Please, there is No Time to hate…Because I Love You

Please, there is No Time to hate…Because I Love You

Life is the romance of human existence on planet earth and the kind of romance you have can affect your existence positively or negatively.
I have noticed that most of the ills plaguing humans are caused by hatred and the causes of the hatred are the erroneous and ambiguous notions we have about life and the wrong notions have made majority of us to have bad ways of life or evil lifestyles.

I have heard and read of horrible and terrible things humans do to attack and harm themselves in their desperate competition for the lusts of the flesh.
A guy pours acid on the elder brother of a girl who refused to marry him. Why?
He alleged that the elder brother advised his sister to reject him.
A jealous girlfriend shot and killed her boyfriend whilst he was still sleeping and then shot and killed herself lying beside him in bed. Why? She suspected him of dating another woman.

I have seen men engaged in do or die competition over a woman in Lagos.
They did evil things to acquire and possess the cash, posh cars and palatial mansions to impress her.

A stinking rich Internet scammer told a poor young man to give up his fine girlfriend and even offered him lump sums of cash for her. The angry young man rejected the indecent proposal and swore to kill the big man if he snatched his girlfriend.

A guy actually stabbed one of my cousins with scissors and killed her for refusing to go out with him.

The list is endless and most of these horrible and terrible acts of hatred leave me depressed.

If someone does not want to go out with you, please move on and let the person be.
Love is not by force.
Hatred has bred monsters of destruction in Nigeria. Hatred caused by envy and jealousy as greedy Nigerians compete for the status symbols of the Joneses in the Nigerian society.
Hatred is the cause of the things presently wrong with life in Nigeria as poverty has left the majority in adversity and this is a great pity. The state of romance is not what you would have loved it to be as depression is common and many people are actually shadowed by the spirit of melancholy. But the love that would have rescued and saved many people is not being truly practiced as majority of Nigerians are caught in the matrix of the rat race. Avarice, caprice, malice, prejudice and injustice plague millions of Nigerians and have made the country worse as observed in the foreign media and it is as if Nigerians have lost all sense of human dignity and integrity.

If only we could obey the simple commandment of Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, but most of us are desperately competing with ourselves and ironically the most guilty are the so called Christians who should be the best example of what God commanded and Jesus Christ emphasized as the pillar of true Christianity which is Charity.
The last time I checked, what God said has not changed from Love Your Neighbor as Yourself and not compete with your neighbor as yourself.
What is killing most people in Nigeria are competitive opportunism, selfish individualism, antagonism and egoistic impressionism of the rat race, because Nigerians cheat, lie, steal and kill in their desperation for the selfish acquisition and avaricious possession of the so called status symbols of the society for their bragging rights.

Matriculation is a competition.
Admission is a competition.
Graduation is a competition.
Getting a plum job is a competition.
Getting a fancy girlfriend or trophy wife is a competition.
Building a mansion is a competition.
Becoming rich-quick is a completion.

I wonder why getting an education should be a competition?
Hello! Getting an education is not a competition.
If you need any sort of education for a profession, please have it and use it for your own benefit and the benefit of others and it is not an ego-trip or selfish yardstick to prove a point to your peers or anyone at all. Hello! Grow up!
Who do you think is your competition?
Stop boasting and fooling yourself.

A guy recently bought a new house and some of peers are hissing about how he made his millions of naira to buy the mansion.
Getting a lovely girlfriend also causes envy too.

You wonder why most Nigerians want dream jobs?
To love their neighbors as themselves?
No! To compete with the Joneses..

Wo! If I do this, dem go see me and bow!
Yo! If I get that babe, dem go dey trip.
These childish and foolish bragging are common among most people in Nigeria in different forms and dialects.

The manners and ways Nigerians go about competing among themselves are the causes of the horrible and terrible evils plaguing Nigeria and have left millions of Nigerians suffering and dying in misery. Many Nigerians have become devils in their desperation for the perishable fancies and trophies of the rat race.
Devils do evils and evils cause the ills of the society, because evil makes you ill.

Love. Love. Love.Stop hating and hurting today and start loving every day by day.

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Nigeria To Host the First Startup Weekend in West Africa!

