers who narrated her ordeal to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity, for fear that she might be stigmatised, said she and her colleagues were compelled to take off their clothes and underwear while the officials used security gadgets to frisk them.
She said, “Immediately we were taken into the room, we were compelled to take off our clothes. We protested but they threatened to deport us if we failed to co-operate.
“But they were not even satisfied with that. They ordered us to also remove our undies and brassieres. They then started to frisk our private parts and breasts with security equipment.
“I wept profusely but the officials were unmoved. They said they wanted to be sure that we did not conceal hard drugs in our bodies.
“At a point, one of them knelt down, asked me to open my legs wide while she looked deep into my private part. It was dehumanising and I felt as if I was raped. I felt ashamed as I dressed up and left the room. I regretted the trip.”
The woman, who is her 30s and married with children, said she and the other women were later released after nothing incriminating was found on them.
When contacted on the matter on Monday, an official of the Public Affairs section of the British High Commission in Nigeria, Mr. Dele Oladokun, promised to reach the relevant officials and then get back to our correspondent.
Chei!
and more women will still rush abroad to spend looted funds, are we sure these immigration officials wont film their nakedness and sell?
OLYMPICS; CHINA VS USA
As we all know USA has over 100 medals so far but fewer golds.
China has lesser medals but the most gold.
Who is the winner? The country with more medals or the country with more golds?
Medals standing soooooooo far!!
Medal Standings Total
1 CHN 49 19 28 96
2 USA 33 36 36 105
3 RUS 21 21 27 69
4 GBR 19 13 15 47
5 GER 15 10 15 40
China has lesser medals but the most gold.
Who is the winner? The country with more medals or the country with more golds?
Medals standing soooooooo far!!
Medal Standings Total
1 CHN 49 19 28 96
2 USA 33 36 36 105
3 RUS 21 21 27 69
4 GBR 19 13 15 47
5 GER 15 10 15 40
WILL YOU RETURN TO BUILD NIGERIA?
Return home, Fashola charges Nigerians in diaspora
13.08.2008
The Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Monday told Nigerians in the diaspora to return home and help build the nation.
Fashola, who spoke at an appreciation dinner in honour of members of the Eko Club International on medical mission to the state, said “it would be a great disservice to the fatherland if Nigerian professionals would stay abroad while the country seek elsewhere for the services which they could easily provide.”
Noting that some Nigerians abroad sometimes hide behind the argument that there might not be anything for them to do in the country if they returned, Fashola said “it is no excuse to ask us what you would do when you come back home because there was no promise when you left the country.
“I recommend to all Nigerians in the diaspora, the time to come back home is now. The Asians are going back home. No one else can fix this country for us. We had a choice also, we could have left, but we stayed back.
“We need you to come home. I make a passionate appeal to all Nigerians, wherever they are, to begin to find their way back home, let us build up our country.”
According to the governor, “I believe that at the last count, we were said to have over 22,000 medical personnel of all categories outside this country. Those were the people who went to build the medical practice of Cairo, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and others and now, we are gloriously and happily exporting indisposed Nigerians to these countries.”
He said the services being provided for Lagos by the Medical Mission were also needed in other states of the federation, calling on those who are disposed to come home and extend their services to the states.
13.08.2008
The Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Monday told Nigerians in the diaspora to return home and help build the nation.
Fashola, who spoke at an appreciation dinner in honour of members of the Eko Club International on medical mission to the state, said “it would be a great disservice to the fatherland if Nigerian professionals would stay abroad while the country seek elsewhere for the services which they could easily provide.”
Noting that some Nigerians abroad sometimes hide behind the argument that there might not be anything for them to do in the country if they returned, Fashola said “it is no excuse to ask us what you would do when you come back home because there was no promise when you left the country.
“I recommend to all Nigerians in the diaspora, the time to come back home is now. The Asians are going back home. No one else can fix this country for us. We had a choice also, we could have left, but we stayed back.
“We need you to come home. I make a passionate appeal to all Nigerians, wherever they are, to begin to find their way back home, let us build up our country.”
According to the governor, “I believe that at the last count, we were said to have over 22,000 medical personnel of all categories outside this country. Those were the people who went to build the medical practice of Cairo, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and others and now, we are gloriously and happily exporting indisposed Nigerians to these countries.”
He said the services being provided for Lagos by the Medical Mission were also needed in other states of the federation, calling on those who are disposed to come home and extend their services to the states.
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
VOTE OF THANKS
During a wedding reception; the groom was called upon to give his response to his guests and it went like this: I want to first of all thank the Lord Almighty for creating my wife and to also thank the pastor and his wife for lending us their wedding rings. Special appreciation to my landlord who lent us his car. I am most grateful to my boss for approving the loan I used for the wedding. Big thanks to the committee of friends for the appeal fund they raised. Also to my brother?s wife, thank you for lending us your wedding gown. Am so grateful to the cake designer for the cake. I promised to return it tomorrow morning as agreed. Special thanks to my friends who brought food from their homes to help me feed you all
KFC CHICKEN
During a Papal audience, a business man approached the Pope and made this offer: Change the last line of the Lord's prayer from "give us this day our daily bread" to "give us this day our daily chicken." and KFC will donate 10 million dollars to Catholic charities. The Pope declined. 2 weeks later the man approached the Pope again. This time with a 50 million dollar offer. Again the Pope delcined. A month later the man offers 100 million, this time the Pope accepts. At a meeting of the Cardinals, The Pope announces his decision in the good news/bad news format. The good news is, that we have 100 million dollars for charities. The bad news is that we lost the Wonder Bread account!
FUNNY PROVERBS (2)
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
He who hesitates is probably right.
Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to press on it.
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to If at first you don't
succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. rise above your principles.
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
Work is accomplished by those employees who are still striving to reach their
level of incompetence.
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. (The corollary is:
You never learn to pray until your kids learn to drive!)
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. (Project
Management at its best).
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
He who hesitates is probably right.
Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to press on it.
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to If at first you don't
succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. rise above your principles.
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
Work is accomplished by those employees who are still striving to reach their
level of incompetence.
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. (The corollary is:
You never learn to pray until your kids learn to drive!)
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. (Project
Management at its best).
Sunday, 27 July 2008
TRUE MEANING OF SOME JOBS
1. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
2. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
3. A statistician is someone who is good with numbers but lacks the personality to be an accountant.
4. An actuary is someone who brings a fake bomb on a plane, because that decreases the chances that there will be another bomb on the plane.
5. A programmer is someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand.
6. A mathematician is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there.
7. A topologist is a someone who doesn't know the difference between a coffee cup and doughnut.
8. A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000 word document and calls it a "brief."
9. A psychologist is someone who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room.
10. A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
11. A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the time.
12. A committee is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
2. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
3. A statistician is someone who is good with numbers but lacks the personality to be an accountant.
4. An actuary is someone who brings a fake bomb on a plane, because that decreases the chances that there will be another bomb on the plane.
5. A programmer is someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand.
6. A mathematician is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there.
7. A topologist is a someone who doesn't know the difference between a coffee cup and doughnut.
8. A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000 word document and calls it a "brief."
9. A psychologist is someone who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room.
10. A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
11. A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the time.
12. A committee is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
Sunday, 20 July 2008
LEARN CHINESE IN 15 MINUTES
1) That's not right . . . Sum Ting Wong
2) Are you harboring a fugitive? . . . Hu Yu Hai Ding
3) See me ASAP . . . Kum Hia Nao
4) Stupid Man . . .Dum Fuk
5) Small Horse . . . Tai Ni Po Ni
6) Did you go to the beach? . . Wai Yu So Tan
7) I bumped into a coffee table . . Ai Bang Mai Fa Kin Ni
I think you need a face lift . . . Chin Tu Fat
9) It's very dark in here . . . Wao So Dim
10) I thought you were on a diet . . .Wai Yu Mun Ching?
11) This is a tow away zone . . . No Pah King
12) Our meeting is scheduled for next week . . . Wai Yu Kum Nao?
13) Staying out of sight . . . Lei Ying Lo
14) He's cleaning his automobile . . .Wa Shing Ka
15) Your body odor is offensive . . . Yu Stin Ki Pu
16) Great . . . Fa Kin Su
2) Are you harboring a fugitive? . . . Hu Yu Hai Ding
3) See me ASAP . . . Kum Hia Nao
4) Stupid Man . . .Dum Fuk
5) Small Horse . . . Tai Ni Po Ni
6) Did you go to the beach? . . Wai Yu So Tan
7) I bumped into a coffee table . . Ai Bang Mai Fa Kin Ni
I think you need a face lift . . . Chin Tu Fat
9) It's very dark in here . . . Wao So Dim
10) I thought you were on a diet . . .Wai Yu Mun Ching?
11) This is a tow away zone . . . No Pah King
12) Our meeting is scheduled for next week . . . Wai Yu Kum Nao?
13) Staying out of sight . . . Lei Ying Lo
14) He's cleaning his automobile . . .Wa Shing Ka
15) Your body odor is offensive . . . Yu Stin Ki Pu
16) Great . . . Fa Kin Su
SILENT TREATMENT
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly the man realised that the next day he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence *AND LOSE*, he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM."
He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight.
Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't woke him up when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM. Wake up!"
He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight.
Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't woke him up when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM. Wake up!"
Thursday, 10 July 2008
CANNED FOOD
This is Serious!
This incident happened recently in North Texas .
A woman went boating one Sunday taking with her some cans of coke which she put into the refrigerator of the boat. On Monday she was taken to the hospital and placed in the Intensive Care Unit. She died on Wednesday.
The autopsy concluded she died of Leptospirosis. This was traced to the can of coke she drank from, not using a glass. Tests showed that the can was infected by dried rat urine and hence the disease Leptospirosis.
Rat urine contains toxic and deathly substances. It is highly recommended to thoroughly wash the upper part of soda cans before drinking out of them. The cans are typically stocked in warehouses and transported straight to the shops without being cleaned.
A study at NYCU showed that the tops of soda cans are more contaminated than public toilets (i.e).. full of germs and bacteria. So wash them with water before putting them to the mouth to avoid any kind of fatal accident.
This incident happened recently in North Texas .
A woman went boating one Sunday taking with her some cans of coke which she put into the refrigerator of the boat. On Monday she was taken to the hospital and placed in the Intensive Care Unit. She died on Wednesday.
The autopsy concluded she died of Leptospirosis. This was traced to the can of coke she drank from, not using a glass. Tests showed that the can was infected by dried rat urine and hence the disease Leptospirosis.
Rat urine contains toxic and deathly substances. It is highly recommended to thoroughly wash the upper part of soda cans before drinking out of them. The cans are typically stocked in warehouses and transported straight to the shops without being cleaned.
A study at NYCU showed that the tops of soda cans are more contaminated than public toilets (i.e).. full of germs and bacteria. So wash them with water before putting them to the mouth to avoid any kind of fatal accident.
THE COMPLETE PROVERBS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A first grade teacher collected old, well known proverbs. She gave each kid in her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest:
As you shall make your bed so shall you ---- mess it up.
Better to be safe than ---- punch a 5th grader.
Strike while the ---- bug is close.
It's always darkest before ---- daylight savings time.
Never underestimate the power of ---- termites.
You can lead a horse to water but ---- how?
Don't bite the hand that ---- looks dirty.
No news is ---- impossible.
A miss is as good as a ---- Mr.
You can't teach an old dog new ---- math.
If you lie down with the dogs, you'll ---- stink in the morning.
The pen is mightier than the ---- pigs.
An idle mind is ---- the best way to relax.
Where there's smoke, there's ---- pollution.
Happy the bride who ---- gets all the presents!
A penny saved is ---- not much.
Two's company, three's ---- the Musketeers.
Don't put off till tomorrow what ---- you put on to go to bed.
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and ---- you have to blow your nose.
Children should be seen and not ---- spanked or grounded.
You get out of something what you ---- see pictured on the box.
When the blind leadeth the blind ---- get out of the way.
A first grade teacher collected old, well known proverbs. She gave each kid in her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest:
As you shall make your bed so shall you ---- mess it up.
Better to be safe than ---- punch a 5th grader.
Strike while the ---- bug is close.
It's always darkest before ---- daylight savings time.
Never underestimate the power of ---- termites.
You can lead a horse to water but ---- how?
Don't bite the hand that ---- looks dirty.
No news is ---- impossible.
A miss is as good as a ---- Mr.
You can't teach an old dog new ---- math.
If you lie down with the dogs, you'll ---- stink in the morning.
The pen is mightier than the ---- pigs.
An idle mind is ---- the best way to relax.
Where there's smoke, there's ---- pollution.
Happy the bride who ---- gets all the presents!
A penny saved is ---- not much.
Two's company, three's ---- the Musketeers.
Don't put off till tomorrow what ---- you put on to go to bed.
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and ---- you have to blow your nose.
Children should be seen and not ---- spanked or grounded.
You get out of something what you ---- see pictured on the box.
When the blind leadeth the blind ---- get out of the way.
