Emma's Video

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Pet Names

It's been said that pet names get couples closer. How about this?

A Village in Afghanistan

You can hide someone here for years without him being discovered. Mennnnnnnnnnnnnn!

Making Success Last - The S Principle

Each S in the diagram represents the processing of a resource. If you observe closely, you will see that the base of the first S is flat. It shows the high difficulty index you will have to overcome when you start your initial resource’s processing. There’ll be mistakes to make, uncharted courses (at least to you) to chart, many expenses and the costs associated with breaking your product into the consciousness of people. The takeoff may be slow, as shown by the flat base, but if you diligently persevere and are innovative, it will not be long before you get to the second phase of the first S. you notice that there is a rapid rise in value and profitability. Many things come to you here. Fame, recognition, financial returns, social connections and so on. This is where many people miss it. This is the critical point where differentiation between the flash-in-the-pan successes and those whose success will be sustainable becomes evident through the behaviors they exhibit. To ensure that success is secured and sustained, rather than living it up, learn to channel the earlier mentioned resources into building up another resource or group of resources. The success of the first one will be a support to the new resource(s) and will provide the needed recognition and experience to make the takeoff of the new resources easier. Hence unlike in the first S where the base was flat, the second S’s base rises from the onset. This shows that profit and returns on investment come quicker and are usually greater for than for the initial resource. Risk is also minimized because it is spread amongst multiple resources. You then repeat the S-Principle until you now have a diverse processing set. That’s what nations like America and Japan have done that has made them the envy of the world today. That’s what businesses like Dangote Industries have done and they have become continental businesses. Music stars have done it continually. What they have all done is that they made successes of their initial resource, in the case America agriculture, in Dangote’s case imports and in the musicians’ case their music. They then continue to reinvest their success on newer, more up to date resources and end up making a dynasty of success. If they could do it, then you can do much more. It’s really up to you.

For My Baby on Her Bday

Aint she just an Angel!

Why do athletes lose their money so quickly???

Almost 80 percent of National Football League players are flirting with bankruptcy two years after they retire, according to Sports Illustrated. NBA players aren’t faring much better. 60 percent of former National Basketball Association players end up broke within five years of retirement. Athletes squander millions of dollars due to bad decisions, lavish spending and poor financial planning. Here is a list of athletes that have lost their fortunes through some of the biggest financial blunders of all time.


Scottie Pippen

Known more for his on court defense than his off court business sense, former Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen lost $120 million in career earnings due to poor financial planning and bad business ideas. Air Jordan’s sidekick blew $27 million on bad investments and spent $4.3million on a Gulfstream II corporate jet.

Lenny Dykstra

Former New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies star Lenny “Nails” Dykstra was a success on the baseball diamond, but in the business field Dykstra has struck out. Dykstra’s failed businesses include car washes, a magazine company, real estate investing and a stock trading website. According to Dykstra’s July 2009 bankruptcy filing, he owed more than $30 million to creditors, including his $18.5 million purchase of Wayne Gretzky’s home. The amazing part is that after two foreclosed homes and numerous failed businesses Dykstra is offering the investment advice that led him into bankruptcy for a mere $899 a year! In the investment world, it is often said that past history does not dictate future performance. Nevertheless, it’s pretty clear Dykstra isn’t the guy to go to for advice.

Latrell Sprewell

Look up the word “shortsighted” in the dictionary and you will see a picture of Latrell Sprewell. He famously turned down a $21 million contract because he said it wasn’t enough money to feed his family. Sprewell, who made over $96 million during his career, lost his $1.5 million dollar Italian yacht, named “Milwaukee’s Best”, in 2007. According to MSNBC, a U.S. marshal seized the yacht after Sprewell defaulted on his mortgage. His $5.4 million house went into foreclosure in May 2008. Don’t blame Sprewell for turning down the three-year, $21 million contract though. I mean really, who could live off a measly $7 million a year?


