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When you see some guys take you out, spend uncontrollably lavishly on you buying you alcohol and food, even when its clear his actions shows some form of irresponsibility you overlook it and concentrate only on the fun,wether he’s working or not isn’t your concern,you don’t care where he got the cash from either yours is that you are hanging out with one of the so called “big boys” in town, he drives you around town and later end up having sex with you,he gives you money in form of T-fare back home.When you get back home you just can’t stop thinking of the fun and the next thing is, you start feeling you are in love,moments later you conclude you just can’t stop thinking of him which means you are in love, the next day he calls you out and does the same thing, at this point you not only conclude you are in love but now its a relationship,according to you for him to take you out the second time means you are now dating. Even when its clear the guy is just using you to pass time and satisfy his sexual desires, you just don’t want to believe that’s what he is doing, since you’ve concluded you are now in love.
Days later he stops calling you,you start feeling bad telling the whole world your boyfriend no longer call you. Hello, did I hear you say boyfriend at what point did he become your boyfriend? Accidentally you find him with another girl and you conclude saying men are wicked,oh he dumped you for another girl after you’ve done so much for him. Hello, once again did I hear you say you did so much, what did you dø, is giving him sex to cure his sexual urge the so much you did.
Is this how you fall in love,you were only been carried away by what you see and the imagination of your heart and did not fall in love. If you are one of these girls you lack purpose /vision in life, you are lazy and above all you just expressed how unwise you are. Get a life and the only way to get one is to first realize you are foolish and then re-evaluate yourself.
Culled 4rm (Mgbigwe C Benjamin’s Wall)
Photo Credit: Ponle
The wide disparity between the Nigerian people is alarming and staggering such that there exist no middle class in our society. The existential reality in the Nigerian state now is the massive dissonant gap between the rich and the poor. I burst into tears when I see the Nigerian people being humiliated and ridiculed outside the shores of Nigeria. It is even worse with the state of our dwindling educational system.
We are of the same nation but different feeling, we are of the same skin colour but different comfort level, we have the same blood running through our veins but one is born to rule like the royal ant while the other to starve and suffer like the working ants of a colony. This is my story, this is my fear, this is the world of two citizens of a country. Follow me as I take you through the tales of two Nigerians.
I have two friends that have myriads of notions and experience about the same country where they both live and grow up.
Banke went to a public school at the age 7 after being subjected to intensive labour on his small father’s farmland. Oh! He toiled day and night tilling and cultivating his poor father’s farmland for their own survival.
The teachers were happy to receive yet another convert into the educational system. Banke passed the necessary ritual of measuring his arm along his head to the earlobe. This test is used to ascertain if a child is mature enough to accept the challenging reality of education, would later disappear in the school system.
My poor bloke played alongside his colleague, enjoyed the night games together and enjoyed listening to the moonlight stories.
Banke’s first day in the secondary school where we have the popular “Jakande building” was fun for him, but on a larger note should have been hell, showing the height of educational decadence. The poor boy, yes, was happy to be part of a bigger community school but little did he know that it’s not the standard he deserves. Do you blame the poor boy? The government never gave him a feel of what it is like to enjoy the fundamental human right of a basic education. Our schools lack basic facilities, ultra-modern laboratories, computer and gadget rooms. While preparing for his final SSCE papers he couldn’t read enough because of erratic power supply, he needs to hawk the little produce they harvested from their farm. Banke was living in fear, the fear to fend for the family and to have a good result in his final exams. But the father never cared, all he knew was to await when Banke would finish his papers, so that he could resume fully to the farm. Oh! What a future, several pupils as Banke where ridiculed as the leaders of tomorrow. When our little ones study under dilapidated and obsolete facilities.
Banke could recall a day he was sent home because his father couldn’t afford to pay the Parent Teacher’s Association (PTA) levy of N50. These are the kinds of children and youths our nation is breeding. It is even worse when we couldn’t find nothing mind lifting to read about in the newspaper but the news of corruption, diversion of funds by the so called leaders. How then can innovation thrive? Is it a curse to have a government of our own? What is wrong with democracy? What are we doing? How can we heal the ailing Nigerian system?