If you are smart and with great ideas for innovations, you can be among the 250 people to be selected for the first ever Startup Weekend in West Africa this October in Lagos, Nigeria and it is free!54 hours of brain storming session with meals from Friday evening of October 2 to Sunday evening of October 4 and if your innovations make the top best startups, you can make it to the finals next Spring in the United States.You can register online on http://nigeria.startupweekend.org/

ASUU is Unreasonable!

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will never stop asking for increments, but increase in salaries is not what is urgent in Nigerian universities, but re-engineering the entire academic system from the classroom to the laboratory.

Ineffectual lecturers in ASUU are also clamouring for increments, but they do not have the brains to overhaul and improve the outdated curriculums of their respective faculties. The increments they have been receiving over the years have not freed them from the retrogressive academic stasis that has made majority of their students clones of intellectual underdevelopment or what I call the GIGO Generation who are presently posing and posturing as the Nigerian Facebook Generation.
These lecturers should examine themselves, because many of the members of ASUU are not even qualified to teach and have been found guilty by complicity in various cases of admission racket in Nigerian universities.

The raison d'être of ASUU’s strike is not enough to waste the precious quality time of Nigerian students who need to be on campus studying and not at home!
By going on strike ASUU is making innocent students the scapegoats of their disagreement with the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN).

What is the business of the FGN with the members of ASUU employed by the state owned universities? I mean members of ASUU teaching at the state universities should not have gone on strike with ASUU. This is simple ratiocination.
Many of these lecturers are even moonlighting and have never paid a kobo of tax every time they moonlighted. So who is fooling whom?

Chidi Amuta wrote a very comprehensive analysis of the genesis of the academic crisis that has left the Nigerian academia in intellectual stasis in his “ASSU’s Untidy Robes” published in his column Engagements in This Day newspaper of Nigeria.
ASUU should grow up and stop behaving like confused junior high school pupils.

The Untold Truth About the Niger Delta Crisis

The Untold Truth About the Niger Delta Crisis

• MEND is not responsible for the Niger Delta Crisis
• The Nigerian Government and Multinational Oil Companies are responsible for the Niger Delta Crisis
• The Solution to the Niger Delta Crisis is the Administration of True Federal Democracy as Practiced by the United States of America.

In 2004 as I was aggrieved by the rampant cases of cultism and gangesterism in Rivers state and the destruction of innocent lives and properties, I felt the urgency to address the critical issues and meet with the leading principal actors I could reach and persuade them to end the violence. I informed the international headquarters of Shell of my pacific mission before I left Lagos for Port Harcourt on a night coach.

I arrived Diobu at midnight and was told that the town was a danger zone after the mayhem caused by warring cultists. But I went on to the residence of my elder sister Mrs. P William-West on Nnewi Street in Rumumasi. I discussed my mission with her two sons and daughters and one of my nephews told me that he had to leave a cult when he saw one of his closest friends shot and killed in a violent clash with a rival cult in the oil city of Port Harcourt in 2003. I told him I was glad he had become born-again as he confessed. He gave me the details of the genesis of the cultism ravaging Rivers state since they were affected by the violence from their home town in Buguma to the state capital of Port Harcourt. I stayed for a couple of days and crossed over to Bonny Island to continue my investigation and pre-production of my documentary on the causes and consequences of the Niger Delta crisis aggravated by the recruitment of many members of the cults as political thugs of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

From my safe haven on Bonny Island, I contacted an insider named Felix and told him of my critical mission and we agreed to meet at a popular hotel off Olu Obasanjo Road in Port Harcourt. He told me that Shell and the other multinational oil companies operating in the littoral states of the Niger Delta were not interested in peace, but to fish in the troubled waters, because they had little or nothing to lose. They were breaching the contract of the MOU they signed with the Federal Republic of Nigeria and they did not care about the devastation of the eco-system or the deprivations of the host communities.
Their cosmetic social community welfare projects and scholarships were only meant to white-wash their horrible and terrible acts since they began oil exploration in the Niger Delta region. I found out that the hotel was owned by a retired Major in the Nigerian Army and he has been actively engaged in illegal oil bunkering with other retired and active senior military officers, especial those in the Nigerian Navy and their criminal activities were not secret. Those engaged in illegal oil bunkering and those who acquired oil blocks were partners in crime and were well known title-holders in their respective communities. In fact my in-law Asari Dokubo, the leader of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) had a suite in the hotel.