AIRPORT SECURITY
A study was recently conducted to determine the average crime rate at international airports around the world. the study made use of an ordinary looking man, standing in the airport terminal reading a newspaper. he had an empty briefcase beside him, which he ignored. observers then recorded how long it took for the briefcase to be snatched. in Brussels, the case was stolen within 4minutes and 20seconds. in Washington DC, the case was stolen within 3minutes and 16seconds. at Heathrow, the case was snatched in less than 2minutes. in Newyork, the case was stolen within 1minute 5seconds. in Los Angeles, it took only 33seconds before it was snatched. at Lagos, the people conducting the study were robbed on their way to the airport.
READING AND THE BRAIN
Can you raed tihs? So far 3 8 plepoe can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a
wrod
are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht t he frsit and lsat ltteer be in
the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
whotuit
a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter
by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas
tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt!
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a
wrod
are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht t he frsit and lsat ltteer be in
the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
whotuit
a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter
by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas
tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt!
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
WAIT TO MAKE A KILL IN STOCKS
The best speculators search only for the very best opportunities. To be truly successful, you must wait for the right opportunities to present themselves and this often means doing nothing for long periods of time
This is clear enough, just take your time to look, wait patiently, lay an ambush, watch your traps until you spot very excellent opportunities, then strike like lightening, hit with a sledge hammer!
This is clear enough, just take your time to look, wait patiently, lay an ambush, watch your traps until you spot very excellent opportunities, then strike like lightening, hit with a sledge hammer!
DONT LISTEN TO EVERY ADVICE
One of the quickest ways to lose money in the market is to listen to others and all of their so-called expert opinions. To succeed, you must ignore all outside opinions and predictions. Follow your own strategy!
Its not as if I am insisting that you close your eyes and ears to the market, just listen to news, analyst reports, your stock broker, etc but do your own thing, you only knows your personality more than others.
Its not as if I am insisting that you close your eyes and ears to the market, just listen to news, analyst reports, your stock broker, etc but do your own thing, you only knows your personality more than others.
DONT BE GREEDY IN THE STOCK MARKET
• Perfection has no role in successful stock trading. No one can buy at the absolute lowest price and sell at the highest price. No time or effort should be devoted to that goal. "I never bought a stock at the low or sold one at the high in my life. I am satisfied to be along for most of the ride."
This is where many investors get it wrong, trying to buy stocks at the cheapest price ever and selling them at the highest possible price. The risk of all these is that you will never get to buy most of your orders either because the price you are offering is too low for purchases or too high for your sell orders. Don’t be greedy!
This is where many investors get it wrong, trying to buy stocks at the cheapest price ever and selling them at the highest possible price. The risk of all these is that you will never get to buy most of your orders either because the price you are offering is too low for purchases or too high for your sell orders. Don’t be greedy!
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
AFTER LAMIDI ADEDIBU........
please see Extract on Adedibu's Condolence register
The late Chief Lamidi Ariyibi Adedibu
See Extract on Adedibu's Condolence register
1. adeyemi olayiwola
Today 17:02 (5 hours ago)
May your Soul rest in Peace. Now come to think of the reality on ground, this is the time for real politics in Ibadan and not the Amala type that Baba is alway known for.
2. Fatai Lasisi
Today 17:10 (5 hours ago)
Halleluyah, Ibadan will be peaceful at last. The tyrant is dead and finally peace in a city that deserves it. When men live as if they are God, well the end is now known. I hope others will learn from it too. Obasanjo should take a lesson from this. What will he be remembered for if the table were turned? It is indeed a moment for sober reflections
3. Tunde Onadipe
Today 17:11 (5 hours ago)
So this man can die. Really l thought by his actions and comments death will be scared of him. People like him who play God are still very much around and such people dont know how to learn. But one thing is clear no matter what you have you cannot spend more than what belongs to you the remaining belongs to others– whether you like it or not that is the truth– ADEDIBU has left everything now. The obasanjos, iBBS and others beware
4. OTIS
Today 17:14 (4 hours ago)
OOOOOH CAN ADEDIBU DIE???, I THOUGHT HE IS THE STRONG MAN THAT WILL NEVER DIE…….. GOD GOD GOD, YOU SAID THAT WE ARE LIKE A GRASS TO BLOSSOM IN THE MORNING BUT IN THE EVENING IT IS NO MORE, WELL PAPA ADEDIBU, MAY YOU SOUL REST IN PEACE THAT IS IF YOU WILL NOT RESURRECT IN DEATH AT THE NEXT ELECTION IN NIGERIA, BUT I KNOW YOU CAN NOT, REST IN PEACE
5. Tunde Onadipe
Today 17:19 (4 hours ago)
Nigerian leaders our money is in your hands
Use the money you have to develop others through schorlarships, investments, direct financial empowerment, and creating jobs for others. In this your last days do something that you will be remembered for as legacies for the people
6. 'LAYIWOLA JIMOH
Today 17:21 (4 hours ago)
From ALLAH we all came and to him we shall all return. All human beings shall have a taste of death no matter how highly placed you are. Adedibu’s death shoul be a lesson to all that everybody will die one day and will certainly give account of their stewardship while on earth.
Let’s all thik and do good while on earth so that poeple can speak good of us at death.
7. Ayo
Today 17:23 (4 hours ago)
Great news……I rejoice with the good people of Oyo-State.
8. Abodun Oluwadare
Today 17:24 (4 hours ago)
Good riddance to bad rubbish.Halleluya.
9. ADEGBITE MIKE
Today 17:27 (4 hours ago)
Vanity upon vanity. Alah is great. Glory be to God Almighty. So, Adedibu could die.
10. Oyeyabi Olusola
Today 17:32 (4 hours ago)
I cant remember ever shouting “opeee ooo” (great!) when I heard of someone’s death, and that is exactly what i did when i saw this.
if Adedibu can die, then other Adedibus should remember the popular yoruba saying “iku to pa ojugba eni, owe nla lo n pa fun ni” (the death of one’s mate is a warning signal). may 2008 bundle all of them away!
11. babacontainer
Today 17:33 (4 hours ago)
This is really a wonderful news. Oyo state shall begin to experince a true politics.Let us beware of all Adedibu tugs because they would have nothing to feed on
12. Teju Oyewole
Today 17:34 (4 hours ago)
For God so Love the Ibadan Poltics that he killeth Adedibu Hurray…..
this is a great lesson for all other syncophants remaining on the surface of the land.
May his soul rests in peace if God wishes sha.
13. kelvin osa- okunbor
Today 17:34 (4 hours ago)
it is indeed a new chapter in the politics of oyo state, now that the garrison commander has gone home. adieu, old man, generations yet unborn will try to forgive you for your brand of politics that shortchanged the people of the pace setter state.i hope politicians in the state will learn great lessons from the passage of this PDP so called leader, if indeed he was a leader of whatever sort. he will be remembered for thuggery,violence and negative values of oyo politics.
14. DeeJay C4
Today 17:37 (4 hours ago)
BURN IN HELL MUTHAFUCKA! May all those who worked for you, die in agony. Fuckin bastard. All U Nigerians that love kissing ass and overcelebrating underachievement will face a worse fate.
I have no sympathy for him and his family and friends or well wishers.
Evil people hardly ever die, so when one dies I have to celebrate dat shit.
15. yanju olowo
Today 17:37 (4 hours ago)
papa adedibu, you were a strong man during your life on earth, but death is powerful, which anybody will go through.
16. Rafiu Sanusi
Today 17:38 (4 hours ago)
I will not beg to disagree with all of you. I am vehemently disagreeing. Talk no ill of the dead. Baba Adedibu was the only politician helping masses. While you could not see the so called decent politicians, baba was available for us to provide Amala, school fees to poor children, market stalls etc. May his soul rest in perfect peace
17. Abey Shas
Today 17:43 (4 hours ago)
Ato run dorun e.
18. Joseph Uchea
Today 17:46 (4 hours ago)
It is clearly the end of an era and a new beginning; not only for the people of Oyo State but the Nigerian body politik. One chalartan down, how many more to go? Is it commiseration or congratulation….just thinking….
19. Abel Orukpe
Today 17:48 (4 hours ago)
I thought Adedibu was going to live for ever . So he died. I am praying that God should start judging him immediately ,because he tore Oyo State apart when Obasanjo was the president of Nigeria. My sympathy goes to Tokyo ,his numerous amala thugs,Governor Alao Akala ,who helped in distabilising the Pace Setter state. We are waiting for those who planted evil in that state to follow him immediately . Rest in peace if GOD allows you but for me no sympathy.
20. Olukay Owo
Today 17:49 (4 hours ago)
Life goes on
21. Tayo Olasunkanmi
Today 17:49 (4 hours ago)
Anyway i sympatise with the man family may his soul rest in perfect peace, also congratulations to the people of Ibadan atleast they can have a rest of mind now.
Because is a new era in Ibadan politics
22. Jessica Kei
Today 17:49 (4 hours ago)
Satan’s rejoicing. He just got a new tenant!
23. Ruusell
Today 17:50 (4 hours ago)
This is the begining of a new thing in Oyo state and Nigeria as whole. How I wish this same thing will happen in Imo, Abia and Anambra state where the likes of Iwuanyawu, Ojo Mmaduekwe and Uba will be eliminated naturally.
24. AYODELE
Today 17:52 (4 hours ago)
THANK GOD FOR HE IS EVER FAITHFUL.REST IN PEACE THAT IS IF YOU ARE GOING TO REST
25. Tunde Olabode
Today 17:52 (4 hours ago)
When the wicked perishes, the rightous rejoices there, i shout of joy OPE Ooo…….
IWA REEREE NI ESO ENIYAN, KI A SHA MA SE DADA.
26. Bola Ade
Today 17:53 (4 hours ago)
Please speak no evil of the dead, some men are like Pharaoh and Judas that are destined by God to be destroyed. So it is not a fault of theirs. So Obasanjo “lo sora”
27. ADELO BadMus
Today 17:55 (4 hours ago)
It is quite unfortunate that Chief Adedibu Lamidi died without knowing GOD at all. Chief Lamidi Adedibu, a political lunatic thought the whole world and Oyo-state in particular is in His control.How can a mere being be thinking irrationally as if he was God? I never believed He(ADEDIBU) can die like fowl.He can not rest in peace because of his evil deed and HIS COLLEAGUES that are yet to die.
I say a big congratulation to Oyo-state and ibadan generally. It is high time Oyo-state regained their peace since the only scally-wag person is gone. No evil man will enter the kingdom of God.
Oyo-state by now should start thanking God for the great thing he has done for them.Adedibu,you can never rest in peace and your evil deed will definately follow your children where ever they are.Amen
28. Alex Adeleye (Dublin)
Today 17:56 (4 hours ago)
If the voice of the people is truly the voice of God I can imagine what is in stock for this man up there. May God forgive him of his wrongdoings.
29. TY
Today 17:57 (4 hours ago)
THIS A GREAT LESSON TO ALL NIGERIAN THAT ARE HOLDING UNTO ONE POST OR THE OTHER AS IF THE END WILL NOT COME, I WANT TO ANNOUNCE TO YOU THAT AS THIS TERRORIST OF IBADAN LAND PASS AWAY LIKE A WIND SO SHALL EACH AN EVERYONE OF US WILL GO, REMEMBER THE LATE ABACHER, DO GOOD BECAUSE OF YOUR SON’S AND DAUGHTER AND TOMORROW.
WELL RIP THE EVIL DOWER OF OUR TIME.
30. Abbey
Today 17:57 (4 hours ago)
Should i weep or should i Cry? May his soul find peace………………………………………….but we can now live normally in Ibadan again.
31. Badmus
Today 17:58 (4 hours ago)
May his soul rest in peace. I besiege the good people of Oyo State to forgive all his wrong doings. Oyo the pace setter state will now move on to greater heights whether people like Alao Akala likes it or not.
32. David Amuwa
Today 17:58 (4 hours ago)
The sudden demise of Adedibu has just confirmed to me that God still listens to Nigeria. Less than 24hours back, in a discussion, someone said that if Adedibu remains alive, his son currently at the N/A would be the next governor. Another discussant vehemnetly said if that is the condition, then Adedibu will be no more before the next election to impose his son on Ibadan indigens. The discussion did not leave the recaltrant Nigerian dictator, Olusegun Obasanjo out of it. As for me, I do not want Obasanjo to die without being brought to ridicule. This is what God must do for Nigerians. Anyway, Adedibu’s (I hate attributing to him all the big names) has once reminded me of King Solomon’s confession: “The world of vanity”
33. Laolu Owolabi
Today 18:00 (4 hours ago)
No one should rejoice at the death of another. It is a price that is reserved for us all and cannot be seen as punishment for our Deeds on earth. The good and the bad will all die. What is important is what we leave behind. History remains to judge us all. Across the divide, there is a consensus that the man was generous and honest. Honest in the sense that he says it as he sees it. What you see is what you get. Rest in peace and may peace reign in Ibadan my homeland.
34. Eddy
Today 18:01 (4 hours ago)
Haaaaaaaaaa, so Adedibu can die…. i am shocked. He owned everywhere in Iwo Road and decides who sells where (ijebu,Oyo or Ibadan). You will tell God how u shared the land.
