Victor Abraham
INTERNAL HOME MEMO
FROM: FATHER
TO: ALL DEPENDANTS & RELATIVES
CC: MOTHER
DATE: OCT 06, 2016
SUBJECT: FINANCIAL MELTDOWN/COST CUTTING MEASURES FOR YOUR URGENT ATTENTION
Due to the current economic situation, all domestic rules and regulations
Have been revised as below and under no circumstance is any violation going
To be accepted.
1. The Kitchen and all pantries are declared Restricted Zones. Entry
And/or passage shall require express permission from myself
Upon submission of written request.
2. Breakfast is banned. This matter cannot be discussed!
3. Such food items as rice, chicken, butter, jam, eggs, bread and milk are
Restricted. Anyone intending to eat any of such foodstuffs must write to
Me in triplicate, with three days notice, giving justifications backed by
a qualified dietician report as supportive documentation.
4. Bathing in the morning is limited to 5 liters of water per day per
person while bathing in the evening is banned unless there are medical
reasons.
5. All security lights should be removed with immediate effect. All
dependants shall abide by an all-night guard-duty roster I shall make
available shortly.
6. No dependant shall entertain friends indoors, far less attempt to
offer food, drinks or even music. Those who want their guests to listen
to music shall sing for them.
7. No one is allowed to talk to officials from police, Council or Court
Bailiffs; doing so shall carry an instantaneous penalty of ejection from
The House.
8. Anybody who breaks a glass, furniture or any other property in The
House, shall immediately have to seek temporary employment
somewhere to earn money to replace such broken item(s).
9. All visitors intending to spend a night/week or more shall
apply in triplicate and give two months notice, with an endorsement from
their town Mayor, Village Headman or Imam/Church Priest, giving convincing
reasons why they can't stay at their homes. Failure to do this shall result
in their being turned away, at the gate, upon arrival
THESE RULES ARE BINDING AND NOT SUBJECT TO ANY DISCUSSION WHATSOEVER!!!
Signed:
DAD
Chairman of Home Affairs
Hot regards,
Thursday, October 13, 2016
LIFE LESSON IN A SHORT SCRIPT
*Beautiful life lessons*
_Written by *Regina Brett*, 90 years old, of the Plain b Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio_
_To celebrate growing older, I once wrote few lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written._
1. *Life isn't fair, but it's still good.*
2. *When in doubt, just take the next small step.*
3. *Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.*
4. *You don't have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.*
5. *Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.*
6. *It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.*
7. *Make peace with your past so it won't mess up the present.*
8. *Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.*
9. *Take a deep breath every now and then. It calms the mind.*
10. *Get rid of anything that isn't useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.*
11. *Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.*
12. *It's never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else.*
13. *When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.*
14. *Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy clothes. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.*
15. *No one is in charge of your happiness but you.*
16. *Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'*
17. *Always choose life.*
18. *Forgive others and yourself.*
19. *What other people think of you is none of your business.*
20. *Time heals almost everything. Give time a little time.*
21. *However good or bad a situation is, it will change.*
22. *Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.*
23. *Believe in miracles.*
24. *God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.*
25. *Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.*
26. *Growing old beats the alternative of dying young.*
27. *Your children get only one childhood.*
28. *All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.*
29. *Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.*
30. *Envy is waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you need.*
31. *The best is yet to come...*
32. *No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.*
33. *Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."*
*Its worth reading again & again, as & when you can.*😊. copied
_Written by *Regina Brett*, 90 years old, of the Plain b Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio_
_To celebrate growing older, I once wrote few lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written._
1. *Life isn't fair, but it's still good.*
2. *When in doubt, just take the next small step.*
3. *Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.*
4. *You don't have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.*
5. *Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.*
6. *It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.*
7. *Make peace with your past so it won't mess up the present.*
8. *Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.*
9. *Take a deep breath every now and then. It calms the mind.*
10. *Get rid of anything that isn't useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.*
11. *Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.*
12. *It's never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else.*
13. *When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.*
14. *Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy clothes. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.*
15. *No one is in charge of your happiness but you.*
16. *Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'*
17. *Always choose life.*
18. *Forgive others and yourself.*
19. *What other people think of you is none of your business.*
20. *Time heals almost everything. Give time a little time.*
21. *However good or bad a situation is, it will change.*
22. *Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.*
23. *Believe in miracles.*
24. *God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.*
25. *Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.*
26. *Growing old beats the alternative of dying young.*
27. *Your children get only one childhood.*
28. *All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.*
29. *Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.*
30. *Envy is waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you need.*
31. *The best is yet to come...*
32. *No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.*
33. *Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."*
*Its worth reading again & again, as & when you can.*😊. copied
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
NIGERIAN CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR GIVES VERDICT on ECONOMY
FROM NIGERIA CBN GOVERNOR
Mr. Godwin Emefiele’s Report:
Quote
“It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices.