I returned to Bonny Island and called Asari and we discussed on how to put an end to the violence and he told me that he was already now engaged in providing security service for the oil service companies in the region and was no longer engaged in any violent dispute with any rival cult or gang. I was glad to hear that and told Felix that Asari would fare better as a leader by contesting in a democratic election and could in fact be elected as the governor of Rivers state.
“He only needs to improve his manner of dressing and public relations,” I said.
I was glad that Asari would be willing to participate in my documentary film and commended the website Akumafiete of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force

I was meeting with a top official of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Lagos, because Shell wanted to sponsor my documentary film and in fact the top official asked me if the documentary could be produced in a week, which was not realistic, even though I was working with one of the best filmmakers in Nigeria who has won awards for his documentaries.

I was still making progress when the Nigerian government ordered for the arrest of Asari Dokubo and detained him for outrageous statements of treasonable felony. I warned the government to release him or the situation in the volatile Niger Delta region would become worse. But the government ignored my warning and the SPDC now felt that the government had succeeded in caging the lion of the Niger Delta militants and thought the unconstitutional detention of Asari Dokubo would tame the thousands of members of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force and allied groups. But I warned the government there was a greater militant group in the offing and they thought I was joking until the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) shot up from the creeks!

The solution to the protracted Niger Delta crisis is the administration of true Federal Democracy as practiced by the United States of America and this is what both MEND and NDPVF have been demanding for and also the prosecution of all the retired and serving senior military officers found guilty of illegal oil bunkering.
The Nigerian Navy can actually stop illegal oil bunkering by asking for the assistance of the US Navy to patrol the territorial waters of Nigeria and to attack all tankers, boats and barges engaged in illegal oil bunkering since they can be easily identified from the authorized tankers and vessels on Nigerian waters.
Then the multinational oil companies must be prosecuted for the violations of the MOU they signed with the Federal Republic of Nigeria since 1956 to date.

The Joint Task Force of the Nigerian Armed Forces in the Niger Delta should be withdraw, because it an unconstitutional mission.
All licenses of illegal oil blocks must be withdrawn.
The local and foreign bank accounts of Nigerians suspected of ill-gotten wealth from misappropriations of revenue allocations for the oil producing states and over-invoicing of government contracts should investigated and those found guilty should be prosecuted in a public trial and not behind closed doors.

The former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, the former governor of Bayelsa State and Obasanjo's successor, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua have the full list of the criminals who are still engaged in illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

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Breaking News: Michael Jackson's Hair From Fateful Pepsi Commercial: Part of Pop Culture History Soon to Become Diamonds

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Michael Jackson's Hair From Fateful Pepsi Commercial: Part of Pop Culture History Soon to Become Diamonds

CHICAGO, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- When executive producer Ralph Cohen scooped up the charred hair Michael Jackson lost in the filming of the now-infamous Pepsi commercial, he had no idea that he was saving an important piece of history.


(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090724/CG51565)


Now, this closest connection to Jackson himself is being preserved by John Reznikoff one of America's most highly respected collectors, and being used by LifeGem the world's first purveyor of diamond memorials to create high quality diamonds.


Cohen, executive producer for the Pepsi commercial, was among the first to reach Jackson when he was set on fire.


As seen on the now famous video, Cohen threw his jacket over Jackson's head to help extinguish the flames. As Jackson was being rushed off the set and to the hospital, Cohen instinctively, picked up the charred lock of hair and put it in his pocket- where it remained undisturbed for 25 years until Jackson's death last month.


"The provenance and authenticity of this lock of hair is impeccable, including the highly publicized video showing the original owner of the hair using his Armani jacket to extinguish Jackson's hair, said John Reznikoff. "This jacket was included with the purchase of the hair."


A portion will remain in Reznikoff's collection. Another portion is being used by Chicago-based LifeGem to create a small number of certified, high quality laboratory diamonds.


