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The Problem with Africa

GOUGE MY EYE

In a story, an African man was given the opportunity to ask for
anything he wants. The condition was that, whatever he gets, his
brother would receive double. He thought about asking for a
house; but he did not like thought of his brother having two
houses. So he thought about asking for a million dollars to go to his
bank account; but again, he was unhappy with the thought of his
brother having two million dollars in his account. The man sat down
and thought hard, “What can I have and still be better than my
brother when he has double?”

 
So, he thought of having one of his eyes removed so that his
brother might have his two eyes gouged. This sounds like a very
unlikely story; however, this is the typical mentality that has set
Africans backward for ages and caused witchcraft to thrive in
Africa. An African wants to be better than his brother at all costs.
The African man is only careful to share his beer, not his books; to
spread his diseases, and not the cure; to transfer his problems, and
not the solution.

When an African man fails, he wishes his brother same fate so that
he won't be the only one who had tasted the bitterness of failure.
An African man is happy when evil besets his brother.
When most African men succeed, they want to enslave their
brothers; they try to make the class gap between them and their
brothers widen daily. An African man wants to outperform his
brother in every area and most African men do not want to let their
brothers have any chances of success because they want to be the
only ones succeeding.

When an African man gets to sit on a seat of authority, he wants to
keep it to himself and refuses to give anyone else a chance to sit. In
African schools, students who can afford textbooks do not let
other students borrow their textbooks because they want to stay
top of the class or they don't want to give another student the
opportunity to perform better than them. 

When one independently discovers the way to success, an African man who
refused to give directions would still do all he can to stand in the
way of that success. An African man is ready to spend money to
intimidate his brother and make him look like nothing.

 
Africa will become better; 

When we begin to share books to pass
knowledge, not just our drinks. When we begin to let others also
lead without our influence. When we begin to give the same quality
of food and clothing to both our children and our maids. When we
let our servants eat on the same table with us. When the boss lets
his lower staff get paid before him. Africa can become progressive
when we begin to look out for each other rather than stand in the
way of one another. When we can sincerely say, “let my brother get
it too, and if I can't get it, let me help him get it”.

Excerpt from the book
The Problem with Africa

JAMB: How to register for 2019 UTME 10/Jan/2019,

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) commenced sale of registration forms, for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, yesterday Thursday, January 10, 2019.
And sale of forms will last for six weeks.

There are few documents requirements and they include:

– Personal e-mail address and mobile phone number
– Create your JAMB profile.
– JAMB ePIN registration payment
– Visit any accredited CBT centers with your personal details, the profile and evidence of payment.
– The CBT centers or JAMB State Office, supplies, at no extra cost, the prescribed reading text and the CD containing:
a) e-brochure showing guidelines on admission detailing list of tertiary institutions and available programmes of study.
b) Syllabus (e-syllabus) for the examination.
c) Step by step guide on completion of the application form.
d) A video messages from the Registrar of JAMB and a demo on how to use eight (8) keys for UTME examination without mouse. (For candidates with little familiarity with Computers).
vii. Each Candidate is to complete the online application form by supplying the required details such as name, e-mail address, L.G.A., academic qualification, etc.
viii. At the CBT centers, Candidate’s ten fingers biometric and image will be captured and uploaded.
ix. O/L and/or A/L grades are to be provided by candidates. Candidates who are awaiting result should supply the result online as soon as the results are available on JAMB’s portal.
x. Each Candidate is to collect his e-slip at the end of registration as evidence of registration.

There will be no offline registration, as all the accredited CBT centers have been empowered for real life online registration.
Note: No candidate should register at any centers other than the accredited CBT centers and JAMB State office. Any candidate who is registered outside approved centres, will be identified and disqualified.

Tips On How To Track Your Lost Mobile Phone And Get It Back

It could be frustrating when one loses a mobile phone either by misplacement or theft. This is because it’s always an uphill task to recover the phone. However, do you know that if you lose your MTN network SIM and your mobile phone, you can trace it back? A lot of people must have heard of the imel number but don’t know its usefulness. With imel number which has 15 digits, you can track your lost phone anywhere in the world.
How it works
First of all, get your mobile phone imel number/code by dialling *#06# from your Mobile phone and the unique 15 digits number will appear on your phone.