Just this morning, I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele was incompetent and should be sacked because the Naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD.
“That view pretty much echoes the sentiments expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the Naira strong in the near term. If my economics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth as Jesus Christ is black.
“The simple fact of the matter is that apart from oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really don’t have much of an economy. We hardly produce anything, we import even toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top exporting economy in the near term? Where are our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General Electrics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings, Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP Morgans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc? Let me bring that closer home.
“There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a truly strong economy and the naira was one to the dollar – even exchanged for higher than the USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly that Nigeria was laid by the British, and this Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsensical imperialist conspiracies like me) – fueled by the DAMAGING Indigenization Decree, has been the creation of us Nigerians.
Back then we had a booming economy.
We were either the top, or among the top exporters, of timbre, cocoa, groundnuts, rubber, palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta Lake, at Ikogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at Mambilla Platueau, etc, we attracted international tourists who brought in loads of foreign exchange. Even Nigerian schools were foreign exchange earners because they attracted foreign students.
“We had different car assembly plants – Peugeot, Volkswagen, Anamco etc. Nigerian government officials only bought vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars. We had a thriving sports industry. We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka Odizors, people made money from sports. We also had companies like Lennards and Bata producing school shoes in their thousands, we had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the Aviation School in the north that produced some of the best pilots in the world. In those days if you were brilliant you were respected much more than the crass money-miss-road contractors of today. Most of the Aje Butters I knew had fathers who were university dons. Back then it meant something to ‘know book’. Our textile industry was alive and well. Just recently I watched a news report on the textile industry in Nigeria on CCTV News. Though the main focus was on the comatose status of the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic Kaduna Textile Mill built in 1957. I could go on and on.
“Today however, no thanks to our parents (and we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did his generation) and many of us (and we should be remembered for failing our children if we continue like this), we have destroyed everything. Today for instance Nigerian football (which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play. Every year we collectively burn billions of Naira being fans of clubs that give us nothing back, but some ‘entertainment value’ – simple pleasures for which we are ready to destroy the future of our children.
“Well people, payback time is here. Even with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear designer clothes and carry designer bags, Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc. We all want to drive jeeps with American specs, our children must now school overseas and acquire the necessary accents to come back home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’ contemporaries that they left behind. Who holidays in Nigeria anymore, is there Disneyland here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags for their children, after all no Superman or Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them.“We are no longer top exporters of anything and the demise of oil means we have zilch… zero. A country of 170M fashion-
conscious people has no textile industry. We take delight in showing how our made-in- Switzerland Aso Ebi is different class to everyone else’s. When we help our musicians grow and pay them millions, they repay us by immediately shipping the monies overseas to produce their “i-don-dey-different-level” music videos. It makes no difference that distinctly Zulu dancers are dancing to a Nigerian highlife song.
“As stars concerned they also wed and holiday overseas to impress us all. All the musicians who acknowledge their Ajegunle roots now speak in a cocktail of strange accents to symbolise how much they have blown their monies overseas. Were we a more serious people, the highly popular Kingsway Stores of the past would probably have a thousand outlets pan Nigeria today supporting a massive agriculture industry among others, but today we have the likes of SPAR, Shoprite, dominating the retail industry while Kingsway is dead.