Back in 2007 LifeGem & Reznikoff collaborated to successfully create diamonds from Beethoven's hair.


"LifeGem specializes in creating diamonds from locks of hair, our plan is to give people an opportunity to own a diamond made from Michael Jackson's DNA," said Dean VandenBiesen founder of LifeGem. "We are currently evaluating the hair sample to determine how many diamonds can be created. This will be a limited collection and we anticipate great interest."


Reznikoff has assembled the most extensive collection of hair from history's most famous figures, including Lincoln, Kennedy, Einstein and Marilyn Monroe.


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Dear Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase, Akin Alabi and Co. Limited

Dear Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase and Akin Alabi and Co. Limited,

May I know how much the get-rich-quick tutorials and schemes of Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase and Akin Alabi have contributed to the GDP and GNP of Nigeria or improved the per capita income in Nigeria?

"The challenge for Nigeria is in terms of per capita income, which is still low. Nigeria is still facing widespread poverty and infrastructure deficiency. And on the policy side, the country is in a critical juncture."
~ Mr. Konrad Reuss, Managing Director of S&P in charge of South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa.

Country GDP - per capita (US Dollar)
Afghanistan $800 (2008 est.)
Albania $6,000 (2008 est.)
Algeria $7,000 (2008 est.)
American Samoa $8,000 (2007 est.)
Andorra $42,500 (2007)
Angola $8,800 (2008 est.)
Anguilla $8,800 (2004 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda $19,000 (2008 est.)
Argentina $14,200 (2008 est.)
Armenia $6,400 (2008 est.)
Aruba $21,800 (2004 est.)
Australia $38,100 (2008 est.)
Austria $39,200 (2008 est.)
Azerbaijan $9,000 (2008 est.)
Bahamas, The $28,600 (2008 est.)
Bahrain $37,200 (2008 est.)
Bangladesh $1,500 (2008 est.)
Barbados $19,300 (2008 est.)
Belarus $11,800 (2008 est.)
Belgium $37,500 (2008 est.)
Belize $8,600 (2008 est.)
Benin $1,500 (2008 est.)
Bermuda $69,900 (2004 est.)
Bhutan $5,600 (2008 est.)
Bolivia $4,500 (2008 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina $6,500 (2008 est.)
Botswana $13,300 (2008 est.)
Brazil $10,100 (2008 est.)
British Virgin Islands $38,500 (2004 est.)
Brunei $53,100 (2008 est.)
Bulgaria $12,900 (2008 est.)
Burkina Faso $1,200 (2008 est.)
Burma $1,200 (2008 est.)
Burundi $400 (2008 est.)
Cambodia $2,000 (2008 est.)
Cameroon $2,300 (2008 est.)
Canada $39,300 (2008 est.)
Cape Verde $3,800 (2008 est.)
Cayman Islands $43,800 (2004 est.)
Central African Republic $700 (2008 est.)
Chad $1,600 (2008 est.)
Chile $14,900 (2008 est.)
China $6,000 (2008 est.)
Colombia $8,900 (2008 est.)