35. niron ogunoshun
Today 18:03 (4 hours ago)
i learnt not too long ago that the strongest element ruling our lives is not man against man, but the ideas, ideals, concepts which all turn out to represent a belief system. yes it is true, adedibu is dead but what about the belief system which for over 6 decades he had successfully imbedded in many of our folks? what about the way of life that he had seeded into their bloodstream? what about the attitudes? are these dead?
my fear for my beloved oyo state now is trully more in his death than in his life; unless we begin a cleansing and bridging process.
sleep not oyo, his ideas in his numerous seeds are all over land. did obasanjo not once say baba was his father too?
one consolation though…..that the evil that men do lives after them
36. henry
Today 18:03 (4 hours ago)
OK, NOW I KNOW THAT THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA WILL BE GREAT.
THOSE BLOOD WILL BE WAITING FOR HIM AT THE GATE.
MAY YOUR SOUL CONTINUE TO BURN IN HELL FIRE
37. Sean kelly
Today 18:05 (4 hours ago)
He will always be remebered for his evil deeds. This is a lesson to all corrupt, sycophants and megalomaniac politicains. We dont care about you
38. Ibrahim
Today 18:06 (4 hours ago)
Thank God!!!! Peace is coming to ibadan at last. Let the useless man Alao Akala know that his issue will be visited too….. congratulations the great Ibadan land
39. OSAMO DARE
Today 18:06 (4 hours ago)
Afterall, we are mortal men and the ephemeral nature of human beign. Iam extremely happy for Ibadan People and the entire Nigerian.At last,this is a testimony that power belong to God.For me the like of Obasanjo and other power mongers should begining to reconsider their steps.Afterall,God is sovereign and we are just mortal men!
Adedibu, may you be rewarded according to your deeds while alive.
40. OLU KUJORE
Today 18:06 (4 hours ago)
WELL, HAD ALWAYS KNOWN GOD IS MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN MEN…………… MOREOVER IT SOMETHING TRIVIAL THAT OFTEN BRING DOWN POWERFUL MEN………. I THINK THIS A GOOD & GREAT LESSON TO BE LEARNT FROM. HOWEVER I WILL STILL LIKE TO REMEBER HIM FOR HIS GOOD DEEDS, IF ANY.
41. Augustus ceasar N.
Today 18:06 (4 hours ago)
To GOD be the Glory, so eventually this tyranny died, One has thought that he is greater than death, well it goes to show to others and his followers that Death is the ultimate in life. As what ever one does he will go one day, may his soul rest in peace that is if he has any SOUL.( one).
42. Kola Arowolo-ARE
Today 18:07 (4 hours ago)
Late Odolaye Aremu, the Dadakuada Crooner from Ilorin, Kwara State of Nigeria praised Ladmidi Adedibu about 20/25 years ago this way: ADEDIBU, OMO AJE T’ORAJA TO NBERE ENI, A GBA KOBO MEJI NINU TORO(Toro was 2.5kobo), ONI NKAN KOO, ADEDIBU GBAA, ADEDIBU LO SI OJA, O KO ADIRE BO BI OMO ONISE NLA, BEENI KO JI, KO GBE, KO SI RAA, AGBAKO NI ADIRE SE……These occultic praises and similar ones summarises the personality of the late politician AND portrayed greed, force, injustice, and god-like audacity which which the man ruled his political empire. The elites and educated sons and daughters of Ibadan will now heave a sigh of relief… Adieu….IDAMEJI IBADAN TI WON N PE NI ENIKAN…….SUN RE O……..
43. OMOSIMUA, FUGAR
Today 18:07 (4 hours ago)
May your soul rest in peace. May your departure bring sanity to Oyo politics and indeed Nigeria. May Nigeria never breeth your type again. OBJ, now that your garison commander is gone, where lies your strength? As our cantoonist (Ghana Must Go) would say = OBJ, I wish your mother had remained a virgin. Good ridance to bad rubish indeed.
44. henry
Today 18:07 (4 hours ago)
MEANWHILE,
ALL THE ARRESTED GUYS IN HIS HOUSE ARE ALL HEADING TO JAIL
The late Chief Lamidi Ariyibi Adedibu
See Extract on Adedibu's Condolence register
1. adeyemi olayiwola
Today 17:02 (5 hours ago)
May your Soul rest in Peace. Now come to think of the reality on ground, this is the time for real politics in Ibadan and not the Amala type that Baba is alway known for.
2. Fatai Lasisi
Today 17:10 (5 hours ago)
Halleluyah, Ibadan will be peaceful at last. The tyrant is dead and finally peace in a city that deserves it. When men live as if they are God, well the end is now known. I hope others will learn from it too. Obasanjo should take a lesson from this. What will he be remembered for if the table were turned? It is indeed a moment for sober reflections
3. Tunde Onadipe
Today 17:11 (5 hours ago)
So this man can die. Really l thought by his actions and comments death will be scared of him. People like him who play God are still very much around and such people dont know how to learn. But one thing is clear no matter what you have you cannot spend more than what belongs to you the remaining belongs to others– whether you like it or not that is the truth– ADEDIBU has left everything now. The obasanjos, iBBS and others beware
4. OTIS
Today 17:14 (4 hours ago)
OOOOOH CAN ADEDIBU DIE???, I THOUGHT HE IS THE STRONG MAN THAT WILL NEVER DIE…….. GOD GOD GOD, YOU SAID THAT WE ARE LIKE A GRASS TO BLOSSOM IN THE MORNING BUT IN THE EVENING IT IS NO MORE, WELL PAPA ADEDIBU, MAY YOU SOUL REST IN PEACE THAT IS IF YOU WILL NOT RESURRECT IN DEATH AT THE NEXT ELECTION IN NIGERIA, BUT I KNOW YOU CAN NOT, REST IN PEACE
5. Tunde Onadipe
Today 17:19 (4 hours ago)
Nigerian leaders our money is in your hands
Use the money you have to develop others through schorlarships, investments, direct financial empowerment, and creating jobs for others. In this your last days do something that you will be remembered for as legacies for the people
6. 'LAYIWOLA JIMOH
Today 17:21 (4 hours ago)
From ALLAH we all came and to him we shall all return. All human beings shall have a taste of death no matter how highly placed you are. Adedibu’s death shoul be a lesson to all that everybody will die one day and will certainly give account of their stewardship while on earth.
Let’s all thik and do good while on earth so that poeple can speak good of us at death.
7. Ayo
Today 17:23 (4 hours ago)
Great news……I rejoice with the good people of Oyo-State.
8. Abodun Oluwadare
Today 17:24 (4 hours ago)
Good riddance to bad rubbish.Halleluya.
9. ADEGBITE MIKE
Today 17:27 (4 hours ago)
Vanity upon vanity. Alah is great. Glory be to God Almighty. So, Adedibu could die.
10. Oyeyabi Olusola
Today 17:32 (4 hours ago)
I cant remember ever shouting “opeee ooo” (great!) when I heard of someone’s death, and that is exactly what i did when i saw this.
if Adedibu can die, then other Adedibus should remember the popular yoruba saying “iku to pa ojugba eni, owe nla lo n pa fun ni” (the death of one’s mate is a warning signal). may 2008 bundle all of them away!
11. babacontainer
Today 17:33 (4 hours ago)
This is really a wonderful news. Oyo state shall begin to experince a true politics.Let us beware of all Adedibu tugs because they would have nothing to feed on
12. Teju Oyewole
Today 17:34 (4 hours ago)
For God so Love the Ibadan Poltics that he killeth Adedibu Hurray…..
this is a great lesson for all other syncophants remaining on the surface of the land.
May his soul rests in peace if God wishes sha.
13. kelvin osa- okunbor
Today 17:34 (4 hours ago)
it is indeed a new chapter in the politics of oyo state, now that the garrison commander has gone home. adieu, old man, generations yet unborn will try to forgive you for your brand of politics that shortchanged the people of the pace setter state.i hope politicians in the state will learn great lessons from the passage of this PDP so called leader, if indeed he was a leader of whatever sort. he will be remembered for thuggery,violence and negative values of oyo politics.
14. DeeJay C4
Today 17:37 (4 hours ago)
BURN IN HELL MUTHAFUCKA! May all those who worked for you, die in agony. Fuckin bastard. All U Nigerians that love kissing ass and overcelebrating underachievement will face a worse fate.
I have no sympathy for him and his family and friends or well wishers.
Evil people hardly ever die, so when one dies I have to celebrate dat shit.
15. yanju olowo
Today 17:37 (4 hours ago)
papa adedibu, you were a strong man during your life on earth, but death is powerful, which anybody will go through.
16. Rafiu Sanusi
Today 17:38 (4 hours ago)
I will not beg to disagree with all of you. I am vehemently disagreeing. Talk no ill of the dead. Baba Adedibu was the only politician helping masses. While you could not see the so called decent politicians, baba was available for us to provide Amala, school fees to poor children, market stalls etc. May his soul rest in perfect peace
17. Abey Shas
Today 17:43 (4 hours ago)
Ato run dorun e.
18. Joseph Uchea
Today 17:46 (4 hours ago)
It is clearly the end of an era and a new beginning; not only for the people of Oyo State but the Nigerian body politik. One chalartan down, how many more to go? Is it commiseration or congratulation….just thinking….
19. Abel Orukpe
Today 17:48 (4 hours ago)
I thought Adedibu was going to live for ever . So he died. I am praying that God should start judging him immediately ,because he tore Oyo State apart when Obasanjo was the president of Nigeria. My sympathy goes to Tokyo ,his numerous amala thugs,Governor Alao Akala ,who helped in distabilising the Pace Setter state. We are waiting for those who planted evil in that state to follow him immediately . Rest in peace if GOD allows you but for me no sympathy.
20. Olukay Owo
Today 17:49 (4 hours ago)
Life goes on
21. Tayo Olasunkanmi
Today 17:49 (4 hours ago)
Anyway i sympatise with the man family may his soul rest in perfect peace, also congratulations to the people of Ibadan atleast they can have a rest of mind now.
Because is a new era in Ibadan politics
22. Jessica Kei
Today 17:49 (4 hours ago)
Satan’s rejoicing. He just got a new tenant!
23. Ruusell
Today 17:50 (4 hours ago)
This is the begining of a new thing in Oyo state and Nigeria as whole. How I wish this same thing will happen in Imo, Abia and Anambra state where the likes of Iwuanyawu, Ojo Mmaduekwe and Uba will be eliminated naturally.
24. AYODELE
Today 17:52 (4 hours ago)
THANK GOD FOR HE IS EVER FAITHFUL.REST IN PEACE THAT IS IF YOU ARE GOING TO REST
25. Tunde Olabode
Today 17:52 (4 hours ago)
When the wicked perishes, the rightous rejoices there, i shout of joy OPE Ooo…….
IWA REEREE NI ESO ENIYAN, KI A SHA MA SE DADA.
26. Bola Ade
Today 17:53 (4 hours ago)
Please speak no evil of the dead, some men are like Pharaoh and Judas that are destined by God to be destroyed. So it is not a fault of theirs. So Obasanjo “lo sora”
27. ADELO BadMus
Today 17:55 (4 hours ago)
It is quite unfortunate that Chief Adedibu Lamidi died without knowing GOD at all. Chief Lamidi Adedibu, a political lunatic thought the whole world and Oyo-state in particular is in His control.How can a mere being be thinking irrationally as if he was God? I never believed He(ADEDIBU) can die like fowl.He can not rest in peace because of his evil deed and HIS COLLEAGUES that are yet to die.
I say a big congratulation to Oyo-state and ibadan generally. It is high time Oyo-state regained their peace since the only scally-wag person is gone. No evil man will enter the kingdom of God.
Oyo-state by now should start thanking God for the great thing he has done for them.Adedibu,you can never rest in peace and your evil deed will definately follow your children where ever they are.Amen
28. Alex Adeleye (Dublin)
Today 17:56 (4 hours ago)
If the voice of the people is truly the voice of God I can imagine what is in stock for this man up there. May God forgive him of his wrongdoings.
29. TY
Today 17:57 (4 hours ago)
THIS A GREAT LESSON TO ALL NIGERIAN THAT ARE HOLDING UNTO ONE POST OR THE OTHER AS IF THE END WILL NOT COME, I WANT TO ANNOUNCE TO YOU THAT AS THIS TERRORIST OF IBADAN LAND PASS AWAY LIKE A WIND SO SHALL EACH AN EVERYONE OF US WILL GO, REMEMBER THE LATE ABACHER, DO GOOD BECAUSE OF YOUR SON’S AND DAUGHTER AND TOMORROW.
WELL RIP THE EVIL DOWER OF OUR TIME.
30. Abbey
Today 17:57 (4 hours ago)
Should i weep or should i Cry? May his soul find peace………………………………………….but we can now live normally in Ibadan again.
31. Badmus
Today 17:58 (4 hours ago)
May his soul rest in peace. I besiege the good people of Oyo State to forgive all his wrong doings. Oyo the pace setter state will now move on to greater heights whether people like Alao Akala likes it or not.
32. David Amuwa
Today 17:58 (4 hours ago)
The sudden demise of Adedibu has just confirmed to me that God still listens to Nigeria. Less than 24hours back, in a discussion, someone said that if Adedibu remains alive, his son currently at the N/A would be the next governor. Another discussant vehemnetly said if that is the condition, then Adedibu will be no more before the next election to impose his son on Ibadan indigens. The discussion did not leave the recaltrant Nigerian dictator, Olusegun Obasanjo out of it. As for me, I do not want Obasanjo to die without being brought to ridicule. This is what God must do for Nigerians. Anyway, Adedibu’s (I hate attributing to him all the big names) has once reminded me of King Solomon’s confession: “The world of vanity”
33. Laolu Owolabi
Today 18:00 (4 hours ago)
No one should rejoice at the death of another. It is a price that is reserved for us all and cannot be seen as punishment for our Deeds on earth. The good and the bad will all die. What is important is what we leave behind. History remains to judge us all. Across the divide, there is a consensus that the man was generous and honest. Honest in the sense that he says it as he sees it. What you see is what you get. Rest in peace and may peace reign in Ibadan my homeland.