Another means to get your phone imel number is to check your phone pack menu or instruction paper. At times the manufacturers do include in the menu the phone imel. This same imel number might be in a sticker paper attached with the phone panel. You can as well check this by removing the phone battery and check the white sticker attached with the panel (the engine of your phone). However, most mobile phone sellers do write out the phone imel number in the receipt of your phone given to you.

Then put down this number in a secure place like a diary because this is the number which will help in tracing your mobile phone.

✒ Once your phone is stolen, all you need do is to e-mail the 15 digits IMEI number to cop@vsnl.net along with other details listed below.

✒ Name: (real name and not necessarily the name on your receipt)

✒ Address: (present address not necessarily where you bought the phone)

✒ Phone model: (model number of your phone…e.g. 3310, L6, 202, G471f, 302i,..)

✒ Make: (maker or product name of your phone e.g. Iphone, Nokia, Tecno, Sagem,….)

✒ Last used No.: (last number you called or that called you i.e your last received or dialled number)

✒ E-mail for communication: (Your working email to receive feedback)

✒ Missed date: (The date the phone was stolen or misplaced)

✒ IMEI No.: (Your copied imel number)
With all these details fully submitted, Your Mobile will be traced within next 24 hours via a complex system of General Packet Radio Services GPRS and internet.

Yola!! You will find where your hand set is being operated and the new user’s number will be sent to your email. And you can take it from there by informing the appropriate authority.

The dignity of an honest job By Pius Adesanmi

After completing my doctoral comprehensives and having my dissertation proposal accepted and approved by my committee in 1999, I decided I needed a break from Vancouver. I needed to go somewhere to recharge my batteries and, if possible, write the first draft of my dissertation. "

That needed break came in the form of a research fellowship offer from the Institut Francais d’Afrique du Sud in Johannesburg. The French Institute of South Africa offered me a six-month research stay in Johannesburg, complete with speaking and networking opportunities at Wits.

My friend, Bayo Emm, and I were sharing the same flat in Vancouver. Bayo and few friends drove me to the airport. Six months later, Bayo was at the Vancouver airport to welcome me back. Then, a day after my arrival from Johannesburg, I needed to send money urgently to Nigeria to help out a distant relative who was an undergraduate.

Across the road from our apartment, there was a Money Mart outlet we used for Western Union transactions. Bayo and I strolled there. As soon as they saw me walk in, the ladies behind the counter grinned warmly. One of them exclaimed: “hey mister, long time no see! Did you travel or something?” I confirmed that, indeed, I had been “away in Africa” for six months. We did more small talk and I completed my transaction.

Bayo hadn’t said a word. As we strolled back to our apartment, he was morose and thoughtful.

Ol’boy, wetin dey worry you? I finally asked him.

Pius, those girls missed you. They actually noticed that you weren’t around.

Which girls?

The Western Union girls.

Why won’t they notice? We are regular customers. We have used that Money Mart almost weekly now in the last two years.

Yes, Pius, that is the problem. You and I go there almost once a week. The money you go there to send home, is it to buy land, build a house, or start a business back home?

No, Bayo, it’s just the usual runs to help family, relatives, and friends.

Well, Pius, that is why those girls in Western Union got me thinking about our lives here. If you send money to help people out in Nigeria to the point that Western Union notices your absence, wahala wa o. Pius, when Western Union begins to tell us that “o ma t’ojo meta”, when Western Union begins to tell you long time no see, and what turned you to a valued family member of Western Union is not money you are spending on yourself, it is time to start thinking. It is time to start putting some of that money we are sending into projects back home. Don’t just be subsidizing people back home. After a few years, our culture will make the same people ask: after all the years abroad, what has he done for himself?

Bayo’s opinion affected me deeply. For the first time, I realized that I had made weekly trips to Western Union without a break for nearly two years and none of those trips had been for myself. I thought about how I was scrapping together the crumbs I was sending home from Vancouver…

…life in Canada, in Vancouver precisely, had taught me a few rude and crude lessons about the dignity of labour and of all jobs. I was coming from Nigeria and from a sociology in which the first day of your University admission automatically separates you from certain spheres of life and certain socialities. Nigeria tells you that once you have anything to do with a University, certain jobs are beneath you, certain situations are beneath you and the people who do such jobs are inferior to you. The social apartheid between those who have been to the University and those have not been in Nigeria is the worst there is in Africa.