Comoros $1,000 (2008 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the $300 (2008 est.)
Congo, Republic of the $4,000 (2008 est.)
Cook Islands $9,100 (2005 est.)
Costa Rica $11,600 (2008 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire $1,700 (2008 est.)
Croatia $16,100 (2008 est.)
Cuba $9,500 (2008 est.)
Cyprus $28,600 (2008 est.)
Czech Republic $26,100 (2008 est.)
Denmark $37,400 (2008 est.)
Djibouti $3,700 (2008 est.)
Dominica $9,900 (2008 est.)
Dominican Republic $8,100 (2008 est.)
Ecuador $7,500 (2008 est.)
Egypt $5,400 (2008 est.)
El Salvador $6,200 (2008 est.)
Equatorial Guinea $31,400 (2008 est.)
Eritrea $700 (2008 est.)
Estonia $21,200 (2008 est.)
Ethiopia $800 (2008 est.)
European Union $33,400 (2008 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) $35,400 (2002 est.)
Faroe Islands $31,000 (2001 est.)
Fiji $3,900 (2008 est.)
Finland $37,200 (2008 est.)
France $32,700 (2008 est.)
French Polynesia $18,000 (2004 est.)
Gabon $14,400 (2008 est.)
Gambia, The $1,300 (2008 est.)
Gaza Strip $2,900 (includes West Bank) (2008 est.)
Georgia $4,700 (2008 est.)
Germany $34,800 (2008 est.)
Ghana $1,500 (2008 est.)
Gibraltar $38,200 (2005 est.)
Greece $32,000 (2008 est.)
Greenland $20,000 (2001 est.)
Grenada $13,400 (2008 est.)
Guam $15,000 (2005 est.)
Guatemala $5,200 (2008 est.)
Guernsey $44,600 (2005)
Guinea $1,100 (2008 est.)
Guinea-Bissau $600 (2008 est.)
Guyana $3,900 (2008 est.)
Haiti $1,300 (2008 est.)
Honduras $4,400 (2008 est.)
Hong Kong $43,800 (2008 est.)
Hungary $19,800 (2008 est.)
Iceland $39,900 (2008 est.)
India $2,800 (2008 est.)
Indonesia $3,900 (2008 est.)
Iran $12,800 (2008 est.)
Iraq $4,000 (2008 est.)
Ireland $46,200 (2008 est.)
Isle of Man $35,000 (2005 est.)
Israel $28,200 (2008 est.)
Italy $31,000 (2008 est.)
Jamaica $7,400 (2008 est.)
Japan $34,200 (2008 est.)
Jersey $57,000 (2005 est.)
Jordan $5,000 (2008 est.)
Kazakhstan $11,500 (2008 est.)
Kenya $1,600 (2008 est.)
Kiribati $3,200 (2008 est.)
Korea, North $1,700 (2008 est.)
Korea, South $26,000 (2008 est.)
Kosovo $2,300 (2007 est.)
Kuwait $57,400 (2008 est.)
Kyrgyzstan $2,100 (2008 est.)
Laos $2,100 (2008 est.)
Latvia $17,800 (2008 est.)
Lebanon $11,100 (2008 est.)
Lesotho $1,600 (2008 est.)
Liberia $500 (2008 est.)
Libya $14,400 (2008 est.)
Liechtenstein $118,000 (2007 est.)
Lithuania $17,700 (2008 est.)
Luxembourg $81,100 (2008 est.)
Macau $30,000 (2007)
Macedonia $9,000 (2008 est.)
Madagascar $1,000 (2008 est.)
Malawi $800 (2008 est.)
Malaysia $15,300 (2008 est.)
Maldives $5,000 (2008 est.)
Mali $1,200 (2008 est.)
Malta $24,200 (2008 est.)
Marshall Islands $2,500 (2008 est.)
Mauritania $2,100 (2008 est.)
Mauritius $12,100 (2008 est.)
Mayotte $4,900 (2005 est.)
Mexico $14,200 (2008 est.)
Micronesia, Federated States of $2,200 (2008 est.)
Moldova $2,500 (2008 est.)
Monaco $30,000 (2006 est.)
Mongolia $3,200 (2008 est.)
