Arm Candy

What’s really good people?

Some of you all already witnessed my rant earlier this week when I expressed my disbelief while watching the Monday Night Football Game in which a Muslim NFL player was issued a penalty for “Excessive Celebration” when in reality all he did was kneel, prostrate and put his head to the ground in recognizing the almighty creator Allah. IGNORANCE is no EXCUSE. Anyways this is a BIG week for one of my business partners so lets get right into it. OYA O!

(S/O) CONGRATS Ameena on the OPENING of Arm Candy.

(S/O) Happy Sallah & Eid Kabir to all my Brothers & Sisters in Islam.

(S/O) To Hussain Abdullah of Kansas City Chiefs.

(S/O) To all of the viewers, followers & readers of the MY OMO NAIJA blogspot. Thank you for your continued support. Love iz Love! P

  

Ok people; let me get focused…

I gotta kick this off with a little rhyme play on that Davido “Aye” -

She say she want that designer

She want that Versace

She say na my Nine West O!

She fine pass my Fendi

She dey look like my Burberry

She say na my Tory Burch O!

She say she want that BCBG

She want that Ferregammo

She say na my Tommy Hill O!

I am so proud and filled with excitement to help launch and promote a new endeavor with (Ameena) the woman behind the newest Fashion Accessory Boutique in Lagos, Nigeria. Arm Candy is a place for the entire family.  Kids, teenagers, adults, professionals and you FASHIONISTAS out there are all welcome! We have chic, trendy and elegant designs in bags, purses, and other accessories. Located at Block 15, Plot 28, Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase I (Jerry’s Bakery), we offer Gift Wrapping services in addition to door-to-door service as well as e-commerce online shopping. So for that next Birthday, Wedding, Anniversary, Valentines, Seasonal Holiday & most importantly when you just want to TURN UP your SWAGG please consider Arm Candy for the best in Affordable & Unbeatable designer prices. You can also email or contact us at armcandi2014@gmail.com or call 08095177669. Don’t forget to look for us on social media on Faceboook Armcandy2014 and on Twitter @armcandy2014.

Currently we running our store opening promotion for the first 100 customers with our Buy One/Get One Free & 10-20% Discount off selected Items. See you soon…

Where them Dollars @.....

Act or RE-Act

What’s really good people?

Man I am really disappointed that my boy AP is done for the season and for that matter his career will be FOREVER tarnished regardless of the outcome with the child abuse indictment. How he disciplines and to what degree he chooses to discipline his children will remain a point of contention. This never should have been a debate about what is the right way or wrong way to discipline a child. We all can agree that as a parent our number responsibility should be to provide and protect our children. Unfortunately, we all got it backwards when 30, 40 and 50 year old adults start looking up to 18, 19 and 20 year old athletes as heroes because of their ability to dribble a soccer ball, throw a football and slam dunk a basketball then we all are out of wack and our critical thinking abilities becomes cloudy at best. And here I was all set to talk about my visit to the Nigerian embassy in recent weeks and things I took away from the experience, well I guess there is always next week.

(S/O) BIG 50th HBD Love to my pops; the man that gave me many Whoppins, Lessons & Love in helping to Raise me. DODO Master wishing another easy 50 more to come. Love iz Love! P

(S/O) To all of the viewers, followers & readers of the MY OMO NAIJA blogspot. Thank you for your continued support. Love iz Love! P

  

Ok people; let me get focused…

As much as sports were created really to help past-time and serve as a release or outlet from the everyday grind, too much of it is life imitating sports or sports imitating life. What is undoubtedly different about professional sports and the athletes of color that play them is how they are treated by the majority white media that cover them when s**t hit the fan. Quick question for the people; have we now eradicated domestic violence now in America after the Ray Rice video? Have adults stopped spanking or disciplining their children because of the Adrian Peterson indictment? The hypocrisy in all of this was merely weeks ago the same media ripping and crucifying these young men were showering these larger than life figures with superlatives. Is it only me but why do I just continue to take issue with the idea that the National Football League (NFL) in its own ignorance still continues to take the position that somehow it suppose to lead change and help fix all of our social issues and many of America’s ugly truth that people just rather turn the other cheek to. 