I had arrived in Vancouver as a fully-funded PhD student. I had a doctoral Fellowship. I also had a teaching assistantship. I had a first and second degree, obviously, from Ilorin and Ibadan. And I already had minimal recognition as a writer. I was a big man of some sorts in Nigeria.

My first pay check was a rude shock! I ran to financial services at UBC to complain that there had been an error with my pay. They laughed and explained all the deductions to me. After all the deductions, I still had to contend with rent and bills and feeding.

I did the math and discovered to my horror that after all the taxes and deductions and the bills, I was lucky to be left with even $20 of spare change every month.

And there was all that crowd in Nigeria waiting…

Waiting for Western Union to start to make deliveries from Canada…

It was at this point that other members of the Nigerian graduate student community, who had arrived years before me, had gone through the same eye-openers and were waiting for the Canadian system to introduce herself to me, stepped in with a dire verdict:

Pius, na so this system be o. There is no big man here. If you won’t say that you are too big, I will talk to my supervisor where I work. There is vacancy for one more cleaner. There is vacancy for one more dish washer. There is vacancy for one more delivery boy. The cleaning job involves toilets o.

Jeez! Cleaner? Cleaning toilets? A whole Pius Adesanmi? With my first class degree from Ilorin? With my masters with distinction from Ibadan? Haba! And with my doctoral fellowship at UBC? I cursed and abused the Nigerians who were telling me such nonsense.

A few weeks later, I put one leg on top of another leg and went back to the same Nigerians: em, bros, please, is that cleaning job still available?

My first job was in a basement in the science faculty. It was a huge basement where the University kept thousands of live rats for science experiments. The rats were kept in cages and their cages were filled with bedding made of ground and dried and crushed corn cobs. This is where they shit and piss. It was our job to change the soiled bedding and wash the cages twice a day for the environment of the rats must always be airy and dry and fresh. The industrial washing machines we fed the cages to were like stuff you found in a bottling company. They emitted heat worse than hell.

I spent two years of my life in that hell hole in order to be able to afford just an extra hundred or two hundred dollars to send home. At the other end of the telephone line, when you called to announce how much you had sent, it wasn’t uncommon to hear, “Uncle, just hundred dollars?”. I would hang up in anger, cursing and yelling.

Just hundred dollars? That one extra job wasn’t enough. That is how Bayo and I juggled jobs, cleaning, working in a bakery…

For my first floor cleaning job, they asked if I had previous cleaning experience. Previous cleaning experience? I had to phone one of my Professors in Ibadan. Prof, there is an emergency here o. I am looking for work and I gave them your email. Please, if you receive an email asking if I had cleaning experience, please say that I was a part time cleaner in Ibadan o.

Ha, Payooosi, cleaner bi ti bo ooo?

Prof, e fi yen nle sir. Just confirm my experience as a cleaner in Ibadan!

I got that second cleaning job. I cleaned rat piss and shit in the morning and cleaned floors and toilets in between.

On a trip home, I discovered that many of the recipients of the proceeds of my cleaning jobs were able to afford things I couldn’t dream of in Canada.

Yet, there was no time I really needed to do any of that. I started out with a University Graduate Fellowship and by my second year, I had won the Killam Doctoral Fellowship, the most prestigious doctoral fellowship in Canada. My scholarships would have been enough for me if I didn’t have to carry communal and community load under cultural obligations back home. But I am grateful for that humbling experience. For that practical lesson in life that Canadian culture and Western culture taught me that every job has dignity if it is honest and there is nobody above any job.

Undergraduates in Canada and the United States juggle three or four menial jobs just to survive. Sometimes, in Nigeria, I see oyinbo undergraduate students doing study abroad in our Universities.

And some of our foolish boys will be running after the Canadian and the American kids with marriage proposals. And I would tell such foolish boys: you think she can sponsor you to America or Canada abi? Kontinuu. Do you have any idea how many menial jobs – cleaning in Walmart and McDondald’s – she combined to be able to save up and come here? These are jobs you will consider beneath you as an undergraduate in Nigeria.

Can you take a part time job as a cleaner in Chicken Republic to supplement whatever your parents and Uncles are giving you for your undergraduate studies? Well, that is what your oyinbo undergraduate peers do in Canada and America. I agree it is easier for them because nobody looks down on them: every job has dignity.

