Saturday, July 27, 2013

What Makes News In Nigeria


What’s really good people?

So excited to see and experience the blessing of another addition to my family this week. No I am not talking about William and Kate’s boy. I am talking about the birth of my nephew. Here is to wishing you great health, success, prosperity and long life. BTW; who are all these losers in the UK and world all over who continue to enslave themselves in the lives of celebrities and figureheads as if these folk give any two sense about their welfare. The British will have you believe that all this Royal family talk is something every commoner has a stake-in, well yeah as long as you keep fattening their pockets and allow the royals surplus access to tax payer monies. I personally just which the news media will actually take the time to develop and present storylines of substance every once in a while. I don’t know maybe entering the home stretch of RAMADAN is what has gotten me so cranky this week. Most will just say I have always been a grumpy old man anyways. SMH     
 
Ok people; let me get focused…

Speaking of substance that is the one thing Nigerian news publications continue to show very little of in recent years. Every morning when I wake up to check my twitter or read up on current events back home the rubbish that makes the headlines in Nigeria is so juvenile and irresponsible that all you can do is just shake your head. I mean should I really care for how much one artist paid for a chain? Which Range Rover sport so&so is driving? Who recently bought a property in Banana Island? How many fleet of cars some business person possesses? Nigeria is just so oversaturated with shallow and simple minded thinking people that this stuff actually gets more attention in comparison to the stories about the leaders we have in office and their lack of leadership in government who run the country into the ground.

While on an outing today with my 7 year old niece, we were talking and one thing led to another and in closing all I can remember or what simply only registered in my brain from the 2 minute exchange was her quote “nothing in Nigeria is good”. Folks this is the state of Nigeria today and sad but true this was the same thinking I had of Nigeria 25 plus years ago. I could not even try to bring myself to rebut or discredit her thinking because that would mean I too was part of the problem not the solution.

This week I choose to focus on Nigeria’s news industry both print and electronic in part because somewhere and somehow what was a staple in our country has deteriorated rapidly. Only in the Nigeria news outlets do you come across columnist and publications of articles that are blatantly plagiarized or copied/paste from one source and re-printed in another source without giving the owner of the original work his/her credit. Then you go online to read up on current events but no you wait two, three days if not a week sometimes to see updated post from leading Nigerian news website. I mean what type of impression is this for the rest of the world to have of our country?

Part of the blame also falls on the whorish behaviors many Nigerians have exhibited in recent years as it pertains to their acclaim for the west in particular the United States and Europe. No longer do Nigerians see opportunities for growth extended to them in their own homeland, so why not live in a state of denial and allow yourselves to be distracted by the lure of cars, money, women and fame. I guess these news publications do know what they are doing after all huh?

So what’s NEW     

Saturday, July 20, 2013

KEEP CALM - Its 100 Degrees Outside


What’s really good people?

This has been a special week for the family; our dear and beloved SoSo turned the Big TEN this week. What a SPIRIT? What a SOUL? POUND for POUND there is nobody Stronger. SoSo you are such an inspiration and a source of STRENGTH. The First Lady of the "Kool Keedz" Love iz Love! P    

Ok people; let me get focused…

What has been making the news? Let’s see I can talk about the Martin case but that would be too easy. RESPECT to the Martin family. I could talk about why during Ramadan the days just seem too long and never end. I can talk about how everything you buy now from department stores come in boxes and you have to assemble yourself which can take up a full day. I can talk about football season is around the corner and that means NFL fantasy football drafts and English Premier League soccer opener is less than a month away. Let's Go!

What I will talk about is this HOT as you know what DMV heat wave out here for a week straight now. It is literally 98 degrees outside everyday and all that comes to mind is am in Nigeria all over again running the streets, chasing after Danfo buses en route to school and seeing people grinding everyday in that blaze.

This weather and heat in the DC area this past week is something different though. I mean it is so hot outside that I refused to get out of my car today on more than one occasion today. These next several weeks just makes you want to hide inside until a winter storm surfaces in November. Anyways let the countdown to fall begin seriously.   

So how exactly do my peoples back on the continent of Africa do it everyday? It is all a state of mind. When am home and I see people from food vendors, school boys and girls, the working class all pushing through the daily 90 plus degree weather with no complaints it is awe-inspiring.  I rarely hear Africans ever discuss or complain about the unpleasant conditions they wake up to daily. That is because they are too focused and fixated chasing after the coin to feed their families and loved ones.  

Here in the states and oversees we can afford the comfort and luxuries of running water and electricity that is not solely dependent on generators, indoor plumbing, etc. It is after you become exposed and grow accustom to this subtle amenities in life that you can no longer tolerate or go back to a highly substandard way of living. It is this invaluable exposure for the masses that will ultimately turn Africa and Nigeria around, a lifestyle that is not deemed only affordable and assessable for the elite.

Keep a Cool Head

Friday, July 5, 2013

JobClickr


What’s really good people?

RAMADAN is coming o…WOW! It is officially time to bunker down, submit and get under the banner once again. I give all the PRAISE and BLESSINGS to my creator the MOST Merciful ALLAH. So I meant to put this out there last week but never got to it because my brain was on overload but recently in the news I read of the United Kingdom proposing a visa bond of £3000 from certain nations and guess who the number one target is? NIGERIA. This is utter RUBBISH and is it me or why does it appear that Nigeria seems to be getting picked on by countries all over the world these days. SMH. This is the same United Kingdom that rush to parade and claim immigrants when they win honors for their under performing country. Please make una keep your visa I beg.

Ok people; let me get focused…

I mentioned a couple of weeks back that I have some exciting press releases to share with you all. This week the focus on the MY OMO NAIJA blog spot shifts to JobClickr commonly referred to as “The Next Big Thing”. JobClickr is a Nigerian job search engine for Africa, which is revolutionizing the job market across Africa. Africans have always been accustomed to the traditional ways of finding jobs, which are local newspapers, word of mouth from friends, bill boards, fliers, TV commercials and more recently online job sites. www.jobclickr.com was created to help Africans find jobs anywhere and everywhere faster.

So what is it? And how does it work?
Jobclickr is a job search engine that crawls/indexes all job sites in Africa and delivers the results in a uniquely arranged format to any jobseeker based on their search. It basically searches every African jobsite, corporate website, blog or social network on the world wide web for jobs, gets these feeds and provides it to any jobseeker based on their search criteria. Whether you are a Nigerian in South Africa, that seeks to work in Ethiopia or Ghana, jobclickr is the site for you.

How can a job seeker use jobclickr?

1.    Log on to the site www.jobclickr.com
2.    Select the country you wish to find jobs in, enter the job description you seek and it will bring jobs in that field to you. If you want to search by city, click the city tab and select the city you desire.
3.    Jobclickr will search over 5,000 job boards, blogs, and newspapers (including this blog) and will deliver the results to you immediately.

How is jobclickr beneficial to Nigerians and Africans?
Jobclickr helps you save time. Instead of searching a million job boards painstakingly one after the other..why don’t you let jobclickr do all the work for you.

Jobclickr is owned and operated by our very own Nigerian, Mr. Neme Muoka, a young Nigerian based in New York. He is a physics graduate from Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO). He launched his first business when he was 16yrs, he’s worked for American software resources, Google and a host of other software companies.

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Na Wa O (NWO)!

Na Wa O! - is slang or a pidgin term used back home in Nigeria and other parts of Africa that simply illustrates something unbelievable, makes you speechless or leaves you flabbergasted.


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