Well here is an underlying thought that I have now witnessed when athletes of color get into legal trouble, it is not only the act or crime in question that draws the public ire but equally vexing to the majority white public is the idea that millionaire athletes of color are being given preferential treatment and that the law does not apply to them. What a concept? I mean the idea of injustice in America is now only pertaining to athletes being put on probation for striking their partner, proof of excessive beatings on a child that will be plea to a lessor crime with a very good possibility of no incarceration. So I ask the question; was the outrage of these incidents only tied to their acts of negligent behavior or the reactions from law enforcement and judges that gave or will only give a slap on the wrist and tell their heroes to go score three touchdowns on Sunday for their fantasy football teams.

And the beat goes on…

BAD 2 WORSE

What’s really good people?

This will for sure go down truly as a week to forget on so many accounts. Let’s rewind all the way back to this past Saturday when Naija put up a STINKER of a performance at home in a shocking loss to Congo of all people. This was the SUPA EAGLES first competitive home loss dating back 31 years. I mean WTF!!! Keshi needs to go. Mikel needs to go. All of these fake a** wanna be B-Boys with their mo-hawks and rubbish display of football quality are all a BIG embarrassment. This is so painful to consider but I am almost to the point that I can’t keep defending incompetence and lack of effort. Maybe it is time I take a break from Naija football for a while. What next? Oh, I got destroyed in fantasy football in the opening week of NFL and I was shamed for this by my boy for my dud of a performance to compound things on social media.   

(S/O) Telling the TRUTH…Seems so simple huh???

(S/O) To all of the viewers, followers & readers of the MY OMO NAIJA blogspot. Thank you for your continued support. Love iz Love! P

  

Ok people; let me get focused…

As a kid and for that mattert in all my years I have always been told or reminded the importance of telling the truth. I mean this is something we hear from parents, teachers, coaches, priest/imams, law enforcement, judges, bosses and our significant others daily. So why is it so difficult for our brains to comprehend this simple human action when we get caught in a jam? How come our first instinct is to lie, lie and keep lying hoping desperately that our lies will dig us out of the rut we got ourselves in.

This week through the Ray Rice video the whole world got to see since Monday what happens when things go from bad to worse. I find the actions of the former Baltimore Raven reprehensible and disgraceful. I ain’t with that weak minded thinking when a male puts his hands on a woman as a way to exert his dominance. If you so tough and want to scrap there are many dudes up my way that you can pay a visit to that will help take care of all that pent up aggression.

What we saw play out before our eyes on all of the news outlets was a powerful entity, a trillion dollar franchise called the NFL totally missing those simple early life lectures and lessons about telling the truth and now has found itself buried so deep in cover up that it wish it had never attempted to carryout after the public backlash. Roger Goodell and his pompous a** underestimated the power of the video being witnessed by millions only because for so long he had functioned and lived in a world full of lies that he does not know how to tell the truth any longer. Playing damage control and spinning stories to deflect the attention of what the root cause or behavior is how people become successful in the world of business and building an empire.

So what is the incentive in telling the truth? The douche that put his hands on his child’s mother was actually the one telling the truth all along. And what was his consequence for being forthright? Well he initially got suspended two games but the minute the video taped got released his playing career was over. I have heard of double jeopardy before but his subsequent release and indefinite suspension has now helped to coin the term RICE Jeopardy.

Tape Don’t Lie…

Failure

What’s really good people?

This is truly the best time of year for sports; SUPA Eagles AFCON qualifiers, NFL opening week, college football, English Premiership football and all of this for the next six months? Seriously? There can’t be anything better to do with your time every weekend.  So I read online that supporters that attend Saturday’s SUPA Eagles vs. Congo match in Calabar will be subjected to Ebola screenings before gaining entrance into the stadium to root on our national team. SMH. Don’t know what is worse the ignorance exhibited throughout out West Africa since the outbreak or the response to how to manage the spread and transmitting of it. Anyways baba god give us GOALS this weekend O. UP SUPA Eagles & UP NAIJA. Let’s Go!