“And we Nigerians make it a
special point to shop from the Oyinbos who have ‘cleaner shops’, ‘better this and better that’. For our personal pleasure we don’t mind them dominating us in our own backyard and shipping proceeds overseas. I could go on and on, but I don tire. Even as you are reading this, stop for a moment and look around you. What you see will probably explain why we are lucky it is not N1000 to the USD yet. And don’t think for a moment that it cannot get there.
“Just continue to wear your
Armani gear and Swiss-made
lace, continue to spend your
money on Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Barca and encourage your children to do same. (My article tomorrow in my Saturday column in This Day is on the Nigerian champions Enyimba FC – Nigeria’s most successful club – not having a
sponsor, yet Nigerian brands pay over N600m to Man United and Arsenal for sponsorship to impress us.) Ehhh, no problem, continue to tell me the NPFL is rubbish or the clubs should clean up their act if they want sponsorship, mo gbo .
“Don’t curtail your interest in
choice wines ( we were the
number one champagne
consumers in the world in 2015), continue to love your American specs, cheer the education ministry for letting schools sink to pitiable levels, don’t fight them to improve our schools, don’t chide them for letting schools drop Nigerian history and embrace British, America and whatever else curricular.
“Carry on with your love of
French wines and Chinese silk, don’t bother about Jamiu Alli when there is Roger Federer.
Stock up on your Italian,
American, British products which you cannot live without, including the ‘baby soft’ toilet rolls produced only in that small unique village in England – the days are long gone since you were a broke student who used wet newspapers to wipe your butt.
“Don’t even consider holidaying in Nigeria, it’s too dangerous – you have to fulfill your dream of being Nigeria’s Henry Ford. Don’t listen to people like me who have a wardrobe full of only cheap adire that is actually cheaper than just one of your Tom Ford blazers. Please keep dressing in fine silk made in some exotic place so you can be addressed accordingly.
“Finally keep letting corrupt
leaders who have looted your
commonwealth and shipped all the monies overseas get away because to attack them does not fit your political narrative. Let us continue with the fine life, let us all continue to work for Oyinbo.
But don’t forget that there is a payback time: Worth sharing again. I must equally add, there is nothing wrong in wearing designers but it's the misplaced priority over the lives of children and the economy of a whole nation.
Remember that Because you can afford it, does not make it compulsory to have it.
Pls pass round until it sinks in
Mr. Godwin Emefiele’s Report:
Quote
“It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices.
Just this morning, I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele was incompetent and should be sacked because the Naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD.
“That view pretty much echoes the sentiments expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the Naira strong in the near term. If my economics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth as Jesus Christ is black.
“The simple fact of the matter is that apart from oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really don’t have much of an economy. We hardly produce anything, we import even toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top exporting economy in the near term? Where are our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General Electrics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings, Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP Morgans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc? Let me bring that closer home.
“There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a truly strong economy and the naira was one to the dollar – even exchanged for higher than the USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly that Nigeria was laid by the British, and this Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsensical imperialist conspiracies like me) – fueled by the DAMAGING Indigenization Decree, has been the creation of us Nigerians.
Back then we had a booming economy.
We were either the top, or among the top exporters, of timbre, cocoa, groundnuts, rubber, palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta Lake, at Ikogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at Mambilla Platueau, etc, we attracted international tourists who brought in loads of foreign exchange. Even Nigerian schools were foreign exchange earners because they attracted foreign students.
“We had different car assembly plants – Peugeot, Volkswagen, Anamco etc. Nigerian government officials only bought vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars. We had a thriving sports industry. We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka Odizors, people made money from sports. We also had companies like Lennards and Bata producing school shoes in their thousands, we had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the Aviation School in the north that produced some of the best pilots in the world. In those days if you were brilliant you were respected much more than the crass money-miss-road contractors of today. Most of the Aje Butters I knew had fathers who were university dons. Back then it meant something to ‘know book’. Our textile industry was alive and well. Just recently I watched a news report on the textile industry in Nigeria on CCTV News. Though the main focus was on the comatose status of the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic Kaduna Textile Mill built in 1957. I could go on and on.