34. Eddy
Today 18:01 (4 hours ago)
Haaaaaaaaaa, so Adedibu can die…. i am shocked. He owned everywhere in Iwo Road and decides who sells where (ijebu,Oyo or Ibadan). You will tell God how u shared the land.
35. niron ogunoshun
Today 18:03 (4 hours ago)
i learnt not too long ago that the strongest element ruling our lives is not man against man, but the ideas, ideals, concepts which all turn out to represent a belief system. yes it is true, adedibu is dead but what about the belief system which for over 6 decades he had successfully imbedded in many of our folks? what about the way of life that he had seeded into their bloodstream? what about the attitudes? are these dead?
my fear for my beloved oyo state now is trully more in his death than in his life; unless we begin a cleansing and bridging process.
sleep not oyo, his ideas in his numerous seeds are all over land. did obasanjo not once say baba was his father too?
one consolation though…..that the evil that men do lives after them
36. henry
Today 18:03 (4 hours ago)
OK, NOW I KNOW THAT THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA WILL BE GREAT.
THOSE BLOOD WILL BE WAITING FOR HIM AT THE GATE.
MAY YOUR SOUL CONTINUE TO BURN IN HELL FIRE
37. Sean kelly
Today 18:05 (4 hours ago)
He will always be remebered for his evil deeds. This is a lesson to all corrupt, sycophants and megalomaniac politicains. We dont care about you
38. Ibrahim
Today 18:06 (4 hours ago)
Thank God!!!! Peace is coming to ibadan at last. Let the useless man Alao Akala know that his issue will be visited too….. congratulations the great Ibadan land
39. OSAMO DARE
Today 18:06 (4 hours ago)
Afterall, we are mortal men and the ephemeral nature of human beign. Iam extremely happy for Ibadan People and the entire Nigerian.At last,this is a testimony that power belong to God.For me the like of Obasanjo and other power mongers should begining to reconsider their steps.Afterall,God is sovereign and we are just mortal men!
Adedibu, may you be rewarded according to your deeds while alive.
40. OLU KUJORE
Today 18:06 (4 hours ago)
WELL, HAD ALWAYS KNOWN GOD IS MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN MEN…………… MOREOVER IT SOMETHING TRIVIAL THAT OFTEN BRING DOWN POWERFUL MEN………. I THINK THIS A GOOD & GREAT LESSON TO BE LEARNT FROM. HOWEVER I WILL STILL LIKE TO REMEBER HIM FOR HIS GOOD DEEDS, IF ANY.
41. Augustus ceasar N.
Today 18:06 (4 hours ago)
To GOD be the Glory, so eventually this tyranny died, One has thought that he is greater than death, well it goes to show to others and his followers that Death is the ultimate in life. As what ever one does he will go one day, may his soul rest in peace that is if he has any SOUL.( one).
42. Kola Arowolo-ARE
Today 18:07 (4 hours ago)
Late Odolaye Aremu, the Dadakuada Crooner from Ilorin, Kwara State of Nigeria praised Ladmidi Adedibu about 20/25 years ago this way: ADEDIBU, OMO AJE T’ORAJA TO NBERE ENI, A GBA KOBO MEJI NINU TORO(Toro was 2.5kobo), ONI NKAN KOO, ADEDIBU GBAA, ADEDIBU LO SI OJA, O KO ADIRE BO BI OMO ONISE NLA, BEENI KO JI, KO GBE, KO SI RAA, AGBAKO NI ADIRE SE……These occultic praises and similar ones summarises the personality of the late politician AND portrayed greed, force, injustice, and god-like audacity which which the man ruled his political empire. The elites and educated sons and daughters of Ibadan will now heave a sigh of relief… Adieu….IDAMEJI IBADAN TI WON N PE NI ENIKAN…….SUN RE O……..
43. OMOSIMUA, FUGAR
Today 18:07 (4 hours ago)
May your soul rest in peace. May your departure bring sanity to Oyo politics and indeed Nigeria. May Nigeria never breeth your type again. OBJ, now that your garison commander is gone, where lies your strength? As our cantoonist (Ghana Must Go) would say = OBJ, I wish your mother had remained a virgin. Good ridance to bad rubish indeed.
44. henry
Today 18:07 (4 hours ago)
MEANWHILE,
ALL THE ARRESTED GUYS IN HIS HOUSE ARE ALL HEADING TO JAIL
Sunday, 4 May 2008
WARREN BUFFETT
Just spice up your sunday afternoon with this few paragraphsn from this book am reading now.
Warren Buffett never invests in businesses he cannot understand or that are outside his “circle of competence”. All investors can, overtime obtain and intensify their “circle of competence” in an industry where they are professionally involved or in some sector of business they enjoy researching. One does not have to be correct very many times in a lifetime as Warren states that twelve investment decisions in his forty year career have made all the difference.
Risk can be reduced greatly by concentrating on only a few holdings if it forces investors to be more careful and thorough in their research. Normally more than 75% of Berkshire’s common stock holdings are represented by only five different securities. One of the principles demonstrated clearly several times in this book is to buy great businesses when they are having a temporary problem or when the stock market declines and creates bargain prices for outstanding franchises.
Stop predicting the direction of the stock market, the economy, interest rates, or elections, and stop wasting time or money on individuals that do this for a living. Study the facts and financial conditions, value the company’s future outlook, and purchase when everything is in your favor. Many people invest in a way similar to playing poker all night without ever looking at their cards.
THE WARREN BUFFETT WAY. By ROBERT G. HAGSTROM.
Warren Buffett never invests in businesses he cannot understand or that are outside his “circle of competence”. All investors can, overtime obtain and intensify their “circle of competence” in an industry where they are professionally involved or in some sector of business they enjoy researching. One does not have to be correct very many times in a lifetime as Warren states that twelve investment decisions in his forty year career have made all the difference.
Risk can be reduced greatly by concentrating on only a few holdings if it forces investors to be more careful and thorough in their research. Normally more than 75% of Berkshire’s common stock holdings are represented by only five different securities. One of the principles demonstrated clearly several times in this book is to buy great businesses when they are having a temporary problem or when the stock market declines and creates bargain prices for outstanding franchises.
Stop predicting the direction of the stock market, the economy, interest rates, or elections, and stop wasting time or money on individuals that do this for a living. Study the facts and financial conditions, value the company’s future outlook, and purchase when everything is in your favor. Many people invest in a way similar to playing poker all night without ever looking at their cards.
THE WARREN BUFFETT WAY. By ROBERT G. HAGSTROM.
Friday, 25 April 2008
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
This story happened like it was in the movies, but it was in the real. A friend of mine told me this story some days ago and I would want my readers to enjoy it. Sometimes in 2005 a banker in Lagos was in love with an undergraduate and decided to marry her, but the girl had other plans. So the girl politely refused, after befriending this banker for almost one year.
The banker tried to get to know this girl and her people, because hew would really want to spend his whole life with her, but all to no avail as the girl simply went underground, changing her phone number, address and other contacts. The banker was frustrated, so he went on with his life as if nothing happened.
On a fateful day, he saw right in front of him, a girl bearing a striking resemblance to his former girl, wanting to cash a cheque on his desk. They started a discussion which led to an appointment. Unknown to this guy, this girl was a twin to the other girl, but their identities differ so much. The first girl was lying to this my friend about her identity, no real surnames, no real state of origin, all were fakes.
Until this banker went with his people to the girls’ parents place to do a traditional marriage introduction that the banker came face to face with his former girl! Haba, confusion set in and it took the intervention of the neighbors to settle the arguments.
In the end my guy insisted on marrying his girl, the second one. And the case is still under considerations from the kinsmen. Did this guy commit any sin by insisting on marrying this second girl after dating the first?
Your comments, please.
The banker tried to get to know this girl and her people, because hew would really want to spend his whole life with her, but all to no avail as the girl simply went underground, changing her phone number, address and other contacts. The banker was frustrated, so he went on with his life as if nothing happened.
On a fateful day, he saw right in front of him, a girl bearing a striking resemblance to his former girl, wanting to cash a cheque on his desk. They started a discussion which led to an appointment. Unknown to this guy, this girl was a twin to the other girl, but their identities differ so much. The first girl was lying to this my friend about her identity, no real surnames, no real state of origin, all were fakes.
Until this banker went with his people to the girls’ parents place to do a traditional marriage introduction that the banker came face to face with his former girl! Haba, confusion set in and it took the intervention of the neighbors to settle the arguments.
In the end my guy insisted on marrying his girl, the second one. And the case is still under considerations from the kinsmen. Did this guy commit any sin by insisting on marrying this second girl after dating the first?
Your comments, please.
Sunday, 13 April 2008
UPDATE ON UBA.
Like I wrote here last week about the potentials of this stock, the stock just took off and did a three day run which still does not look like we have seen a weakness yet. This stock has not got as many units of shares floating like other banks in Nigeria. The only thing that will bring down the price of this stock is the increasing activities of market speculators willing to cash out of any company that gives them a quick 15% in a week.
This happened in other stocks recently, like Oceanic bank, PHB, FBN etc. next week will be interesting for this stock, are we going to see a further climb in this stock price or a sudden slump?
This happened in other stocks recently, like Oceanic bank, PHB, FBN etc. next week will be interesting for this stock, are we going to see a further climb in this stock price or a sudden slump?
EASY WEEKEND FOR CHELSEA FC. ?
We the members of Chelsea supporters club are watching this weekend matches with a smile on our face, that is, if we can snatch a victory from Wigan. It will be interesting to watch the battle between Arsenal and Man Utd. This is because a win for either Man u or arsenal will be a major blessing to our efforts.
I am saying this because if arsenal pulls man u down for us, then we are sniffing the premiership already, and if the opposite of this scenario plays out, then we shall be content to see ourselves separated from arsenal as the points gap will open wider.
This is a must watch match for all soccer loving guys, what a splendid way to end this weekend.
I am saying this because if arsenal pulls man u down for us, then we are sniffing the premiership already, and if the opposite of this scenario plays out, then we shall be content to see ourselves separated from arsenal as the points gap will open wider.
This is a must watch match for all soccer loving guys, what a splendid way to end this weekend.
Sunday, 6 April 2008
GOSSIP AND CONSEQUENCES.
To entertain my readers this Sunday, I will tell you a story a visiting friend just told me minutes ago. A married man that has lived twenty years with his wife has been receiving some serious nagging from madam on the issue of reported womanizing on the part of the man.
A neighbor has made herself a close friend to the woman and serves only the use of informing madam how her hubby has been going around having flings with anything in skirts. Madam always fumes on hearing such news but will have nothing else to do than nagging the man at night, since there have been no confirmed sightings.
On a very good day, the gossiping neighbor was passing by a hotel and saw the mans car neatly parked at the hotel car park, so she hurried to madams shop and told her of how her husband has gone into the hotel with one small girl minutes ago.
Without waiting to call her hubby the madam of the house rushed to the hotel, and seeing her husband’s car, got enraged and smashed the front and rear windshields of the car with a big stone.
She was fuming outside the hotel complex when her husband walked out with their eldest daughter, an eighteen year old. They had gone there to celebrate the excellent result she made at the university matriculation exams. The man even told her wife that he will take the daughter out in the morning, but she forgot in her rage!
So, when she realized her mistakes, madam fainted…… I will finish the story later; first impressions could be deceptive really.
A neighbor has made herself a close friend to the woman and serves only the use of informing madam how her hubby has been going around having flings with anything in skirts. Madam always fumes on hearing such news but will have nothing else to do than nagging the man at night, since there have been no confirmed sightings.
On a very good day, the gossiping neighbor was passing by a hotel and saw the mans car neatly parked at the hotel car park, so she hurried to madams shop and told her of how her husband has gone into the hotel with one small girl minutes ago.
Without waiting to call her hubby the madam of the house rushed to the hotel, and seeing her husband’s car, got enraged and smashed the front and rear windshields of the car with a big stone.
She was fuming outside the hotel complex when her husband walked out with their eldest daughter, an eighteen year old. They had gone there to celebrate the excellent result she made at the university matriculation exams. The man even told her wife that he will take the daughter out in the morning, but she forgot in her rage!
So, when she realized her mistakes, madam fainted…… I will finish the story later; first impressions could be deceptive really.
NEVER INVEST UNDER PRESSURE.
Never allow yourself to be pressurized into buying or selling stocks or any other form of investment. The chances are you will be making the wrong decisions. You should only buy stocks after due diligence checks; act slowly, diligently, with focus and with purpose. If you feel a significant urgency to buy any stock, then you are likely being pushed or influenced by some one else, either a friend or a stock broker, or by something you have read in a news paper or poster, seen on the television, heard or radio etc.