Today, the Governor of Lagos State is having trouble convincing graduates to believe in the dignity of certain kinds of honest jobs. Do not blame those kids. Blame the society which raised them to believe that they must start out in life as Dangote otherwise they are failures. Blame the society which trained them to look down on certain kinds of jobs as graduates.

Warning: pieces and contributions are the opinions of the writers only and do not represent the opinions of  this blog

Pius Adesanmi, a professor of English, is Director of the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Canada

8 Things You Should Never Post On Social Media.

Day by day people put themselves and their family members at Unnecessary risks Just by Carelessly Posting almost every thing about their life privacy , All in the name of showing of , Having Fun , Luxurious Life attitudes..etc



Not Only that its wrong, Some of your status get to fight you later in life, fake accounts are also in abundance, which is why it is vital to keep the information you share to a minimum.

Not here to stop your from your steady and careless posting habits but please refrain from sharing the following

1) HOLIDAY PLANS

A lot of peeps are guilty of this ,some even go to the extent of even telling you who and who in the family are going and who is staying, Informing the public that you are off to Ibadan for new yam festival and would be there for two weeks might also end in dire consequences. as you could be alerting robbers and bad people of the situation at hand. you could post whatever you wanna post on social media especially Facebook, but when it comes to the holiday/vacation/traveling aspect , Just refrain from sharing.

2) WINNING TICKETS

where are my betting and gambling peeps ,Them who cant do without going to Nairabet ,those streets urchins who cant sleep unless their legs greets the floor of the betting houses.. you see guys on Facebook with status like “Guess What i just grabbed 750k from bet9ja, they must surely pay, on my way to the bank with them” ,Well my question to you guys is, “How would you feel after winning your game and then get kidnapped,or on getting home your debtors are already sitting and waiting at home , its not going to end well.
you can as well prevent this by not posting your winning tickets on social media better to keep this to thyself.

3) HOME ADDRESS/CURRENT LOCATION

Most people give out their home address location more than you think , its not as dangerous as posting about your holiday plans but can be used against you. lets say “you get someone angry on Facebook, and maybe forget about it but the person doesn’t , He seeks for retaliation and he seems not to be getting any, and then you post your home address on your status innocently, see you in the hospital if lucky.
current location is as dangerous as getting a matchstick to the petrol station we all know what will happen when its lit , Never disclose where you are at the moment , There are a lot of Risks associated to it which you know and don’t need me to tell you about.

4) BANK DETAILS

Posting details about you Bank account on social networks has no much risks associated to it , But i would advise that you don’t post your bank details publicly on social media. There is no need for it. Anyone who wishes to send money to you should message you privately, Hackers are everywhere and just need a little detail from you and your money is a thing of the past.

5) YOUR RELATIONSHIP / RELATIONSHIP ISSUES

Almost everyone is a student of the above course , Social media has a hand in 48% of ruined relationship . Relationships that have been taking to the social networks don’t last.
Social media is not a place for solving relationship issues Infact it does the opposite, and those who bring their relationship to social networks the networks looking at you like, “Welcome Chioma, so how do you want us to help you ruin your relationship” ??

6) LUXURIOUS LIVING

People who show off their wads of cash , Gold plated items, Mansions , Cars , Expensive cloths etc. on social media should reduce this character to its minimum or refrain totally from doing such. especially celebrities , we all have heard cases of people being held at gunpoint , robbed at home , etc. doing this does not tell people that you are wealthy its just going to give robbers a reason to…..

7) NUDE/EXPLICIT CONTENTS OF YOU

i don’t think any sane person as of this modern era will go on social media to post Their nudes (Unclad pictures) , especially someone who wants to build a personality and be respected later in the future.
Even if you think your privacy is strong remember Facebook could be hacked and all those pictures could be leaked to people you don’t want it to be showed to – Your parents and colleagues as examples. i read a short joke on twitter that said ” All this girls posting there nudes online, i hope you know explaining to your parents that your bride price is no more than a bottle of soft drink wont be hard”

8)  STATEMENTS THAT WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU LATER

I can recall this guy who wrote something about first bank in his second year at school , when he finally graduated 3 years later , he went for an interview and was disqualified because of it , after it was Dug up later.

Doing the Ebola outbreak , a single status from a lady about using salt to cure the dreading ailment, killed people and left the rest seriously unconscious,she was arrested later, the rest is history. The power of social media.

You should mind what you say on social media, they could fight you later. Always speak with caution, accuse with facts and update your status with correct information.