(S/O) HBD to my pops IDIMU Keshi aka…”Mr. I’ve Been FLASHY b4 you were born”. Wishing you many more.

(S/O) To all of the viewers, followers & readers of the MY OMO NAIJA blogspot. Thank you for your continued support. Love iz Love! P

  

Ok people; let me get focused…

I got to catching up on some television recently and was watching the program Hard Nocks on HBO that chronicles the behind the scenes first take on running an NFL franchise, the dream of making an NFL roster and the pursuit of winning the championship. So during one of the episodes a position coach made a profound statement, “show me a man without a vice and I show you a psychopath or sociopath”. When I first heard it I was like wait a minute dude is right and wrong. Although I tend to agree with his statement both psychopaths and sociopaths share a common vice in which terrorizing and committing grueling acts of crime in their communities gives them the fulfillment similar to that of scoring the winning goal in a competitive sport.

This is why I love sports; there are so many life lessons one can take away from it when you choose to participate in an individual or team sport. By far the best part of it has got to be the crazy cast of characters and the relationships that you forge for a lifetime of memories. Playing sports I was told teaches you structure, discipline, commitment, sacrifice, etc… What they never tell you or will ever be able to prepare you for is what happens when your dreams get derailed and the real world comes calling. In the show Hard Knocks at the end of the series they show on camera what it looks like to fall short of your dreams and be rejected when another man’s opinion of you believes you simply are just not good enough.

Fortunately for me I got my rejection very early on in my teenage years so I got a head start on many of my peers. That rejection although very bitter to swallow and accept at the time became a true blessing in disguise. It forced me to focus and concentrate on my studies and helped me to recognize that a lifetime of success and achievement is far more rewarding than the short-term thrills and excitement of a life in my 20s.

Unfortunately, what that position coach failed to recognize in his statement about psychopaths and sociopaths is that many of the young people that will have their lifelong dreams and hopes dashed will now need to find a new vice or else will have 250lbs-300lbs plus men terrorizing others as they never got a head start in life until for many it was too late.

Keep Fighting 

Mr. Prudential

What’s really good people?

WELP it is the end of summer now that the Labor Day weekend is here. NFL and College Football kick-off this weekend so its time to get into the fantasy football lab and start putting in work for the Summa Jam screen. Wait a minute where did the summer go in the first place? Hmmmmmm; WORLD CUP, EBOLA & FERGUSON there go your summer I guess. Now onto my favorite time of the year FALL which means sweaters and pea coats. Oya; let’s go!

(S/O) Maaaaaaa-rio Welcome to LFC. YNWA!

(S/O) To all of the viewers, followers & readers of the MY OMO NAIJA blogspot. Thank you for your continued support. Love iz Love! P

  

Ok people; let me get focused…

This week I want help bring attention and highlight what we do with our money. Many of us apply the income and money we generate onto things like our homes, vehicles, food, clothing and many a vice, some we can share openly and others we take to our grave. What we need to learn more of and can start looking into better is how to make our money make money for us.  One person who has taking the lead on this particular idea is Prudential Financial Professional Mr. Odell Daye.

Recently I had the opportunity to discuss with Mr. Daye programs and packages available with Prudential that we the general public are unaware and can make provisions in order to maximize the mighty dollar. One critical point covered by the Prudential professional is that it is never too late to start investing your money into portfolios outside of a traditional bank. Now getting to and making such a decision will require four critical steps:

1.      Evaluate your current financial needs & goals

2.      Develop a strategy to address them

3.      Periodically review your needs and goals, and adjust your strategies to help meet your financial goals at each of your life stages

4.      Collaborative work with your professional advisor

All that is required is a commitment to planning for both your short & long term future personally and professionally. There are many qualified and experienced financial professionals in the field that you can connect with to get started and begin your journey to savings and investment. Why not contact mine at odell.daye@prudential.com or check out his website at https://www.prudential.com/us/odell.daye for more information. I am sure you will be more than satisfied with his customer services and ability to answer many of your questions. So there you have it folks gone are the days of putting money under your mattress or child’s piggy bank as your retirement plan.

It is all about the IRAs, Mutual Funds, 529 & 401K.