There are millions of stocks all waiting to be bought and none of them is running away. If you don’t take the time to study the stocks, analyze it and act accordingly, you are headed for disaster. Decisions to invest should not be made in a hurry except you have the experience and understanding.
There are millions of stocks all waiting to be bought and none of them is running away. If you don’t take the time to study the stocks, analyze it and act accordingly, you are headed for disaster. Decisions to invest should not be made in a hurry except you have the experience and understanding.
NIGERIAN PROPERTY MARKET.
The Nigerian property market has been quietly growing in leaps and bounds as investors in that sector have been reaping handsomely from land and house sales. Someone once said that land will always rise in value as it is becoming scarcer everyday; this is because God is no longer creating more of it.
In Nigeria, there is this huge market I see that has yet to attain any level of satisfaction. Do you know that Nigeria has more that 140 million citizens, and that is the ones counted in a census that failed to count ten of my fourteen relatives here in Nigeria. We have not started counting the millions living in different countries of the world.
I am of the opinion that the country is under housed, take a trip to most urban areas and see the huge number of tightly packed slums, Ajegunle in Lagos, Coal camp and Abakpa nike in Enugu, Sabon geri in Kano etc. These areas are teeming with humans begging for better housing conditions.
With the anticipated economic boom that will soon happen in Nigeria as a result of better management of our growing oil wealth, there will be better employment opportunities. This will lead to better wages and stronger buying power as there will now be money to be made.
I am an active player in the Nigerian property market and will be looking to partner with any organization or group, to impart my expertise in the ever changing property business. We shall create a business that will be involved in providing land and houses to various classes of workers in different income brackets.
Any interested person or persons can contact me through this medium as I currently have stock of properties located in some eastern states, empty lands and already completed houses for sale or lease.
In Nigeria, there is this huge market I see that has yet to attain any level of satisfaction. Do you know that Nigeria has more that 140 million citizens, and that is the ones counted in a census that failed to count ten of my fourteen relatives here in Nigeria. We have not started counting the millions living in different countries of the world.
I am of the opinion that the country is under housed, take a trip to most urban areas and see the huge number of tightly packed slums, Ajegunle in Lagos, Coal camp and Abakpa nike in Enugu, Sabon geri in Kano etc. These areas are teeming with humans begging for better housing conditions.
With the anticipated economic boom that will soon happen in Nigeria as a result of better management of our growing oil wealth, there will be better employment opportunities. This will lead to better wages and stronger buying power as there will now be money to be made.
I am an active player in the Nigerian property market and will be looking to partner with any organization or group, to impart my expertise in the ever changing property business. We shall create a business that will be involved in providing land and houses to various classes of workers in different income brackets.
Any interested person or persons can contact me through this medium as I currently have stock of properties located in some eastern states, empty lands and already completed houses for sale or lease.
PLAYING STOCKS WITH 'SCARED' MONEY.
You can’t succeed in the stock market if you are playing with ‘scared’ money, by that term; I mean money you will need to solve your short term problems, like money for rent or for the kid’s school fees. This is because the probability of making a wrong decision will be high, owing to your State of mind as regards the money which you don’t want to lose. There will always be the risk of loss of capital. Investing with scared money may push you to make more mistakes.
For further explanation, the money you have allocated for investing is not to be used for any other purpose, until you have achieved some reasonable success. If you can’t afford to leave the money invested in stocks for some time, you better avoid becoming involved in the venture. If you can afford only N5000.00 per month, you can invest comfortably in the stock market. Your progress may be slower than if you started with a bigger amount of money, but the most important thing is that you begin at all.
For further explanation, the money you have allocated for investing is not to be used for any other purpose, until you have achieved some reasonable success. If you can’t afford to leave the money invested in stocks for some time, you better avoid becoming involved in the venture. If you can afford only N5000.00 per month, you can invest comfortably in the stock market. Your progress may be slower than if you started with a bigger amount of money, but the most important thing is that you begin at all.
UBA
It still amazes me why UBA stock prices have been trading sideways since the beginning of this year. This bank is one of the strongest in the country, well capitalized to the tune of 547 billion naira, good customer service when compared to others in the same industry. The bank has also gone ahead to make waves in its expansion drives to enter several other countries, including London and the USA.
The management of this bank is very focused, always at the forefront of innovation and good ethical practices. Let us not go into profitability as this bank has also established itself as a very well run bank, averaging well over 40% returns in the past year.
So why has the stock price stayed at 49-50 naira for this long? Even in the midst of the Bull Run that happened in the beginning of this year? Some experts has attributed this to the unified banking reporting schedule that will take off later this year, for which I find holes in that story.
This is because some investors will hold on to the stocks, hoping that the announcement in December will be juicy enough to explain the long wait. Other also explained this away as the activities of stock traders, this could also be faulted as trading would have propelled the stock prices upwards as traders are known to speculate wildly. The bank may surprise us with a dividend plus bonus, fat dividend at that!
Whatever it may be holding this stock down, will likely pass as the stock price will rebound in a no distant time. This will happen when bargain hunters and value investors will find out the intrinsic value of this stock. I am also watching this one.
The management of this bank is very focused, always at the forefront of innovation and good ethical practices. Let us not go into profitability as this bank has also established itself as a very well run bank, averaging well over 40% returns in the past year.
So why has the stock price stayed at 49-50 naira for this long? Even in the midst of the Bull Run that happened in the beginning of this year? Some experts has attributed this to the unified banking reporting schedule that will take off later this year, for which I find holes in that story.
This is because some investors will hold on to the stocks, hoping that the announcement in December will be juicy enough to explain the long wait. Other also explained this away as the activities of stock traders, this could also be faulted as trading would have propelled the stock prices upwards as traders are known to speculate wildly. The bank may surprise us with a dividend plus bonus, fat dividend at that!
Whatever it may be holding this stock down, will likely pass as the stock price will rebound in a no distant time. This will happen when bargain hunters and value investors will find out the intrinsic value of this stock. I am also watching this one.
Thursday, 3 April 2008
TRANSCORP
The best time to buy a stock is when everything seems wrong with it. This is because by the time everything will be working well enough in a company, the shares will become very expensive.
The shares of Transcorp has been doing all kinds of funny dances, pushed up by inside forces from time to time, falling like a stone some other times. It should be remembered that this company has some good prospects if they can get their acts together.
They are into hotel management, oil wells, telecommunications, etc. All these companies on their own are money spinners, not to talk of what will happen when they all start doing well. Lets keep our eyes on this one.
The shares of Transcorp has been doing all kinds of funny dances, pushed up by inside forces from time to time, falling like a stone some other times. It should be remembered that this company has some good prospects if they can get their acts together.
They are into hotel management, oil wells, telecommunications, etc. All these companies on their own are money spinners, not to talk of what will happen when they all start doing well. Lets keep our eyes on this one.
Sunday, 30 March 2008
STOCKLERIA
Please don’t bother yourself looking this up in the dictionary, this disease is rather new and has come to the notice of most doctors last week. It all started mildly two weeks ago when stock prices started to plummet on the floors of the NSE. Then, some investors who had huge holdings in stocks that are not too fundamentally sound saw no reason to panic.
Now it has become clear that all is not well, as most stocks are taking a beating. This has forced some investors to panic heavily as the bears approached the trading floors. So many investors tried to dump their losing stocks and run for it, alas! The exit was too small for all of them to squeeze through at the same time.
There will be casualties of course, small investors trampled in the stampede and as such could not cash out quick enough. Their brokers can’t sell, especially those that has slow stock brokers. One respectable investor forgot to drive his car home last Thursday, he trekked two kilometers home (he was so confused from losing so much in a day that he forgot he came to work with a car.) another one took Friday off and stayed indoors to sulk at home, pretending to madam that he was sick (or was he not?)
Caution is advised here. Don’t invest or speculate with any amount of money you cannot afford to lose. Some invest with the house rent, and others with the children’s school fees. This is very risky as it will make you to make emotionally charged decisions while investing.
Stockleria as a disease is treatable, just travel to a place where you will not have access to news, no internet connections, no radio or phones and forget about the NSE. This will save you a lot of stress.
Now it has become clear that all is not well, as most stocks are taking a beating. This has forced some investors to panic heavily as the bears approached the trading floors. So many investors tried to dump their losing stocks and run for it, alas! The exit was too small for all of them to squeeze through at the same time.
There will be casualties of course, small investors trampled in the stampede and as such could not cash out quick enough. Their brokers can’t sell, especially those that has slow stock brokers. One respectable investor forgot to drive his car home last Thursday, he trekked two kilometers home (he was so confused from losing so much in a day that he forgot he came to work with a car.) another one took Friday off and stayed indoors to sulk at home, pretending to madam that he was sick (or was he not?)
Caution is advised here. Don’t invest or speculate with any amount of money you cannot afford to lose. Some invest with the house rent, and others with the children’s school fees. This is very risky as it will make you to make emotionally charged decisions while investing.
Stockleria as a disease is treatable, just travel to a place where you will not have access to news, no internet connections, no radio or phones and forget about the NSE. This will save you a lot of stress.
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
MY FIGHT WITH THE POLICE.
Nigerian policemen are starting to behave a little better now than before, like I just passed a police checkpoint (I thought the damn thing has been scrapped across the nation. I was surprised when the policemen there flagged me down gently and asked me to park by the side of the road. I did just that and was politely asked to step down from my car.
I came down and was told to open my boot, the contents were checked and it was locked back. Then my vehicle particulars and other identifying documents were verified. You can imagine my surprise when all my particulars were handed over to me with muffled apology for wasting my time! What, in Nigeria?
Let me now relate to you my experience at the same checkpoint last year. I was driving along and there was this heavy set up of logs, all set up to obstruct any driver. I was not stopped by the first set of policemen, so I drove along. Few meters on, all hell broke loose.
I was almost accelerating when a policeman in front of me lifted an AK47 and cocked it in my face, with his hand on the trigger, running back and shouting at the top of his voice to me, warning me to park or he will shoot me on the head, Jesus!
The look on his eyes meant exactly what he was saying, no be small thing at all! My mind rushed to all the accidental discharge cases where innocent civilians were shot in cold blood. I carefully parked and came down charging at the bastard! It was a big scene; I was hurling all kinds of abuse my mind could remember at the idiot.
I was asking why he should point a gun at me; we blocked all other traffic at the centre of the road. All other policemen rushed towards us, some annoyed at me, some at their colleague. We were exchanging words freely, I wanted to tell him where he belongs, he and me were raving and ranting for nearly two full minutes.
The argument was that they claimed I was stopped further back and I refused to stop, me? What for? I was never stopped! He was beating his chest and asking me out for a fight, I in turn asked him to remove his uniform and I will beat him silly, and you know what, he pulled his top vest, dropped his AK47 and advanced towards me. Only the intervention of more than six other policemen calmed us both.
Later I was making calls with my Blackberry handheld PC, ha! That got to them quickly that this might not be the normal poor Nigerian that they are used to. I called two big men, issuing instructions that my life was in danger.
They later calmed me down and started begging me to forget the incident, while the idiot that cocked his gun in my face was still ranting, apparently under the influence of one hard drug or the other. I later agreed to leave after the elderly officer in charge of that operation begged me to drop the issue and go home.
Nigeria, we hail thee!
I came down and was told to open my boot, the contents were checked and it was locked back. Then my vehicle particulars and other identifying documents were verified. You can imagine my surprise when all my particulars were handed over to me with muffled apology for wasting my time! What, in Nigeria?
Let me now relate to you my experience at the same checkpoint last year. I was driving along and there was this heavy set up of logs, all set up to obstruct any driver. I was not stopped by the first set of policemen, so I drove along. Few meters on, all hell broke loose.
I was almost accelerating when a policeman in front of me lifted an AK47 and cocked it in my face, with his hand on the trigger, running back and shouting at the top of his voice to me, warning me to park or he will shoot me on the head, Jesus!
The look on his eyes meant exactly what he was saying, no be small thing at all! My mind rushed to all the accidental discharge cases where innocent civilians were shot in cold blood. I carefully parked and came down charging at the bastard! It was a big scene; I was hurling all kinds of abuse my mind could remember at the idiot.
I was asking why he should point a gun at me; we blocked all other traffic at the centre of the road. All other policemen rushed towards us, some annoyed at me, some at their colleague. We were exchanging words freely, I wanted to tell him where he belongs, he and me were raving and ranting for nearly two full minutes.
The argument was that they claimed I was stopped further back and I refused to stop, me? What for? I was never stopped! He was beating his chest and asking me out for a fight, I in turn asked him to remove his uniform and I will beat him silly, and you know what, he pulled his top vest, dropped his AK47 and advanced towards me. Only the intervention of more than six other policemen calmed us both.
Later I was making calls with my Blackberry handheld PC, ha! That got to them quickly that this might not be the normal poor Nigerian that they are used to. I called two big men, issuing instructions that my life was in danger.
They later calmed me down and started begging me to forget the incident, while the idiot that cocked his gun in my face was still ranting, apparently under the influence of one hard drug or the other. I later agreed to leave after the elderly officer in charge of that operation begged me to drop the issue and go home.
Nigeria, we hail thee!
Monday, 24 March 2008
Should we respect public treasury looters?
There are situations that present conflicting views and task our judgment as a people with a peculiar culture. Sometimes these happenings are not recent occurrences but could still be fresh on our memories like they happened yesterday. I am talking about looting the treasury of this nation and the way we should regard these affected individuals.