“Today however, no thanks to our parents (and we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did his generation) and many of us (and we should be remembered for failing our children if we continue like this), we have destroyed everything. Today for instance Nigerian football (which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play. Every year we collectively burn billions of Naira being fans of clubs that give us nothing back, but some ‘entertainment value’ – simple pleasures for which we are ready to destroy the future of our children.
“Well people, payback time is here. Even with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear designer clothes and carry designer bags, Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc. We all want to drive jeeps with American specs, our children must now school overseas and acquire the necessary accents to come back home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’ contemporaries that they left behind. Who holidays in Nigeria anymore, is there Disneyland here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags for their children, after all no Superman or Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them.“We are no longer top exporters of anything and the demise of oil means we have zilch… zero. A country of 170M fashion-
conscious people has no textile industry. We take delight in showing how our made-in- Switzerland Aso Ebi is different class to everyone else’s. When we help our musicians grow and pay them millions, they repay us by immediately shipping the monies overseas to produce their “i-don-dey-different-level” music videos. It makes no difference that distinctly Zulu dancers are dancing to a Nigerian highlife song.
“As stars concerned they also wed and holiday overseas to impress us all. All the musicians who acknowledge their Ajegunle roots now speak in a cocktail of strange accents to symbolise how much they have blown their monies overseas. Were we a more serious people, the highly popular Kingsway Stores of the past would probably have a thousand outlets pan Nigeria today supporting a massive agriculture industry among others, but today we have the likes of SPAR, Shoprite, dominating the retail industry while Kingsway is dead.
“And we Nigerians make it a
special point to shop from the Oyinbos who have ‘cleaner shops’, ‘better this and better that’. For our personal pleasure we don’t mind them dominating us in our own backyard and shipping proceeds overseas. I could go on and on, but I don tire. Even as you are reading this, stop for a moment and look around you. What you see will probably explain why we are lucky it is not N1000 to the USD yet. And don’t think for a moment that it cannot get there.
“Just continue to wear your
Armani gear and Swiss-made
lace, continue to spend your
money on Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Barca and encourage your children to do same. (My article tomorrow in my Saturday column in This Day is on the Nigerian champions Enyimba FC – Nigeria’s most successful club – not having a
sponsor, yet Nigerian brands pay over N600m to Man United and Arsenal for sponsorship to impress us.) Ehhh, no problem, continue to tell me the NPFL is rubbish or the clubs should clean up their act if they want sponsorship, mo gbo .
“Don’t curtail your interest in
choice wines ( we were the
number one champagne
consumers in the world in 2015), continue to love your American specs, cheer the education ministry for letting schools sink to pitiable levels, don’t fight them to improve our schools, don’t chide them for letting schools drop Nigerian history and embrace British, America and whatever else curricular.
“Carry on with your love of
French wines and Chinese silk, don’t bother about Jamiu Alli when there is Roger Federer.
Stock up on your Italian,
American, British products which you cannot live without, including the ‘baby soft’ toilet rolls produced only in that small unique village in England – the days are long gone since you were a broke student who used wet newspapers to wipe your butt.
“Don’t even consider holidaying in Nigeria, it’s too dangerous – you have to fulfill your dream of being Nigeria’s Henry Ford. Don’t listen to people like me who have a wardrobe full of only cheap adire that is actually cheaper than just one of your Tom Ford blazers. Please keep dressing in fine silk made in some exotic place so you can be addressed accordingly.
“Finally keep letting corrupt
leaders who have looted your
commonwealth and shipped all the monies overseas get away because to attack them does not fit your political narrative. Let us continue with the fine life, let us all continue to work for Oyinbo.
But don’t forget that there is a payback time: Worth sharing again. I must equally add, there is nothing wrong in wearing designers but it's the misplaced priority over the lives of children and the economy of a whole nation.