Please don't allow anything to happen to you before you learn from it. 

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“I don’t experience orgasms” – Kemi Olunloyo says #StopFemaleGenitalMultilation

Kemi Olunloyo has revealed she is a victim of Female Genital Mutilation and she is not shy to talk about it.

Kemi in an interview with International Business Times, says her sexual life and mental health were affected after she was mutilated as a child.

According to her, the grave act was committed on her at age five when a family member took she and her sister to meet a man who placed them on his lap and “then cut part of our vagina and clitoral area off.

“There was no anaesthetic and a sharp razor blade was used. I remember my sister and I screaming afterwards,” she said. Adding, “We went home bleeding. Deep down, mom was not happy for some reason.”

Olunloyo told IBTimes UK after years of resentment towards her mother, she finally confronted her in 2012. “She burst into tears telling me that our late paternal grandma ordered my dad to have us do it.”

“It was a cultural barbaric act used to decrease the female libido. It caused me post-traumatic stress disorder for life. I don’t experience orgasm during sex and when I tried to promote the use of sex toys among Nigerian women, men started attacking me saying I was discouraging African women ‘from the real thing.”

“Sex is not important. I have no libido or urge to have sex and I’ve been celibate for 10 years. Millions of women in Nigeria go through this, but they cannot talk or be outspoken like me. It is shameful and a disgrace to them.” 

#StopFGM #WalkAgainstFemaleGenitalMultilation

Reason While the Oba of Benin and his wives covered their mouths during recent coronation ceremony

So on 20^th of this month, Oba Ewuare ll N’Ogidigan ascended the throne of his ancestors to become the 40th Oba of Benin, succeeding his late father, Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku Akpolopkolo, Oba Erediauwa.

The photo above of the newly coroneted Oba puzzled many people with some social media users ridiculously assuming some obnoxious assumption, Well, why was the Oba covering his mouth? It was obviously a cultural act but what was the significance. Even his wives covered their mouths.

An indigene of Edo State, south-south part of Nigeria embarked on a fact-finding mission and got the feedback below:

(1) The Oba usually covers his mouth because when he talks he is the supreme authority and whatever he says is final.

(2) People talk on his behalf most of the time and whatever they proclaim becomes the law with immediate effect.

“A friend of mine who is a painter said he did a painting of the old Oba and it was rejected because it depicted him smiling. According to tradition, people are not supposed to see the Oba’s teeth so he doesn’t smile” the unnamed investigator concluded.

N.B There might be other reasons aside this, we will appreciate your comment and contributions to this  post.

 

SUPERMOM SPECIAL: HERO OF THE MONTH Obiageli Ezekwesili

Obiageli Ezekwesili popularly known as Oby Ezekwesili hails from Anambra State of Nigeria.

She obtained her Master's degree in International Law and Diplomacy from

the University of Lagos. She later traveled to the Unite States where she enrolled in the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and obtained her Masters Degree in Public administration. She also trained in the Accountancy firm of Deloitte and Touche and became a chartered accountant. 

Ezekwesili worked with Professor Jeffrey Sachs at the Center for International Development at Harvard.

Obiageli Ezekwesili co-founded Transparency International, an anti-corruption body based in Berlin, Germany. There, she was one of the pioneer directors. She later came back to Nigeria and served as the Federal Minister of Solid Minerals and later as Federal Minister of Education during the second-term of president OlusegunObasanjo. Oby Ezekwesili was once the Vice-President of the World Bank's Africa division, a position she held from May 2007 to May 2012.

During the regime of president Olusegun Obasanjo Obiageli Ezekwesili held the position of the Pioneer head of the Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence Unit (nick-named Due Process Unit). It was at that time that she was given the sobriquet of "Madam Due Process" owing to the outstanding work she led a team of professionals to do in sanitation of  the public procurement or contract award at the Federal level in Nigeria. The Nigerian Bureau for Public Procurement legislation can be described as her brainchild. Other legislation she engineered include the NEITI legislation and the new Minerals and Mining legislation.

Apart from holding positions as the Minister of Solid Minerals (Mines and Steel) in June 2005 during which period she led a vibrant reform program that led to Nigeria being globally recognized as a credible mining investment destination. She was also the Chairperson of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). It was at this period that she led the first ever national implementation of the global standards and principles of transparency in the oil, gas and mining sector.