Looting of the treasury, abuse of office, misallocation of public resources, fraud and outright theft of state funds or installations are crimes that should only be punished as soon as possible. This doesn’t seem to be a possibility in the present day Nigeria. This is because the nation as presently constituted still has a lot of in built flaws that prevent this group of men and women from being tried in the courts like common criminals they are.
It will be funny to note that while the masses were crying and suffering in abject poverty, living on less than a dollar a day, these leaders were busy amassing frightening wealth and worse still are stashing them far away from where it would have provided companies and hence jobs for the teeming unemployed graduates. The public infrastructure was either too poorly maintained or totally nonexistent. Roads were so poorly constructed and maintained that you could be surprised if you learn that humans drive cars on these deathtraps. And to make it doubly tragic is the constant harassment from the government officials who drive in long convoys and insist that the poor masses in rickety buses should leave the roads to give them a pass as many times as they want to pass these roads.
This is very saddening when you remember that it is still these corrupt government officials that failed to build these roads. Yet they chase you out of the road; remember also that the hold ups will not be there in the first place if the roads were passable. Starting to count their litany of offences will be like writing another book entirely. Besides, this is out of our topic of discussion for now. What should occupy our attention is how we should treat these people after all these days.
Let me quickly remind us here that these men should still be considered innocent until the courts say otherwise. This is a fact; the law is very slow in catching up with these looters. The masses are watching helplessly as these men still go about in gleaming jeeps and still build mansions in all parts of the world. They still walk around as if nothing will happen to them anymore.
So, what has this got to do with respect for elders as we were trained to do since childhood? The African young person is taught from birth to always be obedient and respectful to adults. This same respect is what we grow up with and it accompanies us until old age. It will not be out of place to see us Africans smiling at strangers and greeting them with a cheerful countenance. In some cultures in Nigeria, you are expected to use two hands while greeting anybody that is your elder. Some cultures almost kneel down to greet adults. But the one that takes the Oscar is the culture in Nigeria where you lie down and prostrate on your belly to as a sign of respect to your elders.
Such deeply imbibed culture of respect is what I am trying to describe as making it difficult for us to speak out against identified crooks. Most of these past leaders are older citizens and as such culture demands that we still accord them respect, but in the face of what they are being accused of doing? In conclusion, we should learn to condemn the actions of these past leaders wherever and whenever possible, so as to serve as a deterrent to future leaders. Actions should also be taken to bring these people to book as their continued freedom is sending the wrong message to the younger generation.
There are situations that present conflicting views and task our judgment as a people with a peculiar culture. Sometimes these happenings are not recent occurrences but could still be fresh on our memories like they happened yesterday. I am talking about looting the treasury of this nation and the way we should regard these affected individuals.
Looting of the treasury, abuse of office, misallocation of public resources, fraud and outright theft of state funds or installations are crimes that should only be punished as soon as possible. This doesn’t seem to be a possibility in the present day Nigeria. This is because the nation as presently constituted still has a lot of in built flaws that prevent this group of men and women from being tried in the courts like common criminals they are.
It will be funny to note that while the masses were crying and suffering in abject poverty, living on less than a dollar a day, these leaders were busy amassing frightening wealth and worse still are stashing them far away from where it would have provided companies and hence jobs for the teeming unemployed graduates. The public infrastructure was either too poorly maintained or totally nonexistent. Roads were so poorly constructed and maintained that you could be surprised if you learn that humans drive cars on these deathtraps. And to make it doubly tragic is the constant harassment from the government officials who drive in long convoys and insist that the poor masses in rickety buses should leave the roads to give them a pass as many times as they want to pass these roads.
This is very saddening when you remember that it is still these corrupt government officials that failed to build these roads. Yet they chase you out of the road; remember also that the hold ups will not be there in the first place if the roads were passable. Starting to count their litany of offences will be like writing another book entirely. Besides, this is out of our topic of discussion for now. What should occupy our attention is how we should treat these people after all these days.
Let me quickly remind us here that these men should still be considered innocent until the courts say otherwise. This is a fact; the law is very slow in catching up with these looters. The masses are watching helplessly as these men still go about in gleaming jeeps and still build mansions in all parts of the world. They still walk around as if nothing will happen to them anymore.
So, what has this got to do with respect for elders as we were trained to do since childhood? The African young person is taught from birth to always be obedient and respectful to adults. This same respect is what we grow up with and it accompanies us until old age. It will not be out of place to see us Africans smiling at strangers and greeting them with a cheerful countenance. In some cultures in Nigeria, you are expected to use two hands while greeting anybody that is your elder. Some cultures almost kneel down to greet adults. But the one that takes the Oscar is the culture in Nigeria where you lie down and prostrate on your belly to as a sign of respect to your elders.
Such deeply imbibed culture of respect is what I am trying to describe as making it difficult for us to speak out against identified crooks. Most of these past leaders are older citizens and as such culture demands that we still accord them respect, but in the face of what they are being accused of doing? In conclusion, we should learn to condemn the actions of these past leaders wherever and whenever possible, so as to serve as a deterrent to future leaders. Actions should also be taken to bring these people to book as their continued freedom is sending the wrong message to the younger generation.
SHOULD YOU SELL A STOCK AT A LOSS?
Several authors world over had tried to answer the above question convincingly in the past. The major objective of buying stocks, nay any other form of investment product is the profit motive. Since all investors are in the stock market to make increasing profits by buying good stocks and trying to sell them off when they have become overvalued, it will be painful to sell a stock at a loss.
It is an emotion thing, having to accept less that you invested as a return, not forgetting time wasted and all other resources not utilised. Nobody likes losing money. Some people also find it difficult to agree they are wrong, hence they try to hang in there, believing things will change at the next market turn. some do brag to friends and family what a guru they are, not until the stocks they picked start making losses as it will once in a while, that they now remember that the market is no respecter of personality, position, status and qualifications.
So such investors try to stick to their early convictions and carry on as if nothing happened. Defending their actions with flimsy excuses. They fail to notice that a mistake not corrected goes on to multiply its consequences, dragging the whole portfolio down with it. A large percentage of the investors portfolio will be dormant for long. Not smart, not smart at all. Even worse is the practice of shifting such unperforming stock to the long term section of their portfolio. Another mistake as the place you keep an ill timed mistake will not change it from what it still is, a mistake.
Wake up and sanitize your portfolio now. The best action to take is to sell a stick as soon as you notice it was a mistake buying it in the first place. Sell and move the money into more performing stocks and sectors. Take the loss but remember to avoid the mistake that took you into buying the stock in the first place. The money now stands a chance of performing in your new selection, and sometimes wiping away your earlier loss.
It is an emotion thing, having to accept less that you invested as a return, not forgetting time wasted and all other resources not utilised. Nobody likes losing money. Some people also find it difficult to agree they are wrong, hence they try to hang in there, believing things will change at the next market turn. some do brag to friends and family what a guru they are, not until the stocks they picked start making losses as it will once in a while, that they now remember that the market is no respecter of personality, position, status and qualifications.
So such investors try to stick to their early convictions and carry on as if nothing happened. Defending their actions with flimsy excuses. They fail to notice that a mistake not corrected goes on to multiply its consequences, dragging the whole portfolio down with it. A large percentage of the investors portfolio will be dormant for long. Not smart, not smart at all. Even worse is the practice of shifting such unperforming stock to the long term section of their portfolio. Another mistake as the place you keep an ill timed mistake will not change it from what it still is, a mistake.
Wake up and sanitize your portfolio now. The best action to take is to sell a stick as soon as you notice it was a mistake buying it in the first place. Sell and move the money into more performing stocks and sectors. Take the loss but remember to avoid the mistake that took you into buying the stock in the first place. The money now stands a chance of performing in your new selection, and sometimes wiping away your earlier loss.
Sunday, 23 March 2008
POCKET LAUGHS, ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE.
A police corporal, serving at Alausa, impregnated the daughter of his DPO. The DPO summoned him to his office and asked for an explanation "Corporal, why did you commit that irresponsible act"?
Corporal: "Oga na accidental discharge"!
Corporal: "Oga na accidental discharge"!
POCKET LAUGHS, EVIL MEN.
One bad man ( 419, armed robber, pen robber, assassin etc) was watching television in his upstairs sitting room with his young son one day. The first rain of the year was coming with its usual thunder, lightening, heavy winds, snow fall. It got so loud and thunderous that the man became very afraid; it seemed the house will collapse on him he quickly raced outside the house, where he thought the house will not collapse on his head.
He started yelling the name of his son, "Sam, Sam, please run down from that house, the money I used to build this house, I don't trust it at all"
The moral of this story, EVIL NEVER PAYS.
He started yelling the name of his son, "Sam, Sam, please run down from that house, the money I used to build this house, I don't trust it at all"
The moral of this story, EVIL NEVER PAYS.
POCKET LAUGHS, DOUBLE MIRACLE.
A blind man was sitting beside a deaf/mute, begging for alms. A passer by dropped a big bill in the plate of the blind man, as the money was too big to be resisted; quickly the deaf/ mute snapped it up from the blind man's plate.
The blind man shouted 'you think I didn't see your hand'? 'just put that money down before I slap you'!
The deaf/mute asked, 'I thought you are blind'?
The blind man returned 'And I thought you were deaf and dumb'?
The passer by (a pastor) came back and said 'praise the lord, this is a double miracle'!
The blind man shouted 'you think I didn't see your hand'? 'just put that money down before I slap you'!
The deaf/mute asked, 'I thought you are blind'?
The blind man returned 'And I thought you were deaf and dumb'?
The passer by (a pastor) came back and said 'praise the lord, this is a double miracle'!
SHOULD I LEAVE MY DAY JOB NOW?
Yours truly has been in a big turmoil of late, source of worry; my day job is no longer as interesting as it used to. Plus the time I spend in my eight to six job seem to me a waste of valuable time since my job has become mainly repetitive in nature with nothing new to learn.
For sustenance, I am into some other business ventures that are generating cash bigger than my salary every month. My dilemma is thinking of leaving and wondering if anything will go wrong and I will be back doing what I hate.
I am still in my early thirties, married and educated. In fact I am bored to death working for someone else. I would like to spend more time with my family.
For sustenance, I am into some other business ventures that are generating cash bigger than my salary every month. My dilemma is thinking of leaving and wondering if anything will go wrong and I will be back doing what I hate.
I am still in my early thirties, married and educated. In fact I am bored to death working for someone else. I would like to spend more time with my family.
EASTER THOUGHTS FOR YOU.
What is the best thing that happened to you of recent? What is it that God has blessed you with, don’t tell me about your difficulties, and rather tell me of the many blessings he has been pushing your way every second of everyday.
He gives you air to breathe.
He gives you water to drink.
He feeds you, clothes you, and keeps you healthy and sane.
What else cant he give to you since he has given you all these things that money cannot buy? He can give you wealth, wisdom and power.
Always remember that JESUS CHRIST died for you, he has resurrected with enough love to solve all our numerous problems. Believe that all your problems are over for the LORD has come to bear your burden.
Rejoice for CHRIST I risen!
He gives you air to breathe.
He gives you water to drink.
He feeds you, clothes you, and keeps you healthy and sane.
What else cant he give to you since he has given you all these things that money cannot buy? He can give you wealth, wisdom and power.
Always remember that JESUS CHRIST died for you, he has resurrected with enough love to solve all our numerous problems. Believe that all your problems are over for the LORD has come to bear your burden.
Rejoice for CHRIST I risen!
Saturday, 22 March 2008
WILL SOME NIGERIANS RETURN ALIVE? WE PRAY FOR THEM.
I know a lot of Nigerians that traveled abroad for greener pastures a long time ago and have still not returned home after a ten or fifteen year sojourn. This is highly abnormal as the friends and family awaiting their return has either given up hope or resigned their fate to God. Year after year go by and these men and women still haven’t come back home.
The reason is not far fetched, greener pastures as they used to think before they left home has become…not so green after all. But why don’t they come back and resume their roles here in Nigeria? Let me give you some reasons.
Some of our men made so much mouth that they will come back with millions of dollars as if it was a case of packing dollars from the streets. These men may be hanging on, preferring to exist in a foreign land than come back here for friends to laugh at them, “he came back empty handed hahahah”
Some, lets face it stole money from friends and family to run away to foreign lands. This group of people find it difficult to come and face the people they deceived and ran away with their money, maybe they are waiting for years to heal the hurt and embarrassment they caused everyone. There was one guy who emptied the cash in his master’s shop; another sold all the drinks in the truck he was driving as a company salesman, sold the drink cases and escaped with the whole money to Spain, needless to say the police are still waiting for him in Nigeria.
Some are in foreign jails for one reason or the other, drug trafficking, 419, armed robbery etc. Some are serving lengthy terms. They will be back as soon as they are done.
Finally and sadly too, some are dead. Some died trying to cross into Spain through Morocco. Some died in the heat and thirst of the North African desert, some shot by the janjaweed, and some shot by security agents or armed robbers. As their remains were never found, their people will still be awaiting their return. Stories abound of many dried up corpses bearing Nigerian passports in the deserts.
Sad, very sad for the giants of Africa.