John Daly

Two-time PGA major champ John Daly gambled away between $50 and $60 million in career earnings, according to his 2006 autobiography. Daly once lost $1.65 million in five hours playing the slot machines at a casino. If you think that’s impressive, there’s more. Daly blew $1.2 million in a mere two hours and 30 minutes at a casino in Las Vegas. He just had his $1.6 million house foreclosed on. Did Daly quit gambling after blowing so much cash at the casino tables? Not by a long shot. Instead, he decided to downgrade from the $5,000 slot machines to the $100 and $500 machines. It looks in John Daly’s world, that is considered sound financial planning.

Jack Clark

Former professional baseball slugger Jack Clark was driven into bankruptcy in 1992 by his appetite for luxury cars. According to his bankruptcy filing, he owned 18 luxury automobiles, including a $700,000 Ferrari and a Rolls Royce. Clark was trying to pay 17 car notes simultaneously, and whenever he got bored with a car he would get rid of it and just buy another one. He ended up losing million-dollar homes and his drag-racing business because of his extravagant spending habits, but despite one of the most publicized bankruptcies in baseball, Clark reportedly got back on his feet in the late ’90s.

Evander Holyfield

Four-time boxing champ Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield reportedly made over $250 million in cash during his boxing career, but despite this he reportedly is flat broke. Holyfield lost all his money by making “smart” business decisions look really foolish. You thought buying a house was a smart move? It normally is, but not when you buy a house the size of Rhode Island. Holyfield bought a $20 million house with over 54,000 square feet and 109 rooms. The house has 11 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, a movie theater, a bowling alley and an Olympic-size swimming pool. Imagine how much it must cost to cut the grass on all 235 acres! You could buy a Range Rover with the electric bill payment alone.


Mike Tyson

The king of them all is boxer Mike Tyson, who squandered a $350 million to $400 million dollar fortune. So what did “Iron” Mike spend his fortune on? Everything. He dropped half a million dollars on a 420-horsepower Bentley Continental SC with lamb’s wool rugs, a phone and a removable glass roof. It is one of only 73 Bentley Continental SCs ever built. The sad part is that’s not even the only Bentley that Tyson owned! He spent over $4.5 million dollars on cars alone. Throw in a $2 million dollar bathtub and $140,000 for two Bengal tigers and you can see why Tyson’s fortune is down for the count. He filed for bankruptcy in 2003.

Flower Principle: PROCESS

The flower’s value does not lie in its present but in its future. It can become a tree. But how does the flower move from being a mere small flower into a big tree.

The journey starts with pollen from the anthers of the flowers being carried by the pollinators to other flowers so that fertilization of the eggs in the stigma can occur. A period of incubation when fertilized eggs send little roots into the belly of the flower follows. Time then elapses when the flower transforms, with the outer parts forming the fruit and the inner parts forming the seed. The flower has come a long way in its journey to becoming a tree but it is not there yet. The seed must then be planted and nurtured. Over time, it then grows up into a tree. It may take a few days or a hundred years, depending on the species of the plant.

Well, what do you think? Seems like such a long way for the flower to go in order to fulfill its purpose. That is what we call process. The flower has to go through a series of events that transform it into a tree. Even if it goes through 95% of the process, it will only become almost a tree, never a tree. Going 100% all the way is called staying power.

A wise man once said that the wealthiest place on earth is the graveyard. The greatest of potential is found buried with the occupants of the graves. It is process that transforms the minutest of potential into the most opulent of fulfilled purpose. No matter how great potential is, it will be useless if it is not processed. The poorest of nations in the world are amongst those that have the greatest potential to be rich. They are poor because they do not process their potential into wealth. Your greatest value will only be realized when your potential today is processed into your purpose tomorrow. People respect potential but they respect maximized potential more.

You must discover what needs to be done with what you have for that which you have to become that which you should have.

Even Jesus, our divine argument was made through process – even the son learnt …by the things he suffered. Samson did not really go through process, having strength entrusted upon him from birth. He truncated his life’s journey prematurely. Process breaks, moulds, remolds and brings about the required you.

