Food for Thought

[hispy99]

The $480 steak - MarketWatch

this is what our own Wan$$$5 uses to entertain guests at his mansion in Houston or palace in Abuja

[Salida]

Greeks say they are the hardest-working European nation: Stereotypes of Europe | The Economist

Hahaha...very funny. While everyone thinks Germans are the most hardworking, Greeks believe they are the most hardworking.

[emmanuel ewumi]

I Have discovered that at the heart of Existence should lie LEAVING A LEGACY. Be you a DAD or a MUM raising up kids, a RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL or BUSINESS PIONEER or LEADER. We all will be dead longer than we 've lived, so from today STOP living for SELF and the PRESENT, START living for TOMORROW and POSTERITY, BUILD always with a LONG-TERM Perspective. - a thought on leaving a Legacy ( Author Known to God).
" Every of our ACTIONS is a SEED that is sown...and the HARVEST is always MORE than the seed, so we should be careful the seeds we sow bearing in mind that there will definitely be an harvest" - Dr. Mrs Kehinde (My revered lecturer at UNILAG in Philosophy of Science, and an expert in the field of Epistemology).

[Salida]

MKO Abiola's Daughter Dupe Dupsy Abiola On BBC's Dragon Den UK

MKO Abiola's Daughter Dupe Dupsy Abiola On BBC's Dragon Den UK - YouTube

Does Entrepreneurial acumen run in the blood? Here is Chief MKO Abiola's daughter dazzling the Dragon's den.

[Salida]

With incessant attacks on precious lives and Infrastructure in Nigeria, will the blame game continue into 2013?

[hispy99]

Christmas: Prices of foodstuffs rise as holiday makers leave Lagos

[hispy99]

Japanese 115-Year-Old Becomes Oldest Man in History - Bloomberg

[Salida]

The top 10 tech 'fails' of 2012 - CNN.com

[hispy99]

Nigeria-trained doctors rank second on UK blacklist

[hispy99]

na yemoja dem turn into yenanja

BBC News - New Year celebrated early on Copacabana beach

[hispy99]

BBC News - Africa: Where black is not really beautiful

Fela don sing am b4 b4...naija no go carry last

The World Health Organization has reported that Nigerians are the highest users of such products: 77% of Nigerian women use the products on a regular basis. They are followed by Togo with 59%; South Africa with 35%; and Mali at 25%.

dis one don kolo

But skin-lightening is not just a fascination and obsession of women. Congolese hair stylist Jackson Marcelle says he has been using special injections to bleach his skin for the past 10 years. Each injection lasts for six months. "I pray every day and I ask God, 'God why did you make me black?' I don't like being black. I don't like black skin," he tells me.

"I like white people. Black people are seen as dangerous; that's why I don't like being black. People treat me better now because I look like I'm white," he adds.

[pegheneji]

Originally Posted by hispy99

Nigeria-trained doctors rank second on UK blacklist

Funingly, it is the same India that Nigerians run to for all type of treament rangging from heart to kidney problem

[Salida]

Where to be born in 2013: Britain falls 20 places in 'lottery of life' league table behind Chile, Taiwan and Ireland | Mail Online

*New index names Swiss babies as the 'luckiest' in the world
*Australia, Norway, Sweden and Denmark also in top 5
*Britain languishing at 27th, down from 7th in a similar survey in 1988
*Nigeria, Kenya and Ukraine the worst place to be born this year

Hmmm...

[hispy99]

Originally Posted by Salida

Where to be born in 2013: Britain falls 20 places in 'lottery of life' league table behind Chile, Taiwan and Ireland | Mail Online

*New index names Swiss babies as the 'luckiest' in the world
*Australia, Norway, Sweden and Denmark also in top 5
*Britain languishing at 27th, down from 7th in a similar survey in 1988
*Nigeria, Kenya and Ukraine the worst place to be born this year

Hmmm...

Boko Haram, Kidnappers, airplane disaster, no raods, fuel scarcity...where else did you want naija to place?

[emmanuel ewumi]

Millionaire Cleans Streets to Set Example for Her Children – chinaSMACK

[emmanuel ewumi]

Originally Posted by emmanuel ewumi

Millionaire Cleans Streets to Set Example for Her Children – chinaSMACK

In the 1980s, Yu Youzhen was merely an ordinary vegetable farmer in Wuhan City Hongshan District Donghu Village Huojiawa who, after years of building and additions, came to possess three 5-storey private buildings, most of which were rented out. In 2008, Yu Youzhen chanced upon [government policies for] the requisition, demolition, and redevelopment of land [mostly takes place in rural areas, where when a peasant’s land is expropriated by the government and the peasant is compensated for it with new houses or apartments in other locations] and was successively given 21 apartments [for her previous property]. Yu Youzhen personally witnessed some of her fellow villagers not engaging themselves in decent activities after being compensated with multiple apartments, falling into gambling, and even drug use. In order to set a good example for her children, from 1998 onwards, the now landless Yu Youzhen went to Wuchang District Chengguan Bureau to work as a sanitation worker, with a 1,420 yuan monthly salary, only one day off each week, and having to arrive for work 3 every morning.

[emmanuel ewumi]

Originally Posted by emmanuel ewumi

Millionaire Cleans Streets to Set Example for Her Children – chinaSMACK

Yu Youzhen is responsible for the sanitation of an approximately 3,000-meter long stretch of road, sweeping along its length back and forth 6 hours every day, wiping and washing 8 trashcans. Since it’s cold outside, a thin layer of ice forms on the surface of the trashcan that as Yu Youzhen just bent down to wipe with a wet rag.

Yu Youzhen is buying newspapers.

[emmanuel ewumi]

Originally Posted by emmanuel ewumi

Millionaire Cleans Streets to Set Example for Her Children – chinaSMACK

She has already put the word out to her son and daughter: “If you don’t work, I’ll donate the apartments to the country.” PS: Ma’am, I’d rather you burn them down than give them to the government.

[manemi]

Originally Posted by emmanuel ewumi

She has already put the word out to her son and daughter: “If you don’t work, I’ll donate the apartments to the country.” PS: Ma’am, I’d rather you burn them down than give them to the government.

Interesting. But this wont work in Naija. If your children believe you are rich and then see you laboring here they would think you are fool. They may even speed up your death so they will take and enjoy the money.

[emmanuel ewumi]

Originally Posted by emmanuel ewumi

Millionaire Cleans Streets to Set Example for Her Children – chinaSMACK

I used to know a vendor on Broad Street in the late 90s with a stock portfolio that runs into tens of millions of naira way back. He still worked as a vendor delivering newspapers to offices on the Broad street. He has retired and the son has taken over the business.