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WHY MY NAME WAS NOT ON THE FORBES’ LIST

                                                                                                              By lawore olufemi           The much anticipated list finally came out last week. I couldn’t fathom the joy and bubbles of hopes inside of me. I restlessly rushed to the cafe to browse the website of forbes.com; but dejectedly and shockingly, my name was not among the first 50 richest people in the world. I was consumed with a mixture of tears and fears that after much sleepless nights and hardworking days, the whole world couldn’t count my name among the first 50 richest, it’s quite pathetic, not even before Mr Dangote- forbes’ needs to be sued. It is a sad thing to mumble over. I was not remembered of a work well done. The second day was a relief from my captive sorrow when i turned inward to see why the world is impoverished despite huge wealth and resources. I found out that many of the rich men worked smarter while most of the poor people worked harder. Rich men mak

I MUST THANK PROFESSOR JEGA

I MUST THANK   PROFESSOR JEGA I must   express my sincere gratititude to Professor Jega and my infinite ingratitude to the evil minds and bad persons of today and many years back that as held this nation to devastating ransom. Saturday   9th of April I voted a one man one vote,   which was not as before that people I dont even know-   voted for me without my due consent. I am appreciative of the fact that we have at least been one step forward in this election. I must thank the grateful minds who have achieved this fit I was overfilled with unfathomable joy to see faces come out to vote, not minding the long queue and the rigour stress of standing for hours in a sunny saturday. My heart was filled with bliiss to know that there is a new Nigeria in the hearts of Nigerians who took the pain to perform their civic responsibility. Although it does not look like all is well in every sense, but i believe that we can still shout songs that ‘things are getting better’. For once I experienced a