Oby Ezekwesili was appointed the Federal Minister of Education in June 2006, a position she held until she went for an appointment in the World Bank in May 2007. Her appointment as Vice-President for the Africa Region at the world bank was actually announced in March 2007, by President Paul Wolfowitz.

On October 1, 2012, Bharti Airtel, one of the world's leading telecommunications firm having operations in 20 countries, named Obiageli Ezekwesili as a director on its board. Oby is also one of the board members of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), The Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy,  the School of Public Policy of Central European University,  New African magazine and The Center for Global Leadership of Tufts University.

In May 2012, the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, awarded Ezekwesili an honorary Doctor of Science (DSC) degree.

After nearly 300 girls were abducted from Chibok by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram., Oby Ezekwesili co-founded the viral #BringBackOurGirls campaign on social media, which urges action to bring the girls back. Some international personalities including  Michelle Obama, Alicia Keys, Chris Brown and others have identified with the clamor for the release of the abducted schoolgirls and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

Oby Ezekwesili 

✔@obyezeks

Five new cases of Lassa fever discovered in Plateau

 

The Plateau State Health Commissioner, Dr. Kuden Kamshak on Tuesday said the state has reported four new cases of Lassa fever.

He disclosed this while speaking to journalists in Jos.

Kamshak said samples from the victims have been taken to Delta Sate for analysis and investigation.

He said two have tested positive to the virus out of the 10 cases discovered in the state.

He also said one of the affected persons was a student of the University of Jos, who has been treated and discharged.

He said others have been discharged after been quarantined and observed for 21 days.

He said, “We have commenced aggressive sensitization and awareness campaign in the state.

The campaigns are aimed at enlightening the people on how to prevent the disease and curb the spread.”

Six Reasons to Update Your Business Plan

Business plans are living documents. Make sure that they evolve with your company and reflect the business you’re running by revising when your company meets these six milestones.
You want to refinance or fundraise. Investors and lenders want to know about your current challenges and have the most up-to-date look at the costs and opportunities you’re forecasting.




You launch a new product or service. A new revenue stream will impact how you manage your resources – and can impact profitability. Let partners and investors in on your vision to get their buy-in and help with execution.


You expand into new markets. How you allocate your time and resources will change dramatically as you expand into different cities and countries. An updated plan can help you set realistic goals and communicate those to you team.
Your competitors have changed. Half the battle of running a successful business is staying aware of what the others in your industry are doing. If your major competitor pivots or there is an up and coming venture that enters the field, include that in your plan


You change suppliers or technologies. Changing your supply chain could help you cut costs or even position your company as more environmentally friendly. Furthermore, a shift to a new tech platform could give your company an important competitive advantage that investors will want to know about.


Your customer changes. If your target customer has shifted, you might need to meet a different set of wants and need. If so, you’ll need to explain in your business plan how you’ll find your new core market and retain it.

  

You Deserve to Be a Millionaire. Follow These 12 Tips to Get There

I started with nothing and have been blessed with enough focus, commitment, follow through and the ability to not make excuses that I have done extremely well in my life. This principles work.

1. It's never been easier.

It has never been easier, so don’t make it so difficult. There is so much money in the world today and so many ways to get yourself known. The first thing you have to know is that it’s out there and it’s not that hard. In fact, everyone will be a millionaire in their lifetime: $50,000 per year times 20 years equals $1 million.

2. Saving won’t do.

The old ideas of saving every penny is not the way today. You can’t simply save your way to the first million without becoming old, at which point the money probably won’t matter to you.

3. Live below your means.

Live below the money you are making. Not because you are depriving yourself, but because you are seeking to bank millions. No one has ever done business with me because of the suit I wear, the watch I have on my wrist or the car I drove. Live below your means until you don’t have to anymore.

4. Push every tax angle you can.

Learn the tax code and use it to your advantage. Quit bitching about taxes and learn how it can benefit you. The code was put together to give preference to earners. I have joined multiple multi-level marketing companies while still being an employee so I could take advantage of write-offs like the home and car. These were, and are, legitimate ways for me to reduce my tax bill and possibly make some more money -- plus I have a chance to surround myself with great people.

5. Mature from income to investor.

The way to get rich is to make investments, but you can’t do that if your income doesn’t allow for you to set aside money to invest. The only reason to make and save money is so that you can invest it. Only invest money in projects you know will score and never give up your income.