Montenegro $9,700 (2008 est.)
Montserrat $3,400 (2002 est.)
Morocco $4,000 (2008 est.)
Mozambique $900 (2008 est.)
Namibia $5,400 (2008 est.)
Nauru $5,000 (2005 est.)
Nepal $1,100 (2008 est.)
Netherlands $40,300 (2008 est.)
Netherlands Antilles $16,000 (2004 est.)
New Caledonia $15,000 (2003 est.)
New Zealand $27,900 (2008 est.)
Nicaragua $2,900 (2008 est.)
Niger $700 (2008 est.)
Nigeria $2,300 (2008 est.)
Niue $5,800 (2003 est.)
Northern Mariana Islands $12,500 (2000 est.)
Norway $55,200 (2008 est.)
Oman $20,200 (2008 est.)
Pakistan $2,600 (2008 est.)
Palau $8,100 (2008 est.)
Panama $11,600 (2008 est.)
Papua New Guinea $2,200 (2008 est.)
Paraguay $4,200 (2008 est.)
Peru $8,400 (2008 est.)
Philippines $3,300 (2008 est.)
Poland $17,300 (2008 est.)
Portugal $22,000 (2008 est.)
Puerto Rico $17,800 (2008 est.)
Qatar $103,500 (2008 est.)
Romania $12,200 (2008 est.)
Russia $15,800 (2008 est.)
Rwanda $900 (2008 est.)
Saint Helena $2,500 (1998 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis $19,700 (2008 est.)
Saint Lucia $11,300 (2008 est.)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon $7,000 (2001 est.)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines $10,500 (2008 est.)
Samoa $4,900 (2008 est.)
San Marino $41,900 (2007)
Sao Tome and Principe $1,300 (2008 est.)
Saudi Arabia $20,700 (2008 est.)
Senegal $1,600 (2008 est.)
Serbia $10,900 (2008 est.)
Seychelles $17,000 (2008 est.)
Sierra Leone $700 (2008 est.)
Singapore $52,000 (2008 est.)
Slovakia $21,900 (2008 est.)
Slovenia $29,500 (2008 est.)
Solomon Islands $1,900 (2008 est.)
Somalia $600 (2008 est.)
South Africa $10,000 (2008 est.)
Spain $34,600 (2008 est.)
Sri Lanka $4,300 (2008 est.)
Sudan $2,200 (2008 est.)
Suriname $8,900 (2008 est.)
Swaziland $5,100 (2008 est.)
Sweden $38,500 (2008 est.)
Switzerland $40,900 (2008 est.)
Syria $4,800 (2008 est.)
Taiwan $31,900 (2008 est.)
Tajikistan $2,100 (2008 est.)
Tanzania $1,300 (2008 est.)
Thailand $8,500 (2008 est.)
Timor-Leste $2,400 (2008 est.)
Togo $900 (2008 est.)
Tokelau $1,000 (1993 est.)
Tonga $4,600 (2008 est.)
Trinidad and Tobago $18,600 (2008 est.)
Tunisia $7,900 (2008 est.)
Turkey $12,000 (2008 est.)
Turkmenistan $6,100 (2008 est.)
Turks and Caicos Islands $11,500 (2002 est.)
Tuvalu $1,600 (2002 est.)
Uganda $1,100 (2008 est.)
Ukraine $6,900 (2008 est.)
United Arab Emirates $40,000 (2008 est.)
United Kingdom $36,600 (2008 est.)
United States $47,000 (2008 est.)
Uruguay $12,200 (2008 est.)
Uzbekistan $2,600 (2008 est.)
Vanuatu $4,600 (2008 est.)
Venezuela $13,500 (2008 est.)
Vietnam $2,800 (2008 est.)
Virgin Islands $14,500 (2004 est.)
Wallis and Futuna $3,800 (2004 est.)
West Bank $2,900 (includes Gaza Strip) (2008 est.)
Western Sahara $2,500 (2007 est.)
World $10,500 (2008 est.)
Yemen $2,400 (2008 est.)
Zambia $1,500 (2008 est.)
Zimbabwe $200 (2008 est.)