The reason is not far fetched, greener pastures as they used to think before they left home has become…not so green after all. But why don’t they come back and resume their roles here in Nigeria? Let me give you some reasons.
Some of our men made so much mouth that they will come back with millions of dollars as if it was a case of packing dollars from the streets. These men may be hanging on, preferring to exist in a foreign land than come back here for friends to laugh at them, “he came back empty handed hahahah”
Some, lets face it stole money from friends and family to run away to foreign lands. This group of people find it difficult to come and face the people they deceived and ran away with their money, maybe they are waiting for years to heal the hurt and embarrassment they caused everyone. There was one guy who emptied the cash in his master’s shop; another sold all the drinks in the truck he was driving as a company salesman, sold the drink cases and escaped with the whole money to Spain, needless to say the police are still waiting for him in Nigeria.
Some are in foreign jails for one reason or the other, drug trafficking, 419, armed robbery etc. Some are serving lengthy terms. They will be back as soon as they are done.
Finally and sadly too, some are dead. Some died trying to cross into Spain through Morocco. Some died in the heat and thirst of the North African desert, some shot by the janjaweed, and some shot by security agents or armed robbers. As their remains were never found, their people will still be awaiting their return. Stories abound of many dried up corpses bearing Nigerian passports in the deserts.
Sad, very sad for the giants of Africa.
HOUSE HELPS AS SLAVES?
In Nigeria today the issue of whether or not to get a house help has become a more thorny issue. Let me examine the topic in different perspectives.
For the housewife, they need a helping hand to run some errands in the house, to act as a support for many activities in the running of the home. It has also been noticed that housewives are the people that abuse house helps mostly. Some wives see the maids as a competition in the house, and as such mete out punishment to clip their wings even when it is unnecessary. However most housewives are now wary of hiring female house helps since some irresponsible men sleep with their house helps and in some cases, take them as second wives. This will mean the powers enjoyed previously by the wife will now be shared.
For the social workers, they see the issue of house helps as a rot that has taken root in the society. They see it as a means of exploitation of the young woman used as a maid. They allege child labor, victimization, malnourishment, and overworking of the young woman.
For the man of the house, they see house helps as helpers in the house, to help out the kids with difficult tasks and accompany them to and from school.
So how do you see house helps? Should the practice be encouraged or stopped completely?
For the housewife, they need a helping hand to run some errands in the house, to act as a support for many activities in the running of the home. It has also been noticed that housewives are the people that abuse house helps mostly. Some wives see the maids as a competition in the house, and as such mete out punishment to clip their wings even when it is unnecessary. However most housewives are now wary of hiring female house helps since some irresponsible men sleep with their house helps and in some cases, take them as second wives. This will mean the powers enjoyed previously by the wife will now be shared.
For the social workers, they see the issue of house helps as a rot that has taken root in the society. They see it as a means of exploitation of the young woman used as a maid. They allege child labor, victimization, malnourishment, and overworking of the young woman.
For the man of the house, they see house helps as helpers in the house, to help out the kids with difficult tasks and accompany them to and from school.
So how do you see house helps? Should the practice be encouraged or stopped completely?
chelsea vs. arsenal: this will be war!
All soccer lovers all over the world are salivating already, every lover of the beautiful game are already poised for this cracker of immense proportions. They don’t come any bigger than this, a top of the table clash in a time in the premiership when one slip could mean the difference between winning and losing the premiership trophy.
It all started in the first half of the premiership when Chelsea were beaten 2:0 by Arsenal at the emirates stadium, helping to push Chelsea further down the top of the table, I remember that was not the best of times for a Chelsea team still reeling from the vacuum created by the exit of the controversial Jose Mourinho. On that day at the emirates, Chelsea were clearly outclassed and outplayed by the younger, sharper boys of Arsenal who were much at ease with their game.
Today’s match will be a little different because it seems it is Arsenal that is more at pressure, having suffered a loss of form of late. Their goal scoring prowess has become a doubt of late, all their attackers has become shy in front of the post. An Adebayor that seems to have shaved off his goal scoring skills with his hair will be a delight to watch as tries to recreate his magic in front of one of the strongest defense in the world.
There is also revenge in the air, as Chelsea football club will be trying to pay back Arsenal in their own coins. Don’t also forget that the lure for Chelsea will be to climb atop Arsenal in the league table, which Arsenal will not find funny. Arsenal has been sitting pretty at the top of the league table for most of the season, but having played second fiddle to Manchester united, it will be sad to see them slip to the third spot as the league draws dangerously near to a close.
Another top of the league cracker is the match between Manchester united and Liverpool. Rafael Benitez men are poised to stake a claim to the forth position on the table so as to ensure a champions league spot later in the year. I have already gotten a front row seat for both matches at my local pub, have you?
It all started in the first half of the premiership when Chelsea were beaten 2:0 by Arsenal at the emirates stadium, helping to push Chelsea further down the top of the table, I remember that was not the best of times for a Chelsea team still reeling from the vacuum created by the exit of the controversial Jose Mourinho. On that day at the emirates, Chelsea were clearly outclassed and outplayed by the younger, sharper boys of Arsenal who were much at ease with their game.
Today’s match will be a little different because it seems it is Arsenal that is more at pressure, having suffered a loss of form of late. Their goal scoring prowess has become a doubt of late, all their attackers has become shy in front of the post. An Adebayor that seems to have shaved off his goal scoring skills with his hair will be a delight to watch as tries to recreate his magic in front of one of the strongest defense in the world.
There is also revenge in the air, as Chelsea football club will be trying to pay back Arsenal in their own coins. Don’t also forget that the lure for Chelsea will be to climb atop Arsenal in the league table, which Arsenal will not find funny. Arsenal has been sitting pretty at the top of the league table for most of the season, but having played second fiddle to Manchester united, it will be sad to see them slip to the third spot as the league draws dangerously near to a close.
Another top of the league cracker is the match between Manchester united and Liverpool. Rafael Benitez men are poised to stake a claim to the forth position on the table so as to ensure a champions league spot later in the year. I have already gotten a front row seat for both matches at my local pub, have you?
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Recent happenings in the Nigerian stock exchange have defied all known explanations. These happening are mainly like a new trend, where companies that declare good quarterly of audited results will start to lose value in their stock prices. The opposite happens when companies declare terrible results; lo and behold the stock prices will head north!
I used to think, until recently that it was supposed to be the other way round, let us use a recent example. Dangote sugar refineries made some good profit at year end and therefore declared a bonus and dividend for its shareholders. The bonus issue will be in the ratio of 1:5, yet investors started dumping those shares.
This result was made public at the tail end of last week and since then, for two trading days the stock has lost the maximum allowed 10% while oasis insurance that declared a 0.02 kobo dividend has been enjoying price appreciation on the floors of the exchange. Lets see how this all plays out as trading starts tomorrow.
I used to think, until recently that it was supposed to be the other way round, let us use a recent example. Dangote sugar refineries made some good profit at year end and therefore declared a bonus and dividend for its shareholders. The bonus issue will be in the ratio of 1:5, yet investors started dumping those shares.
This result was made public at the tail end of last week and since then, for two trading days the stock has lost the maximum allowed 10% while oasis insurance that declared a 0.02 kobo dividend has been enjoying price appreciation on the floors of the exchange. Lets see how this all plays out as trading starts tomorrow.
Sunday, 9 March 2008
Monitoring your stock investments
It is always important to know how your investments are performing from time to time; you will likely want to know how your different investments in various Companies are performing. This will be with a view to finding out how your decisions have helped you make or lose money. Some people will want to sell a stock that has made a 25 percent profit for then, after all commissions and taxes have been removed.
An effective monitoring program should provide you with sufficient information to evaluate the investments strengths and weaknesses, and help you find out on time if your investment objectives are likely to be met or not. Monitoring should include some analysis of not only what happened, but why.
There are two types of stock performance measurements:
1. Performance measurement
2. Performance evaluation
Performance measurement is a technical accounting function that computes the return of your whole stock portfolio.
Performance evaluation on the other hand is a function that uses the information generated by performance measurement to determine what contributed to, or detracted from the portfolios return.
Nigerian securities site has some good portfolio management tools.
An effective monitoring program should provide you with sufficient information to evaluate the investments strengths and weaknesses, and help you find out on time if your investment objectives are likely to be met or not. Monitoring should include some analysis of not only what happened, but why.
There are two types of stock performance measurements:
1. Performance measurement
2. Performance evaluation
Performance measurement is a technical accounting function that computes the return of your whole stock portfolio.
Performance evaluation on the other hand is a function that uses the information generated by performance measurement to determine what contributed to, or detracted from the portfolios return.
Nigerian securities site has some good portfolio management tools.
NEPA as the nations albatross - extreme measures!
The noise is deafening out here! As I am typing this, there are over five generating sets of all shapes and sizes, not to mention brands or quality are humming noisily everywhere around me. Welcome to Nigeria! A country where the powers that be, have failed woefully to fix a problem bedeviling our economy for two decades. We cannot start to talk of the health risks associated with the fumes thrown out by these inferior generating sets.
The fact is that the nation’s power providers have failed us. Whether you call them NEPA or PHCN, they are just acronyms we have come to associate with great failures. Go around the country and you will see that these so called power providers are daily setting records on inefficiency! Nobody can surpass this level of disservice to paying customers anywhere in the world. NEPA has set a record in bad service delivery which will be difficult to erase.
Passing blames to NEPA officials, staff and even the previous administrations will be a waste of time. Some has even gone ahead to blame the general public for abuses like wrongful connection of light, illegal connections and failure to pay light bills while enjoying light. All those shifting blames will be wrong at this stage as many young men and women are unemployed because they cannot unleash their potentials. A young welder that has a workshop will be idle as soon as lights go off, so also a young woman fashion designer or hairdresser.
If I were to rule this nation for one year, there will be light in this country as much as we want. I will do the unthinkable, break some barriers and ruffle a lot of feathers. I will step on some big toes and when things improve, will say sorry. Here is what I will do.
I will go on air one day and announce a state of emergency in the power sector. I will request that the nation understand the situation and make some sacrifice to enable us clear this shame. I will announce that henceforth, all lights in this country should be switched off at once. All NEPA or PHCN staff are to stand down, all ‘removed’ from their positions. Note that I said all staff, senior or junior. All power installations are to be sold for scrap.
Stage two; new offer will be made to independent power providers to come in and bid to handle power generation, distribution and maintenance. I will like them to be handling local government after local government or states. Just like the telecoms sector, government will only play a part in monitoring and regulating all activities in the power sector.
I know what I just suggested are extreme measures, but we have suffered extreme punishment and embarrassment as a nation.
The fact is that the nation’s power providers have failed us. Whether you call them NEPA or PHCN, they are just acronyms we have come to associate with great failures. Go around the country and you will see that these so called power providers are daily setting records on inefficiency! Nobody can surpass this level of disservice to paying customers anywhere in the world. NEPA has set a record in bad service delivery which will be difficult to erase.
Passing blames to NEPA officials, staff and even the previous administrations will be a waste of time. Some has even gone ahead to blame the general public for abuses like wrongful connection of light, illegal connections and failure to pay light bills while enjoying light. All those shifting blames will be wrong at this stage as many young men and women are unemployed because they cannot unleash their potentials. A young welder that has a workshop will be idle as soon as lights go off, so also a young woman fashion designer or hairdresser.
If I were to rule this nation for one year, there will be light in this country as much as we want. I will do the unthinkable, break some barriers and ruffle a lot of feathers. I will step on some big toes and when things improve, will say sorry. Here is what I will do.
I will go on air one day and announce a state of emergency in the power sector. I will request that the nation understand the situation and make some sacrifice to enable us clear this shame. I will announce that henceforth, all lights in this country should be switched off at once. All NEPA or PHCN staff are to stand down, all ‘removed’ from their positions. Note that I said all staff, senior or junior. All power installations are to be sold for scrap.
Stage two; new offer will be made to independent power providers to come in and bid to handle power generation, distribution and maintenance. I will like them to be handling local government after local government or states. Just like the telecoms sector, government will only play a part in monitoring and regulating all activities in the power sector.
I know what I just suggested are extreme measures, but we have suffered extreme punishment and embarrassment as a nation.
Saturday, 8 March 2008
Mass exodus of young Nigerians abroad, blessing or curse?
A lot of rosy pictures have been painted in the minds of every young adult in this part of the world about foreign lands. We heard that it’s a place filled with milk and honey, a place where every body can only get rich, a place where everything works with utmost precision towards perfection. A place where you can escape to and instantly get so rich that when you come back here; people will bow down and worship you and your gleaming fleet of cars, your shining houses and elegant robes. We had all been made to believe that there is no comparison between people over there and people down here, in fact that “your life will never remain the same again” quoting from a popular man of God.
Stories abound of men that spent only one or two years after traveling to a foreign land only to come back here to start up their mansions and move around with police escort. (For fear of being robbed) yet these were men that were begging food a few years ago. They can now wine and dine with kings and princes and even speak out against the wills and decision of men much aged than their parents.
They are now free to go on an insult our sense of decency and redefine our sense of value. (Note that a few of them are very humble) but most are not. They go around bragging about their exploits in foreign lands to all who may care to listen. They boast about their achievements like the upstairs they are, and you need to see how women fall for them like a pack of cards.