6. Start acting like a boss.

Quit acting poor and quit acting like you are a spectator. Boss up in everything. When the bill comes for dinner, boss up. When you have to invest money to get information, buy a list, grow your brand or learn to sell you need to write the check like a boss, not like a little whiner.

7. Automate a pay-yourself-first program.

Set up with your employer to pay yourself to a savings account so that you have money deposited each month before you get a check to pay your bills and live your life. This is one thing I started doing when I was 26 years old that kept me "broke" without money to lose or waste and forced me to continue to hustle. This is the step that will make number five possible.

8. Be in a hurry.

Be the hare, the turtle and the millionaire! The only thing that comes to those that are patient are the crumbs left behind by those in a hurry.

9. Do the millionaire math.

Do the math on what it takes to hit a million. If you make $50,000 a year and can figure out how to put away 40 percent of it (that is my saving target) it will take you 50 years times $20,000 per year to get there. If you don’t do your math you won’t get there because you won’t have the right mindset. Math is a universal language.

10. Do not diversify.

I know the diversification concept is popular, but it’s wrong. If you are going to bank a million before you are old and tired you need to pick something you believe in and know it's going to work and go all in.

11. Seek multiple flows.

If you don’t get multiple flows happening you will never create financial freedom. Don’t confuse number 10 with multiple flows. These are not conflicts -- have parallel flows going. Don’t make your first flow disconnected, make it similar so that it takes less energy and less resources.

12. Avoid spending money or tying up your money in homes, IRAs or colleges.

I know it’s not popular, but these are traps. Show me someone that became a millionaire from buying homes, other than me. Flipping homes, by the way, is not buying homes -- that is a real estate play. Wall Street has convinced you to do these things to trap and immobilize you.

You deserve financial freedom. You should have your financial targets to be a millionaire up until the point that you become one. Then your target should be to hit 100 million!

Courtesy: http://www.entrepreneur.com/  

The Beard Woman who Finds Inner Confidence Of Her Look After Almost Attempting Suicide.

Harnaam Kaur, a 24yr old woman who resides in Berkshire UK has come out to say that she loves her look (beards) after doctors said she is suffering from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (Facial hair growth in the feminine gender). Harnaam also said she would never try to get rid of it again.

She reveals that she has been growing the beard since she was 11 years of age and she had to endure the hardship of Bullying and people making fun of her. She even said she once tried to commit suicide. She tried to wax, bleach and shave the hair which also grows on her chest and arms but decided to stop the removal after she was baptized as a Sikh (a religion that forbids removal of body hair)

She has now spoken on her inner-discovered confidence.

At an appearance on This Morning, Harnaam said:

“At the end of the day, I love myself and the way that I’m formed. Going through primary and secondary school with the facial hair, kids can be nasty. It led me to self harm and wanting to take my own life. It takes a lot of strength to say, ‘I want to kill myself. A split second is all it took. That thought process really empowered me to just carry on with life.

“I’m more spiritual now than I am religious, I live my life the way I see fit. I stand for what I am. To be labelled as a woman you can look however you want.”

Harnaam is reportedly now working on a campaign to prove that name-calling has a big impact with anti-bullying charity Fixers.

Now tell me isn't  she lovely even with her beards. Let hear from you.

Schooling: when one size doesn't fit all

If you feel that your child isn't coping in mainstream schooling, it may be time to start considering alternate options that could provide a better learning environment.

Schooling should be a fairly simple affair: take child to school near home or work.  The reality is so far from this, it can be a nightmare, especially when the consideration comes in on the type of schooling, which is generally broken down into three categories: mainstream, remedial and special needs.

Doing what is best for the child

When those are your options, the decision is as clear as mud (and yes, even children with special needs may be accommodated in a mainstream school). It all boils down to that catchy phrase of whatever is “in the best interest of the child”.

The truth is: doing what is best for the child ultimately would mean finding an environment that suits that specific child, not an environment designed to fit the average child. If your child is one who enjoys their school, this article may provide an interesting read, but is not intended to sway your opinion.

As a parent you are in the best position to know what type of teacher your child needs. You know if it would be better to start schooling your early bird at 5am or your night owl at 2pm; you know if your child would be more organised working in set books or filing work as it is completed; or if youTube could get the information across better simply because it is delivered from an electronic device rather than a person with whom eye contact is made.