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Pastor(Dr.) Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase has been successful as the leading Publisher of Complete Sports and Success Digest and the founder of the Success Attitude Development Centre(SADC), but he has said that the majority of his students have not succeeded after graduation and he blames them for failing to practice what he taught them. But what does he expect from them when most of them have not been taught the difference between get-rich-quick schemes and human capital development.
The key to real success is not get-rich-quick schemes, but creating jobs and creating wealth. Looking for short-cuts to financial success by sharp practices online is a negative way to making it in life.

A student of SADC who has made about $40, 000 at 24 is claiming to be the youngest millionaire in Nigeria! Such erroneous and ambiguous notions have only exposed the narrow-mindedness their get-rich-quick mentors and the shallow promises of their formulae.

The only way to fast track the Vision 2020 is to develop enterprises that will create jobs for the millions of the unemployed in Nigeria and only by job creation can we create real wealth and not endorsing and promoting get-rich-quick schemes online under various labels and tags.

There is no difference between the so called smart Alec who manipulates the Google AdSense program to rip-off the advertisers and earn regular pay-offs from the sharp practices and the notorious 419 Yahoo-Yahoo Internet scammers.
So who is fooling whom?

We should encourage Nigerians to study and work hard in developing businesses that would be beneficial to the majority of Nigerians in the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) and the realization of the Vision 2020 of Nigeria.

There are no short-cuts to success, even if you win the million dollar lottery or Baba Ijebu lotto.
Having only N10 million in your bank account does not mean you are successful until you have used that money to make positive impact in your family, community and country and not engaged in the selfish acquisition of the status symbols of the rat race to catch up with the Joneses.

Obama More Popular With Investors Outside U.S.: Bloomberg Poll

23 Jul 2009 14:32 Africa/Lagos

Obama More Popular With Investors Outside U.S.: Bloomberg Poll

NEW YORK, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- President Barack Obama has overwhelming support among the world's most influential investors outside of his own country, according to the first-ever Bloomberg Global Poll, a quarterly survey of economic, financial and political attitudes among Bloomberg users around the world.


The first Bloomberg Global Poll interviewed a random sample of 1,076 subscribers to the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service, a universe of more than 300,000 decision makers in finance, the markets and economics. The survey provides a window on how this valuable community of investors views the prospects for economic recovery, investment opportunities and risks in the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.


87 percent of investors surveyed in Europe and Asia say they approve of Obama, compared to just 49 percent in the U.S. Obama's standing among American investors is even lower on economic matters: Only a quarter of respondents rate his policies favorably, compared with more than half in Europe and Asia. Climate change also ranked differently for investors in the U.S. than investors elsewhere. 61 percent in Asia said higher global temperatures and sea levels are a major problem and 56 percent in Europe agreed, while almost two-thirds in the U.S. say climate change is a minor danger or no real threat, according to survey results, which are available at www.bloomberg.com.


The Bloomberg Global Poll was conducted by Selzer & Company, whose survey of Iowa Caucus voters in 2008 was the only one to accurately predict Barack Obama's victory. The firm has conducted surveys for more than two dozen major newspapers in the U.S., and was named the best of 32 polling firms ranked by polling Web site FiveThirtyEight.com.


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Publics Want More Aggressive Government Action on Economic Crisis: Global Poll

21 Jul 2009 22:00 Africa/Lagos

Publics Want More Aggressive Government Action on Economic Crisis: Global Poll

COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org finds that the public in 14 of 19 nations surveyed feel their government's efforts to address the economic crisis do not go far enough. Three additional publics lean to this view. Most publics favor government support for troubled companies and a global body that would monitor large financial institutions.


However, nations differ on whether, in the current crisis, their government should put up new trade barriers to protect domestic industries.


A majority or plurality in nearly every nation polled faults their government for not doing enough to remedy the economic crisis. Across all nations, an average of 56 percent say their "government's efforts to address the current economic crisis do not go far enough;" 25 percent say they "are about right"; and only 15 percent say these efforts "go too far."


The notable exceptions to the desire for governments to do more are the Chinese public (63% feel government efforts "are about right") and India, where as many think efforts "go too far" (37%) as think they "do not go far enough" (36%; 21% say "about right").


"People around the world want more robust action from their governments in the face of the economic crisis", says Stephen Weber of WorldPublicOpinion.org. "Only in China and India, rare countries still on a growth track, do the public seem content with policy."


Government action to provide financial support for large industries in trouble is widely supported, with majorities in most nations taking the position that "if they fail it damages the general economy and too many people lose their jobs." The American public, alone among nations polled, opposes government financial intervention.


WorldPublicOpinion.org conducted the poll of 18,066 respondents between April 4 and June 12, 2009 (margins of error +/- 3-4%) in 19 nations that comprise 62 percent of the world's population (China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Mexico, Germany, Great Britain, France, Poland, Ukraine, Kenya, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, the Palestinian territories, and South Korea). Polling was also conducted in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.


WorldPublicOpinion.org, a collaborative project of research centers worldwide, is managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland.


For more information, please visit www.worldpublicopinion.org


Source: Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland

CONTACT: Stephen Weber, WorldPublicOpinion.org, +1-202-232-7500


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