Don’t get me wrong! I will not be telling you the truth if I say there is not a lot of opportunity for money making in a lot of foreign lands. But most the time the opportunity is overstated, the facts are bloated and displaced. A lot of our young men here have sold everything they own, from their houses to their shops and cars just to take the plunge and risk their money on an uncertain future. Some come out unscathed and yet some come out poorer in the end.
There is wealth making opportunities in every country, Nigeria inclusive. Our people need to assess their dynamism and intelligence to solve all our problems. Everything we need is here, only waiting for us to discover them. In the midst of my business travels, I have come across some honest Nigerians who had never stepped out of the shores of this country and yet are so rich that they can lend this country some money. These are multi billionaire business moguls that made al their money here. They are still here and they are still making money.
Stories abound of men that spent only one or two years after traveling to a foreign land only to come back here to start up their mansions and move around with police escort. (For fear of being robbed) yet these were men that were begging food a few years ago. They can now wine and dine with kings and princes and even speak out against the wills and decision of men much aged than their parents.
They are now free to go on an insult our sense of decency and redefine our sense of value. (Note that a few of them are very humble) but most are not. They go around bragging about their exploits in foreign lands to all who may care to listen. They boast about their achievements like the upstairs they are, and you need to see how women fall for them like a pack of cards.
Don’t get me wrong! I will not be telling you the truth if I say there is not a lot of opportunity for money making in a lot of foreign lands. But most the time the opportunity is overstated, the facts are bloated and displaced. A lot of our young men here have sold everything they own, from their houses to their shops and cars just to take the plunge and risk their money on an uncertain future. Some come out unscathed and yet some come out poorer in the end.
There is wealth making opportunities in every country, Nigeria inclusive. Our people need to assess their dynamism and intelligence to solve all our problems. Everything we need is here, only waiting for us to discover them. In the midst of my business travels, I have come across some honest Nigerians who had never stepped out of the shores of this country and yet are so rich that they can lend this country some money. These are multi billionaire business moguls that made al their money here. They are still here and they are still making money.
The Ibo people of Nigeria.
THE IBO PEOPLE OF NIGERIA.
It had often been argued, that the south eastern part of Nigeria is predominantly populated with men and women whose principal occupation is trading. The same argument also holds that the south west practices the most of economic related activities like public service, private sector manufacturing and investing. The northern part of the country seems to be mostly interested in agriculture; this involves cattle rearing and also crops cultivation. A large number of them are also in the armed forces.
Trading in tangible goods as preferred by the Ibos of the eastern part of this country, seemed to be a good choice since the average Ibo man is very creative in turning a little space into a goods supermarket. Some people had disagreed with this notion; they insist the Ibos love for commerce stems from their love for money, hence their preference for businesses that will always make them touch cash on a regular basis. A visit to any part of this country will show that the prime shops and trading places are managed by people of eastern origin, especially the Ibos. No market worth its salt can be opened in any part of the country without the popular eastern young men, taking up almost ninety percent of the shops on offer. Examples abound where these young men created full fledged markets out of open spaces, yes they are markets, even when the grounds they are trading on are illegally obtained as was the case in Abuja, federal capital territory.
For the westerners, early education seems to be their priority. On graduation from any higher institution of learning, they gain employment into the public service, either in the numerous manufacturing or service companies that abound in the south west especially Lagos. They do very little trading in tangible goods. Instead they like working and investing their money in several investment vehicles like the stock market, money market etc.
The westerners are fully abreast with information about economic changes and opportunities, quite unlike their eastern brothers who pay little or no attention to happenings on the news media. Little wonder all news papers, magazines; radio and television companies all have their head offices in Lagos state. In this country, only in the west can you find people that know how to enjoy their money long after they have retired from public service. They amass shares of listed an even non listed companies. This is a sure way of perpetrating themselves in the public service as the directorial and management positions they acquire allow them to influence company decisions in terms of employment of fresh workers in the industries. They had often been accused of employment and protection of the rights of their brothers, fellow westerners.
The outbreak of the Nigerian civil war in the late sixties didn’t help the cause of the easterners one bit. They fled their abode in Lagos thereby abandoning their positions in the public service. Those who were lucky to enough to return with their lives from the battlefields of guerrilla war soon found out that their positions had been filled. The east lost out in the scheme of things as a generation of intelligent and experienced men and women found it difficult assuming their former positions, hence the generation gap opened in the early and mid seventies. These positions were taken over by the available westerners and northerners. Some business premises and landed properties of some rich easterners were confiscated by the powers that be.
On its own part, the northerners seem not to understand the real importance of the education and investment bug that has bitten the western part of this country. They are not also commercial crazy like the easterners. Majority of my northern friends seem content with selling suya, chewing gum, sweets and biscuits or polishing peoples shoes rather than engage themselves in viable business opportunities. They never seem to be interested about the whole thing. For the girl child of northern origin, education is a pipe dream. Her parents will never acknowledge her need for education or self improvement. She is traded off in a marriage arrangement even before she could learn how to wash her under wears.
A lot of effort has been made to connect our northern brethren to the national grid, not of NEPA or is it PHCN, no I am talking about the national education grid. Free education has been dangled in front of them, all to no avail. Straight admission into the varsities for those daring enough to attempt JAMB, but how many of them even bother to complete primary education. Or have we forgotten the efforts made for nomadic education, where some people were paid to chase others around in the bush to teach them, and sometimes their cattle a few tricks about writing their names. The situation is bad enough and calls for serious reflections if we all are to have equal opportunities in the scheme of things.
And if you think that it’s only the north that suffers from lack of complete education, you better think again. In the east, boys that are barely able to know their left hand from their right are plucked out of primary schools and sent straight to the markets to learn one trade or the other, all in an attempt to catch up on money making. Whether they succeed in money making or not is a matter for another days discussion as what we want to concern ourselves with is the ability or otherwise of the easterners to effectively and efficiently manage the numerous economic opportunities around them.
It would have been easy enough to assume that the easterners mastery of commercial activities will make them good economic managers, but events has since proved that economic activities doesn’t in fact start and end with buying and selling of tangible goods and materials. It is quite larger than that. Investigations have shown that less than five percent of large manufacturing and service companies in this great country has its chief executive officer as an easterner. Why should this be so? Upon enquiry a few people tried to explain to me that this is a direct result of our limited educational pursuits as compared to the west. But another school of thought believes that in fact the easterners are bad financial administrators, if a spade is to be called its proper name. These people had argued that when a firm is not directly owned by these easterners, there tend to be mismanagement of resources.
This same school of thought was trying hard to convince me that the easterners always have this disturbing get-rich-quick syndrome in them. They were even insisting that the advance free fraud (419) has so messed up our public image that trust becomes a scarce commodity among the easterners. Stories have been told of men who had become millionaires with the proceeds of donations entrusted to them to execute one project or the other in their own village. These men come back few years later in gleaming jeeps to be crowned chiefs by the same people they swindled. And yet the project still remains undone, pity the poor.
Until quite recently, the easterners were allowed to take up only some types of ministerial appointments. Maybe it was because of the fear others had of their financial and economic management. Not until the advent of the Soludos, the Okonjo-Iwealas, the Akunyilis and others that have stood up to be counted, carting away several laurels from both the local and international agencies. This is the first time we are being taken seriously by others. These dynamic men and women have made us proud again. They have come out to assure us that all hope is not lost. That the bone can still rise again, that the rejected stone can still be the corner stone of a mighty mansion. We now have seen that we should not only handle the information ministries, but be allowed to contribute our quota in turning this country around for the better. On a final note I wish to state here that the easterners can break the strangle hold which the west had maintained over all the public companies in the country. We can wrest the dominance of economic management from them, if only we could try. Then only can we prove to be the most dynamic part of this great country.
It had often been argued, that the south eastern part of Nigeria is predominantly populated with men and women whose principal occupation is trading. The same argument also holds that the south west practices the most of economic related activities like public service, private sector manufacturing and investing. The northern part of the country seems to be mostly interested in agriculture; this involves cattle rearing and also crops cultivation. A large number of them are also in the armed forces.
Trading in tangible goods as preferred by the Ibos of the eastern part of this country, seemed to be a good choice since the average Ibo man is very creative in turning a little space into a goods supermarket. Some people had disagreed with this notion; they insist the Ibos love for commerce stems from their love for money, hence their preference for businesses that will always make them touch cash on a regular basis. A visit to any part of this country will show that the prime shops and trading places are managed by people of eastern origin, especially the Ibos. No market worth its salt can be opened in any part of the country without the popular eastern young men, taking up almost ninety percent of the shops on offer. Examples abound where these young men created full fledged markets out of open spaces, yes they are markets, even when the grounds they are trading on are illegally obtained as was the case in Abuja, federal capital territory.
For the westerners, early education seems to be their priority. On graduation from any higher institution of learning, they gain employment into the public service, either in the numerous manufacturing or service companies that abound in the south west especially Lagos. They do very little trading in tangible goods. Instead they like working and investing their money in several investment vehicles like the stock market, money market etc.
The westerners are fully abreast with information about economic changes and opportunities, quite unlike their eastern brothers who pay little or no attention to happenings on the news media. Little wonder all news papers, magazines; radio and television companies all have their head offices in Lagos state. In this country, only in the west can you find people that know how to enjoy their money long after they have retired from public service. They amass shares of listed an even non listed companies. This is a sure way of perpetrating themselves in the public service as the directorial and management positions they acquire allow them to influence company decisions in terms of employment of fresh workers in the industries. They had often been accused of employment and protection of the rights of their brothers, fellow westerners.
The outbreak of the Nigerian civil war in the late sixties didn’t help the cause of the easterners one bit. They fled their abode in Lagos thereby abandoning their positions in the public service. Those who were lucky to enough to return with their lives from the battlefields of guerrilla war soon found out that their positions had been filled. The east lost out in the scheme of things as a generation of intelligent and experienced men and women found it difficult assuming their former positions, hence the generation gap opened in the early and mid seventies. These positions were taken over by the available westerners and northerners. Some business premises and landed properties of some rich easterners were confiscated by the powers that be.
On its own part, the northerners seem not to understand the real importance of the education and investment bug that has bitten the western part of this country. They are not also commercial crazy like the easterners. Majority of my northern friends seem content with selling suya, chewing gum, sweets and biscuits or polishing peoples shoes rather than engage themselves in viable business opportunities. They never seem to be interested about the whole thing. For the girl child of northern origin, education is a pipe dream. Her parents will never acknowledge her need for education or self improvement. She is traded off in a marriage arrangement even before she could learn how to wash her under wears.
A lot of effort has been made to connect our northern brethren to the national grid, not of NEPA or is it PHCN, no I am talking about the national education grid. Free education has been dangled in front of them, all to no avail. Straight admission into the varsities for those daring enough to attempt JAMB, but how many of them even bother to complete primary education. Or have we forgotten the efforts made for nomadic education, where some people were paid to chase others around in the bush to teach them, and sometimes their cattle a few tricks about writing their names. The situation is bad enough and calls for serious reflections if we all are to have equal opportunities in the scheme of things.
And if you think that it’s only the north that suffers from lack of complete education, you better think again. In the east, boys that are barely able to know their left hand from their right are plucked out of primary schools and sent straight to the markets to learn one trade or the other, all in an attempt to catch up on money making. Whether they succeed in money making or not is a matter for another days discussion as what we want to concern ourselves with is the ability or otherwise of the easterners to effectively and efficiently manage the numerous economic opportunities around them.
It would have been easy enough to assume that the easterners mastery of commercial activities will make them good economic managers, but events has since proved that economic activities doesn’t in fact start and end with buying and selling of tangible goods and materials. It is quite larger than that. Investigations have shown that less than five percent of large manufacturing and service companies in this great country has its chief executive officer as an easterner. Why should this be so? Upon enquiry a few people tried to explain to me that this is a direct result of our limited educational pursuits as compared to the west. But another school of thought believes that in fact the easterners are bad financial administrators, if a spade is to be called its proper name. These people had argued that when a firm is not directly owned by these easterners, there tend to be mismanagement of resources.
This same school of thought was trying hard to convince me that the easterners always have this disturbing get-rich-quick syndrome in them. They were even insisting that the advance free fraud (419) has so messed up our public image that trust becomes a scarce commodity among the easterners. Stories have been told of men who had become millionaires with the proceeds of donations entrusted to them to execute one project or the other in their own village. These men come back few years later in gleaming jeeps to be crowned chiefs by the same people they swindled. And yet the project still remains undone, pity the poor.
Until quite recently, the easterners were allowed to take up only some types of ministerial appointments. Maybe it was because of the fear others had of their financial and economic management. Not until the advent of the Soludos, the Okonjo-Iwealas, the Akunyilis and others that have stood up to be counted, carting away several laurels from both the local and international agencies. This is the first time we are being taken seriously by others. These dynamic men and women have made us proud again. They have come out to assure us that all hope is not lost. That the bone can still rise again, that the rejected stone can still be the corner stone of a mighty mansion. We now have seen that we should not only handle the information ministries, but be allowed to contribute our quota in turning this country around for the better. On a final note I wish to state here that the easterners can break the strangle hold which the west had maintained over all the public companies in the country. We can wrest the dominance of economic management from them, if only we could try. Then only can we prove to be the most dynamic part of this great country.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)