Remember that Because you can afford it, does not make it compulsory to have it.
Pls pass round until it sinks in
Sunday, October 2, 2016
16 YEARS OF RECESSION IN JAPAN VS. 6 MONTHS IN NIGERIA
Nigeria's presidential aide Femi Adesina has attempted to convince Nigerians not to focus so much on the recession but continue to have hope that the county will become better before 2019 election.When he was asked if he had a time frame of when the recession will end, he reminded the journalist that Japan is in recession for the past 16 years and they are not in any distress. What he forgot to mention is that Japan 's external reserve and asset is the highest in the world, Japan has a stable currency and booming economy which may not be growing but is bubbling. Nigeria on the other hand has diminishing external reserve tumbling value of exchange rate and declining production. At a point Femi again went back to campaign mode and told Nigerians that the fight against corruption will lead to recovery of some funds which will be ploughed back into the economy to jumpstart the growth. He forgets that this is over one and a half year after the election. It is either you have recovered money already or you will never recover any money.. The problem is about poor productivity poor structure and faulty constitution according to many Nigerians. Femi should stop peddling a failed principle of recovering money and injecting into the economy.
OBASEKI TAKES AFTER BUHARI " NO ROOM FOR OPPOSITION"
After a controversial election that held in Edo state, Mr. Godwin Obaseki the governor elect has dashed the hope of anybody expecting him to be governor for everybody and governor for nobody. He told the press that there is no room for opposition members in his cabinet and nobody should expect unity government. Many are seeing that as an ill guided statement considering that the whole country is in recession and the best brains maybe what is needed to take Nigeria out of recession. In the case of Buhari who Obaseki wants to copy, Not only did Buhari avoid the opposition, he also avoid major party members who thought they had some stakes in the victory. Advice to Obaseki is to promise to carry everyone along even if he does not do it at the end of the day. After all Buhari said he did not belong to anybody and later said he belonged to the 97%. This country belongs to all of us ./
PETER OBI RAISES THE BAR ON PRUDENCE IN NIGERIA AND AFRICA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLHIgDOSfg link to part of Obi's speech
The former governor of Anambra state Peter G. Obi while working silently brought sanity to the politics of Anambra state and raised the bar of what prudence looks like. In a forum called platform already watched by many Nigerians, he demonstrated that Nigeria is wasting Billions of Naira in a life of opulence and careless culture of squandermania. While oil producing states and wealthy states are busy borrowing Billions of Naira he saved money and still became the best performing governor and his state became the best performing state in Nigeria. In deed it was people like Peter Obi that Nigeria needed. It is very clear that the amount of money and time he spent on personal improvement courses were not wasted. It is left to Nigerian politicians to listen to his speech and start adjusting because young Nigerians are no longer smiling. The next election can no longer be business as usual and vibrant debate will be must. From those who call themselves Mr. integrity and those that call themselves anti corruption champion and so on. The Lagos business school is there for all of you to upscale your skill and get your act together because the younger generation is coming out for positions.and their votes will count.
The former governor of Anambra state Peter G. Obi while working silently brought sanity to the politics of Anambra state and raised the bar of what prudence looks like. In a forum called platform already watched by many Nigerians, he demonstrated that Nigeria is wasting Billions of Naira in a life of opulence and careless culture of squandermania. While oil producing states and wealthy states are busy borrowing Billions of Naira he saved money and still became the best performing governor and his state became the best performing state in Nigeria. In deed it was people like Peter Obi that Nigeria needed. It is very clear that the amount of money and time he spent on personal improvement courses were not wasted. It is left to Nigerian politicians to listen to his speech and start adjusting because young Nigerians are no longer smiling. The next election can no longer be business as usual and vibrant debate will be must. From those who call themselves Mr. integrity and those that call themselves anti corruption champion and so on. The Lagos business school is there for all of you to upscale your skill and get your act together because the younger generation is coming out for positions.and their votes will count.
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