My other friend was asked during his 20th birthday, “what was your worst moment ever ?“ , “worst moment”? he replied. “Yes”, the MC affirmed. “Em em, I don’t think I have one…oh! I remember one” (after so much thought). My worst moment in life was when the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) interrupted the power supply and the gate-man did delay switching the generating system on for 10minutes.
This is the tale of Iyiola my cute friend. Do you blame him? He never worked or sweat in his life, he had everything he wanted at his disposal at the nap of his fingertips.
He graduated from Yale University and went to the almighty Harvard Business School where he bagged his MBA. Less I forgot, he had another Masters in Berkley, till he told his father angrily he was bored of education. On arrival to Nigeria, his father’s political friends offered him the post of a special adviser after so many lobbies (how can a fresh graduate with no work experience fare well in the capacity of a special adviser?).
Iyiola never experienced the periodic University anniversary called “ASUU Strike” (Academic Staff Union of Universities), never did he write the JAMB exam. His tale is simply the absolute opposite of Banke’s.
How then can you pair them together in the same society? Are they not Nigerians? Why the staggering disparities between the two of them?
Questions should then be asked from our leaders, how well have they fared since their elections in their respective offices? The poor’s population has equaled Nigeria’s population of 1998, about 108 million. Why will a man wake up and the next thing to be done is to loot the state treasury for his own generation yet unborn? This is the reason we breed thugs. Thug Life as defined by the famed radical social activist, American Rapper Tupac, “The hate you give little infant fuck everybody”.
The truth must be said, it is evident that in our society our leaders send their children to the top ivy-league school of choice for their education while ours back home is in a dilapidated state and incessant strike. On graduation, they (the political office holders) want them back to the country because they can’t allow their kids to be subjected to the daily hustling an average Nigerian face abroad (taxi drivers, convenience storekeeper and cleaners).
They are at home living like prince and princess, but here comes my question. Are they not going to marry a Nigerian? Is a Nigerian not going to be their driver? Who are their security officers? Who will fix their hair and fingers? Are they not going to ply the same road with the poor? All these result to the daily social vices like kidnapping for a ransom, theft, burglaries, it is a long list. But then do you blame the poor perpetrators? Wouldn’t they fend for their families? Wouldn’t they translate the paper wealth to a ridiculous meager amount in their pocket?
This is the tales of two citizen of a country. One is born to suffer, while one is programmed to enjoy. But if only you can be resolute in this struggle for a better Nigeria then will things get better.
NIGERIA, RICH COUNTRY POOR PEOPLE
BY GBENGA OGUNBIYI
Back then:
Nigeria is a wonderful place to be, blessed with rich mineral resources and endowed with fertile soil. These are the words of my Social Studies teacher in my Junior Secondary School days in the late 1990’s. Something tells me you are already doing some mind arithmetic to calculate my age range. It used to be a lengthy but interesting class during which the subject teacher Mrs Osanyintile (I can’t believe I recalled her name so perfectly well) would teach us of how the lands of Nigeria flowed with milk and honey. Then I was young, passionate, patriotic with goose bumps all over me and a desire to register Nigeria’s map on the moon.
Realities:
Many years after reality dawn on me. I just cannot figure out how blessed and rich Nigeria is. Am I dreaming? I had better wake up from my slumber or could the riches have been on paper? Or did the government doctor the then educational curriculum in order to brainwash the young and innocent brains of youngsters like me?
This is exactly what is ruminating in the stomach of millions of Nigerian youth, mocked as the leaders of tomorrow. It is even worse if you are from the absolutely poor class, which represent about 60.5% of the total population as at the last time I checked. I realize there are two kinds of people living in Nigeria, namely the poor and the rich (the tales of two citizens of a country).
The Tales of Two Citizens of a Country:
The first class represents the majority of the Nigerian people, where they feed from hand to mouth. Yes! you are claiming to belong to the middle class? Hell no! The political class would not allow the middle class stay, maybe outside the shores.