Smile

Ensure you give out as many smiles as possible today. I'm starting the trend. Here's one smile for y'all
Aint this smile cute!!

Finally, My Video! I made it

All, here's the video to the song y'all selected. Let the comments roll!

Flower Principle: POTENTIAL

Imagine that you did not know about the reproductive process of flowering plants. If I plucked the flower of a mango tree and brought it to you and then took you to a full-grown mango tree. If then I told you that the mango tree that you see is contained within that flower and that the mango tree comes from a flower like that, you would most likely disbelieve me.

No matter how drab or colorful, big or small a flower is, it can produce a plant that will have every single component on the one you see complete! It will have a stem, a root, leaves and flowers complete. That is the potential of the flower, what it can become. The purpose is to reproduce the plant, but potential is found in the seemingly insignificant things within the flower that ultimately enable it fulfill that purpose. Since the purpose of each flower is different, the potential within them is different. Some need sticky pollen, others large, colorful petals and others still small spiky petals.

Within every individual lies the potential to fulfill purpose. It may look unlikely that you are the one are to achieve those things you identified, but don’t you dare disbelieve your purpose. The thing about potential is that it cannot be seen and valued by the vast majority of people until you have worked it into becoming that which you dreamt. It takes people who have rightly positioned their minds and have discovered their purpose to see potential. Like the flower, the smallest of things can become the greatest of all. Don’t look to those who tell you that your purpose is a bar set too high for somebody like you. Remember that without the benefit of hindsight, no one would believe that every tree started as a single flower on some other tree. Yu can achieve purpose, no matter how small potential might look. Don’t become envious of those with different or bigger looking potentials. Differences in potential only mean differences in purpose, not licenses to limitations.

On your own,lol

Doooooont! Funny Photo

Ain't this a lil too early?

A Suicidal guy holds Public Defenders Hostage

A man who identified himself as Victor Agboye inflicted severe injuries on himself while holding hostage officials of the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) for about four hours on Monday.

Mr. Agboye, who is believed to be in his late twenties, is demanding an urgent government intervention to forestall alleged cruel treatment meted on him and his siblings by his elder sister, Queen Agboye.

As explained by Omotola Rotimi, the Director of the agency, who explained the incident to journalists in her office at Motorways building, Ikeja, Victor complained about how his sister had allegedly refused to share the N38m fortune left behind by their late mother.

“He claimed to now live on the street, even when their grandmother tried to mediate, Mr. Agboye claimed that his sister killed her and threw her into the Lagoon,” she said.

Mr. Agboye was at the agency on Monday because he and Queen had been invited with a view to resolve the family rancour. Also, Mrs. Rotimi had also invited the Police and the psychiatric department of the State’s ministry of youth and sports because “the boy [Victor] was saying many incoherent things. It’s a psychiatric case.”

Going manic

However, Victor, who got to the OPD’s office as early as 9am, became violent when it was clear that his sister will not come. He brought out a razor and a pair of scissors and started slicing his arm.

“He started shouting, threatening to kill himself. He held us hostage, till about 2pm when some people were able to disarm him. Our office was a pool of blood today,” she said.

Meanwhile, some of the officials had resort to jumping out of a window to escape for their lives.

I’ll be back

Victor was then taken to the Alausa’s Task Force office where he showed he had another card up his sleeves.

The supposedly sedated Mr. Agboye had another pair of scissors hidden away in his trouser and threatened to kill himself should anybody move towards him.

Several people gathered watching helplessly as he raised the black T-shirt he was wearing and started slicing away at his belly. He was shouting that the sister should give him some money, “even if it is a hundred thousand naira.”

Finally, he went away on a motorcycle threatening to come back. He also accused the police of aiding his sister to deny him of their mother’s inheritance.

Police complicity

Mrs. Rotimi said she received a call from the office of the commissioner of Police, Marvel Akpoyibo on Monday morning, saying that Ms. Agboye is in their custody and that the department should drop the case. The call, however, came after she had called Ms. Agboye to appear before the OPD since she reported the case first.