Ask any traditional school to allow your child to start at 2pm and scoffs may be heard all round. But this is a possibility if you homeschool. For some reason, however, homeschooling has a bad reputation with the parents viewed as over protective or controlling; or worse yet that there may be something wrong, socially or academically, with the homeschooled child.

Different options when it comes to homeschooling

This form of educating and learning allows flexibility around time, venue, material and pace. Technically speaking, you could buy a multitude of books on different topics and simply read and research with your child to broaden their knowledge on anything. Writing a book review, letter to the author or creative piece on what has been read, develops the art of writing and practices grammar. Math can be taught through real life problem solving such as quartering a recipe or calculating angles to build a tree house. 

If this seems too airy-fairy, there are a number of set curricula available with lesson plans and schedules which guide parents through their teaching; some will include ideas of outings to correspond with a topic, making it more hands-on. Children in mainstream schools cannot wait for their next outing; imagine telling them they could go on one, two or three outings a month!

A discussion on homeschooling wouldn’t be complete without someone asking “what about socialising?” Given that homeschoolers have the option of learning at different times, they have the opportunity to take part in club sports or cultural activities.
With the upswing in homeschooling over the past few years, there are numerous support networks in place who share their outing ideas; even the Northgate ice-rink has accommodated homeschoolers. Furthermore, these children tend to be better socially equipped to deal with peers of various ages as they are not limited to interacting with a single age group. There is a buthere: it can be easy to fall into a trap of staying at home and relying on a child’s innate ability to seek out friends if and when the opportunity presents itself. Planning outings, sports, cultural activities and play dates must be given as much consideration as the academics.

But we work all day.

Not a problem: although, according to Sec 51 of the SA Schools Act, which makes provision for homeschoolers, learning must take place at the child’s own home, there is no stipulation that homeschooling be done by the parent.  Make no mistake, parents remain the drivers of their child’s education and are required to ensure the education provided is in the child’s best interest. This is in fact true for any parent: should anything be taught at a registered school which is not in a child’s best interest, legally the parent must intervene.

Who can afford a personal tutor every day?

Homeschooling turns out cheaper, even with a tutor, than sending a child to an independent school.  Consider alone the money saved by buying less stationery, minimal class supplies, no school uniforms etc.

If the idea of homeschooling is just perfect for your child but is not feasible for whatever reason, there is one last avenue to consider which comes with more controversy than homeschooling (a good time to make of tea perhaps?)

Cottage school, learning centre, small school, homeschool away from home (existing homeschoolers I know this is not a correct term) – these expressions referto small environments that expand on the homeschooling ethos of working with each child’s strengths, but offers some structure in terms of times and venue while maintaining the flexibility needed. The controversy comes in in that most of these centres refrain from registering with the Department of Education.
These centres may be justified in their actions only so long as the type of education they offer cannot be accessed in a school in the area, all the children educated through the centre require the type of instruction offered, and if registering with the Department of Education impedes the offered instruction.
By their nature, registered schools offer a standard and method that is applicable to most children, or the average child.  Parents wishing to follow an alternative means of education are advised to join the Pestalozzi Trust which is a legal defence fund protecting the rights of parents to choose their child’s education. 

The phase of education identified as FET (Further Education and Training) consists of grades 10-12. Unfortunately it is at this point that even the most diverse education system becomes regulated, and homeschoolers or those attending learning centres must register with a service provider that is able to offer a senior certificate of some kind.  Fortunately, there are options here too: one can register with a group offering the national senior certificate, or the American or Cambridge equivalents.

The bottom line is, while anything different is likely to come with a scare factor, pushing through will more often than not yield benefits that far outweigh the scare. And with our great country’s laws providing the opportunities to do what is best for our children’s education, why let a bit of scare stop you?

Delia Tranter, H

THE JOY OF MOTHERHOOD

The beauties of life is best express by a mother

In her thighs beauty is begotten and created

With her strength and sereneness 

She educate humanity

She toils day and night to nourish her seeds

Her opinion is best sought

When all seems gloomy and chaotic

Mother

Sons first love, 

Daughters role model

Husbands soul mate.

To the beauty of motherhood

And the joy it brings

To the beauty of Nationhood

And the patriotism of citizens

Let Us be friends

Let us save motherhood

Let us save Nature...

@Olorisupermum