Workers toil day and night, sweat, give in their best but would later be frustrated by the predefined system of failure called the Nigerian system. “The Nigerian brand is a very bad brand. The cost to the country socially, historically and economically is horrendous”, quoting Leke Alder during the 3rd Bola Tinubu colloquium. You will understand better if you do business with the outside world. It is really a deplorable situation in which our youths cannot even purchase goods on Amazon and Ebay, our infoprenuers and self-publishers cannot even use a Nigerian bank to verify their online accounts, our businessmen cannot transact using a PayPal account because we have been delisted, and none of our banking cards can be used for international transactions online.
A bond of £3000 has been placed on anybody travelling outside the shore of this country to the UK. Oh! What an ignominy! Outside there, it is almost a sin on the part of the carrier when the Nigerian passport is sighted. If our passport could be so ridiculed for a third degree scrutiny, then it speaks volume of the remains of our image to the international community.
Tell someone you are a Nigerian outside our borders then you begin to send signals of someone that sends a mail congratulating the recipient for winning an incredible but bogus amount of money, locked up in an invisible box somewhere that can only be redeemed by paying a little but incessant fee as tax and duty to process the claim to the treasure of life.
I recall Omoyele Sowore, the founder of our own type of Wikileaks “The Sahara Reporters” said something similar to (scam signal) this while addressing the audience at “The Personal Democracy Forum 2011, Agent of Change” at the Silicon Valley.
The other class, the rich, is the microscopic few (in Hon. Patrick Obahiaghon’s tone) but mighty class. This class could be likened to the fertile males called “drones” and more fertile females “queens” from the ant colonies.
The colonies sometimes are described as super organisms. Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae. The royal ants (the fertile ones) are born to be served and worshipped by the working ants because they form the larger colonies. They consist mostly of sterile wingless females forming castes of workers, soldiers, or other specialized groups according to Wikipedia.
This class lives in affluence, spends lavishly and can never be short of encomium because the other class are readily available to lavish it on them. Their wards (prince and princess) live in opulence, have never worked in their life, graduated from top ivy-league college of choice, all thanks to the tax payer’s money.
The poor flout every age definition of schooling due to financial constraint. They finish the higher institution by age 28 to 35 plus 1 additional year of NYSC. After all the efforts, the recruiters fix the age limit for employment at 24yrs. While the rich kids’ lives are so programmed that after graduating from school, (at the normal age of schooling, as defined by the dictionary if you know what I mean) rule over the working ants with ease, with no resistance by the poor.
But do you blame them? It is possible for the rich to step into the corridor of power because of the absence of opposition.
Can a helpless man give any resistance? This can be best answered by the popular Yoruba saying “ti owo eni koba ti te eku ida, akole bere iku to pa baba eni”. This means it is hard to probe one’s father’s death without having gotten the sword of vegeance’’. I know the Yorubas are already raising eyebrow at my translation; please take it that way or else you can contact me.
Nigeria lack visionary leaders, hence the result we are getting.
Where is the Nigerian Dream?:
Certain men came together to create a place called America. They got independence 1776 and at the declaration of independence the American dream was stated and well defined.
I can never recall any scenario where our leaders came together to chart the course of the Nigerian state except the sharing of the excess crude oil revenue. Nothing like the Nigerian dream, not in this world. My innocent brain has been severely battered by the scene of atrocities, act of nepotism, corruption, civil unrest and our ailing economy. I think I need a doctor to relieve me from the traumatic effect of the long list of the Nigerian problems. Do we really have one (i mean a doctor)? When our so called leaders fly abroad when their heads ache.
Taking nothing away from our medical experts, some even perform well but not in a dilapidated system like ours. I recalled a Nigerian winning the prestigious American doctor of the year some months back with Obama’s blessing.
What is wrong with the Nigerian brand? Why are we gaining position on the list of corrupt nations? Why are we leading the list of countries with bad leadership? Why are we topping in the poor health system list? Why are we labelled as a terrorist nation? These are few of the myriads of questions begging for answers
Why do we lack creativity? Why can’t government reward research, knowledge and innovation? Why are there no reality shows for Science and Technology? Why is our TV flooded with reality shows for fashion and entertainment only, and our pay TV for live shows of young Africans camped for months with no fruitful course other than immoralities? Why is Nigeria always a dumping ground for other countries?