“If she [Queen] had been here this morning, it wouldn’t have turned out this way,” she said.

Mrs. Rotimi said the police authority’s call to the department hinted at Mr. Agboye’s claims.

“If she [Queen] had been here this morning, it wouldn’t have tuned out this way,” said Mrs. Rotimi who was obviously furious that Mr. Agboye was allowed to escape. That boy is not good on our streets because he is not psychologically fit. He can harm the public,” she said.

Mr. Agboye’s escape also mean he can make good his threat to hit back at the officials of the OPD and Mrs Rotimi has called for security officers to be drafted to the office. Meanwhile, visitors were scrutinized before they are allowed into the office.

The Lagos state commissioner of Police (CP), Marvel Akpoyibo, when contacted on phone said Mr. Agboye “has a right to kill himself.”

When asked about the allegation that the police is hiding Mr. Agboye’s sister, the CP said “[you mean] the sister he wanted to kill? Please, there are more important things to be done.”

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Where is Sammie??

Does anyone by chance know where Sammie is? He's been, well, outta circulation for a while now

Ogun Former Governorship Candidate, Dipo Dina Killed

I just read the report that 2007 Ogun AC governorship candidate, Dipo Dina, was abducted from Iyana Oworo in Lagos and take to Ota in Ogun State where he was shot and killed!

What is Happpppennnnninggggg?????

Nigerians Come Out to Protest the President's Abscence without Handing Over

These are Nigerian talking. I really hope the people in power are listening. I feel strongly about these things. Why can't we just follow the law, even if we are the President? Plain and simple. Listen to people now o, before they are pushed to the wall. Think about what can happen if militant minded people hijack these organizations.

Wole Oguntokun's New Play

Go see Wole Oguntokun's new play this last Sunday in January at the Terra Kulture, Tiamiyu Savage Street, VI. Showtimes are 3 and 6pm. Tickets are 2,500Naira.

Pastor Taiwo's Wife

Saw these lovely pictures of Pastor Taiwo Odukoya and his wife. I'm sooooo happy. She's beautiful and I'm sure virtuos too. The wedding was held at the Civic Center and it was the bomb. All his three kids were on the train and all the top Men of God were there to celebrate with Him. Pastor Paul of HOTR, Pastor Adeboye of Redeemed, Bishop Okonkwo of Trem, Bishop Oyedepo, Pastor Itua. Enjoy

This Fuel Situation; sic!

I am tired of this fuel situation o. I am buying fuel at over double the official pump price and my income is has not anywhere near doubled.

An no one up there is saying anything about it. I am ashamed at times to say we are producing oil in Naija, cos the world just laughs at us. Haba! This is all you see everywhere now. Anywhere there is a filling station is a nightmare to pass now cos of the kind of traffic that will be caused by people trying to buy fuel, from Awolowo to Festac to Ikeja, everywhere.

Maybe when we are unable to go to work because we cant afford to buy fuel again, the level of seriousness of this thing will become evident.

Nigerians, when do we get to the point when we make our number count to these our leaders sef. over 180million of us, I'm sure we can apply pressure, countries with less people have done it.

Jos Continues to Burn

There's now a 24hour curfew in Jos. People are still fighting. Jos, oh Jos! Why have you become like this?

Jos Riots Again!!

Jos, once the most peaceful place to be, and once Nigeria's tourism haven has become a hotbed. Another round of fighting and killing over the weekend, for what? It's just really disappointing that we are still doing this to each other in Nigeria. When will we learn?

Free Madness

Now we understand the source of all the free madness. Just hope it doesn't turn into real madness o. Take am easy.

Been A Whle

Been unable to blog in a while. Changed my day job, from one bank to the other, tho I wish it was from this banking thing to maybe Oil, recording the last two songs on my album, working on my video (shld be ready tomao) and working with a scriptwriter to do a screenplay of a story I wrote. But I couldn't resist posting this, a friend sent it to me and it was just "interesting".