In Leke Alder’s voice quoting D.O. Fagunwa “Forest of a Thousand Daemons” translated by the white head, Nigeria’s first and only Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka “We have perfected the ability to run a machine called government without recast to the yawning, and sorrow of the people. There is a huge dissonant gap between the government and the people. The dissonant gap is the reasons why we declare economic growth statistics that have no correlation with existential realities. The people cannot feel the percentage in their pocket neither do they understand statistics”
Our government keeps preparing a huge budget with little or no compliance. How can the people understand the arrangement of figures and budgetary terms in rows and columns with an empty stomach?
Conclusion:
The myriads of problems have long incapacitated the effectiveness of the Nigerian system. If the problems were to be enunciated I bet you I will list till Jesus comes. Lack of visionary and capable leadership, failure of government policies, crimes, kidnapping, erratic power supply, drug and human trafficking, bombing, terrorism, civil unrests, failure of the rule of law, institutional corruption of interface agencies, customs immigration, institutional corruption of regulation and law, systematic corruption of the tiers of government, endemic corruption in the society, failure and corruption of the electoral system, and so on, make a litany of the myriads of problems battling the nation. I must admit it is a long list.
Solution:
How can we solve our problems? Let us start getting things right by reshaping our thinking and mindset. Let’s move for a more independent electoral system so that it would not be the case of ‘’he who pays the piper dictates the tune’’, for us to have a free and fair election and the wish of the majority can prevail. We must declare a zero-tolerance to election riggers who steal the Nigerian mandate.
All we need are visionary, bold and capable leaders that can mastermind the Nigerian dream and enforce it at all levels. That is when and only when Nigeria can move up and claim her position again in the League of Nations and boldly take up the much echoed “giant of Africa “role. The Nigerian brand will then rise from worst to worse to bad to fair to good and the sky will be our starting point.
The expected change begins from you and me.
Saving in a time like this is pretty difficult, that is a fact. But it gets frustrating if you are laid off from work and you have little or nothing to fall back on.
That is why I have put up some secret that have proven successful over the years, to help you increase your personalsavings in a time like this
At one point or the other we all agree that we do need funds to do whatever we want to, be it Investment, for Retirement, college, Child’s education or a year cruise.
-You cannot save if you have not yet pictured what you want
-The best way to achieving anything in life is to know what you want
-What you want would lead to how much you need to get what you want
-what you want could be anything, it varies with different individuals it could be physical things, your child’s education, business, investment etc
-Having known what you want, the problem becomes funds or capital to get started with; of course this is often a general problem.
-Some persons have genuine and feasible business idea but are without funds.
-Your idea is simply no idea if you are without funds especially if you have not started something at all (no business success antecedent).
-i have come to understand this quote while i was a teenager “Life is not fair” and also this Nigerian adage “Those that have caps don’t have head while those with head are without caps”.
People with funds no matter the amount don’t usually know how to invest it they end up paying bills with it or even lavishing it while person with viable, workable and profitable investment ideas don’t have funds.
-Each time we give excuses that our income is little, we can’t save for what we want.
-The problem is not your income. I can tell you emphatically that even if your income is raised by 400% you would still make the same complain once you are used to the new income.
FEASIBLE TIPS FOR SAVING
Another secret I would like to reveal here are the tips you really need to sky-rocket your savings, even if you have zero-balance savings.
• Remove your savings before anything
• Reduce your bill
• Sleep over before you buy anything
• Find money to save
• Avoid buying the latest phone
• Take just enough cash with you
• Stop taking your ATM card everywhere
• Make more than you spend
• Choose a frugal spouse
• Cook at home
• Learn to fix things yourself
• Do not buy brand new car
• Go to market not super-market
• Do a price check before you buy things
• Do not buy brands or labels buy more of generic product
• Always occupy yourself with activities thereby preventing spending
• If you must use paid TV go for the lower rate
• Be optimal during Christmas
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